Heavy VAing Marks Primary Election in Every Ward in City Because ol Closely Fought Contests HARRISBURG iSlfifii TELEGRAPH LXXXVIII— NO. 216 18 PAGES W&.t HARRISBURG, PA. TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1919 SEVENTY BODIES OF FLOOD VICTIMS ARE RECOVERED Mutilated Beyond Recognition in Fierce Hurricane; Injured May Run Into Hundreds PROPERTY DAMAGE AMOUNTS TO MILLIONS OF DOLLARS Hy .'.ssociateJ Press. 2 Sinton. Texas, Sept. 16. j Seventy bodies ot* flood victims, mutilated beyond recognition, have been recovered at Sinton. the relief headquarters for the entire surrounding bay shore territory. The count so far shows that 40 were found at Westport. 22 at Whitepoint, four or live be low Odem and a few at Port land Xo one was killed at Sin ton. but property damage was high. Bodies are being held at ranch houses and schools. Corpus Christi, Texas, Sept. 16. With troops patrolling the main streets and relief trains headed this way from many parts ot the State, Corpus Christi to-day began slowly emerging from the wreckage caused by the gulf hurricane which struck the city early Sunday, bringing death to an unknown number of l persons and doing property damage of millions. It was impossible this morning to get anything like a correct estimate of the fatalities. In the city proper, the death list was placed by some officials at between fifteen and twen ty-five, but that was regarded by many as far too conservative. In some quarters it was said the num ber of injured would exceed 200. 3,000 Homeless One report in circulation to-day but as yet unconfirmed was that 120 bodies, most of them recognized as residents of Corpus Christi, had been taken from a reef near Port land on Nueces Bay, upon which Corpus Christi is situated. More than 3,000 persons were made homeless. However, with the coming of relief trains, it was ex pected that by night most of these would be taken care of. , Considerable anxiety was express ed regarding the fate of the launch Waldo with fifteen persons on board, which left Corpus Christi Saturday afternoon on a fishing excursion. Since the storm no word has been received from the party, which in cludes four women. Tiilal Wave Sweeps Town Fears are entertained that a heavy casualty list will be reported from surrounding towns, several of which were directly in the path of the stor.m. The storm sent a tidal wave ten feet high over the business and north beach districts of the city. At the height of the tidal wave practically the entire business sec tion was partly submerged. The wa ter was about four feet deep in the lobby of the Nueces Hotel and every business house between the bluff and the bay was under water from eight to ten feet. House boats fish ing craft and wreckage of every con ceivable character were piled in the streets 'by the waters. Military rule was invoked yester day and no one was allowed to enter the wrecked portions of the city. All foodstuffs that had escaped damage by water were sold upder direction of city officials, one day's rations be ing allowed to the customer. The city was in darknes last night. From fifteen to twenty-five per sons are known to be dead, approxi mately four thousand are homeless [Continued on Page ".] Candidate Dies ol Heart Disease After a Long, Hard Campaign Meclianlosburg. Pa., Sept. 16.—0n the eve of the primary election at which he was a candidate for nomi nation for county commissioner of Cumberland county, 'William O. Neidig died suddenly last evening at his home n the Trindle Road, a short distance from tiwn. from heart disease. Mr. Neidig had been con ducting a vigorous campaign for nomination and had Just returned home from visits to various parts of the county. Mr. Neidig lived in Mechanics burg formany years and was a mem ber of the borough school board for several years. He was a member of the First Lutheran Church of Mechanicsburg and of the Mechan icsburg Lodge of the Knights of Malta. Previous to moving to I Mechanicsburg Mr. Neidig was a successful farmer of Hampden township and was the township as sessor. Mr. Neidig was 61 years old and is survived by his wife and six children. Ralph J. Neidig, of Montana; Wil liam M. Neidig. of Toledo, Ohio; Mrs. Lawrence Landis. of. Spring field. Mass.; Robert J. Neidig. of Mechanicsburg, and Miss Anna Nei dig and Frank H. Neidig. at home. THE WEATHER] Harrlahurg and Vlrlnltyi Fair to night and Wednesday. ,\ot much change In temperature. Hirer: The Susquehanna rlter nnd all Itn branches mill full slowly • r remain nearly stationary. A stage of about .14 feet is Indi cated for Harrlabprg Wedaes duy moralng . ' ' "Standard" Costumes to Combat H. C. L. By Associated Press. London. Sept. 16.—Increasing ly high prices llu- women's cloth ( ins. forecast by the clothing trade for the coming winter, prob ably will be combatted by the manufacture, under government supervision, of a half-milliorr I "standard" costumes and coat frocks, such as were manufac tured during 1918. I.eeds firms have upwards of 2,000.000 yards of material available for the manufacture of these "standard ized" garments, but announces that the cost of production prob ably will bring the cost price of the ww lot to $lB or S2O. Simt- ' lar garments last year were re tailed for sl4 to sl6. TELLS OF BANDIT CRIMES AGAINST AMERICAN GIRLS i i Woman Testifying at Investi gation Relates Stories of Cruelties and Outrages FACE STRIPPED OF SKIN Two Others Carried to Hills; Feet Shaved Until So Ten der They Cannot Escape Washington. Sept. 16. With a i number of persons subpoenaed and waiting to be heard, further angles of the Mexican situation were ex pected to be laid to-day before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcom mittee investigating relations be tween this country and Mexico. The subcommittee last night held , its first night session and heard its first woman witness. Miss Agnes Laut, who recently re turned from Mexico, in advising i against intervention in Mexico, laid before the committee last night a solution of the Mexican problem I which she characterized as the "beneficent pacification" of Mexico. In corroboration of her assertion that widespread corruption had in flicted on Mexico "nine years of crucifixion" and that "ninety-five per cent, of the population is calling for help," Miss Laut said. She told the committee of two girls who had been clubbed to death, of two Ameri i can women who were carried into the mountains of Sonora and there 1 forced to remain by their captors, who shaved the soles of their feet to the quick to make simpler the task of guarding them. Now a Captive An American girl from Nebraska, , she said, now is somewhere in the hills, the captive of Mexicans, who dragged her from her home near | the gulf coast. When the band ap- I peared they roped her father and i mother and when she, 16 years old, threw herself before the Mexicans, they declared they would kill her parents. She fainted and when re vived she found herself alone in the hills with her assailants. , An English woman in the State of ' Zacatecas was more fortunate, ac cording to Miss Laut. In this case ! Miss Laut said, the woman shot the bandit who was struggling with her, and then killed two ether bandits who held her two daughters. Another story she related was ; that of a woman whose skin was stripped from her face, the Mexi can cutting from the center of the 1 forehead circularly about the face then tearing the covering loose. Driven Insane A Kansas farmer was the victim j of the Cedlllo brothers in the State I of San Luis Potosi, according to her 1 testimony. His wife and daughter ; had gone to Tampico. While they j were gone the Mexicans raided the ! place, hanged him to a tree, altern. I ately raising and lowering him and I jabbing him with bayonets. The man became insane and afterwards I died. 30 Women Captured Another example of the treatment ; of women which she cited was the | taking into the hills of more than ' 30 women and girls from a train ! the Mexicans had captured. No attempt was made by the wit ness to shield the Carranza soldiery. She admitted that a fa.- part of the J crimes were committed by bandits, ; but intimated that a number of the so-called bandits were in reality Mexican Federal troops. Federal Troops Implicated Regarding reports that the rebels i have been getting arms and ammu nition from the United States, she ! said that through an American Army officer who had made the investiga tion for her she found that the rifles of many of the followers of Felix Diaz were of the same pat- I tern used by the Mexican Army, and I that they had been acquired both by capture and by purchase from the Mexican Army. * Now That We Know the Prescription, Why Not Buy It at the Drugstore and Eliminate the Doctor Bills BIG WAREHOUSE THREATENED BY BLAZING CAR .Eight-Story Structure of Har risburg Storage Company Saved by Firemen Fire, which completely destroyed | a boxcar on the siding of the Harriff burg Storage Company in South 1 Harrisburg. for a time this morning I threatened the eight-story structure i of the company. Nothing of value was burned with ' the car. Received yd'.terday, it had i been unloaded during the day and had been left standing, at the un-i loading door of the storage firm. The fire was discovered by l I a watchman, but not before it had j gained considerable headway. The alarm was sounded about 6.35 this i morning from Box 13 and the Pax ! ton and Citizen companies answered. Attention of the firemen was con • centrated on preventing the spread |of the fire. Before their arrival, : while it had gained considerable ! headway, it was prevented from [ igniting Building No. 2 of the stor ■ age company, by fire doors and wire glass at the unloading entrance. BRtTTOV DECLINES By Arsociated Piess. j New Haven, Conn.. Sept. 16.—As the j chances of having Benny Leonard ; meet Jack Britton in Connecticut next j month have disappeared through the | latter - * disinclination to make a match ' the same boxing promoters announce 1 to-day that Lenard - s manager, Bil -Ily Gibson, has agreed to have his man meet Lew Tendler, the light i weight, of Philadelphia, on Thanks ! giving Day. The place for the pro ' posed meeting is not stated, but to j accommodate New York sport follow- I crs it will be as near that city as pos | sible. i GEORGE TIRES OF LIVING BACHELOR'S LONELY LIFE Applicants, to Qualify For Matrimony, Must Show They're White, Under 65, and Own Xest in Which They'll Live George Unger, who will be 52 years old the 19th of September, wants a wifel And George is not very hard to please, either. That Is, the only thing he stipulates is that she be white and not over 65 : years old and by the way, she must ■ own her own home, j George is a resident of Cham i bersburg. having lived for some i years in Lowden street of that town. I He is a bachelor, white, tall, hand ! some, well whiskered and very tem i perate. The businessmen of Cham | bersburg will give him the best of I references, he says, and especially M. C. Brubaker, on whose farm ©be ofar-2fa&cpen&efil WILSON'S CHOICE OF BULLITT IS BEING SCORED English Paper Calls Him "Ex plosive Journalist;" Seek Author of Denial By Asso'icUd Frets. London, Sept. 16.—An "authorized'" ' denial of statements made by William \C. Bullitt, formerly attached to the j American Peace Delegation, before j the Foreign Relations Committee in ; the United States Senate which is i printed In London newspapers tnls } morning is attracting more notice | here than Mr. Bullitt's evidence before the comnjittee. j London* morning pauers express in [Continued on Page 11.] Royal Arcanum Meets Here For Annual Session; Plan For Many Events , The executive session of the Grand Council of the Royal Ar canum opened this afternoon at 2 : o'clock in the Penn-Harris. All j parts of the state are represented, : 238 delegates being here for the ; State Council. At 8.30 this evening a formal re- I ception will be given the Supreme | Regent and officers of the Grand j Council in the reception hall, and at j 9 o'clock there will be a dance m j the ballroom with cards in one of j the adjacent rooms for all those | who do not care to dance. iln the afternoon at 2 o'clock '.he Ladies' Auxiliary committee will take the visiting women for a rido i about the city. A subcommittee has •' also prepared a musical entertairi- I ment for to-morrow evening in. the I ballroom of the hotel. he has worked as superintendent for 13 years. Now George is tired of being a bachelor' and would take unto him self a wife. She would be treasurer, housekeeper, and manager of the establishment, aofMCding to George's idea. He doesn'P?are espe cially if she be widow or spinster, but he has an idea maybe that the widow would be best. It is imma terial if she live in Harrisburg or elsewhere, but Harrisburg appeals to George. Of course, the prospec tive. blushing bride would havg to be a property owner; yes. Indeed, because George wants to live with her wherever be her residence. DAUPHIN COWS MAKE SPLENDID BUTTER RECORDS Dr. Lenker Owns Prize Ani mal, Giving 1,601 Pounds of Milk in 31 Days Seventeen cows, owned by mem bers of the Dauphin County Cow- Testing Association, produced mo'-e than 1,000 pounds of milk and more than forty pounds of butter flatdui ing the month of August, according to an announcement made to-day !>y H. G. Niesley, Dauphin County Farm Agent. These figures are taken from the records submitted by Wilmer E. Grubb, official tester of the association. The record for the month, both for production and for high test in butter fat, was set by a cow beloug ing to Dr. Jesse Lenker, of this city. This animal produced a total of 1,604 pounds of milk during Iho month, which tested 54.5 pounds of butter fat. Thirteen Holsteins are included in the honor roll of seventeen cows. Three of the remaining four are Brown Swiss, the property of Sam uel Geyer, of Middletown, while the fourth is a (Durham) shorthorn. The herd of S. T. Whitmer, a breeder of Holsteins, made the beat record during the month. Foul cows of his herd are included in the honor list . Each produced more than 1,300 pounds of milk. Samuel Geyer and William Peters, of Hnni inelstown. each had three cows in cluded on the list, while Howaid Speece and Irving Curry, of Swa tara, are each the owners of two honors cows. Edward Swope, of Hummelstown: R. F. Bell, of Pax tang, and Dr. Jesse Lenker, of this city, are each the owner of one honor cow. State Memorial Bridge Application Is Granted The Public Service Commission has granted the certificate of public con venience asked by the Board of Public grounds and Buildings for the con struction of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial bridge, for which formal ap plication was made last week. The commission has arranged for an engineering conference to-morrow in regard to approaches, piers and other details and will likely issue a supplemental statement in regard to such matters. The apportionment of cost will come up after a contract is let. The way is now cleared for the op ening of bids on September 23. SERBIA TO SIGN By A ssoc\ateJ Frtis. Paris, Sept. 16. Serbia, one of the two nations in interest which did not sign the Austrian Peace Treaty, Rumania being the other, will attach a belated signature to that document, according to the Echo de Paris, to-day. HEA VY VOTE BEING CAST BECAUSE OF INTEREST IN CITY'S MA YORALTY FIGHT POLLS CLOSE AT 7 i TONIGHT Polls opened at 7 o'clock. Polls will close this evening at i I 7 o'clock. Voters enrolled as Republicans must vote the Republican ticket; as Democrats, the Democratic ticket. Voters who registered and did , not specify a party may vote only ' for Judge of the Superior Court I on the nonpartisan ballot. Returns from the various dis- j tricts will be brought to the of- j lice of the County Commissioners 1 to-morrow and the official count [ will be started later in the week. | NEAR BEER IS TOO NEAR REAL THING! FOR ELECTION DAYI So Bars Close While the! Thirsty Vote For Favor ite Candidates LAW CLOSELY IS OBEYED' No One Wants to Test Law as j to What Is Intoxicating Drink Thirst.v ones of - Harrisburg. either on the Journeys to or from the polls, | are to-day unable to get even their | accustomed two and three-rourth per : cent. The nearbeer was a little too j near, so the bars closed to keep en- . tirely within the law. Every bar within the city, as fas as is known, closed down promptly at 12 o'clock midnight, and the dispens ers of liquid refreshment are enjoy ing a vacation. Don't Want a Teat Everything in the city passed off without difficulty. No attempt was made by any city bar keeper, to keep bis establishment open to-day, on the ground that the two and three-fourths per cent, beer which they have been selling is non-intoxicating. It is said that no one wanted the question as to what is intoxicating finally settled. In some sections of Pennsylvania saloon keepers have kept their estab. lishments open on the grounds that the drinks which they have been dis pensing, are non-intoxicating. As a whole, however, there has been little ! difficulty. I In Philadelphia, contrary to ex ' j pectations, the bars are closed up. ); The booze sellers had declared that they would continue open but yester day at a meeting they decided to re . main shut up. Industrial Truce For Six Months Suggested to Federation of Labor Ey Associated Press. \ew York, Sept. 16. —Proposals that 1 | the President of the United States j be made a member of the American , Federation of Labor and that all i strikes now in progress throughout ■ the country be immediately canceled ! in order to meet the present "perilous ; situation" by which "the foundations j of our free democratic government are ! threatened," are contained in a com j munication sent to the President and Executive Council of the American I Federation of Labor, was made public ' ! here to-day. The league was recently organized by John J. Pierce and Isadore Epstein, ; who were members of a special com- I mittee appointed by James P. Hol land, president of the State Feder ation of Labor to investigate Indus-, trial conditions. The report of the committee, which was published on Labor Day, recommended an indus trial truce for six months during which all strikes were to be called off. I The report was promptly repudiated by President Holland, who discharged Epstein and Pierce from the commit tee. ! Seven Divisions of New Army Comprise Little More Than One of Old Washington, Sept. 16.—The seven regular divisions which the War De partment plans to maintain at full strength to-day comprise only 31,473 officers and men, or but little more than the strength of one division. The First Division, because of its parade here to-morrow, has been kept as near intact as possible and now in , eludes 17,000 men including temporary personnel, but the other six divisions . average around 2,500 officers and men . each. On September 9, the Army numbered . less than one-tenth of its peak in Europe. The remainder were in this . country or enroute home. Resignations of officers in the tfeg°- I ular establishment continue to be filed L in numbers which cause officials un , disguised concern. Since August Ist, ■ 397 resignations have been accepted, i of whom 49 per cent, were in the grade of first lieutenant. Better op portunities in civil life and feeling that advancement in the Arr. y will be slow in times of peace are be lieved to be the reasons for the ma jority of resignations. DANIKI.S TO RETI'RX Tscoma, Wash., Sept. 16.—Secretary of the Navy Daniels who for several weeks has been with the new Pacific fleet, planned to start on his return to Washington to-day. OM.Y EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS SINGER COPIES LI ft HI C ETIITIftM NEWSPAPER IN HAIUUSBIRG TWO CENTS liUlTlEi LUIUUII Workers Report a Close Race Is Resulting in Treasury Contest MISTAKES IN BALLOTS AND TARDY OFFICIALS ANNOYING Heavy voting in many city districts was reported by the elec tion boards early this afternoon, in some instances the number of voters who had cast ballots reaching 30 or 40 per cent, of the en tire registration in the district. The mayoralty and city treasurer contests on the Republican ticket in the city aroused the most interest among voters to-day. Alderman George A. Hoverter, of the Ninth ward, together with many friends was actively campaigning in the majority of the districts while the present Mayor, Daniel L. Keister, claimed to-day he had distributed thousands of his cards personally, hand ing one to each voter. Alderman John H. Shaner, of the Seventh ward, on the so-called independent Republican ticket, had the support of the Doehne-Koons-Worden-Rutherford workers. Harry F. Oves and C. E. Weber, seeking the Republican nom ination for city treasurer, were working hard to-day, they both having the support of many Republican ward leaders. • Only one election board could not open the polling place at 7 o'clock this morning. This was in the Sixth precinct of the Ninth ward, F. I. Hoover, Democratic inspector, not re porting. The other members of the board were told to wait until 8 o'clock and then hold a curbstone election to hi! the vacancy. G. A. Diehl was ap pointed to the place and W. O. Moyer was named Democratic clerk. 1.'.000 May Get Ballots During the morning a number of r.ames were added to the books by the County Commissioners, making the total registration in Harrisburg ap proximately 16,900. Because some of the official bal lots for one of the city districts wen T T V N JURED WHEN P. R. R. T *§ e r 4S :: i *l* € * EASI T e *M :: i J T i* jj .RAIN TO A SUDDEN STOP. THROWING PAS- f f 4 X ' ♦ DUEL BETWEEN OF T * * m * * New York—Reports of a duel between two Army offi- 111 4 I O e* 4 4 4 * . * * <4 4 2 X O f > ej • 4 * FIRE BURNS GOVERNMENT WAREHOUSE J j < Held, Ala,—Fire last night dt 4 * 11 N0.4 of the J. G. White Engineering Corporation a 4 * Muscleshoals, the Government nitrate plant, the loss be- 1 H ej 4 4 jng estimated at SIOO,OOO. The major part of the loss A S 4 4 l was on electrical equipment. , 2 1 4 J . DEATH TOLL EXPECTED TO REACH 100 J | 4 Corpus Christi—The death toll in Sunday's storm wiU lj I - 4 e t ach between 75 and 100 in Corpus Christi and sur- Jg 4 * rounding towns along the coast, according to an estimate 'jj I to-day by Dr. W. E." Wills, city health physician.. Ap- .-'si * * proximately 175 refugees have been rescued at Odem. 1 1 about 30 u of here. They had beeii Carrie- I ■ | 0 ft t , across Nueces bay on wreckage- All of them are suf- 11 € * ferine from exposure. • 1 4 4 . V 4 11. - ..:i 4 4 4 c 4 4 * 4 4 ;; MARRIAGE UCENSES J. Sandy Hohiniion. Hadrlaburg. and Laaiac Rnccn. Ckar'etiai, w.t ■ Va- 1 William H. O vrrdorf and Jente L. RUacll, W'llllamaport. not properly printed, the wrons ward and precinct numbers appearing at the top, a rush order was sent to a printing company in Reading, which was awarded the contract, to reprint the ballots. The new supply reached the city at 4 o'clock this morning. In the county districts the vote va ried some reporting t large-percent age of ballots cast at noon, otiier election boards announcing that only a small number of voters had appear ed during the morning and early af ternoon. 142 More Register Shortly after noon at the County Commissioners office it was reported ' [Continued on Page 11.]
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