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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
HITCHCOCK AND
FOR LEADERSHIP
democratic Senators Sum
moncd to Meet Saturday
to Make Choice
By Assoeiaiea Prcss

Washington, Dec. is. - A call for
conference of Democratic Sena-
tors Saturday to select leader to
succeed the late Senator Martin. of
Virginia, was issued to-day by Sem
ator Hitchcock, of Nebraska. who
is contesting with Senator Under
wood, of Alabama, for the place.
settlement of the contest between
Senator Hitchcock, the acting DEM
ocratic leader, and chief spokesman
FOR the administration i'm the Treaty
fight. and Senator Underwood, for
merry Democratic leader in the
ltonse, is the only business to come
before the conference. The outcome
OF. the contest was said to be in
doubt
Might Block Vote
Friends of Senator Underwood in
tlmated to-day that they might en-
deavor to postpone vote until after
the holidays, when the full Demo-
cratic membership, including Carter
Glass as successor to, Senator Mar
TN, is expected to be. present. The
Alabama senator's supporters also
were said to desire disposition of the
treaty before the leadership cleo
ton. so that the question of on
dorsing Senator Hitchcock's man
agement of the Treaty might not II ,
an issue.
Some Senators said the leadership
contest might have considera ble
bearing on the immediate outcome
or the Treaty controversy. Senator's
hitchcock and Underwood have Diff
Tered regarding future procedure.
the former opposing and the latter
agreeing to accept as "a last alterna-
tive the plan OF Senator Knox. Re
publican, PENNSYLVANIA. to ratify the
Treaty except the League of Ma
tlons covenant, which would be left
Tor future consideration.
1t has been said at the White
House that irrespective of the ont
come of the leadership contest. SEN
ator Hitchcock will continue as tbe
administration leader in the Treaty
fight
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
IGUBERNATORIAL
SUCCESSION IS
VOTED DOWN
Municipalities and Counties
f Said to Have Need of
Wider Authority
M We TO SAVE TIME
Recommendations Must Come
From Committees; Plans
For Public Hearings
MOVE TO SAVE TIME

The proposed amendment to the
Constitution of Pennsylvania to make
the Governor eligible to succeed
himself was defeated in committee
of the whole of the State Constitu-
tional Revision Commission to-day.
The proposition came in the form of
a recommendation from the COM
mittee in charge of the article rela-
tive to the executive and was at
tackled by several members, there
being no dissenting votes on the
question of allowing the section to
remain as it now exists in the or
ganic law.
Judge James III. Reed, Allegheny,
asked George Il. Alter, chairman
of the committee which had recon-
mended the change. for reasons and
Mr.. Alter outlined some of the
thoughts which had been expressed
on the desirability of a continuity in
the executive chair. Judge James
Gay Gordon, Philadelphia, attacked
the proposition and in the course of
his remarks said that a certain po-
litical party had embodied prohi-
bition OF President succeeding
himself in its national platform, but
that when it had elected a Presi-
dent nothing further had come OF
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
Enough Food Rots in
N. Y. Each Year to Feed
Population a Month

New York, Dec. 1S.-Enough food
rots in the port of New York each
year to feed the entire population of
the city for one month, according to
E. l.. Goodsell, local fruit dealer.
At a food conference to-day under
the auspices of Columbia Univer-
sity's Department of Ariculture and
the Institute of Arts and Sciences,
he estimated the total loss from
food decay in this country at $780,
100000 annually, ninety per cent of
which. he said, could be conserved
by proper distribution facilities.
Mr.. Goodsell favored government
subsidy of food producers, based on
their increased production, in order
to increase the food supply through
the world.
Mrs Elmer Blair, former presi-
dent of the State Federation of
Women's Clubs, pledged the aid of
100000 members of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs to any
plan advised for the satisfactory So
luton of food problem. Six million
school children throuhout the coun-
try are under weight. she said, be-
cause of malnutrition.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
JUMP FOR LIVES
WHEN FIRE BLOCKS
MEANS OF ESCAPE
Child of Eight Years Is Dropped From
Window by Parents When Bedroom
Is EnpeIoped in Flames
FIREMAN CALLED OUT THREE
TIMES IN ZERO TEMPERATURE

Asleep when exploding oil the bedroom
OF the home of Lewis Robinson 444 Derry this
ing at o'clock the family managed to escape only through
hasy through second-story windows. Two
in the hospital and the third given treatment there
Three fires have been reported to the city fire department
since sos o'clock last night The fire in this instance
fined to the Robinson bedrooms.
Those the hospital Mrs Lewis Robinson and her
sister, Miss Marie Jordan. Miss Jordan seriously burned
the Pe husband received
his burns together with those of his wife,
about hands, face and body They
IF Tordap
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
Meat Packers Will
Dispose of Many Side
Lines Result of Pact
BY Associated Press


Chicago. Dec, 1S. - A dozen or
more important side line Industries
of the Chicago meat packers lnNolV-
ing investments of many millions OF
dollars will be disposed of under the
stimulated decree soon to be entered
in the United States Court at WASH
ington on motion OF attorney GEN
eraI Palmer. While representatives
of the packers to-day declined to
discuss the details of the decree un-
der which the packers in the future
will be required to confine the busl-
ness activities to the production OIL
meat. poultry, butter, eggs ano
cheese, it was learned from an au-
thoritative source that the outline Oh
the plans had been, agreed upon.
Among the lines of business from
which it is said the packers will be
ordered to withdraw under the stipu-
lated court decree are the following:
Leather. canned fruits and vege-
tables. soap, cleansing powders, gro
ceries, fertilizers, coal storage, fish,
refrigerator car lines, cereals, glue,
sporting goods and the control of
stockyards.
Representatives of the packers eX-
press the view that under the pro-
posed plan they might continue to
manufacture soap and fertilizer. as
they are natural products of the meat
packing industry. Some doubt was
expressed as TO whether cleansing
powders is an animal product. One
purpose of the proposed reorganiza-
tion, it is said, is to prevent the
packers from engaging in the whole
sale grocery business.
Swift and Company already has
segregated it's South American and
Australian meat business, its fruit
and vegetable canning industry and
its manufacture OF leather. Wilson
and Company recently disposed of
its wholesale grocery lines to a New
York firm
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
MAYOR WILL GET
$500 UNDER NEW.
SALARY SCHEDULE
Councilmen Add $500 to An
nual Pay in the 1920
Budget

Meeting in special session late yester-
day afternoon City Council passed on
first reading an ordinance to increase
the salaries of the mayor from $4,000
to $4,000 and OF each or the four City
Commissioners from $2.5O0 to $4,000
annually, and fixing the salary of the
City Controller at $4,000 each year.
The measure was introduced by Mayor
d. L. Keister. 1t will be passed finally
at the regular session next Tuesday.
and will become effective ten days later.
The new salary schedule for the coun-
cilmen becomes effective January 3.
1919, when the city government is re-
organized.
Budget Not Yet Ready
The four City Commissioners now
members of Council having been re-
elected, and Mayor-elect George A.
Hoverter will receive the increases. The
$3,0O0-salary for the City Controller was
fixed by law, an amendment to the
Clark act permitting councils of third
class cities of the State to fix the sal
aries to be paid controllers, but direct
ing the salaries must not be lower than
those paid to the members of council.
When the Clark act, the present third
class city government law. became eff
fective it fixed the minimum salaries
for councilmen at S2.5O0. the maximum
at $4,000; the minimum for the mayor
at $4,000 and the maximum $500. and
the salary Of the controller at $500 an
nually. With the reorganization of
municipal government in Harrisburg
Council fixed the salaries for the Mayor
and the four City Commissioners at the
minimum amounts in the Clark act.
City Councilmen met again last night
to consider the budget, completing their
study of each bureaus appropriation
requests Additional cuts" have been
made. but several more sessions will be
necessary before the budget ordinance
is ready to be passed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
.Peddler Of Narcotics
Dies a Victim Of His
Habit Forming Drugs

Charles Poindexter. colored, Rich
mond. Va. believed to have been a
peddler in narcotics operating in this
city. died at the Harrisburg Hospital
last night. IS minutes after being
admitted to the institution.
+ Poindexter had been taken sudden
ly sick in his room at the Corona Ho-
tel in Verbeks street Hospital ply
sicians believed that an overdose of
narcotics was responsible for his
death.
Poindexter. according to informa-
ton in the hands of Harrisburg po-
lice. came to the city several days ago
from Coatesvllle. The body has been
turned over to Coroner Eckinger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18

tllOSc Oh MISS JOIudll.
Bedroom AbIaze
With their rooms already ablaze
and with the stairway passage block
ed, Mrs. Robinson, an S-year-old
daughter and two sisters of Mrs.
Robinson, all scantily attired' sought
the windows as a means of exit while
Robinson made futile attempts to
extinguish the flames.
Harvey A. Boyer, 1893 Swatara
street, a Harrisburg Railways mo-
torman, on the scene shortly after
the fire alarm had been sounded,
rendered valuable assistance in the
rescue of the occupants.
Drops Child and Jumps
With the heat becoming more in
tense, Mrs. Robinson sought the
front window as a means of escape
for herself. Standing at the window,
she dropped her S-year-old daugh-
ter into the arms of Boyer standing
below. Later, after her husband had
gotten out through back window,
she jumped from the front window
and was caught by Boyer and her
husband. The Jordan girls escaped
through a back porch onto a low
outkitchen from which they were
assisted to the ground by neighbors
and spectators.
Robinson was burned in his at
tempt to extinguish the flames. Tire
blaze cut his way off and he had
been unable to reach them. Mrs.
Robinson and Miss Jordan were
burned in their attempt to escape.
Firemen arrived on the scene
shortly after the alarm and soon had
the fire under control. The flames
were confined almost entirely to the
front room of the second floor, al
though the house. generally was
damaged TO large extent by water.
The house is owned by John Felty
The loss will amount to several thou
sand dollars. The Robinson family
is colored.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
MERCURY AT TWO
SETS RECORD FOR
MID-DECEMBER
First Time on Record When
Zero Weather Appears SO
Early in Month

The first zero weather of the win
ter to-day slowed up traffic. froze
water pipes and caused much incon-
venience among many activities
Weather a few degrees warmer is
forecast for tonight and tomorrow
but little relief is promised by the
Federal Weather Bureau.
The mercury stood officially at
two degrees above early to-day. This
is the lowest ever recorded in Har-
risburg so early in December. AT
many places zero was registered and
in many unprotected points within
ten miles of the city temperatures
of four to six degrees below zero
were reported.
Cloudy weather is in prospect for
tonight and tomorrow with occa-
sional snow flurries.
Trains were from thirty minutes
TO five hours late. The tieups were
mostly in the west, but it took some
trains from thirty minutes to an
hour to get to the station afer
reaching the local yards. Engine
trouble, poor fuel and congested
freight traffic were said to be the
cause for delays. Officials said they
We're doing the best possible under
existing conditions
The cold weather last night and
this morning made It a hard task
to keep up steam. Express business
showed a big increase, necessitat-
ing more engines. Just now freight
engines are in demand because of
the rush of coal trains and express
trains had to wait.
The longest delays. it was said,
were west of Pittsburgh. Trains be-
tween Altoona and Harrisburg, and
between Philadelphia and Harris
burg, lost time because of heavy
travel and freight congestions. It
was expected that the schedules
would all be Strengthened out by
this evening.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
100 Families Driven
From Beds When Fire
Breaks Out in Tenement

New York, Dec. 1S.-New York
to-day had it's first touch of real
winter weather. Fhe temperature
dropped from 20 degrees above zero
at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon ia
zero at / n. m. \ stiff northwest
wind added to the discomfort. II
was the coolest December day here
in two years.
Firemen were called upon to fight
number of blazes. More than 100
families were driven from their beds
to the street by Il fire in an Eighth
avenue tenement. Half clad ten
ants were cared for at Knights OF
Columbus headquarters. Another
blaze damaged the school of journal
ism at Columbia University and some
women students in an adjoining dor
mitory rushed into the street half
dressed.
There was considerable suffering
in the poorer sections of the city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
WHY JOE is LOOKING.
FOR JUNK DEALER

Joe .Hatchett, an employe of
the Harrisburg Engineers Club,
is eagerly awaiting the return of
$55 OF his money.
Yesterday Joe started to shovel
snow from the pavements from
in front of the clubhouse in South
Front street. In order to pre-
vent the loss of his wallet. money
and papers, he removed them
and placed them between two
bundles of old papers in the
cellar.
While Joe was busy shoveling
the snow a junk dealer visited the
club and the housekeeper sold
the old papers, Joe's wallet and
money.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
Builds Fire to Smoke
Meat and Blaze Burns
Rear of Two Houses

Hot ashes remaining from a fire
for smoking meat in an outkitchen
this morning set fire to the double
frame house at 1912 South Cameron
street, occupied by Clarence Russell
and Willis HaIbold. The outkitchen
was destroyed and the weather
boarding on the rear of the building
badly burned.
Mrs. Russell had smoked some meat
from recent butchering. yesterday
and this morning had built another
fire to complete the operation. After
the fire had been started. she decided
that the meat had been sufficiently
smoked and extinguished it, she says,
The hot ashes remained and are be-
leved to have set fire to the out
kitchen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
Skating Tomorrow at
Wildwood, Is Forecast

V. Grant Torrer, assistant superin-
tcndent of parks sent glad smile
across the race of Harrisburg this
afternoon when he said that If the
weather man kept up the good work
of pushing the mercury down in the
old thermometer, Wildwood Park
would be ready for skating tomorrow
afternoon.
The ice on the Wildwood lake is
fairly thick now. but needs just n bit
more to make it safe. There is still
quite bit Of snow which must be
cleaned off this afternoon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
WANTED

The women who are in charge
of the city's first Toy Mission to-
day requested that Harrisburg
men and women who know the
names of deserving children who,
because of misfortune, may have
a cheerless Christmas, get the
names of these children to the
Toy Mission before Monday.
Receiving donations for the Toy
Mission will cease Monday. This
refers to toys. Money donations
will be received as long as they
come. Headquarters Of the Toy
Mission are at 119 South Front
street.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
ARE PLENTIFUL
BUT PRICE REMAINS HIGH
Fowls Enough For Everyones Table but Dealers Are Ask
ing Fancy Price For Choice Birds

Poultry dealers announced to-day
that prices for Christmas fowls
would approximate those of the
Thanksgiving season when turkeys
sold as high as so cents a pound
for new high record.
That there is u plentiful supply of
turkeys. geese and chickens in the
surrounding country was freely ad-
mitted. Prices last Saturday for
fowls of all kind We're cheaper in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
STRICT ECONOMY
TO RULE CUT IN
APPROPRIATIONS
Low Post Office and Navy Re.
quests Only Ones to Go
Through Unscathed

Washington. Dec. IS. - All gem
eral appropriations for 1921 will be
pared down lin accordance with
strictest economy" except the Post
Office and Naval departments, the
estimates of which are less than for
the present year. Majority Leader
Monden, Wyoming, told the House
to-day, when the first urgent de-
fciency bill of this session was
brought up. Greater reductions
CONTINUED on Page 21.1
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
Divorced Three Years
They Decide to Try
Married Life Again

Divorced three years ago in Illi-
nois. Arthur II. Williams, Washing
ton, and Mabel w. Williams, Oil
City, yesterday secured marriage
license at the county bureau in the
Recorders office, and will rewed,
they told the clerk. A divorce de-
cree, which they showed. stated
that they were divorced April IL,
1916, on the grounds of desertion,
the decree being given in the Bu-
reau county court, Illinois.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18

the Chestnut street market than for
many weeks and large numbers of
chickens, ducks and guineas were on
the stalls, The supply of eggs also
was exceptionally lapee
Dressed turkeys ready for the
roasting pan now are retailing at
90 cents u. pound for the choicest
birds. Live turkeys and geese re-
Gently have been wholesaling as low
as 30 cents for turkeys. But these
are not Christmas prices. it was said.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
BLOOD INFUSION
FAILS TO SAVE
PEFFLEY'S LIFE
Two Desperate Efforts on the
Part of Physicians Prove
Unsuccessful .s

Suffering for more than three years
with pernicious anemia and q patient
OF the Harrisburg Hospital since
March 8, during which time blood
had been transfused into his veins on
two occasions, Oscar b. Peffley, 80
years old, of 119 South Dewberry
street. died in the Harrisburg Hospit-
al this morning.
With every effort OF medical science
called into play in his behalf at va
rious institutions. during the past
three years, Peffley was admitted to
the Harrisburg Hospital on March s.
With but half the amount of blood
needed to sustain life, physicians at
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
LOSES ROTH LEGS

Harrison Zeiders, OF Flusing, Ohio,
formerly of this city, and a son of w.
w. Zeiders, who conducts a hardware
store at 1895 Derry street. had both
legs cut off while working in the
railroad yards at Flushing yesterday,
according to word received by Mr.
"a elders Zeiders was going to work
Yesterday when struck by a freight
train. He had stepped from the path
Of a, passenger train in front Of the
freight without noticing its approach
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
THE WEATHER

Cloudy weather. probably snow
nurrles tonight and Friday,
slowly rising temperature, low
est Tonight about degrees.
Enstern Pennsylvania: Snow
Murrics probable tonight and
Friday. Slow rise in tempern-
ture. Moderate variable winds
becoming cnst and southeast.
Rivers The Susquehanna river nnd
NIL Its branches will fall ex-
ccpt local rises are likely TO
occur where the channel be-
comes cIOggcd with ice,
stage of about 80 feet IN indi-
Gated for Harrisburg Friday
morning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18

TELLS POLICE HE
STOLE S75 IN WEST

Declaring that he had stolen SIS
in Michigan on November 2S, Don
aid Baker, of st. Johns. Michigan,
has given himself up to the Harris
burg police. Baker went to police
headquarters last evening and asked
that he be placed in custody. He
said that while boarding at the home
of p. j. Staub he entered the room
of Miss Faye Stevens, school
teacher, while she was at school,
and took SIS from her purse. st.
Johns police have been notified.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
COLD ALL OVER STATE

FnIlhucIpIna, Dec. 10 UNUSUALLY
cold weather for this season of the
year prevails to-day throughout
Pennsylvania. Upstate points gen
orally report zero temperatures or
below. The coolest point recorded
was near Williamsport where the
thermometer registered "a below
zero. In Philadelphia it was four
above at a. m. Scranton reported
four below and Binghamton eight
below.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
$500 A YEAR is
ENOUGH so HE
REFUSES RAISE
By associated Press

kearncy, n. j., Dec. 1S.-De-
claring his position as secretary
of the local Board of Health is
worth no more than the $4OO
yearly stipend which he now re-
ceives, Alfred Anderson has de-
clined to accept an increase
which the board proffered him.
Anderson. who has held the po-
sltlon four years, says an in
crease would be an injustice TO
the townsDeoole. as the board
holds only twelve meetings a
year"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
Continued ON Page OF
4, 500, 900 TO GET MEDALS

Washington, Dec. Is. - Some g.
100000 American soldiers and sail
ors soon are to receive the Victory
Medal-tributo of grateful nation
to all the men in uniform who aided
in crushing German ambition to
dominate the world.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-18
CATCHES FIRE AT STOVE

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