Measures to Stamp Out Hoarding and Profiteering hy Food Dealers Are per pound, and number three cans I of beans from 11 to 9 cents. ! Prices on other items were re- I duced in proportion. "The Secretary of War," said j the announcement, "has approved I the policy of revising War De- j partment quotations from time to ! time to keep these prices below ' those charged by retailers for ' similar commodities." •I |THE WEATHER | llurrifclmrg anil Vicinity: Show ers tliis afternoon and probablv ly to-night and Thursday. Sot much change In temperature lowest to-night about 65 de grees. Eastern Pennsylvania: Showers probably to-night and Thurs day. Strong northeast winds. River: The Susquehanna river and nil Its tributaries will probably rise somewhat as a result of showers over the wntershed. A stage of about 4.0 ft. is Indicated for Harrlsburg Thursday morn ing. Genernl Conditions: It Is 2 to 18 degrees eooler In the Missouri Vulley and over the Roeky Mountain region while over the northern gnrt of the eountry enst of the Mississippi river there has been a genernl rise of 2 to 10 degrees In temperature: elsewhere In the United tntcs temperature changes have been •light. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH £lar-3n&cpcn&chl. Why Don't the Corporation Presidents Form a Union? ' I mrvfLc 7 Itfef / :>-]f I|sj3 f 'Ncotvie. >|l /i\\ I'M NOT? I SHOES TO REM AIN ! HIGH IN PRICE FOR THREE YEARS Retailer Hopes to See Break Come Before Time Set by Manufacturer | Shoe prices will not drop for two or three years. ! This is the opinion expressed to | day by Robert E. Cahill, general i manager of the Harrisburg Shoe 1 Manufacturing Company. Leathers will continue high and i shoes will naturally remain at a high } figure for some time, Mr. Cahill said. | His statement was made in answer |to the newspaper dispatch from ] Boston to the effect that leather ] dealers and shoe manufacturers, in ian investigation into the high cost ! of living had made statements that | shoe prices would drop, probably i within a year. Disagree on Points Mr. Cahill emphatically does not | agree with their statement. Prices ' will go still higher than they now 1 are. according to him. Salesmen are ] ] already getting on the road with I their spring stock and prices for these will be approximately one ; third higher than they now are, he I says. 1 Some city dealers are not so pes simistic as to the outlook, as is Mr. j Cahill. One dealer said that he J looked for the apex of shoe prices .to be reached next spring. The . prices, according to his opinion, will | remain about the same figure until j j fall when a drop will come, accord j ing to his belief. No Break in Sight l The break in leather and shoe j j prices is not definitely in sight, ac j cording to this dealer. Dealers will ! order approximately 70 per cent, of j their spring and summer stock within I the next few weeks and any break, |if it were to come, would reduce j the price of shoes but slightly. A j break in the leather market this fall, : the dealer said, would cause a slight | drop in spring and summer sales of : next summer, with a more decided i drop in the fall stock. He is not I too optimistic however, that a break ! will come before fall. Local dealers said they were un able to give an explanation of the trade journal advertisement which told of high grade shoes for sale to export trade at prices 50 per cent, lower than wholesale prices at home. Harlem Division Is Still Out on Strike New York, Aug. 13. While other locals of the Federation of Railway shopmen have returned to work, members in the locals of the Harlem division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad were still on strike to-day. and, accord ing to railroad officials showed no disposition to return. No changes were announced in the curtailed schedule of trains running into the Grand Central terminal from New England points. Reports from Boston indicated that the men will act finally as a body and that there could be no general return to work before Saturday. [ECONOMY ALREADY IS STRETCHED TO LIMIT Honest Dealing and Fair Adjustment of Prices Urged by Housewives as Only Means to Keep Cost of Living Within the Bounds of Reason Harrisburg women declared futjl the request of United States Wheat DLector Julius H. Barnes, that the housewives of our country go back to the war-time habits of economy in an effort to reduce the high costi of living. They claim that there is j sufficient food in this country if onlyj the officials will force the hoarders to put it on the market at reasonable prices. . Many who read the request this morning were indignant and declar ed that something should be done immediately. As one housewife put; it: "It would seem that we have | sacrificed enough during the war, I without allowing food profiteers to I keep the food from the markets un-; til it rots, in order to boost up the l price. One or two criminal prose-! cutions would be excellent things to! teach some of them a lesson." "I can see no reason why we should go back to our close ccon- j omy," said Mrs. Herman Astrich,' this morning, "since I do not think j that there arc many people to-day l who are not keeping about as close [ to the line as they can anyway. It| idoes not seem right to me that families should do without those things of which they were deprived I during the war; the food hoarders! | are the only ones to profit from' that. They will only continue to I hold their food a little longer in | order to get a little better price! from it. The recent announcement that thousands of pounds of food j which had bcome rotten from long! storage had been thrown away ought! to be enough to rouse the officials! to action." Mrs. Herman P. Miller expressed the same sentiments and felt that there was no call for the request of the wheat director. "Our people are being quite as economical as it is possible to be," said Mrs. Miller, "and we should not be asked to make further sacrifices. If the Gov ernment will only take action against these men who are making intoler able the food conditions by continu ing to hoard it away when there is a crying need for it, the situation would be considerably alleviated." These expression sum up the opinion of many other women. It was said that some extravagance can bo found, but that recklessness is by no means the rule. Dispatches from Philadelphia in dicate that much the same response has been made in that city to the demand of the wheat director, and it is not expected that Mr. Barnes' request is going to be very extensive ly complied with. ITALIANS LEAVE MURMANSK fly Associated. Press. Rome, Aug. 13.—(Havas)—The Italian troops attached to the Allied expeditionary force in Northern Russia left Murmansk on August 9. The Italian military commission ac companied the troops. SEES DANGER OF MALNUTRITION Malnutrition will be the effect of the continued high cost of liv- I ing, Dr. J. M. J. Raunick, city j health officer, warned to-day in • discussing the soaring prices of | necessary table commodities. 1 Defective development, espe- I cially among babies and children, j and tuberculosis are results of in ! sufficient and improper food, the j health official said. Failure of | families to have proper foods will ' be due to the high cost of sup plies, unless something is done to bring down the prices soon, he 1 predicted. Essential foods, such as milk, ! butter, eggs, bread, sugar and ' common vegetables, are being used less each day, because of the j prevailing high prices. These are I the foods r.-eeded most, Dr. Rau j nick said, and when they are de- I nied any person because of pro | hibitive prices the situation from [ a public health viewpoint be comes more serious. "We must do everything we | can to prevent any outbreak of ! ; a serious infectious disease," Dr. ! i Raunick said. "These break out I I and spread quickly among the un- I j dernourished." COMMITTEE WILL SPEED UP ACTION ON PEACE TREATY Foreign Relations Will Begin Consideration of Possible Amendments Washington, Aug. 13.—At a stormy session to-day the Senate Foreign Re lations Committee agreed to expedite consideration of the Peace Treaty, ing Democrat of the committee, was the consideration of possible' amend ments will begin to-morrow. Senator Hitchcock, Nebraska, rank ing Democrat of the Committee, was understood to have told the committee that unless there was early commit tee action an attempt might be made to force a vote on the Treaty in the Sonate. Chairman Dodge and others were understood to have expressed assent to the proposal to nasten the com mittee's consideration, but Senator Fall, Republican. New Mexico, was [Continued on Page B.] [VISCOUNT GREY ACCEPTS BRITISH POST IN U. S. London Mirror Claims He Will Soon Come to Washington By Associated Press. TiOiidon, AUK. 13.—'Viscount Grey, former British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has agreed to represent the British government at Washington pending the appointment of a permanent Ambassador. Ixird Grey is consenting to go to Washington temporarily. An drew Bonar law, government spokesman, said ill the House of Commons to-day in order to deal particularly with questions arising out of the peace settle ment. Mr. Bonar law added that a permanent ambassador to the United States would lie appoint ed early next year. London, Aug. 13.—The Mirror claims to have good authority for stating that Viscount Grey, of Fal loden, has accepted the post of | British Ambassador at Washington. Viscount Grey, better known as j Sir Edward Grey, was Secretary of | State for Foreign Affairs from 1905 |to 1916. Recently he has been suf j fering from an affection of the eyes, | and it has been reported that he ; was unable to read print with any facility. j Sir Edward made a strong diplo j matic effort to prevent the Euro- I pean war, his proposal being that j the Ambassadors of the various i Powers meet and discuss the situa | tion, through the attitude of the : German Emperor. He is 57 years | | old. The British post at Washington i , has been vacant since the departure j i last spring of the Earl of Reading, j who has resumed his office as Lord j Chief Justice of England. Highest Honor l<'or Commoner Viscount Grey has been the clos est confidant of King George. He was the lirst statesman within over a hundred years without the rank of a noble to have received the high est decoration the King of England has to bestow, when King Georgo conferred upon him the noble order of the Garter. Indeed in the many hundreds of years that elapsed since the ofder was created there has been only one other occasion -vhen a member of the House of Com mons has been so honored, when Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minis ter, received it. 84,000 Dozen Eggs Held by Profiteers Are Seized by U. S. Officials Cliattonooga, Tenn., Aug. 13. Eighty-four thousand dozen eggs, stored with the Atlantic Ice and saored with the Atlantic Ice and Coal corporation here for the ac count of Morris and Company, Chi cago, were seized to-day by the . cago, were siezed to-day by the United States District Attorney. | Seizure was made under libel pro -1 cecdings in the Federal court, which .charged that the eggs were unlaw [ fully stored for the purpose of un j reasonably increasing prices. Rioters and Deputies Battle in Strike Clash Peoria, 111., Aug. 13. Rioting I occurred at the plant of the Key stone Steel and Wire Company to day when strikers with deputy sher iffs guarding the plant. More than I a score of shots were exchanged and jit was said two strike breakers were I wounded. 1 The lighting started when strikers j attempted -to prevent strike break j ers. said t ohave been imported from ' Chicago and Pohnstown, P., from j j going to work. Eight hundred Key | stone employes have been out on j strike for six weeks, demanding a | closed shop. Public Opinion Forces Local. Excursion Rate | Beginning to-morrow and con tinuing until the last Thursday of j this month, excursion tickets from j Harrisburg to Atlantic City will be | sold for $6.48, return trip. This is more than $3 under the former rate which was attacked in the news columns of the Harrisburg Tele graph as being unfair. Heretofore surrounding towns had the benefit of the cheap 16-day excursion. The new order was promulgated to-day by the Federal Railway Administra tion. KILLS WIFE AND HIMSELF By Associated Press. Cincinnati, 0., Aug. 13.—Charles Gruener, 4 2 years old, a gardener, shot and killed his wife, Flora, probably fatally wounded his step son, Noble Thieman, 22, and then shot and killed himself at the home | of his wife here to-day. Mrs. Gruener had entered suit for di vorce and this is believed to have | been the cause of the tragedy. REBELS SCORE VICTORY By Associated Press. Managua. Nicaragua, August 13. —' Honduran government forces, ac cording to reports received here, have been defeated at Pedro Galitos, near the Nicoraguan frontier, by revolu- ' tionists under command of General Rafael Lopez Gutierrez. The revolu tionists captured prisoners and arms. BELGIANS IN MALMEDY Brussels, Aug 13. (Havas) Bel-! gian troops have occupied the Mai-' medy district of Rhenish Prussia. The Belgian war office announced Sunday that the occupation of the Malmedy district by Carabineers and | cavalry would take place Tuesday, j FARMERS ARE UNABLE TO SELL FRESH VEGETABLES; BELLS TO SIGNAL SALE Cured Meats to Be Sold by City Are Freshly Packed Government food will be placed on sale in Harrisburg Friday morning. Equal quantities will be placed at each of the eleven Are houses. The ! sales will start at 9 o'clock. Fifteen minutes before the sale the fire bells will ring. The location of the fire houses and the ' chairmen in charge include the following: Friendship No. 1, Third and Cherry streets, J. W. Rodenhaver. Hope, No. 2, Second below North | street, Edward Halbert. Paxton, No. 6, Second near Vine street, DeWitt A. Fry. Good Will, No. 7. Calder and Sixth streets, Captain Richard Robinson, | and W. B. McNair, 311 Cumberland I street. Mount Pleasant, No. 8. Thirteenth I and Howard streets, William Hoer ner. Susquehanna Hose Company No. 9, South Cameron street, Harry F. Sheesley. Reily Hose, No. 10, Fourth and Dauphin streets, J. W. DeChant. Snamroclt, No. 11, Fifteenth andjl Hcrr street, J. C. Orr, Leo Luttinger. i J Allison, No. 12, Fourteenth and Kit latinny streets. Captain George Drake, and J. A. Good, 2418 Jeffer son street. Royal, No. 14, Twenty-first and Der ry streets, John Houck. Camp Curtin, No. 13. Sixth and I Ross streets, Herman H. Huhn. ( To Name Assistants Each chairman will name as many ! I assistants as he needs. At a meeting i < | yesterday afternoon the various de- j I tails were threshed out and instruc- . tions given. Goods will be delivered to-day and to-morrow. The ar- 1 rangement at each fire house will be made to accommodate purchasers. , There must be no rustling. Each ar- j tide offered for sale will be in charge i of two or more salesmen. Cash must i bo paid promptly on each purchase. ( The general committee will make j hourly trips over the city and aid in any way their services may be needed. The goods will remain on sale until all have been sold. ' The committee recommends these goods to the people of Harrishurg. I The prices are lower than asked in other cities. There will be no goods exchanged. Buyers must bring bas kets or express wagons if they con template purchasing the limit permit ted each purchaser. The goods are on sale through the efforts of the municipal authorities and will be sold | to consumers only. j, Purchases Limited The prices mentioned above will prevail. Each purchaser will be limited to six cans each of the vege tables, six cans of corned beef, and one can of bacon. There will be no deliveries. Each can of bacon will weignt 12 pounds net and will be sold at $4.25 per can. This bacon is in three of four pieces and is wrapped and after the can Is opened may be kept for a long time, the same as any other bacon. The corned beef will be sold in cans of 12 ounces each and is this year's packing, the same as the bacon and roast beef. Tne vegetables will be in 19-ounce cans, known as family size and will include peas, corn and to matoes. All canned goods are of ] standard brands and labeled, except I the roast beef which is stamped on j the can. American Steamer Is Sinking as the Result of Striking Mine Off Thames By Associated Press. Dover, England, Aug. 13. —The American steamer Englewood struck a mine off the Thames river at 7.30 o'clock this morning and sent out a wireless message for help. The steamer, however, is in no immedi ate danger of sinking and tugs are standing by. The Englewood is making for the Thames under her own steam. If she takes on more water she probably .will be beached at Sheerness. The Englewood, a steamer of 5,- 139 tons, left New York on July 30 I for Rotterdam. She was built on Staten Island in 1918 for the United State Shipping Board. Black Deep is off the mouth of the Thames river and is about twenty miles east of south end. HOOVER IN WARSAW By Associated Press. Paris, Aug. 13.—Herbert Hoover, chairman of the Inter-Allied Relief | Organization, arrived in Warsaw yesterday from Prague, according to advices received here to-day. Ho will leave Warsaw for Vienna on Sunday night. KNOCKS OWN ! SUGAR PRICE j Uniontoivn, Pa., Aug. 13.—A 1 local dealer in an advertisement ! I on the front page of a newspaper i | places sugar on the market at 15 [ I cents a pound and scores the j price as outrageous. The adver- | tisement reads: [ "It takes the joy out of life and sweetness from the sugar to announ-ce a price of 15 cents a pound. We have 5,000 pounds to distribute at this price. The i sugar cost us a little over 14 j ! cents. Our books are open to I you. You may see where we 1 bought it. so you may know that j the profit we are making does not | .even justify the handling. We 'regret the necessity of being forced to sell sugar at such an outrageous price." I j, \\i >- c PRICES AND RULES OF FOOD SALE This food is recommended by the Mayor's committee and will include meats of this year's pack ing. The terms follow; All goods on cash and carry system. No purchases will be wrapped. Have change ready. No goods will be reserved. No telephone orders will be permitted. Goods must be moved prompt ly by purchasers. No goods exchanged. Firebells will ring fifteen min utes before sale starts. Goods will be on sale at fire houses, and prices will be: Food Prices 12-pound can bacon, one can to a customer, $4.25. 2-pound can roast beef, 65c. 12-ounce can corned beef, six to a customer, per can, 30c. 19-ounce can corn, six canS to a customer, per can, 10c. 19-ounce can tomatoes, six cans to a customer, per can, 10c. 19-ounce can peas, six can-3 to a customer, per can, 10c. _i Predict Shopmen's Strike Will Be Quieted Down Within Another Week By Associated. -Press. Chicago, Aug. 13. Calling off l of the Federated Railway Shopmen's | strike in the Atlanta, Ga., district, j caused railroad officials to-day to j predict that the entire rail system of ] the country would be operating at j normal within a week. Reports from various parts of the country to-day showed that strik ing shopmen were returning to work pending settlement of their wage demands. In the Chicago dis trict, however, there was no break in the ranks of the strikers. t % 4* X X • COMWt rrzn. X € & I • T r q£ <4 §> 3 X e4* )■ X t *J *P <4 &, i *** | sj> , 3* T *s* * $ *? ± t 4 ? , 4* v S ■#> e£a § '' T *3* A X T 1 e* S < n € 'f ® * i4i rc r |S : T'O?' ?S| ■.'-j ..." rv... ■•-.•• i\- t* ! ' 4 :0 W. I * <5 * * T-. * i I! MARRIAGE LICENSES t 7" Arthur A. El>y, l.lnitlrtwn, and Gertie I. MeCord, Wut Hi. l r i| "r toyvnalilpi Emory R. Sourltcrr, IlnrrUhursT, nnd Eleanor I. tc£ llnupt, Bellefontei Coorue Met . Hdta tind Mabel A. Dlehl, Harrtaburg. Growers Forced to Take Home Much of Produce Farmers and truck growers to day were frankly disappointed over conditions in the local markets. De mands for produce fell off so much great quantities of fresh green goods, vegetables and fruits re mained on the stalls after the mar kets closed. Much of this will spoil, the farm ers said. Many of them said they have neither the time nor the means of wholesaling it. Some of it cannot be held until Satuday's mar ket. Prices averaged the same this morning as in the markets of last Saturday. Tomatoes, however, were cheaper because of the advance in the season. Ordinance Observed City officials who visited the mar -1 kethouses to see that the new anti forestalling ordinance was not vio lated, declared that the measure was working smoothly. There was no ! evidence of price-fixing, it was said. Several of the larger growers de clared that the recent campaign I carried on throughout th city is i having a bad effect. Consumers are I afraid of being cheated and refuse | to pay honest prices, according to | their version of the situation. They | are of the opinion that conditions such as prevail will tend to raise rather than decrease prices in the j end. I The following prices were quoted i as the average for flrst class pro j duce: Celery, 10 cents; cabbage, 3 to 1 10 cents; tomatoes, 10 cents a quar ter, 60 cents a basket; beets, 5 cents a bunch; carrots, 5 cents or three for 10; parsley, five cents or three for ten; potatoes, 18 cents a quar ter or 35 cents a half; peaches, 15, 20 and 25 cents a quarter; 75 cents. $l, $1.25 a basket; apples, 15 and 2 5 cents a quarter.