. , . _ ; ■ ■ •' • •. T • ' • ■ - " . - • • • \ Were on Thrilled Yfhen the Boys Came Home Last Evening? Buy More Bonds V HARRISBURG fsSgfil TELEGRAPH V Stic otar-3nbcpcn6tr.l. T.XXXVIII— NO. 108 20 PAGES D "g.gS°2 SW&. SM aSKS."*" HAKEUSBURG, PA. THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1919. "SLSSKISS tfSSSISStJa m HOME EDITION STALWART VETERANS OF THE OLD EIGHTH GET REAL WELCOME Lads Who Beat the Famous Prussian Guard Home at Last CITY WILDLY ACCLAIMS MEN Forty Arrive Too Late to Join in Pageant With an abandon altogether for givable Harrisburg flung itself with whole-hearted and unashamed en thusiasm into the welcome to its re turning soldiers of the One Hundred and Twelfth Infantry last evening. No other thing mattered. Observers, garrulous or entirely without preju dice, will tell you to-day that in scarcely a home last evening was 1 there a dish washed on time; neith-1 er was there deliberation in eating. [ What did it matter if the coffee smirked of the flavor of rainwater, or the three-minute egg had long been detained. The boys were com- . ing home. That was the main thing after all. Resides, when the good housewife was preparing the supper the whistles were screaming, and bells all over town clanging out the! tidings that the Pennsylvania Rail-1 road train bearing the city's brave ones had reached Lancaster and was on its last leg homeward. The call was from the street, for soon the boys would be marching over the city's highways and into the arms of those who, with shining eyes and choking voice, had waited long for their return. And so it came to pass that on the | May day evening the streets were | jammed with a jubilant, crowding j throng that craned its neck, to get t a sight of the soldiers, that fastened j its eve on each man in khaki to see i if he was the one. From thousands ; of windows there were cheers of' welcome and the clapping together of hands that would not be, still. Down on the street could be seen the mother, sister or sweetheart, walk ing by the side of her soldier or keeping close to him in spite of the traffic warning, for everything else i was of minor import. Automobile! horns shrieked out in a noisy ac- j claim, lirehouse bells proclaimed the I presence of the city's guests, flags j held high in air by men, women and | children were symbols of the cele- i bration. In Market street, from the j entrance to the Pennylvania Hail-1 road station to the river front, the! crowd probably was greatest. The i people who could not press their way j through the throng fell back into Second. Third and Fourth streets to j await their opportunity for a sight! of the lighters. Nothing Else Mattered Suburban dwellers had reason to! feel glad they lived far from the; maddening crowd, for they were the only ones who didn't walk to the j scene of rejoicing. On Sixth street i u score of cars with deafening im- '■ politeness rushed past waiting! crowds at street intersections. Only I one. No. 631. hesitated at times and ! that because of a flat wheel and the unwillingness of the trolleymen to j risk jumping from the rails. But : the others, glory be. they just sailed j by with the air of racing automo- j biles, jammed to the doors with peo- j pie who looked out the windows and j gave their less fortunate neighbors! the laugh. At Sixth and Reilyj streets a group of Red Cross wo men waited for three-quarters of an hour for a trolley that would take them in, but none came. Finally, an obliging chauffeur allowed them to pile into his machine for the trip down town. .Men whose tired feet held them back at last made the best of it and walked. Women, some lean, others stout, contented them selves by walking as far south as j Boas street, where they waited forj the paraders; and they saw them, I too. And they sat for hours on their 1 porches after procession had broken \ up and talked about it with their; neighbors. Ijecause of the parade and its af- j terniath the attendance at mid-week; prayer meetings was unusually' small. Prayers for the absent ones) included almost the entire church j memberships. But the good pastdrs did not fail to offer up words of Miankse' /Ing that the boys were safe ill b , again, nor did they forget < .ctfy their own heroes in their .vitions. Some Hearts Are Heavy There were heavy hearts, too. for there were hundreds in the crowds\ whose boys did not come back, j Some of them still were in France,; olhers slept under its sod, while oth-! crs waited in hospitals for their hurts i to heal. They looked with longing eyes on the happy boys who had been released from service and their .voice broke and their eyes filled with ! tears as they beheld troopers clasp-1 eil tightly by their dear ones. "It's ; all right." said a brave little woman; at Second and Forster streets. My boy will soon be home. He's on the ! water now. It won't be long until, [Continued on Page 18.] THE WEATHER For VlarrlMburc and vicinityi Un- I •utllcd, probably rain to-nlicltt and Friday; cooler to-nlftht With loHf*t temperature aboot iH decree. For (Santera Pennsylvania! Prob ably rain to-nlarht and Friday; cooler In Mouth portion moderate north to eant wlndw. River No material change* are likely to ! occur In river ntasen In the next ! twenty-four bourn. A disturb- I ancc approaching from the "Miuthnent may caune nomc. pon lbl> all, of the ntrcamn of the j M?ntem to rlnr Friday. A ! of about 4.S feet In Indleated for Harrtnburff Friday morning. j : ! 40 GET HOME TOO LATE FOR BIG PARADE Forty members of the Head- i quarters Company of the One I Hundred and Twelfth Infantry arrived home last night on an express train from Philadelphia i about " o'clock, too late for the , parade and much disappointed ; over this fact. The men were held up to the last minute. The payrolls had not been completed in time to pay off the men, supply them with ' their discharge papers and to put ; them through the complete pro cess of demobilization in time for ; them to take passage on the spe- ' ciai train home. As soon as the men received their discharges they hoarded 1 automobiles and raced at top ( speed to the Broad Street station i in Philadelphia and boarded an I express train about to leave for ! this city. BIG TRANSPORT j BRINGS LOCAL MEN INTO HOME PORT Hurrisburg Officers Tell of Heroic Deeds of Men Under Fire j Many more Harrisburg men , rived in home port yesterday when j the great transport. Liberator, , steamed up the Delaware and dock ! Ed at Philadelphia with a total of ! 2.480 enlisted men and twenty-nine 1 officers of the One Hundred and Third Ammunition Train, the One Hundred and Third Supply Train, the Hundred and Third Field Signal Battalion. Company F of the One Hundred and Third Engineers and the Twenty-eighth Division theatri i cal troupe. Many of the men were members | of Company A of the One Hundred | and Third Ammunition Train. I I which was organized almost alto ! gether in this city and was com ! manded for time by Captain H. A. | Souders. an employe of the Tele i graph. it was a deckload of crazy young i sters—just gleeful, foolish "kids!" j the Liberator brought home late | yesterday afternoon. The cynics, if I any were there to see it, curled their . lips in scorn at tHe sight of so many ; squirming figures, not unlike rnon | keys as they wriggled along the ; rail or nimbly clambered in the' ! rigging, and doubled and leaped in ! all sorts of foolish antics, and I shouted all sorts of foolish things ! at several thousand equally foolish I and equally joyous relatives in the j greeting boats. Schoolchildren were never more flippant, college boys i I never veiled so lustily. Served l.ong and Hard j Lieutenant Colonel H. S. Williams, ! of Phoenixville. commander of the (one Hundred and Third Ammu j nition train, was the senior officer of the ship, and his adjutant was Major George Ross, of Doylestown. Colonel Williams has continuously ' held his command, having organ- j iod the train, which, unlike other | units, did not exist before the bor- ! der campaign. The train is made up of four motor companies, driving trucks and three caisson companies. I driving caissons, or horsedrawn ve- j ! hides. Both are used to serve botli j artillery and infantry with ammu- j | nition. The train 'served the entire ! I division. When the artillery was ' ! detached for Belgian service, two , ; caisson companies of the train went | ! with it. and this is the reason that ! the train has the unique distinction 1 j of being the only unit which has j seen service on every front. The history of the train is the 1 I history of the division and is told j [Continued on Pago 3.] THOUSAND GIRLS TO TAKE PART IN PARKPAGEANT Returned Soldiers Specially Invited to Attend Com munity Exercises More than a thousand girls are, expected 1o take part in the "Girls* j Stunt" night that has been arranged ' for next Tuesday evening at 7.30' o'clock in Reservoir Park under the 1 auspices of the War Camp Commun ity Service. The program will include ten- ] minute entertainments by a number i of Harrisburg girl organizations.! There will be dancing numbers, i chorus work and drill exercises. General plans were outlined at a meeting of the general committee j and sponsors at a meeting at the! Penn-Harris yesterday afternoon. Returned Karrisburg soldiers have! been extended a special invitation to be in attendance as the guests of] honor. They are to he accorded I i Con tinned on Page 3.] j THREE GIANT AIR AND WATER BIRDS START ON FLIGHT ; First Trans-Atlantic Trip Be gins From Rockaway Beach This Morning iTRIP TO BE 540 MILES j Commander Tower in First Plane to Leave on Journey ESCORTED BY SQUADRON Four-Leaf Clover Given Each Man When Start Is Made at Ten O'clock />'y Associated Press. New York. May 8. —The first transAtlantie flight was begun when ! tbrec Nav.v-Curtiss hydroairplanes I left the government's air station jut Rockaway Reach at 10 a. in. to jday on the first log of the journey— Rockaway to Halifax, a distance of j.">4 0 miles. < ommimilrr Tower I.end. > Tile N. C. 3 with Commander John ; H. Towers, chief of the expedition, j was the first plane to take to the air. The N. C. 1. with Lieut. Commander j P. N. L. Bellinger, and the N. C. 4. ; with Lieut. Commander A. C. Read | as the commanding officer, were close I behind the N. C. 3. The planes were escorted to sea by a squadron of navy soout planes, j Proceeding northeastward, the trio of i giant air and water birds should j reneh Halifax before nightfall, bar ! ring mishaps. Since the route runs ttio miles to Trepasse.v, 1,350 miles to ,\:-.>rcs. another SOrt miles to Portugal • 1 on to Plymouth, England. Squadron Turns East After rounding Rockaway Point the aadron turned east, heading for . .nt ink Point, wliieh is the tip of I Long Island, where the course will 1 bend northeast to Chatham, Mass., on the elbow of Cape Cod, thence eon- I tinuing over a long stretch of coastal waters to Halifax. When the planes were fully a mile away, the even toned roar of their motors assured officers that they were working perfectly. The escorting scout planes turned back about three miles from Rockaway and the three transAtlantie fliers sped away on their great adventure. About 1,200 persons, including the 1,000 officers and men of the naval air station, watched the three great j planes rise from the water and soar I out over Jamaica hay. ! No elaborate ceremony marked the ' start. The only thing of the kind was the presentation of a four leaf clover to each member of the crews by Captain N. A. Irwin of the avia tion section of the naval bureau of operations. The total distance between Rockaway Beach and Plymouth is 3,925 nautical miles. The NC-3 cruised for a minute north erly in Jamica bay, moving at half j speed through the water, and then | (Continued on Page 4) t * American Legion Opens Three-Day Session With Roosevelt Son in Chair St. IjOuK May B. —The American i Legion, composed of men in the mil itary or naval service of the gov | ernment during the war, opened a three-day session here to-day with ; more than a thousand delegates representing practically every State :in the Union, present. Lieutenant | Colonel Theodore Roosevelt ,of New York, presided. Peking Has Only Wire to Siberia, American Minister Tells U. S. Pnr|*. May S. —American Minister ! Reinsch, at Peking, has informed Sec ! retary of State Lansing that all wire , communication out of Peking has been j cut except for one wire which goes to 1 Siberia. i MELTING POSTPONED The Child Welfare organization meeting which was to have been j held this evening at Fahnestoek Hall, is postponed until next week, the date to be announced later. PENROSE WANTS TREATY DEBATES TO BE PUBLIC .People Should Be Fully In formed as to Action of Sen ale on Peace Terms , Cnited States Senator Roies Pen : rose today declared for "open, pub -1 lie sessions" of the Senate ror dis- I cussion of the peace treaty. Th'e i Senator made a statement in regard I to the coming session of Congress ; shortly before leaving for Washing ■ ton. "Notwithstanding the fact that we j weie promised open covenants. I opc.nlv arrived at. we have as a j matter of fact had nothing but se | crecy and mystery. The time has | come to turn on the light. W6 , should not be called upon to ta'ke such a departure from our traditions I and poiicier without the fullest in ; formntion as to the direction we are j going." The Senator said that it seemed ! to iiim the Cnited States was to oc cupy a fciemost place in financial I and economic matters and that in j (Continued on Page 9.] Why Not Establish It as a Permanent Institution? Z* PROFESSOR. y-NTU ( CAV DOUGHBOYS ( )ri • DAJL ' I the j m NEWS ITEM: WHILK THEY HAM. BEEN WAITING FOR THEIR DISCHARGE. SOME OF TH DOUGHBOY'S HAVE BEEN USING THEIR SPARE TIME BY INSTRUCTING I. W. W. AND BOLSHEVIK MEETINGS IX THE ART OF SINGING THE N ATIONAL ANTHEM EIGHT WHO PLEAD GUILTY TO RAID CHARGES FINED Pearl Wilson, Paying -I 5 1(H), Is Sentenced the Heaviest Eight men and women arrested in the recent Federal raid here were fined a total of $1,425 In Federal court late yesterday, with Judge Charles B. Witmer presiding. The largest of these tines was S4OO, paid by Pearl Wilson. Robert l.ong. Middletown, was fined S3OO, as was Ella Burke; Katie Smith was sentenced to pay $25; Elsie Straley, SSO; Annie An derson, $200; Dallas Harris, SSO, and Mary Nelson, SIOO. Proceedings in a number of cases were nolle prossed. Fifteen cases await disposition. A plea of guilty will be entered in each case. The case of the Government vs. Curtis E. Shaw, indicted on two counts, was before the court for trial this morning. Shaw, who lives in Huntingdon and, it is said, runs a curio shop there, is charged with concealing postage stamps to the value of $9 and articles stolen from the post office at Huntingdon. Among the exhibits brought before the court by Post Office Inspector Guy L. Moser was a German helmet, an American helmet, a gas mask and a lot of silverware. Wilson to Remain in France During Fifteen Days Alloted Enemy By Associated Press. Paris, >lay H.—There is no indica tion that President Wilson contemplates hastening his return because of the con vocation of Gongress on May 19, and ho will undoubtedly remain here through the period of fifteen days al lowed the Germans for consideration of the peace terms, probably until the treaty is signed. In case the negotiations are pro longed by suggestions advanced by the Germans, it is possible he may forego the satisfaction of signing the treaty ar.d return home. It is expected that he will send a message to be read in his absence. Hungarian Communists Will Fight to Utmost; Reject Armistice Terms Copenhagen, May B.—The Hunga rian communist government has re fused the armistice terms offered by Ru mania and has decided to tight to the utmost, a dispatch from Budapest saya. $90,000,000 TO RUN STATE GOVT, j i NEXT TWO YEARS (lovcrnor Sproul Outlines Xo-I cessitics and Sees Revenue i to Meet Demands ; Ninety millions of dollars is the! irreducible minimum the least' amount of money—thut can be ap-' ; propriated by teh present Eegslaturo | | to suffice for the State's needs within ! j the next two years. Governor Sproul 'said to-day. This figure includes lib- • j eral appropriations for increases ofi ; teachers' salaries. | increased revenue within the next) I two years will be ample to enable ! the State o make appropriations to] ithat extent during this session, the! |Governor believes. While the reve j nue in %omc instances will be reduced I j in other cases he points out, it will be j increusod. The Governor referred to the Mac | kr <j bills now receiving consideration a one that wjll increase the revenue I •of the State to a considerable extent.! .This bill put a tax on self-insured ! corporations who have not taken ad j Mintage of State insurance under the i\\ orkmen's Compensation measure. It is not expected that appropriu- j ; tions will be passed beyond the ability ! jof the State to meet them, the Gover-1 i nor said. He mentioned that in sev-j eral instances it has been impossible] |to spend money appropriated by the t j last Legislature, because of the war- I ■ time conditions. The Highway De-1 I parttnent appropriations were cited as! (examples. j Attorney General Kchaffer's bill re-1 vising the workmen's compensation law, he characterized as "bully," and ; one that will solve the compensation j tangle satisfactorily. The State must do something, he said, or labor will drift from Pennsylvania to States! where the laws are more generous. Lines of Poles in Walnut Street Are to Come Down City Electrician Clark E. Diehl, i ! has been assured that the line of I jtull poles in Walnut street on the! .south side, used by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, l lor its lons distance linos, and ex ] tending from Front street to the ; Pennsylvania railroad will be re j moved not later than August I. Con- I'luits for underground cables have been placed in Walnut street uni? 'the wires overhead will soon be re | placed by an underground system. The Harrlsburg Eight and Power' Company is placing cable under-! ground now and soon will begin to I remove some of the poles in the! Federal Square district. OWNERS OF DIRTY YARDS ARRESTED BY HEALTH BOARD I John Yingst Fined Ten Dol lars; Fifteen Others on the List Charged by city health authorl- I ties with failure to keep his yard clean, with the result that It became ! a public nuisance in the neighbor • hood, John Yingst, 1132 North Front street, has been fined $lO and costs at a hearing before Alderman E. J. ! Hilton. ' ] A number of witnessses were i heard, each telling about the con j ilitioii of Yingst's .vara, which, it is | allege?, contains piles of rubbish | and refuse. Fifteen other suits have* been brought by the city health depaf't- I ment for similar violations, Dr. J. M. J. Raunick declaring that in I each instance property- owners and | tenants were notified to clean up the premises, but failed to do so, entire ly ignoring the official order. The suits are being instituted ns part of the city's annual "clean-up and fix-up" campaign. "Wc are determined to end the back-yard nuisance and the resi dents who have such conditions ex isting on their premises are liable I to prosecution," Dr. Raunick said. "A few days ago at another office a fine and costs were imposed on one offender and costs of prosecution on ! another. More hearings will be j held during the next few days and | more suits may be brought." i What action will he taken to have ! cleaned the vacant lots which are covered with rubbish has not been I decided by the department. H. F. ' Sheesley, superintendent of the bu reau of ash and garbage inspection, said that it would cost about SI,OOO if the city were to undertake the j work, and intimated that ho may I request Council to make an addi -1 tional appropriation of that amount so that it can be done. Workmen and teams employed for the clean-up drive this week are on schedule and will finish the work by noon Saturday, lie reported. Since Monday they have collected llftri loads of ashes and. refuse, or 1,378 cubic yards. An extra team and another man were added to the forces to-day, so that the schedule can be maintained! for the remainder of the week. Be-1 ginning next Monday, the regular ash collection work will be resumed I on the fifteen-day schedule. j COUNCIL OF FOUR IS MOLDING TREATY FOR G ERMA N ALLIES German-Austria Is First to Know on What Terms She May Resume Her Place Among Peaceful Nations SERIOUS DISORDERS BREAK OU7 IN CHINA OVER PEACE TREATY By Associated Press. | With the draft of the peace treaty with Germany now in the hands of the plenipotentiaries of that nation for consideration, the Paris peace conference is turning its attention to ttie making of peace with the other central powers. Germany has given no official intimation of her reply. A courier is well on the way to P.er lin with the treaty. To-day the Council of Four, as the supreme executive body of the con ference has again become through the return of Premier Orlando of Italy, took up the arrangements for presenting the peace terms to the delegates of Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria. To 'Help Huns Pay It appears probable that the set tlement with German-Austria will be the lirst to be reached. The rep resentatives of that nation arc due in France early next week and will be quartered at St. Germaniu, a su burb of Paris. A forecast of the treaty being drawn for their consid eration indicates that German-Aus tria will he asked to pay u portion of the enemy indemnity, her share being estimated at 5,000,000,000 crowns. Meanwhile the German home gov ernment is expected to begin at once the consideration of the terms of peace which wore presented to the German delegates at Versailles on Wednesday and which virtually re duce the German empire to the role of a minor power for a considerable i l l l i' '4' '!■ '4' >H* I* '* IC | J fKR WHEAT FORECAST GROWS wL I g !* <4 **"* j ' j® , 1 *f x * *! *?- v ? § ?* £ I I I V < | e# *f® '3 4& 4* <2 * * * ' e4 4* v 'X *r j* *1 i i A *fc® * • iT 4 T *4* ,<(* !'•' !*l* ' * 'J Aa of: ' * :> <**' Tj ■ ij 4 luring th® * * tion-of the espionage act have been granted P ► ef <■"• Of * <1 > # *i e * - . * it MARRIAGE LICENSES II Jonrph Healer, MeKee'a Koeka. and Sadie Kcwkam, Steelttaa * * Sol k period. Hither the national assem bly itself or important committees of it are to take up the question of the peace terms in sessions held at Ber lin. Three Courses Are Open Three courses seem to he open to the Genua 11 government, as indicat ed by recent dispatches. It may either accept the conditions of peace, reject them or submit them to a plebescite. Some time ago it was reported from Berlin that the ma chinery to carry out a nation-wide election has been prepared and that the people could be called upon to express their desires within 4S hours, in case the government should not care to take the responsibility of meeting the situation now before the country. Iltins Kxpoctod to Object The speech of Count Von Hrock :dorff-Kantzau, head of the German delegation to the peace congress, in reply to Premier Clemencoau at Ver sailles yesterday appeared to indi cate that Germany meanwhile would prepare objections to some features of the treaty as presented to her delegates, notably with regard to Germany's financial responsibilities and economic position. All the Ger man objections must be submitted in writing, within the two weeks' time that her representatives have for examination of the treaty. Serious Disorders in Peking ! Serious disorders are reported to i have broken out in Peking as a pro l test over the action o fthe Council 'of Three in awarding to Japan the ! rights and concessions in Shantung I formerly held by the Germans, while | the Chinese government, according 1' to Peking advices has decided t" instruct its delegation in Paris not to sign the treaty giving Germany': rights in Shantung to the Japan- ese.
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