, \ * v ,' y* 2 * i w m it y $ i yv* v4 t $ • a * % ■•&* ■ yV /f£Sjf#f €Sw /&ff .I fl/l? j)/jy f* H rtflrtfC f\T Jw/7rY/)M 41%t% m df-Fkl 'ft ft ft ft ft'' fa'iipof' t fi tf #1 a j j yiVit'' 1/ sV J* y>%*n's LXXXVIII — NO. 217 18 PAGES //OF£#refl ,4ND H4/?T!AL4JV WAT 7iV E4SK FASHION WITH REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP ENDORSED A T POLLS Oves Defeats Weber In Very Close Contest; Keister Forgotten "INDEPENDENT' MOVEMENT IS SNOWED UNDER WITH BALLOTS The results of yesterday's primary elections in Harrisburg and Dauphin county arc a complete triumph for the Republican organization and a vindication of the leadership of Lieutenant Governor E. K. Beidlcman and W. Harry Baker. Without a sin gle exception the list of candidates sponsored by Mr. Baker, as chairman of the candidates committee, and announced by him in an interview published last week, won out by such decisive majorities that there is no question of a great Republican victory at the polls in November. The only contest of any consequence, as the returns show, was between Harry F. Oves* chairman of the Republican city com mittee, and Clarence E. Weber, for the city treasurcrship nomin ation. Oves, the choice of the organization, won out by 361 votes, according to unofficial returns, polling a total of 5,303 votes, as compared with 5,042 for \\ eber. George A. Hoverter, for mayor, piled up a total of 6,890 votes bv a considerable majority more than all of the votes for all the other candidates for the office put together. On the Democratic side, the McCormick faction's candidate for mayor was put through with a majority of less than 300 over \\ illiam M. Mc- Nair. the labor candidate, but both Democratic candidates re ceived a total of only 1.251 votes, which, compared with the Re publican total, is so insignificant as to indicate that Mr. Hoverter will have a tremendous majority at the general elections. In the county the regular ticket was nominated by the Republi cans by equally decisive votes, Phillip S. Mover, the organization candidate for district attorney, carrying the election over Edward F. Doehne, the leader of the So-called "independent" ticket by a majority that is growing as rapidly as the precinct totals are re ceived. An Organization Victory The effort of the so-ealed "Inde pendents" on the Republican side was in effect an attempt to wrest the party control from the hands of the younger element and replace it by a leadership in which some of those prominent in the affairs of the organization before the advent of Lieutenant-Governor Beidieman and his friends as leaders in party affairs here, were to be the controlling factors. This was plainly evident at the polls yesterday. The issue was squarely met by Mr. Beidieman and \V. Harry Baker as chairman of the candidates' committee who came out in the newspapers with a list of can didates for whom they stood sponsor, every one of whom was nominated yesterday. The victory for the organization was complete in every respect and the endorsement by the voters of the men put forward by ♦he organization was due in very large degree to the fact that the organization as at pre sent constituted has at no time given its support to a candidate who has not made good in public office. Tlia most determined effort of the "Inde pendents" failed to shake the pub lic's confidence in the organization's sincerity, and even in the home dis tricts of some of the independent candidates the organization slate won out by handsome majorities. Before the returns were all in, but when it became apparent as to what the results would be Lieutenant-Gov ernor Beidlemnn, Mr. Raker and their lieutenants were beset by Re pub'ican workers and others offer ing their congratulations. The Re publican ticket named yesterday goes to the primaries practically certain of election by large major ities, many Democratic leaders ad mitting to-day that their party in both city and county Is simply a shell which wi'l be held together this compaign in order to be in shape to elect delegates to the na tional convention next spring. Good Men Named Charles C. Cumbler and Henry M. Stine, who have made an excel lent record in the county commis sioners' office, were renominated by the Republicans by decisive majori ties, their reassessment of coal lands in the upper end being a big card in their favor. Captain Stine's Army record also told in the returns and he leads the field by a gratifying margin. Both are good men and are widely known. They will have as their opponents Howard O. Holstein. candidate for lieutenant governor last year, and ex-Sheriff Harry C. Wells, who is the present minority commissioner. It is evident that only one of these two can be elect ed and it is expected that Wells will receive organization support as Hol stein was opposed by McCormlck when he ran for the second office in the gift of the State in 1918. Wells also has been somewhat of an In dependent in his refusal to take or ders from headquarters and the likelihood is that the whole Demo cratic campaign will revolve around a bitter personal fight between these THE WEATHER Harrisburg nml Vlclnltyt Fair to night and Thursday. >'ot much change in temperature. Eastern Pennsylvania. Fnlr to night and Thursday. Slightly cooler to-rlglit In enst portion fientle north winds, niver: The Susquehanna river and n'l Its branches will fall slowly or remain stationary. A stage of about 3.4 feet Is Indi cated for Harrisburg Thursday morning. HARRISBURG IFSPLIL TELEGRAPH sl)c otor-3ndcpcn&cM. Daily Except Sunday. Entered aa Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Harrisburg two for the single office the Demo crats can hope to win in Novem ber. M. Harvey Taylor won out handily over Lockwood B. Worden for re corder. Worden, however, showed himself to be an amazingly good campaigner and under other circum stances would have made a winning candidate. He is well known and popular throughout the county, par ticularly among outdoorsmen, being a crack shot and enthusiastic hunter and fisherman. Taylor is also well known among sports lovers through his skill as a baseball player in his days of young manhood. He made a good campaign and his election is assured. He is a native of Harris burg, a resident of the First ward and served both as councilman un der the old two-council law and later as head of the park bureau and fire department after the passage of the Clark act. He will have as his opponent Dr. D. W. Schaffner, of the lower end of the county. Ed. M. Fisher, the present in cumbent by appointment, had an easy time of it for the Republican nomination for register, winning out over Carl B. Shelly by a big vote. He is one of the best known lowtr end Republicans and will win oit easily in November over William R. Danner, the Democratic nominee. George B. Karmany, prominent un dertaker and businessman of Hum melstown, ran away with the Re publican nomination for sheriff, having as his opponents Henry Lb Koons and A. J. Mitchell, who did not get as many votes combined an his total, although both are well known and have a personal follow ing of no mean proportions. J. Clyde Myton, head of the Motor Club of Harrisburg, well known Democrut, was unopposed for the sheriff place on the minority ticket. For District Attorney As was evident from the first, Philip S. Moyer, county solicitor and one of the most widely known mem bers of the Dauphin county bar, was nominated by the Republicans for district attorney. He was opposed by Edward F. Doehne, a prominent Harrisburg lawyer, who is said to have been the head of the so-eallcd independent movement, who made a vigorous campaign which continued right up to the close of the polls. Moyer's wide acquaintanceship, nis support by a big majority of tlio members of the bar and his organi zation support combined to give him a most decisive majority and will assure his election in November. The Democratic candidate, J. Douglas Royal, son of former Mayor John K. Royal, and at present a member of the Patriot staff, will run against him. Royal was prevailed upon at the last minute to get into the race in order to fill out the [Continued on Page 12.] Mexican Police Chief and Colonel Arrested For Directing Gold Robbery By Associated Press. Washington, Sept. 17. Chief of Police Agupito Perez, of Tuxpan, Mexico, and Lieut. Col. Rodriguez, of the Mexican Federal Army have been arrested on orders of General Murgula, accused of complicity in the recent robbery of the Tuxpan office of the Penn-Mex Oil Com pany, an American corporation, it was said in official advices reaching Washington to-day. Practically all the 28 members of the robber band have been arrested and the prisoners without exception, the dispatch said, have declared, under oath, that Lieut. Col. Rodriguez was in com mand of the band at the time of the robbery and personally directed the work. Republican Candidate Retires to His Bed BBIHIbI |T '•118 jj/Bm Wn. GEORGE A. HOVERTER George A. Hoverter, who yesterday won the Republican nomination for Mayor, to-day is confined to his bed. He has been suffering with a slight attack of kidney trouble for the past week, but has managed to keep going until the primaries. Last evening he returned home, much wearied by the pre-election strain, ami decided to rest for several days. He has nothing to say on the election at this time, he says. His condition is not serious. Final Primary Returns REPUBLICAN Mayor George A. Hoverter 6,890 Daniel L. Keister 2,512 Patrick J. Kenny 110 John H. Shaner 1.918, City Councilman Charles W. Burtnett 7,453 R. L- Dare j Edward Z. Gross 7,5b9 i Samuel F. Hassler ; William H. Lynch 7,4/5, Benjamin H. Reichert l.o I George D. Toomey 2,ob< | City Controller j Harry R. Brown 5.852 DeWitt A. Fry 6,505 City Treasurer i Harry F. Oves 5.303 , Clarence E. Weber . . . 5,042 County Commissioners | City County Totals ] C. C. Cumbler 6,667 4,136 10,813 j David Gordon 1,842 2,036 4,136 ( H O. PaEfl• • . 2,220 781 3,001 F. M. Shadel . 1,938 2,304 <-2*2. H. M. Stirce... 7,4 II 3,526 11,003 Recorder M. H. Taylor. 6,522 4,062 1?.58^ L. B. Worden. 4,070 2,655 6,(-5 Register of Wills E. H. Fisher.. 5,578 4,009 10,587 j Carl B. Shelley 3,758 2,828 6,586 j Sheriff G. W. Karmany 5,784 3,648 9,432 j H. D. Koona, . 3,284 2,696 5,980 A. J. Mitchell 1,340 372 1,1121 RHOADS IS CHIEF MARSHAL OF THE WELCOME PARADE Department Head of Grand Army Accepts Invitation For the 29th Event George W. Rhoads, commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in the Department of Pennsylvania, to day accepted the invitation of the parade committee of the Harrisburg Welcome Home committee, to be chief marshal of the parade which will escort the Harrisburg soldiers, sailors, marines and overseas and Army camp nurses and war workers in the capital city's greetings to its own on the afternoon of Monday, September 29. Mr. Rhoads, who has long been prominent in Post 58 and one of the leading veterans of the Civil War in this section of the country, was the unanimous choice of the parade committee. He was authorized to {.Continued on Page 13.] HARRISBURG, PA. [District Attorney E. P. Doehne 3,969 2,641 6,610 Philip S. Moyer 6,604 4,228 10,832 County Treasurer iO. C. Bishop. 5,496 3,788 9,284 J. Rutherford. 4,713 2,746 7,459 Directors of the Poor |A. H. Duffan. 2,042 825 2,867 |T. G. George.. 2,830 1,378 4,208 'Joseph Haines 1.971 588 2,559 i John H. Lehr 4,533 3,216 7,849 IL. Rubendall. 1,064 1,606 2,670 S. Smeltzer... 1,996 1,614 3,610 jF. B. Snavely. 4,875 3,266 8,141 Returns from the following coun ■ ty districts n-ot included in the coun |ty totals given above: Derry town ship, First precinct; Jefferson town ship, Lower Swatara township, { West Hanover township. DEMOCRATIC Mayor I Dr. G. W. Hartman 1,265 ' William B. McNair 986 City Councilmen ► Harry H. Grant 1,608 i William S. Rhoads 1,680 I Calder B. Sharnmo 1,355 ! George J. Shoemaker 1,752 George D. Toomey 1,162 County Commissioners City Coun-ty Totals J. J. Buffington 317 393 710 |H. O. Holstein 902 376 1,278 iF. Morgenthaler .864 296 1,150 |S. M. Taylor.. 861 234 1,095 H. C. Wells ... 1,145 472 1,617 j [Returns are complete for the I city; all but four county returns are I included in the above count.] ROUTE FOR HILL CARS AND PLANS FOR BRIDGE UP Cars of State Street Line May Be Operated in Four teenth Street Plans for tne rerouting of Harris burg Railway cars during the con struction of the State's Memorial bridge were considered to-day at an engineering conference held at the Capitol between officials of the Rail ways Company and State officers. Later in the day details of the bridge in its relation to the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad were consid ered, its engineers taking up piers and the like. Approaches were also [Continued on Page 13.] RULGAR TREATY FRIDAY Gy .Associated Press, Paris, Sept. 17.—The Supremo Council lias definitely adopted tne Bulgarian Treaty which will be de livered to the Bulgarian plenipo tentiaries Friday morning. WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1919. RED CROSS IS EXTENDING ITS HOME SERVICE Crippled Children of County Found in Dire Want of Attention LITTLE ONES CHEERFUL Expert Workers Look After Helpless Cripples So Far as Funds Go In Small Valley, away back in the mountains of the upper end of Dauphin county, a charming little girl of 11 years is waiting eagerly the coming of an automobile that will b® a *" her away for consultation with a famous specialist who hopes , to give her braces whereby she will be able to walk like other children, and go to school, and learn to read and write. On the outskirts of Eliza bethvllle a little lad, orphaned by the flu epidemic, lame since his birth, is counting the days until the oar shall come to bear him away to Philade'phta, where it is hoped he will be made like other boys. Near New Bloomlield a heart broken mother watches over a baby girl of 4, who has never been able to walk or talk since birth, and prays • that the Red Cross will be able to bring her little one back to her in the way of becoming a normal child. In a cozy home in Lykens a bright girl of 11 is rejoicing that she is to have new braces, to help cure the evil results of infantile paralysis, which left her unable to walk without as sistance. Work of tlie Red Cross And the Red Cross is the agency to which all of these, and many more like them in the Harrisburg district, are looking for relief and succor. It happened in this way: Mrs. William Jennings, chairman of the Home Service department of the Harrisburg Chapter, and Miss Mar garet Ringland, the secretary, who is also a trained nurse, had discov ered many things in their rounds of the community during the war tha troubled them. Under the rules of the Red Cross, only families or de pendants of men in the servic could claim the benefits they had to offer. Rut the two and their volunteer as sistants discovered many others who needed help. When the war closed. Mrs. Jen nings asked of Mrs. Lyman D. Gil bert, chairman of the Harrisburg Chapter, and Mrs. Robert McCor mick this question: "If the Red Cross during the war is justified in sending aid to the suf fering people of France and Bel gium, why should it neglect our own sufferers, old and young, at home who are sorely In need of the blessings it alone is qualified to bring?" The answer, of course, was that Red Cross ought to do for its own home folks as much, at least, as it [Continued on Page 13.] Publishers May Quit New York City to Escape Paying Printers' Demands Gy Associated Press. New York. Sept. 17.—Officials of "big six," the local union of print ers, whose demands for an increase of sl4 a week in all present wage scales in book and job offices, ancl the establishment by October 1 o' a forty-four-hour week, have been met by a threat of 152 New York periodical publishers to suspend publication or tq move their plants to western cities where they will bo free of labor "radicalism," an nounced to-day their willingness to arbitrate the question of higher pay. They declared they were deter mined, however, to insist on their demand for shorter hours, refusal of which would mean a strike. John Adams Thayer, secretary ot the New York Publishers' Associa tion, in a statement announcing the employers' attitude, said that "two publishers of publications of na tional circulation' 'were preparing tc sell out their real estate in New York City, much of it entirely new property, and were arranging to purchase land and buildings in oth er cities. Orders for new printing and binding machinery for these New York plants, he said, had been canceled in expectation of removal. Publishers of another periodical of more than a million circulation with a weekly payroll of more than $17,000, according to Mr. Thayer, and whose leases are about to ex pire,, have decided not to renew them and are now negotiating with outside real estate firms for loca tions in the west. Moore's Plurality in Phila. Mayoralty Contest Is 1,407 at Noon Philadelphia, Sept. 17. Election figures compiled by the police up to noon gave Moore for mayor, 150,199; Patterson, 148,792. Moore's appar ent plurality, 1,407. Changes are constantly being made in the figures and leaders of the Patterson faction contend that only the official count will deter mine who has been nominated. DR. SMITH CRKKI) Junrrs, Mex., Sept. 17.—Dr. J. W. Smith, r.r. American physician, for the I'otosi Mining Company at Santa Eu lalia, Chihuahua, roa-hed Chihuahua City late yesterday after having been liberated by Villa rebels who held him for $6,000 ransom a message to Amer ican Consul E. A. Dow from Chihua hua City to-day stated. FIRST PASSES IN LAST GRAND REVIEW OF WAR? Washington Pays Homage toj GcneraJ Pershing at Head I of Fully Equipped Division j ALL PERFECTLY GROOMED Men, Animals and Equipment Spotless; Crowd Voices Appreciation Washington. Sept. 17. Amid a roar of welcome. General Pershing led the First Division of the Ameri can Expeditionary Forces up Penn sylvania avenue to-day to receive the nation's homage. It was the last grand review of the war-time Armies, the victory parade, the last chance for the hun j dreds of thousands of men, women and children jammed along the route 'to voice appreciation of the valor ! and daring of that Army and they i made the most of it. The procession reached its climax as the man who captained all the fighting forces of the nation in the great struggle, passed through the victory arch toward the reviewing stand, where vice-president Marshall stood, representing President Wilson to receive the general's salute. Be hind him the picked thousands of the composite regiment "Pershing's own" formed a wall of bronzed faces as they swung into line with ma chine-like precision. Groomed to Perfection From the general himself to the last man of the tank battalion that brought up the rear of the nvirch ing column in perfect fighting ma chine, a shock division of the Ameri can Army in the war, was groomed to regular Army perfection. Men, horses, guns and machines, to the last buckle and the final touch of paint, were completely equipped and spotless, for inspection. There was no need of war-worn gear to tell of their deeds. The gleam of gold chev rons on every arm, the ribbons of decorations for valor on their collars and breasts, the marks that spoke of wounds received that were sprinkled through the whole com mand, and above all the proud knowledge in the hearts of the thou sands that cheered them, made that unnecessary. Promptly at 1 o'clock the great line of fighting men began moving [Continued o;> Page I".] Leslie Candidates Are Leading, Incomplete Allegheny Returns Show /?v Associated Press* \ Pittsburgh, Sept. 17. Returrs I from about five-eights of the dis tricts in Allegheny county show a I majority of Leslie candidates for the I nomination for county offices were j nominated at the primary election [ yesterday. The contest for nominees : centered between rival factions of i the Republican party, that of Max I Leslie and the other known as anti- Leslie. Victory for William Conner, for the nomination of register of wills and John Douglas for clerk of courts, both anti-Leslie men, seems assured, while County Commissioner A. C. Gumbert was renominated by an in dicated majority of 12,00 to 15,000. The latter is a Leslie candidate. Lieutenant-Colonel J. P. Kerr and Captain Samuel D. Foster, anti-Les lie candidates for county commis sioner at 5.000 .votes behind Captain Robert S. Cain, Leslie entrant, with 239 districts reported. Captain John H. Shenkel, anti- Leslie candidate for county treasur er. probably will be nominated over ex-Mayor J. C. Armstrong. County Recorder J. D. Graham. Leslie man, leads for that office over H. E. Flegal, anti-Leslie by about ten thousand. Votes for clerk of courts and regis ter of wills respectively are: Douglas 48,521; Bailey, 45,080 and Conner, 41,674; Foster, 36,342. Governor Extends City Officials an Invitation to Try to Make Him Retract Tampa, Fla., Sept. 17. On the minutes of the Tampa City Council to-day was a resolution ordering a telegram from Governor Catts to be framed as a "fine example of the retort discourteous." The telegram, sent by the Gover nor in reply to the request made by the Council ten days ago that he re tract or deny the statement attrib uted to him in an address Labor Day at Pensacola that P. O. Knight, a prominent attorney of Tampa, would be in danger of his life if he walked the streets of Tampa, follows: Messrs. F. W. Ball, President City Council; W. A. Johnson, city clerk, and I>. B. McKay, mayor, Tampa, Fla.: "Dear Sirs: Your contempt ible resolution concerning what I said about Peter O. Knight has been received. If you think you can make me take back what I said, suppose you come up to Tallahassee and try it, or the next time I am in Tampa, suppose you try it there. "Respectfully "S. J. CATTS, "Governor." CIGARMAKEKS HOLD OUT Gy .Associated Press* Reading, Pa., Sept. 17. —State headquarters of the striking cigar makers gave out a statement to-day that no overtures toward a settle ment of the cigarmakers' strike have been made but they will con tinue to hold out for increased i wages and working conditions. Over j 500 of the 1,200 cigar factory woik- I ers in Fteading have obtained cm- I ployment in various other occupa ! tions and industries at better wages jthan they were getting at their trade. The cigar shortage is acute. The strike has been —on for six i weeks. ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS SINGLE COPIES NEWSPAPER IN HARRISBURG TWO CENTS Election Officers Strike For More Money By Associate.' Press. Reading, Pa., • Sept. 17.—Late last night the election officers of the Second precinct of the Fif teenth ward in this city went on strike and turned in their ballot box without counting some of the ballots or totaling tne vote cast in the district. They declared that they were dissatisfied with the pay allowed by the State for election officers. Their action upset the totals of the entire city. The probabilities are the authori ties will proceed .against them. ■ r SEARCH REVEALS 1 HIGHER TOLL OF i STORM VICTIMS Impossible to Estimate Accu rately Loss of Life or Dam- j age, but It Is Immense • Corpus Cliristi, Texas, Sept. IT. 1 —Fifteen additional storm vlet- j Imx were brought to tile tempo rary morgue here early to-day, bringing the known death list In this city up to Ml 2 ns a result of the tropical hurricane which swept this section Inst Sundny. The total known dead now ex ceeds 1110. including 50 at Port land, 30 at White Point, nnd 14 at Rock Port, according to reports liere. the most reliable estimates here to-dn.v place the loss of life at Corpus Cliristi, Port Arnnsas and Aransas Pass at about 1250.' The bodies being recovered to-day are In sueli condition that iden tification will he almost Impossi ble. A drenching rain began fall ing this forenoon, handicapping relief work and adding to the suffering of the homeless. Corpus Cliristi, Texas. Sept. 17. To-day, more than 70 hours after the tropical hurrienne and tidal wave tore huge rents in this Texas coast city and environs, it was still impossible to estimate accurately the loss of lite [Continued on Page 13.] i i 4 * 8 * T * 4 1 * 4 i 4 4 4 4 * <? • * \ i * *t 4 * * 4 4 4 4 4 i ■ a a • a a a 4* a a * . a a • ' s '• ! I. < i * * * * * ■ * " i r • < • I MARRIAGE LICENSES ' * I.OUIN Nardmlc mill Julia llari-ux, Strrltont John D. Smith and*' Ellrnbcth Harnett, Hnrrlxburst Miirxlinll 1,. Kurta, Hnrrixburs, and a Ext her .11. Smith, Kaxt Walrrf irdi Joxeph I). Ilonorlh and Anna t'nxtrr. IMtenlrnt David V. Emanuel nnd l.llllnn M. MeO'laJn, Harrix -4) burst John J. Stuuffor, Worm Ir jxhurc, and Draco K. Kooncll, Harrla-ft a burst Morton Wntxon and Mar; Jonea, Harrlaburs. HOME EDITION CITY'S MEMORIAL TO ITS SOLDIERS I THING OF BEAUTY L i Committee Hears Architect Brunner Outline Plans and • Hears of Finances DRAWING IS ON DISPLAY Surroundings to Be Beautified to Give Proper Setting to Project Arnold W. Brunner, architect in i charge of the Capitol extensipn de velopments and designer of the pro j posed Harrisburg memorial at Thll- I teenth and • State streets, explained ■: at length the details of his plan to '! the members of the Memorial Corn j mittee of One Hundred and Twentj'- I live at luncheon at the Harrisburg •; Club at noon to-day. The commii j tee unanimously endorsed the plans as outlined, which embrace a great circular base pf marble with mai b(e seats around the eastern sidei the center of which is to be a bronz?. pillar surmounted by a flagpole. To the rear the part of the street which is now given over to giass pl'ots, is to be turned into a beau tiful',bit of formal park, with.niar ! ble and bronze fittings, the whole to be a setting for the eastern ap proach to the State street memorial j viaduct. | Mr. Brunner was introduced by I Paul Johnson, who presided in lie j absence of the chairman. Spencer I Gilbert, who was out of the c:.y, and Flavel 1.,. Wright, member . C the finance committee, spoke on '.lie committee's plans to raise money for this memorial and Tor the home [Continued on Page 17.] MISSION DKLAYKD By Associated Press. Brussels, Tuesday. Sept. lfi.—The i Belgian financial mission to the j United States was unable to sail for . New York yesterday as it had pla.i --„ ned, there being no accommodation on the steamer. The evening paper - Le Soir states that Aloys Van Vyvcre, >' minister of finance, who was named e president of the mission, has decided & not to go to the United States, owing to the "rather cool reception given his nomination."
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