Blow Struck at Profiteering When Council takes Forestalling Measure With Heavy
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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*
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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