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LXXX\ 111 NO. 8D 16 .RAGES Matter'at the Post 6fflee°at "llarHsburg"' 3 *" HJUUUSBURG. PA. SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1919. KSr JS&SSTm HOME EDITION
MOTOR LICENSE
REGULATIONS TO
BE MADE ANEW
Speed Limit to Be Raised
From 24 to 30 Miles
an Hour
FEES WILL BE LARGER
Weight and Length of Trucks
Defined to Protect
Roads
An increase of registration fees of
front fifteen to eighteen per cent,
for ail motor vehicles except motor
cycles and numerous new regulations
for the use of automobiles and
trucks, protection of their owners
and control of drivers and traffic
have been provided itt the latest
draft of the Dithrich motor vehicle
bill, which will go before the House
of Representatives wnen tne Legisla
ture of Pennsylvania reassembles af
ter the Easter vacation. The bill
now embodies the ideas of State of
ficials and legislators, the Pennsyl
vania Motor Federation and others
who have been interested in such
legislation.
Sin Minimum
The salient features are as fol
lows.
Registration fees for pleasure cars
to be forty cents per horsepower with
$lO as the minimum, all cars weigh
ing less than 3,000 pounds and used
for commercial purposes to be regis
tered at the horsepower rate.
Five classes provided for registra
tion of commercial cars as follows:
A. 3,000 to 4,000 pounds. $l3; B, 4.-
000 to 6,000, S2S;C. 6,000 to 8,000.
$4O; D. 8,000 to 10.000, $6O; E, 10,000
to 12.000, $100; F, 12.000 to 14.000,
$ 1 3 0.
Motor vehicles with metal tires to
pay double rates.
Trailers to pay $2 for from 300 to
750 pounds; $5 up to 1.000; $lO from
1,000 to 2."00. and $l3 above 2,000.
The half pay period begins {Sep
tember 1 instead of July 1.
lyouils Defined
|M> commercial cars must not exceed
g . irantee of manufacturer. The al
lowances are; Class 4, 5.000 pounds;
jt. 8,000; C, 10.000 and for the
other classes 12,000; trailers not to
weigh over 26.000, including load;
three-inch figures showing carrying
capacity to be painted on sides.
Twenty-eight feet maximum length
except fire apparatus; maximum
weight with loan 26,000 pounds, un
less special permits are taken out;
maximum width 90 inches.
Highway commissioner given broad
powers in determining upon special
permits and may require statement
of character of load and route to be
used.
Truck speed regulations are to be:
Class A, 15 miles per hour; B, 12;
C, 10. and others 6.
Thirty Miles an Hour
< niter vehicles may be up to thirty
miles per hour on open highways
and local authorities are authorized
to erect signs forbidding more than
fifteen miles per hour in built up
districts, sign warnings limited to
one-eighth of a mile, additional
signs required for such distances.
The speed limit now is 2 4 miles an
hour.
I.ocal authorities will control local
t raffle.
Reciprocity regulations for pleas
lire cars are according to restrictions
of States where they are owned, but
on commercial vehicles one day a
month is allowed without a Pennsyl
vania license. The latter is a new
provision and will cause many
owners of truck lines to take Penn
sylvania licenses as such cars are
now making frequent trips through
parts of the State, some of them
' passing from one State to another
on daily routes.
Only persons over sixteen years
of age may be registered to drive
and applications must contain sworn
statement of mental and physical
qualifications. Learners can have
thirty days, but must be accompanied
by a licensed driver. Any person
who has lost the use of one or both
hands or of both feet or who can
not distinguish objects 130 feet away
with the aid of glasses or who has
less than 20 per cent, of normal vis
ion or less than 2 per cent, of nor
mal hearing can not be licensed. An
exception is made in case of persons
with one hand who can furnish evi
dence of ability to handle cars.
To Detect Thefts
I'ersons are made punishable by
heavy fines for removing, obliterat
ing or destroying manufacturers',
owners or identification numbers or
marks; persons having possession
knowingly a car where number or
mark has been damaged or removed
are also amenable to a line unless
that accident or absence of design to
conceal identity are shown.
Garage owners and managers and
repair shop people are required to
keep records of cars left for repairs (
with full data. Where a car's marks
have been removed police and State
authorities are to be notified at
# once.
Under terms of the bill the month
ly bulletin of registration is to con
tain not only number and name of
owner, but address of owner, make
of car and manufacturer's number.
This is a big change and one long
sought.
Fines for violation are to be re
tained by municipalities for high
way repairs, officers in charge to re
port quarterly to the State Highway '
Commissioner on all actions brought.
THE WEATHER
Kor HnrrUburg and vicinity! Fair
to-night and Sunday! slightly j
colder to-night, with lunrnt
temperature about 43 drgrrcs.
River
The lower portions of tkr North
nnd Wrst branches and the
muln river will rontinue to rise, |
All other streams of the sys
tem will begin to fall by Sun
day. A stage of about H. 3 feet ,
Is Indicated for Hurrlsburg I
Sunday morning. ,
There'd Be Plenty For Everybody If They'd Only Give
the Seeds Time to Sprout
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SENATOR PENROSE
SOUNDS KEYNOTE
OF 1920 CAMPAIGN
Tells Manufacturers' Club the
Drift Toward Paternal
ism Must End
Philadelphia. April 12. In the
presen.e of the leaders of the indus
trial. commercial and professional
life of Philadelphia, who gathered at
the Manufacturers' Club to pay him
honor. Senator Penrose last night
sounded the tocsin for a return to
the national ante-bellum attitude of
the Federal government toward busi
ness.
His words had the keynote of the
1920 campaign issues which the Re
publican party will carry before the
people for the return of that parte
to power, after eight years' absence.
Senator James E. Watson, of Indiana
already mentioned as a possible can
didate for the presidential nomina
tion. was one of the guests and he
nodded his assent to many of the
issues which the senior Senator from
Pennsylvania declared were vitally
necessary to a continued prosperity
in this country.
Senator Penrose's address was a
clear-well-defined opposition to auto
cratic bureaus which war had made
mandatory upon the people of this
country. He asserted that the drift
toward State socialism and paternal
ism must l>e halted at once, and en -
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American Army Now
Less Than 2,000,000 Men;
686,114 Have Left France
By Associated Press.
Washington. April 12. —Demobili-
zation has reduced the total strength
of the American Army below two
million. Complete reports to April
8, announced to-day by General
March. showed the aggregate
strength on that date to lie 1,980,-
506.
Since November 11, 686,114 men
have sailed for home, and up to
April 8. 805,772 had been landed.
There have been returned to civil
life 1,701,469 officer# and nten,
fifty per cent, of the officers and
forty-six per cent, of the men who
were in the Army when the armis
tice was signed. Discharge orders
now total 1,925,000.
Fair Weather With
Normal Temperature
to Prevail Next Week
By Associated Press.
Washington, April 2. Weather ,
predictions for the week beginning j
Monday, issued by the weather bu- :
reau to-day are:
North and middle Atlantic States
—generally fair, nearly normal tem
perature. |
LIKE LASSIES
MADE IN FRANCE
Doughnuts like those furnished <
to the boys in France are now
being made by Mrs. Meyer Neil
sen, officer in charge of the local
Salvation Army, and are being
sold. The proceeds will be de
voted to Salvation Army work,
she announced this morning.
The doughnuts are made from
the same receipt as those served
in the trenches. It is planned to
sell them in the streets. Those
who desire to help the work of
the Salvation Army by purchas
ing the doughnuts may secure
them from the local depot of the
organization, 456 Verbeke street.
PROSPECTS FOR
BUILDING BOOM
REPORTED FAIR
Much \\ ork Being Accom
plished Despite Plan Held
Up hv Higher Costs
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While a larger percentage of con
struction projects in Pennsylvania |
appear to be indefinitely deferred:
than in any other of the larger states i
according to data compiled and j
tabulated by the division of public i
works and construction development'
of the Department of Labor, the re-;
port also shows that this State is in
the lead over New York and Ohio
in actually building work yvliich has
been started, materials and labor j
costs also being reported as much!
higher than in either of the other 1
two states. Harrisburg is doing itsj
part in the building line, many new'
dwellings being in the course of coil- i
at ruction.
Questionnaires were sent out by!
the department and most of these I
wcie returned filled out with data;
asked for in February. These show'
that 323 projects are indefinite us to
when ihey would start, of a total of,
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YANKEE ARMY HELD LONG
STRIP OF BATTLE FRONT
American-Controlled Line in France Was Longer Than That;
Defended by the British Troops
Washington, April 12.—The Amer
; ican Army in l-'rance on the day the
! armistice was signed held 83.4 miles
lof battle front, or 21 per cent, of
1 the entire line. General March gave
Ithc division of the front that day
between the Allies as follows:
French 50 per cent.; United Slates,
CHURCHES WILL
HEAR PLEA FOR
THE ARMENIANS
Lieutenant Frank Connes, Red
Cross Interpreter Overseas,
to Make Addresses
First Lieutenant Frank Connes,
an interpreter for months with the
American Red Cross Commission in
Russia and Rumania, will speak to
i morrow in Middletown and in the
Grace Methodist Church, this city,
in behalf of the Armenian relief
. work to raise a fund of $30,000,000.
Lieutenant Connes. before being
assigned to the Red Cross work
overseas, was interpreter for the Su
preme Court of New York. While
overseas ho met and spoke to Ker
i ensky. General Korniloff and (Jen
oral Kaledin. He isaequainted with
; the terrible condition of the starv
; ing near east.
While stationed in Rumania he
was frequently sent into Russia to
j Tifiis for food supplies ami on one
| occasion while there saw thirty-two
of the Armenian refugees near there
i die front starvation In one hour.
Lieutenant f'onncs also spent much
i time with all classes in Russia and
studied the Bolshevist movement
. there.
He agrees with Ambassador Fran- 1
j cis. who claims that the Bolshevistic
• element in Pctrograd represent#
only ten per cent, of the population]
] of the city and in the entire country
, only live per cent, of the population. ;
The lieutenant also is personally i
acquainted with Count llya Tolstoy,
will who will speak here on Wed
nesday to the members of the
] Chamnter of Commerce.
Middletown Aviators
Drop Message From Skies
■Messages from the skies, adver-i
] tising the Victory Loan', were scat
tered over the city at noon to-day!
by aviators from the Middletown
| Aviation Depot. The machine was
flying much lower over the city than
it has been the custom for the Mid-1
j dletown aviators to do during their j
'previous flights in this section.
!21 per cent.; British, is per cent.; i
Belgium, 6 per cent.
On October 10, a month and aj
day before the armistice, the Amer
icans held 2a per cent, of the line. :
j The reduction later probably was [
| due to the concentration for the Ar- I
] Ijoune drive.
GERMANY IS TO KNOW NEXT WEEK
WHAT DEMANDS ALLIES MAKE FOR
FINAL END OF GREAT WORLD WAR
Reds to Feel Allied Rod
By Associated Press
Berlin, April 12.—A special dispatch front Bamberg to the Vos
sisehe Zeitung says that the German government has announced
that the Entente Powers have informed it that Bavaria is not to
be included In the conclusion of peace gnd that measures will lie
taken to prevent any Entente foodstuffs from reaching Bavaria.
Basic, April 12.—The Soviet republic in Munich was overthrown
Friday by force of arms, the Norddeutsche AUegenteine Zcitung, of
Berlin, says.
Berlin, April 12. —Reports received from Munich state that an
agreement has been reached between the central council and the com- '
munists. This is held to indicate that the moderate elements in the j
Bavarian capital have gained the upper hand.
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"BAD"QUARTERS BRING !
25 CENTS AT THE MINT
So Fears of the Counterfeit-Hunting Populace Are Allayed
Over Peculiarities of the 1917 Mintage
The deluge of supposedly counter
! l'eit quarters which suddenly de-
I scended on Harrisburg businessmen
! and which has kept many per
| sons busy picking out the good
! from the "bad." to-day was explain
led by local bankers. Each quarter
f in the city really is worth twenty
| five cents and Uncle Sunt guarantees
; to pay on demand.
The "bad" quarters were minted
j in 1917 and the word to be on the
• lookout flashed over the State scv
! erul days ago. On the reverse the
eagles are slightly different in size
' and the thirteen stars are differently
; arranged, tine quarter lias seven on
i one side and six on the other. The
I other quarter has five stars on each
1 side of the eagle and three under
i neath. On the obverse there is a
slight difference in the size of type
used in "God We Trust." and the
' young woman so valiantly waving a
; sprig of something or other has her
, hand held a little to one side,
i Now the counterfeit searchers took
their pick as to which were to be
I thrown out as "bad." Some cast pe
i ruliar looks erory time he took one
i in and was eager for the police.
AMERICAN VALOR
S QUESTIONED FOR
| THE FIRST TIME
Men Unwilling to Advance
Tainted by Bolshcviki
Propaganda
By Associated I'ress.
Washington, April 12.—Company I
1 of the Three Hundred and Thirty
; ninth Infantry was identified to-day
! by General March as the unit which
| recently refused to return to the
; front line trenches in the Archangel
j sector when ordered to do so by its
! officers.
A supplementary report at the de
| part men t on the incident said it was
1 worthy of note that the questions
■ put by the men of Company ! to their
officers were "identical with the
questions which Bolshevik i propa
-1 ganda advised that they put to them."
The department has not received
: copies of the Bolshcviki leaflets con
i taining these questions and General
' March said. "I don'trecall another in
to secure one.
! "In my long service," General
j March said. "1 don't recal another in
stance where American soldiers did
j not want to go into a fight. They
! alwavs have said 'lead us to it.'"
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Korean Christian Pastor
Cables Word of Massacre
by Japan; Kill Thousands
By Associated Brest.
\ *mi Francisco, April 12.—Japanese
' began what was described as a
"massacre" in Korea at Seoul, the
| capital, during a demonstration
. March 28. according to a cablegram
received here to-day by the Korean
National Association from a native
: Christian pastor.
The cablegram read:
"Japan began massacreing in Ko
rea. Over one thousand unarmed
: people killed in Seoul during three
1 hours demonstration on twenty
! eighth. Japanese- troops, fire brigades
and civilians are ordered shooting
. and beating people mercilessly
throughout Korea. Killed several
thousand since twenty-seventh." |
I Churches, schools, homes of leaders I
, destroyed. Women made naked and
j beaten before crowds, especially lead- j
ers' family, the imprisoned being se- ;
\ verely tortured. Doctors are forbid- ]
I den caring wounded. Foreign Red J
Cross urgently needed."
AUTO IN SMASH UP
An automobile driven by E. L.
Parker, 418 Roily street, was slight-:
ly damaged when it collided with a i
Harrisburg Railways car at the cor- j
ner of Third and Hamilton streets!
this morning. The trolley car was,
also damaged to a small extent. No !
person was injured.
GET FIRST PAPERS
Twenty-one foreign-born 4 rcsi-l
dents of the city and vicinity, the j
majority of thsm Austrians, applied |
for first papers in naturalization'
proceedings before Deputy Clerk El
mer E. Erb yesterday. Three others
filed second papers.
REAL COUNTERFEIT
VERY CRUDE
Regarding the alleged counter
feit quarter dollar .it was learned
from the police to-day that a very
bad imitation has been circulated
in Pennsylvania and the work
manship is very crude.
The genuineness of the real
quarters of different designs is
attested by George W. Belly,
president of the Harrisburg Trust
Company, and Donald Mct-'orntick.
president of the Dauphin Deposit
Trust Company. Tito assistant
treasurer in Philadelphia in
formed Mr. Reily that the change
in stars was made to improve
the looks of the coin.
Now it develops that the mint for
■ome reason changed its dies in
.917 and both styles of quarters arc
jerfectly good. Up until this time
to one ever noticed the difference.
iPALM SUNDAY TO
BE OBSERVED BY
CITY CHURCHES
Weather Is to Be Fair With
Gentle Winds; Showers
Make Earth Greener
j Throughout the city Palm Sunday
• will be observed to-morrow. The
I weather indications this afternoon
I were that the day would be fair with
i gentle west and southwest winds.
! There were clouds in the sky to-day
' after yesterday's April showers, a:id
: there was a coolness that would not
j dissipate, although under occasional
! appearances of the sun behind white
1 hanks of clouds that kept overhead
the greater part of the early after
noon.
Crowds on the streets felt the ab
sence of the warmth that had given
promise of a glorious day and over
coats and wraps were in evidence.
The earth had taken on a greener
hue and the spell of yesterday's
warm showers, and trees sent forth
j their buds and blossoms in profusion,
j but the temperature stood at less
! than 30 degrees throughout morning
j and afternoon.
Church People Active
| Unusual activity was manifested
I by church people, who had planned
Ito make the day memorable with
I special musical programs and scrn>-
I or.s. in nearly all of the city sanctu
aries there will be palms in abund
! ai ce in commemoration of the festi
| val, and the music will be suitable
to the Church's entrance into the
! solemnities of Holy Week.
! Kspecially impressive services will
I be held at St. Patrick's Cathedral and
• St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, where
large choirs will sing te deums, glor
ias, magnificats, sanctuses, nunc di
mitis and benedictuses. At St. Ste
phen's Church the day's celebration
will conclude with the singing of
Maunder's stately cantata, "Peni
tence, Pardon and Peace." The so
loists will be Merrill Shepherd, boy
soprano, and Clarence H. Sigler, has t.
Alfred C. Kusehwa will be at the or
gan.
Music to Impress
In other city churches where the
ritualistic demands arc not as im
perative. Palm Sunday music will in
tersperse the regular order of ser
vice and Kaure's immortal anthem.
"Palm Branches" (Lea Raineaux) will
be sung either by solo voice or cho
us. Henry W. Parker's "Jerusalem,"
I and other commemorative music, too,
| will have a place on the programs.
! The organ music will In the main be
j solemn and dignified with occasional
| bursts of triumph for the pipes in
| the choir lofts.
Many to Attend
Big Health Conference
j State Health Commissioner Martin
I has received many acceptances of in
vitations to attend a public meeting
to be held In the hall of the House of
Representatives on Monday night
when a movement will be started to
make Harrisburg a model city in
sanitary methods. Pity officials were i
notified of the meeting by City Clerk !
K. Itoss Seaman, and it is anticipated i
that tuauy of tiicra will be present j
League of Nations Creed Is
Complete and Ready
to Go to Peace Table
FRANCE AND JAPAN DISSENT
FROM FINDING OF SESSIONS
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By Associated Press
j Paris, April 12.—Germany's delegates arc to he summoned to
I Versailles next week, an indication that greater real progress has
i been made toward peace during the past ten days than in any
I previous period since the Peace Conference began its work. The
League of Nations covenant has been completed and is ready to
I j'c submitted to a plenary session of the couterence, where it likelv
lis to be made the subject of plainly-spoken discussion. Prance
and Japan dissent Iroiu some of its provisions, and the French
delegates contemplate exceeding frankness in presenting their
I views.
No Vital Change in Creed ,
With the single exception of the!
amendment specially exempting the I
Monroe Doctrine from being affect-j
ed by the covenant, no vital change:
was made by the League of Nations'
committee in that document in its!
meetings on Thursday and Friday
nights, last night's meeting mark
ing the conclusion of the considera
tion of the covenant.
Wilson Stays at Session
Last night's discussion lasted four
hours. President Wilson attending
the session and remaining until it
closed, after midnight. No date
was set for a plenary session of I he
Peace Conference to consider the
covenant.
The covenant as Hie commission
left it did not include any section
granting Japan's request for the rcc-|
og nit ion of racial equality and J
neither was a section introduced 1
covering the request of France for;
an international military general!
staff. i
Both Japan and France an
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.jn fish residents abroad have t *
▼ barded the home government with compl; > ►
IL activity of American businessmen throughout the wo ,
▼ advices to an official of the State Department say. Note .J *
4> plaint also have appeared. <
j V/ANTS MISSION SENT TO CHINA *
i* London—A deputation from the Manchester Cham- ,
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7 land, the parliamentary secretary to the department of I ►
4* verseas trade, that a commercial mission be sent at
|| to China. t| *
J *LESON REMOVED j I
eg —Removal from office of i
? General Burleson "because of his alleged reactionary at 1 *
rude toward labor, free speech and a free press >
7 demanded in resolutions adopted to-day by the conven- .J *
!<|* tion of the labor party of Illinois. *
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t MARRIAGE LICENSES II
Henry Carl and Chrlxtln* Krnrhrnbi-rs, Strondxburic; Ednard * *
A, ' "nd eHlr M. McConnrli, Harrlxhurit; Daniel W. Lines II
f ""a Norn H. Conrad, Koynltont I'nul .1. Ilnumicurilnrr and Helen K. , .
4i Hlckey, llnrrixhurKl Hurry Pondrn, Steelton, and llomaln I.
I Sender, HnrrlxhurKl Albert Hnrrett, Terre Haule, lad., and Ml-
X nerva M. Melnlyre, llarrlxbura. .
■f■ .f ■ ■ ■ tvf •
i nounccd thai I hey reserved the right
!to bring up the amendments they
I desired before n plenary session
jof tlie conference As it now
stands, the covenant contains tweil-
I ty-six sections.
| French Ilcsorve Two Points
The French delegation made res
ervations as to two points, tirst, the
organization and effective control of
; the manufacture of war material,
! and, second, the institution of per-
I manent military control.
Iloutidiiry Disputes Near End
The Council of Four of the Peace
Conference expects to finish its ex
amination of tlie boundary questions
in dispute on Monday next and to
summon the German delegates to
Versailles next week, according to
l,e Journal to-day.
I.abor Policies Adopted
Recommendations embodied in
1 the report of the committee on in
ternational labor legislation, which
! was adopted by the Peace Confer,-
i once yesterday, include the follow
ing: