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FOOD ADMINISTRATIONS ASKED
TO REVIVE WAR TIME METHODS
OF DEALING WITH PROFITEERS
*4Fair Price” Committees to Be Named and Public
Sentiment Will Be Invoked to Discipline
Greedy Retailers—Hoarders to Be Pros
ecuted—Committee to Draft Laws
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (by Associated Press).—Attor
ney General Palmer today wired to the various food adminis
trations requesting that they appoint “fair price” committees
for each county, whose duty it will be to investigate charges
for retail necessities, and if found to be in excess of what the
committee deems to be just, to publish a list of fair prices for
the information of the public.
The attorney general says that retailers are “gouging”
the consumers, and that they must be disciplined by public
sentiment. The hoarders of food, he says, will be prosecuted
under the law.
Taking Up the President’s Suggestions
Chairman Cummins of the senate committee on interstate
commerce will name a sub-committee today which will be em
powered to frame tentative bills covering President Wilson’s
recommendations to congress on the subject of the high cost
of living.
THESPIANS RESORT TO STRIKE
TO ENFORCE SALARY DEMANDS
Theaters of Metropolis Are Crippled and Produc
tion of New Plays Interfered with by Resort by
Actors to Weapon of Industrial Classes
NEW YORK, Aug. 11 (by Associated Press).—Nine play
houses in the Broadway theatrical district have closed, while
three are presenting abbreviated programs and seven are defy
ing the strike order of the Actors’ Equity Association and are
giving complete bills. The rehearsals of thirty new plays have
been stopped.
The actors are fighting the producing managers for more
money.
HUNS SEEK CITIZENSHIP
BY UNDDERHAND METHOD
PARIS, July 2 (Correspondence of
Associated Press).—A warning voice
on the dangers of German infiltra
tion by devious ways comes from Lux
emburg. According to the Journal of
Esch, of 42 petitions now before the
Luxemburg chamber tor naturaliza
tion, 38 come from Prussian subjects,
several of whom have been identified
as having been connected, more or
less, with acts of frightfulness during
the war. None of them, the Esch
paper affirms, would have dreamt
of changing his nationality had the
. Germans won.
Reports from Switzerland indicate
that Germans will try to pacifically
re-enter France under the guise of
Swiss citizenship. According to a
message from the Associated Press
correspondent in Switzerland the
other day, fully one hundred thousand
Germans and Austrians are waiting
on the border line between Basle and
Constance for admittance into Switz
erland; but the federal authorities are
keeping a strict watch on these
would-be immigrants.
Wl LJOFCLEM PERFOCH IS
LATEST TRIBUTE TO GREATNESS
PARIS, July 2 (by mail).—To
honor President Wilson, Marshal
Joffre, Premier Clemenceau, General
Pershing and Marshal Foch, all in
one, the municipality of the ancient
town of Castelsarrasin, in the south
of France, has baptized a new street
v^iijofolemperfoch avenue.
Carl F. Lottfelt has resigned his
position with the Carlisle Packing
company, but will remain some time
in Cordova before going Outside.
COL PHILIP BUNAU-VARILLA
Col. Philip Bunau-Varilla, who vol
unteered in the French army at the
age of fifty-five and left a leg at Ver
dun, has told members of the Wash
ington Rotary club that Europe alone
cannot resist successfully the Prussian
system of conquest. He advocates a
permanent alliance of France, England
and the United States against German
aggression, and declares that such an
alliance will insure peace.
| CONFERENCE CHANGES VIEWS
ON CAMPAIGN OF RUMANIANS |
| PARIS, Aug. 11 (by Associated Press).—The peace §j
| conference is changing its attitude entirely toward the |:
Rumanian army in Budapest. It now wants the Rumani- %
|i ans to remain in Budapest in order to steady the situation. •£
jij: The inter-allied council recently asked the Rumani- &
ans not to enter Budapest, but the Rumanians disregard- i$
iji: ed the request. j§
ANDREW CARNEGIE, STEEL KING,
TO HIS FATHERS
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Laird of Skibo Succumbs to Old Age and Disease,
Surrounded by His Family, at Country Home
in Massachusetts—His Philanthropies
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LENOX, Mass., Aug. 11 (by Associated Press).—Andrew
Carnegie, capitalist and philanthropist, died at bis summer
home at Shadow Brook last night j after an illness of three
days of bronchial pneumonia. Hisiwife was with him at the
time of his death.
Andrew Carnegie was born at Dunfermline, Scotland, on
November 25, 1835, and came to the United States when a small
boy. By dint of industry, energy and thrift, he rose from hum
ble circumstances to the control of the greatest steel manufac
tuiing business in the United States, and when, at the organiza
tion of the great United States Steel Corporation, a score or
more years ago, he retired from active business, he was esti
mated to be worth two hundred millions of dollars. It was Ids
announced intention to die a poor man, and with this end in
view he gave away millions of dollars for libraries and other
worthy institutions. The Carnegie Foundation, which is prob
ably his greatest philanthropy, makes provision for aged and
needy men and women who have spent their lives in the pro
fession of teaching.
Mr. Carnegie was married to Louise Whitfield in 1887, and
his wife and a daughter, born in 1887, survive him.
AMERICAN LABOR FEDERATION
ATTEMPTS TO CHECKMATE L W. ff
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Threatens to Revoke Charter of State Organization
of Washington if Vote for MOne Big Union”
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Is Allowed to Proceed as Planned
TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 11 (by ssociated Press).—Secre
tary Frank Morrison of the American Federation of Labor lias
advised the officials of the Washington States Federation that
their charter will be revoked if the unions composing it are
allowed to vote on the question of the formation of “one big
union” along the plan of the Industrial Workers of the World.
The state unions are now voting on the proposal, and
President Short of the State Federation, who is numbered
among the conservatives, is endeavoring to call the vote off.
MONEY NEEDED FOR NAVY YARDS i
MAY YET BE APPROPRIATED
Twenty-five Million Dollar Appropriation Bill, if
Passed, May Save Jobs of Thousands of Work
men Employed on Repair of Fighting Ships
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (by Associated Press).—A bill
appropriating $25,000,000 for repair and construction work
in navy yards lias been introduced in the house.
It was announced recently that thousands of employes
of the navy yards would be discharged unless additional money
was provided by congress. The need for the money to carry
on the work at the navy yards is being impressed upon con
gress by the navy officials.
ACTION OF RAILWAY STRIKERS
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CALLED FOR THURSDAY NEXT
Chicago to Be Meeting Place for Convention to
Determine Whether Demands of Striking
Railway Shopmen Shall Be Pressed at
This Time, with Consequent Tie-up
CHICAGO, Aug-. 11 (by Associated Press).—A convention
of representatives of the striking railway shopmen of the coun
try is to be held here next Thursday, the call for which was
issued yesterday by the Chicago district council of the feder
ated railway shopmen, which called the strike on August 1
in defiance of the orders of the international officers of the rail
way organizations.
The convention will decide definitely on what action is to
be taken.
Half a Hundred Persons Killed in Riots Started Be
cause of High Cost of Food—Authorities
Quickly Regain Ascendancy
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 11 (by Associated Press).—
Comparative quiet has been restored at Chemnitz, Saxony, ac
cording to advices received here yesterday.
The uprising at Chemnitz was inspired by Spartacan agi
tators, and rioting was indulged in by thousands demanding
cheaper food. Fifty persons were killed in the rioting of Friday
last.
WONDERFUL WORK OF GOBS
IN FIGHTING FLU AT UNALASKA
> When the influenza struck Unalas
ka in the Far north, wireless calls for
aid resulted in the formation of a
party of doctors and nurses to bring
medical aid and food to the stricken
communities. The writer of the fol
lowing article, Miss Bertha Perry
Warren, was one of the nurses of the
expedition.
S. O. S. Never was there a more ,
urgent and hopeless cry for help ra
died across space from the far Alas
DR. EPITACIO PESSOA
Dr. Epitacio Pessoa, president-elect
of Brazil, who has been visiting the
United States on his way home from
Europe.
kan north than that from the flu
stricken inhabitants of Unalaska,
which was picked up by the U. S.
revenue cutter Unalga’s wireless, as
she plied her way north, one of Un
cle Sam’s silent watchers of the north
coast.
Far north, near the tail end of the
“land that God forgot,” lies the little
village of Unalaska, one of the Aleu
tian group. Just a narrow strip of
coast line, some half mile in length,
shows all there is of the village, com
posed of a few wooden buildings, the
remainder being “barrabaras,” or na
tive huts; the population, a mere
handful of whites, mostly government
employes, the rest of the 360 inhabi
tants being Aleuts.
Such a peaceful, snug little com
munity out there on the “edge of be
yond,” till one day early in May, like
a bolt from the blue, more fearful
and overwhelming than an avalanche
from their own snow-covered moun
tains, descended upon them the dread
plague, influenza, with such sudden
ness that for the last few days they
did not realize what had befallen
them. By the third or fourth day
more than half the population were
stricken and a feeling of helplessness
akin to terror settled upon them as
they pictured themselves, a mere
handful of souls, alone in the relent
less grip of the dreadest foe of the
twentieth century.
Out of Civilization
There they were, 2,000 miles from
civilization, their only doctor one of
the first flue victims, the few white
women too ill in bed to fulfill a wom
an’s mission of ministering angel, the
babies and children uncared for.
Their loneliness and remoteness in
creased the sense of disaster as each
day brought fresh victims and more
deaths.
Uncivilized, dirty in their habits
and bodies, underfed from lack of
fresh food, the natives offered little
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