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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
Philadelphia Coal Famine
Has Reached Its Most
Acute Stage, Is Belief
BY Associntcd Prcss

Philadelphia, Jan. THE coal
famine in Philadelphia has reaM ed
It's most acute stage according to
Francis A. Lewis, chairman of the
Philadelphia fuel committee.
This statement was made this aft
ernoon at a conference in the office
of Director of Health and Charities
Krusen. The conference was attended
by city officials. leaders of the .Em-
ergency Aid and members of the
coal committee. 1t was called to dis
cuss means to alleviate suffering
among. the poor as result of the
coal shortage. 1t is especially neces-
sary, it was declared, to get coal into
the cellars of dwellings in which are
infants and where there is illness.
Before the conference, it was be-
lieved that with coal shipments COM
ing into Philadelphia, the famine was
nearing its end. This Is not the case
however. Although $4,000 tons
reached here from the anthracite
belt yesterday, only 5000 tons were,
of domestic use.
Mr.. Lewis said that $1,000 of a
$4,000 fund to relieve suffering had
been raised. 1t is proposed to use this
money to buy the surplus stock of
companies and individuals. ANY firm
or individual having a surplus stock
should sell II to the nearest coal
yard, Mr.. Lewis said.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07

Russian efforts to have Germany
acquiesce in the transference OF
the peace negotiations from Bres;-
Litovsk, in German control. to the
neutral city of Stockholm apparent
ly have failed. A statement issued
at Berlin says that a German crown
prince council meeting discussed the
Russian demand after which it was
announced the sitting had been
temporarily suspended"
The report from German sources
that fear of intrigue in Stockholm
on the part of entente interests
would endanger the work of the
plenipotentiaries is not confirmed
from Petrograd. Foreign Minister
Trotsky went TO Brest-Litovsk in a
vain attempt to persuade the Ger
mans to go to Stockholm.
Political situation Disturbed
In Germany the political situa-
tion is much disturbed over the at
titude of the liberal parties concern
ing the governments stand on the
proposed transference. The Social
lists appear to be the stumb bling block
and there is danger that they may
desert the Reichstag majority maxi
ing it necessary for the governm ent
to reform the party alignments.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
BEGIN DRIVE TO
ENLIST SCHOOL,
BOYS in ARMY
Youths and Men Between 81
and 40 Are Needed in
Aviation Corps

Machinery to-day began to move
for new drive for recruits for the
aviation service in the Harrisburg
district that will exceed any former
attempts of the recruiting officers
to enlist men in this district.
Careful registration of every man
in the district over 81 years of age
and under 40, and a complete list of
all high school. preparatory school
and college students between the ages
of 16 and 81 has been practically
completed. With the aid of the prin-
clpals of the public schools, and the
presidents of the private institutions
and colleges, Sergeant John X. Blake,
publicity manager, has completed, the
list of men he wants for the Aviation
service of the Army. and will start
his drive during the week. s..
Every schoolboy between the pre-
scribed ages in the district will re-
ceive some time this week personal
letter from the publicity department,
outlining the advantages of the re-
cruiting officers project of raising
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Elimination of Saloons
Asked in Coal Fields

Pottsville, Pa, Jan. AT least 500
saloons are likely to be put out of
business in the interest of a greater
production of coal in this county. \
movement has been under way for
tho last two months to have the Gov
ernment refuse Federal license to
two-thirds of the saloons in the coal
region of the county because of the
effec. CT their business on the eff
cheney of miners.
1t is said that many colleries are
effected from two to four days by
lack of workers after every payday
ana it is proposed to abolish this
condition. The matter has been taken
up with the Government because there
was little hope of any radical reduc-
tior in the number of saloons by the
action of court. Some of the most
prominent citizens of Pottsville are
engaged in the movement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
DRAFT LAW CONSTITUTIONAL
DECLARES i. S. SUPREME COURT
DRAFT LAW IS
VALID DECIDES
SUPREME BODY

Washington, Jan. THE selective
service act was to-day upheld as con-
stitutional by the Supreme Court.
The decision resulted from the ap-
Feals of thirteen cases growing out
of convictions under the Selective
Service Act, five coming from New
York; three from Ohio; four from
Minnesota, and one from Georgia
CCnstitutionality of the act was made
the basis for all the appeals.
The cases from New York were
those of Louis Kramer, Morris
Becker, Emma Goldman, Alexander
Ecrkman and Meyer Graubard. The
.irst four were convicted of attempt
ing to induce others of draft age not
TO register an additional charge
of failure to register was made
against Kramer, who was sentenced
10 two years imprisonment. Becker
was sentenced to one year and
eight months in Jail while Emma
Goldman and Berkman were ordered
Imprisoned for two years and fined
SlOCCO apiece.
Power to Declare War
Chief Justice White in the opinion
said:
THE law, as it's title declares. was
lIl'Cl-ttu " supply lGIlpOIuIliN tllC
increased military force which was
rcquiI ed by the existing emergency,
the war, then and now flagraut."
CHere the chief justice recited the
provisions of the act and the con-
tentions of those who attacked its
Cunstitutionality)
The possession of authority to
euGc; the statute" said the chief
justice, must be found in the
clauses of the constitution giving
Congress power to declare war;
X y to raise and support armies,
but no appropriation of money TO
that use shall be for longer term
than two years; X to make
rules for the government and !eRu-
lation OF the land and naval forces
Must Have Men
'As the mind cannot conceive an
army without the men to compose
it, on the face of the constitution the
ol lection that it does not give power
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
u. S. STEAMSHIP TORPEDOED
AND SUNK WITH LOSS OF LIFE;
EIGHT OF CREW ARE MISSING

New York, Jan. 7.--Thc
American steamship Harry
Luckenbach has been torpedoed
and sunk with loss of life, ac-
cording to word received by the
owners of the vessel to-day.
Eight of tic crew are missing,
the owners were informed. The
crew consisted of 80 men not IN
GLIDING the naval guard.
When last heard from by the
owners, the Harry Lucken5ach
was in France, having been re-
QUESTIONED at a French port Oc-
tober Is by General Pershing for
use as a supply vessel under the
general requisition order of the
United States Shipping Board.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
THICK COATING
OF ICE COVERS
ENTIRE CITY
Traffic Held Up by Streets
Being Too Slippery For
Vehicular Traffic

Watch YOUR step was the only
word you nearG on Inc streets of
Harrisburg to-day -. the most
treacherous day of all the season.
From peep of dawn every black
smith in the city found himself
swamped with trade, for the long,
steep hills on Market street and
State street were flecked with
stalled teams and fallen horses. An
other bad spot was the approach to
the Mulberry street bridge.
Team after team went down on
the Mulberry street hill to-day in
spite OF the horses being spiked
sharply. The going was even more
dangerous for pedestrians and there
were very few persons who Ventured
out. The stores were so deserted
that the clerks had practically
nothing to keep them busy. Every
bit of sidewalk seemed to have a
different kind of slippiness. Ev-
cry little while the pedestrian in
Market street could hear "a shrill veil
or sroan as somebody hit the hard
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07

1t is believed she was sunl, in
he English Channel. .
The vessel was in command
f Captain F. s. Jones.
She was registered at 2,79S
ons gross.
The vessel is the second of
the Luckenbach fleet sunk bv
submarines within a wear. the
other being the ID. N. Lucken-
bach torpedoed and sunk with a
loss of five members of her crew
on October 27 last. Another shin
OF the lines the ]. L. Lucken-
bach had a running fight with a
submarine the same month and
a number of her crew were
wounded by shell fire.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07

tC provide for such men would seem
to be too frivolous for further notice
1t is said, however, that since I'M
der the constitution as originally
framed. state citizenship was primary
and United States citizenship, but
deriVative and dependent thereon,
therefore, the power conferred upon
Congress to raise armies was only
cotermirous with United States citi-
zenship and could not be exerted so
as to cause that citizenship 70 lose
its dependent character and doEli-
nate state citizenship.
Power Is Supreme
But the proposition simply de-
MES 70 Congress the power to raise
armies which the constitution gives.
That power by the very terms of the
constitution, being delegates, is
supreme In truth the contention
simply assails the wisdom of the
trainers of the constitution in con-
ferring authority on Congress and in
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07

Berlin has issued an official de-
NAL that General Won Ludendorff,
first quartermaster general, has re-
signed. The general with his chief,
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg, was
present at the crown council which
decided to suspend the Russian
negotiations.
There has been more lively In
fantry activities on the western front
but no operations in strength. In
Flanders, near Arras and southeast
of Verdun the infantry fighting was
liveliest, but little change in posi-
ton is reported. In France and on
the Italian northern front the artil-
lery firing has been above normal at
several points.
The difficulty in determining the
status of the negotiations is added
to, If anything. by a wireless mes
sage sent to the chairman of the
Russian delegation by the represent
atives of the central powers. This
recalls that the central powers
bound themselves to abide by the
announced peace terms only in case
all the belligerents bound themselves
to observe such terms and that the
ten-day period fixed for the other
belligerents to respond had expired
without their being heard from.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
X. OF C. DRIVE
MEETING WITH
MUCH SUCCESS
City Expected to Pass $4,000
Mark Tonight; County
Aiding Work ..'
TEAMS ARE WELCOMED
Reports From Nearby Dis
tricts Are Most En-
couraging
TEAMS ARE WELCOMED

With $9,9S7 announced as the city's
total yesterday afternoon at a meet
ing in Cathedral Hall, and with a
big pile of checks, currency and bills
to-day in front of j. Grant Schwarz,
treasurer, local officials and workers
estimate that the total of contribu-
tions to the Knights of Columbus
War Fund will reach $4,000 by to-
night Workers are enthusiastically
solici ing and are meeting with cour-
teous treatment everywhere. In
campaign headquarters, zoe kunkel
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
COUNTY AND CITY
OFFICIALS TAKE
OATH OF OFFICE
,.r
Two New Commissioners Are
Added to Councilmanic
Body :.a
... 'f ...
SEAMAN IS CITY CLERK
Other Positions Are Left Open
Until After Conference
Is Held
SEAMAN is CITY CLERK

City and county officials elected
in November took their oaths of Of
flee this morning.
County officials who began their
terms to-day follow:
Judge s. J. NJ. McCarrell.
Phothonotary Charles l.. Pass.
Controller Henry w. Cough.
Director of the Poor Levi S. Mil
ler.
Coroner Jacob Eckinger.
The oath of office to Judge Nc
Carroll was administered in court at
10 o'clock by President Judge
George Kunkel after Prothonotary
Pass had read the certificate of
election from the State Depart
ment.
Mr.. Pass took the oath of office
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
M'ADOO ORDERS
HIGH PENALTIES
ON CAR DELAYS
Demurrage Charges After
Third Day to Rise to
$40 on Eighth

Washington. Jan. IA drastic
order designed to abolish the prac-
tice of shippers using freight cars as
storage warehouses by failing to
unload their freight within reason
able time, was issued yesterday by
the director general of the railroads,
William G.. McAdoo.
Beginning January 81. forty-eight
hours will be permitted for unload
ing of freight from cars, without
charge to the consignees. Demur-
rage charges beginning on the third
day will be SO a car. with a dollar
added for each additional day the
car is held until the eighth day,
when charge of $40 a day is reach
ed, and this sum will be charged fer
each additional day thereafter.
The order was issued by the Inter
state Commerce Commission upon
application of Director General Nc
Adoo.
Would Keep Stock Moving
McAdoo takes the position that
the transportation situation can be
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
Alleged Enemy Alien
Takes Office AS Mayor

Michigan city, Ind. Jan. Fred G.
Miller, alleged enemy alien, assumed
office as mayor of this city without
opposition at noon to-day At that
hour no word has been received as
to the progress of the Injunction pro-
ceedings begun at Valparaiso by per-
sons who objected to the installation
of German" mayor. There was no
disorder.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
Selective Service Act
Constitutional, Decides
u. S. Supreme Court

Washington, Jan. THE selec-
tice service law was to-day upheld
as constitutional by the Supreme
Court.
The Government contention that
the power given Congress to de-
clare war includes power to COM
pei citizens to render military
service both at home and abroad
Were sustained by the court.
Chief Justice White, who deliv-
cred the unanimous opinion, in a
brief statement declared that after
considering the various conten-
tions the conclusion had been
reached that most of them were
imaginary rather than real.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
FOOD CRISIS AT
HAND, RHONDDA
CABLES HOOVER
Situation in Allied Countries
of Europe Worse; U. S.
Must Help

Washington. Jan. :. - Baron
Rkondda. British food controller in
a cable to Herbert Hoover, the food
administrator, made public yester-
day, says:
Compulsory rationing of essential
foodstuffs is probable, and l view the
situation with grave anxiety.
II have repeatedly said in public
and private that there is no reason
for immediate alarm, although there
is every reason for strict economy
and precautionary measures. These
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
Emperor Rewards
U-Boat Commander
b. 4ssociai, d Press

Amsterdam, Jan. z. - Emperor
William has conferred the Order
Pour le Merite on Il submarine COM
cander, Kophamel, on his return
from a cruise to the Cape Verde
Islands. During this cruise, Kop-
hamel asserts, he sank an Am
erican destroyer and fourteen mer-
chantmen, most of them bound from
the United States for Italy or
France. lie is said to have brought
back twenty-five tons of copper as
booty.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
HALT
PEACE p: : 2.|LEY 2 :
WITH RUSSIA

Washington Jan. Germany has temporarily suspended
negotiations with This
from Berlin and followed meeting of the Crown Council at
tended by, Hindenburg and other leaders.
The for the Russias demand that in the future
parleys- be conducted at Stockholm.
Washington expresses belief that result of
speech Saturday the the peace game be
made-and PROBABLY wi--by Germany.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
u. s. SCORES BIG
IMPROVEMENT IN
CAREOF SOLDIERS
Method of Treating Wounds
Show Radical Departure
From Former Practices
Bv liSsoeiated Prcss

With the American Army in France
Sunday, Jan. 6.-Plans for the care
of American soldiers include radical
departure. from former methods OF
treating wounded. An announcement
made to-day by Surgeon General
Bradley says n method has been for
mulated assuring each case continu-
Gus treatment from the dressing sta
tion on the lighting line through
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London, JAN 7.-The Bosheviki definitely strengthening
the 'front.' Perograd advces The correspondent of the Daily
News obtained this information from NJ Rade of the Rs-
sian delegates who took prominent part in the negotiations with
the Austrans and Germans at Petrograd He said the Boevk
intending send home all who did wish fight
they would have army which willing fight for ideal
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-19
The Grand Manor de Lihoms

and had anybody in the town at that
time known how to distinguish it from
German one; but such natural move
ment might surely have been punishable
by something less than the most severe
penalties, death, for example. And it
was clear from that poster that any
glance skyward, even to see what
weather was promised, might be re-
warded by shot from a sentry. Yet
the chances against an aeroplane hostile
to our masters arriving over Saint Hi
laire were, at that time, enormous. How
ever. so it was. Picture us, then, moving
about in the prosecution of our 'abso-
lutely necessary purposes singly and
with our eyes on the ground, through
those silent, sunlit streets, afraid to
speak to one another, afraid to raise our
heads, our ears strained for the crack of
the rife which should shatter the silence
or give the signal for cataclysnn. All!
my good friend, if it was not CAV in
Saint Hilaire by night, it was not by day
either
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-19

relieve our burdened hearts. To testify
by so much as cigarette, by so much
as cheering word or a smile, our graft
tude to those who had lost everything
but life for us; to exercise the Christian
duty of showing compassion to an enemy;
these things were denied to US. To have
given so much as a glass of water to
poor fevered devil friend or foe, might
have been to set our homes ablaze over
our heads. 1t is unnecessary to say that
anything that could be construed into
concealment of or assistance given to an
escaped prisoner was punishable with
instant execution. Already very early
in the war, they had gone through Saint
Hilaire with small tooth comb in their
search for wounded Belgian and French
and English soldiers who might have
been concealed. No soldiers had been
found; no disturbances had occurred; no
hostages had been shot. 1t had proved
very tame affair. Yet it was always
possible that prisoner of war might
escape and take refuge in Saint Hilaire
1t was necessary to remind us of the
danger of harboring such scoundrels
"Wel, well, the reign of terror was
established among us, as you see, and
pretty effectively Now, having got
everything in order and to their liking,
our good Germans settled down to the
business of making the very most of us.
1t was simple business after all. 1t re-
quired no more than the posting from
time to time of new assessment Bel
glum had had the effrontery to resist in
vasion, to reject the divine protection of
the Hohenzollerns. BY so doing she had
constituted herself their prey, had
stripped herself of all rights and aban-
doned every last claim to consideration
She was an orange to be squeezed fiat
and dry, and those who held her between
their hands felt as little pity or remorse
as would you or for veritable orange
that we should have occasion to deprive
OF its juice for our drinking. Belgium
my friend, is, in this particular. tvpa
OF the whole world should those people
hold it ever at their mercy between their
mailed. fists First they took her food
then her money, then her machinery and
her household furniture and everything
else that was portable and lootable and
then they took her people, But this was
not yet. Not then did they feel the
pressure which a reused world was to
exert upon them in their turn, that press
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-19
Z ven the Church Bells
L. Were Silenced

"Then our church bells were silenced
lest ny this means communication with
the enemy Gas they called our friends)
be opened up. God, Who knows all
things, may perhaps understand how the
ringing of an Angelus could convey in
formation to an enemy that was beyond
sound of shot from the biggest how
itzer in the German army, or what In
formation it could carry save that we
still believed in Him; hut this mystery
was as far beyond our comprehension as
the enemy was beyond sound of our
bells. And so we lost yet another source
of consolation. For, believe me, nv
friend, there are conditions of existence
in which the voice of church bell can
carry message that is not without it's
value to those who hear It, even though
that value be not connected with mill
tary affairs.
1t was also forbidden to us to an
proach, on any pretext, the sick or
wounded, even the dead, belonging to the
German armies, or the prisoners of war
who were under the protection-save the
mark!-of the German armies. Not even
by an occasional act of kindness to a
suffering on miserable man might we
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-19

ure which was to put them at their
wits end to find hands for the driving
of their munition factories. They had
still plenty of German labor available
and their armies were still we'll up to
strength. They could themselves still
both fight and make shells. And so they
contented themselves for the time with
stripping their captives. Who shall ever
say what quantities of goods of every
kind went eastward over our railways
to be swallowed up and lost forever
beyond the frontier? 1t was such a loot
as has never been seen, and, | pray
heaven, will never again be seen on this
earth. All the robberies of Rome were
bagatelle to it. For Rome had never land
like Belgium to strip, and Rome never pos
sessed the means of transport which Bel
GUM could provide for her spoilers. Yes.
when Germany goes to war, she makes
no bones about it. She is thorough, thor
ough. Nothing is in her sight neeligi-
BILE. Machine bands by the mile, engines
and machinery of every sort by the
thousands of tons, she took; and while
she took these, she did not scorn to carry
off our pianos and carpets, our bicycles,
our pots and our pans, our tables and
chairs, the pictures off cur walls. the
bells out of our churches (the bells she
had first silenced), the leaden pipes and
roofs of our houses, the jewelry Of our
women iron money-her own-she gave
for this), and the rubber rings that our
babies cut their teeth on. Nothing
escaped her, if she thought that she
could find use for it. Only, it would
seem, was she prepared, as some one
said in history, to leave us our eyes to
weep with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-19
begging Food
- From Switzerland

One day we were privileged to read
a proclamation which informed us that
1t was to our interest to address pet-
ton for food to the Swiss government.
we were hidden to remember the help
which Switzerland SO generously gave
to the town of Strasburg in the war of
B70. We were told that large part
OF the provisions of the occupied dis
tricts had been carried off by the French
and English troops; that now requisi-
tons must continue to be made for the
benefit of the German army. ! We we're
assured that the German military au-