Commander Read and NC-4 Crew in Fine Shape For Flight to Plymouth; May Start Daring Day LXXXVIII—NO. 125 18 PAGES s t^ d^^ t 5^ r< S,^JSBR£ lM ' HARRISBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1919 GERMANY., CLAIMING NOW TO BE DEMOCRATIC, WILL INSIST ON PEACE FASHIONED WILSON WA Y Teutons Will Say American Chief Stopped War ITALY DELAYS AUSTRIA PACT Limited Espousal of Kolchak in Russ Drive By Associated Press. Although there has been no offi cial announcement it is expected the German peace delegation will pre sent its counter proposals to .the terms of peace at Versailles some time to-day. It is known that the German reply to the Peace Confer ence has been completed and as the extension of the time limit fixed for the reply expires to-morrow noon, the official attitude of Germany to ward the treaty must be made known without delay. Basis of German Proposals Dispatches from Berlin and Paris indicate that the Germans will base their proposals on the claim that they accepted the offer of the Allies to conclude peace on the basis of President Wilson's fourteen points and other assertions t>y Allied rep resentatives that the peace would not be one of violence. It is said that the Germans will claim to have ousted the old imperialistic regime and substituted for it a democratic government and for this reason, ask for amelioration of the price they are asked to pay for peace. Allies May Not Parley There are reports which seem to reflect a disposition of the Allies not to parley long if the Germans actually refuse to sign the terms. An Amsterdam dispatch states that the Belgian frontier has been closed and that all Belgian soldiers have been recalled from leave. It is further reported that general mobilization of the Belgian army will be ordered as soon as it is definitely known the Germans will not sign the treaty, if that decision is reached by the enemy delegation. Allied commanders along the Rhine, where the British, American and French armies hold strategic bridgeheads, are reported to have held conference relative to action if the Germans decline to conclude peace on the Allied terms. Italy Delays Austrian Pact The treaty with Austria may not be presented Friday as planned. The Italian delegation is declared to be delaying consideration of clauses of the treaty dealing with the southern frontiers of Austria, in sisting that the question of the fron tiers shall be coupled with that of the Dalmatian coast. It seems prob able that the whole treaty will not be presented at the first meeting be tween the Austrian and Allied dele gations. Tho military, naval and reparations clauses may be omitted, together with definite demands re garding Fiume. Limited Recognition For Kolchak Limited recognition may be ac corded the All-Russian government at Omsk in the form of lending aid in supplies and money to Admiral Kolchak. head of the Omsk govern ment. This will be considered upon the holding of general elections, or, if the Kolchak army reaches Mos cow. the reconvoking of the Russian constituent assembly elected during the incumbency of A. F. Kerensky as premier and nominal head of the Russian revolutionary government. Berlin, May 28. The German counter proposals to the terms of the Treaty of Peace will in the open ing section argue for the existence f Germany's contractual right to a eace based on President Wilson's yburteen points, because the Entente nations, agreed to a peace on that basis and neither Mr. Wilson nor the Representatives of any other Allied government have Bince demanded Chat peace be established on any •ther basis. Thus it is argued, an abandonment of the fourteen points %y the Entente would be a breach #f a legal agreement and a dictated peace would be a breach of a given promise. Points to Differences The second section will deal with the contradiction between the draft of the treaty and previous assur ances from Entente statesmen and the general ideal of international right. The counter proposals will declare that the terms of peace completely ignore the fact that Germany has replaced an "imperialistic and irres ponsible government by a strictly democratic one and that Germany in her proposals for a League of Nations has adhered to the principle of a limitation of armaments. Say Promises Are Broken "It would be difficult to see," one section reads, "what different condi tions could have been imposed upon an imperialistic government. The solemn assurances Qf Franco, Great Britain and President Wilson, that the peace would be a peace of right and not of violence, have not been kept, especially regarding territorial questions." Condemn Treaty Secrecy The national committee on the General Labor Federation has passed resolutions condemning the secrecy in which the Treaty of Peace has been framed and protesting against the conditions imposed by an in complete knowledge of the docu ment HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Germany's Answer to Allies By Associated Press. Berlin, May 28.—Germany's counterproposals to the terms of the Peace Treaty, presented to her plenipotentiaries at Versailles, include tjie following points, according to an unofficial summary available to-day: Germany offers to disarm all her battleships, on condition that a part of her mercantile fleet be restored to her. She proposes that there be no territorial changes without consul tation of the populations affected. The cession of Upper Silesia and the claims to East Prussia, West Prussia and Memel are emphatically rejected. It is stipulated that Danzig shall become a free port, and the river Vistula neutralized. Occupied territory Is to be evacuated within six months. If the League of Nations is established with Germany as a mem ber, Germany shall continue to administer her colonies in ac cordance with the principles of the League as its mandatory. Germany offers to pay 200,000,000 marks in gold by the year 1926 as indemnity, and to make annual payments from 1927 onward to a total not in excess of 100,000,000,000 marks in gold. It was expected to-day that the counterproposals would be officially made known on Wednesday. MRS. KUNKEL'S ESTATE IS LEFT TO GRANDSON Charity Remembered With Annuities Granted Several Per- Letters on the estate of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Crain Kunkel were granted to-day by Register Ed. H. Fisher to Louisa A. Kun kel and Edwin E. Bolton. The estate is valued at more than $750,- 000 and the bulk of it is bequeathed to a grandson, John C. Kun kel, Jr. A number of public bequests were made for church and charit able purposes and a number of annuities are provided to be paid to friends during their lifetime. In the will which was filed to day Mrs. Kunkel provides a fund of SI,OOO for the care of lots in the Harrisburg Cemetery; SIO,OOO to be invested for the Home for the Friendless; SIO,OOO to be added to the John C. Kunkel poor fund; sl,- 000 for the Historical Society of Dauphin county; $3,000 for the Har risburg Hospital; $2,000 for the "Elizabeth Crain Kunkel pew" in the Market Square Presbyterian Church, and $1,500 for the Market Square Presbyterian Sunday Bchool. Poor Fiuul Enriched The John C. Kunkel poor fund was created in 1870 in a codicil in the will of the late Mr. Kunkel, husband of Mrs. Kunkel. In it he provided for the investment of $lO,- 000 at the direction of the Dauphin county orphans' court, the interest to be used for the benefit of the poor of the city. Mrs. Kunkel's pro vision raises this fund to $20,000. It is also provided in the will that SIOO,OOO should be invested and the following life annuities paid: To JEWS OF CITY ARE CALLED TO FAST AND PRAY Protest Against Massacre to Go Up From the Two Synagogues Many Harrisburg Hebrews will meet to-morrow afternoon in Kesher Israel and Chisuk Emuna synagogues to protest against atrocities commit ted against the Jews of Poland. Ukraine and Roumania. Announce ments to this effect have been issued by a joint committee of the two syn agogues. All city stores are asked to close to-morrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock, in a request issued by Rabbi Louis Silver, of Kesher Israel, and Rabbi M. RumanofT, of Chisuk Emuna. Their proclamation declares ad day of fast and a day of prayer to-morrow. Prayers will be uttered that the Al lies use their influence to prevent any future atrocities. The Jews of the city are asked to congregate at the synagogues at 5 o'clock. At this time speakers will be present to explain what the Jews have suffered. Mrs. George M. Ford Dies in California Word was received last night of the death of Mrs. George M. Ford at her home in East Auburn-, Califor nia. Mrs. Ford, before her marriage, was Emma L. Brady, daughter of the late William Brady, and for many years resided in Harrisburg. Mrs. Ford was a sister of John T. Brady, Anna R. Brady and Letitia G. Brady of Harrisburg. She will be buried at her late home, East Au burn. CHURCH NOTICES TO BE IN EARLY Ministers and church officials are requested to have their an nouncements to. the Saturday evening church • ige in this office not later than Friday noon this week. The Harrisburg Telegraph office, following an old custom, will close early on Friday after noon, and the change in time is made for this reason. sons From $750,000 Fortune Miss Elizabeth M. Rutherford, $360; Mrs. Mary Forster Cann, $360; Mrs. Almeda N. Gross, $360; Miss Emma E. Boas, $240; Miss Margaret J. Hughes. $360; Harry S. Briscoe, $240: Clarence H. Wealand, SIBO. and the balance of the income to be paid to John C. Kunkel, Jr. Upon the death of all the persons men tioned the SIOO,OOO investment re verts to Mr. Kunkel. Estate to Pay Taxes The Kunkel property, 17-19 South Front stret, together with all furni ture and personal property there, is given to Mr. Kunkel. The will further provides that the taxes oil the inheritances and be quests should be paid out of the es tate so that the amounts mentioned will be paid without diminution. The balance of the estate after these terms are complied with is to be invested, all expenses paid from it. and all earnings held in trust for Mr. Kunkel until he reaches the age of 30 years, at which time it is to be turned over to hirn as a whole, or to his heirs. MITCHELL FALLS VICTIM TO YEAR OF "DOPE" SPREE Man Found in Fatal Lapse User of Drugs For Twelve month, Police Believe He had been a user of habit forming drugs not more than a year at the most, city detectives said to day in the case of George Mitchell, white, of 1617 Compass street, who died late yesterday from an overdose of narcotics. Police officials stated his age was about 27 years. Women With Body Mitchell's death occurred in the afternoon at the Compass street ad dress after he had been found un conscious at the residence of Abbie Smith, colored, 916 Sarah alley, earlier in the day. The Smith girl and Mitchell's wife, Helen, were with the body when it was found. The negress confessed, after her ar rest by Detective Hyde Spcese later in the day, that a "dope" party had been held at her home on Sunday [Continncd on Page B.] Market Stalls Piled High With Flowers For Graves of Loved Ones People who will visit city and suburban cemeteries on Memorial Day crowded the markets this fore noon in quest of flowers with which to decorate the graves of their loved ■ones. The call was for flowers rather than for food and the stalls were piled high with the offerings from field and mountainside. Boys who usually struggle under the burden of provender to-day drag ged flower-laden wagons in all direc tions both from the Chestnut Street and Broad Street markets and the highways were made fragrant dur ing the Journey of the little fellows on their errands. In no other year perhaps, has the yeld of the earth been so generous. The farmers' offerings ranged from roses to blossoms and included almost every flower and bud that could be plucked. Prices were not to the liking of the buyers. For a small peony bud the price was 15 cents each. Farm ers asked 20 to 30 cents a bunch for blue flags, with not more than 10 flowers to a bunch. Potted plants were high in price, the prices varying was asked for a geranium plant with from 40 to 60 cents. The latter price one bloom. (He olar-Independent. His First Square Look at Himself Svell , l LOOK PRETTY COOT YET TROUBLE WITH THE HUN IS THAT HE HAS BEEN LOOKING AT HIMSELF IN A CURVED MIRROR ~ —i ? —a IrWafr iw?7 o W tET teXJS: rv^/ * —j AXP ins FIRST GLANCE INTO A STRAIGHT ONE IS NATURALLY SOMETHING OK A SHOCK. COUNCHMEN TO SERVE 4 YEARS UNDER NEW ACT Governor Signs Bill Amend ing Third Class City Code Approval of the Wallace House bill making: numerous changes to the" third class city code was announced to-day by Governor Sproul. The bill was drawn by the Legislative Committee of the Third Class City League, after conference with solici tors of the third class cities and leg islators and clarifies the existing law. The measure does not contain any re peal of the nonpartisan feature, which is in a separate bill recently recalled from the Governor. The most important feature of the new act extends the terms of council men from two to four years; two councilmen will be elected this year for two years and two for four years. Term of the Mayor is also made four years. Among the other charges are for bidding referendum proceedings in annexation cases; allows purchase of supplies to amount of $250 without advertising clarifies what ordinances shall go to committee; makes the debt proyisfons in case of annexa tions apply to the whole city, which is the same as in other city codes; makes new and stringent provisions relative to taking of money, etc.; limits subjects on which referendum is legal; and clarifies the Initiative; clarifies the eminent domain feature; repeals clause making city clerk sec retary to the Board of Health; fixes four years as term of engineer and assessor; provides that changes in valuations may be made only with approval of Board of Revision, when bcoks reach City Treasurer; enlarges taxation authority to Include prem ium. trading stamp, public garages storage plants, etc., and eliminates Insurance companies; regulates as sessments fo r paving at intersections and railroad crossings; provides that paving on petitions shall be limited to work done at cost of abutting [Continued on Page B.] THE WEATHER For Harrlsburg and vicinity! Fair to-night and Thursday, not mnch change In temperature, lowest to-night abont 38 de grees. For Eastern Pennsylvania! Fair to-night and Thursday) not mark rhangr In temperature! gentle north winds. The Bnsnehannn river and all Its branches will continue to fall. A stage of about d.B feet Is Indicated for UhiMm Thursday morning. FLOWER ROXES MEMORIALS TO SOLDIER DEAD Exercises by Rotary Club at Mulberry Street Bridge Tomorrow at 5.30 MEMORIAL EXERCISES TOMORROW EVENING ROTARY Club will dedicate flowerboxcs on Mulberry street bridge at 5.30 o'clock to-niorrow evening. Friends and relatives of sol djers, sailors and marines who died in the service are requested to attend. Rotarians will assemble at the center of the Mulberry street bridge at 5.15. Exercises will be very brief, in cluding address, community sing ing and unveiling of flowers. Boxes will remain in position all summer and will be put up again next year as memorials to Harnsburg soldiers, sailors and marines who died in the service during the World War. The Rev. Dr. Lewis S. Mudge, pas tor of Pine Street Presbyterian Church, will deliver the address at the dedication of the memorial flowerboxes. to be erected on light standards at the approaches to the Mulberry street bridge by the Har risburg Rotary Club. "The exercises will start promptly at 6.30 and will be brief enough to permit those in attendance to be home for the evening meal," said Henderson Gilbert, chairman of the [Continued on Page B.] Girl of 14 Dies After Four Months' Suffering With Terrible Burns Carrie A. Smith, aged 14 years, 1811% North Sever.-th street, died yesterday, death being the result of a scalding accident. In February the little girl was badly burned and scalded when a vessel of boiling wa ter overturned. She had been in the hospital since that time. The funeral will be held Thurs day afternoon at the home of a sis ter, Mrs. John R. Raster.<berger, 1811% North Seventh street. The Rev. Mr. Harper, of Penbrook. will officiate. Burial will be made In East Harrisburg Cemetery. Besides the sister with whom Miss Smith made her home, the survivors are, a sister, Mrs. Oeorge Reed, and one INtker, Hury H. Smith. j ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWSPAPER IN HARRISBURG LONG SESSION OF LEGISLATURE IS CRITICISED Legislative League Proposes Action but Defers Sub ject Until Monday Criticism of the length of the legis lative session was voiced at a meeting of the Legislative League held before the morning session of the House to-day, but before any action was taken the subject was deferred until a meeting to be held on Monday. The matter came up at a meeting held to consider the question whether to insist on action on the general appropriation bill instead of passing the bill carrying $350,000 for pay ment of salaries in departments after May 31, Several members declared [Continued on Page B.] Woman Jumps From Auto Driven by Husband and Is Killed Under Wheels Mrs. Zaliaua Petrica was killed last night at Ellzabethtown when 'run over by an automobile driven by her husband. Mrs. Petrica became frightened when the car skidded on an oiled portion of the road. She jumped out of the car, falling di rectly under the wheels, the latter passing over her. Mr. and Mrs. Petrica were moving from Philadel phia to Harrisburg. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock at 645 Boas street and will be in charge of the Rev. M. O. Peirce. Burial will be made In the Harrisburg Cemetery. RUTH LAW SAYS SHE WILL FLY OVER ATLANTIC By Associated Press. Chicago, May 28.—Ruth Law. aviatrix, before leaving for New York to-day, announced that she plans to attempt a trans-Atlantic flight within six weeks. She will use a new Curtiss land biplane equipped with the Curtiss- Kirkham motors of 400-horße power each and will be accom panied by James Lamont, her mechanician. The machine is now being built for her by the Curtiss Company, she says. She expects the United States Navy to give her assistance In making the flight. Miss Law re cently returned from the Orient, where Bhe was engaged in flying. LISBON SLOW IN WIRING NEWS OF READ AND PLANE Has Not Advised Washington Whether NC-4 Has Started on Plymouth Flight PORTUGAL HONORS CREW Foreign Minister Decorates Brave Americans With Or der of Tower and Sword By Associated Press. Washington, May 28. —No word had reached the Navy Department to-day as to whether the seaplane NC-4 had left Lisbon in the last leg of the flight from Rockaway Beach, L. 1., to Plymouth, Eng. The last message from Lisbon was received last night and it indicated that Lieut. Commander Albert C. Read, would start if weather conditions were favorable. Communication Slow Officers said communication with Lisbon was exceedingly slow, as was evidenced by the fact that mes sage reporting the arrival of the NC-4 at the capital of Portugal was delayed several hours. The feat of the seaplane NC-4 which blazed the way for trans-At lantic aerial navigation when she flew from Ponta Delgada to Lisbon, completing the last leg of the actual continent-to-continent flight, con tinued to be the chief topic in naval and official circles here to-day. I'lies 9 Miles an Hour The NC-4 made the jump of ap proximately 900 land miles from Ponta Delgada to the landing in Portugal in nine hours and forty three minutes, or at the rate of slightly more than 90 land miles an hour. Official reports show the flifclit, which started at 6.18 a. m. (Wash [Continued on Page B.] STORES TO CLOSE Harrisburg merchants will close their stores all day on Friday, Memorial Day. It was announced to day. In former years some stores were closed only during the after noon. t •' 7CLL C.UT J* li- X Dit - : i the j X * ■ • X 4* ~ ' ' - X g --4 with a $lO minimum. The present system *f Jb ing to power. I 2 STA T E POLICE BILL OUT I T* veil bill providing for an add: X 4 State Police was reported out to-day by a it X The measure will come up f or third Tre ' • ! •;•••!" ■- in '!• • :-r.r- v - 1 ,• r• 1 : T. . X Angeles—Jess Willard, champion heavyweight J. T 4* x $ X T y X *B* *zl 4 X f :S T TO PROBE GUARD UNFAIRNESS T ,*R burg —The Senate Committee on Military Af <s X "rs to-day reported out of committee, the Eyre resole T n calling for a Congressional Investigation of allege '£ X unfairness to Twenty-eighth Division officers overseas. |®rj X Action on the resolution was delayed yesterday by the j 4* ejection of Senator Leiby, Perry, but will be fin 2 next M< n<'.ay evening. 2 T • ertjtct or roo' ® 4 Harrisburg—The jury m the suit of the city against ]H| X the Heirs of the late David Sees, owners of the property 9B| 4' at 11 h T ; treet, awarded a verdict of S7OO. |S[j| 2 P? AjN* S NEED WIRELESS GUIDES jjlj Th—The Sopwith airplane driven by Harry G JM $ iawker on his unsuccessful attempt to fly across th + Atlantic started from St. Johns with a gasoline supply of I 340 MARRIAGE LICENSES | 4f Paul M. McClintork nnd Mary C. (inblr, HnrrlaburKf William f L J. firttrl nnd Anna H. Hoof. I'bambcraburKt Chrntrr A. Barnbart T and Mln'ilc M. Shrplor. Plkrtanni llnynl Homanrdncr and Gerai- jk I*7* dlnr E. Myrrn .Hrrahryt Norman S. barman, Lucknun, nnd Ro. T 4l malnr E. Twlna, Hrrktnni Janara 11. I. Krrgm nnd Helen M. • j" Kohlrr, Hnrrll>ur*| Vfrnon A. Mehelb and Evn M. Klaalnffer, I.y- >i •P krna tnwnahlp. * SINGLE'tXJPIES HOME EDITION 29,000,000 TONS OF COAL REMAIN IN UPPER DAUPHIN Operators and County's Ex pert Agree Within Ten • Per Cent. SETTLEMENT IS AT HAND Final Adjustment of Anthra cite Tax to Follow the Conference W. F. Sekol, anthracite expert em ployed by the county to make a re assessment of coal lands In the L.y kens Valley, and representatives ol the Susquehunna Collieries companj at a hearing before the county com missioners this morning reached an absolute agreement on the acreage owned by the compjiny and cami within ten per cent, of agreement upon the amount of coal as yet un mined on the properties. The coal company holdings amount to 5,000 acres in round llgures ant the total amount of coal that can be mined and placed on the market at a saleable product amounts in all to 29,000,000 tons, Mr. Sekol estimates while the coal company figures that it has a chance of getting only 26,- 000,000 tons to market. This it slightly more than the iigures made by company engineers for the salt of the properties some years ago. when it was estimated that then remained in the ground 22,600,00t [Continued on Page B.] Five Youths Charged With Theft of S2B Five youths were scheduled to be given hearings in police court this afternoon in connection with the rifling of the cash register irr th* store of H. B. Rodenhaver, located in the rear of 522 Curtin street. The youths are Harry Rohrhach. 1999 North Seventh street; Charle; and Elmer Taggart, 510 Woodbin< street; Elmer Swartz, 519 Cam] street, and Harry Markley, 1931 North Seventh street. The Rodenhaver register was riflei several evenings ago and S2B in casl i taker.- from it.
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