tressing Question of Horn Is Whether Germany Will Sign Treaty; Meanwhile Buy Victory Bond. V HARRISBTJRG I§l§|!S|- TELEGRAPH V She otar-#n&epenfccrl. I-XXXVIII— XO- 109 24 PAGES HARRISBTJRG, PA. FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 9. 1919. UK fc- t^SSSSSSiJSir 9 B ffi E c HOME EDITION BIG APARTMENT HOUSE PLANNED I FOR FRONT ST. Modern Structure Costing Ap proximately $lOO,OOO Will House Twenty Families TO BUILD THIS SPRING Same General Plans of Ponn- Harris Hotel to Be Fol lowed bv Designers A modern apartment house,; surpassing' anything of its kind ! in this city, planned to contain a ' total of twenty apartments, will | he started within the next two j weeks at Front and Boas streets, j C. 1-. Long announced to-day. j Associated with Mr. Long in j this enterprise will he J. (. . Mot- j ter, C. B. Miller and j. 11. Troup, j The cost will approximate $lOO,-i (X.XJ. Tile proposed new structure will j l>e the must modern and up-to-date! apartment house on Its completion.! Modern in every detail, tile building 1 will be of brick construction, will be; entirely tire proof with the Inter- ' lor work similar to that in the l'enn- Hurris. floors, doors and window j frames will contain practically the | only wood that will he found in the structure, brick and tile being used throughout. The buildilie will be flee stories and will have a frontage of 1 11 feet i in Front street and I4!l feet In Hons street. It will include twenty apart- j ments, four to each lloor with each having a frontage of approximately 35 feet. Eacli apartment will be rpjite large and roomy containing a living room, dining room, pantry, kitchen, three bedrooms, bath with shower, sola rium and maid's room. fpcn fire places will he found in each apart- i merit. Each apartment will face in Front street. Elevators and other set v ice will tie supplied for all apartments. En trances, both front and rear, will be ■ enclosed within lire proof walls. Tn ! the center of dm plot, a space 40 by : tin feet yvill be devoted for garden treatment, with all apartments fac- | ing this section. Uenters yvith automobiles yvlll j have their needs amply cared for. ( Present plans provide for (he erec-i tion of fourteen garages at the rear ' of the apartment, constructed in Bar- I tine avenue. Body of Boy Drowned Three Weeks Ago Found sp P'ver by Coal Diggers The body of Charles floe, colored, 7-year-old son of Mrs. flncline! (Tee, 138 Dock street, who was drowned ; on April 21. was found by river; vorkmen in the Susquehanna river near the Central Iron and Steel Com pany plant th s afternoon. The hoy fell from the concrete steps along the river front just Vie low the dam at Front and Dock streets when ho lost his balance • while throwing stones into the river, i The body was first seen by Charles Downing, 117tf South Cameron street, 1 foreman of a river fleet, when he moved th ■ b irgcs. John Shepley j and Paul Tow sen assisted Downey in getting th< '■ rom the water. Annual Spring Cleanup to Be Fini&WJ. Tomorrow Tomorrow the collection squads i employed by the bureau of ,*h and! garbage inspection will complete the annual spring cleanup in the • tv. During the first four days of |!, week record hauls were rn tdc d when the report for Hie we j available city officials said It will probably lire tk former records. "The people certainly must lc I cleaning out every nook and urn ;r i front garret to cellar." 11. K. Shos- ' ley. superintendent of the inspeetion 1 bureau, said to-day. "Everywhere the men stop they get ashes, refuse and ; rtihbish, such as will accumulate in i a house from one year to the next Vestorday 162 loads of rubbish were removed to the dumps and the total for to-da.v may reach that to- ! t I. Hearings of suits again-t own-' ers of properties which have become ! n public nuisance because of piles of refuse in backyards, will be held • next week. FORMER GERMAN CROWN PRINCE IS TO MAKE CROCKS // Associated l*i ess, Washington. May 9. —The for / mer German Crown Prince has gone into the pottery business, according to official dispatches received here to-da.v from Hol land. A neyv company, just organized, to use the sands on the island of W'ieringer, in the North Sea, "has ' named Mr. Frederick William Hohenzollern as the director man ager." It was said he was a large investor in the enterprise. j I THE WEATHER For Hnrrfxbiirg and vicinity: | n xcf | led, probably showers this afternoon, to-night and Sntui— lliijt continued cool, lowest to night about 50 degrees. For Eastern Pennsylvania: show- ' ers probably to-night and Sat- I tirdayi continued cool; fresh | east winds. 1 ,4 rid Now the Bill's to Pay ! I ~N~7~A U?. STAND SACK. AND j / 11 PRESIDENT ASKS PEOPLE OF U. S. TO SHOW THANKS Wilson Would H avr Ameri cans Mukc Victory Loan Great Popular Offering Hi/ Associated Press. I Washington. May 9. President " i Wilson to-day issued through Secre- ." , tary Glass an appeal to the American j I people to make the Victory Liberty j. Loan "a great popular thank offer- i ing." The total of the Victory Liberty! Loan to-day went about $3,000,000,- i onn, but Treasury officials said the i [exact figures for to-day's standing! j could not lie tabulated until to-i i night. Broken Gas Main Puts Overland Car Out of the Running For World Prize The Model 90 Overland, which 1 I started out last Saturday evening to j' I break a world record for a non- ' [stop 7-day high gear run, was tern- 1 ' ! porarily put out of commission by' 1 [the breaking of the gas line this' 1 I morning at 1.40 o'clock in the vicin-' 1 ; ity of Hogestown. While this mis-! 1 ! hap will put it out of the official ! i i non-stop competition for the world's!, [ record established by the Oklahoma | I car, the local car will continue tlio ' : run as originally scheduled. The j i gas line was repaired during the ■ j night and the car resumed its run \ ;this morning and will regularly re-' j port at the control station at the: 1 Harrisburg Telegraph building as, [ heretofore. Despite the fact that time was lost 1 during this breakdown and the acci-j dent of several days ago. the local j | car at 10 o'clock this morning was;' [ 140 miles ahead of the record of the j ! .Oklahoma ear for the same period 1 i ' of time. i BRINGS NEWS OF DEATH OF LAST MAN IN BATTLE UNIT Private Wightman Tells Mother of Private Wagner of Her Son's Last Fight in France Bringing to the mother of Private Thomas Wagner. Newville, the first news of her son's death in action on September 29, Private T. Powell Wightman of New Cumberland, j member of the Three Hundred and j Sixteenth Machine Gun Company, arrived at his home to-day. I Wightman himself was wounded j just n day before his churn, Wagner, I ! was killed by a German shell. When stretcher bearers carried Wight- 1 , AUSTRIA TO LOSE NAVY IN PEACE By Associated Press, I Paris. May 9.—The naval terms ; of the treaty to lie presented Aus- j tria, as they have been completed- 1 entirely wipe out the Austrian ! navy. All the ships of that navy, t large and small, are to be surren dered. Their disposition among the Allies is to be adjusted later. 1 The drafting committee this afternoon began work on the j treaty as a whole. SEAPLANE CREWS WILL REMAIN AT HALIFAX TODAY Shirt on Second Leg of Flight Postponed Fntil Tomor row Morning By Associated Press. Washington, May 9. —The depart- j tire of the naval seaplanes NC-1 and '• NC-3 from Halifax for Trepassey I Hay, X. F., on the second leg of their trans-Atlantic flight has been postponed until to-morrow, the Navy Department was advised just before noon to-day in a radio message from ! the supply ship Baltimore at Hali- ! fax. ! The message follows: "Planes will not start from 1 Halifax to-day because of re newal of four propellers. Will be ready to start Saturday morn ing." MELVILLE ARRIVES AT AZORES By Associated. Press. Ptinta Dclgadoa, Azores, May 9. - The American torpedoboat tender Melville arrived here to-day from New York for duty in connection with the naval trans-Atlantic flight. , man back to an ambulance Wagner I remarked that he was then the onlv surviving member of the crew of 1 I ten who manned their machine gun I who remained in action. In the next : 1 attack he was killed. '' Private Wightman called upon his i' chum's mother in Newville to-day I 1 and told her of her son's devotion i 1 to duty. Wightman was struck wit it !< a piece of schrapnel and was sent ' I to a base hospital, returning to this I r ' country a few days ago. j j OPEN WARFARE IS ORDERED BEGUN j AGAINST THE FLY Civic Club Plans Battle on Breeding Places of Dis ease Carriers j Swat the Fly" this summer will J be only a part of the battle cry of | the Civic Club which has agreed with the State Health Department and the * 'ity Health Bureau to wage unremitting warfare against the little pest. "Victory Over the Fly" is to he the slogan. Full details for the battle which will include not only "swat ting" as in former years but a cam paign to exterminate the fly by de stroying bis breeding places now are being formulated. Mrs. William Hen derson. president of the Civic Club to-day issued the following state ment : 'ln the summer campaign to make Harrisburg a model citv the Civic Club has assumed the respon sibility for making it a fly I ess one. f'lanH for a far Touching cam paign have been formulated '"Victory Over the Fly,' will be the slogan. the public schools are being or ganized for their part of the work, the Loy Scout: have enlisted, the Municipal Health Department will be at work and the State Depart ment of Health is co-operating "The purpose is to eliminate the My by destroying breeding places bv screening feeding places and by'de stroying flies. "In order that this work may be successfully accomplished the public is urged to subscribe to the fly fund Money will be needed for printing educational propaganda, fa, borax In large quantities, for lime for swatters, for traps, for inspectors and for extra and special work One baby's life i.s worth more than the cost of the Whole campaign. If suf- Loiont funds to properly carry on the work lie provided, hundreds of babies will he saved from iho dan gers or disease frequently carried by the house fly. "All money should ho sent fo Mrs William Henderson, 25 North Front street. • "The names of contributors, with the amounts subscribed, will he pub lished in the Harrisburg Telegraph unless otherwise directed by the donors." Camps to Give Up AH Drafted and Enlisted Men by Middle of June By Associated Press. Washington. May Command ing generals of the northeastern eastern and centre.' departments and of Camps Knox. Bragg, Denning Humphreys. Kustis and Fort Sill' were instructed to-dav that it is the! desire of the War Department to' have discharged hv June 15 all men! drafted or enlisted for the emer-i gency who are eligible for discharge, i 'HOSPITAL SEEKS MORE PROPERTY ; FOR EXPANSION 1 i MoCrcalli Properly May Be j Taken Over Within Day's Jimc BIG ADDITION PLANNED I Extension of Building Would Permit Institution to ('are For Increased Demands Extensive Improvements to the i Harrisburg Hospital arc cnntomplat- I ed In tho near future, probably thin I Hummrr. officials of the institution ■ have opened negotiations for adjoin ing properties and hope to close a d*al to provide room for extension ; within Hie next twenty-four hours. 1 after whi It the problem of oxtcuf'MH ! will receive inure minute considera tion. Negotiations to secure the Mi- Croat h property, probably will be made within twenty-four hours, i Decision to provide for the hn • 1 provement and addition to the local institution, was made at a joint ; meeting of the hoard of manager--, ; the advisory board, the staff of 1 by scians and surgeons and the Women's ' Aid Society, last evening. At that ; time it was decided to have a eon , mittee investigate an endeavor to secure additional propert> without delay. Kxtension of the buildings f the institution was decided on after it had been learned that the consensus I of opinion was against the inuving of ! the hospital from it< present site, j An inv' stnn nt of between $300,0000 to • $400,000 would be lost if Hie fnst.itu j tion were moved. In addition, the feeling was expressed that the hos pital should be contrail', located that friends and relatives may have easy access and that it might be reaehed quickly in case of emergency. To I'm Iti IJ nil Needs The contemplated improvements will amply care for the city's needs. They will be in line with suggestions ! of Colonel Kdward Martin, State Commissioner of Health, in his nut lino of matters that are needed in , Harrisburg to niake the city a model one from health and sanitary uand ; points. The most pressing needs for more space for free and private wards will be amply eared for and ; other needs of an .up-to-date; h sp,tal will be provided. Altogether, the ; proposed additions will make the n -1 stitution a credit to Harrisburg, will I put it on a permanent basis, the olt'c -1 ials say. It is not believed that any great i attention will be. given to ur.ivide contagious wards. The general be lief is that the country is th" place, for the treatment of contagious dis j ases, it has been explained, r All I'ON.sililc Service I Th# matter of providing .addition il II facilities at the local institution has been a subject of long standing. It r was receiving considerable [ tion about the time of the start of | the war and was necessarily delayed. I In the meantime the city's nee Is for j greater facilities have become more I j pressing and decision lias now been made to delay the matter no longer than absolutely necessary. The enlarged institution will be de signed with the view of giving the best possible service to il-irrishurg II and the surrounding country. lm- proved, it will greatly facilitate ibe j handling of patients during any epi ' demic and will enable the institution L and its physicians and attendant;; i 3 give more efficient service than they C were able to do becaus • of insuffici , erit space. • As soon us room for the extension ,; has definitely been secured, officials , will consider methods of raising the _ j large amount of funds that will be m \ necessary to make tho fxtenaivo lm % j provements contemplated. Park Department Makes Appeal to Save Dogwood i From Thieving Pedestrian • i I'ark Department offbdals have ap - pealed to persons who stroll through ! Wild wood Park not to break off - branches of dogwood trees, which ' are in blossom now. Kach year a -• number of trees arc damaged because . limbs are torn off by persons in or ' dor to get tho flowers. Several of I, the trees have been killed and had - to be replaced in former years. Within a day or two tho golden ! spirca along some of tho hills on the r, east side of Wildwood Lake will be in bloom. The officials have also re quested that none of these should be damaged and ask everyone not to break off any flowers or destroy any plants In the park. r Despite the unsettled weather con c dltions workmen employed by the de r partment are doing some planting 'n • some of tho parks and will soon com > plete sodding in Jtiver Front I'ark, J along the walks. > BALDWIN I1KAI) IIIISKiNS f! Philadelphia, Pa.. May 9.—Alba B. .! Johnson resigned as president of the ]' Baldwin Locomotive Works to-day at ! a special meeting of the board of <ll - rectors. Samuel M. Vauclain, senior t ! vice president, was elected president. TANKS HELPED WHIP HUNS I BUT THEY HAVE LIMITATIONS So This Mountaineer Will Have to Continue His Feud With Friend Wife to the End By Associated Press, i Washington, May .9 —Tanks helped ■ i end the war In Europe; a Kentucky I mountaineer thinks one miKht help | end domestic warfare for him. Up in the mountains where he II lives, thia man wrke# the War De partment. the roadn Ret very bad. ! After a hard rain his horse makes I slow Koinsr. and he often doe not , reach home until very late at night. CHINA REFUSES TO PERMIT ITS EN VO YS TO SIGN PEA CE TREA TY; RESENTS DECISION OF BIG FOUR Italian Claims Again Occupy Attention of Council Trying to Work Out German-Austria Problem in Advance of Presenting Terms of Peace to Allies of Germany llic Chinese delegation to the Peace Conference in Paris has received cabled instructions from Peking' not to sign the Peace Treaty because of the settlement made in the Kiao Chau and Shantung' controversy, by which Japan was given German rights on the Shantung peninsula. The Chinese Peace Conference at Shanghai, where the northern and southern governments are endeavoring to settle their differences, lias sent similar instructions to the Paris delegates. 1 his news confirms recent dispatches from Peking that the Chinese government would not | agree to the decision ol the Council of Four. Serious disorders have been reported from the Chinese capital since last Sunday, and a report from American Minister Paul S. Rcinsch to Sec- OJLIAMS MUST ANSWER CHARGE OF UNFAIRNESS; , (.union Bunk's ('use Against I'niled Slates Comptroller lo Be Argued in I*. S. Court —— John Hkvlton Williams. < 'oniptrol- ' b r of Currency, is mimed as the de fendant in a ease scheduled to he argued before Federal Judpre ('. li. ' Witmer in Federal Oocrt this after noon. brought by the First National Bank of Canton, which prays for an injunction restraining; I he comptrol ler from cullinK upon them for cer tain report:: which they allege it would be a hardship to obtain. A 300-pafto bill of equity was llled in the case. ■ | It is understood that the ease is the outcome of friction between I Comptroller Williams and Congress man McFadden and lias been aired ! on the lloor of the Utilise of Repre sentatives in Washington. The Con gressman has blocked the eomptrol , ler in certain measures, it Is charged, i and the call for reports is eharaeter ; ized as a way to retaliate by in l : flirting hardships on a bank with I which the Congressman is assoeiat , od. It is alleged this is Williams' way of persecuting McFadden. I Williams' Defense ; A special agent of the Department | of Justice arrived in Harrisburg to day to take lip the case for the de fense. It is said the argument to he presented by hint will be that the same report was called for all na tional bunks and that it will lie just " ; as easy for the Canton Bank to get it as il was for others. The United Stales Marshal, James ' K. Magce, served the summons on - Comptroller Willhtms to District At i torney Itogcrs L Burnett, lie also - mailed copies to the Comptroller anil f ; to the United States District Marshal . ! for the District of Columbia, to en r ; sure the service. '• ' After deliberating for several i ; hours the Fed: ral jury brought in r ! a verdict of guilty on the lirst count i this morning in the case of Curtis E. - I Shaw, Huntingdon, charged with fo ri ! eeiving stolen postage stamps and ; goods stolen from a United States . post office. A motion for a new trial ! was llled. Hurry J. White, Hunting . ! don. who was charged with stealing , the goods, was released to his grand , j father and ordered to report to the f | court a year hence. ; Kay Hainawei, arrested during the j recent Federal raid here, was lined I $5O. <>thcr Harrisburg cases will be | brought up next week. There will J ; probably ho thirteen or fourteen ! | more cases resulting front the rc ' | cent raid. J. Herman Knisely Is Appointed Chief of Bureau of Municipalities Secretary of Internal Affairs . James F. Woodward announced his , lirst appointment to-day, naming J. j.; Herman Knisely as chief of the bu , ! reau of municipalities. Mr. Knisely, ( 1 who v/as formerly clerk to the Select Council of Harrisburg, hns been _ l chief of the bureau of municipalities C | in the Department of Labor and Tn l ! dustry since its creation. Under a recent approved art. this ( | bureau was transferred from Labor and Industry to Internal Affairs. iTwo Lynched When Gne Admits Improper Note Was Sent White Woman Dm-ant, Miss.. May 9.—A negro recently discharged from the army and a negro woman were lynched j near Pickens, Miss., Monday night, according lo reports received here. I The lynching is said to have follow ed admission by the negro he had ; [ hired the woman to write an im -5 | proper note to a young white worn t an of Pickens. Details arc lacking, - as the rcene of the reported lyneh r ing is in an isolated section of Ihe - state. IPs wife rather doubts that bad i roads are the reason. "I have heard that these tanks travel over impassable ground at good speed." he writes, "so when the government disposes of its sur plus will you please send me one | so I can get home on time and live in peace with iny wife." Unfortunately for him. tanks have I not vet been declared "surnlua." i cvotary ol State Lansing in Paris, yesterday stated that Peking was cut off from telegraphic communication with the outside world, j except lor (fiie line running northward into Siberia. Take Up Italian Claims I lie Council of Four is working to-day on the program to he i followed in the lcgotiations with German-Austria, having taken up at a meeting lu-ld last night the Italian claims to territories on 1 the eastern shore of the Adriatic. Page on Way to Paris The Council of Foreign Ministers j is devoting its time to a study of re ports relative to the boundaries of j states . formed out of the erstwhile; Vu.slro-11 ungarian empire. American ■ Vmbas udor Page is on his way to! | Paris from Home, to make a personal i report lo President Wilson. Huns to Sign Under Protest Comment in the German press on, !' " treaty handed the German ilolc-l 'rates at Versuil'es on Wednesday.! teems to indicate thai Germany may I ign the treaty, hut only under the j strongest protest,' and that the dip-I I omul ie efforts of the enemy may' he concentrated upon President Wil-I son meanwhile for modification of the terms. Many of the journals em . phasizc the argument that the terms |of peace in ninny features arc in (sharp contrast with his fourteen j points. l-'reticli Socialists Oppose French Socialist organs express themselves as opposed to the treaty been use. of lis drastic measures, ami, 'a manifesto issued by (lie national I executive committee of (he British C-ir ,H~ 4 4 £•*4* I- # 1"4 , 4"4"4"1"4'® •? "S? l-fr £> |X WILLIAM'S' AROITMENT POSTPONED 4 4 ••>0 .: 4 ' ' ' r - ■ 'k' ' 4®* ;I 4 trol'cr rf the was postponed - * ■ ill*. —r • ■■•.. v • £* • I -fr ftrrr. -TO. i !4* T , T *T 1 1 -* 4 •; i* Balo—The Auetrim peace deleg j.tkm, |> J T Vienna say, wOl leave the Ansstrhn capital for Paris on nr. •'t ¥ :iX WANT SHANTUNG DECI6ION REVERSED * 1T Parli—The Chinese delegation Is dvised $ ' 4 students marched to the American and British legations T ! -vs V |'4 in Peking to urge the Council Of TV" to rec 4 X'' ' decision. X 4* New York Dignitaries of , the R n T •*7* j~j ; 4 I T X i ;4 Paulist fathers, in he Chorch of 6t. Paul, the 4 ;i'J | • 4 -4 L ! u 4 J DANIELS SATL-S FROM BREST 4 4 Brest—Joseph-US Daniels., the. Attterii an J| I J th I avy, arrived at Brest to-dayfrom England lie em a j4 1 ooon afterward on the tr an-spot' Mo .T j t> *or home with the troop., of Vv: ..■ id I w I -j- St. Louis—Major Hamilton of New York, to J#• > X day presented a resolution at the national caucus of the [ *§• American Legion, urging that Congress place, the Na- ,* * Ml tional Guard and toe Regular Army on equal [ Charges were nude 'tonal Guard officers in L ! 14 • • il France had !t> discriminated agamet t 1§ : ! -f Regulars. !* ' II jp • " ;X Washington—Althcrugh results reported last night | !j ;md thts nrorning did much to relieve apprehension |elt [ ) X by the treasury officials as to the success of the Victor}- jjj * 1 1 q Loan it was stated that erven if the subscriptions continue i || !X Co come in to-clary and to-morrow with the same speed ij T shown during the past two days there still will be left . * ► JX billion dollars that must ctAM In as a result of the final , = X count if the goal of te to be reached. * | X MARRIAGE LICENSES Ilnrry F. Drckrr, JvlinMtnnii, nail Marjurle Xrnliakrr, I'hiln- * ' 4 •Irltihia; Mrlvln M. HaUrr, Timrarora <<u nxliiii. nn.l Fill.-1 ('. I.Mtlr, * j i llnrriNliurK. ; *&4'2-44-44r4**4- 4 4* 4- *4* 4* <4*4s. „labor party says the treaty by it: vterms, will "cause jealousy and un j rest leading to further international j disputes." Belgium Kilters Protest Belgium's delegation to the Pea ■<• ! Conference has protested again-' the reported decision of the Council 1 of Four in making. Great Britain a mandatory for German East Africa. : Belgium, it is said, has interests In Allien which must he considered in dividing up .actions of that con tinent for a Iniinistrution under the I League of Nations. Ivolchah Moves Forward Admiral Kolehak's forces in East ern Utissia are moving steadily foi - I ward in pursuit of the retreating Bolshevik!, having captured a num ber of important points. Paris, May 9. The Chinese dele ! cation lias received cabled instructions from Peking riot to sign the treaty of peace because of the Kiao Chau-Shan lunc settlement. Instructions to the same effect have been received from the. representatives of both the northern [< ontiniicil on Page 23.]
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