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Death Toll Mounts Higher as Riots Between Steel Strikers and Police Are Continued
LXXXVUI— NO. 223 16 PAGES HARRISBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1919. si^ l O%lnts es HOME EDITION
CASUALTIES GROW AS RIOTS CONTINUE;
CONGRESSMEN VIEWING STRIKE AS FIRST
SKIRMISH OF GREAT "INDUSTRIAL WAR"
Interest Is
Centered in
Meeting
BOTH SIDES
CLAIM GAINS
Sympathetic Strike
of Lake Seamen
Said Nearer
Interest to-day in the nation
vide steel strike is centering in
Pittsburgh, where the national
committee for organizing iron
and steel workers is meeting
this afternoon.
Rioting broke out this morn
ing at Cleveland. Three lives
were lost in riots last night in
"Western Pennsylvania-
Reports from all steel centers to
day recorded little change In the
alignment of the opposing forces of
the labor unions and the steel com
panies. In the Mahoning Valley of
Ohio, the strikers' success is com
p.ete. The industry which is the
backbone of Youngstown and a
score of neighboring villages is
paralysed and all its 4 4,000 wage
earners idle. Elsewhere the struggle
is being carried 011 with varying suc
cess, the issue still being doubtful
on the great strategic sectors radi
ating from Pittsburgh and Chicago.
In the Pittsburgh district the Car
negie Steel Company announced to
day that men were returning to work
in considerable numbers. As usual,
these claims were stoutly denied by
"William Z. Foster, chief of staff for
the unions, who reiterated his as
sertion of yesterday that the strike
was spreading and claimed that two
additional large plants had been
closed to-day and that Homestead
will be idle by the end of the week.
The strikers placed pickets around
various plants for the first time.
Chicago Is Worse
The situation around Chicago is
more delinite than that in the Penn
sylvania region. A majority of the
mills are closed and those which
are still operating are doing so
with reduced forces. The threat
ened sympathetic strike of the Lake
Seamen seemed nearer as the re
sult of the refusal of the crews of
eleven ore freighters to dock their
vessels.
important decisions affecting the
spread of the strike to allied indus
tries are expected to be the out
come of the meeting to-day in Pitts
burgh of the National Steel Work
ers' Committee, of which Mr. Foster
is the secretary. The question of
summoning not only the Lake Sea
men but union trainmen to the as
sistance of the steel strikers will
be discussed at this meeting.
In the meantime the United States
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Mechanics to Be Given
Benefit of Night School
Plans for starting an evening
school giving practical shop training
course have been completed by Pro
lessor C. E. Zorgcr, supervisor of
special activities, after a conference
yesterday with X. C. Miller, super
visor of the engineering extension
division at State College.
The school will be opened in Oc
tober, probably at Technical High
School. Shop arithmetic, advanced
shop mathematics, sketching and
mechanical drawing will be taught..
Men in the city may enroll for the
course next Thursday evening, Oc
tober 2, at the Central High School
at 7.30 o'clock.
Classes will be held two evenings
each week for twenty weeks, Mr.
Zorger announced. The co-opera
tion of State College has been as
sured, he said. The only expense for
those who enroll will be that of pur
chasing a few necessary books.
Wants Army and Navy
Chiefs to Help Him
By Associated Press.
Trenton, N. J., Sept. 24. —Subpe-
nas have been issued for the
appearance in thp Federal Court
here of Secretary Baker, Secretary
Daniels and Generals Pershing and
March to testify as to demobiliza
tion in criminal proceedings brought
against three Hudson county liquor
dealers, charged with violation of
the war-time prohibition act. The
subpenas were issued upon appli
cation of George H. Tucker, coun
sel for the North Hudson Uiquor
Dealers' Association, who is seeking
to prove that demobilization as re
ferred to in the war-time prohibi
tion was completed when his clients
were arrested.
I THE WEATHER
Hnrrlsburg and Vicinity! Fnlr to
night and Thurndny, not much
cliunge In temperature.
Eastern Pennsylvania! Fair to
night and Thursday, little
clinngc In temperature. Gentle
to moderate shifting winds.
Riven The Susquehanna and all
its branches will remain nearly
stationary. A stage of about
3.4 feet Is Indicated for Harrls
burg Thursday morning.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
A Good Time to Keep on Our Industrial Shirt
} LET us .SOLVE YOCJIR, ~1
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/ LrfrK YOUR LAUNDRY DONE
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CITY'S DESIRE !
FOR SHADE TREES
IS COMMENDED
State Commissioner of For-J
cstry Suggests Council Take !
Immediate Action
Robert S. Conklin, State Commis- j
sioner of Forestry, in a letter to E. '
Z. Gross, Superintendent of City I
Parks, endorses the tree planting j
movement started in this city and
promises his hearty co-operation in
every way possible. Mr. Conklin is
very appreciative of the efforts of
the City Forester in this direction,
but expresses the belief that better
results can be obtained by the
planting of a larger variety of trees
and limiting the use of Norway
maples. Mr. Conklin is pleased to
note the interest of the city for
ester in planning a comprehensive
campaign and adds that the city is
badly in need of just such attention
as the forester proposes. He adds
numerous suggestions gained from
his wide experience and expresses
the belief that the city and not the
individual should be in charge of
the trees. Council, he notes, is fully
empowered to act and the passage
of an ordinance is all that is needed
to greatly widen the powers of the
municipality with respect to street
trees.
Much interest has been aroused in
the planting movement and numer
ous requests have been made to the
Park Department for trees. There
are fully 500 in the nursery that
ran be used and should be used for
this purpose. They are- rapidly be
coming overcrowded in their present
quarters and should be removed.
The Park Department will co-oper
ate in this respect and detailed
plans will be worked out shortly.
Mr. Conklln's letter to Mr. Gross
follows:
"Our attention has recently been
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RETURNING TO WORK
By Associated Press.
Cambridge, Ohio, Sept. 24.
Strikers here are slowly returning
to the places they vacated Monday
morning. It was reported that five
of the ten mills at the Guernsey
plant of the American Sheet and
Plate Company are in operation and
the sixth mill will be in operation
to-day.
!j
BARTENDERS ARE
DOCTORS NOW
"This law holds that the sale
j of whisky for beverage purposes
j is prohibited. There is nothing ;
in this statute which prohibits
| the sale of whisky or other dis- •
j tilled spirits for medicinal pur- !
| poses. But the person selling the j
! whisky must be certain that it is j
! to be used for medicinal purposes
! and that a plea of illness is not
j a mere sham and pretense. P
, charge you that as a matter of
law the sale of whisky for medic
! inal purposes is not a violation of
\ the war-time prohibition law."
| —Judge Dickinson to a jury in
: the United States District Court
| at Philadelphia yesterday.
|
Skeleton Army Corps
in Each Department
Provided in New Plan
By Associated Press.
Washington, Sept. 24.- A new
plan for reorganization of the Regu
lar Army on the basis of a skeleton
Army corps in each military depart-|
ment, with the department com
mander also acting as commander
of the corps, has been laid before
Secretary Baker and General March, j
chief of staff.
■ Officers who evolved the plan say I
it would provide a means for rapid |
mobilization of six Army corps, or
of ten If the Insular departments
were included. In the event of war
reserves drawn from the universal
training system would be called out
to fill up the units to lighting
strength. All troops within a de
partment would be placed under the
department commander, to be or
ganized into such provisional dlvis
iions or brigades as their numbers
warranted.
The project is an alternative for
the present War Department to hold
enough divisions intact to form a
Held Army, but to organize the corps
only when an emergency arose.
STRIKE IS BROKEN
By Associated Press.
Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 24.
Steel corporation officials in the Bir
mingham district declared that the
strike was broken and that most of
the men who went out here were
ready to return, while strike leaders
asserted that the fight has just com
menced. There has been no dis
order.
DOCTORS TELL OF
LIVES SAVED BY
NEW METHODS
Majority of Wounded Men
I Able to Go Back to the
Battle Lines
The part played by doctors who
immediately responded to the call
I to the colors in the recent war and
| future plans for the formation of
| an officers reserve corps were two
! subjects which received a great deal
I of attention at the second session of
I the State Medical Society in con
j vention at the Penn-Harris this
morning.
The demonstration and explana
tion of blood transfusion was an
! other subject which was given the
interested attention of the roomful
of doctors who were gathered from
all parts of the State to hear differ
ent of their number explain the lat
est developments in surgery.
Transfusion of Blood
The blood transfusion lecture was
I accompanied by moving pictures
showing a typical operation. The
details omitted, and although the
outpouring of blood looked like a
I right considerable quantity to the
j lay eye, doctors said that it was
i really a very small amount and of
no great importance.
Instead of Pennsylvania having
! the highest percentage of rejections
of men called up under the draft
during the world war on the ground
pf physical unfitness it had a per
centage less than the average for
the entire country declared Major
W. G. Murdock. who was chief draft
I officer for Pennsylvania during the
| war. in a paper read by invitation
before the general session of the
State Medical Society. Major Mur
dock discussed the work of the phy
sicians in the draft and took occa
sion to say that while the first re
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CHINA MAKES PEACE
WITH THE GERMANS
By Associated Press.
Peking, Tuesday, Sept. 23.—A
mandate issued last night by Presi
dent Hau Shihi-Chang, formally de
clares the state of war between
China and Germany at an end. Gen
eral Tuan Chi-Jui, former premier,
who was responsible for China's
declaration of war, is awarded the
Grand Order of Merit by the man
data.
ofar-2fatejJcndeftL
Is a Prelude to
Showdown
With Labor
TO SOCIALIZE
THE INDUSTRY
Vi e w Lead er s'
Statements as
Significant
By Associated Press.
Indiana Harbor, Ind., Sept.
24. Oflicials ol' the Inland
Steel Company sent an ultima
tum to their striking employes
to-day that unless they returned
to work within two days the
company will shut down the
plant for six months.
Washington, Sept. 24. —Congress is
inclined to view the steel strike as
the first skirmish in "Industrial war
fare," possibly only the prelude to
te lonv-talked of "showdown" be
tween capital and labor which many
have predicted would come in the
readjustment from war to peace.
The open statement by some of
the strike leaders that th'e strike is
the start of a movement to socialize
the basic of the country,
coupled with the fact that the rail
way workers already have proposed,
in the so-called Plumb plan, to so
cialize the transportation nighways,
is regarded in Congress as very sig
nificant.
The pending resolution by Senator
Kenyon, Republican, lowa, to have
the Senate Labor Committee investi
gate the causes of the strike, hear
ing both Chairman Gary of the steel
ccrporation on behalf of capital and
John J. Fitzpatrick, chairman of the
j organization committee of the steel
workers in behalf of labor, is plan
ned to open up the whole situation
if possible "in behalf of the great
third party—the public," as the Sen-
I a lor from lowa himself explains it,
Fitzpatrick will be heard by the
committee to-morrow and Judge
Gary will be heard Wednesday, Oc
tober 1.
Foster Summoned
Charges made in the House by
Representative Cooper, Republican,
Ohio, that William Z. Foster, sec
retary-treasurer of the steel strikers'
organization committee, represents
i radical union leadership and has
been active in I. W. W. propaganda,
will be investigated by the Senate
Labor Committee during its inquiry
into the steel strike.
Chairman Kenyon said to-day that
Foster would be summoned before
the committee after John J. P'itz
patrick, chairman of the strikers'
committee has been heard. Fitz
patrick telegraphed to-day that he
would be on hund to-morrow at the
opening of the inquiry. H. S. Rubin,
counsel lor the strikers, may be
heard.
No change has been made in the
committee's plan to hear Chairman
Gary of the United States Steel Cor
poration next Wednesday.
Chairman Kenyon to-day was ar
ranging for a large room for the
committee's hearings, as a large at
tendance of senators, representa
tives and others interested is ex
| pected. He hoped to obtain the
l use of either the room where the
| I'eace Treaty hearings were held by
the Foreign Relations Committee, or
that in which the selective draft
drawings were held during the war.
Knox Speaks
In the course of the debate which
followed yesterday, Senator Knox, of
Pennsylvania, said:—
"I am not ordinarily in favor of
miscellaneous investigations, and
where conditions are as they have
been suggested by a number of Sen
ators, I think it is just as well as if
they were localized and are definite
and specific, to work themselves out.
But it seems to me if what we see i
in the press is true, that there are !
issues upon which a development of j
facts in this case bears that are i
much broader than the mere rem
edial legislation thut might be passed
to regulate strikes.
"I read in this morning's paper
that in certain of the larger, older
and better established mills in the
city of Pittsburgh and in its vicinity,
where now practically 100 per cent.
American labor is employed, that
there is r.o strike.
Trouble Witli Aliens
"I saw it also stated that the prin
cipal difficulty was with the Slavs
and other foreigners, for whom we
have been pouring out blood and
treasure in the last year and a half.
I do not vouch for the truth of these
statements, but suppose it is true
that the Americans went to •work
and that the foreigners, for whom j
we have done so much, and for whom
we are asked to do so much, are
striking, why should we not ascertain
the fact as a basis for a policy that
this Government should pursue?"
HIT BY ENGINE
Struck by an engine in the local
yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad |
to-day, Joseph Hurst, 61 ears old, :
of 7 South Fourteenth street, is in i
the Harrisburg Hospital with a j
compound fracture of the right ,
elbow. Hurst had started to cross I
one of the tracks in the yard, fail- |
ing to notice the approach of the j
engine. He is employed as a brake
man. j
JURORS SNIFF AT j
WHISKY BEFORE !
CONVICTING MAN
I
Ask Court's Permission to!
Draw Coi-ks For First- t
Hun (I Proof
I
TWO ON MURDER LIST
White Man and Negro Arc]
Charged With Slaying
Steelton Grocer
Trial of Lawrence, alias "Little" j
Brown, colored, and Theodore Mar- j
tin, colored, charged with the murder
of S. Wolfe Lacob, a Steelton grocer,
was scheduled to start at the after
noon session of court before Judge
C. V. Henry. The murder occurred
on the night of January 24, this year,
in Mr. Lacob's store in Harrisburg
street, Steelton. It is alleged that
Brown, Martin and Love Wilson, who
is a fugitive, committed the homicide.
District Attorney Michael E. Stroup
is to conduct the case.
Draw Corks
When Leroy Arms and Hattie
Saunders, both colored, were called
for trial this morning before Judge
Henry, charged with selling liquor
without a license on August 10, Pai l
A. Kunkel, counsel for the defense,
made a motion to squash the'indict
ment claiming that the Federal war
time prohibition act annuled the
State liquor laws while it was ef
fect. Judge Henry overruled the
motion and the trial was started.
When two quarts and one pint of
whisky were exhibited by City De
-1 teetive Carson and passed to the
jury as "exhibits" one of the jurors
asked to have the corks drawn so
that they could determine the con
tents of the bottles. After remain
ing out a short time the jury con
victed Arms and acquitted the
woman.
Two alleged pickpockets were on
trial this morning before President
Judge George Kunkel. Andrew
Thomas, charged with taking $9O
from James Jones on July 4 when
the circus was in the city, was found
guilty. It was alleged that Thomas
stole the money from Jones while
on a street car. Herbert Mitchell
was tried for a similar offense. The
jury was expected to return a verdict
late this afternoon.
Seven Are Paroled
Before Judge S. J. M. McCurrell
in his rooms seven youths from
! Hershey, charged with stealing tires.
' automobile rims and tools from
machines at Hershey Park, pleaded
! guilty and were paroled after a
1 severe reprimand. They were Edwin
: R. Deimler, Evan Deimler, Russell
and Earl Stare, Walter and Ralph
Logan and Lee Hawthorne.
Other cases heard were: Daniel J.
Moran, false advertising, not guilty;
James Crawford, disturbing Sunday
school services at Rutherford
Heights, pleaded guilty and was pn
| roled; Frank Pieritz, burglary,
I pleaded guilty, paroled; Joseph
: Huss, aggravated assault and battery,
I S. G. Miller, of Royalton, prosecutor,
[jury out; Harry Frank, wilful de
sertion. convicted and ordered to pay
his wife $5 a week.
William Lloyd, larceny; Walter L.
I Dowhouer, larceny as bailee, Mat
| thew Barlow, assault and battery,
j bills Ignored by Grand Jury.
State Must Condemn Old
Entrance to Cemetery
Because of Old Deed
It will be necessary for the State
of Pennsylvania to condemn the
land occupied by the old entrance
to the Harrisburg Cemetery to get
ground for the north side approach
to the Memorial Bridge. The land
was originally given to the cemetery
association by the Forster estate
with provision for reversion in event
of use for any other purpose. The
State has the right of eminent do
main and while everything is
amicable will have to exercise it.
Arrangements were made to-day
for the erection of a temporary
bridge for pedestrians over the
Pennsylvania Railroad tracks at
State street during construction ot
the Memorial Bridge. The present
bridge, which contains trolley
tracks, will be removed. The trolley
system will run in Market street
and then out Fourteenth and in
Thirteenth.
Railroad spurs for material will
be run in State street to facilitate
material movements.
FIVE ARRESTED
By Associated Press.
Youngstowu, Ohio, Sept. 24—Five
strikers were arrested last night at
the plant of the Sharon Steel Hoop
Company. According to police two
of the men had stones tied in hand
kerchiefs, while the others were un
armed.
STORES TO CLOSE
FOR HOLIDAY
All Harrisburg stores conducted
by members of the Jewish faith,
will be closed all day to-morrow
because of the celebration of the
festival of the New Year, or Rosh
Har.-nali. Religious services will
be held in all synagogues of the
city. The holiday begins at sun
set to-night and ends at sunset
to-morrow. Orthodox Jews,
however, observe two days.
The New Year is the beginning
of the most sacred of the Jewish
holiday seasons. It is the first of
the Ten Days of Perritence, cul
minating in the Day of Atone
ment, the holiest and most sacred
day in the Jewish calendar. A
few days after the Day of Atone
ment, the Feast of Succoth or
Tabernacles is celebrated during
a period of ten days, in commem
oration of the ancient Palestinian
hurvest festival nnd of the wan
derings of the Israelites through
the wilderness.
AMERICAN LEGION
MEETS TONIGHT
Post 27, American Legion, of
this city, will meet at the Court
house to-night at 8 o'clock for or
ganization. The meeting had been
scheduled for to-morrow evening,
hut was advanced to avoid con
flict with another meeting of the
Veterans or Foreign Wars. To
night there will be elected o"ieers
and delegates to the State con
vention in this city, October 2 to
4. Vac Post now has a member
ship of 300. All service men,
whotljer ihey be members or not,
are invited to attend to-night's
meeting.
SEEKERS FOR
TREASURE ARE
CAST ASHORE
Six Reach Nome in Native!
Skin Boat After Schooner
Is Wrecked by Gale
By Associated Press.
Nome, Alaska, Sept. 24.—Six mem
bers of the wrecked schooner Casio,
a San Francisco treasure seeking
[boat, arrived here yesterday in a
inative skin boat from King Island,
; about IB miles north of Nome, where
; the Casco grounded during a gale
j September 8. All the other menj
-1 bers of the crew are living with
King Island natives, waiting for help,
I the six said. No lives were lost.
I Revenue Cutter to Rescue
i When the Casco grounded she was
1 heading south from the Arctic ocean
I and had almost reached Nome. The
1 crew remained aboard until the gale
j subsided and then rigged up a cable
I and hauled the supplies ashore. For
i several days they looked for a sail
j and when none appeared the six
1 men volunteered to try to row to
[Nome for help.
1 The Casco which once was the
1 property of Robert Lewis Stevenson,
[can be floated if help arrives before
! winter ice freezes her in, the men
1 said. The United States revenue
cutter Bear left here for King Island.
| The Casco left Nome July 14,
I bound for a gold country in the
i Kolyma river section of Northern
! Siberia.
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% MARRIAGE LICENSES 1
John F. Wit me r and Ltonn R. Hnrtmun, Mlllrntarg) Gtorme \V. *t i
J" Knilcr*, Hainton, and Mora It. Klarnhunrr, l.oner Haxton
Jnrac* K. Ingram, Stcelton, and Rem rice O. Pcttl*, Brcler.
VETERANS WILL
BE GREETED BY
THE GOVERNOR
Mr. Sproul to Address Re
turned Soldiers, Sailors and
Marines During Jubilee
THE SERVICES ON SUNDAY"
Men Who Have Failed to Reg
ister Not on Lists For
Invitations
A welcome home address by Gov
ernor William C. Sproul will feature
! the thanksgiving and memorial ser
vice in honor of the soldiers, sail
j ors, marines, nurses and welfare
j workers of the Harrisburg district,
| on the Island next Sunday afternoon,
iit was announced at the Chamber
iof Commerce offices this morning.
The services Sunday will be a part
iof the welcome home demonstra
llion, which will continue Monday
| afternoon and evening, with a pa
j rade, athletic stunts on the island,
I dinner in River Front Park at fi
I o'clock, dances in the evening, and
j free shows all day at all Harrisburg
' theaters.
i Another feature of the program
! Sunday afternoon will be the presen
tation of service medals of honor tc
] all of the men and women who wc-t
| active in the World War. Mrs. I,v
-i Inan D. Gilbert, chairman of thr
j Harrisburg chapter of the American
j Red Cross will present the first
i medal, and the remainder will hr
I awarded to the service men and
I women upon presentation of the
| cards which accompanied the invi
tations mailed to-day to all the vet-
I erans.
Every veteran of the Harrisburs
j district as outlined yesterday who
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V. S. THE BATTLEGItOCM)
\ Stockholm, Sept. 24. —Leon Trot-
I zky, the Bolshevik minister of war
j and marine, speaking at Petrograd
j recently, gave a detailed program
iof Bolshevik military operations,
saying, among other things: "It is
not in Finland or Esthonia that the
immense world combat against capi
talism can be fought, but in Amer
ica and England and, above all in
the Far East."