Youth Tries to Kill Sweetheart and Then Begs Chance to Give Her His Blood to Save Life LXXXVIII— No. 276 16 PAGES DAI Z* HARRISBURG, PA. SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1919. Os STuAmTEuuHa** CENTS' 3 HOME EDITION GIVES BLOOD TO WOMAN HE SHOT IN LOVE TRAGEDY Youth Makes Desperate Effort to Save Life He Tried to End IN A JEALOUS QUARREL Asks That Victim Re Told of His Efforts to Save Her Life By .Associated Press. Washington, Nov. 29.—Mrs. Flor ence Robinson, comely young ma tron. lying near death in a hospital, and Grover Gordon, little more than a youth, who yesterday shot the woman and twelve hours later kept her alive by giving his blood for transfusion to her veins, to-day, were the principals in one of the most remnrkable crime incidents in Washington police history. Following a jealous quarrel re cently, Gordon yesterday went to the home of the young woman, who some time ago had separated from her husband, to bid her final good hy, as he expected to leave that day for his old home in Wheeling, W. Va. As she stood in his embrace Gordon fired a revolver bullet through her body. After his arrest last night Gordon was told that Mrs. Robinson would die unless some one speedily volun teered to submit to blood trans- i fusion. He eagerly offered himself, ! and requested only that, if the pa- j tient still were conscious, she be! told of his action. Physicians to-day were uncertain I as to whether the operation would | save Mrs. Robinson's life. Tn the! meantime the police were wondering what the effect would be if the woman whom Gordon had tried to kill, should be saved from death through his own sacrifice of blood. Calls For Troops to Protect the Miners Willing to Work By /Associated Press. Oklniioinii City. Okla., Nov. 29. ' i.vernor Robinson has wired Secre tary of War Baker asking that Fed eral troops he, sent into Oklahoma to protect coal miners willing to return against possible interference. The governot yesterday terminated nego tiations with representatives of the coal operators and announced that an other attempt to operate the mines with volunteers, would he made. He declared the operators had shown ho disposition to give material assist ance in keeping up the supply of coal during the present crisis. Kansas City May Close Up Tight to Give Her People Coal By .Associated Prhs. IvaitMiiK City. Nov. 29.—That it may lie necessary to close down every thing in order to keep the people of Kansas City from suffering from the cold is the warning Issued by C. 11. Markham. local fuel administrator at a meeting of representatives of whole sale and retail merchants, theaters, • hurches. sehools and restaurants. i PEACE NEGOTIATIONS TO BE BEGUN WITH SOVIETS By .Associated Pre I .option, Nov. 29.—The Eslhon ian government has announced that peace negotiations with Soviet Rus sia will be begun at Dorpat next Tuesday, according to a wireless dis- | patch from Moscow to-day. The. Soviet delegates, it is stated, will cross the front in the neighborhood of Pskov. ~ : CITY IS LAST IN HOSPITAL WORK The Polyclinic Hospital has i prepared a graphic chart show- j ing how Ilarrisburg compares j with other cities its size in Penn- ' sylvania, in so far as hospital fa- ! cilities are concerned. The chart . follows: HOSPITAL BEDS PER 1.000 I INHABITANTS I m 0.0 WILKES- BAiytE -IMHBBnHH s ' 3 - ERIE 9HHHHHI LANCASTER npnm ,sT JOHNSTOWN """ ALLKNTOWN NCRANTON a. READING • | ■HWHQU AI.TOONA mm :I.ns CHESTER 9BBPSg! IIAHKISIU'KG m ' HARRISBIRG COM .Ml MTV 1 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH slje olac-3nftcpeiiftent. King of Italy, Heir and Duke Who May Be Next Ruler II" illllMi -. ■ ; DUKE D'AOSTA ' PRINCE HUMBERT KING VICTOR EMMANUEL 720 BEDS SHORT OF HARRISBURG'S HOSPITAL NEEDS Conservative Estimate Shows Urgent Need of Third of This Number Hurrisburg is the center of a com munity of 200,000 people who use hos pital facilities. On this basis Harris risburg has less than one hospital bed for every thousand people. For that reason more than ordinary interest is being taken by the community in general in tile campaign through which Polyclinic Hospital will raise 1150,000 for reded improvements and extensions to its plant at Front and Harris streets. On a conservative estimate, medi cal men ai*e agreed. Ilarrisburg is 24C hospital beds short of the num ber necessary to meet the needs of the population of the city alone. Ccunting the neighboring towns de pendent upon the city for hospital fa cilities there is a shortage of 720 beds, even in normal times. It nat urally follows that the present capac ity of the city's hospitals would be hcpelessly inadequate during an epi demic of any sort. This was demon strated during the 1916 typhoid fe ver epidemic, and during the "flu" epidemic of 19IS. It was then neces sary to open emergency hospitals and use volunteer nurses. Ilarrisburg as a hospital center re ceives patients from the country which includes among its larger towns Steeiton, Middletown, lluin melstown, Hershey, Palmyra, Millers burg, Lykens, Halifax. Newport, Dun ci.nnon, Mechanicsburg and others. Considering the larger population, there is half a hospital bed for every thousand of the population. As a re sult of lack of facilities many people are compelled to go to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Pittsburgh for treat ment. What is true now will be true to an ever increasing extent as the population of the district increases; and hence it is absolutely necessary that a start be had right now in in creasing tiie city's hospital facilities. While Ilarrisburg is unsurpassed in Pennsylvania in its park system, its street, paving, its water system and its lighting, it is far back in the mat ter of hospital facilities. The short age of hospital facilities, declare med ical men. is inconsistent with the city's development and spirit. With the $150,000 Polyclinic will raise during its one-week, mid-Janu ary campaign the following will be accomplished: I Building of addition $113,000 I Equipment 21,750 ! Tc.ward present indebtedness 10,500 'Ambulance 2 750 Total •' $150,000 Negro Lynched by Mob For Attempted Attack '•y Vrcv.t, !'<>* Worth, Miss.. Nov. 20 -im mediately after he had been identi fied b> a white girl as the man who had attempted to attack her, Neville. Foxworth, negro, was taken from of ficers by a mob and shot to death here late yesterday. 1 he girl, on her way from school, said the negro followed her in the woods. She ran and he gave chase but she outran him. She had rec ognized the negro, however, and his arrest followed. A mob formed and immediatly overpowered the officers. Building Started This Month to Cost $172,000 Ituilding permits were Issued in November for work costing $172- 200. according to figures compiled In the Building Inspector's office. I'or the same month last year the total was $15,500. Three' permits were issued to-day to Joseph If Kettering, erection of two-story frame dwelling. Prospect street, near t nion, $5.000: A. E. Beible, one story garage, rear 1 940 Fulton, street. SIOO, and 'learge Ditzel, one- Mory frame I uilding at the rear of 211 Crescent street, $l5O Should King Victor Emmanuel be forced from the throne owing to the complexities of the political sit uation in Italy, it is believed in mod erate circles that thC' monarchy will be continued in the person of the Duke D'Aosta. The Duke is a more popular figure and more in sym pathy with the aspirations of the mass of the Italian people. Until the birth of Prince Humbert in- 1904 lie was the direct heir to the throne. Victor Emmanuel became King of Italy in 1900 after the assassination of his father, King Humbert . SNYDER BREAKS ALL RECORDS IN STATE REVENUE Vigorous Collection of Taxes Brings in Over $52,000,- 000 in a Year Auditor General Charles A. Sny der to-day announced that collec tiuns of State revenue made through his department for the fiscal year ending to-day had reached $52,- 091,769.84. This breaks all records and is almost $8,000,000 ahead of the high watermark established by Mr. Snyder for the fiscal year of 1918. Ip ten years the revenue Of the State lias amounted to $356,- 869,353.99. The revenue for the year is ex clusive of $12,423,540 derived from the sale of the State road bonds. The disbursements by the State Treasury during the fiscal year of 1919 areHTtso a record, being given by State Treasurer 11. M. Kephart as $56,412,035.56. Last fiscal year they were $42,407,064.30. The large payments were made under legisla tive enactments of 1917 and 1919. The receipts for November broke the record for any month by over $4,000,000, while the receipts of the final day were $3,893,736.66, the Pennsylvania Railroad making a large payment of corporation taxes. The total revenue for November was *10,322,560.5". A summa; of receipts for the ten-year period shows: 1910,* $28,- 946,424.43: 1911, $32,146,978.23; 1912, $32,374,890.46: 1913, $35,348,- 615.35: 1914, $31,441,050.51; 1915, $31,990,727.85; 1916, $36,663,039.23; 1917, $31,700,489.35; 1918, $44,165,- 368.74; 1919, $52,0919,769.84. The 1916 year included fourteen months owing to the change made in the capital stock tax report year for cor porations. This was Mr. Snyder's predecessor's best year. The total balances in the treasury at the end of the year were $lO,- 252,829.09 against $9,888,988.55 at the close'of last fiscal year. This is exclusive' of $7,727,882.65 in the State road bond issue fund. The State will invest a million dollars in its own road bonds in a few days. The general fund balnnee shows $7,903,031.06; sinking, $658,320.26; bunking department examination. $67,361.12; school (uninvested) $1 14,553.12: game, $244,622.60; bounty, $368,091.1 9; fire insurance, (uninvested) $287,31 2.89; automo bile license, $89,364.46; prison manu facturing. $14,395.66; vocational training. $189,850.10; fish propaga tion, $17,034.30; teachers' retire ment, $291,722.33, and agricul tural training, $7,104,02. Some of these funds receive federal aid, oth ers are special accounts. HOARDERS OF SILVER COIN WILL MAKE LITTLE PROFIT Peculiar Situation Makes "Ironnien" More Valuable Thau Gold Dollars For First Time in History Silver quotations showing that ver dollars contain enough precious metal to make them worth more than their face value has caused a hoarding worse than the craze for the "buffalo nickel" when rumor went about that a careless smelter in the mint had mixed the bullion with a heavy percentage of gold. Several hankers to-day declared that there appears to be a mistaken notion that someone is willing to "redeem" the silver dollar for more than 100 cents. For this reason men and women who for years criti cised the merchant who gave them the "iron men' In change are saving .every bit of silver coin they get their hunds on. RADICALS END HUNGER STRIKE AT BREAKFAST Only Five Refuse to Eat til Ellis Island After Long Fast ,ti Aii.icicitr. Press. New York, Nov. 29.—The hunger strike of the "Ellis Island Soviet" was broken to-day. All but five of the 68 radicals who had refused to eat since lust Monday evening eager ly answered the call to the dining room for breakfast. After a five-day fust they were ravenous and were first in the immi grants' dining hull. They devouowl. prunes, nTush, ""bread, substitute but ter and coffee and asked for more. Second helpings were refused them, however ,not only because one was considered adequate but because the radicals might have made them selves ill by eating too much. The irreconcilables who continued the hunger strike in an effort to have removed an iron barrier sepa rating them from visitors included Ethel Bernstein and Dora Lipkin, who were arrested in a raid on a' New York Russian headquarters. They were the only wgnien on hun ger strike. The silence strike of the 68 also has collapsed. Word that the EJe partment of Justice was providing tiie island with eight husky guards to force them to attend deportation hearings before immigration inspec tors was brought to the radicals by their counsel. The guards had not arrived to-day but the inspectors found no difficulty in getting radi cals to go from the detention room to the hearing room once they hud been identified. Final Argument Heard in Hardscrabble Cases What is believed to be the end of legal proceedings in the Hardscrab ble cases in the Dauphin county court were the arguments this week on the city's proposition of razing the buildings on the west {side of Front street, between Herr and ('aider, of straightening the Front street lines and of closing'the gap in the River Front Park and the river steps. This week's cases arose on a dis pute as to the right of Ilarrisburg to assess on property owners a pro portionate share of the cost of wip ing out the J lardscrahhle houses and improving -the streets. If it i. s de cided that there is no legal obliga tion on the part of the property owners, the city will pay the entire cost. Decision on this and two other pending cases will mark the con clusion of the long fight. Idleness Increases in Virginia Mines By Associated Press, < linrlcftfon, W. Va., Nov 29 -J-Go ports received here Indicate.that prae- V ally all the mines in the Kanawha disti l, t were .closed, while idleness increased in the N'i w 'River fields. Operators aduuitei] suspension of some operations yesterday. It was explained that while the market quotations for silver is high enough to make silver money more valuable than gold, individuals who try to make money by hoarding coins will have a hard task. The metal can he sold only at the silver mar kets in the big cities and old coins lose weight rapidly because of wear. Bankers understand that the gov ernment has been considering steps to remedy the situation. After'for mer wals gold advanced above par and was traded in as other com modities. The demand for silver has been due to the increasing wealth of several Adriatic countries where the metal is the monetary standard. MINERS ARE FIRM i IN REFUSAL TO i ACCEPT NEW RATE Fuel Shortage Grows More Acute With No Sell le nient in Sight j GOV. ASKS FOR U.S.TROOPS j Pennsylvania Operators lo i Meet With Sproul in Final Conference 1 • CITY COAL SUPPLY GROWING SHORT Supplies of coal at the Steel ton plant of the Bethlehem Steel Company, at the Central Iron and Steel Company and the Ilar risburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Company arc becoming exceed ingly short. Tn no instance do any of tlie establishments have more than ten days' supply of coal on band. Officials at the Steelton plant, however, foresee no trouble and expect shipments that will tide ' them over. The supply at the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bend ing Company must be augmented or it will be necessary to close the steelmaking department in order to conserve the, supply- suf ficiently to tide over the winter, William T. Hildrup, Jr., said to day. Supplies sufficient to oper ute until Christmas at least are expected within- the next several days, Mr. Hildrup added. The Central iron and Steel Company, too, has a small supply of fuel on hand, but officials are optimistic. Their coal will last a, week, within which time more is expected. Some difficulty is expected in getting sufficient oil to operate certain departments. Washington, Nov. 29. Oper- I ators in Western Pennsylvania, j which is part of the central com petitive Held, will meet Governor j Sproul, of Pennsylvania, at Phila { dolphia, Monday, to discuss plans j for protecting miners wishing to work, according to information I received here by the operators' | eommittee. Those in close touch with the ' situation rCgdrded this as the j first indication- of an attempt to | break the strike it the highly or | ganized central field. It was ex j pected that general plans for all j four states included in the field would be discussed when the op j erators' wage scale committee | rconvened here Wednesday. j Philadelphia, Nov. 29.—Soft I coal operators of the Central | Pennsylvania district will meet j here this afternoon to discuss I with their miners an indepen ! dent wage scale. j The meeting follows a crisis precip | itated in the last 24 hours. Men who I had remained in the mines awaiting i an adjustment of wages by the Wash- I ington Conference, refused to work j to-day. Refusr 14 l'cr tent i John Brophy, of Johnstown, presi dent of district No. 2 of the I'nited | .Mine Workers, who attended the j Washington conference, said the min ! ers of his district will not accept the I 1? per cent, increase set by the gov j etnment. { It IN planned to continue the mcet j ing over Sunday. Operators salil tliey ' will remain here until un agreement IN reached. i Chicago. Nov. 29. Immediate re j suits in increased production of bi j luminous coal were not expected to j day to follow the government's an j nouncement that it proposes to see I mining begun and posting at the shafts by the operators of notice of ( the granting of a 14 per cent, wage i increase. Operators looked upon the latest steps in the miners' strike I with optimism, however, and be -1 lieved that on Monday many work | men would re-enter the mines. Snt urdays and Sundays generally have been regarded as at least part holi days in the coal fields they pointed out. On the oilier hand, minors' spokes men generally predicted that few men would return to work under those conditions, adding that the j offer would be ignored especially in , the great fields of the central com- ! petitive area, embracing Ohio, llli-j nois, Indiana and Western Pennsyl vania. Suffering Imminent Milder weather to-day over much of the country which for two days past was in the grasf) of unseason ably low temperatures brought re lief. Many small cities and towns were almost fuelless and suffering was imminent. With rail restrictions on use of fuel iu force in many places, notably Kansas City, Mo.; Omaha, Neb., and Indianapolis and the entire southern region, state and local officials to-day considered fur ther means of warding off a fam ine. j In Kansas Governor Ilcnry J. Al len went ahead with plans for open-i ing up the strip pits Monday. He' said four thousand men volunteered and he conferred last night at Kan-j Has I'ity, Mo., with Major General' la-onard Wood, eonnuunder of the central department of the United States Army. Meanwhile, the do mestic situation in Kansas was de scribed as critical, extremely low temperatures and snow and sleet fulls over the entire state making It necessary to delve deeply into shot fuel supplies. Asks l-'or Troops At various points to-day there were reports that train service was (Continued on Page 3,] SHOEMAKER IS REORGANIZING CAVALRY UNIT Governor's Troop Will Be Commanded by Vclcran . of Late War WOUNDED IN ACTION More Commissions Given For New National Guard Now Being Formed j j Lieutenant Georife J. Shoemaker, was commissioned captain of the Klrst CaValry Guard,• by Governor i Sproul, and will organize the Govcr ; nor'a Troop, m this city. The Governor's Troop in existence iat the time when the United States jdeclared war Germany, was ' called into Federal service and was broken up into artillery units. Lieu tenant Shoemaker, who was with the i Governor's troop at that time, was assigned to the (>n. Hundred and Kignth Artillery a. I was wounded , while in action in France. W. Frederick Reynolds, Jr., of Bellefonte, is also appointed a cap tain of cavalry and Major W. C. Kehn, of Lancaster is named to in fi ntry companies ut Lebanon, Colum bia and Lancaster. Major W. F. Leit zel. of Boalsburg, is named as division machine gunner. Mr. Zink, Mr. Hartzell and Mi. Myers Pay Well For Spitting and Spatting George Zink, special policeman for the Pennsylvania Railroad, play ed tiie triple role of prosecutor, wit ness and defendant all inside a quar ter hour to-day in the office of Al derman Caveny's office. Ztnk arrested H. O. liartzcll and J. G. Myers at the Macluy street station, charging them with spitting. During the hearing before Air. Cuv eny Hartzell declared Zink had ex pectorated 17 times while bringing them before the magistrate. "You're a ," politely retort ed Mr. Zink while everyone held shut their ears. Alderman Uaveny lined Hartzell and Myers $1 each and assessed costs of $2.60. Zing then got the same sentence for using red hot language in public*. Boys Plead Guilty to Series oi Robberies Four members of the bund of youths who were responsible for a long series of robberies recently have pleaded guilty to charges against them and will be culled tor sentence in motion court on Monday. James Wulmer lias confessed to eight different charges. Seven are charges of felonious entry and lar ceny and the other a charge of bur ! glary. Wesley Jones is a defend ! ant in four cases charging felonious I entry; two charges larceny and one 1 burglary. Raymond Puller is in | volved in two felonious entry and | a burglary case upd John Cohick is a defendant in one of the feloni j ous entry cases. ! Other defendants to appear •for [ sentence on Monday include the fol lowing: William Hale, James Thompson, Susan Myers, George Wilson and Harry _ Fuller , three cases, all charged ' with larceny; Charles Britsch, Albert It. Crown and W. A. Motter, all charged with nonsupport. President Enders May Be Re-elected Monday If was said to-day In city school official circles that when the school board is reorganised on Monday President Robert A. Enders will be re-elected and Dr. C. E ,L. Keen will be elected vice-president to suc ceed W. Frank Witman. The reorganization meeting will be held at It o'clock Monday morn ing. Franklin J. Roth, Howard M. Bingaman and William Pavord will take office as directors on the board, having been elected for six-year terms to succeed George A. Werner, John F. Dapp and George W. Reily. 1'IM) I.YNCHEI) NEGRO By Associated Press• I.ake City, Flu., Nov. 29.—Farm ers coming to this place to-day found the body of a negro hanging to a tree by the roadside. An inves tigation disclosed that the man, Sam Mosely, hail been lynched last night by a party of white men. It was claimed that he insulted a young j white woman In Coluntbiu county, i WEEK IS TO OPEN BELOW NORMAL By Associated Press. Wnsli'iigton, Nov. 29.—Weath er predictions for the week be ginning Monday, issued by the Weather Bureau to-day, are: North and Middle Atlantic | States—Fair tlrst half of week, I except probably snow Monday In 1 New England, with temperatures ! below normal, probably much ! colder Monday and Tuesday. Un- ' settled, with rains probable, sec ond half; temperatures nearly normal. THE WEATHER] llerrl.hur K nnd Vicinity i Itnin this nftcrnnon. to-night imil Surdity. Wnrincr to-night vritli lowest trinprrnturr nltout !."> degree*. Hntrrn lVnnnyl vnnln t Itnin nnd wnrtner to-nlghtt Sunday rain, aouth and Kouthwrrat wind* br- ! coming strong. 'I ' COMMANDER OF ! NEW TROOP ; !i OA PTAIN SI I OF. MA KE R STRIKE CALLED ! FOR 2,01)0 MEN IN ! RAILROAD YARDS ; Brotherhood Takes Drastic i t , Stop, Alleging Local Grievances I . ii ■ Associated Press* Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 29.—Two' j thousand railroad trainmen arid ! ! yardmen of Kansas City are to go on | j strike at 4 o'clock this afternoon, l according to an announcement by! i local Brotherhood of Railway Train-! ! men officials. It was said the strike order re- j j suited from local grievances and it j j was hinted that a radical element I j among the railroad workers was re-1 j sponsible for its issuance. * 4 * ■4. !4 i AM ■ -L iTr Santiago. The Nacion-to-day say- it has learned | 1 x * I * [X | mediation by the governments of Argen- a |T na Brazil and Chile, with the object of composing the j MP " * |* irisen between the U * • ai Me isc 0$ Consul Jenkins. • t : ] -■* i 4* TECH HELD SCORELESS " C $ L ! to :nrte < -id -.1 ! 'larrishur; * ' # ---0 to 0 * 2 * i • * ■ TO HOUSE TROOPS AT MINES J g nj ~ # Pittsburgh. The state has taken over the build the State Manual Training Normal f * he ecomVnt datipn of soldiars ordered t • Pittsburgh | J with the operation of coal mines. Col. a * * w * O. M. Hoisington, of the Kansas National Guard, a ,L' reached Pittsburgh to-day and'ook charge of arrange ai | * „ 4 rents for the troops. : < * J J ENGINE HITS MOTOR TRUCK * * 9teve Singleton, 27, an employe of * * 'in * |t tlie Army Reserve Depot, New Cumberland, is in the • * e t Harrisburg Hospital,in a serious condition with injuries '* state', request for Federal troops be refused. * * ®® # • e. suffered when an engine at New Cumberland struck a * • € N * . , truck in which he had been riding. The truck i > ■ * ' . '.ailed on tiie tracks and the engine crashed into it. ' " ® MARRIAGE LICENSES g 11} ron 1.. I'onrll. Harrlahuric, nnd Vraln M. I'alnr. \nrfolUi n.ol.i* ■h H. Mlllrr, llonriiiK SwrliiKi. nail Anon M. ;at-. Altoonni lamll I • L M. Hrnr} nail Kmlly K. Hunter. WaahlnKton. 1 '-■ rr ® * ENGINEER'S BODY ! FOUND HANGING TO PICKET FENCE I. . * Freight Train Runs Wildly For Four Miles Without Hand on Throttle I j FIREMAN STOPS ENGINE | Crew Unable lo Tell How I Fatal Accident Occurred Near Newport Found hanging on a pale fence ] along the Pennsylvania Railroad j near Newport, C. H. Gcarhart, of j Altoona, a Middle division freight I engineer, died to-day in the Harris -1 burg hospital, an hour after being ! admitted to the institution. The I dead man, who was 50 years old, ! had a fractured skull and other in j juries. I Hang'ng by his clothing. Gearhart I was noticed on the fence by the I crew of an eustbound freight train. I lie was semiconscious when found. ' ll<' was placed on the engine anil I rushed to the city. He was admitted j lo the Ilarrisburg hospital about 9 I o'clock and died slightly more than I an hour later. Just how Gearhart happened to ] fail from his engine has not been determined by railroad officials. His i crew did not miss him until it had proeeded more than four miles from ! the accident. The fireman then took j tile throttle and stopped the wildly | running train. He was in a semi ■ conscious condition and could tell ! nothing. | Several suppositions have been ! advanced by fellow employes as to the manner in which he might have 1 fallen. One is that he might have | fallen from the tank of the engine. ' by accident: the other and the one I that Is generally accepted by reason I of a peculiar back injury, is that i some object on the tank struck him j and knocked hint to the ground. EDISON SCRUBS WIN I The Edison Junior High School I scrub team this morning defeated | the Camp Curtin Junior High scrubs | 6 to 0 at Island Pnrk. Hess scored Kdison's touchdown in the second ! quarter. The game was played dur -1 ing a steady rain with a few loyal students to cheer the boys.