- ' '. Germany Declares Willingness to Disarm Ahead of All Other Powers as Proof of Sincerity LXXXVIII—NO. 123 16 PAGES Da "i.^e? p .\ S tZ d pLt HARRISBURG, PA. MONDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1919 JURY TAKEN TO VIEW HOUSES IN HARDSCRABBLE City Seeks to Assess Benefits on Properties Opposite Proposed Park REALTY MEN ARE CALLED Men Experienced in Local Values Arc Put on Stand Jurors called to determine the amount of benefits to be assessed against properties owned by John T. Ensminger, at 1111 and 1113 North Front street, because of the proposed plan to remove all prop erties on the west side in the Hard scrabble district, were taken to the houses at noon. George R. Rarnett and B. F. Nead, counsel for Ensminger, requested that the jurors should be taken to the district and shown the properties in volved in the proceeding, the court granting the petition. Judge S. J. M. McCarrell presided. President Judge George Kunkel being absent on a trip to New York to meet his son, who was returning from overseas service. Special Session The cases listed for trial at the special session of civil court this week are the last of those listed by the city in its effofts to assess bene fits against property owners on the east side of North Front street, be tween Herr and Calder streets. City Solicitor John E. Fox is representing the city in the trial of the action. The names of David K. Sees, Catherine Hinkle and William Sees were substituted as defendants in the second case on the list in place of the late Catherine Chandler, Mrs. Mary A. Baker, who purchased the property at 1123 North Front street, from George G. Schlegel and other heirs of the late John Schlegel, may be substituted as defendant in this action as she intends to oppose the city's assessment. Ktter First Called George E. Etter was the first wit ness called by the city to estimate the increase in value of the prop erties with the completion of the proposed improvement, on the west side of the street. Other prominent realty men of the city were called during the afternoon sessions for the same purpose. Mr. Etter figured that the valuation $1,280 according to the foot front plan, the details of which he eX of the properties had increased by plained to the jury. Jurors called to hear the case fol low: Wesley H. Acaley, Wiconisco township; Paul Bowers, Susque hanna township; Abram Cooper, South Hanover township; Samuel Criswell, city; John Hess Williams town; Charles Kreiner, Millersburg; Charles O'Brien, Middle Paxton township; John L. Porter, Dauphin; James P. Shaffner, city; Thomas L, Snyder, Uniontown; James Trout man, Lykens; Clarence E. William 3, city. Jurors excused from service in clude: David Baughmoyer, Sr. Mid dletown; Scott Beidleman, city; George B. Hitz, city; Harvey O. Matter, city; James McCarroll, city; W. W. McCreary, Middletown; Sam uel H. Ney, Royalton; Edward C. Schaffstall, city; George Stauffer, Paxtang; Robert Thompson, city; Reuben Whitley, Steelton; B. F. Zentmyer, Derry township. City to Send Delegation to Baltimore to Witness Launching of Dauperata A delegation of members of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce will attend the christening of the ship Dauperata at Baltimore next month, according to tentative plans announced to-day. The Dauperata is the ship which will be named af er the three counties of the Har risburg Liberty Loan district in rec ognition of their achievements dur ing Liberty Loan campaigns. The delegation which will go to Balti more will include all members of the organization who signify a desire to 80. The advisability of a "sociability tour" by the members of the cham ber has been discussed for some time, and it originally was planned to make a trip by boat from Baltimore to old Point Comfort, but this plan was found impractical owing to the difficulty encountered in trying to se cure a suitable craft. The plans for the trip to Baltimore therefore may be expanded to-include several other points of interest, making up a run of several days, but this phase of the arrangements has not yet been per fected. Railroad Y. M. C. A. Drive Goes Over by Big Margin Local railroad "Y" workers went! away over the top last week in their membership drive. A total of 382 was reported up to Saturday at mid night. This number will be increased, as all returns are not in. The complete official report will be made public to-night at the final round table session to start at 8.15. The victor in the Army-Navy bat tle will also be announced. A num ber of the committeemen who were employed last week on night duty, will report to-day. Plans for the future will also be outlined at to nlght's meeting. theweatherl For Hnrrlabiirg nnd vicinity; Fnlr to-night an<l Tuesday; not much change In temperature, lowest to-night about <M degrees. For Eastern I'ennsylvnnln i Fair to-night and probably Tuesday; not much ehnnge In tempera ture) moderate west wind" HARRISBURG {gSggSS* TELEGRAPH fcftc otar-£n&cpcn&ent., Nine New Teachers For City Schools ■ 1 y ' ' ' r - : • • " ..a : -• - ■ ~ • ~ • !V. M BB "'WW J^S Nine students of the Teacher Training School will be graduated next Thursday evening at the fifteenth annual commencement exercises in the Technical High School auditorium. All of them are on the substitute teachers list of the city school district now. and have been assigned to duty in various buildings. In the group above there are: Front row, left to right, Miss Miriam Stevens, Miss Mildred Kulp, Miss Erma Ellenberger, Miss Jennie Saul; second row, left to right, Miss Louise Yingling, Miss Ruth Smiley; back row, left to right, Miss Pearl Malaby, Miss Evelyn Speakman and Miss Hettye Stemler. REPUBLICANS OF SENATE TURN ON PENROSE ENEMIES Defeat Johnson's Motion to Strike Out Pennsylvanian's Name as Chairman Washington, May 26. Senate Republicans at a conference to-day, from which several progressives absented themselves, approved the committee selections of the commit tee on committees, including choice of Senators Penrose, of Pennsyl vania, and Warren, of Wyoming, to be chairmen of the finance and ap propriations committees respec tively. A motion by Senator Johnson, of California, to strike out Senator Penrose's name as chairman of the finance committee was defeated 35 to 5. Those supporting it were Sen ators Johnson, Cummins, Iowa; Kellogg, Minnesota; McCormick, Il linois, and McNary, Oregon. Will Not Press Figlit Senator Johnson Indicated in an address to the conference that he would not carry his opposition to .the Senate floor. Action of the conference was an nounced by Senator Wadsworth, of New York, secretary, who said there was no rollcall on adoption of the committee assignments after the conference had approved the se lection of Senator Penrose. Pro gressives who have opposed Senators Penrose and Warren and who did not attend the conference were Borah, Idaho. Kenyon, lowa, and Norris, Nebraska. Other absentees were LaFollette, Wisconsin; Lenroot, Wisconsin, and Capper, Kansas. Republican Assignments The Republican committee as signments made included the fol lowing: Foreign Relations: Holdover members, Lodge, Massachusetts, [Continued on Paste 15.] Heroes of 79th Division to Parade on June 4 Now Planned by Committeemen By Associated. Press. Philadelphia, May 26. Prepara tions are being made for a parade In this city of the 79th Division heroes, probably on June 4. Although no date has been defi nitely fixed, it has been agreed by members of the welcome home com mittee that the parade could easily be held on that date as all the units of the division would be home. While a full divisional parade is not possible, the committees are working for a parade of at least four units, made up of men from this city and the eastern part of Pennsylvania. They are the 315 th Infantry, Philadelphia's own, the 316 th Infantry, 312 th Machine Gun Battalion and 312 th Artillery. Should all the men of these four units march there will he between 7,600 and 8,000 men in line. The final decision as to whether there will be a parade will come from the men themselves. If they veto the proposition there can be no parade. Wilson Is Blamed For Withholding Terms of Treaty With Germany By Associated Press. Paris, May 26. The Echo De Paris to-day beclares that it was on the request of President Wilson that the heads of the Allied and associated powers have declined to permit publication of the full text of the Peace Treaty presented to the Germans. President Wilson, the newspaper addß, "foresaw inconvenience and risk in opening an important dis cussion in the United States during his absence. Fonn EVIDENCE BEGINS .Mount Clemens, Mich., May 26. — After two weeks of preliminaries, the taking of evidence in the $1,000,000 libel suit of Henry Ford against the Chicago Daily Tribune, begna before Judge J. G. Tucker, to-day. SALVATION ARMY DRIVE CONTINUES SEVERAL DAYS More Than $12,000 in Treas ury, With Many Reports to Be Made With various communities of Dau phin county to be heard form the Harrisburg executive committee of the home service drive of the Salva tion Army, prepared to-day to com plete the industrial canvass, with over $12,000 in the treasury, the drive winding up on Wednesday. The state ment of Chairman, Captain E. J. Stackpole, Jr., was issued to-day as follows: "The drive for the funds to be used locally in promoting the peace-time work of the Salvation Army has met with a most generous response from the people of Harrisburg. The rest of the county is gathering momentum and will finish their work during the present week. For this city, follow (Continued on Page 6) TO SUE DELINQUENTS FOR SCHOOL TAX Harry F. Oves, school tax collector during 1916 and 1917, and C. E. Weber, collector during 1918, are preparing lists of the names of all persons who have not paid the an nual occupation lax of sl. These will be turned over to aldermen through out the city to be collected unless they are paid before June 1, the officials said, as the city school board gave them instructions to collect all outstanding taxes. HOLD OLD POLITICAL INSIGNIA HEIRLOOMS Wbu&Sß Father of Mrs. George C. Bowen Was First Sheriff of Miami County and Sup porter of "The Wagon Boy" George C. Bowen, 58 North Thir teenth street, an attache of the Auditor General's office, is the pos sessor of several historical memen toes which the family prize very much. Above are shown reproductions of two silk badges printed from steel engravings which are the property, of KNIGHTS TAKE UP ROUTINE OF ANNUAL SESSION Local Branch of Order of St George to Entertain Visitors Tonight Routine business required a large portion of the time at this morning's sessions of the seventh annual con vention of the G. R. C. Knights of St. George, which opened yesterday in the convention hall at St. Francis' Church. Special mass was conduct ed for the order. Rev. William V, Dalley will speak this evening at a reception to be tendered the dele gates by the local branch. Ninety members of the order of a total of 2,000 that had enlered the service, died from various causes, Joseph H. Reiman, supreme, presi dent, reported. Of the surplus funds of the order, $200,000 was invested in various government securities, the report continued. A report on mem bership for the year since January 1, 1918, showed that a total of 2,236 new members had been admitted, while a total of 462 had died. Two hundred delegates are in at tendance at the sessions. The gen eral staff and officers of Company D, with Major General John Lohrum, in command, led a parade from the Philadelphia and Reading station to the convention hall and members of Branch 168, Knights of St. George, served as an escort. Addresses of welcome were de livered by John Czerniski, president of Branch 168, of this city, and [Continued on Page 6.] '^*'"- •'*"*&s '^lml 'Mrs. Bowen who got them from her mother, the wife of Ebenezer Steb bins, first sheriff of Miami county, Ohio. Sheriff Stebbins was marshal of the Dayton barbecue. The political end of the barbecue apparently was well taken care of by 'The Wagon Boy" who announced himself as candidate for Governor of Ohio. Henry Clay also was hailed as "the" American statesman. Sheriff Stebbins got the second badge by attending the New Eng land Society's Bunker Hill celebra tion held in Charlestown, Septem ber 10, 1840, ROLCHAK REGIME IN RUSSIA WILL BE RECOGNIZED Council of Four Decides to Treat With Foes of Bol shevik Government ADRIATIC QUESTION UP Teutons Reported From Ber lin to Be Willing to Reduce Army By Associated. Press. The Council •of Four of the Peace Conference has decided condition .ally to recognize the anti-Bolshevik governments of Admiral Kolohalc and General Denekine, according to Reuter's -Agency in Paris. The conditions for the recognition are that, regarding the future of Russia, these governments agree to convoke and accept the verdict of a genuine constituent assembly; like wise that the League of Nations covenant and its consequences as af fecting the boundaries of the former empire are accepted. The constitutent assembly is to de termine the future form of govern ment for Russia. The policy adopted, it is added, will enable the Allies to recognize and as sist any force in Russia co-operat ing in the struggle against Soviet rule, because such recognition will be in force only until such time as the constituent assembly decided upon the permanent form of government. The regional government will then expire automotically . The Allies will not furnish Admiral Kolchak and General Denikino with troops, but will supply them with arms, munitions, money and food on a larger scale than hitherto. It is stipulated that there will be no in terference with the races of non-Rus sian states recently erected from old Russian territory. To Keep German Ships Official advices reached Washing ton to-day that a full understanding had been reached by the Council of Four at Paris by which the United States will keep all the German ships seized In American ports when this country entered the war. This week, during which it is ex pected the terms of peace for Ger man-Austria will be presented to her delegates, may witness also the solution of the problems raised by the conflicting claims of Italy and Jugo-Slav.ia in the Adriatic area. Paris advices indicate that the conferees are taking the problem anew, with Great Britain, France and Italy seeking to have the secret pact made among them at Lon don in 1915 provide the basis for the settlement. Thirteen Notes Submitted Germany's counter proposals to the terms of peaco dictated by the Allies are expected to be presented to the Peace Conference to-morrow. Up to to-day thirteen notes asking for modifications In the terms have been submitted, and, in addition to the formal propositions of the Ger mans, there may be several sub sidiary notes still to be transmitted by the German peace mission. General Count Max Monteglas, one of Germany's delegates, is quoted by a Berlin newspaper as saying that the terms as they now stand will not be signed by the Ger man plenipotentiaries. He contends that the military clauses of the treaty will make it impossible for Germany to maintain order and that the economic terms "condemn Ger man workingmen to slavery." To Reduce Hun Army It is reported from Berlin that the counter proposals to be present ed by the German delegation will embody an agreement to reduce Germany's army at once to 350,000 men, with a further cutting down of the army to 200,000 by the ex piration of a year after the con clusion of peace. With the exception of one con cession relative to the Sarre basin, Germany's claims relative to that region have been rejected. The Council of Four has agreed that Germany may create a prior charge upon her assets or revenues which may be used in paying for the mines in the Sarre district, should the plebiscite to be held in 1934 be favorable to Germany. Allies Reject Suggestions All of Germany's suggestions rela tive to her western frontiers have been rejected in a sharp note to Count Von Brockdorff-Rantzau by M. Clemenceau, president of the Peace Conference. Esthonian forces are officially re ported to have broken through the Pskov front, west of Petrograd, and to have captured 1,000 prisoners, be sides a great quantity of war ma terial. Further east, the forces of Admiral Kolchak, of the Omsk government, are reported to be ap proaching Viatka. It is expected that the Kolchak and North Rus sian forces will soon unite and then attacks may be made on Petrograd and Moscow. Question of Food in Way Dispatches from the Murmansk 1 front declare while it is believed the capture of Petrograd might be ! achieved at almost any time, there is some reluctance on the part of 1 the Allies to take the city because of the impossibility of feeding the ' population until better lines of com munications are opened. Smithers, Slayer, Free For Two Years, Again Taken to Prison Cell Danville, Pa., May 26.—T0 kill a woman, sentenced to hang for mur der, escape through the timely pas sage of a law abolishing capital pun ishment, escape from a penitentiary, after serving seven years, free for two years and then caught and a prisoner again, Is the experience of Carl B. Smithers, now In jail here. OMLY KVKJHNQ ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWSPAPEK U HAIUUSBURG HAWKER SURE TO BE RESCUED, WIFEJNSISTED Merry Party in Home, of Sea Flier When the Glad News Came AIRMEN AMONG CALLERS j King Had Mourned Death of Daring and Able Brit ish Pilot J - * ' > ' . '}** - \ . Y( T'" Y " ' z r % • ML. •.. .1 HARRY G. HAWKER London, May 26.—There was a merry party in the home of Harry G. Hawker near Surbiton last night, many callers, including Thomas O. M. Sopwlth,. head of the Sopwltli Aviation Company, builders of the machine in which Hawker attempt led to cross the Atlantic, going to the house to congratulate Mrs. Haw ker. Many airmen were among those who called. Mrs. Hawker never lost confidence that her husband would be rescued. Even on Saturday evening she was still hopeful, declared that Sunday was her lucky day and said: "Good News To-morrow" "We shall have good news to morrow." To-day her home was inundated with telegrams of congratulation and the telephone in the gaily be flagged dwelling was constantly ringing. In a message expressing his own and the queen's sympathy and con dolence King George on Saturday expressed his fear that Hawker had lost his life. He added: "I feel that the nation has lost one of its most able and daring pilots and that he sacrificed his life for the fame and honor of British flying." An official statement confirming news dispatches of the rescue of Hawker and Lieutenant Commander Mackenzie Grieve was issued last night. It follows: Both in Good Health "Harry G. Hawker and Lieutenant Commander Grieve were rescued in latitude 50 degrees and 20 minutes north and longitude 29 degrees 30 minutes west. They alighted close to a steamer owing to a defect in the water circulation of their mo tor. Both men are in perfect health. The airplane was not saved." Hawker and Grieve were in the water for an hour and a half before being taken aboard the steamer Mary. Lacking a wireless ouflt, the captain of the steamer was obliged to withhold the good tidings of the rescue until he was opposite Butt of Lewis, where the information was signalled by means of flags. Engine Went llutl Some 1,100 miles out from New foundland and from the Irish coast, on Monday, May 19, the avia tors, making the best of an engine which was failing to function prop erly, were forced to alight on the water. The little Danish steamer Mary, bound from New Orleans and Norfolk for Aarhuus, Denmark, picked the wayfarers up ahd con tinued on her northward voyage. Word was flashed to the British admiralty, which sent out destroyers to overtake the Danish vessel and obtain absolute confirmation. This was done, and one of the destroyers took the airman off, and later trans ferred them to the flagship Revenge. From this safe haven Hawker sent a message that his machine had stopped owing to the blocking of the water circulation system. When the airplane sped away from her starting point. Pilot Hawker let loose his wheels and under-gearing, thereby lightening the weight of the machine by considerable amount, but making a possible landing on the sell of Ireland a more hazardous venture. This, however, probably proved of much advantage when it became nec essary to alight on the surface of the water. The airplane remained afloat without difficulty during the hour and a half it took the Danish steam er to come up and effect a rescue. Owing to the difficulties of com munication some time must pass be fore the full details of one of the most remarkable voyages ever un dertaken are known. The one person in England who had always held hope was Mrs. Haw ker. She always maintained that Providence would protect her man, and though she received condolences from all classes of people, including the King, she said yesterday that she had never ceased to believe that some time and in some way her husband would come back. ANGRY VOLCANO OF KALUT IN VIOLENT MOOD KILLS 15,000 Java Mountain Bursts Into Fire and Destroys 31 Villages in Districts of Brengat and Blitar on Island Ni CENTRAL NEWS DISPATCH HAS WORD OF WIDESPREAD HORROR By Associated Tress. Amsterdam, May 26.—The volcano of Kalut, in Java, has burst into eruption, wiping out twenty villages in the district of Brengat and eleven in the vicinity of Blitar and causing deaths estimated at 15,000, according to a Central News dispatch received here. Java Important Island Java is Iho most densely-populated island In the Indian ocean, although it is by no means the largest one of the Indian Archipelago. In every respect but size It is the most impor tant of all of the islands. Its population is as dense as those of the most populous of the Euro pean countries. Through the mild ness of its cllma.te and the industry of its people, it possesses a richer store of valuable production than almost any country of equul size can boast; Its rice fields make It the graflary of the East Indian Islands, and its coffee and sugar plantations are a perpetual source of wealth to Holland, tho country which has the good fortune to claim its allegiance. Contains J 11,1 "l Square Miles Java lies between 105 degrees and 114 degrees, east longitude, and 6 degrees and !• degrees, south lati tude. Its area is estimated at 40,176 square miles. The western portion of Java, ex clusive of the northern alluvial coastline, is a compact mass of mountains, culminating In volcanic peaks, nowhere interrupted by plains or lowland valleys. I In the eastern and larger portion I the volcanoes rise in Independent | clusters, and the valleys between open out Into wido champaigns. "] TANY WILL ASK NO MORE TIME X 4* iHh' x , £ X the l *l* x X Thursday, Y 4 AUSTRIAN CREDENTIALS APPROVED J s of the Austria! £. T n-en-Laye have been approved b Y 4* x T. Austrian delegates have sent their first note to t Y Y Y X WORLD'S LARGEST PLANE IS' WREC K ID T x 4i giant Tarrant airplane, the largest in t 3p Y was wrecked this morning, while taxiing for i > first T X X le ground and turned over. It weighed twenty tons an 'j* Y Via *§ • . r.cs 4 JC 4 x 4 DAUPHIN ROAD BID OPENED jjj Y Harrisburg—The Hugh H. Naun Contracting Co., .m 4* 1211 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, was low biddet Y ied to-day by Highway Commit tit er for the -building"of State highway 18 fee Y X ide and 33,917 feet in length from the northern Hmit j Y Dauphin borough to connect with the recently con X X structed good road below the Clark's Ferry, bridge. This Xj Y .rries the good road all the way from Harrisburg t xi X Clark's Ferry. iM* X WEATHER TOO BAD FOR FLIGHT OF Nj| fi 4* Washington—Confirming weather forecasts of ytjis- pff X tertlay, Admiral Jackson, at Ponta Delgada this morning )Juk Y 'ibled the Navy Department that the naval seaplane 4* NC-4 still was held at her moorings by unfavorable XT Y light conditions. Weather reports from the Azores jj|j indicated the trans-Atlantic flight probably cannot be ED 4* resumed before Tuesday at the earliest, it was said early £ to-day. 1 & S % MARRIAGE LICENSES £ 4* silnx W. l oriurj and Kab<-rlue Laudermllch, Harrlaburs* ill jY SINGLE *<X)PIE3 HOME EDITION Even in the east the number of vol canic eminences is exceptionally large, and, if the whole island be taken into view, there is scarcely any region of the world of equal ex tent which can boast of so many. Numerous eruptions have been re ported. Foes of Suffrage Win in Move to Have Vote Taken During Tuesday By Associated Press. Washington, May 26.—Efforts to expedite a vote in the Senate to-day on the woman suffrage constitutional amendment resolution were defeat ed. By parliamentary tactics op ponents of the measure succeeded after two hours in postponing all actipn until to-morrow. After numerous roll calls and other obstruction, the motion to dis charge the suffrage committee from considering the resolution, which was passed by the House last week, was set aside under the rules at. 2 o'clock for renewal of debate on the resolution of Senator Johnson, Re publican, of California, requesting'a copy of the Peace Treaty with Ger many.
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