Treaty ot P<.ace Is Handed to Bulgarian Mission by Allied and Associated Powers LXXXVIII— NO. 219 24 PAGES EIGHT-HOUR DAY FOR POLICE WITH SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE IN PAY DEMANDED OF KEISTER Committee Representing Local Union Calls on Mayor With Request That He Bring Matter Before Council NO THREAT OF STRIKE CONTAINED IN PETITION PRESENTED THE CITY More money and shorter hours are asked tor patrolmen of the Harrisburg- police force by a committee of their own number. The increase asked amounts to $lO per month, while, in addition, it is asked that the hours of all patrolmen be reduced to eight hours a day. Mayor Keister Gets Demands Representatives of the Capital City Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police, have visited Mayor Keister with their requests. Several propositions have been advanced by them wherebv they assert the plan could be put into operation. Increased living cost- are given by the committee members as the reason for asking the in crease in wages. Workmen in other industries work not more than eight hours per dav and for that reason the men believed themselves to be entitled to the shorter hours, their committee says. Want $125 a Month ~ —— Patrolmen would receive 5125 requests <>i the men are granted ceiving SI 15 monthly, or $1,380. men is equal to that now being geants of police. While no speci increases in the salaries of these tierstood that proportional increa Members of the police force, w two other men, are now working according to a statement of Mavc of the men have been submitted, exclusive of the officials who arc daily, arc the two chauffeurs wh uut of 24 hours. To Cio Before Council Requests of the men. as submitted j to Mayor Keister, will receive early j attention of city Council. For the present, however, the Mayor does! not believe it will be practicable to J put the plan into operation. The force is too limited at the | present time to put the plan into i operation in- Mayor said. The dis tribution of patrolmen as included in the request of the committee, would not he sufficient he says, to afford sufficient protection at the time most needed between 10 p. m. and 4.30 a. m. Not Before 102(1 The Mayor has promised that he wiil submit the plan to City Council for its consideration. It would I e Impracticable, he says, for Council to consider the plan at present, but : he promises that when the city bud get is being prepared for 1920 the requests of the policemen will lei presented. Mayor Keistefs plan is to ask that allowance he made for the employment of additional patrolmen which would allow the putting into effect of an eight-hour working day for all patrolmen and other men on the city force. At the same time, the requests of the patrolmen for increased salaries will he presented j to Council for its consideration. No Threat of Strike No of a strike of mem- , hers of the city force is feared, by [Continued on Page 1!).] Employes of New York, Including Policemen and Firemen, Forming Union New York, Sept. 19. A drive to organize all employes of New York city, including policemen and fire men. into one union to he known as the "Central Union" affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, was well under way to-day. Work was being directed toward obtaining a wage increase to meet the in creased cost of living and to organ izing city employes who have not vet joined any union. Increases of as much as 65 per cent, are being discussed. The organization was launched last night in an unheralded confer ence attended by thirty members of the Executive Councils of fifteen city employes' unions, representing a total membership of more than 100.- 000. The proposed "Central Union" was unanimously endorsed, and the proposal will be put before the full membership of the organizations for approval. It was intimated to-day that while the Executive Council is strongly against any strike movement on the part of the city employes, serious complications are likely to develop unless there is an immediate read justment of salaries. 11 niTORS FILE REPORT John W. German and H. O. Burt nett. auditors of the accounts of the city school district for the fiscal year, 1919, filed their report to-day at the office of Prothonotary Charles E. Pass. Receipts were $1,276,940.09; expenditures, $1,242,110.60; cash bal ance, $34,793.49; assets, $2,416,995.67; liabilities. $1,747,668.66 cash balance in teachers' retirement fund:, $13,- 143.46; invested, $55,450. THE WEATHER Hnrrlsbnrg and Vicinity: Rnln to night and Saturday, warmer to-night. Eastern Pennsylvania: Rnln to night nn<l Snturdny. wnnner to-night. Southerly winds slow ly increasing. River: The main river will prob ably remain stationary tn-nlglit and rise mmrwhnt Saturday. All tributaries will probably rise as a result of n general rnlo. A stage uf about 3.4 feet is Indiented for ilnrrisburg Saturday morning. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH a month, or $1,500 yearly, if the , i. These same men are now re- ' The wage asked by the patrol paid to city detectives and ser ine demands have been made for latter classes of police, it is un ases would be asked for them. ,ith the exception of officials and ; not more than nine hours daily, or Keister. to whom the requests The two members of the force, e working more than nine hours ) icse time on duty amounts to 12 j BIG PLANT ASKS FOR DAYLIGHT j Virtually every employe of the Moorhead Knitting: Company ! to-day signed a petition calling ' on City Council to preserve 1 daylight saving next summer. There are 232 names attached > to the petition. R. \Y. Moorhead, ! president of the company, leads off the list. He is followed by other officers of the company and ; the department heads. The petition is of particular value, as it shows how working women view the efforts of Con gress to rob them of the hour of sunshine which they have beer? enjoying for two years. It shows ! that every man and woman who adds to the city's prosperity by working with hand or brain is 1 desirous of continuing the day- i light-saving measure, • which has meant recreation for them. IZ^IIZII^ZZIZIZZZZ!! APPARATUSTO "THROW" VOICE I OF PRESIDENT | Will Deliver San Diego Ad dress From Glass Cage in Center of Field by slsscctafei! ! rrsr. San Uiego, Cab, Sept. 19.—President j Wilson will address what is expected 1 to be the greatest audience cf his | present tour here to-day when he spetks ir. the Stadium. The President will be stationed in a glass enclosure i in the center of the field and his words will be carried to the crowd by a mechanical device. His address ! is scheduled for a o'clock. It is expected he will make a s-c -ond address at a dinner to be given : by Mayor Wilde. The President and ' [Continued on Page 1!).] Transcontinental Air Liner Completes First Leg With 14 Passengers By Associated Cress, Mlneola, X. Y.. Sept. 19.—Carrying | 14 passengers. including a crew of Ave men the Lawson air liner left I here at 8.39 o'clock this morning for | . Washington on the first left of a j proposed trans-continental flight. The plane recently completed a trip from > Milwaukee, Wis., to this town. Cnn i rrary to expectation, no United States j I Senators were carried on to-day's i | trip. ! Washington, Sept.—Flying ag.vnst I heavy head winds, the Lawson Slit-] plane which left Xlineola, X. Y.. at 5.39 to-day, landed safely at Boiling I j field near here at 12.46 p. m. After a j l three-day stop here, the plane will j start for Dayton. Ohio, which is the ! next stopping place on a trip expect- j ed to end at San Francisco. SAILORS VOTE FOR STRIKE By Associated Press. Detroit. Mich., Sept. 19.—Members) jof the Sailors t'nlcn of this port j | voted unanimously in favor of a! (strike in sympathy with the strike: jof the steel workers called for Sep-j jtember 22. union officials announced) this morning. Two hundred and'< j thirty-nine ballots were cast. J rB Class HARRISBURG, PA. FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1919 OFFICIAL COUNT IS DELAYED BY POOR RETURNS Board Judges Are Called Into Courtroom to Explain i Legal Lapses ! Because officers of some of the | city election boards failed to com ply with requirements for sending to the county commissioners' offices the correct return sheets, starting the official count of the primary vote was delayed for more than an ; hour this afternoon. Judges George Kunkel and S. J. ,M. MeCarrell presided when the hoard was organized in the city J Council chamber. Chief Clerk Clar- I ence F. Snyder, assisted bv ten : clerks, seven of whom were 'attor ' neys, computed the vot°s. Two judges of election vere or j dered to appear because they bad not included a general return sheet ias required. They were John S. Henry, 1233 South Thirteenth j street. First ward. First precinct, j and Frank Williams. 121'Ifanna ! street. First ward. First "precinct. |ln the Third precinct of the First ; ward it was found that a complete ' summary had not been made and , this vote was not computed. The next district was the Second ward. First precinct. General party return sheets were not included in the packet from this district, ei'ber. but Judge Kunkel had the clerks j check up on the "voter's check list" and the number of ballots returned to show that each one that was j issued was used, after which it was ; decided to use the election board's i tally sheet and a primary return j sheet to compute the vote. At 1.30 o'clock the clerks began recording ' the votes from this district. County Solicitor Philip S. Mover ! explained this afternoon that a num- | her of changes had been made in I the primary election laws regarding the number of sheets to be returned 1 and that probably a large number | of election boards not only in Dau | phin county, but throughout the ] State, did not understand the in j struetions which were furnished i them. Public Sentiment Against • League Near Revolution, Senator Johnson Says By .4<so:ta'r'rf Vresi, St. Paul. Minn., Sept. 19. Sen ator Hiram W. Johnson, of Cali fornia. in an address delivered to a j special session of the Minnesota Legislature this morning presented his arguments in .opposition to the unqualified ratification of the League ! of Nations Covenant. The Senator expressed the opinion that if action on the League could be delayed sixty days, the people | would speak in positive terms and insist upon its defeat or amendment so as to protect the country's in terests. "Public sentiment against the ! League is growing every day and is fast assuming the proportions of a revolution," said Senator Johnson. MATRIMONIAL ARMY OF INVASION IS COMING! Warning to Bachelors Contains Word That Five Thousand British Women Are Determined to Annex Husbands; Well Supplied With Funds, Only Bag of Hope j • York. —Sept. 19. —Five thous {and British women determined to an j nex American husbands soon will ar ! rive in the United States, according to J a warning issued to bachelors to-day ' by Mrs. S. C. Seymour, of Camden, IN. J., who has just returned from j Huron*. Mrs. Seymour was employ, d ! by the military authorities to super ' vim the transportation -,.f ths war : brides of American soldier in differ ent parts of Europe. | Mrs. Seymour announced that the ■ matrimonial armv of invasion had J already applied for passports and ®ljc otar-M>cptn&fftL Gone Topsy-Turvy • -<s^~ —"" ■ — l ' - \ VftLL IT 15 A | Vw ~~~~ I L,TTLE UNUSUAL /" —"x I ONE: OF HtR i A A$ Years —-—. V BUT I'VE SEEN | (J \ her OET Ovtfß. -A J ,\ i /f&&u & A 'Vwk^V* 4 y^v.TsW-i 1 PEACE TREATY IS PRESENTED TO BULGARIANS Allied and Associated Powers Turn Document Over to Mission MUST REPLY IN 25 DAYS Allowed Time to Present Ob servations on Terms; Cle menceau Makes Speech Parts. Sept. 19. The Treaty of Peace between the Allied and As sociated ' Powers and Bulgaria was presented to the Bulgarian mission at the French Foreign Office this morning at 10.40 o'clock. After the delegates had assembled Georges Clemenceau, president of the Peace Conference, spoke briefly in opening the session. He was fol lowed by General Theodoroff, head of the Bulgarian mission. M. Theodoroff spoke fifteen min utes, pleading that the Bulgarian people were not responsible for the war, but that the Bulgarian Govern ment had thrown the country into the struggle. He realized however, [Continued on Page 11.] TUPPER TOOK MONEY 3y Associated I'ress, Washington. Sept. 19. Dr. Henry Allen Tupper told the Senate subcommittee investigating the Mexican situation to-day that he had received approximately $3,400 from the Carranza Government in settle ment of expenses he had incurred. Documentary evidence had been sub mitted to the committee indicating that Dr. Tupper had been on the Carranza payroll, presumably for his work for peace under the super vision of the International Peace Forum. would arrive as soon us the- present ! restrictions are lifted, which is ex- • pecte 1 to be on October 1. A note of encouragement was struck by Mrs. '■ Seymour in the statement that the 5,000 husband hunters were well sup- ' plied v/ith money. During the eight months she spent ' abroad Mis Seymour arranged for I the transportation of ?,VlO war hrhji ' and "."•7 children, representing 22 na- ' -ion a lit ins. site said tii--l 150 of the ! brides ,wre Czecho-Slovaks and that! many more of the same nationality ' a cre unv.ng 490 additional orides who I are due to arrive here .Monday on .be I rrceident Grant. ' YES, INDEED; IT'S 9—19—1919 This is the 9-19, 1919: in other words to-day is September, nine teen. nineteen-nineteen There being no really live and up-to-date astrologer in Harris btirg each man will have to (iiaw his own conclusions as to whether or not the day is lucky. It is suggested, however, to venture some! spirits that it is also Fri day. A little figuring also will' show that considerable water will pass under the Rockville bridge before September twenty, twenty twenty. SMOKE NUISANCE" MAY BE ABATED, SAYS EXPERT Businessmen Told Saving of Fuel Results From Proper and Clean Firing Harrisburg can be made a smoke less city at no great cost to the in dustries and at an actual saving in fuel to themselves. Pittsburgh has gotten rid of sixty to sixty-five per cent of its smoke and the smoke prevention campaign has the support of the biggest manufacturers. This was the gist of an interest ing talk on smoke abatement by W. E. Porter, chief of the bureau of smoke regulation in Pittsburgh, at a luncheon given under the auspices of the smoke prevention commit tee of the Chamber of Commerce at the Penn-Harris to-day. C. Lin ford Scott, chairman of the com mittee, presided and introduced the speaker. Another meeting open to all persons interested—proprietors, managers and employes—is to be held this evening in Fahnestock hall, [Continued on Pago 19.] Confesses to Strangling His Daughter With Small Piece of Cord Kansas City. Mo., Sept. 19. Con fessed murderer of his 19-year-old \ daughter. Ijouellen, 23 years ago, ac cording to the officer who had him in j charge, Robert Hickst 75 years old, ! to-day was taken to Sprinfield. Mo., |to stand trial. Hicks was arrested ; at Chehalis, Washington, where he i went after his daughter's death. The girl's death had remained a mystery until August 30, last, when I the aged man is said to have ad- I mitted strangling her with a piece of cord. A misunderstanding arose, according to a statement Hicks made iin his cell here, over the girl re . ceiving a young man's attentions. | I.ouellen threatened to shoot him, he said, when he objected to her [ suitor. Then he strangled her and J fled to Washington where he since has lived, Hicks said. PACKERS GRAB FOOD TO BE SOLD IN POSTOFFICES Wholesale Grocers and Re tailers in Deal Is Charge at Chicago Hearing "UNTIL PUBLIC FORGETS" District Attorney Declares Canned Goods Will Be Stored For a Time By Associated rress• Chicago, Sept. 19.—Huge quanti ties of Government canned goods fell into the hands of packers, whole sale grocers and retailers and there by prevented postoffica authorities from filling orders of consumers, William Mulvihill, attorney for the city bureau of foods, markets and farm products, charged at the city's investigation into the high cost of living. Approximately $14.",000 worth of food was sold through the Ccicago postoffice and only part of two ver small orders have been delivered to the Postmaster, W B. Carlile, it was stated to-day. The canned goods "are being stor ed away until the public has for gotten there ever was a promise of Army goods at less than one-half the present retail prices," Mr. Mulvihill asserted. "Then it will be placed on shelves and retailed nt profits that are appalling." That deliveries through the post office were to commence September .1 was the only official information he had received on the whole mat ter, Mr. Carlile said. Three retail grocers at the hear ing admitted that their stores had sold Army canned goods at more than 100 per cent profit. Each as serted that clerks had acted with out. instruction in selling the goods. HI XS TO MOVE CAPITAL Basle, Thursday, Sept. 18.— The N'eue Tagoblatt, of Vienna, says the Friedrich government is planning to move the capital of Hungary from Budapest to Stubleweissenburg, where the national assembly will be sum moned to meet. Spoofin' the Marines San Juan, Porto Rico, Sept. 19. —Bandits in the San Pedro Do Macoris district of San Domingo have added insult to injury in their dealings with U. S. Marines, accordin to travelers recently re turned from the neighboring islands. Instead of attacking their pu ravers on all occasions, tin. bandits have been taking photo graphic snapshots of the Marines and then sending the developed pictures to the officers ami Ma rines whose pictures have been taken. The Marines have concludes that many of the bundita whom they hunt in the brush reside in the towns. OM.V KVKMMi ASSOCIATED PRESS SINGLE COPIES KEWSPAI'KH I.\ HAHRISHUKG TWO CENTS STEEL WORKERS GIVE 11 REASONS FOR STRIKE CALL In Letter to President Wilson National Committee States Why It Cannot Comply With His Request Pittsburgh, Sept. 10.—The steel, workers' national committee has] made public a letter il has drafted and sent to President Wilson, giving eleven reasons why it could not com ply with his request to postpone the steel workers' strike called for next Monday. The letter also recites the history of the movement to better the conditions of the workers and I expresses faith in the President's "desire to bring about a conference"! with employers. Kvery Mill A fleeted The headquarters here are in charge of William Z. Foster, secre tary-treasurer of the national com mittee. He had no report to-day. he said, except that "enthusiastic meetings" had been held by workers in different parts of the district and that the men were ready to quit. Mr. Foster said wanted to make it clear that th.< strike is called against every iron and steel mill and blast furnace in the I'nited States not working under union agree ments. John Fitzpatrick, of Chicago, chairman of the national committee, is in Washington to-day making a report to Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. It was learned that one of the things to lie discussed there is a proposal to hold in Pittsburgh within the next two weeks a meeting of all the unions involved and the Executive Council of the Federation of Labor. Conference Fails Labor leaders from various sec tions of tb— country, who attended the meetings here during the past two days of the national committee for organizing iron and steel work ers, were enroute to their homes to day to make arrangements for the nation-wide strike of iron and steel mill employes, not working under union agreements, which is to go into effect next Monday. "We regret that for the first time your call upon organized labor can not meet witli favorable response," f f V s * ' " Tt T | # * * ' ' * 4 4- - 4 4 V 4 4 * 4 y 4' - 4 *' * *i' * - 4 - - 4 # 4 - 4 * a 4 4 * <"* y <4# 4 <■ 4 * * I i t 4 f T 4 * ' Jjj ■ * i ' * Y # * * <"■ * * ? ■ e * it * - 5 4 *' 4 - ■ * H , # * ! s * ;; J ' * ■* ; ' * * # * 3 < ■ *T * - € > * * nd pledging t ion of the ass 3 any I! attempt to affiliate policemen with labor unions or bring, .f I • J t about strike- , • ' t MARRIAGE LICENSES Jn Iloiijitmin Snyil't anil Sarab Snjdct, Harrinbtir*. 4 I HOME EDITION the letter states. "If delay were no f more than delay, even at the cost of loss of membership in our organiza tions. we would urge the same to the fullest of our ability, notwith standing the men are firmly set for an immediate strike. Hut delay here means the surrender of all hope." The text of the letter is as follows: "Answering your request through Samuel Gompers, president of tho American Federation of Labor, that the date of the strike in the steel industry of this country be postponed from September 22, the date here tofore fixed, until after a conference ca led by you to meet in Washington on October fi next, we respectfully make the following report: Isms I'eriod of Finest "For years there has been great unrest among the steel workers of our country because of the unusual un-American and despotic industrial conditions. Finding no redress in individual efforts, the men naturally sought, by the example of other workers through their organizations, to associate themselves for collective defense. Oppression growing be yond endurance, the call for assist ance to redress grievances came from every quarter of the industry to Ihe St. Paul convention of the American Federation of I.abor, held in June, 1918. A committee eons sting of rep resentatives of tlie crafts engaged tr this industry were ordered to and did make investigation. They found tlie field overripe for organization. The enrollment of membership grew by leaps an l hounds. Relief from their oppression was imminent and, [Continued 011 Page ll.] MOSCOW BFSIFGFD fly .Issocialcd Press. llelsingfors, Sept. 19. The Pravda of Fetrograd publishes a Soviet Government proclamation de claring a state of siege in Moscow in consequence of the operations of 1 the Cossack General Kamontov's cavalry near the Red Army.
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