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FIGHT THREAT OF
NEW EXPLOSIONS
OF OIL TANKS
New York Firemen Unable
$o Check Blaze Start
ing Saturday
New York, Sept. 15. —With more
than fifty persons injured and the
damage already done estimated
from 15,000,000 to $10,000,000, the
weary fire fighters early to-day still
were fighting a threat of further ex
plosions of oil tanks at the scene of
the fire which practically wiped out
the Stone and Fleming Oil Com
pany's plant In Long Island City on
Saturday.
Indications early to-day were that
the fire would continue for three or
four days, department officials said.
Five tanks of crude oil were burn
ing early to-day. Should there be a
sadden shift from north to north
east, many additional tanks in plants
nearby would be threatened, as well
aa thousands of tons of coal.
The firemen were working in short
Shifts. So exhausted had they be
come that, when relieved for a brief
rert, they lay in the streets near the
fire zone and went fast asleep.
The twenty acres of fire-swept ter
ritory looked like a scene in war
devastated France or Belgium. The
tanks were crumpled up; huge steel
girders lay In a tangled mass, few
walls were left standing, and burn
ing oil continued to flow along the
surface of Newtown creek.
Mayor Hyland made two trips to
the fire yesterday morning, and once
was standing within 150 feet of a
tank when it exploded. He was
deluged with water and oil. but in
sisted that he had not been in any
ganger, and after praising the work
'of the firemen and police, drove
away.
$13,494,600 Army
Automobiles Disposed
of Illegally by Baker
Washington, Sept. 15. Secretary
Baker, In clear and deliberate vio
lation of the law, disposed of War
'Department motor vehicles to the
'value of $13,494,600, according to
"a statement just filed with the sub
icommittee investigating this subject
•by Brigadier General C. B. Drake,
chief of the Motor Transport Service.
General Drake's figures show that
;6703 were disposed of; 5,225 ve
hicles, valued at $11,752,500. were
illegally transferred to the Depart
ment of Agriculture, Bureau of
Public Roads; 868 vehicles, valued
at $505,600, were illegally trans
ferred to the Post Office Department,
and 610 vehicles, valued at $945,900,
were illegally transferred to the
Bureau of Public Health.
Steel Men Defer Strike
Called For Sept. 22 Until
After Meeting Wilson
w .. T ? rk ' Sept 16 ' Th strike
of United State Steel Corporation
employes set for September 22 will
be deferred until after the industrial
conferences In Washington, called
for October 6. by President Wilson,
it was learned from a reliable source
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MONDAY EVENING*
Japs, Chinese and
Asiatics Restricted in
Lower California
By Astociattii Prtss.
Calexieo, Cal., Sept. 15. The
northern district of Lower Califor
nia was closed to further immigra
tion by Japanese, Chinese and Asia
tics in an order issued by Governor
Esteban Cantu. The order is to be
effective until the Mexican Federal
Congress takes action on the ques
tion of immigration.
The order declares that although
members of the excluded races have
contributed to the wealth and de
velopment of Lower California, Gov
ernor Cantu considers it to the in
terest of the Mexicans to prevent
their further entry into the northern
district pending legislation by the
national congress.
Border residents considered that
Governor Cantu's order a safeguard
against trouble such as that a few
days ago at Algodones where there
was an uprising of Mexican soldiers.
It was asserted by Mexicans that
the action of the soldiers was tl e
result of unrest over importation of
Chinese for ranch work.
9 U. S. Soldiers Executed
For Crimes During War
Paris, Sept. 15.—Nine soldiers of
the American Expeditionary Force
were hanged and one was shot for
criminal offenses during the war, it
was revealed recently at the inves
tigation of A. E. F. courts-martial
by the congressional committee in
quiring into war expenditures.
Two of the hangings were for
murder, the investigation brought
out. Seven men were hanged for
rape, of whom six were negroes.
There was a single execution for
desertion.
Murder trials totaled 110, result
ing in sixty-two convictions. One
fifth of all the general courts-inar
tial were officers and the rest en
listed men and welfare workers.
Most of the officers were charged
with drunkenness and disorderly
conduct. Convictions resulted in
sixty-seven per cent, of officers'
cases which went to trial. Seventy
seven per cent, of the men tried Dy
general courts-martial were found
guilty.
Only one conscientious objector
was tried.
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AIRSHIP CLIMBS
34,000 FEET, A
NEWRECORD
Testing Pilot Beats Previous
Record of Frenchman
by 864 Feet
Mincola. N. V., Sept. 15.—A now
unofficial world's altitude record, it
was learned, was established here
Saturday when Roland Rohlfs, test
ing pilot for the Curtiss Aeroplane
and Motor Corporation, climbed to
a height of 34,000 feet—more than
six miles beating the previous
world's unofficial record of Adju
tant Casale, of the French army, at
Vallacoublay last June by 864 feet.
Rohlfs explain 11 he took the air
intending only to make a test flight,
but he found conditions so satisfac
tory that he decided to keep climb
ing until his apparatus showed the
new recofH altitude.
The machine Rohlfs flew was the
same Curtiss "wasp," equipped with
a 400 horsepower motor, in which
last July he flew to a height of 30,-
700 feet. He was prevented from
climbing higher at that time by a
chilling of his engine.
The aviator started at 11 a. m.,
dressed warmly out of regard for his
previous experience when the bitter
cold he encountered threatened to
put him as well as his motor out
of commission before he really got
under full climbing headway. He
said he found that he was very com
fortable in his warm garments at
the 34,000 foot level Saturday where
his thermometer registered 4 4 de
grees below zero.
Destroyers to Accompany
the George Washington,
Carrying Royal Party
Brussels, Sept. 15.—Three torpedo
boat destroyers will accompany the
United States transport George
Washington when King Albert and
Queen Elizabeth embark at Ostend
the latter part of the present month
for the voyage to the United States.
The royal party will return at the
end of October.
BXRRfiSBURO TEEEGRSSPH:
Pueblo Preparing to
Combat Outbreaks as
Resub of Lynching
Puetflo, Colo., Sept. 15.—With all
of the city's police reserves, aug
mented by a. force of volunteers, on
duty to-day, the Pueblo police de
partment is ready for any emer
gency that might arise as an after
math of the lynching Saturday night
of two Mexicans accused of the mur
der of Patrolman Jeff Evans early
Saturday morning. Apparently the
city is quiet, lsut hundreds of Mexi
cans visited the morgue yesterday to
view the bodies of the mob victims
and latter gathered In groups in vari
ous portions of th*e city.
The murder of Patrolman Evans
has stirned Pueblo more than any
of the thirteen other murders that
have taken place in this city since
July 1.
Belgium's Hero Primate
Receives Great Ovation
Baltimore, Sep*. 15. Clothed in
the rich crintson of the rank that so
appropriately symbolized the martyr
dom of his motherland in its heroic
struggle, DosMeratus Cardinal Mer-'
cier, primate of Belgium, before a
notable congregation in the old Bal
timore CathedivM yesterday taught a
great lesson o€ simple, dauntless
faith. In halting" English, he told tile,
great story of Belgium, of its supreme
confidence in the justice of Provl-'
denee and its emergence from the
seething crucible *f war, free from
the stain of apostasy and bathed in
the blood of sacrifice. American re
lief and later, the critsade against op
pression, he interpretiptti as God's an
swer to his prayers, ,tjie reward of
simple dependence upoii divine aid.
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Sixth Army Corps
Refused to Disarm
D'Annunzio's Men
Rome, Sept. 15. —Premier Nltti,
in a statement in the Chamber of
Deputies regarding the Fiume raid,
announced that the commander of
the Sixth Army corps had been
ordered to intercept and disarm
Gabriele D'Annunzio's troops, but
that these troops refused to obey
the commander's order.
The latest advices were to the ef
fect that the situation arising from
the coup was serious, and the Pre
mier declared he was determined
to act in a manner to avoid grave
conflicts. He deplored what had
happened, bfceause for the first time
sedition, though for idealistic aims,
hud entered the Italian army.
D'Annunzio, according to some
reports, entered the city of Fiume
at the head of from 8,000 to 12,000
men.
To Continue Library
For Service Men
New York, Sept. 15. Not only
{will the American Library Associa
tion continue to supply reading mat
tar for soldiers and sailors, but It
will maintain library stations for
men in the coast guard and light
ihouse service, merchant marine and
United States Public Health Serv
ice hospitals. The program' also
contemplates co-operation with local
libraries to provide ex-service men
with books on vocational and tech
nical subjects; encouragement of
manufacturers to establish technical
libraries for their employes; and in
passage of necessary library legisla
tion; publication of more literature
' for the blind; furtherance of Ameri
canization work, and national stand
ardization and certification of libra
rians by an examining board to
[raise the standards of the profes
sions.
Attacks Cummins Rail
Bill as Impracticable
Washington, Sept. 15. The Cum
mins Railroad bill, now before the
Senate Interstate Commerce Commit
tee, is impraticable and harmful to
the security holders. Senator Lenroot,
of Wisconsin declared in discussing
the various forms of railroad legis
lation now before Congress. The
SSs? test
A Wonderful Bread
gtefeij Making Process
jL T~>ROM the re-cleaning of the the bakers' art has reached its 4*l^l*
• highest-grade flour shown in highest perfection. With the
this picture to the wrapping baker, it has been well-known
of the delicious brown loaves, that the large loaf of bread is "-LTV
FiTj'Ti ma^"n 8 °f HWiSUM is a better quality than the small loaf
process of perfect cleanliness. from the same dough. In the fSZvll;.
TmTi /-M . , baking, more of the moisture and
lTiTj"! . „ an automabc machinery flavor escapes from the small
feTxTj handles every step in the making loaf than the large. There is less
!lT.i!Tj*i . WDLSUM. The white at- waste, consequently more econ- 4*^4^
tired bakers merely watch and omy. , *jfc, u , •
JrJTAi supervise. They scarcely need to
DTaTi touch the dough. The machines Remember that wonderful .'■"Ji.'v
are daily scrubbed and polished bread and butter of childhood
and kept in a state of constant days? The HOLIUA flavor
KOfeiuM. I
SEPTEMBER 15,1919.
Plumb plan, the Senator described as
"a bill to further Increase the cost of
living."
The railroad problem will not be
solved by the Cummins bill. In the
opinion of Senator Lenroot, but wtll
only be a makeshift measure, which
eventually will increase the difficul
ties under which the lines are now
struggling.
Applicants Fail to Pass
Examination For Teachers
York, Pa., Sept. 15.—More than
10 per cpnt of the young men and
women examined by the county
school officials during the past few
months for certificates to teach in
the public schools in the boroughs
and townships of York county, were
unable to qualify. The York board
of school control has elected Dr.
Gibson Smith, son of Dr. Allen J.
Smith, dean of the University of
Pennsylvania, medical inspector of
the city schools, at a salary of SIOO
per month.
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MALTED MILK
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