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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 <yvided into
six divisions, each of which is com
manded by a commander. As aids,
the commander has six captains
each, who have seen to the enlist
[Continucd on Page 10.]
President's Digestive
Disturbance Subsides
Almost Completely
By Associated Press.
Washington, Oct. 20. —President
Wilson's digestive disturbance has
subsided almost completely and he
was comfortable to-day after a fairly
good night, his physicians an
nounced.
They issued the following bulle
tin:
"The White House, Oct. 20.
"11.25 A. M,
"The President's digestive disturb
ance has subsided almost completely.
After a fairly gobd night, he is com
fortable this morning."
New Census Will Not
Increase Officials' Pay
County officials explained to-day
that the 1920 census will have no ef
fect on the salaries of officials
elected to county offices this fall. It
had been reported that the 1920
census in all probability will show
a population of more than 150,000
for Dauphin county, and according
to law certain officials will be paid
increased salaries, but not unless
they have been elected after the
census is completed.
BELGIAN PARTY EASTBOUND
By Associated Press.
Albuquerque. N. M„ Oct. 20.—Al
bert, King of the Belgians, Queen
Elizabeth and their son, Leopold,
were traveling tlihrough Kansas to
day on their way eastward.
: | The receipts call for yeast, and for
raisins, for heat and for cold, for
i kt-gs and for casks and for work and
i hard labor but first and last they call
: for the addition of sugar.
To make 200 gallons of wine 40
;to 50 pounds of sugar will be re
' ; quired by the mar. who meets Uncle
, Sam's decision that he must be niar
| rled and on good terms with his
wife. That in itself is an insur
mountable barrier as few drinkers
can claim the friendship of their
jspouse. Therefore it was said to-day
i : by the wine bibblers that there Is
little hope of slacking the drought
i this winter. , .
OM.Y KVENIVO ASSOCIATED PRESS SINGEH COPIES 11/ AMr 1 miTIAU I
NEWSPAPER IN HARHINDI EG TWO CENTS fIV/irlL LLM 1 lUN
ATTORNEY IS SHOT
DOWN IN OFFICE BY
FORMER HOTEL MAN
R. Sherman Care Slightly Wounded in
Leg After Two Men Are Said to
Have Had Heated Argument
B. LESLIE POTTER IS HELD
BY POLICE AFTER AFFRAY
B. Leslie Potter, a former hotel proprietor, shortly after 1
o'clock this afternoon, is alleged to have attempted to kill R. Sher
man Care, lawyer. Three shots were tired, one ball entering the
fleshy part of Attorney Care's leg, causing a slight injury.
The shooting took place in the office of the lawyer, 409 Market
street. Potter was taken in custody and is being held for a
hearing.
The shooting caused considerable
excitement. The police station was
notified. Before a squad of po
lice arrived, Traffic Officer Laurie,
who is stationed at Fourth and Mar
ket streets, and heard the shot, rush
ed to the office of Lawyer Care.
He found Potter at the head of the
stairway reloading his revolver. Pot
ter gave himself up but refused to
talk.
In the meantime the police patrol
arrived, and the officers had gone up
a back stairway. Potter was for
merly proprietor of the hotel at 524
State street. Later he took over the
Fox Hotel at Second and Washing
ton streets, but lost his license in
a law and order cleanup. Recently
Potter engaged in the barber busi
ness at 709 South Front street.
Allege Check Trouble
The trouble is said to have start
ed over an alleged check which Pot
ter said Care had in his possession.
This check, according to Potter's
contention with the lawyer, had
been forged on a city bank and Care
was withholding it from Potter.
This afternoon Potter came to the
lawyer's offices and is said to have
threatened to kill Care because he
said the latter had refused to turn
over the check. More than a month
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J CONGRESS TO ADJOURN IN NOVEMBER 2
* Washington. Republican. Leader Mondell to-day told jj
the House I
* ' 2
* gress adjourn between November 8 and 10, so members J
aid have a brief rest before the beginning oftl 4
* session early in December. . T
* . RIGHT TO SEIZE HOARDS UPHELD 4
Washington. Authority of |i
* *V' Ml
* confiscate and sell food held mucoid sorage longer than
4
* j
day h
jj peals in proceedings growing out of the seizure ' 125,- jjj
(' ' ."inn 4
J 1. W. W. TELLS OF "INDUSTRIAI : *
* Washington. Russian unions which ha e been or- Jj
ganized i nthe principal Pennsylvania and Ohio steel ||
* districts, are seeking to organize an "industrial Soviet," \j
* In the United States, the Senate committee investigating
* *
i the steel strike was told late to-day by Jacob Margolin, of J
j Pittsburgh, who was identified as an I. W. W. attorney. 2
l, s i
PALMER WRITES "DRY"ENFORCEMENT OPINION
, - The prohibition enforcement bill, with u
* itutionauty by Attorney Genen *
,, f u
eturned to the Presi ||
I t • t ♦ \ . *'
<v . *
. T. KIEL our OF RACE > ■
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 <i i
F and in making the landing the under carriage of his ma- 1j
P chine was broken. Lieutenant Kiel was not hurt. * •
L KIEV CAPTURED * |
r London. The War Office states that the troops of .J! I
P General Denikine have driven the Bolsheviki from Kiev, 'lj I
L which they temporarily occupied last week. " , JJ !
r London The white flag was hoisted ov -rt ae Rus- * 1
J" M
r sian fortress of Kronstadt on Friday, it war nnnmm. ( •
[ by ' r MARRIAGE f
t! * '
P llnxxrll 1.. StartHl and Verna C. Hrrnnan. Ahamoklni Plrtro Pr- d,
U llcxe, Nharpxburs. and Carmela l.onalna. Steel ton i Pranck Patlltw,
r bharpxhars. and Freda De bantla. HarrOlnrit; Paul A. Kabr. Bar-* ■
H . rlxharm Panl A. Kahr, Harrtxbnrg, and Vera E. Foreman, Ckaakeia- .
L burs.
14' | I illlt 1I If)
ago he had previously appeared and
demanded the check, but at that
time he was removed from the of
fice and taken to the office of an al
derman, it is reported. ' He then is
reported to have made the threat
that he would kill the lawyer.
Asked Not to Shoot
This afternoon he appeared to
make good his threats, he told Core.
"Don't shoot Leslie, I'll do any
thing," Mr. Care is reported to have
told him.
"I don't care, I'm going to shoot
you, you ," Potter is report
ed to have retorted, drawing his re
volver.
Care Retreats
Care retreated toward an inner
office and Potter blazed away. Sev
eral of the bullets from his revolver
struck the floor, but the third went
through the legs of Care's trousers,
slightly grazing the flest*.
Potter then stopped to reload the
revolver at the head of the steps,
consuming considerable time in so
doing. In the meantime, Patrol
men Laurie and Romich appeared
on the scene and succeeded in get
ting Potter's revolver without diffi
culty.
Taken to the police station, he re
fused to talk.
Care was treated by Dr. John A.
McAlister after which he returned
to his offices and continued work.