Archduke Joseph Overthrows New Cabinet and. Establishes Ministry in Budapest HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH tftor-^nticpcn&eM. LXXXVIII—NO. 184 18 PAGES HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1919. f^V£5S!& E " eI^ E c£Sxs ES HOME EDITION NEW HUNGARIAN CABINET UPSET BY ARCHDUKE Cabinet Headed by Peidll Is Overthrown and Minis try Established CROSSING THE DANUBE Rumanians Seizing Supplies, Preparing to Ship Them to Their Homes By Associated Press. Paris, Aug. 7.—The Peace Con ference was advised to-day that the Hungarian cabinet headed by Jules Peidll had been overthrown and that Archduke Joseph has estab lished a ministry in Budapest. Advices to the conference stated that Rumanian forces had crossed the Danube into the business sec tion of Budapest and were seizing supplies, preparing to ship them to Rumania. The Social Democrats of Hun gary still hope that the Allied and associated governments will not tolerate either Rumanian control of the country or that of a government by the reactionary grand dukes, ad ditional dispatches reaching the conference from Budapest state. Accounts of the Rumanian pro ceedings report that they notified the Hungarians yesterday that be cause of the terms of the armistice laid down in the Rumanian ultima tum had not been accepted the Ru manians would cross the Danube immediately, later carrying out their threat. Entering Homes Other acts charged against the Rumanians in the advices to the conferences are assaults upon in offensive persons and forced en trances into houses everywhere in Budapest, under the pretext of searching for arms. The Rumanian army is reported living on the country, seizing the food it wants, while livestock, farm ing implements, rolling stock and food are being sent to Rumania, al though Budapest is on the verge of starvation. The Rumanians, the advices add ed, have instituted a blockade, one feature of which has been the de struction of portions of the railways between Budapest and Vienna. The messages to the conference regarding the cabinet stated that at 6.30 p. m. yesterday the members of the Social Democratic govern ment, while they were in session at the national palace, were arrested by Hungarian police. The coup d'etat was carried out without dis order. The Budapest advices declare the Rumanian general in command had refused to permit the publication in the Rumanian press of Premier Clemenceau's telegram of August 3 to the Hungarian government. (No previous mention of this telegram has been made in dispatches re ceived in this country). Archduke Joseph was a com mander of Austro-Hungarian forces on the southern section of the east ern battlefront during the first two years of the great war. In 1918 ho headed a movement looking to the securing of independence for Hun gary from Austria and when the collapse of the dual monarchy came in November, 1918, he was asked by Emperor Charles of Austria to take charge of the situation and find a solution of the political crisis before the country. With his son. Archduke Joseph Francis, he took the oath to submit unconditionally to the orders of the Hungarian Na tional Council and later took the oath of fealty to the new govern ment. Last April it was reported that he had been executed by the Communists at Budapest, but this report was promptly denied. Arch duke Joseph was born at Alosuth on August 9, 1872. Twenty Lose Their Lives When Ship Sinks After Collision at Sea By Associated Press. Halifax. Aug.7—Twenty per sons are believed to have lost their lives when the Tern schooner Gallia was sunk last night in a collision with the Tiritisli steamer War Witch. Tlie schooner is reported to have carried a crew of at least fifteen and possibly a dozen passengers and only seven survivors arc named in wireless messages from the steamer. The collision occurred close to St. Pierre and is supposed to have been due to the heavy fog which prevailed in that locality for sonic days. Tlie \\ ar \\ itch was bound for North Sydney from Wabana, New Foundlaiid, while the Gallia was on her way to St. Pierre from France. News of the catastrophe reached here in wireless messages to the agents of tlie War Witch. The collision occurred in Eat. 46.22, Long. 55.35, while the War Witch was enrouto from tills port for Sydney. Tlie Gallia was from France. The saved were: L. Hospi's, C. L. Nay, H. X. Castels and J. Cuvclicr, passengers, and J. Croquet, A. Donlus ami M. Le corre, seamen. 1 THE WEATHER I Hiirrlxliiirg anil Vicinity: Show ers and thunderstorms prolinhlv to-llit lit nnd Friday. Not much choline In temperature. Knstern Pennsylvnnlni Showers •■■III thunderstorms proliullly to ri I til t iiml Frldny. Not much ehiiiitc In temperature. Gentle to moderate variable winds. Illveri The Suaqurhanna river anil Its main tributaries will rise somewhat or remain nearly sta tionary. A stage of about 4.11 feet Is Indicated for Itarrisburg Friday morning. — For Heaven's Sake, Gentlemen, Be Reasonable I I / // QUK*E=P IF YO\r KNOW J N\ ONE AT A TIME, PLEASE, GENTLEMEN COUNTRY CLUB MEMBERS FAVOR NEW BUILDING Special Committee to Ascer tain Feeling in Regard to Financing Plan at Once Members of the Country Club, of Harrisburg at a luncheon meeting at the Penn-Harris to-day instructed the special committee on of the new building project to make a pre liminary canvass of the membership and to report to the board of governors at an early day. The sentiment of the members present, who also spoke for many who could not attend, was that the club owed it to the city to provide a handsome clubhouse and that the investment in the Fort Hunter site called for utilization. Pronounced ap proval was expressed for the building design outlined in the Harrisburg Tele graph last evening and made by \Y. [Continued on ll.] Mixed Gasoline With Electric Sparks, and Now He Wishes He Hadn't He forgot to disconnect his bat tery. This is the explanation advanced this morning by E. Sowers, 340 Brook street, when his automobile caught fire in a garage in the 300 block of Nectarine street. Sowers had raised the hood of his automobile and started to clean the motor and other parts with gasoline, when flames suddenly shot up. Sow ers was slightly burned about the hands, but the damage to the automo bile was inconsequential. A fire alarm was turned in from Box 234, Hummel and Swatara streets. The fire companies of the district an swered, but the fire was extinguished before they arrived. GERMAN MAIL NEGLECTED BY HARRISBURG FRIENDS Expected Shipments of Money, Sweets and Fats Fail to Materialize Here The German-Americans of Harris burg and Steelton are rather sus picious of the open mail to Germany which permits them to get into com munication with the home folks; at least, they have shown no disposi tion to take advantage of this mail. Postmaster Frank C. Sites said this morning that his clerks have not had an average of three .letters a day to Germany. No stajnps are be ing sold to any enemy country save one or two occasional business let ters; the locai Boches evidently have no desire to resume home relations. •Steelton reports the same kind of SOME BEER HAS A "KICK" All beer isn't "soft." Ray P. Ratlifon, 2231 Logan street, an employe of the Penn sylvania railroad, can testify to the fact. Rathfon is in: the Harrisburg Hospital with a probable frac ture of his left foot as a result of his contact with a keg of the liquid refreshment. He was injured when a keg of beer rolled from a motor truck, struck his motorcycle, knocked him off and rolled over his foot as he was going under the Cum berland Valley bridge. RIOTS BREAIT~ OUT IN TROLLEY STRIKE AT N.Y. I. Shots Are Fired at Wrecking Crew; Claim 95 Per Cent, of Brooklyn System Tied Up By Associated Press. New York, Aug. 7.—Rioting and j the tiring of shots at a wrecking | crew early to-day marked the be j sinning of the second day of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit strike. No one was injured. , At Ba. m. the company reported : 187 surface cars or approximately I 15 per cent, of the maximum, to be |in operation. From one to three . policemen were stationed on each car. On the subway and L lines the company stated the service was 15 to 17 per cent, of normal. The first shots were fired at 2.30 a. m. by an unidentified man at Schenectady avenue and Bergen street. The man, after firing them, [Continued on Page 11.] condition and says that although there are many Germans in that town, the majority of foreigners are Hungarians and of course mail to that country is not yet permitted The majority of the foreigners In Steelton seem to be saving up money to go home. Another rather interesting an nouncement from the local post of fice was a comparison of the sale of two-cent stamps for July and of three-cent stamps for July of 1918 There was an increase of $l,OOO the first five days after the change from three to two-cent stamps this sum mer. MUNICIPAL FARM IS KEEPING DOWN COST OF FOODS Allentown Tells How Green Produce Is Sold Cheaply Harrisburg folks are much inter ested in the Allentown plan to keep down food prices. During the visit to this city, R. J. Wheeler, a City Commissioner of Allentown, told some things about the city farm and prices. Many requests were made for further information and he sends to the Harrisburg Telegraph a more extended idea of what Allen town is doing. Many persons hero are interested in the scheme whicn might be applied anywhere. He says: "Allentown owns a farm of 4SO acres. We bought it for a sewage disposal plant site. I am managing it for the city and we have raised a vast amount of good foodstuffs which are now being sold to the cit izens at a fair price. "We have forty-eight acres in j truck, divided as follows: Twenty acres sweet corn, eight acres cab bage, eight acres potatoes, four acres canteloupes, two acres sweoi. potatoes, two acres lima beans, two acres beets and carrots and two acres of small stuff—a total of forty-eight acres out of of 230 till able acres in food that is now avail able. The balance of the farm is devoted to raising hay, grain and hogs. I have been demonstrating to the city the value of feeding gar bage to hogs also. Just now X ha"e over 100 hogs which I am feeding hotel waste and sweet clover. In September I shall fatten them up on soy beans and corn and slaugh ter and sell them at retail in the city markets for a fair price. City Mai'ketmuster "I have charge of the city mar kets and each market day I bring truckloads of vegetables to the mar kets and sell at a fair price. This price is sufficiently high to enable any farmer to make a good protit. This price is about the regular wholesale price for the same goods if purchased out of town and soiil to the retail trade by the whole saler. Saturday I sold cabbage at 3 cents per pound, beets 4 cents per bunch, or seven bunches for [Continued on Page 14.] TO BITLIJ DWELLING A. G. McCord secured a permit to-day to erect two two-story houses at 2419-21 Derry street, at a cost of $B,OOO. John Hare, contractor for L. M. Neiffer and Edward Moesleiji, took out a permit to build two two story brick houses at 3023-25 North Second street, at a cost of $6,000. George Sechrist, contractor for A. L. Cooper will construct a one-story store room at 1208 Mulberry street for $BOO. BROTHERHOODS CHARGE BANKERS SYSTEMATICALLY LOOT ROADS; WILSON CALLS FOOD ADVISERS Wants Their Views on Measures to Reduce Prices PAGKERS FACE CRIMINALSUITS Are Prosecuted For Hoarding Too; Trial to Be Soon Washington, Aug. 7.—Mem bers of the subcommittee ap- j pointed by Attorney General j Palmer to make recommenda- J tions for measures to reduce the j high cost of living were sum- j moned to the White House to- i day by President Wilson. Trial Soon The Government's case against the , five big packers will be placed before j the Federal Grand Jury which meets at Chicago three weeks hence. This means that criminal prosecution will be instituted. Charles F. Clyne, Federal District ( Attorney at Chicago, said to-day j that besides asking indictments un- j der the criminal sections <f the i Sherman antitrust law, civil suits ] would be brought under that statute and that in addition the packers would be prosecuted under the food control act on charges of hoarding. Gather Evidence Mr. Clyne has been in Washington for several days conferring with At torney General Palmer and George It. Williams, who prosecuted the oil trust cases. The three officials have been sifting the evidence gathered against the packers by the Federal Trade Commission. Four hundred different branches' of the industry as conducted by the packers, Mr. Clyne said, are be ing dealt with by the Department of Justice. The government's new antitrust suits against the five great meat pack ing concerns is being brought by di rection of President Wilson as one of the first results of his study of the cost of living problem. It became known to-day that the President came to his decision after a ] careful study of the investigations of | the Federal Trade Commission and the i hearings before Congressional commit -1 tees considering bills to control the ; packing industry. Conferences with . members of the federal commission and Attorney General Palmer followed. The announcement by the attorney general that the suits would be brought was the immediate result. Packers Illegal Trust It seems assured the government will charge the packers with being an il legal trust on the ground that they con trol the buying of cattle. Whether there will be the double charge that they control both buying of cattle and | selling of finished meat products has i not been so clearly defined, i While the attorney general is pre ' paring his case, special agents of the I Department of Justice will continue I their hunt for profiteers and hoarders. After the Hoarder ; The hoarder "is the big part of i the game right now," in the opinion j of the Government officials in charge j of the efforts to bring down prices, j and Attorney General Palmer in- I dicated to-day that he was depend j ing largely on the section of the | Lever act dealing with hoarding, as | one of the most immediate means of | forcing prices down. "The price gouger can be reached 1 in another way," the Attorney Gen- I eral said, adding that there wasn't jmuch difference between hoarding and profiteering. Suits Against Packers I Antitrust suits against the great meat packing firms were announced | by Attorney General Palmer as the first concrete development of the I Government's campaign to reduce ithe high cost of living. | Armour, Swift, Morris, Wilson and | Cudahy, who have been pictured in I the investigations of the Federal j Trade Commission and before Con- on Pago 11.] Man Who Kills Self Held Responsible For Dynamiting Outrage By Associated Press. Los Angeles, Cal., August 7. Charles H.'McGuire, assistant en gineer of the municipal Department of Public Works, who committed suicide here last night by leaping from the office of District Attorney Thomas L. Woolwine on the eleventh floor of the Hall of Records, was held responsible to-day by the public officials for the dynamiting last Sunday of the home of Oscar Law ler, a prominent attorney. McGuirc had been told that he was tb be in dicted fo the offense. McGuire's death came as a dra matic climax to a lengthy question ing by District Attorney Woolwine. Confronted with evidence that offi cials said pointed directly to him as being responsible for the dyna miting. which nearly cost the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Lawler, McGuire rushed to a window in the room, eluded officers who tried to restrain him and hurled himself out. RUN DOWN BY AUTO Miss Getta High, of Green str3et. was run down by an automobile in Market square to-day. A wheel passed on one ankle making a pain ful bruise. ( H. C. L. Subjects Before Wilson FROM the trend of the Government's activities in an attempt to solve the living cost problem, in the view of several officials, the President probably would deal with these subjects: Enlargement of the provisions of the Lever food control law, to make it operative after the proclamation of peace and applicable to shoes, clothing and all life necessaries in addition to food. Legislation to reach the small or individual profiteer as well as "big business" extortion. Legislation to define profiteering thereby making easier prosecution under existing laws. Laws to make speculation in necessaries a crime. Legislation limiting the margin of profit on necessi ties. OTHERS TAKE FOOD THIS CITY REJECTS Millions of Cans of Peas and Corn Go to Other Points; Other Third Class Cities Arc Active High cost of living will not be reduced in Harrisburg by the use of any of the vast supplies of corn and peas stored at the United States Army Reserve Depot at New Cum berland. The chance of Mayor Daniel L. Keister's food committee of securing supplies of these goods is past. There are very few cans of either kind of such goods any longer stored in the big warehouses. Practically the entire supply of corn and peas has been shipped to other points for distribution. An nouncement to this effect was made to-day by Lieutenant J. 11. Boyle, who is in charge of the great amount of supplies that were stored there for use by the American forces. The supply of other goods is now prac tically untouched, the officer adds. Much (iocs West More than four million cans of peas and corn have been shipped to zone supply officers, largely in the western section of the country, for distribution through post offices, under the provisions announced sev eral .days ago. Shipments have been made to zone supply officers as follows: Chicago 0,000 No. 2 cans of peas. St. Louis 1,705,000 cans No. 2 peas. Omaha 40,000 No. 2 corn. Chicago 2,219,000 cans No. 2 corn. Baltimore 113,000 cans No. 2 corn. On the Job Pennsylvania cities, too, have taken up some of the vast quan tity of supplies. Carload lots of a variety of goods have been pur chased by both Williamsport and Erie. The Williamsport committee. New Cumberland Dyeing Plant Is Reorganized I The Pennsylvania Dye and Bleach j Works, at New Cumberland, will I begin operations under the manage ment of the eversink Dyeing Com pany, of Reading, with an entirely ] renovated plant and equipment, it I was announced by officials of the Reading Company this morning. C. j Scott Althouse is president, and N. 'A. Althouse, secretary treasurer of the new concern. The improvements and renova tions inaugurated by the Neversink I Dyeing Company, will be thrown j open for inspection at a formal j opening Saturday, to which all per i sons interested in the hosiery busi ness have been invited. The concern I makes a specialty of dyeing hose. I The plant of the Pennsylvania Dye and Bleach Works has been com pletely remodeled since it was taken over by the Neversink Company, and will resume business with the high est type of dyeing equipment known, according to the managers. The formal opening Saturday will bo featured by games, refreshments, and music, for which a capable com mittee composed of Messers Belle mere. Keck and Faust Is making the arrangements. Closing Arguments in Ford Suit Are Started By Associated Press. Mount Clemens. Mich., Aug. 7. — Closing arguments in Henry Ford's $1,000,000 libel suit against the Chi cago Tribune were begun in Judge Tucker's court to-day. Attorney Wil liam Lucking opening for the plain tiff. Before the Jury was brought in Judge Tucker made minor rulings on subjects under argument yester day. He ruled out a cartoon en titled "The Munition Maker's Daughter," and an editorial headed "What Am I Doing For My Coun try." SCRAMBLE TO BUY HIDES Lancaster,, Pa., Aug. 7. Cattle dealers reported to-day that a gen eral clean-up of all hides in the country was being made, hides being sought regardless of price. Butchers to-day offered as high as eighteen cents. Hides sold to-day for more than a whole calf was worth four years ago. backed up by city officials was in Harrisburg last week, secured in formation from Hurrisburg's com mittee and promptly purchased a lull carload of corn, peas, bacon, corned beef and other of the mate rials stored there. The amount of beef, bacon and such goods, outside of the corn and peas, is practically intact. The per centage of such goods included in the Williamsport and Erie ship ments is negligible and zone supply officers have not thus far had any consigned to them. Altoona also has met with success in marketing the product at reduced prices. @4444444444444444444444444444® :4 f. t 4P TI r ' '\ A X !! t * 4. <■-,[} X__ z * M £ L Aj i '?, • -X, x J n< a riON START OF < f $ ... r l I? • • .• • r ■ ' f • X 4* ■ ' ■ : 4 4 T JL- -4 |4* by Barhey B. McGinnis, Assistant Unit T $ 4 j*f* v 4 4 |t '■ ■'■>■'. X; ! x •' ■ 4 4 },'••?*■ T T c the ywr " • C ■■■-■■ ■ 4 4 P " iT i 4 4 4 4 At MAYOR HYLAN TO ACT AS ARBITRATOR .4 _ . |r£d New York—With traffic virtually su&pe !e i 1 4 lines of the Brooklyn Rapid Tranit Company as tl 4 ' 0 cult of the strike it was announced at 2 o'clock this after- * • noon that Mayor Hylan had consented to act as arbi* J* 1 11 trator. * ' t ' Z *J BELIEVES WILSON HAS PLENTY OF POWER J1 4 Washington—B'.- direction of the Senate Interstate .4 - 4 js# C - C • < L * * lent Wilson to'day that the committee belie es he I 4 *s 1; mplrte an 4 I ' t ; • t € <P *jaj * * 4 4 1 meet the present situation. The committee voiced its 4 * * disapproval of the President's proposal that Congrc X 4 4 create .1 special wage board to deal with the emergency. -Jfi 4 4 X Paris—Lieutenant Codefroy, a 1 French aviator, to- '2 4 day performed the feat of passing under the An- de X Triomphe in an airplane flight. He flew e with Z I ' HiAßaAci LICENSES ' + i Ralph M. Slienltrricor and Klli'n I. Zi'lKlrr, York; In*ln C. WCT-X dan, liarrlithurK. mid Amy A. 14 <H, Knolnt lIIKKI Roaal and Ellubtth Y -B I llirandl, MicKon; Joavph Kuciininn, llnrrlNburii, and Henrlettu KID- 4TI lan. \Vlllluniport. , @4444444444444444444444444444w Rockefeller and Mor gan Companies Plunder Roads FREIGHT HANDS TAKING VOTE Want Ownership by Public Made Plank in Party Platform Washington, Aug. 7.—Lead ing directly "from Wall Street, and from the banking houses controlled directly by the Mor gan and Rockefeller groups," information which has come in to the possession of the railroad brotherhoods, "shows that there has proceeded a systematized plundering of virtually all of the public transportation highways in the United States," the House Interstate Commerce Committee was told to-day by : Glenn E. Plumb, of Chicago. Mr. Plumb, who appeared in sup- I port of the so-called Plumb plan for | the reorganization of the railroads, j said .the information tended to show I that the "wrecking and looting" of i the New Haven, Chicago and Alton, Rock Island and 'Frisco lines were "not sporadic examples of the high way robbery to which the American nation has been subjected as to its J public transportation highways.!* Definite information on which his ' [Continued on Page 11.]
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