FOOD 15 NOW Price Control in Effect. SMALL DEALERS EXEMPT And Wholesalers Are Forbidden To Supply Retailer Who Charges Ex- orbitant Prices—Licenses To Be Sent Out, Washington.-—Herbert Hoover's big- gest weapon for the control of food prices went into effect November 1, when 100,000 manufacturers, ocense system of the Food Administration. Every food deal- er, wholesaler or retailer who does a business of $100,000 or more a year must get & Government license. Under the licensing plan, Hoover will have almost absolute control over food dealers, except the small retail ers. utor is found charging exhorbitant prices or hoarding food, he is subject prisonment. ago that he expects to reach the small retailer by forbidding the wholesaler THE CENTRE [ PPT la HTH | | | i i 3 i | { f Copyright (NITED STATES 5 GENEROUS British Chancellor Declares It | is Appreciated. A SERIOUS PROBL EM SOLVED than a reasonable profit. he will cut off the gouging retailer's source of food supply. The purposes of the licensing sys- tem are as follows: 1. To limit the prices charged by every license to a reasonable amount over expenses, and forbid the acquisi- tion of speculative profits from a ris- ing market. 2. To keep all food commodities moving in as direct a line and with as little delay as practicable to the con- sumer. 3. To limit, as far as practicable, contracts for future delivery and deal: ings in future contracts. . The licensed foods include beef, pork, mutton, fish, poultry, eggs, milk, butter, cheese, flour, sugar, cereals. lard, beans, peas, fruits, vegetables, er products, The Food Administration's _ ment is in part as follows: “Business men who have taken prompt steps to secure licenses need state ceived the actual documents, so lonz as they are not violeting the Food since August 10. Those who have not yet sent to Washington for their ap- plication blanks should do so at once. meanwhile continuing their normal business activities in compliance with the law. “Thus far nearly 50.000 application blanks have been called for, and re- quests for them are pouring in at the rate of 4,000 a day. No licenses have been mailed out yet, but thousands are stacked up, filled in and recorded, ready to be sent to the applcants as soon as booklets containing complete rules and regulations for the guidance of licenses have been received frem the printer. "With few exceptions, those engaged in the handling of food have shown the utmost patriotism and a desfrs to go even beyond the requirements of with necessities at moderate prices. The exceptions are being noted, and vigorous use will be made in these gress. For the most part, however, the Food Administration anticipates the full co-operation and voluntary support of all licenses, without resort to compulsion.” Latest News From the War Zone —— Virtually 1,000 square miles of Italian territory have been overrun; tore than 120,000 Italians have been made prisoners, and over 1,000 guns have been captured by the German and Austro-Hungarian armies in their eight-days’ drive from the lsonzo and Carnic Alps fronts co. the Austro- Italian war theatre. From the east the enemy invasion ‘on the centre of the battle front is now well within gun range of the Taglia- mento river, where it has been pre sumed that General Cadorna would turn and make a stand. The Italian commander-in.chief, however, has not yet brought his troops about to face the enemy, but is continuing his re treat with the rear guards harassing the advamce. Just where Cadorna purposes to give battle has not become apparent. Neither is it known how well The northern and southern flanks of his army are keeping pace with the retirement in the contre. Meanwhile preparations to aid the Italians in thelr hour of extremity are being rushed by all the Allies. The American Government 1s to waive all export restrictions in fevor of Italy, permitting that country to. take what. ever materials she requires, regard less of prospective shortages here. Given Generous Assistance at Times | When.She Was Incurring Expendi- | tures At. a Heavier Rate Than Any { Of the Allies,” Bonar Law Says, He | Believes “It His Duty To Publicly | Acknowledge.” i i London.—The House of Commons { had béfore it at Tuesday's session the i introduction Andrew Bonar Law, | chancellor of the exchequer, the vote of credit for £400,000,000 and one of the Chancellor's periodic statements regarding the finances of the war. The Chancellor sald that in the period from July 22 to September 22 the daily aver age expenditures of British gov- ernment was £6,414.000. The expendi: tures of the army and navy exceeded | the budget estimate by £500,000 daily. i The average daily , the beginning of the financial £6,648000, or £1,237,000 above the | budget estimate, The Chancellor said that as far as i he could judge the position in the s80C- by of 1 | the as favorable as in the first half, partly on account of the increased pay for | the navy and army. The {increased | pay of sallors and soldiers and the sub- | sidizing of the loaf would amount to | between £40,000,000 and £50,000,000 in the second part of the financial year. German taxation had been increased by more than £185,000,000, but that sum fell short by £55,000,000 of the interest on the war debt. { The Chancellor said the German | Reichstag had passed votes of credit | which amounted to £4,700,000,000, ex- | clusive of advances to allles. There | Were indications, he said, that Ger the end of the war. The Allies could bear the financial burden longer than { Germany and it would not be lack of | money that would prevent them from winning. | If the war ended as the Allies meant i it should, the finaneial burden would | be one which could be borne. “1 am glad to be able to take this | opportunity of saying how much rea- | Son not only the British, but all the Allied governments have for appre. { lating the very generous way In which the United States government has come to their assistance in finance. ing purchases in America,” sald the Chancellor. “It is an open secret that until America came into the war the method of financing our purchases there and the question of exchange were not only serious problemhs, but, in my opinion, almost insoluble prob- lems, + “The fact that America has given Eenerous assistance at times when she was Incurring expenditures at a heavier rate than any of the Allfes I belleve it my duty publicly to acknowledge.” GERMAN TROOPS REBEL. Refuse To Go To Front And Fire On Own Officers. Amsterdam. According to the news. paper Les Nouvelles, a serious mutiny has occurred among German soldiers at the Beverloo Comp in Belgium. The men, it is sald, refused to go to the front and damaged their own rifles in some cases, while others fired on their officers, several of whom were wound- ed. The mutineers weré finally mas- tered and removed on cattle trucks, ASH. U-BOATS HAVE POOR WEEK. Bag 14 Large And 4 Small British Shipe--25 Last Week. London.—Fourteen British mer chantmen, over 1,600 tons, were sud by mine or submarine in the last weuk aceording te the Admiralty report. Four vessels under 1,600 tons were also sunk, but no fishing craft, . 4% i | i ! i ! i i : b. & . PERS and Grain Also Destroyed. LOSS OVER THREE MILLIONS —————— Munitions For the United States and the Allies and Large Quantities Of Grain Were Stored On the Two lapsed and Was Rebuilt, Baltimore.- 1 iy h a rapidity that is conceivable, balleved have been of incendiary origin shortly 11 o'clock Tuesday night on Locust Point swept thro more and Ohio Railroad formerly known as the | wi i iar Lak pier, hard fire to after ugh the Pler, No North German leaped 2 yards across a small slip to Pier 8, partially destroyed this, and then set fire to the British steamship Kerry Range, which Just arrived to load munitions for the Allies in great voured vast quantities of munitic 2. oyd then O60 its sweep, the flames de na in Some was intended for there, Damage to the piers alone fe esti $1,400,000, while the munt tions stored on them, is said to worth at the very least an equal sum The damage to the Kerry Range, owned by the Johnston Line. which was Iving beside Pier 8, of the Fur. ness-Withy Co, ltd. of London. and which is the only American terminal, run into several hundred thou sand dollars. She {3 so badly dam. aged th pair her. A two-story building, occupied by the Baitimore and Ohio Railroad's fire men, was also destroyed. J. M. Davis, vicopresident of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, who was early on the scene, went over the | ground and later {ssued a statement bean caused except by design. He nglded that it was started at the har. | bor end of the pier, and the fire bug probably made his escape by small boat. The Baltimore and Ohid police force guarding the pliers, he declared, hed been tried and proved their loy- alty. Government Secret Servica men, who were early on the scene, concur. | red in this opinion and are conductin a rigid investigation. ening was it to other property that the ing the blaze. This helped to some extent, but the fire had pained such a | headway that the fire fighters were! compelled to turn their attention to saving adjoining property and prevent. | ing the blaze from spreading. The fire—DBaltimore’s first war fire ~reégembled in every way the water. | in other Atlantic ports, especially New York and Brookivn. In those cases, plers containing stores for Allies were also destroyed, and the fires spread | with as great a rapidity as did the Locust Point blaze. RUM DIES PEACEFUL DEATH. Much Hallowe'en Noise And Merri ment, But Little Drinking. Washington. Washington, the cap ital of the United States, was added to prohibition territory and became the largest dry city in America, No vember 1. The Sheppard aot, closing all saloons in the District of Columbia but not forbidding the Importation of liquors for personal use, became effec: Hr The a drunk” celebration which usually marks the pass! of John Barleycorn in eities was I absent here. This unusual ocourrence was due to the fact that of the 269 saloons and buffets in the ofty, only 38 remained open until midnight. The other 241 had sold thelr stock and furniture days ago and locked their ———— ITALIANS FIGHT Against Superior Numbers They Are Struggling Desperately. TEUTONS AT GATES OF UNDINE Second Italian Army Practically Wiped Out, the First and Third In Danger Of Annihilation—Repeti- tion Of Battie Of the Marne. promptly to recall its charge of “cowardice,” the Italian armies east of the Isonzo, now fighting on Italian poll, are throwing themselves into the teeth of Mackensen’s monstrous steam roller, They have succeeded In slow- ing up the Teuton sweep through the passes into the Venetian Plains. But though its “break-through” momentum seems spent and its speed has slack- ened, the Teuton machine rolls on relentlessly. Its center has reached the gates of Udine, where up to a few days age { Cadorna had his chief headquarters. dispateh from Rome, official and unofficial, concedes that the Ital- ians are now fighting a delaying bat. tle, they must keep on retiring i until they reach the line of the T mento River, On that | ble man an will make { Every that agiia energy 1 A second battle of the Marne for. Upon its outcome rest of Italy Partly driven, e flank and rea {long 1 threatened +5 ia partly r, the entire 120.mi} from the Gulf allan hattls Hn talian battle line {of Trieste up to the Carniea Alps is | fleeing westward to reach the Taglia- One army, the second, whick lines between Tolmino and where the “break through* virtually wiped out other armies in line are extreme the Caro and that in Alps are menaced with being completely cut off f ! mento held the Fiftch, came, Is But treating namely, i tha this peril, two res in army Carnie oth rom every avenue of Cadorna’s has onl; miles wide left CECADP 106 oin the 51 Ital. Carso army “loop hole” y through to 3 » flight to to sl the Gorizla arms Tagliamento. The ian extreme left Is threatened with ing bottled up in the Carnic Al In two Teutonic wm un bounded jubilation reigns holy! ave been declared 10 celebrate and in be. the 11 il h days h the victory and every hamlet is beflagged Emparor Willlam {a reported ing from Berlin toward the Venetis! front to join his ally, Emperor Charles who is in nominel command of the Teutonic offensive There the two Kalsers plan to view the supreme clash between their armies and that of their erstwhile ally. Most ominous among the day's off. cial claims is that from Berlin to the effect that the City of Cormonas, seven iles west of Gorizia, has been cap- tured. Only five miles to the south. east of this point lies Gradisca. Be. tween Gradisca and the Gulf of Trieste the Itallan Carso army must make its escape. There is & possibility that it got away before the Teutons could bar its escape. last official word from Rome regarding the Carso army was that it was bravely holding its own. That was two days ago. The Teuton advance has been so swift that grave fears are feit here for the safety of the great Italian Army, which In city, town apecd. much glory by its victories on the Carso. . Not alone Italy. but all the nations allied with her hedved a deep sigh of relief when the Rome War Office recti- filed what is belleved to have been a blow. KEPT EUROPEAN FLEET AWAY. Britain Stopped Naval Move Against U. 8. in War With Spain, Now York-—A diplomatic incident at the time of the Spanish-American War, involving a threat to use the Brit ish feet against any naval power seek- ing to hamper the war operations of the United States, was revealed by Sir George Houston Reid, former Prime Minister of Australia, in an ad- dress here at a luncheon given in his honor by the Merchants’ Association. “It is not well known that there was ‘A project of sending a naval demon: stration from Europe during your last war,” Bir George said. "Lord Salis bury was approached-—I got this from private, indisputable authority-—and he said, ‘1 will have none of it.’ He was asked: ‘Suppody Europe sends one. What about it? He replied: ‘1 will tell you what about it. If you begin that sort of game, you will find the British fleet facing you.'” THE NEW CHANCELLOR, Count Ven Hertling, the Bavarian Prime Minister, Gets the Job. Amsterdam. - Count Georgh von Hertling, the Bavarian Prime Minister, has been appointed Imperial Ger. man Chaneellor. Farmer Chancellor Michaelis has been named Prime Min. doors. ister of Prussia. * A ‘ i | 1 CANNOT MERGE Constitutional Provision OnTel- egraph Lines Applied by P. S.C. as by Courts. RILLING OPINION CISSENTS Commissioner Holds as There Weren't Any at Time, New Law Should Regulate-—Holds That Const. tution Applied Only to Telegraph Companies. Harrisburg. Notwithstanding that it found that the operation of the Cochrantan Tele phone and the Merchants’ and Farm- ers’ Telephone companies, which have lines in Crawford, Mercer and other counties in Northwestern Pernsylva- nia, as competing companies, is un economic and wasteful, the Public Service commission, in a decision just made public, refuses merger of the both were incorporated under the gen eral incorporatd act, whi acted the year after slilglion was consolidation © cle io companies, on framed - 2 forbidden the companies NEeCeEsary TE Vice i DC + question of » and benefits to ane tory construction iI must be ing which they had at adoption of the ment of the Constitution Const the statute” framed there was framers of Was that the did , and tution Was no teleph the Consti thing that when the telephone it became necessary phone companies, and law books for “the courts by a la idinous power exercised in rare cases,” held that for the purposes of incorporation, phone and telegraph companies might be included as in the same general class. He also holds that the publle not mean non-existent, any while was invented and to organize tele Was no incorporation, ihere on the tele. mer statutes, and that the commission has authority to approve a telephone merger which would result in “mo adequate service at more reasonable rates” he bureau of employment of labor and placed 2,416 persons at work in Sep- tember throu offices at Harris. burg, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Johns- town and Altoona. Emplovers asked the bureau for 23,642 workers last gl gh its Of interrupted continuance of the heavy De. In the east- ern part of the state a heavy demand riveters, calkers, heaters, erectors and similar mechanics. Skilled men are preferred for such work, but numbers of plants are Instrueting unskilled men. War requirements have caused an un- usual demand for carpenters in con. ers, especially in the garment trades and production of suppiies, Mille Go Idle for Fuel, The Standard Bleel works pratod or ders for a shutdown. The departments closed at Lewistown embrace all roll ing mills, the tire mill, open hearth furnace No. 1 and half of No. 2. The men employed in these departments will be given work, as far as possible, in other parts of the works, which will be kept moving with oil as fuel. Manager O. C. Skinner says the prospects are not bright, and unless coal can be obtained Immediately, oth. er departments must close, —— = PENNSYLVANIA BRIEFS Fs I LIE Failing to get in the army because he was subject to chronic appendici- of Port Kennedy is (LLU sinnmenng recovers will enlist, Eecause the lowest bid is too high # no reason that wouid validate the use of an $80,000 appropriation for the shell instead of an entire building at Criminal Insane, the attorney general An important deal in public ytilties is tne contemplated conecildation of 17 electric light, heat and power plants in Juniata, Perry and Dauphin coun- ties to form the Juniata Public Bery. ice company. AltlLough the 1917 tobacco crop will not be stripped and ready for inspec for twee months, i an active baying of the crop. he prices paid are 256 to 30 cents for wrappers figures will from $300 to Frosthitten is and Years a there tion Al these GC raisers $400 Be tobas receive tobacco cents there ¢ a big § but ged th Farne town: 3 One-third of Cumberland county's contingent for the army has been posted as ieserter, but two of the draf reporting to go to camp A bequest of $1,000 3 been nn to Altoona W. C. T. U. George W. Strattan, many years master mechan- ic of the Pennsylvania railroad ma- chine shops. Reading police wiil don khaki next spring Oaks’ flag factory has presented a flag for every home in Oaks which Las furnished a soldier. The 160 acre farm of the late Pe- ter B. Knabel, near Stouchsburg, was S. Poorman, Palmyra, ter cau ar, aged hip, Cumb negro tee ade 45a by sold to William 8S. { for $22,200. Cider presses in many sections of Chester county are working full time. Upward of 200 farmers took part in the first annual farmers’ auto exeur sion under the auspices of the Cum berland County Farm bureau at Car lisle At noon they were luncheon guests of the Uarlisle Retaflers’ asso ciation. Nicholas Schmidt of State college spoke on increased food pro duction, and Merkel Landis, chairman of Red Cross work, for the Liberty i loan. { Governor Brumbaugh named as com- | missioner to go to Tobyhanna to take { votes of soldiers of the United States | ambulance, approximately 157 men, | James F. Boor, Riddlesburg. There are snow drifts four feet deep | in the mountain’ highway at Tunnel | Hill, connecting with the state high. { ways at Cresson and Buckhorn. | Perry county has organized a war | council, with L. W. Brimmer, Newport, | president, and Francis A. Fry, New. | port, secretary. The herdquarters flag of the Ninth corps, Army of the Potomac, has been presented to the state by John C. Parks, Jr, Monessen. A bread famine is imminent in Northumberland county on account of a shortage of flour, due to freight con- gestion. Several Mount Carmel bak- eries have been forced to close, while none in Sunbury has supplies to last more than five days. Randolph Thompson of Salona still gathers strawberries in his garden despite the frosts and cold weather. They are of the ever bearing variety, Miss Lillian Knecht Js acting as deputy for her father, County Treas- urer W. T. Knecht of Clinton county, She has assisted in issuing nearly 2,000 hunters’ licenses.
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