\ . " I Jipi-L Allied Powers Consent to Modify Protocol Terms to Which Germany Has Made Many Objections H HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH fH ®je JStar-Jn&cpcn&ent. LXXXVIII— No. 290 16 PAGES V?f. c r ep .\Wet E o n r.V^Kr u ' HARRISBURG, PA. MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1919. °"iK2KS WcW HOME EDITION * SEES HOPE FOR SETTLEMENT OF MINERS' STRIKE White House Expresses Belief End Will Come Tomorrow MEN TO ACCEPT PLANS PROPOSED BY PRESIDENT By Associated Press \\ a.-Jiiiigtou, Dec. B.—"Hope for] the settlement to-morrow afternoon j of the controversy between the 1 miners, the operators and the Gov-j eminent" was expressed in a formal, statement issued to-day at the White j 1 louse. The statement follows: "It Is lioped that tliei-e will be a settlement on Tuesday af- j ternoon of the controversy be- j tween the miners, operators ami i Government, though the ac- | ceptaiice by the miners of the | plan for a definite settlement proposed by the President, which proposal was submitted | to Acting President Lewis of the Miners, by Attorney General Palmer Saturday night." Proposal Secret The utmost secrecy still surround-1 ed the President's proposal and Sec-j rotary Tumulty and other officials; refused to supplement the White, House statement- It was learned, however, that the proposal made to! the miners was from the President] himself and was in the form of a; memorandum written by him. In agreeing Saturday to urge upon the miners' representatives accept-1 anee of the President's proposals, j John Lewis, acting president of] the United Mine Workers of Amer ica, was said to have frankly In formed Attorney General Palmer of the difficulties he was having in \ iew of the feeling created among the miners by the injunction pro ceedings and the general attitude of the Government, Ix-wis Willing Lewis was said to have expressed willingness to attempt to change this feeling If given assistance from re sponsible Government officials in dealing with the men. Mr. Palmer, Assistant Attorney General Ames, who is in instituted proceedings against the union of-1 fieials at Indianapolis, and Lew-is and William Green, secretary of the . miners' union, are to arrive at In-1 dianapolis to-day, where to-morrow! the union officers will lay the P.-tsl-' dent's proposals before the executive I and scale committees of the workers, j Hundreds of Trains Are Withdrawn to Conserve Dwindling Fuel By A ssociated Press Chicago, Dec. B.—Hundreds of! passenger trains were withdrawn j from service on the railroads of the j country to-day, mostly in the Mid- | die West, South and Southwest, In | accordance with instructions issued i last week by the Railroad Adminis- ] t ration, and hundreds of other trains j have been ordered annulled on next, Wednesday, chiefly in the East, as a result of the coal miners' strike. , Tn New England alone orders were I out canceling nearly 300 trains on \ Wednesday, dozens are to be dis- i continued in Pennsylvania and even j Canadian railroads have felt the coal 1 shortage to such an extent that ] thirty-five additional nassenger | trains were taken off. including the j crack Transcontinental Limited on the Canadian- Pacific. The reduction ' of passenger service in the United j States since the strike began No vember 1 amounts to approximately | one-third of the total, and in Cana da a saving of 324,000 train miles per month has been effected. Thousands Arc Idle Measures to conserve fuel supplies ! went ahead to-day in nearly every | part of the country, despite the j meeting at Indianapolis to-morrow' of Attorney General Palmer and i other officials of the Department of ! Justice with heads of the United I Mine Workers of America in an ef fort to bring about a settlement of the strike. I*redicts Settlement Many hundred thousand workers] were idle to-day on account of clos ing of nonessential industries, from which coal has been withheld bv re- ! gional committees, and the curtail- ] ment of business hours in many ! cities. Governor Cox. of Ohio, called off the conference of operators and miners to-day at Columbus, which lias attempted to settle the strike in that State. In a statement Governor Cox said the indications were that Ihe controversy "would be. settled Tuesday on a nation-wide basis." Further shipments of coal mined by volunteers in Kansas and Mis-1 sourl under Drotection of troops were made to-day to points in those States where the shortage was most acute. • Crusade Against Agitators Digging of coal bv volunteers | also was expected to begin to-day in Oklahoma. Arkansas and Montana. In Oklahoma, where martial law prevails In the coal districts, Gov ernor Robertson has begun a cru- ITTOWEATHERI y Harrtshurg and Vicinityi Rain or snow thin afternoon, to-night nnd Tuesday. Slightly colder to-night With lowest tcmpcrn tare about freealng. Lantern Pennsylvania! , llnln or aaow to-night nnd Taendny. | Somewhat colder to-nlgbt. Mod erate to fik northeast and < east winds. NEW PROPOSALS FOR THE MINERS Chicago, Dec. B.—The proposal presented to John L. Lewis, act ing president, and William Green, secretary of the United Mine Workers of America, by President Wilson and Attorney Jeneral Palmer, in Washington, included a fourteen per cent, wage advance to miners and the appointment of a commission to study wages, profits and all con ditions surrounding the industry upon resumption of work by the striking miners, according to private advices from the na tional capital received by Dr. F. C. Honnold, secretary of the Illinois Coal Operators' Associa tion. | sade against agitators and several I men liave been arrested, charged I with attempting to prevent union j miners from returning to work. At Bear Creek, Montana, when I eighty volunteers arrived, accompa i nied by a detachment of Federal j troops, electricians and engineers at j the mines walked out. Stores ou Short Hours A cold wave. accomDanied bv snow, prevailed to-day in the Rocky Mountain region, making the distri bution of the limited coal supply difficult. Reports from all parts of the Cen tral Competitve field say that the mines are in readiness to be worked and that production of coal can be gin the minute the strike is set tled. In Chicago retail stores, with the | exception of groceries and a few : others dealing in foods .are to open j to-day at noon and close at 6 p. m. i Will Not Empanell Grand Jury to Probe Coal Strike Violations By Associated Press Indianapolis, Dec. B.—The Federal grand jury, summoned by U. S. Dis trict Judge A. B. Anderson to in j vestigate alleged violations of the Lever act and antitrust laws by ! operators, miners, coal dealers in ! connection with the bituminous coal I strike, will not be empanelled to i day, U. S. District Attorney L. Ert i Slack, announced to-day. He said j this step had been postponed until 10 o'clock to-morrow, j While announcing that the conven- I ing of the grand jury had been post i poned until to-morrow, Mr. Slack would not say that the jury would be empanelled at that time. It was indicated that the calling together ! of the investigators would depend [ upon conferences to-day with Attor ney General Palmer and others who were to arrive here from Washington I about noon. Murray Predicts End of Strike on Eve of Going to Indianapolis By Associated Press Pi(t>burgli, Dec. B.—Philip Mur ray, president of District No. 5, Uni i ted Mine Workers of America, will I leave here to-night for Indianapolis •with 17 other members of the scale i committee to take part in the con ference which, Mr. Murray said, he j believed would end the coal strike. Mr. Murray to-day received a tele gram from John 1,. Lewis, acting president of the United Mine Work ers, containing the info-mation that ; he had "tentatively" accepted the proposition made in Washington and ordered the committee to be in | Indianapolis by to-morrow. Included in the committee will be seven Vorking miners as well as the district officers. D'Annunzio Denies He Plans Expedition Against Spalato or Laibach By Associated Press Finnic. Sunday, Dec. 7.—Gabriele i D'Annunzio, the insurgent Italian commander here, assured the Asso ciated Press correspondent to-day ■that he was not preparing an ex pedition against Spalato or Laibach. ; The soldier-poet gave his word of | honor that this statement was true. Gabriele D'Annunzio was credited in London dispatches from Dalma tian sources on Saturday with hav ing arranged an ambitious scheme for the advancement of his cause revolving around an attack on Spalato. It was also declared that efforts were being made to instigate up risings in Montenegro and Albania as a part of the Spalato undertak ] ing, and that the Bulgarians were i being urged to attack the Jugo Slavs. It was suggested that the I projects as reported, wore not en tirely D'Annunzio's plan but had the support of his adherents in I Italy. Laibach is the capital of i Carniola in Jugo-Slavia. PRETTY PRINCESS HAS NEWEST HAT • nH t WKr mRB life, J{Khß|H iHHHIB , iir i iwmm PRINCESS ENGALICHEFF Photographers flocked around Princess Engalioheff when she ar rived in New York recently from France. Gne reason was Princess Engalicheff tsee picture). Another was the princess' stunning leather hat- She said that this model di rect from Paris, will probably find a smuoh favor in America as in- Eu rope. SIX ARE CAUGHT IN CAVE-IN WHEN DITCH GIVES WAY Rescue Party Works Half an Hour to Release Man Buried to Neck Caught by a slide of ground while working in a pit at the Middletown Car works this morning, two men were seriously injured and four oth j ers hurt, when a wooden form hold i ing the sides gave way under pres [ sure. j Charles Hawk sustained a broken j right leg and bodily bruises when he 1 was covered with ground up to the | neck. He was conscious when res | cued by a party of employes after al most a half hour's work. He was taken to his home in Middletown, where liis condition is reported as "fairly good." C. E. McNally, of Fal mouth, suffered a broken collar bone. Other men who were caught by the cave in and slightly injured are: Adam Hickernell, Sr., Rene Grove, Charles Hawk, George Staher and C. Roy Shaffer. The men. it is understood, were working at the top of a pit 25 feet I deep, erecting forms at the sides of j the pit. when the supports gave way ] catching tlicm. Three of the men ; wiio were working closer at the top, i were caught by the ground, while ' Hawk was wedged In tightly. | Officials of the plant summoned Dr. ] 11. If. Rhodes nnd Dr. W. P. Evans, ! Middletown oiiysicians who adminis j tered first aid treatment and later the men were removed to their homes. CHO-CHO, FAMOUS HEALTH CLOWN, PLEASES CHILDREN Youngsters Told Simple Rules of Rigid Living by Means of Comic Pantomine "Cho-Cho! Cho-Cho! Here comes Cho-Cho!" Thousands of city school children in the Allison Hill district crowded into the large auditorium at the Edison Junior High School this af ternoon greeted Clio-'"ho, the fam ous health clown, who entertained two groups of youngsters for almost an hour with his health lessons given only as a circus clown can present It. Cho-Cho opened the Red Cross Christmas Seal sale in the city, lie will be here all week to meet the boys and girls of the schools and show them how to keep well so that each year they will grow bigger and stronger. At the first entertainment this af ternoon pupils of the fourth, fifth and, sixth grades of the Downey, Shimmell, Vernon, Woodward and Allison buildings, and the seventh grade of the Edison building, saw the clown. At the second one pupils of the Fnose, Forney, Lincoln, Mel rose, Webster and the parochial sct.ools were present. Cho-Cho. after his arrival in the city yesterday, told of his work with the youngsters. ''l have had bigger receptions than any king or queen, because these hoys and girls wliorn I want to help, greet me from the heart. They are the best friends T have and all that I do Is to show SEVERANCE OF RELATIONS WITH j MEXICO OPPOSED; Wilson Tells Fall He Would j He Gravely Concerned if I Resolution Passes NOW UP TO PRESIDENT! jHe Must Shoulder Whole Re- i I sponsibilitv, Senate Chair- ! man Declares By Associated Press Washington, Dec. 8. President Wilson would be "gravely concerned to see any such resolution pass the Congress," he wrote Senator Fall to- , day in referring to the Fall resolu- I tion requesting the President to sever| diplomatic relations with the Car-j ranza government. "It would constitute a reversal of our constitutional practice which! might lead to very grave confusion I in regard to the guidance of our for- ! eign affairs," he wrote, The President expressed confidence : that he had the support of every competent constitutional authority in j the statement that the direction of | the government's foreign affairs was assigned by the constitution to the j I Chief Executive and to him alone. j Up to President When the President's letter was j j received, Senator Dodge, chairman j I of the Foreign Relations Committee, j i called Senator Fall and Senator | | Brandegee, Republican, Connecticut, ] iof the committee, into conference! j and in a few minutes announced that [Continued on Page ll.] Mexicans Who Captured Jenkins Are Released I.nredn, Tex., Dec. S,—Forty Mexi cans of Santa Maria and San Bernabe, held as witnesses in connection with the abduction of William O. Jenkins, American consular agent at Puebla. Mexico, will be released at once "as there is no proof against them of wrongdoing." according to the Mexico City newspaper Excelsior. The newspaper prints a Puebla dis patch under date of last Friday giv ing this Information. The contemplat ed action, the newspaper says, "caus ed Jenkins to say in an indignant tone that he would have the guilty persons punished if it took all his capital, including those who had threatened the natives to make them testify against him." Jenkins, the newspaper adds, was notified at midnight Thursday that he was free "by order of the judge," and was released without any further explanation. Excelsior declares it is rumored the judge will be removed and succeeded by Judge Guzman, of ; Cholula. i A dispatch from Atlixco. Puebla. published in Mexico City, reports the surrender of many rebel officers to General Pablo Gonzalez. Carranza army commander. Those who have surrendered include Juan Übera, one of the men accused of having abduct ed Jenkins. It is claimed the entire state of Puebla now is pacifled. VILLA CHIEF SURRENDERS By Associated Press Juarez, Mex., Dec. B.—Captain R. j Diaz Martines, commander of the I aviation squadron at Chihuahua, who has just arrived here, reported the surrender of General Nicolas Hernandez, until recently in com mand of Villa's personal bodyguard. He said Hernandez and thirty of his men rode into Parral four days ago and gave themselves up. Her nandez said Villa's personal follow ing had dwindled to twenty men j and that the rebel leader was skulking in the mountains in the ' Guerrero district. ONLY TWO IN RAID ldtmlo. Tex., Dec. B.—lnvestiga tion conducted by Texas Rangers has disclosed that only two Mexi cans participated in the robbery of a store last Thursday night on the Clareno ranch, near Zapata on the American side of the Rio Grande. ACTED ON OWN INITIATIVE Mexico City, Sunday, Dec. 7. J. Salter Hansen, who furnished the bail upon which W. O. Jenkins, the American consular agent at Puebla, was released last Thursday night, declared in a statement to-night that he had acted on his own initia tive. them what they should do lo keep well and always be healthy. Thou sands of the youngsters know me. and I believe, haVe been benefited by the health lessons they hear." Cho-Cho was brought to the city by the Antituberculosis Society of Dauphin county as part,of the edu cational campaign fore children in connection with the Christmas Seal sale. To-morrow he will go to Steelton, and on Wednesday he will be at the Camp Curtin Junior High School auditorium for two talks. At the first one at 2.30 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon pupils from the Steele, Muelay, Reily, Open Air and seventh grade of the Camp Curtin buildings will hear hint, and at 3.45 o'clock youngsters from the Riverside. Cameron, Hamilton and the parochial school uptown and the Harrisburg Academy will see Cho- Cho. On Friday he will be at the Chestnut Street Auditorium in the afternoon when children from thd central district will have an oppor tunity to see him. Early reports from all over the county indicate that the sale of Christmas Seals this year will break nil previous records. Some of the districts have sent in nlrcady for more Seals, according to D. D. Ham rnelbaugh, chairman of the com mittee. NEVER SO BAI) IT COULD NOT BE WORSE While the cost of living; may be high in Harrisburg, ii is not ! as high as in many other cities of the country, judging from ; comparative prices of butter and eggs in various communities. Eggs are to-day selling at 80 i cents per dozen in Harrisburg, ! while butter ranges in price from \ 75 to 80 cents per pound. | Prices prevailing in other sec tions follow: City Eggs Butter Harrisburg .' $ .88 $ .80 Atlantic City .... 1.00 .82 Washington 95 .72 Wilmington 95 .85 Minneapolis 1.25 .85 Trenton 1.00 S7 Rutland, Vt 90 87 Newark 1.20 .78 Boston 1.15 .78 Baltimore 92 .84 New York 1.10 .80 Cleveland 97 .85 Providence 1.10 .84 Cincinnati 78 75% Chicago 1.00 .85 St. Louis 85 .85 Kansas City 72 .7 6 Philadelphia 95 .92 SEC. DANIELS TO ADDRESS 400 AT C. OF C. DINNER Head of American Navy Ar rives For Address Before Businessmen Josephus Daniels, Secretary of tlie Navy, arrived in the city at 0.20 this afternoon for his scheduled address before the H arrisburg Chamber of Commerce in the Penn-Harris ballroom at 6 o'clock. .More than 400 Chamber members) will attend the membership meeting, i The crowd likely will overflow the i ballroom, and the surplus will be accommodated at a dinner in Parlor "A" until the address begins, when they will return to the ballroom. Several features of entertainment besides the address of the Secretary of the Navy will be on the Chamber of Commerce program. Goes Back to Jail to Refresh Memory When Mark Seltzer came into 1 court to-day and his attorney pre sented a petition to have him re leased from jail where he has been for more than two months because he could not comply with a main tenance order, President Judge George Kunkel continued the case until next week. Seltzer's wife said she couldn't live with him because of his treatment and said he dragged her upstairs by the neck. The Court asked him about it, but he said he couldn't recall dragging her upstairs. "Send him back to jail until next Monday. Maybe he'll remember it by that time and tell us about it when we ask him," Judge Kunkel said. ■ Susan Myers, pleading guilty to a charge of larceny, was given two months in jail. • Constitutional Body Will Meet Tomorrow Pennsylvania's Commission on re- I vision of the Constitution will begin its activities to-morrow morning at 10 I o'clock in the Senate Chamber at the I State Capitol, when Attorney General j William I. Schaffer, the chairman, will call it to order and Secretary of the Commonwealth Cyrus D? Woods, will present the commission from the Governor and the oaths of ofTice. The formal ceremonies attending the qpening will be attended by sur vivors of the constitutional conven tion of 1873 and State officials, and will be open to the public. There will be no cards of admission. Immediately after the organization ceremonies the Commission will out line its procedure and committees will be named to consider related sub jects, probably reporting on Thurs day those which it considers should not be changed or repealed. Chicago Newspapers Reduced in Size to Meet Paper Shortage i Chicago, Dec. B.—Local publishers ! of daily newspapers, to aid in con j servation of coal in addition to seek | ing to relieve the white paper short |iige, began to-day reducing the size lof their publications. The reduction j is 10 per cent, greater than the war j time restrictions of the war indus- S tries board. : WOULD CUT DOWN PAPERS Washington. Dec. B—Size of news ! papers and periodicals would be I limited until July 1, 1921, under a j bill that Representative Anthony will , introduce this week in an effort to i relieve the' news print shortage. 'Violation of the restrictions would | bar the publications from the mails. I Dally newspapers would be limited to twenty-four pages, Sunday edi tions to thirty-six pages .weekly and biweekly periodicals to seventy-live pages, and monthly periodicals to 100 pages. TWO IIK IN FALL By Associated Press ! Elizaboth, N. J., Dec. B.—Two men were killed and twenty-eight | others injured, ten seriously, to-day | when a scaffolding on which they ' were working at the Ray Way rc- I ilnery of the Standard Oil Company, I near here, collapsed and fell twen ! ty-flve feet. The men were engaged | in constructing an oil still. ALLIES MODIFY ! DEMANDS AFTER I | GERMANS OBJECT Consent to Elimination of j Protocol Features Unsatis factory to Huns , ■EASE SINKING DEMANDS Sca p a Flow Destruction Clause Referred to the Hague For Settlement j By Associated I'rcss Paris, Dec. B.—The Allies have | consented to modify some of the I terms of the protocol putting the ! Peace Treaty into effect to which j Germany has made objection. The clause providing for in | demnity for the destruction of the i German tleet ut Scapa Flow has j been modified so as to refer to The | Hague tribunal the question wheth- I er the delivery of the tonnage dc ! tnanded will cripple Germany, it is j understood. Eliminate Objectioiuihlcs The understanding also is that the j other features of the protocol most I objectionable to the Germans have ( | been eliminated, and the expecta tion here is that the German pleni potentiaries will sign the protocol without much further delay. The tinal paragraph of the pro i tocol, providing that even after the I Peace Ttealy has gone into effect j the Allies might use military meas !| ures of coercion to ensure the ex * ecution of the Treaty's terms, lias ! j been eliminated entirely as also has '! the clause relating to the evacua ,! tion of the Baltic provinces by Ger ' man troops. Signed Soon 'I The imputation of responsibility . i to Germany for the sinking of the , | Scapa Flow fleet is left in the pro ' j tocol. * According to the best information ' obtainable the note to the German i plenipotentiaries regarding the signature of the protocol, setting forth the Allied position as indl -1 eated, will be handed to Baron Von ' Dersner, head of the German mis ' slon, this afternoon. German Leader Says Limit of Endurance Now Has Been Reached liondon, Dec. B.—Gustav Noske, * minister of defense, is determined i not to sign the peace protocol s handed Germany by the Entente, - and is resolved to recommend that s the government adopt his attitude, 3 come what may. according to an I interview with Noskc, printed to ; day. "p cannot speak for the whole government, because it has not yet come to a decision," said Noske, "but I shall recommend a refusal to sign the Peace Treaty protocol." "The limit has long been reached. Let the Allies occupy the country if they like. The peace now pre sented to us is not peace but a pro longation of the war. His Confidence Gone "Were such a treaty accepted, the German nation would rise up and avenge itself upon the men who sign ed it, and it would be right. Great Britain und France ure deliberately planning the destruction of Ger many. All the confidence I ever had in the pledges of the Allies is gone forever. "By deceit and trickery the Brit ish and French governments are working up opinion in their coun tries to cripple Germany still further beyond the crushing effect of the first treaty. We have yielded too often, and now must resist. Let the Allies do what they please." Asked whether he would resign if the remainder of the government de cided to accept the Allied terms, Noske replied that he c.ould not say what he would do a week hence, but that his present position had been deliberately adopted and was un changeable. The correspondent says that al though Noske carefully emphasized that he was only defining his own position, his words agreed with the intentions ascribed to the other members of the cabinet. The Ixist Straws The two straws which Noske rep resents as having broken the back of German endurance, says the cor respondent, are the demand for dock and harbor material and the proto col empowering the Allies to en force execution of the Peace Treaty. The correspondent says that dur ing his talk with Noske he suggested that if the Germans had not sunk the warships in the Scapa Flow the demand of the Allies for tugs and docks would not have been made. To this, he says, Noske replied: "Oh, yes they would. The British have invented some pretext. Great Britain is out to cripple Germany and demands our last dredges and cranes so as to prevent the revival of our mercantile marine." Noske repudiated the German gov ernment's responsibility for the sink ing of the warships in Scapa Flow and accused the British government of publishing misleading and "faked" extracts of the letter of ltear Admi ral Adolf Von Trotha, chief of the German admiralty, written to Admi ral Von Reuter, who sank the ships. Regarding the protocol, Noske said its signature would be giving Ger many's assent in advance to unlimit ed future aggressions by the Allies. "What more do you want," said Noske. "You used to tell us if we chased . away the Hohenzollerns peace would he adopted. And now you are breaking every pledge you gave. You have imposed upon us such a crushing peace that it could not have been worse if the Hohen zollerns had remained. i DONOR OF NEW PIPE ORGAN V ■i WILLIAM P. STARKEY GRACE M. E. TO DEDICATE NEW ORGAN TONIGHT William P. Starkey to Present New Masterpiece to Of ficial Board The week of reopening services in Grace Methodist Church, opened yesterday. These services have been arranged to mark the comple tion of extensive improvements, the dedication of the new memorial pipe organ and the church's tribute to its service men and women. Two services were held yesterday, at [Continued on Page 7.1 4 PREDICTS SATISFACTORY RESULT e tf 11 LONDON—Andrew Bonar Law, the government * • spokesman, declared in the House of Commons to-day < * * that there was little reason to doubt that the communi * * cations proceeding between the allied and associated powers and Germany with reference to the immediate € * t # ratification of the Peace Treaty would have satisfactory " * issue. I • DO NOT WANT CONVENTION ON COAST • | WASHINGTON—Any possibility that San Francis ' * co would be selected for the 1920 Republican National Convention apparently disappeared to-day when William t , H. Crocker, the national committeeman for California, * • announced that his state would throw its influence for < * the Chicago. ! 1 ! I PRIEST COMMITS SUICIDE i ; PHILADELPHIA—Rev. Edward B. Henry, a Cath ■ olic priest, committed suicide by leaping from the clev ] * enth-story window of a hotel. ? a \ J NEWBERRY AND AIDS APPEAR IN COURT ' * GRAND RAPIDS, H. Newberry, U. S. Senator from Michigan, and seventeen of his principal ' J campaign leaders appeared in Federal Court here to- day to plead to indictments charging fraud and corrup € # tion in the Senator's nomination and election in 1918. e * DECIDE ON ARMY OF 300,000 * * WASHINGTON —A peace-time regular army of 300.- < 000 men ar.d 18,000 officers was decided on to-day by the | I House Military Subcommittee, headed by Representa * * tive Anthony, Republican, Kansas, framing the army e v < reorganization bill. The number of combat troops was ' * fixed at 250,000. * * p BERGMAN AND GOLDMAN IN COURT < i NEW YORK—Emma Goldman and Alexander Berk * * man, who have been held at Ellis Island since Friday, * for deportation to Russia, appeared in the Federal court * and heard their attorneys argue that-it would be illegal * * to'send them out of the country. • 1 MARRIAGE LICENSES T* < Hariri K. Miller and Ida .11. Mowers, Heading. J ■ *l' DECISION ON ! PROHIBITION ' IS WITHHELD j Supreme Court Gives No Indi cation When Opinion Will Be Handed Down IS ANXIOUSLY AWAITED Country Eager For Action on Constitutionality of the Wartime Act Ky Associated Press Washington, Dec. B.—No decision on the constitutionality of the war time prohibition and the Volstead enforcement act was rendered to day by the Supreme Court, and there was no indication when a decision would be handed down. Arguments on the constitutional ity of the acts were advanced by the court at the request of the Gov ernment and decision had been ex pected generally when the court reconvened to-day after a recess of two weeks. As Monday is the regular opinion day of the court a decision is not to be expected before next Monday, if then. The cases on which the constitu tionality of the wartime act was at tacked were from Kentucky and New York while that on which the valid ity of the enforcement act was con tested reached the Supreme Couns I from New York. Clothing and Jewelry Stores to Open Dec. 15 I Men's clothing stores and jewelry | stores have decided to keep their < places of business open evenings be j ginning with Monday evening, De cember 15. These stores instead of closing daily will remain open every evening until Christmas, observing the usual Saturday evening closing hour. DISMISS APPEAL [iy Associated Press Philadelphia, Dec. B.—The Super ' ior Court to-day dismissed the ap peal in the Lancaster county case of the borough of Mountville vs. Gable.
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