NEW YORK CITY DEMORALIZED BY TROLLEY STRIKE „ Stoppage of Main Arteries of ' Travel Cause Worst Snarl in City's History • Ity Associated Press. \ew York, August 18. —More than two million persons, who ordinarily travel daily over -ho Interborough Rapid Transit Company's s •bway and elevated lines in Manhattan. the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens to-day either took slow-moving surface ears and improvised conveyances or walk ed to their work as a result of the strike ol' the Company's 11,005 em ployes for a 50 per cent. Increase in wages. As yesterday, wnen the „ strike became effective, not a wheel turned on the company's 250 miles of trackage. 'Hie stoppage of the main arteries of travel caused the worst traffic snarl in the history of the city, l'he narrow streets in downtown New York, were fairly congested during the early morning hours. I'housnnds of jitneys and busses, operated by the J city, filled to capacity with workers, j clogged the thoroughfares. Thous ands fought in vain for standing I room on each overloaded trolley ear. Taolleys and other \ chicles moved at a snail's pace. Residents on the • outer fringe of the cltv were unable to reach their places of employment until many hours after their usual time and consequently 1 adu.'it'.'ial Saw York was crippled. The New York Central Railroad op- i erated 26 extra trains of ten cars . each between Hudson and Harlem j river points to the Grand Central sta- I tion. The 60,000 extra passengers | carried on these trains, in addition to | the regular traffic*caused by an un- j precedented congestion at the great terminal. Rain Adds to Distress Fleets of ferries and other craft, pressed hurriedly into servi-e, pnsed the North and East river carrying passengers between the upper end lower ends of Manhattan Island for the first time in many years. More than 6,000 policemen guarded the company's property and endeav ored to control the tide of humanity sweeping through the streets. Not withstanding the confusion, there was tut little disorder and the crowds, as a whole, appeared to take their 1 inconvenience good naturcdiy. R lin | added to the general triffic distress.! An effort to reach an agreement be tween the Interborough officials and | the strike leaders will be made this j afternoon at a conference with Pub lic Service Commissioner Nixon. Mr. I Nixon expressed the hope that a com- I promise might be effected, basing his hope on a statement attributed to President Conoll.v of the Brother hood, that although the men had made demands for an increase of 50 per cent, in wages, the strike would not have been called had tile com pany offered a raise of ?0 per cent. In j the unsuccessful negotiations last week, a ten per cent, increase was offered. The tioup, which began promptly at 4 a. m. as ordered, with the refusals | of crews to start runs from the car I barns, became absolute at 6 a.m., when the last of the trains sent out before 4 o'clock completed their runs, weie shunted into the barns and aban doned. At that hour, strikers in the Inter borough power houses shut off the power, causing a temporary stoppage of traffic on the surface lines of the New York Railways and the Manhat tan spurs of the Rrooklvn Rapid Tran sit Company, which use Interborough power. Three power houses resumed opera tion an hour later, however, permit ting resumption of traffic on these lines, which were jammed throughout the day. as were the steam railroads, automobile trucks, sightseeing buses, | and boat lines which essayed to take: care of the crowds. City officials and the Public Service Commission are bending every effort I to-day toward providing emergency', transportation for the nearly 2,500,000 persons who are swarming the thor oughfares leading into Manhattan seeking transportation to their places ' of employment. The strikers worked with the high est precision and efficiency, running their cars quietly into the barns and leaving them in most orderly fashion. Investigations by District Attorney Swann. of New York county, and Dis trict Attorney Martin, of the Bronx, •were resumed to-day in an effort to obtain evidence in substantiation of Mayor Hylan's charge that the strike was the result of collusion between of ficials of the Interborough and the Brotherhood, which is a company union, in an effort to force an increase in fares. Harry Jones, national organizer or the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes r which is perfecting an organiza tion of Interborough employes as a rival of the Rrotherhood organization, charges that officials of the company had refused an offer of the Amalga mated to furnish the company with 1.000 men to run trains. This charge ■was apparently borne out by an an nouncement made at a mass meeting of striking Brotherhood members to the effect that Frank Hedley. general manager of the Interborough, had been offered the services of 700 of his employes who were members of the ■Amalgamated, and that be had refus ed the offer, declaring that he would "deal with the Brotherhood and no one else." District Attorney Martin announced to-night he had received several re ports that strikers had declared they did not care how long the strike last ed as they were "getting paid for striking." Tunis, Unable to Leave Home, Says He Did Not Start Fight in Street As the result of a flpht in front of his store yesterday, William S. Tunis is confined to his home to-day with a bad cut on his forehead. Whi'e Mr. Tunis was in his store at 8 North Third street. Lieutenant Albert Moyer, formerly of this city, pot into an argument with Hardy Homans, also well-known in Harris r burp as the salesman of an Ohio * ftirm implement company, says Mr. Tunis. Homans was beinp badly punished, accordinp to Mr. Tunis' story when he intervened and per suaded Moyer and Homans to call It off. Homans then retired to his hotel. About an hour and a half later, said Mr. Tunis, he was standinp in shelter of a buildinp at Third ivs "Market streets waitlnp for his car to come alonp, when Lieutenant Moyer stepped up to him and hit . him shnrply in the face. He was > struck several times, severe'y cutting his eye and forehead so that to-day his doctor would not allow him to po out. Patrolmnn Kelly, who was near by took both Tunis and Moyer to the hospital, where their cuts were dressed. I-ater they both went to the police station and pave soo for feit for their appearance. Moyer has not piven his stdo of the story. Tnr-s ***n *n appear this cftern. o" -' '-'an forbids him to leave the hou-c. MONDAY EVENING, LONG LIST OF CANDIDATES IS STILL GROWING M. Harvey Taylor Files For Republican Nomination as Recorder M. Harvey Taylor to-day filed Re publican nomination petitions for recorder of deeds at the office of the County Commissioners. Harry C Wells, at present minority mem ber of the Board of County Com missioners, filed Democratic peti tions this afternoon and officially joined the string of Democrats who are fighting for the office. The last day to file petitions is to morrow. and for withdrawing pe titions, Thursday. Others who filed for city and county offices were: William B. Mc- Nair, Democratic, for mayor; R. E. Dare, Republican, city councilman; Clarence E. Weber, Republican, city treasurer; George W. Kautz, Republican and Democratic, super visor, Second district; George M. Weaver, Democratic, county treas urer; Nisley Y. Partliemore, Demo cratic, director of the poor. Petitions for district offices fol low: City, Republican—Ed. Brubaker, judge; Amos G. Rlottenberger, in spector, Sixth ward. Third; Charles Taylor, inspector, Archie McAllister, judge, Eleventh ward. Fourth; C. E. Matter, judge; Harry C. Gable, in spector, Eleventh ward. Third; Charles W. Davis, judge, Michael F. Dwyer, inspector, Sixth ward, First; Charles L. Madison, ward assessor. Seventh; William S. Slote, judge, William Thompson, inspector, Sev enth ward. Second. County, Republican—Washington township, A. Frank Row, auditor; Fred E. Klinger, school director; William A. Feidt, justice of the peace; John A. Harman, constable; John P. Johns, supervisor; Oliver C. Jerry, inspector; Norman A. Schretfler, school director; William L. Gangler, school director; Norwood E. Swab, judge. Halifax Borough—Samuel W. Koppenhaver, auditor; Isaaac F. Chubb, justice of the peace; Ross E. Zimmerman, constable; Elmer li. Dougherty, inspector; James F. Schroyer, inspector; Joseph Diil man, judge; J. W. Neff, school di rector; Charles Rettinger, school di rector; Arthur F. Enders, council man; C. C. Baker, councilman; M. W. Etter, councilman. Concwago Township—John W. Eisenhour, judge. Lykens Borough—D. E. Trout; councilman; John F. Myers, coun cilman; Jacob A. Bogar, school di rector. Derry Township—Jacob Grubb, auditor; A. B. Shenk, school direc tor; John K. Zoll, supervisor; John Snax*ely, constable;- Josiah Miller, inspector, Third; I. M. Hersliey, school director; Harry T. Kieffcr, judge, Third; Ira J. Bacastow, au ditor. South Hanover Township—George A. Smith supervisor. Royal ton —Bernard Zimmerman, school director; George Mocklin, high constable; J. D. Cryder, judge. Second ward. Highspire—Ralph V. Parthemore, school director; E. D. Bamberger, school director; Frank E. Chubb, school director; John A. Bishop, con stable; Frank T. Kaylor, council man; Ira W. Hoover, councilman; Harry Ulrich, councilman; Ray L. Cover, judge; Robert T. Crumbling, inspector; John W. Kline, high con stable; Clarence M. Leiter, auditor. Jackson Township—E. G. Geai hart, judge; Mark Harmon, con stable; George Shepley, justice of the peace; E. E. Fitting, inspector; Foster Barry, auditor; Frank J. Hoffman, school director; J. C. Bix ler, school director; J. H. Hoffman, supervisor. Millersburg—Dewitt T. Bowman, inspector. First; William M. Dubcii dorf, judge. Second: William A. Rutter, auditor; William H. Weiser, judge. First: Roscoe W. Hoffman, school director; Edward M. Shutto, constable; Charles P. Polk, school director; Harry E. Bretz, inspector. Second: Charles A. Miller, justice of the peace; Frank K. Lenker, coun cilman; Chester I. Culp, council man; J. A. W. Brubaker, council man. Paxtang—Walter L. Ramsey, high constable; Jens Clausen, school di rector. Swatara Township—Norman P. Rutherford, registry assessor, Fourth; R. B. Rutherford, inspector, Fourth; Raymond S. Gerhart, in spector. Second; Edward A. Stouf fer. judge. Second. Dauphin—Max D. Long, auditor; Robert F. Putt, councilman: Wil liam G. Strieker, councilman; Harry I. Gcrberich, councilman. Middletown —Robert F. Kcipcr, auditor; Harry R. Bauder, school director. Williamstown Borough—Charles A. Klinger, inspector, West ward: John D. Lesher, councilman; John N. Snyder, councilman. Rush Township—John H. Hossler, inspector. Susquehanna Township—David H. Linglc, school director; David R. Laudermilch, judge, South. County, Democratic —Halifax hor- ' ough, Leroy Shott, judge; M. W. ! Etter, councilman; Clyde A. Dui.- kle, auditor; John R. Forney, Jus tice of the peace; Ross E. Zimmer man, constable; H. R. Shoop, in spector: Ira Zimmerman, council man; J. W. Neff, school director; Charles E. Rettinger, school direc tor. Halifax Township—Harry Matler. auditor. Swatara Township—R. R. Raiim gardner, commissioner; D. E Etter. inspector, Fifth; H. J. Webncr. judge. Fifth. Middle Paxton Township—Michael Sweigert, supervisor; William Straw, judge. Second; George Meyers, judge. First; Samuel T. ShOop, school director; Parker Ruffington, inspector. First; T. W. Strohm, si pervisor. Lykens Borough—Jacob A. Bogar, school director; D. E. Trout, coun cilman. Highspire—William S. Wilborn. high constable. Royalton Charles N. Wilson, burgess. Williamstown —John N. Snyder, councilman; Jolin Caudell, justice of the peace; J B. Lesher, council man; Charles Morgan school direc tor. Candidates tor city offices wei e named by the Political Labor League last night at a meeting m the office of the Pennsylvania Fed eration of Labor. W. B. McNair, of 311 Cumberland street, president of the Pennsylvania shopmen's crafts, was named for the mayoralty; Hugh L. McLaughlin, 1 427 Market street, of the Machinists' Union; George D. Toomey. 1617 North S'xth street, Sheet Metal Workers; W. S. Rlioads, 712 Cap'tal street Bricklayers; H. H. Grant. 2240 Jef ferson street. Machinists' Union, were named for council. John V Guyer, 1718 North street, Welfaro Worker, was named for city treas urer. Candidates for the other of fices are to be named later. BREAK IS NEAR WITH MEXICANS [Continued from First Page.] would be paid by one of the Gov ernment agencies, later to be col lected from the Carranza authori ties. It was recalled that recently in two cases in which civilians were j held as hostages ransoms were paid with the approval of th e State De- I partment and belief was expressed | that this course would be followed j in the case of the two aviators. Cattlemen Pledge $15,000 in Fifteen Minutes For the Ransom of U. S. Aviators El l*no, Texas, August 18.—Every effort was being made to-day to ex i pcdlte the rescue of Lieutenants Paul l H. Davis and Harold G. Peterson, avi ators of the United States .Army who are held for a ransom of Itfi.OUO by Mexican bandits, somewhere in Mex ico, south of the Big Bend district of West Texas. While no official announcement was made by the military authori ties, it was understood that the ran som money had been arranged for at a local bank and that a niessenu-T would ue started during the day for Candelaria, Texas, where he would receive instructions about handing the gold to an agent of .the land its. Cattlemen attending a cowboy camp meeting at Fort Dav's, Texas, also raised $15,000 In fifteen minutes Sunday and placed it at the disposal of the military authorities. After eight days of suspense since the aviators patrolling the border disappeared, messages were received by military authorities at Marfa, Texas, yesterday demanding payment of the ransom In gold to Da whirs Kilpatrick, of Candelaria, Texas, he fore to-night or the Americans will be killed, according to the message. Another message, signed by the avi ators, accompanied the demand for the ransom, in which they stated vir tually the. same facts. They also sent messages to their relatives in Stralhmore, Cal., and Hutchinson, .Minn., urging them to see thßt the ransom was raised at once. Another message was later sent to Candelaria, Texas, addressed to Dawklne Kilpatrick, an American and signed by one of the bandit bar.d saying they would kill the ivlat >rs If there were any sign 3 that tbf I American military forces were pre parting to pursue the bandits. Replies were received from thu pa rents of Lieutenant Peterson stating tliev would furnish the ranson de manded for release of their son and his companion if the government I failed to furnish the money, accord j ing to messages from Marfa. These I replies were Immediately given to a i courier who attempted to reach the I bandit rendezvous south of the bor- I der. Text of Statement The full text of the statement is sued at military headquarters by General Erwin follows: "A telegram was received this afternoon by Major L. A. Walton, commander of the aero unit at Fort Bliss, repeating a message signed by the two aviators who have been missing since Sunday, stating they had been captured by Mexicans and were belng'held for $15,000 ransom which must be paid by August 18, or they would be killed. "This message was brought into a town in the Big Bend district by a well known bandit. Colonel G. T. Langhorne, commanding officer of the Eighth cavalry and the Big Bend district, wired the command ing general of the El Paso district that the message is authentic and that he is taking all necessary measures to secure the release of the aviators and has presented this matter to the proper authorities. The name of the place from which the message was sent, as well as the place where the ransom is to bo paid, is not given as it might in terfere with the release of the avia tors." Lieutenant Peterson is twenty-five years old and is from Hutchinson Minn. Lieutenant Davis is twenty three years old and Is from Swarth moro, Calif. Ransom of $15,000 to Be Paid Late Today Marfa, Texas. August 18.—Aut'ior ize.tion lor the payment of the $15,000 ransom asked by Mexican bandits for the release of Lieutenants Paul H 1! vis and Harold O. Pete-soli -.vas received here to-day and the nioney probably will be delivered late to- i day to an agent of the bandits at or near Candelaria, Texas, it was an-, nounced. The American aviators are i being held somewhere in Mexico' south of Candelaria. j The authorization for the payment i of the ransom was received from Ma- ' jor General Joseph T. Hickman, com-! mander of the southern department. J All of Theaters in Nation May Be Closed! New York, April 18.—A complete shutdown of legitimate theaters all over the-country is believed by both managers and actors to be one of the possibilities of the present dead lock in the actors' strike. The bringing into the strike of the stagehands, instead of shorten ing the strike, will, it is now be lieved, be one of the causes which may lead to such a condition. A general shutting down of play houses, it is pointed out, can now be brought about in two ways. Either the stagehands, by extend ing the strike which they began on Saturday night, can .bring about such a result, or the managers, de ciding to tight the actors with their own methods, may close all play houses for a period of several months in the hope of thus bringing the players to terms. This second eventuality, which, in so far as its effects are concerned, would amount to a managers' strike! is now thought by many to be a distinct possibility, and has been hinted at by the managers. Scranton Police Arrest Suspected Silk Thieves Scranton, Pa., Aug. 18.—In the arrest here early yesterday of four men. the police believe they have the leaders of a gang of thieves who have been operating between Chi cago and New York for the last year stealing bales of silk valued at thousands of dollars from railroad trains. The local authorities and a number of Federal agents are put ting the prisoners through a grilling and the police have sent word to Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Easton to pick up suspects there who are implicated in the thefts by statements made by the men being held here H-AJRRISBURG TELEGRAPH FOUR ELECTION BOARDS FILLED Court Appointments Are An nounced; Two Liquor Li censes Transferred Four Election 'jj S | EmEßflq Samuel W. Eshel man, majority in spcctor, removed, Jolin w. Eshelman named; J. W. Sprenkle, judge of elections, Thir teenth ward. First, Latrobe M. Bar nitz named; D. D. Espenahude, majority inspector, Londonderry township, removed, Isaac V. Fisher, appointed; E. Gutslinll, judge of elections, Third ward. Second pre cinct, removed, C. S. Richardson, appointed. Licenses Transferred. —Two liquor licenses transferred by the court to day follow: W. W. Conklin, for Kline house, to Daniel Bar bush; William T. Hall estate. Foun tain Springs Hotel, Williamstown, to William T. HAII, Jr., son of former license holder. Guardian Appointed.— Joseph L. Redman, father-in-law of Mrs. Edna Redman, whose husband was killed in an accident at the Enola railroad yards, was named guardian of her estate to-day. t liartcr Granted. The court granted the charter application of the Harrisburg Branch, No. 105, Workingmen's Circle Cemetery As sociation, an organization which plans to lay out a cemetery at Pro gress. Adopt Hoy—Mr. and Mrs. John C. Boyles secured permission to-day to adopt two-year-old Robert Dostmun, whose mother died last September. Hears llanslinw Case.—The court to-day heard the petition of relatives of the late Charles E. Hanshaw to have John F. Dapp appointed ad ministrator in place of William H. Earnest, attorney, named by Register of Wills E. H. Fisher. Judge Henry reserved decision. Amend Decrees.—The court am ended decrees awarding a refund of liquor license fees to \Middletown dealers who were closed by Govern ment orders last fall. The same orders had been made for wholesale dealers as for the retailers, and did not comply with the facts in the cases as the county and borough re ceived none of the money, but each had been ordered to make a refund. The license holders were J. Shannon McCord and Blanche C. Simonetti. Report Confirmed. The report of viewers recommending the erec tion of a new bridge in Clinton county, between Dock Haven and Lockport was confirmed absolutely to-day by the court. WAR AS RESULT OF PEACE TREATY [Continued from first Page.] Tuesday's conference to obtain from the President a specific declaration in regard to changing the treaty. The President's advisers are urg ing him to take advantage of the conference and the publicity which will be given any word that is spoken at the meeting to present his own case against the Senate to the country. It is regarded as highly probable by senators that the President will volunteer a statement in which he will declare his position in the fight over the ratification of the treaty I and appeal to the people of the country to stand behind him. The President, according to the administration leaders in the Sen ate, will urge the immediate neces sity of defeating all textual amend ments. Opponents Confer The Republican opponents of the treaty on the committee at a con ference to-day were unable to agree upon a program for Tuesday. Those who talked matters over to-day in cluded Senators Dodge, Brandegee, Borah, New, House, Moses and Harding, all Republicans. Ways and means of carrying off first honors in the unprecedented verbal clash that will occur were discussed at length, but no plan of action was decided upon. The Re publicans will meet again to-mor row and again discuss plans. Two or three of the senators, it is understood, urged the necessity of severely grilling the President by asking him a scries of prepared questions, that would be to his dis advantage no matter how he might answer them. Characterizes World as Vast Jail, With King George as Its Keeper By Associated Press. New York, Aug. 18. Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the American Commission of Irish Independence, characterized the world as "a vast jail with King George V, of Eng land as its keeper," in a statement issued here to-day protesting against the alleged acquescence of various state demartments in permitting England to deny passoprts for then citizens to travel in Great Britain and its possessions. He urged that joint secretariat be set up in the League of Nations to protect citizens of all nations in stead of having secretariat "in the. shadow of the steeple of Westmin ster." The present form of the. League compels general sympathy with the "imperialistic ambitions of England," he declared. Mr. Walsh said: "To begin a true reign of democracy in the world, the jail doors erected throughout the world by the passport system must be battered down by the demo ing of the words 'liberty' and 'free dom.' " Raisuli Ambushes Spanish Food Convoy, Killing 12 Soldiers By Associated Press. Paris, Sunday, Aug. 17. —Moroc- can brigands under command of their leader Raisuli are repored to have ambushed a Spanish force ac companying a food convoy between Sagucdla land Rgai. killing twelve soldters and wounding several, four officers being among the casualties. The column escaped. Raisuli is said to be organizing a vast entrenched camp between Tangiers and Tetouan, near Fon dack. Natives report that an elabo rate system of trenches and block houses has been constructed SOARING PRICES LIKELY TO HURT BRITISH TRADE American Competition More Than Any Other Is Feared | London, Aug. 18.—Steadily Increas ing production costs, duo to increas ]ed labor and higher prices for raw | materials, have developed the f?ur I in England that British export tr; tie is t • suffes' a severe Jolt, if not ser ious Injury. Comparisons are con stantly being made with foreign costs, but it is noted that most men fear American competition more than any other. Sir Auckland Geddeg, d'scussing in the House of Commons the effects of increased coal prices, compared Brit ish iron and steel prices .villi those prevailing in the United States. Steel rails in England, he said, cost SBS a ton while in the United States they were SSO, and steel plates for | shipbuilding $87.50, and in il.o >"nitel States S7O. Crown bars were sllO a ton as compared with the \mert can price of $57.50. The spread in pigiron, he pointed out was sto a ton, the British cost being S4O to ihe American S3O. MORE BACON TO GO ON SALE HERE [Continued from First Page.] LOCAL PRICES On Sale To-morrow From 9.00 a. m. to 12 m. Noon At each Fi rehouse , Bacon, 12-pound can $4.25 Roast Beef, 2-pound can 65 I Corned Beef, 12-ounce can,.. .30 will be of the same high quality sold last week, and was cleaned out in less than a half hour after the saic started. Roast beef which found a ready sale will be offered in two pound cans at 65 cents each. Corned beef in twelve-ounce cans will be sold at 30 cents per can. This food was brought to Harris burg this afternoon from New Cum berland. It will In all probability be the last from the Reserve Depot at that place. An average of 50 cars a day loaded with food are be ing shipped from New Cumberland to points east and west and the sup ! ply will be exhausted within a few days unless new orders are received from Washington, D. C. The food will be on sa'e at the following fire houses. Flrcliotiscs Friendship. No. 1. Third and Cherry streets, J. W. Rodenliaver. 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 Rob inson, W. B. McNair. Mount Pleasant, No. 8, Thirteenth and Howard streets, William Hoer ner. Susquehanna Hose Co., No. 9, South Cameron street Harry F. Sheesley. Reily Hose No. 10, Fourth and Dauphin streets, J. W. DeChant. Shamrock, No. 11, Fifteenth and Herr streets, J. A. Orr. Allison, No. 12, Fourteenth and Kittatinny streets. Captain George Drake, P." T. Miller. Camp Curtin, No. 13, Sixth and Reel's Lane, Herman F. Hahn, J. A. Good. . , Royal, No. 1, Twenty-first and Derry streets, John Hauck. The sale will start promptly at 9 o'clock and will end at noon. Buy ers must bring the cash and baskets and wagons to carry the food. There will be no deliveries, and no orders will be received by telephone. Future sales will depend on what the committee will be able to furnish. The Government food is going rapidly. Harrisburg has been allotted a certain quantity through the Parcel Post. Tf there is any food not offered by the mail order system and it can be had at a price attractive to the committer, efforts will be hade to get it. To a ear load of food from Philadelphia will have to be added the freight charges. This will be considered by the com mittee before making any definite arrangements. Mayor Daniel L. Keister and his food committee are much pleased over the success of the first sale and look for a big rush again to-morrow. Business Sentiment. Is Opposed to Government Ownership of Railroads By Associated Prr.ic. Washington, Aug. 18.— Business sentiment in the United States is unanimous that .government owner ship of railroads must not prevail, Charles A. Post, chairman of the railroad committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce, told the House Interstate Commerce Committee to-day. Sentiment as shown by tests made by the chamber, is strongly even overwhelmingly against proposals of the kind, he declared, because of the experience with government op eration during the war. Other rea sons against it, he continued, were heavy costs, and the necessity there after bf financing government ex tensions through congressional ap propriations with consequent sub jection to political influence. Aviator Wires Mother Bandits Mean Business Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 18. The following telegram was received by Mrs. S. G. Peterson at Hutchin son, yesterday, from her son who is held by Mexican bandits for ran som : "Davis and myself had forced landing in Texas on Border. Were captured by Vlllista Mexican bandits and are being held for $16,000 ran som to be paid to Dawklns Kilpat rick, storekeeper In Candclaria, Texas ,not later than August 18, or we will be killed. Correspond with Secretary of War, Major Walton, first bombing group. El Paso, and Dr. Warren Davis, Strathmore, Cal. I am in good health and spirits; as I am sure War Department will meet ransom. If not good-by, us they mean business. Love ' and don't worry." STATE HIGHWAY BRIDGES The State Highway Department to-day opened bids for the construc tion of a number of small bridges in sections of the State. ENGLAND SEIZES EGYPT, CHARGE Former Governor of Missouri Claims British Under Guise Has Taken Over Country By Associated Prcsj. Washington, Aug. 18.—In a brief filed to-dy with the foreign rela tions committee of the United States Senate, Joseph W. Folk, formerly governor of Missouri, counsel for the Egyptian commission charges that England under the guise of a .protectorate over Egypt, virtually has seized that country as a British possession' that "in an annex to peace treaty the status of Egypt would be made an 'internal ques tion' and beyond the jurisdiction of the council of the League of Na tions, which council the Egyptians desire to pass upon the status of Egypt." The document sets forth that the original occupation of Egypt by British troops beginning 1882, was claimed by the British government to be merely temporary, for the purpose of suppressing "rebels" and collecting debts due Europeans. The British government, Mr. Folk says, pledged Egypt and the world that this occupation will be only tem porary. Cites Story of Killing After giving a resume of the poli tical history of modern Egypt and the "alleged wrongs done in that country to enforce British rule in the several decades," the brief re cites the story of "the killing of 800 and the wounding of 1,600 Egyptian natives last April in the streets of their cities while holding demonstrations for freedom under the 'self determination' clauses of the peace treaty." i Mr. Folk, who formerly was so ! licitor for the State Department j and now represents the commission | which was named by the legislative I assembly of Egypt, a majority of ! whom were elected by the people. | he says, calls attention to the fact that Egyptian troops, numbering 1,- 000,000 "fought on the side of the Allies to make, as they believed, the world 'safe for democracy' and for the right of national self determi nation for all peoples." Egypt before the war, he says, was independent for all practical purposes though under the nomi nal sovereignty of Turkey and sub ject to a nominal sovereignty of Turkey and subject to an annual tribute to Turkey. On December 18; 1914, it is stated .Great Britain removed the ruler of Egypt and ap pointed Prince Hussein as sultan "ostensibly as a war measure and assumed by th/ Egyptians to be such." Disappointed When the time came for making peace, Mr. Folk observes, "the Egyptian people naturally conclud ed that since, under the League of Nations, they would be protected from external aggression the protec torate of Great Britain would be re moved. But they were doomed to disappointment." The Egyptian executive assem bly's commission, on the way to Paris to present that country's claims, it is charged, was "interned by order of the British government upon reaching Malta." Released upon the recommendations of Gen eral Allenby, it is said it reached Paris "only to find, with amazement that a recognition of the British protectorate over Egypt had been written into the treaty." In conclusion the brief states: "The condemnation of Egypt with out a hearing before an interna ional tribune, if one is established, would mean the continued objection of Egypt to British bondage and continued mowing down by British machine guns of these liberty seek ing people, who fought with Amer ica, to make the world safe from military autocracy." AMBLER GIVES HIMSELF UP [Continued from First Page.] other arrests of officials have been made. 1/miicd State Funds to Self Ambler, it is said, owed the bank $155,000 of which he has paid back $9,000 since it was closed. He was for a little over a year Commissioner ot Insurance and in that capacity de posited in the North Penn Bank $402,000 of the funds of the defunct Pittsburgh Life and Trust Company. At the time the bank closed it still held $233,000 of this fund. It is charged that on the strength of this deposit Ambler borrowed for his personal use large sums. "It is our contention, "said Assistant District Attorney Gordon, who is acting as prosecutor, "that Ambler used the North Penn Bank as an instrument whereby he loaned State funds to himself." Ambler was appointed Insurance Commissioner by Governor Brum baugh but when Governor Sproul assumed office and learned of Am bler's transactions he removed him. 1 Ambler had been active in politics and two years ago was Speaker of the House of Representatives. Shopmen Ask Railroad Administration to lake Up Wage Demands at Once Hit Associated Press. Washington, Aug. 18.—The rail road administration was notified to day that the strike of shopmen was at an end and was asked to take up wage demands immediately. Acting President Jewell, of the Railway Employes' Department of the American Federation of Labor, went to the railroad administration to notify the officials in person. It was indicated that Director General Hines would proceed at once to set tle the wage demands. Philip S. Moyer Is Endorsed by Attorneys Philip S. Moyer, county solicitor, this afternoon filed his nomination petitions as a candidate on the Re publican ticket for district attorney. The papers had been in circulation throughout the entire county and many hundreds of names are at tached to them. One of the peti tions was signed by fifty-five mem bers of the Dauphin county bar, and all but about five of the Republican attorneys in the county have signed. TO HEAR WITNESSES President Judge George Kunkel to-day fixed October 14 to hear wit nesses in the equity suit brought against the Rev. John Henry Miller, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran I Church of the Holy Communion. AUGUST 18, 1919. COAL SAVING IS NOW UNIVERSAL Shovel Records Were First Kept on Middle Division; Everybody Is Doing It Coal conservation Is now an Im portant factor of the operation of all railroads. Tests are being made on divisions and records kept on the number of shovels used on each run. This line of tests originated with N. W. Smith now geneial superintendent of the Eastern divisions of the Penn sylvania Railroad. It Is now bcirg followed by all superintendents on the Pennsy system. General Superintendent Smith started his "save coal" slogan when the war started. The Middla Divis ion tests were carried on for nearly six months before taken up by other divisions. To date J. C. Johnson, superintendent of the Middle Division has shown remarkable records and there is strong rivalry for the best records. The Feuoral X.ailroa 1 Ad mlnstration is now quite actt\e in the coal saving project and daily records are sent to Washington. In .V recent bulletin what has b-en accomplished on the Middle Division is riot men tioned, hut in the following record the Pennsylvania Railroad system was a big factor: Millions Saved "Over $11,000,000 was saved by im proved locomotive fuel performance for the first three months of 191!', ac cording tc the Fuel Conservation Section. This estimate is based on returns covering 76 per cent of the total mileage. In freight train service the saving amounted to $7,773,170, or 12.3 per cent. In passenger train service tire saving amounted to $3,530,604, or 12.5 per cent. The total amount of c>al consumed amounted to 26,191,000 tons. In freight service the consumption of coal averaged 220 pounds per thousand gross ton-miles as com pared with 243.7 in the correspond ing period of 1918, or a decrease of 9.7 per cent. In passenger service the decrease was 11.1 per cent." Middle Division Employes on Discipline Bulletin The discipline bulletin issued oy Superintendent J. C. Johnson, of the Middle Division, for the week ending August 11 shows that 126 employes were disciplined for various causes. Three men were dismissed from the service for insubordination, sixteen v. ere reprimanded or suspended for being absent without permission, eleven for not being on hand when wanted, eight for faulty inspections, eight for figuring in draft collisions and six for faulty workmanship. The others were various infractions of working rules and received either a reprimand or a suspension. Anthracite Shipments in July Show Big Increase The shipment of anthracite for July as reported to the Anthracite Bureau of Information at Philadelphia show a substantial increase over the pre ceding month and exceeded a total of 6,009 000 tons for the first time since October 1918. The tonnage sent out last month amounted to 6,052.223 tons, an in crease over June of 432,743. tons or 7.7 per cent. Compared with July, 1518, when production was abnormal ly Mimpluted by war conditions, the shipments last month showed a de crease of 1,032,441 tons. New Classification Yards at Bethlehem Completed Bethlehem, Pa., August 18— The new $1,550,000 freight yards that the Philadelphia and Reading Railway is erecting on the outskirts of this city near the Bethlehem Steel Company a plant is about completed. The yards have a capacity of 90C cars and trackage of nearly f.0.J00 feet. A roundhouse with capacity for thirty locomotives, a power house and machine sho.-, coaling station and large turntable are in the equipment. w _ Standing of the Crews II\RRIMHt RG BIDK Philadelphia Division, The 127 crew to go first after 4 o'clock: 112, 103, 115. Engineers for 127, 112. Firemen for 103, 115. Brakemen for lIX 103, 113. Engineers up: Broome, Schfwartz, Kauffman, Ryan, Brodacher, Con way. Firemen up: Kirchoff, Utley, Sell is I kof, webti. Brakemen up: Chrieli, Martz. .Middle Division. The 20 crew to go first after 1.45 o'clock: 30, 34, 18, 239, !9. Engineers wanted for .'ft. Firemen wanted for t,B, 3'. Conductors wanted for 34. Flagmen wented for 34. Brakeman wanted for 19. Engineers up: Brink. Tiller, Cor der, Poightil, Kline, E. R. Snyder. Firemen up: Keiter, Gantt, Kint, Clenger. Conductors up: Crlmmel, Beggan, HolTnagle. Brakemen up: Klpp, Vingut, Horn minger. Ynrd Hoard. —Engineers wanted for 1, 15C, 4, 15C, 22C. Firemen wanted for 11C, 4, 15C, 170, and J2C. Engineers up: Gibbons, Cless, Ew ing, Yinger, Morrison, Feass X'catty, Kuutz, Starner, WegntT. Firemen up: Swab, Hoover, Rice, Roberts, Burnß, Uoudeuhel, Gardner, Rupley, Stine, Paul, Sourhoer, E. Kruger, Mensch. KA'OI.A SIDE Philadelphia Division. The 215 crew to go first after 3.15 o'clock: 236. 218. 207, 241. 214, 236, 245. Engineers for 207, 245. Conductors for 215, 207, 214, 215. Brakemen for 207. Brakemen up: Lee. Thompson. Middle Division. —The 256 crew to go first after 2.30 o'clock: 102, 107, 249, 220, 222, 225. 228. Firemen for 107. Conductors for 236. Ynrd Hoard. —Myers, Guibe, Curtis, K. K. Hinkle, Holland, Joe HlnlCe. Firemen up: Albright,- Boyer, A. W. Wagner, Ashman, Sanders. Klpyle, Raver, White, Morris, Beck, Hutchi son. r ISSKXOER SBRVICTi Middle Division. —Engineers up: J. W. Smith, F. Schreck, W. E. Turbett, H. J, Johnson, J. 'Jrimmel, C. Hollen baligh, L. H. Rlccdorf, W. 3. Jamison, J. H. Ditemer, T. B. Heffner, S. H. Alexander. H. E. Cook, J. W. Burd. Engineers wanted for 23. Firemen up: W. Hoffner, H. W. 11 Fletcher, It. A. Arnold, S. H. Wright, F. A. Potteiger, H. G. Hess. A. U Reeder, H B. Thomas, J. L. Fritz, It. F.'Mohlcr, B. C. Shenafelt, R. E. Look, C. L. Sheets, A. H. Kuntz, J. R Weib ley. S H. Zeiders, G. W. Musser. Firemen wanted for 23, 6293. Philadelphia Division. —Engineer* up: R. B. Welch, M. Pieam. Engineers wanted for none. Firemen up: J. M. Piatt, A. L. Flovd. W. E. Aulthouse. Firemen wanted for P-3S, 622. Railroad Notes David C. Goldberg who has been on the sick list is able to be about, 305 th regiment band recently from overseas and located In Chi cago, passed through Harrlsburg Saturday. This is one of the crack colored organizations of the United ; aS and was wlth the colored K. City excurslons anroute to Atlantio nnrf" a l ,® lß / our employes were killed ® f, 92 'njured by being struck by cars and engines on adjacent tracks, L„L? mpI ° ye ?, in(lu 'eing in the dan -5,J? !!f practice of hanging to the tig ton far rS „ut nd enginCS Hnd Ican - Local shopmen and others are Jfieh? ' nte , r , eHt . cd ln the lecture to "Plumh y pi !. T * ,om P so n on the t "L °! V be Siven in 8i 5 ...Uf ,v h ° ol Auditorium at r direction of the local : d r tlon -° f shop employes. T h, lecture la rtca. ~A, new ,u ty l e of engine is being Heading" Frackvm * grade of the „„ A i 8 ?. 83 ' of 30 engines is reported service"* 8 °" thc lieadln *. °ut of Officials of the Reading system ror e r^ ty "t sttaS OfHrini V 'ir Sl ? 1 'i h ' a me mber of the mbttee, da v7or^| h V^ P^r o B ck W a e t d "t e h ß ; he win speak to the Reading freight rece^C^^iTh^ 11 RaUwJv C r the Br °therhood of hftir? Q ■> at Sunbury will the 12th and reception in Place AugusiTfi Arm ° ry at ,h '' t Pittsburgh Trolley Strikers Place Pickets Ry Associated Press. Pittsburgh. Pa „ August 13.—Pick et- were placed on duty at all barns of the Pittsburgh Railways Company here to-day by the 3,000 striking mo tormen and conductors following the announcement last night by receiv ers of the company that they intend ed to operate the cars regardless of the strikers. Just what from the re ceivers' plan would take, it was said this forenoon, awaits word from W. D. Mahon, international president of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes who the receivers telegraphed yesterdav asking if he was in a position to or der members of the local union to re turn to work on the ground of their agreement last May to stand by the award of the National War Labor Board. The Hoird recently granted the men a five cent an haur wage In crease against their demand for 12 cents. The trolley transportation tleup was complete to-day but jitneys, trucks and shuttle trains were hand ling the situation well. Deaths and Funerals MRS. JOHN S. DETWEILER Funeral services for Mrs. John S Detweiler, who died Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fred eric H. Park, Edgewood, Pittsburgh, .were held this morning at 10 o'clock from the undertaking establishment of F. C. Neely, 908 North Second street. Mrs. Detweiler, who was well known throughout this citv for many years for her musical "talent, Is survived by her daughter and two sons, John S. and Charles Det weiler. Burial in the Harrisburg Cemetery was private, the Rev. Dr. Leroy A. Baker, officiating. The pallbearers were J. Allan Donald son, William Hiester, John H. Al ricks and Benjamin M. Africa. EDWARD ERICKSON Funeral services for Edward Erickson, aged 62 years, who died yesterday morning at his residence, 17 Paxton street, will be held Wednesday afternoon from his late home, the Rev. Mr. Kaufman, of thc Nagle Street Church of God, of ficiating. Mr. Erickson has been foreman of the Paxton blast furnaces for the last sixteen years. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Annte Erickson; two daughters. Georgiana and May Erickson and one son, Henry Erick son. MRS. IDA EBERLY After an Illness of nine wepks, Mrs. Ida Eberly, wife of Charles E. Eberly, died at her home, 1323 Kit tatinny street, Saturday night. Fun eral services will be held from the home Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. Dr. Thomas Reisch, officiating. Burial will be made in Paxtang Cemetery. Mrs. Eberly is survived by the following children: Mrs. Fitch L. Mrs. Walter F. Zuren, Mrs. Warren F. Patterson, all of this city and a son, Chester Eberly, of Phila delphia. For many years she was a member of Christ Lutheran Church and during late years was active ln P. R. R. war relief work. HAROLD E. DARE Harold E. Dare, eight-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Dare, 630 Peffer street, died yesterday af ternoon. Private funeral services will be held to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home, the Rev. Har old H. Baldwin, assistant pastor of Pine Street Presbyterian Churoh, officiating. Burial will be made ln the Paxtang Cemetery. WILLIAM H. SMITH Funeral services for William H. Smith, aged 67, 1105 Penn street, will be held at the home Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mr. Smith was a \iember of the Brotherhood of Railway Conductors and ?Iso of Warrior Eagle Tribe of Red Men. Surviving him are his wife, a son, James P. Smith, two daughters, Mrs. Harry Maul and Mr. Cella Schwank; two brothers, David Smith, of Idaho, and James Smith, Huntingdon, and a sister, Mrs. Pennybaker. HORLI CK'S THE ORIGINAL MALTED MILK Avoid Imitktloa* A Substitutes
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