m/r i i T?' JL C %J /"* £. HF x x IV I " tr if 9 A ¥¥jr n • - ffilff f * *\lli Ilirm If Iff CI P flfl . M g:Wm m wmWg-g M.WmMmW g Jf%l E wTg m u • ml'' fM ¥9 - WrW /ft \H mif% ■ I LXXXVni— X©.. OS IS PAGES HAMISBm'G, PA SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 14, 1919. °*K£2SESS f N ss SS& T if^ ESS HOME EDITION F/a£i?s-F/MF BOMBER STARTS ON FLIGHT OVER OCEAN FOR WHEN FA VORING WINDS OPEN PA TH , British and Yank Fliers in Plane ON WA Y TO WIN $50,000 PRIZE I Bad Axle Is Made Serviceable for Sea Journey By Associated Press. St. Johns, N. F., June 14. -—The Yickers-Vimy bomb er started at 4.13 o'clock this afternoon (Greenwich time) on its trans-Atlantic flight to Ireland. The machine carried Captain Jack Alcock, a British i er, as pilot, and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, an American, as navigator. Ad verse winds prevailed earl)' this morning. The fliers had announced last night the start would be made this I forenoon at 10 o'clock, but they were obliged to wait for the winds to shift ! before hopping off. Favorable met ' eorological reports were received dur • ing the waiting period and prepara j tions were made for the start as quickly as favoring winds prevailed. Al< ock a Turk Prisoner Captain Alcock served on the • Turkish front where he held t.lie j record for long distance bombing i raids. He was captured by the Turks and held prisoner until the armi stice was signed. Lieut. Brown was an infantry of ficer in the war and later in the British aviation service. An accident ■to the machine in which he was an observer late in 1915 forced a de scent in German territory, where he ■was wounded and captured. The machine has a wing spread of ,57 feet and two 3 50-horsepower Rolls-Royce motors, capable of de veloping a speed of more than one 'hundred mtles'an hour. Carries 885 Gallons of Gasoline The capacity of the gasoline tanks "was recently enlarged to 955 gal [lons and the lubricating oil tanks 'to fifty gallons, which Is believed ■ sufficient to carry the plane 2.44(1 miles under normal weather. A wire loss telegraph set capable of sending and receiving messages over com paratively long distances, is part of • the equipment. [Bill Putting Lights on All Vehicles Is Signed The Mearkle Senate bill requiring ! lights on all vehicles on public roads, j except farm machinery' and wagons I used for hay and straw, between an ; hour after sunset and an hour be fore sunrise became effective to-day i through approval by Governor J Sproul. It is the culmination of twenty years of effort on the part of ; automobile owners, and session after session such bills have been voted ! down, sometimes with amendments of | a humorous character tied to the • them. Under its provisions every vehicle except those mentioned must display lights "clearly visible, for a distance of at least 200 feet from both the front and rear of such vehicle." 1 There is also a provision that no 1 vehicle overtaking or meeting a street ear that has stopped to take i on' or discharge passengers shall pass on the side where the door is open or until the car has started >nd the passenger has reached the curb. Slow i moving and heavily laden vehicles , are required to keep near the right hand curb, a driver uvertaen by a vehicle traveling at grs.uer speed must turn to the right, while a ve hicle cannot obstruct trafTice or . stand in the center of a roadway. Law officers may arrest on view vlolaters. of the act who are made ' liable to a fine of two to five dollars or go to Jail for five days. SENATE TO BUY CEMETERY Washington, June 14. Without debate or amendment the Senate yesterday passed a bill authorizing appointment of a commission to acquire an American cemetery in France in which would be buried the bodies of American soldiers who lost their lives in that country dur ing the war. The bill appropriates $500,000 for the establishment of the cemetery. BITTEN BY PEACOCK Bitten on the lip by a peacock she was playing in Paxtang yesterday, 5-year-old Evelyn Green, 162 South Summit street, has been taken to the Harrisburg Hos pital. The Injury was a severe one and surgical attention was necessary. I THE WEATHER HarrUbnrg and Vlclnltyi Fair to night. Snnda.v, fair and warmer. Eantrrn Pennsylvania ■ Fair to night. fsnndnr. fair and farmer. Gentle, shifting wind*. Riven The Sunquehannn river and all tta branch** will continue to fall alowly. A atage of about 4.1 feet la Indicated for Hir rlabnrg Sunday morning. HARRISBURG IllSfplll TELEGRAPH dftc S!ar-3nkpcnt)ml. Alcock in Vimy Bomber Off on Ocean Flight ' '• : '< . - ■'..v. '' POWERS GIVE EN EM Y TWO DA YS IN WHICH TO ANSWER TREATY Reply to Counter-Proposals of Foe Likely to Be Handed Enemy Board Late Monday or Early Tuesday By Associated Press• Germany's peace delegates, it is reported from Paris, will he given but two days in which to consider and re ply to the revised peace terms, which, it is expected, will be presented on Monday. Three days of grace will follow before the armistice is suspended should the Germans refuse to sign. In that event, hostilities between Germany and the Allied and asso ciated powers might be resumed next Saturday, June 21. Believe Germany Will Sign The heads of the great powers are declared to be convinced that the Germans will accept the revised terms. .While reports from Germany on the prospects of signing the Treaty are lacking in clarity, it is said the Council is acting upon the belief that there is no general feeling on the part of the masses against German accept ance of the terms. An air of op timism pervades the council in this respect. It is learned that tho short time limit (two days) given Germany for a reply is largely due to the Ger mans themselves. They ere un derstood to have said they will not require more than five days to reach a decision. Want Suites to Determine The proposal that the live great powers undertake to guarantee the territorial limits of liberated states in Eastern Europe as established by the peace treaties in return for BUILDING BOOM IS NEAR AT HAND, EXPERTS REPORT Real Estate Men Satisfied at Way Work in City Is Increasing Real estate men? are more than gratified with the distinct revival which is manifest in all parts of Harrisburg and this' section. For two or three months building op erations have been retarded through a policy of waiting for recessions in the present high cost of materials, but the judgment of experts is all to the effect that rro appreciable re duction in the price of materials is to be expected and as a result de cisions are being reached every day by those who have been planning. The housing conference under the jiirection of the Chamber of Com merce committee has aroused much irrtorest in the expansion of the ac tivities of building and loan associa tions and inasmuch as there is not likely to he any recession in price of materials a building boom is im minent. Some interesting developments are anticipated at the fourth-coming [Continued on Page 13.] INDICT TWO IN MAll, CASE Fort Smith, ATk.. June 14.—Chester D. Baskin and Charles F. Rob erts of Little Rock, railway postal clerks, were indicted by the United States grand Jury here yester day on a charge of stealing and em bezzling $14,000 from the malls Feb ruary 7, The funds were being sent to the Hartford, Ark., office of the Central Coal and Coke Company, of Kansas City the acceptance by the latter of stip ulations protecting the rights of racial, language and religious mi- has been submitted to the interested states by the Council of Four. The guarantee would provide the definite security whiich some European skeptics do not expect from the workings of the League of Nations. President Wilson probably will visit Brussels between Wednesday and the expiration of the German time limit. Some modifications were made by the council yesterday in the labor f Continued on Piige 13.] FIREMEN HOLD BIG PARADE AT SESSION'S CLOSE John E. Shupp Elected Presi dent of the County Body With the election of officers last evening, delegates of the Dauphin County Firethen's Association com pleted business and adjourned to meet next year at a place to be se lected by the executive committee. John K. Shupp, of the Baldwin Hose Company, No. 4, of Steelton, was unanimously elected president. The big feature to-day was the pa rade, participated in by 2,000 lire men. The new president, who is prom inently identified with the State Firemen's Association, in a short inaugural address, urged Iho dele gates to show activity during the coming year and make the associa tion one of the strongest in the State. He will plan a series of meet ings throughout the county. The new president is a practical fire man, and has studied methods in various cities over the United States. Other officers elected are: Other New Officers First vice-president, W. L. Jauss, Washington Company, No. _4, Har risburg; second vice-president., G. H. Bergstresser, Middletown; record ing secretary, J. L. Redman, presi dent of the Shamrock Hose Com pany, No. 11, Harrisburg; financial secretary, Charles W. Rank, Wil liamstown; treasurer, S. C. Straub, Williamstown; chaplain. J. M. War den. Harrisburg; delegate to State convention, J. L. Redman, Harris [ Continued on Page 14.] BIG EVENTS ARE SCHEDULED FOR SCHOOL PICNIC Entries For Athletic Events to Be Made on the Field Here we go—the biggest recrea tion day of the year—next Friday, June 20, when the Harrtsburg Tele graph gives its annual picnic to the school children of the city. Given fair weather, this promises to be the most exciting and gallant gath ering of all that the Telegraph has staged, for there will be new and jazzy features, such as longball twixt girl teams, and every inch of Paxtang Park will be a scene of genuine and wholesome revelry. With Captain E. J. Stackpole, Jr., chairman of the committee, and V. Grant Forror, assistant superin tendent of city parks, lending effi cient hand, a program was mapped out to-day, which may be changed in some details, but will, in the main, go through as given here: 9 a. m.—Cars at given points for children. 9.30-s-Cars arrive at park. 10.00—30-yard dash for boys; third and fourth grades (heats if necessary). 10.10—30-yard dash for girls; third and fourth grades (heats if necessary). 10.20—30-yard race for girls; fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades. '*o.30 —30-yard egg race for girls; third and fourth grades. 10.40—Peanut race for small girls (50 feet in length). 10.50—Sewing contest for teach ers. | 11.00—hong distance relay race for Boy Scduts from Telegraph Building to Paxtang Park. 11.10—Shoe race for small boys. 'll.2o—Three standing broad jumps; fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades; throe standing broad jumps, third and l'ourth grades. 11.30 —50-yard dash for boys; fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades. 11.35-'—so-yard dash for girls; fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades. 11.50—Obstacle race for boys, all grades. 12.00—A1l schools massed on lawn [Continued on Page 13.] 28th Division Troupe to Be Entertained by "Y" Soldiers of the Twenty-eighth Di vision who are appearing in the big show at the Orpheum Theater will be the guests of the local '"Y" at dinner this evening. An elaborate bill of fare has been prepared and the feast will be served at 5.45 o'clock at the Central Association, Second and J*ocust streets. Following the dinner, there will be special features and the boys of the Twenty-eighth will sing and tell some of their experiences. Mem bers of the "Y" who will be in charge of this dinner have been anx ious to show these entertainers a good time. Due to the fact that the Twenty-eighth singers gave a mati nee performance and also appeared on the Knights of Columbus pro gram, and fyill give their final per formance to-night, the time at the local "Y" will he limited. Several members of the Y. M. C. A. went to Lebanon tot see the performance and also witnessed the opening perform ance last night. They are loud in their praises. ARRESTED FOR "DOPE" SALE Charged with the illegal sale of urcotics, Harry S. Foushee, of Philadelphia, was arrested early to day in the campaign of the Harris burg police department to break up the sale of habit-producing drugs in this city. ELKS LEAD WAY IN CELEBRATION OF FLAG DAY : Parade to Precede Formal Observance in Reser voir Park CONCERT AT ELKS' HOME Wooda N. Carr, Uniontown, to Deliver Principal Ora tion This Evening Harrisburg raid high tribute to day to "Old Glory." Not in manyj years bas there been so elaborate j a display of floss as was seen, throughout the city to-day. The fea-| ture of the celebration will be the] observance this evening of the 142 d' anniversary of the birth of the j American Flag, to be held under j auspices of the Harrisburg Klks. j Harrisburg Lodge No. 12, B. P. O. Elks wag the first to plan for a spe cial observance here and each year the demonstration has become addi tionally attractive. This evening when the program starts members of! Harrisburg Lodge will be joined by many other organizations. All loyal Americans have been invited to par ticipate in the exercises scheduled to start at 8.45 o'clock. Two Divisions in Parade The parade consisting of two di visions is scheduled to form in front; of the Elks heme in North Second! street at 6.15. Previous to the pa-; rade the Municipal band will give a patriotic c ( onccrt in front of the home at 216 North Second street. In line of parade will be several hundred Boy Scouts. The parade will move out Second to Market Square, to Market, to Fourth, to Mulberry street, bridge, to Thirteenth street, to Market, to Reservoir Park. Thfe exercise at the park will start promptly on arrival of the paraders. Scats have been ar ranged for members of the G. A. R., and wounded soldiers. There will be music by the Muni cipal and Commonwealth bands and patriotic singing. Wooda N. Carr, of Uniontown, who was the orator at the first flag day exercises held by the Elks in this city will be the principal speaker. The balance of the program will include the reading of the history of the flag by Jonas M. Rudv, secre tary of Harrisburg lodge, E'ks trib ute to th eflag, Frank B. Wicker sham. Harrisburg lodge; patriotic, recitations, Miss Wilhelmina G. Wohlfarth, and the ritualistic exer cises of the Elks. The latter is in teresting and impressive and includes the construction of g large floral emblem. Tribute to Deceased Elks Following the exercises as has been the custom in the past the Elks will move to the Meade P. Potweil er monument where tribute will be paid to the late Meade P. Pctwoilor, who was twiee past grand exalted rider and exalted ruler of Harris burg Lodge No. 12, at the time of his death. An address will be made by Abner Hartman, exalted ruler of Harrisburg lodge, and while a floral offering 1s l>oing placed on the mon j ument the "E'ks will sing "Auld Lang Syne." Joseph P. Thompson, captain of I police, who is chief marshal of the parade this evening, requests all or ganizations participating to report at the Elks home pVomptly at 6 o'clock. Tt is also requested that all vehicles keep off streets on which the parade will ' pass hetween 6.15 p. m. and until the parade passes. Say Body Buried Is Not ' That of Missing Man; Want Charges Returned Claiming that the body found in the Susquehanna river in this city on May 6 and buried as that of W. H. Ijarrington, 221 East Cross street, Ypsilanti, . Mich., was not he, rela tives are making efforts to recover charges incident to the burial, they announce in a letter to Chief of Po lice Wetzel. The body is not. that of Harring ton, a Chicago attorney representing the family, writes to Chief Wetzel. Harrington is still alive, they are said to have claimed some time ago, but the attorney makes no mention of this in the letter to Chief Wetael. Chinese Cabinet Quits as Japs Become Unpopular By Associated Press. Pekin, Juno 14.—1n consequence of difficulties created by the popular movement against pro-Japanese members of the government, the ! cabinet has resigned and President Hsu Shih Chang has also intimated ! his intention to quit office. | It Is anticipated that parliament will decline to accept the president's resignation. This would amount to a vote of confidence which is needed to strengthen him against the militar | ists. | Strikes through out the country continue. Railroad trafllc is being j impeded. Routier Is Condemned to Death as French Traitor By Associated Press. Paris, June 14.—Gaston Routier, a French Socialist journalist, was sen tenced to death to-day by court martial for Imparting military intel ligence to the enemy. He was tried by default, having conducted a French paper In Spain that carried on German propaganda. Routier founded La Patx, of Mad rid in 1917. His arrest has never been reported. 15 WOUNDED SOLDIERS HURT WHEN SPEEDING TROLLEY CAR HITS BIG MILITARY TRUCK Men Recuperating From Battle Wounds Thrown Into Street While on Way to Knights of Columbus Picnic; Arms and Legs Broken in Crash; Several Hurt Internally YANKS ARE RUSHED TO CITY HOSPITAL WHERE IMMEDIATE TREATMENT IS GIVEN BY PHYSICIANS Soldiers, recuperating from wounds and gas received on the battlefield were ter ribly hurt shortly after noon to-day when a big motor truck carrying the men from the Carlisle Military Hospital to this city and a trolley car collided. J he wounded men were on their way here to an entertainment to have been staged by the Knights of Columbus. The truck and trolley car were badly battered and the wounded men thrown into the street at the corner of Second and North streets with great force. Volunteers rushed to give the men first aid while the hospital ambulance, the city patrol and automobile owners speeded to carry the men to the Ha'rrisburg Hospital. Those with broken legs ~~9and arms and internal injuries were looked after first. After an examination at the hospital, phvsigians were certain that all the men have good chances to recover. Spectators Excited An effort to gain an unbiased account of how the accident oc curred was difficult. Excited spectators say the trolley car was JUDGE KUNKEL URGES HASTE IN PICKING SITE Points Out Urgent Need For Building of a New Courthouse IS NOT TOO EXPENSIVE President Judge Gives His Views on Building Project "We need a new Courthouse now. The .one we are using has long since outlived its usefulness and a now one should bo built, so that the business of the community can be conducted In convenience and safety," President Judge George Kunkel said to-day in dismissing tho Grand Jury of the June sessions of criminal court. In their report the Grand Jurors had recommended that a new Court house should be built as soon as possible, and Judge Kunkel based his remarks on this suggestion. "First., where it. is to be built, will |be the question to be decided," I Judge Kunkel continued. "Nothing 1 can be done until that is settled, and [ the sooner it is, the sooner will the new building be provided. Of course, that question is for the au thorities who were elected to look after the interests of the public and it is for them to act. "There is no necessity for an ornamental building. A plain, stately, spacious, modern structure, ; with sanitary improvements will | meet the wants of the public and it should not be too expensive. It is time now to provide a sanitary and convenient place to which attorneys, litigants, jurors and all others in terested or having any business what ever, may come. Whether tho new building is placed here or some where else, a site must be chosen first and then there ought to be lit tle delay in building a Courthouse." Judge Kunkel commended the Grand Jurors and the Petit jury man for their services, telling- them they had used discretion and good judgment in all their work and had shown ability in handling it. He said the public would be pleased to learn of the proper management, of the County Home and prison, which they reported to the Court. The Grand Jury at this session of court examined eighty-nine bills of indictment, of which sixty-nine were returned to the court and twenty ig nored. Their report follows, in part: "As customary, we visited the | County Almshouse and the Dauphin | County Prison and we found both these institutions in splendid condi tion, reflecting much credit upon the county authorities and those in charge of these institutions. "A few contemplated improve ments were called to our attention while on our visit to the Almshouse and we hereby approve of the same. "We concur in the recommenda tion formerly made by Grand Juries that a new Courthouse he built, mod ernly equipped, and suggest that it be done at the earliest date possible." Railroad Operators Refuse to Handle Commercial Messages Chicago. June 14.—The second stage of the Commercial Telegraph ers' strike was reached this morning when railroad operators at 23,000 points in America were to discon tinue handling commercial messages under an order issued by the Order or Railway Telegraphers. Such action, strike loaders declar ed, will tie up all comemrcial tele graph business except between tho larger cities in which the Western Union and Postal Telegraph Com panies maintain their own offices. Officials of the Postal said that com pany will not be affected by tho order as little Postal business Is handled through railroad stations. Western UUnion officials while ex pressing belief that the order would be rescinded, predicted that its ef fect would not have serious results They estimated that the 23,000 points handling commercial business' over railroad wires do, not ( average] more than five messages e&ch day. I speeding at 30 miles an hour. Both the trolley car and the auto truck were crushed in. It seems certain, however, from the aftermath that the force of im pact was tremendous. Some of the wounded men literally were hurled through the air, spectators said. The big truck was pushed up Sec ond street possibly 50 feet. Tlie men were scattered about on the street along most of this distance, some of them suffering acutely I from t heir old wounds as well as the new. That, none of the wounded sol diers was seriously injured or killed, is attributed by spectators to the fact that the huge truck was constructed entirely of steel. The impact was terrific and of such force that it would have made splinters of a wooden truck. Few of the 28 men in it were able to retain their seats, most of them being over the streets and pavements about the scene of 5 j, 5* x • ■7 > 1* • X I st I " a 1 -* !jk ' i, ; IT . if . Z ! X t - # * * 4* * T r 4 • f * i 1 * I! j4 ? -i„ > I ii X * :: * S * ' x * '1 I I I i iX > X ;; X * * i x *3" , I !: T ! f ;; 4 !* * x ► <* 1 * f iju 4 * z *' t - * ,;; % MARRIAGE LICENSES 4* r • Richard R. Koobiick an| .Narw E. Crime, Hnrrfnhuris; Harry C. mu 7* Morton and Helen .11. (Cutter, lliirrisbiire; l.rroy F. MeCord, Itisrh- j an