Government Program For Smashing High Prices ot Food Is Fast Hearing Cornp
JLXXX\ 111 NO. 181 16 PAGES Offlce e at*Ha S rrlaburg' aSS HA.RRIS HXIRG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4 1919 ON, iireiv£? IVG ASSOCI 'En I'll ESS SINGLE COPIES UFLMP EDITION
' ° A M:\VSPAPEH IN nvmusiuiui TWO CENTS HUITIL LIJiIIUJM
YOUTHS OF 19
WILL BE GIVEN
ARMY TRAINING
IN NEW BILL
Permanent Military Policy as
Transmitted to Congress by
Baker Provides For Field
Army of 1.250,000 Men
TWENTY INFANTRY
DIVISIONS PLANNED
Universal Drill Made Compul
sory; Active Force of 510,-
000 Regulars Called For: No
Change For National Guard
By Associated Press.
Washington, Aug. 4.—Main
tenance of one field army with
a strength of 1.250.000 men is
proposed in a bill establishing
a permanent military policy
which was sent to Congress to
day by Secretary Baker.
The active force of this army !
would he 510,000 regulars while j
the remainder would be young:
men who had taken a three
months' military training course :
which would be compulsory for
all 19-year-old youths. This re
serve strength would be used to <
fill out the twenty infantry di
visions and one cavalry division
into which it is proposed to di
vide the Regular Army.
The plans were embodied in
a bill which represents the pol
icy of the War Department
with respect to the peace-time
military establishment. Under
the measure all special service
built up during the war would
be maintained as separate j
branches except the chemical
warfare service, which would j
be merged with the engineers' j
corps.
Compulsory Training
Three months' military train
ing for youths of 19 would be
made compulsory and promo
tion of officers by seniority j
would be abolished. Secretary
Baker said the war had shown
this system of promotion to be
defective.
No change in the existing law
■with regard to the organization of
the National Guard and its rela- i
tion to the regular army was sug- ;
gested. Mr. Baker said it was as
sumed that the national defense act
Federalizing the Guard would be re
tained in force.
Under the War Department's
plan, youths would he subject to
military service for two years after
completing the course of military
training, and in the event of war ,
the selective service act in force .
during the great war would become
operative.
Brief Training 'Period
Secretary Baker said in a letter 1
accompanying the bill that the plan
had not yet been referred to Genera'.
Pershing, but that pending his re
turn from France it could be used
as the basis for hearings which
the Senate Military Committee is to
have before drafting legislation es
tablishing a permanent military
policy.
"The bill as drawn." said Secre-!
tary Baker, "provides for a system j
of univer.-al training for a very brief
period, applicable to all male citi
zens. with suitable provision for ex
emptions and deferments.
"It does not. however, provide for'
any reserve ob'igation. since it is!
unnecessary with a system of univer
sal service in time of emergency. The
period suggested for training is!
brief, but not too brief, it is believed :
to secure a careful stock jaking of
the health and physical condition of!
the young manhcod of the Nation, j
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Sergeanl Graefi First
on New Police List
Applicants for appointment to the
city police force who passed the
civil service examinations and are '
on the eligible list were announced
to-day as follows by R. Ross isea- i
man. clerk of the bourd: Charles'
M. Graeff. 2212 North Sixth street, <
rating 88.35 per cent.; James li. :
Long. 1105 Cowden, 88.25; Howard i
Shickley, 2142 Greenwood. 86.05, ail 1
of whom were in service during the I
war, and Harry Leonard Johnson, j
colored. 1102 North Twelfth, 84.25.'
Graeff was a first sergeant in Com- f
pany X, of the old Eighth Pennsyl
vania Guard Regiment when it left !
for camp.
Two vacancies are to be filled on j
the force and it is likely Council !
will act to-morrow when the eligible
list will be presented.
I THE WEATHER |
Harrlftburic nn<! vicinity* Partly j
cloud A, prolinlilj shotver* anil j
tl undo rMtorniM to-nlalit and
Tuesday. .Not much chunKc In
temperature.
Knateru IVnnay Ivanla t Partly
cloudy, prohnlily Nhotvcr* and
thundcratomiM to-nlxht nnd
Tuesday, Warmer to-nlc'if In
nortlionKl portion. Gentle to
moderate variable %vind, mostly
aouth.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
Pretty Former Clerk in Ten-Cent Store
in International Tangle
Miss Jean Troupman. formerly of Steelton and a clerk in one of the city's stores, now is the tearful
| bride of Ernesto Carranza. whose father is enormously wealthy and a cousin of President Carrunza, of
Mexico. Ernesto appears to have been taken home by his mother.
RESIDENTS FLEE
AS MAGAZINES OF
POWDER LET GO
Eight Killed .and Twenty-Five
Injured in Series of Blasts
at United States Plant
By Associated Press.
Now Brunswick, X. J.. Aug:. 4.
j Eight persons are reported to have
j been killed and 25 injured in four '
| explosions of ammunition in the J
| Raritan arsenal of the United States
; Army five miles from here.
Twenty-five beds have been pre
pared at St. Peter's Hospital here to
receive the injured.
A boxcar on a siding near the •
j arsenal is said to have blown up at
1 p. m. setting fire to three maga- j
! zincs which exploded.
| Residents of the vicinity are flee- [
' ing from their homes, fearing that
other magazines will be destroyed. ;
Helpless on Floor For
Days After Effort to
Operate on Himself
By Associated Press.
, Hinghanitnii, X. Y„ Aug. 4.—nlr. j
; Albert D. Turner, an aged wealthy |
I dentist living alone, was found dy- i
: ing in hisapartmentsSatprday after- j
1 noon as the result of an attempt on |
i his part to relieve a chronic affection j
! of the bladder without assistance.
! He had evidently fainted during the |
' operation and was too weak when j
! he revived to summon assistance. |
It is thought he had lain on the I
i floor several hours. Money amount- !
| ing to several hundred dollars and 1
; valuable papers were found scat- i
tered about the room. He was re
moved to the city hospital and died I
last night. He was eighty years old. j
VICTIM OF APHASIA
Xcw YoA, Aug. 4.—An unidenti- j
tied young woman, apparently about I
25 years old was taken from the
Grand Central station to Bellevue
Hospital, to-day. supposedly a victim
of aphasia. She was a passenger on
a Xew York Central train, which
she boarded at Bridgeport, Conn.,
and collapsed upon reaching here.
The young woman wore a wedding
ring with the inscription, "Herman
Lei to to K. V. Die." ,
STEELTON BRIDE IS
SUING SR. CARRANZA
I
Pretty Miss Jean Troupman, Wife of Cousin of Mexican
President, Says Married Life Was Wrecked by Mother
of Youthful and Wealthy Cuban
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! c .
rrom a clerk in a local five and
ten cent store through a more or \
less exciting career on the stage, to
a marriage with the immensely
wealthy cousin of I'resident Car
| ranza, of Mexico, are chapters in
; the stormy life of a Steelton* girl. |
who still has many friends in the j
borough and a rather wide ac- .
| quamtanceship in this city.
Born, Jennie Gamby, in Steelton,
i the young woman attracted con
j siderable attention locally because ,
.of her good looks. Early in life
Miss Gamby's mother married uguin j
and she was known sometimes as
i Jennie or Jean Troupman, her step
; father's name. Xow she is Mrs.
i Ernesto Carranza, of Cuba, whose |
father's cousin is President Car- !
! ranza.
Mrs. Carranza now is suing the j
wealthy parents of her husband,!"
i charging them with conspiracy to J
keep her youthful husband from j
her. The courts of Xew York have !
j been asked to decide whether the i
j youthful husband owes his first j j
allegiance to his wife or to his!'
mother. It appears, according to ]'
! the Xew York American, to whom'
; credit for the photograph also is ;
i due, that Carranza believes he i
; should obey his mother first al- i ■
j though his pretty little deserted !
I wife claims that she has received j '
! many protestations from him that I
I she is the only woman he will ever i
j love. Ernesto has gone home with i
i his mother.
From the story pieced together |
I bit by bit. it appears that Jean and !
j young Carranza met while she was !
: playing with "Listen Lester" and he j
| was a college student. She tearfully j
< refutes Carranza's mother's charge 1
i that she married the young man for \
! his money by saying that the youth j •
| had spent his college allowance and ! i
that she pawned, a '*d sold her per- ! |
i sonal effects to tide them over.
It appears that Luis Carranza
I claims his son is 18 years old, the '
mother avers that he is but 17. Miss <
Jean declares that he is all of 22. ,
The bride is said by Steelton friends
to be about 30 years old.
1
MORE OF SECOND SAIL
New York, Aug. 4.—The transport ,
Virginian arrived to-day from Brest l
with 118 officers and 3,049 men of >
the 23rd Infantry, of the Second Di- S
vision. .
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CHURCH WANTS TO
CHANGE NAME
Application for a court t rder |
amendin-g the charter of t'.e j
Church of God at Fourth and I
Strawberry streets, known as the i
Fourth Street Church of God. |
vas made to-day by counsel for
h.-> congregation, the court fixing
September 8 for a hearing. The L
congregation is asking to have j
the name of the church changed j
to the "First Church of God;" j
to have the annual income al- ;
lowed from real estate raised j
from $4,000 to $20,000; to have i
the office of deacon- created, and ]
the church council as reorgan- l
ized to include the deacons, eld- j
ers and minister.
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FIVE KILLED IN RIOT
By Associated Press. I 1
Paris, Sunday. Aug. 3. Five i
persons were killed at Basle, i
Switzerland, during the recent)
strike riots there, according to of-1
ficial reports on the disorders, j
Fifteen persons were wounded. '
NEIGHBORS TELL COURT
OF FAMILY DISCORD
Mother Beat Children For Hours, Says First; Frightened by
Fight, Says Second
"She beat them all the time," Mrs.
Mary Gearhart, 2 711 North Sixth
street, declared to-day in testify
ing against Mrs. Catharine L. Mc-
Laughlin, mother of three children
whose father is attempting to se
cure their custody through habeas
corpus proceedings.
"Sometimes she would beat thn I
from 5 to 11 o'clock in the evening,"
Mrs. Gearhart said. "One night it |
got so bad I had to call the neigh- j
bors. They heard it, too. 1 couldn't
stand it any more. Some mornings
the boys would come out with black
and blue eyes and then she would
U.S.MAY MAKE
CITY STATION ON
AIRPLANE ROUTE
Site to Be Picked For Land
ing Place For Aviators;
Need a Large Field
COMMERCE CHAMBER AIDS
Planes on Transcontinental
Tour to Make Stops at
Harrisburg
That Harrisburg likely will be a
permanent station cn the trans
continental airplane route now be
ing laid out by the War Department,
is assured in a communication ad-
I dressed to the Harrisburg Chamber j
|of Commerce by Lieutenant J. T. i
I Christensen, who is taking part in j
I the task of laying out the route,
i Arrangements for the first trans- [
i continental flight from New York to
j San Francisco, which are now be
i ing completed, include Harrisburg, j
[according to the letter, which asks
j for the co-operation cf the Cham-j
j her of Commerce.
"This route will undoubtedly be i
used as a regular trans-continental |
j route in the near future," said Lieu-j
l tenant Christensen. and officials of|
the Chamber announced that they!
will lore no time in complying with j
the request for the organization's!
co-operation. Harrisburg is especial--
ly qua'tfied to take care of the needs;
of transient aviators, as experience:
in the past has qualified the Oham-|
j ber to meet their demands. A mus- |
lin arrow, one hundred and ten feet !
long, has been prepared for sucb j
use. and has been found to meet with !
the requirements of aviators.
The Chamber's co-operation will:
mean the providing of this marker!
on a suitable field, approximately |
one-ha'f mile long by two hundred j
yards wide, the furnishing of definite
information regarding topography!
jof sucb a field, and the adjacency!
|of machine shop, gasoline supplies, j
i nnd other necessities -f aviation, to i
I those who are arranging the route.;
i This information is being prepared !
at the offices of the Chamber of;
Commerce, and will be dispatched |
at once to Lieutenant Christensen.
Carries Blazing Alcohol
From George E. Etter's
Home and Checks Fire
Only the presence of mmd of J. j
I G. Prentz, a workman of the Blake j
j shop, saved a serious fire this morn- [
! ing in the residence of George E. j
| Etter, 209 Pine street. Prentz [
! grabbed a blazing can of alcohol j
and dashed with it to the street. He j
was burned about the arms but not.j
badly.
Another workman was busy on ;
the stairs of the Etter home with i
the cleaning materials and lighted
a candle near the open can of ulco- j
hoi. He became exicited and knock- i
ed tho can over the banister. !
Prentz. who was working in another !
part of the house, heard a shout [
and rushing downstairs discovered '
the flaming mass in the lower hall, j
He picked it up and threw it out
into Pine street. By this time sev
eral fire engines had arrived and
they extinguished the fire, which
stili flared h ! gh on the curbstone.
The loss, covered by insurance,
will be principally from the smoke
which filled the house, and a small
I amount of water which was used.
"Coolest Burglar" Wakes
Up Family and Asks For
Jewelry and Money)
By Associated Press.
New York, Aug. 4.—Described j
j by detectives as the "coolest burglar j
j who ever operated in New York." !
George Williams, alias Witson, alias !
j Wilson, was brought here to-day j
[ for arraignment following his arrest :
j after he had stepped from theNNc r !
; Jersey State prison at Trenton alter j
; serving a term for buiglary in Al-
J lantic City.
A long series of burglaries here,
|in Philadelphia and in Atlantic ]
i City is charged against Williams. !
I who is 55 years old and an English - I
man by birth. The specific indict- j
! ment on which he was arraigned is
for the robbery of the home of !
j Frank Taylor, a New York lawyer j
After entering the lawyer's home, I
Williams is said to have awakened j
Taylor and his wife and explained i
calmly tht he had come for their j
jewelry and wealth and was quite !
harmless if he was not interfered !
with. A tearful plea by Mrs. Tuy- '
lor prompted him to return her I
wedding ring.
say they must have fallen oft the
swing."
Mrs. McLaughlin lives at 2709 I
North Sixth street, next door to Mrs.
Gearhart. The two wopen are not
on good terms, the latter admitted
on cross-examination, because she
ordered the McLaughlin woman
away from her door.
Efforts were made by Mrs. Mc-
Laughlin's counsel to show that the
children cried because they were
scared when Mrs. Gearhart and her
daughter fought.
"Didn't your daughter throw
dishes and cups at you and when
they hit the wall it scared the chil
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UNION LEADERS I
IN CONFERENCE
" ON FOOD COSTS
Hines Telling Officials His Plan to Have
Congress Create Commission to go :
into Railroad Wages j:
By .-Issociafeii Press.
Washington, Aug. 4. All
I railroad union officials now in
; Washington were asked by l)i
--| rector General 1 lines to meet j
j with hiru at noon to-day for a !
! conference on the high cost of j
; living.
i Besides the chiefs of the engineers
| and railway trainmen who already j
i have made demands for increased j
1 wages to meet high living costs, u I
was expected that the heads of the |
I other two brotherhoods and the oi - >
gamzations of the shopmen and j
clerks would attend the meeting. 1
I Thus a majority of the 2,000,u io |
' railroad workers would be repre
j seated. Mr. llines expected to cx
! plain his plan to have Congress
I create a commission to go into all
I phases of railroad wages. This plan
! was proposed to Congress last week
< by the President.
In Close Touch
As chairman of the committee
' appointed by Attorney General Pul-
I nier's conference on means to re
duce the cost of living, Mr. Mines
; is in close touch with plans under
' consideration to bring about a nor
! mal level of prices and relieve the
j distress of the average citizen, it
! was said to-day that the Director
: General devoted the whole of Sun
j day to considering the cost of liv
! ing problem, going over many sug
j gestions made by Assistant Secix- j
j tary Lettingwell and Commissioner
Colver, the other two members of ,
j the committee. A report to '.he con- i
! ference will be made to-morrow it 1
I the second meeting of cabinet mem- ;
| bers and other otficials called to
gether by Mr. Palmer and recom- j
' mendations are expected to lie |
transmitted soon to President Wil- j
son.
Three Radical Steps
The subcommittee of the Commit
tee of Eight High Government Of
ficials. named by President Wilson
to formulate a program to reduce
sharply the cost of living necessi
ties, has unanimously decided to
recommend three steps of a radical
nature.
This subcommittee, composed of
W. B. Colver, chairman of the Fecl
deral Trade Commission: Walker D.
Mines, Director Generals of Rail- '
roads, and R. C. Lefflngwell, Assist- j
ant Secretary of the Treasury, has I
agreed upon this program:
1. For the government int-
icdiatoly to buy a billion I
bushels of wheat at the guaran
teed price of 82.26 a bushel,
and immediately place it hack
on the market at 51.50 a bush
el. the government to take tip
the entailed loss of $760,000,-
000.
2. For summary action
through the Department of
Justice under the so-called
I.cvcr law, the act creating the
Food and Fuel Administration.
This law gives the government
sweeping powers and has some
sections not even used during
the war, which it is now pro
posed to bring into play as n
means immediately at hand to
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Wiiliamsport Is Seeking
Prices on Foodstuffs
j Wiiliamsport people want to buy
! government food if it can be had at
j a reasonable price. For that reason
| they sent their Mayor, A. M. Hoag
land, to New Cumberland, to inves
: tigate quality and prices. With
j Mayor Hoagland are Dr. Frederick
| Robbins, city superintendent of
I schools of Wiiliamsport, and Elmer
; Schuyler, editor of the Gazette-Bul
letin, formerly of the Harrisburg |
j Telegraph staff.
These prominent citizens of Wil
| liamsport were accompaniedd by
i Mrs. Hoagland and four-year-old]
i daughter Miriam, and Mrs. Robbina,
j who is president of the Civic Club
at Wiiliamsport. They motored from
! Wiiliamsport and were guests to-day
jat the Penn-Harris. Following a
I visit to the Army Reserve Depot at
j New Cumberland Mayor Hoagland
| and party caled on Mayor Daniel L. '
| Keister, At New Cumberland Mayor
I Hoagland and party were shown
| samples of the goods for sale and
1 will take back with them a price '
f list. , ,
Another Revolution Is
Under Way in Salvador
By Associated Press.
San Salvador, Republic of Salva
dor, Sunday, Aug. 3. The depart
ments of Gracias, Comayagua and '
Choluteca and the towns of Ocote-i.
peque, Santa Rosa and Yuscaran in
Honduras were reported to-day in j
dispatches published here to have j
taken up arms against the govern-!,
ment of President Bertrand, in the j
revolutionary movement headed byj'
j General Lopez Gutierrez. The city ,
jof Intibuca was said to have de
clared Dr. Bertrand an outlaw.
GERMANS STEAL PAPERS
By Associated Press.
Rome, Sunday, Aug. 3.—(Havas) ,
—Advices received here from Ber
lin report that trunks belonging to
two members of the Allied Armi.s- '
Bee Commission in Germany were ,
stolen recently. The- trunks con-- '
talned Important documents con-]'
corning agrcments for the restltu- I'
tion to Belgium and France of. i,
machinery that had beeu removed j,
by the Germans.
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Grain and Provisions
Take Downward Slide
Chicago, Aug. I.—Grain and
provisions dropped heavily to
day in value. Selling was on a
large scale influenced chiefly by j
| the widespread agitation against i
the high cost of living. Within I
an hour coin prices dropped
5 I-2 to 8 cents a bushel and
pork 5t.25 a barrel.
December delivery ol' .corn
the principal option. fell to
St. lit 1-1 and January pork to 1
818.
RAILROADERS
ARE READY FOR
FINISH FIGHT
Brotherhoods Serve Notice on
Congress 1 hey Are Going to
Force Nationalizing Lines
Washington, Aug. 4.—The fight of :
j the railroad workers of the United ;
! States to force on Congress the ac- I
j ceptance of government ownership
j as a solution of the railroad prob
; iem, is to begin at once, and will be i
| unrelenting in its intensity.
Leaders of the railroad brother
hoods and organized labor general
ly are convinced that their plan for
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X ployed by the Pennsylvania Railroad a,t three - I *
freight j srd? w nt on strike .it noon to-dav. >
X ORDERS "''OPMEN TO RETURN TO WORK > ■
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MARRIAGE LICENSES X
Arthur C. Wctn-1 and Ituth E. C'ulton, Shamokln.
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ELMER URGES
NEW DEPOT FOR
HARRISBURG
Superintendent Says Limit Is
Being Rapidly Reached;
Improvement Necessary
SPEAKS TO ROTARY CLUB
Says .fa,000,000 Not Now in
Sight For Kind of Passenger
Station City Should Have
There is pressing need for the eree
tlon of a modern and commodious
passenger depot in Harrisburg, and
the $5,000,000 necessary tor this im
provements may not be forthcoming at
this time. The limit of capaclt is being
so rapidly neared that steps must be
taken soon for improvements here.
These were statements made by Wil
liam Elmer, superintendent of the
Philadelphia Division of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, who was the
speaker at to-day's Rotary Club
luncheon at the Penn-Harris.
Mr. Elmer, with W. R. Deheney, his
chief clerk, was the guest of Norris
S. Longuker, division passenger agent
for the Pennsylvania, with headquart
ers in this city.
The superintendent said that one of
the tirst needs he had found upon
coming to Harrisburg, as superinten
dent last winter, was that of an ade
quate passenger station. He said the
depot and yards here were not de
signed to handle the vast volume of
passenger traffic now passing
through the city, which is one of the
greatest passenger transfer points on
the Pennsylvania Railroad. The tracks
are too short, and there are not
enouglt of them, he said, and he ad
vised the building at this point of a
monumental passenger station of
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PRESIDENT IS DEVOTING
ATTENTION TO HIGH PRICES
lly Associated. Press.
Washington, Aug. 4.—President
Wilson returned to Washington
early to-day from a weekend trip
down the Potomac on the May
flower. He had no engagements for
the forenoon and was understood to
be devoting his attention to the
high cost of living problem.