War Time Food Control Art With "Forth in It" Is Before Congress as Moans of Combating Prices.
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1-AAA v ivU. iyO ££ I rYU-CO Matter at the Post Office at Havrlaburg
WANTS TO HOLD
STATE MONEY
FROM CHARITIES
Taxpayer Asks Court to Re
strain Officials From
Paying Money
OLD ISSUE IS REVIVED
Declares Constitution Forbids
Payments to Sectarian
Institutions
Action in equity to retrain pay
ment of State appropriations to 66
hospitals and homes of Pennsylvania
on the ground that they are sectarian
institutions was brought in the Dau
phin county court to-day by Willis
L. Collins, a resident of Norwood,
Delaware county. Auditor General
Charles A. Snyder and State Treasur
er Harmon L. Kephart are made the
defendants.
The issue raised by the action has
been heard of from time to time in
recent legislative sessions and the
Attorney General's Department will
appear on behalf of the officials.
The petition filed in the case con
tends that payment of appropriations
is against the Constitution, it being
charged that it violates section IS
of article 3 which provides "No ap
propriations. except for pensions or
gratuities for military service, shall
be made for charitable, educational
or benevolent purposes, to any person
or community nor to any denomina
tional or sectarian institution, cor
poration or association."
The hospitals include some of the
best known in the State. The Sylvan
Heights Orphanage, of this city, is
among the list of homes mentioned
in the action.
Five Shows in Broadway
Are Only Ones Open;
Playwrights Organize
By Associated Press.
Xcw York, Aug. 22.—Leading
playwrights have formed a play
wrights' protective association,
elected officers and started search
for a "way out" of the difficulties
which have shut down all but five
of Broadway's glittering array of
playhouses.
The new organization announces
that it is "against any radical ,
change in the old order of the the- |
ater' 'and that it would maintain
"absolute neutrality" now and here
after on all differences between
actors and managers. Otto Har
bach was elected president; Owen
Davis, secretary, and Sivilo Hcin.
treasurer.
P. A. Powers, treasurer of the
Universal Film Manufacturing
Company, one of America's largest
moving picture play producers, an
nounced his resignation from the
National Association of the Motion
Picture Industry because that or
ganization recently "pledged its
support" to the Producing Manag
ers' Protective Association. In his
letter of resignation Mr. Powers
characterized the action of the na
tional association as a "direct slap
at organized labor, and especially
at the American Federation of La
bor," which he declared had always
"stood for the motion picture in
dustry."
213,000,000 Pounds of
Bacon Added to Sale
Washington, Aug. 22.—The War
Department announced that plans
have now been made for sale to the
public of practically the entire
amount of surplus foodstuffs in pos
session of the Army. This includes
about 213.000,000 pounds of bacon
and canned meats, enough to supply
two pounds to each person in the
country, and about 135.000,000
pounds of canned vegetables, or one
and one-quarter pound per person.
A few surplus articles have not been
made available for general distri
bution owing to the difficulty of
shipment by parcel post.
The principal item of this char
acter consists of frozen meats, in
cluding 60,000,000 pounds of beef,
7,000,000 of pork, 3,000,000 of poul
try and 1,000,000 of mutton.
Mexican Opinion Calls
Upon Change of Policy
• Washington, Aug. 22. Advices
from Mexico City received in Wash
ington show that various groups
there are demanding a change in
Carranza's government and policy
toward the United States.
The Federation of Labor Unions
at Mexico City has issued a mani
festo asking President Carranza to
form a representative cabinet and
immediately adjust the difficulties
with the United States.
A circular of the Liberal Consti
tution Party has been published,
calling on adherents throughout
Mexico to work for a good under
standing between the United States
and Mexico.
THEWEATHF.P
Hnrrlsburg and Vlelnltyi Fair to
night nnd Saturday. not much
change In temperature, lowest
to-night about 0.1 degrees.
Eastern Pennsylvania i Generally
fair to-night and Saturday. Not
much change In temperature.
Moderate southwest to west
winds.
Riven The Susquchnnna river nnd
nil Its brnnehes will fall slowly
or remain nenrly stationary. A
stage of about 4.4 feet Is Indi
cated for Harrtsburg Saturday
morning.
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BY LABOR PACT
Provisions of Treaty Fail to
Cope With Threatening
Evils, Thomas Says
Washington, Aug. 22. The labor
provisions of the Peace Treaty fail
to cope with threatening labor evils
and point toward a program which
may disturb the domestic peace of
the United States, Senator Thomas,
Democrat, Colorado, declared to-day
in the Senate. He expressed grave
doubt whether Chat section of the
Treaty could be accepted under the
constitution.
The international labor conference
to be set up, lie declared, would be
an important integral part of the
League of Nations, though the pro
visions creating it are not included
in the League covenant.
"Inasmuch as organized labor cor
rectly speaks of itself as a class,"
he said, "it is entirely appropriate
to say that by including this pro
gram in the Treaty, distinct recog
nition and separate organization are
given to a class. To enthrone a
class, whether by revolution or by
Treaty it is but to estrange other
classes.
At Expense of America
"It may be possible to reach the
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Tells First-Hand
Story ol Negotiations . .
Leading to Shantung
By Associated Press.
Washington, Aug. 22. A first
hand story of the negotiations which
resulted in the Treaty provision giv
ing Jagan control in Shantung prov
ince, dKina, was told the Senate For
eign Relations Committee, to-day, by
Professor E. T. Williams, formerly
the State Department's expert on
Far Eastern Affairs, who acted as
a technical adviser to the Ameri
can peace delegates.
Professor Williams said he had
"objected very strongly" to the
Shantung settlement, but that his
resignation from the peace commis
sion had not been due to his oppo
sition.
On April 22, the witness said,
President Wilson sent for him and
asked him which of the proposed
alternatives would bo less injurious
to China the transfer of the Ger
man Shantung rights to Japan, or
insistence on the execution of Ja
pan's Treaty with China growing out
of the famous 21 demands of 1915.
"I replied," continued Professor
Williams, "that I hoped neither
course would be found necessary.
The President said that unfortun
ately Great Britain and France were
bound by certain engagements with
Japan to support Japan's claims in
Shantung and that Lloyd George said
he would bow only on the consider
ation thut the 1915 Treaty was exe
cuted.
APPLIED-MOTHER GOOSE
TROOPS STAY
LONG AS BANDIT
TRAIL IS HOT
General Dickman Is Deter
mined to Run Outlaws
Down
By Associated Press.
MaiTa, Tex., Aug. 22.—As long as
the American punitive expedition
continues to follow hot trail, It
will remain in Mexico, unless orders
to the contrary are received from
the War Department, Major General
Joseph T. Dickman, commander of
the southern department, announced
here to-day.
Captain Matlack who came from
Mexico yesterday in an airplane
driven by Lieutenatn Eugene Eu
bank, said the Amercian troops are
in high spirits.
"Every one in the expeditionary
force is well," he said. "We have
had no casualties except one man
who had a cactus thorn in his
hand.
"We are making progress in the
pursuit. Hard storms have slack
ened ou speed somewhat but we
consider that we made good time.
"After leaving the Rio Grande
Monday morning, soon after day
light, the expedition followed a
fresh trail. The four men to whom
the money had been paid had a
start of more than live hours on us.
"We followed them to a high
mountain pass, where they scat
tered, one going north and three
southeast, as indicated by the fresh
tracks. They scattered like quail,
and it was difficult to follow them
because of the faint trails.
"The light with the bandits in
the fortilied blockhouse started as
soon as the American troops com
menced to search the place. Are be
ing opened by the Mexicans from
loop holes. The troops returned
the fire.
"Four bodies were found. Two of
the bandits escaped. They arc still
being pursued. These two latter
outlaws are believed to have been
members of Renteria's gang but the
aviators could not identify them."
The bandits who held the avia
tors were desperate characters,
known on both sides of the border.
Pony Withdrawal '
The American punitive expedition
against Mexican bandits who held
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No Telegraph on Labor Day
THERE will be no issue of the Harrisburg Telegraph on Labor
Day, Monday, September 1. This step has been taken in order
that the members of the Telegraph Family may efrjoy to the full
the program of good things arranged for the holiday. Many mem
bers of the mechanical departments desire to participate in the
Labor Day parade and everybody connected with the newspaper is
enthusiastic over the Kipona celebration of the afternoon and even
ing. Newspaper workers have few holidays. They get away from
their daily grind all too infrequently. The management believes that
Telegraph readers and advertisers will appreciate the spirit in which
this decision Is made and will be happy to participate in making
possible a holiday for the scores of men and women who labor daily
to produce their favorite newspaper by depriving themselves of its
regular evening call on that day.
©)t Star-Jn6cpcn6 fill.
HARRISBURG. PA. FR
MARDIGRAS IN
PAXTANGPARK
ATTRACTS MANY
Prizes Arc Awarded Old and
Young, Lean and Fat,
Short and Tall
I Everyone who came up to the
I platform of the pavilion at Paxtang
! to-day, where the Mummers are hold
| ing forth and looked at the tremen-
I dous array of prizes of all sorts that
i lined the stage, promptly took a hitch
I in his or her belt and started forth
to win a few of them in the many
contests which were planned.
This is the first time since the war
that the Mummers have at
tempted to put on a Mardl Gras and
it bids well to be a successful affair
from the preparations which were
being made this morning at Paxtang
Park. The Mardl Gras part of the
| program is not scheduled to begin
until 6 o'clock this evening, but from
the looks of the park this morning,
everything was all arranged to begin
even before that.
Slow In Starting
Due to the slowness of the crowd
in getting out to the park the con
tests were delayed and did not start
until after 11 o'clock. But once start
ed, the events went off in rapid fire
order. Everything that you could
think of in the way of a contest was
on the program, and no one was ne
glected. Aside from the athletic
events there were also prizes for the
oldest person, the fattest woman, and
games where no energy is necessary.
One of the most popular and amus
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Second Man Charged
With Robbing Meters
Fred Denisholtz, 1601 Thompson
street, was arrested to-day charged
with robbing gas meters by repre
senting himself as a collector. He is
charged with having tampered with
the meter at 1701 Elm street, and
with several others.
The police sajn he dropped in last
week at the police court hearing
when a man named Dawson was held
for court under $3,000 ball for a sim
ilar offense. The police are of the
opinion that Denisholtz got his Ideas
from the Dawson hearing.
DAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1919.
SERVE WARRANT
ONLAFEANIN
CRASH OF BANK
Former State Banking Com
missioner Charged With
Misdemeanor in Office
BAIL IS FURNISHED
Will Appear For Hearing Be
fore Magistrate Rooney, in
Philadelphia, Sept. 8
By Associated Press.
York, Pa., Aug. 22. —A warrant j
charging Daniel F. Lafean, with!
misdemeanor in office, in connection j
with the failure of the North Pennl
Hank of Philadelphia, was served j
upon the former State Banking Com- !
missioner at his home here, at 10!
o'clock this morning, by James P.
Dobson, of the Philadelphia detect-'
lve bureau.
Lafean, with his counsel, Henry!
C. Niles, met the Philadelphia of- j
ficer by arrangement in the office of |
Alderman Walter V. Owen, of the'
Second ward. The warrant, pre- j
pared by District Attorney Rotan, j
of Philadelphia which charges that<
Lafean was guilty of misdemeanor;
in office in permitting the North!
Penn Bank to remain open while i
knowing its unsound condition was!
there read to the former Banking;
Commissioner. Detective Dobson, I
who was following instructions,l
asked for $7,500 bail. Alderman |
Owen declared this amount to be i
absurd in view of the character of 1
the charge, and fixed the amount at!
SSOO. This was promptly furnisned I
by Dr. James A. Dale, for the ap-j
pearance of Lafean before Magis-1
trate Charles P. Rooney in No. S'
court, Philadelphia, September 8 at!
2 p. m.
I Before leaving the alderman's of
fice Lafean said that he might make
a brief statement later in the day.
Permitted Bank to
Remain Open Although
Knowing It to Be Insolvent
By Associated Press.
Philadelphia, Aug. 23.— The war
rant for the arrest of Mr. Lafean
was issued by the District Attorney
of Philadelphia. It charges that he
permitted the wrecked bank to re
main open knowing it to be insolv
ent.
The bank closed on July 18, owing
depositors $2,144,0<*0. One of the
early developments was the fact
that Mr. Lafean was a borrower
from the hank. Charles A. Amb'er,
former Insurance Commissioner,
was also a borrower. Both these
men were removed from office by
Governor Sproul a few months ago.
Mr. Lafean is a prominent busi
nessman and wealthy. He served
five terms in Congress and has for
years been a Republican leader in
Pennsylvania.
American Robbed of
SIO,OOO in Cash and
Jewelry by Bandits
By Associated Press
Laredo, Texas, Aug. 22. Albert
Von Hoffman, of St. Louis, arrived
at the border here yesterday from
Vera Cruz and reported to local
Federal authorities that he had
been held up on a train enroute to
Laredo and robbed of SIO,OOO cash
and jewelry valued at $2,600. He
left last night for Washington.
Von Hoffman, who is an Amer
ican citizen, said he was returning
from a visit to his coffee planta
tion in the state of Vera Cruz when
the robbery occurred, and charged
that it was committed by Carranza
soldiers.
Strikers' Objections to
5-Cent Advance Overruled
By Associated Press.
Pittsburgh. Aug. 22. Judge
Charles P. Orr, in United States
district court this morning sustain
ed a motion by George E. Alter, at
torney for receivers of the Pitts
burgh Railways Company, throwing
out of court objections filed by rep
resentatives of striking motormen
and conductors to the National War
Labor Board's five cent an hour
wage increase award.
Judge Orr's order sanctioning the
board's award puts the court on rec
ord as denying the strikers' demand
for a 12 cent an hour raise asked
last Monday and for which the men
resumed their strike a week ago
in violation of their agreement to
abide by the board's decision.
Mrs. Ella C. Hamilton,
Retired Teacher, Dies
Mrs. Ella Crabbe Hamilton, for
.years a public school teacher in this
city, died at her home, 1628 Green
street, last night. Funeral services
will be held Monday morning at 10
o'clock, the Rev. H. H. Baldwin, pas
tor of Pine Street Presbyterian
Church, officiating. She is survived
by a sister, Anna E. Crabbe. Mrs.
Hamilton, who was retired, was
known to hundreds of Harrisburgers,
who attended her classes over sev
eral generations.
BUILDING PERMITS
Building permits were issued to
day as follows. Besse Mazy, Levin
Building company, contractor, two
story brick building, rear 624 Boas [
street, $1,200; Meyer Marcus, re
modeling 2030 North Seventh, sl,-
550; C. M. Spangler, Charles Fraim,
contractor, remodeling, 2110 North
Sixth street, $500; Mary J. Faford,
D. M. Burger, addition rear of 1620
North Fifth street, $300; W. A. Wil
son, addition, 1738 North Fifth
street, $125.
LOCAL BUSINESS
IS SOUGHT BY
GERMAN AGENT
First Hint of Predicted Bid
Received by Commerce
Chamber
BIG DEMAND FOR GOODS
Five-Year Blockade Has Made
Great Market in Alien
Countries
The first hint of the predicted bid
for renewed business relations on
the part of German businessmen
with America, made itself manifest
at the offices of the Harrisburg
Chamber of Commerce this morn- j
ing, in a special appeal from an im
port representative doing business
in Hamburg, Germany. The com
munication requested that the im
porter's name be presented to local
exporters with the idea of estab
lishing future relations for inter
national business between Germany !
and America.
"The war is over. Germany has j
lost it. Germany is at its last. It |
has neither food, nor goods nor raw I
materials and is looking towards
America for help," is the prefare
to the letter which shows the atti
tude of Germany's businessmen to
ward the future.
After a blockade of five years j
there is an immense demand for j
goods in Germany, "and never pre- ;
sented itself a better chance to your ;
country for doing big business than 1
now," states the German importer, j
who adds that he is thoroughly fa
miliar with the German "marked."
"During the entire length of the
war, I was out on the west front,
doing my duty towards my coun
try," is the plea made by the ex
soldier of the Fateherland. "Now ;
the time has come at last to begin I
building up, to go to work again.
I am ready for it." It is regarded
as a striking example of the curious
German mind, that the importer
mentions his participation on the
wesf front in the war against the
Americans and Allies, as a point in
his favor now that he is asking the
Allies for business.
Army Aviators Seek
| to Solve the Mysterious
Disappearance of Fliers
By Associate i Press.
San Diego, Cal., Aug. 22.—Army
] aviators from Rockwell Field start
| ed early to-day in a fresh attempt
: to solve the mystery of the disap
! pearancc Wednesday near Jaeumba.
1 Mexico, of Lieutenants Fred B. Wa
terhouse and C. H. Connelly, of the
Ninth Aero Squadron Patrol and
their big DeHaveland plane.
Fifteen aviators from the field,
aided by details of Mexican troops
ordered to the search by Governor
Estaban Cantu, of Lower California
yesterday vainly combed the tim
bered hills of near Jaeumba, where
the lost tliers are reported to have
been seen last on thir way here
j from Yuma, Ariz. Every assistance
j was given by the Mexican soldiers.
Postmaster Sites,
Apostle of Beauty
Removal of the big unsightly bill
board which had outlived any justi
fication for its use in war publicity
on the lawn of the Federal building
Third and Walnut streets, Post
master Frank Sites intimated to-day
would be followed by other improve
ments in Uncle Sam's headquarters.
Care is to be given the planting that
it may be even more attractive and
the Postmaster having replaced the
old trees along the curb line on
Walnut street with several hardy
specimens will doubtless complete
the work on Third street. He also
favors the window-box decorations
in Federal Square and will seek au
thority for placing similar boxes next
spring along the granite ledge im
mediately above the first story of
the building. The Penn-Harris ho
tel is to be thus adorned next sum
mer and other Federal Square
buildings will also bloom as the
Telegraph's home next year.
Replacement of Water
Mains Given Study
Propositions connected with the
replacement of the huge city water
mains in State street as a result of
the construction of the Memorial
Bridge were discussed with J. W.
Ladoux, the water expert, and H.
E. Perrine, the bridge engineer of
the State, to-day by City Solicitor
John E. Fox and his assistant, E.
Bruce Taylor; Commissioners W. H.
Lynch and S. F. Hassler and City
Clerk R. Ross Seaman.
The thirty-inch mains, from
which Harrisburg gets the filtered
water supply from the island sent
to the Reservoir are to be replaced
by thirty-six-inch mains which will
be built under the bridge, the State
paying for the changes. There will
be decided late to-day just how far
the replacement is to go. Engineer
ing and supply problems have to be
threshed out.
It is expected that a decision will
be reached soon so that the water
matter may be settled by the time
the bridge bids are opened.
WILMINGTON'S EIGHT-CENT FARE
Wilmington, Del., Aug. 22. An
eight-cent trolley fare at least will
be put into effect in this city as a
result of the demand of the trolley
men for an Increase in ac
cording to officials of
company. With an
the officials declare they wfMfc un
able to meet the demands men
for a 15-cent increase without facing
a yearly deficit of $102,000.
KVKNINC. ASSOCIATED PRESS SINGLE COPIES UAU[' CniTIAM
NEWSPAPEn IN HARRISDURG TWO CENTS HUIVIt fcLJ 11 lUN
MANY MISSING IN
CLOUDBURST; HOUSES
ARE SWEPT AWAY
Deluge Strikes Uniontown; Mines Are
Flooded, Trees Uprooted and
Tracks Washed Away
LIGHTNING ADDS TO WRECKAGE;
WATER IS 6 TO 8 FEET DEEP
By Associated Press.
tTiiiontowii, Pa., Aug. 22.—Be
tween lifty and sixty acres of land
were flooded by a cloudburst in me
C'onnellsville coke region, near here,
this morning. Buildings were swept
away, mines flooded, trees uprooted
and railroad tracks washed out.
Wires are down, but early reports
said a number of persons were
missing, believed to have been
drowned. The plant of the Republic
Lumber Company, at Herbert, was
struck by lightning and burned. The
loss is estimated ut more thau
SIOO,OOO.
Families Missing
Water at Herbert reached a depth
of six to eight feet and prevented
firemen from Uniontown and Con
nellsville from fighting the lumber
yard fire.
A later report from Herbert said
two families which lived near the
lumber plant are missing. A num
ber of employes also could not Oe
located after the cloudburst.
At Republic, near here, the
freight station was wrecked and its
contents washed away in the flood.
Seventy-five feet of brick road was
washed out and mines and boileis
of the Republic Iron and Steel plant
Hooded.
Boor Swept Away
At New Salem. Mrs. Goldie Brady,
chief operator of the Trt-State Tele
phone Company, was badly shocked
when lightning struck a wire.
Three thousand barrels of beer
were carried away by the flood
which wrecked the Johnson brewery
at New Salem and floated down the
Monongahela river.
Between Juniata and Phillips, 100
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T Pittsburgh Seventeen-year-old Bobby -Jones, Jt ,
$ Atlanta, led the veteran golfer, W. C. Pownes, r <
jr the home club by one hole at the end of the first 18 holes 'Sf
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yards of track of the West Penn
Street Railways Company was awsh
ed out.
At Fairbanks a department store
and a small building were washed
away and carried down Dunlap's
creek.
More than 1,000 cellars were
flooded in Uniontown.
New Hungarian Cabinet
to Name Archduke Joseph
Commander of Army
By Associated Press.
Vienna, Wednesday, Aug. 20. —-
Formation of a new Hungarian cab
inet and probable designation of
Archduke Joseph as commander in
chief of the Hungarian Army were
reported here to-day in Government
circles.
Baron Sigismund Perenyi, minis
ter of the interior, according to
Budapest advices, has been asked
to form a new cabinet.
It was said Count Julius Andrassy,
who was minister of foreign atttairs
in the short lived cabinet of M.
Lovassy, would be Minister of For
eign Affairs in the new ministry.
LABOR PARTY TO MEET
By Associated Press.
Cleveland, Aug. 22. The Na
tional convention of the newly
formed National Labor party will be
held in Chicago oa Saturday, No
vember 22, with approximately 1,500
to 2,000 delegates, representing sev
eral thousand labor organization?
from all parts of the country in at
tendance, Max Hayes, chairman of
the executive committee of the new
party announced here to-day.