Geneva, Switzerland , /s Chosen as Seat of League of Nations by World Peace Conference HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ®hc lQfac-independent. I-XX XVII I NO. 85 2N IvAGES Matter a\ ix'a Post Oriici'at'HaKlaSurg ,n "" HARRTSBU RCf, PA. 1 'RID.W E\ EXIXCi, APRIL II 1 ( H ( I OM.t IVHMM; ANSIICIATKII I'HKSS TWO CENTS ' LlflMC rniTinN MSWSI'AI'KH IX HAIIIIISIH HG SINGLE COPIES HUIVIL tUI 11UN UNDER PRESSURE BY WILSON PEACE MAKES PROGRESS Message Received at Whiti House Gives Assuring News % From the French Capital GENEVA SEAT OF LEAGUE Berlin Quotes Hun Minister a? Opposing Any but the Wilson Pact WANTS BLOCKADE ENDED Says Opponents Cannot at the f Same Time Dismember Ger many and Collect Resources Paris. April 11. Geneva Switzerland, has been chosen as the seat of the League of Na tions. according to announce ment here. Tile Pence Conference lins readied an agreement on all questions concerning peace with taermaiiy. reparations, inilemni : lies, anil the frontiers of the Khine and Poland. according to an interview in the Petit Jour nal with the private secretary of Premier Lloyd George. Cer tain details remain and. it is added, they will be settled in two or three days. At last night's meeting of the commission on a League of Nations, ten sections of the covenant were considered and passed. The Japa nese amendment was not rca.-h'd and the actual text of the section exempting the Monroe Doctrine from the provisions of the covenant of the League of Nations is not yet available. Ameriaan commissioners stated, however, that the doctrine was defi nitely named in the provision guaran teeing that it will not be affected by the terms of the covenant. Another iupet.it* will be held to-niglit, when it is hoped that the work will be completed. Wilson Offers Amendments The adoption of the section ex empting the Monroe Doctrine was the only real exemption made during the mectiu last night. President Wil son offered the amendment and made a plea for it, saying that he believed the doctrine was protected under the terms of the covenant as they stood, but, because of the demands for specific exemption, he felt it im perative that the amendment should be added. There was some adverse argument, hut the amend ment was adopted without prolonged opposition. Germany Will Accept No Peace Other Than One Based on Wilson Points Berlin, April 11. —Count von BrockdorfF - Rantzau. foreign minister, speaking before the national assembly at Weimar to day, said Germany would not sign a peace treat}- which devi ated in any essential from Presi dent Wilson's fourteen points. Promise Opponents Clean Sheet "The financial demands to be made in the peace treaty are obvi ousiy causing as much difficulty to c.r opponents as those regarding territory," the Foreign Minister said. "It is impossible to solve the ques tion oi financial claims without ne gotiaiing with our experts at the con'erence table. We will give a < '-ear account of our opponents rel ative -o their-demands and our abil ity tc pay." "Our opponents," continued the minister, "cannot dismember and paralyze Germany and at the same time extract from the resources of the country the enormous sums they expect from them. For that purpose we require the release, industrially and agriculturally, of the important west, which, contrary to the armis tice terms, is cut off from the rest of Germany. Want Blockades Raised "We need to have the blockades speedily raised and we require the importation of foodstuffs on condi tions which will make their purchase possible. "All the states which participated in this war find themselves in the 4- same distress and hardly a nation is not disappointed by a peace that is a terrible danger because of the encouragement given by it to dis ruptive forces." THE WEATHER For llnrrlshnrg and virility: Main unci roldrr to-nlxht, with I o ir on! t*mprraturr about 42 dc itrrrMt Saturday roldrr arid prolinhly fair. For Fatrrn IVnnnj Ivania: liain I nniJ roldrr Saturday roldrr and probably fair* frvnh Mttitfb\irnt to Wft windfi. Itlvrr Thr main Hvor will rl*r Nlonly to-niftht and probably Satur- | day. All brnnrhrM 111 proh nl'> rl*r Homrnhnt n* n rr.nult of thr Krnrrnl rain Indlrntrd for tb *fiM|urhnnna watrr*hril vif Itln Ciir nrvt twrnty-fnur bourn. \ miner of about 11.2 frrt l t'\ prrted at llarrlnbtirK Sat urday morning. — Looks as Though We Might Have to Give Uncle Along With'Em s . 1 INSURE' 1 ) BUT HOt*?) ; shucks! LET'S j C*NE THE 3IAMED THINGS BACK j " * i fr " • | NAME W.H.GERMAN TO DIRECT SCOUT WORK s i t Now Commissioner For Years Has Been Devotee of ()ut-ol- ' Door Work and Has First-Hand Knowledge of - 1 . I the Woods and Mountains ® The election of William H. Ger man as scout commissioner, the highest post of the organization, was announced to-day following a meet- j ing of the executive committee. Mr. ! German will assume charge of his j new duties at once. As Scout Commissioner Mr. Ger- j man is the ranking commissioned j I officer in the local scout council. He . will he responsible for all individual ' | scout troop inspections of the Harris- J ' burg district and will direct to a : j large extent the activities of the | boys in civic movement. Mr. German for years has been a • devotee to the out of doors and has spent much time in camping and traveling in the woods. He has tramped through the Canadian for ests and has a first hand knowledge , of nature that can be used by his • new charges. Members of the executive com mittee who were the guests of J. William Bowman, president of the council, when Mr. German's election was announced were: Dr. Charles B. , I Fager. Jr., David E. Tracy, William Jennings. Samuel P. Ebv. Hender son Gilbert, Herman P. Miller, John , S. Musser, George S. Reinoehl and J. Frederik Virgin, scout executive. TROOPS KILL 25 IN DUSSELDORF'S REBEL UPRISING ■ Spartacans Flee After Clash in Street; City in Total Darkness Copciiliagcn. April 11.—In a new : ; Spartacan outbreak at Dusseldorf ; rhursday, twenty-five persons were j i killed and twenty-five wounded , when government troops used ma- j chine (tuns on Spartacan demonstra j tors, the Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin ' says. A crowd of several thousand as- | , scntbled before Spartacan head- ! I quarters in Dusßeidorf Thursday aft- I ernoon. The police ordered the ' crowd to disperse, whereupon there | was some shooting. While soldiers ! I were being brought up, the crowd i | erected barricades in the streets. ' j After the lighting, in which the ! | casualties were sustained, the Spar- j ■ tacans fled. Dusseldorf. the newspaper adds, ! ! was in complete darkness last night, | the gas and electric works having' ceased operations. Trains and street cars stopped running. The strike in Brunswick is reported to be gen eral and the railway station there . is closed. ( wmW \ V ■ **9 Bob > t WILLIAM H. GERMAN BRING YOUR BEAU TO CHURCH, SAYS PASTOR TO GIRLS 1 Young Women Urged to Take) j Sweethearts With Them For Sunday Service "Bring your sweetheart to I churchl'' I This is the call Dr. Clayton Albert j Smucker, pastor of the Stevens i Memorial Methodist Church, sent i out to-day for "Sweetheart Night" to be observed in the live Methodist I Church Sunday evening. He calls i upon women, married and unmar ! ried, to bring their sweethearts, old i and young, to this special service. Special features have been ar i ranged for the "Sweetheart" cele j bration. Dr. Smucker will preach on "Ruth—Love in the Barle.vfleld." I A vocal solo, probably a love song. ! will be presented. STUDY BUILDING CODE The t'hamber of Commerce spe i cinl committee to consider the form ulation of a new building code is meeting in the Chamber of Com merce rooms this afternoon. The meeting was scheduled to start at 3 o'clock. I 'AUCTION BRINGS UP RECEIPTS AT j | RUMMAGE SALE; ' . ~ !Gaudy or Somber. Household! Articles Are in Great Demand i i The big feature of the Rummage ; | Sale for the benefit of Harrisburg! | Hospital to-day was an auction be ginning at 12 o'clock with C. Fry, | ; auctioneer, and many hundreds I crpwding the big apartment with as t many outside who could not get j | in. A squad of police were necessary j to maintain semblance of order, anil i they were very busy. The offerings , j w ere most tempting, leading off with I a $lOO palm contributed by Uttiey, ! i the florist. A valuable, much pedl j greed Airedale terrier, front famous kennels, the gift of Miss Annette I ; Bailey, had all the dog fanciers bid [Coiitiniicd on Pag,. 2;j.] ; Commissioner Martin to Outline His Policies I Col. Edward Martin, Comrnia- [ | sioner of Health, to-day announced j | that the policy of his department in j ! regard to co-operation with munici | palities in efforts to improve health 1 conditions would he outlined Mon- j day night at the State-city confer- I ! ence arranged with city officials and j | representatives of welfare orguni- ' zations of Harrisburg. It is the idea > of the Commissioner to have Hat- I i risburg made a model city for the ; rest of the State in certain lines and j he will call upon the state capital ; | to work out betterments. In addition to heads of divisions ! and bureaus of the department. Dr. ; j Thomas S. Blair will discuss nar cotic control: Dr. Leon S. Gans the! genitro-urinary work of the depart- ' ment, and Dr. Louis A. Klein, dean of the veterinary department of the University of Pennsylvania, will speak on the relation of a city to j its milk'supply. j i TASTE OF LONG DROUGHT IS GIVEN BY "DRY" SPELL Supply of Draught Beer Virtually Exhausted at the l,ocal Breweries; Now Dependen: on Outside Shipments liarrisburg is undergoing a little i I "dry" spell which is only a little forerunner of the long drought that is to come. The secret is out and so is the draught beer, according to the busy j bartenders who are drearily ex- j plaining that appeals for a glass of' beer cannot be met. "Take a bottle, there is still a little of that left," say the barkeeps to the thirsty. It appears that the demand for beer has been so heavy during the last several months that virtually the 'cpcm HUMAN ELEMENT IN BUSINESS IS SAID NECESSARY Lactones Must Re Arranged' For Convenience of Em ployes. Rotarians Told j LEMMINGS IS NOMINATED Lancaster Man Wins Nomina tion ;\s District Governor of Rotary Clubs A RECORD ATTENDANCE Lessons of the War in Hand-! ling Men Applied to Every day Conditions at Home "Know thyself!" "Rut the human elevent into business!" " Take autocracy out of your business!" I'hese rules were given Ro tarians in their conference in Fuline- Ktnck Hail at this morning's session, by Roturiun Edwin S. Herman, of the Harrisburg Rotary Club, in an ad- i dress on "Relations Between Em- | ployer and Employe." During the business session Ralph W. Gumming*, of Lancaster, was | unanimously nominated for Distriet ! Governor. He will be elected at the i International Convention to be held j in Salt Lake City. Mr. Herman said in part: "The world lias advanced a eon- j tur.v or more during the past four; years In all tilings exrept time, and , we are Itere to-day to discuss one phase of this unexpected but welcome ' advance. "War, like fire. Is a devastating agency, but also like (ire it is a puri- '' fying force if properly directed. How j many times we look upon a eonflag- i ration as a great disaster, only to | [Continued on Pago 27.] Daily Organ Recitals and Vocal Solos to Mark Holy Week at Y.M.C.A. Daily organ recitals, solos by welt -1 known singers and ten-minute talks, by prominent clergymen of the city j [will lie included on tlie program of lloly Week services to be held un-| ider the auspices of the Central Y. i jM. C. A. beginning Monday. The j i services will open at 12.15 each day I land continue until 12.45. The sched-j j ulo of speakers is: Monday, Bishop James H. Darling-' ton, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of! li'i ntrul Pennsylvania. Subject "Ideal izing the Real Through Christ." 1 Tuesday, the Rev. Joseph A. Lyter, | pastor Derry Street United Brethren I church. Subject, "Hecklers Discom- Iforted." Wednesday, the Rev. George Ed -1 ward Hawes, pastor Market Square 1 Presbyterian church. Subject, "The [ inner I'irele." ! Thursday, the Rev. Robert Hagnell. pastor Grace Methodist church. Sub- Ijcct. "Christ in Gethseniene." Friday, the Rev. Henry \V. A. Hanson, pastor Messiah Lutheran (church. Subject. "The Shame and 'Guilt of the Cross." Saturday, the Rev. Ellis N. Krent er. pastor Reformed Salem church. 'Subject. "Christ's Descent Into' j Hades." MUNICH'S REBEL COUNCIL THROWS JAIL DOORS OPEN Student Leads Bank Commis sion Into Trouble; Deposi tors Arc Excited By Associated Press. Berlin, April 11.—The Munich rev- : olution cqnueil has ordered the im mediate release of all prisoners of, war in Bavaria. The order frees thousands of Russian prisoners, in cluding the Russian communist Axel- ' rod. The council which has been in '■ charge of the Munich banks has been ; getting into trouble through decrees j issued by its leader, a twenty-four- [ year old student named Foller. The : council had ordered that the wages j of all persons be continued to be paid | in full. It also closed the banks, causing excitement among the de- | posltors who were unable to with draw their money. entire supply of beer stored by the j local breweries has been exhausted, j Several of the larger breweries now ; are supplying bottled stuff in small | quantities. Frantic telegrams have been sent ; it is said by local dealers to the big S breweries out of town to rush ship- I ments here. The hotels that han- ! died these beers exclusively before are able to get a supply from the I big cities while others who handled the local beers have been promised ' part of the next shipment due to- I morrow, it is said $l6O A YEAR IS ADDED TO WAGE SCALE OE EACH TRAIN SERVICE MAN ON RAILROADS J Director Hines Has Added $65,000,000 Annual to Rate DEMANDS OF MEN ARE MET Ity .Ltfociatcd Tress* Washington, April 11—Wage j advances aggregating $65,000,- ] 000 were ordered to-day by Di-j rector General Hines for 400,-i 000 railroad engineers, firemen,! trainmen and conductors in both j passenger and freight service —j members of the "big four" ra.il- j way brotherhoods—retroactive : since January 1, 1919. The brotherhood demand for time and a half pay for overtime was granted only for mon engaged in j yard service, and for the others i i this question was referred to the j Railroad Administration's Board of i ; adjustment number one, already I ; created for consideration of disputes i ' relating to railway trainmen or en- : i ginemen. | 81(10 More Yearly Tor Kacll Toiler I The Increases were arranged ac cording to a contemplated schedule, 1 one of the aims of which was to ' restore the wage relationship cxist- I ing before the railroads increase in wages last year. The average ad vance in pay per man per year will he about SI CO. This action practically completed i the war cycle of wage increases i granted railroad men since the gov- j 1 ernment took over management of i | the roads fifteen months ago. Only j la few minor requests for more pay | ! remain to ho acted upon. Billion More a Year Including to-day's order the ag- ; i gregate pay increases allowed by the railroad administration to the two [million railroad employes is at the rate of $822,81 1,000 a year, more 1 than $4OO average per man. Thus the total payroll of America's rail roads is raised nearly to three bil ' | lion dollars a year from the basis of ' approximately two billion dollars | un January 1. 1918, when the roads ; passed into the government's hands, j The $65,000,000 added to the pu.v -' S rolls of members of the "big four" ■ brotherhoods brings the total grant : ed this class of employes in the last three years to approximately $275,- ■ 'OOO,OOO or approximately $690 per '[man. This takes into consideration .; the $140,000,000 estimated as the 1 brotherhood's share of the general wage increase last year and $70,- [! 000,000 estimated as the fruit for . these men from the Adumson act which established a basis 8-hour day I but did not put into effect the [' brotherhood's pleas for time and a [ half for overtime. ! j Back pay for work since January j 1 will be given the brotherhood men •'as soon as railway paymasters can ■j work out the amount due. This may ; take a month or even more to com • j plete. ' j In announcing the increase, Di- I \ rector General Hines explained that j the same principles were followed • I as applied by the railroad ndminis • tration during the war. These prin [Continued on Pago 23.] WANTED TO GIVE A GOVERNORSHIP [j IN TROLLEY DEAL Now York Senator Testifies He Was Offered Place For Support 111/ Associated Press. Albany, X. Y„ April Xl.—Testify ing before the judiciary committee of the Senate to-day. Senator George F. Thompson, of Niagara, said that i Richard IX. Hurke, of New York, itold him that if lie would assist in ; the passuse of the Carson-Martin ! increased trolley fare bill he could j become governor of the state and I that the traction interests would | raise in his behalf a campaign fund amounting to $500,000. I Senator Thompson also told of dining subsequently with former Governor Charles S. Whitman at the j St. Kegis Hotel, New York City at ] Mr. Whitman's invitation. He said f that the former governor told him j he had been requested to talk with [ him by Theodore P. Shouts of the i ' Interborough Company. | Mr. Whitman, he testified, told him \ | he thought he was muking a mis j take in not supporting the Carson- I Martin bill, as it might give him a I chance to be governor. ! Now York, April 11.—Charles S. j j Whitman, former governor of New I I York, denied here to-day that he i : mentioned to State Senator George j j F. Thompson the subject of the gov- j I ernorship, in a conversation the two j j men had at the St. Regis Hotel in , • this city, as testified to-day by the ! ,-senator at the Senate judiciary com- j • mittee hearing at Albany. ! "I did have lunch with Senator ; : Thompson some two weeks ago at j j the Hotel St. Regis." Mr. Whitman | ! said. "The rest of his statement is j not true. I never mentioned the subject of the governorship with 1 Senator Thompson or anybody else." I Cf" x What New Wage Scale Means to Harrisburg Harrisburg railroad men will get a little less than it million dollars more a year us a result of the big in cease in wages to day authorized by the Federal Railway Administration. It is estimated that in die Har risburg district there are 4.000 employes of the Pennsylvania railroad and 1,400 of the Phila delphia and Reading. The now scale means that each man will get slou more a year, or a total of $864,000 each year, j according to rough estimates. j CHIEF OF MINERS THREATENS HINES; SAYS HE'S UNFAIR Lewis Predicts "Drastic Ae j. lion by Organization if Policy Doesn't Lhangc ' Pittsburgh, Pa., April 11. —Jolin jL. Lewis, acting president of the |1 lilted Mine. Workers of America, y ho tor Hie past two days has been inspecting mining conditions in the j Pittsburgh district, said in a .state ment published hero to-day that the miners' organization would l>o : obliged to take "drastic action" un less there is a change of policy on I the part of Dircci'or General Hines. Alleges Breach of faith llincs' actions, he asserted, indi cate that he is determined not to 11 ting of railroad coal contracts, giv- I keep his promises relative to the let i ing full publicity to such contracts and guaranteeing a fair profit to ! operators. ' "Since I have been in Pittsburgh," ' declared Mr. Lewis, "I have learned I that he is making contracts for coal I during April. The custom has been [ j to contract for coal for six months' I supplies." This means, said Mr. : i Leewis, that the Director General | will arrange to get coal during Mai ler less than he paid in April. • IX X T TROOPS SLAY 25; WOUND LIKE NUMBER 4, Copenhagen—ln a new Spartacan outbreak at DUE ; | *i f seldorf yesterday 25 persons were killed and 25 wounded •| 4* when government troops used machine guns on Sparta ;j ,L can demonstrators, the Lokal Amzeiger of Berlin says. ! I "* FREES WAR PRISONERS IN BAVARIA tjT Berlin—The Munich revolutionary council has order- 4' , ed of the immediate release of all prisoners of war in *?* i; 4 Bavaria. The orders frees thousands of Russian prison .i 4* ers, including the Russian communist Axelrod. !:]£ COMMUNISTS DISPERSE MUNICH BODY X ■ Copenhagen—The Council of People's Mandatories, X -j 4 which has been in control at Munich, has been dispersed t by the communists, who have formed a communist ' i* government there, according to the Frankenische Tags- 4* -1 "J* port of Nuremberg. Copenhagen—The revolutionary movement in Bavaria i has spread to Baden, and agitators are working in Karls- ; ruhe, Mannheim and other large towns, according to a X i Karlsruhe dispatch to the Acht Uhr Blatt, of Berlin. X j j HUN DELEGATES TO BE SUMMONED I Paris—The German delegates will be summoned to X \y Versailles v/ithin two or three weeks. Lloyd George X is quoted as saying that if the Allies agree as well at X '] T P resen l as during the war the achievements of the Peace L | Conference will be lasting and numerous dangers, in- & ; eluding Bolshevism, will be averted. X j-JN BRICKLAYER HEADS MUNICH'S COUNCIL 4* Copenhagen Herr Klatz, a bricklayer, has been I chosen president of the communist council in Munich. ♦ , y Five workmen and five soldiers comprise the new body. + ]£ ALLIES RAID BOLSHEVIK POSITION £ j Archangel—American and Russian forces yesterday X |4 afternoon raided the Bolshevik position about Bolshie 4® | -J, Ozerki, taking nine prisoners and two machine guns and j destroying a blockhouse, *s |j NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR SUCCEEDS PIEZ X f Washington—Commonder J. L. Ackerson, a naval 4* constructor, detailed for duty with the Shipping Board, * , has been appointed president of the Emergency Fleet 4* I -4 Corporation to succeed Charles Piez, whose resignation *s* bcomcs effective May 1. JL j*f t REV. W. H. DALLMAN GOES TO WAVERLY |T Harrisburg—The Rev. Walter H. Dallman, formerly 4* 4, pastor of the Market Street Baptist Church, now stated > supply for the Central Baptist Church of Steelton, and a 4, former secretary of the City Ministerium, has received ,2 ; and accepted a call to the First Baptist Church of tZ, | Waverly, N. Y. X CHURCH EXPELS "WET" MEMBERS T •y Mahanoy City, Pa. Because they are connected with jp the saloon business or have signed liquor license ap- 4 j, plications, St. Paul's Reformed Church consistory has 4 ; . expelled a half dozen members from the church mem- 4 | X bcrship. i | MARRIAGE LICENSES | j jf* c liarlm Flrkra and UartturrMr C. Ilrunn r the total numbers of employes affected, approximately 4,000 are oh . the Pennsylvania Railroad, living in , I Harri&burg, Enola, Marysvillc and I ether surrounding communities. II They, include all engineers, liremen, 1 brahemen, llagmen and conductors, | both passenger and freight, on the 1 Cumberland Valley, Philadelphia, | M'ddle and Wiliiamsport divisions. The remaining 1,100 men are em ployed on the Philadelphia nnd I Reading Railway and live in this [Continued on Page 2.".]