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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"
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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,
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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
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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
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'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
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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
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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.
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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.