Measures to Stamp Out Hoarding and Profiteering hy Food Dealers Are <r af Congress
LXXXVIII—NO. 189 16 PAGES Dail^ a u X er ep a t t Ha S r e r i s o b n u d rg claa3 HARRISBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1919. £n s^,TisSi£ b g EBs s: t?vo : cents' 2B HOME EDITION
FOILED BY BANK
TELLER, ROBBER
SHOOTS HIMSELF
Hold-Up Man Turns Pistol on
Self After Firing at Wash
ington Bank Employe
$150,000 WAS DEMANDED
Show Is Made of Counting Out
Money, Then Drop Behind
Counter Brings Safety
By Associated Press.
Washington, Aug. IS.—A holdup
man, entering the banking room of
the Munsey Trust Company in the
heart of Pennsylvania avenue sec
tion to-day, pointed two pistols at
a teller, demanded $150,000 and
then after firing one shot at a clerk,
turned a pistol on himself. He shot
himself in the jaw and was taken
to a hospital.
Two money orders issued at De
fiance and Toledo, Ohio, were found
in the holdup man's clothing.
When he demanded the money, the
teller first making a show of count
ing bills, then dropped behind his
counter as the robber fired a bullet
that pierced the coat of a clerk
nearby. The bullet the robber in
tended for himself went through his I
jaw and then shattered a plate glass ,
window. The scene of the attempt
ed robbery was within 500 feet of
police headquarters.
Lots of Money ill Capital
The man told the police his name ;
was John E. Eetzer, of lit! East j
street, Defiance, Ohio, and that his |
uncle, Charles R. Eetzer, at the ;
same address, could tell "why he :
couldn't get ahead." The man is j
a mechanic, 34 years old. He came j
here to-day from New York.
The man told the police he picked i
out Washington because he under- |
stood there were plenty of money in
the capital and that a holdup was
easy. The hospital physicians said
he probably would recover. He said
he previously had been in a De
troit Hospital suffering from an
electric shock.
Donald McCormick Calls
Together Food Committee
Donald McCormick, county food
administrator has received a tele
gram from Howard Heinz, State
food administrator, asking him to
form a fair price committee in the
county to look into the food propo- |
sition here.
Mr. McCormick has accordingly !
called together a committee, the per- !
sonnel of which has not yet been I
made public and this committee met
this afternoon at two o'clock at the
offices of the Chamber of Commerce.
The only information Mr. McCor
mick would vouchsafe was that his
committee would be composed of a
retail grocer, a retail merchant, a
retail producer, a housewife of this :
city, a wholesaler and a newspaper j
man.
Police Recover Auto
Stolen From Dr. Hassler
Charged with stealing the auto- \
mobile of City Commissioner S. F.
Hassler, yesterday, a youth giving
his name as Watson Taber, of this
city, was arrested early this morn
ing at Hagcrstown, Md. Police have
no knowledge of such a person and
the name is not in the city directorv. ]
Taber, who told Hagerstown of
ficials that he is eighteen years old, I
will he brought to this city some :
time to-day. He will be given a !
hearing in police court to-morrow ]
afternoon.
The Hassler car was taken from :
Island Park last evening during the i
progress of the big pageant of the j
War Camp Community Service !
there.
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ARMY FOODS
TAKE DROP
By .Associated Press.
Washington, Aug. 13.—T0 meet
reductions recently made by re- 1
tailers, a new scale of prices for !
surplus foodstuffs was put into •
effect to-day by the War Depart
ment. Roast beef was reduced I
from $2.13 to $1.90 per six-pound !
can; bacon, from 35 to 31 cents >
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."
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|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
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Why Don't the Corporation Presidents Form a Union?
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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
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[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
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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.
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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.
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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.