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DISCUSS U. S.
PARTICIPATION
IN INDEMNITY
Question of Whether America
Shall Receive Share of Hun
Payments Is Open One
By Associated Press.
Washington, July 31.—-Bernard M.
Baruch, economic adviser to the
American peace delegation, told the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
to-day that he thought the question
whether the UnitcdfStates should re
ceive a part of tlje indemnity, to be
paid by Germany' still was an open
one.
Senator Knox Republican, Pcnn
ylvaniu, said lie understood from the
President's message to the Senate in
Enjbmlttlng the Peace Treaty, that
the United States was to have no
part of tho indemnity, but Mr. Bar
uch replied that he though this was
only the President's opinion, and did
not represent a definite decision.
Asked by Senator Knox whether
tho President expected to reach a de
cision on tho matter without con
suiting Congress, Mr. Baruch said
he did not know.
The English text of the Treaty
says the divison of indemnity shall
be "in proportions which have been
determined" but Mr. Baruch pointed
out that the French text more prop
erly should lie translated, "shall he
determined." in this Chairman Bodge
agreed.
Keyes For Treaty
My back is stiffer than ever for
ratification of the Treaty with reser- 1
vations," said Senator Keyer, Re
publican, New Hampshire, to-day, 1
after a conference with President j
Wilson at the White House.
Senator New, of Indiitna, a Repub- I
lican member of the Foreign Rela- j
tions Committee, said after a visit j
to the While House to-day that he
bad told tho President it would be
'utterly impossible to get the Sen
ate to accept the l'eace Treaty as it
stands," and that it either would
be "ratified with reservations or fail."
New Against Artiele X
Senator New told the President he
was utterly opposed to Article ten
of the League of Nations covenant.
He added that in reply to the Pres
ident's statement that adoption of
reservations by the Senate might set
a precedent for other nations he said
that the questions of reservations j
was one for the United States to de- j
cide regardless of the effect on other I
countries.
Senator Keyes, who was one of the
signers of the round robin on ;he j
League of Nations circulated by Re- |
publican Senators In the closing j
hours of the last Congress, told the '
President he favored' reservations
along the lines proposed by former
President Taft, Charles Evans
Hughes and Elihu Root.
Two Die When Freight
Trains on New Haven Line
Collide; Wreckage Burns
By Associated Press.
Greenwich, Conn., July 31. Two i
men were killed, both employes, when
two freight trains over the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Rail
road collided- at East Port Chester,
N. Y„ early to-day.
The dead are: Charles Brickiey,
engineer, of New London, and Charles
E. Rust, instructor, of New leaven.
They were in motor engine 0102, haul
ing a westbound freight, Which
crumpled the rear of Midway-Har
lem river extra 008 freight Just west
of the signal station.
The crash threw the motor engine
crosswise on the track and both men
were wedged in the cab. Eight cars j
of the| leading freight were thrown
over all four tracks. The wreckage
caught fire, but this was quickly ex
tinguished.
An official explanation of the ac
cident has not been made. Among
railroad men here it was stated that
an extra train, thought to be a work
train was using the track at East
Port Chester, and extra 098 stopped
to get a clearance. The train drawn
by motor 0102 come up behind it.
All in caboose, got out unhurt.
Opposes Sending of
Munitions to Mexico
Washington, July 31. Congress
would declare itself opposed to ex
portation into Mexico of any arms
or ammunitions of war under a
resolution introduced yesterday by
Representative Hudspeth, Demo
crat, Texas.
To Reduce Dangerous
Varicose Veins
People who have swollen veins or
bunches should not wait until they
reach the bursting point, which
means much suffering and loss of
time, but should at once secure from
any reliable druggist a two-ounce
original bottle of Moone's Kmc raid
Oil (full strength).
By using this powerful, yet harm
less germicide treatment improve
ment is noticed in a few days and by
its regular use swollen veins will re
turn to their normal size and suf
ferers will cease to worry. Moone's
Emerald Oil treatment is used l>v
physicians and in hospitals anil is
guaranteed to accomplish results or
money returned.
It reduces all kinds of enlarged
glands, goiters and wens and is used
exclusively in many large factories as
an unfailing first aid to the injured
antiseptic. Your druggist can sup-1
ply you.
A SATISFYING SUMMER DRINK
Hereford's Acid Phosphate
A teaspoonful In cold water, sweet
ened to taste, refreshing and bene
ficial.
"TOO
LATE
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Don't wait until pains and aches
become incurable diseases. Avoid
painful consequences by taking
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THURSDAY EVENING,
BURGL AR NOW
CONNECTED WITH!
3 MORE CRIMES
Home of Dr. Pyles One of
Those Entered by
Negro
I Three more robberies have been
fastened by the Harrisburg police
! on James Bruce Martin, alias "Willie
i Hoskins, confessed housebreaker,
| who now is being held under $2,000
I bail. He is held in three separate
j cases of housebreaking yesterday
| and in one case on Tuesday. It is
j possible that Martin committed
: nearly all of tho other burglaries
| reported.
| Robberies with which Martin has
j been connected in addition to the
! three of yesterday and one of Tues
day, are:
H. J. Williams, 1717 State street,
July 10.
Mrs. Eva George, 1112 North
Seventh street, July 22.
I The Rev. E. A. Pyles, 1726 North
! Sixtli street, July 2.
Shirts Identified
A number of silk shirts, stolen
' from the Williams' residence and
I found in a suitcase found by De
tective Speeco in the rooms of
I Martin at 654> Cumberland street,
i were identified to-day by Mr. Wil
! Hams.
Few articles of value were taken
in tho George robbery, but Mrs.
! George.appeared at the police sta
i tion ami identified a pair of tor
■ toise shelled glasses which she said
I had been taker* from her home,
i None of the various articles taken
I from the residence of the Rev. Mr.
I Pyles have yet been located. Martin,
however, is said to have admitted to
police authorities that he was the
man who committed the burglary in
that residence.
i Before Alderman DeShong yester
day, was held responsible for
entering the residence of Joseph
Davis, 404 North street; Upton
Crampton, 108 Mary ,street, and
Ralph C. Eckels, 1 North Harris
burg street, Steelton. In each case
he was hold under $5OO bail for
court. On Tuesday he was held
under $5OO bail on the charge
of breaking into the residence of
William C. Fisher, 325 Maclay street,
where he was caught early that
morning by Patrolman Frank O.
Jaokson. He will be given hearings
in the Williams and George cases
during the afternoon.
FIRST MONTH
BREAKS RECORD
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were reported during the thirty
days of June. And in only eight in
stances did too much liquor share
in the responsibility this month.
Responsibility for this amazing
drop in the amount of arrests by
the police department is said almost
entirely by authorities to the cur
tailment in the sale of alcoholic
beverages.
19 Traffic Violators
Of the total of sixty-five arrests
made during July, arrests in nine
teen instances were made through ,
the strict enforcement of the traf- ,
fice ordinance. With the depart
ment waging an intensive campaign
against traffic violators and many
arrests resulting therefrom, the pro
hibition result stands out all the
more prominently.
But l nineteen cases are marked up
on the police docket as "disorder
ly practice" cases, under which
heading is included all charges
which might arise from too much
liquid refreshments. In eight of
these cases liquor had a part in the
trouble which led to the arrest. In
five cases the man or woman ar
rested were reported to have been
drinking and in only three instances
was it said that the individual was
drunk.
Juno Was Busy Month
June had more than three times
the number of cases in which it wm
said that the person arrested was
either drunk or drinking. Exactly
twenty-eight persons had had 100
much liquor when they were arrest
ed, according to statements made
by the members of the force who
took them into custody.
While the difference in number
of disorderly practice cases in June
and July does not account for tho
difference in number of arrests, po
lice authorities, however, maintain
that liquor lias been responsible lor
the drop in police business. In some
instances, more serious charges haye
been recorded against the individ
ual and the difference in such case.,
in the two months will account I
for the difference, it is believed.
Effects Fur-Reaching
During seven of the thirty-one
days of July, not a single arrest
was reported by the department.
Tt is not an especially uncommon
thing for no arrests to be made
during a day by the police depart
ment during late years, but to have
almost twenty-live per cent, of the
days of a month pass without an
arrest is regarded as quite an un
common circumstance by officials,
patrolmen and hangers-on at the
police station. The effect of the
amendment was felt on July 3 and
after that the 13, 17, 19, 24, 27
and 2S passed without any persons
being placed in custody.
Prohibition's effect has appeared
quite forcibly on the surface, but .t
has been making itself felt in the
police business in a manner not
readily noticed by the average busi
ness.
Pawnbrokers Lose
The effect in the pawnbroking
business, records of which are kept
at the police station, has been also
quite remarkable when it is consid
ered that the change in such a busi
ness would not be as readily felt in
others.
This branch of the business shows
a ten per cent, reduction over the
business of an average month, ac- |
cording to the records of Earl
White, clerk to Chief of Police Wet
zel. Tho pawnbrokers' daily reports
showed a slight reduction at the
very start and this reduction is be
coming more noticeable now, ac
cording to Mr. White. The reduc
tion, while not as marked in some
ether branches of police work, ,is
fully ton per cent., he says.
Prohibition's effects are likewise
noticed by J. J. IlaVgest, warden of
the Dauphin county jail. To-day ho |
reports that he has but 110 pris
oners, the lowest number that has
been confined there for months. He
ift emphatic in his belief that within
a month the figure will drop below
the hundred mark.
DAN CUPID BUSY
By hard work Dan Cupid man
aged to beat his record for July,
1918, during the present month
bringing 125 couples to the Counly
Recorder's office to secure marriage
licenses. In July, 1918, licenses
were issued to 117 couples. ,
Eight Cases of Whisky Hauled
xA.\vay From Capitol Building
Washington, July 31.—A wagon stopped in front of the
Capitol yesterday and in a few minutes eight cases of "Old
Tub" Kentucky whisky were brought from one of the base
ment rooms in the House end of the big building.
The Capitol employe who, on an order, delivered the
liquor to the driver could not deny that the boxes contained
whisky, as they were plainly marked. When questioned as
to the ownership he admitted they had been ordered before
shipments to Washington were prohibited by laVv and had
been stored in the Capitol for safekeeping by a member of
Congress, but the employe, of course, was not reckless
enough to divulge the name of the lawmaker or tell whether
the Congressman, who is tolerably well prepared for emer
gencies, voted "wet" or "dry" on the prohibition enforce
ment bill recently passed by the House.
ARMED GUARDSMEN
PUT STOP TO RIOT
[Continued from First rage.]
prosecuted in tlic municipal courts
and not by the military authori
ties.
Soon Stop Disorders
Oscar Nelson, 32 years old, white,
was found in aWestSitle street with
two serious stab wounds in his chest.
The police believe he was the vic
tim of a race riot attack.
Later the police found Isaiah Del
zier, unconscious in a street near
the stock yards where lie had been
attacked by white men.- He may
die of his injuries. Xo arrests were
made .
Attack Soldiers
A number of minor encounters
between small groups of whites and
negroes were speedily stopped by the
State troops. Several arrests were
made by the militiamen. Soldiers
captured a negro sniper on the roof
of a building in South State street.
He was turned over to the police
and his pistol coniiscated.
A squad of soldiers on duty at
the stock yard was attacked by a
crowd of white men this lhorning
after they .had rushed to the aid
of a negro who had been beaten.
The soldiers held the crowd in
check with bayonets and refrained
from shooting. Several wagon loads
of police were rushed to the scene
and the crowd dispersed.
Governor Frank O. Lowden or
dered the troops out last night on
request of Major William 11.
Thompson after darkness had
brought renewed rioting and the
city's 3,000 policemen found them
selves exhausted. The First, Second
and Third Reserve Militia and the
Tenth and Eleventh Illinois Infantry
were sent on duty by Adjutant
General Dickson, while the Ninth
Regiment remained in reserve at the
stockyards and the Fourth Re
serves on the West Side.
Fire oil Soldiers
Fighting kept up after the troops
reached their stations shortly be
fore midnight, and one squad of
soldiers had to fight a crowd of ne
groes to reach their station at For
ty-first street and Wabash avenue,
while other soldiers were fired on
from ambush on the way to duty.
Xo soldier was killed or wounded,
and after the troops had taken then
places disorders died down within
the region patrolled.
As the soldiers swung with steady
gait into the riot area, the roughs
who had been looking for lights dis
appeared as if by magic. Some of
the gangs sped to territory hitherto
uninfected by terrorism and re
sumed their unlawful occupation,
but most of the marauders, as rain
began to fall, retired for the night.
Quiet in Guarded Districts
As each regiment reached its
headquarters the men were split
into patrols of eight who were sent
out under noncommissioned officers
to see that order was preserved
Even the truculent negroes for the
most part refrained from fighting
the soldiers and by 2 o'clock in the
niorning all was quiet in the troop
guarded territory. .
The most serious riot of the night
took place at Fifty-third and State
streets where 200 policemen fought
nearly two hours a crowd .of ne
groes, firing several hundred shots
before the rioters were subdued
and forty-five of them arrested. It
was only after the patrolmen had
chopped their way into some of the
buildings and seized a dozen snipets
with their rifles and 500 cartridges
that the fighting ceased.
Although many heads were
cracked as the police charged the
barricaded negroes, all the rifle lite
resulted in the injury of only one
person. Patrolman Emit Johnson,
driver of a patrol wagon. lie was
shot as the policemen dashed up to
the scene and thereafter the bluc
eoats kept in the shelter of their
vehicles while approaching the row
of houses.
Before the troops had all been
assigned, there were some minor
clashes with roughs, however. The
first melee occurred In front of the
shop base for the motor transport
corps at Fifty-first street and Wa
bash avenue. Nine negroes, armed
with revolvers, drove back and forth
in front of the base, firing promis
cuously but hitting no one. A squad
of soldiers soon came lip and gave
chase, capturing the negroes afler
firing several shots at them. Ten
revolvers and several razors wore
taken from the prisoners, who were
then turned over to the police.
Major Macey, in command of six
companies of the First Reserves,
and a platoon of his men were fired
on by snipers at Fifty-eighth street
and Racine avenue. None of the
soldiers was hit and when they
scattered and sought their assail
ants, the latter disappeared.
The first arrest made by soldier-,,
however, was that of five white men
whose automobile was searched be
cause of their rowdyism and found
to contain a revolver.
Carried to Washington
While the soldiers were taking
their stations, a crowd of whiles
surrounded the home of John Coles,
a negro policeman In Englewood,
and rained bullets on him and Ins
wife. The house was severely dam
aged before policemen came to the
rescue.
Interference with the United
States mails has carried the riot sit
uation through official channels to
Washington. Federal officials hint
ed to-day that troops would be ask
ed to surround the post office, af
fording protection for employes of
both rqces and guaranteeing deliv
ery of mails.
Failure of one thousand chauf
feurs, carriers and clerks to report
for duty yesterday was declared by
Postmaster Carlile to constitute in
terference with the mails, the riots
and strike being assigned as the
reason of the inability of employes
to discover the real cause of the
interference was reported to Post
master Burleson.
At 10- Ho Packs Gun
Sanford C. McCoy, colored, who
told the police h? was 102 years old,
probably was the oldest person
HATtRISBTTRO TEIJFXTRAPS
picked up by the police as a suspect
in the roundup of rioters. He was
disarmed of a loaded revolver and
warned to go to his home.
A white woman, dressed in man's
clothing, and carrying a pistol, was
arrested. She told the police slic
was on her way to a railroad sta
tion and had donned male attire
through fear of rioters.
Leaders 'among the negroes of
Chicago met last night in an effoit
to discover the real causes of the
race riots and ta devise means of
ending the disorders. Resolutions
were adopted advising negroes to
| be the first to cease acts of violence
and asserting that hothing but evil
could result fro malempts to wreak
vencgance for grievances.
Rain Dampens Ardor
Rain which had threatened during
the early hours of the morning be
gan falling heavily shortly after six
o'clock. It seemed to dampen the
spirits of even the stragglers remain
ing about the riot area, for they dis
appeared without waiting the ap
pearance of a soldier.
Officers in command reported that
to all appearances the district practi
cally was deserted, and expressed the
opinion that this marked the end of
the disorder which for five days had
gripped Chicago.
Thomas Copeland, a negro, 18
years old. died to-day of bullet
wounds he received in yesterday's
riots.
New York Central Railroad of
ficials reported all their trains being
fired on.
Adjutant General Frank S. Dick
son after a trip last evening through
the threatened district declared that
the situation was ominous and this
view was shared by the mayor's
secretary who accompanied him.
The decision to appeal to the State
Executive for troops to patrol the
streets was reached by Mayor
Thompson after a long conference
with members of his cabinet.
Governor Lowden was notified
of the decision and on the arrival
of Adjutant General Dickson at the
mayor's office the formal request
was made.
Negroes Fire on Whites
Before the troops were ordered
out, rioting broke out at several
places and police were called on to
run down negroes reported in auto
mobiles and tiring promiscuously on
whites.
In Twenty-fourth street, three
negroes in an automobile fired at
whites on the sidewalk and in the
street. Thomas Possen, white, was
wounded in the side as he was read
ing a newspaper in a barber shop.
August V ictua, white, nine years old,
was also wounded when the negroes
fired at a group of children play
ing in the street. Possen and the
chile} were taken to a hospital.
Reports were also received that a
number of automobile trucks filled
with young white men were being
driven about South Side streets out
side the negrd district trying to stir
up anti-negro sentiment..
\ esterday's outbreaks were widely
scattered. Of the four deaths, all
of which were the result of shoot
ing, two were shot, the other two
having been wounded in the rioting
ef Monday and Tuesday nights.
Last night the official death list
for four days showed 30, of whom
17 were negroes, two unidentified,
and 13 whites, one unidentified.
Attorney General Brundage upon
his arrival from Michigan, where he
cut short a vacation, assigned an
assistant, John F. Burns, to the
coroner's office to sift the evidence
to be produced at inquests. Mr.
Brundage, who took charge of the
prosecutions following the East St.
Louis riots a few years ago, declared
punishment of the guilty here was
certain.
Burn Negro Home
A second attempt by rioting whites
to burn a negro home was success
ful yesterday when a two-story
iiame house in Englewoodj far
south of the main black belt was
burned to the ground. None of the
several families of negroes who lived
in the building was injured. All
fled so quickly from the premises
that the police were unable to ques
tion them concerning the incendi
arles.
Coroner Hoffman impanelled a
jury and as deaths are reported the
members will view the bodies and
take preliminary steps in the in
quiry.
►State's Attorney Iloyne assigned
several assistants to the work of
gathering evidence. Mr. Hoyne also
indicated that his activities might go
order'" ot investigation of actual dis
♦w" 1 h ? v ® hea rd," he said, "that
through the influence of politicians
and aldermen, some of the men ar
rested for rioting have been turned
out as soon as they were taken to
the police station. I shall also in
vestigate this."
Many Narrowly Escape
Death When Trolley Car
Stops on Brink of Cliff
By Associated Press.
Pittsburgh, Pa., July 31. Two
score of persons narrowly escaped
death or serious injury this morn
ing when a crowded Carrick trolley
car went through a derailing switch
in South Eighteenth street and af
ter running wild along the top of
a 100-foot cliff, came to a stop at
the edge of the embankment. Sev
eral women fainted and a dozen
persons were crushed in a panic
during the car's mad dash. Two
men jumped from the speeding
car but were not seriously hurt.
The car got beyond control of
the motorman just before it reached
the derailing switch and jumped the
track. Crashing over cobble stones,
it gained momentum and crossed
the street to the curb next to the
cliff. It broke through the curb
and, when brought to a stop, the
front trucks were suspended over
the embankment. A rush of pas
sengers to the rear of the car, it is
said, only prevented it from plugg
ing over the cliff and being shattered
with its human freight to the rocks
below. I
BUILDING IS
CONTINUING WITH
RENEWED VIGOR
Operations During the Month
Total Nearly Half Million;
Factories and Dwellings
Building operations in the city
continued with the same activity m
July as in June, fifty-six permits
being issued durinf the present
month for construction work which
will cost $428,035 to complete, ac
cording to Building Inspector James
H. Grove.
During July, 1918, during the war,
only twenty-five permits were is
sued, most of them for remodeling
work, and the total cost of all im
provements was $22,485.
To-day the D. Bacon Company,
through Charles Lady, contractor,
secured a permit to erect a three
story-brick factory at the rear of
435 South Cameron street. This
structure is to cost $20,000. Mr.
Lady also secured a perpiit to erect
a two-story-frame house along the
east side of ' Vineyard road, near
Briar Cliff alley, at a cost of $4,-
500.
Other permits issued follow: Ed
ward and Fred Moeslein, one-story
brick garage, east side of Cameron
street, 150 feet north of .State street,
$5,000; George D. Kinneard, Ed
ward Moeslein, contractor, one
story bungalow, northeast corner
Lewis and Fourth streets, $1,800; G.
E. Shelter, two two-story-brick
houses, east side of Penn, north of
Sencca, $6,500.
2,425 TO ATTEND
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
[Continued from First Page.]
commodate the entire school popu
.lation in those grades.
The Dividing Lilies
This districting as explained by
Superintendent F. E. Downes fol
lows:
"All pupils in the city passing
from grades 8B and 8A to grade 9
will enter the intermediate schools
in the fall, as follows. Pupils at
tending the Stevens, Harris, Foose,
Webqter, Shimmell, Melrose, Forney,
Lincoln and Woodward buildings
will attend the Edison school; all
others of this grade will attend the
Camp Curtin school.
"All pupils of the Foose, Web
ster, Shimmell, Melrose, Forney,
Vernon, Lincoln and " Woodward
buildings, who next September will
belong in grades 78, 7A, 8B or 8A
will attend the Edison school. •
"All pupils living in or north of
Reily street, who next September
will belong in 8B or 8A will attend
the Camp Curtin school.
"All pupils living in or north of
Hamilton street, who next Septem
ber will belong to 7B or 7A will at
tend the Camp Curtin school.
"All other pupils who next Sep
tember will belong to grades 78, 7A,
8B or 8A will attend schools in the
central section of the city as at
present.
"All pupils of all present grades,
IB to 8A inclusive, will report at
the buildings they now attend, in
September, for assignment or trans
fer."
Some criticism to this districting
has developed as quite a number
of boys and girls of the upper
grades will not enter the now
schools and their parents are afraid
they will be losers because of the
lack of advanced instruction. Par
ents of these disappointed children
have suggested that an arrangement
be made whereby room be made tor
the more advanced pupils by leav
ing out some .of those of the seventr
grade whose course of study will
not be changed in the newer schools.
Both principals say Harrisburg is
the first city in the United States
to open two junior schools at one
time, providing such facilities for
more than two-thirds of the pupils
in the three grades of these inter
mediate schools. In Johnstown,
where the system was started five
years ago, there is only one junior
school; Rochester with a popula
tion of 350,000 has only two with
the system started there six years
ago.
School Hours Undetermined
Professor Wallize, principal of
the Edison building, said the en
rollment in that school is 1.262 at
present, to be divided into thirty
six sections, with a faculty of forty
four in charge.
Professor Brehm, who will be in
charge at the Camp Curtin building,
has an enrollment now of 1,190 pu
pils for the fall term and will have
thirty sections with a faculty of
thirty-seven teachers. The instruc
tors in both schools will be arranged
according to departments, no teach
er having more than two branches.
The hours for the school have
not been determined. While the
schedule of recitations is being
planned, it is not certain yet just
how many hours the pupils will at
tend in a day. It is likely the hours
will be from 9 o'clock in the morn
ing until 3.30 o'clock in the after
noon with a sh(j>rt period for lunch
eon at noon. Bunch rooms have
been provided in both buildings.
Boys and girls can eat lunches they
bring from their homes or can buy
meals. Bicycle rooms will be avail
able also for storing the wheels of
those pufils who ride on them to
the buildings; '
High Schools Benefited
This fall in the Central and Tech
nical High schools there will be
students in only three grades, the.
tenth, eleventh and twelfth, known
in the schools as the sophomore,
junior and senior classes. In all
the grade buildings except the few
in the central part of the city and
the Camp Curtin which has been
converted into a junior school, there
Will be pupils only In the grades
from 1 to C inclusive.
Building operations at the junior
schools are being rushed and it is
understood that practically every
thing will be in readiness for use
at the Camp Curtin school, and
much of the work will be done at
the Edison building.
Three courses have been provided
for the junior schools, known as the
aqademic, commercial and manual
arts. The seventh year pupils who
will take any one of these three
courses will have the same subjects
for the first year of the course, but
during the eighth and ninth grades,
or the second and third years of the
courses, there is a change in the
subjects and the amount of time
allowed for recitations in the vari
ous branches. - Elective subjects are
offered in the eighth and ninth
grades
Permit System to
Control Grain Movement
Washington, July 31.—The permit
system devised by the railroad ad
ministration and the grain corpora
tion for controlling the shipment
of this year's record grain crop will
be nut Into effect August I.
REBELS TAKE
FOUR TOWNS
IN HONDURAS
Comayagua, Gracias, Camas
ca and Marcala Fall to
Revolutionists
By Associated Press.
San Salvador, July 31.—Four
towns in Honduras have been cap
tured by the revolutionists accord
ing to dispatches received here to
day, while government troops have
scored successes at three points.
General Lopez Guttierrez, one of
the leaders of the revolution, was
routed at Tupacenti, according to
the Honduran minister here, Senor
Fortin. General Guttierrez was said
to have sought refuge on El Bajuco
mountain, but his exact location is
unknown. i
Colonel Francisco Carbona, with
a force of 800 men, was reported
defeated yesterday by government
forces at Cabellitos and Goasaoran.
At Goasaoran Colonel Juan Jacinto
Volasquez was killed.
The four towns taken by the revo
lutionary forces, according to ad
vices here, were Comayagua, Gra
cias, Camasca and Marcala. In the
department of Utlantida Colonels
Delgado and Edijardo Gillan were
reported to have taken up arms.
In the lighting at Danli, which
dispatches yesterday reported the
revolutionists had taken there were
a number killed and wounded. Much
livestock and material that was
taken, had to be abandoned.
WARNS WAGES
MUST BE RAISED
[Continued from First Page.]
country that we had better take no
tice of. We had something of peace
in this country prior to the war
conditions. We were getting along
fairly well until profiteering became
so noticeable everywhere and until
the commodities that working people
ure compelled to pay for were per
mitted to be increased, doubled and
trebled, without any question and
often seemingly with the approval
of the government.
"We are nearer war in this world,
to-day, I believe, than when the*
Kaiser threw down the gauntlet.
Our lawmakers are to blame, in my
opinion, because the masses of the
people would be behind them if they
would attempt to correct it and
surely there is power to correct it,
but instead they are playing poli
tics as some of these labor organiza
tions are playing politics, and it is
the same all down the line."
Newark Is Selling Bacon
Way Below Market Prices
By Associated Press.
Newark, N. J., July 31. Major
Charles P. Cillen to-day opened the
city's sale of bacon released by the
War Department at a downtown en
gine house. During the day 13 oth
er bacon depots. 11 in the city fire
houses and one in a club house, "were
opened by volunteers of the women's
section of the Mayor's celebration
committee.
Fifteen tons of strip bacon and half
a ton of canned bacon from the
Artny warehouses in Jersey City„and
Port Newark were contained in* the
first consignment.
The sales price to the public was
set at 36 cents for strip, and 38 cents
a pound for canned bacon. This is
a two-cent advance over the price at
which Mayor Gillen bought the meat
from the government.
Bacon of the quality offered by the
city at 36 cents a pound is now be
ing sold at retail shops , according to
the Mayor, at from 50 to 58 cents a
pound.
Mays Transferred to
Yankees For $40,000
and Three Players
Boston, July 31.—The trade by
which Carl Mays, underhand pitch
er of the Boston Americans, was
transferred to the New York Yan
kees took rank to-day among the
biggest transactions financially in
the history of baseball. An official
of the Red Sox stated that the
Boston club received $40,000 in cash
for Mays, in addition to Pitcher
Allan Russell, and Robert McGraw,
and a third player to be chosen
later. An estimate placed the trad
ing value of the three players in
excess of $15,000.
It was understood that Derrill
Pratt, second baseman of the New
York team, was the most likely
choice of the Boston club among the
six players available. With this
choice exercised, the Red Sox man
agement is expected to consummate
a deal now pending which has as its
object the acquisition by Boston of
Scott Perry, pitcher of the Phila
delphia Athletics. Boston probably
will offer Pratt and another player,
with $15,000 for Perry, it is said.
ENGINEER TAKES lIRIDE
Coin ni Ida, Pa., July 31.—Lloyd P.
Emswiler. of Marietta, a member of
the Fifteenth Engineer Corps, who
served overseas for a period of fif
teen months, and returned July 3,
was married here yesterday to Miss
Katherine J. Enger, the ceremony
being pe; formed by the Rev. r. 11.
Malsbaugh, 'lusior of Salome United
Brethren church. The young couple
will make their home in Canton, O.
Says His Prescription
Has Powerful Influence
Over Rheumatism
Discoverer Tells Druggists Not to
Take u Cent of Anyone's Money
Culms Allenrhn Completely Dan
ishes All Rheumatic I'nlns anil
Twinges. '
Mr. James 11. Allen suffered for
years with rheumatism. Many times
this terrible disease left him helpless
and unable to work.
He finally decided, after years of
ceaseless study, that no one can be
free from rheumatism until the ac
cumulated impurities, commonly call
ed uric acid deposits, were dissolved
in the joints and muscles and ex
pelled from the body.
With this idea in mind he consult
ed physicians, made experiments and
finally compounded a prescription
that quickly and completely banish
ed every sign and symptom of rheu
matism from his system.
He freely gave his discovery to
others who took it. with what might
be called marvelous success. After
years of urging he decided to let suf
ferers everywhere know about his
discovery through the newspapers.
George A. Gorgas has been appoint
ed agent for Ailenrhu In this vicin
ity with the understanding that he
will freely return the purchase
money to all who state they received
JULY 31, 1919.
RAILROAD NEWS
RAILROADS TO BE
RETURNED JAN. 1
Will Be Turned Over by Pres
ident Unless Congress Takes
Some Other Course
Washington, July 31. — President
Wilsori has been urged by Cabinet
members and others close to him to
return the railroads to their owners
the first of the new year and it is
believed now that he will do so,
unless Congress enacts legislation
providing for some other course. It
has been pointed out to him that no
good results will flow from a longer
government control.
The committees of Congress,
which are studying the railroad
problem with a view to passing
proper laws, are making haste slow
ly. At the present rate of progress
it will be a year before any sort of
measure is sent to the "White House
for the signature of the President.
The continuation of government
control of the roads complicates the
high cost of living, wage questions
and transportation problems. It is
argued by the advisers of the Pres
ident that the quicker the roads get
back to the prewar status the better
for the administration and the
roads.
President Wilson, in a message to
Congress, said that he was ready to
return the roads, but preferred leg
islation flrst to regulate them under
private operation. It is understood
that he is disappointed that no more
progress has been made toward
getting a railroad bill before Con
gress. The recess of the House for
five weeks will delay final action
on any measure that may be pre
sented.
Railroad Notes
James MeNelly, veteran shopman
of the Pennsy at Altoona, who was
retired July 1. was presented with
a purse by his fellow shopmen.
David B. Trostle, chief Middle
division caller of the Pennsy, with
Mrs. Trostle, has returned from a
ten-day visit to New York. Mr.
and Mrs. Trostle stopped at the
Pennsylvania Hotel. To-day they
left for a week's sojourn at At
lantic City.
W. H. Hambright, retired baggage
agent for the Peqnsy at Lancaster,
attended the big reunion at Mt.
Gretna on Tuesday and met many
of his comrades.
Soldiers who were employed in Al
toona shops have sent a request
to Walter D. Hines to have them
credited for the time .they were
absent.
John K. Sandrus, retired Pennsyl
vania railroad carpenter, aged 75
years, died at his home in Altoona.
Heading officials report that since
the Heading Hailway Company
started the fuel conservation meet
ings the results have been most sat
isfactory. They have been the means
of saving thousands' of tons of coal.
It is said that there have been in
stances when a locomotive drawing
a heavy train made the trip witlj
about one-iifth the amount of fuel
used formerly.
The Reading is receiving new rails.
They will be usee} in improving the
tracks in the vicinity of Wyomis
sing.
Miss Helen M. Trease lias been
promoted to the position of stenog
rapher and general clerk in the office
of the road foreman of engines on
the Middle division and Miss Mary
Markley is given the same position
in the office of the assistant road
foreman of engines. Harry E. King
is assigned to a clerkship in the sta
tion master's office.
End of Month Sale—Friday
Our Fifth End of Month Sale will be held to-morrow
and although we have been greatly handicapped the past
few days with the workmen who are enlarging our shop
we will offer you values in this sale that will make it
worth while to attend even in our torn up and disordered
condition.
All remaining White Wash Skirts regardless of former
prices, regular and extra sizes included, all fine ma
terials and all the most desirable styles. dJO
t End of Month Sale
All remaining Silk Skirts in the new Summer weaves and
styles. Regular prices up to $19.50. Only about ten
skirts in all, but all wonderful values; Baronet Satin,
Crepe de Chine, etc. End of Month QOO
About 15 fine Georgette Dresses in flesh, white and sun
set shades. These dresses are all from our own stock
and include some of the season's best and most desir
able models. You will be very fortunate to secure one
of these dresses at this sale as they are wonderful
values. Former values were up to $29.50 and $35.00.
End of Month (hi A Tr*
Sale 3>1i7.75
20 Wash Silk Petticoats in flesh and white, double front
and back. End of Month c\ QFJ
Sale
15 Misses' and Ladies' Sweaters, Summer styles and col
ors. All sold at much higher prices. End AjJ
of Month Sale
fpARR/SBURGJW
NEW WEST-BOUND
RECORD FOR COAL
Local Crew Hangs Up Low
Figures With Train of
Nine Pullman Cars
With nine heavy steel Pullman
cars, E-6 engine No. 1,092 made the
trip from liarrisburg to Altoona yes
terday with 245 shovels of coal.
This is a new westbound record for
a heavy train. The engineer was
Amos Brenneman, 2 413 North Sixth
street, and tireman, P. L. Smith, 301
Dauphin street. The train was No.
35, leaving liari\sburg at 1.35 a. m.
James McFadden, assistant road
foreman of engines, kept the count.
The previous record was 249
shovels for a westbound train. The
average quantity used between Har
risbuig and Altoona when conser
vation is practiced is from 350 to
400 shovels. With an average of
17 pounds to a shovel, the total
amount of coal used in making the
new record was 4,165 pounds. One
official figured it out in this man
ner:
Big Saving in Cash
"Soft coal is quoted at $2.50 per
ton. While the saving on the rec
ord trip by No. 35 looks small, it
means many hundred dollars in
saving if the same conservation is
practiced on other trains. Running
a big passenger train westbound
with a little more than a ton of
coal is saving money. It costs
about $3.75 to run an automobile
from Harrisburg to Altoona. One
carfare to Altoona would more than
pay for the coal used on this record
trip.
Smoke Abatement
"There is another side to the sav
ing of coal, smoke abatement. The
less coal used the less smoke. Just
now committees on every division
are watching the smoke, and with
the first month ending to-day, the
report for July is expected to show
good work in cutting out unneces
sary smoke. The record of coal used
is taken from the time the engine
leaves the enginehouse put until it is
on the pit at Altoona. This means
that the use of coal must be cut out
at station terminals. The Phila
delphia division committee is watch
ing carefully the use of coal about
the Pennsylvania railroad station.
All violations are reported promptly
and employes who fail to do their
part in cutting out the smoke, are
given instructions on the new slo
gan, 'Play Safe and Save,' "
Cut Living Cost or Boost
Wages, Engineers Plead
Washington July 31—The alterna
tive of Govermental action to force
down the cost of living or of de
mand by the railroad engineers of
the country for another increase in
wages is before President Wilson.
Wftrren S. Stone, grand chief of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin
eers. declared that while the rail
road engineers found themselves
"obliged to again request an increase
to meet the mounting cost of living,"
they were of the opinion that "the
true remedy for the situation, and
one that will result in lifting Ihe
burden under which the whole
people are struggling, is for the
Government to take some adequate
measures to reduce the cost of the
necessities of life to a figure that
the present wages and income of
the people will meet."
The brotherhood board outlined
no plan of action for the Govern
ment to take beyond saying it was
believed that "this situation is
brought about mainly by conscience
less profiteering by the great inter
ests who have secured control of all
the necessaries of life."
ANNOUNCE BIRTH
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Striekler
announce the birth of a son, John W.
Striekler, Jr., Monday, July 14. Mrs.
Striekler was Miss Margaret Beshore
daughter of Amos H. Beshore, Steel
ton, prior to her marriage.