U S. Makes Urgent Representations to Mexicans Result of Attack on American Sailors in I ■ HARRISBURG flfisfili TELEGRAPH , stje £tac-3n&cpen&mL LXXXX 111 XO. 168 14 PAGES Master P at S the d Post Omce e at a HarHsburß llSS HARRISBURG, PA., MONDA\ E\ ENING, JULY 21, 1919. ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS SINGLE COPIES lIAMi; ETITTIftIVI fk_ J ' SEWSPAPBH IN HARRISBURG TWO CENTS HUlVlfc fcUI 11UPI PRICES HIGHER HERE THAN IN OTHER CITIES Lancaster Buys Berries and \ Produce Much Cheaper Than Harrisburgers • WEST END IS INDIGNANT Talk of Co-operative Clubs to Combat Excessive g Profits Residents In tho western section of Harrisburg are planning for a series of meetings ;n tnelr effort to . cut the cost of living. It is under stood that commlttoos will be ap pointed to ascertuin who is to blame for high prices, Buyers at the Broad Street market on Suturday loudly denounced the effort* to gouge the consumers. In several localities plans are underway to organise co-operative clubs with a view to purchasing goods in large quantities and at ' prices that will be below the present cost. It was said that much of the produce brought to tho Broad Street market on Saturday was curried back to the farm. That rather than give the consumers the benefit of lower prices farmers are feeding ( somo of the produce to their cattle. According to prices paid olsewhere local consumers are charged prices that give the dealers and fnrmers : from 40 to 100 per cent, profit. A ( well-known railroad man on Satur- j day after marketing at Broad street | went to Lancaster and visited the , • markets at that place. On his return to this city he said: Berries Cheaper ! "I visited the mountains in the! vicinity of Lancaster and found hun- j of men, women, hoys and girls, Tsleking huckleberries. The crops i are large and the price asked is 15 j cents a box. It was a surprise to me j as I paid 25 cents in market here. I found lettuce and other garden products much lower than in Harris burg. I cannot understand why farmers in Dauphin County ask high er prices than those from Lancaster . county. It would be a good invest ment in my opinion to run a market car from Lancaster. I believe that Harrisburg consumers would be able to save in the cost of living." Relief is seen in a forestalling or- i dinance now in preparation by Mayor j Daniel L. Keister. He has been busy : looking over copies of ordinances j from various cities and hopes to | • have a measure meeting conditions | in Harrisburg ready for presentation 1 next week. He looks for little op-| jyosition because of the demand of j "he people for relief from high i prices. Government Food Distribution Lieutenant J. R. Boyle of the Re- i serve Depot at New Cumberland, is ! expected home to-day or to-morrow. I There is a probability that the gen- | eral committee will meet on Wed- ; nesdav. The subcommittee to as certain present market prices and saleability of food offered by the : Government will meet with Lieuten- \ ant Boyle on his return. While not i officially announced it is said that ' the new price list will offer stronger inducements for local consumers. Members of the local committee j will make a thorough inspection of i the goods stored at New Cumberland. ! Lieutenant Boyle has promised the j committee that the goods will be . first inspected by a Government in [Continued on Page 14.] President Ordered to Bed on Return From Cruise in Chesapeake By Associated Press. Washington, July 21.—President! Wilson returned to Washington i early to-day,-from a weekend cruise to Hampton Roads and was imme diately ordered to bed by his per sonal physician, Rear Admiral Cary ! T. Grayson, who announced that the 1 President was suffering with dvsen tary. Admiral Grayson said the Presi dent's condition was not serious, but that he probably will be unable to ! receive callers before the end of the ! week. Engagements which Mr. Wil- j son had with a number , f Repub lican Senators to discuss the Peace Treaty and the League of Nations were cancelled. The President had been complain ing of feeling badly for several days and when he started down the Potomac Saturday night on the Mayflower it was supposed he was suffering with slight indigestion. Senators who were to have called at the White House to-day are Edge, New Jersey: Norrls, Ne braska: Cummins, lowa, and Calder New York. Why Your Paper Is Late The Telegraph is Inte this ' evening due to a serious break I of the big press oil which this i edition of the paper is printed. ' Repairs requiring several hours ! to make became necessary in the course of the afternoon," due ' to the stripping of gears on one I of the driving wheels. THE WEATHER] Hnrviiibiirsr and Vicinity* Continu ed unsettled, nhowery weather probably thin afternoon, to night and Tuesday Little change in temperature Enntem Pennsylvania: Cloudy, shower?- weather probably to night and Tueaday. No change In temperature. Moderate to fresh south winds Which, of Course, Makes the Action of the Peace Conference Entirely Clear r uW% j ... f '. _. $i u- •&&& BOWMAN AND CO. PURCHASE BIG NEW WAREHOUSE Plant at State and Cameron Streets to Be Used For ! Storage ■ A real estate transaction of un- I usual importance was consummated | last week when Bowman & Com | pany acquired the ownership of the j large cigar factory building at State | and Cameron streets. This building, i which is new and modern, was erected two years ago by T. J. Dunn & Co. and was known as the Dau phin Cigar Company plant. Tt is a brick structure with five floors, con taining more than 60,000 square feet of floor space. The building is completely equipped on each floor with all the rest room and toilet conveniences of the most modern factory building. For some time Bowman & Co. have been on the lookout for ample warehouse facilities to accommodate their rapidly-tncreasir g business. Having, learned that the Dauphin cigar factory building was up for sale. H. H. Bowman went to New York and closed the deal with the owners. In speaking of the purpose of Bowman & Co. in acquiring this large building, J. W. Bowman said: "We have found it necessary to ac quire additional storage room so that we can utilize every square foot I of our Market street property for the display and selling of merchan dise. "For some time we have found it necessary to rent storage space in addition to the warehouse we have in Strawberry avenue, back of the store. As the Daviphin cigar factory is centrally located, in the heart of Harrisburg's fastest-growing indus- j trial district, we considered this the i most advantageous location we ; could secure for accessibility and ! modern construction. "This property will enable us to j arrange the handling of our mer- | chandise with greater economy and i more expeditiously than heretofore. I We certainly consider this building i an excellent investment from every j standpoint." AT IT AGAIN Washington, July 21. —Declaring that there was a movement afoot to depose the government, the President of Honduras in council of ministers last Friday issued a decree declaring the existence of a state of war, says a State Department dispatch from Tegucigalpa. The department has cabled for further information. HALF OF SHIPS TIED UP New York, July 21.—1t was es timated that about half of the ship- i ping under the American flag was tied up in New York and other At lantic ports to-day as a result of the strike by marine workers. Estimates of vessels idle in American harbors range from 500 to 800. According to ship owners about 250 of these are in New York harbor alone. SHARP CLASHES DURING SENATE TREATY DEBATE Shantung Settlement Center of Controversy; Erroneous Statistics Charged By Associated Press. Washington, July 21.—Senate de bate on the peace treaty and the League of Nations covenant was renewed to-day with a sharp con troversy between Senators Williams, Democrat, Mississippi and Lodge, Massachusetts, and Borah, Idaho, Republicans, over the Shantung j settlement. Senator Williams charged that the j Republicans in recent addresses had 1 submitted erroneous statistics re- j garding Shantung but both Senators | denied this and Mr. reiterated l that while Japan secured territorial | control only over Shantung ports, the German railroad and other con- ; cessions transferred gave her practi- I cal control over the entire province. I The Idaho Senator asserted that [Continued on Page 14.] Men's Duds to Go Up ? Well, Only 100 Per Cent. New York, July 21.—"Prices of men's clothing will be 100 per cent, higher next summer than they are at present," asserted Chairman H. Simons of the American Clothing Designers' Association at the open ing session of the annual convention of that body at the Hotel Martin ique. "There is a thirty per cent, short age of labor at present in the gar ment industry, and designers are en deavoring to overcome that handi cap by simplifying men's garments for next spring and summer," said Mr. Simons. SHOWERS EXPECTED FOR NEXT THIRTY-SIX HOURS St. Swithin Is Aided and Abetted by Low Pressure Area, the Weather Man Admits The weather may clear at the end of 36 hours. This is the cheerful information divulged to-day by Weather Fore caster E. R. Demain, but he is none | too positive that the weather will clear. There will be showers to-day, to- j morrow and until the 36-hour period is at an end, at the very ' least, Mr. Demain believes. Lower j pressure over the greater part of ' the eastern section of the country i is held to be responsible for the ' showers of the past several days. St. Swithin's sway will be con- ' tinued to-day and to-morrow as the result of a stagnant low pressure 1 C. M. SIGLER TO LEAVE CITY FOR : MIDDLE WEST j Plans Announced For Opera tion of Player Factory in Grand Rapids Within the next ten days, C. M. , Sigler, for a quarter of a century one of the best known of Harris burg's businessmen and head of the well-established C. M. Sigler Co., of j this city, will go to Grand Rapids, j Mich., where he will direct the operations of a $200,000 firm which will engage in the manufacture of I the Sigler Player Action, the only j organization of its kind in the mid dle west. No change in the conduct of the business here will occur. Mr. Sigler has arranged the affairs of I the Harrisburg store so that it I will not need his constant personal | supervision. I It was learned from Mr, Sigler to day that the enterprise was secured by Grand Rapids through the efforts of the Grand Rapids Association of Commerce. Mr. Sigler had, until a short time ago, been engaged in i the manufacture of the player ac tion in this city for a period of six I years and has been identified with ! the piano business for nearly twen- j ty-five years. Mr. Sigler said to- I day: "I have chosen Grand Rapids for I the factory because it is the logical I shipping point for the middle west i and has unexcelled manufacturing | facilities. Many of the piano com panies in the country are in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin and the j product can be shipped to these ' points over night." Mr. Sigler is a member of the I Chamber of Commerce and has been j quite active in the affairs of the Fourth Street Church of God. in 1 which he is an office bearer. . area over Lake Erie, Forecaster De- I main believes. This area, which is I gradually breaking away", will re sult In the showers of to-day and ! to-morrow. I Much rain has fallen in this city i since St. Swtthtn's day, the excess | rainfall this month being 3.43, 2.14 | inches of which fell during the past ! three days. The excess rainfall thus | far this year now totals 4.82 inches. The Susquehanna and the lower j portions of Its principal branches j are rising as a result of St. Swithin's i revengeful efforts. The height to ' morrow morning is expected to reach five feet above low water j mark. U. S. EXPECTS PROMPT ACTION BY MEXICANS Urgent Representations Made t as Result of Attack on American Sailors COMMIT NEW OUTRAGE Bandits Break in Office of an American Firm and Make Away With *lO,OOO SENATE WANTS DATA Eager to Learn How Many Americans Have Been Killed />.'/ Associated Press. WASHINGTON, July 21. Throe Mcxioanus in civilian clothes, two of them armed with rifles. constituted the ham! which hold up nml robbed American sailors who were on official duty in a launch from the monitor Cheyenne near Tampion July 6. A full report on the incident was received to-day from Commander Fin ney, of the cruiser Topeka. Commander Finney said he immediately notified the Mexi can authorities at Tampieo and added they wore making every effort to apprehend the bandits. Commander Finney said tho authorities had expressed deep regret that the incident should have occurred. Washington, July 21. Urgent representations made to Mexico City by the State Department as the re sult of the attack on American sail ors in a small boat from the moni tor Cheyenne near Tainpieo, July 6, were expected by officials here to bring prompt action by this Mexican government. No reply had been received early to-day from the commander of the cruiser Topeka at Tampieo, who was instructed Saturday by Secretary Daniels to make a full report. Secretary Daniels said to day no part of the Pacific fleet, now enroute to {he west coast, would be diverted to Mexican waters, adding that if additional forces were needed they would be drawn from the At lantic fleet. Three American war ships now are on duty at or, near Tampieo. They were the cruiser Topeka, the gunboat Castine, and the Cheyenne. Get $lO,OOO Payroll A dispatch to the State Depart ment to-day from Tampieo said TH U ?. e( f ne sday robbed the At lantic Refining Company's oil loading station at Puerto Lobos, near Tum pico, .Mexico, ot about HO.OOIi of ine payroll. ! hi ' e the conferences at the State ' Senate i!' - We r e Process, the Senate horeign Relations Committee !s, n; °u" ly reported a resolution by 1 mi. s ' Den ocrat, Utah, ask | ng the State Department for full Against Amen" *'° de '"'-'dations | during recent years'. MeXlC ° , How Many Killed I Subjects on which the resolution I would ask the State Department for | information include; ' K . teps or measu res arc be ; ing taken to prosecute claims made zcns for damages in I plated" 01 W Steps are co,Uem i ki i," H o^,, m ?, ny . American have hccn i killed in Mexico since the retire ! ment of Porflrio Diaz? '.ai' T1 i e uniounl of claims filed with I Mexico 6 . 1581 Dt f ° r damaes 1" "Dull information as to the con fiscation of American property in Mexico. "How many Americans have been compelled to leave Mexico on ac count of disorder? lhe value of American property abandoned in Mexico because of dis order. The number of American citi zensi now in Mexico and the amount of their property." .i. Al i! ,ough neither the State nor the Navy Department received any further information to-day regard ins the attack and robbery on July •> of a boatload of American sailors from the United States ship Chey- | enne in the Temesi river near Tam pico, Mexico, the incident continued to eclipse all else in interest in of fieial circles. There was no attempt to minimize the gravity of the situa tion as expressed in official circles when the first reports reached the State Department yesterday. The attack on the American sail ors was an incident which eclipsed all other matters in interest in the capital to-day, and it is expected the State Department after receipt of further details will ask the Car ranza government to apprehend and punish the assailants. If unable to carry out this request, according to diplomatic practice, the Carranza government next will be asked to disavow the attack. It was learned that the point on the Temesi river where the Ameri can sailors were attacked is only three miles in a direct line from the outskirts of Tampico. Officials here in close touch with the Mexican situation estimate that there are at least 1,200 Carranza troops in the Tampico district. POLK SAILS FOR FRANCE By Associated Press. New York, July 21. —Frank Polk, under secretary of state, sailed to day on the steamer Imperator for France to take the place of Secre- I tary Lansing at the Peace Confer ence. He declined to discuss the Mexican situation and said he would not bg in wireless communication with Mr. Lansing on the way across. Stockings Stenciled on Bare Legs "Keep Cool, Stockings Stenciled While You Wait," reads a sign in a New York bootblack shop. The new business is recorded as crowding shoe polishing out of the shop. Underwood & Underwood SCORES HURT IN RACE RIOTS I AT WASHINGTON Clashes Continue Nearly All Night; Service Men and Civilians Join Forces ; Washington 21.—Police and j hospital records to-day showed | scores of nfegroes were injured in | the widespread clashes between | whites and negroes here last night. II More than a dozen negroes, some suffering from severe beatings at the hands of mobs, were treated at I hospitals and scores were cared for j at their homes. The rioting which began short j ly after 10 o'clock, lasted until early >, this morning. Many arrests were made. Soldiers, sailors and marines were I said by the police to have been lead | ers in the disorders. The disorders were an aftermath :of a riot Saturday night when a I mob of soldiers, sailors and civi | lians invaded the negro district in | the southwest section of the city, ! seeking a negro suspected of at | tacking a white woman. Government Intervenes I The Federal government inter | vened to-day to prevent a recur rence of the attacks made Saturday '• and Sunday nights by soldiers, sail ! ors and marines against negroes in ' retaliation for assaults by negroes |on white women in this city. After i a conference between Secretary i Baker and the local governing au- I thorities the Army provost guard j was restored to duty, j The police authorities announced | that 250 soldiers and marines would 1 aid the police in patrolling the j streets to-night. Major General Bar ! nett, commandant of marines, as- I sured the authorities ail possible | help would be given by marines from Washington barracks. N'cgiocs Retaliate Just about noon to-day the ne ! groes gave the first evidences of i retaliation. Four blacks in an auto mobile drove up to the naval hos pital in Potomac Park, not far from the White House, and fired four shots at the sentry. They then whisked their machine around the street corner and fired four more I shots at inmates on the hospital | grounds, all. of them sick or wound ed sailors and marines. The ma chine and .its party got away. Tho shots all went wild. Under the auspices of the Na tional Race Congress, a mass meet ing of negroes assembled this aft ernoon to act on resolutions pro testing against the attacks upon them. Harry F. Oves Gets Into Race For Treasurership; Gope Would Be Alderman j Harry F. Oves, Republican city j chairman for the last fifteen yeras, j and city treasurer for one term, an- j nouneed to-day he will be a candi- I date for the Republican nomination | for city treasurer. Petitions will be i circulated in a few days for Mr. | Oves. With the signing of a recent act by the Governor in third class cities, the treasurers are to be elected by the voters for four-year terms. During 1916 and 1917 Mr. Oves was city treasurer and tax collector for the city school district. In January. '. 1918, after a .bitter councilmanic | fight C. E. Weber was named for the | two year term which will end next January. It is understood Mr. Web- i er likely will seek the nomination i also. Cards announcing Merlo Cope as ; a candidate for Republican nomina- j tton for alderman of the Third ward, j were out to-day. It is understood j Alderman C. E. Murray, the present . magistrate in the ward will seek re-election. POSTAL PLANE WRECKED By Associated Press. Now York, July 21.—Charles H. Anglin, who left Be'mont Park, L. 1., with mall for Chicago early to day, wrecked his airplane when forced to alight at Hellertown, Pa., I according to information received ,hera. Anglin was uninjured. i ELLIOTT-FISHER ! SALESMEN OPEN I BIG CONVENTION .Men Here From Coast to Coast I" or Annual Conference I of Field Forces Two hundred and fifty voices i rang out heartily in the strains of ! "America" in the ballroom of the j Penn-Harris Hotel this morning at j 9 o'clock in opening the first con [Continued on Page 14.] j ® 4*4":b 4*4*4*4*4* 4* 2* -2* 4* 4" 44 4 4 2*4* 4*4*4*4*4 , 4*4'4* © T '"!|!" It C IfARCES BIG PACKER PRC :'"/ * '!,'•.' J i 1( ' ; ir *- Mr ? ; x ' e i> t e T 4* j4 . organized the "most tremendoi A. e> i |L ~ . V' -i i It oi.. oris •; r - ■- indu a 1 4 ¥ |T ACCEPTS RESIGNATION OF COL. ANSELL Z : H* T 1 4* jv tT' Ansell, farmer Acting Judge Advocate General of tl A ! T t t J a radical revision of the Army courts-ma Z t HOPES TO SET N GLAND W jr Lc.- ' • .— Sir Ti ic* Gcd ict- Mini; ♦ t t 4 tc, ' - n ' c n tfa 4 •■!;: , .e.r 4 , C: ' n t 4 jJ 4* I 4* Ma 4 • MOTION FAILS L X I it tion erf"t r;rcnt bill the provision p'-i y ; X 2, t . IIo;: 1 e to-day, 107 to 3. ,J X The motion by Representative Raker, Democrat. T California, was opposed by Chairman Volstead, of the 4 s > t t X 91 4 i< 1 had defeated overwhelmingl; it X ne possession to $5O worth of liquor t m Tex.—Without debate, the 's> 4 '.y-*r.l a concurrent resolution ca .* * 4 tion of the President and Congress to the "guerilla a . £ re that hai <1 along the Texas-Mexi< >* * 4 since 1875," and asking the Federal Government ' ij In a cannot protect the border to accord to Texas that liberty C I . 4 hf action" in protecting its citizens that * * X exas ! enjoyed prior ■to the time tliafe it "in good ecame a State ot the Union," | MARRIAGE LICENSES \ | Tontnnn*o TruflfareUl and Plnlvc Coporoli, Swatarai Frank Grn-H -V stoh, Sterlton, and Evu Knull, tlnrrlftburi;; Tliomai William*, HarrU-, . & liursr, and Marsarat SI. Brown, Palmyra " * t a 4* 4:.4! 4 4! 4"4"2\4^4W^4 , 4^rl*4*4 w t^ STEELTON PLANT WILL NOT MEET WAGE DEMANDS Some Labor Asks For More Money and Shorter Hours IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PAY General Manager Robbins Says He Expects No Trouble Labor at the Bethlehem Stool Company's plant, at Steelton, have been circulating petitions asking for a decided increase in wages, it was learned this morning. Frank A. Robbins, Jr., general manager of the company at Steel ton, said that it is at present ab solutely impossible to grant the de mands of the workmen and that the petitions had been handed back to the delegations with a negative answer. It is said that the demands of the petitions were very general and in dicated the unrest of labor through out the country generally rather than the particular troubles of the ■ Steelton men. Xo trouble of any ! kind is expected at the Bethlehem ! plant, Mr. Robbins said. A number of the wage demands have come from different parts of the big plant, but they have not yet | embraced a majority of the men. New York Firm to Rent Gilbert's Old Store M. Garskof, contractor for the Wilmer, Vincent Theater company, secured a building permit to-day to remodel the property at 219 Market street, formerly occupied by the Gil bert hardware store. It is understood that the building will be used bye Xew York firm for a retail shirtwaist store. The cost of the improvements Will be $2,000. A permit was issued to John P.ax ton, contractor for H. M. Menden hall, to erect a one and one-half story, frame blacksmith shop at ; 1036-38 South Twenty-third street, ■ at a cost of $1,500. j H. W. Black, as contractor for 1 John Haas will remodel 1418-20 North Third street, at a cost of $l,- 500.
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