* , •* Hungarians Blame Tardiness of World Peace Conference tor tiupbre i award bolsiievism HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M shc Wat- independent. LXXXVIII— NO. 72 IS PAGES K.t H ARRISBURG. PA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 26, 1919. OXLY Two E S 3 HOME EDITION LOCAL NURSES, LONG OVERSEAS, ARRIVE HOME Arrive in New York on Board the Transport George Washington NOT WITHOUT ROMANCE Young Women Faithful to Uncle Sam Quiet on Wed dings and Engagements Harrisburg and central Pennsyl vania nurses, who served valiantly j with the American Army in France,! have arrived in New York on the' great transport George Washington. Most of the young women have served at big base hospitals and. right behind the front lines for con siderably more than a year. In-1 eluded in the party are: Anna B. Bellman, Steelton . Anna l X. Fellows, Camp Hill; Klda Gray-: hill, Middlebut-g; Lucy E. Oriffen.! York: Ella C". Hess, Almedia: Anne: Horton, Nantieoke: Elizabeth Kel- i sty, Lock Haven; Kathrvn R. Lavin. j • •lyphant: Helen J. Leader and Mar-j caret C. Lehman, Harrisburg; j lfiana Lewis, Scranton; Nellie Ow-j < ns, Bangor; Edith M. Sickles. Un- i iontown; Bessie Tattersall. White j Haven, and Elsie E. Wise, Marvs ville. ■ ; The members of the party, which: included Philadelphia and Pennsyl vania nurses, represented the Epis ■ opal Hospital, of Philadelphia. They comprised Base Hospital Unitj No. 3 4 and were in charge of Cap tain Reuben Moser, who was with them for six months. The nurses saw strenuous service overseas, but it had its compensa- j tions, if a rumor that was c-urrent ! is true. It was stated that one of the number returning has. married; a captain in the Sanitary Corps and | that two others are engaged, but; there is an unusual amount of reti-1 •nee among the nurses named in ( the rumor. Gossip also says that! the nurses are engaged to men theyj rated for in the hospitals. The hospital in which the nurses were stationed had a capacity for 1.000 patients, and oftentimes, they said, it was taxed to its utmost ca pacity.' In direct line with Chateau- Thierry. the nurses were kept very busy and they relate that often times as many as 330 wounded sol diers would arrived on cars. Six nurses went to the front to aid in dressing and mobile hospitals. The work was mostly surgical, but med ical cases were also taken up. Miss Katherine Brown was chief nurse with the returning unit. In speaking of her unit, she said: "Naturally, we are all delighted to he home, but there's not one of us ; who is not glad she went. We left' here in December, 191", and had the distinction of forming part of the complement on the Leviathan's first trip with troops. On arrival in France we went to Blois and, as there was not a hospital ready for us. some of the nurses went to Paris and others to St. Nazaire. In the meantime the officers of the unit had been busy getting our new home ready, and so last March we were able to take charge of it at Nantes." Maitre d'Hotel Davidson to Manage Big Hotel J. Elmer Davidson, maitre d'hotel of the Penn-Harris Hotel, will leave for Macon, Ga„ to-night to accept a managerial position in the Hotel Dempsey, one of the largest hotels in the South. Mr. Davidson has been maitre d'hotel of the Penn-Harris since its opening in January. He is one of the best-known hotelmen in the country. He is an intimate friend of Horace Leland Wiggins, mana ger of the local hotel, and it was through the influence of the latter that he secured his new position. He has had more than twenty-five years of experience in the hotel business. WHEN THE BOYS COME HOME If you have a boy or husband in the Twenty-eighth or Seventy ninth Divisions or other unit of the Army, in the Marine Corps or the Navy, if at home or "over there," we want you to join the Home Folks Victory Association to take part i n the Welcome Home Reception and Parade that will be held in the near future. Benefit to defray expenses, Chestnut Street Auditorium, Mon day, April 28. Fill in and mail this coupon. Name Street Sue K. Long, Secretary, 1113 North Front St. Harrisburg, Pa. THE WEATHER For Harrlftburir and vlrlnltft Ua hfttlrd probably rain late to-nlaht and on Thumday; warmer to-nlht, with lwe*t temperature about 48 dearreea. For Hamtern Pennayl vnnlu: Cloudy and warmer to-night, probably followed by rain in early morning and on Thum lay; moderate, aoutk wind*. Hlver The BiiM4uehanna river nnl prob ably all itn braneben will eon lin ue to fall alowly to-nlchi. Main may eauve Monte trihu- | tarien to riae Thuraday. .% Mtflgf of about 3.3 feet I* Indlented for Harrlaburff Thursday morning. Evidently There Is No Honor Among Thieves ' WE CARRY BURC.LARo • INSURANCE,DGNV VJE, A imffL f\ c\y tv ; Hi—gwli^w WELL 50MEBODYS BEEN fX BURGLAR HAS STOLEN^ ]N TME HOUSE AND TAKEN 1 MY DRETSSSUIT? J YOUR DRESS SUIT | 1 I imPasfc ;=-< hm ~~ ====:::: AND THEY BROKE OPEN / YOUR CELLARETTE AND \ \ f/7 / * TOOK A.LL x 1 1 rdiflPs^?f f -X, 1 wT ' , /iV/2? ler attended to his official duties asj Director of the Poor with regular-) ity. lie attended the session of thej board on March 15, at which Dr. J.! 11. Lehr, of Lykens, the new mem-' ber, took oath of office. As soon! as the board at its regular meeting! to-day learned of his death, the I members adjourned as a mark of re spect. Mr. Miller was born in Cumber-' land county April 7. 1848. He was; raised there and during the Civil! i War, though quite young, succeeded 1 in getting into service. Later he ' came to Dauphin county and for I ! forty years was engaged in farm-1 ing in South Hanover township. I For many years he was a dealer in ! | mules and other stock and as a re-1 ' suit traveled over the gerater part j | of Dauphin, Cumberland, Perry and ! ! other nearby counties, making; many friends in all these districts. I Mr. Miller sold many mules to coal | ; companies and farmers. About a year ago he moved to j 1 Hummelstown and had resided there ' [since. In November, 1917. he was! 1 the Republican nominee for Diree- j J tor of the Poor and was elected by j a big majority. For many years he ' was an active Republican leader in j the township in which he resided,! but until his election to the Poor j Board he had held no other county | office. Surviving Mr. Miller are his wife,! two sons, the Rev. Clayton B. Mil- j ler, now in North Carolina; Harvey! J. Miller, Philadelphia; Mrs. Katie! E. Smith and Mrs. Ellen Shope, Un- ! ion Deposit. Arrangements for the j funeral were not complete this aft-1 ernoon. I —" School Children Go Back After One Day's Strike Because they could not have flag- | raising exercises at the same time' the Williamstown school children ! had their program, boys and girls' of the Lykens schools went on strike j yesterday and left the building, and I paraded the streets in a patriotic' demonstration. According to reports' from the upper end borough the dif-' Acuities have been settled, and thej pupils are in school again. | 1 HUNS TO HOLD ON 1 TO ALL TERRITORY By Associated Fress. Berlin, March 26.—"1 take a ! i most solemn oatli that the gov ernment will not surrender to : the enemy one inch of German ! territory, either east or west," I said Dr. Schiller, Minister of Fi- i ; nance in the new Cabinet, in ad- | ! dressing a great crowd in front j I Df the Chancellor's palace on Sunday, according to the Tages ! Zeitung. CTTY MERCHANTS ARE ORGANIZING BUSINESS BOARD New Council Will Be Part of | Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce A Merchant's Council to give spec- ! ! ial attention to matters that concern j j merchant members, is being planned: j for the Harrisburg Chamber of Com- I merce. Preliminary plans for the (organization of the new unity were | announced at the Chamber offices to- J day. | The movement will be launched on j Tuesday evening, April- 18, at the! | Penn-Harris dinner. On that eve-! ! ning. following a dinner which will 1 Ibe prepared, by the Penn-Harris j chef, William Smedley, of Philadel | phia, secretary of the Retail Merch ! ants' Association of Pennsylvania, i will address the merchants. Mr. j Smedley has been active in the or- I ganization of retail merchants [Continued on Page B.] i HEARTLESS TEACHER SPOILS DAY FOR FIRE FIGHTERS 'And Now Council Wants to Know Why Motorize Fire Ap paratus if Boys Can Beat an Automobile to a Fire — Cainp Hill, Pa., March 2S.—When I the fire broke out at Slate Hill yes i terday about half the school boys i and girls of town deserted the play ! grounds where they were enjoying j morning recess and ran pell mell ' across fields and got to the home of j I Walter Kocher in time to carry out j | most of the furnishings and to save j i large quantities of potatoes and oth- ' er crops stored in the barn. They I proved able and valiant firemen, j some working in wet clothes receiv -led when a half-dozen of them fell | into Cedar run which they had to j cross on their way. j The homeless fire victims thanked i their young benefactors and praised Btac- STRICKEN WITH ILLNESS, VICTIM DIES ON GRAVE Body of H. Howard George, Railroad Engineer, Found by Passerby in Cemetery Lying across a grave in Calvary Cemetery there was found shortly after 9 o'clock this morning the body of H. Howard George, 41 years old, of 1918 Park street, a Philadelphia and Reading Railway engineer, who disappeared from his homo yesterday afternoon at 1.30 o'clock. George is believed temporarily to have lost his reason, started in the direction of his employment and wandered into the cemetery where he qicu. He had been suffering with Bright's disease for some time, had been off duty and had prepared to return to work last evening. Yesterday afternoon he left his 1 home in Park street to come into : the central part of the city to at ; tend a moving picture show. When I he failed to return to his home last i evening for supper before going to i work search was made for him and it was report ed at the police sta tion he was missing. This morning when George W. Valentine, 257 Hummel street, passed the cemetery, he noticed the j dead body lying across the grave ■ and reported the fact to the police ! station. Relatives were called and identified the body as that of the missing man. Relatives say he was stricken last week, that he suffered a chill and later became unconscious and quite delirious. While apparently recov ered, il is believed his illness caused him to lose his senses temporarily aiid wander off yesterday. His wife and one son, Howard, survive. | them to the skies, and they went home in high spirits, especially proud j since they hail beaten a Ford car, J driven by a teacher and loaded with , older boys, to the tire by twenty minutes. Then the horrid teacher I I just went and spoiled everything by j giving each tire lad and lassie five I ! demerits for absence without leave. And this morning members of borough council are asking what's the use in considering the purchase of motor driven tire apparatus if the school children of town can get to a fire more rapidly than an automo bile? The fire protection agitators are in for a bad half-hour next time council meets. MANUFACTURE OF BEER IS BEGUN IN LOCAL BREWERIES : Big Storage Vats Being Filled With Product Containing j Per Cent. Alcohol i INSPECTORS ON THE JOB Test Case May Not Conic Until First Sale of New Bev erage Is Made ! Beer, containing two and three quarter per cent, of alcohol and less and manufactured in accordance with the advice of Eliliu Root to brewers of the L'nited States, is now | being produced in all Harrisburg land Steelton breweries, it was learn ; ed from ttie manager of one of them 1 this morning. i This production of beer has been under way for some time, its manu ; facture having been started shortly after the delivery of Root's advice : to the brewers that two and three ; quarter per cent, beer is nonintoxi j eating and that they would not be ! liable to prosecution for its brewing j and sale. j The four local brewers, together ! with all brewers of the country, ; will be liable to Federal prosecution. United States Attorney General Mit chell A. Palmer says, according a Philadelphia dispatch. He has ascer tained that r Federal enactment of t fifty years' standing, which has been : upheld by the highest courts, pro ! vides that an intoxicating beverage | is any liquor containing more titan ' one-half of one per cent, alcohol. Rapidly Stocking I'p The manufacture of the quality of ; beer which Root declares is not out j of accordance with Federal rulings, i is going on at a rapid pace in the | several breweries of this locality. ; Already thousands of gallons of the j beverage have been produced to j quench the thirst of Harrisburgers j and others in the district supplied from this city. The stock in all four ( of them is rapidly increasing. At a meeting of the brewers of Pennsylvania under the auspices of the Pennsylvania Eager Beer Brew ers' Association in Philadelphia yes terday, it was resolved to go ahead ] with the manufacture and sale of the j product being manufactured on ! Root's advice, and to band to gether in the event that the Federal government brought action against any of them. Fifty of the largest breweries of the State, representing eighty per cent, of the State trade, I were represented. Breweries Inspected The internal revenue officials ex-' pect to take action against the brew ers as soon as they place any of their product on the market, it is understood. Inspectors of the de partments are investigating the es tablishments regularly, officials say. t'ollector of Philadelphia, j says: j "As soon as brewers place their newly brewed beer on the market II have been instructed to take the matter up with the authorities at ■ Washington and we shall act. Brew are are permitted to put several per cent, alcohol in beer. but. accord ing to our regulations, they must dealcoholize it to one-half of 1 per cent. The latter is the only kind of beer that can he sold, with the ex ception of the small amount of two and three-quarter per cent, beer that i brewers made before December 1 j of last year." Some time must elapse before the t brewing and the sale of the beer, I but tlie ageing process is an elastic. I one so that no definite time can be I set when the first brew will be put I on the market. Second Call Entered Here For San Francisco, With Rates at $5.90 a Minute The second call in the history of the local telephone exchange to be registered for San Francisco was placed by a guest at the Penn- Harris Hotel last night, the call be | ing taken by Miss Blanche V. Gar veriek, operator at the Penn-Harris private branch exchange. Miss Garverick made every effort to get the call through, but it was impos sible to reach a point further west than Denver. It was explained that because of severe storms west of that city the service would not be satisfactory. Incidentally, a curious reporter looked up the rates to San Fran cisco and found that the Bell Tele phone Company's charges are $17.73 ; for a three-minute conversation and $5.90 for each additional minute. If the call is for a particular person, the chief operator said, charges will be $22.15 for a tliree-minute con versation and $7.35 for each addi tional minute. Influenza Hits England; Doctors Feel Great Strain By Associated Press Condon, March 26. —The return of the epidemic of influenza finds Eng land so short of doctors and nurses, that, according to reports from var ious parts of the country, there are not enough even to give casual at tention to patients. The strain on the medical men who are trying to cope with the emergency is so severe that there is danger of many of them breaking down. COW'S KICK Kil l s WOMAN* By Associated Press Rending. Pa., Match 26.—Kicked over the heart by a' cow she was milking last night at her home near Hamburg, Mrs. Irwin Sunday, 30, a farmer's wife, suffered a puncture of the tissues of the heart and died within un hour. She was the mother of two children. PEACE BOARD MAKES PROGRESS THAN APPEARS, SAY YANKEE DELEGATES IN CABLE World Congress Contemplates Merging Treaties So Europe May Soon Feel Effect of Work at Paris; Germany Will Stick to Wilson's Plan For Hun By .AssociateJ Press, (' Paris, March 26.—Greater progress toward peace is being made than "appears on the sur face" was the summary of a message dispatched to the United States to-day by the American peace delegation. The cable was addressed to the State Department. It was said here this after-* noon that if the effort to join together all the peace treaties with Germany, Austria, Turkey and ; Bulgaria is successful the pact could be completed by May 1, shortly after which date Presi-- | dent Wilson is expected to be back in the United States. American and British leaders here feel that time will be saved in the end if the merger plait 1 is adopted. It is pointed out that the inclusion of Austria in a comprehensive treaty would be YANKEES FIGHT DESPERATELY IN WAIST-DEEP SNOW American Mules Drawing Up I Artillery Under Conditions of Great Difficulty BATTLE ENDS IN DRAW Americans and British Strug gle Through Drifts at Less Than Mile Per Hour By Associated Press Witli the Allied Forces in North Russia, Monday.—The Bolsheviki j are entrenching and reinforcing both i their infantry and artillery at 801-i shoia-Ozera and are endeavoring toj hold this important point in the line of the allied communications be tween Obozerskaia and Onega. Yes terday the Americans and British at tacked from the west side of the village and the Russians, supported j by Americans and British, attacked j from the east along the road. Fight-1 ing under the utmost difficulty, the i j allied troops were unable to advance ! I beyond the line of enemy machine ' guns, while the Bolsheviki artillery I maintained a certain sweep of the | j winding high road through the woods. Struggling waist deep in the soft, j drifting snow of the forests, the! forces striking from the east found u I flanking movement impracticable and ! could progress only two-thirds of a j mile an hour. To-day the allied | troops are bivouacked along the | road on both sides of the village within good artillery range. Woatlicr Kxtremoly Cohl The weather during the past few days ltas again been extremely cold and the Americans and others, who are living in Igloo-like Arctic tents, are finding their first opportunity to test these shelters. They are hold ing the line to Onega and Obozers waia. Their big guns are moving up, drawn by American rules, who are steadily plodding ahead and con quering the steep, icy hills and the deep drifts. The airplanes, equipped with runners instead of wheels for alighting on the snow, have bombed Bolshoia-Ozera. The Bolsheviki are trying many ruses. In the wood where the allied patrols are operating the enemy has tied dogs to trees and their barking on the approach of any human be ing gives the Bolsheviki warning. When the enemy first raided Bol shoia-Ozera advance details of Reds which rode into the town wore the I uniforms of the Slavo-British legion, j Their surprise of the little allied gar rison there was evidently complete. Some of the French escaped by walk ing for two days and two nights through the snow and turned up half frozen. Malcolm V. Arnold, a Y. M. C. A. worker at Bolshoia-Ozera, is missing and is believed to have been cap tured. ———____ 70 Children Die When Cry of "Fire" Causes Stampede in Silesia i By Associated Press. Berlin, March 26. Seventy chil dren are dead anil twenty Injured seriously as the result of a stampede during a juvenile entertainment at Cleiwltz, Silesia. The children rushed toward the exits when someone raised the cry of "fire." Most of the casualties occurred in the rush down the stairways. FINU PATROLMAN A SUICIDE By Associated Press• Chicago, March 26.—An inquest was to be held to-day on the body of James O'Connor, former New York City patrolman, found in a small ho tel with an empty bottle, which had contained poison, beside him. Pa pers found among his effects showed he had enlisted in the army. He was on his way to the United States gen eral hospital, at Denver, Col., for "further observation." CHASES ACTO THIEF When Mrs. Saruh Hetrick, 800 North Eighteenth street, saw two strangers about to enter the auto mobile owned by her son. Samuel P. Hetrick ,a grocer, and drive away, while he and his wife were visiting friends, she called Jerome I. Het rick, who chased the men for sev eral blocks before they eluded him and escaped. TO STUDY BIRDS The llarrlsburg Naturnl History Society members will leave Market Square on the 1 o'clock White Hill car Saturday afternoon, going to Eberly's Mill where they expect to study water birds. | 4 acceptable to Italy, which has resented the conclusion | of terms with Germany in a document which failed to deal with j Italy's interests in Austria. Premier Orlando strongly opposes | omission in the first treaty of clauses dealing with Italy's interests. Discuss Differences Frankly The differences of opinion which have developed since the reji j turn of Mr. Wilson to Paris are being considered fully and frank* ! ly, and a determined effort is being made in the interest of an ! early peace to reach an agreement on broad lines. The session i yesterday afternoon was held at the French war office. Late in ASSASSINS SLAY | FORMER PREMIER SAYS REPORT j 1 Another Dispatch Declares ! Hungarian Beds Have Arrested Ivarolvi lU'ine, March 2(l.—According to'' ;an unconfirmed rumor reaching ! Prague front Budapest, former 1 Premier Karolyi of Hungary has been assassinated. Copenhagen, March 26. Count j Michael Karolyi, former president of [Continued on Page B.] ' I LETTS CRUEL TO COHpT A v % J ftjja X '*?• m: T 2, *| ' X FRENCHMAN MAKES BITTER : ! X ■ T Paris—"The right bank of the P' ; *f* i V Mi ' r *C T X Tr <3* * was the dilitoriness -> X ■ f K^f * 5 the ga-rrnment. c,▼ 1 ? 4 ■ re,* J y Legislature. M j? . _i! MARRIAGE LICENSES I 1 2 Krana K. Bark and B*alc V. Williams* Harrtaburg. * 1 v. " -jfe Hhe afternoon Marshal Foeh and Major General Thwaites, repre senting the British staff in the place of General Wilson, were called in. The premiers and the President con sidered advices just received about the military situation in Bussia. Public 1 .earns l.ittlc In the absence of official cony muniques, the public has learned lit tle about the meetings of the prem iers and the President, bvit there is reason to belieye that reparation for war damages 'was the first serious problem they sought to solve. All the data on the British, French and American positions on this question was before them at the first meet ing Tuesday, It is understood that the data showed agreement on virtually all features except llie total amouiil which the experts were unable t-c agree upon. Even the textual draft of the reparation articles of the peace treaty are ready with a blank fContinued on Page B.]