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TRIBUTE TO BE
PAID SOLDIERS
ON JULY FOURTH
Arrangements Begun For the
Great Patriotic Pageant on
Independence Day
PUBLIC APPROVAL GIVEN
Members of All I nits to Be
Invited to Join in the
Parade
Plans to assure a great celebration
in honor of the home-coming of the
■soldiers, sailors and marines of the
Harrisburg district, were outlined
tentatively by officials of the Har
risburg Chamber of Commerce to
day. The celebration will take the
form of a victory demonstration on
the Fourth of July, when the en
tire community will be given an
opportunity to honor the local serv
iCVela"i'ves and friends of the sol
diers and sailors will then ha\ c
first chance to see the l° cal he f roe .®
march in review, as a of a
the ' o,U [ f n the S da v. C °The'local mem -
hers" of 1 the Kevstone Division will j
be given a prominent place in the
fine according to the preliminary |
I,l 'The board of directors of the j
chamber at their meeting at noon ,
to-dav decided that the Fourth of
Julv is the logical date for the wel
come-home reception, and a com
mittee to arrange the details and
launch the movement, will "e p
pointed within a few days.
IVacc Demonstration
Mavor Daniel L. Keister is whole- ,
hea rtedly in favor of the plan to
make Independence Day the datei for
the Victory celebration. 1 lie plan
is precisely in accord with mv ideas,
lie said, "and the Chamber of J orn
nterce can rest assured that 1 ant
heartilv in favor of its movement to
celebrate the return of the veterans.
1 will exert the full influence of this ,
t office to make the event thoroughly
successful." , ... , !
It is felt that the parade will meet (
the desires of those who at the time (
of tbo armistice was signed, thought
an organized celebration would be
the most fitting expression of thank
fulness for the termination of the
-mar. but considered such a parade;
untimely without the participation '
of the local men who then were serv
ing in the Army and Navy.
Home In Time
il is thought that practically all \
the men from Harrisburg and Dau- :
phin eounty who still are in service
will have been mustered out by July .
4. With the announcement that the
Twenty-Eighth Division in which
many iocal soldiers are Included, will
sail from France in May, the pros- .
once of the majority of the Yanks
from this vicinity on the Fourth of
July seems assured.
According to the present plans,
the hoys will march in the unit in
which they served during the war.
Other divisions of the parade will
he made up of those who were scat
tered throughout the military and
naval organization in companies not ,
made tip of local personnel.
The huge, demonstration on Inde
pendence Day is not designed to in
terfere with any celebrations which I
may ho extended to the various units
which come home between now and
that date. It will bo a demonstra- i
tion in honor of all the service men :
of the Army and Navy, who served !
in this country and overseas, many '
of whom straggled home one by one j
without receiving an adequate ex- !
pression of the home folks grati- !
tude.
Convicts Raise Value
of $1 Bills Between
Walls of Penitentiary
By Associated PITS.?.
Philadelphia. Pa., A.prl J>. A
counterfeiters' "den" in full opera
tion has been discovered between
the walls of the Eastern Penitenti
ary here. Three convicts were doing
the work in their cell at light. They
had been operating only three days,
however, before the deputy warden
discovered the plot. The case was
immediately turned over to the
United States Secret Service men
who found eighteen one dollar bills,
and one two dollar note in the pro
cess of becoming "fives" and "tens."
Three of these actually had been
completed, but the enamel which was
used to raise the figures and change
the letters was hardly dry. None
had passed outside the ceil. The
convicts are Joseph Lavar, John Ol
son and Jack Husky.
Yesterday Deputy Warden Myers
was making his daily trip through
the cells, searching for "dope" and
ready to pick up anything of a sus
picious nature. An innocent look
ins book lay on a bench in this cell
and Myers ran through it mechani
•allv. Almost a score of bank notes
out. He examined them
"and immediately discovered they
were raised. The numerals were
puint<<> over, ttie lettering waft
changed, "live" being painted over
"on" in one and "en" over the "wo"
in two. The convicts admitted the
work and signed confessions. These
were turned over to assistant Unit
ed States District Attorney Ernest
Harvey.
THE WEATHER
For llarrlnbiirg and vicinity:
<;cnralt y fair to-nlght nnd
Wednesday, nomewbat cooler
\\ 1 dneaday; low eat temperatiire
to-night about r>2 degreen.
Hlver
The I nprr North Hraneh nnd
l.nwor Chemung; will rlnc
nllghtly to-night nnd the Cower
North Rmneh Wednesday. All
other atrenmn of the nyntem
will fall r lowly or remain Hour
ly ntntlonnry. \ ntnge of nhout
.VI feet In Indicated for HnrrU
liurg Mfdnrnday morning.
The Best Preventive Against the Bolshevik Epidemic
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HARRISBURG AS
A MODEL CITY
Stato Health Commissioner
Martin Calls Conference to
Plan Future Welfare
I'O). Edward Martin. State Com
mission of Health, to-da.v called
upon all organizations of Harrisburg
to unite in a movement to make the
State capitol a model city from "a
health and sanitary standpoint." He
arranged a meeting in the hall of
the House of Representatives for
next Monday night and secured
front the lower branch formal per-
mission to i.se the chamber. Each
head of a bureau of the department
will outline the work that oranch
handles and win call upon the peo
ple of llarr'sbi rg to unite. Housing,
"Gliitation and similar welfare mat
ters will i>c gore into at length and
the citizens of Harrisburg invited to
eo-oper.' le to make each feature ihe
best so that the rest of the State can
come and see.
"Harrisburg should take advan
tage of the information which the
department has on these subjects,"
said tiic Commissioner. "The plan
is the beginning of a campaign
which will lie carried into other
•itics. We have selected Harrisburg
because it is near at hand and it
represents the highest type of civic
and piogressive municipalities.
"The mayor, members of council.
welfrrc organizations and all that!
are interested in the health and 1
progress of the city are invited to 1
this eonference and the movement
is not one alone for talk but for
action. I expect to see organized |
work perfected as a result that will !
be of great henetit to the city. We j
will .ollow the work here in detail •
antl if the plan works successfully j
as I believe it will, the department !
wilt go into other cities and carry j
on a short intensive campaign to- ;
wards the same ends."
Or. Martin said that the division ,
heads would attend the meeting pic- I
I';" < m to tell jus; w hat 1 lai risbui g's '
terra u during the past five years
has ben in the number of deaths !
from epidemics, what its record is j
front a sanitary standpoint, how it j
compare with other cities regarding 1
its wutei supply and sewage dts- j
posal.
There has never been a similar
movement started in this country,
according to the Health Commis
sioner.
BOYS CHARGED WITH THEFT
Charged with entering the grocery
store of Nick Dacheff, Cumberland i
and Cameron streets, and rifling the
cash register of S2O. Thomas)
Young, 15, and his brother, Joseph :
A'oung, 13, will be arraigned in po-1
lice court during the afternoon. The!
youths were arrested this morning,
on suspicion. At the time Thomas!
iiad his cap, containing a screw-1
driver and more than sl9, mostly
sniull chunge, beneath his cout. I
COL.W.F.HARRELL
TWICE DECORATED
FOR HIS BRAVERY
Former Recruiting Officer
Doubly Honored by Gen
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COL. W. F. HARRELL
Col. W. F. Harrell of the Thirtieth
United States Infantry has been dec
orated with both the Distinguished
Service Medal and Cross by General
Pershing for exceptional bravery in
action, according to word received
here. Col. HarreJl was decorated
March 14 the same day Lieutenant
Ross Boas, of this city received a
decoration. Col. Harrell's citations
were given for bravery in action at
the battle of Aprcmont.
Col. Harrell was in charge of the
local United States Army Recruiting
Station here for several years, con
tinuing in the recruiting service un
til September 26. 1917, when he was
transferred to the active service list.
He is widely known in this city.
BARNUM'S MENAGERIE HAD
NOTHING ON RUMMAGE SALE
Quito a Parade When Seven Goldfish, Flock of Rabbits,
Airdalc Puppy and Shoat Go Out For Breakfast
There WHS auitc a parade along
Market street this morning when wo
men from the Rummage Hale head
quarters took the Rummage Hale
livestock for breakfast. There
were seven gold tish, a flock of rab
bits, an Ait-dale puppy HIKI a six
weeks' old shoat. from all Indica
tions, the livestock division of the
\KISBURG, PA. TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1919.
DIRIGIBLES WILL
LAND ON FIELD
IN ISLAND PARK
Old H. A. C. Diamond Select
ed For Naval Aviator's
Big Craft
The old Harrisburg Athletic Club
field on Island Park has been defi
nitely selected as the proper place
for the landing of the big dirigible
balloon which is to be brought to
Harrisburg as part of the publicity
campaign of the Victory Roan drive.
Announcement to this effect was
made at noon to-day.
Various other places have been
suggested, but for various reasons
all of these were abandoned as un
desirable. At first it had been
planned to land it on the Reservoir
Park golf course, but this met with
strenuous opposition. The almshouse
field, wherein several aviators have
landed their machines within the
past several months, was then sug
gested, but this was abandoned
when it was learned that the field
was being prepared for planting.
Mines Get to Work,
Result of Sproul's
Approval of Advance
Hnxleton. Pa., April R. Por the
first time in three months the six
teen collieries of the Lehigh Valley
Coal Company, the largest producer
of anthracite in the Hazleton dis
trict, will work steadily this week,
A number of independent operations,
which had been on a three-day sched
ule, also will be kept going the en
tire week.
Operators say this activity is due
to the action of Governor Sproul in
sustaining the prospective advances
of ten cents a t.Oll in the price of coal
starting May 1 to continue for five
months.
■ toillXiS f'UMPI.KTKD
Borings for the new State street
bridge have been virtually completed
and the apparatus removed.
Rummage Sale promises to he one
of tiie most Important.
The sale, us well known, will be
held in the building in Market street
next to the Victoria^Jheater.
All records for donations have been
broken, Mrs. Marlin H. Olmsted said
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AMERICANS VIEW EARLIER SAILING
OF TRANSPORT AS NEW PEACE SIGN;
BA VARIA RENOUNCES IMPERIALISM
Paris Press
Hits Yank
Objector
S/4FS WILSON'S
VIEWS PREVAIL
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Peace Makers Are
Demanding Full
Price of War
By Associated Press.
Paris, April B.—The Coun
cil of Four met this morn- j
at the residence of Premier i
Lloyd George. President Wil
son was not able to attend the
morning session, but hoped j
to be able to attend the meet- i
ing this afternoon at the Paris i
white house.
The overnight tension in
Peace Conference circles had I
not been dispelled when the i
Council of Four met today. In
conference circles, however, it
was felt that the session to- !
day would serve to clear the
atmosphere.
Paris, April 8. —The views of j
President Wilson's attitude on
French claims defer the Peace
Conference put forth by "cer
tain American circles" are de
clared by the Matin to-day to be
entirely fantastic.
President Wilson, the Matin
says, is conscientiously studying
the final details ot the preliminary
peace. The Petit Parisien comments
in much the same vein, emphatically
denying that there are differences ;
between the French and American j
delegations, especially regarding 11- ;
nnncial questions, as has been de- j
l'cacc 111 Short Time
Tho Paris newspapers as a whole
leiteru.c the view that it will be
severa' days before the work of the
conference will be completed in such
a way that peace may be made
simultaneously with Germany and"
lier t.l'ies. They predict that the
meetings in Varsailles will probably
take place within fifteen or twenty
days. however.
Aceoi ding to Le Journal the plan
for a buffer state at the mouth of
the Vistula has been abundoned, the
h aiding over of Danzig to the Poles
10 be probably the course adopted.
Complete Reparation Planned
The Echo do Paris says the so
lution of the reparations question
reached by the conferees provides
for ■ omplt-U reparation. The plan,
11 i dds, calls for the annual mcet
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LARGEST WINTER
WHEAT CROP FOR
NATION ON WAY
Knormous Yield of 837,000,000
Bushels Announced by
Department
lly Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, April B.
Tlic condition of winter wheat
on April 1 in Pennsylvania was
100. ueenrding to tin- announce
ment of the Department of
Agriculture to-day.
Washington. April 8. —The largest
crop of wheat ever grown was fore
cast for this year by the Depart
ment of Agriculture to-day, basing
its estimate on conditions existing
April 1. The enormous yield of
837,000,000 bushels was announced,
which ut the Government's guaran
teed price of $2.26 a bushel places
the crop's value at $1,891,620,000.
This year's winter wheat crop, if
no unfavorable conditions develop
between now and time of harvest,
will be 152,000,000 bushels larger
than the previous record crop, pro
duced in 1914, and 248,000,000
bushels more than was grown last
year.
Exceeds I.ast Year's Yield
Production of winter wheat last
year was 558,449,000 bushels and in
1917 it was 412,901,000 bushels,
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Seven Corners Is Visited
by Half Dozen Bandits;
Take Bonds and Cash
liy Associated Press.
Minneapolis, April 8 Six men
held up the People's State Bank at
Seven Corners, a busy Minneapolis
business district, this forenoon, and
escaped with 84,500 In cash and $13,-
000 In Liberty Bonds. Cashier A.
E. Kolsteil was locked in the vault.
ONI.Y EVENING ASSOCIATED IMIESS SINGER COPIES UAMC rniTinM
NEWSI'APKK IN IIAIIItISHUHU TWO CENTS IlUlTlEi EiL/1 1 11/ll
Arrest Cabinet Officer
By Associated t'ress
Copenhagen, April B.—Herr Landsberg, Minister of Justice in the
national German government, was arrested yesterday at Magdeburg,
the capital of Prussian Saxony, by members of regiments stationed
there, a Magdeburg dispatc-h reports. General von Kleist, in com
mand of the Fourth army, and his staff and former Deputies lira ti
des and Filkel also were arrested. Other arrests of Social-Demo
crats and members of the Bourgeoisie are planned.
Th majority of the Magdeburg garrison sympathizes with tHe In
dependent Socialists, the message udds.
PENSION FUNDS AID
MOTHERS KEEP HOMES
FORSMALLCHILDREN
Widows Tide Through Misfortune by Careful Administra
tion of Fund Provided Jointly bv State and County
"Making Ends Meet" would be a
very appropriate title for a volume
of human interest stories associated
with the work of the Mothers' As
sistance Fund, which has its head
quarters in the basement of the
Public Library and lias for its pres
ident, Mrs. Lyman 11. Gilbert. With
a running start of only two months
the splendid olfotts of this good mis
sion have resulted in nearly fifty
families being relieved of suffering,
dire and imminent.
Lest any reader be not acquaint
ed with this new State bureau for
taking care of a mother and her
family who suddenly find themselves
without the father, it might be well
to explain that the scheme has been
in operation in Dauphin county only
two months. The bill was passed
through the State Legislature sev
eral years ago, and is in operation
now in about forty counties of this
State. Dauphin was assigned to re
ceive SB,OOO per annum, part from
the State and part from the county,
but because all counties have not
come in, Dauphin is fortunate in be
ing handed about $3,000 more titan
her share. And she needs it.
The situation is handled In Dau
phin county by Mrs. D. P. Deatrich,
Mrs. Lyman D: Gilbert. Mrs. David
Kaufman, Mrs. John H. Dehr, Mrs.
Robert H. Rutherford, Mrs. Mercer
B. Tate and Mrs. D. E. Tracy. Miss
Pauline X. Hnuch is the executive
secretary.
Rules of the l-'niul
; Miss Hauck is the dynamo of the
i active forces, although every officer
! is on the qui vive to find the fam-
I ilies who need help and who come
j under the precise restrictions which
! make a woman eligible as follows:
J .I—She must be a widow, or the
wife of a man permanently insane—-
and the mother of dependent (under
i IB years) children who lias not the
' financial means to carc for them.
I 2 —She must be a resident of the
j county for three consecutive years
! before she applies for an allowance.
! 3 —She must be a woman of good
' character, who, except for lack of
1 money, is able to make good citizens
of her children.
4—She must be free of tubercu
losis.
The latter restriction may seem
severe, but Miss Hauck explained
that the State lakes carc of such
patients free and that the compara-
COUNTY'S COAL
MAPS ATTACKED
BY CORPORATION
Mine Operators .Protest Fur
ther Against Proposed In
crease in {Assessments
A very animated session of coal
men representing the Susquehanna
Collieries Company and County
Commissioners was staged to-day at
the Courthouse to discuss the $86,-
000,000 assessment which has been
made on the coal mines in Williams
and Wiconisco townships. District
Attorney Stroup, counsel for the
company, backed by David Randall,
the president, and other company
officials, had a score of maps and
surveys, which differed radically
frohi those of the county, presented
by Engineer F. H. Sekol, who rep
resented T. Ellsworth Davies, spe
cial mining engineer, who made the
survey which resulted in the enor
mous assessment. Mr. Davies was
ill.
It was announced that to-morrow
the Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron Company, for which John
T. Rrady is counsel, will have its
hearing before the Commission,
which consists of Messrs. Stinc,
Cumbler and Wells. The Reading
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Senator Smith Put in
Curtin Memorial Bill
Senator Prank A. Smith. Dauphin,,
this morning introduced in the Sen
ate a bill appropriating $25,000 for
the completion of the new Camp
t'urtin memorial at Sixth and Wood
bine streets. 011 tiie site of the fa
mous Camp Curtin of Civil War days.
The money is to lie administered
by the Camp Curtin Commission, con
sisting of Robert A. Enders, John A.
Herman, William H. Bricker, Noah
A. Walmer, Alvin S. Williams and
William E. Bailey,- all of this city.
tlvely small funds of this bureau
cannot lie used in tubercular cases
if the funds are to be made lo go as
far as possible.
In the first month of this asso
ciation's career, February, it took
care oi eighteen families, scattered
all over Dauphin county; in March
the number increased to twenty-two,
and the third month went far ahead,
the figures not being ready as yet.
but fitly families are now enjoying
this first aid which operates under
the State Board of Education, thus
calling for close inspection of the
association over a child's tutelage.
"The situation in Harrisburg to
dav," telated Miss Hauck, who had
just returned from a swing through
the northern part, of the county, "is
not quite so bad as it is up there
where many have been thrown out
of work in the coal mines, and in
dustries, particularly in the hosiery
factories. You know our work does
not come under the term of charity
and I wish to have it understood
that the families we help are de
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:; MARRIAGE UCENSES
•J* . . Albert J. Knll, l'hllnd*lphin,nnd l illliin M. >llll ward, Vork r9gn-
I) 1 John A. /.Immrrman, 1ITMIIO.V, tintl ALLOT* 1.. Hordnrr. Ilummfh-
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Soviet Army
Looked to
For Help
HOLIDAY FOR
CELEBRATION
Voice of Toilers to
Be Guiding Policy
in the Future
II II Associated Pre SB.
Berlin, April B—Dissensions
already have arisen among the
founders of the Soviet gov
ernment in Bavaria, the Ach
tuhrblatt, to-day says, and an
intensified state of siege has
been proclaimed in Munich.
The communists in the
Bavarian capital have decided
that they will not collaborate
with the majority socialists.
They have demanded the re
moval of the majority social
ists from the new government
which they want to consist of
independent socialists and
communists.
Munich, April 8. Complete
severance from the old German
Imperialism, as declared still to
be manifest in the Ebert-
Scheidemann government of
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