(J. S Takes Steps to Crash Soft Coal Strike as Miners Make Final Arrangements For W* T YYYVTTT VO 9CS 99 P-APFQ Daily Excojt Sunday. Entered as Second Ciass LAAA V \9. -Jv' X aULj Matter it the Post Office at Harrisburg GOVERNMENT MOVES SWIFTLY TO MEET SITUATION TO RESULT ' FROM STRIKE OF COAL MINERS RAILROADS MA Y CONFISCA TE ALL FUEL IN TRANSIT Priority List For Industries Re-established; Maximum Prices to Be Fixed; Pro j fiteers Face Prosecution; Will Not He sit ate toCurtail Consumption CABINET WORKING OUT PLANS TO PROTECT MINERS WHO WORK By Associated Press. Washington Oct. 30. —Federal agencies moved swiftly to-day I to meet the situation which will result from the strike of bitumi nous coal miners Saturday. Developments included: Orders to railroads to confiscate all coal in transit if necessary to build up and reserve for operation of the roads. Re-establishments of the priorities list of the fuel administra tion so that the railroads, public service utilities and essentials will have first call on whatever coal is mined and on that in stor age. Preparation of an executive order establishing maximum prices for coal and completion of plans by the Department of Justice to punish those guilty of profiteering and hoarding. Announcement by Secretary Lane that the government would not hesitate to curtail consumption of coal in industries fifty per cent, so that essential industries might be kept in operation. General discussion of the situation by President Wilson's Cabinet which met in special session at the call of Secretary Lansing. Working out of plans by which miners who wish to continue work will be afforded every possible protection, including that of Federal troops, should that become necessary. Fuel Administration in Charm- . At the conclusion of the special cabinet meeting. Attorney General Palmer announced that the fuel ad ministrator would take control or the handling of the coal and would use his authority under the k® ve r act to take whatever steps might be necessary to meet the situation. Mr. ' Palmer's announcement, which was authorised by the cab inet, said: "The President will be asked to dav to make an order canceling the suspension of restrictions as to the price of coal which will have the effect of restoring maximum prices. Vpon the making of that order the Fuel Administrator will take such action as may be necessary to pro tect consumers both as to price and distribution of fuel." .... „ Revival of the fuel administration to deal with conditions growing out of the coal strike is not necessary, I)r. Harry A. Garfield advised the President's cabinet to-day, holding that the wartime powers of that body now are vested in the railroad administration, which will have full authority to distribute coal to essen tial industries. Members of the cabinet said that if Dr. Garfield's suggestions Were adopted, it would obviate the neces sity of asking Congress for money to reorganize the fuel administration, and the railroad administration could allocate coal in accordance with the preferential list during the coal shortage two years ago. Department of Justice lias Power While revival of the fuel adminis tration had been urged by govern ment officials to prevent hoarding and profiteering, the Department of Justice announced that it had power to handle that situation under the food control act. Secretary Lane announced as the cabinet met that the government would not hesitate to curtail the consumption of coal in industries fifty per cent, in order that the coal on hand and that available from unafTected nonunion mines might be equitably distributed to essential in dustries. Use Curtailment 'List The curtailment list used by the War Industries Board during the war would be taken as the basis for the industries to be supplied, Mr. I-ane said. Plants engaged in manu facturing munitions might be cut off altogether. Dr. Garfield was at the White House before the cabinet met In special session to put final approval on plans to protect the public when the strike of miners goes into effect Saturday. Director General Hines also was summoned to give a detailed report of conditions confronting the rail road administration. Protection for miners willing to remain at work in the mines despite [Continued on Page 17.1 I THE WEATHER, | Harrisburg and Vlelnltyi Rain and warmer to-night and Fri day. I.oweat temperature to night about 38 degrees. Eastern Pennsylvania i It air. to night and Friday. Warmer. I'rrab east to southeast winds. divert The Susquehuniia river anil all Ita brnnehes will rise some what or remain nearly sta tionary. A stage of about t.tl fret la ladlcatrd for llarrlsburg Friday mornlug. HARRISBURG IfSfStill TELEGRAPH Attack Coal Act as Last of Series of Attempts to Usurp Executive Power By Associated Press Indianapolis, Oct. 30. A direct attack upon President Wilson's course in the coal strike situation as the "climax of a long series of attempted usurpations of executive power," was made to-'day by John L. Lewis, acting president, and the executive board of the United Mine Workers of America. The attack came in a long telegram to Secre tary of Labor Wilson, replying to a message from him delivered to the conference here yesterday of some four score officials and leaders of the union. The telegrams constituted the first exchange of views between the ad ministration and the union. While the telegram from Secretary Wilson reached here yesterday, the reply was not completed until to-day, when it was submitted to the executive board by President Lewis. It was announced that the reply was ap proved by unanimous vote. Union headquarters refused to give out the Secretary's message, saying that its publication was something for the sender to approve. Offers to Call Conference The reply indicated that the See i etary offered to call a conference of the miners and employers, which offer was accepted in the following language: "We shall hold ourselves in readi ness to attend any joint conference which may be arranged by you upon a fair basis and stand ready to re convene the international convention of our organization whenever our scale committee has received an honorable proposition for presenta tion to such convention." BOY KILI-ED Warren, Pa., Oct. 30.—Charles I-eghner, aged 13. was shot and killed by Shelby Home while hunt ing birds in the woods near here to day. He was walking ahead of Home, when Home's gun was acci dentally discharged. This is the first hunting accident of the season jto be recorded here. FOR COCKTAILS USE BAY RUM AND WORCESTERSHIRE SHAKE, AND CALL POLICE Receipt Also (.alls Por a Dash.of Alcohol, Peppermint and Ketchup, With a Hangover in Jail This "cocktail" had the punch. Manufactured of pure alcohol, bay rum, peppermint, ketchup and Worcestershire sauce. all well mixed, it so affected a half-dozen of itinerant travelers yesterday after noon that it was necessary for mem bers of the Harrisburg police to as sist them on their journey. Equipped with afore-mcntioned article, plus cans of baked beans ar.-d bread, late yesterday afternoon the sextet set out for the Island for a feast with liquid refreshment as the most important article on the menu. With no regard for the advice of the di unuist from whom the bay rum liud been purchased, that it Another Little Boy's Faith in Santa Claus Destroyed i V//' 9 i • y ° ; / SUPPLY OF HARD COAL NOT LARGE BEFORE STRIKE Retail Dealers Expect De mand For Anthracite to Increase Just how the proposed strike of miners of bituminous coal, will af fect Harrisburg people, city coal merchants were unable to say to day. Householders of this city, consume anthracite coal to a large extent. But if the strike becomes effective, city residents will feel the effect when they attempt to secure further supplies of anthracite, according to one city dealer. The supply of nut and egg coal is now said to be low in this city and little is on hand. The supply of egg, pea and buckwheat Is described as being fair, but these will speedily feel the effect of any reduction in the production of bituminous coal, city dealers declare. Pea and buck wheat will be first called on by the industries whose supply of bitum inous is cut off. The suburban supply of coal is [Continued on Page 13.] was intended for external and not in ternal lubrication-, the party pr - ceeded to become an "enjoyable" affair. The event was proceeding with exceeding merriment that bor dered on hilarity. > Police headquarters were notified. Patrolmen Hylan and Romig, with the Blgck Mario, set forth toward the rendezvous of the half-dozen on the Island between the Market and Walnut street bridges and arrived in the midst of a "round." With a lit tle gentle persuasion, five were so bered to some extent and assisted into' Cumberland county. The sixth, a "peg-lee." spent the night iu Juli and was released to-day. top ofor-3n&cpcndatt. HARRISBURG. PA. THURSDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 30, 1919 _______________________________________________ . He's With 'Em By Associated Press New York, Oct. 30. Magistrate Dale, sitting in a Brooklyn police I court, to-day suspended sentence ] on a man convicted of drunken- i ncss pn the ground that a "good | many hypocrites in Congress have created a condition whereby a good many Americans will be de prived of their personal rights." Brewers Prepare to Attack Constitutionality of Prohibition Act By Associated Press New York, Oct. 30.—Constitutional ity of the Volstead prohibition en forcement Act as it applies to war time prohibition is attacked in a suit which counsel for New York brewers and restaurant men were preparing today for tiling in the Federal Court. The petition will ask that agents of the Government be restrained from enforcing the act. Similar suits, it was slated, will be brought in vari ous other states. Decision to attack the constitu tionality of the meusure was reached at a conference of brewing and res taurant interests last night, which 1 convened at about the same hour that I the effectiveness of the Volstead law i began to be felt in a series of spectac ular raids by internal revenue agents, I .in the course of which two men were! sjiot. There were 9 raids during the eve ning and 2u arrests. Kevenue agents . visited scores of other saloons. • but I found no evidence that they were not complying with the law. The shunt ing occurred in connection with a raid on a cafe In West Forty-second , street, near Eighth avenue, known In' the old days of the Tenderloin as i "the red mill." Rev.-nue agents de-! dined to discuss the shooting, which ' spectators said was done by one or' more of the ngents. Colonel Daniel Porter, supervising' internal revenue agent for the New i York district, who has charge of the | liquor enforcement campaign here,' 'declared his 600 men would wage ; a steady drive until the sale of any- ; thing stronger than "half per cent" Pad been eradicated. ( XORIMtING GUARD liy Ass Aviated. Press Denver, Colo.. Oct. 30. Mobiliza tion of the Colorado National Guard for the protection of, miners who wish to work in ca.**e a strike of soft <'oai miners occurs November I. was heffun to-day upon instructions from Governor Slioup. The national Guard, approximately 1.-00 strong:, is ordered to mobilize at Golden and Trinidad by Friday night. j BROWN SUGAR AT HIGH PRICE IS | QUICKLY SOLD Wholesale Dealers Unable to Say When Fresh Supply of Granulated Will Arrive "Rotten" is the way one wholesale dealer described the sugar situation in Harrisburg. With retailers having little or no stock on hand, the wholesalers have nothing in the warehouses to allevi ate their shortage. "No sugar" signs in windows of many stores, greet seekers after supplies to re lieve the shortage in their larder. A small supply of granulated sugar has been received within the past several days, but in few instances did U get inside of the wholesalers' warehouses. In most cases, it was greedily snapped up by the retailers. The supply of Louisiana sugar, which appeared at exceptionally high prices to aid In meeting the situa | tion, is to-day said to be exhausted I us far as this community is con i cerned. No information could be I secured of any of this sugar being in the possession of any deafer. Des , pile the comparatively low quality j of this sugar, the demand for it far | exceeded the supply. No signs of additional supplies of sugar, appear on the horizon to strike 1 gladness into the hearts of con- I Burners. Most of them, with excep j tionally low supplies, are devising , various means to tide them over the j shortage. Syrups, molasses, honey • and other sweetened goods, are be- I ing consumed In lurger quantities ! than ever. I j BOLSHEVIKS NEAR PETROGRAD LOSE iicisliMcfors, Oct. 30. A com munication issued by the Rus s'an northwest army says that Ho Bhevik attacks on the west Pelrogrnd front Tuesduy were re pulsed and that 400 prisoners were taken. It adds that oil Wednesday the White offensive west of K.amoyc Selo wu3 pioceeding successfully and that 1,500 prisoners had Iteei". taken. i , LAST BIG RALLY OF REPUBLICANS ON FOR TONIGHT Ward Workers and Commit teemen to Hear Addresses at Courthouse Meeting "GET OUT VOTE," SLOGAN Only Question of Majority and County Chairman Asks Vote For Effect Next Year The last big rally of the Republi can campaign will be held in the courthouse this evening when mem j hers of the county committee in the j city, the city committee and the { Dauphin County Republican League i will meet to hear the chairmen and t candidates. The text of this meeting will be: "Get out tlie vote." I That has become the slogan of the campaign. " There is no question of a great Republican victory, and this being generally recognized it is feared i some Republicans may lose the in | terest that a hot tight engenders and j may neglect to go to the polls. "A big Reput lican majority, is de ' si ruble at this time for l lie reasons ! that I think we ought to endorse ' most heartily the very splendid ticker nominated in September," said County Chairman William H. Horner to-day, "but aside from thut we ought to serve notice on the Denio j crats what we mean to do in the ' Presidential election next year. This :is no "off-year.' What we do next : Tuesday will have a large bearing on : what Dauphin county will do next ' fall in the Presidential elections. The victory is assured this year, but the ! bigger majority now the bigger ma jority next fall and I know how Re publicans feel on that score." City Candidates Active Alderman George Hoverter, Re publican candidate for mayor, who received un overwhelming majority at the primaries, has been getting, about the city every day for the past week and says he linds every ramtou to believe that his majority tn Nowmbct will b larger than at! the primaries. His opponent Dr. j Hartman, has been making some, show of activity, but it requires but a glance at the primary vote to see that he is beaten even before he starts. "1 stand just where I stood before my nomination," said Mr. Hoverter to-day. "My platform re mains absolutely unchanged. If I go into office, as I shall, there will be no more police hearings by alder men. I shall do that work and the city will receive the hundreds of dol lars that will lie saved thereby." The Democratic councilmanic can didates are going it alone, each man for himself. On the other hand, William H. Lynch, Dr. S. P. Hassler, E. Z. (Jross and Charles H. Burtnett are working together, all for one and one for all, and the Republican workers are going out to elect the ! whole ticket, with every prospect of 1 being successful. There will bo no cutting of tickets on the Republican side this year at least so far as the organization workers are concerned. They are for the whole ticket from top to bottom and the results ure already apparent wherever the de tails of the quiet but systematic cam paign has been carried out by those who have been canvassing the var ious voting districts. The Republican county candidates are in the upper end to-day, where they have met with hearty recep tions. The country north of the mountains is going to roll up big majorities this year. Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Author and Poetess, Is Dead After Breakdown ' New Haven, Conn., Oct. 30.—Mrs. ]El!a Wheeler Wilcox, author and | poetess, died at her home. The i Bungalow, in Branford, to-day. i | Mrs. Wilcox had been ill for some I time, having had a nervous collapse , !while engaged in war relief work lit' 1 England, ' Mrs. Wilcox had been constantly] under medical care for nine months, i lln July she was brought to Bran jford in fulfilment of a desire to be tin her own home, the place wherein jmost of her literary work had been done and where, with Mr. Wilcox. I she had entertained friends from all ■over the world. ] Mrs. Wilcox was In her sixty fourth year and a native of Johns ;town Center, Wis. Her literary i work embraced a large number of 'hooks, both prose and poetry, and! ishe was a contributor to many pub-! licntions. Her surviving relatives are a brother and a sister In the West. Many New Arrests For Violations of Food and Fuel Control Expected By Associated Press Washington. Oct. 30.—Many new arrests In a number of states for violations of the food and fuel con trol law are expected soon by the Department of Justice. Attorney General Palmer made it. j clear to-day that the government's 1 preoccupation with the coal strike 1 had not slowed up the campuign to reduce living costs. Since the crlm na) amendments to the food and fuel < ontrol law have been added, the Depa'tment of Justice has !>eei> preparing lb prosecute cases on evi dence previously obtained As a re sult It wa:i said that indictments might he expected soon throughout the country of persons guilty of , flagrant bearding and profiteering. ON 1.1 KVEMIO ASSOCIATED PRESS SINGLE COPIES UhUC CniTIAM NEWSPAPER IN II All It IS lIU KG TWO CENTS tlUlnlj CiUl 11UW RED CROSS IS GETTING READY FOR BIG DRIVE Industrial Campaign Will Be Big Help in Securing Memberships PUZZLE: An automobile in the Square 1 his morning bore a placard on which was a red cross and the word "join." "Shucks," said a man waiting for a Lemojne car. "What does Harrisburg Red Cross wunt with money ?" The reporter who heard the re mark got in touch with Red Cross headquarters. "What does it cost Harrisburg I ted Cross to operate, counting tlie continual aid it gives in times of epidemic and in countless other ways?" "Thirty thousand dollars a year," was lite reply. So that is why the Red Cross calls for money next week. It aims to collect $30,000 in cash, which goes to the National or ganisation: antl 4X.000 $1 mem berships. Half of the member ship money stays with Harrisburg Chapter. Bell Telephone Company this morning called Red Cross head qua rtcrs. "This is ihc Bell Telephone Com pany. We have the letter written by Mrs. Marlin E. Olmsted relative to the industrial drive for Red Cross memberships. Will you send us over the same quantity of supplies we got in all the other Red Cross drives. We propose making the same active campaign from November i to No vember 11 as we have made in the last three years." Mrs. Olmsted has every reason to believe, she told Chairman Jennings to-day, that the industrial campaign will be a success. In the meantime the many cap tains named for the six city districts are making strenuous efforts to re cruit their teams for the drive next week. They had a little trouble at first, but the plea of Mrs. Lyman D. [Continued on Page 13.] " GERMANY'MItST. SIGN I'KO 11 ' T ft % tr the Peace Treaty become* • prteentatives wiii.be required, • 2 * { .. < ••• <• p otoc- ' i r< ! ".IF." diu 2 £ 'coaporaccd in the Treaty of Versailles. The i:e K Council to-day considered the text of the proposed in-, m L strument. ' A jj WILSON NAMES ADVISER TO POST 4 k Washington. Norman H. Davis, of Tull&boma T . m L who was one of the financial advisers to the American,.;S r Peace Mission at Paris, was nominated to-day by Prc.si- jf U dent Wilson as assistant Secretary of J, succred i . Z Rowe, resigned. S i * [ GOVERNOR POSTPONES CONFER!• r '/•; Gives IV.- h .rdito. ' t v • .:• ♦ i * N -stiike. 1.0 - rid the. afternoon. ivj I# DISCUSS ADMISSION OF GERMANS - I 0* Washington. The first subject on to-ilaj's .. m * r of the ' ntc. national Labor Conference in session hero J to promote die improvement of working con. , a * i i throughout the world was the settlement of the uu . , d D, / 1 t of German and Austrian representatives to the confer- A encc. ; * ♦ * MINE CARPENTERS ARE OUT i Scranton. The strike of construction carpenters of JB all coal companies in the anthracite region became opci L tive to-day. Reports at noon showed 1,500 men out. n ,1 u the region from Carbondale to Pottsvillc. ; | E i! b BOTH VARIETIES OI COAL AFFECTED L ' i c Washington. —Attorney General Palmer said this aft- I L I £ ernoon that the restoration of maximum - prices on coal M j would apply to anthracite as well as bituminous coal. '* I I r " MARRIAGE LICENSES • a I Jonrph K. MVH, Jr., I*hll"drl|tfcia, and Uertrade T. —frrlalaai *cn. "illTlfTllTTllll'tFlirilinilllll*'- RESCUERS ARE ORDERED OUT OF BURNING MINE Hope Abandoned For Twenty Who Are Imprisoned in Workings ARE LEFT TO THEIR FATE First-aid Parties Have Narrow Escape From Death When Walls Cave In Hy Associated Press Mteuhcnvlllr. 0.. Oct. 30. After bottling their way to within 150 feet of where 20 miners have been im prisoned since yesterday morning, rescue workers were ordered out of the Y. and O. mine No. 2 at Amster dam, Ohio, at 6 o'clock this morning by mine officials and state mine in spectors, who feared an explosion might occur, according to word re ceived here. Hope has been aban doned that the miners are alive. Rescue parties worked all night long in the gas filled mine. At 2 o'clock this morning they had reached a point 150 ftet distant from entry No. 15, west, in which the 20 miners were supposed to be held prisoners. \arrowly Escape Fire broke out then behind the res cuing party, and its members were forced to tight their way through flames and smoke, many narrowly es caping suffocation. Subsequent attempts to rescue the entombed men failing, the officials at daybreak ordered the men to leave the mine. Coal was afire throughout the entire workings and the mine was filled with gas. After a final lour of inspection shortly before • 8 o'clock, the inspectors pronounced It extremely dangerous to continue the rescue work. Officials said they be lieved the entombed wen were dead. [Continued on I*nge 13.] COMMITERS .SHAKEN VP Jersey City, N. J., Oct. 30,—Fire hundred commuters on the Engle wood express of the Erie Railroad were shaken up to-day when the train Jumped the track and five of its seven cars fell tin their aides. Th accident occurred Just west of the mouth of the Jeraey City tunnel and blocked two of the six main litae '.racks. No one was seriously in— i Jured.
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