South Bend News-Times, Volume 36, Number 224, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 12 August 1919 — Page 1

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War-TimeOrganizationofState and County Will Fight Rising Costs. Authorize"! ly thi- rnif'l State? Kov.rnmint, a romimtt'. lHail"-I Ly 'h irli s Arthur a rlisl. former fno'l aflministrator, has l.-rn orjranifil in touth I'cn l to crush proJit'rini; in South nrul anil St. Johci'h county. The orca niza ion to array its efforts and influence u.'iin-t tho lilrh cost of liviiur and unfair jrits here will 1 ir:n. tieally the same body that controlled food prices in the i ounty during war time. The flryt f-t p in the determined moe to stamp out the e il it) thin county was taken Tuesday mornin? when Mr. Carlisle received a rcquesr from 11. I-:, iiarnard, former food administrator of Indiana to re-or-j;anize the food control body that opr rated lurinjr the war Into a "price" committee. The 'price" committee w ill not on- ! in ;-tij:ate food cost. but also the price chained for shoes, clothe? and other retail necessities". Violations of the law such -is hoarding to alt Di:rnv roon nMIMSlTLVIOltS AM) TO ALL otulks iTi:iii.siT:i in nn: rgriTAisLi; and i aik ki:;i -lvtion or rooi nacios. The (Ti- of tin ftHMl atlniiniIrator for st. .lo'ph ouiity is Ineatetl at 17 i itiens National bank builillnur. South IW-nd. Ind.. and jour io:)peralion i askt'd for. riea report promptly any and all iolatiou. r. a. ( AULisu:. I'ood Administrator for St. Io-eph County. inl excessive prices will he prompt'v reported ey the St. Jo-eph counfair price committee and will be vigorously pri cutcd by the f deral covcrnment. l-'or tlie puid.nne of the St. .Tol on.-imu r Mr. Carlisle and his onimitrt'C will publish lists of what :hev hae fo.md to i.e honest and .1:-! prices of ! tail necessities. j ITaruard Make- Kiipiest. j ridlowinu' the rennest from Mr.1 I'.arnard recdcd Tuesday morninsj Mr. t'arlisle spent tb.e greater parti of the day at hi.-- otV. e in th" 'lti-! -.ens !i;i'ik building irvttinir out word! tu iiMiilK-rs of the old food ad n i i n is- j tration fVK.uiiz.ition and perfecting j 1 ! uis l. r the online campaign! Bcainst So :th I.et'.d luolitecis. j I'l.i-d prices ale not the mil) (ues-, tious to ' e taken up Ly the orran- I i7..ttlon Mit the scope of the commit-' ti e's work i- ' o.ui. U"d ti .shoes, -lothinc and tha' 'Hi-1 oilu ; urea! i Hein in the en-; of St. Jos. jih eoan-: t Itv.r.K rent. I T'ollowmi: is the tt r r . i 1 1 b Mr. i'ailis'e ftcnn Mr. 1 laniard: ! (r.TV AI.vM.!SVIlATti:S: The industii.il crisis oar cimu-y - f.i' in prompts our riniv-! ion-id-r:i'.on f the .cor.omic pro' bins a hull he hack of unrest and ski.i! l:orhr. Attv. ;n. I'alnier. reuembcrinir the spl n Ii i work of the I'nited State- food administration, its .iskiil nie L recall o s rvice vir ntue fool orc.uiir.iiion and to o.ice the co. nty administrators in ull chatte of tb.e situ.ttbm m tlnir .'i r.i! Countirs. 1 am ther fore :iskv, vci to take ::p neun the vor'K -f fo.d ontrol and the enforcement -f th" Lever law specially a it reales to hoard in--, prt :'.t. t rmc and , a st. To Li rin ( oiumitu-e. Atty. tii'M. rainier instructs n:e to isK o;i to form a "fair pi h ' com:i!te" uliicli will include one itall crrocer, one wholesi'.e nrna i. one Iry soods (l.'.il.r, your 'aber rcprentatie. your county 1; airman of oo.1 clubs and a- w il. s-v ral repsent.iti i s of the rons'imrr. May f suchest that yo-.i ira lad- other '.ids or busin sso. if ou drsne, is it Is our w ish to , cure data on :. i r i c of al! eomnodi! ies v.i-.u h be unfairly priced, such as coal, c. h-f s. rer.ta I-v i tc letters are coin-- out to!a to alt

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The Lighter Side In the Day's News Ni:V YOltK -Vi York" imnn-! -V Hill I I It IUI II I.V114,. Ill'l Mule Ä7.WMI In IJbri ty from J i r.. -.r . . ..i. i i i nr. mm- in .i, .iius i iui" i uir lift' viniiiüs or th" ")-)ir-old srton. Ni;W YRK Mr.--. J-.tmL.pl j iVrlmuttrr s;it on Jur husb.md's Iii ii. a cmwilp.l rnovio. (,'ourt i lif-lfl it was violation of the the laus. H nton( Misjieiuled. (Ij:i:Un. O. Samuel Harwy, farmer, wants Ihr S-.-O wheat . . i... i . Ii Hill .III It II MUK lllllll ll'M'ilM'S j six bushels inori. Ifc a atcli for Si:, at auction and found it ho- j re ft of works. CHK'AflO Police answered a riot alarm from the black belt. "It ain't started yet. bos-sV announced a portly colored woman, "but will ef my ol man don't Riinmo som money." CHICAGO Walter Storms, traflic lliccr, wanted to Ik? a retrular -I. So 011 Ids way to the examination, lie picked up four auto bandits. LODGE DECLARES Asserts United States Could be of Greater Service Alone. Ilv T'nitf d Pres- : WASHINGTON. I . C, Aup. 12. America, independent, can be of i greater service to the world than! A merk a "fettered" by the League ofj Nations. Sen. Lodpre. Massachusetts, j. republican loader of the senate, as- j sei ted today in a senate .--pcech or j tho League. "I5y meddling in all the differences, which may arise among mankind,! we simply fritter away our inMueneej ami injure ourselves to no good pur-j pose." said Lodge. I 11V. 11 fc t f.... . . , .nf..Ai ne snail in' in iai oii.io .tiuv to tlu worbl and its peace by occupying, so far as possible, the situation we have occupied for the last year, and hy adhering to the policy of Washington and Monroe." Lodge denied this means a-policy! of American isolation. That. hej said, is no longer possible, because) the I'nited States became a world I power at the time of the war with Spa in. "Nobody." said Lodge, "expects to j isolate tlie I'nited States or to make t it a hermit nation. Hut there is a' wide difference between taking a suitable part in world icsponsibili-f ties and plunging our country in evcry controversy and conMict on the, face of the globe. One great elo-j n:ent of our strength In the war Just, closed was that we had held ahof" .4.: id hail not thrust ourselves intoj Kuropean quarrels; that we had nuj jellish lnteiest." ! l.o.ie dtclarcd that the League! coenant. instead of providing for! perpitual and universal peace, as Its. advocaws de.!are. really st ts up an alliance, the. principal provisions ofj which are for war and not peace. j If the League were a peace League i it sh"uld hae giwu ni"rt afenti-mj to sta id islini; nt or an international court and less to providing for war in case of violation of its orders. Lotto declared. "The conditions for which this Leau'" provides are political, not judicial." said Lodge. "Such being its machinery the control being in ! th hands of politic. il appointees.; whose votes will be controlled by j interest and expediency, it exhibits the most marked characteristic of; an alliance If carried ebqmient neglected. that its decisions are to out by force. Th deof international law is The. court which Is to c.eciue dispute uns out a small space. This League to enforce peace dues a great deal for enforcement but er little for peace." Lodge declared that so long as Article 10 remains in its present! form and provisions covering with-j drawal. Montoe doctrine and con-, trol of domestic ;u stion unaltered.

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WILL TAKE ACTDPS Ten New York "Legitimates" Are Still Dark Authors Substitute in Casts. Hy I'nited Press: Ni:W YORK. Aug. 12. Th - Producing Managers' association has announced its intention to tight the striking actors in the courts. The Shuberts have tiled suits in the I'nited States district court for $r00.000 damages against the Actors' Kquity association, collectively and nearly .".00 members individually. I'lorenz Ziogfield. jr.. obtained a temporay injunction against officers of the L'nuity association, preventing them from interfering with the "Ziegtield Follies" and another against the members of the production, preventing them from walking out. The Shuberts' suit, based on the forced closing of two of their productions, will he followed by similar actions, brought by other managers, it is understood. Among the prominent actors named in their suit are Joseph Sunt ley, Sam Bernard, Lrn- ( st Truex. Kddie Foy. Mary and Florence Nash. Alia Nazimova. Fred Stone. Otis Skintier, Julia Sanderson, Francis X. Bushman. Richard "arb Pouglas Fairbanks. William ' Hart. Laurette Taylor, J. Forbes Robertson. Cril Maude. Robert Kdeson, Blanche Ring. William and Oustln Farnum. Llsie Ferguson, Trixie Frisanza. DeWolf Hopper. Wilton Lackaye, Frank Mein tyre. Robert Mantell. Julian Fltinge. Leo Ditriehstein. Ohauncey Olcott, Maclyn Arbm kle and Maurice Fostello. At producers head iuartrs. it was predicted that suits aggregative " 0 0 , ' 0 0 would be Tiled.. Britain 's Curb on Profiteering Passes 251 to 8 Wy T nite-l Pn : LONOON. Aug. i:. Great Britain's determination to eliminate her food pirates was reflected in the house of commons last niht in the debate on the profiteering bill, which passed its seebr.d reading by a vote of 211 to x.

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"the loop aerial" for submarine radio ers ! Will Make Tom of U. S. Cittesi I I!y I'nited Press: NF.W YORK, Aug. 12 After spending two years trying to get to America but being held up owing to the war. four papal singers from Rome, one of the Vatican quartets will arrive in New York Friday to begin a tour of the L'nited States. Rope Benedict's special singers, as the quartet is known, will give a series of sacred music concerts in the principal cities of the country. The first concert will be in New York early j.-i September. An entire choir is to be sent from Rome as soon as transportation fac ilities improve. El, DÜSTE HAG II I Should Worry' Says Former Policeman, "I Was Really Guilty." Arthur Lovgren. dismissed "under a cloud" from the South Bend police force after a hearing by the board of safety Monday night, beam--c. upon his former fellow workers at the police station Tuesday morningand said: "I have im complain to make." "I certainly can't' kick.' he told an acquaintance as lie smiled reminiscently following his "grilling" hefore the board Monday night when he was found guiltv of inelhciency and conduct unbecoming an otheer. "I mean to say that I was really guilty of the two charges upon which I was discharged." The former policeman seems no more worried or concerned over his tlismissal than d..es Bert Miller, also recently discharged from the force for connection with the disappearance of booze from the city hall "bull pn." Asked what work he now intends to take up Lovgren smiled still more broadly. To IJao on I 'arm. "I should worry." he said. "I haent decided just what I'm going i (CONTINUED ON PAGE NINE )

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- s communication is a simple and InCONGRESS TAKES Ur LI V Wb bUd d Farm Representatives Confer Over Abolishing U. S. Grain Control. HV HAYMOVD CLAIM ICR. ry I'nited Press: WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. Congress today took up a number of measures designed to reduce the cost of living. The Myers resolution to study the advisability of legislation to regulate exports of foodstuffs, clothing and other necessities was before the senate for action. Sen. Recti, Missouri, expected to speak on the cost of living in the senate today. "I am not In favor of lotting great quantities of food, shots and clothing go abroad while we are required to pay tribute to profiteers here," I Myers said, in urging adoption of his I measure. I The grain situation engaged the attention of the senate agriculture i committee. Heads of farm organizai lions were in conference with the committee over proposals to abolish the L'nited States grain corporation. j wipe out the minimum wheat price ; guarantee and revise grain grading j regulations so millers cannot take .cheap wheat and make high priced ! Hour from It. ! Rres't Wilson's recommendations 'for new legislation contained in his cort of living message last week I before a special sub-committee of jthe interstate commerce committee .headed by Sen. Townsend. Michigan. ;The sub-committee has full authority to draft measures along the lines j proposed by Pros' t "Wilson and will I consider bills introduced bv other , senators. j Sen. McK"iiar, Tennessr-e, was preparing a speech in favor of regJulating cold storage, which he ex(pcts to deliver tomorrow. In tne house the agriculture committee was trying to decide on some I government legislative action, that ! would force onto the market ?nme ! large .'.mount of food in cold storage : warehouses. With the plan for lijccns'ng declared ineffoctive and ' prohillo unconstitutional by governjir.ent rt;tonieys, the committee was (today considering the bill to put a heavy tax on articles kept in storage longer than six months. The tax in- ; creases with thf number of months i the food is stored.

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IviAEi Government Campaign to Reduce High Prices Is Having Effect. Hy T'nitf d Press: WASHINGTON. Aug. 12 Wholesale food dealers have begun to make Pig: reductions in prices of vegetables, dressed meats and fruits, government reports showed today. With the campaign to reduce the high cost of living in full swing, comparison of quotations of July 28 with those of Aug. 11 showed a marked decline, which set in after the attack on unjustified prices began. Potatoes have been cut from "0 cents to $3.40 a barrel since July 28, according to quotations collected by the bureau of markets. Slashes in the prices of dressed moat ranse up to 50 cents a pound for pork kins. The cutting also has bem extended to beef, the tigures showed. Rig drops are noticeable in quotations for Boston, New York. Philadelphia and Chicago. A few price increases are shown for some grades of meat. The figures indicate the downward trend is general and that increases are exceptional. Moat Iriees Take Drop. For meats, 1S2 comparisons were made of quotations collected by the bureau of markets yesterday and on July 25. In 107 comparisons price cuts were found. Increases totaled 50, while in 25 comparisons there was no change. In vegetables and fruits the proportion of price cuts was greater. Cuts numbered 22 and incr.-ases only three while the no change comparisons were limited to one. Some vegetables and fruits that have been depressed in price are onions, which dropped 65 cents a hundredweight in New York and 50 cents in Chicago; peaches, 50 cents a carrier of six baskets In NewYork, 25. cents in Baltimore and 75 cents in Chicago. Watermelons declined from $1 to $1.50 per carload in New York and Chicago. Cantoloupes per crate of 4 5 melons, dropped from $2.50 to $2.75 in NewYork; $1 to $1.75 In Baltimore and 50 cents to 75 cents in Chicago. Pork Is Much Ixvver. Dealers in pork loins have made big ctds in prices charged retailers in Boston, New York and Philadelphia. Loin: weighing 14 pounds or better sold for from 30 to 32 cents per pound in Philadelphia July 2S. Yesterday they brought from 2. to' J27 cents a pound, showing a reduction of five cents per pound. Wholesale dealers in loins have put down prices from one to four i cents in Philadelphia and slightly I kss in New Y'ork. APPEAL 10 ALLIES Military, Financial and Railway Support Urgently . Needed by Russia. P.r T'nitM Press: WASHINGTON. Aug. 12. The anti-bolshevik government of tho Archangel region in Russia today appealed to the allies not to withdraw their support. The note, was made public by the state department. Military, ar.ancial and rrJlvvnv support is urgently needed if the northern fart cf Russia is to be saved frrmi the bolshevik?, the provisional Archangel covernment said. The note concludes: "The provincial government I- responsible lor the fate of the region which has confided in it. urd which has so far borne with patience all the war's burdens and is moreover bound before its own conscience and before its own native land to contribute it- utmost to the reconstruction of R'J.'sia. Therefore, the provisional government of the northern region be;? the allied powers to weigh all tae consequences and again to examine :he advisability of abandoning north Russia and leaving it without financial and military sjp-porL"

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Heroes of Ma vnc Senate Takes Recess in Honor of Returned U. S. Fighters. Hy T'nitM Pro: WASHINGTON. Aug. 12 The marines of the second division, in

cluding many veterans of the second Marne and Chateau Thierry battles ITISflBflt üSflipS. paraded up Pennsylvania nv. today. Pres't Wilson reviewed the troops at - the vhite house. There were two ! h , , i j.r,x. regiments in line. ; WASiUNGT N, Aug. 12 I At the request of Sen. I.odce. t he 'mo' i 1 .7 1 1 ion of atv. b T Troops w'.ll senate recessed for two hours in ," prarrioallv complied v th. if' honor of the marines. Chaplain , c, "''"-, ' v Bk.r M.nr-,1 oRrettyman mentioned the marines in !'i:,v 1,1 nmo meine p.u m..f.-nt 1mm his nr.iver nt the ,,nent- of t,!.,-' I stati-M-.s for the r. c alar army d.vi-

session. ORM PLANS FO . j Eight-hour Day For World J ! Will be Considered at Conference.

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, units of the regular army can mvebe paid. Fach one of them has tr.oiiUy United Pres : i tion? thut should b- inspy ,t lor al in WASHINGTON. Aug. 12. Wit L "their effect upon the young men who the International labor conference j j,(.on.. lo tlf.ni, iv..rkin:: for bijro created under the peace treaty call- i standards of service and s ,,;.,, ed to meet in Washington Oct. 2rJ. I Americanism in tlwatmy and -at .r Interest centered today in the prob-it. It us realize this and Mmw on lems that will be taken up by this 1 gratitude by out h. lpf alio s " convention. ! meaninfe CHARGE COUNTY SHEP.IFF ternational organizing committee ; WAS CAUSE OF SUICIDE and E. TL Greenwood, assistant secretary of the conference, the follow- ; I nu-M Prying questions will be corVdei "d : MJ'Lf)FA, L. I.. A . !. 1 An eight-hour day poih y for nmval of Sin riff 1'hin. .:s A. Sean.-n the. entire world. ! ,5e -rounds ,,f r.g(-:.i... ;u 2state help for unemploved. j guarding pii-oners- ,n th- ounty .ii .-Ip;;uation or prevention of'' demanded of Gov. Smith b :i" child labor. ; Na-a a .ounty a s. . a t ion. The 4 Conditions of emplovment of : ''Vi'-l lunge in the indict no n! of woolen industry. Sh-nf'" Semap is reM.-n-ibihtv f. r Several hundred deh gates are ex- t!" sui.-nle .f Or. Wat.r K.-'ie ;- pecte.l to attend the conference. . '" held for no.rd., of hi -a if. which will be the greatest labor' Anmngthe lo.-rnae-. of'h.

gathering in history. j Only nations which have ratitied i the treaty may participate, however. : and it was pointed out today there j was a possibility the l'nited States may be unable to lake part. The purpose of the conference is to draw up legislation on various

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ph.ises of the I; help to remed instance v.-hi to legislatures of Uar.ue of nation members. With regard to child ".abor. i number of delegates are kno.va to be ready to introduce resol atio,,.againt employment of children uu- , der 14 years of age. The women in .ndastry question, it was learned, will be divide..', into three phases prohibition of woi ;. for expectant mothers and those j who ha'.1 j'u-t be-r-ome moth rs, n ith ' a national fund for the.r ma :nt n-; ar.ee doling this period; ; 1 ditin ! of night work for w omen and i e--lations to safeguard w omen in '1 : - gerous trades. I'rts't Wilson. it was ;. v :ou te cd j last night, has sent woid to Ar.:-r-i:an dijilomatic repre--nt at i e- to invite the nations to which th.-y a i e accredited to send r leca'. s to ta conference. a!lin f thi- ir.ee'.e.i: sc soon was believed to ha' e ; ! mduer.ee. 1 by the general !.t rest and the labor prohici.us i ' ?cA ' il .'in. l The njtiona! rnümi'. e. Le i CT. to . or.juder natior.a 'ix;:t.on of ra.i- v wa v.i'.'t ni'et here two a .-!. .- fore the tntrrnatioi-.a'. !abo; ing. :a'.hi rCREW OF BREMEN RcrURN FROM BRITISH PRISOk P.v Li.it- I 1'r s : UK II LIN. Auc- I J. Th n. w ef th Gertr.an subiaatar.- Brem---:, -ister ship of the I;- utsehiamJ. who !i iisajpeared thr--- years ago. h..s i e. turned to Lreii.en from a ..:.". i.rison camp, th- Vo-si-. h '' reported te.i.;y. This i the t rst intim tif n of thfate jf the L: -:v.-r. vv hie h !-t ' : - ma'.y for New 1. nIo:-., . .a., in August, li'li.

ULAR ARMY STATIONS ARE HADE PUBLIC "Universities in Khaki" Will Be Maintained in Per- ! siotis hat ."I o rt Their , stations a re; First dn :-!tni 'amp Ta !!'. K S'-oond division, iinp Trail. Sin Antonio. Tox. Third I'.iiisji.n, 'am; Pike. Ark. Fourth division. Camp podu-e. Ii. I'ii'M division. C.,mp Gordon. C.i. Sivlli division. Camp Grant, ill j S.'vnth division. Camp ri:i'"!i. ' Kan-. i Th second division had Leen s;-,- ! .-il to go to Camp Ke.irne. .i I i f In the divisional amps and in p.-rmanent camps in the s .nth ern department an. I l -ewh re :h new "ur.iv ' rsit ics in khaki" v ill ! maintained. Baker said ,n al in- hiIi,ns to 1 ": . : . . . I . t 1, A litis ai ine p. i i ! I ti ii i 11 .ii-.'s ii: iüv same wav that university towns : . L-ard students, p.akrr said: Th" ration's debt to the splendid . latiou .,i .. a . IV Mocac. ! !. ,ry Oavi-on and Moit;mr L. S. in ff. ITO BUR! CARNEGIE ...... n r- , Will H 0 1 T HO Funeral OOi'VlCCS For Aged Philanthropist in New York. j, f . i.F.v p.. v ,.; . , . u ; ; . ) ,. . j , , , A , no , . : todiv. ; -. f r.. tb s. i: f :, . ; J. !: ! ! ' : . p: .:. ') G ' i I ' i ) i : A ; Thi:. i 1 . .1 i . .v :m .WILSON SEKDS SYf.trATHV 1 0 WIFE 0F CARMEGIE . I' t ' . ;: - ' U AHIN',V N. A 1 J ! : v..-..r, o. ; ..... . ;. r.-:: V Mr-, A - V . nors,-,. 'M '" I ' s . i tb b-s.. i . " i - v . n r .. :..! b- , ..:d il:- .-..; - I ' : t - . . s-. ; c . s ! s ; . i ; f , .. f of !. m. ,.:.d -'.itm-v.. ; ;, , . . rv i : .: s o of t ) i w-itd . . a. -'i it .. i i.: f': -'

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