SURPLUS CUT TO
N KEEP PRICE UP
OPERATOR SAYS
Crood Protection Not to Create
Coal Surplus, Lehigh Of
ficial Admits
Pottsvllle, Jan. 24.—Antlivacite
coal operators do not create a sur
plus because such a condition would
lower prices.
Producers are opposed to runnlpg
up a surplus as a matter of good
business protection to the anthracite
operators.
These facts today stand out in the
government's probe inti the high
price of coal and alleged shortuge
of domestic sizes of that\ article of
fuel. Such statements were made
yesterday by Fred M. Chase, vice
president of the Lehigh Valley Coal
Company and Coxa Brothers Com
pany, in response to questions by
counsel foe the aub-comitteo of the
United States Senate committee on
manufacturers, which is making the
investigation.
AVant Higher Prices
E. H. Learning, general manager
of three independent collieries In
the Scranton field, testified that coal
producers must get more for their
output or go out of business.
W. A. Mays, presidont of the
Pennsylvania Coal Company, the
lllslde Coal and Iron Company,
e Northwestern Mining Exchange
Company, the New York, Susque
hanna and Western Coal Company
and the Blossburg Coal Comiiany
testfled that these mining companies
are controlled by the Erie Railroad.
To Senator Reed's question of
whether he did not know that this
was unlawful, he replied that the
matter had been settled by the
Pennsylvania courts and the com
panies were within their rights.
Charles F. Huber, president "and
general manager of the Lehigh and
AVllkes-Barre Coal Company, testi
fied that only about two-thirds of
the required employes could be ob
tained and that with a full force the
production of coal could be in
creased fifty per cent.
Children's Colds --- Danger!!
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Even cross, sick, cold-ctogged kiddies needn't be coaxed to take candy
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r FRIDAY! EVENING, 'v feomißiiOKttllflßhVjjacEGKXPHl 'JANUARY 24, 1919.
HUNS IN POUND
GIVING GUNS TO
THE BOLSHEVIKI
Hand Oyer Arms and Ammu
nition as They Fall Back
Eastward
London, Jan. J4.—via Montreal—
The entire situation m Poland Is
very difficult, according to the Pol
ish viewpoint. Enslwatd the Ger
mans are falling beck, and, it is
said, are handing over arms and
ammunition to the liolsheviki, and
are not permitting the Poles to tuko
suitable measures for their own de
fence. It is asserted also that Ger
man troops are being sent from the
interior of Germany with tht objec>
of fighting the Poles.
It is declared that Ukrainians to
the number of 30,000 have attacked
the Poles in the vicinity of Lemberg.
It is believed the Ukrainians desire
to obtain possession of the disputed
territory before the decision of the
peace conference can bo promulgat
ed.
In Esthonia Bolshevik! appear
somewhat disorganised, partly ow
ing to the trouble in Petrograd and
to the recent disaster they suffered
at Perm. ..
Carolina Survivors
Give Watch to Man'
Who Rescued Them
San Jnan, P. R„ Jan. 24.—Captain
Gaetan Lauro, of the schooner Eva
B. Douglas, of New York, who res
cued ' 252 survivors from the eight
lifeboats of the steamer Carolina
when she was sunk by a submarine
last Juffe, brought his schooner into
San Juah harbor this week On his
tlrst visit since the finking of the
Carolina. Twenty 0 f the survivors
gave a' dinner in his honor at a ho
tel and presented to him a gold
watch for himself, a gold wrist
watch for his daughter and a dia
mond pin for his wife.
ENGLAND'S DOG
ARMY DID BIG
WORK IN WAR
Many a Soldier Owes His Life
to Some Poor, Uncared
For Animal
London, Jan. 24.—England's dog
army rendered gallant service in the
war. Many a soldier owes his life
to some poor, uncared-for. stray dog.
For nearly two years dogs were em
ployed by the British as messengers,
as sentries and as guards.
Early In 1917 a war dog school of
instruction was established by' the
British War Office, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Richardson, who. has de
voted his life to training dogs for
military and police purposes, was ap
pointed commandant of the school.
Game-keepers, hunt servants and
shepherds were called up from the
army to assist In the work of in
struction.
After a thorough training in Eng
land, the dogs were sent to France,
and on the battlefields their skill,
courage and tenacity amazed the
army. Often wounded in the per
formance of their duties, they never
faltered while strength remained to
carry on. The official record of their
heroic work tells of successful mes
sage-carrying through darkness, mist,
rain nad shell-lire over the most dif
ficult ground. In a few minutes' time
dogs have brought messages over
ground that would take a soldier
Tunner hours to cross.
During the great German advance
last spring part of the British line
in front of a famous French town
was out oil by severe enemy bar
rage. A messenger dog was released
with an urgont appeal for reinforce
ments. It ran two mites in ten min
utes. The result was that a French
colonial division was sent up and
prevented a disaster. The messenger
was a Highland sheep dog.
dog with a message ran
nearly four miles in twenty minutes,
and still another in the same time
carried back from the front, a map
of an important captured position,
when a man would have taken an
hour and a half to bring it in.
The doga which have been found
most successful in war work are col
lies, sheep dogs, lurchers and aire
dales, and crosses of these varieties,
while In a number of cases Welsh
and Irish terriers have given excel
lent results.
The work of sentry dogs has been
valuable, especially in the Balkans.
One gave warning of an enemy scout
300 yards away. On many occasions
dogs have given warning of enemy
patrols long before the soldier sen
tries were aware of their presence.
Large numbers of dogs have been
used for guard duty, many on the
Italian front.
Aland Islands Sent
Delegates to the
Peace Conference
Paris, Jan. 24.—The Aland Island
Paris, Jan. 24. The Aland
Islands, an archipelago belonging to
Finland, in the mouth of the gulf
of Bohemia, has Rent a deputation
to Paris, consisting of two members
of the General Council of the Arch
ipelago, and M. Sundblom, deputy
for the Aland Islands to the Finnish
Dlst. v
When Finland became independ
ent the Aland population asked the
King of Sweden to re-establish the
ancient bonds uniting the Aland
Islands to Sweden. The Swedish
government proposed to Finland
that a plebiscite be taken to settle
the Question, which then could be
submitted to the peace congress fqy
ratlflcation.
The deputation expresses itself
strongly against the Finnish govern
ment's treatment of the islands in
sending Military Governor Von
1 Bonsdorff there with Finnish speakt
ing troops uild in treating the
ers as rebels. The delegation today
expressed the hope that they would
find in the peace conference and in
French, public opinion support sutfi-
S cient to realise their aspirations.
104,000 Wounded
American Soldiers
in Overseas Hospitals
Washington. Jan. 24. —Wounded
American soldiers remaining In hos
pitals overseas number approxi
mately 104,000, Colonel W,' H.
Smith, of the Surgeon General's of
fice yesterday told the Senate com
mittee conducting an inquiry of hOs
• pital facilities and construction.
Many of these wounded, he said, will
no 6 be brought home until they re
cover.
In the hospital* of this country,
Colpnel Sfnith said there are now
about 4*500 vacant beds which can
he placed in use as additional
wounded and sick are returned.
Danzig Citizens Want
to Remain in German
Empire, Tell Hindenburg
Amsterdam, Jan. 2 4.—The Danzig
town council has received Field Mar
shal Von Hlndenburg's reply to its
request for the preservation of Dan
zig for the empire. Von Hindenburg
says he will do his utmbst to prevent
the town from being torn from the
empire, and adds:
"I have no knowledge that our
enemies have fixed the fate of Dan
zig. In a manner unfavorable to us.
The German Inhabitants of Danzig
may be Assured that I have for a
long time been preparing necessary
measures of protection for the men
aced province." >.
Allotment Checks of .
Soldiers Out by Jan. 31
Washington, Jan. 24.—response
to numerous Inquiries received by
the American Red Cross; and the
bureau of war risk insurance rela
tive to allotment checks for rela
tives of soldiers, sailors and marines
for November and December, the
Red Cross yesterday sent the follow
ing telegram to all division direc
tors:
"Secretary of the Treasury an
nounces all war risk checks for No
vember and December will be out
by January 31. Hence desirable to
withhold Inquiries as to tlfose checks
until February 1."
STEBL PI.AXT SEftl ICSTH ATKD
i Met*. Jan. 24.—Tho Thyssen Steel
Works, a largo German at
I Hagendingon, Lorraine,'has been se
j questrated. This action was taken
I at the request of a government com-
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GermanLangiiage in ..
Milwaukee Disappearing
Milwaukee wis., Jan. 24.—The
l® c hlng of he.German language in
Milwaukee schools may disap
pear entirely tvhen the new semester
begins in Fe\ruary. In only one
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school .> the city now is German
being i/ught and, under the resolu
tion .ollthe school board abolishing
foreign language instruction. It
would-pe discontinued at the end of
the ttfn in June.
In 7916. 200 teachers were em
ploye/ to give instruction in the
Gernn language to 80,000 pupils
andfjlt the end of 1918, only one
teacher was employed to instruct 100
pupils In the German language.
One of the flnaY instances In con
nection with the elimination of Ger
man Instruction came with the re
cent announcement that Leo Stern,
In charge of the foreign lnagugae
assistant superintendent of schools
department, had resigned. The school
the foreign language department, at
the end of the -present year. Mr.
Stern's term expires June 80. Mr.
Stern In his letter to the school
board said that after a service of IS
years in the Milwaukee schools, he
felt that he was "entitled to a rest-"
board last August voted to abolish
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