11,000 Children, Largest Number Ever Recorded, Attend Opening Sessions of City S -
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URGES PRIVATE
OWNERSHIP WITH
STRICT CONTROL
Plan For Permanent Railroad
Legislation Would Prevent
Strikes and Lockouts
REGIONAL RAIL SYSTEMS
Measure Placed Before Snnatc
by Commerce Committee
Woull Supervise Wages
By Associated Press.
Washington, Sept. 2. Private j
ownership and operation of ia.il
roads in a number of regional sys
tems under strict government con- j
trol, with strikes and lockouts of |
railroad employes prohibited, is the
plan for permanent railroad legis
lation submitted to the Senate to
day by the Interstate Commerce
subcommittee.
A tentative bill embodying the
subcommittee's recommendations,
which bear no resemblance to the
Plumb plan, had been introduced by
Chairman Cummins and referred to .
the full Interstate Commerce com
mittee. The bill is the result of j
many months of hearings and work j
by the subcommittee which, besides :
>lr. Cummins, included Senators'
Kellogg, of Minnesota, and Pom- j
dexter, of Washington, Republicans,
and Pomerene. of Ohio, and Robin- |
son, of Arkansas, Democrats.
Salient Provisions
Salient provisions of the Cum- j
mins bill include:
Termination of government
control and return of the rail
roads to private ownership on
te last day of the month of en
actment.
Establishing the Interstate
Commerce Commission wjth j
greatly increased powers as the i
supreme, body over railroad
affairs.
Supervision and control of
v'rtually all railroad affairs. In
eluding rates, wages, operation
and financing by the govern
ment.
Creation of a new railway
transportation board of five
members appointed by the
President to supervise railway
development and operations,
subject to final action of the
Interstate Commerce Commis
sion.
Creation of a new committee
of wages and working condi
tions, composed equally of rep
resentatives of employes and
employers, with wide authority
in settling labor questions, sub
ject to decision of the trans
[Continued on Page I".]
Congress Must Protect
the Public From Strikes,
Robinson Says in Speech
By Associated Press.
Washington, Sept. 2.—A law pro
hibiting strikes or lockouts of rail
road employes and thus protect the
public frcm transportation tie-ups
was advocated by Senator Robinson.
Democrat, of Arkansas, in an address
to-day in the Senate.
The time has come, he said "when
• Congress must protect the public
against loss of life and property and
widespread suffering, which will in
evitably result if the railroads should
b" tied up by a general strike.
"The right to strike has hereto
fore been recognized in our laws, par
ticularly in certain provisions of the
Clayton act Those laws should be
modified and strikes of employes of
railroads engaged in interstate com
merce should be forbidden."
Senator Robinson's address was in
analysis and recommendation of the
bill by Senator Cummins, Republican,
of lowa, drafted by the Senate Inter
state Commerce sub-eommiteee pro
posing a permanent railroad policy of
private ownership and operation of
railroads, under striet government
supervision, and with a committee on
mages and working conditions com
posed equally of employes and em
ployers, whose recommendations
would be subject to final decision of
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The Cummins bill, according to Sen
ator Robinson, who was a member of
the drafting subcommittee, amply
protects the rights of employes, em
ployers and the public.
REGISTER TODAY
This is the second of the fall
registration days for voters in
the city to qualify for the pri
mary and general elections.
Registrars are sitting at the va
rious polling places until 6
o'clock this evening and from 7
to 10 o'clock to-night.
From reports in the precincts
only one-third of the voters reg
istered on-the first day and dur
ing this morning the enrollment
was light.
There will be only one moie
opportunity for registration after
to-day. All registrations prior
to August 28 are invalid and
will not entitle anyone to vote
this fall. The last day to be as
sessed in order to pay county tax
is to-morrow.
1 THE WEATHER^
Harrisburg and Vicinity i Fair to
night and Wednesday with
moderate temperature, lowest
to-night about 32 degrees.
Eastern Pennsylvaniai Fair to
night nnd Wednesday, slightly
eoler to-night In enst portion.
Gentle winds mostly northwest.
Rlveri The Snsquehnnnn river nnd
nil its branches will full slowly
or remain nenrly stationary. \
stage of about 3.7 feet Is Indi
cated for Hnrrlsburg Wednes
day morning.
HARRISBURG qgSHU TELEGRAPH
Wouldn't It Be Better to Split a Little More Kindling Wood
i
INSTKAD OF USING SO MUCH KEROSENE?
HOSPITAL PLAN
COSTING $300,000
IS DISCUSSED
State Health Department In
terested in Combatting Con
tagious Disease in City
Tentative plans for a contagious
disease hospital, prepared by a spee
*al committee of the State Health De
rartmonr. was submitted to the city
and county commissioners and solici
tors at a meeting in the Harrisburg
i- ub at noon to-day. The plans
were prepared at the request of the
Harrisburg Chamber of dommerce,
which called the meeting. The meet
ing was attended by the Chamber di
rectors.
The plans were submitted 'o the city
and county officials with the request
that they meet in the near future and
give the project their earnest consid
eration. It is expected that such ac
tion will be taken within a short
time. All of the city commissioners
were there, and the county commis
sioners were represented by Harry
C. Wells.
The plane call for the construction
of a hospital with two hundred beds,
| " a tentative cost of $300,000. The
~.ans are clastic, and can be made to
conform to a one hundred bed hos
pital, at a cost of $200,000. The mem
bers of the State Health Department
who were present at the meeting ex
plained the plans from the blue prints
which were submitted.
On Way to Church He
Is Relieved of Gold Watch
Not every person who attends
church does so because of desire for
his moral benefit.
At least Tyson Dorsey, 1323
Marion street, believes so; some at
least have aims for their material
benefit, according to his philosophy.
Lust evening Dorsey went to tne
church which he attends, and was
assisting a number of persons, to
alight from the buggies in which
they had driven to church. Amid
the operations he missed his s3o
gold watch, he reported to-day to
Harrisburg police. The police be
lieve a stranger made use of an op
portunity to slip in among tne
crowd.
RIG COTTON CHOI'
iff Aaaociahd Preaa.
j Washington, Sept. 2.—A cottage
crop of 11,230,000 bales this year
was forecast to-day by the Depart
ment of Agriculture, which based
its estimate on the condition of the
crop of August 25, which it an
nounced as 61.4 per cent, of a nor
mal.
KIPONA ENJOYED BY
BIG HOLIDAY CROWD
River Thronged With Spectators Who Witnessed Spectacu
lar Events; Evening Display of Floats and Fireworks
Best in History of the City
The most picturesque, most spectacular and altogether en
joyable event in the history of Harrisburg.
The Kipona of yesterday was all that and more.
The wonderfully beautiful Susquehanna river basin at Har
risburg never presented a more brilliant picture. The September
sun shot its long warm rays over a stream rippled and dimpled
by a brisk cool breeze that stirred the white caps here and there
but at no time was sufficiently strong to mar any of the events
of the afternoon.
Vantage Points Crowded
The front steps served as an ampi
theater from which thousands up
on thousands of people viewed the
boat and swimming races and the
other contests that marked the day
light houis of the Kipona. From a
point above the Heist boathouses,
to the Market street bridge, there
was scarcely a foot of room
unoccupied. Both the bridges
were lined from shore to island
while hundreds of others occupied
canoes, motorboats and Hats that
dotted the stream for several miles.
V. Grant Forrer and Admiral J.
William Bowman had arranged the
races to be held close into shore
and this gave the big audience am
ple opportunity to see them at close
range. And the contests were well
worth seeing, from the war canoe
races to the tub races, and from
the 100-yard swimming dash to the
high dive from the top of the Peo
ple's bridge by a young man from
York who entered himself at the
last moment nfter some f the oth
ers were inclined to back out, and
negotiated the dive successfully be
cause, as he said afterward, "he
didn't want to see the crowd dis
appointed."
The crowd stayed until the last
race was with the Dintaman
war canoe crew outdistancing that
of the Reist boathouse in a hard
fought contest.
Evening Program
The evening program was even
more attractive than that of the
afternoon. As the evening shadows
fell Admiral Bowman and his staff
put out for the flagship anchored
at the upper end of the long string of
flats moored along the river
front a short distance from shore,
which were occupied by the
choruses, the bands and the stage
settings for the historical pageant
which followed. Followed an eve
ning of entertainment such as Har
risburg never before experienced,
the floodlights played across the
water, throwing into strong relief
the stages where the actors and
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HARRISBURG. PA. TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1919
ORGANIZED LABOR
GIVEN OVATION IN
HOLIDAY PAGEANT
Nearly Four Thousand March
in Big Demonstration of
Union Workmen
One of the largest and best-man
aged labor parades in the history of
Harrisburg was the feature of Labor
Day morning. A careful estimate
placed 3,500 workingmen in line, ex
clusive of bands, every one of which
was a union organization. The pro
[Continued on Page 4.]
11,000 YOUNGSTERS TAKE
UP STUDIES IN SCHOOLS;
NEW JUNIOR HIGHS OPEN
Largest Enrollment in History o'f Cily Recorded in Grade
Schools; New Parochial High lo Open With Appropri
ate Exercises, Bishop McDcvitt to Take Purl
The nine o'clock bell this morning
had an ominous note for the 11,000
Harrlshurg school children who realized
that with the sounding of it their va
cation days were over and that from
now on the books and slates will be
the main objects of their attention.
In addition to the grade schools, the
parochial grade pnd high schools will
start this morning. Dr. Oeorge B.
Stull, medical inspector of the school
district, announced that the vaccina-
Star-ln&epcn&efil.
MEXICANS FIRE
ON U.S. AIRPLANE,
WOUNDING FLYER
Pour Volley After Volley Into
Plane Soaring Over
Rio Grande
SAFE LANDING IS MADE
Aviators Come Down on the
American Side; Captain
Injured in Head
By Associated Press
Laredo, Texas, Sept. 2.—Two Amer
ican aviation officers, on border pa
trol duty were tired upon to-day by a
group of Mexicans while flying up the
Rio Grande near here and one of the
officers was wounded in the head.
Captain Davis B. McNabb was the
officer wounded. His companion.
Lieutenant Johnson, brought the ma
chine safely to earth on the Amer'can
side. McNabb was taken to a farm
house nnd an airplane with a surgeon
and medical supplies was rushed to
his aid from headquarters here.
The officers were flying low about
16 miles up the Rio Grande from here
near Santa Isabel creek, when sud
denly on the Mexican side about 25
Mexicans rose up from the brush and
poured volley after volley into the
plane. It was reported several hun
dred shots were fired.
The Festive Oyster Is
a Little Slow in Getting
Out of His Summer Shell
The boisterous bivalve is not yet i
with us. No, not yet, but very |
soon, according to one of the city's I
well-known fish dealers. Of course, j
there are people in Harrlsburg who
believe that the first of September j
was merely invented as the day on |
which oysters are due to arrive in j
large and succulent quantities, but j
they will only be disappinted by a
pair of days.
To-morrow or Thursday at the
very latest, the noisy animal is due
to make its appearance in great
numbers. Those who are accus
tomed to look upon it as their fa
vorite fish are even now engaged in
sharpening up the old oyster fork
and getting ready the cold chisel
which, as everybody knows, is
essential if you really intend to get
to the heart of the matter. And
although ptftijiaine poisoning and
all that sort thing may stare the
more cautious in the face, Harris
burg is going to sit down to its eve
ning meal the latter part of this
week and hear down heavy on oys
ters. fresh, one dozen, as tlicy are
listed in the Q. M.
$4,000,000,000 Credit
to Europe Necessary
to Ward Off Disaster
By Associated Press.
Pnrln, Sept. 2. Appearing to-day
before the subcommittee of the Con
cessional Committee on War Expend
itures, Herbert Hoover, director gen
eral of Inter-Allied relief, said he bo
i lieved it imperative for the United
States to extend to Europe credits of
from $3,000,000,0 >0 to $4,000,000,000
for a year and a half or two years In
order to provide a market for the
American surplus and save Euiope
from disaster.
The credits, Mr. Hoover declares,
should be issued to establish Euro
pean merchants, under guarantee of
their own government, and a guar
antee in turn should be given by the
United States to the American merch
ants in interest. He discouraged the
idea of general control of the trans
actions by the government urging
the 'necessity of preserving the reg
ular commercial organization.
Airman Dives Over
Ex-Kaiser at Amerongen
j Amerongen, Sept. 2.—Much exelte
> ment was caused in Amerongen at
| 11.30 o'clock yesterday when an avi
ator, passing above the Bentinclc Ca.x
--! lie, suddenly looped the. loop nnd
j dived low directly over the garden,
. where the former German Emperor
| was engaged in his daily task of saw
j ing wood.
Many of the villagers believed that
the former emperor was in danger,
I but the aviator merely descended to
about 50 feet above the garden, lean
ed over the side of his plane, waved
a Herr Hohenzollern, and
then proceeded on his journey.
The aviator is presumed to have
been Versteegh, a Hollander. The
former emperor is said to have been
greatly pleased by the airman's greet
ing.
KILLED IN ACTION
By Associated Press.
Washington. Sept. 2.—An army
casualty list to-day contained the
name of Private Fredico Vedio,
Wiisonboro, Pa., killed in action.
tion regulation will be rigidly adhered
to this year and every new pupil will
be forced to show a certiilcate of vac
cination and if unable to do so will be
| promptly vaccinated.
The new Parochial High School will
be opened with fitting ceremony, lilshop
McDevitt, who was head of the paro
chial schools of Philadelphia before
coming to Harrlsburg, will take part
[Continued on I'agc 18.]
SPECULATION
IS BLAMED FOR
HIGH PRICES
Hoover Declares Merchants
Who Stocked Docks on
Gamble Responsible
WAVE IS WORLDWIDE j
Fears Present Conditions Will
Eventually Cause Food to
Become Glut on Market
By Associated Press.
Paris, Monday, Sept. I.—A dis
tressing era of speculation in food
stuffs in the United States and
throughout the world's primary
food markets is largely responsible
for high food costs in the opinion
of Herbert Hoover, chairman of the
Interallied Relief Organization who,
on the eve of his departure for the
| United States, granted the Asso
ciated Press an interview to-day.
Wharves and warehouses in
Northern Europe ports are over
flowing with foodstuffs, principally
meats, fats and dairy products, sent
by merchants all over the world, Mr.
Hoover said. These merchants, he
declared, had "gambled" on sales in
Poland. Szecho-Slovakia, the Baltic
1 states and Germany at high prices,
but these states have only a depre
ciated local currency, and many
commodities are jn danger of spoil
ing, as the central European mar
ket for foodstuffs is limited to the
ability of the peoples to buy on
credit.
"This year's speculations," Mr.
Hoover said, "are due, in my opin
ion, chiefly to the belief of food
merchants and manufacturers that
when the blockade was removed
there would lie an enormous de
mand for foodstuffs and other com
modities in central and eastern Eu
rope. This speculation was not due
to any important shortage at pres
ent of actual jpipply. This specula
tive fever, wmch was not confined
to foods, was greatly stimulated by
the long delay in the removal of the
blockade until the peace treaty was
signed at Versailles. There is plenty
of evidence that this was true of
foodstuffs in glutted ports in North
ern Europe, where only neutrals
have the means to buy."
Sees Glut on Market
Responding to an inquiry as to
how food speculation could be
checked in America, Mr. Hoover re
plied:
"Attorney General A. Mitchell
Palmer Is on the right track -when
he endeavors to break down specu
lation and seeks to powers never
possessed by former administrations
to enable him to accomplish this
step. The situation is one that may
j well cause anxiety also from an
other point of view. We are now
I coming into a flood of production of
I foodstuffs in the northern hemis-
I phere and will again have a great
j surplus in the United States. If. in
i the meantime, Europe has not
| found credits to purchase the com
i ing winter's supplies, we are likely
[Continued on Pago 17.]
Allies to Make Further
Occupation of Rhine if
Terms Are Not Observed
Paris, Sept. 2. The Supreme
Council of the Peace Conference de
cided to-day to send a note in forc
ible terms to the German Govern
ment pointing out the contradiction
with the Versailles Treaty of the
provision in the new German con
stitution providing for the repre
sentation of Austria in the German
Reichsrath.
Tlie Council demands the sup
pression of the article within a
fortnight, declaring that otherwise
the Allies will be compelled to un
dertake a further occupation of the
left hank of the Rhine.
The article objected to is Article
61, of the German constitution, as
in conflict with Article 80 of the
German Peace Treaty forbidding
German interference in Austrian af
fairs.
Article 80 of the Versailles Treaty
reads:
"Germany acknowledges nnd will
respect strictly the independence of
Austria, within the frontiers which
may he fixed in a Treaty between
that State and the principal Allied
and associated powers; she agrees
that this independence shall be in
alienable. except with the consent
of the Council of the League of
Nations."
The text of the paragraph in the
German constitution referred to has
not been received in this country. It
appears, however, that the clause
applied to all the territories of Ger
man speaking peoples in Europe,
and therefore to German-Austria,
with the effect of providing that
Austria might have a certain num
ber of representatives in the Ger
man parliament, proportionate to the
Austrian population.
Stays With Pinioned
Wife as Death Sweeps
Down Upon Them
By Associated Press.
• Chicago, Sept. 2.—"1'1l stay
with you, Mary." With these
words William F. Tanner, a
cashier 111 the offices of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad here,
embraeed his wife, whose foot
was caught in a railroad frog
and was killed with her whop a
limited train on the Chicngo and
Northwestern Railroad struck
them lust night.
John Miller, flagman. In nt
templng to rescue the eoupie,
lost Ids left leg and received a
fracture of (he right arin.
The little children are orphans
to-dny la-cause of Tanner's de
cision to die with Ills wife.
ONI.Y EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS SINGLE COPIES LI ft MIT CTIITIftM
NEWSPAPER IN HARRISBIIRO TWO CENTS IIUITICi LLfl 1 iUfll
OUT OF QUESTION
WILSON REPLIES TO
REQUEST FOR DATA
Informs Lodge Compliance Would Set
Precedence Encouraging Senatorial
Encroachment of Presidential
Power of Treaty Negotiations
ASKED HIM FOR LATEST DRAFTS
OF PACTS WITH GERMAN ALLIES
Washington, Sept. 2.—The request
of the Foreign Relations Committee
l'or latest drafts of the proposed
treaties with Germany's Allies, Aus
tria, Turkey, Hungary and Bulgaria,
has been refused by President Wil
son on the ground that compliance
would set a precedent encouraging
Senatorial encroachment on the
Presidontal power of treaty negotia
tions "would tend to take the func
tions of nogtiating treaties out of
the hands of the Executive."
In un exchange of letters made
public yesterday, Mr. Wilson wrote
that it was "out of the question" to
accede to the committee's sugges
tion, and Chairman Lodge replied
that although the treaties were
closely connected with the treaty
with Germany, the President un
doubtedly had authority to keep in
formation about them from the
Senate if he chose.
Action Creates New Impasse
The correspondence apparently
brought another impasse between
the President and the committee on
the much-debated subject of what
information the Senators should
have in their consideration of the
Treaty with Germany.
Mr. Lodge and others have de
clared the committee couid not act
intelligently until all of the Ver
sailles Treaties were before it, but
at the White House conference Mi.
Wilson told the committee that the
form to be taken by the four
Treaties under negotiation depend
ed largely on the Senate's action
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regarding the instrument now be
fore it.
A copy of the agreement of June
16 relative to the Rhine district also
was denied by the committee, the
President writing that it would only
become pertinent after the Treaty
was ratified and that Its publication
now might be embarrassing to other
governments. To this Senator Lodge
replied that it already had been
published in a British white book
and from that source had been cir
culated in this country through the
Congressional Record.
Lodge Reveals Letters
The correspondence was made
public by Mr. Lodge, who indicated
that no further effort would be
made by the committee in the mat
ter.
The only amendment pending bo
fore the committee now is a p.o
posal by Senator Fall, Republican,
New Mexico, to strike out the pro
vision for an international labor oi
ganization. When the question of
amendments has been disposed of.
drafting of the ratification resolu
tion will be taken up. It is ex
pected that the committee draft
will include several reservations to
the League of Nations Covenant.
WIN SERVICE CROSS
Washing ton, Sept. 2.—The War
Department announced to-day that
General Pershing had awarded the
distinguished service crosa to Lieu
tenant Colonel Edward Martin,
Waynesburg, Pa.; Major William H.
H. Morris, Germantown, Pa., and
Sergeant William J. Ingold, Altoona.