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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-11

Former Senator Sp0oncr Dies.
NEW YORK, June 1l-John Colt
Spooner, former United States Senator
from Wisconsin, died at his home here
early today after an ILLNESS of several
weeks. He suffered relapse Monday
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
REPEAL OF OLD
BLUE LAW IS
AGAIN URGED
Bill Permitting Sunday Movies
and Concerts Introduced
in Legislature :.

Sunday orchestral concerts, lee
lures, movie shows ''and other en-
'tertainments. of an educational char
acter' would be Iegalized on Sundays
in a measure introduced in the House
this morning by Representative Will
liam e. Rorke, of Philadelphia.
The bill is an amendment to the
old Blue Laws of 1894, which was
termed can act for the prevention
of vice and immortality, and of un-
lawful gaming and TO restrain dis
orderly sports and dissipation"
Representative Rorke's amend
ment provides for educational en-
tertainments on the Sabbath provid-
ed there is mo raising or lowering
of the curtain, no appearance of any
person in costume and no moving or
changing of scenery or furniture
upon such stage or platform.
The bill is expected to receive the
backing of the persons in PHILADELPHIA
who have been lighting for the past
several years for permission to hold
Sunday concerts of the PHILADELPHIA
orchestra.
Another bill introduced recently in
the House by Representative Powell
of Luzerne, provides for the repeal
of the Blue Laws. This measure,
however, is not expected to get out
of committee, but there is feeling
that the Rorke bill may find consid-
cradle support from members who
represent Philadelphia, Pittsburgh
and the third class cities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
SOLDIERS HOME
FROM ARMY ARE
HELD AT POLLS
Registration Boards Demand
Tax Receipts of Men
Who Saw Service

With the refusal of registrars in a
few of the city districts to enroll re-
turned soldiers who had been in
service for two years or more and
for that reason could not present a
county tax receipt when they applied
for registration to-day for the special
election to name a successor to Lieu
tenant Governor Beidleman in the
State Senate, appeals may be made
by the. men to the County Commits
sioners.
Reports that the army men who
are home again would not be reg
istered in one or two districts where
they resided and applied were re-
.ceived by the County Commissioners
to-day. The registrars, it is Under
stood, followed the law which re-
quires them to register only men
who have paid taxes within two
years. or can make an affidavit that
they lost their receipts. ,
The soldiers who were in the army
for two years or more were eXoner-
ated in most instances, officials say,
and while under an old act they can,
upon payment of a small tax, vote,
1T is said the tax should be paid at
least thirty days preceding the date
for registration.
The Commissioner learned of the
question confronting the registrars
when telephone calls were received
at the office. They said that anyone
whom the registrars would not en-
roll should appeal to them within
five days and they would then ask
for an opinion on the laws.
The following registrars were ap-
pointed to-day to fill vacancies:
William f. Lutz, Fourteenth ward:
George w. largest, Tenth ward,
First precinct; w. j. carp, Fourth
ward, First precinct; Amos G.. Blot
tenberger, Sixth ward, Third pre-
cinct.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
MORSE CABINET
QUITS AS LEADER
LOSES CONTROL
Bryn, Minister at Washing
ton, May Head New
Ruling Body
By Associated Press

Christiania, Feb. 5.-The Nor
wegian cabinet headed by Gunnar
knudsen has resigned. The reason
given is that Knudsen's party has
ceased to maintain its control of
parliament. The resignation has been
accepted by the king and speculation
as 10 the new ministry include the
possibility that II. III. Bryan, Nor
wegian minister at Washington, will
be named foreign minister
The Norwegian cabinet headed by
Gunnar Knudsen was formed on
January 29, 1913. 1t had a rather
stormy career, its personnel being for
the most part changed since it's
formation. The cabinet weathered n
severe storm in November, 1917.
when resolution designed to force
its resignation was brought before
the Norwegian parliament. It charged
plumbers in handling the food sit
uation and failure TO yield to the
request of the United States to place
the nation on food allowance, The
resolution was defeated but opposi-
tion to the cabinet continued. Copen.
hagen dispatches announced on Jan
uary "a that ministerial crisis was
imminent in Norway.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
Camp Hill Fireman Says Cum
bersome Old Apparatus Can
Stand in Highways, Monu-
ment to Borough's Slowness
UP TO THE FIREMEN,
SAY COUNCIL MEMBERS
Fires Are Always Burned Out
Berore Chemical Wagon
Can Be Dragged to Blaze,
Retort Volunteers

Who wants the Camp Hill fire ap-
paraus?
That's a problem that is stirring
the bright little town across the
river. The chemical wagon was
taken to a fire in Long street early
Monday morning and since that time
has been left standing at Market
and Long streets.
The wagon was left there to show
the citizens of Camp Hill how in
efficient and inadequate is their fire
apparatus" says Robert L. Cahill,
president of the Camp Hill Fire
Company.
The Buck Is Passed
TITS up to the firemen to take the
apparatus home" says George w.
Ensing, president of the Borough
Council. In the meantime property
owners are praying that there will
be no fires until the squabble blows
over.
1t appears that when the alarm
sounded Monday Il number of fire
men, identity unknown, pulled the
apparatus from the fire house and
after while induced some equally
unknown autoist to drag it to the
fire. The blaze had burned itself
out by the time the volunteers ar
rived. No one volunteered to drag
the apparatus back.
Much Too Heavy
Its too heavy" say the firemen.
why the last time a barn burned,
the structure was mass of ruins be-
for the old engine could be brought
up; so heavy that when we can
borrow a couple horses to haul it
about, the team pulled the shaft out
before the machine moved foot"
Too Impctuous
According to Fire President Cahill,
it is high time that the borough
provide apparatus that is motor
driven and up-to-date. Horses have
to be borrowed to move the. present
chemical wagon.
According to Council President En-
sign, Cahill is too impetuous. I'VE
can't appropriate money for fire ap-
paratus in the middle of the year.
but Cahill won't watt
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
Eggs Sell Down to Fifty
Cents in Local Markets

With the hens influenced by the
mild weather and icreasinG their pro-
production accordingly fresh eggs took
another big drop today and at the
city markets :his morning sold at the
fifty cents figure, the lowest that has
been reached for a number of months
While Harrisburg is enjoying low
or prices for eggs than it has for
some time. surrounding rural com =
munities have prices prevailing that
permit the ordinary man to have the
fresh product on his table. The low
est price reported is thirty-seven
cents per dozen, eggs selling for that
figure at Shepherdstown. three miles
from Mechanicsburg. Grantham and
Bowmansdale, both about ten miles
from the city on the Philadelphia and
Reading railway. report eggs as SELL
at fourtyfour cents per dozen.
Not much change was made in the
price of butter in the city market
this morning. The fresh homemade
goods retailed at sixty cents.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
3,7O3,273 YANKEES
In RANKS AT END
OF WORLD STRIFE
Figures Show the Allied Rifle
Strength Exceeded That
of Huns on July 1

Washington, Feb. 5.-The total
strength of the United States army
on November IL, when the armistice
was signed and when the American
war effort was at it's peak, was g.
7O3,273 officers and men. including
the marine corps on duty with the
army in Europe. A statistical table
made public to-day by the War De-
partment gives this figure.
Included in the table is a COM
parative statement of the strength
of the Allied and German forces on
the western front, by months, be-
ginning April 4, 1918, showing tha-
on July 1 for the first time the AL
lied rifle strength" exceeded that
of the Germans.
In rifle strength, which means men
standing in the trenches ready to
go over the top with the bayonet,"
the Allied total on July 1 was 1856
CONTINUED on Page R1
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
Republicans Will Name
F. A. Smith For Senate

The executive committee of the
Republican county committee will
meet tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock in the Republican headquar-
ters in the Wyeth building to nomi-
nate candidate to succeed Lieu
tenant-Governor L. L. Beidleman
in the State Senate. An hour later
the whole county committee will
meet at the same place to ratify
the nomination.
Frank A. Smith, for many years
prominent in Republican circles, for
mer county chairman and at pres
ent state committeeman from this
district, will be nominated without
opposition. The Democrats will Of
fer no more than formal opposition
and Mr.. Smith is practically certain
of being chosen to the Senate for
the uneXpired term at the special
election set for February 25.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
Dry" Leaders Are Prepared
to Fight Every Beverage
and Medicine" Which Con-
tains a Trace of Alcohol
TWO PER CENT. BEER
NOT TO BE TOLERATED
No Chance to Be Left For Tip
piers to Drink Bone Lini-
ment" When" Kick" Is ELM
mated From Everything
what is Intoxicating liquor 2

What is Intoxicating liquor?"
That is the prime question being
asked, high and low, far and wide.
Will it be possible when prohibition
is in sway, to get some beverage
with just ''teeny" bit of alcohol
in it?
The question arises because of the
wording of the dry amendment to
the federal constitution. The amend
ment porhibits the manufacture, sale
and importation of Intoxicating
liquors" This wording leaves il up
to Congress and the legislatures of
the several states to define what is
meant by Intoxicating"
All Alcohol to Go
This seething discussion was
touched on in Harrisburg to-day
with no uncertain word by DR.. John
Royal Harris, state superintendent Of
the Dry Federation, who directed the
dry" campaign in Pennsylvania and
who was interviewed at his apart
ment at the Penn-HafriS.
"All alcohol will be eliminated Ia
Continued on Page 1871
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
British Leader Is
Sure Ties Are
Not in Peril
HASTE MAKING
IN WIDE PEACE
Settlement of War
Accounts on the
Way at Paris
By Associated Press

Paris, Feb. 5.-Alliance between
the various nations will not be af-
fected by the existence of the So
ciety of Nations, now in process of
formation, Arthur j. Balfour told
newspaper interviewers here last
night. The British Foreign Secre-
tary was asked the direct question as
to whether the formation of the
world society would involve the alb
rogation of alliances.
Treaties to Remain Intact
"The constitution of the League
of Nations" he responded, will in
Nolyc no Modification of the treaties
of alliance previously concluded.
"As to the question whether spe-
cial coalitions of two or several peo-
pies could be formed aside from the
league" Mr.. Balfour added, the
conference alone can decide"
Military Intervention in Russia on
a large scale is not to be thought of,
Mr.. Balfour declared. The great
Powers were doing everything they
considered could be done, however,
he said, in dealing with what he
characterized as a most disquieting
situation"
Pcaccmaking Haste
AS to the general work OF the
Peace Conference, he declared the
peace-making body was making all
possible haste to settle upon the
peace terms. He said:
THE fact that the problem of the
Society of Nations has been taken up
before that of peace, properly so
called, in no way signifies that the
settlement of our accounts with the
enemy will only come afterwards.
The mechanism of the commissions
we have instituted permits the con-
current study of several questions"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
Seek Solution in Unrest
of Labor Circles Following
Demobilization of Armies
BY Associated Press

London, Feb. 5.-'The cabinet and
various government departments
concerned in the labor troubles are
active to-day seeking a solution of
the difficulties. There have been nu-
merous interviews and conferences
with representatives of the strike
movements and trade unions.
In a general way the governme ent
has decided to maintain its policy
of non-intervention in strikes not
authorized by trade unions, but at
the same time directing it's influence
towards inducing the malcontent
workers to see the advisability of
acting through their official trade
representatives.
No Big Change
There is no actual change in. the
situation early to-day, nor is a fur
ther extension of the strikes re-
ported.
The situation on the Clyde and at
Belfast is improving. An increasing
number of men are remaining at
work in the Glasgow district. while
hopeful feeling prevails in Belfast
where Sir Edward Carson has prom
ised to bring the question of a ma
uonal reduction in hours before
parliament at the first opportunity.
II. X. Clerks to Stick
The threatened strike of railway
clerks has been averted. The en-
ployers have conceded the recogni-
ton of the railway clerks union.
The concession recognizing this
union is important inasmuch as al
though only $4,000 men are affected
they consist of stationmasters, tick
ct sellers and other employees. a
strike on the part of whom would
have tended to disrupt the working
of the railways throughout the king
dom.
The railway clerks union has
been in existence for twenty-one
years, but never before has been
recognized as a labor organization.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
BY Associated Press

Berlin, Feb. Independent So
cialists interrupted telephone com
munication between Weimar and
Eisenach and Erfurt for several
hours Monday afternoon, according
to advices received by the Tage-
blatt from Weimar. where the Ma
tional Assembly will meet on Thurs
day.
An Alpine corps of 1000 men, un-
der command of General Merker,
has arrived at Weimar and will DO
lice the city. These are official gov
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
Y'SHOUSING
PROBLEMS TOBE
TOLDBY EXPERT
Joseph G. Leland Will Adj
dress Chamber of Commerce
in Penn-Harris February IA

The Harrisburg Chamber of Com
'merce campaign for better housing
VIII receive an impetus Friday noon,
February IA, when Joseph G. Le-
land, third vice-president of the
United States Housing Corporation,
VIII address membership meeting
in the Penn-Harris ballroom, on the
subject of The Nations Part in In
dustrial Housing"
The speaker will be brought here
under the auspices of the housing
committee of the Chamber, of which
- Horace Mcfarland is chairman.
Inc meeting will be held in con-
Juhctlon with the conference of the
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
Burglars Dynamite Safe
in Hanover PostO&ce;
Get $4,000 in Big Haul

York, Pa. Feb. 5.-Burglars entered
the Hanover post office early this
morning, dynamited the safe and got
away with $4,000 in stamps and reg
istered packages. A large package
of money, the exact value of which
Postmaster l.. X. Eichelberger .re-
fuses to make known was overlooked.
Three charges of nitro -glycerine. it
is said We're used and the safe was
blown to pieces. No clue as to the
identity of the burglars has been
obtained. The post office department
at Washington has been notified
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
Scott Nearing Trial
Gets Start in New York
BY Associated Press

New York, Feb. 5.-Scott Near
ing, one time professor in the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, and a So
cialist candidate for Congress in this
city last fall, was placed on trial in
the Federal Court here to-day on a
charge of sedition. After one Juror
had been called the case was adj
journed until tomorrow to await
the arrial from Chicago of Seymour
Steadman, chief counsel for the de-
fense.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
HINES AT ODDS
WITHPOMERENE
IN RAILPOLICY
Senator Asserts the Railroad
Question Will Enter Presi-
Dental Election
BY Associated Press

Washington, Feb. 5.-Out of a
colloduy between Director General
Hines and Senator Pomerene, OF
Ohio, at q hearing to-day before the
Senate Interstate Commerce Com
mittee. developed a Qualification of
diverging views on the question of
extending Government control of
railroads.
Senator Pomerene. speaking as a
legislator. said he could not under
stand why the director general
should ask Congress to turn over to
him for five years the management
of tremendously valuable properties
in order to permit him to work out
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
ALPINE GUARDS ARE
TO PROTECT WEIMAR
Soldiers Assigned to New Capital of Germany
Where National Assembly Is to Gather
For Transaction of Nations Work

ernment troops, but will be assisted
by the garrison of Weimar, which is
loyal to the government and pre-
pared to defend the National Assem-
bly,.
Majority Socialist members of the
Soldiers and Workmen's Council at
Erfurt have resigned on the grounds
that they cannot share the respon-
sibility for the Councils present ac-
tions. Officers in the Erfurt arsenal
have refused to report for. duty un-
til weapons taken from the arsenal
CONTINUED on Page 6.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
18th Division Now Is
at Colombeyles-B elles

Washington, Feb. 5.-A new table
of locations of units of the Ameri-
can EXpeditionary Forces on Janu-
ary 16. made public late yesterday
by the War Department, showed
that the Twenty eighth division,
composed of Pennsylvania National
Guardsmen was at Colombeyles-
Bellies. having been transferred since
the last announcement from Heudi-
court. The division was listed as
the Second Army Reserve.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
THOUSANDS, MAD
FROM HUNGER IN
LINZ, RAID SHOPS

London, Feb. 5.-Thousands of
persons in the district of Linz,
the capital of upper Austria, have
been plundering the food shops
and committing other dcprela-
tions, according 20 reports from
Linz transmitted ny the Exchange
Telegraph correspondent at vi
emma. The people, the reports
stated, had become maddened by
hunger. The adviCes added that
the disorders had not yet been
suppressed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
Father, Bent on Rescue
of Children, Is Fire Victim
Bp Associated Prcss

Pittsburgh, Feb. 5.-One man was
burned to death, several persons are
missing. and one hundred children
were rescued by firemen when the
South Side Public School at Oak
dale, near here, was destroyed by
fire this morning. The dead man is
Edward McKissock, who went into
the burning building to save his two
children and was caught under a
falling wall. The children had been
rescued by friends.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
RICHoNIAN, CHINESE RED. SHOT

Stockholm, Feb. 5.-Dianyo Rich
oman, head of Chinese Bolshevilx
propaganda in the Far East ana the
president of the Chinese section OF
the communist party, has been as
sassinated by an unidentified per-
son, according to dispatch from
Petrograd. lie was shot down as he
began a public speech.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
ASKS CONGRESS TO MAKE
1919 WHEAT PRICE CERTAIN
BY Associated Press
y sF99VN NFutNU q FtHA
Eeh- & :

WHSIHlgtOn, FeD. D. = Julius
Barnes. head of the food admins
tration's grain corporation, asked
Congress to-day through the Hoiise
agriculture committee. to delegate
broad powers to President Wilson
as a means of making effective the
governments guaranteed price for
the 1919 wheat crop.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
K. Of c. Secretary Dies
in France of Pneumonia

Paris, Feb. 5.-William James
Riley, of New York, a secretary in
the knights of Columbus, died Satur-
day of pneumonia. Mr.. Riley was
buried in the American military GEM
etery at Suresnes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
THE WEATHER

For Harrisburg and vicinity. Fa.-
and colder Tonight, with lowest
temperature about 20 degrees,
Thursday fair.
For Eastern Pennsylvania Fnir
colder to-nightj Thursday fair,
moderate northwest winds be-
coming variable.
River
The susquehanna river and all its
branches will fall slowly or re-
main nearly stationary. Float
ing ice will probably appear to-
night In the streams now omen.
ana ice VIII increase In thick
ness where streams are frore.
A stage of about 4.3 feet In indI-
Gated for Harrisburg Thursday
morning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
BAN ON ARMY UNIFORM

WnshIngtOn, Feb. 5-Commlndnnts
of all army camps and posts have
been instructed by General March to
prevent the sale OF delivery of uni
forms by civilian tailors to officers
and men of the army about to be
discharged.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
FAMILIES FLEE
FROM HOMES AS
FLAMES SPREAD
Two Houses in Julia Street
Destroyed by Fire Which
Started in Stable

Two families lost their homes and
more than a thousand dollars dam
age was caused to household goods
and property in a fire which start
ed in the stable of Harry Herman,
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

3 GEORGE w. COLES RETAINED
Harrisburg-ceorge w. Coles, Philadelphia has bean
retained as one of the attorneys to look after the interests
of the commonwealth in connection with the estates of
in insane hospitals able pay for their support
WILSON. CABLES GRATITUDE
. Washington President Wilson, in cablegram re-
ceved to-day by Representative Padge of Tennessee
chairman of the House Naval Committee, reaffirnsd his
approval second hreeyear naval building program
The President oabed May not express my grati6
cation and grattute and congratulations the unanimous
= report on the three-year naval program?"
. 500 RAIL MEN MEET
chambersburg- Cumberland Valley Railroad
Federation of Labor held meeting here last night with
500 preesnt from all along the line N NJ Jones' of
Harrisburg C r Foster, Columbus, ohio w. F. Her
shey Pitcairn and others spoke mo reduction Of wages
or increase Of time was the text"
: LONDON LINES TIED UP !
.London-There was no improvement to-day in the
strike situation in London All the tubes and under,
ground lines except the Metropolitan which has only one
line running into the city, were still tied up.
YANK STRENGTH OVERSEAS ON NOV Ii
Wsshngton-on November H. the American army
in Europe was composed Of 8os42 officers and 1868474
men Will egl62 officers and 2lo72 men were at sea
en- route for Europe
sTEELToN MUTUAL IN TROUBLE !
Harrisburg The attorney generals department to-day
cited into court the steeon Mutual Fire Com
pany Of which F E Smith is president and Christian
Hess secretary being in unsafe conditions and the
court gave the company until Feb 19 to show cause why
it should not be declared insolven and its affairs wound
Up It was chartered March rs, 1908
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Henry L. Woodland and CInretta e. Powell, Philadelphia
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05

Of Chamb
Argonne
off
Debarkaion he
of the Obedsth
say VS. Charlie
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05

Henry L. Woodland and ciarettn e.
t55 !. 4 HI.