4 NO GIFTS, THEY CAUSE A RIOT Uninvited Children Upset Big Festival Plans in New York New York, Dec. 2 4.—Thousands Of uninvited children for whom no gifts were provided, crowded their way into the Seventy-first Regiment Armory last night, and threw New York's largest children's Christmas festival Into a riot. During the height of the uproar, fourteen thou sand youngsters were in a mad scramble for their share of presents, which were stacked upon tables for distribution to seven thousand needy "kiddies," who had been Invited. Police reserves from six precinct stations, aided by the arpory detail of soldiers, wejfe to check the wild onrush. Several women fainted and scores of children, some of them on crutches, were bowled over as the youngsters rushed about the floor. No semblance of order was ob tained until thousands of the youngsters had been rushed into the street where, separated from their chaperones and mothers, many of them hungry and without gifts, tear fully clamored to be taken to their homes. The trouble started when clowns made their appearance on the armory floor. Children who hod been assigned to places in the build ing, rushed out on the floor in mass formation and crowded about the fun-makers. A few took advantage of the disorder to help themselves from the gift tables, and in a min ute the rush was on. Frozen Fork. Shoulders Sold at 17 1-2 Cents Chicago. Dec. 2 4.—Four million ; pounds of frozen pork shoulders was placed on sale in Chicago yes terday by the quartermaster's de partment, U. 8. Army, at N l7 1-2 -g>" The Holiday Wish that your Christmas may be I ~An~ most bright and merry, and the (J \l ; \^j~ New Year more pros- i. I perous and happy than 1 /' t\ l\ any year you've ever ►. (/ J\/ I Jacob Tausig's Sons Diamond Merchants and Jewelers 420 Market Opposite Depot Street Entrance Christmas Attraction Dinner, Musical and Dance CHRISTMAS EVENING THE PENN-HARRIS Dinner at 7.45 P. M.—Followed by MUSICAL AND DANCE MUSICAL PROGRAM "Holy Night" Damrosch Pine Street Quartet; obligato solo, Ross Harman \ iolin Solo Miss Bralavoski SONG CYCLE "In a Persian Garden" Liza Lehman Thamzinc Cox, Soprano; Salome Sanders, Con tralto; John Gibson, Tenor; Elmer H. Ley, Baritone; Ruth Kraybill, Accompanist Reservations at Penn-Harris, $2.50 Per Person Phone Bell, 5000 Xmas Dinner From 5.30 to 7.30 $2.00 Per Person I NEW YORK reading"^ lj MARPISBUBQ LANCASTER riffar Otter# OloTj ' a Smartest Fashion s Shop !ZJ PENN HARRIS HOTEL BUILDING jjCr L To our many good friends and customers, let us express this [ I heartiest wish for A Merry Christmas H r and in the days following—may ; they be bright and full of pros perous—happiness. And, let us . add to that wish— I A Happy New Year WEDNESDAY EVENING, i cents a pound. The wholesale price of the meat was 2 2 cents. The meat is to be sold in carload I lots, according to Lieutenant Colonel 11 J. P. Castleman. The only restric tion is that supplies purchased are I not to be resold in big lots nor j "These meats are for immediate consumption," Colonel Castleman '! said. "Municipalities, iqptitutions, wholesale jobbers with a quick turn over and restaurants will be given the preference in the buying. Only l those who will use the meat Im | mediately or resell it quickly for re -11 tail may purchase." Payne's "Dry" Order Creates Big Surprise Now York, Dec. 24.—Announce | ment from Washington that Chatr -1 man Payne, of the United States i Shipping Board, has decreed that j government owned passenger ships ;in the South American service ! should be "diw," created consider able surprise in shipping circles ' here. Based on previous informa j tion that the application of the war j time and constitutional prohibition | laws would not apply beyond the | three mile Ijmit, a well stocked bar I has been established on the Moc casin, due to sail next Saturday. ! President F. C. Munson, of the Mun ! son Steamship line, operators of the fleet, said he had not been officially j advised of the decree. Union of Jersey Policemen Fails Jersey City, N. J., Dec. 2 4.—The j demise of the Jersey City police men's union was announced yester day by F. X. O'Brien, commissioner |of public safety. The commissioner I said every policeman on the force I had signed an affidavit that he was I not a member of any organization i affiliated with the American Federa ! tion of Labor. The policemen's j union disbanded several weeks ago. BRITISH ACTOR DIES i London, Dec. 24. —Sydney Valen ! tine, the actor, died here yesterday. He was president of the Actors' As sociation. M iddletown LOSES ARM WHEN HE MISSES HOLD I Albert Hoffman Is Maimed in Fall at Middlctown Car Works Yesterday When he missed his footing In try- : ing to bonra a draft of cars at the : Middletown Car Works yesterday I afternoon Albert Hoffman fell under the train and sustained Injuries to, his left arm of so serious a nature that amputation was necessary. Sur- , Peons who were summoned advised his Immediate removal to the Harris- ' burg Hospital, where amputation was | made. Dr. and Mrs. H. W. George, of, North Union street, have issued cards to a dance to be given in honor of their daughter. Miss Dorothy George. Jin [Clause Bros.' hall on Friday i evening. Over one hundred invita tions have been sent out. Music will | be furnished by the Updegrove's or chestra. Receiving with Dr. and Mrs. George and Miss George will fce | Mrs. Henry F. Burk and Miss Caro-t [line Forney, of Harrisburg; Mrs. J.! I,a Ba Barre Folsher. of Steelton. and Mrs. D. A. Whlskyman, of Annville. , [The younger girls who will assist are I Misses Marian and Lucille King, Miss ■ I Grace Brestle, of Middletown; Miss; Harriet Smyth. Avoca: Miss Kather-1 ine Boidleman, daughter of Lleuten- | ant-Governor and Mrs. E. E. Beidle-1 man, Harrisburg. Miss George will j be a graduate of the Middletown I High School next spring and in the | fall will enter the Mary Baldwin School at Staunton, Va. Fire of uncertain origin started In I the garage of Joseph Schaeffer yes- j terday afternoon in South Union; street. The automobiles of Schaeffer. i his son-in-law, Clayton Keiffer, was j in the building and were slightly damaged. Claiule Laubenstein is spending several days with his family at Sha mokin. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Eandis and daughter are spending the week-end at Wilkes-Barre. • Wlnfield Sider, of Boston. Mass., is j visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. I 8. Sider. in Market street. Mrs. Mabel Holstein and children, of Lancaster, are here' visiting rela- j tives. Mrs. Charles Schlefer. of High | street, received word yesterday that i her uncle. Morris Hayes, of Newberry. York county, died on Monday eve ning. He was aged 75 years. Mrs. Schlefer's brother. Wllmer ■ Krone, had buried his son. Earl Krone, who died of injuries when felled by a limb of a tree on Hill Island. Miss Carrie Schlefer, of Philadel phia. is spending the week-end in town as the guest of her sister, Mrs. N. C. Fuhrman, Swatara street. Norman Hartman, of Baltimore, Md., is spending the week-end in town with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Hartman. in Ann street. Talking Machine Wakes Woman From "Sleeping Sickness" Norwich, N. Y., Dec. 24. —Neigh- bors, relatives and doctors for 80 days had tried to wake Mrs. Fred : Tracey, of Oxford, from her "sleep ing sickness," but yesterday a talk ing machine succeeded where hu man tongues had failed. When, as a last resort, a record was played, she became conscious ; long enough to inquire: "What was that?" Then she fell asleep again, but 1 was roused several times after that, i iHer physician now states that she will recover. The woman is 55 years old and al though believed here to hold the j 1919 championship for "long dis tance sleeping," is in good physical condition. Woman Frustrates Bandits' Attempt to Rob Lockland Bank Cincinnati, 0., Dec. 24.—81* au tomobile bandits made an unsuccess ful attempt to rob the First National, Bank of Lockland, a suburb yester- j day afternoon. The men were frus- I trated by a girl employe, who! pushed a button that set ringing a warning bell on the outside of the bank. After four of the men with re volvers had lined up the cashier, the three paying tellers and three girl employes, the only ones in the bank 1 at the time, one of the girls stepped , on an electrical contrivance con nected with a large gong outside the ! building. When the robbers saw people running towards the bank I they leaped into their automobile and sped away without obtaining any plunder. Declares Testimony on Detzer Was "Framed" New York, Dec. 24.—Testimony supporting the allegation that Cap tain Karl W. Detzer, on trial on charges of brutality to A. E. F. pris oners at Le Mans, was "framed" by men whose enmity he had incurred in France, was given late yesterday by Fred Marlow, former lieutenant in the Department of Criminal In vestigation and Detzer's chief aide in his overseas police work. Marlow testified that Sergeant Frank Hoyt, now said to be a de serter in France, threatened to "get" Captain Detzer unless he tried to obtain his release from prison When informed by Marlow that it was Detzer who had him put under arrest and he was doing nothing to help htm, Hoyt replied, according to Marlow: "If Detzer doesn't get me out of here, lam going to get him. Yates Larey and these other men here' prisoners with me, will all go together and get him. Tell Captain \ Detzer so." j Marlow also testified that Ser geant U. S. Madden, accused by A Murray Phillips, a crippled soldier! of having- robbed him of 5,000 francs in the Le Mans police office July lfi, could not have committed the theft. He said Madden was un der arrest with Sergeant Hoyt at the time, having been locked up several days previously. Germany Maintains Letter Censorship licrlin, Dec. 24. —At last the naked truth, is out, officially confirmed. Gerjnany still has a censorship with 16 headquarters for testing letters, and 10 for examining them. Gov ernment officials say "the activity of the testing headquarters consists in controlling the foreign corres pondence of German business firms," through the Chambers of Commerce have already had a chance to see the correspondence and have de claied it to be free from any harm. "The postal examination head quarters have three duties," official HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH circles farther announced. "These are to hinder the flight of capital, to see whether the orders of the im perial commissary for export and import have been followed; and to stop the valuta exchange trade with the red and green stamped thousand mark notes." H Christmas IHERE IS THE GREATEST DRESS SALE EVER HELD i IN HARRISBURG I During the many years of our business career we have offered Harrisburg fu Women many startling "READY-TO-WEAR" sales but never before a II GREATER DRESS SALE THAN THIS 1 Over 200 Handsome igx iv ip IP Os Tricotine, Charmeuse, 11 j-< \ r"< | ! Satin and Georgette 1-* w JL# kJ. j Worth Regularly $32.50, $35.00, $40.00 and $45.00 i SELLING SPECIALLY AT $19.75 if II CO Beautiful Tricotine OP Charmeuse and Satin Georgette Crepe M Dresses Dresses • Dresses fs In more than a dozen beautiful That come in the fashionable Many of these elaborately beaded, have Uj , , „ . KT . shades of Brown, Taupe, Gray, Rus- J a P silk foundations and in colors of navy, styles that come in Navy, and in set and Black. A score of handsome taupe, Pekin, brown, Copen and black; |{U sizes 16 to 44. styles for women and misses. sizes for women and misses. m j||j BECAUSE OF THE REMARKABLE LOW PRICE AT WHICH THESE DRESSES ARE BEING Ml |Hj SOLD MAKES IT NECESSARY FOR US TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING RULES GOVERN THE SALE. None will be sent on approval. None will be sent C. O. D. S Jpfl* [j| None can be returned or exchanged. None will be reserved on part payment. Sj i 1 pi cas tlio gratl- M ' Don't Forget Sale Starts tfgy I preciativo pub- I Sj Friday Morning s / at 9. A. M. l Coal Car Shortage in Cambria Serious Johnstown, Pa.. Dec. 24.—The coal car shortage in Cambria county Is becoming serious and unless ad ditional cars are received within a few days many mines will be closed, according to reports issued by op erators here. A large number of operations did not work to-day, the operators said, and some mines j operated only two hours, due to lack | of cars. DECEMBER 24, 1919. CLOTHIKU I'OU TUAXSIT POHT I'hiliulclphia. Dec. 24.—Morris 1.. Clothier has been mentioned as a possible candidate for transit direc tor, following a recent conference between Mayor-elect Moore and Gov ernor Sproul at the Union Dengue. To Prevent Influenza Colds cause Grip and Influenza-a LAXATIVE IJUOMO QUININE Tab lets remove the cause. There is only one "Ilromo Quinine." E. W. GROVE'S signature on box. 30c—Adv.
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