Blow Struck at Profiteering When Council takes Forestalling Measure With Heavy HARRISBURG |§llll|l TELEGRAPH . __ fUje £lar-3nfcpcn&raL — LXXXVIII—NO. 169 IBSEAX3ES "■"fcSSJSi'Ss£ri,Hj3BJ,f- HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 22, 1919. I!, KK£ tHSBgaLBg" E, ¥S% E cSS? s ES HOME EDITION FORESTALLING STOPPED BY ORDINANCE PASSED BY COUNCIL ON IST READING Price Fixing Checked by Penalties MAY IMPOSE FINE OF SIOO Measure Designed to Prevent Boosting of Produce Commissioner W. H. Lynch introduced in City Council to day an ordinance prohibiting forestalling or price fixing in city markets and imposing a penalty of a fine not less than $lO nor more than SIOO or 30 days' imprisonment for the of fense. Other members of Council approved the measure ar.d pass ed it on first reading. Commis sioner Lynch when he present ed the ordinance said that there was a public demand for such legislation in the city. The pro visions are that no dealer irav buy up food to resell in the markets either when the pro duce is being brought for sale or is already at the markets; there dare be no price fixing, and attempts to dissuade any one from bringing produce to market for sale are prohibited. The measure follows: An ordinance prohibiting the buying of or contracUng tor provisions 011 tlic way to, and intended for sale in the markets of the City of Uarrisbuu'g, Pennsylvania; proh.biting per sons from dissuading others from bringing their provisions to said markets for sale; pro hibiting persons from persuad ing outers to raise Uic price of provisions 111 said markets for the purpose of reselling same; and providing penalties for vio lations of the provisions of this ordinance. Seeuou 1. lie it ordained by the Council of the City of Har r.sburg, Pennsylvania, and it Is hereby ordained by authority of the same, tliat from and af ter the passage of this ordi nance it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, (irm or corporation, witlitn the limits of the City of Harrisburg to buy or contract for any pro . visions while the same are on the ivffl to the markets, and Intcndcw for sale in the same; or to dissuade any person from bringing such articles to the said markets for sale. Section 2. It shall also lie unlawful to persuade any one having provisions for sale at any of the said markets to raise the price of the same or to make any agreement concern ing said provisions with the view of raising the price there of. Section 3. It shall be unlaw ful for any person, persons, firm or corporation to buy, or contract for. In any of * the markets of the City 'of Harris burg either before or during the hours fixed by custom or the rules of the management of said markets for holding said markets, any provisions what soever for the purpose of re siling the same. Section 4. The word market or markets when used in tills ordinance shall lie taken to mean all the public markets operated by the City of Har risburg. or by any person or persons, lirms or corporations within the said city. Section 5. Any person or persons violating any of the pro visions of this ordinance upon ■ conviction thereof before the Mayor or any alderman of the City of Harrisburg, Pennsyl vania. shall be sentenced to pay n fine of not less than en dol- Inrs ($10.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), together with costs of suit for each and every offense, and in default of payment thereof shall undergo imprisonment in the Dauphin county prison for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days at the discretion of the Mayor or alderman impos ing such fine. Section 0. All ordinances or parts or ordinances Inconsist ent herewith are hereby re pealed. * I THE WEATHER Harrlsborsc and Vicinity. Unset tled weather with probably kliowrers to-night followed by Partly cloudy Wednmdny. Not ranch elinnge In temperature, lowest to-night nbout 70 de- Rice*. Eastern Pennsylvania i Shower* probably to-night nnd VVednrn . day morning followed by partly rlondy Wednesday. Not much change In temperature. Moder ate south wind* — | Quits Desert Life to Show New Yorkers How to Live on $5 a Week William Pester, who for thirteen years lived on the southern deserts of California, came to New York primarily to teach New Yorkers how to get along comfortably on J5 a week. Photo shows Pester with a guitar made from wood gathered around his desert home. Underwood & Underwood. LOWER PRICE FIXED FOR WAR SUPPLIES Lieut. Boyle Expected to Be Able to Meet New Figures Set at Baltimore When' He Returns From Washington Reports to-day reaching Harris burg regarding government food are I that many tons can be had from j Baltimore and other points. It is 1 also said that the prices quoted will j be eighty per cent, of that paid by j the government at the outbreak of i the war when costs were lower, j This news was received by the local I committee of citizens and filed for i further consideration. What Lieutenant Colonel Edward j H. Sehell, the general chairman, is I waiting for, is a report from his j subcommittee, consisting of Captain I Harry M. Stine, DeWitt A. Fry ana j Wellington G. Jones. This commit tee is awaiting the return of Lieu tenant. J. R. Boyle, who has been in Washington. He is the one per son with whom the local committee is dealing. It is expected Lieuten ant Boyle will have good news, and a list of prices much lower than 1 WOMAN NAMED POLICE MATRON AFTER A YEAR Mrs. Bergstresser Gets New Place After Long Deadlock After a delay of almost a year from the time that Mayor d! L. Keister submitted the name of Mrs. Edith B. Bergstresser, 317 Walnut street, for appointment as police woman. Council to-day unanimously voted to give her the position. She will begin- her Work August 1. Her salary will be s9fio a year and her duties will include search ing pnd questioning any female prisoners who may be arrested; spe cial investigations under the directio ll of the Mayor, inspections in dance halls and similar work. Mrs. Berg stresser is the first woman to be appointed to the office since it was created by Council more than a year ago. Former Efforts Failed Repeated efforts were made to have the commissioners act on the appointment which Mayor Keister first recommended August 9, 1918. During the last year it was said that a majority of the members were [Continued on Page 17.] those quoted to the committee last 1 week. Want Low Prices While the local committee wiil j consider the offer from Baltimore, I it is a general opinion that unless ! the prices are far below those asked i for the food at New Cumberland, it ! would be folly to consider the Bal | timore letter, as it is claimed that I freight charges would run up tho j Baltimore price. The desire of the ! Mayor's food committee is to get ; the lowest prices possible. | Members of the local committee | have been assured that there will be j no lack of help in the of the goods, and that the cost will be very small. Members of local labor organizations are much Inter ested in thise effort to get cheap food to the people of Harrisburg, and if a contract for a carload of [Continued on Pago 17.] BANK CASHIER IS A NATIVE OF UPPER DAUPHIN Ralph T. Moyer, Now Under Arrest, Formerly in Business Here Ralph T. Moyer, cashier of the defunct North Penn Bank, Phila delphia, is a native of Dauphin county, having been born in Lykens where his father, Milton Moyer. and his grandfather, J. D. Moyer, were engaged for many years in the tan nery business. Moyer for a num ber of years after the tannery was closed worked in one of the Lykens banks. He was an exemplary citi zen, engaged in many lines of civic and community service and an active church member. The Moyer family always stood high in the upper end of the coun ty, where his father was engaged in the real estate business for a number of years following the clos ing of the tannery by reason of the bark supply being exhausted. They afterward removed to Har risburg, where they lived for a short time, now residing in Philadelphia. Ralph Moyer left Lykens about eight years ago but is well remem- SHOTS FIRED FROM SWIFT AUTOS TAKE HEAVY TOLL Young Desperadoes Rain Rul-j lets From Speeding Con veyances on Whites During Continuation of Riots 4 DEAD, 10 WOUNDED; MANY SLIGHTLY HURT! Fighting With Tooth and Nail Woman Protects Herself From Injury Although Most of Clothing Is Torn From Her Body By Associated Press. Washington, July 22.—Con gress was asked to take notice of the race riots and crime wave In the national capital to day nnd President Wilson was asked to declare martial law and police the city witli troops, in resolutions introduced in the House of Representatives Clark, Democrat. of Florida. and Vaile. Republican, of Colorado, respectively. Soon nftcr noon the nearest official estimate of last night's rioting stood at live dead, ten expected to die. scores of lesser wounded or injured nnd the eases of 175 rioters docketed In the police courts. Washington, July 22. Another night of race rioting found the na ! tional capitol to-day counting the largest casualty list it has had since soldiers, sailors, marines and civilians began retaliating on the negro pop ulation for the long list of daylight holdups and attacks on white women which has alarmed the city. Four known dead, two mortally wounded, eight or more seriously hurt, an unknown number slightly wounded or injured in the fighting, and police stations and hospitals packed with others, are the results of the most disorderly times the national capital has experienced probably since the Civil War. Although reinforced with provost guards of troops and squadrons of cavalry patrolling Pennsylvania ave nue, the police apparently were un able to cope with the situation as they were when during the cele brated demonstration of March 3, | 1913, when the crowd completely ! overran them and all but mobbed the suffragists parading on Pennsyl vania avenue. Dodge Police The score of casualties in last night's fighting was largely in favor of the negroes, who, when the extra strong cordon of police and troops quieted Pennsylvania avenue and the downtown section transferred their i activities to the lesser guarded dis- I tricts. From trolley cars and swiftly j moving automobiles negro desper j adoes in parties, singly and in pairs rained revolver shots into groups of whites whenever they found them, and all night there was scattered firing from houses in which negroes, terror stricken, but not quelled, had barricade themselves. To-day the local authorities are conferring with War Department officials on measures to stop the riot ing. Suggestions are being made that troops be brought in to thor oughly guard the city which the police maintain they are unable to do because of insufficient numbers. Another Woman Assaulted The first police report of the day told of another white woman as saulted and injured by a negro at Capitol Heights, a suburb to the northeast of the city. The negro who had loitered about the woman's house all yesterday, was first scared away and then hiding behind a hedge seized her as she passed by late' last night. The woman was prac tically disrobed in her struggle with her assailant who escaped after she had scratched and bitten him badly Harry Wilson, the first detective killed, was shot by a 17-year-old negress, who had opened fire from the second floor of a residence near Second and G streets, southeast. A second negress opened fire from the ground floor of a house across the alley when the police and guards men rushed the house which the first was holding. Thompson, the second detective to die, was wound ed during the clash. Only one ar rest was made as a result of the attack, the young negress, who was shot through the hips. The negress, a girl of about 17 years, also was shot but not fatally In another part of the city a black firing from a garage door kept a provost guard of soldiers, sailors and marines at bay for several min utes, but finally, was shot down. Many clashes occurred between whites and blacks on street cars. One negro attacked on the back end of a car, firing into the crowd fol lowing the car and wounded four persons, but finally was stQpped by a city detective, who was reported to have sent several bullets into the negro's body. Each of the four white men were only slightly wounded. Robert Burns Lodge Entertains Children Robert Burns Lodge No. 464 F. and A. M.. are entertaining the chil dren from the Masonic Homes at Eliza bethtown to-day. Members brought some two hundred children from the Masonic Heme In their cars to-day and took them to Paxtang. where everything has been free to them all day Worshipful Master John W. Flicklnger and his commit tee are in charge of the party. New Police Matron MRS. EDITH B. BERGSTRESSER NIGHT LIFE IS NO MORE IjJINCE | BARS CLOSED Taxicab Drivers Have Noth ing to Do After Mid night FORMERLY BI'SIEST TIME j Fatlier Harris Goes to Bed and Gamblers Entertain Themselves Why Harrlsburg goes to bed at midnight! That is the lament of the all-night owls who formerly piled a big trade on the "night life" of the city before j the advent of prohibition. The police endorse the statement as being cor rect as their work, which formerly only got well under way after 12 o'clock in the morning, now has fal len off to almost nothing in the central part of the city in the wee small hours. Many of the taxicab drivers and those who have automobiles stand ing along the curb in Market street [Continued on Page 17.] St. Swithin's Best Will Not Equal His Worst in Former Summer Showers No records will be broken in Har risburg during the present sway of St. Swithin, according to the belief of Weather Forecaster E. R. De main, of the city bureau. St. Swithin's grip on the city and community will not last more than twenty-four hours longer, accord ing to Mr. Demain. The weather will continue unsettled for that period of time, after which the skies will clear again and the sun shine forth, following the dispersal of the low .pressure area that has been hanging over this territory for the past several days. The total rainfall reported thus far this month is 5.65 inches, but unless some unforeseen wet weather comes to the city, it is believed that old records will be nearly reached. In August of 1915, a total of, 10.29 inches fell and no farther back than in July, 1914, 6.21 inches jof rain fell in July. The July | precipitation record is 8.68 inches, | which was reported in 1889. The I excess rainfall thus far in July is 3.50 inches. But five consecutive days of rain have thus far been reported, and it is practically certain that no new records will be set in this respect. Nine consecutive days of rainfall were reported in 1915. SEEK CAUSE OF AIRSHIP'S FALL; 11 DIE; 26 HURT Inquiry Opened Into Respon sibility For Crash of Diri gible on Bank By Associated, Press. Chicago, July 2 2. —Official In quiry was started to-day by State s Attorney Mac Lay Hoyne to fix re ! sponsibility for the explosion and i collapse of the dirigible which j crashed through the roof of the 111 - I nois Trust and Savings Bank yes ! terday afternoon, killing eleven per sons and injuring twenty-six others. United States District Attorney Charles F. Clyne also assigned an assistant to attend the coroner's In quest, set for to-day. Seventeen employes of the Good | year Tire and Rubber Company, of j Akron, Ohio, owners of the airship, 1 have been detained pending a de cision as to whether charges of [Continued on Page 18.1 PROHIBITION BILL PASSES HOUSE AMID WILD SCENE So Much Noise During Roll call That Few Votes Arc Re corded Wrong; Allowed to Make Corrections OPPONENTS ASSERT IT INVITES VETO Enforcement Measure Is De scribed by Members Oppos ing as Drastic Enough to Provoke Disapproval Washington, July 22. The prohibition enforcement bill, de scribed by members opposing it as drastic enough to invite a Presidential veto, was finally passed to-day by the House. The vote was taken after a mo tion by Representative lgoe, Demo crat, Missouri, to recommit the bill had been defeated 255 to 136. Near ly every member of the House was in attendance and there was so much noise during the rollcall that Republican leader Mondcll was re corded as supporting the lgoe mo tion. He was permitted to change his vote. The vote on the passage of the bil was 257 to 100, with three mem bers voting present. Expect Changes Tne measure now goes to the Sen ate, but House managers of the measure do not expect it will be accepted here as a whole. The House bill will be substituted for the measure now being issued by the Senate judiciary committee, but Senate leaders were doubtful whether the bill would be brought before the Senate until the German peace treaty had been disposed of, involving a delay of many weeks. When the House reached section 35, which contained the provision that it was not unlawful to store liquor at home for personal use, first consideration was given Chair man Volstead, of the judiciary com | mittee, in charge of the bill, who had two amendments. These fixed the time for reporting possession of intoxicants. In one which the House accepted, the time specified in the prbclamation by the State Department as to the effective date of constitutional prohibition—Janu ary 16, 192 o—was accepted with out discussion. Rubey Proposal Defeated Representative Rubey, Democrat, of Missouri, immediately announced his intention to throw the search light on American wine cellars, re ported to be stocked with liquor enough to last for generations. His amendment provided that a person should not possess more than fifty [Continued on Page 17.] Jay Lines Once More to Guide Pedestrians Jay Lines are to be repainted at the street intersections in the down town district Commissioner W. H. Lynch informed city Councilmen to day after the business session. The Councilmen were commending the placing of semaphores at the street crossings and commented favorably upon the success of the new system for directing traffic and said that pedestrians are learning to watch the signs to direct them across the streets at the proper time. Commissioner Lynch said that the improvement in handling traffic is apparent and within the next few weeks the jay lines will be repainted so that pedestrians will keep within the white lanes at the intersections. TO TRY AGAIN Cards announcing the candidacy of Patrick J. Kenny for the Repub lican nomination for Mayor were distributed to-day. Kenny was a candidate on the nonpartisan ticket two years ago to fill the unex pired term of the late Mayor E. S. Meals, and polled 142 votes at the primary election. FLETCHER TELLS _ OF OUTRAGES AGAINST U. S. Fifty Americans Killed in Three Years Without Pros ecution by Mexicans By Associated Press. Washington, July 22.—Henry P. Fletcher. American ambassador to Mexico, told the House rules com mittee to-day that since his ap pointment three years ago about fifty Americans had been killed in Mexico without a single prosecu tion being made by the Mexican authorities. Replying to questions by Chair man Campbell. Ambassador Fletch er said withdrawal of recognition of the farranza government by the t'nited States would only increase the turmoil in the southern repub lic. He added he did not know of any revolutionary leader capable of establishing a permanent govern ment. Ambassador Fletcher said he had not noticed any special anti-Amer ican feeling in Mexico and explain ed that the presence of more Amer ican citizens there than otliT for eigners probably accounted for the [Continued on Page 17.] "GIVE THE CHILD A SQUARE DEAL," TO BE CITY MOTTO Co-operation Between Health Officers and Civic Bodies to Alleviate the Conditions in Poorer Sections TWO HEALTH CENTERS WILL BE OPENED IN NEAR FUTURE Close co-operation between tho health authorities of the State, the j city and the civic bodies of Harris- , burg is about to be exercised in an ' effort to alleviate conditions exist- ! ing in some of the quarters of the ! city. "Give the child a square deal" i that is the motto which is guid ing these welfare committees. Dr. Dorothy Child, chief of divi sion of child hygiene in the State Health Department, is an active! factor in the work. Dr. Child has but recently returned from Kurope, where she was engaged with the I American Red Cross In a town near Switzerland. Her work, in associa tion with many other doctors and ' nurses of tho organization, was to j protect France from any disease j which the unfortunate people re turning to their native land might i bring back from the tilthy German , prison and confinement camps. In ' this work Dr. Child had ample op- ! portunity to observe the needs of some of the people, and it is with these needs still fresh in her mind ' that she takes up the work in Har- ! risburg. Survey Work The effort is simply this: To give 1 Harrisburg more healthy, helpful 1 and therefore useful citizens. Does ' the city want this work or not? At present there is the survey ' committee at work, headed by Miss ; Mildred Astrich and composed of i ten women of Harrisburg who, with j their assistants and accompanied by i either State nurses or members ! from the staff of the Visiting Nurse I Association, are making a tour of ! the sections where living conditions may be a bit difficult, with the view I of doing everything in their power I © 4* *3* 4* 4* 4* 4*4*4*4*4*4 w 4 , 4^ ,;^4 m 4*4 , 4*4*® | $ t •A ' 'I N AT!ON OF FORD COM PI ,E7 EI j 1 T " . if X X T T T 4 4* - x 4" T 4- X 4- X 4- 4* • - f *>T 2jj A '-C,-r';k X a 4* lT eSal X JF ,*r s* * X T X " • #i t<£ *fo T T .'' H ' i'Vfrrt •' ny '2 * * 4* returned from France. ~C 4* * ♦ PASS MINIMUM WAGE OF FOR EMPI OYES II 4 M 4* * I e4d <6 * TT - "\* thi : v' J |.vj JL r ■ • X i X > '1: " * * 4* * * ? K DESTRUCTION 1 OF. MINES •' |l 4 A * * 4 ,• • 4 * * T 4 .* * Ju '*( JL r';.i'ing N ! X T 1 X \RING IN TURNPIKE CASE *" X " * J; 4* * * T ■' • - WU?o "J 4 ' in which it is charged the company has yi< * * X * MARRIAGE LICENSES ± 4* * * y William MoK. Yrntfr nnd Annn Krontrman, Harrtaborci ► 4l J - Enrp. M>t Kalrrlrw, and llntli E. Sheplrr. Enola) John C. Dalles a , and Anna M. Oberholtaer, Hurrlkbnrß t. iiiidli ■ -t> LIVE IN SQUALOR AND FILTH Conditions of such indescriba ble squalor have been discov ered by tiie survey <-ommittco named by tlie General Child Wel fare Committee that officials in charge of the campaign to raise SI.OOO to-day appeals for gencr i ous contributions when the can vass is liegun. People have been found living I in rudely-constructed shanties with yards filled with garbage and excrement; in cellars infest ed with nauseating odors, with out toilet facilities, and in one , case where the drain for sewage has been out of commission for two years. "With this money that is he i ing raised uixl as a result of this 1 survey," said Dr. Child this morning, "we will educate par ents to the necessity of proper j nutrition for their children and I teach them to furnish their ehil j drcn with plenty of milk, inas j much as children cannot grow j into normal adults without this I form of nourishment. Milk can i j IK- furnished in place of other i foods, such as coffee and sugar. ! 1 which they now use in its stead."' ! |to assist the inhabitants of these | sections to give their children a fair j chance. Among the reports whicl. have been turned in up to the pre- I sent as a result of these investiga tions are found several which go tc I [Continued on Page 17.]
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