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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-27
More Mills Resume
at Chicago as Men
Go Back to Work

Chicago, Sept. 27. - More mills
at the United States Steel Corpora
tion plant at Gary, Ind, open with
officials claiming $500 men at work; !;
approximately 1000 men on the job
at the Illinois Steel Company mills
at South Chicago, according to
heads of the company, with some
sheets actually rolled yesterday; an
answer awaited to an appeal to
Washington by employees of the In
land Steel Compan.. and a Federal
injunction against picketing at the
plant of the Pollack Steel Company
at Chicago summed up the situation
in general in the steel strike in the
Chicago district as the sixth day of
the walkout began.
Conflicting claims by industrial
heads and labor leaders and minor
rioting at the Illinois Steel Company
plants at South Chicago. and at
Gary marked passage of the fifth
day of the strike. One man was
beaten at the Illinois Steel plant,
and at Gary the first shots of the
strike were fired when guards dis
persed q crowd of strike sympa-
thiZers who had stoned their auto
mobile. No one was injured.
that several cases of rifles had been
taken into the United States Steel
Corporations plant. Four to five
hundred guards were said to be on
duty and were to be augmented by
400.
The temporary injunction against
picketing at the Pollack plant in
South Chicago is returnable before
Judge Lands next Tuesday. The
company represented that a Federal
contract for railroad axles was being
held up and that 80 per cent. OF
the employees desired to return to
work. The appeal of the Inland
company workers was addressed to
Senator Kenyon and contradictory
statements of John Fitzpatrick,
chairman of the committee for or
ganization of the steel workers be-
fore the Senate Investigating Com
mittee. Nearly 80 per cent. of the
1000 employees want to return to
work: the company wants to operate
and the MN have nothing to strike
for" the telegram read.
AT Waukegan, where yesterday
the situation for a time appeared to
be serious. all apparently was quiet
to-day. Stoning of autopobiles and
threats of other violence subsideo
after three hundred deputy sheriffs;;
including business and professional
men were sworn in.
Similar action by Gary citizens was
planned. Six hundred men met and
formed a citizens military police Or
ga nization of 800 men. Incidental to
the steelNstrike, 765 employees OF the
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railroad,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-27
DAUPHIN

DaL phin, Pa, Sept. 27.-Mr. and
Mrs. Ray +. Greenawalt, of New
York city, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry B. Greenawalt.-Jose Fite,
of Washington, spent the weekend at
his home heIe.-Mrs. Morris Gay
man and Miss Helen Shoop have re-
turned home after weeks stay at
Atlantic City.-Mrs. Donald MeHaf-
fie, of Hollywood, Cal, is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Thomas Poffenber-
ger, at her summer home here
Miss Anna Vert, of Harrisburg. was
the weekend guest of Mrs. Green.
Miss Emma Bomgardner, of Har-
risburg, has returned home after
spending the week with Mrs. Will
liam p. Clark.-Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Umberger, of Trenton, N. j., were
recent guests of Mrs. Charles Sell
lers.-Miss Mary James, of Speece-
Vile, has gone to Windber, where
she will attend school.-Mrs. Kath-
arine Shoop has returned home from
visit at Atlantic City.-Miss Mar
tina Louise Cresswell, of Harrisburg,
was the weekend guest of Miss Sa-
bra Clark.-Miss Elizabeth Bogner
and Miss Edith Specie, of Speece-
Vile, were the weekend guests OF
Miss Ethel Specie, at Green Hill
Miss Ada Knapp, Miss Ethel Knapp
and William Kiefer spent Sunday
with their aunt. Mrs. Hoover, in
Harrisburg.-Miss Kathryn Brack-
enridge, of Harrisburg, spent sew
eral days with, Miss Ethel r. For
ney-Mrs. Lewis Manning, Jr., of
Speeceville, is visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Emry, at Liver
pool.-Mr. and Mrs. John Brooker,
Jr., announce the birth of a daugh-
ter, on Sunday, September 21. -
Howard Kline, of Lock Haven, has
purchased the property of the Sim
mons estate, in South Erie street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Specie and
children, of Speeceville, spent Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Lyter.
Mrs. Alice Heidler, of Shenan-
doah, West Virginia, is the guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. f. Reed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-27
McCumber Believes
the Treaty Will Pass
Without Reservations

Washington, ID. c., Sept. 27.-
Senator McCumber, Republican, of
North Dakota, member of the Sem
ate Foreign Relations Committee,
believes that the Peace Treaty will
be ratified at an early date without
amendments or reservations that
will require renegotiation with the
other signatories. Senator McCum-
ber occupies a commanding position
in the Senate at this time as he
is the only Republican member of
the Foreign Relations Committee
who refused to sign the Lodge ma
jority report and is in close touch
with all the various Senatorial
groups of both parties. In a state
ment to the country to-day given
out through the League to Enforce
Peace, Senator McCumber said:
Il cannot believe that there will
be any amendments or reservations
adopted that will require a resub-.
mission to the Peace Conference. 1
hope and believe that Senators will
agree upon few reservations that
will clarity any provision on which
there is doubt, and which will as
sure us every right of independ- y
ence, of protection of our national
policies, such as the Monroe Doc
trine, and the unquestioned control
of all our domestic matters. We
do not need to make any amend
ments to assure these results.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-27
LEWISBERRY

Lewisberry, Sept. 27. - On Sun
day morning Professor L. B. Nye, of
Harrisburg, will give an address in the
Methodist Episcopal Church on PRO
hibition. Mr.. and Mrs Wilbur H.
Laird and son. Wilbur, Jr.. Steelton.
returned home after a visit with the
formers mother and sister Mrs. Eliza
beth u. Laird and Mrs. Dean r. Hudson
Mr.. and Mrs. d. L. Snavely, Gerald
Snavely, Miss Anna Sutton, Miss Edith
Cline. Miss Nora Bonner and w. D.
Downs, represented the Methodist Sum-
day School at the Twelfth District Rally
held Sunday at the Plainfield Church
Of God, near Goldsboro.-Miss Pearl
Hoover, Harrisburg, and Miss Mabel
Yinger, New Cumberland. spent few
days with the formers parents, MIR.
and Mrs. Jacob Ginger. Mrs. Catharine
r. Fetrow purchased the home of d. G.
Brinton here. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd S.
Fetrow will occupy the farm to be va
Gated by Mrs. Fetrow.-Frank D. Brat
ten, Harrisburg, has returned home
after visit with his sisters, Miss
Clarissa Bratten and Mrs. j. II. Shettel.
Miss Mary Frankenberger will lead the
Senior League service to be held Sunday
evening in the Methodist church--The
Rev. j. McKendree Kelley returned Sun
day evening to his home in York after
visiting at the NJ E. parsonage as the
guest OF his sister and brother in law,
the Rev. and Mrs. L. l.. Owens.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-27
Anonymous Letters
Breathe Defiance to
Organized Government

Washington, Sept. 27.-Scores of
letters have bee nreecived by Chair
man Kenyon and other members of
the Senate committee investigating G
the steel strike. Some of the COM
munications are intended to refute
statements made before the commit
tee by John Fitzpatrick, chairman Of
the strikers committee, while others,
most of them anonymous, breathe
defiance to organized government.
Among the kilograms received by
Senator Kenyon VISA that from A. X.
Perkins, representa- gthe employees
of the Inland Steel Company, In
diana Harbor, Ind, which said 80 per
cent. of the employees of the em-
ployes of the Inland company were
opposed to the strike and that the
walkout was "a crime against the
men who toll"
Another telegram signel by John
]. Friel, member of the American
Federation of Labor, said 10000 work
men at a meeting in Philadelphia had
adopted unanimously a resolution
asking the Senate committee to call
as witness John Clinton Parker,
who would give facts which make
clear the kind of politics that is re-
sponsible for the United States tSeel
strike and the unfair profiteering and
faVoritism that creates dissatisfac-
tion among tire rank and file of work
ing people and increases their cost
of living"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-27
WANT BATHING
BEACH EXPERT
Voters Who Realize Impor-
tance of Measure Eager
For Skilled Aid

With only few weeks until the
November election those who realize
the Importance of securing the pass
age of the loan which will provide
funds for bathing facilities in Harris
burg, are anxious to have an expert
appointed to recommend locations
for bathing beaches and bath
houses.
Commissioner Lynch secured the
passage of a resolution late in July
authorizing the Park Commissioners
to secure such an expert. Park Com
missioner E. u. Gross said to-day
that he has communicated with War
rem II. Manning, the park expert con-
cerning a survey of the city and re-
concentrations of locations for bath
ing facilities.
1t is said that the advisability of
locating swimming pools in the Alli-
son Hill, central and uptown districts
may be considered. No definite
action on this question will be taken,
however, until a report is secured
from an expert.
Commissioner Gross said he has
also heard of men in Philadelphi&
and Baltimore who are acquainted
with furnishing bathing beaches and
pools and that he will communicate
with them. Recently he visited pools
in Baltimore and secured inform
alton about their cost, size and
management.
In November the voters will be
asked to approve the loan of s40,-
600 to be used to provide bathing
facilities. The ordinance authorizing
the vote on the loan question was
presented to Council by Mayor Keis-
ter, and recently was passed on final
reading.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-27

JOINT CONTROL
Potato Blight Fight Will Be
Conducted Along Vigorous
Lines Hereafter

Director J. G. Sanders, of the State
Bureau of Plant Industry, to-day
&C mpleted with Secretary of Agri-
culture Rasmussen tentative plans
for cooperation between the nation
al and State governments for the ex-
tension of the campaign against the
potato wart disease which he studied
in Great Britain. He Will go to
Washington at once to arrange a
system of securing immune potatoes
from abroad for seed purposes.
The Southern Pennsylvania Trac-
tion Company has filed notice with
the Public Service Commission that
1t has increased fares in the city of
Chester from six to eight cents. eff
fective October 26. 1t has also ad-
vanced the fare from Seventh and
Welsh streets, Chester, to the Sixty
ninth street terminal of the PhiTa-
delphia and West Chester Traction
Company from Is to IS cents. The
Chester Valley Electric Company,
has filed notices of an increase in
some schedules in the Gainesville
DowningtownP Pomeroy section. The
Pottstown Gas and Water Company
has made an increase for domestic
water service, effective December /.
Residents of Logan township, Blair
county, have filed notice of complaint
against rates of the Allegheny Wa
ter Company and 26 complaints have
been filed against jitney operators
in the Republic district of Fayette
county by taxicab concern in that
section.
Judicial returns have nlSO been filed
by Bradford. Clearfield, Franklin. In
diana, Lawrence, northumberland
Snyder and Wyoming counties.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-27
Little Lines From Nearby

Mechanicsburg-For the benefit
of the Soldiers and Sailors Me-
mortal Park at this place the Moor
head entertainers will appear in
Franklin Hall on October 8 and 4.
Trindle Springs-The service flag
of the Lutheran Church will be de-
modified, tomorrow evening with
special services.
fredericksburg - Reopening anG
Rally Day services will be held to-
morrow in the Church of God here.
GcttySburg-Aftcr serving two
years under American and British
flags, Robert Mishler has been hon
orably discharged from the United
Marine Corps.
GettySburg-Adam county chick
ems captured prizes at the Stewards
town fair, two cockerels of Bruce w.
Lentz, of Gardners, being awarded
ribbons.
Bonneauville-While opening
jar of fruit at her home near here,
the jar broke and the hand of Mrs.
Albert Wagaman was severely cut,
an incision near the thumb requir-
ing six stitches.
Mount WoIf-The Adelphi Club
has been formed here with Wallace
Kunkel as president.
his IOWn Will wei
come it's soldiers with a parade and
banquet on Saturday, October 4. a
new community flag also will be
raised.
Mount Wolf-Miss Kathryn Grei-
man entertained the members of the
T. a. II. Sewing Circle at her home
here, serving ref eshments at the
close of the social program.
York Havcn-Fully 100 persons,
making up an old-time calithumpian
band, serenaded Mr.. and Mrs. John
w. Clemens, recently married. on
their return from their honeymoon
trip to Niagara Falls.
New Haven-"The Trip Around
the World" social. held under the
auspices of the Sunday school class
taught by Mrs. ]. II. Walton. proved
financial success.
Dallastown-A thief who stole
I feed from the barn of Augustus
Wagdman, of this place, dropped
his gold watch into the bin and
Wagaman found it the morning
after the robbery.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-27
Urges Strikers to
Stay Away From
Company Meetings

Pittsburgh, Sept. 27. The sixth
day of the strike OF the steel work
ers began with both sides claiming
gains. although the situation has
quieted down and appears to have
been deadlocked.
Secretary Foster has sent out no.
tices to all union organizers in this
district asking them TO warn the
strikers against "hand-picked COM
pany meetings" called for tile pur-
pose of getting the men to vote
whether they shall return to work.
This is a new method of propagan-
ia inaugurated by the steel corpor-
ations to break the union ranks" he
added.
Mr.. Foster asserted that alIegt u
brutal activities" of the State Po-
lice in 'is Pittsburah dist..,t nav,
suddenly decreased. He said he be-
lieved this was due to the pubiicitS
that had been given Their actions.
He charged. however, that negro
guards on duty at Monessen, Pa,
were harassing strikesrs and invad-
ing their homes and creating a reign
of terror"
Yesterday was a very quiet day in
the Pittsburgh district. There was
an exchange of shots between state
Police and some men near Clarion,
&C miles from Pittsburgh, In which
no was hurt. Arrests continue To be
made in different places of men who
are usually charged with lettering
and disorderly conduct.
Mass Meetings Planned.
Continuing the fight for free spec ch
en,' free assemblage. the union COM
mittee having this matter in charge
is busy making arrangements to
hold mass meetings of the workers
in many mill towns. There will be
meetings in Homestead and Natrona
with the consent of Sheriff Haddock,
of Allegheny county, it was stated,
and deputy sheriffs will be sent to
prevent interference by State Police.
Sheriff Haddock announced that he
had given the strikers permission 10
hold meetings in halls in anv city Or
towr where local authorities had
not banned such gatherings" He
said that the union committee had
m'Jinterpreted MS INSTRUCTIONS when
tcty announced est he mai inni-
Sod to hold mee..tks ~ ''hi CITY or
tow. wherever tnix "dui1 "3tHln a
hi.i The -herim said tat II. c.ni1
ns q erruie lI;.l>agI!t 1rit''s IN re-
sntd 10 NEE -inS.
Prohia Nc. staS~
Mayor George Lysie, OF Mcko es-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-27
HUN EVACUATION
OF LITHUANIA Is
TO BE DEMANDED
Marshal Foch to Send Note
Threatening Penalties For
Noncompliance
BY associated Press.

Paris, Sept. 27. - The Supreme
Council decided to-day to send the
German government through Mar
shall Foch n note demanding the
evacuation of Lithuania by German
troops under drastic penalties for
noncompliance.
The note informs Germany that
her provisioning will be Immediately
stopped and the financial arrange
ments she has requested be held up
if Lithuania is not evacuated.
American Suggestion
Unless all German troops are re-
called from the Baltic provinces
within a very short time the Allies
will cut off supplies from Germany,
re-establish the blockade and inter-
rupt the repatriation of German
prisoners of war, according to the
Figaro. The newspaper says a note
to this effect is being prepared by
the Entente powers in answer to a
communication from the German
government which stated that forces
under General Won Der Goltz were be-
ing retained in the Baltic provinces
because it was impossible to pre-
pare a plan of evacuation at pre-
sent. American experts, the news
paper says, suggested these measures,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-27
Army Motor Transport
Recruiting Detail Here

Three trucks and a touring car of
the recruiting party sent out by the
Motor Transport Corps from Camp
Holabird, arrived in this city this af-
ternoon from Johnstown, and will be
in Harrisburg several days.
The unit is in command of Cap
tain II. NJ. Joyner and includes a per-
sornel of Is men. The principal ex-
hibit of the unit, which will be park
ed in Capitol Park, il a 12-ton ma
chine shop truck, which includes
every kind of necessary machinery
for the repair of trucks and an in
dependent lighting system run by it's
own motor. The object of the tour
is to educate the public in the work
of the NJ. T. C. Men enlisting may
take their choice of 6S trades. ,and
arc sent to school. After gradual
ing they follow" that trade in the
Army until their discharge, when
they are fitted to take up the same
work in civil life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-27
TWO GUILTY OF
BLASTING SAFE
Philadelphia Crooks Are Con-
victed in Northumberland
Court at Sunbury
WIFE OF ONE IN COURT
With Babe in Arms, She Sup
ports Contention of Hus-
band For Alibi

Sunbury, Pa, Sept. 27.-Elmer c.
Haldermann and VIM. Evans, Phil
adelphia, were found guilty in court
here yesterday of cracking the safe
of the Lewisburg. Milton and Wat
sontown Passenger Railway Com
pany at Milton, on March 29, last.
The safe was blown with nitro
glycerine.
By a number of witnesses the
prosecution traced their movements,
along with John f. Logan, a Greek
who was shot and killed by the
Bethlehem police while trying to
escape, from Philadelphia, in
stolen automobile to Milton and
then to Wilkes-Barre, where they
were arrested. A coin box taken
from the safe. together with several
mutilated coins, which the police
say were found on Evans, were Of
fered in evidence, together with an
overcoat Evans wore. H. r. Deeter,
superintendent of the trolley COM
pany identified the coins as his. The
men were positively identified by
half dozen witnesses as having
been in Milton the night before the
crime.
Evans tried to prove an alibi, say
ing he was i'll in bed at his home in
fhiadelphla at the time, and his
pretty wife, with a baby in arms
supported him. No doctors certifi-
cate could be produced. The police
offered two saws they had cut from
a seam in Evans trousers after he
was arrested. Haldermann did not
testify. e
Haldermann pleaded guilty in CO.
lumbla county in 1907 of robbing
the safe of S. r. Dyer, at Numidia
and was sentenced by Judge Evans
at Bloomsbury to not less than fif-
teen or more than sixty years in
the Eastern Penitentiary. A Phila-
delphia society woman became in
terested in Haldermann and secur-
ed an order of resentence from the
Superior Court, which permitted his
release on parole last fall. Her
name has not been divulged. The
prisoners appeared to have plenty
of money and employed the best
counsel available in the trial here
State and railroad police say
Haldermann is charged with safe
blowings all over Central Pennsyl-
Vania. He was only sentenced for
the Numidia job, as evidence suffi-
cient to convict could not be Sc
cured. They assert that he is one
of the slickest criminals ever lock-
ed up and the "brains'' of the trio.
which included Logan, who they
declare helped rob the Milton safe
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-27

port, declared that no meetings
would be permitted in that city.
where they have been banned for
many weeks. He said he had as
much authority as the sheriff in this
regard. and would oppose any move
to permit !such gatherings.
I'VE had trouble and riots because
of these meetings before there was
strike" Mr.. Lysle said. IT cannot
and will not tolerate such gather
ings."
The union steel men are also bar
red from holding meetings in Du-
quesne and Clarion. according to
reports at strike headquarters.
Mr.. Foster said the union wished
to avoid any trouble with the au-
thorities. but would demand that "the
constitutional rights of the workers
be upheld" He said that the mass
meetings conducted by the organi-
zers were always orderly and peace
full and there was no good reason for
them being banned by any commun-
itv"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-27
Strike Leader Flayed
as Using Labor to
Further |. w. W. Doctrine

Washington, Sept. 27.-William
z. Foster, secretary of the steel
strike committee, was denounced by
Senator Pomerene as a false leader
who is seeking to disrupt organized
labor and utilize it for the further
ance of 1. w. w. doctrines.
Turning to the words of Foster
himself and producing red pamph-
lets issued by the steel union man,
the Ohio Senator flayed him as an
autocrat using the laboring man for
the furtherance of his own am
bitionS.
God help labor when it gets into
the clutches of man of that type"
said Senator Pomerene. The Senator
referred to the recent speech in the
House by Representative Cooper, of
Youngstown, Ohio, a member of la
Dor unions for many years, but an
uncompromising opponent of the
doctrines advocated by Foster.
II hope Senators will read this
speech" Senator Pomerene said.
Mr.. Cooper has rendered a splendid
service to the cause of law and or
der in making that speech at this
opportune time"
According to Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor Fosters former af-
filiations with the l. w. W., his ad-
vocacy of syndicalism and other
radical views, were known to the
labor men, Senator Pomerene said,
but they maintained that he has
since reformed"
Foster Urged Sabotage
The Ohio Senator read extracts
from articles written by Foster from
time to time. IN one published in
Solidarity, the official organ of the
I. w. W., Foster on November 4,
within the American Federation of
Labor to make it a revolutionary
organization. Foster was at that
time a candidate for editor of the
Industrial Worker at Seattle, one of
the I. w. w. publications.
In n letter read by Senator Pom
creme, Foster urged upon the I. w.
w. the adoption and practice of the
principles of revolution, and advised
that they give UP any attempt to
create a new labor movement, but
to get into the old built-up organiza-
ton, strengthen themselves and rev.
olutionize those organizations. The
letter was signed yours for revolu-
ton, VIM. u. Foster"
This man with that record which
he himself wrote in 1911 is parad-
ing himself before the public as one
of the friends of labor" Senator
Pomerene bitterly declared.
The Senator also exhibited a
pamphlet bound in red, written by
Ear! Q. Fcr3 and Foster, and pub,
lished by the latter, in which views
on syndicalism were advanced. Di-
rect action was urged upon workers
and sabotage praised.
Workers were told that when they
went on strike they could leave their
machinery also on strike. On the
railroads they could disable the
switches and signals, or run engines
into the pits of turntables. They
could take small but necessary
parts from machines in the shops
which would leave them useless, or
if they We're unable to accomplish
their purpose before leaving their
jobs, they were advised to hire out
as "scabs" and then surreptitiously
place emery dust in the machine
bearings or otherwise disable the
machinery. An energetic treatment
of strike-breakers was urged as an
effective method in strikes