Further Restrictions Placed on Consumption of Fuel Throughout Country as Miners Hold Firm HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH CZTlje Star- independent LXXXVIII— Xo. 289 32 PAGES. MlVo* HARRISBURG, PA. FRIDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 5, 191.9. os, *VxV*?XXA s WrS s HOME EDITION TECH TO BATTLE - FOR GREATEST OF | . GRIDIRON HONORS Portland Team to Meet Har risburg For Champion ship of Country BIG SCOUTS ARE COMING Colleges and Universities Arc After High School's Stars "With the arrival of the Portland, I Maine, football team at 5.50 this; afternoon. Harrisburg will become i the Mecca for lovers of football from all parts of the east. For j Harrisburg: will stage to-morrow on the island the first championshipj contest for highest honors ever play- , cd in the State. Football fans, col lege coaches, word painters from j Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and New I York, will go to Island Park to- 1 0 morrow to see the Technical High | School eleven match its skill with j the champions of the New England , > States. Harrisburg has just recently ! awakened to the fact that Tech has ! a football machine that has no match to date. With Scott High, of ' Toledo, afraid to do battle, with Erie j defeated at that place last Saturday; i with Masten Park, of Buffalo, hoist- j ing the white flag following the Erie j victory, Tech sent out a challenge j broadcast, and Portland, Maine, re- : sponded. Portland is noted for its fine har- j bor; for its beautiful scenery; it is ' famous as the home of the greats American poet; it boasts of its water i falls; of its lumber markets and its , mirrored lakes. But all of these are but a mere bagatelle compared ; to the magnificent football team \ that will battle against Tech to- , morrow. Pick of New England "" For Portland is considered the [ pick of the New England High | School teams as a result of its vie- , r tories over the high schools of Man- , Chester, New Hampshire and j Waltham, Mass. The visitors are j coached by Fred Ostergren, famous i Holy Cross athlete, who has installed ; that svstem in the Southern Maine j institution during the past three j years. No athletic contest has ever brought such great fame to Har- ; risburg as this battle to-morrow, j Reading, Lancaster, Lebanon. York, j Williamsport, Altoona —in fact every : town within a radius of 100 miles will send delegations to see Tech ; win. and in each instance they Willi k root for the native sons of Harris. ; Student Body Out j The entire student body will i march to the station and escort the j Portland boys to the Bolton House i where they will make their quar ters while in this city. To-morrow ; the Maroon student body, augment- . ed by Central, Edison and Camp Curtin coeds, will form a parade. . headed bv the Municipal band, and | march to the island in a body. It will be a holiday for the city in general. With college football laid away on the shelf for the season, coaches from all over the east will attend j the game to make bids for the best j all-around athletes in this part of I the country. Athletes who can play football, basketball and track and j do all equally well. For champion- ( ship was brought to Tech last year j in each of the three sports. Glenn I Warner is coming in from Pitt to j look over several backfield stars l whom he expects to land next sea- | son. Tom Ready has been In this j city for several days. He is tutor at j Lehigh. "Bill" Hollenback. of Penn. will be on the ground. He has hopes ' of getting Wilsbach and another j Tech star at Penn next season. In 1 addition to these coaches, there will j be scouts from all of the smaller | colleges. It will be a championship game, ! " between two champion elevens, and not a person in the city but expects ( Tech to emerge champion of cham- i pions. Taggart. of Rochester; Oke- [ son, of Lehigh: Hitchler, of West! Virginia, will be the three extra men ! on the field to-morrow afternoon when Tech meets Portland, Maine, in the championship battle for the supremacy of the United States. Tech Heavier Team Tech will go into the fray with the heavier team, uveraging almost 170 pounds to the man. The visiting team will be five pounds lighter. Tech has not been in better shape j for some time than it will be to- , morrow. Hoffsommer is still slightly ' 1 under the weather, but with Harry | Ellinger playing a bang-up game,; the gap in the line will be well ! taken care of. When the kickoff , takes place at 2.30 to-morrow, the ! t largest crowd is expected to be on j hand that ever witnessed a struggle' on the island. The crowds of seven ! and eight thousand that attended j Central-Tech battles will be far out- ; numbered with good weather. Carl Beck. Wilsbach. Lingle and j Garrett will comprise the Tech ' backfield at the start of the game, j Both teams hope Tor a dry field. A I muddy gridiron will handicap both I * aggregations and eliminate that spectacular open field running for | which Tech is famous. The visitors are a well-rounded, rugged bunch j of plavers. The lineup: TECH PORTLAND Malich, I.e. O'Mara. I.e. Arnold. I.t. Gibbon, l.t. Comfort, l.g. Finks, l.g. Smith, c. Rieche, c. Ellinger, r.g. Deranev, r.g. Frank (Capt.) r.t.Greelrv. r.t. Emanuel, r.e. Boothby. r.e. •- Lingle. q.l. Flaherty, q.b. j Beck, l.h.b. Kinhuil. 1 h.K Garrett, r.h.h O'Connoll. r.b.h i Wilsbach, f.b. Ward. (Capt.) f.b. j PRESIDENT DISCUSSING MEXICAN STATUS WITH SENATE COMMITTEE; CABINET CONSIDERS SITUATION After Session Fall Tells of Activities WILL RELATE RED EVIDENCE Break With Mexico Is Being Taken Up With Wilson Hy Associated Press. Washington. Dec. '• President I Wilson will see Senators Fall. Ke ; publican, New Mexico, and Hitchcock, i Democrat. Nebraska, late this after toon. to discuss the Mexican silua | tion. ! Senator Fall announced that iinme , diately after the conference lie would j make public the evidence on which i be based his charges in the Senate ] that the Mexican consuls in the United tSates were circulating "red" propaganda. Seek Ills V lews Senators Fail and Hitchcock were j named a committee yesterday by the : Senate Foreign Relations Committee I to confer with the President to seek | bis views on the resolution of Sena ! tor Fall, requesting that the Presi- I dent sever diplomatic relations with < the Mexican government. The Hitch- I cock substitute proposing that Con ! gress assure the President of its sttp ; port should be decide to break with j Mexico also will be presented to the | President. Senator Hitchcock, it was learned ! at the White House, communicated 1 with Secretary Tumulty late last ! night regarding the conference and i said it was not necessary that the ; President see the Senators imme diately. but the President decided to ' have the conference to-day. The Senators will go to the White ' House after the President's Cabinet ; ! has held a special meeting at which the Mexican situation will be dis ! cussed. The meeting was called to ! day by Secretary Lansing, who spent 1 nearly two hours before the Foreign ; Relations Committee yesterday dis ! eussing the Fall and Hitchcock reso \ lutions and the Mexican question in general. Referred to Mrs. Wilson j The request of Senator Hitchcock ; that the President see the Senators ; was T> ferred to Mrs. Wilson and ap ! proval of the conference was given | by Rear Admiral Grayson, the Presi j dent's personal physician, i The decision to lay the whole • question before the President was reached late yesterday, after a day j of vigorous activity on the part of • the committee, including a long con ference with Ambassador Fletcher i and Secretary Lansing, who told the committee lie had not discussed any I detail of the recent Mexican devel opments with President Wilson and that th entire negotiations growing out of the arrest of Consular Agent i Jenkins had been handled by the • State Department. Democrats Oppose Following this statement, Senator Fall introduced a resolution before the committee, calling for the dele | gation of two members to wait upon I the President and seek his personal i views on the Mexican policy. The j resolution was adopted strictly on a I partisan vote, the Democrats op- I posing. j Senators Fall, Republican. New j Mexico, and Hitchcock, Democrat, I Nebraska, were chosen for the mis | sion, and it was understood that Mr. j Grayson, the President's personal i physician, was willing to grant the ; Senators a conference with the 1 President to-day. Dr. Grayson de i clared the President was showing i rapid improvement and that while ; he would not object to the call of ihe Senators, he would not permit ! any effort to heckle the patient. The I conference is expected to set at j rest the many rumors surrounding i the White House as to the Presi -1 dent's actual condition. Bares Relationship The entire status of relationship ' between Mexico and the United ! States was bared before the commit ; tee and past negotiations were dis closed which heretofore had been held in confidence by the State De partment. Secretary Lansing was under stood to have told the committee that the administration had adopted within recent months a more vigor ous policy toward Mexico in de manding protection of American i lives and property in the southern i republic. He is said to have added, ; however, that precipitate action by s I'oiTSress probably woujd embarrass j the State Department in its present negotiations and advised postpone i mer.t of Congressional action until j President Carranza had answered the latest note and disclosed his at titude toward the United States. Takes Strong Stand A policy of leniency toward Mex i ico, the secretary is quoted as say i ing. was adopted by the United States during the world war for fear of detracting from the major con- I flict across the seas, but that since I the war ha dended a strong stand | had been substituted from which there had been no deviation. Ambassador Fletcher, who has I been assisting actively in the draft | ing of the diplomatic cnchanges. j was interrogated on the general con , ditions in Mexico and the probable ' outcome of the present negotiations, j In view of the decision of the com mittee to seek counsel from Presi dent Wilson, action was deferred on I the Fall amendment, which would j request President Wilson to sever I'pomatic relations with Mexico. ! The Foreign Relations Committee adjourned until Monday, when it i will consider further the Mexican i problem. NONCONTRIBUTORS w"' * * o * • ' t. zy cy BIG PLANTS MUST CLOSE IF FUEL IS NOT PROVIDED —i. i Shortage of Bituminous to Be Seriously Felt in Next Few Days The fuel situation as it concerns Har- ' ! risburg manufacturing establishments j is to-day considerably unsettled. A number of local plants report their: reserve supply rapidly dimishing. with j no assurance of any early replenishment, j Some few will be compelled to close j I within the next several days unless early j ; relief comes. j With the exception of the Steelton ) plant of the Bethlehem Steel Company, i | none have taken action to close plants j ! or parts of plants, according to the best i information availabfe to-day. The situation at the Harrisburg Pipe ' and Pipe Bending Company is especially serious. There, all departments will j continue in full operation for the next • several days, hut It is only a matter I of a few days until they will be com pelled to close unless additional supplies ] are received, according to David 10. J Tracy. At the Central Iron and Steel Com pany, the situation is likewise serious. The coal and oil supplies are both low and future operations nre dependents altogether on the receipt of additional supplies. A number of other plants re : port similar conditions. 1 No restrictions on fuel have as yet | been received by the Harrisburg "Light I l and Power Company, according to Gen- j j era I Manager Palmer. Dempsey Is Already Under Contract to Fight Carpentier }ty Associated Press. j New Orleans, Dec. s.—Jack Demp j sey, heavyweight champion, already is I under contract to meet In New Orleans ' I the winner of tho Beekett-Carpentler ' fight. Dominlck J. Tertorlcli. fight pro moter of this oily, announced to-day. ' i He added that Nate Lewis, of Chicago.) , acting as his representative, was due j to arrive in London to-day to sign up • Carpentier. the new heavyweight cliam-I plon of Europe. "1 have Dempsey's contract to meet ; . the winner of the Reckett-Carpentier i fight, in New Orleans, and I know Demp-! sey will keep his word," fertorlch said, j "Arrangements have been made to cable j to Carpentier ten per cent, of his guar antee the day he signs the articles." 1 He Gives Graphic Mexican Account ————-______J ■■ < I Bl*' 1 mm Jiigf HENRY, P. FLETCHER, American Ambassador to Mexico, who gave a Senate committee a graphic story of conditions on the other side of the Rio Grande. Mr. Fletcher is a native of the Cumber land Valley and has a wide ac quit into nee in Central Pennsylva nia. "Flying Parson" With His Steelton Mechanician Off on Flight to Georgia B|/ Associated. Press. Mineola, N. Y., Dec. s.—Lieuten ant Belvin W. Maynard, the "fl.vitjg parson," left Mitchell Field at 10.11 o'clock this morning on a flight to Savannah. Oa„ where he is to ad dress the Southern Commercial Con gress, Sunday afternoon. He used the De Havtland machine in which he crossed the continent and was accompanied by Sergeant W. E. Kline, of Steelton, Pu„ his mecha nician on the Iran's-continental flight. Maynard will make at least two or three stops en route, the first at Washington. He plnns to return here before December 11 and then start on his one-stop, cross-country flight to San Diego, Cal. TUBERCULOSIS IS MENACING COUNTY ; PHYSICIANS SAY iUrgc Support of Red Cross Christmas Seal Campaign | to Fight White Plague j That there is urgent need , for in i creased antituberculosis activities in )the city and county to wipe out the , disease here Dr. C. R. Phillips, coun ty medical inspector, and Dr. J. M. J. Raunick, city health officer, de ' clared to-day. ! "The Anti-Tuberculosis Society of Dauphin county has accomplished splendid results in the last few years | and the program for work in 1920 l indicates that the organization in- I tends to increase its activity," Dr. ! Raunick said. "This is absolutely necessary if we desire to insure pub , lie health and wipe out all danger ; from the white plague. "To carry on their work next year | the county society will use funds I derived from the sale of Red Cross j Christmas seals in the city and eoun | ty. Everyone should buy and use I these seals. It shows that they are I back of the movement to wipe out j tuberculosis and each person who I buys seals makes an investment in i public health improvement work." , Dr. Phillips said that throughout ; the more populous districts in the j county, particularly in (lie northern and and In Steelton, Ilighspire and ; Middletown. there is much need for ' active work in fighting tuberculosis. "I "Treatment of cases which have been found, educationul and preventive measures are some of the things which the society must do next year. To finance this health work funds i are secured by selling Red Cross 11 Christmas seals. Union Miners Express Desire to Go Back \ Pittsburgh, Dec. s.—Reports that many union coal miners of the Pitts burgh district, on strike since No vember 1, had expressed to their employers a desire to return to work, reached here to-day. Operators viewed the situation with optimism, hut union leaders declared coal dig gers of the district were 100 per cent. idle. | Representatives of some operators . expressed the opinion that a num ber of mines would be reopened in the near future, and a few predict ' ed that reports for to-day would ; show that several mines worked. U. S. PREPARES FOR MINERS AND ! OPERATORSCASE j Collecting Evidence of Al- I leged ('(illusion to Limit Production of Coal W I 1) E INVESTIGATION Agents Claim Lever Fuel Con tract Act and Antitrust ! Laws Are Violated By Associated Press. Indianapolis, Doc. a. Govern- j ment agencies in Indianapolis to-day' continued collection and compila- j tion of evidence of alleged collusion between coal .miners and operators to limit production of coal, for pre sentation to the Federal grand jury j when it convenes here next Monday, j A special session of the grand Jury j was called by F. S. District Judge A. j B. Anderson yesterday and accord-! ing to attorneys l'or the government an investigation' nation-wide in its i scope will he conducted. It is declared by United States Dis trict Attorney IKrt Stack, and Dan W. Sinints, special district attorney | appointed in connection with the' government's injunction proceedings that they have evidence that the op-' erators not only are in league with ; the miners in the present strike, but j that they have formed a combina- j tion of their own in violation of the! I -ever fuel control act and anti-trust; laws. Further Restrictions Are Placed on Consumption of Coal as Miners Hold Firm By Associa • it Press. GMcago, Dec. s.—Efforts of gover-. nors of at least ten states to have sufficient coal mined to provide forj domestic consumers and absolutely j ! essential industries marked the pro gress to-day of the strike of bitu ■ minous eoal miners. . Restrictions had been placed on 1 consumption of fuel throughout the ! country from New York City to the j Sierra Nevada mountains as the gen ! eral situation at the, mines showed '■ virtually no improvement and min j er.i maintained their attitude of hos tility toward the proffered 14 per : cent, wage increase. Effective at 12.01 Monday morning j tile most sweeping reduction of rail j road service in history—reduction in passenger service of one third In j 'train miles" on all railroads diverg ! ing west, southwest and northwest j fiom Chicago had been ordered. Re- I gional directors of the central west i em, southwestern and northwestern ' regions, estimated that that step j alone would save 11,000 tons of coal j daily. Other curtailments of railroad I service were being considered to-day. i Additional industries faced shut downs and more drastic conservation ! rules for cities that would bring them j on a parity with Chicago and Kansas I , i City, were in prospect. The strict su- j I pervision of thy use of fuel and power I first ordered at Kansas City, to-day I was surpassed at Chicago which went . or a 6',a-hour business schedule. Full force of the new restrictions here was expected to be felt to-day after much confusion yesterday, when they were only partly observed. I At the mines the ituation generallq ' was unchanged. A small addition to the net production was looked for, I however, when Oklahoma put Into ef fect the Kansas Idea that dally is pro ducing several carloads of coal—vol unteer operation of mines under troops protection, i Preparatory to state operation 15 • Missouri mines had been seized under ■ a gubernatorial proclamation. In Arkansas volunteer operation of ! mining property was promised by the governor by Monday. r Looking toward possible settlement I oS the coal strike on a state basis the governor of Ohio has called a con . of representatives of the op erators and the approximately 43.000 Ohio miners. Ten days' further pro ; traction of the strike would throw out of employment 78U.000 men in [ Ohio, persons in touch with the gov * I ernor estimated. •!; I allies to send ; TROOPS TO ESSEN IF II GERMANY B\L K S i ; London. Dec. s.—There was a ! persistent rumor in the Stock Ex t j change this morning that the Su ? ] preme Council of the Peace Con tl ference had threatened Germany 1 j that, unless the final Piiice terms r! were agreed to. Allied troops would occupy Essen and Frankfort. Up I to this time the market has not j been affected by the report. * { furls. Dec. 5. The Supreme sl this morning considered further | the note to be sent to Germany re j garding the signature to tho pro tocol of the Peace.Treaty, but did I not complete the document. i) ; IfHEWEATHER • Harrisburg and Vldnltyi Fair to s night nnd Saturday, slightly colder Saturday. Lowest tem perature to-nlgut übout 20 ilr green. r Eastern Pennsylvania I Fair to night and Saturday, slightly s | colder Saturday. Fresh west - I Inds. , nivert The Susquehanna river and ; all Its tributaries will eontlnue ' j to fall slowly. 4 stage or .maul I I 4.0 feet is Indieated for Har i risburg Saturday morning. TELEGRAPH HIT BY PAPER SHORTAGE | Due to the failure of the mills ' and the railroads to deliver seven ' carloads of news print during the j month of November, the Harris- | burg Telegraph was to-day com- j pelled to decline four full pages , < of advertising. Both the mills j and the railroads are behind with j their schedules, the mills running at full capacity being uyable to j meet demands and the railroads j being unable to handle promptly the hulk of business offered. I SERVICE MEN ARE GUESTS AT LEGION SMOKER Hundreds Who Served U. S. j Entertained by Post 27; i New Members Enrolled Co-operation and a shoulder-to-j shouldei- spirit were the watchwords I of hundreds of service men who at- j tended the first annual smoker of] Post 27, American Legion, held in Chestnut Street 11 Hall last evening. I Many members were added to the al- j ready large list of former soldiers) and sailors. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, pastor > of Pine Street Presbyterian Church, j pronounced the invocation. after ! which Colonel K. .1. Stack pole, Jr., cl.airman of Post 27, introduced Cap tain Henry M. Stlne, as presiding of ficer of the meeting. Captain Stine I tailed on K. J. Stackpole. president) of the Chamber of Commerce, who pledged the aid of that body in any ! project which the American Legion in 1 Harrisburg might undertake. National Commander • Franklin D'Oiicr was to have been here to re- ) [Continued on Page 21.] REDS ADVANCING By Associated Press. London. Thursday, Dec. 4.—Bolshe- I vik forces are making a general ad- j vnnee along the entire Denikine front ' and have captured the towns of Kos-I eletz, Ranimy and Boremeia, while while fierce fighting is preceding for tho possessions of Dielgorod, accord ing to a Bolshevik official statement received here. On the eastern front, | the statement declares, the Bolsheviki I capturd on December 1 the city of' Kainsk, 160 miles east of Omsk. Many j prisoners were taken, It is said. ) t ? t ARREST 76 ON DYNAMITING CHARGE <"r x *** Pittsburgh. Seventy-six men, said to be strik ■s* ing steel workers were arrested at Donora, Pa., to-day Ip when troopers of the State Police and county officers j* raided steel strike headquarters. The raid followed the £* explosion of a charge of dynamite under the residence of J# Felix Burkhardt, a workman, according to information I"f 1 received here. < $ T 4* T 4* BRITISH AND FRENCH EXCHANGE AT LOW X <4 a I •§ New York. Sterling exchange continued its down- "T ward course to-day under pressure of huge offerings of commercial bills and touched $3.68 3-4 for demand, a 14 new low record. French exchange also struck a new *j£ Jjg low mark, 10.38. J t $ Ip BERKMAN AN DGOLDMAN DEPORTED jjj I New York. Alexander Berkman and Emma Gold- *§* T man were to-day deported for anarchistic actions in the United tSates. T TRAIN SCHEDULES CUT 10 PER CENT. Jg Boston. A reduction of 10 per cent, in passen- *£• ger and freight schedules was ordered to-day on New |J Englan drailroads. It is effective Wednesday, Decern* X *s ber 10. T |£ RESTRAINS PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT | I Ju St. Louis. Federal Judge Faris in the United V T •§■ injunction restraining the district attorney and the States District Court here to-day granted a temporary T J* collector of internal revenue from enforcing the Vol- X stead wartime prohibition enforcement act as to whiskey "J* fa i" and wine. X X SOCIALISTS DECLARE FOR SOVIET SYSTEM 4* Leipsic. The congress of independent Socialists X in session here to-day unanimously adopted a program * X declaring for the Soviet system in Germany. a X * X OHIO STRIKE SETTLEMENT NEAR * X ' * Columbus, Ohio. Settlement of the coal strike in 4 Ohio, was very near to-day, according to reports from jf* the office of Governor Cox at noon. &H"i n inim iiiiwwui'iitHj FURTHER SPLIT IS FORECAST IN | LUTHERAN BODY Rev. Reinhold Schmidt Pre dicts Fight Over Secret Orders CONSTITUTION AT STAKE j Right to Secede From Parent Body Is Before the Court Unless provision is made in i the constitution of the United I Lutheran Church in America ! forbiding Lutheran pastors ! from becoming members of sec ; ret societies other churches will ' follow the move of the Iloly j Communion Lutheran Church | and will withdraw from the | united organization, the Rev. ! Reinhold Schmidt, pastor of the ! St. Michael's German Lutheran | Church, predicted in court yes j terdav afternoon. j The Rev. -Mr. Schmidt was testi • fying in llic equity suit between I members of the congregation o l'the i Iloly Communion Church. When the . United Lutheran Church was form ( ed by the merging of the three large Lutheran organiaztions in the coun j try, the pastor and a majority of the j congregation of the Holy Com j munion Church voted to withdraw j from the newly-formed body. Itreak Over Secret Orders i Tlie minority members of the ■ church then brought suit against I the pastor for possession of the | property, but in defense of the ae i tion of the majority, it was con ! tended that the constitution of the ■ new Lutheran organization was not j the same as that of the General [Continued on I'iiijc 21.] I MOBILIZE TURKU CLASSES By Associated, Press. Copenhagen. Lee. 5. —The Csechslo vaklan government lias ordered the mobilization of three military classes [ savs a dispatch from Vienna to the I National Ttdienle. A Prague dispatch i dealing with the same situation, says I that 21 divisions of Czechoslovaks are j advancing to the Hungarian frontier.