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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.