'■V r . . 1 # ' • '' /' i ** • ' HARRISBURG ifßfpll TELEGRAPH Etie fftac-flnftcpcnftrnl LXXXVIII NO. 172 18 PAGES Dall M a^er p at s the d po' 8 t offlce'at^a^risburg lass HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 24, 1919. only evening associated press single copies uhmc cnmnN ' NEWSPAPER in hahiusbukg two CENTS HUML fcDillUß DEMOCRATS TRY TO PUSH TREATY THROUGH SENATE Taft's Efforts to Reconcile All Sides Ignored For Present EX-PRESIDENT IS ACTIVE Wilson Forces to Fight Efforts of Republicans to Add Reservations By Associated Press. Washington, July 24. - Former President Taft. who has written to several Republican sor.ators and leaders suggesting reservations to the Peace Treaty might bo accept able to both sides, ha 3 opened cor respondence on the subject with prominent Democratic senators. Sen ator Hitchcock of Nebraska, one of the leading spokesmen for the ad ministration in the Senate fight, re ceived a letter to-day from Mr. Taft. The former President's communi cation to the Nebraska senator was not made public, but it was under stood to be of the same general ten or as those sent to the Republicans —suggestions for agreement upon treaty reservations or interpretations to facilitate ratification. Bitter Fight Coming Senator Hitchcock and other ad ministration senators declared to day, however, that for the present at least, they would continue their ef forts for ratification without reser vations. Expressing confidence that there was no question but that the Treaty would be ratified, they said the fight now centered on the reso lution accompanying ratification in which would be embodied any reser vations or interpretations. Contending that Senate rules re- ! quired a vote on each article of the ) Treaty, the administration leaders j said they believed they had the votes to defeat amendments to any section [ as a simple majority only would be ! required. See Opposition Conceding that strength might de velop to compel acceptance of a rati fication resolution with qualifying clauses, the administration senators said they had not yet been advised by President Wilson whether ho would be disposed to accept any in terpretations. It was said, however, I that the administration would op pose to the last any qualifying | clauses which would require rene- | gotiation of the Treaty.. Encouraged by the suggestion of j former President Taft for certain Interpretations in the Senate accep tance of the Peace Treaty, Republi- I can senators working out a program ! of interpretative reservations in- I creased their activity to-day to bring | together administration leaders and Republicans favoring the League idea is that the League of Na tions may be accepted without vital modification. Declares Shantung Pact Repeatedly Misinterpreted By Associated Press. Washington, July 24.—Declaring j the treaty provision giving Japan ! control In Shantung had been "re- i peatcdly misinterpreted and gen- ! erally misunderstood," Senator Rob inson, Democrat, Arkansas, told j the Senate to-day it was unjust to suspect Japan's motives or to ques tion the declaration of her states men that the territory eventually i would be restored to China. ' Japan obtained possession of Shantung by act of war and while i in possession secured the agree- I ment of China to recognize any set- I tlement she might make with Ger- ! many upon the restoration of ; peace," Senator Robinson said. "Japanese statesmen have re- j repeatedly reaffirmed the purpose 1 to return the ceded territorv to China as soon as it can be accom plished in accordance with the agreement between China and Ja- | pan No beneficial effect can re- 1 suit if we assume Japan is acting 1 in bad faith." Taft Letters Are Not Received by Mr. Hays ImllniinpnllK, July 24. Letters ' from former President William H. j Taft, mentioned in last night's Wash- 1 ington news dispatches as having | been written to Will H. Hays. Re- | publican national chairman, on the I question of ratification of the Peace I Treaty by the Senate, have not yet 1 reached Mr. Hays, he said, here to- I day. He added: "I have been in touch, by corres pondence and otherwise, with Mr. Taft on this matter, of course, as well as with others in the effort to help develop a solution of this matter in the right, but these particular letters I have never seen." Wilson Relies on Action of Tokio to Silence Critics Washington, D. C., July 24. President Wilson expects Japan to take action with regard to Shantung which will meet the approval of the critics of this feature of the Peace Treaty. This he Indicated yesterday in a statement Issued from the White House primarily to deny published re ports that he personally had "origi nated or formulated" the Shantung settlement. I THE WEATHER, | Harrlsliurg and Vicinity t Fair to-night and Friday. Not much change In temperature. Eastern Pennsylvania. Fair to night and Friday. Not much change In tempernture Mod erate west winds. lUvcri The Susquehanna river and all Its branehes will fall. A singe of about 1i.4 feet Is Indl eoled for HarrtsburK Friday morning. Now That the Embargo on German Goods Has Been Removed WELCOME HOME ! CELEBRATION TO BEGIN TONIGHT Everything in Readiness For Big Event in Upper End of County The big celebration is under way at last. Beginning with the street carnival which the people of Wico nisco are putting on this evening, the Lykens-Wiconisco Homecoming Cele bration is off to a big start. Practically everything is arranged. ! Decorations are everywhere about the place, arches, crosses, pillars and flags in profusion; the parade is all prepared and only awaits the start ing signal; the crowds are pouring i into town and taxing the capacity of ! the hotels; in fact, if there has been anything neglected in the general preparation to make this just about the biggest celebration the State has ever seen, the soldiers who are to be honored can't imagine what it is. Among the visitors on Saturday will be Captain and Mrs. Robert W. Lesher, of this city. Captain Lesher, formerly of the United States Caval ry, was for a long time head of the recruiting party in Harrisburg and stood at the head of his class in the number of' recruits enlisted. Lieu tenant Young will accompany the captain to Lykens. H. E. Butfington, head of the publicity committee, was in Harris burg yesterday making the final ar rangements for the supply of mili tary equipment that will be used in the big military display that is to be staged on Friday. Machine guns, automatic rifles, the regular Spring field automatic, and all manner of like material will be used; this to be supplied by the State Arsenal. Labor Party Title Is Pre-Empted For County Pre-emptions for the Labor party in the city and county were filed at the office of Prothonotary Charles E. Pass to-day. The petitions state that candidates will be put in the field for the fall election for mayor, city commissioner, city treasurer, city controller, sheriff, recorder, regis ter of wills, poor director, county commissioner, county treasurer, sur veyor, alderman, judge and inspector of election. The signers of the two papers were C. F. Quinn, 419 Fors'er street; H. L. McLaughlin, 1427 Market; Gil bert Feight, 134 Linden; James J. Elliott, 522 North and Matthew Cal len, 1204 Penn. Four nominating petitions were filed to-day as follows; W. L. Wind sor, 3rd, Republican, constable, Third ward; E. J. Mumma, Republi can councilman, Hummelstown; Ed ward Zimmerman, Republican, township supervisor, West Hanover township; William I. Shrlner. Repu lican, judge of elections, Susque hanna township, West precinct. RUSSIAN ARMY ! MUTINIES AND JOINS "REDS" Turn Town and Battle Line in 4 Archangel District Over to Bolshcviki London, July 24.—The govern ment has received a dispatch from Major General William E. Ironside, commander-in-chief on the Arch angel front, stating that Russian troops have mutinied and Joined the Bolshevik!, handing over the town of Onega and Onega front to tho enemy. The latter also tried to take the railroad front but were re pulsed. There are few British troops on the railroad front and none on the Onega front. General Ironside now has the situation In hand and be lieves that the fresh British volun teer troops are equal to their diffi cult and perilous task. Raisuli Allowed to Operate Unmolested Madrid, July 24. —Spanish forces seeking Raisuli and his tribesmen have been ordered to cease all hos tilities, according to orders which have gone out from here. The serious check which the troops have suffered is one reason given for this order. The other is that the native troops, a major part of the Spanish force, are not eager to attack preferring to wait for re inforcements from Spain. EXPLOSION STARTS FIRE Bayonnc, N. J., July 24. Fire after an explosion of a car of gaso line seriously damaged the plant of the Texas Oil Company here to day. Three employes were slightly burned. The detonations shook j buildings two miles away. PROBLEM OF SEEING TWO WAYS SOLVED BY COPPER Mirror Attachment to Semaphore Designed Purely For Utilitarian Purposes, Says Kautz "No, that isn't for the benefit of the women when they cross the street to see if their hats are on straight," Officer Lyme, in charge of traffic at Third and Market streets, said when someone asked him why a mirror had been at tached to the semaphore which is used at that intersection. "Officer Kautz put that on to help us watch traffic in both directions. When we turn the semaphore clos ing Third street and opening Mar ket, wo car,- look south n Third street and by glancing at the mirror see also the automobiles and trolley cars coming back of us. We can also watch pedestrians back of us HOLDS BEER OF 2.75 PER CENT. INTOXICATING Federal Judge, in Test Case, Decides It Is Violation of Wartime Prohibition By Associated Press. New York, July 24.—Beer of 2.75 per cent, alcoholic content is held to be intoxicating within the mean ing of the war-time prohibition act in a decision returned to-day by Fed eral Judge Thomas I. Chatfield, of Brooklyn, in a test case brought by the Government against Martin Schmauder, of New Haven, Conn., who was charged with selling beer in violation of the wartime prohibi tion law. Schmauder demurred to the Gov ernment's charge on the ground that the information against him did not specify that the supposed beer al leged to have been sold was in toxicating. Judge Chatfield over ruled the demurrer and ordered that Schmauder must plead to the indict ment. "Under the internal revenue laws and all standards by which Congress could have viewed the matter the beer described in the present in formation (2.75 per cent, beer) was the class known as intoxicating liquor, and as such its sale was pro hibited," say the opinion. CIRCLING U. S. IN BOMBER By Associated Press. Washington, July 24. An Army bombing plane carrying a crew of five, commanded by Lieutenant Col onel R. S. Hartz, left the ground here at 10 a. m. on the first leg of a flight of nearly 8,000 miles around the rim of the country. The first stop scheduled is Augusta, Maine, j 560 miles from Washington. when they cross Third street. When the semaphore is turned the other way and traffic in Third street pro ceeds we can look west in Market street and also can see all traffic back of us toward Fourth street by using the mirror." The reflector is similar to the kind attached to automobiles and is fastened to the semaphore so that it is on a level with the officer's eyes when ho glances at it. It is possible by using the mirror to see automobiles and street cars coming from the Market street subway, pedestrians crossing Fourth and Market streets and traffic coming south In Third street from Walnut. j RIVER SURVEY TO BE STARTED BY WAR DEPARTMENT Secretary Woodward to As sist Navigation Scheme by Furnishing Data WILL LEND EVERY AID Advisability of Making Sus quehanna Navigable to Be Dctermned That actual work on the pre liminary examination and survey of j the Susquehanna river from Har- ' risburg to the mouth with a view 1 to determining the advisability of i its improvement by the Federal j Government for navigation purposes , is about to begin was made known I to-day in a letter addressed to ! James F. Woodward, Secretary of j Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania, by ! Col. J. J. Loving of the United j States Engineers Office in the War j Department. Provisions for the preliminary I examination and survey were made I in the river and harbor act ap- • proved March 2, 1919, but it was j not until to-day that it was learned j that such an early start on the ac- ! tual work was contemplated. _Col. Loving wrote to Secretary Woodward pointing out that it was his belief that much of the data j needed by the Government authori- ' ties was already compiled in Penn- ! sylvania, principally in the Depart- j ment of Internal Affairs and he in- i quired as to whether such data ! could be made available for the ; Government engineers in preparing 1 their report. In reply Secretary | Woodward told Col. Loving that I "the Department of Internal Affairs [ will be very glad to lend every as- j sistance possible in this work and ; invites you to call upon it without | hesitation for co-operation and as- , sistance." In his letter. Col. Loving said i that "In order that this report may ! be comprehensive, information and j data under the following headings \ must be compiled: "1 —Physical characteristics of j the river, including discharge at ' various stages. "2—Physical characteristics of j the Volley and watershed. "3—Population of contiguous ' territory "4 —Industrial development, re- 1 sources, and output of contiguous territory. "s—Present navigation on river, j if any; commerce handled. '•6—Output of the coal and iron fields of Pennsylvania that ffiay j reasonably be expected to be handl ed on the Susquehanna river, if | navigable." I Regarding the physical charac- I teristics of the river, Secretary ; Woodward referred Col. Loving to i the State Water Supply Commis ! sion. On all of the other points the I Department of Internal Affairs will I be able to offer the bulk of the re j quired data. I The Bureau of Topographic and Geological Survey to be established in the department shortly will be | of considerable help to the Federal I authorities. The bill creating the bureau was passed hy the last | Legislature and approved recently Iby Governor Sproul. During its ! passage through the two branches {of the General Assembly the bill i was known as an administration ! measure and it was the Governor's idea that such a bureau should be I maintained in the Department of Internal Affairs at all times so as to Ibe in position to give information and make sprveys which would | prove beneficial to the State as well i as to the National Government. The | bureau takes the place of a Topo | graphic and Geological Survey I Commission which had been in ex- I istence for* a number of years, and ! all the information held by the commission will now be turned over to the bureau when it. is organized. Data concerning the physical char acteristics of the Susquehanna val- I ley and the watershed about which [ Col. Loving inquired, will be sup | plied in full by the bureau. Likewise the various bureau's in Secretary Woodward's department I will be able to supply the Federal authorities with information re -1 garding the population of the con- I tiguous territory and especially I about the industrial development, I resources and output of the territory which is considered of vital im portance by the Federal officials. Information will also be supplied by the department on present navi gation on the Susquehanna and in conjunction with the Department of Mines, information regarding the output of the coal fields that may be expected to be handled on a navigable Susquehanna will be given. Secretary Woodward announced to-day that as soon as the Washing ton authorities are ready for the specific information he will see to it that they get it. He will give instructions to the various bureaus which will compile the data that no time is to be lost in getting it to Col. Loving. The Secretary is deep ly interested in a navigable Sus quehanna and on numerous occa sions since coming to Harrisburg has Indicated his desire to co-operate in the work. Leg Broken When He Is Run Down by Auto Struck by an automobile early this morning Henry W. Thompson, Madden street. New Cumberland, is in the Harrisburg Hospital with lacerations of the scalp and a com pound fracture of the left leg. Thompson, a salesman for the New York Life Insurance Company, was walking from Lemoyne to New Cumberland at the time of the acci dent. The automobile Is said to have been driven by Richard C. Weir, of New Cumberland, a former Tech High athlete. Thompson was taken to the Hospital by Weir and Clar ence Beck, Tech High and State Col lege athlete, who was in the auto mobile at the time of the accident. WARNING SOUNDED AGAINST HANDSHAKE BY HEALTH OFFICER Ancient Custom Responsible For Much Contagion by Fur nishing Means For Germs to Circulate Freely "Give up the handshake if you wish to eliminate a source of dis- I case." This warning message was sounded to-day by Dr. John M. J. Raunick, | city health olTlcer. He told that the j seemingly harmless part of a- salu-! tation is responsible to a certain ex- j tent in the spread of disease. The advice of the city health of- I fleer was issued as an endorsement 1 of the campaign of Dr. George A.! Soper, a major in the United States; Government Sanitary Corps, and of I views held also by Surgeon General j Ireland. The Genu's Delight Unclean hands, he said, while probably not the biggest factor in the spread of an epidemic, certainly is an agent in causing the spread of infectious diseases. Scores of op-, portunities arise daily of a person's l hands coming into contact with dis-! ease germs and these may later en- 1 ter the system either of the person or that of some person with whom he shakes hands. Dr. Raunick drew attention in his i statements to an article in a recent i issue of the American Journal of Public Health. The writer mentions j eighty-seven opportunities of a cer- ! tain average man to have his hands come in contact with disease germs. 1 Five additional opportunities were / presented, according to this writer, to transfer some of the germs to ' some other person through hand- ' shaking. Thus, ninety-two oppor- I tunities of infection of hands were presented, Xeen ""T S'.^ '* , ' , H " rrMr >!'"