Comple e Tieup of Co n vy s Mines Within Next Sevevotl Days Is Being Pvedicied hy StYikevs LXXXVIII— NO. 259 MINE LEADERS ARE CONFIDENT OF SHUTDOWN Operators Make No Preparations to Run Mines—Only Enough Men to Guard Property at the Workings, Union Heads Continue to Insist PALMER REPLIES TO MINERS WHO PROTEST INJUNCTION Chicago, Nov. 4. —Deprived of the directing hands of its leaders, as a result of the injunction, the membership of the United Mine Workers of America to-day entered the first full working day since confident that the men were prepared to dem onstrate its ability to halt production of soft coal throughout the nation. Directing heads of the workers' union maintain that more than 400,000 men are out. The operators, so far as available re ports show, have not yet made plans to combat the strike, not withstanding the fact that troops, both Federal and State, have been sent in many instances to localities from which they might best guard the coal properties. Up until this morning no disorders have been reported. (>nly enough men to guard the property are at the mines, the union leaders saw To Clarify Situation Developments in the strike of more than 423,000 soft coal miners throughout the country were ex pected to clarify (he situation to the extent of determining whether pro duction was to be stopped indefinite ly in a large part of the bituminous zone or whether any considerable number of workers were willing to return to work. No plans have been made for opening any of the mines with im ported labor, and old men who re turn to work are to be treated as if they had never laid down their tools, according to Thomas T. Brewster, chairman of the coal operators scale committee. No miner will be dis criminated against, he said. Don't Kxpoct Union Men Back Reports from most of the large mining centers indicated that while a large number of the mines would be in shape for the miners to resume work, the operators did not expect many union jnen to re-enter the workings to-day. While operators admitted that the figures given out by union leaders as to the number of men on strike, were approximately correct, they pointed out that close to 1 50,000 nonunion men were at work in the Pennsylvania and West Virginia fields and that nearly 20,000 union miners were working in Kentucky under contracts signed recently. Troops in Fields Federal troops to-day were in the mining regions of West Virginia, Tennessee, Wyoming and New Mex ico under orders to preserve the peace in case disorders arise in con nection with the strike. One com pany of the 32nd Infantry also was on its way from Sun Diego, Cub, to Utah, for duty in the coal fields of that state. The National Guard of Colorado and Oklahoma have already been sent to the coal districts of those COAL STRIKE IS CAUSING PASSENGER CURTAILMENT By Associated Brass, Washington, Noy. 3.—At the White House to-day it was said that Presi dent Wilson's offer for arbitration of the strike still was open. Mean time preparations for the setting up of a commission of industrial unrest as recommended by the public group in the recent Industrial Conference are going forward and the selection of the personnel is expected to be completed by the Cubinet to-morrow. One of the first effects of the coal strike has been the curtailment oE passenger trains on some railroads. Director General Hines has given regional directors wide discretion in this matter as they are in a position U. S. Will Make No Attempt to Arbitrate Until Recall Is Sent By Associated Press. Washington, Nov. 3. —Attorney General Palmer to-day informed coal miners who protested against the strike injunction that the Govern ment stood ready to "do everything in its power to facilitate an inquiry into tile merits of the controversy, but in the meantime the law must be informed and combinations to stop production cannot be tolerated." Mr. Palmer's statement, made in reply to a telegram from the union local at Glencoe. Ohio, to President [Continued on Page 15.] ITHEWEATHRP] Hiirrisburg and Vicinity■ Partly cloudy to-night and Tc-sdav warmer Tnrnday. l,onn tem perature to-night about 3N de green. Eastern Pennsylvania. Partly cloudy to-night and Tuesday, slightly warmer Tuesday. Mod erate northeast to southeast winds. Rlvcri The main river will rise except the upper portion will begin to fall Tuesday afternoon or night. All tributaries will fall except the lower portions of the A'orth and West branches which . will rise slightly or rriiiniu nearly statlonar) to-night. A singe ot about 7.4 feet Is In dicated for Hnrrlsbuurg Tues day morula/ HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH if J- /xv_ri-.0 • Matter at the. Post Office at Harriaburg •states ami several companies of state •troops have been mobilised at Bir ! tningham, Ala., In case their serv j ices are needed quickly to quell dis- Jturbanees around the mines there. Federal troops have been ordered i to be held in readiness in every de partment of the Army for service whenever state authorities ask for i assist anr in keeping down disor • ders. No Back to Work Move , No movement of men back to the j mines developed in the early Mon- I day reports front the country's bi j luminous mine lields. A small num | her of lignite miners in the Burling ton, N. D., area returned to work af- I ter being on strike one day, explain | ing that they had not received union : orders to continue at work. This ' was the only place where reports were received of strikers reporting for work Monday. No attempts were made by own ers to operate the unionized mines. In West Virginia 300 nonunion .mines., were operating, according to advices from the officers of the West Virginia Coal Association. Reports received at the offices of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com ] pany in Denver described the situa !tion as "about the same as Satur day," when central properties were operated with reduced forces. Business Fooling ElTwts Business in some of the smaller I lowa cities was feeling the effects ! of the coal strike, according to re ports. Newton was in darkness Sun- I day night, while in Indionla schools I and theaters are closed, i There were no reports of lawless ness from any of the mining fields I and the first arrest reported in con | nection with the strike came from ! Walsenburg, Colo., where United | States immigration inspectors took j into custody a Bulgarian miner j charged with having threatened to I burn several mines in the district if I the miners returned to work. jto survey the coal needs of their s; respective districts. - i Freight service will not be disturb i : ed unless the coal shortage becomes -I serious. Officials believe that with ) the stocks of coal in transit together t 'with the thousands of tons stored at ) | terminals it would not be necessary 31 to curtail this service for several i j weeks. 5 1 A survey of all the coal stocks held . !by railroads under direction of the 1 railroad administration is under way. E The administration also is gathering . figures on the quantity of coal r.t i seaboard, intended for export, but i which has been ordered held by the i railroads if necessary. Nonunion Mines in Pennsylvania Are Working Full Time By .Associated Press, W Nov. 3. Nonunion mines in Pennsylvania and West Virginia were working full time to day, according to reports to the Washington officers of the operators. At some points in those States the miners were trying to get out more than the normal day's production. ~ {j Pennsylvania nonunion fields including Greensburg, Irwin, Connellsville and Ligonier, all mines were reported in full operation. Their was no change in the situation around Pitsburgh. Nonunion men in the West Vir ginia fields, embracing Pocahontas, Rlver ' Winding Gulf, Logan and Williamson "went to work with their shirts of," messages said, in the hope of getting out more coal than was mined in any single day last week. Workers in the Fairmont, W. Vu., fields whose output Saturday was 24 cars sought to-day to beat Unit mark. first reports from the central competitive fields—Ohio, Illinois. Indiana and Western Pennsylvania— showed all union miners out. EXPECTED TO WOK It By Associated Press, Washington. Nov. 3.—After three days of rest from executive business President Wilson was expected' to do some work tiv-da.v, as several bills and other mutters were awuiting his attention It Doesn't Matter Whose Dog It Is—That's One Place He Can't Stay JLIVING COST, AS SHOWN IN MEAT J PRICES, IS LOWER i! Sharp Declines Seen in Retail r ■ Charges Made in City f 1 Shops Decreasing meat prices in Harris | burg markets are resulting in a | lowered cost of living in Harrlsburg. 1 • The past several weeks have seen j sharp declines and big percentage ! decreases are shown over the prices r I that existed one year ago. j Some few grades of meats are to - |day selling at slightly higher prices *' than they did one year ago, but even [these are not as high they had t; been. For some weeks following the "j" j conclusion of hostilities the prices ! continued .to mount, but the peak j I apparently has been reached and B 1 passed. j Smaller Kxports tl Meat dealers assign lessened ex t'|ports as the reason for the drop. 'jWith the warring countries of Eu i rope again becoming partially self j supporting, there no longer exists i the need for the enormous foreign j.shipments that had been made. I South American products, too, jare being sent across the Atlantic to > aid in feeding the Europeans, and j this still further decreased the need for the product in the United States, iUnder such conditions, with an in u creased supply of meats available t - for home consumption, prices are .(now droppng steadily and promise Ito go still lower. Thirty Per Cent. Off •j Advertisements of the Harrlsburg ij branch of a string of meat houses 2 i throughout the country of now and ' one year ago show in a number of | instances decreases in prices of 1 thirty per cent, and more. '! Pin steak, which one year ago 3 sold for 30 certs, is now quoted as i being worth 22 cents. Chuck roast j has dropped from 20 cents to 16 I cents, while top rib and fleshy boil is to-day selling'at 14 cents, whereas lit cost the consumer 20 cents one J ; year ago. i hard Prices Higher I The lower tendency is not con-j ! lined alone to beef, but is shown also ,in other meat products. Picnic hams' ure to-day worth but 30 cents perl t pound, as compared to the quota- 1 lion of 27 cents one year ago. | 1 I,anil) chops, especially, show a de- ; , crease and, while they sold for 3 5 - cents one year ago, to-day they are ! bringing but 20 cents. ; Hard, however, has shown an up ward tendency since November 1, 1918. The sale price is now quoted j|at 32 cents, four cents higher than sj last year. The present figure, how > [ ever, is lower than it had been for < tome time, the product going us high 3 as 4,0 cents a pound and in some in | stances even higher. I HARRISBURG, PA. MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3, 1919- WTSuho ess si TWO k CENTS S3 REMEMBER LOANS WHEN YOU VOTE i RTVON'T forget the loans I I when you vote." That will be the slo- I gan of the Chamber of Com j merce, Rotary Club and Kiwanis ] Club volunteers who will work for the loans to-morrow. | They are: $4 0,000 for bathing beache3 i and bathhouses. $30,000 for street paving. SIOO,OOO for sewers, i Transfer of $300,000 from Wal ' ! nut street bridge fund to State - j street bridge fund. . ! All parties favor them. There , ' is no opposition. But be sure to vote for them, ! j or they may fail for lack of at ' | tention. Look for them on bot- I torn of ballot. IRED CROSS WILL GIVE ACCOUNTING OF GUARDIANSHIP . j Annual Report to Be Read at Open Meeting This 'i V ■ , Evening j When the annual report of Harrls j burg Red Cross chapter is read to night at the meeting in Chestnut J Street Auditorium the people of I Harrisburg will have an opportunity j of knowing just what the chapter has been doing the last year. And in 1 addition, when Dr. Stockton Axson, j a relative of President Wilson, tells ' his personal story of the Red Cross | Harrisburg will have an intimate j knowledge of what the national or ganization has been doing. Every Red Cross worker, every Red Cross member and every Har [ Continued on Page .] Moose to Burn Old Mortgage at Banquet Harrisburg Lodge, No. 107, Loyal | Older of Moose, will hold a banquet! j on their eleventh anniversary. Thurs- • ! day, November 13, In Chestnut street I ] Auditorium, at X o'clock. Preparu-1 l Hons ale now being made on a large | ; seule tn take care of the membership. I l and speakers from the central organ- ! : ization will be present. • The Harrisburg lodge will meet at I the club rooms, Third aud Boas I ; streets, and march to the hall, head- j ed by the Moose Band, of 40 pieces, j At the hall the ceremony of burning: the mortgage on the second property ■ at 328 North Third street will be ob i served. All Dauphin and Perry counties have been scoured in an ef- i fort to get turkeys for the feast, and j the comniitteh in charge said to-day • ' thut enough hud been secured to feed j I the hungriest Moose. Stoc-fln&cpenftent, LEADERS AGREE ON FINAL PEACE PACT VOTE SOON Ratification Ballot Proposing Unanimous Consent Agree ment Is Drawn Up By Associated Press. \\ asltinglon, Nov. 3.—A filial vote his week on ratification of the Peace Treaty is proposed in unanimous con sent agreement drawn up for presen tation to the Senate to-day by the ad minstration leaders. Apparently < ontemplating the pos sibility of a deadlock over reserva tions, the agreement provides that after this week, the Treaty, if not ratified, can be laid aside. To lllniionc of Amendments In the plan put forward as a coun ter to Republican Reader Lodge's proposal for a final vote November 12, all amendments would be disposed of to-day, the reservations of the for eign relations committe would be passed on to-morrow and Wednesday and the committee's resolution of rat ification voted on Thursday. Friday end Saturday would be reserved for consideration of alternate ratification resolutions, should that presented by the committee fail. The fact that the agreement pro vided for a possible deadlock in Treaty was taken as another indica tion that the administration forces would vote apuinst ratification If the committee reservations were adopted and then would present a ratification resolution containing only qualifica tions of an interpretative character. Debase on all subjects relating to the Treaty would be limited under the plan to 15-minute speeches and the Senate would meet an hour earlier than usual each day. 300-Pound Porker Cavorts Around Capito! Park r>id you see that 300-pound porker which got loose from the Swift and Company stockyards last night and tan wild in the vicinity of the Cap tol for awhile? Between g and 10 o'clock it was all over that part of town, and after being chased around ! the High School building on Forster j street ten or twelve times, the hog [ got dizzy and flew off at a tangent, I finally landing at Green and Forster streets, where It was taken into cus- I I truly, but not by the police. The loose porker caused more excitement than 1 the arrival of the King, as it tore! ! around, upsetting everything that came In Its way. WIATRI.Y l)\ FLIGHT >ll nr.,ln, N. J., Nov. 3.— .Miss Jane Herveaux. who served as an honorary ! captain in the French aviation corps i left here In a Curtlss airplane this 1 morning for Havana. Cuba. 9he will! make several stops on the way, the first being at Bustleton field' near I Philadelphia. Merrill 15. Kiddlck, a 1 former air pilot, will accompany her] as a passenger as Washington. From there Miss Herveaux plans to make the trip alone. REPUBLICANS SURE TO SWEEP WHOLE COUNTY City and County Tickets Both Safe; Only Question Now Is of Majorities LOANS WILL BE WINNERS Workers Are Redoubling Ef-! forts as Many Democratic Committeemen Quit REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET County Commissioners Charles C. Oumbler. Henry M. Stine. Recorder of Deeds M. Harvey Taylor. Register of Wills Ed. H. Fisher. Sheriff George W. Karmany. District Attorney Philip S. Moyer. County Treasurer Oliver C. Bishop. , Directors of the Door John H. Lehr. Frank B. Snavely. (2-year term) Jacob S. Farver. REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET Mayor George A. Hoverter. City Coiiii(r. Samuel F. llassler. William 11. Lynch City Controller DeWilt A. Fry. City Treasurer Harry F. Oves. Seliool Directors Howard M. Bingaman. William Pavord. Franklin J. Roth | "Every Republican on the city and | county tickets will be elected to-mor row and indications are that all four I of the municipal loans will be ap i proved to-morrow," said William H. | Horner, county chairman, to-day | when asked as to prospects. That opinion is shaped by every ■ Republican worker approached and I not a few Democrats gave up the i last minute fight to-day as hopeless I after they had gone over the situa tion in the various voting districts. I Alderman George A. Hoverter, I candidate for mayor, and Harry F. I Oves, nominee for city treasurer, ex ] pressed themselves as highly pleas l ed with the progress of their cam ; paigns and said that the only mat -1 ter in question is that of mujor | ity. DeWitt A. Fry, candidate for i city controller, who has been gett ] ing about the city, said the same ■ thing and with them will go into of | tice again City Commissioners Hass i ler, Gross, Lynch and Burtnett. Re- I publican committeemen were busy i setting up the last of their fences j for the whole ticket to-day, and the 1 slogan for to-morrow will be "Get ' Out the Vote." !_I II llic County Republican sentiment is running 1 high throughout the county and | there is no question of the election i of George Karmany as sheriff, Har ; vey Taylor as recorder, Captain Henry M. Stine and C. C. Cumbler for county commissioners and the remainder of their running mates on | the county ticket. Straight ticket I voting will be ifapuiar with Repub ; licans to-morrow who are bent upon ! piling up majorities that will testify ! as to their dissatisfaction with na i tional affairs as conducted by the | Wilson administration. To-morrow's j majorities will indicate he feeling of ; Republicans as to the national eloc ! tions next year, they say. •aqt o) aiqruoAßj oau saßjiHl uy j loans and the adoption of all of | them appears to be assured. Old Gag Fails Among politicians the outburst of ! pretended interest in behalf of the .floundering candidates of the party |by the V\#son machine in Dauphin county is regarded with mixed feel \ ings of contempt at the hypberisy of it all and the amusement over 'amateurish efforts of desperate bosses, who want to keep in the party limelight so that they may dic : tnte party action in the Presidential icampaign next year. Corruption of 'the ballot box is the old, old slogan of the machine which has about j ruined the democracy of this sec tion, .hut the practical men among 'the Democrats are declaring with I considerable emphasis that (heir 'memories are too long with regard ! to former campaigns to cause them ,to get excited over the last-hour ar.-tics of their so-called leaders, j "If there has been a lot of crook ] edness in the primary campaign," declared an outspoken Democrat to-day, "why didn't the virtuous gentlemen who are playing poor polities throw the net out long ago and hale the culprits Into court, where they could be fitly punished? jThis thing of springing sensational | charges in the lust hour of the cum [Coiitiiiued on Page 15.] DeShong Regime at Police Court Near End A larceny charge preferred by a | local store against one of its for j iner employes taken to police head l quarters Saturday was taken over 1 in some manner by Alderman James B. DeShong who has been presiding at police court for months. l.VHhong to-day went to unusual lengths to-day to keep the matter I 1 secret apparently because of the I ! manner in which he took the case i from the police. He hung up the | telephone when a reporter tried to | get information from him. One of i George A. Hoverter's promises to the I voters ts to abolish the Keistey prac- ' tice of having DeShong at police J court when he becomes mayor. The Kelster program has cost the tax payers thousands of dollars and given rise to many nasty rumors. CHEAP FREIGHT IF RIVER IS DREDGED FOR NA VIGATION War Department Reports Show Means of Opening Great Industrial and Agriculture Valley to Seaboard MAJOR GRA Y SA YS TASK IS ECONOMIC NECESSITY TO U. S. Making the Susquehanna River navigable is practical. As an additional transportation facility it is necessary, io reduce freight charges and develop interstate commerce it is justifiable. 1 o conserve water and flood control, jointly with production of electric is warranted. hor benefits to be derived by Eastern Seaboard states and the nation it should be made navigable without delay. William B. Gray, major in the en gineering service of the United States Army, thus concludes his re port to the War Department on malt ing the Susquehanna river navigable, after an "exhaustive study of condi tions along this large waterway and the resulting advantages of making the river suitable for transportation facilities. Major Gray begins his report with a history of the effort* to make the river navigable - efforts which be gan in 17US. President George Wash ington included it in his recommen dation for tin inland waterways I transportation system, and for years afterward money was appropriated, surveys and reports made, but t'en gross never took any action. Flat boats were floated down the rivet late in the seventeenth century and early in the eighteenth century. Excel Is Itail ways In reply to the statement that inlund waterways are not used and do not pay, Major Gray states that if economy in freight movement is desired the canals will supply it. "If a prompt and speedy receipt of freight is demanded, the waterway at the present time excells the rail roads," the report continues. Comparing the movement of barges of coal from Buffalo to New ❖ J i jj OFFICER j ALSELY LABELED LIQUOR T Chicago. A warrant for the arrest of Francis T, A. Junkin. of Chicago, appointed a month ago a mem- T a rani, f ii-ut "Km; colonel in the rcgui.-T i • <. was issued X shipim liquor. HURI 1 EX t J Company were slightly injured in an explqsi 4| Ed. Fci ■ -rtlilc . shut ... is lu'M.i X and left arm. Benjamin Robinson, 64U Boyd street, has X several burns on both hands. Richard Miincj. of Steel- X ATTACKS BILL FOR EXPORT FIN A 4* Wr |4 lew conttnc/." J King, attacked the Edge bill for export financing i.t he House to-day, characterizing it as an "admirable exam i pie of lobbying and bureaucratic legislation." : 4 ;4 j| J * • BUY GERMAN DIAMOND FIELDS 'aj London. A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph I A - Company from Johannesburg reports the purchase by an i iV Ar foi i >OO o ; i'.i of all Germany's private and state interests in the dia _ mond fields of what was formerly German southwest Africa. Some protests arc expressed over what is called £ J the "secrecy of the deal" and allegations are made that ? * the purchase was 'effected through undue influence in 4* po 1 " BACK BROKEN UNDER AUTOMOBILE T* McVcytown, Pa. Roy H'esser, 22 year;, old. had his