The Greatest Proof of Patriotism Is Shown in Quickened Steos the Victory Per. J Get in Line V HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH V Sht f>lcc-2r,?)cpcntic!it. LXXXVIII—NO. 10.? 28 PAGES 'HARRISBURG. PA. I'RIDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1919. ""SJWRSSSS aa sB& ! e <gSffi. HOME EDITION OLD EIGHTH RELIEVED OF PARADE DUTY, EXPECTED HOME WITHIN 60 HOURS 112 th Infantry Will Not Join in Review Because of Terrific Losses in Battle Line j COL RICKARDS REVIEWS HIS FIGHTING MEN FOR LAST TIME IN DEMOBILIZATION CAMP : Members of Companies D and I Express Desire For Home- Coming Reception When They Arrive at Pennsylvania Station; Anxious to Get Back to Mothers and Wives (S|iceial to tlio Harrisburg Tclrgrapli) Camp Dix, X. J.. May 2. —Companies I) and I, the Harrisburg - units of the One, Hundred and Twelfth Infantry. Twenty-eighth Division, probably will arrive in Harrisburg late Sunday or early Monday, according to announcement made at the demobilization camp here to-day. I lie companies have been so terribly battered by the enemy's lire that only a handful of the 1 men who marched out of Harrisburg when the call came for troops arc left. So ntanv replace ments were made that there are now more men from other states than Jlarrisburgers in the com- 1 panics. Approximately but 35 men are left in each unit while 150 officers and men answered the i call of the National (iuard in each of the companies of the old Eighth Infantrv. Suffered Terrible Losses because of the losses suffered by the entire 112 th Infantry. Colonel Richards was informed that his regiment would not be included in the units who will march in any review of the Kev stone Division that may he held in Philadelphia. Instead the boys are anxious to he given a real nlrl-fnsllit mnl l>it it \\ rli'mup fit llinir lumm t.ium \1 Imn flint lr OKi-idMiumcu hit 01 welcome at their home town when they ar rive at the station. I lie 112 th swept by in review before its commander. Col. Rich ards. shortly before noon to-day. Every man in spick and span attire was in line for what probably will be the last time. Jn ad dition to the martial air which is usual in the crack organizations there was a peculiar feeling among the men. There is little likeli hood that they ever again will pass in review as a unit of fight ing men. Head) to (Vimo Homo After the review the men seemed to feel that the end had come al- | though they will not be mustered out of the service until Sunday. First Dieutenant Charles Thomas, of Company I. with other officers said to-day that if members of D and I are mustered out at approximately the same time an effort will be made to have them all come home on the same train. It was said that Cap tain Henry M. Gross, of Harrisburg, who is a member of the 2Sth divi sional headquarters, would be glad to furnish any information to Har risburg people who wish to organize a home-coming reception for the i men. Captain Gross may be gotten . an the telephone by calling the 28th ' Division headquarters in Camp Dix. Much Joy was expressed by the men in learning that they would not be held in service for a parade in Philadelphia. To a man everyone : wants to get back home to mothers, wives and friends. It was learned that the 108 th Kiekl Artillery in ; which many men of the old Gover- j nor's Troop are placed, will not ar rive until May Other Harrisburg , men are scattered about the camp i In other units and still more are', coming home in transports in mid acean. Additional Unit? of 28th Are Ordered to Sail ! Washington. May 2. Transport tailings were announced to-day as fol-! , iows: The Gulseppe Verdi, due at New! i'ork May 12th. lias on board the 78th ' 1 division theatrical unit. 303 rd mobile | Jrdnanee repair shop. 307 th field artil- | tery, 1108 th air service squadron. 660 th | , lero squadron and eight casual officers. The Peerless will arrive at New York ; ! Ibo tit May 13 with headquarters, ord- ! i !>anoe and medical detachments, com- . yanies A. B. C and D of the Tenth ma- 1 thine gun battalion ; headquarters of ' Ihe first, second and third battalions, j Sanitary, ordnance and veterinary de-1' lnchmnts, batteries A to F inclusive of I :he luSth field artillery and a detach- ! nent of company M. 110 th infantry. ■ The battleship Georgia is due at Bos- i on. May 12. with the 121 st field ar tillery less a detachment. Many members of the old Governor's j Troop are with Batteries A and F of .he 108 th field artillery. Overseas Pests Strike at Middle West Wheat II y Associated Press. Chicago. May 2. —The yellowing ; if wheat in certain parts of Illinois. 11 Indiana and Ohio, together with a j 1 loss of vigor in the plant, are re- . ported due to an affection hitherto i inknown in this country. Crop ex- 1 aerts attribute it to a fungus which | ittacks the roots of the plant,, and , which in Australia is known as j "take-all" and in France as "foot rot." i ! THE WEATHER 11 ————————— t For Haninbtirtf nnd vicinity: Fair J to-flight nml Saturday; moder ate temperature, lowest to- i night about 14 degrem. , For lOastern I'eiinxylvnnla: Fair f to-night nnd Snturdnyi moder ate temperature; frenh nouth- s west winds. I C Hlver . The main river nnd the lower por- ' ! Hon* of the \ortli and West hriinelicN will rise nllahtly. The I ' Juniutn. upper portionn of the North nnd Went hranehes nnd • | all small trlhutMrlen will full , ( , alowly or remain nenrly Mtn tionnry to-nlixht nnd Saturday. r A stage of nhout feet Is Indl • rated for llarriMlitirK Saturday t moraing. i _ CITY TO WELCOME HOME ITS HEROES OF OLD EIGHTH Thousands to BP tit Station to Cheer Men Who Fought Hard | Arrangements are being hurried to | provide a fitting reception for the home- ! coming of the brave liurrisburgers who fought the battles of freedom in France with the Keystone Division and who will I reach this city on Sunday or Monday. : Meager advices to-day .are to the effect that the men will arrive here early on ] Monday morning, although this infornta- ' tion is not definite. Informed that Companies D and I : of the old Eighth Regiment will arrive J in Harrisburg ahead of schedule just as j the boats carrying them to home port ar- ) rived days before they were expected. ' Mayor Daniel D. Keister is in conference j to-day with a number of men to see that 1 a fitting arrangement may be hiade : and the city not taken unprepared for ■ the return of these men as was Philadel- | phia to receive them. Mayor Keister lias been in communica- i tion with city officials relative to the j plans and lias conferred at length with j H. it. Dong. 1113 North Front street. 1 general chairman of the committee of! the Home Folks Victory Association of I the World War. which has been making arrangements for the homecoming of ! Harrlshurg's own men after their year ■ of hard service on the fields of France, j A fitting celebration will be arranged, j This enthusiastic promise is held out by ' Mayor Keister following his conference ! with the officials in charge of the ar- I rangements. Harrisburg owes much to i these men and it would be a shame if they were not fittingly received, the I Mayor said and the city is not to be 1 i shamed by her reception to her sons, he ! j added. Plans being considered by the j committees who had been arranging for the reception, hastily called to- ! gether this afternoon bv Mayor | Keister following the receipt of 'in- j [Continued on Page 17.] England to Put $3OO Automobile on Market; Plans Drive on "Henry" liy Associated Press. Dilution. May 2.—An English man- ; ufacturing company announces that ! it is preparing to put on the market an automobile that can be retailed! for not more than 6300. Scarcely any i wood will be used in its construction, the principal material being a new ! substance which is described as a | "kind of concrete, light, but strong)' and durable, produced from waste | materials such as slag, clinkers and i' sawdust and covered with a metal, 1 solution." j 1 The process of manufacture is an- i other innovation in England. All , parts, including wheels and chassis, . will bo stumped out. each complete in one piece and then fitted together. The ifianufacturcrs expect to eom-l! pete with cheap American cars, be- , cause "tax anil freight charges are j expected to raise the price of (bet American article considerable above . the flgn-e asked from United States] buyers." WENT AWAY AS PRIVATE, IS HOME WITH GOLD LEAF Major Wright Makes Most, Rapid Promotion in the War Advancing from the rank of a ! 1 "liuck" private to that of a major I i within two years, what is believed' , to be one of the most rapid promo i tions of any Harrisburg man dur- i • ing the present war. Major James Karl Wright, 1426 Regina street, is now at Camp Dix, X. J. He arrived : in this country yesterday, landing at : the port of New York aboard the i Finland. Employed in the Adjutant Gen-! j oral's office at the outbreak of the war. Wr'ght enlisted a short time; thereafter in the One Hundred and | Third Supply Train, with which he went to Mount Gretna, where he re ceived his preliminary training. He: j soon was promoted to the rank of' first sergeant of one of the compa j nies of the train. Promotion Is Rapid Following the reorganization of the Pennsylvania National Guard at \ Camp Hancock. Sergeant Wright j was made a first lieutenant of a: truck train. Holding this rank, lie: [Continued on Page 7.] Colonel Finney Home For a Short Visit Colonel Maurice E. Finney, for-' i mer commander of the Eighth Regi- ! ment of the old Pennsylvania Na ! tional Guard, who arrived in the i j port of Philadelphia on Wednesday, ' spent last night at his home, 1407 | i North Front street. Colonel Finnev i had a twenty-four-hour furlough I i and arrived in this citv about 8 1 | o'clock last evening, leaving again ! at 9 o'clock this morning. All of the j city men are eager to return to Har i risburg, he said. I METHODISTS MAY SPEND $500,000 INTHISDISTRICT Many Ministers and Laymen | | • Discuss Plan For Rais ing Huge Sum ; A half million dollars or more is , j to he expended in new building, so l cial and educational projects in I j Harrisburg and adjacent territory, | under the survey of the Missionary. , Centenary of the Methodist Episco"- ! | pal church, and practically every j I city and town in Central Pennsylva- I j nia will reap substantial benefits for j years to come as a result of the sur- I vey just completed. This is the fore- I cast made by Dr. Morris E. Swartz, j of Baltimore, executive secretary of ; the centenary in an address before a conference of Methodist ministers and laymen held in the Camp Curtin Memorial Methodist Church to-day. "Expenditures for various cities will vary in size." he said, "and will j be made in proportion to the needs \ of the respective localities." The j survey of the centenary covers the I entire country and is the most com-'- plete ever compiled in religious his-! tory. "The greatest educational cam- | paign ever launched by any church 11 (Continued on Pace 21) I A'Little Boy That Won't Be So Keen to Run Away With the Circus Next Time ,l / L II WU I 'VV/,\\ I !|L—. : \T■';ISII!L4LLV^L MAYOR KEISTER I ADDS FIX-UP TO CLEAN-UP WEEK l rgcs Evervbodv lo Repair # * { ; Premises Allowed to Run Down During the War ' "We have decided to call it 'Clean-up and Fix-up Week," said ' Mayor Daniel E. Keister to-day, j i .speaking: of next week's campaign | for a cleaner city. "I have never known such hearty! I co-operation as we are receiving from all sources," he continued, j "The city police, the health author- j | ities, the physicians, ..the nurses, the : | State Health Department, the Boy ! Scouts and many others have all of- I fered their services, and we shall > ! avail ourselves of all of them. It: | used to be thought that to clean up j j the city in the spring was all that; ! was required. Now we know that I j to clean up we should add lix up.! Many people allowed their premises' I to run down during the war, deem-! j ing it unpatriotic to use labor, ma-! : terials and money in any but war i | services, but the war is over now, \ [Continued on Pnge ".] SEVEN DAYS RUN i IN HIGH GEAR TO SMASH RECORDS | Overland - Harrisburg Com- J pan)\ With Overland "90," j Must Exceed 4,370.1 Miles i Leaving the Harrisburg Telegraph! j building to-morrow evening at "6 I 'o'clock. Carl Hanson, president of! the Overland-Harrisburg Company, j driving a standard model 90 Over-: ! land, will start what will be the : j greatest test yet on record for a' I stock automobile. Considerable enthusiasm has beenj stirred up among automobile own- i 1 ers all over the country by the re- i markable performance of a model'' ; 90 Overland in Oklahoma City, when ' j starting March 29, it broke the!' world's seven-day nonstop record.! j This car covered a distance of 4,370.1 •' : miles, equal to the distance between: 1 i New York and Los Angeles and back!' to Oklahoma City. The test was made I ! with the car running jontinually in . 1 ! high gear without a stop for seven!' days and reven nights, and was held j 1 under the auspices of the C&rhartjl Motor Company, of Oklahoma City. | } Not to be outdone by this western j 1 concern, and to show the people of!' 4Continued on Page 10.] FINAL EFFORT | MADE TO MEET LOAN DEFICIT! Harrisburg (locs to Work in Earnest lo Put Over the Victory Notes DETERMINED! Final reports will be made Tuesday al noon in Chestnut ! Street Auditorium. Battery E. 42nd Artillery. 62 , men and 7 officers arrives in liar- i ; risburg to-night at 6. The big war trophy train which ; has been covering Pennsylvania ' for two weeks reaches Harrisburg I Sunday evening at 7.30. Fifteen thousand men, women j and children who bought bonds in j the Fourth Diberty Doan, but who j have not bought bonds in the | fifth, or Victory Loan, are urged j to prove their patriotism before i j Tuesday noon. Harrisburg to-day went to work in j 'earnest to clear up the $1,253,518 it. lis "shy" on its Victory Loan quota, j The hundreds of solicitors who! ! again started to comb the town to-j I day will meet at Chestnut Street ■ J Auditorium next Tuesday at noon j j to report the result of their efforts, j What made Harrisburg feel worse . • than anything else over yesterday's | i failure was the fact that Juniata j [Continued on Page 10.] Camp Hill Postmaster to Be Selected by Civil Service Examination ; At the request of the Postmaster! jGoneral the United States Civil Ser-| | vice Commission has announced an i ; examination to he held at Harrisburg: on June 18, for the position of post-' I master at Camp Hill. This office has j jan annual compensation of $l,OOO. j To be eligible for this examination | 'an applicant must be a citizen of thej ; United States, must actually reside! within the delivery of the office and j : have so resided at the time the pres- j ient vacancy occurred. Applicants must have reached I their twenty-first but not their sixty-j fifth birthday on the date of the ex- j amination. ' App'ication form 2241 and full in-! formation concerning the require-! ments of the examination may he j secured frcm the postmaster at the , place of vacancy or from the Civil . Service Commission, Washington. I Applications should be executed and i filed with ihc commission at \Va v li- I ington, in time to urrange for the ' examination of the applicant. < WORLD PEACE IS i NEARER AS HUNS WAIT ON TREATY Pact Probably Will Bo Signed Early in Week Begin ning May 25 By Associated I'rcss. Paris, May 2.—X formal program was announced I'or to day's session of the Council of Three, but it was ollieially statcd that the meeting was be ing devoted to odds and ends and lesser details remaining to lie put into shape for the final i completion of the peace treaty. ! if the work of carrying out the last phase of the peace negotiations ! progresses according to the schedule J outlined in Paris dispatches, the treaty ending the great war will probably be signed early in the week beginning May 25. The treuty will be presented to the Germans on Monday afternoon. Reports from the Peace Conference i indicate that it is to be u "victors' 1 peace," and there will l>e no oral ! conversations except the merest for- I malities when the treaty is handed 1 over. I Fifteen days will he given the en |emy to consider the treaty, with an I additional five days or a week for j the exchange of views between the ' Allied und German delegations. \ Thus, at the latest, if present plans ! are followed. May 27 should see i peace reigning once more between ! Germany and the Allied and osso -1 ciated governments. j Secret Peace Session To-morrow ! A secret plenary session of the con | ference will be held on Saturday, j while on Monday a meeting will he : held for the organization of the j League of Nations. Italy is still not I represented at the conference, but j tier ambassador is invited to attend 'such conferences as the regular [Continued on Page 5.] Daughter Accuses Her Father of Serious Crime C. E. Herman, a Hummelstow'n barber was arrested by detective Harry C. White and brought before Judge McCarrell to-day, accused of assaulting his daughter, Mildred, l aged 12 years. Bail of $l,OOO was fur nished for hearing before Alderman Hoverter next Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Jacob Shenk, his landlord, was his surety. Herman is about 52 years old. Af ter he and Mrs. Herman separated, the wife and three of the cilldren, including Mildred, went to Cumber land county to live. The child visit ed her father in Hummelstowri, on j April 20 at which time it is alleged he assaulted her. The child is said to have first told her story to an aunt I In Mechanlcsburg, and inter to Dis trict Attorney Stroup. istroup ordered I the prosecution. BAVARIA'S TROOPS TAKE MUNICH FROM COMMUNIST FORCES Roar of Artillery Is Heard in City as Government Army Makes Advance on Capital; Reds Demoralized !REBELS PLUNDER BANKS AND THREATEN THE BOURGEOISIE By \Associated Press, Vienna, May 2.—King Ferdinand of Rumania, ac i ; companied by French generals, is about to enter Buda pest, the capital of Hungary, at the head of his troops, a Bucharest dispatch to the Neue Freie Presse says. Paris, May 2.—Bavarian government troops captured Munich from the Communists on Thursday morning, according to advices reaching here to-day. Berne, May 2. Ihe artillery fire of the German government , ; troops is audible in Munich and is constantly creeping nearer, ac cording to private advices received from that city. The govcrn i nient troops hold all the important points about Munich and are ' I masters of the railroad communication in that region. fl The lied Guards are reported tor i; be demoralized and to be plundering j 1 |ithe banks. The Communists are | j threatening to massacre the bour- j ( 1 geoisie when the government forces 11 ji at luck the city, according to re- ' ports. The misery of the people is" | said to have reached an unbearable J point. J Geneva. May 2.—The government! J of Carinthia has ordered the mobili- I j zation of twenty military classes in j | order to arrest the inrasion of Gcr-' pi an Austria by the Jugo-Slavs, ac-| I cording to a dispatch received at I Heme from a. reliable source. Jugo-I js;avs are reported to be attacking on j ia .'O-mile front for the purpose of I 'seizing ViUac.h from which they are I now only fifteen miles distant.) j Vienna is said to be preparing to aid ® '3-4*4* 4*4*4*4*4* 4 , 4*4 , 4*4- 4- 44*44*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*® X LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR DIES X 4 Wilmington, Del.—Lieutenant Governor Lewis E. T Eliason, who was stricken with paralysis while attend- *s -4* ing a meeting of the Board of Pardons at Dover yester- X At > X day, died at his home in New Castle this morning. The 4 e constitution makes no provision for filling vacancies in *L i jJQ this office, but it will be filled in regular course at the *r jj* election next year. X WIFE SLAYER PUT TO DEATH 1 X V 'X Warrenton, Ga.—The body of Benny Richards, ! ft . I negro, was riddled with bullets, then burned, early to ; 41 day. when he surrendered to a posse which was guarding |At a swamp where he had barricaded himself after murder- i. ' ing his wife. \4 WILSON PLEASED WITH LABOR TREATY f Washington—President Wilson cabled Secretary I At Tumulty to-day that in his opinion the labor program J• 4* adopted as part of the treaty of peace "constitutes one ; 4 the mos t important achievements of the new day in X 4' which the interests of labor are to be systematically and ♦ir 1 ! 4* intelligently safeguarded and promoted." *f* ,12 RUMANIAN KING TO ENTER BUDAPEST X • ® . . jL Vienna —King Ferdinand of Rumania, accompanied " j4* by French general, is about to enter Budapest, the capi- |* | tal of Hungary, at the head of his troops, a Bucharest *s* 4 dispatch to the Neue Freie Presse says. [ i* 150 POLICEMEN HURT IN PARIS X ! j4* Paris—Two hundred and fifty policemen were hurt, ; 4* on e sergeant, who was stabbed in the back being in a 1 :j£j dangerous condition, during yesterday's May Day dis- <& j4* orders, according to an announcement made by the pre- •***' | X fecture of police at midnight. Apparontly only one per- X s 14* son was killed, a youth named Lome, who, according to i j reports not yet authenticated, was struck by several re- X iJ 4# volver bullets. The person who fired the shots is said *| |4 to have been arrested, but his identity has not been es |2 tablished. JT :4 302 ND ENGINEERS GET HOME New York—More troops of the 77th (Liberty) Di |4* vision, mostly drafted men of New York, arrived here 1 2 to-day when the Nieuwamsterdam reached port from V !4 9 Brest with 2,070 officers and men. The 77th units in- X eluded the 302 nd Engineers, 302 nd Engineer Train, a *r |4 division headquarters detachment and a detachment of X 4* the 305 th field artillery. Among a number of casuals was *f -4* Major General William S. McNair. ?' MARRIAGE LICENSES t ' 3f Chart™ C. Turner, Wcat Fain lew, and I.yda Jotmnon, Middle- v T town; Harvey W. Knhlrr and Mnmle C. Hnbl, HarrUhnra: Roy V. I Ait Buller and I'nullne Wall, llarrlxhurici Allred C. Dunbar, Plttabursh. and I'enrl 1,, linker. Harrlahuru. * | the Carinthian troops and the Allies are seeking to settle (lie conflict. Carinthia is a titular duchy ol Austria situated east or the Tyrol and north of Carniola. The capital is Klagenfnrt. Two thirds of the people are Germans and the remainder arc Slavs. Yankee Ocean Flyer? Near "Jumping Off" Base /ji A snoriatcd Press. Almard the C. S. S. Prairie, May -• —Carrying naval aviation officers and men and equipment to the I • jumping off" base of the American Navy's projected trans-Atlart'c air cruise at Trepassey Bay, N. P., tliis | vessel was nearing the New Ifound | land coast to-day and is expected to reach its destination to-morrow.
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