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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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" GERMANY'MItST. SIGN I'KO 11 ' T
ft % tr the Peace Treaty become* •
prteentatives wiii.be required, • 2
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£ '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
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[ GOVERNOR POSTPONES CONFER!•
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N -stiike. 1.0 - rid the. afternoon. ivj
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DISCUSS ADMISSION OF GERMANS - I
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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
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i throughout the world was the settlement of the uu . , d
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t of German and Austrian representatives to the confer- A
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* 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. ; |
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b BOTH VARIETIES OI COAL AFFECTED
L ' i
c Washington. —Attorney General Palmer said this aft- I
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£ ernoon that the restoration of maximum - prices on coal M
j would apply to anthracite as well as bituminous coal. '* I
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MARRIAGE LICENSES
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I Jonrph K. MVH, Jr., I*hll"drl|tfcia, and Uertrade T. —frrlalaai
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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.
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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.