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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
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LEVIS. MILLER
DIES AT HOME AT
AGE OFSEVENTY
Had Been Poor Director and
Active Republican Leader
in His District
Levi 8. Miller, aged TO years,
County Poor Director since Janu
ary, 191S, and a retired farmer, died
this morning at 6.30 o'clock at his|
home in Hummelstown from'
Briglit's disease. While he had not!
been in the best of health, Mr. Mil- >
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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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2 Krana K. Bark and B*alc V. Williams* Harrtaburg. * 1
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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
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