Archduke Joseph Overthrows New Cabinet and. Establishes Ministry in Budapest
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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.
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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,
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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
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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
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