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• LXXXYIII— NO. 163 16 PAGES Da,l LSSr' p .\ WL'&SVtir?"' HARRISBURG. PA. TUESDAY EVENING, JULY IS, 1919. W H£SSSS tFSBSSSv'Sr* ' Binqi3D c WS£b HOME EDITION
CITY SQUIRMS IN GRIP OF
, HIGH PRICES FOR FOOD IN
HOPE COST MAY LESSEN
Offer Is Made
of Money to
Help Fight
CASE IN WHICH
BLAME IS FIXED
Boost in Price of
Bread Is Chief
Home Topic
Harrisburg continued to twist
and squirm in the grip of high
food prices to-day with little
prospect of relief. Housewives
who went forth to buy provender
in the hope that the cost of living
had lessened and that henceforth
they might apply some of their
funds in other necessary directions
returned to their homes disappointed.
The prices hud not decreased, nor
was there prospect that they might
within the next few days. Through-,
out the city the boost in the cost of
bread' was the chief topic of discus
sion at the family board. It was said
that some of the baking concerns
that had announced the raise had
felt the result of the increase in a
loss of business.
Will Loan Money to City
Out at 30 Evergreen street the
food prices got under the hide of
W. E. Wisehart, a practical citizen
who said he had 51,900 ill cash and
Liberty bonds that he would gladly
loan the city without cost to the
municipality in order to help "down
the food barons."
Mr. Wisehart said he was certain
there were many other people in the
city who would be glad to advance
money toward a fund that would
bring relief to the poor people. Mr.
Wisehart said:
"I went to a meat market on
Saturday and bought a box of
berries for 20 cents. 1 went
back for another box and found
the meat dealer had sold out
at 20 cents. I went to the Hill
market and paid a farmer who
raised the berries 30 cents for
a box of the identical kind of
berries I had bought for 20
cents."
Blames Gouge on Farmer
This experience of the Evergreen
street man clearly put the increase
up to the farmer. Patrons of the
Broad street market recall that
people who go early to the market
and ask prices often are told that
the prices for the day ha*, e not been
determined ttupon.
"If we can get relief only for a
short time." said Mr. Wisehart, "It
will be worth while to assist the
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BREWERS LOSE
FIRST ROUND OF
NEAR BEER FIGHT
Court Overrules Demurrers of
Liquor Interests to Charges
of Prohibition Violations
fly Associated Pyrss.
Pittsburgh, p a ., July 15. —The
government won Its first point to
day in its tight against the sale ot
beer containing two and three
fourtlis per cent, alcohol when
Judge W. H. S. Thompson, In United
States District Qourt, overruled de
murrers of officers and directors of
* the Pittsburgh and Independent
Brewing Companies to charges of
violation of the war-time prohibition
law. Each of the defendants, nine
teen in all, was held in $l,OOO ball
for the November term of court.
Judge Thompson's decision fol
lowed arguments by counsel repre
senting the eleven officials of the
Pittsburgh Brewing Company in
support of their demurrers to
charges in a test suit brought by
United States Attorney R. L. Craw
ford. charging violation of the dry
act by sale of beer containing morn
h than one half of one per cent, of
i alcohol to a local saloon keeper.
Judge Thompson said his ruling
spoiled also to demurrers tiled this
morning by eight directors of the
Independent Brewing Company to r
similar suit started on Saturday.
Counsel for the brewers, In tiling
demurrers, had asked that the suits
be dismissed because, it whb
charged the government's suits were
based upon tinsufflcient law as no
where In the informations was It
said the beer alleged to have been
sold was Intoxicating. Attorneys for
the government maintained, how
ever, that the sule of beer contain
ing more than one-half of one per
cent, alcohol constituted a violation
of the war-time prohibition law.
THE WEATHER
Harriabgrg and Vlelnltyi Thiin
dersbnwers this afternoon er to
night. Wednesday fnlr, Not
murh ehsnae In temperature,
lowest to-night about U de
•' grera
DIRIGIBLES TO BE
OCEAN CARRIERS
By Associated Press.
New York, July 15.—A Zeppe
lin freight and passenger trans-
Atlantic service, to start "about
October 18," between New York
and Hamburg, with Boston, Chi
cago, Berlin and Dusseldorf as
ports of call, is announced in ad
vertisements in German language
newspapers and one American
paper published here.
Hans Khars, an importer, who
inserted the advertisements, said
that he had been designated by
an American banker to act as
agent for an overseas dirigible
freight and passenger servce to
be financed by American, British
and German capital.
Bookings for freight shipments
and passengers would he received
after September 18. Mr. Khars
said, adding that a tentative plan
of $9l per ton had been set as
the trans-Atlantic freight rate,
about $3O more than the per-ton
rate by water. He said he had
no idea as yet as to In w many
passengers could be carried.
CITY TO SELL
ARMY FOODS AT 1
REDUCED COSTS
Muyor Is Determined to Cut
Prices; Colonel Schell Heads
Distribution Committee
Harrisburg's Mayor, Daniel L.
Kiester, to-day started a movement
to cut the high cost of living when
he named Lieutenant Colonel Ed
ward H. Schell chairman of the com
mittee to take up plans for buying
the surplus stock of foodstuffs at the
United States Reserve Depot at New
Cumberland. Colonel Schell will
have the privilege of naming his
own committee. It is understood
there are enough volunteers to guar
antee financing the proposition.
Mayor Kiester said:
"I am not going to stop here,
there is no reason for the high
prices asked for foodstuffs. I in
tend to get to the bottom and fipd
out just where the profiteering
starts. I know one thing. High
prices in the markets are due most
ly to forestalling and I am going to
make every effort to stop that prac
tice. Forestallers have been a
menace for a long time. It has al
ways been a hobby with me to get
after those dealers who buy early
in market and put up the price,
forcing the farmers to raise their
prices. Our markets should and will
be regulated if I am able to carry
out my plans. 1 shall let the people
know just what I am doing to help
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OH! OH!! MILADY!!!
Rrhlgc|iort, Conn., July 15.—A
general strike of the corset work
ers of the United States was de
cided on at a meeting of the ex
ecutive committee of the Interna
tional Corset Workers' Union this
morning, and Miss Fannie Cohen,
vice-president of the Internation
al Garment Workers' Union, left
immediately for New York to ob
tain the authorization of that
body for the strike.
Ira Ornburn, secretary of the
Connecticut' State Federation of
Labor, announced this morning
that the corset workers and af
filiated organizations will expend
$250,000 to win the. strike.
There are 10,000 corset workers
In Connecticut. A strike would
affect the interests of over 20,000
persons it is said.
The workers demand a 44-hour
week, a closed shop, fifty per cent,
increase in pay, and no charge
for materials used in the work.
The workers met at 11 o'clock
this morning and were addressed
by Miss Nellie Chase, president
of the local union of Corset
Workers.
CHILDREN IN
POOR DISTRICTS
TO BE HELPED
Allied Civic Bodies Afireo to
Htiise Money For Better
Health Conditions
Such distressing conditions have
been unearthed among the children
of the poorer districts of Harrisburg
as the result of u survey under the
direction of the Allied Civic Bodies
of Harrisburg and representatives of
the State Health Department that it
ha* been derided to rulse money
with which to establish two health
centers and to follow up cases that
have tieen brought to the attention
of the authoritleM where expert su
pervision is necessary.
The fund to be raised will lie used
also to help fight the fly nuisance
and for the furtherance of Colonel
Martin's program to make Hurris
iCouUtiucd an I'age 2,]
State Bureau
May Inquire
Into Boost
SITUATION IS
WATCHED HERE
Officials Are Ready
to Give Their
Assistance
Food prices and conditions in
Harrisburg may be among the
first to be studied by the State
Bureau of Markets when it is
reorganized by Secretary of Agriculture
Fred Kasmussen about the first of Au
gust, the situation in the State capital,
where provision prices have been sky
rocketing with little renson, having
been under observation by State offi
cials to inquire into cost of production,
handling and final placing before the
consumer and as hundreds of people
connected with the State government
are among the sufferers together with
the residents of the Harrisburg district
there will be a sympathetic touch to
the inquiry.
State Officials Take Notice
The upward trend of produce prices
in Harrisburg, which is In the midst
of a large truck farming section, h -
been attracting attention not only of
State officials, but "of farmers th ,n>-
selves, many of whom have been c m
plaining that they are not getting any
thing like what is being charged to the
consumers.
In the event that conditions here be
come much worse Stute officials will
stand ready to co-operate with the Bu
reau of Merchants or any special com
mittee of the Harrisburg Chamber of
Commerce or a committee named by
the Mayor to probe the cause of the
price gouging in Harrisburg.
Frofessor J. G. Sanders, director of
the bureau of plant industry in the
State Department of Agriculture .will
leave to-morrow for Europe to make an
intensive study of the potato blight and
methods being used to check it for the
Federal and State governments. The
expense will he borne by the Federal
board in charge of horticultural inves
tigations. Professor Sanders has been
working with Federal officials in the
campaign against the blight In the
lower anthracite field, where inspec
tions were made recently by British
scientists, and he will visit England.
Scotland and Ireland potato growing
districts and possibly go to the con
tinent. The blight has caused loss of
thousands of dollars worth of potatoes
in Pennsylvania and experiments are
now being made with a potato that will
be immune. He will take with him
results of, the work in Luzerne, Schuyl
kill and other counties.
USES RENTED
ROOM AS BASE
OF OPERATIONS
Clever Swindler Moves in and
Within Few Hours Moves
Out; Clothing Missed
I.ess than two hours after be had
rented a room from Mrs. J. Reed,
609 North Front street, a clever
swindler left the residence with
i four suits of clothes belonging to
I another roomer, while his landlady
j was answering a call at tae door,
I The police have been notified.
| The man is reported to have gone
|to the Reed's residence, represented
' himself as an employe of the Cum-
I berlund Valley Telephone Company,
i and to have made u deposit on u
i room, according to the Information
furnished by Mrs. Reed to Detective
Hyde Speece, of the city police
force.
He was shown to the room and
there started to unpack two suit
cases and a handbag which ho car
ried with htm. Uitcr the landlady
was culled to the door and Within
a short time the niuii came down
stairs with his suitcases and hand
bag, und said that be was going for
the remainder of his clothing.
Mrs. Reed became suspicious when
he failed to return within u reason
able time and her examination
showed the four suits to tie missing
All were the property of A It'
Hitchcock, employed by the State
Workmen's Insurunce Fund. All of
the clothing is too Urge for the
thief, who is described as helm?
of medium build.
Police officials to-day held out a
warning to all proprietors of board
ing hodses to be on their guard in
renting their rooms. A lurge num
ber of them have been called by tele
phone from police headquarters.
JUDGE MITCHELL FILER ills
PETITION As CANDIDATE
Judge H. Walton Mitchell, of the
Allegheny county orphans court re
cently appointed, to-day filed his pe.
tltlon to be a candidate Judge
Mitchell called upon the Governor
while here. Nominating petitions
were alao filed by T. ('. Joneg
county court, Allegheny; Lawrence
Fulls. Lewletown, associate lodge,
Mifflin, and Jamea K. Freed, I'eiin's
Creek, associate Judge, binder.
John Barleycorn's Body Lies a Mouldering in the Grave,
But His Soul Goes Marching On
PAYDAY ON HILL BUT
NO CHECKS DRAWN
$44,500,000 Appropriation Bill Not Signed, So Employes
Wait; Governor Considers Cuts
This was payday on Capitol Hill,
hut there were no cheeks passed |
around the departments and bureaus i
owing to the fact that the Governor j
had not been able to complete his
consideration of the general appro- |
bill carrying the record- breaking i
figure of $44.500,000.
It Is expected that the Governor
will finish work to-morrow or next
day when the flood of checks which
make up the State payroll will ho
turned loose. Kverythlng Is In read
iness for the payment of thousands ,
of dollars as soon as the bill is signed !
and certified.
The Governor began sending for
heads of departments of the State
government as soon as ho reached
ARREST ITALIAN
AS HE PLACES
BOMB AT HOUSE
Police Find Two Cylindrical
Machines Similar lo Those
Used in June Outrages
Hy Associated rrrss.
I'arrdl, Pa., July 15.—Carrying
two cylindrical bomba, which the
police say are similar to thoan used
by terrorists In their outrages In
eight cities lust June, an Itultun who
gave his nunm as Ralph Itiiotolo, 33,
of Youngslown, 0,, was arrested
here this morning In the act of
placing one of the tnfcrnul ma
chines In tho rear of the home of
Joseph Cunteloup, a wealthy fruit
merchant. He was placed In Jail and
Federal authorities notlAed.
' Watch Ills Downfall
Ruotolo's arrest tollnved his re
quest of u pedestrian for a mtlcn.
The man noticed the Its.lan ■ arriud
two suspicious looking packages un
der his arm and notlAed the police
Chief of Police McCartney anil two
offleera found Huotolo In lbs rear
of the C'anteloup home In Ihe art,
they say, of placing one of the hoiuba
under the structure, Th" Italian was
captured after a struggle with the
officers. The bombs wele taken to
to the police station, where tt was
said, s ii esph'slvs expert has Imi
summoned to esamlne litem.
KKNATtIItH HKRK T4MI.W
Henators W. K. Urow, Fayette,
Ft. J. Baldwin, Delaware, and W H
Nuson, Kile, were among Capitol
visitors to-day.
Harrlsburg last evening and expla
nations and elucidations are the or
der of the day.
The Governor was In touch with
every chief and asked not only what
was the least possible he could get
along on, but where cuts could he
made without impairing efficiency.
The Governor, In the language of
one chief, "seemed to be making a
study of the whole scheme of Stuto
government."
The bill, which is the greatest In
size and In sum carried of any ever
passed by a Legislature, has been
studied by people in the Governor's
office and the results of their work
are being supplemented by the Gov
ernor's own personal Inquiries.
CITY'S CAVALRY
TROOP MEETS TO
REORGANIZE UNIT
Committors Ntunod to Boost
Membership mid Inquire
For Armory For Body
Dctlnltn steps toward Ihe reor
ganization of the Governor's Troop
were taken at a meeting held at the
Pennsylvania Railroad Men's V. M.
C\ A. lust night. There wore Afty
tlve former members of the troop
present. Lieutenant t'hurlrg A.
Kline presided.
The meeting prtmurtly wus held lo
discuss the most effective method
of bringing Ihe troop hack to Its
position us a distinctive unit. To
this end a paper was signed signify
ing the Intention of Ihoae present to
effect reorganization provided con
ditions prove Natlsfitclory. Fred G.
Lyter was chosen secretm-v and
Hoherl I'owen treasurer, II wus de
termined to uppo nl committees on
memheishlp and the securing of an
armory, and tho following persons
were named:
•>n Membership Hoherl I'owen,
chairman; Wilson Kirkputilrk,
llenry t'ocklln, Lloyd Pike, John
Hhitde, Ntanlev Mhilpp,
On Armory Bussell Challenger,
chairman; Bolieit i'owen, Guy
X.eigler. llenry f'neklln and Wilson
Klrkpatrlck
The seutUneul of the men asssm
tded clearlv was In favor of reor
van'sutlnn ami further steps toward
that end will he taken ul a meeting
to be held nl the Hope tire houae
en July 3,
The meiutiois preaenl Included
former members Of the Governor's
Troop of Cavalry which left tiers In
tteptemher, 16IT, fur Camp Han
cock, Utt. ,
COUNCIL AWARDS
PAVINCi BIDS AT
TODAY'S SESSION
Kightcon Sections of Streets
Are to Me Improved at Once;
Central Company Gets Job
At one of the longest sessions In
months City Commissioners dis
posed of much Important huslnesx
at the Council meeting to-day, act
ing Anally on soma questions which
have been pending for weeks.
Upon the recommendation of
Commissioner W. 11. Lynch con
tracts for pacing elghleent sections
of city streets with sheet asphalt
and placing granite curbing were
awarded the Central Construction
Corporation at bids ranging from
$3.32 to $3,311 a square ymd for pav
ing and sl.t!o to $1.63 a foot for
curbing.
Commissioner Lynch said the bids
were lower than soma received In
cither cities. Because the bids were
[Continued on Pago IS.]
Seven Hurt When One
Car Hurls Another Into
Fence Near Hummelstown
Seven persons were more or lees
seriously Injured Inst evening when
an automobile in which they were
riding was struck In the rear by an
other high-powered car, proceeding
at a high rate of speed and hurled
through a fence at Beaver school
house, on Ihe road between Hum
melstown and this city.
George I nine, of Caiuphellstown,
owner of the car In which Ihe In
jured persons were riding, was drlv.
lug It at the time. The other car
Is owned and operated by an Kllza
bethtown resident.
Holier! Sleek, of Hockersvllle, Is
reported to have been severely In
jured about the head and to-day Is
reported In a serious condition.
Peter Painter, of Cumpbellstown, Is
suffering with a badly fractured
right arm and Injured hip.
The other Ave persons who were
riding In the car at the time of the
uccldent are badlv bruised, scratch
ed or cut. The other car proceeded
on Its wuy without stopping No
persons In II ure believed to have
been hurt.
Early Morning Fire
at 1414 North Third
Causes Slight Damage
When a Areplace at 1414 North
Third sliest caught lire this morn
ing damage lo Ills extent of up
proximatelv SM) resulted The Are
or, in icd ahold Ills O'clock Ibis
morning and lbs ularm was turned
In from box 31 al the corner of
Third urid Belly streets. Walter
Hellers lives In the property, which
Is owned by Walter Kyis, Green
street
SECRET PLEDGES
OF JAPANESE ARE
SEVERELY SCORED
Senator Norris Produces Dip
lomatic Correspondence
on Shantung
BLACK SPOT IN TREATY
Ratification Means Pledge to
Give American Lives and
Blood if Necessary
PLOTTED RUIN OF CHINA
Urged Her to Come in War as
Ally and at Same Time
Planned to Destroy Her
By Associated Press.
Washington, July Is.— A charge
that Japun secretly secured pledges
from Great Britain, France, Italy
and Russia early in 1917 that in the
peace settlement, Shantung peninsu
la should, for certain considerations,
he turned over to the Tokio govern
ment, was made in the Senate to-day
hy Senator Norris, Republican, of Ne
braska, who produced what ho de
clared to be copies of diplomatic cor
respondence embodying the promises
of Great Britain and France. Those
pledges, the Nebraska Senator de
clared, fully explafned the pressure
which resulted in Shantung's trans
fer to Japan under the Versailles
Treaty, whose ratification by the
Senate, would write "the blackest
page In the nation's history."
British to Get Islands
Great Britain's Influence In the
matter, he charged, was secured by
Japan's support of British claims to
Pacific Islands south of the Equator,
while France's aid was purchased by
a promise of the Tokio government
to help draw China Into the war t.o
that German ships In Chinese har
bors would be available for carrying
troops and provisions to France.
"On the 27th day of March, 1916,"
said Senator Norris, "the Japanese
minister of foreign affairs at Tokio,
approached the British ambassador
located at that place, with a view of
bringing about an agreement witli
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| MARRIAGE LICENSES I
X l.rl Mall and I'rarl M \ndraan, Harrltbnrii Halph n, Mai-" "
T alrla. I'm I. n.uk, and t'airyllu II I tar, Itarrlaburai Jumra H. May-*
♦ until and l.lndta 1.. M.-Hridr, I'hlludalpMMi Ja.'ali A, Hllaa, Hummrla- a k
J, t%a. aad Klaaula N. Kilm, I'almjrai William A. Walah, Jruay Illy.
T aad Inaa 1.. Walah, Harrlaburii. I* *
WILL NOT CALL
WILSON BEFORE
SENATE BODY
Foreign Relations Committee
Hostile to His Appearance
to Discuss Treaty
THE FIGHT IS GOING ON
All Documents Considered by
American Peace Commis
sioners Asked For
LEAGUE DRAFTS ALSO
Senators Are Eager to Have
Every Scrap of Informa
tion Attainable
By Associated Pvcss.
Washington, July 15.—Indications
thai President Wilson would not bo
asked to uppear before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee for
discussion of the Peace Treaty were
said to-day to have been received
In udniinisliatlon quarters.
High administration officials Inti
mated they had been informed by
some members of the committee
that the majority of that body
seemed hostile to suggestions that
the President be asked to appear or
that the committee confer as a body
wit It him at the White House.
Should the committee decide not
to invite the President to appeal
before it Mr. Wilson might begin his
tour of the country earlier than he
had planned. The general under
standing has been that the Presi
dent was withholding decision re
garding his itinerary and the date
for beginning his "swing around the
circle" until the Foreign Relations
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FLIGHT TO INDIA NEXT
London, Monday, July 14.—The
R-S3, sister ship to the British dirig
ible R-34, which has just completed
a round trip across the Atlantic, will
start on a trip to India within the
next week. The dirigible will visit
France, Switzerland, Italy and Egypt
and it is expected that the voyago
will take from fifteen to twenty
days.