City Wholesale Dealers See Curtailment of Excessive Export as Means of Reducing High Prices ■ ** LXXXVIII— NO. 182 20 PAGES D *"&& e c r e l\ S th" d om" e a d t a Har e r?s°b n u d r g c ' aas HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1919, BUDAPEST IS BEING LOOTED BY RUMANIANS Troops Kill Civilians; Threat en to Execute Five For Every Soldier Inured 'CITY UNDER MILITARY Machine Guns Command All Strategic Positions; Arrest Hungarian Ministers By Associated Press. Budapest, Monday, Aug. 4.—Thir ty thousand Rumanian troops, in cluding infantry, caValry, artillery, entered the city to-day with a blare of trumpets. The Rumanian forces, led by General Marghascu, passed through Andrassy and other streets. Lieutenant Coionel Romanelli, of the Italian mission, an Allied repre sentative, informed the Hungarian cabinet that the Rumanians would remain to keep order. He request ed, also that the demobilization of the Soviet army be continued. The Rumanians have taken pos session of public buildings and have assumed military command of the city. Paris, Aug. 5. Telegrams from American officials at Budapest state that Rumanian troops upon entering Budapest yesterday started plunder ing in the suburbs. Fifteen or twenty civilians were killed by the Ruman ians during the day, it is added. The American reports said the Rumanians were demanding host ages, and threatened to kill live hos tages for each Rumanian soldier in jured in Budapest. Some members of the new Hun garian ministry, the telegrams state, have been arrested by the Ruman ians, who have mounted machine guns in various parts of the city and demobilized the local police. The city is absolutely under military control. Budapest, Monday, Aug. 4. One regiment of Rumanian cavalry is quartered in Kobanya, a suburb three miles from the center of the city and overlooking it. Only Ru manian officers are actually inside the city proper. General Burescu, the Rumanian commander, and staff are guests of Lieut. Colonel Roman elli, chief of the Italian mission here. The latter was prevented the occu- , pation of Budapest hitherto by rep [Contiiiued on Page I I.] Harrisburg Labor Parade to Break All Records; Industrial Float Prizes rians for Harrisbrug's largest Labor ■ Bay parade are being steadily put into ! shape by a committee from the Central i Labor Union. Hugh L. McLaughlin 1 is chairman, and J. R. Hurst, secre tary. About forty local organizations of this city are expected to be in line i with a large percentage of their mem bership. Railroaders and railroad shopmen will form the largest sec tion. The steelworkers of Steelton have been invited to participate and are busily preparing to make a good show ing. Cross river towns will also be well represented and are just as keenly J interested as others, and York anil | other nearby cities and towns have j been invited to send delegations. The I music will be furnished by Union bands, j Many floats of an industrial charac- ] ter are being planned, and the rail- j roaders are expected to produce some very interesting designs, and the com mittee has under consideration an of fer of one or more prizes for best efforts in float designs. The parade will be held early enough to be over before the noon hour. The time of formation and other j details will be announced later. Newlywed Is Killed on Eve of Moving Bride Into Their New Home Married a month ago and preparing to go to housekeeping to-morrow. I James Redman, 25 years old, of 103 Evergreen street, was almost instant- j ly killed in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards here to-day. Redman, a car repairman in the lo- i cal yards, was working at the Ma- | clay street shops, when a Jack slip ped. The handle struck him on the neck, and is believed to have caused an internal hemorrhage, resulting in almost instantaneous death. Placed on a Pennsylvania Railroad j engine, he was brought to the Union i station and taken to the Harrisburg Hospital, but died on the way. Two Properties Are Condemned in Market Street by Inspector Properties at 1028-30 Markot itreet, owned by Mrs. Lydia A. Cahoe, 10 North Cameron street, have been condemned by Building Inspector James H. Grove, who sent a letter to-day to her notifying her that the structures were unsafe. Mr. Grove stated that there aie no foundations under the buildings except wooden posts, which have rotted. Unless they are made safe or removed, action will be taken at once the Building Inspector warned the owner. |THE WEATHER Harriflhurg and Vicinity. Continu ed unsettled weather with nhowers to-night nnd probably Wednesday. Not much chnngc In teinpernture, lowest to-night about 72 degrees. Eastern Pennsyl vanln i Showers to-night and probably Wednes day. Little change In temperu ! ture. Gentle variable winds. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Little Boys Who Steal Rides on the Top of the Load Should Look Out For Viaducts MINERS RIOT AFTER STRIKE IS DECLARED Bolshevist Agents Responsible For Split From Union and Pitched Battles Wheeling, W. Va., Aug. 5. Twenty deputy sheriffs, armed with riot guns were rushed to the Fort Pitt coal mine, south Of Bellaire, Ohio, near here, this forenoon fol lowing receipts of reports of a clash between striking miners, believed to be lead by radical agitators, and others, more conservative workmen. Early reports were that riotihg broke out after the strikers refused to permit the oilier, miners to work. Attack Loyal Workmen According to reports received here the strikers, who are demanding a six-hour day and large wage in crease, attacked nonstriking work men as they were about to enter the mine this morning. The situ ation, it is said, got beyond control of the Bellaire authorities and a hur ried appeal was made to the sheriff of Belmont county for aid. Advices just before noon said further trouble was expected. The strikers are said to have been agitated by Bolshevist agents and to have formed a radical organiza tion. When the deputies arrived on the scene the strikers, numbering more than 200 men, retreated beyond gunshot and appeared to be planning to make a stand and reports re ceived here shortly after noon said a pitched battle between the miners and deputies was expected. Sheriff John Osburn, of Belmont county, who was on the scene, said he had given his men orders to shoot to kill and not waste any ammunition if attacked. According to reports received here the strikers recently formed the Bolshevist organization in defiance of the United Mine Workers and it has no connection with the union. The radipeis represent nearly two ■ilrds of the men employed at the mine. The remain.ng third, compris ing more conservative workers re mained loyal to the union and their employers. Russian agents, it is said, have been working among miners of the Bellaire district for some time. WIN WAR CROSS By Associated Press. Washington, Aug. s.—The War Department announced to-day that General Pershing had awarded the Distinguished Service Cross to the following officers and men of tho American Expeditionary forces: Captain Ullman C. Hendler, Phil adelphia. Lieutenants Henry M. King, Greensburg, Pa.; Morgan K. Harris, Newark, N. J. Sergeants Charles IJ. Inks, 254 Addison street, Pittsburgh; Alvey C. Martz, Glencoe, Pa. Privates Anthony Florentine, Rankin, Pa.; John G. Belko, Brad dock, Pa.; Clayton B. Skiff, Spar taneburg, Pa, HASSLER ASKS FOR PROBE INTO LIGHT SERVICE FOR CITY Council Authorizes Investigation When Commissioner Suggests Plan For Acquiring Municipal Plant Making an official complaint to Council to-day about the poor light service furnished the city by the Harrisburg Light and Power Company, Commissioner S. F. Hassler secured the pas sage of a resolution directing City Electrician Clark E. Diehl to make an investigation and submit a detailed report to the Coun cilmen. Dr. Hassler intimated that if con-< ditions did not improve during the next two years when the present contract with the company expires, it may be found advisable for the city to make an offer to buy the plant of the company, and submit this question to the voters of the city for decision. If that course were not decided upon he said it might be advisable to bring about competition again for furnishing power to light city streets. Lights Not Burning "I regret to find fault with any company, but the electric light com pany service to the city is intoler able," Commissioner Hassler began. "I want to know what to do. On Saturday night the lights were out for more than two and one-half hours in one district. There was some excuse for this, I believe, the company saying that a circuit was out, but to me it seemed that it was out too long and for nearly three hours the section from Harris street north, and from Sixth street west to the river was not lighted. "The company also is neglecting local conditions. Few nights during the last month was the light on at Nineteenth street and Bellevue road and when it was burning it was dim. Mr. Diehl has written letters to the company and has personally interviewed the officials. Receives Complaints "On Saturday night two standards were out on the bridge, two in Sec ond street, two at the end of the subway, one at Seventeenth and Wal nut and another at Thirteenth and [Continued on Page 10.] Police Asked to Bring Back His Bonnie to Him No, he didn't want her arrested, he merely wanted the assistance of the police in bringing back his wife to him. This, in substance, was the tearful plea of a Harrisburg man at police station to-day. asking that the police department take steps to persuade his wife to come back to him. She had gone to Chester to live with relatives, heartlessly leaving him to shift entirely for himself, he complained to Complaint Clerk Buch. He didn't know why she left him, he said; he wanted her brought back that he might find this out and en deavor to make amends, he concluded. ftlje ofar-3nt>cptnt>cM. NEVER SAW SUCH A CITY Harrisburg is the worst city she ever lived in! Absolutely! Why, children run theij; ex press wagons over her naviflnent, and one day a man even nicked the curbing in front of her home with a wheelbarrow. So told a resident in the city's outskirts, seeking sympathy at the police station to-day. She had lived in many cities in many States of Uncle Sam's forty-eight, but never had she come to such a city as Harris burg, she indignantly asserted. And the children! They have absolutely no regard for the com fort of others, she says. 300 OF P. R. R. JOIN By Associated Press. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. s.—The machinists and locomotive inspec tors employed at the Pan Handle shops of the Pennsylvania railroad here, Joined the shipmen's strike to day. Officials of the men say 300 walked out. Blacksmiths, boiler makers, car repairmen and car in spectors remained at work. Big Four shopmen, said to num ber 2,500, remained on strike this morning while the Cincinnati, In diana.polis and Western shopmen continued at work. OFFERS TO UNDRESS HER CHILDREN IN COURTROOM It's a Scrappy Neighborhood, Mrs. McLaughlin Tells Judge Kunkel, Who Raps For Order "We must have order in this court. This is no magistrate's coui t. These women if they don't behave will have to be shown that they have no business to talk or interrupt the court." Presi dent Judge George Kunkel declared yesterday during the habeas corpus case brought by William J. Mc- Laughlin against his wife, Mrs. WILSON GETS PLAN TO CUT COSTS AS U. S. AGENCIES START WORKING; DEALERS WOULD REDUCE EXPORTS Free Market For Wheat Is Urged as One Step CONGRESS MA Y BE ADDRESSED By Associated Press. Washington, Aug. 5. Attorney I General Palmer expects to be ready ] to. present a preliminary report to ( President Wilson to-day concern- j ing possible steps to be taken by ! government agencies in the effort j to reduce living costs. Julius H. Barnes, president of the United States Grain Corporation, j has been called to the White House for late to-day and it is under- . stood the President will take up 1 with him a proposal to restore wheat to a free market, with the govern- | nient making good the difference j between the market price and the ; $2.26 guaranteed to the farmer. j Conferences with Republican and j Democratic senators on the League ; of Nations have definitely been j abandoned by the President until ; the problems of the high cost of living are solved, Secretary Tu multy announced. The President, Mr. Tumulty said, is going to give his whole time to the question of the high cost of living. May Go Before President Administration officials feel that one way to decrease the cost of living is to increase production and j President Wilson is • understood to, feel that strikes now or threats will inteiferc materially with any solu tion of the problem sought by gov ernment agencies. Whether the President will go be fore Congress to recommend steps designed to relieve the situation in which the country now finds itself will depend. Mr. Tumulty said ' ° n the nature of the report to be made by Mr. Palmer. Members of the President's cabi net went into conference early to day with Mr. Palmer to receive the report of the special committee ap j pointed last week to tabulate the various suggestions thus far ad advanced. The conference was ex- I peeted to continue until just before the regular Tuesday cabinet meeting at the White House. Mr. Palmer's report was to be 1 submitted at the cabinet meeting and the President then planned to discuss a free market for wheat with Mr. 'Barnes. Demands of 450,000 railway clerks, freight handlers, express and •i station employes, that their wages I be increased unless something was done to materially reduce the cost I of living, were to be considered to ' day at a conference between Direc tor General Hines and J. J. 1' or rester, grand president of the brotherhood of these employes. Shopmen Voting on Strike Similar demands from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi neers and the Brotherhood of Rail way Trainmen now are before the director general. Meantime the 500,000 shopmen over the country are formally voting on whether a strike shall be called to enforce de mands made last January that their wages be increased 25 per cent. Pending the outcome of this strike vote the thousands of shopmen now out on an unauthorized strike were expected by union officials to return to work. Whether Congress should under take an investigation of the rail road employes' wage demands was considered to-day by the Senate In terstate Commerce Committee. The [Continued oil Page 19.] Two Men, Heavily Armed, Arrested Near Home of Clemenceau By Associated Press. Paris, Monday, Aug. 4.—Two la borers, one of whom had two re volvers and the other a large knife, were arrested to-day near the resi dence of Premier Clemenceau by detectives who said their manner excited suspicion. As they were being taken to the 1 police station, a detective said, the men offered money for their release. When they were questioned they gave their names as Ernest Vallee and Alexander Bonnard. They said they had an -engagement with friends and relatives at a safe In the street where M. Clemenceau re i sides. j The possession of weapons they I explained by saying that some one whose name they did not know com missioned them to sell them for him. The men were held for trial on charges of carrying concealed weap | ons and attempted bribery. Vallee, ; the police stated, is believed to be a deserter. Catharine L. McLaughlin, to secure the custody of their three children. About half a dozen women, neigh bors of Mrs. McLaughlin, who wei e witnesses against her, were talking to each other in an undertone, and the three McLaughlin children, from four to nine years of age, were running back and forth from the counsel table to the witness stand (Continued on Page 5.] ( ONI.Y EVENING ASSOCIATE!) PHESS SINGLE COPIES lIAUr ETIITTfMU NEWSPAPER IN IIAHIUSUCKG TWO CENTS rIUIVIL tiLl I lUPI Some Grocery Prices > r> HESE are the prices on several staple articles of food j offered by three local retail grocers. Two of the stores have the delivery system; the other is without it. . First Second Third Articles Store Store Store Ave. Proctor & Gamble soap 08 .07 .09 .08 Carnation milk, 18 .14 .16 .16 Baked beans 15 .12 .13 .13 Soup beans 12 .09 .12 .11 Canned salmon (pink), '.22 .18 .25 .22 (Red) 33 .27 .30 .30 Pickles 24 .18 .20 .21 American Cheese, 50 .39 .45 .45 Swiss cheese 75 .. .80 .77 Canned spaghetti 15 .09 .15 .13 Dried beef, 70 .68 .70 .69 Gold Medal flour SI.OO .85 .. .92 ■New potatoes, .72 .90 .81 Onions 07 .08 .10 .08 Mackerel, 35 .20 .. .28 PENNSY STATION TO CONFORM WITH PARK Superintendent Elmer Declares He Wants Depot to Fit Into State's Plans, Alter Conference Superintendent William Elmer, of , the Philadelphia Division of the j Pennsylvania Railroad, who yester- i day candidly admitted before the Ro- i tary Club of Harrisburg, that the • passenger facilities of the big rail- ; road system in this city were inade- j quate to meet demands and out of keeping with what they should be in the Capitol of the Keystone State, to-day spent an hour with George A. Shreiner, of the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings, going over the plans for the Memorial bridge and Capitol improvements, Mr. Elmer said that he wanted to get the layout of the plans in his head, so that when the time came to talk new station he would know about it. The new superintendent was impressed with the comprehen sive and beautiful character of the plans made by Arnold W. Brunner, and said that he wanted to see a sta tion built for the railroads here that would tit in with it. Just where the station should go Anti-Forestalling Act Will Be Enforced With Every Resource of City Copies of the forestalling orili • nance printed on cards will be post ed in the city markets before Sat urday by George B. Neblnger, in spector of weights and measures, and circulars on which the measure will be printed also, will be placed at each stall, it was announced to day. Mayor D. L. Keister said that ho has made preparations to enforce the measure and will have Mr. Neb lnger and a detail of assistants to help him detect forestalling or price-fixing. Because of question which have been raised about the ordinance the Mayor said he will ask City Solicitor John E. Fox for an opinion on the provisions of the law. Members of Council are planning to go to Lancaster and York wheie forestalling ordinances are in effect, to learn how the authorities pro ceed and the result of stopping vio lations. It was intimated by councilmen to day that if hucksters seek to evade the ordinance in Harrisburg by buy ing outside the city limits, thus cur tailing the supply of produce for the markets, it would be possible to revoke their licenses. Commission ers said that they believe drastic action may be necessary to. stop forestalling and price-fixing in the local markets. Operators' Union Denies Charges Against Regent The local Moving Picture Opera tors' Union last night retracted statements made on placards which have appeared in various parts of the city charging that the manage ment of the Regent theater was not a friend of union labor. The Inci dent is described as "an unfortunate mistake" in a statement signed by members of the organization. .The statement made last night is as follows: "To the Friends of Union Labor: "The Regent theater, of Harris burg, is a friend of union labor, an unfortunate mistake was recently made by the Operators' Union. The union circulated and posted cards whereon statements were made that the Regent theater was not a friend of union labor. The undersigned of which body wishes to publicly deny said statement." The statement is signed for the Commonwealth Operators' Union No. 318, by its president, H. A. Smith, and the secretary, S. R. Fil son, and by J. R. Hurst, represent ing the Central Labor Union of Harrisburg. HKLD AS MILK THIEF Suspected of stealing milk from a door step, Edward Arlington is be ing held by Harrisburg police. He was arrested early this morning by Patrolman Juckson while carrying a bottle of milk under his arm. Mr. Elmer did not indicate, but it was evident that he had in mind the pro ject for a great station at the end of State street through which the Me morial bridge will pass, but State of ficials do not look with favor on such a plan, wishing the bridge to make an uninterrupted sweep from the park to the brow of the Hill. The visit of the railroad chief to the Capitol was regarded as the first practical step toward getting a new : station in a long time. !4 d, it " m i x iji y |P t council of the Federated Raihv Z | ■"•is jX |4 ■ fa j| of." j. X J.\ •' r- u,' ---• -• • Ml -To restore order iri Mexico . if ' |y with which to exterminate Vila and numerous bandits. S U s.t " ,k . -■ T J 1+ y American Federatiofi of Labor will make demands on fl > re- II T -duce the high cost of living, James O'Connell, 'chair- * I T I i ) man of is committee sate* Membership of the r eds 500,000, O'Connell said. * X ♦ AND PROVISIONS DEMORALIZED II T f * cent hcj X X ; ?!?. rr ' f :rV. 'X . NOMINATED PQStf MASTER !# x &, x r.•.fieri nominated to -' 'T IT Nrwjev cy. Jfl T Cincinnati—Outfielder and Pitcher' Charles See, tvho, 9 purchased fr-nr; the Rochester International League *a| ▼ Club by the Cincinnati Nationals, for a price said to have w ' -T MARRIAGE LICENSES X •j Simon Pnsre mid Karhrl K. MntrahutiKhrr, llurrlaburm Edwin L.V ~ Keen nnil Knthryn F. .lone*. WII-OIIINCO; KJmer It. Shlre.v, Plttabnrgh, £> ' ""<1 Helen (J. Derlne. Iteaillnirt liny Sherman, Philadelphia, and Mare IT ; J- slottery, Hnrrlahiii-K l Homer Painter and Knthrrlne Hrnndt, Mid-V dletowm C Inrenee 1„ llonanaj, Ituek Gland, Ill„ nnd Alice B. Ma-Ida thlas, HnrrlMhurg. Suggest Sending ot A rmy Food Surplus to Other Nations KEEP REGULAR SUPPLY IN U.S. In the opinton of several Harris burg wholesale grocers the high cost of living would be considerably reduced if the present excessive export was temporarily curtailed. Since the Army has about forty-live per cent, of the available foodstuffs of the country, the grocers suggest ed that it be either placed on the market at a truly bargain price, or else be shipped to Europe and allow the public supply to be turned into domestic channels. When the wholesale grocers were requested to allow a list of their prices to be published, they de clined to do so and gave several reasons for their refusal. Inasmuch as they were houses which deal not only locally but in the counties ad joining. they felt that a statement of wholesale prices would not oe fair to the retailers, who might have greatly varying prices, due to considerable overhead in different localities. Government Prices High "For example," said one whole saler this morning, "if we were to present a list of prices, the average Harrisburg citizen would compare them with retail prices and, consid ering the minimum expense of de livery, realize that no excessive profit was being reaped by the re tailer. If, however, the readers of the list in Perry or another county, were to read the list and compare their own local retail prices, they would consider themselves to bo cheated, for they would never in the world think of the expressage, and hauling charges and other ex [Contlnucd on Page 5.]
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