Commander Read and NC-4 Crew in Fine Shape For Flight to Plymouth; May Start Daring Day
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.