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.FARMER DIED YEAR
AGO; WIDOW ACCUSED
blscovery of Quicklime in
Stomach Leads to Murder
Chargo Against Woman
; Clarion, r., An. 13. Charged with
'murdering her husband. Andrew .T.
Yevnjr, aged seventy vpnrs, n wenlthy
firmer, more thnn b jrar uro, Mrs.
Ida M. Teanv, nped fifty years. hm been
lodged in the county jail here rending
trial in court.
teeny died MArcii 23. 1010. under
unsplcioUa circumstances. Later tlie
tody was exhumed, and an autopvr dis
closed that death was due to quicklime
poisoning. Physicians who performed
the autopsy said they found enough
quicklime In his stomach to kill half a
doien persons
' Authorities at the time of the au
topsy suspected Mrs. Yenny, but pend
ing investigation allowed her to remain
her while profiteers wait for higher
prices.
Higher-priced fish advanced from ?6
to $8 a barrel overnight, while fish of
cheaper grades were thrown away to
prevent a glut on the market.
Expect Shipment Soon
Major Jones explained today that the
government foodstuffs will be delivered
direct to the United States Internal
warehouse. Twenty-first and Oregon
avenue. The first carloads are ex
pected within a few days, from the
warehouse the food will be distributed
to postoffices and to the points of distribution.
Cooke Shies at
Naming Board
Contlnned rrnm Tare On
measure restore the conditions as they
existed during the war. The "fair
price" committee would be called upon
to receive complaint about emotive
costs of foodstuffs nnd prepare the evi-
Present Prices of Food
and What V. S. Sells It For
following is a comparison of prices
of foodstuffs on sale here now and
the prices tliey will command at the
sale of government commodities :
rot rhiu
O-WJ 1M sur-curt bum
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J800 .Vo. 2 tomatoes
adOn No a tomto
2400 No 2 pens
anno No 2 rorn
4000 lb. prunes
40o ib rice
JOOO lh. rtrl.cl r'neh"!1
2010 lbs drlfcl ppl
sort No. t cans r't hef
0O 2-lb can. roast beef
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Senators to Speed
Peace Pact Action
dence that would be used In the prose-
frte. A few days ago she was arrested , cition by the federal agents of those
criminally responsible.
Charles .T. Hepburn, this city
in Revnftldsvllle and broucht here. Mon- .
day she was given a preliminary hear-1
in and helrt for ronrt.
' Ycuny was reputed to be worth more was chief counsel for the Pennsjlvonla
than $100,000. food administration, expressed the opin
He married the accused woman in jon today that Mr. Cooke refrained from
November. 1017 Previous to her mar- , .
riage to Yeanv. the woman was em- resuming his former duties because
ployed as housekeeper for Dr. James I there was no law to support hiin.
Holde.n, of Holden Station, five miles, Mr. Hepburn also ttatcd that the so
from.here. Dr. Holden died while the Laiird ..fllir price" committee would
Woman was his housekeeper. , , ., ,
,B ' be of no use unless the committee is
supported by drastic legislation that
would permit prosecutions.
"Mr. Cooke established nn excellent
reputation when lie was here before,"
Mr. Hepburn said. "During the war
he or unv of his hundred or more aides
could go into a -tore nnd demand that
the rooks be i-hown In this way they
were able to get evidence of profiteering.
At the present time, however, there
is absolutely no legislation to permit
this work."
Wholesalers to Blame
The real profiteering todav Is among
the wholesalers. Mr. Hepburn said.
Food Hoarding Plain
Crime, Says Kane
Cntlnad From rape One
it condemned beef have beeu remoed
from one of the large cold storage
houses in this city since Monday and
sold.
"I am going to investigate todiy the
removal of this condemned beef," Mr.
Simmers said, "and if 1 find that it has
been sold or offered for sale within the
Stat of Pennsylvania 1 will arrest the
Contlnnrd From Tase One
surprised the friends of the treaty, es
pecially the administration supporters,
bv the lengths to which it went in con
demnation of the treaty.
It was said today that the chairman
of the foreign rclutlons committee bad
swung rather over to the irrecoucilaliles
than to the mild reservationlsts like
wno I Senators Kellogg nnd McCumber. But
the speecn merely reuccicu .ur, joagc s
confidence in obtaining a resolution in
favor of strong reservations from his
committee. Probably it also expressed
the senator's indignation at the failure
of his committee to obtain documents
and other information from the White
House.
Report to Faor Ratification
Many considerations will force nu
agreement among the members of the
foreign relations committee upon reser
vations and a report in faor of the
ratification of the treaty. In the first
place a failure to agree would be a
serious reflection upon the competence
of the Republican majority in Congress
to transact the nation's business.
Again it would be an equal reflec
tion upon the Senate and the commit
tee if the movement for a compromise
which should lead to the final adop
tion of the treaty came not from the
Senate foreign relations committee, but
from a group of senators like the mod
erate seven outside that committee.
I The members of the foreign relations
mlttee makes Its report. To obtain n
two-thirds majority for the treaty the
Democrats must unite with a consider
able portion of the Republicans.
Any reservations wlhch come from
the foreign relations committee will be
stiff. I'sed ns a working basis for a
compromlfe with the Democrats, they
will result in securing greater conces
sions from the White House than would
the 'mild reservations favored by the
moderate seven.
The irreconcilable members of the
foreign relations committee are sen
sible of this advantage in putting
forth a program which will become
the basis of compromise. Those who
wish to defent the treaty are aware
that they will fail and even If In the
eml they vote against it, they wish
to see it amended ns much as possible
before its adoption.
The Democrats have been hoping
and still hope that the foreign rela
tions committee will fail to agree upon
reservations and will report the treaty
without recommendations. Such n
caue would 'enve the situation Indis
putably in tho bands of the moderate
seven, who would be the only group
nf Republicans showing any capacity
for cohesion.
seller of the meat on the spot."
Virtually all of the meat which has i adding that he did not think it advisable
been, condemned for sale. Mr. Simmers to f.n after the individual hoarder of COrnmittee are senators and have
said, is. stock that was shipped on here food.' The ones responsible (or piesent prjde in the Senate. They are seeking
during .the war for government use As ; high prices are the packers, he .-aid, i ,n r(.,toro the lezisUtivc branch in nub-
the war' ended before the government i who hold the stock from the markets ,jc esteem. Endless wrangling over the
had'eibse to use the meat it has been to regulate the market prices. tieaty and final failure to agree upon
While the food administration was In 1 any icport would tend to discredit the
power, before I ebniary, the price of senate.
flour was regulated. Mr. Hepburn took
remained in bold storage, Mr. Simmers
said! tather than be put out on the
market and cause a downward revision
of prices.
Other developments in the "city's fight
against the high living cost are :
Seven hundred carloads of food are
ett route to Philadelphia to be pkred
en the market at cost as part of a
general attack on the high cost of living.
This. Important development in the
fightf jto bring down the cost of neces
sities, was made known by Major
Charles 13. Jones, zone surplus nnd zone
storage' officer. Other developments are :
Philadelphia's allotment of the tons
6f foodstuffs wi! be placed on sale in
thti'ilo're of Gimbel Brothers, instead
61 3nV,plice; stations as originally
si, S'Many Offers of Help
Dl'tSyAl; of Supplies MacLaughlin
todaylfcorfected what he termed a "mis-
iairsrandlng by explaining that the
Ijmsjjfency;. Aid "did not fall down"
whe$3fc came time to reach a decision
cdneerairjg the sale of the government
'foof'be,lng shipped here. The director
Btateif'tflSt the announcement that the
food" -.was to be sold at (iimbel's had
caused .! rumor that the Emergency
Aid 'aides were not capable of conduct-
inn .the sales. 'This man, Mr.
. "Jy list nleht 100 aides had volun- I finally forced to
teered for the work," the director said,
"and that man more would hae signed
up within a few days.
' Would like to have the Emergency
Aid Officials arrange with the Gimbel
store to have the aides attend the sale
there and learn exactly how such cus
tomers are handled. This experience
wouid be of great value to the volunteer
workers when they will be called upon
to aid the city in large sales to be held
in the future."
this ns an example. A wholesaler was
allowed a profit of liftv cents on a
barrel of flour, and the retailer was al
lowed one cent n pound profit. Now,
Mr. Hepburn says, if one wholesaler iu
flour runs short, he goes to another
wholesaler. lie buys flour from the
other house, pnjing the other man a
fifty-cent profit Then, when the pur
chasing wholesaler sells to the retailer,
he insists upon his fiftv-cent profit.
Mr. Hepburn cited another thing
that he thought might keep Mr. Cooke
or any other members of the wartime
administrations from resuming their
former duties.
Iong Hours at Work
He said that when he and other men's
areepted the federal posts they believed
their positions would call for only two
I or three hours a day. During the wnr,
however, they found it necessary to
work as long as sixteen or eighteen
hours daily.
Mr. Hepburn spoke of a man upstate,
who was
Then, ns n point of tactics, the real
effort toward n compromise will begin
when the Senate foreign relations cora-
The administration forces approach
ing the moderate seven would secure a
more favorable compromise than they
could If the Republican strength gathers
about the stiff reservatlonists of the
foreign relations committee. The Demo
crats may realize their hope. The situa
tion is not clenr.
It will be difficult to effect nn agree
ment among the Republicans in the
committee, but present indications are
that the consideration just described
will prevail and that a report will be
agreed upon.
Watchful Waiting Policy
T'p to the present the Democrats
under the lend of Senator Hitchcock
have merely waited for the situation in
the foreicn lelations committee to de-
velon. Thev are still waiting. What
roservntions thev will accept in the
name of the President bnvc been kept
carefully iu the daik.
Ofliciallv thej oppose all reservations
and insi-t that the treaty shall be
adopted without ihange. But every
one knows that the President is ready
to compromise. All he wishes to know
is who has the requisite votes to put
the treaty through.
When tbe foreign relations committee
reports it mnj still be a question
whether the Democrats will seek to
make terms with the moderate seven
or with Mr. Lodge's committee, un
less, of course, Mr. Lodge assures him
self of the support of the moderates
bv putting forth his committee's rcser-ntions.
Million Is Asked
in H. C. of L. War
Continued From Tare One
cost of living. Of this amount S1.000.-
000 would ho for the investigation and
detection of crimes nnd for the work of
the state food administrators and S200,-
000 for nntltrust prosecutions.
Amendments extending the anti-profiteering
sections of the food control act
to wearing apparel, tools, utensils,
implements and containers of foods,
feeds nnd fertilisers, nnd Imposing pen
alties for violating the net, were sent to
inc nouse agriculture committee Dy the
altoinej general.
The amendments were in line with
suggestions made by President Wilson
In his address to Congress last week
on the high cost of living, and they pro
vide a fine not exccdlng $,"000 or Im
prisonment for not more than two years
for those convicted of violating the act,
Mr. Palmer wrote that "the amend
ments would be helpful in efforts to re
duce the high cost of living If they
could be promptly enacted."
(ioemors of n number of states have
asked the assistance of the Department
of Justice to force into the market
"amazing quantities" of food being held
in stoinge. apparently until prices in
ciease. The Attorney General an
nounced that district attornejs had been
ordered to co-operate with the gover
nors. I'rgcs Limit On Storage
Meanwhile, in the Senate federal
regulation of cold storage of food was
urged by Senator McKellnr, Dcmocrnt,
of Tennessee, as a certain means of re
ducing the cost of living, and ns the
only remedy for "the most outrageous
piece of profiteering that can bo
imagined."
Speaking in support of his bill, first
introduced in 1013, and now ns rein
troduced befoie the Senate Interstate
commerce subcommittee, considering 'the
high cost of living recommendations of
President Wil-on, Senator MeKellar
said If the bill had been passed in 11)13,
he felt sure the present conditions as to
excessive lhing cost would not exist.
The. meat packers were charged by
the Tennessee senator with using cold
storage facilities to fix food prices.
"It is being used by the packers,"
he said, "for the purpose of controlling
prices. As used by the packers, it
preserves in seasons of plenty and per
mits them to withhold such large quan
tities of foodstuffs from the market
as to make a season of scarcity at any
time they see fit, and thus they In
crease the price to the consuming pub
lic." Would Limit Time of Storage
Explaining his bill, Senator MeKel
lar said It would limit the time foods
could be held In cold storage and has
been vigorously opposed by the pack
ers. Citing recent statistics of the federal
trade commission of food held in cold
storage. Senator MeKellar said they
showed vast Increases oer the amounts
stored last year.
"Some middleman," said Sir. Mc
Kellar, "Is making CO 2-3 per cent
profit on eggs alone." Eggs particu
larly, he asserted, are monopolized.
"They aro in the hands of the most
giant monopoly there Is in the world,"
he said.
Present cold storage practices also
are a menace to public health, Senator
MeKellar declared, asserting that meat
and poultry ortcu aro held too long In
storage.
Robertson, Scranton, Pa,: Frank Do-
marrlo and Rote Pitz, Wilmington, Del.
U.S. TO SUE CEMENT 'TRUST'
Action to Dissolve- Combine Will De
Brought In New Jersoy
Washington, Aug. 13. (By A. P.)
A suit in equity to dissolve the
"cement combination" was announced
today by Attorney General Palmer.
The action Is to be brought In the
district of New Jersey against nineteen
Individual companies.
NABBED AS. BOMB PLOTTER,
Radical Literature Found In Rum
slan'a Room In Detroit
Defrolt, Mich., Aug. 13. (By A.
P.) Detectives investigating the nation-wide
bomb outrages of a few weeks
ago took Into custody here today Carl
Pavlo, a Russian, said to have been in
dicted yesterday by a New York Grand
Jury. According to the detectives a
large quantity of radical literature was
found In Pavlo's room here.
APPROVE LAND LEASE BILL
Favorable Report on Measure Or
dered by Senate Committee
Washington. Aug. 13. (By A. P.)
Favorable report on the bill for the
leasing of government-owned oil, coal,
phosphate and sodium lands for the
purpose of stimulating production was
ordered today by the Senate public
lands committee. The vote was
unanimous.
The bill virtually is the same as that
passed by both houses of the last Con
gress, but which failed because the
Senate did not ndopt the conference re
port. Elkton Marriage Licenses
Elliton, Md., Aug. 13. Only six cou
ples braved the Inclement weather and
made the trip to Elkton seeking mar
riage licenses. They were Frank L.
Place nnd Gene Braden, Frederick
Crean and Bertha MacLean, William
A. Kroppel and Rachel Willard, Walter
McDonald and Mary Dalrymple, all of
Philadelphia; Paul Field and Eleanor
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justice of the peace when he accepted u,
post oucrcu nv ine ioou administration, wniuii-iiminii
Mepnurn saiu, was g
lve up nis two posi
tions in the county to give his time to
the food question. He mnde nn appeal
to the administration for S000 a year on
which to live. This, it was found, only
paid his board. His salary was then
rniKed to $1."00. The offices held in
the various food administrations arc ac
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( Glmbels' Offer Accepted
"the offer of Gimbel Brothers to turn
Over an acre of floor space in their
tooi store at Ninth and Chestnut streets
for,tbe municipal sale was accepted,
and.itbe commodities will be placed on
sale as soon after their arrival here
as possible.
Malor Jones says that the seven hun
,dred carloads of foodstuffs will be'rlis
tributed throughout Pennsylvania. Sales
will be conducted by parcel post from
toe commissary, as well as the vari
ous municipal sales. Hospitals and
other institutions may purchase sup
plies in carload lots.
Hundreds of tons of foodstuffs are
said to be spoiling in refrigerating plants
Sells Sugar at 15 Cents,
Then Pays U. S. $500
Washington, Aug. 13. i Ry A.
r. I The first federal conviction for
profiteering was reported today to
the Department of Justice. District
Attorney Lucey telegraphed Attor
ney General Palmer from Hingham
ton. N. T.. that a retail grocer had
been fined $."00 in the federal court
for selling sugar .at fifteen cents a
pound.
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Our Nert Talk TVd Ani. 27
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makes more trou
ble than all other
causes of defective
sight.
You can't use your eyes
day in and day out on
fvork that requires close
aftd Continuous scrutiny
-nrl-posibly under a poor
flight without sooner or
later paying the penalty.
U - J4u do euch work you
frfiould "top at Intervals and
give tho y" a. rt.
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sary, hat them examined and
proper traatment prescribed by
an oetillst a physlelin who
specUllue In the, study and
relief of troufclta with or trou
bles tllit affect the eyes.
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