Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, August 01, 1919, Image 1
• . ' ... . :A Wheat Ci ops lay Be Sold at Market Fi ice in Effort to Cut tug a. Lost o# HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ®f)e stor-3n&epen&eftl. LXXXVIII—NO. 179 24 PAGES Dal, Luer e at Offlce e at a Ha S r e rlaburg laaS HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1919. ""wEWSPAFEn FN S HAun. L sut l i{o ESS si TWO B CENTS es HOME EDITION RATIFICATION BY TWO MORE POWERS MAKES TREATY LEGAL Protocol to Peace Pact In cludes Agreement That Sig natures of Three Allies and Germany Put It in Force RESUMPTION OF TRADE FOLLOWS Soon as Two More Associated Nations Affix Names Full Diplomatic and Business Relations Will Be Started liy Associated Press. Washington, Aug. 1. The pro tocol to the German peace treaty, defining explanations of the treaty agreed to In memorandums ex changed between the German and allied plenipotentiaries, was laid be fore the Senate to-day by Vice Presi dent Marshall. The documents were transmitted yesterday by President Wilson, but too late for submission before to-day. The protocol was accompanied by explanatory letters from President Wilson and Secretary Lansing. The protocol and the correspondence were referred to the foreign rela tions committee. It was made known to-day at the White House that the protocol to •the peace treaty which was sent to the Senate late yesterday by the President, included the agreement that the German treaty shall come into force upon its ratification by ■three of the associated powers and Germany. What else was contained in the protocol, if anything, was not disclosed. Great Britain and Germany al ready have ratified the treaty, and as soon as it shall have been ap proved by two other of the associated nations it will take effect as far as those four countries are concerned, permitting the immediate resump tion of full diplomatic and trade re lations. The protocol reached the Senate yesterday too late to be laid before that body. It may be taken up to day in executive session and later made public. List of Guilty Among the provisions in the pro tocol is one requiring the German government t9 transmit to the Allied and Associated governments within one month after the treaty becomes effective a f.st of persons who are accused of having committed acts in violation of the laws and customs of war. To Supervise Destruction of Port Another paragraph provides for the appointment of a commission to supervise the destruction of the German fortifications on Helgoland in accordance with the German treaty. Provision is also made that "pro ceedings may be taken against per sons who committed punishable of fenses in the liquidation of German property" in the Allied countries, and the protocol says the Allied and Associated powers will welcome in formation or evidence the German government can furnish on this subject. Lodge Reads Copy of Treaty Between 'Big Five' and Poland Into Record Washington, Aug. 1. A copy of a treaty between the "big tive" powers and Poland, said to have been signed at Versailles on June 28, was put into the Senate record to-day by Chairman Lodge, of the Foreign Relations Committee, who said it had been submitted to the British Parliament two weeks ago. The text of the agreement between President Wilson and the represent atives of the other big powers for the government of the Rhine district also was presented by Senator Lodge, who said he had received a copy privately after the document had been presented to the British Parlia ment. Three Lose Lives When Steamship Turns Bottom Up in a Calm Sea By Associated Press. New York, Aug. 1. The steam ship Abangarez, of the United Fruit Company, arrived here to-day with 58 members of the crew of the Brit ish steamer Clan Gordon, which cap sized at sea Wednesday, 140 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, with the loss of three men, one of whom was the wireless operator. The Clan Gordon, a freighter of the Clan Line, left New York for Dalny, China, last Monday. Late on the afternoon of Wednesday mem bers of the crew of the Abangarez saw her capsize in a comparatively calm sea. Boats from the Abanga rez were sent to the aid of the Clan Gordon's crew. Three of the ship's company sank, however, before the rescuers reached them. The last seen of the Clan Gordon Was at 7 o'clock Wednesday, when she was floating bottomside up. ! THE WEATHER HurrlHliui-K and Vicinity: Fair to night nntl Saturday. Slightly cooler to-night tvllh lowest tempera!arc about 114 degrees. Eastern Pennsylvania: Partly cloudy and slightly cooler to night. Saturday fair. Moderate north winds. Divert Xo Important rhnngrx will occur In river conditions. A stage of ahnut 4.14 feet Is in dicated for llnrrlNhurg Saturday morning. And We Have Been Finding Fault With Mexico I - ALLIED MUTINY AIDS "REDS" TO MAKE ADVANCE Bolsheviki Forces Gain Four teen Miles in Onega Sector of Archangel Front By Associated Press. London, Aug. 1. Successes for the Bolsheviki in the Onega sector of the Archangel front are reported in a Soviet official statement sent by wireless from Moscow. The state ment declares the Bolsheviki forces have advanced fourteen miles, aid ed by a mutiny among the allied troops. The text of this portion of the communique reads: "We have advanced 14 miles northward on the Onega. The ad vance was preceded by a rising of white regiments who arrested re sisting officers and handed them over to our side." The official statement bears date of July 31, and the rising reported appears to have been subsequent to the recent mutiny among the Rus sian troops on the Archangel front, reported by the British army au thorities. Unrest in Siberia The Moscow message also reports unrest in Siberia. It claims that there is an insurgent front extend ing from Tashkent in Turkestan to Nikolayevsk, on the Amur. In the region of the Amur, it is declared, the insurgents annihilated a large detachment of Japanese recently. In addition, it is asserted that an important Bolsheviki detachment is advancing from Northern Siberia towards Tomsk. Premier Lenine Plans to Retire After He Makes Drastic Change By Associated Press. Stockholm, Aug. I.—The Svenska Dagblat is informed by persons closely connected with the Russian Soviet government that Nikolai Len ine. the premier, intends to begin a dramatic change of policy and then retire. The condition of his retire ment will be that Jean Trotzky, the Bolsheviki war minister, be left in command of the red army. At recently held meetings of the Soviet commissaries, the newspaper informants say the question of giv ing power into the hands of other socialistic parties was earnestly dis cussed, but Lenine declared that the best way to check reaction, as rep resented by Admiral Kolchak, head of the All-Russian government at Omsk, would be to drop power for a time in order to prove that no other party was able to reorganize Russia. This, Lenine contended, would strengthen the Bolsheviki and en able them to resume power. Len ine's views were shared by George Tchitcherin, the commissary for foreign affairs; M. Stoutchka, com missary of justice, and Professor Pudrovski, commissary of the inter ior. NAVIGABLE RIVER DUE PENNSYLVANIA SA YS CONGRE Task No More Difficult Than Others Undertaken by War Department; Would Open Up Wide Territory OUTLET TO THE SEA WOULD GIVE CITY CHEAP FREIGHT No man in public, life to-day is more interested in the development of the waterways of the country than Congressman J. Hampton Moore, of Philadelphia, who is now being seriously considered as an available harmony candidate for mayor of the Pennsylvania metro polis. He has discussed the subject of the navigability of the Susque hanna river repeatedly in the House and as early as February, 1914, and again in July of the same year pre sented reasons for making the Sus quehanna navigable. In a speech February 28, 1914, he dwelt particularly upon the import ance of developing the rivers and harbors of the country for its gen eral commercial welfare. In this speech he called attention to the fact that the government was over looking a great river—the Susque hanna —and "to the tendency which has prevailed elsewhere in the east ern States and particularly as to the Hudson and the rivers in New England to take such rivers out of the public service altogether." He declared that engineering problems such as are presented by the Sus quehanna have already been met by the expenditure of large appro priations upon other streams where the public purposes to be served are not so great as those that would result from the improvement of the Susquehanna. A Fertile Valley Mr. Moore dwelt upon the early uses of the river by the lumber op erators and how in recent years the people of Pennsylvania and New York have been deprived of their right to an outlet to the sea. It was at this time that he introduced a bill to secure a survey, which has now been authorized and about to be started, to determine the feasi bility of improving the Susquehanna by means of locks and dams as in the case of other rivers. He called attention to the fact that the Sus quehanna river in its main stem is about 400 miles long and has a drainage area of 27,400 miles; that [Continued oil Page 7.] FIRST DEFENDER DIES By Associated Press. Allen town, Pa.," Aug. I.—lgnatz Gresser, Allentown's last member of the famous First Defenders and who was awarded the Congressional Iledal for hs rescue of the late Con gressman William H. Snowden while he lay wounded during the battle of Antietam, died here to-day of infirmities, aged S4. LORD WILL END KAISER'S EXILE By Associated Press. Berlin, Aug. I.—The former German Empress, in- the course of a letter to the vicar of Christ Church at Wilhelmshohe, says: "The Kaiser is hearing his burden, but the Lord will lead him out of the dark valley." The former Empress adds that the exile is well, except for a bad cold and that she also is well. GREAT PAGEANT IS PLANNED FOR ALL NATIONS Patriotic Open-Air Spectacle to Be Given in Island Park Tuesday, August 12, is the day selected by the War Camp Communi ty Service for the presentation of the huge Ail-American pageant in Island Park. Practically every na tionality in the city, more than twen ty-six in number, will take part in the program, which V is to be free for all. The majority of the nationalities represented have been working hard on their events for several weeks and have been preparing them in co-op eration with the War Camp Com munity Service. It is hoped that several more nations will be able to have representatives in line, but they have not yet been secured. The program will consist of a pro cession in which each nationality will play a distinguished part;* speeches by several well known Pennsylyanians, and features from several of the leading groups. Groups of powerful searchlights on top of the grandstand will throw a bright light over the entire diamond and outfleld and illuminate every detail of the demonstration. FIRST SEARCHES MADE IN HOMES FOR WHISKY U. S. Agents Go Through Dwellings Without Search Warrants HARRISBURGERS ESCAPE So Far Government Has Taken No Notice of Local Hoardings Harrisburg homes thus far have been free from search of collectors of the Internal Revenue Depart ment in a hunt for whisky, it was announced to-day. Reports have been received here, however, that several homes have been visited in Philadelphia and searched for whiskies.. Deputy col lectors and assistants made the searcb.es in Philadelphia. The homes searched in the Quaker City were those of John Crosson, Germantown > and Lehigh avenues, and of John S. Glenn, 3209 North Sixth street. In neither in stance were any alcoholic beverages found. No warrants were issued for the searchers of either home and in each case collectors were shown over the premises by the owners. Instruc tions for the search were issued, the men who made them say, by T. Littlehales, chief field deputy. No Instructions have been receiv ed in this city providing for any search, and in fact no instructions have been received in this city to proceed against violators, according to United States Commissioner John A. F. Hall. United States Deputy Marshal Harvey T. Smith is out of the city and could not be reached. Dying Man Gets Pint of Blood at Hospital Transfusion of blood from the | veins of one of the 27 volunteers j to those of the Harrisburg Hospital i patient, who has been critically ill for some time, was effected to-day i by hospital physicians. More than j a pint of blood was transferred from I the veins of the subject to the siclc man, who is said to have but half the amount needed to sustain life. Twelve persons were tested of the 27 applicants who offered their blood at the Harrisburg Hospital for trans fusion to a patient who was sorely in need of healthy blood. Harry Buch, a clerk in a local drugstore, was selected as the man with the blood best suited to the conditions, and a quart of it was transferred from his veins to those of the pati- I ent this afternoon. Mr. Buch is rather weak, but comfortable. Buch served overseas with a hospital unit. .Strikers Attack Girls on Duty at Silk Mills By Associated Press. Slinmokin, Pa., Aug. I.—Accept ing as true rumors to the effect that members of the office staff, tel ephone operators and others had been permitted to continue their' employment at the J. H. and O. IC. Eagle Silk Mills here, where a strike has been in force for eleven weeks, female strikers early last night attacked a number of the girls as they left the mill and sev eral were injured when struck v.ilh stones and umbrellas. State Mediator Frederick arrived i here yesterday to make a final effort j to adjust the strike, which threatens i to involve the miners in sympathy I with the silk workers. MISS SARA STKIM: I The funeral services for Miss Sara j Strine, 18 years old, who died at the j Keystone Hospital last night, will be ; held from the residence of her [parents, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice I Strine, of Progress. The Rev. Mr. Henry, pastor of Shoop's Church j will officiate and burial will be i made in the Shoop Church ceme tery. Miss Strine is survived by her parents, one brother, Victor Strine, and a sister, Ruth Strine. WETTEST AND 'DRYEST' MONTH, JULY'S RECORD iSt. Swithin, Old Sol and Pro hibitionists Reign Supreme For the First Time July was the wettest July since 1891, but at the same time it was the dryest month in the history of Harrisburg. These statements are not alto gether inconcilable, either. Fore caster E. R. Demain, of the Harris burg Weather Bureau, is authority for first statement, and countless llarrisburgers can testify to the lat ter assertion. Bathing in prespiration during the early part of the month and almost drowning in the tears of St. Swithin during the middle portion of July, Harrisburg has been able to collect its sense during the pleasing tem peratures of the latter part of the month and has permitted specula tion as to the freakishness of the month. Their inquiries have elicit ed the statements of Demain and Mr. Barkeep. Rainfall during July showed an excess of 2.88, a total of 6.83 inches falling during the month. Not once since 1891 did that much rain fall, •he downfall then being 8.40 inches! The record for July was made in 1889, during the first year of the [Continued on Page 17.1 Figures in Cruelty Probe Representative Johnson, of the Congressional subcommittee investigat ing conditions in American Army prison camps in France, from which almost unbelievable stories of cruelty have come. Brigadier General Wil liam W. Harts is blamed for conditions by Lieutenant "Hardboiled" Smith. CONSIDER MEANS OF CUTTING HIGH COSTS Special Committee Appointed by Cabinet and Attorney Gen eral to Investigate Soaring Prices and Make Early Re port; Propose to Sell Wheat at Low Price By Associated Press. • Washington, Aug. I.—A special committee to consider means of re ducing the high cost of living was appointed at the meeting yesterday of members of President Wilson's Cabinet with Attorney General Pal mer. The committee will compile suggestions thus far made and re port to the Cabinet Monday, when further steps will be taken. • One suggestion made Mr. Pal mer said, was that the Government sell this year's wheat crop at the market price, to be determined by the law of supply and demand, and make up the guarantee to the farm ers out of the billion-dollar fund appropriated by Congress. No Limit to Food It was announced at the War De partment that there would be no limit whatever on the quantity of foodstuffs to be consigned to mu nicipalities under the new plan of operation. It is generally asserted here that the report which Homer S. Cum in ings, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, made to Presi dent Wilson upon his return from a two months* survey of the coun try, which took him to the Pacific coast, was, in a measure, responsi ble for the very determined action yesterday. Mr. Cummings, it is Said, told tho President that the high cost of living was on the lips of the people everywhere and that steps toward a quick solution should bo taken. Washington. Aug. I.—No relief from present high prices is forecast in the Federal Reserve Board's monthly review of business condi tions, issued to-day, which notes that July saw increases in many lines. "In general," the review said, "there is a disposition to acept pres ent price le.els and to expect a con tinuation of the prevailing level for some time to come." In many districts high prices have I not served to check demand, but tho possibility of obtaining goods was found to be of greater moment to the buyer than* the price fixed. On the other hand the Board said, the "very great" price increases which have taken place in certain 'lues have made buyers more cautious, care being taken not to increase un duly stocks acquired at the present price level for fear a decline might occur. Continued high prices, along with constant growth in trade, both wholesale and retail, and increased activity in some of the basic indus tres sustained confidence in the in dustrial situation and led to expan sion in many lines. Almost tho only complaints heard concern shortage of raw materials and, in a few dis tricts, labor Roubles, although a majority of the districts report nor ma labor condWens. "Instead of a fear of unemploy ment, which had been expected dur ing the early part of the year," the Board said, "the reports received TIED TOGETHER, 11 KOREANS JUMP By Associated Press• Seoul, Korea, Aug. 1. —An ex traordinary attempt of eleven Koreans to commit suicide by tying themselves together with a rope and then jumping overboard is reported from the treaty port of Chemulpo, about twenty-five miles southwest of Seoul. The In cident occurred on a ferryboat running between Chemulpo and j a nearby island. The boat was I stopped and a'l were picked up, I but three were dead. The act is believed to have j been inspired by Buddhist supi r- I stition. mainfest the fear of an impending shortage of labor." The exodus of alien workers was blamed in part. The agricultural outlook on the whole was reported favorable, with (Continued on Page 23) ®4*44 , 44444 4* 4* 4* 4 s 4* 4 i 44*4*4*4444444444£' t J - } *%-- 4 :T MEN or NATION ON STRIKE # || 1 " * ON-"' ■' ■■•■->• OF | 4* -r • ' C 4 I *r -4 . 4 T ? f -* " ' ■ ' M f ' ■'" H •4 *r 4 T "4# l -- T * f -<4* L * * ■' "• •* • • v.-. 2* 4 (i, & T T !! J 2! 4 > ? g ; *V J, * 4 ** • - employe. js 4* TROLLEYMEN GET INCREASE % | J JL ways Company directors this afternoon it was unani- ii T 3 2* | | This advance in wages, President Frank B. Musser X nounced, ir> voluntary and was JP X direct rs to help the men meet the increased cost of liv- 1 9 T ing. Ihe men will be paid 45 cents an hour under the >a| 4 hew schedule. ,JJ | iTO LOOK INTO HIGH SHOE PRIC i J ngtdn A resolution directing the Fedr 4 4 2 T of shoes was reported out to-day by th ,m terstatc Commcrce Commission. X 4 ,4j 4 x FIVE DIE IN EXPLOSION T t^P Landing, N. J. —Five pernor* w?rc killed I 4 *|* plosion of 1,000 pounds of dynamite in a "packing" ho '3, X of the AM,is Powder Company neat hep. day. *j t MARRIAGE LICENSES' s * SnmiM-l s. Jl.vpr, Kurt llnntrr, iiml M:*rwnrr< Wrtr, Harris- M SurKj Dunlrl Adniii., I.lnßlcatoivn, and Bruliih Coalcy, IVnbrook. " I @4444444444444444444444444 44 4H NO BIDS TO BE j SUBMITTED FOR ARMY'S FOODS I . Mayor Keister's Committee Says Cost Is Much Too High MATTER TO BE DROPPED I Several Reasons Advanced Why Bacon Will Not Be Purchased Harrisburg's Municipal Ford Com mittee will not buy from the Gov ernment. This was the decision af ter a lengthy meeting held to-day at the office of Mayor Daniel L. Kiester. Two reasons were advanced by the committee as follows: First: The Government prices were said too high. On a car load of bacon the price this commodity would be sold to Harrisburg consumers would be 38 cents per pound, in 12- pound cans. The same bacon can be had in Harrisburg at the same price retail, sliced and without a rind. If purchased in 12-pound lots, the prices at local stores is 35 cents for ba con, Including the rind. Bacon can be had for 40 cents a pound in the | whole which is only two cents higher ; per pound that the Government ; goods. The committee was also in j formed that by buying bacon by the car load, from any large firm the price would be still lower. Secondly: The Government is about to offer to the people of the United j States foodstuffs by parcel post at i figures to be announced later. For i this reason the request to the loca: (Continued on Page 23) Benjamin Whitman Has Reached Home Por" Renjamin Whitman, teacher of th>' Hick-a-Tlirif t class of Pine Street Presbyterian Sunday School, who hai ' been overseas for fifteen months do j ing "V" work, returned home to-da: on the Haverford, which docked a I Philadelphia. He will be in this clt: ! by Sunday and will teach the elas , | then. A big reception has beet i planned for Mr. Whitman by tin I members. Of 382 in the class, 15: i were in service, and seven were kill ed or died.