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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26
LOCAL NURSES,
LONG OVERSEAS.
ARRIVE HOME
Arrive in New York on Board
the Transport George
Washington
NOT WITHOUT ROMANCE
Young Women Faithful to
Uncle Sam Quiet on We'd
dings and Engagements

Harrisburg and central Pennsyl-
Nania nurses, who served valiantly
with the American Army in France,
have arrived in New York on the
great transport George Washington.
Most of the young women have
served at big base hospitals and
right behind the front lines for con-
siderably more than Il year. In
cluded in the party are:
Anna B. Behman. Steelton. Anna
\. Fellows, Camp Hill; Elda Gray
bill, Middleburg: Lucy L. Griffen.
York; Ella c. Hess, Almedia: Anne
Horton. Nanticoke: Elizabeth Kel-
sey, Lock Haven; kathryn r. LAWN
olyphant; Helen J. Leader and Mar
garet {. Lehman. Harrisburg;
Diana Lewis, Scranton; Nellie Ow-
ems, Bangor; Edith NJ. Sickles. Tn
iontown; Bessie Tattersall. White
Haven. and Elsie Z. Wise, Marys-
Vile.
The members of the party. which
included Philadelphia and Pennsyl-
yania nurses. represented the Epis-
copal Hospital. of Philadelphia.
They comprised Base Hospital Unit
No. "a and were in charge of Cap
tain Reuben Moser who was with
them for six months.
The nurses saw strenuous service
overseas, but it had its compenSa-
tons, if rumor that was current
is true. 1t was stated that one of
the number returning has. married
;t captain in the Sanitary Corps and
that two others are engaged, but
there is an unusual amount of reti-
cence among the nurses named in
the rumor. Gossip also says that
the nurses are engaged to men they
cared for in the hospitals.
The hospital in which the nurses
were stationed had a capacity for
900 patients. and oftentimes, they
said. it was taxed to its utmost ca
pacity.
In direct line with Chateau
Thierry. the nurses were kept very
huSy and they relate that often
times as many as $50 wounded SOL
diers would arrived on cars. Six
nurses went to the front to aid in
dressing and mobile hospitals. The
work was mostly surgical, but med
ical cases were also taken up.
Miss Katherine Brown was chief
nurse with the returning unit. In
speaking of her unit, she said:
Naturally. we are all delighted to
he home, but there's not one of us
who is not glad she went. We left
here in December, 1917, and had the
distinction of forming part of the
complement on the Leviathan's first
trip with troops. On arrival in
France we went to Blois and, as
there was not a hospital ready for
us. some of the nurses went to Paris
and others to st. Nazaire. In the
meantime the officers of the unit
had been busy getting our new home
ready, and so last March we were
able to take charge of it at Nantes"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26
STRICKEN WITH
ILLNESS, VICTIM
DIES ON GRAVE
Body of II. Howard George,
Railroad Engineer, Found
by Passerby in Cemetery

Lying across a grave in Calvary
Cemetery there was found shortly
after 9 o'clock this morning the
body of II. Howard George, Al
years old, of 1918 Park street, a
Philadelphia and Reading Railway
engineer. who disappeared from his
home yesterday afternoon at 1.S0
O'Clock.
George is believed temporarily to
have lost his reason, started in the
direction of his employment and
wandered into the cemetery where
he aied. lie had been suffering
with Eright's disease for some time,
had been off duty and had prepared
to return to work last evening.
Yesterday afternoon he left his
home in Park street to come into
the central part of the city to at
tend a moving picture show. When
he failed to return to his home last
evening for supper before going to
work search was made for him and
it was reported at the police sta
tion he was missing.
This morning when George W.
Valentine, PSF Hummel street,
passed the cemetery, he noticed the
dead body lying across the grave
and reported the fact to the police
station. Relatives were called and
identified the body as that of the
missing man.
Relatives say he was stricken last
week, that he suffered a chill and
later became unconscious and quite
delirious. While apparently recov-
cred, il is believed his illness caused
him to lose his senses temporarily
ard wander off yesterday. His wife
and one son, Howard, survive.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26
Second Call Entered Here
For San Francisco, With
Rates at $3.50 a Minute

The second call in the history of
the local telephone exchange to be
registered for San Francisco was
placed by guest at the Penn
Harris Hotel last night, the call be-
ing taken by Miss Blanche V. Gar
Verick, operator at the Penn-Harris
private branch exchange. Miss
Garverick made every effort to get
the call through, but it was impos-
sible to reach a point further west
than Denver. 1t was explained that
because of severe storms west of
that city the service would not be
satisfactory.
incidentally, curious reporter
looked up the rates to San Fran
cisco and found that the Bell Tele-
phone Company's charges are s17.75
for a three-minute conversation and
$3.50 for each additional minute. If
the call is for a particular person,
the chief operator said, charges will
be S22.15 for three-minute' con-
versation and s7.35 for each addi-
tional minute.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26
MANUFACTURE OF
BEER IS BEGUN IN
LOCAL BREWERIES
Big Storage Vats Being Filled
With Product Containing
24 Per Cent. Alcohol
INSPECTORS ON THE JOB
Test Case May Not Come Until
First Sale of New Bev-
erage Is Made

Beer, containing two and three
quarter per cent. of alcohol and less
and manufactured in accordance
with the advice of Elihu Root to
brewers of the United States, is now
being produced in all Harrisburg
and Steeltou breweries. it was learn
ed from the manager of one of them
this morning.
This production of beer has been
under way for some time, its manu-
facture having been started shortly
after the delivery of Roots advice
to the brewers that two and three
quarter per cent. beer is nonintoM-
eating and that they would not be
liable to prosecution for its brewing
and sale.
The four local brewers, together
with all brewers of the country,
will be liable to Federal prosecution,
United States Attorney General Nit
chell \. Palmer says, according a
Philadelphia dispatch. He has ascer-
tanned that n Federal enactment OF
fifty years standing, which has been
upheld by the highest courts, pro-
vides that an Intoxicating beverage
is any liquor containing more than
one half of one per cent. alcohol.
Rapidly Stocking Up
The manufacture of the quality of
beer which Root declares is not out
of accordance with Federal rulings.
is going on at rapid pace in the
several breweries of this locality.
Already thousands of gallons of the
beverage have been produced to
quench the thirst of HarrisburgerS
and others in the district supplied
from this city. The stock in all four
of them is rapidly increasing.
At a meeting of the brewers of
Pennsylvania under the auspices of
the PENNSYLVANIA Lager Beer Brew
ers' Association in Philadelphia yes
terday, it was resolved to go ahead
with the manufacture and sale of the
product being manufactured on
Roots advice, and to band to-
gether in the event that the Federal
government brought action against
any of them. Fifty of the largest
breweries of the State. representing
. eighty per cent. of the State trade,
were represented
| Brcwcries Inspected
| The internal revenue officials eX-
pect to take action against the brew
ers as soon as they place any of
their product on the market, it is
understood. Inspectors of the de-
partments are investigating the es-
adjustments regularly. officials say
! Collector Ledecer, of Philadelphia,
says
AS soon as brewers place their
newly brewed beer on the market
I have been instructed to take the
matter up with the authorities al
| Washington and we shall act. Brew
are are permitted to put several per
cent alcohol in beer. but, accord
ing to our regulations, they must
dealcoholiZe it to one-half of 1 pei
cent. The latter is the only kind OF
| beer that can be sold. with the ex-
! ception of the small amount of two
and three-quarter per cent. beer tha
brewers made before December /
of last year"
Some time must elapse before the
! brewing and the sale of the beer
but the ageing process is an elastic
/ one so that no definite time can be
set when the first brew will be put
on the market.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26
LEWIS. MILLER
DIES AT HOME AT
AGE OF SEVENTY
Had Been Poor Director and
Active Republican Leader
in His District

Levi S. Miller, aged 20 years.
County Poor Director since Janu-
ary, 1918, and a retired farmer. died
this morning at $50 o'clock at his
home in Hummelstown from
Bright's disease. While he had not
been in the best of health, Mr.. Mil
Ter attended to his official duties as
Director of the Poor with regular
ity. He attended the session of the
board on March Is, at which DR.. j.
II. Lehr, of Lykens, the new mem
Der, took oath of office. AS soon
as the board at its regular meeting
to-day learned of his death, the
members adjourned as a mark of re-
spect.
Mr.. Miller was born in Cumber-
land county April :. 1S4S. He was
raised there and during the Civil
War, though quite young, succeeded
in getting into service. Later he
came to Dauphin county and for
forty years was engaged in farm
ing in South Hanover township.
For many years he was dealer in
mules and other stock and as a re-
suit travelled over the gerater part
of Dauphin, Cumberland, Perry and
other nearby counties, making
many friends in all these districts.
Mr.. Miller sold many mules to coal
companies and farmers.
About a year ago he moved to
Hummelstown and had resided there
since. In November, 1917, he was
the Republican nominee for Direc-
tor of the Poor and was elected by
a big majority. For many years he
was an active Republican leader in
the township in which he resided,
but until his election to the Poor
Board he had held no other county
office.
Surviving Mr.. Miller are his wife.
two sons, the Rev. Clayton B. Mil
ler, now in North Carolina; Harvey
J. Miller, Philadelphia: Mrs Katie
E. Smith and Mrs. Ellen Shope, Un-
ion Deposit. Arrangements for the
funeral were not complete this aft
ernoon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26

the afternoon Marshal Foch and
Major General Thwaites, repre-
senting the British staff in the place
of General Wilson, were called in.
The premiers and the President con-
sidered advices just received about
the military situation in Russia. Z"
Public Learns Little
In the absence of official cont
muniques, the public has learned lit
tie about the meetings of the prem
iers and the President, but there IS
reason to believe that reparation for
war damages was the first serious
problem they sought to solve. All the
data on the British, French and
American positions on this question
was before them at the first meet
ing Tuesday.
1t is understood that the data
showed agreement on virtually all
features except the total amount
which the experts were unable tc
agree upon. Even the textual draft
of the reparation articles of the
peace treaty are ready with blank
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26
MERCHANTS
ARE ORGANIZING
BUSINESS BOARD
New Council Will Be Part of
Harrisburg Chamber
of Commerce

A Merchants Council to give spec
ial attention to matters that concern
merchant members, is being planned
for the Harrisburg Chamber of Com
merce. Preliminary plans for the
organization of the new unity were
at the Chamber offices to-
day.
The movement will be launched on
Tuesday evening, April IS. at the
Penn-Harris dinner. on that eve
ming, following a dinner which will
be prepared by the Penn Harris
chef, William Smedley, of Philadel-
phia, secretary of the Retail Merch-
ants Association of Pennsylvania,
will address the merchants. Mr..
Smedley has been active in the or
ganization of retail merchants
CONTINUED on Page ST.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26
TEACHER SPOILS
DAY FOR FIRE FIGHTERS
And Now Council Wants to Know Why Motorize Fire APP
paratus if Boys Can Beat Automobile to Fire

Camp Hill, Pa. March 26.-When
the fire broke out +. Slate Hill yes
terday about half the school boys
and girls of town deserted the play
grounds where they were enjoying
morning recess and ran pell nell
across fields and got to the home of
Walter Kocher in time to carry out
most of the furnishings and to save
large quantities of potatoes and 9TH
er crops stored in the barn. They
proved able and valiant firemen,
some working in wet clothes receiv-
ed when 4 half-dozen of them fell
into Cedar run which they had to
cross on their way.
The homeless fire victims thanked
their young benefactors and praised
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26
Influenza Hits England;
Doctors Feel Great Strain
BN Associntnd Preaa

London, March 26.-The return of
the epidemic of influenza finds Eng
land so short of doctors and nurses.
that, according to reports from var
ious parts of the country, there are
not enough even to give casual at
tention to patients. The strain on the
medical men who are trying to cope
with the emergency is so severe that
there is danger of many of them
breaking down.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26

home in high spirits, especially proud
since they had beaten a Ford car,
driven by a teacher and loaded with
older boys, to the fire by twenty
minutes. Then the horrid teacher
just went and spoiled everything by
giving each fire lad and lassie five
demerits for absence without leave
And this morning members of
borough council are asking what's
the use in considering the purchase
of motor driven fire apparatus il the
school children of town can get to
fire more rapidly than an automo-
bile? The fire protection agitators
are in for a bad half-hour next time
council meets,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26
Maitre d'Hotel Davidson
to Manage Big Hotel

]. Elmer Davidson, maitre d'hotel
of the Penn-Harris Hotel, will leave
for Macon, Ga, tonight to accept
managerial position in the Hotel
Dempsey. one of the largest hotels
in the South.
Mr. Davidson has been maitre
d'hotel of the Penn-Harris since its
opening in January. He is one of
the best-known hotelmen in the
country. He is an intimate friend
of Horace Leland Virgins, mana
ger of the local hotel, and it was
through the influence of the latter
that he secured his new position.
He has had more than twenty-five
years of experience in the hotel
business.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26
CHAsEs AUTO THEE

When Mrs. Sarah Hetrick, 500
North Eighteenth street. saw two
strangers about to enter the auto
mobile owned by her son. Samuel p.
Hetrick "a grocer. and drive away,
while he and his wife were visiting
friends, she called Jerome I. Het-
rick, who chased the men for sew
eral blocks before they eluded him
and escaped.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26
70 Children Die When
Cry Of "Fire" Causes
Stampede in Silesia
BIZ Associated Press.

Berlin, March 26.- Seventy chill
dren are dead and twenty injured
seriously as the result of a stampede
during a Juvenile entertainment at
Cleiwitz. Silesia. The children rushed
toward the exits when someone
raised the cry of fire" Most of the
casualties occurred in the rush down
the stairways
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26
School Children Go Back
After One Days Strike

Because they could not have flag
raising exercises at the same time
the Williamstown school children
had their program. boys and girls
of the Lykeus schools went on strike
yesterday and left the building, and
paraded the streets in patriotic
demonstration. According to reports
from the upper end borough the diff
fculties have been settled and the
pupils are in school again.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26
FIND PATROLMAN a SUICIDE


Chicago. March 26.-An inquest was
to be held to-day on the body of
James O'Connor, former New York
City patrolman, found in small no
tel with an empty bottle. which had
contained poison, beside him. Pa
pers found among his effects showed
he had enlisted in the army. He was
on his way to the United States gem
eral hospital. at Denver, Col. for
further observation"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26
COWS KICK KILLS WOMAN
RU ISSOcfnfed press

Reading. Pa, March 26.-Kicked
over the heart by COW she was
milking last night at her home near
Hamburg, Mrs. Irwin Sunday. 30,
farmers wife. suffered puncture of
the tissues of the heart and died
within an hour. She was the mother
of two children.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26
ASSASSINS SLAY
FORMER PREMIER
SAYS REPORT
Another Dispatch Declares
Hungarian Reds Have
Arrested Karolyi

Bernc, March 26.-Accordng to
an unconiirmed rumor reaching
Prague from Budapest, former
Premier Karolyi of Hungary has
been aSsassinated.
Copenhagen, March %. = Count
Michael Karolyi, former president of
Continued on Page s.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26
HUNS TO HOLD ON
TO ALL TERRITORY
By Associated Press.

Berlin, March Pet take a
most solemn oath that the gov
ernment will not surrender to
the enemy one inch of German
territory, either east or west"
said DR.. Schiller, Minister of FL
nance in the new Cabinet, in ad-
dressing a great crowd in front
Of the Chancellor's palace on
Sunday, according TO the Tages
Zeitung.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26
TO STUDY BIRDS

The Harrisburg Natural History
Society members will leave Market
Square on the 1 o'clock White Hill
car Saturday afternoon, going to
Eberly's Mil where they expect to
study water birds.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26
THE WEATHER

For Harrisburg and vfcinity1 I'm
settled weather, probably rain
late Tonight and ON Thursday;
warmer tonight, with lowest
temperature about 4S degrees.
For Eastern Pennsylvania;
Cloudy and warmer tonight,
probably followed by rain In
early morning and on Thurs
day; moderate, south winds.
River
The SUsauehanna river md prob
ably all Its branches will con-
tiHue to fall slowly Tonight.
Rain may cause some tribu-
taries TO rise Thursday. 4 stage
of about 5-3 feet IN Indicated for
Harrisburg Thursday morning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26

acceptable Italy resented
terms with Germany document which failed deal with
tas interests in Austria Premier Orlando strongly opposes
the of clauses dealing with ays
Discuss Differences Frankly
The differences OF opinion which have developed since the rex
turn of Mr. Wilson Paris being considered fully and franks
N and determined effort is being made in the interest of
early reach broad lines. The session
yesterday afternoon held the French
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26
PEACE BOARD MAKES GREATER
PROGRESS THAN APPEARS, SAY.
YANKEE DELEGATES IN CABLE
World Congress Contempates Merging Treaties So Europe
May Soon Feel Effect of Work at Paris; Germany
Viii Stick to Wilson's Plan For Hun

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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-27
GIANT AMERICAN OPAL,
WORTH $250,000 BEING
SHOWN IN WASHINGTON
Especial eoeRsspoNDsneE 70 MORNING 1ovsnALl


Washington, Oct. ga giant
American opal said to be the largest
gem in the rough ever discovered in
the world, recently was placed on
private exhibition in the offices Of
Secretary FRANKLIN X. Lane, of the
interior department
The mammoth stone is technically
listed as a black opal. 1t was found
two years ago in a new opal field in
the northwestern part of the United
States which is said to rival in rich
ness the famous Lightning Ridge dis
trict of Australia Its discovery was
kept secret because it was feared that
the gorgeous gem might tempt an in
vestment of money during war times
which might have been employed
more profitably in patriotic channels
The opal weighs 1896 Troy ounces,
according to the assayer OF the treas
ury department and its bulk is TWEEN
ty-one cubic inches. The value placed
Der of diamonds have been worth.
more With the explosion of the
myth that the opal is unlucky and
with the output of the Australian
fields setting new standards for opals
in price and beauty it is believed tho
great opal, when thrown upon tho
market, will be quickly snapped up
by some connoisseur among Ameri
can millionaires.
The basic colOrs of the stone are a
cominging of deep green and blue,
which are shot with flashes of Grim
son. The irridescence is remarkable.
The red fire flares through the emer-
aid and sapphire tones in play of con-
stantly changing and vibrant mean.
descence which makes the gem seem
alive.
The group of experts who We're adj
mitted to view the opal in Secretary
Lanes office spent a half hour in eX-
aiming it and expressed amazement
at it's beauty and brilliancy DR.. Nor
rill, curator of the National museum,
who is an authority on precious
stones said it was the most nearly
flawless opal he had ever seen. The
gem was photographed for the Ma
tional Geographic society.
The nearest approach in size to this
record breaking opal is the famous
Viennese opal discovered in Hungary
in 1870, which is not flawless and is
orly two-thirds the size of the Ameri-
can stone. The Viennese gem weighs
1898 Troy ounces and measures
thirteen cubic inches in the mass. It's
value is fixed at 100000. 1t has
never changed hands at that price,
but successive offers Of s125.000 and
$4,000 have been refused for it.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-27
Dividends But No Oil.

Roswell Star: Secretary A. Fl
Rockafellow, of the Roswell oil De-
velopment company. is today bus5
writing the dividend checks to the
various stockholders of the company
This money is coming from the first
payment made by the National Explor-
alton copany, of New York city, on
the $4,000 acres which has just beer
purchased from the local company
The dividends are being written or
$134,000, the capitalization of the
Roswell Oil Development company
and will represent neat little sum ,of
$4,000. As soon as the purchasing
company makes the next payment &c
the local company another fifty per
cent dividend will be issued to the
stockholders.