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LXXXVIII— NO. 81 14 PAGES oS 4 .t"Srf" HARRISBURG. PA. MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1919. °*\ Y E W S "^^NTS 8 HOME EDITION
BUDAPEST'S RED
GOVERNMENT HAS
BEEN REMOVED
Bcla Kun, Foreign Minister, Is
Reported Assassinated;
Officials Stirred
MUNICH STILL REGULAR j
Berlin Doubts Genuineness of j
Proclamation Setting Up
Soviet Rule in Bavaria
LEVIN OPPOSES THE MOVE!
Rumor That Diet Might Move|
to Bamberg Officially
Is Denied
By Associated Press.
Vienna, April 7.—The Hungarian j
communist government in Budapest I
has been overthrown, according to j
rumors current in official circles, the j
newspapers say.
Bela Kun the foreign minister, is |
reported to have been assassinated. ]
The reports do not say whether the i
attempted revolution in Budapest :
was organized by the Socialists or j
the Bourgeoisc parties.
Berlin Doubt* Proclamation
Berlin. April 7.—Although reports!
coatcerning the situation in Munich j
are meager, such news as has reach-1
ed Berlin indicates that a Soviet (
government has not yet been pro- j
claimed in any way that can be re
garded as official or binding.
The proponents of the plan met]
with strong opposition tn two quar- j
ters. The Bavarian Diet, it is true,!
can scarcely meet on Tuesday, as had
been the program, because it is not:
assured of the support of the troops
in Munich, (wtio were reported in j
Munich dispatches Saturday to have i
expiessed sympathy with the Soviet!
cause but to have declared their in
tention to maintain neutrality, al
though they would not protect the
djget building, which is armed with
guns).
The proponents of the Soviet idea,
however, have met with great oppo- j
sition from the Bourgeoisie 011 the!
one hand and the peasants on the j
other. The peasants hold the trump j
card in their control of the supply
of foodstuffs, which they have dc-!
clared they would refuse to deliver!
if a Soviet government were pro-j
claimed.
Opposit'on Has Its Effect
The uncxpoc;ed opposition to the 1
establishment at present of the So- j
vict form of government manifested j
by Bavaria's most radical indepen- I
dent Dr. Levin, lias had its effect, as!
he wields great influenee tn certain |
radical circles. The peasants league i
likewise is opposing the plan with j
increasing vigor, and . it is hoth 1
politically and economically a strong!
factor in Bavarian life.
The rumor that the governmcifß
and the Diet might move to Ram-]
botg. in Northern Bavaria, has been
officially denied.
John H. Deming. Long
Conductor in Local Yards, j
Dies in Duncannon Home
——
John H. Deming, a well-known!
resident of this city for many years,]
died yesterday morning at the res!- ]
dence of his son-in-law, Benjamin F. i
Umberger, in Duncannon. Air. Dem-j
ing was hopn in Bennington, Ver
mont, August 23, 1840, and served I
in ■ the Civil War in the. Pennsyl- ]
vania Reserves. For many years hci
was a conductor in the local yards'
of the P. It. R. and was retired nine]
years ago. He left surviving him !
one child, Mrs. Nellie Deming I'm- ]
berger. Funeral services will be j
field in the Umberger residence in!
Duncannon on Wednesday at 10 j
A. M. Burial will be made in the j
Paxtang cemetery, this citv, at about]
10.30 A. M.
Snow Is Detailed on
European Mission; His
Aid Will Accompany
By Associated Press.
Washington. April 7.—Major t!en- i
oral William J. Snow, chief of field ]
artillery, has been detailed by the 1
War Department for a special mis- I
sion (o France, England and Italy, j
to riudy the latest developments in
military organization with a view
of adapting It to the peace military
establishment in this country. Gen
eral Snow will be accompanied
only ny his aid, Captain Charles S.
Biakely.
THE WEATHERI j
llMrriMburg mid vicinity t l'n- I
Nettled, |irol>nl>l> rain to-night '
and Tuesday; warmer to-night,
with lowest temperature about
litt dfgreen.
For I lantern Pennsylvania 1 Ben- i
orally cloudy t-nlglit and I
Tuenday, probably rain In north
portloni warmer to-night In I
south portloni moderate south 1
winds.
11l ver
The upper portion or the main
river will probably begin to rail >
tn-nlght and the lower portion ] 1
Tuesday. All branches will 11
probably fall slowly or remnin }
nearly stationery. A singe of ]
nlo.nl .1.11 feet Is Indicated for
tlnrrishiirg Tuesday morning. |
General Conditions
Temperatures are I! In 14 degrees
higher than an Saturday morn
ing over tiearU' nl! the eountry
east of the Mississippi river;
west of the Mississippi there
has been a general fall of Z In
14 degrees with Icmperntures
at or below frccslng In \orth.
era Minnesota, iV'orih Unkoln,
Wyoming, Nevniln, Colorado and
t'tali.
I ——— ,
1 It Also Seems to Be an International Trait to Want to Take
One More Good One Before the Law Goes Into Effect
|gp
THREAT OF CIVIL WAR CAUSED
i KAISER TO ABDICATE THRONE
Hindenbury lief used lo Sanc
tion Move la Have, Royal
Troops March Against the
Leaders of Revolution When
He Sato Military Collapse
II y Associated Press.
Berlin, April 7.—While admitting
there was a difference of opinion I
among German generals as to the j
practicability of lighting to maintain j
the imperial regime in November,
Count Sehulenberg, commander of a
guards regiment, maintains in an
artii le on tlie abdication of Emperor
William, published in the Frciheit,
that there were enough loyal troops
to have marched on Aix-la-Chapello
and Cologne and put down the revo
lution.
The count soys that Field Marshal
von Hindenburg and General Groc
ner, Prussian war minister, would
not assume the responsibility for
such a move, however, arguing that
things had gone too far and that only
the abdication of former Emperor
William could save the situation.
HOME PROBLEMS
OF OTHER CITIES
WILL BE STUDIED
1
Chamber of Commerce Com
mittee to Leave For Chester
and Camden Wednesday
• As a further step in their active
determination to solve Harrisburg's
housing difficulties, members of the
housing cqmmittec of the Harris
burg Chamber of Commerce will in
spect the housing operations at
Chester, and Camden, N. J., Wed
nesday, to gain first-hand informa
[ Continued on Puge 5.]
Springtime Zest Sends
Baseballs Through Window
Youthful baseball players, encour
aged by the warm spring weather, are
out In full force these days, so the
city police say. The first complaint
of the season has been filed with
Henry Bueh, complaint, clerk at the
police station. A Nortli Third street
man complains that tlih youths have
been causing considerable disturbance
in his neighborhood within the past
several days. Windows of his housh
have been broken and he has been
otherwise annoyed
VON HINDENBURG
GIVES HIS SIDE
Copenhagen, April B.—A state
ment by Field Marshal von Hin
] denburg on the article written by
I Count Sehulenberg, circulated by
] the semi-official Wolff Bureau of
] Berlin, says that the article has
"one-sided tendencies and is not
objectively correct."
"It contains material errors and
] inaccuracies regarding the views
j and utterances of the persons con
! cerned," the statement adds, "and
i proves that Sehulenberg was not
adequately informed on the real
situation."
The emperor, he says, was emphatic
in declaring he did not desire u civil
war and that he would not call upon
the army to engage in such a con
flict. Internal conditions becoming
worse, William at length agreed to
Count Schulenborg's advice to abdi
cate as emperor, but not as king of
Prussia. Field Marshal von Hinden
burg endorsed this course but," in the
opinion of General Groener, it was
too late, although it might have
saved the situation two weeks earli-
! CUSSING IN LANCASTER
COUNTY DUTCH IS NEW
i TO DOWN EAST YANKEES
Captain Barnhart, of Lebanon, Tells How One of His Men
Was Put Into the Hoosgow When He Talked to His
Mules in a Language That Every Central Penn
sylvania Skinner Knows Is Truly Essential
: 1
1 ] How his ability to swear in Penn- |
j sylvania Dutch accounted for a loy- :
|al county soldier being
! listed for court-martial before hisj
i own officers intervened is told by |
| Captain Harry R. Barnhardt, of Leb- l
j anon, formerly of the Three Hun-!
I dred and Ninth Machine Gun Bat- j
i talion, who is convalescing at Camp'
Dix, N. J.
Captain Barnhardt, recovering'
from severe mustard gas burns, in
commenting on the bravery and'
loyalty of the Keystone men of Ger- |
man descent who are among the
casuals from the Pennsylvania regi- j
ments now arriving at Camp Dix, j
tells how down-East doughboys who
had never heard a Lancaster coun
tlan swear in "Pennsylvania Dutch" j
were so astonished to hear a volley j
of what sounded to their keon cars
like llun oat lis applied to an oh- ]
streperous Army mule right In the!
middle of their camp thut they ar-|
: Wilhelm Sought lo Retain
Prussian Kingdom but Was
Forced to Flee the Country
When Imperial Chancellor
Announced Abdication
cr. In the meantime, there came
rumors from Berlin of the immi
nence of civil war and street light
ing actually was begun there.
Finally the imperial chancellor
telegraphed that civil war might
break out at any moment unless the
abdication was announced at once.
Hurried conferences were held by
the emperor, the crown prince, and
' the leading generals, the article says.
One of the commanders asserted
' there was a feeling among the gen
] erals that the entire army could not
; be depended upon in case of civil
1 war. To this Count Sehulenberg says
; he replied:
"No soldier would break his oath
to the colors."
"The oath to the colors and the
1 supreme war lord is only an idea,"
[Continued oil Page 2.]
) rested the loyal Pennsylvania!! and
! he was ordered court-martialed.
"Their tendency to revert to Penn
[ sylvania Dutch expressions under
, exciting conditions," says Captain
, arnhardt, "produced some amusing
. incidents. Sucli was the lot of one
of the "mule skinners' of my com
j pany. He was missing- one day. I
; knew he was not the type to desert.
II started an investigation and found
j him in the hoosgow of an adjoining
division of New England soldiers.
| "I was astonished to find that lie
| was under suspicion of being a Ger
man spy. Several soldiers had testi
| tied that they had heard him shout
[ ing in German at the mules used in
fragging the machine gun carriages.
IMy man had been industriously
| working to get these mtile.4 into har-
I n.css and merely stopped to address
| them in language that any Lancus
j tor county mule would appreciate i
I and obey."
WILSON STEADILY
GETS BETTER AND
PEACE IS NEARER
|
I Signs in Paris That Confer
ence Soon Will Finish
Its Work
j OPTIMISM IN FRA N C E
Belief Entertained at French
Capital That Her Security
Will Be Assured
I TRANSPORT IS TO SAIL j
George Washington to Be at j
Brest to Bring the Presi
dent Back May 1
lly Associated Press.
Paris, April 7. President Wilson's ;
I condition was improved tills morn- j
j ing, but by-the direction of Rear I
Admiral Grayson, his physician, the;,
President will remain in his room j
to-day, attending no meetings. Ap- i
parontly the President's cold is in i'
the last stages of the wearing-off pro- j
! cess. He hopes to be able to re- i
I sume work Tuesday.
Orders which it is believed for j
j the United States transport George i
: Washington to proceed from Amer- !
I ice to a French port arc not taken j i
;to mean that President Wilson is j
| contemplating a premature depa- l
| ture from France. |
Ponce Being Hastened
They are thought, rather, to re- j
fleet a belief that the Peace Con- '
ferenee will be able to effect an ad- !
justment of outstanding problems at!
a comparatively early date.
An extremely optim'stic impres- j
sion now prevails regarding the set- j
I tlemcnt favorably to France of the |
i questions of her security against fu
• ture aggression and the neutralism- 1
| tion of the left bank and of part o£ !
: the right bank of the Rhine. This]
is voiced to-day by the Petit Jour- j
nal, which in treating of the finan- | 1
1 cial aspects of the situation also j 1
I states that it appears France will | 1
j be completely indemnified. j'
] Council of Four Does Not Meet ! ■
Because of the indisposition of|
! Premier Lloyd George and the con-; 1
j tinued illness of President Wilson,j '
| the Council of Four did not hold aj l
session during the forenoon. It was j
I hoped to hold a meeting in the aft- 1
crnoon. 1
Ciemeneeau's View Prevails
j The belief prevails, the newspaper j
adds, that Premier Ciemeneeau's '
| viewpoint regarding reclamations j
i from Germany and a special indem- ; 1
j nit.v for pensions for cripples and j'
war widows will be upheld.
Washington, April 7.—Tn eonnec-i
tion with reports from France of!
plans for the President's return i
home, navy officials said to-day that j
! no orders had been received in re- j
i; gard to"the transport George Wash-
I ington, but that the vessel was un- j
| dcrgoing her usual "clean-up" at j
-New York, preparatory to sailing for
Brest on April 15.
| This would put her on the other j
! i side in time to start back with the. ,
I President on board by May 1. j
i HEAVY RATE COMI'I.AIVr .1
I i Argument in the complaint of Hnr
j risburg merchants against the steam- '
heat rates of the Harrisburg I.ight |
, and Power Co., was heard by the i
| Public Service Commission to-day. J
fUNFAIR, "SAYS i
STROUPOFCOAL
MINE EDITORIAL
r
j i Telegraph Didn't Give Com- 1
■ panics Square Deal, Says
1 Lawyer For Operators
, Michael E. Stroup, District Attor
ney, who also is counsel for the coal
i cornpar.ics in the upper end of the j
county, takes issue with the Harris
burg Telegraph in a statement is- ,
slte.l to-day liecnuse this newspaper
voiced editorially the popular belief '
that the coal companies are bluffing <
in (heir offers to sell their proper- ,
ties for a price which is a mere I
fraction of the assessment value j i
placed 011 them by the County |
Commissioners' expert. ,
The Telegraph in the editorial -
: mentioned staunchly supported ,
Coumv Commissioners Stine and ,
Cumider in their stund for a reus-
I sesamenl and expressed the opinion i
that if the coal companies did not :
believe they are receiving a square (
de i' '.ho matter should be fought out i
in the courts.
Mi. Stroup thinks (hut the coal j ,
companies were not treated fairly, : i
iin that some doubt was cast on the •
sincerity of the advertisements ol'- ;
fering their properties for sale at a i
given sum far below the amount at
which they are assessed. This de- t
vice to obtain lower assessments t
having been adopted almost in every j \
instance where county authorities j t
| have attempted to obtain what they | )
deemed a fair amount of luxes from : ,
j coal lands. j t
I Tie also expresses the belief that j t
i there is nothing unreasonable in the j ]
! placing of a valuation of less than | t
J two million on properties in the | ,
! operation of which more than two j
i million dollars were paid out in j l
wages alone last year. The District i I
| Attorney goes at length into the edi- |
! torial in question and gives it as ills ,
. opinion that the Telegraph is en- |
j tirely mistaken, that the coal com-1
J panics arc absolutely right and that '
; great injustice has been done the l l
1 operators by Ahis newspaper. He I (
| 'a so much in earnest about it that*! s
he has authorized the publication of j l
! his statement In full in the advertis- ! i
ilng columns of the Teltcraob to-L
I duy. i j
To Tell of Y. M. ■
MggHgj&
OWEN E. I'ENCE
"Overseas Problems and thoj
I World Program of the Young Men's!
i Christian Association," will he rtis
' cussed by two widely known "Y" ;
| workers at two meetings to he held ]
in liarrisburg to-morrow afternoon |
' and evening. The speakers will lie l
'William Wirt Roekwood, metropoli-I
; tun general secretary of the Y. M. 1
I C. A. at Shanghai, China, and Owen
E. Pence, student secretary of Rob- I
crt College, Constantinople. '
THOUSANDS LOST ON
CITY'S PUBLIC DUMPS
Money Saved by Gareful Sorting of Waste Material Would
Buy Many Shoes For Orphans and Feed Armenians
The Armenia fund would lie en-1
riclicd liy ninny do I bus or hundreds
of pairs of slioes might be purchased
for orphan children of Hie city, withi
the money that the old paper, bottles
and other junk would bring from |
junk men, city health ollicials say.
Hundreds of dollars worth of this
material is annually being sent to the j
city dump, city health officials, pre- j
paring for the annual spring cleanup
which opens on May 5, said to-day.
in a plea that city people be more |
saving of this old material.
During the tirst two months of the
year, 13,407 cubic yards of waste |
material was sent to the city dumps I
from Harrisburg residences and in- |
eluded in this was much paper and |
! other material that could be further i
| utilized in manufacture and for
| which city junkmen arc ready to pay
! good prices.
i Just now many tons of old ma
j terial, accumulated during the wln
! ter. is being removed from house
■ holds to city, dumps and every effort
! is being made by city health officials,
| in line with the plea of the Depart
ment of Commerce, to have house
holders remove the valuable ma
terial from among the waste. The
| volume of such material to be re
, moved by the city is expected to
j greatly increase within the next sov
| oral weeks and especially during the
cleanup week.
| The amount of valuable waste ma
norial placed on the city dumps an
j nually totals approximately 2,fi00,-
j not) pounds, it is estimated from
< Department of Commerce figures.
TO FIND BETTER
! SITE FOR LANDING
OF BIGBALLOON
Commissioner Gross Impress
ed With Picas of Park
Golf Club Officers
Park Commissioner K. 'A. Gross
arranged for a eonfercnce lo be
held lalo this afternoon with J.
Herbert Thomas, president, the Kov.
Dr. ElWs N. Krenier, vice-president
of the Harrisburg Park Golf Asso
ciation, and the chairman of the
committee, arranging lo have a big
ding.*, balloon land here.
The golf officials protested against
the proposed plan to have the big
balloon land in Reservoir Park, de
eiaring the thousands of persons
who would go there to sec it would
ruin the turf and cause hundreds of
dollars worth of damage.
Because of these complaints Com
missioner Gross said he will mako
an effort to have the landing plaeo '
changed as no permanent arrange- ,
ments for the use of Reservoir Park
had been made. He said that it
might lie possible that the damage
to the golf course would be serious
and that it would lie advisable, if at
all possible, to provide another site
for the dirigible to come to ground.
It its understood other locations
are being considered now and are
to be discussed at the conference of
the officials this afternoon. During I
the last few years much money has j
been spent to keep the green at Res- !
ervoir in condition with the result '
that it is one of the finest courses I
available for golfers, many of whom j
have evidenced much anxiety about j
the damage which may result if the
dirigible is landed in the park.
Pacific Coast Oil Chief
Dies Suddenly Last Night!
tiy Associated Press.
Si,ll Francisco, April 7.—William j
Kfrecm president of the Standard !
till Company of California, died i
sudd n!y last night at Santa Cruz.;
Rliecm, who was 67 > ours old. was
idenlillcil actively with the oil in-|
duatry of che UUnltcd States fc r |
more tliau Unity yearn.
C. j4.'s Problems
jar
W. W. I,< ll'KWt)(If)
j The lirsl conference will he held
lal 3 o'clock to-morrow afternoon at
! the home of Mrs. George Kimkcl,
: •ti 1 North Front street. This open-
I ing conference is being arranged un
der the auspices of the women's nd-
I visoiy hoard of the Central V. SI.
1 C. A. for women only.
| The home of K. '/*. Wallowcr,
I Front and Slaclay streets, will he the
scene cf the second conference to he
! he'd for me at 8 o'clock to-morrow
• evening.
IWith twenty per cent, of this being
lof waste paper, this item alone is
worth more than a thousand dollars.
Throughout the United States at
this time, the Department of Co-ni
j moico through the waste reclamu-
I tion service, lias formulated a plan
whereby the annual loss through
itlic waste channel will ho greatly
I lessened.
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T GERMANY'S RAIL MEN THREATEN STRIKE ? !
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|| ar Immediately after announcement wtfS |J ►
j? . ay that Polish troops would cross Cer:.-.: \ ,
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* * of posting the names of the women in public pi _< s 1
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. , LLOYD GEORGE TO MAKE STATEMENT 8 J
4* London—Premier' Lloyd George will make •- fi •
portant statement to-night, concerning the corr n2 '
4* of the work of the Peace Conference, a' Ce-v • s * I
j. i— —
MARRIAGE LICENSES *
4, Albert J. Knll, l*hiludel|ibln t nnd Mlllnti M. Milliard. Vork rna- •
. <M John A. /.liiimernliui. Ilcrsllrj, nnd AHee l„ Iliinlnrr, lliiiitmoln- a k
*?*. Il liny M. AA'nrd nnd Aiinn >i. Hnivnrd. Karrlabtiris.
LEGISLATURE TO !
TAKE A RECESS
UNTIL APRIL 21
■Senator Crow Makes the An
i nounceinenl Al'ler Confer
ence Willi Senator Penrose
COVERNOR SPROUL ILL
| Week Added lo Regular Eas
i ler Vacation lo Permit Chief
Executive lo Return
| AD.IOI'RN ON WEDNESDAY
'Regular Sessions of House
and Senate Will Re Held
I Tonight and Tomorrow •
Following a confoi*nco of lcgis
j i l.itive leaders with Senator Penrost
, In Philadel|>hia today. State Senatoi
I, i William H. Crow, Fayette county, an
nouneed this afternoon that tho Leg
irlatun would adjourn Wednesday
1 ' night and reconvene Monday night,
i April 21.
•i A week is added to the regulai
' Faster udjourninent, tho leaders con
,v sidered this period was sufficient t
! safeguard all Interests during th*
•absence of (Jovornor Sproul % at ho'
;Spiings,VVat. t where he is recuperat
ing from tonsilltis.
I Penrose's office. About a dozen mem
■ hers of the Senate and House wen
; in touch with the Senator cither per
-1 i sunnily or by telephone.
;
iTornado Hits Omaha;
Unroois Many Residences
s ; 11 u Associated Press.
. | Omaha. Neb., April 7.—Heavj
' [ propei ty damage, but few persona'
r injuries' of consequence, resulted
" I from si tornado thsst swept across
- | the western residence section ot
" | Onici'si last night. Dundee and
h ("lifton Hill suffered the greatcsi
y losses, many homes being unroofer.
I and in some cases virtually ruined.