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LXXXYII- No. 6 14 PAGES
DRAFT LAW IS CONSTITUTIONAL
DECLARES U. S. SUPREME COURT
DRAFT LAW IS
VALID DECIDES
SUPREME BODY
Washington, Jan. 7.—The selective!
service uet was to-day upheld as con-|
stitutional by the Supreme Court.
The decision resulted from the up-!
reals of thirteen cases growing out
of convictions under the Selective
Service Act, live coming from New i
York; three l'rom Ohio; four from
Minnesota, and one from Georgia.
Constitutionality of the act was made
the basis for all the appeals.
The cases from New York were
fiose of l..ouis Kramer, Morris
Becker, Kmraa Goldman, Alexander;
Iterkman and Meyer Graubard. The,
.irst fciir were convicted of aHempt
ing to 'nduce others of draft age net'
to reg.ster an additional charge I
of failure to register was made!
against Kramer, who was sentenced!
to two year's imprisonment. Becker]
was sentenced to one year and
eight months in jail while Emma!
Goldman and Berkman were ordered t
imprisoned for two years and I'.tied!
? 10,000 apiece.
I'onor to Declare War
Chief Justice White in the opinion
said:
1 he law, as its title declares, was
inicnded to supply temporarily the;
increased military force which was
requited by the existing emergency,j
the war, then and now flagraut."
(Here the chief justice recited the
provisions of the act and the con
tentions of those who attacked its
constitutionality.)
"The possession of authority to
enact the statute," said the chief|
justice, "must be l'ound in the j
clauses of the constitution giving!
Congress power to declare war; |
x :: x to raise and support armies, J
but no appropriation of money to j
thut tif-e shall be for a longer term
than two years; x x x to n.ake
rules tor the government and :egu
k.lion of the land and naval forces.-.'
Must Have Men
"As- the mind cannot conceive an;
army without the men to compote j
it, on the face of the constitution the!
ol jection that it does not give power'
FOOD CRISIS AT 1
HAND,RHONDDA
CABLES HOOVER
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Situation in Allied Countries
of Europe Worse; U. S.
Must Help
Washington. Jan. 7. - Baron i
Hhondda. Hritish food controller, in j
a cable to Herbert Hoover, the food:
administrator, made public yester-!
day. Kays:
"Compulsory rationing of essential <
foodstuffs is probable, and I view the |
situation with grave anxiety.
"I have repeatedly said in public j
and private that there is 110 reason
for immediate alarm, although there!
is every reason for strict economy
and precautionary measures. These ;
[Continued on I'agc 11.]
Alleged Enemy Alien
Takes Office As Mayor
By Associated Press
Michigan City, lnd., Jan. 7.—Fred C. 1
Miller, alleged enemy alien, assumed I
office as mayor of this city without
opposition at noon to-day. At that
hour no word lias been received as j
to the progress of the injunction pro- j ■
ceedings begun at Valparaiso by per- I
sons who objected to the installation |
of a "German" mayor. There was no|
disorder.
U. S. STEAMSHIP TORPEDOED
A A ID SUNK WITH
EIGHT OF CREW ARE MISSING
New York, Jan. 7.—The I
American steamship Ilarryl
Luckenbach has been torpedoedi
<>nd sunk with loss of life, ac-;
cording to word received by the J
I owners of the vessel to-day.
Eight of the crew arc missing,
the owners we're informed. The
crew consisted of 30 men not in
cluding the naval guard.
When last heard from by the
owners, the Harry Luckenbadi
was in France, having been re
quisitioned at a French port Oc-.
tober 15 by General Pershing icr
use as a supply vessel under the
general requisition order of the
United States Shipping 3Dard.
HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1918.
Selective Service Act
Constitutional, Decides
U. S. Supreme Court
Hv Associated I'rcss
Washington, Jan. 7.—The selec
tive 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
! pel citizens to render military
i service both at home and abroad
were sustained by the court.
Chief Justice White, who deliv
ered 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.
tc provide for such men would 'icem!
! to be too frivolous for further notice
It is siiid, however, that since un
der the constitution as' originally j
j 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
coterminous with United States citi
zenship and could not be exerted so
as to cause that citizenship to lore
! its dependent character and domi-
J rate state citizenship.
Power Is Supreme
"But the proposition simply <le
i nies to Congress the power to raise
, armies vhich 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
framers of the constitution in con
i {erring authority on Congress and in
' [Continued on Page 11.]
U.S.SCORES BIG
IMPROVEMENT IN
CARE OF SOLDIERS
Method of Treating Wounds 1
Show Radical Departure
From Former Practices
By Associated Press
With the American Army In France |
(Sunday), Jan. 6. —Plans for the care,
of American soldiers include r a judical I
departure from former methods or j
treating wounded. An announcement
made to-day by Surgeon General
Bradley says a method has been for
mulated assuring each case continu
ous treatment from the dressing sta
tion on the lighting line through
[Continued on I'agc ll.]
Emperor Rewards
• U-Boat Commander
By slsiociatt d Press
Amsterdam, Jan. 7. limperot-
William has conferred the Order
Pour le Merite cm a submarine com
candcr, Kophamcl, on his return
from a cruise to the Cape Verde
islands. During this cruise, Kop
hamcl nsserts, 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-two tons of copper as
booty.
It is believed she was sunk in I
lie Ev.glish Channel.
I he veSsel was in command
f Captain F. S. Jones.
She was registered at 2,798
oils gross.
I lie vessel is the second of
the Luckenbach fleet sunk by
submarines Within a vear. tli'ei
other being the D. N. Lucken-'
l>ach torpedoed and sunk with a
loss of live members of her crcwj
on October 27 last. Another ship
of the line* the -J. L. Lacken-j
bach had a running fight with a
submarine the same month and
a number of her crew were
wounded by shell fire.
OF C. DRIVE
MEETING WITH
MUCH SUCCESS
| City Expected to Pass $12,000
Mark Tonight; County
Aiding Work
| TEAMS ARE WELCOMED
i Reports From Nearby Dis
tricts Are Most En
couraging
i With 19,987 announced as the city's
I total yesterday afternoon at a meet
! lng In Cathedral Hall, and with a.
! big pile of checks, currency and bills
J to-day In front of J. Grant Schwarz,
treasurer, local officials and workers
j estimate that the total of contribu
! tions to the Knights, of Columbus
I War Fund will reach $12,000 by to
night. Workers are enthusiastically
solici ing and are meeting with cour
j teous treatment everywhere. In
■ campaign headquarters, 706 Kunkel
j [Continued 011 Page 11.]
BEGIN DRIVE TO
ENLIST SCHOOL
BOYS IN ARMY
I Youths and Men Between 31
and 40 Are Needed in
Aviation Corps
Machinery to-day began to move
for a new drive for recruits for the
aviation service in the Harrlsburg
district that will exceed any former
attempts of the recruiting officers
to enlist men in this district.
! Careful registration of every man
i in the district over 31 years of age
and under 40, and a complete list ot
( all high school, preparatory school
and college students between the ages
lof IB and 21 has been practically
I completed. With the aid of the prin-
I cipals of the public schools, and the j
: presidents of the private institutions!
I end colleges, Sergeant John K. Blake. !
; publicity manager, has completed-the j
j list of men he wants for the Aviation i
! service of the Army, and will start i
| his drive during the week.
Every schoolboy between the pre- j
1 scribed ages in the district will re-'
j ceive some time this week a personal
letter from the publicity department,
outlining the advantages of the re
cruiting officers' project of raising j
[Continued on Page 11.]
RIOTS FOR COAL WHILE CARLOADS STAND UNTOUCHED
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iflWWMMnriiiiii int win nin mi—Hi TT~Trw i imiiiPiiifii mil—a umßaiiii ii—mil n i in
While the car loads of coal showi
j in the lower photograph—and hun
i dreda more the photographer coul
j not get within hia sight—remained
COUNTY AND CITY
OFFICIALS TAKE
1 OATH OF OFFICE
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I j Two New Commissioners Are
Added to Councilmanic |
Body
SEAMAN IS CITY CLERK
-1 Other Positions Arc Left Open |
Until After Conference
Is Held
I '
5 City mid county officials- elected i
| in November took their oaths o£ of
-! lice this morning.
County officials who began their J
II terms to-day follow:
, Judge H. J. M. McCarrell.
s | Phothonotary Charles E. Pass.
Controller Ilenry W. Uougli.
'* i Director of the Poor Levi S. Mil-
ler.
• 'oroner Jaoob Eckinger.
! The oath of office to Judge Mc
! Carrell was administered in court at
■| 10 o'clock by President Judge!
f j George Kunkel after Prothonotary j
1 Pass had read the certificate of j
"! election from the State Depart -
11 ment.
Ij Mr. Pass took the oath of office
I [Continued on Page 7.] !
M'ADOO ORDERS
HIGH PENALTIES
ON CAR DELAYS
Demurrage Charges After
Third Day to Rise to
•1510 on Eighth
i
| \V ashington. Jan. 7.—A drastic | I
I order designed to abolish the prac-'
tlce of shippers using freight cars as'
i 1 storage warehouses by failing to!
| unload their freight within reason-'
able time, was issued yesterday by 1
the director general of the railroads, | 1
William G. McAdoo. | j
Beginning January 21. forty-eight j
hours will be permitted for unload- 1
ing of freight from cars, without
I charge to the consignees. Demur-,
rage charges beginning on the third
' day will be $3 a car. with a dollar
i added for each additional day the;
| car is held until the eigntn day,
when a charge of JlO a day is reach
ed, and this sum will be charged for
J each additional day thereafter.
The order was issued by th.e Inter
; state Commerce Commission upon i
; application of Director General Jlc-'
; Atioo. ]
Would Keep Stock Moving
McAdoo takes the position that
I the transportation situation can be!
f Continued oil I*ae tl.]
ntouched In New Jersey railroad
■ids, just across the North River
um New York City, housewives,
husbands and children of the "East
GERMANS HALT
PEACE P; !?LEY
WITH RUSSIA
Washington, Jan. 7.—Germany has temporarily suspended •
peace negotiations with Russia. This announcement comer, J
from Berlin and followed a meeting of the Crown Council at-1
tended by von Hindenburg and other leaders.
The cause for the move is Russia's demand that in the future!
parleys. be conducted at Stockholm.
Washington expresses a belief that as a result of Lloyd-George's |
speech on Saturday the next move in the peace game must be
made—and prooably will—by Germany.
London, Jan. 7.—The Bolsheviki arc definitely strengthening!
the front, Petrograd advices say. The correspondent of the Daily
News obtained this information from M. Radck, one of the Rus-|
sian delegates "who took a prominent part in the negotiations vvitli |
the Ausfrians and Germans at Petrograd. lie said the Bolsheviki j
were intending to send home all who did not wish to fight, ko j
they would have an army which was willing to light for an ideal, j
Russian efforts to have Germany
acquiesce in the ' transference of
the peace negotiations from Brest-
Liitcvsk, in German control, to the
neutral city of Stockholm apparent
ly have failed. A statement issued
at JJcrlin 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 conlirmed
from Petrograd. Foreign Minister
Trotsky went to Brest-Bitovsk in a
vain attempt to persuade the Ger-I
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
ists appear to be the stumbling block
and there is danger that they may
desert the Reichstag majority, mak
ing it necessary for the government
to reform the party alignments.
Elimination of Saloons
Asked in Coal Fields
Pottsville, Pa., Jan. s.—At least 500
saloons are likely-to be put out ot
business in the interest o£ a greater
production of coal in tills county. A
movement has been under way for
the last two months to have the Gov
ernment refuse Federal license to
two-thirds of the saloons in the coal
legion of the county because of the |
efc c 4 their business on the effi
ciency of miners.
It is said that many colleries are
effected from two to four days by
lacK of workers after every payday
ami it is proposed to abolish this
cendition. The matter has been taken
lip with the Government because there
vas little hope of any radical reduc
lior in the number of saloons by the
action of court. Some of the most
prominent citizens of Pottsville are
engaged in the movement.
Side" in zero weather rioted and
itruKKled for the precious fuel. The
New Jersey cars, filled with thou
sands of tons were not three miles
from the scene of the riots.
I Berlin lias issued an official de- j
fi niul that General Von Budendorff, j
j llrst quartermaster general, has re
jsigned. The general with his chief, j
'j Field Marshal Von Hindenburg, was
• I present at the crown council which i
1 1 decided to suspend the Russian 1
1 negotiations.
There has been more lively m
' fantry activities on the western front
1 but no operations in strength. In
Flanders, near Arras and southeast
! of Verdun the infantry lighting was
liveliest, but little change in po£l
-1 tion is reported. In France and on
s j the Italian northern front the artil
■ lery firing has been above noVmal at
j several points.
j The difficulty in determining the
status of the negotiations is added
| to, if anything, by a wireless mes,-
I 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.
THICK COATING
OF ICE COVERS
ENTIRE CITY
■
Traffic llo4d Up by Streets'
Being Too Slippery For
Vehicular Traffic
"Watch vour step was the only
word you iiearc. on me streets of |
Harrisburg to-day the most
treacherous day of all the season.
Krom peep of dawn every black
smith in the city lounu himself
swamped with trade, for the long,
steep hills on Market street and
State street were flecked with
stalled teams find 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 thero
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 slippJness. Ev
ery little while the pedestrian in
Market street Could hear a shrill yell
or gronn as somebody hit the hard
[Continued on Page 11.]
Philadelphia Coal Famine
Has Reached Its Most
Acute Stage, Is Belief
By Associated Press •
Philadelphia, Jan. 7.—The coal
famine in Philadelphia has rea )V od
its most acute stage according to
I' rancis A. Lewis, chairman of the
Philadelphia fuel committee.
This statement was made this aft
ernoon at a conference in the office
of Director <|f Health and Charities
Krusen. Tlte conference was attended
by city officials, leaders of the Em
ergency Aid and members of the
coal committee. It was called to dis
cuss means to alleviate suffering
among, the poor as a result of the
coal shortage. It 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
Hearing its end. This is not the case
however. Although 28,000 tons
reached here from thr anthracite
belt yesterday, only 3,000 tons were"
of domestic use.
Mr. I.ewl" said that $7,000 of a
SIO,OOO fund to relieve suffering had
! beon raised. It 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 it to the nearest coal
yard, Mr. Lewis said.
Single Copy, 2 Cents NIGHT EXTRA 1
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*r rliamentary circles Sunday afternoon according ij '
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tu . u-..el>latt, and the Reichstag majority partie ; W
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T hand the Socialists held meetings on Sunday, -whi "
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4i waert: calls "perhaps the most momentous" sine: .* •' 1
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T H DESTROY HATUM DEFENSES [J )
4* London—An official report received to-day from Aden, ***
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4* tish port on the southern coast of Arabia, says that i* *
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4 e closing was strong. Liberty # 4's sold at
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f 98.72. Trading in stocks to-day was largely i; nr
;chnical conditions which prompted consul- ,*§*
4* the £.
2J S- • ximated 525,000 shares. 9lS|
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X RECOGNIZES FINLAND • #
I isterdam—Germany has recognized the Finnish Z
an official dispatch from Berlin.
V REJECT PEACE BY SILENCE S
t * ,rn —The entente allies, having failed to take jfjj
•4 period of ten days of grace, have by IM
X sile icc rejected .the program of peace without an- ,
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Xj i '-ii i.d indemnities, the Frcmdenblatt of Vienna X
*>• ; ie Central Powers no longed arc bound to T* i
X, ti; .nciplcs they set up for a general peace. The en- |
jr powers alone, it says now must bear the rspon
y sibility for the continuance of the war. |
|j "I ;\"IGHT CLEARANCE WEEK" Z
T :v—Next week has been designated by Z
J < , r.il McAdoo is "freight clearance week." 4
T 'vill t conducted • over the entii <
fj ' '' hippe;-' and consignees to unloa 1
4 • : u '- c '* c ' tailroa i congestion. Mr. \
T : n pi e;.i - •nvernbrs.- state railroad "T
S • an 1 others ta assist *
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- -hit ;toi -The food administration has arranged 'X
4 * ' u: 11 , 19,13 the supply of binder twine, so im- *
X port iit to farmers particularly those of the granger states. W
***- T?cai hi .bic prices—though not so low as former ones —
arc expected. t
J ,\V. ; ONAL BANKS CALL DECEMBER 31 S
V.' ir.gton—Comptroller of currency, to-day issued Z '
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X a ; ti-, condition 'of all national' banks of the United
* • St> the close of business Monday, December 31.
X CANADIAN STEAMER ASHORE \* *
' J A Canadian Atlantic Port—A Canadian steamship of 1 B
y* -V went ashore to-day during a dense fog on the •* \
. t Ca pi i.r-ti -i coast. Assistance has been sent. . , *
-2* INSTIGATE EXTORTION CHARGES > !
A':.a. -Governor Whitman to-day directed Attorney ij \
G r.ei <1 Lewis to investigate complaints that many New '* *
* York nt.-tarics public had been guilty of extortion and ►
other cfFcr.ics, in connection with acknowledging draft | * j
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