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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
Overthrowing Ruler at Metz

Lieut.. Harry Franck in Harper Nigga
 zine.
 On the esplanade of Metz there once stood huge bronze equestrian statue
 of Frederick III, gazing haughtlly down upon his serfs. Now he lies broken
 headed in the soil beneath, under the horse that thrusts stiff legs aloft. as or battlefield, So rude and sudden had
 been his downfall that he had carried with him one side of the massive ston. ana cham balustrade that had once pro. tected his pedestal from plebeian con- tact Farther on was a still more inn pressive sign tof the times On a brow Of knoll above the lake where tbe skates rang, an immense bronze of tba ex-kaiser. as he fain would have loo,sad had been deposed by huge statue of a poilu. hastily daubsd. yet artistic for all that, with the careless yet sure lines of a Rodin. The Kaiser's gaze-stra ns.lx, enough-had been turned toward Ger many. and the bombastic phrase or dedi.. cation had, with French sense of th& fitness of things, been left untouchad Errichtet von seinem' dankbaren Yoke Even ''his grateful people, strolline by now and then in pairs or groups. co,,Id not suppress an occasional smile at the respective positions of dedication with poilu For the poilu gazed toward his beloved France. with those far-seeins eyes that all his tribe have: and beneath him was his war slogan. purged at las. of the final three letters he had bled S freely to efface-0n laa A
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
PACIFIC COAST IS
 REJOICING AT LAST
Has Been Urging for Many Years That Adequate Fleet Be Kept
 In the Pacific
By Associated Prss.


 San Francisco, August a-pi,,is;o ot the United States navy and aesr.tc, '' thls coast of the Pacific fleet marks .fe end Of long campaign that has bes, "aged by officials and citizens of psc;s,, states for what they termed sadeouata naval protection"
 The Pacific coast attitude had hean .h.. great possibility of attack menaced h. Pacific states unless the nation sent uast- ward large fleet
 ActiVe campaigning for a big Pacific naval force began with the close of the 7paHish-Ainerlean war. 1t was urged lhat the Fhillpplnes and other Pacific is- taloS "a possessed by the United States should De protected. Governors. congress sionai representatives and other officials made strong representations m tba months following that war for reasa5 naval strength on the Pacific.
 Alter the building of the Panama cana, many men in public life asserted ina, III case Of attack from the Pacific an ues.Iucuon ot the canal the largest par. or the country's naval force would h. hept away from the Pacific for a long period curing which the Pacific states would De open to invasion
 Public men and newspa pers of tho Do eilc coast were practically a unit fo naval expansion and ultimate station of large force here. Plans for curtailinr naval expansion with the signing of inc arhllstice Tn some quarters were counter ca oy many insistent demands from this coast that the full building programme be adhered to. -'-'''' ., ne announcement of Secretary Daniels onat the navy was to be divided and approximately POO ships stationed in the faclhc was hailed with delight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13

monthly outlining conditions over the state. ]. R. Waters. formerly state bank examiner, is head of the bank. and F.. w. Cathro. for 8 years North Dakota banker. is director general.
 The bank will provide funds for car rylng out the industrial programme and an industrial commission will control the state-owned industries to be established.
 The Home Building association, which will provide funds for persons desiring to build homes, is expected to De in operation soon. The Mill and Elevator association, in charge of the league s wheat marketing and distributing sys- tenn, has been inspecting mills and eleva- tors with view to purchasing two or three to starr the experiment. The state
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
THE BIRMINGHAM AGEHERAID WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18 1919

to be deposited under the new laws, is in operation, but is not yet ready to make loans and handle deposits on a big scale.
 The bank now employs twenty persons with an annual payroll of S5o,oOO The bank resources will be more than SS1. coo GOO. Public funds totaling s2l. .OOD have been reported and there are state bonds of SIC 000.O0o. Only about S100,00O worth O bank bonds have been sold in the state. but bank officials explain this by saving investors held off pending the outcome of the referendum. The bank had plan ned to sell $5o0oo worth of bonds.
 When the institution is in full operation statement similar 10 those from the federal reserve banks will be issued
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
NEW BANK SCHEME
 IN NORTH DAKOTA
All State, County and Municipal Funds Are to Be Deposited in
 Central Institution
By Associated prs..

Fargo. N. D.. August s.-The industrial programme of the National Non-Partisan n ieague, which was endorsed by the voters or worth Dakota at special referendum, election on June 26. is being put into op- eration. Np
 The bank of North Dakota, in which all sla'e' county and municipal funds ars
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13

is not expeced to star an exensive build ing programme for several months
 Thohse directing the work express con- hdence that every phase of the program me will meet with success, despite strong opposition which they say is being offered by league opponents
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
Cities Overwhelmed By Boiling Mud and Laua
Woman From Java Tells How 24 People Escaped May Volcanic Eruption by Fleeing in Automobile Driven by Wife of Assistant
 Resident Commissioner

same same course as in the eruption of 1901. one Of these destroyed Blitar. Govern nleht geologists who ascended to the crater e Of kalut after the eruption found it empty.
 The Dutch governor of the devastated district reported that 5loO persons were Killed in the eruption of Kalut.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
MEXICAN DRESS AND
 COIFFUERS BLAMED
By Associated Press

Mexico City, July 1s.-Modern styles of dress and coiffure were the subject of much criticism recently by pr. Jose Mo racy del Rio. archbishop of Mexico who read an open letter to his parishioners
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13

Herman J. stich, officlal stenographer of the ehildrens court in Brooklyn, has made a shorthand record for speed by writing at the rate of 300 words mln- ute with only two errors in total of l5OO words of court testimony, which was read in five minutes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
SEVEN

declaming against extremes In toilet and asking mothers to refrain from appearing in exaggerated costumes and from allow ing their children to do SO. The arch bishop termed modern styles "an ad-- vance toward Paganism.' and recom- mended that in church at least the women return to the use of the veil and man. tilla.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-20
Men, Wages and
Salaries Involved in
Threatened Strike

Approximate number of steel
employees affected by strike III
America, 100000.
Employees of the United States
Steel Corporation affected by the
strike, 26S,710.
The demands made by the men
are: Right to collective bargain
ing; eight-hour day; six-day
week; abolition of twenty-four-
hour shift; reinstatement of men
discharged for union activities;
standard wage scale; increase of
pay; double pay for overtime,
holiday and Sunday work; aboli-
ton of company unions; abolition
OF physical examination of ap-
plicants; adoption of seniority
principles.
Number of United States Steel
Corporation employees holding
stock in 1919, 60,741; 1918, Az
III; 1917, 39,252.
Total wages and salaries paid
by the United States Steel Cor
poration in 1918, S452,663,524,
Expenditures for welfare work
by United States Steel Corporation
in 1917, $10,64S,9SO.
Unskilled help, lowest, $3.50;
highest, s6.
Skilled help, lowest, 81; high
est, $40 to $50.
Highest priced help, rollers,
who run up to $50 a day and
average $40.
Next highest help, meters, who
average $50 day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-20
.DESHONG AGAIN
UNDER FIREFOR
HIS PRACTICES
Samuel FiShman Declares His
Son Saved Him From AS
sault by Alderman

Claiming that his life had been
threatened By Samuel Fishmaa dug
ing an argument last evening at his
office, Alderman James B. DeShong
declared to-day that he would con-
suit his attorney, Robert Sucker,
and then bring suit against Fish
man, charging him with surety of
the peace and disorderly conduct.
Mr.. Fishman in his version de-
clares that it was DeShong who at
tempted to assault him, and that
only the intervention of his SON pre-
vented the magistrate from striking
him.
The trouble between Fishman and
DeShong was the result of an action
brought by w. H. Shepphard
against o. H. Gregory, charging the
latter with false pretenSe.
Demands Cash Bail
When Gregory was brought be-
fore DeShong he alleges the Alder
man demanded $500 cash bail, re-
fused to accept $3.50 in cash and
CONTINUED on Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-20
Hundreds of More Names Are
Added to Ever-Growing Pc
tition Calling on City Coun-
Gil to Continue This Popular
Measure During Summer
PETITIONS GO BEFORE
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

With the addition to-day of hun
dreds of names of Elliott Fisher
Company employees to the petition
calling on City Council to pre-erve
for five summer morths next year,
the popular daylight-savjng meas
ure lent fresh impetus to the cam
pa!gn.
Directors of the movement learned
to-day that petitions have been vir-
tually completed in several other big
plants and shops. Others having
completed the canvass with prac-
tically 100 per cent. results include
the office force of the Steeltor plant
of the Bethlehem Steel Company,
Bowman's department store, Moor
head Knitting Company and The
Telegraph Printing Company.
Petitions were distributed yester-
day to members of the Harrisburg
Chamber of Commerce at the week
ly luncheon, with the request that
they be put before their associates
and employees.
Warren r. jackson. secretary of
the Chamber, to-day placed a petit
ton in the offices of the OF ganization
for signatures of businessmen. Mr..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-20
SUNKEN SHIP
BELIEVED TO BE
THE VALBANERA
Spanish Steamer, Lost Since
Gulf Storm, Carried
450 Persons
BY Associated Press.

Key West, Fla, Sept. 20.-That
the Spanish steamer, Valbanera,
carrying 800 passengers and a crew
of $50 went down in the hurricane
that swept Key West ten days ago
appeared to have been made GER
tain by the statement of Ensign L.
B. Roberts, commanding officer of
the United States subchaser 2O3,
who stated he plainly saw the name
plate of that steamer on the vessel
found yesterday sunk in forty feet
of water near here.
The statement of Ensign Roberts
corroborated that of divers who on
order of the Cuban consul here,
Continued OH Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-20
GOVERNOR ADDS
ENDORSEMENT TO
MEMORIAL PLAN
Sproul Pleased With Idea of
Erecting Bronze Shaft at
Bridge Entrance
$500 NAMES OF VETERANS
Committee in Charge Gets
Records of Harrisburgers
Who Served in War
J, 800 NAMES OF VETERANS

Plans for the memorial to be
erected at Thirteenth and State
streets in honor of the soldiers,
sailors and marines of the Harris
burg district, this morning received
the endorsement of Governor Will
liam c. Sproul, who has given them
careful consideration. ,
The approval of the Governor
comes upon the heels of the an
nouncement that the memorial COM
mittee of 125 appointed by the Har-
risburg Chamber of Commerce to
carry the project to completion ac-
cepted the plans and announced its
arrangements for financing the pro-
ject. Twenty-Five hundred names of
service men have been secured by
the committee through the NAL
carriers, and to-day will find all the
names in the hands of the memorial
committee, of which Spencer c. Gill
bert is chairman. The same COM
mittee with William Jennings as
chairman, is arranging for the cele-
bration in honor of the soldiers,
sailors, marines, nurses and welfare
workers of the Great War.
Public Subscription
Plans whereby a definite sum of
money will be subscribed toward
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-20
Franklin Building Is
y Sold to Combination of
Harrisburg Businessmen

The Franklin Building, a STORY
office building at the corner of Lo-
Gust and Court streets, has been pur-
chased from the Union Real Estate
Investment Company by a party of
Harrisburg real estate men, it was
announced to-day. The purchase
price approximates 100000.
The sale was made by Miller
Brothers and Company, agent for
the former owners, to A. C. Young,
real estate man, for a syndicate of
city real estate men. The identity
of the city men has not been dis
closed.
The Franklin Building is practic-
ally a new structure, being ready
for occupancy only inI 1912. The
building will be offered for sale to
the Harrisburg Real Estate Board,
Mr.. Young announced. In the event
that the Board fails to avail itself
of the opportunity, it will be held
and managed for investment, ac-
cording to Mr.. Young.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-20
Eight Ballot Boxes
Are Opened in Snarl
Over Election Returns

Eight ballotboXes were opened
this morning during the official
count of the primary vote because
election boards had not returned
unused ballots to the county COM
missioners but placed them in the
boxes instead.
No votes were computed this
morning and at noon Judges George
Kunkel and S. j. M. McCarrell ad-
Journed sessions until Monday
morning at 8 o'clock 1t is not de-
clded when the actual computation
will be started, but it is believed
that all the votes cast will be check
ed up before any more tabulation is
done.
Boxes from the following districts
were opened by the election boards
to-day: First ward, First and Third
precincts; Second ward, Second; !;
Sixth ward, First and Second; Sew
enth ward, Sixth, and Tenth ward,
First.
After the number of ballots is
sued number of voters who secured
ballots the number of ballots re-
turned unused have been checked
for the city it is believed that the
tabulation can be resumed but fur
ther difficulties are expected be-
cause some of the election boards
failed to send the proper return
sheets to the county commissioners
office.
In the Second ward, Sixth. the
return sheet showed that w. H.
Lynch had received 1913 votes for
city councilman, while the tally
sheet showed 1877. This vote will be
recounted.
So far the votes from only four
of 124 city and county districts have
been tabulated.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-20
FULL HOLIDAY
PROCLAIMED FOR
WELCOME HOME
Mayor Keister Calls on City
to Set Aside September
% For Soldiers

Monday. September 20, has been pro-
claimed a holiday, and employers
have been urged to close their estab-
lishmcnts at noon, in order that every
Harrisburger can participate in the
welcome to the service men, welfare
workers and nurses, and in order that
each ard every one of these veterans
may take part in the events of the
welcome home. In proclamation is
sued this morning, Mayor Kicster
called upon Harrisburgers to observe
the holiday.
Plans Cor the welcome home, which
will take lace under the auspices of
committee appointed by the Harris
burg Chamber of Commerce q week
from tomorrow and Monday, are rap
idly assuming such shape that the ex-
tent and magnitude of the welcome
home fete can be realized. More
than 2700 service men have registered
and the invitations will go out to
them at cnce. A special force in the
Chamber of Commerce office is ex-
pcditinS the clerical work attendan Mt
TCOutiuupI On Pnpo y
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-20
Continue Successes
Against Bolsheviki
With Large Captures
Gr .4S;o -intrd Prcss.

0msk, Thursday, Sept. 11.-General
Sakharoff's army continues it's sue
cess in the direction of Kurgan, about
200 miles southwest of Tobolsk, hav-
ing captured in the present offensive
five complete staffs, 1000 prisoners.
19 cannon, 40 machine guns and a
large amount of other booty. Cos
sacks operating on the left flank
have raided positions in the rear of
the enemy's line, the Bolsheviki re-
treating toward the northwest.
The second Siberian army, under
the command of General Lokvitsky. is
also advancing and is forcing its way
past the aank and in the rear of the
Bolshevik forces on the Ishim-Tiumen n
railway. on this sector hard fighting
is reported, with minor gains along
the front.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-20
TContinucd on Page 81
VIsCOUNTr GREY ON WAY

London, Sept. 20.-Viscount Grey
of Fallodon, the new British Amba s.
sador to the United States left London
this morning on his trip to America.
Niscount James Bryce and the Earl
of Reading, former British Ambassa-
dors in Washington, Winston Spencer
Churchill, secretary of the war and
air ministry, and Earl Curzon, presi-
dent of the council. bade him fare
we'll at the station. Sir William Ty.
rell. Viscount Grey's private secretay
is accompanying the rev Ambassador
to the United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-20
U. S. Steel Corporation De-
clares Plants Are to Be OPP
Grated as Long as They Are
Able to Secure Men
NATIONWIDE MASS
MEETINGS TOMORROW
Union Leaders Plan Series of
Conferences With Workers !;
Will Stay Out Until Com
panies Make Next Move

Pittsburgh, Sept. 20. Reports
that the L. S. Steel Corporation
would shut down it's plants in the
Pittsburgh district unless there was
100 per cent. loyalty shown Dy the
workers were denied to-day at the
offices of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany, a subsidiary. The plants will
operate as long as men report for
work, it was said.
The reports caused a stir in labor
circles here, but were not believed
in view of the statement made by
E. H. Gary, chairman of the board
of the U. S. Steel Corporation, in
his letter to the presidents of the
subsidiary companies that the plants
should proceed with their business
in the usual way.
To Continue Operations
Representatives of steel companies
all along have said that they will op-
crate as long as they are able to
do so.
At national strike headquarters
to-day, w. u. Foster. secretary of the
national committee of the steel
workers, said that the next move
was up to the employers. I'VE have
called the men out" he said, land
they will stay out until the COM
panies make a move that will bring
them back"
Asked how many men he expected
will answer the strike call, Mr.. Fos-
ter replied that he did not know but
that the union would begin count
ing noses" Monday.
Can't Pin Armed Stories
Mr.. Foster was also asked whether
he knew of steel companies through
opt the country fortifying their
plants and said that the committee
had been receiving reports for a long
time that guns, machine guns and
ammunition have been taken into
mills from time to time. We have
been hearing these things for long
time" he said, but 1 have not been
able to definitely pin them down"
The national strike committee has
arranged for mass meetings in every
steel workers community in the
country tomorrow, Mr.. Foster said.
1t was also arranged to hold mass
meetings at least three times a week
during the strike.
The national committee had no
direct information this morning re-
garding the situation in Colorado
where organized men employed in
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany have been asked to strike.
Most of the workers in this com
pany, it is said. are enrolled in the
company union knoy1l as the Rookie
feller plan. Ah<Iition of company
unions is one of the demands of the
American Federation of Labor.
1t was said at national head
quarters that the Amalgamated AS
sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers is negotiating with a large
independent plant. Inquiry at the
offices of the association elected
nothing. NJ. F. Tighe, president OF
the association. was in Wheeling,
w. Va, to-day, but whether he went
TCOntinued on Page o1
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-20
INDUSTRIAL
TRUCE URGED TO
QUELL UNREST
Palmer Advocates Six Months
of Armistice to Permit
Solution of Problem
WOULD BRING INCREASE
Declares Period of Freedom
From Disorders Will Make
Living Easier"
WOULD BRING INCREASE
BY Associated Press.

Freeport, Pa, Sept. 2O.-An alb
solute industrial armistice for six
months was urged by Attorney Cen
eral Palmer here to-day to permit
the solution of economic problems
arising out of the changes wrought
by war.
Such a period of freedom from
unrest, he declared, would result
soon in increased production which
would bring about an era of "easier
living and better times for all. On
the other hand, the Attorney Cen
eral warned, selfish demands by any
one class cannot stimulate the ma
tional prosperity or permanently
benefit even those obtaining such
demands by force. He strongly dis
countenanced strikes.
Scores Strikes
Labor is asking a larger share
of the joint product of money and
labor, and there is much merit in
the claim" he said, but the chance
of getting it is not advanced nor the
justice of it more widely recognized
by the refusal of labor to produce"
The campaign to reduce the cost
living, which he is directing, evil
dently was foremost in the Attor-
ney Generals mind in his speech
delivered at reunion of the Sew
enty-eighth Regiment of Pennsylva-
mia Volunteers, which also was a
homecoming celebration for men
who served in the World War. He
said that although many problems
beset mems minds in these days of
reconstruction, there is none which
cannot be worked out "in the gen.
eral interest" in a government
where the people are the only
rulers.
Must Be Patient
"Butunless we shall be satisfied
with that which is for the genera;
itnerest," he continued, "and do not
insist upon that which is in our own
TCOntinued on Pare o1
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-20
D'ANNUNZIO IS
GIVEN a HOURS
TO QUIT FIUME
Allied Warships Are Ordered
TO Train Their Guns on
Occupied City
WILSON is BLAMED FOR II
Italian Delegates Accuse Him
of Causing Trouble by
Delaying Answer

London, Sept. 2O.-After a confer
ence between Allied commanders at
Abbazia, Allied warships have left
the harbor of Fiume and have lev
elled their guns on the town, ac-
cording to German government
wireless report quoting advices re-
ceived in Berlin to Laibach and
Vienna. The dispatch states that it
is assumed an ultimatum will be
sent demanding that Captain Dan
nunZio's forces evacuate the town
within twenty-four hours.
Blame Wilson For Delay
In Peace Conference circles it is
intimated the settlement of the ques.
ton of the disposition of Fiume has
been complicated by the D'Annun.
zio coup, but Italian delegates in.
sist a decision is being delayed be-
cause of the fact that President Will
son has not answered definite pro
posals made by Italy's representa-
tives here. Americans assert the
Italians are constantly changing the
detail of their offer and that fol
this reason an answer has so fal
been impossible.
Advices from Rome say that the
Duke of Aosta, a close friend o.
Captain D'Annunzio. has conferred
with King Victor Emanuel and Pre-
mier Nitti, and it is suggested h'
may act as mediator in an effort tc
bring about an abandonment o.
Fiume by the D'Annunzio forces.
F'iume is closely blockaded by lant
and sea but there are stores in the
city sufficient to maintain the peo
pie and troops for three months
Captain A'Annunzio is reported t.
have with him many members O.
his famous aerial squadron, which
fought on the Austrian front durins
the war. The Italian government