JH".: f. •; ■- - -;■ -'T T '*• •• • - .■■-***.-.? y v sjfi .. ■ . / v~"• ,\V 7; „■ : * "" / /' 'PT f Whole Country Is Seeking Means of Bringing High Prkes of Foodstuffs Down to Lower Levels^ HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH . 2T)c 01ar-3nt>cptnt>tnl. LXXXVIII—NO. 164 14 PAGES T.X., HARRISBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 16,1919. **U£2SSS tttSiEZJZ,— si3O3> ( COM! HOME EDITION FARMERS ADMIT PEOPLE ARE BITTER AT PRICES THEY ASK FOR PRODUCE Say They y Too, Are Gouged by Feed Dealers and Profiteers MAYOR NAMES HIS HELPERS Says Forestalling Practice Will Be Investigated Farmers who came to the city markets to-day with their produce admitted that the peo ple are embittered over the high prices asked for vegetables and fruits. They explained, however, that they are at the mercy of the feed and grain dealers and are vic tims, too, of the same conditions that have caused city people to rise up in arms. Until the price of feed goes down, they said, the price of the farmer's product will stay up. So there you are. Meanwhile, the people continue to discuss the food situation with varying degrees of heat. Some of them do not hesitate to predict what will happen to the poor if some measure of relief is not given. Ih-ices May Not Justify At the State Hospital for the In sane it was announced to-day that although they b-d been considering the purchase 01 some foodstuffs which the government is putting on sale, they feared that the price which is placed on the food would be prohibitive. It was explained that this price appeared to be little lower than the regular market price, and the board of the hospital scarcely felt warranted in purchas ing such quantities. Allciitown Council Acts At Allentown. Pa., the City Coun cil ha* taken up the question of reducing the price of food and to , that end have decided to purchase a great quantity of the government supply and sell to the people of the city through municipal markets. They claim that this will undoubt edly force down the market in Al lentown and vicinity. Committee Meets Tomorrow Plans for selling the surplus stock of Armv food at the Reserve Depot at New Cumberland to Harrisburg people will be taken up to-morrow after a meeting of the Mayor's com mittee to be held in the morning at 11 o'clock at the office of the Mayor. The committee will visit the Reserve Depot and ascertain what goods are for sale and at what price they will be offered Harrisburg. Following the selection last even ing of Lieutenant Colonel Edward H. Schell as chairman, the following committee was announced: Colonel Edward H. Schell, J. William Bow man, Captain H. M. Stine, Mercer B. Tate. William M. Hoerner, David Kaufman, R. Ross Seaman, George W. Kobler and Wellington G. Jones. Committor's First Duty The first duty of the committee will be to arrange for the financing of the project. It is understood there will be little trouble in rais ing the necessary funds. The com mittee desires to get complete in-, formation as to the cost of the j food, quantity, and to the best means for getting it to Harrisburg, if a ! purchase is made. The cost of de livering the goods to Harrisburg will also be considered. The thrfee local markethouses have been secured for the sale of the foodstuffs. Colonel Schell, who has a wide ex [Conttnucd on I'agc 5.] Taps at Funeral of Civil War Veteran; Woman Is Bugler J The funeral of Thomas Numbers, Civil War veteran, was held yester day afternoon, and services conduct ed at the home of the daughter, Mrs. W. D. Fritz. 1446 Regina street, by the Rev. H. W. Hanson, pastor of Messiah Lutheran Church. Burial was made in East Harrisburg cemetery. The pallbearers included E. Laub enstein, W. W. Davidson, from Mes siah Lutheran Church; Edward Herbert and S. W. Briggins, from Washington Camp P. O. S. of A., and David Challenger and A. Wilson Black, of Post 58, G. A. R. Both the Grand Army and Patriotic Sons of American held services at the grave. At the close of the G. A. R. exercises, Mrs. Frank Mikle sound ed taps. The funeral was largely attended, many being present from out of the city. STORMS FORCE PLANE DOWN RrcullnK, Pa„ July 16.—A federal mail airplane, carrying 500 pounds of letters from New York to Cleve land, was forced down by a terrific windstorm last night at Albany, this county, and wrecked. It landed on the farm of Allen Bailey, but the aviator. Lieutenant J. D. Mc- Alden, was uninjured. His mail was Bent to Kempton station and placed on a train. THE WEATHER] Harrisburg and Vlelnltyi Fair 10. . night and Thursday. Somewhat ' cooler to-night with lowest temperature about 60 decrees. Pittsburgh Declares War on Higher Cost of Living Pittsburgh, July 16. The city probe will be inserted into J the high cost of living, especially as it pertains to the dealers in foodstuffs who occupy the city markets, according to a resolution presented to council by P. J. McArdle and adopted. The resolution calls for investigation by the division of in vestigation of retail and wholesale prices. In the preamble it is stated the "present high cost of liv ing constitutes a growing menace to internal peace and prosperity of the American nation," and "that there is a wide difference of opinion as to who or what is responsible for the continuance of these conditions." It is then stated that by reason of its operation of the city markets the city becomes a deeply interested party and ! may be able to contribute information valuable to the public. It is then resolved: "That the division of investigation is hereby directed to make frequent investigation of the re- j tail prices of all food products sold at all city market houses and also similar investigation of the wholesale prices of the I aforesaid food products, and then make reports to the mem bers of council showing the margin between the wholesale and retail prices. Said reports shall also show any variation in prices that may exist in said city markets for the same quality and kind of food products." J : UNHAPPY M'CORDS IN PRISON CELLS Husband Follows Wife to Railroad Station, Where Crowd Sees Couple in Conflict; Woman Wants No More of Professor, She Tells Him in Multiplied Words "Ah do'n wan' that man. Ah do'n wan' that man. Ah wo'n live wif him." So earnest and vociferous in repeat ing for more than ten minutes the im passioned ejaculation did Fodie Mc- Oord, 765 South Third street, Steelton, become this morning when arrested by Harrisburg police; that she had to be placed in the dungeon at police head quarters, so that the routine of the da 's work might go on undisturbed. Fodie was arrested with her hus band, Professor McCord, of the same Steelton address, on a charge of dis orderly conduct, preferred by the po lice when Professor McCord endea vored to restrain the wife from leaving this vicinity with another colored man. The husband, in some manner, learned that Fodie and her Komeo were to leave the vicinity this morn ing. and boarded a Steelton car soon after they departed. He encountered the pair in the Pennsylvania Railroad Station and started to take the wife in the direction of their Steelton home by main force. Fodie did not desire to return to the Steelton domicile and would not go peaceably. Professor determined she should, and with argument, both of words and of brute strength, they en deavored to settle their difficulties in Market street to the amusement of a AFFECTED WITH QUEER AILMENT WANDERS AWAY Police Searching For Man Who Has 'Walking Disease;' Left Home in Maryland Harrisburg police are assisting in the efforts to learn the where abouts of Edward C. Dorsey, who disappeared from North East, Md„ last month and who, it is thought, may be in this vicinity. He left North East, Md., to go to Reading, he is reported to have told relatives. Dorsey, according to a letter from his nephew, Charles A. Dorsey, 240 Jamaica avenue, Astoria, L. 1., New York, is in "a wandering state of mind and subject to a queer ail ment, that of 'walking.' " He had disappeared and been located twice during the preceding* month. He is described as being 38 years old, five feet four inches in height, weighing 155 pounds, of dark complexion, with dark hair, tinged with gray. He was wearing a dark coat and light trousers at the time of his dis appearance. Dorsey was a hoisting engineer and had been employed for five years at Reading. All information concerning him is requested to be sent to John S. Dorsey, 802 West street. Wilmington, Del., a brother of the missing man. Salvation Army Captain Leaves For New Command Captain Meyers Neilsen, for a number of years in command of lo cal Salvation Army headquarters, left yesterday for Towanda, Pa., where he will be in charge. Mrs. Neilsen left to-day. Captain and Mrs. Neilsen will be succeeded by Captain and Mis. Claude Bowling, of Chattanooga, Tenn., who are to arrive here July 23. They will be assisted by Captain Anna Hohein, who came to Harrisburg to-day. i large crowd which gathered. But Mo torcycle Officer Paul Schelhas and Pa trolman Holland, of the Harrisburg police force, arrived on the scene soon after the subway was reached. They cut short the entertainment. "Professor McCord, what are you a professor of, demanded Chief of Po lice Wetzel when the warring pair were brought before him at the police station. "Ah ain't professor of nuthin' ; that's Jes the name muh mother give me," responded the Steelton resident. They had been married for three years and ever since that had lived "jes like cats an' dogs," Fodie told Chief Wetzel when questioned by him. She had been kicked and hit over the head and treated "jes like a dog," ever since they had been married in South Carolina, she said. She would not return home with him, she em phatically declared. But Professor wished things other wise. That she was his wife and that he wanted her to return home with him were the desires he expressed. But Professor's wishes would not work out well in practice and continual trouble would result, the Chief thought, and ordered both locked up on a disorderly charge. They will be given hearings in police court during the afternoon. ST. SWITHIN HAS STORMY START IN FORTY-DAYREIGN Fire and Wind Cause Much Damage in City and Nearby Places . St. Swithin Comes With Rain and Wind St. Swithin's Day, with its fall of 1.73 inches of rain, brings considerable damage throughout the city and nearby places. The barn of M. L. Ludwig, of Penbrook, is burned. The residence of C. S. Brinser, 2301 North Front street, is struck by lightning. The fifteen-foot retaining wall in Atlas street, collapses. Park drives are badly washed. Tons of newly-harvested crops were destroyed when .the barn on the farm of M. L. Ludwig, Pen brook, went down by fire after being struck by a bolt of lightning at the beginning of last evening's thun derstorm. One other residence was damaged by a bolt, while the heavy downpour of rain resulted in the collapse of a fifteen-foot high retaining wall in Atlas street and the Hooding of the important Market street subway Valuable stores of new hay and hundreds of sheaves of wheat, cut within the past several weeks' and stored in the bam to be threshed later in the year, were included in the crops burned. One farm wagon was burned. Livestock Escapes No livestock was burned in the flames, nine, horses being removed. [Continued on Page 7.] BALLOON RACE St. I.ouln, July 16. —A balloon race for the United States championship will start from St. Louis October 1, it was announced here to-day. The contest will be conducted by the Missouri Aeronautical Society under the rules of the International Aero nautical Federation. Makes It Kind of Difficult to Get a Shot at Anything, Much Around Here, Doesn't It, Boys? ] "BEG PARDON, [ ) THERE SOMETHING) I CAN DO TOR VQV? j AMERICANS TELL OF CRUELTIES IN PRISON CAMPS ;Some of the Officers Have ' Been Convicted Before Court-Martial By Associated Press. Washington, July 16. Six former American soldiers testified yester day before a special House com mittee investigating alleged cruel ties to military prisoners in France, and declared that merciless assaults were committed without provocation on the prisoners by arrogant ofileers in charge of the prisons and camps. Only one of the witnesses, all of whom were charged with being absent without leave, was convicted, the others having been acquitted or the charge dismissed. "The Basttle," "the stockade," "prison farm No. 2" and "St. Ann's Hotel," i also known as "the brig," were the places named by the witnesses as the scenes of the alleged cruelties, which were said to have extended over sev eral months in 1918. Some officers in charge of the prison camps, it was said, had been convicted by courts-martial and others were awaiting frlal. Lieutenant "Hardboiled" Smith, one of the prison camp officers, was men tioned frequently, while others named were Lieutenants Mason and Sullivan, and Sergeants Ball. Wolfmeyer and Bush. "Did they try the general in charge [Continued on Page 7.] Explosion Precedes Fire Which Burns Theater Hazloton, Pa.. July 16.—The Lion Theater at McAdoo was destroyed by fire early to-day. Neighbors re ported to the police that before they saw the flames they heard an ex plosion of dynamite at the rear of the building. The loss is $lO,OOO. State fire investigators are probing. PROFITEERS GO ON UNMOLESTED (New York World.) The universal cry is against peace profiteering, of which ! there is abundant proof in j all these countries, as there 1 is to-day in the United States. 1 Against that abuse it should I not be impossible to adopt | measures that will check if ! not stop it. Yet the food | extortioners and profiteers , are permitted to go un molested while lawmakers ■ and official bodies solemnly , discuss why nothing can be done. CITY KNIGHT OF ! COLUMBUS RISES TO STATE BERTH Patrick A. Kennedy, Energetic Worker, Is Made District Deputy For Territory v HH^4 , 4 r 4*4^4*4HH*4 f € I • READ TEACE. TREATY BY SECTIONS _ • - ♦ ;ntil It* - * e 4 < A X r the first time, but with the sec * ® tions provoking-objection reserved for-future.consid