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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-01
Il Didn't Force Myself on This
Picnic" Governor Cats De-
clares," But / Am Here to
Speak
SHERIFF MAY NAME
HIS DEPUTIES TO-DAY
Boilermakers Insist 1t Was I'm
derstood That Each Local
Had the Right to Select a
Speaker.

Governor Cats will speak at the
Labor Day picnic at Palmetto Beach
this afternoon at two o'clock. Sheriff
Van Pelt will be present and will have
sufficient number of deputies to see
that order is maintained and the gov
ernor given an opportunity to present
his views on The Mission of Organized
Labor"
This is a free country" the gov
ernor told the Journal last night, t.And
have been invited over here by the
Boilermakers' Local and I am going to
make a speech. Rumor has gone
around that 1 would not be permitted
to speak, that disturbance would be
raised and that L would not be per-
mitted on the grounds.
"Rumor is wrong. i will be on the
grounds, and by the Eternal / will
speak. You can say so for me. / am
no gutter and although did not force
myself on this picnic, but came here
on an invitation from Mr.. Allen. now
that / am here / will speak.
Whenever anyone tells me I shan't
I say to him All right, show me why
shan't' Sheriff Van Pelt, who is
one of the best friends / have in West
Florida has told me that he will be on
hand himself. and will deputize the
entire Boilermakers' Local, il need be,
to see that am permitted to speak.
I'm not over here to talk politics.
although / expect to urge that every
man qualify himself to perform his
civic duties by registering and pay his
poll. tax.
when I come over here to talk poll
itics, I'll speak right over there tpoint-
ing toward Mallory Court) and the
square won't hold all the people who
come to hear Old Cats talk. But
tomorrow I'll speak if only two are
there to hear me-
Those present at the conference in
Room 312 at the San Carlos last night
were. in addition to the governor,
Sheriff Van Pelt, r.. G.. Allen, J. q.
Foxworth, j. w. Harrell and J. T..
Jenkins.
Mr.. Flynn, a member of the Boiler
makers Local said that at the meet
ing of the Trades and Labor Council
when the picnic committee was ap-
pointed it was understood that each
local should have the privilege of Sc
lecting a speaker. TT was because of
that understanding" he said, that we
asked Governor Cats to come"
''The picnic committee, Mr.. Flynn
added, has been influenced by some
persons outside of the union to protest
against the governor speaking"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-01
STATE AGENCIES
COOPERATE IN
COST REDUCTION

Washington. Aug. 31.-State agencies
begun functioning in close cooperation
with the federal government today in
the campaign to reduce the cost of liv-
ing. as a result of the conferences held
yesterday with President Wilson and
Attorney General Palmer by the COM
mittee of six state governors repre-
senting the gobernors' national con-
ference.
Assuraces were given the attorney
general by the committee that every
state agency which could be of service
in the emergency would be placed at
his disposal for any information or
assistance he might desire. The COM
mittees endorsement of Mr.. Palmer's
suggestion that fair price commits
sioner be appointed in each state and
fair price committees in the different
localities also was announced after the
conference. at which the attorney gem
eral declared that If satisfactory re-
suits in. the elimination of profiteering
were not obtained through these in
strum mantalities the department of jus
tice would handle these questions di-
rectly."
Need of increased production and
greater economy in the consumption
of the necessities of life was urged by
the committee as a means of reducing
the high price levels
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-01
WHEAT DEALERS
ARE WARNED BY
DIRECTOR BARNES

Washington, Aug. 31.-Another move
in the governments campaign to COM
bat the high cost of living was made
today by Wheat Director Barnes in
warning all dealers in wheat wheat
flour and other products delinquent in
taking federal licenses, to obtain them
Immediately under pain of prosecution
by the department of justice. Bakers
consumping less than fifty barrels OF
flour monthly, retailers. farmers and
farmers cooperative associations are
the only ones not required 10 obtain
licenses, by licensing intended to pre-
vent boarding and proffteering.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-01
Spokesman for Central Trades
Council Picnic Committee
Says Political Speakers Are
Not Wanted.
SAYS GOVERNOR CAN
SPEAK IN THE WOODS
eve Would Rather Listen to the
Band Play Than to the Gov
ernor Talk" Secretary La
mont Declares.

Governor Sidney j. Cats will not
speak at the Labor Day picnic today.
He hasn't been invited to speak and
the committee N charge OF the picnic
doesn't want him. The Central Trades
and Labor Council had nothing to do
with inviting him to speak and no
body connected with the Labor Day
picnic knows anything about the pro-
posed visit of Florida's chief execu-
tive.
Such were the statements made last
night by Secretary II. ID. Lamont of the
picnic committee. I'VE don't want any
speakers who do not carry a union
card" Mr.. Lamont added. Our pro-
gram Is fun and we haven't made any
arrangements for Governor Cats to
speak. Dozens of people have told me
that they would throw their tickets
away and refuse TO go to the picnic
II the governor was to speak"
Mr.. Lamont said that the picnic
was to be a family affair, that there
was to be no speaking, except per
haps a few minutes on the labor sit
uation, by local men, but that speaking
or any kind was not on the program
and wasn't wanted.
This picnic is for the benefit of the
laboring men, the secretary said, and
we don't want any politics mixed up
in 1t. IL the governor want sto speak
he can hold a session across the track
in the woods but we don't want him on
the grounds"
Major Hughes has made arrange
ments with Col Bennett the new
commanding officer at the army post.
for the Fort Bar-ancas band to attend
the picnic between 8 and O'Clock
tomorrow afternoon, and we would
rather listen to the music than to the
governor"
What about the Boilermakers? ?' MIR.
Lamont was asked.
Il don't know anything about their
part IN having the governor come over.
They may be going to hold a private
session." Mr.. Lamont replied.
The Central Trades Council gave
the picnic committee, of which I am
secretary and Mr.. Len LeBaron Is
chairman, full charge. We have ar
ranged program and there is no VA
cancy on 1t for the governor to fill.
This statement is official. Mr.. Ie-
Baron and i held a conference this
morning as soon as we saw the Jour
nal and learned of the governors in
tended visit"
In explaining how the picnic was ar
rangede Mr.. LaMont said that the
committee was elected some weeks ago
and that the last meeting of the Coun-
ell was held Tuesday. at which time
no fntimation of an invitation to the
governor was made.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-01
EDWARD PEAKE
Is INJURED IN AN
AIRPLANE FALL
Richard L. Johnson, Pilot of
Plane, is Killed and Plane is
Wrecked in Crash at Mort
gOmery.

Edward W. Peake, 112 West Govern
ment street, manager of the Peake
Electric and Sanitary Plumbing Com
pany. suffered minor injuries in the
fall of an airplane at Montgomery yes
terday. Richard l.. Johnson, former
first Lieutenant of the United States
Air service, pilot of the plane in which
Mr.. Peake was riding, was instantly
killed when the plane crashed to the
ground The machine was demolished
Mr.. Peake. who is also an automobile
salesman, had gone to Montgomery, it
is stated. for the purpose of buying
several cars. His wife received a tel
ephone message late yesterday saying
that her husband had been injured.
and that aIr. Peake had received a
badly spra med ankle. Mrs. Peake,
with her daughter, Dorothy, aged 10.
left on the night train last night for
III ont fanr1erv
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-01
GODDESS, SAYS
REV. CHALKER.
OF POLITICIANS
-------- |.
Tells Hearers at First Methodist
Church to Avoid Extrava-
gance Caused by EVIL Eye
of Envy

ssGodless politicians in Washington
who are seeking to further their own
political ends see in the peace treaty
all manner of four footed beasts and
creeping things, instead of the good
qualities. hence they are slow about
ratifying it," asserted the Rev. 1. w.
Chalker at the First Methodist church
Sunday morning in a strong sermon
on The Evil Eye
'sWhoever looks for the bad always
sees it. One man may make a trip to
Atlanta and Birmingham and return
glowing in his praise of the city and
her people; another will come back
claiming it is the rottenest city in the
south. His eye is evil, hence he sees
only evil.
..Then there is the evil eye of envy,
which makes us hate the man who ex-
cells us. The evil eye of pride is the
cause of much of our sufferings. One
woman will be wearing a dress that
costs. say $40, when she will see an
other woman with dress on that costs
probably s100. Posthaste the woman
will go and buy herself a 500 dress,
in order not to let anybody outstrip
her. One man riding in a Ford will
see his neighbor speed by in a hand
some Cadillac, SO the man in the Ford
longs for a Cadillac, even though the
Ford may suit his needs better. These
things are the cause of high prices.".'.
The speaker affirmed that eyil eyes
in dozens of ways are causing woe
and suffering every day. The remedy.
he stated, is to let the love of Jesus
Christ come into our lives so that He
will cause us 10 see with pure eyes.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-01
CASTEEL is SAFE
IN FINAL COUNT
IN MISSISSIPPI

jackson, Miss, Aug. 31.--Although
he had conceded his defeat and left
Jackson for his home at Picxens. III. III.
CasteeI, candidate for lieutenant gov
ernor, was discovered late yesterday to
have been nominated to the offive over
his opponent, John Il. Frierson, in
Tuesdays primary.
A message from Jackson reached Mr..
Casteel on his way home and brought
him back in time TO participate in a
celebration here last evening OF the
victory of Lee NJ. Russell, governor
elect.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-01
LABORLEADERS
Are in FAVOR
OF CONFERENCE
'PIan Certainly Is Worth Try
ing" Says Secretary Morri-
son, Speaking for the A. F. L.
81 HARRY z. EuNT

WashG Ggton. Aug s3f--Rresident4 Will
son, in u Labor day message issued
tonight, announced he would call soon
conference in which authoritative
representatives of labor and of those
who direct labor will discuss funda-
mental means of bettering the whole
relationship of capital and labor and
putting the whole question of wages
upon another footing"
The resident also saiG he was graf
ifi de by the progress being made in
controlling the cost of living, and ap-
pealed to every citizen to give personal
support in this matter, refrain from do
ing anything which tend to increase
the cost of living and do all in their
power to increase production and care
fully economize SO production catch up
with consumption. by common ac-
tion in this direction we shall over
come danger greater than the danger
of war;" the statement said.
Washington, Aug. 31.--Frans Morri-
son, secretary of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, and in the absence
of Samuel Gompers from this country
recognized as the spokesman for or
ganized labor. today endorsed the
proposal for a national Round Table
conference of Capital and Labor, em-
ployers and employees, producers and
consumers, at which the economic
and industrial problems now before
the country can be threshed out by
common counsel and in the public
view.
Certainly it is worth trying" Nor
rison declared. I'm any event it can
do no harm.
In any such conference, of course,
1 believe the 4American Federation of
Labor should choose the delegates to
represent organized labor. Just who
would decide on representatives for
capital or for employers whose de-
cisions and agreements their fellows
would feel bound to follow. / do not
know, but labor would recognize the
authority of its delegates, If selected
by the federation
Morrison's approval OF the confer
ence, and his expressed belief that the
federation as a whole would stand
by him in its support, removed what
in Washington had been regarded as
the biggest obstacle in its path. Word
lad gone out from here that the A F.
of L. opposed any such conference and
was not willing TO sit down to an open
and full discussions of employment
and production problems. The A. F.
of L.. it was stated, wished 70 dictate,
not to negotiate.
This alleged opposition on the part
of organized labor resulted from a
telegram sent by Samuel. Gonpers.
president of the A. f. of L., to Senator
Poindexter, following the introduction
of the Poindexter-Kell resolution re-
questing President Wilson to cali
such a conference. Poindexter had in
corporated in the resolution the names
of 20 men as typical of the type of
men whom he believed should par
ticipate in any such national counsel
Gompers' telegram to the senator sim
ply stated that he believed it unwise
TO attempt TO name the representa-
tives in the resolution authorizing the
and that conferees to rep
resent organized labor ought to be
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-01
Many Prisoners Escaped When
Mob Battered Down Jail
Doors to Get at Alleged Negro
Murderer.
HARDWARE STORES
LOOTED FOR ARMS
Quantities of Confiscated Liquor
Found in Jail Building Were
Drunk or Carried Away by
DisOrderly Crowd.

Knoxville, Tenn, Aug. 31-The list
of dead as a result of race riots here
early Sunday stood at eight tonight,
while twelve hundred militiamen pa
trolled the city and stood guard with
fixed bayonets over looted hardware
stores and pawnshops from which the
mobs took firearms and even kitchen
knives for weapons.
One white man and two negroes
were wounded during the day as a
sequence to rioting which began when
the mob stormed the Jail after the
negro accused of numbering a white
woman. The negro had previously
been removed to Chattanooga and
after battering in jail doors md win
dows, and finding the negro not there
members of the mob drank Illicit whis-
key stored in the Jail, destroyed some
Jail records, and permitted twelve
prisoners to escape, even driving some
out with threats, then attacked the
sheriff's residence and damaged near
ly everything of value. even books and
clothing. Several thousand dollars
damage was done to the Jail.
Militiamen arrived and with the aid
OF the police and deputies cleared the
Jail corridors and yard. Then the loot
ing of shops for arms began and riot
ing spread particularly in the negro
section where armed groups of negroes
began to gather. Practically every
store in Knoxville that contain ined arms
of any kind was burst into and looted.
After the doors of the county Jail
were battered down by the mob after
Maurice Mayes. negro taken into GUS
tody on the charge of the murder of
Mrs. BERTHE Lindsey, among the num-
ber of prisoners escaping through the
crowd were Ehudo Fellows and Charles
Paul. both charged with murder, and
c. w. White, under sentence to be
electrocuted for murder. Two federal
prisoners also escaped. Sam Huffaker,
charged with murder, refused to leave
the Jail.
When the mob found the negro had
been removed to Chattanooga previ-
ously for safety. it turned it's attention
to the large quantity of Illicit whiskey
stored in the Jail. A sixteen gallon
keg was battered in and the contents
drank on the spot, while cases of quart
bottles of whiskey were broken open
and the bottles taken away.
Minor disorders occurred tonight and
four negroes were wounded, two shot
and two bayonetted by guardsmen
during the day on refusal to submit to
a search for arms. There was shooting
in various parts of the city Sunday
and it continued tonight but appeared
sporadic. Union leaders called off the
Labor Day parade and political meet
ings and city elections are deferred.
Restaurants were hampered all day by
lack of negro employees and closed at
seven tonight. Four machine guns
were mounted tonight in the negro
district where the chief trouble is
tonight. Other machine guns were
mounted on motor trucks ready.
Guardsmen here on target practice
We're called out tonight and turned a
machine gun on a body of armed ne
groes who were firing at the whites
Only known dead are Lieutenant James
w. Payre, regular army, Madisonville,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-01
MEAT MARKETS
NEXT in Line.
PRICESPROBE
Object of Federal Action. Will
Be to- Determine Whether or
Not the Proprietors. Are Prof
iteering.

Pensacolasmeat markets viii come
next in the food investigation which
is being. made by agents of the de-
partment of justice, The investiga-
ton will be undertaken to determine
whether or not there is any profiteer-
ing going on among dealers in meats
and green groceries. Complaints have
been made time to time that such
profiteeFing does exist and u. S. Die
trict Attorney NeeIey win put the ma
chirery OF his office in motion to
find out the real facts in the case.
No increase has been found in the
investigation of retail stores The mar
ket prices are either steady or fall
ing. ..
The report on the cold storage sit
uation in the district will soon be
finished. and in the hands OF the Wash
ington authorities. II any arrests Of
alleged food hoarders are to be made
De-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-01
GENERAL STRIKE
OF CIGAR MAKERS
ON IN KEY WEST

Key West, Aug. 31.-A general strike
of cigar makers and tobacco workers
in Key West was called today when
union leaders failed to get reply to
their demands for same wage scale
that was granted when the Tampa
strike was settled recently. Three
thousand workers MI be affected and
it is reported many of them are leav-
ing for Tampa and Havana
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Showers and thufsnowers
Monday and Tuesds gentie 70
moderate variable
Z = % x x * x % q q q Z
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-19
TOO FIERY. LANDS IN JAIL
Ardent Swain Accused With Others
of Love Conspiracy

Too much affection plus too fiery a
temper led to the holding without bail
for further hearing of Giuseppe Ros-
SIM. twenty eight years old. of Ham
monitor. y. j.. by Recorder Stackhouse
in Camden today on charge of con.
spiracy.
Angelo Bitrole and stephen Tistcllo,
of Elm, y. j., were held with Ros
sini
RosSini is alleged to have fallen in
love with Angelina Longo. daughter of
Antonio Longo, also of Elm. Although
the lady did not appear to trowu ON
his suite. her father did. and Giuseppi
was forbidden the house and the com
pany of Angelina.
Then it was. according to the Cvi
dence. that he lost his temper and con
spired with Bitrolc and Tistcllo to send
a letter to Antonio Longo, in which Il
threat was made that the three would
come to the Longo home, tie the father
and mother to their own bedpoSts and,
after taking the girl. would set fire to
the house.
Giuseppis passionate outburSt did
not please the girls father and his ar
rest and hearing this morning re-
suited
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-19

while some other nation is unable to
get enough for its needs"
The surest way of increasing produce
tion today. Mr.. Sisson continued, is to
furnish the materials that European
countries will need to resume opera
tions. Influence also should be e1er-
ciscd. he said to establish stabilized
conditions in other countries so that
the worlds producing capacity may be
used to the greatest advantage.
Pointing cut that the development of
Il large merchant marine will add to
Americas ability to invest capital in
other countries. Mr.. Sisson stated
America must seize its opportunities in
foreign trade and the foreign invest
mcnt field.
"Thc American public must be edu-
Gated to see the necessity Of investing in
foreign securities and the relation that
it bears TO our own industrial and eco
nomic life. he added.
The luncheon today was given
the fnancicrs by Clayton f. Banks.
Philadelphia correspondent of the
Guaranty Trust Company.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-19
MAN KILLED BY TRAIN
Struck While Walking Along Track.
of P. and r. In Germantown

Maurice Kenin, Woodbine. NIB.
was instantly killed few minutes
after s o'clock this morning when he
was struck by train as he was walk
ing along the Philadelphia and Reading
Railway tracks at johnson street. Ger
mantown. His body was placed aboard
the train, taken to the Germantown
Hospital and then to the Germantown
police station. .....
Atrthe police station it was identified
by his brother. Benjamin Kenin. 2945
North Hancock street. The dead man
was a patient at the Belle Vista SAM =
tarium and was to have been taken
home by his brother today. About I
O'Clock an attendant allowed him to go
out for a walk.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-19
SHIP DELAYED BY CLAIM
Owners of italian Vessel Demand
Sa5o,ooo Salvage From, U. S. Board

The Kuspeca. frcighter owned by
the United States shipping board, can
leave its moorings in the Delaware
river off Shackamaxon street. because
the owners of the Italian steamship
Nicholas have filed demand for 500, e
600 salvage.
The Kuspeca. on August 30, 1919.
sent distress signals when it was about
800 miles off the Atlantic coast. There
was some engine trouble. The Nicho las.
steamng by. towcd the frcighter into
the Philadelphia port. .o.
salvage. wllich the shipping board de-
cares is exorbitant. The shipping
board is willing to pay $4,000. How
ever, the Kuspeca will not leave Phila :
delphia until bond for the S25O,OO
is placed in the hands of the proper
authorities.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-19
B0NWlT-TELLER DANCE
Employees Association Has 8 g
Event-Rase Money for Insurance

The Bonwit. Teller u Co. Employees
Association held its annual dance in
Mercantile Hall last night Several
hundred persons were present.
Preceding the dance vaudeville
program provided entertainment until
10 o'clock. The dancing continued uu-
til o'clock
Officials of the New York store came
over for Slc evening They mingled
with the decorators. sales people. book
keepers, credit men. buyers aud clerks
and helped to make tho affair the most
successful in the history of the orgaui.
zatiOn.
The womcu's gowns were beautiful.
Many of them. fashioned of brilliant
tissue, were cut aud drapcd according
to latest modes Those made Of tilmy
materials contained hoop here and
there and an ostrich plumo.
The proceeds of the entertainment
will be placed in the association treas
ury to provide insurance in cases Of
illness and death.
Those directly responsible for the sue
cess Of the affair." arc: Carl j. Al
bert. chairman; Joseph Simous. master
of ceremonies: Misses Anna II. crokr.
Catherine Craven. Rae Friedman. j.
Il. Honold. j. T.. Adams, T.. Sanders
and $. Smcdlcl.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-19
Deaths of a Day
GEORGE M. D0RRANCE
Chief Claim Agent for Pennsylvania
Railroad Dies at Bristol

George NJ. Dorrance. eighty three
years old for forty years chief claim
agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
died yesterday afternoon at his home
300 Radcliffe street. Bristol.
Mr.. Dorrance, who was widely known
in railway circles, was a director of the
Philadelphia and Camden Ferry Co,
and the Philadelphia and Trenton Rail :
road Co. He was also one of the. carly
directors of the Camden and Amboy
Railroad Co.. and played prominent
role years ago in the enactment of rail
road legislation in New Jersey.
He was member of the Union
League and last visited the club when
General Pershing was entertained there.
Mr.. Dorrancc. who was bachelor
is survived by brother, Arthur Dor
rance, of Riverton. n. j., who was
formerly president of the Campbell Sour
Co. John Dorrancc. the present heat
of the company. and DR.. George NJ
Dorrancc. of 2O25 Walnut street, are
also relatives of the deceased