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LXXXVIII NO. 195 18 PAGES " Dall Ma?* e c r ep ut the d OKH. s X c11!S HARRISBURG, PA. THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1919. ffS^roino 88 si two e CESTS es HOME EDITION
FORMAL PEACE MUST
A WAIT RA TIFICA TION
WILSON TELLS FALL
In Reply to Twenty Questions of Senator
Says Early Action Would Certainly
Reduce High Cost of Living
ALLIES TRUSTEES OF
GERMANY'S COLONIES
By Associated Press.
Wa-shington. Aug. 21.—President
Wilson has not the power to de
clare peace by proclamation, noi
could he consent in any circum
stances to take such a course prior
to the ratification ot a formal
Treaty of Peace by the Senate. The
President so wrote Senator Fall lo
day in answer to one of the twenty
written questions the Senator pre
sented at the White House confer
ence Tuesday.
Replying to another question, llie
President said the provision of tlie
Treaty that it should come into
force after ratification by Germany
and three of the principal associ
ated powers operated merely to es
tablish peace between these ratify
ing powers and that it was "ques
tionable whether it can be said that
the League of Nations is in any
true sense created by the associa
tion of only three of the Allied and
associated governments."
Will Bring Down Prices
As to the question of when nor
mal conditions might be restored
the President said he could only
express the confident opinion that
immediate ratification of the Treaty
and acceptance of the Covenant ot
the League as written would "cer
tainly, within the near future, re
duce the cost of living, "both in
this country and abroad througn
the restoration of production and
commerce to normal.
To Senator Fall's questions relat
ing to the disposition of Germany's
possessions, the President said the
arrangement in the Treaty convey
ed no title to the Allied or asso
ciated powers, but merely "intrusts
disposition of the territory in ques
tion to their decision."
Allies as Trustees
"Germany's renunciation in favor
of the principal Allied and asso
ciated powers," the President con
tinued, "of her rights and titles to
her overseas possessions, is meant
s'milarly to operate as vesting in
those powers a trusteeship with re
spect of their final disposition and
government."
Leaders Doubt Whether
They Can Get a Vote
on Pittman Suggestions
U'j Associated Press.
Washington, Aug. 21. Leaders
on both sides in the Treaty light in
the Senate were in doubt to-day as
to when a vote would be had on the
resolution of Senator Pittman, of
Nevada, a Democrat, of the Foreign
Relations Committee, proposing res
ervations to the League of Nations
covenant separate from the resolu
tion of ratification.
Gn the Republican side it was
said that if the administration
wanted a vote the move would be
welcomed, but that the ordinary
course would be for the resolution
to go first to the Foreign Relations
Committee. Senator Hitchcock, the
administration leader. indicated
there would be no effort on his part
to bring immediate action and Sen
ator Pittman said he was not cer
tain he would call the resolution up
to-day.
Senator Pittman made it clear that
in presenting the resolution he sim
ply was carrying out his own desire
to get action along the line sug
gested by the President in the White
House conference to-day. Other ad
ministration Senators also said they
regarded the move as taken on Mr.
Pittman's own initiative.
While the group of Republican
reservationists led by Senator Mc-
Nary, of Oregon, indicated they
would stand together for reserva
tions in the final ratification reso
lution some of them were not sure
that in the meantime they would not
favor the Pittman plan as a step
in the right direction.
Reservoir Cleaned of
Mud Is Refilled After
Being Idle Ten Days
City water department employes
yesterday completed cleaning the
main reservoir in Reservoir Park,
and last evening city pumps began
filling in again.
Commissioner S. F. Hassler, in
charge of the water department,
said that during the time the reser
voir was being cleaned, starting
Monday, August 11. water was be
ing furnished the city direct through
the large mains running from the
pumping station. Not once during
the last ten days were any com
plaints received about the water
pressure he said.
Several Inches of sediment at the
bottom of the reservoir had to be
cleaned out. Before filling the res
ervoir it was decided to put a thin
coating of concrete on the sides ex
tending from the top down about
fifteen feet. This will prevent the
growth of algae, Commissioner
Hgssler said, a green -grass which
grows between the crevices in the
brickwork.-
This is the first time since May,
1913, that the reservoir was clean
ed. Work was started to-day at the
high service reservoir which is to
be cleaned also. This one is cov
ered and when it was opened little
dirt was foilhd in it Dr. Hassler
ftaJd.
Text of Reply
The President's letter follows:
My Dear Senator Fall:
You left yesterday in my hands
certain written questions which I
promised you I would answer. I am
hastening to fulfil that promise.
1 feel contrained to say in reply
to your first question not only that
in my judgment I have not the power
by proclamation to declare that
peace exists, but that I could in no
circumstances consent to take such
,a course prior to the ratifiation of
I a formal Treaty of Peace. I feel
it due to perfect frankness to say
that, it would in my opinion put a
slain upon our national honor, which
we never could efface, if after send
ing our men to the battlefield to light
the common cause, we should aban
don our associates in the war in the
settlement of the terms of peace
and dissociate ourselves from all re
| sponsibility with regard to those
1 terms.
Poai-e Between Powers
I respectfully suggest that, having
j said this, I have in effect answered
I also your second, third and fourth
j questions, so far as 1 myself am con
cerned.
Permit me to answer your fifth
I question by saying that the provis
! ions of the Treaty to which you re
| fer operate merely to establish peace
j between the powers ratifying, and
' that it is questionable whether it
j can be said that the League of Na
j [Continued on Page 17.]
TROOPS HOT
ON TRAIL OF
BANDIT BAND
Pick Up Markings of Compan
ions of Prisoners; Air
planes Locate Columns
INTERVENTION CERTAIN
Mexico Asks America
to Withdraw Troops
Washington, D. C., Aug. 21.
Mexican Ambassador Bonillas
has bee nurged by the Mexican
Consul at Presidio, Tex., to ob
tain from the War Department
an order for withdrawal of the
Anterican forces now in Mexico.
The Consul's telegram, made
public at the embassy said that
since Mexican Federal troops
were in pursuit of the bandits
which held two American avi
ators for ransom, withdrawal of
the American troops would "avoid
difficulties."
By Associated Press.
Marfa, Tex., Aug. 21.—The Ameri
can punitive expedition in Mexico
took up the bandit chase at dawn
to-day for the third day across the
Border. One column picked up the
hot trail of two bandits believed to
have been companions of the two
bandits captured 'ate yesterday by-
Captain Leonard Matlack. The pur
suit is continuing over mountain
peaks, down steep slopes and through
mountain valleys.
By sunrise airplanes left the
ground here for Presidio, sixth miles
south where, a flying field base for
the expedition has been established.
Landing there and getting gas and!
oil, the planes flew across the Rio !
Grande over Palisades, near Ojinaga,
along the Conchos river valley to
pick up the trains. The cavalry re
sumed its work of scouting. Cavalrv
columns are searching out every
canyon which would possibly be the
hiding place of the bandits.
Aviators located all American col
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C. OF C. OUTING NO
PLACE FOR TROUBLE
Dull Care and Dignity Chucked Aside While Businessmen
Cavort at Reily's Retreat in Mountain Fastness
Guadaloupe, Aug. 21.—Right here i
or. John W. Reily's retreat, just back I
of Fort Hunter, some two hundred odd i
Chamber of Commerce members i
chucked business dignity into the
river when they branched off the main i
highway along the Susquehanna, and !
this afternoon they cavorted around
like a crowd ol 10-year-olds opening
the summer swimmin' season.
Bankers, lawyers, merchants, physi
cians. and many others with a dozen
more professions, at tills annual pic
nic of the chamber forget all about
their business and had a "day of it"
playing baseball, heaving quoits, run
Reservoir Park Overrun With Happy Youngsters
MARKET PROBLEM
j OF CITY TO GET
EXPERT STUDY
{Distribution of Foods and
Farm Products to Be
I
Surveyed
I Within the next few days the
j Bureau of Markets of the Depart
| ment of Agriculture in conjunction
with Harrisburg city officials will
start a survey of the distribution of
food and farm products in Harris
burg and also a study of the market
ing and transportation facilities as
they relate to the city marketing
problems.
Guy C. Smith, Director of the
Bureau ot' Markets, held a confer
i ence with Mayor Keister yesterday
| and outlined the plan which the
Agricultural Department will follow
in making the survey which is likely [
to be a precedent established for like
surveys in many cities of the State. !
Mayor Keister promised the hearty I
co-operation of every city agency in
all efforts to benefit the city mar
keting conditions and bring about
a reduced cost in the food products
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| nlng races and indulging in all kinds
I of outdoor sports guaranteed to make
I a young fellow feel good and an older
| man worry around with the lininv-nt
bottle and stiif joints the next day.
! Surprise Stunts
There were some surprise stunts ar
ranged for by the committee but these
are secrets which are not to be re
vealed unt'l tile late afternoon and
early evening. There were no dellnite
program arrangements made, but i
when you turn about two hundred i
men loose and say "Co to It, boys," the |
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O . Here's How They Lined Up c
With four thousand youngster s in Reservoir Park to-day there
wasn't a quiet minute for anyone who got within range of this out
pouring of boy and. girl play spirit. The Telegraph photographer was
| almost mobbed. Above on the left is a happy girl who couldn't get on
the swings and seesaws. She didn't care. She was perched on the top
of a big slide almost reaching some high branches when the camera
caught her. Next is a group of boy s and girls who spent a lot of time
on the footpowcr "merry-go-round." They saw the camera first, though,
and posed like artists' models. On the right is Miss Helen Conners,
who won the 15-year-old girls' tetherball championship in the city;
also an ice cream brick.
In the group below are the Pen n playground volleyball players,
who won the championship of the city by defeating Twelfth street.
The girls from left to right are: L'ora Harrison, Mary Gerber, MUo
Mary Garland, instructress; tlilda Abramson, Eva Weiner, Anna Wils
bach and Sara Zarkin.
WOMAN HELD IN
TRAIN WRECKAGE
FOR TWO HOURS
;Mrs. W. J. Wilcox Seriously
Injured When Steel Cars
Are Smashed
I I lager st own, Md., Aug. 21.—With
| her one leg and an arm out of a car
j window. Mrs. Wm. J. Wilcox, 809 North
Sixth street, Harrlsburg, was dragged
j more than a hundred yards when a
Norfolk and Western train due here at
2.15 o'clock was wrecked at Boyce, Va.,
this morning. Thirteen were injured.
The cars were of steel but were badly
smashed.
Mrs. Wilcox, who was under a coach
two hours and rescued by trainmen and
passengers, was brought to Hagers
town with the injured and taken to the
hospital where x-ray pictures were
taken. She is in very delicate health
and grave concern was felt for her
Mr. Wilcox arrived at the hospital
from Harrlsburg about 11 o'clock.
Mrs. Wilcox is suffering from shock i
and many lacerations especially about I
the leg.
The Wreck was caused, officials say
by a defective brake rigging slipping
under the wheel of a car. Some of the
passengers were under the debris for
several hours. Brakeman M. H. Brag
onier. Hagerstown, had a broken col
lar bone. He was walking through the
day coach and was hit by someone that
fell from an upper berth.
THREATEN FURTHER DEMANDS
Uy Associated Press.
j Cobalt, Ont., Aug. 21. Officials
! of the miners' union threatened last
I night to raise their demands fifty
| cents a shift unless the miners'
strike in progress here, was settled
I within two weeks.
$5,000 FINE AND
IMPRISONMENT
FOR PROFITEERS
|
Amendments to Food Control
Bill Provide Heavy Penal-
I
ties; Not Extended
By Associated Press.
Washington, Aug. 21. Amend
ments to the food control act im
posing a $5,000 fine and imprison
ment of two years for profiteering
were ordered favorably reported to
day by the House Agriculture Com
mittee.
The legislation was proposed by
Attorney General Palmer and ex
tends the terms of the act to in
clude among the list of necessities
| "wearing apparel, containers of
food, feed or fertilizers, fuel, oil and
natural gas."
The amendment granting price
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Hundreds Leave For
Seashore Resorts
This was another big excursion
day on the Pennsy. The Cumber
land Valley sent two cars filled with
excursionists, and several trains
were run from the west. ,On the
regular trains many Harrisburgers
were numbered with the pleasure
seekers. The special trdln leaving
j Harrisburg this afternoon at 4.05
and running through to Atlantic City)
j carried several hundred passengers l
from this city. It is estimated th ,t|
! Harrisburg contributed about I.OOC
I excursionists to-day. The tickets
sold for $6.48 good for the round
j trip, and for 16 days.
MASKED BANDITS
HOLD UP TRAIN
AND RIFLE MAIL
Force Crew to Cut Off Postal
Car and Speed Awav; Let
Engine Run Wild
By Associated Press.
Nashville, Tenn , Aug. 21.—Mask- j
ed bandits held up Louisville and
Nashville passenger train No. 7
from Cincinnati to Montgomery,
Ala., between Columbia and Pulaski
early to-day and carried off the
[ mail pouches.
j None of the passengers was mo
lested. The robbers, four in num
-1 ber, forced the engineer to cut oft
| the mail car ahd run some distance
with it. Covering the crew, the
| robbers sent the engine running
wild and rifled the mail car. The
amount of loot was not available.
The locomotive finally ran down
at" Wales, Tenn. Meanwhile the
bandits made off without molesting
the express car. Posses from near
by counties are searching for the
robbers.
MOB LYNCHES NEGRO
By Associated Press.
Louisburg, N. C., Aug. 21.—Wal
ter Elliott, a negro, who is alleged
to have assaulted a farmer's wife,
was shot to death last night by a
mob which later carried the body to
the scene of the crime and swung
it to a tree in the country church
yard. The mob took the negro from
Sheriff Kearney, two miles from
here, while on his way to jail.
I I'l'ME WEATHF.Pj
Harrlsburg and Vicinityi Showers
and thunderstorms probably to
night and Friday. Not much
ehnnge in temperature, lowest
to-night about do degrees.
Eastern Pennsylvania: l.oeal
showers and thunderstorms
probably to-night and Friday.
Not much change In tempera- i
hire. Gentle to moderate south
winds.
River. The Susquehanna river and j
all Its Its branches will prob- |
ably fall except heavy local
showers may cause rises In
some streams. A stage of about
4.(1 feet Is Indleuted for Htirris- I
burg Friday morning.
ROMPER DA Y DRA WS
THOUSANDS OF OLD
AND YOUNG TO PARK
Youngsters and Their Elders Enjoy
Annual Outing With Games and
Contests on Playgrounds
4,000 LINE UP FOR LUNCH;
SUMMER'S WORK IS DISPLA YED
The children of the city are hav
ing one of the best times of their !
lives on the best day of the sum
mer. Of course you all know what
day it is. Sure, Romper Day, which
the late Samuel Kunkel, who
founded it, said was always the hap
piest day of the year for him.
And that it is the happiest day
of the year for thousands of kid- j
dies can not be denied when one
sees the joy with which they en- '
tered into the games and sports j
which the playground instructors 1
had planned for to-day. Everyone t
| was out in force, whether in their j
play clothes of rompers or breeches, |
' as the case might be, or in a more
formal attire that demanded decor- |
ous conduct by its wearer.
Just Couldn't Wait
The day really began at a much [
earlier hour than S o'clock, but it '
was not official and so not recorded ]
in the program. But it's a sure fact j
| that in thousands of Harrisburg j
| homes this morning the tirst rays |
|of the sun saw Johnny and Henry j
| and Katie and Susie and a million I
of their like calling lustily for break-
I fast so that they might not be late
| for the tirst special cars which were
j due to pull away from each city
| playground at an early hour.
Each car as it arrived at Reser-
Ivoir Park disgorged its load of laugh
i ing, shouting children, who imme
diately proceeded to swarm all over
the western side of the park and
throng the places where the games
were scheduled to be run off. As
the cars continued to arrive and the
park tilled up, the instructors from
the different playgrounds began the
championship games.
Wanted to Share the dory
The quoit tournament was going
full blast when Grant Forrer ar
rived with his rope to keep back
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the crowds. So intense was the en
i thusium of the youngsters in root
ing for their favorites who were
hurling the iron rings about with
the utmost übandon and dispatch,
that it was necessary to rope off the
quoiting arena, or whatever you call
it, in order to save some enthusiast!
i from committing unintentional sui-J
j cide. The tetherball tournaments*
j also drew a hectic crowd, whiclfl
screamed and yelled with such lustß
, lungs that it sounded like the gool
; old days when "Pop" Shrivel' unfl
| his gang held forth on Island ParlH
i The victor of the tirst round, whlcH
i was for 15-year-old girls, was ]lel>!H
Connors, from the Boas street plaw
I ground, and she was immediate IB
I surrounded by a group of
] and clinging satellites who showed'
( a very great reluctance to tear thein
[ selves away when Miss Oonne.s
| posed for her photograph.
Ixits of the Old Pop
Longball claimed a few hundred
j followers, and to the uninitiated and
j impartial eye it looked very much
[Continued oil Pago 11.]
Rebel Chief's Power
Is Absolute in Mexico
lly Associated Press.
El Paso, Texas, Aug. 21.—Rebels
under Gordiano Guzman are mas
ters of life and property in parts
of the State of Michoacan, accord
ing to Excelsior, a Mexico City
newspaper, dated August 13. Fed
eral forces, it is said, have made
no effort to pursue the rebel chief
tain. Commerce and agriculture are
demoralized as a result of Guzman's
depredations, the article says.