Great Britain Calls For Volunteers to Fight Eokhewk&w Nm th Be Over 19 Years Old fcfe HARRISBURG SfSpli TELEGRAPH M • _ Ur .v v _ § #■ ■ ~ — ~ - —■—-—-— LXXXVIII— NO. 83 IS PAGES ""g.SS'Ji £J £K? ".Sub?,"*" GIISBURC. PA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1919. ""JS'fiiySSr" WS? HOME EDITION GERMAN CABINET IS ON VERGE OF APPEAL TO ALLIED ARMIES FOR HELP AGAINST HOME FOES Troops Patrol in Streets of Hun Capital; Reds Gain Power ENEMY TO PAY BIG FIRST SUM French Ask Thei r Language May Be Official By Associated Press. Paris, April 9.—A general strike has been proclaimed in Berlin and the suburb of Spandau, advices received here say. Herr Noske, the minister of defense, is reported to have ; concentrated thirty thousand ! loyal troops at the gates of Berlin for use in case of trou- 1 ble. Paris. April 9.—Germany may; appeal to the Allied armies to, maintain order in the Central empire in the interest ot the ; whole of Europe. This int'or- 1 mation is sent Le Journal by its ' Zurich correspondent, who saysj that the German cabinet, at its lat- ' est session, considered the even tuality of issuing the appeal. It is understood that General Humbert, former commander of the French Third army, will he appointed; "commander of the Allied troops in Central Europe." It is evident from the probable action of the Ebert cabinet that Germany finds herself unable to control her internal af fairs, which more and more every daj become gravely threatening. Troops Patrol in Berlin Berlin was reported quiet yester day. being strongly patrolled by gov ernment troops with artillery. V.'il helmstrusse was commanded by ma rhino guns from the Chancellery. No strikes had been reported up un til noon. It is learned here that Spartacan leaders at Hamburg are plotting to proclaim a Soviet repub lic in that city. Gustav Noske. Ger man minister of war, has been called upon, to send troops to Hamburg to prevent this action. linn's lis First Payment The preliminary peace treaty will require Germany to make an imme diate indemnity payment on account of 25,000,000,000 francs in cash and raw materials, according to the Echo de Paris. The treaty, it de clares. will not leave uncertain the total amount which Germany is to pay, as that amount will he written into the document. Two Treaties Probable There is much apprehension in Peace Conference circles as to the effect the establishment of a Soviet government at Munich may have on the conclusion of peace. As the Mu nich government appears from press dispatches to be well established, the peace delegates are Considering the eventual necessity of negotiating two peace treaties with Germany, one with Berlin and the other with Mu nich. The French Society of the Promo tion of a Reague of Nations has adopted a resolution asking the Pear" Conference to adopt French as the official language of the Roague of Nations. The society is also proposing a movement in favor of Paris as the seat of the league. This organization is entirely unoffi cial, and the French government will take no steps to assist the move ment. Matin Accuses Yanks "We do not accuse our allies of forgetting what France lias done." says the Matin to-dav, "but never theless we witnessed a curious thing yesterday. American propagandists or newspaper men, knowing that President Wilson had summoned to Brest the ship which is to take him back to America, saw in this natural order an opportunity for blackmail. They made—with the disapproval of all Americans who are friends of France—a hold-faced attempt at in timation. 'lf you are not more ac commodating,' they went all over the city saying, 'our President will return home and you ran extricate yourself from your difficulties by yourself.' " Vienna Is Fearful I oudoii. April 9. —Defending the military bill in the House of Rords. Earl '"urzon of Kedleston, president of the council and government lead er in the House of Rords. declared that Vienna, "being in a serious posi tion and apprehensive lest it should share are fate of Budapest, had turned to Great Britain and said:, "'lf vou will send ten thousand British troops, we can guarantee the sifation.' " Earl f'urzon was not sure that war conditions would not revive. He said: Sees Clouds <> n Horizon "T "'ee clouds on the horizon which mav hurst at env moment in a more sinister form than fl-v+hing yet If the critics of this hill can show the government how to rule Ireland without maintaining to.onn trnopH there, they will cone-r a great favor on the government." Rotarians of World-Wide Fame * HK JOHN POOLE, nternational President of the Ro tary Clubs of the World ROTARIANS COMING FOR BIG CONVENTION Big Men of Business Organization to Meet Here—Busy Program Planned For Sessions A parade at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning, led by the Bethlehem Steel Company band, will he the opening feature of the conference of Ro tary Clubs of the Fifth District, In ternational Association of Rotary Clubs, to be held here to-morrow and Friday. The band will arrive with a delegation from the Allen town Rotary Club, at the Reading station at 10 o'clock. The parade will march to the Executive Man sion where the band will play and thence to the Capitol where a con cert will be given. Captain George F. Dumb and Colonel James 15. Kemper will be marshals of the pa rade. Registration of delegates will oc cupy the time from 9 to 10.30 o'clock. The first session will be 79TH DIVISION IS GETTING READY FOR HOMECOMING Southern Pennsylvania Army Released For Preparation to Return to the I*. S. Hy Associated Press. New York, April 9.- —-The Twenty- Ninth, Seventy-Ninth and Thirty- Third divisions have been released for preparation for return to the United States, the port of embar kation at iloboken has been in formed. The 29th Division, (Blue and the Gray), consists of National Gu.'ird troops of New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland. Delaware and the District of Columbia,-and was released April 5. The release of the 79th Division National Army men from Southern Pennsylvania, is effective April 10 and tliat of the Thirty-Third, Na tional Guard troops from Illinois is effective April 12. Thf Seventy-Ninth is the Division in which the greater number of Dau phin county selective men are mem bers. Who Wants to Adopt Baby Boy of 1 Month? Anybody want to adopt a baby? Tbe local Salvation Army to-day sent out an appeal for parents for a beautiful blue-eyed baby boy a month old. A young mother, about 25 years of age, came to Mrs. Myer Xeilsen, wife of tbe officer in charge of the local Salvation Army, 450 Verbekc street yesterday morning. "My hus band died during the influenza epi demic, and I'm too poor to support my child. It's hard to give him up but I must find a good mother and father for him. Will you please help me?" Applicants for the baby may se cure further information upon ap plication to Captain or Mrs. Myer Neilsen, officers in charge of the Salvation Army, 436 Broad street. Captain Charles K. Imbrie Returns Home From France The Rev. Charles K. Imbrie, who has just returned to the X'nited States after serving overseas for nine and one-half months with the 104 th Regiments of Infantry, of the 26th Division, will arrive in this city this afternoon. The Rev. Mr. Jmbrie's wife was formerly Miss Margaret Fleming, daughter of Samuel Flem ing, 104 South street- DR. CHARLES A. EATON* President of National Service See tion. I". S. Shipping Board opened in the Y. M. ('. A. building. Second and Locust streets, at 10.30 o'clock. Howard C. Fry, district governor, will call the conference to order, and the Rev. Dr. Lewis S. Mudge will pronounce the invoca tion. Following the singing of the Rotary Marching Song Eli N. Her shey, president of the Harrlsburg Rotary Club, will welcome the Ro tarians to the city. Because of Governor Sprjul's ill ness Attorney General William T. Schaffer will speak in his stead in the afternoon. Dr. Charles A. Eaton, of New York City, chaplain of the Emergency Fleet Corporation and president of the National SerVice Section. U. S. Shipping Board, will speak on "Autocracy, Bolshevism or [Continued on I'age 9. ] ILYA TOLSTOY TO SPEAK HERE ON BOLSHEVISM Son of (iroat Russian Expects lo Sec the Country Rise Above Anarchy Count Uya Tolstoy, son of the great Russian scholar. Deo Tolstoy, will deliver an address on "Rolshe i vism and the Russian Revolution" lin the Chestnut Street Auditorium i next Wednesday night. ; The illustrious Russian will de -1 liver his address under the auspices (Contitled on Page 17) HARRISBURG GIRL DINES WITH GENERAL PERSHING Miss C. Wynne Cassel Meets the American Commander in Paris, Where She Is Engaged in War Work How Miss C. Wynne Casset, a Har risburg girl now doing Y. M. C. A. work in France, had the rare privi lege of informally lunching with General Pershing is narrated by K. Arthur Roberts, staff correspondent of the Daily Leader, Cleveland, in a dispatch to that newspaper. Says Mr. Roberts' dispatch: " 'May 1 take lunch with you la dies ?' "Two of Dr. Frank E. Spaulding's assistants sitting at a table in the restaurant of the Palais de Glace, the big ice rink off the Champs Ely see where the 'Y' boxing bouts are staged each Tuesday night, looked up. "Standing by their ohairs was a tali, top-coated officer who smiled and held out his hand. "The two girls immediately jump ed to their feet. " 'You bet you may," Miss C. Wynne Cassel quickly responded. "At the moment the French con ductor of the ice rink orchestra rec ognized the visitor and immediately switched off from a Faust selection into 'The Stars and Stripes.' "Several hundred 'doughboys' who were listening to the concert turned in the direction of the visi tor. They. too. recognized their com mander-in-chief and stood at at tention during i life playing of the American national air. "General Pershing—for the unex pected visitor was no less a person age—then waved his salutations to the hoys and to the French orches tra." Miss Cassell was formerly eon- &he Otar-Inftcpcnfttnl. LAWMAKERS FIND VISITORS NOISY; MAKE COMPLAINT Speaker Spangler Threatens to Clear Bear of House For Quiet Session BOTH HOUSES ADJOURN Work With Zeal Prior to Tak ing Recess Until Even ing of April 21 Speaker Spanglor to-<lay do- ! nounced visitors to tlte House of Representatives who crowd the reari of the hail and, in his language "show no consideration for the busi ness of the legislature" during sit tings. A petition was sent to the speaker from members having seats in the rear of the House asking that two sergeants-at-arms be detailed to preserve quiet. The speaker at once gave orders and said that if any further difficulty was encountered lie would clear the rear of the hall. Both Branches Adjourn Both branches of the Pennsylvania ' legislature adjourned to-day until j ! Monday, April 21. in accordance i I with action taken by the two Houses | !on Monday night when a vacation l was ordered. No opposition' was | manifested to the adjournment to- 1 day and the chambers formally ad- ! Ijouined soon after 1 o'clock. In both Houses there was consid-i I erablc activity to clear up the cal- j I endars. Numerous bills were intro-1 I duced and committees reported out] I considerable legislation which will j j be on the calendars when the Regis- i j lature reconvenes. Hearings During Afternoon Hearings were held on both sides] of the Capitol on pending bills dur- ] ing the afternoon. Bill (iurs to Governor The State administration's bill to abolish the annual reports of vari ous departments of the State gov ! eminent and substitute biennial re -1 ports because of delays in the last I few years and to systematize State printing was passed in the House land now goes to the Governor. The ' State art jury bill, another adminis tration measure, was postponed. House Works Zealously j The House devoted itself to its ] third reading calendar with zeal and i also advanced a number of bills on other stages, including the Vare I Philadelphia bill. _ j Bills passed linaliy included: Regulating lines of highways lead ing into or bordering on State prop ! crt.v. i Authorizing companies chartered i in other States to manufacture ele ] vators to hold realty in Pennsylva- I nia. Requiring traction engines to I carry spark arresters. Authorizing Attorney General to ! bring quo warranto action against I Hie Tidewater and Susquehanna j River Railroad on the ground of • nonuser. : Senate bill transferring bureau of I statistics from Department of Rabor land Industry to Internal Affairs. Nonpartisan Bill Halts Several important bills were post poned when reached, among third ! class city repealer, administration I bill reorganizing Department of Agri i culture, increasing salaries of Phil j adelphia municipal court judges, | creating an orphans' court in Wash ington county and Hess "blue sky" ] hill. Fixes Kmploycs' Salaries I The House passed the bill fixing a monthly salary of $l5O a month for ! various legislative employes. Compensation For Firemen A bill including in the State com j sensation code volunteer firemen I "while engaged in performance of ] their duties as firemen" was pre | sented in the House by Mr. Dithrieh. I Allegheny. They are to he paid "the money rate at which his serv- I ices is recompensed in the course of j his regular employment." Mr. Beidlespaclier, Rycoming, pre sented a bill repealing the Rycom -1 ing legal advertisement act of 1873. |Mil vDB| h^BHk ■f MISS C. WVNNK ' 'ASS KI. nected with the Reformed Salem Church as contralto soloist. She was called by the Y. M. C. A. following her enlistment, to do entertainment work. She was formerly employed at the Pennsylvania State Library and made her home with her sister Mrs. W. C. JCeiders, 1732 North street. She has many friends in llarrlsburg. ALLIES' FORCES LEAVE BLACK SEA PORT OF ODESSA Evacuation of Civilians Inmii-i nent Because of Food Situation PARIS NOT SURPRISED Believed Entente Troops Will Withdraw to Dniester Region ft;/ Associated Press. Paris, April 9.—The evacuation of I the Black Sea port of Odessa by the Allied forces is confirmed officially.j 1.011111111. Tuesday, April S.—The! situation at Odessa is not yet clear, according to the latest news reach-! ing ot'fic-ial quarters in I.ondon to-! night, but it is believed that the 1 evacuation of civilians is Imminent,! owing to the difficulty of the food 1 supply. All measures have been taken for the removal of British! civilians. I Purl*, April 9. —News of the evac- | untion of Odessa caused no surprise j here. The French general in com- 1 ma ml there announced a few days | ago that he would hold Odessa to the j last, but Foreign Mini-tor Piehon i told the Chamber of Deputies 011 i March 27 that the situation at Odes- ' sa was serious because of the prob- | leni of feeding tBOO,OOO civilian in- i habitants. The allied forces at Odessa in- 1 eluded three French regiments, three Greek regiments and a Rumanian contingent. It is presumed here that i the Allied force will withdraw to the! Dniester. Sidney Drew, Screen Actor, Dies in New York; Is Taken 111 in Detroit w York, April 9.—Sidney Drew, actor on the stage and for the moving picture screen, died to-day at his home here. Mr. Drew was appearing with his wife in the play "Keep Her Smiling," in Detroit last week, when he became ill. Against the advice of physicians he insisted upon being brought to his home in this city, and his condition gradually grew Worse. The cause of death was given by bis physician as uremia due to nephritis. Mr. Drew, who was a native of New- York, was fifty-four years old. Mr. Drew was an adopted brotliT of .lohn Drew, the actor. He was edu cated in tlie University of Pennsyl vania. but left that institution before graduation t 0 go on the stage. After a successful career as a comedian in the spoken drama and on the vaude ville stage. Mr. Drew entered the mo tion picture field and there repeated his successes. A son, Sidney Rankin Drew, was killed in aerial combat in France. MERCHANTS OF CITY ORGANIZE C. OF C. BUREAU Every End of Modern Mer chandising to Be Studied by New Body To consider problems of special interest to merchants of the city, sixty merchant members of the liar risburg Chamber of Commerce met in the Penn-Harris Hotel last even ing where they effected the organi zation of a Merchants' Council. ,T. S. Lowengard, of Burns & Co., was named as chairman, and J. William Bowman, of Bowman & Co., as vice chairman. William Smedley, of Philadelphia, chairman of the Retail Merchants' Association of Pennsylvania, was the guest of the occasion and spoke on matters relative to the formation of such an organization. The beneticial results that will accrue from such an organization were outlined in brief by Mr. Smedley. Possibilities in Harrisburg to be achieved as they have been in other cities were said by him to be large. Among those he mentioned were: Keep members posted on information valuable to merchants: establish a credit bu reau: eliminate unprofitable adver tising: take steps to protect the members against shoplifting: estab lish universal closing hours; help to educate ignorant competitors with the idea that those who help others help themselves: encourage spring [Continued on Page 9.] Allied Officers Treat With Reds Under Flag of Truce in Russia By Associated Press, Archangel. April 9.-—A delegation of American and British officers un der a flag of truce went into the Bol shevik lines on Monday to negotiate an exchange of prisoners. It was pro posed that the allied commission should go to Plesov3kaia to arrange details, the Bolsheviki sending an equal delegation into the allied lines as hostages. Subsequently, the Rev. Father Roach, a chaplain with the British forces, who was captured on Octo ber 31, and who later was released, returned from the Bolshevik lines with letters from Bryant R. Ryall, of Bloomfleld, N. J., and other cap tives, saying they had been sent to Moscow, where M. V. Arnold, of T.ondon, Ontario, had previously 1 gone. NAB FIRE BUG AFTER CHASE OF 3,000 MILES Stale Fire Marshal Finds Man Who Skipped $3,500 Bail Bond Holding Good Position in Los Angeles Store ROGUES' GALLERY* PHOTOGRAPH OF I.IiONAUD RUNDELL One of the most important arrests; I by the State Fire Marshal's depart : ment since the creation of the office! I in 1911 nas just been announced. The ruse is that of Leonard liun ! dell, of Athens, Bradford county,' j who, in conjunction with Frank E. I DeWaters, of Eltnira, N. Y„ stands' j indicted for the attempted burning! jof a three-story brick building in j the borough of Athens, in which ■ DeWaters conducted a 5 and 10- i cent store. Rundell was the .chief clerk of DeWaters. The pair is al ■ leged to have conspired in the burn ing of tlie building May Iti. 1918,! with a view of profiteering on tlie ir-suranee of the contents, for which policies had been issued aggregating . SO,OOO. The business having proved J unsuccessful, the stock was much i depleted at the time of the contem plated burning and was worth less j than SI,OOO. The act of March 30. IS6O, provides a severe penalty for the attempt to set tire to a building j with intent, even though a lire did | not actually occur. Notified Widow That Rundell was the catspaw of j DeWaters is proved by the fact that j a few days prior to the proposed j fire he notified a widowed tenant on ' the second floor of the building that i DeWaters intended to burn it. The ; woman, with three small children, ! in occupancy of the flat, fearful that j all might lose their lives, kept daily I wateli, and on tl\c night of May 10 i detected a strong odor of kerosene I coming from the floor below. She made report to the chief of police, who broke into the storeroom and found long strands of laces, scrim, etc., thoroughly saturated with oil. Twenty gallons of the same had DROWNS WHEN HE FALLS OFF WALL IN PLAY Boy of Six Meets Death Wan dering on the River Wall Striking at a tin bucket in the water with a switch while standing on the steps along the Susquehanna river near ihe Beading Railway bridge, Adonese Grimes, six-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Grimes, 103 Cherry street, was drowned at noon to-day in the lirst drowning accident of the season. The child was playing with a number of children along the river front at the time crt' the drowning and one of these gave the first in formation of the accident to the parents. Considerable difficulty was experienced in securing persons to search for the body, which has not yet been recovered. Former Harrisburg Man Writes Will on Slip of Paper; Uses Few Words In disposing of his estate, A. Mit chell Rutherford, former llarrisburg man who died at Pittsburgh last week, wrote briefly on a memoranda slip three by four inches in size, us ing scarcely three dozen words in the will, which was admitted for pro bate to-day at the Court House. The estate is valued at several thousand dollars. The instrument was written in Pittsburgh on January 4. It reads: "My will—l give to the Paxton Presbyterian Church, $1,000: Amy May Stufft, llrookvllle. Pa., $1,000; my sister, Eliza R. Bailey, $1,000; my sister. Bertha R. Welsch, the residue. A. Mitchell Rutherford." THE WEATHER For HnrrinburK >nd vicinity: Fnlr to-nlglK; Thursday cloudy nnd warmer, probably rain; low cat temperature to-night about 30 dcpiocM. Itlver The lower portion of the ninin rhcr wl'l continue to fall MlOW lyj the upper portion will hejein to Hmc Mlowly tn-n)ght. The lower portiona of the IVorth nnd WOt branchcM will vine Nllght ly: the upper portiona will fall Komewhat or remnln nearly Ntn tlonnry. A wtitare of about 5 4 feet IN Indicated for Harrlaburg Thursday morning. been sent to Athens from Elmira by auto truck a few days before. DeWaters and Rundcll were ur-1 rested May 20. I9IS, held in $3,500: bail, for which they put up 1 liberty Bonds as security. Their trial was to have taken place at Towanda last' November, but Rundell having tied i from the state, with his whereabouts; unknown, his ball was forfeited.! Tbe case against DeWaters re-! mained untried, owing to the escape of Rundell from jurisdiction. Itj was believed that the latter would! turn state's evidence upon his ap prehension. He left Pennsylvania early last August, with intimations; that DeWaters had put up the money for the getaway of himself, wife and two children. Wild Charges The municipal authorities of Ath ens, as well as the authorities of Bradford county, were charged by the newspaper with "lying down" 011 the job and intimations were made that the State Fire Marshal's de partment was in "cahoot." After [Continued on Page 10.] I ' '$ *p fir X T j* X 4 44 I s the company, however, claim they do not own two o; the .▼ "?* V *7* •$ ! ¥ ?* *f T |X -£ T w T X -$* T J. JJ ,*£ 5 ? <h * I JL ■.-.■ A-■ : . - . *■ 1 eh I ! - * i | ! '- * I * * t( ji **♦ i ~ I * * * * iT * * fx * T rj * fir ~ * 1 * t : .c I;<■■ . •-,. . B $ 4 * I T $• % j; CLINE BAVARIAN PORTFOLI jj w Y ' to accept the portfolios of foreign affairs an tt *s * % MARRIAGE LICENSES *}• S Fred 1.. IlatllfH, Hnrrlxliiirir. nnd (iurndol)n (J. Kldcr, w --eillcj IVtcr V. Shopo. Swntnru Stntion. nnd Klimhcih A. Shopp, • , Annvlllr: \Vi.'liam A. Morrun, 11 n rrKl-uin. tuid ItvKlnn K. Uuiirir, a 7* New Jlnrkct. " ACTION NOT TALK WANTED IN CITY'S HEALTH PROGRAM j State Commissioner Outlines What Must He Done at Conference ! WILL FIC.HT DISEASE • Sanitary Conditions to Be (lone Over by Depart ment's Experts 1101 SINC TO HE STI DIED Health Officer Bauniek Is in Full Accord With Col. Martin's Plans I The meeting is designed for ae i tioii and not simply for talk. Colonel | Kdward Martin. State Commissioner | ol' lleultli, said to-day in speaking ! of tlie meeting arranged to be lield i in the House of Representatives on j Monday evening at 8 o'clock, in a I movement to unit all organizations | of the city in a movement to make ■ Harrisburg a model city from health • and saniluiy standpoints. j "Hut before action can be taken," ; Colonel Martin reminded, "actual conditions must bo known." if the. action decided on is wise, he said, I the proper agencies to carry it into 1 1 exc< ution must be selected and the .! agents must be specifically in i structed. ! Action along the whole line of , | sanitary betterment is contemplated, L l Colonel Martin says. The mayor and I various organizations arc in full ac cord with Hie movement and offer ! . their i:r.<|lialilie<l support, and the re su'ts may lie a lesson in intensive eo ,; operative work which not only will , have a large influence in the sanitary ' i condition of Pennsylvania, but of the ; nation at large, f'oloncl Martin ; says. Program llcatly A program filled with statistics as ; to the sanitary condition of tho city, | lias been arranged with Colonel Mar- I tin. A number of workers of the State Department will consider the j situation as it bears on his depart [Continued on Page 17.]
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