.7 , . • r . ~ r . ~~ y4 . '"t"* ','; ■,-■ ~ . - |rv _. r .. ....... Washington Is Advised of FaR of Petrojfr&d and ftronstadt Before Ant! beviki^Attacks LXXXVIII—NO. 246 U.S. MOVES TO PREVENT JUMP IN PRICE OF SUGAR Holds Ten Cents Fair Price to Wholesaler; Cent More Than at Present REFINERS ARE WARNED Told That Higher Cost Vio lates Law; Expected to Release Hoards By Associated Press. Washington. Oct. 20. Steps to prevent an abnormal increase in the price of sugar because of the exist ing shortage were taken to-day by the Department of Justice. Attorney General Palmer notified beet sugar refiners, who have been withholding their products from the market until the price situation be came more stabilized, that the Unit ed States Sugar Equalization Board had determined that ten cents was a pair price to be charged the whole saler and that any charge in excess of that amount would be regarded in violation of the food control act. Refiners were askel to telegraph their concurrence in this price, which would mean that they would put their supply on the market im mediately, thereby relieving the present stringency. The price to the wholesaler here tofore has been nine cents, so that the new price means an increase of one cent a pound. Retailers have been allowed to charge 11 cents a pound for controlled sugar, under the old prices. While the Depart ment of Justice and the sugar board did not state what the new retail price would be, it was assumed that the increase would not be greater than the wholesale advance. Wires Refiners Attorney General Palmer made public the following telegrams sent to beet sugar refiners: "After thorough investigation by the recognized authorities on sugar, the United States Sugar Equalization Hoard have notified the Department of Justice of the following facts: " 'As a considerable part of the country generally supplied at this time of the year jyith beet sugar may be embarrassed because of the beet sugar factories' failure to sell sugar as produced and this condition in turn is due to the uncertainty re garding price, our judgment is "that 110 higher price than ten cents cash less two per cent, seaboard basis is justified, and we hope that you will decide at once to begin marketing your sugar on this basis and relieve the very serious situation. The price of 10H cents net cash f. o. b. plant which has been offered by the Sugar Equalization Board for sugars in excess of requirements in your ter ritory as shown by your own 1917 deliveries as a minimum up to 50,- 000 tons for November and Decem ber shipments to relieve an acute shortage among the manufacturers cast is not to be considered as a precedent or a basis for local prices.' "I ask you to make your announce ment of prices based on the above. The Department of Justice will treat as an unjust charge any price in ex cess of this and consider such a charge a violation of section four of the Lever food contract act as amended. Please wire to-day your concurrence in the above." 12 Arrested in Raids on Alleged Disorderly Houses Get Hearings Two proprietors of alleged disor derly houses at 227 and 229 River street, together with ten persons tound in the establishments in raids by the Harrisburg police, are sched uled for hearings in police court during the afternoon. There are six men and six women among those arrested. But one of the ten, Milton Crum. alleged proprietor of the house at --7. remain in jail. Crum failed to secure the necessary SSOO bail to se cure his release. Bess Hevner, said to be proprietress of the house at 229. is out under SSOO bail. Eight cases of beer, two bottles of whisky and done bottle of gin were taken by the police in the raid Seven persons participated in it They were Patrolmen Schelhas. Keyes, Hess and Seymour, and De tectives Carson, Shuler and Ander. son. Fifty-Four Strikers Each Get 30 Days in Jail and Fine of $25 and Costs Waynesboro, Oct 20.—0n charges ranging from rioting to assault and battery and forcible entry, fifty-four Waynesboro strikers were sentenced to thirty days in jail. $25 fines and costs, each, by Judge Gillan sitting in the Franklin county court this morning. Several were found guiltv on two and three indictments. The men had all been arrested in connec tion with disorders during the in dustrial strike called here several weeks ago In most of the tool and machine shops. Several others re main to be sentenced. Emmert Oiler, who died yesterday, was among the number indicted. The name of his father, Amos Oiler, was on the list but sentence in his case was de ferred until October 28. ITHE WEATHER! Hnrrixhnrg anal Vicinityi Fair to night anil Tucxdny. \ot much di lingo In temperature, loneat to-night about ATi degrees. Knxtern Peanxylvanlui Fnlr to night and Tnexdny. continued cool. Frcnh northrnxt ninilx. *Mcr. The Suxquchn-nii river and nil ltd hrnxehrx will fall xlowly or rrmnln atatlonary. \ xlagr of nboat 4.3 fre< Is indicated for HarrUburg '-y morning. HARRISBURG W&mm TELEGRAPH 1 & T>Ar*TTQ Daily Except Sunday. Entered as Second Class tt A BDTCtITTDr "D A lO .rAULO Matter at the Post Office at Harrisburg IlAlVltloiJU IxVj, FA. PETROGRAD IS ENCIRCLED BY HOSTILE ARMY Anti-Bolshevik Cavalry in Wide Raids Sever Rail roads Leading to City KRONSTADT IS TAKEN Fall of Fortress Allows Allied Fleets to Proceed Further Up the Bay By .Associated Press. The Bolshevik hold upon Petro grad, which, though repeaterly re ported captured, was still in Bol shevik hands at latest reports from accepted sources, is fast weakening and the fall of the city seems im minent according to to-day's of ficial advices from the British war office. Kronstadt. the great island fortress defending the old capital from the seaside, capitulated Friday and there is nothing now to prevent the advance of the Ksthonian troops toward Petrograd, which the fort ress guns had thus far held up, Anti-Bolshevik cavalry, in a wide circling raid, have swept around the city, starting apparently from the general vicinity of Gatchina, and have cut all three of the remaining railroads connecting Petrograd with the rest of Russia. The mainline to Pskov, with its branch to Recal. fell into the hands of General Yuden itch when Gatchina was taken. His cavalry now have cut the Vitebsk line, running directly south from Petrograd through Tsarskoe-Selo and Pavlovsk, at a point about 25 miles from the city; the main trunk line to Moscow was reached and cut at Tsona, 3 miles southeast of Petro grad, where the destruction of the bridge over the Tosna river would in sure an uninlerruption of traffic with the capital for a considerable time. The road running eastward to \ ologda. which closely follows the south bank of the Xcva', was destroy ed at point south of Ladoga. Reinforcements Far Off Bolshevist reinforcements, which Trotzky announced were being rush ed to the defense of the city mast now be detrained a full three davs' march from Petrograd and if ap proaching from the south, must flght their way into Petrograd through serious opposition, as is shown by the destruction of a Bol shevist division in the vicinity of Krasnoe Selo. Nothing- is known of the fate of the Baltic fleet, the remnants of which have been lurking in the shelter of Kronstadt, hut if. as seems possible from the dispatches, the fortress fell not as the result of as sault and landing but by surrender from within, the spirit of the garri son is probably shared bv the ships* crews, composed of the same ele ments. The fall of Kronstadt is vastly Im portant not on!v st-at.'gicallv but also for its affect upon Bolshevist morale. It has been considered im pregnable to attack from sea or land and its sailor garrison have been from the outset of the revolution! the stoutest supporters of the Bol shevik cause. Now that its formid able guns are silent, the allied cruisers and destroyers can pass further up the bay toward Petro srad, about 20 miles away, and can support the advance of troops along the coast to points directly in the tear of Bolshevist forces defending I etrograd fiom the south. Petrograd Virtually Isolated by Cavalry Which Cuts R. R. Lines By Associated Press. I-ondon. Oct. 20.—Petrograd is virtually isolated, the War Office announces to-day, anti-Bolshevik cavalry having cut the railroads leading from Petrograd to Vitebsk. Moscow and Vologda. The Petro grad-Vitebsk road is cut at Viritza and the Petrograd-Moscow railroad at Tosna, south and southeast of Petrograd, respectively. The line at Vologda is cut south of Lake Ladoga. A Bolshevik division, which was being rushed to Petrograd from the interior to defend the city against the threatening advance of General Tudenitch, was practically wiped out at Krasnoe Selo, when General Tudenitch took that outpost to Petrograd, according to War Office advices. CONTRADICTORY REPORTS By Associated Press. Paris, Oct. 20 (Havas).—Contra dictory reports are received from Russia and it is impossible to con firm rumors that Petrograd has been taker* by the Northwestern Russian army under General Tudenitch. It seems certain that the Yndeniteh troops are advancing and must be at the gates of the city, if they have not already taken it. CANNIBAL PLANT WHICH EATS INSECTS IS FOUND Natural History Society Also Finds Beautiful Specimens of the Rather Rare Fringed Gentian A splendid "colony" of Fringed Gentian, said to be one of the most beautiful of wild flowers was vis ited back of Marsh Run Saturday by more than a score of members of the Harrisburg Natural History Society. The "colony" was discov ered several days ago by H. A. Ward, secretary, of the organization. The flower is a rare one and until this bed was found it was generally Prof. I. Drinkwater, the Hypnotist, Who Recently Closed a Successful Engagement in the U.S.A. Is Now Touring England SYNDICALIST ANARCHIST IS QUERIED Senate Labor Committee Re sumes Probe of Strike With I. W. W. on Stand V By Associated Press.'' Waxliington, Oct. 20.—Resuming its investigation of the steel strike, the Sinate Labor Committee to-day ex amined Jacob Margolls, or Pitts burgh, who said he was an 'attorney for the 1. W. W. and a "syndicalist anarchist." He refused to take oath, but made affirmation as to the truth of what he would tell the committee. "We want to have a pretty frank talk with you about the strike," Chairman Kenyon informed him. "as to whether it is a straightforward labor movement for better wages and conditions, or a demonstration of rad icals who wish to establish a new governmental economic system. Margolis said he had been opposed to war; that he would not advocate resistence to an army invading the United States, and that he did not be lieve in government. Pressed as to personal application of his views, he told Senators he would not resist the action of a marauder who wanted to take his coat or attack his wife. "The I. W. W. have a slightly diff erent plan of organization from labor unions," he said. "Their object is to I create a new society within the shell I of the old. They are concerned with the daily struggle for better hours and wages, that also have the new oiientation toward social and eco nomic change." MARKING TIME By Associated Press. Pittsburgh, Oct. 20.—With both employers and union leaders mark ing time, the steel strike situation in the Pittsburgh district was prac tically unchanged early to-day, the initial day of the fifth week of the walkout. believed that the nearest specimens were more than 25 miles away. Members of the party also found and examined the Sun Dew, the Itttle cannibal plant which devours and actually digests insects. Attention also was paid to the Dogwood and Bitter Sweet found in the hills and marshes back of Marsh Run. Horace C. Keefer, yesterday was host to a number of members of the Society at his Llnglestown home where he exhibited an acre field of blooming GOING DOWN! Washington, Oct. 20.—Food I prices are on the decline, the j Department of Labor's bureau of I labor statistics announces in a • statement asserting that the retail ! price of twenty-two staple food- I stuffs show a decline of two per I cent, at the end of September as j compared with the last of Au | gust. The decrease, based on statis tics gathered from all parts of i the country, is the first to be recorded since the World War began with the exception of a decline in June when food was five-tenths of one per cent. | cheaper than in May. The price of the twenty-two staple food stuffs, however, is still eighty, eight per cent, above the average price for the same foods in 1913. CHARGES ARE INTRENCHED IN GOVERNMENT I Watson Says Federal Trade Commission Investigating Body Contains Radicals By Associated Press. Washington, Oct. 20.—Sensation al charges that Socialists, Reds ami other radicals are "intrenched" in the Government departments, and particularly that the investigating forces of the Federal Trade Com mission contain men hostile to the Government and American institu tions, were made in? the Senate to day by Senator Watson, Republican, Indiana, who introduced a resolution for an investigation by the Inter state Commerce Committee. Disclaiming any defense of the great meat puckers, Senator Warren declared that the open records of some of the Commission's employes on that investigation showed them to be, respectively .outspoken anar chists, participants in Red parades, pro-Germans, admirers of Lenine and Trotsky and avowed exponents of Soviet government. Governor Will Be Guest of Republican Club at Reception Governor Sproul will be a guest of the Harrisburg Republican Club Friday evening unless unforeseen j circumstances requires his presence I elsewhere in the State on that oc- j casion. The club will also have as ' its guests at that time the city and ! county Republican candidates. Gov- ! ernor Sproul, Lieutenant Governor! Beidleman, Auditor General Snyder | and Deputy Attorney General Col- I lins will be among the speakers. I Supper will be served at the close ! of the meeting. < ofar-3n&cpcn&ent MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1919 THREE HOURS ON NEW JOB, HE IS KILLED IN DITCH Returned Soldier Meets Death When He Is Crushed Under Cavein Edward Gibson, colored, return ed soldier with many months of overseas experience, was instantly killed in a cavein at the Harrisburg Pipe at>d Pipe Bending Company to day, three hours after he had enter ed the service of the company. Gibson is believed to have lived in Calder street, although the exact location has not yet been learned. He had been discharged from the Army about one month ago, coming at once to this city where he had been employed for some time before entering the service. He was origin ally from the South, it is reported. Gibson was assisting in digging a ditch to the sewer in the rolling mills at the time of the accident. He was down in the ditch when the ground beneath a heavy pier, con structed of brick and concrete gave way. The rush of earth caught him and he was buried beneath it and the pier. His head was badly crushed and death is believed to have been instantaneous. The police pulmoter was taken to the scene of the acci dent by Patrolmen Romich and Hy lan. but Gibson was dead when workmen were able to get his body from beneath the pier, forty minu tes after the accident. PRODUCTION INCREASES By Associated Press. Chicago, Oct. 20.—Conditions in the steel mills of the Chicago dis trict have improved so far that to day, the beginning of the fifth week of the strike, production was on a basis of seventy-five per cent, of normal, according to company of ficials. EVEN FATE TAKES A HAND IN MAKING THE CITY DRY The Few Wine Bibblers on Good Terms With Their Wives Strike Snag in Slaking Their Thirsts "How's a mail gonna make that 200 gallons of wine without sugar?" That Is the problem of many Har risburgers who Saturday learned that under certain conditions a 'rce man may let 200 gallon--- of grape juice ferment in his cellar and who had planned to avoid the long winter drought in this manner. . While llnrlo Sum is at work on plans to bar. ever, the 2.76 brew, demand for wine receipts wc-re rather heavy over the week-end, it was said this morning. But here's the rub. Every last one of the wine makers say they must have sugar, i "LAST SHOT" MEN TO ORGANIZE FOR MEMORIAL DRIVE Sums Ranging From $1 to SI,OOO Wanted to Honor Soldiers A WHIRLWIND CANVASS War Workers Will See That Everybody in City Helps Worthy Project THEY'RE OFF Harrisburg Railways Company, just before the bell rings for the beginning of the drive for for the soldiers' memorial, an nounced that it has contributed $660, covering the service stars of 33 men who were in the Army or Navy. Ohev Sholom congregation this morning called at headquarters and gave a check for S4BO, cov ering the service stars of 24 men. Friends of Witmer Manual, well-known railroad worker, to day gave Treasurer Stanley Jean S2O. "Don't tell Manual where this come from," they said. It was announced to-day that the balance remaining from the Fourth of July fund of 1918, amounting to several hundred dollars, has been turned over to Treasurer Jean. "Perhaps there are other bal ances from similar funds which we could use," suggested Mr. Jean. At 7.30 o'clock to-night in Chest nut Street Auditorium several hun dred well-known Harrisburg men will get final instructions for the campaign which, starting to-morrow morning, is expected to clear up "in jig time" the drive for $70,000 with which suitably to memorialize the deeds in the recent war of this city's lighting men. The men who are enlisted in this "last shot" campaign are the men who put over all the Red Cross, Lib erty Loan and other war work ven tures. They are seasoned and veter an campaigners, and they have start ed on their last campaign with the vim which characterized their first. The drive starting to-morrow will be for sums of all sizes from SI,OOO down to sl. Ribbons For Canvassers Window emblems and lapel but tons will distinguish patriotic con tributors from those who do not do their part in this last campaign. Canvassers will be distinguished by their lapel buttons, bearing the words, "Harrisburg World War Memorial Fund." The campaign force is ■ t Oct. 20 — Lieut. "Ei C. Kiel, westbound, 4 L i * v "* ' " ]to San Francisco, was put out of trans- [ ice to-day the made a foreb'd land- M i F west of 'ftere. '-Lieutenant Kiel left ht * ' jW is morning, but his motor pump went bad