Treaty of Peace Between the AUied and Associated Powers and Austrian Republic Signed LXXXVIII— NO. 211 16 PAGES nattW'fiSr HARRISBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1919. UKEiS&JSr* •"SStf'cSßF 8 HOME EDITION > 7-CENT FARE ON | VALLEY SYSTEM !S SUSTAINED Public Service Commission Dismisses Complaints of West Shore People VALUE IS SET AT $2,350,000 Increased Fare Not Excessive Charge on Money Invested j by the Corporation The Public Service Commission, in a decision handed down to-day by, Commissioner Samuel M. Clement. > Jr.. sustains the seven-cent fare ot the Valley Railways system operat-i ing between Harrisburg, Carlisle,! Mechanicsburg. New Cumberland | and other places in Cumberland; county, and Marysville, in Perry l county, dismissing complaints filed by the boroughs of Carlisle and West Fairview and by various residents j and associations of West Shore < towns. The complaints were heard ! last winter and spring, and a valua-j tion of the system was made. The Commission values the prop-j erty of the system for rate-making' 1 purposes at $2,350,000, and allows; $310,571 for operating expenses, in cluding taxes, with $36,970 annual; depreciation, making an estimated i net return of $113,953. which at a 1 seven-cent fare is estimated to give] a return of 4.85 per cent. Nothing For Bridge The decision says that it declined to give a valuation of $2,500.000 1 asked by the company or to allow SIOO,OOO for the Susquehanna river rContiued oii Pa .-c 16.] State Official? Inspect Capitol Park Zone With Regard to Trolley Route The street railway and railroad sit uation as related to the plans of the ! State of Pennsylvania for extension; of Capitol Park was gone over to-day by Chairman W. D. B. Ainey, of the Public Service Commission, and ' George A. Shreiner, deputy superin tendent of public grounds and build ings. tho ""hole district being covered, i The chairman was especially inter- ' ested in the trolley facilities to reach j Allison Hill and went over Market. Stmt and Horr street, and covered the > whole district. He discussed the ] plans in detail with Mr. Shreiner. I This is the second tour of the dis- ! trict as a few days ago State officials I end Superintendent William Elmer, ! * of the Pennsylvania Railroad, made ] a tour. The State has already acquired 1 three of the 21 properties which will be taken over for the approach on the north side of the Memorial bridge j on State street between Twelfth and Thirteenth. It is hoped to secure all of them by amicable arrange- ] mcnt. On three-story brick with 17 t feet of frontage was bought for $3.- | 400, and two frame dwellings with ' 37 feet of frontage were acquired for i $5,900. Murder Charge to Be Pressed at Hearing A preliminary hearing will bo given on Thursday afternoon tn police court to Sim Velco, held by the Harrisburg police department ; on the charge of shooting to death j Thomas A. Lignen yesterday morn- ' ing after the latter had fired twice I at him. Velco will be represented I by Attorney Robert Stucker, of the Dauphin county bar. , Steve Rico, being held by the policy as a witness, will also b given a hearing. Rico is charged i with being an accessory before and ] after the shooting affray. Rico ! steadfastly denies the charge that he called "shoot him. shoot him," to Velco as he is said to have done. Spencer Swings to Senator Lodge's Side Washington, Sept. 10. The 1 ranks of the Senate opponents of the Versailles Treaty who advocate ! drastic reservations were rein- i forced by Senator Spencer, Repub- j lican, of Missouri, one of the so- i called "mild reservationists" who, in 1 a spirited speech, declared that ] * rather than accep. the Treaty with- : out change, as urged by President ! Wilson, he would vote to reject it. 1 The rapid shift in the attitude of i the "mild reservationists" within the j last few days was attributed by one of the Republican leaders to the na- ! ture of the attacks made upon the opponents of the Treaty by the 1 President. EVACUATE LITHUANIA Hy ssocistid Press* Berlin, Tuesday, Sept. 9. Ger- I man troops have completely evacu- j ated Lithuania southward of the Memel river, according to a tele- j , gram received here from Koenigs- : ' berg. HOME HCLE FOR SILESIA * hy .Associated Press. Berlin, Tuesday, Sept. 9. The jl Prussian Government intends to pro pose home rule for Upper Silesia. according to the Lokal Anzeiger. I THE WEATHER] V Harrisburg and Vlelnltyi Unset tled weather to-night and Thursday, probably ahowera. Not much change in tempera , ture. Eastern Pennsylvania! Unsettled to-night and Thursday, prob ably showers. Little change In tempera lure. Gentle to moder rnte northeast to east winds. Klvcr. The Snaqtiehannii river md all Ita branches nIM prohnbly remain nearly stationary rxrrpt the Xorth IJraneh. wlilch will rise slightly. A atage ot about 3.4.*> feet la indicated for Hatris * burg Thursday morning. HARRISBURG iPpSfip TELEGRAPH ofoc-2fadcj>titfrtiL The First Over and the Last to Come Back REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA SIGNS PEACE TREATY Pact With Allied and Asso ciated Powers Confirmed at 10.15 This Morning DR REXXER WAS FIRST Frank L. Polk, Representing U. S„ Is Next to Affix Signature St, Germain, Sept. 10. Dr. Karl Renner, head of the Austrian dele gation to the Peace Conference, signed the Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and the Austrian republic at 10.15 o'clock this morning. When all the delegates present had seated themselves at the round table, Dr. Renner was introduced with the same formality that was ob served when the Germans entered the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles on June 28. Georges Clemenceau, president of the Peace Conference, then rose and opened the session, asking Dr. Renner to affix his sig nature to the Treaty and annexes and announcing that the delegates would then be called in the order in which they were named in the pre amble of the document. Bows Graciously Dr. Renner bowed and smiled graciously as he approached the table, and bowed and smiled again to the delegates after signing and as he turned to go to his seat. Frank L. Polk, who succeeded Secretary of State Robert Lansing as head of the United States dele gation, signed after Dr. Renner, and was followed by Henry White and General Bliss. Dr. Renner showed no hesitation in signing the Treaty. He rose from his seat on the left wing of the table after M. Clemenceau's opening ad dress had been translated into Ger [Contlnued on Page 9.] Union Calls on 26,000 Strikers to Go to Work Srrnntun, Fa , Sept. 10.—Word catne to-day f*om John J- Lewis, acting president of the United Mine Work ers of America, in session at Cleve ; land that if the strike of 26,000 min ers of the Lackawanna and Hudson companies is not quickly ended he will send the fill force of the organ ization here to convince the strikers of their r— in violating agreements aivd the laws of the union. DROP OF 34 DEGREES I Temperatures in Harrisburg to-day range considerably below those whi-h 1 prevailed in tl* city yesterday. Last night, within a few minutes the mer- I cury dropped fifteen degrees. The j thermometer during the past 24 hours | has shown a drop of 24 degrees, an i unusual drop, the temperatures being 88 and 61. MOB BURNS MAN AT THE STAKE Athens, Ga., Sept. 10. Obe Cox, negro, alleged murderer of the wife of an Oglethorpe county farmer, was captured by a posse to-day, taken to the scene of the crime, his body riddled with bullets, and burned at the stake. Several thousand people wit nessed the scene. HOODLUMS THROW BOSTON INTO A REIGN OFTERROR Women Assaulted Openly in Street While Mobs Rob Stores Py Associated Press. Boston, Sept. 10. Lawless ness was rampant in Boston to day. Without adequate police protection, private citizens were left to their own resources to protect their lives and property. Attacks on women throughout the night were frequent and atroc ious. In numerous parts of Uic city there were villainous assaults. Ac cording to reports 110 woman was safe in the little frequented districts or where the streets were not bril liantly illuminated. Two women were pursued by a mob and found refuge in Uie city hospital. Tlie mob even attempted to force its way into the institution and was only stopped by a handful of offlcers who had ar rived a moment before with a man who had been shot. Many Are Hurt The hoodlumism of the night was not free of bloodshed. John A. Scully, of Brookline, was shot in the back of the head and danger ously injured by a police sergeant who was pursuing a mob that had sacked several stores in the Back Bay district. Thomas Innis, a street car conductor, reported at a hospital with a bullet in the leg. He said he was fired upon by some one in a crowd. A Janitor in the leather dis trict was stabbed by a man whom the Janitor had discovered forcing an entrance to the building. Another man reached the hospital with a bullet in his back. Police on Strike Since the police struck at 5.45 o'clock yesterday afternoon there has been no organized police power able to cope with the situation that last night approached anarchy and to-day appeared to grow more ser iou as the inadequacy of the make shift arrangements intended to pre [Continuod on Page 15.] 1."1,000 OX STRIKH By Asuo'ia'.ed I'rcss. Srrantoß. Pa., Sept. 10.— Fifteen thousand silk mill workers in this .vicinity are on strike. PERSHING AND BRONZED TROOPS CAPTIVATE N. Y. Fully Equipped First Division Marches in Crowning Spectacle of War CHEERED BY THOUSANDS Doughboys March Through Deep Lines of Massed Humanity P.y Associated Press. New York, Sept. 10.—With Pershing at their head and with the Cross of War twinkling on their storied ban ners, the First Division of Regulars marched down Fifth avenue to-day. The colors of three regiments of in fantry were twined with the four ragers of France, symbol of gallan- I try, and on the breasts of hundreds I of the soldiers were the gay rib ! bons betokening medals bestowed I for heroism. It was the crowning spectacle of the World War for York, and it was unique n American annals. Guns Rumble Behind Behind the stalwart doughboys rumbled field artllery of every type, and back of the guns came the di visional trains. The marchers num bered 25,000 men, fully panoplied for battle —the flower of the Amer ican Army. I At the head of the five-mile line rode the Commander-in-Chief of all soldiers under the Stars and Stripes. Behind him, as a guard of honor, swung "Pershing's Own," the com posite regiment of six-foot infantry men, who had followed him through [Continued on Page 7.] Thieves Throw Brick Through Window to Rob Jewelry Store of Display Breaking the large plate glass window of the Jewelry store of Max Relter & Co., 18 North Fourth street, by hurling a brick through . it, thieves early this morning se cured Jewelry valued at approxi mately S3OO. Gold watches, bracelet watchc.-., scarf pins and other Jewelry were included in the booty. The brick used in breaking the window had been hurled at it twice. The first time It apparently struck below the window, but the second time the aim was true. A consid erable portion of the window was shattered. A showcase standing in front of the entrance to the store was also broken by the brick, which was later found lying on the window ledge. One person this morning told that be had noticed an automobile with six persons i standing nearby about the time of i the robbery. TREATY WITH 45 AMENDMENTS IS REPOR TED B Y SENA TE COMMITTEE; STIGMA TIZEDAS BREEDER OF WAR What the Reservations and Amendments Propose The reservations propose: The principal amendments arc "I— Unconditional right to with - pi . oposo<l to provide: draw from the League. "2—Declination of the United Equal voting power for the States to accept any of the legal UnUcd Btatcg Qrcat Br(/flln or moral obligations of the much discussed article ten or to accept in the assembly of the League, any mandatory from the League . . . . , , except by action of the Congress (living to China instead of Ja of the United States. pan the province of Shantung. "3—Reserving to the United States the exclusive right to de- Relief of the United States from cidc what questions arc within its paving representatives on com "SL3BB, '<■. < Monroe Doctrine to the judgment has no concern. of the United States alone. Others concern phraseology. TREE TYPES PICKED FOR EVERY HIGHWAY City Forester Urges Planting of Uniform Species So That Streets Will Rival Famous Thoroughfares A tree planting program embrac- | ing every street in the city has been evolved by L. G. Baltimore, city forester. A type of tree best suited to the locality has been picked and householders are urged to plant nothing but the tree selected for the thoroughfare so that in time there will be an uniformity which has made famous some streets In other cities. In selecting trees for various streets attention has been paid to the type already existing to the nature of the buildings and to suitability of the stUToundltlgs. Co-operation Needed Close co-operation on the part of property owners Is needed to make the campaign a success. Mr. Bal timore points out that it is obvious that if, every street is lined wi'h similar trees the result will be more pleasing to the eye than if the old haphazard method is followed. Mr. Baltimore is willing to give advice to all tree planters as to best methods for going about the work. He is urging that a tree be planted in front of every home. Street and Tree Agate, Ginkgo. Bailey, Norway maple. Balm, Linden. Bellevue road, American elm. Benton, red oak. BerryhtU, red oak. Boas, (Front-7th) sugar maple and Norway maple. Boas, 15th-city limits, Oriental plane. Briggs, Norway maple. Brookwood. pin oak. Calder, Norway maple. Cameron. Oriental plane. Camp. Norway maple. Capital, Norway maple. Carnation, Ginkgo. Catharine, sugar maple. Chestnut (Front-Grace St.) Nor way maple. Chestnut, (Summit-13th) Norway maple. [Continued on Page 15.] Dauphin County Jail Is in Good Condition "We Inspected the Dauphin county pris. n to-day and went over it pret ty thoroughly, finding it in excellent condition." said Louie Wolf, member of the State Board of Public Chari ties to-day. "The only criticism I would make is that the prisoners do not get out often enough for fresh air and will send a letter to that effect," he con tinued. Mr. Wolf added with a smile "Dauphin's jail seems to be rather empty these days compared to some j other days. Want Nationalization of English Mines By Associated Press. Glasgow, Sept. 10.—By an over whelming vote the Trades Union Congress at to-day's session passed a resolution favoring the nationaliza tion of the coal mines. The motion, presented by Robert Smillie, the miners' leader, was carried by a vote of 4,478,000 against 77,000. < REBELS TIKE TOWN Washington, Sept. 10.—La Celba on the north coast of Honduras, nas been captured by the revolutionists oppos ing President Bertrand, who has placed the Presidential powers in the hands of a cabinet. The rebels are reported within a few miles also of Tegucigalpa, the Hondurian capitol and there is sniping in the city. W. C. T. r. TO MEET Dauphin County W. C. T. U. will meet in all-day convention to-mor row in the Hummelstown Reformed Church, starting at 10 a. m. Busi ness will be considered at the morn ing and afternoon session, but In the evening Miss Amanda Landla, of the MUlersvllle State Normal School, will speak. HURT IN AUTO CRASH Injured when an automobile in which she was riding collided with another machine last evening. Miss Emma Hoover, 20 years old, of 216 North Second street, Is in the Har rlsburg Hospital with a fractured left arm and lacerations. -, PEACE OR WAR, SAYS WILSON On Board President Wilson's Special Train, Sept. 10. Presi dent Wilson was heading due west to-day on one of the longest legs of his countrywide speaking tour for the Peace Treaty. Nearly the whole day was given over to travel, the only stop on his sched ule being a short one at Bis marck, N. D. The President told a Bismarck a.udine that, the issuts involved in his spcechmaking tour for the Treaty was "a question of war or peace." There was only one way in which peace could be main tained, he said, and that was by such a concert of nations as was proposed in the League of Na tions. Governor Wants Judges of Proved Capacity Governor Sproul said this after noon that lie intended to make some Inquiry into reports that there had been opposition started in influential Philadelphia quarters against the election of Judge Joseph P. McCullen and other sitting judges in Philadel phia. "I certainly would not regard It as a friendly act if support Is not given to sitting judges who have proved themselves capable," said the Gover nor. "While I have spoken to no one lately I had assurances from influ ential leaders that led me to suppose that their attitude would be friendly. I intend to make further inquiry <nto the reports and hope that no organ ized opposition to the judges will be manifested." War Dividends Not justified Nowadays Charges thatthe Oley Turnpike Com pany, of Berks county, is not Justi fied in increasing all rates because during the war it paid good dividends were made at a. hearing before Public Service Commissioner M. J. Brecht to day. The company contended that in creased costs Justified its action. In vestigations intp conditions of grade crossings in Suryoa borough. Lu zerne county, and Brady township, Clearfield county, were started be fore the Commission. School Board to Go Over Building Program Unofficial announcement was made to-day of a special meeting of the School Board next Monday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, where It is reported that the future school building program will be considered. The Junior high school problem will be discussed in general and the probability of the erection of a third junior high school considered. ZION CHURCH TO WELCOME MEN HOME A congregational committee from Zion Lutheran Church has arranged all the details for the "welcome home" reception to service men of the church which Is to be held to morrow eVening In the lower room of the church at 8 o'clock. There will be vocal and instrumental music, and an address by Captain George F. Lumb, head of the State Constabulary. BACK AT DESKS Virtually all pupils of the seventh and eighth grades of the Retly and Willard schools, who have partici pated In the "strikes" of the past several days, were to-day reported to be bdek at their desks. All will be transferred to one of the city Junior high schools as soon as satis factory arraingements can be made. MINISTER FORCED OUT Vienna. Tuesday, Sept. 9. Mar tin Lovassy, Hungarian Foreign Minister, has been forced out of the cabinet, according to advices from BlldjßLDeftt. Four Reservations Added to Pact by U. S. Senate Foreign Committee CHANGES SAID NECESSARY TO SAFEGUARD U. S. SOVEREIGNTY Washington, Sept. 10.—Characterized as an alliance and not a league, "which will breed wars instead of securing peace," the German Peace Treaty including the covenant for a League of Na tions was formally reported to the Senate to-day by the Foreign Relations Committee, with 45 amendments and four reservations. It will be the first great document of its kind to be discussed m the open—without the confines of "executive session." Accompanying the treaty was the majority report of the Foreign Re lations Committee, subscribed to by every Republican member except Senator MeCumber, of North Da kota, explaining the amendments and reservations, ail of which it was declarol were "governed by a single purpose, and that is to guard Amer ican rights and sovereignty, the in vasion of which would stimulate breeches of faith, encourage con flict and generate wars." To Preserve Independence These amendments and reserva tions, the majority report says, are submitted "to preserve American in dependence and American sover eignty and thereby best serve the welfare of mankind." Fears that other nations may not accept an amended covenant, the report dismissed with the state ment: "That is one tiling that cer tainly will not happen. * * * The other nations will take us on our own terms, for without us their league is a wreck and their gains from a victorious peace arc Imperiled." That the adoption of amendments will necessitate reassembling of the ®"iSt *it *ir "it*4* J x <F 4> X X X R r. T n f* T * X nr 4" 4" ♦£- X in $1,500. 4 r ' 'jj t w T 4 4 4 c ♦ 4r ' " ,v; Agency. The Supreme Council, it adds, had giVert 4 4 ' definite in- , $ i , i iL *■ W JQ X 4 X JL X •' • X 7 g'.ic, fi- $6,000 f 4 v n- , I $ X * * A ' a X *' ' A X men at most, as against the 500,000 Ihr.if propoted in the . k. X • p.trtment'fv mill. , j ?|ij X > T O*' 1 RAGING TN 5 " n I ! * ' I: r tchin; ,th -*• ' the * 1 X 1 all | T E a X T tf 4 along the southern coast 4 X ban Islands. A gale of at least 100 miles an hour Was * * T blowing, the reports stated. 4 11 $ T • ► $ J;; ± MARRIAGE LICENSES I. X Howard liookrr, Jr., Iluakrrrtown. and Margarette F. Sparver,* * X Hgrrlaburgj Julius Klnnrd, Hnrrlxhurg, and Nannie I. Whitley, Steel. I ton; Andrew H. Stlmrr, Strrlton, and Snrnh Huaaler, Harrlahurgi 4t Mnrl 11. Smith. .New Cumberland, and l.lnnle X. Hoaa, Steeltoni Wll'** -t. Hum 11. Swrikrrt and Helen 1.. Vo'lmer. Harrfahurgj Sarah It- Hoov-B "T er, Hurrtaburg. and Vlolette G. Hawklna, I'rnbrook. eg* a > Peace Conference, the report de nies, asserting that the conference probably will be in session for six months more in Paris and might ..s well be "at least as usefully em ployed" as "they now are in divid ing and sharing southeastern Eu rope and Asia Minor. German dele gates, the report contends, could easily be brought to Paris, and us Germany is not a member of the league she need not be consulted about changes of the covenant. At the outset the majority report deals at length with criticisms of delay, and 'points out that whereas the Peace Conference took s'x months to agree on the treaty, the Senate Foreign Relations Commit tee has had 47 working days. De mands for speed "in the most im port subject that ever came before the Senate of the United States, the report says, were "largely the work of the administration and its news paper organs." Bankers Wanted Haste A second "artificial' demand for haste, the report says, came from "certain great banking firms which had a direct pecuniary interest in [Continued on Page 7.]
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