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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-10-06
OnInt At YouuGItoWn

YOUNGSTOWN. O.. Oct. mo deVel-
onmcnts appeared toni Ght in the Mahon-
ing Valley steel district 10 nd;cat" that
the mills will make any effort TOMORROW
10 break tho complete tie-up. which has
continued for two weeks. Othcials OF
the Carnegie steel Company plant added
nothing 10 their announcement OF last
night that "ther" Is no hurry opening
the mills" and that decision will await
the doNelopmcnts of the next few days.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-08-16
AUSTR|ANS ASK
CHARLES RETURN
Want Former Emperor to Re-
sumo Active Part Again

BIZ The Associated Presa
PARIS, Aug. 16:-Members of the
former Austrian regime have reen-
tered their request that the former
Emperor Charles resume an active
part in Austrian affairs, according to
a dispatch received here from Gurit-
Ia.
In the last discussion 1t is report
ed to have been quite long, emissa-
ries' assumption to control the erst-
while emperor and king and the
archduke's assumption of power in
Hungary made his passes brighter,
but he was reluctant to consent and
no decision was reached. After the
conference, which lasted for three
hours former Emperor Zita, who
was imprisoned, said: II have had
enough talking, gentlemen. Hofburg
is hell for us. We have done our
duty to the end and we have suffered
enough. To return is an impossible
ity"
Roumania will not be permitted to
strip Hungary, according to the draft
of the Supreme Councils reply to the
last note from Bucharest. which was
completed at today's meeting of the
council. The government informed
that the fixing of the amount of rep
aration to be made by Hungary as weil
as distribution is a matter under the
control of the Allied associated powers
and that until final decision is reached
all war railroads and agricultural ma
teria1s now in Hungary and subject to
distribution will be under the common
administration of the Allied powers.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-08-16
n. Y.F|RE CHIEF
SEES RAR|TAN
Chief Beggin Of Richmond Co.
lnSpeCts Arsenal

Deputy Chief William P. Beggin. in
charge OF the Staten Island Division of
the New York Fire Department made
on inspection of the Raritan Arsenal
today under the direction of Mayor
Hylan Of New York. The inspector
VIII report to Thomas J. brennan. New
York Fire Commissioner.
City Electrician Jay Frank accom-
panied Mr.. Begin on the tour of in
spect1on. This action is being taken by
Mayor Hylan following receipt of in
formation as to the storage of expIo-
sives at the arsenal furnished by Mayor
Dorsey, it is understood.
Three million pounds of TINT ara
stored in the United States arsenal ar
senal at Rartan. N. j., according to
information received by Mayor Hylan,
The Mayor sent a letter yesterday to
Thomas ]. brennan. Fire Commits
sioner, telling what he had heard and
asking an investigation.
Deputy Chief William p. Begin, In
charge of the Staten Island division
of the Fire Department, was imme edi-
ately ordered to Raritan to investi-
gate.
IF explosives in such enormous
quantities are stored in the arsenal
they constitute a grave menace to New
York City" said Commissioner Dren-
nan. Much depends, of course, on
the manner in which they are stored.
If Chief Begin reports that the
situation is serious we shall imme-
diately take it up with the Federal
government and have the TINT re-
moved"
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-08-16
BRISK SELLING HERE TODAY;
OFFICIALS WELL PLEASED;
COUNTY FIRST IN PRICE LIST
Housewives, Too, Pleased with
Army Food Plan
SOME ARE DISAPPOINTED
More Food Here and Will Be
Ready for Sale Next
on Tuesday

Eight tons of sugar cured army
ham changed hands this morning at
the six fire houses in this city, when
1t was placed on sale by Mayor Frank
Dorsey and the food committee practi-
cally all of the ham being sold within
three-Quarters of an hour.
The sale went off without hitch at
all of the ire houses and special credit
is due the hremen at the houses who
Assisted, inasmuch as the department
was kept out late last night at the
Barber Asphalt fire.
All day yesterday the city employees
and officials were working in the
Water Department store house weigh
ing and pricing the hams. And their
work was appreciated this morning by
the hundreds of thrifty housewives
who came early to the sales and took
their coveted hams home with them.
The sales started at 10 o'clock and
at 1890 the goods at the Protection
Hook and Ladder company home
were all sold out and the money
turned in to the City Collector Walk
er. Other firehouses soon followed
suit and it was not long before the
fremen were compelled to tell dis
appointed women that the ham was
all gone at all OF the houses. Even
then women came up to and after IL
o'clock.
twenty cases were QlSlrlDuLeQ TO
each fire house. Yesterday the truck
that went for the food was unable to
get the bacon and syrup at Port New
ark Terminal because the warehouse
closed at 4:30 o'clock. There are still
seventy-three cases of ham that have
not yet been weighed in the city and
these will be placed on sale Tuesday
after they have been weighed. It is
also expected that the bacon and can
ned syrup will be ready then.
Mayor Dorsey said this morning that
he had placed an order for more ham
with the officer in charge and that If
possible he would get 500 army blan-
kets. The order has been placed for
the blankets and the city will know
Monday whether the army has them
Or not.
Those who assisted Sealer of
Weights and Measures Henry loft at
the Water Department storehouse yes
terday were William Cornelison, JOS
eph B. Quick, John Hunt, Arthur F.
Graham. John H. johnson, Joseph G.
Burns, and Alderman Riedey. Thede
was much rubbing of sore muscles
and backs this morning after handling
the food and every now and then one
could detect the odor of liniment at
the city hail. And yesterday was the
day that the Giants played in New
York. too.
Alderman John ]. Clark and Chris
tan Andersen have been working
steadily on the committee also. Mr..
Clark accompanied Detective Long
into Jersey City on the trips of in
Bpection.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-08-16
WILSON WANTS \
To END MUDD[E|
Ready to Act II Senate Forces
ReOpening Of Question Iii
WOULD SEND men ABROAD
Lodge and Knox Likely Mould
Be Sent to Settle Treaty
Question /
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. - If, |
through any mischance, the Senate
should force reopening of the peace
question, it is said to be the Presidents
intention to wash his hands of the matt
ter by appointing Senators Lodge and
Knox to go abroad and try to reconcile
the whole world, including Germany,t
to the changes they are trying to make
in the agreement reached in Paris. ON
them will fall the negotiating and res
sponsibility.
President Wilson is determined to-
consent to no textual amendments to
the treaty.
AS the situation stands to-day, at
least twenty Republican Senators arc
in a receptive mood toward a pros
gramme of reservations that forty-
five Democrats are inclined to ac-
cept, If the President will stand fori
them. These reservations need not be-
drastic to satisfy the twenty: in fact
the indications are that a mild set Of
reservations would do. and the treaty
would be ratified forthwith. except
for the position of the President that
any sort of modification would rex
open the whole peace question as be-
tween the United States and Germany
and result in a world wide reneWa!
of demands that were buried when
the covenant was completed at Paris. 4
Nevertheless, the coming togetheS
of the twenty Republicans and the
forty five Democrats on schedule OF
reservations. or interpretations, con-{
tinues to be the most probable out1
come of the controversy. The Demo5
Gratis, with the few Republicans who
will stand with them. can beat any
specific amendment; the Republicans
can defeat the treaty as 1t stands.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-08-16
THREE DOCTORS !.
FORCL|N|CS HERE.
Appointed By Board Of Health
at Meeting
START PROBABLY BY SEPT.
includes Baby Welfare and
Child Hygiene and Venereai
Disease Clinics

With the appointment of three ply
sicianS to take charge of the Baby
welfare and child hygiene and veneral
disease control clinics by the Board
or Health last night, and the receipt
of a communication from the owne
of the First National Bank building,
S. Splitter that alterations might be
made if the bank was willing the work
of opening the clinics proceeded
apace, DR.. Silk President of the board
said that he hoped that the clinic
would be ready for operation by the
first of September.
DIR. III. G. Strandburg of Amboy
avenue was appointed for one year
as physician in charge of the baby
welfare clinic. DR.. William H. Me-
Cormick was appointed for one year
as physician in charge of the mems di-
vision of the Venereal Disease Control
Clinic and DR.. b. Il. Slobodien was ap-
pointed for one year as physician in
charge of the women's division of the
venereal disease clinic. y Two other
Physicians made application and were
notified that their applications would
receive consideration when they be-
came residents of this city.
All of the physicians appointed
have either taken postgraduate
courses to prepare them for the work
they are to do or indicated that they
would take such courses.
Captain L. M. Rohr, MD, past
assistant surgeon, United States Pub
lie Health Service, and r. S. Pater-
son, representative of the New Jer-
sey State Bureau of Venereal Disease
Control both addressed the board
and promised the support Sof their
respective departments. Capt. Rohr
stated that the government would be
willing to put in $500 worth of equip
ment now and more later If neces-
sary. Mr.. Paterson outlined the
plans that have been followed in
other cities for publicity campaigns
work that the clinics are doing and
their importance.
AS an example of the prevalence of
venereal disease Capt Eohr said that
of the first one million men drafted in
to the United States Army during
the past war; 200,o 600 or twenty per-
cent had the disease. This work is
just as much a peace work rs a war
work" he said. Congress has ap-
tionwide fight on the diseases and we
mean to see that every cent of it is
expended in a fight to eliminate them
from our country" There are many
cases where the diseases are contract
ed by innocent persons he said and
cited several cases to the members OF
the board. He also talked to the
physicians present on the actual work
being done and the various technical
methods employed in bringing the dis
ease under control. He urged the pas
sage of a municipal ordinance giving
the authorities power to treat patients
arrested in raids or for any cause.
Such laws are in force in New York
he said and would be of great bene-
fit here. The treatment of a person
affected with the disease is not only
a benefit to the community but to the
individual as WELL he said. The de-
partment has legal representative
who will assist drawing up all such
ordinances If his services are desired,
the Captain said.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-08-16
County Shows Way to State
in Prices
NO CHANGE IN The SITUATION
Prices Were Higher in Many
Cases Than Being Charged I.
BY Dealers

Middlesex county was the first in
the state to issue a price fixing list for
foodstuffs, according to a telegram re-
ceived yesterday in New Brunswick by
United States District Attorney Joseph
l.. Bodine. County Food Admins
traitor Mettler in issuing the list yes
.terday was far ahead of any of the
other of the counties in New Jersey,
many counties being still uncertain as
to the policy which they will adopt
There was little change in the situa-
ton according to William H.
Griswold this morning. He said that
comparison of the administration
fair prices with the published prices
showed that in some instances the
government rate was lower than that
advertised by the dealers. The aver
age was somewhat higher than the re-
tailers are now charging.
Commenting on the assertion of At
torney General Palmer that no store
keeper should be allowed to sell sugar
Tor over eleven cents a pound Food
Administrator Thomas H. MettIer said
that in the cases of many of the small
er dealers he felt the ruling to be un-
fair. Owing to the scarcity of sugar
at present because of the expectation
OF immense quantities to Europe, Mr..
Mettler said that many of the dealers
found it absolutely impossible to OBJ
tain sugar at wholesale.
Such dealers had to buy from
hand to mouth" as it were, he said.
and in various instances the retailers
were forced to pay as high as 11A
cents per pound for the sugar. it
was manifestly unjust to force the
grocers to sell the sugar at a loss, he
felt. and therefore made the proyi-
sion for at least n very II v,~< q a
at twelve cents per pound.
State Food Administrator William
=. Tyler has not yet returned from
his vacation, according to latest re-
ports today. He is expected back
early next week.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-08-16
ARMY TRUCKS To
RELIEVE STRIKE
Mayor HyIan Arranging for zoo
Army Trucks

~ iHe Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-Mayor Hy-
Ian announced today that the com
manding officers at Governors Island
had promised to lend the city 200 large
motor trucks in the event of the
threatened strike on the traction lines
in Manhattan and the Bronx taking
place tomorrow. Each truck will
carry at least twenty persons.
The mayor also appears to all auto
mobile owners to place their cars at
the use of the travelling public should
the strike materialize. The order is
that all automobiles owned by the city
be held in reserve. Joseph A. Guider,
acting president of Brooklyn, said he
was negotiating for large number of
sightseeing buses from New Jersey
The Interborough Rapid Transit en-
ployes have rejected a ten per cent in
crease in wages as insufficient and have
demanded a fiat increase or fifty per
cent. They declare they will strike at
A. M unless their demands are
granted.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-08-16
ARREST IS MADE
IN MURDER CASE
Man Held In Connec!cl WIKI
Roosevelt Crime
By STAFF Correspondent.
hTErIlr DDI NGNEYIrK

NEW. BRUNSWICK, Aug. 16:-
An arrest was made yesterday in
Hoboken by County Detective David
of a man who is believed to have
been implicated in the murder of
Leonard Garcia, at Chrome. on July
A. Philip Rovell, who has been under
the surveillance of Detective David
for the past three weeks, is now in
the county Jail here. being held in
default of $1,000 bonds on charge
of carrying concealed weapons in
November of last year.
The man now in custody is Philip
Rovell and has a bad reputation, ac-
'cording to the county authorities, be-
ing known as gun man." He for
merly lived in Chrome and was known
to have been in Chrome on the day of
the murder.
When questioned In the Hoboken
police court, Rovell's stories of his
whereabouts and actions confiicted
and when his wife was questioned she
told an altogether different story.
Two of the Mexicans, who were
with Garcia when he was murdered,
were called upon last night to iden-
tify Rovell One of the men said he
was almost certain he was one Of the
men in the group that threatened
them, but the other could not recog-
nize him.
Detectives David and Fitzpatrick
are both out working on the case to-
day.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-08-16
LIGHTNING bolt
CAUSES BIC FIRE
Hit OIL Tank at Barber Asphalt
Company Plant
DAMAGE is AT LEAST $4,000
Entire Department Called to
Scene, Fearing Spread of
Flames

Fire that for many hours threatened
the entire plant of the Barber Asphalt
Paving Company at Maurer started at
about $3.50 O'Clock last night when a
bolt of lightning hit one OF the tanks.
The tanks, which have capacity of
1000 barrels or over $50, 900 gallons,
were saved by the combined efforts
of the entire Perth Amboy Fire De-
partnent, the plant fire department
and the fortunate circumstances that
the tank which was struck was only
partially filled with crude oil. The
loss will amount to at least $4,000
it was said at the plant this morning.
It was not until early in the morn
ing that the flames from the artificial
volcano formed IN the tank burned
themselves out. For an hour after the
fire started the entire sky for many
miles was illumined a bright red and
be seen rolling out over Staten Island
as the tightening crashed and cracked
on all sides of the ffames
The danger to the other tanks was
from two sources. In the first place
the heat of the burning creosote was
SO intense that 1t was feared that the
adjoining tanks on either side might
ignite. For that reason the fire fight
ers devoted their principal energies to
effort to keep them cool
The other menace to the vast stores
of oil and asphalt was in the danger
that the tank walls might give way
allowing the burning oil to run from
one plant to the next. Luck favored
the fire fighters son that score how
ever and it was not until the oil was
very low in the ia nix that the sides did
give. When the seams opened up the
oil rushed out in seethlng torrent
onto the water that surrounded the
structure The tanks are surrounded
by a double protection. first ditch of
water and outside Of that earthen fire
walls. 1t was at this inncture shortly
before midnight whsn the oil filed the
entire enclosure within the fire walls
that the general alarm was sent in. =
Because of tho intense heat and the
danger that the oil might spread at
any moment the fire fighters were in
structed to use extreme caution. AS
O result not a man was injured There
was no one near the tank to be harm
ed when the tightening struck it at
first.
The first alarm wasl turned in hv s,
G.. Fattisso from box 50 and owing to
the nature of the conusibiex tha oil
was a mass of flames before the fire.
men arrived. Sergeant Morris took
charge of the police regulations. three
men being on duty at the lire shortly
after it had started.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-08-16
SANITARY CODE
To De REVISED
Committee Named BY DR.. SILK for
That Purpose

DR.. Matthew f. Urbansl6i and
Health Commissioners John ]. Buck
ley and Edward j. Dalton were ap-
pointed a committee of three to re-
wise the entire sanitary code of the
Board of Health at meeting of the
board last night. The commissioners
were appointed by the President, DR..
Charles 1. Silk on the motion of Mr..
Dalton.
That committee will also take up
the matter of presenting ordinances
to the Board of Aldermen for the IL
censing of all eating places and for
the control of venereaI disease in this
city. DIR. Silk said that the mem-
bers of the committee should feel
free to call on any members OF the
board for assistance.
1t is understood that the commits
sioners are very much satisfied with
the health code of the Elizabeth
Board of Health and that the code
will be modelled more or less along
those lines.
At one of the past meetings an offer
was received from the City Attorney.
Leo Goldberger. to revise the code
for $3.50.
Health Officer Thompson made the
following comment on the need for
new food ordinance IN his report:
..At this time, 1t will be well to
make a remark that it is the opinion
of this department and myself that
all food producing establishments,
etc., should be licensed by the Board.
In so doing this department will have
much better control over these
places than is now in vogue. II they
were licensed their license could be
revoked If we found the requirements
of this boarl not being lived up to
II we catch man doing business with
out license, we have better case TO
prosecute them than We have under
the present conditions.
you have had under consideration
changing of the code by which this de-
partment is governed, but as yet, no
action has been taken on the same.
1t is my earnest request that this
subject receive some attention from
Won for as the code stands now. 1T Is
most unsatisfactory, inasmuch as 1t is
not complete.
"You will observe that there has
been 40 sanitary inspections and that
2O2 nuisances were reported. This
department has been paying parucu-
lar attention to privy vault nuisances.
and that accounts for the large num-
ber of nuisances that were found and
the small number of abatements, In
comparison. A large number OF these
nuisances are privy vaults ana thirty
days notice has been given to do away
with the same and we hope that at
our next report, to be able to say that
a large percentage of these nu1sances
have been abatel."
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-08-16
Another Big Real Estate
Sale Of Smith Street PrODeTtV

A $4,000 real estate transaction
was made public today when the three
story frame building at 1915 IL
Smith street between King and High
streets changed hands, in a transac-
ton through the Office of Lawyer
Louise Sosin. Emily Sondergaard the
former owner, sold the building to
Jacob A Lesslauer, who at the pres
ent time has delicatessen business
at 36 Smith street. The store has a
3S IL foot front and is of an L shap-
ed construction. The deepest part be-
ing over 100 feet, while the shortest
is in the neighborhood of 60 feet.
As soon as the place is vacated by
the Coffee Company which is occupy
ing it at present. Mr.. Lesslauer plans
to renovate the building. He is maxi
ing plans to open his delicatessen busi-
ness here, moving from his old store
at SO Smith street.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-08-16
THREE To PAY
DEATH PENAL LTY
3 Men to Be EIectroGuted for
Killing Roman Smith
eu Starr corespondent.

By STAFF Correspondent.
NEW BRUNSWICK, August 16--
Three men, found guilty in March of
1918, of the murder of Roman Smith.
a farmer, at his home near South
River will be electrocuted at Trenton
some time next week. The men, Frank
Leviery, Mike De Palma and Gernio
Palmieri, all took the case to the
court affirmed the decision of the
lower court which found them guilty
of murder and sentenced them to
death.
Two other men were implicated in
the murder, one Emanuel Nepolitano,
now serving a ten years sentence in
prison, while the other one, Antoine
Abruzzi, was nver located after he
made his escape following the muir
der.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-08-16
Germany Denies Delay in
Evacuation IS Intentional
R,. rhe Asaocinted Press.

BIZ The Associated Press.
BERLIN, Aug. 15:-Germany i1
its note refusing the allies, demand
To recall General Won der Goltz. the
German commander in the Baltic,
denies the charge that the German
evacuation of Letvia had been delay
ed purposely. The demand for the
recall of General Won der Goltz, It Is
asserted. is an encroachment on the
authority of Germany which reserves
the right to recall the general when
the evacuation is sufficiently ad-
vanced The German government
warns the allies against increasing
the present possibilities of friction by
an over-hasty withdrawal Of the Gers
man troops. --~y