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Whole Country Is Seeking Means of Bringing High Prkes of Foodstuffs Down to Lower Levels^
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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
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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."
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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.
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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?
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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
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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
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PATRICK A. KENNEDY
Recognition for his good work in
building of tho Knights of Colum
bus in Pennsylvania and for untir
ing efforts in war wark came to
day to Patrick A. Kennedy, of Har
risburg Council. He has been made
district deputy for the eighteenth
district of Pennsylvania. The ap
pointment came from P. W. Ries,
State deputy of Knights of Colum
bus, with headquarters at Pitts
burgh.
District Deputy Kennedy will |
have jurisdiction over councils in j
Harrisburg, York, Lancaster, Han- j
over, Chambersburg and Lebanon. t
which includes a membership of
nearly 4,000. Harrisburg council
alone has an enrollment of over
500. In the building up of the local
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Twenty-Eighth's Leader to
Command Camp Custer
By Associated Press.
Washington, July 16.—Major Gen
eral William H. Hay, who command
ed in France the Twenty-eighth
(Pennsylvania National Guard Divi
sion). wi 1 be assigned to command
Camp Custer, Michigan, on his ar
rival in the United States, the War
Department announced to-day.
SQUARE DEAL IS
IMPELLING IDEA
[| OF CITY WOMEN
: Better Places For Youngsters
to Play and Live in Is Plan
of Welfare Workers
Help the children get a square
deal! This is the idea which is spur
ring the general committee for Child
Welfare to initiate a campaign for
the betterment of living conditions
for Harrisburg's youngsters. Mrs.
Lyman D. Gilbert is temporary chair
man of the general committee and
has appointed a survey committee,
of which Miss Mildred Astrich is
chairman.
The general plan of the survey
committee, which is composed of
ten members, is to take charge of
districts in town where living con
ditions are not what they might be
and make them a healthier and
brighter place for the children to
live in. Each member is to make
her appointments of assistants, and
the assistants will make the rounds
of her district with either a State
nurse or a nurse from the staff of
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Rear Admiral Robinson
Visits Here on Way to
Mifflintown Birthplace
A distinguished visitor to this city
yesterday afternoon was Rear Ad
miral Samuel M. Robinson, U. S. N. Ad
miral Robinson was the guest in this
city of Pay Master John N. Speel. re
i tired, at 124 Walnut street. He is on
his way to Mifflintown, where, he was
j born and spent the early part of his
I life until his appointment to the
I Naval Academy. Dr. Atkinson, who
represented the Juniata county dis
trict in Congress in 1884. secured the
appointment of the young man at
that time, as Admiral Robinson had
always desired to go to sea and
longed to see his wish granted. His
wife was a daughter of Rear Admiral
Clark, who is well known as the com-
I mander of the Oregon at the battle
i of Santiago. The Admiral will short-
I ly take command of the Boston Navy
| yard.
Governor and Stafi
Will Review Militia at
Mount Gretna Tomorrow
Governor William C. Sproul will
go to Mount Gretna tomorrow with
his staff to review the Pennsylva
nia Reserve Militia which is holding
its final camp and maneuvers there
tills week.
This is the last time the Governor
w'll have an opportunity to review
the troops as an organization, as
the-- will be mustered out of the
service with the reorganization of
•t he new National Guard of the
J State.
PRESIDENT INVITES
SENA TORS FOR TALK
ON PEACE TREATY
Has Hair and Beard
Of 48 Years Cropped
By Associated Press•
Montreal, July 16.— J. A. Chol
let's hair and beard of nearly
half a century's growth fell to
the floor of a barber's shop here
to-day when Mr. (Thollet, a vet
eran of the Franco-Prussian War
of 1870, discharged his vow of
forty-eight years ago never to let
a barber's hand touch his locks
until Alsace-Lorraine was re
deemed from the Prussians. Mr.
Chollet left the shop with a close
cropped head and an imperial
after the style of Napoleon 111.
TELLS OF PEACE
TREATY AND HOW
IT WAS FRAMED
Vance C. McCormick Urges
End of Business Control
and Treaty Adoption
Vance C. McCormick, who re
cently returned from Paris, where
he served on two of the advisory
committees at the Peace Confer
ence, speaking before the Kiwanis
Club at the Penn-Harris to-day,
with members of the Harrisburg
Chamber of Commerce and Rotary
Club as guests, expressed the belief
that the time has come to return
to the ways of peace, abolish all the
war boards and agencies, get rid of
Government control and turn the
business of the country back to the
businessmen of the nation in order
that production may be spurred and
an example set to the idle thou
sands of Europe. Lack of produc
tion, he said, is the greatest menace
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4 PICK UP SINKING STEAMER
I Washington—The United. States. Shipping Board's,
cargo steamer Allison,'picked up in a sinking condition
off Fenwick Island lightship, Maryland, to-day by the
•iteamef Lake View was towed safely to Delaware
Breakwater, where she .is now anchored, the Navy Dc.
i it -sent was advised .by radio. The vessel i- en route
from Portland, Maine. to f Norfolk, Va. • •
• WANT COPIES OF GERMAN AND jAP TREATIES'
Washington—A request for copies of any treaties I
affecting Japanese or derman fights in China was sent 3
tp the State Department tO:d.i}r by the Senate Foreign j
Relations Committee. ' •
BIRKENFELD SEPARATED FROM GERMANY j
Coblenr—A republic has been proclimed in Birken- i
4* f eld in the Allied area of occupation. A provisional .
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<|i government was formed Monday and complete separa-}
9 tion from Oldenburg proclaimed.
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| MARRIAGE LICENSES
** Wflbr K. D.vkemnn nnd Marr E. Houarr, ( hambrrabnrat Clarrnrr
J XV. Saycr* and C'nrolyn H. CunnlnKbam, Altoonai Agaalo Mcrcurio
and Terraa Florlto, Stcolton.
Asks Republicans
to White House
For Conference
EAGER TO SEE
SENATOR LODGE
By Associated Press.
Washington, July 16.—Presi
dent Wilson has decided to in
vite Republican Senators to
call at the White House to dis
cuss the Peace Treaty and the
League of Nations, Secretary
Tumulty announced to-day.
Senator Lodge, chairman of
the Foreign Relations Commit
tee, was understood to be one
of fifteen Republican Senators
with whom the President de
sired especially to confer.
It was said the invitations would
not be limited (o members of the
foreign relations committee. Tin
President was leported as beint
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Allied Committee Takes Up
Question of ex-Kaiser's Fate
Pnrln, July 18.—The question of the
future fate of the former German
Emperor was discussed yesterday 'by
the Interallied Committee on W'a.
Responsibility.
It was said on behalf of the com
mittee that no demand concerning
William Hohenzollern has yet bee.i
made to the Dutch Government.
FAVOR ONE BIG UNION
Winnipeg. Man., Puly 16. Th"
Winnipeg Trades and Labor Counci
late last night voted almost unani
mously in favor of the "one big
union."