The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 210, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 17, 1919 Page: 1 of 56
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VOL. XXXIX—NO. 210.
DALLAS PLANS HIGH PRICE BOYCOTT
Food W orth Millions to Be Dumped On 'Nations Markets
FAMOUS SECOND
SETTLES DOM
IT CMP TONIS
After Two Years of War
Noted Fighting Unit Is
Again at Home.
COL. EATON COMMANDS
Men Appreciate Welcome
Given Them Here and
Like Their Station.
San Antonio became the home station
of the A.E.F.’s most distinguished and
most decorated fighting division with the
arrival of the Second Division at (’amp
Travis Saturday. By late afternoon
every unit of the division 2600 men
strong was settled in its new’ quarters
and the seasoned veterans from over-
seas accustomed for two years to al-
most continually shifting environment
settled down in a home at last.
Although perspiring profusely in the
heavy woolen uniforms of overseas ser-
vice not at all suitable for the tempera-
tures of a Southwest Texas Saturday
afternoon the boys of the star and In-
dian head insignia went happily and in
an orderly fashion about the task of put-
ting the division camp in order. Divi-
sion headquarters was located in the
Camp Travis building formerly occu-
pied by the War Bisk Insurance Bu-
reau and by Monday morning headquar-
ters will begin to function as the post
>f command for all the units.
Appreciate Their Reception.
Col. Harry A. Katou commanding
officer of the 23rd Infantry as the rank-
ing officer on duty with the division
is acting division commander and will
direct the organization's affairs until an
officer of higher rank reports. Col. 11.
B. Meyer Cavalry who was chief of
staff to Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune
commanding the Second overseas went
un leave following debarkation at New
York and is not expected here for two
weeks. Col. Hanford McNider division
adjutant also is on leave. Maj. C. O.
Mattfeldt of division headquarters is
acting adjutant.
Speaking in behalf of all members of
the division Colonel Eaton expressed
the division's appreciate \ of the wel-
come extended by Hun Antonians and
voiced the opinion that a majority of
the soldiers were pleased with their sta-
tion here. .
Wh%t the War Department’s plan is
in connection with the reorganization l
of the Second Division is not yet known.
Tiie appropriate command of a major
general is a division but no officer of
thut rank is now’ assigned to the Second.
Maj. Gen. John Biddle late commander
of all American forces in Great Britain
has been assigned to command Camp
Travis and is expected here within a
shoit time. As chief of Camp Travis
he will exercise jurisdiction over the
division but ns the camp has been
formally designated us tue Second’s
home station it is thought likely that
he may be made division commander and
the other organizations already func-
tioning at Camp Travis made adjunc-
tive units to the division.
► Short Two Regiments.
Since the Marine Brigade was de-
tached from the division and returned
to the naval establishment the division
is short two regiments of infantry.
Ami the other organizations of the di-
vision are depicted as to personnel since
thj demobilization of temporary officers
ami emergency enlisted men. That the
division is to be continued as one of*
the permanent regular units of the army J
is certain and the building up of the!
division to tables or organization strength I
will be necessary.
The smooth progress of debarkation
from trains early Saturday afternoon
was distributed momentarily when one
of the best known members of the div-
ision was placed under arrest upon
arrival and confined “incommunicado"
on a warrant telegraphed by the War
Department. This action was tak-
en in the case of “Verdun" alias
•■Salvage.” a French orphan mule raised
from earliest childhood by members of
Battery E 15th Field Artillery for-
merly commanded by Capt. Jerome
Waters a Han Antonian.
Hmm after the division first went to
the front taking over a sector near Ver-
dun little “Verdun’s" mother came to
E Battery as a replacement and the
next day “Verdun” was born. One of
the things E Battery men still hold
juguiust the Germans is that Verdun's
^mother was killed. The orphan was
adopted by the battery who inciden-
tally also assisted in the “adopt a
French war orphan plan" fostered by
the American Expeditionary Forces. I
In an environment of shrupnel and
high explosive Verdun was reared and
he saw service in every one of the five
major engagments in which the division
participated.
“Verdun’s" Tribulations Continue.
"Verdun’s" tribulations did not ter-
minate with the armistice for in Ger-
many he was stolen by some natives
•nd waa not rataken until after a care-
fully planned coup de main was exe- 1
cuted by a group of his foster .daddies. |
Battery E finally got Verdun on board 1
ship at Brest. But hopes for the or- I
phan's future of peace that was just
beginning to unfold were shattered i
when complications were encountered nt i
Hoboken where quarantine officials are
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THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
Prominent Members of the Famous Second Division and Four Mascots
EIGHT DIE IN CRASH
Only Member of Family to Escape Had
Premonition of Disaster.
Eric Pa. Aug. 16. —Eight persons
were killed near here tonight when
the automobile in which they rode was
crushed by a New’ York Central train.
A heavy rain was believed to have ob-
scurcd the driver's vision.
John Trainer and John Trainer Jr.
of Cleveland Ohio were two victims.
Three women and three children were
the others. (
Cleveland Ohio Aug. 16. —Miss Helen
Trainer 17 said here tonight she be *
lieved thht her parents five brothers
and sisters and a girl friend comprise
the dead reported in the grade cross-*
iug accident near Erie Pa.
Miss Trainer said she left her family ‘
land girl friend Miss Anne Cunning-
; ham Cleveland nt Pittsburg last night;
! to continue the journey to Cleveland by ; 1
automobile while she made the trip by
' train. | -
“The moment I got off the train here । 1
il had a feeling that something was 11
wrong” she said.
The girl collapsed. She is the sole J
survivor of the family. ' •
THE WEATHER P
<
TEMI'KKATUKES. I
AUG. 15. 5 x. m T« 1
3 p. in 91 6 a. in 7 6 i
4 p. m 92 Th. m 75 (
5 p. in. 91 X h. m 75
H p. in 91 9 a. m 77 1
7 p. in 90 10 a. tn 80
8 p. in 88 11 a m 83 |
9 p. in 85 12 ni 85
10 p. m 82 Ip. in 88
11 p. ni 80 2 p. ni 88 |
12 midnight.... 78 3 p. in. 91 ]
AUG. If 4 p. in 93
1 a. m 77 5 p. m 94
2 a. in 75 « p. ni S 3
3 a. m 75 7 p. m 92
4 a. ni 76 8 p. m 89
FORECAST
East and West Texas; Sunday partly ;
cloudy. ।
HOME WEATHER FOR TOURISTS. ’
— I
St. Louin: Temperature 84; clear; 20- (
mile wind from the west; highest tom- ।
perature Saturday 88. <
( hicHRO: Temperature 82; partly cloudy |
16-mlle wind frdm the southwest; highest
temperature Saturday. 86.
Kannan City: Temperature 82; clear; 10-
mlle wind from the west; highest torn- '
perature Saturday. 88. 1
New York: Temperature 74; cloudy. 12- I
mile wind from the west; highest tem- f
perature Saturday. 78. <
Washington: Temperature 84. cloudy; 10. i
mile wind from the southwest; highest *
temperature Saturday 86. J
RETAIL PRICE OF
MILK TO SEVENTEEN
CENTS SATURDAY
Increase of Two Cents c
Quart Put Into Effect
In San Antonio.
The retail price of milk in San An
i tonio was advanced from ?.fteen to sev-
enteen cents a quart Haturday bj
creameries handling a large part of the
1 milk supply. The increase of two cents
per quart to the consumer camo in con
I nection with action of the distributing
J agencies in granting a raise in the price
paid by them to producers of milk. This
' increase was also effective Haturday.
According to the statement of an of-
ficial of one of the local creameries
the advance to the producers was from
seven and one-half to eight cents foi
[ each per cent of butter tat contained in
milk. For a gallon of milk testing four
per cent butter fat 1 ns increase would
amount to two cents. Under the old
scale of seven and one-half cents the
dairyman received 30 cents for a gallon
having a four per cent butter fat con-
tent and under the new scale be will
get 32 cents.
Milk sold to creameries is said to run
between four and one-half and five per
cent butter fat. On this basis the in-
creased revenue to the producer on 1
*gallou of milk sold to a distributing con-
cern now that the new scale has be-
come effective is between two and two
and one-half cents per gallon.
BORDER FLIER KILLED
Lieut. F. A. Robinson Dies at Lareda
^Vhcn Plane Falls 100 Feet.
Laredo. Tex. Aug. 16.—Lieut. Fer-
nando A. Robinson wao killed and Lieut.
Norman Roddy received a broken leg
tonight when an airplane in which they
had descended to a luight of 100 feet
crashed as they attempted to rise again
northwest of Laredo. Engine trouble
caused the accident Roddy said after-
ward. Lieutenant Robinson was from
Clarksburg. W. Va. Both men were
professional aviators.
Former Kelly Field Flier Killed.
Douglas Ariz. Aug. 16. —Lieut. G.
M. Anderson formerly stationed at
Kelly Field San Antonio Tex. was
killed here late Friday afternoon when
an airplane which he had been piloting
on border patrol fell into a tail spin
at 100 feet an<| or*>bfd. An officer
accompanying him was slightly in-
jured.
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS SUNDAY AUGUST 17 1919.—FIFTY-SIX PAGES.
iNEW YORK FACING COMPLETE
J TIE-UP OF ALL SUBWAY AND
| ELEVATED LINES BY STRIKE
Q ;
| 14000 Employes to Go Out at 4 O’Clock Sunday Unless
Halted by Injunction—Extra Trains Trucks and
Taxis to Be Pressed Into Service.
i
I
1-1
‘ New York Aug. 16. — New York's
•y millions tonight faced the staggering
prospect of a tie-up of subway and ele-
vated lines which virtually would par-
alyze the traffic of the largest city of
8 the western world
n?
i s At 4 o'clock Sunday morning 14000
men employes of the Interborough Rap-
id Transit subway and elevated lines
s » will go on strike unless prevented by
11 an eleventh hour injunction. Leadeis
’ r of the Brotherhood of luterborough
11 Employes an organization fostered by
the company announced the strike de-
* cision th[s afternoon. Ai agreement
had tailed to result from their three-
-10 hour conference with Mayor Hylan.
u Public Service Commissioner Nixon ami
railway officials and employes.
** ( The employes demand a 50 per cent
wage increase an eight-hour day and
11 time ami a half for overtime.
1 । The strike action which has been
l " 1 discussed for the la>t week followed
charges by Mayor Hylan that a cou-
h 1 Hpirucy existed between the company
and its employes to obtain increased
° fares through the worker’s wage dc-
mands. The company already had ap-
plied to the Public Service Commission
for permission to raise the present five-
cent fare. Company officials and
’ brotherhood leaders hotly denied the
3 j charges.
Immediately following announcement
| that the strike would be called prep-
-1 orations were being made to employ
■ all conceivable devices for moving hu-
Iman traffic. Old ferrj boats wei • made
* I ready for use to ply up and down th<*
' I North and East Rivers from Harlem
’ to the Battery. Municipal officials ha I
'• completed plans to place 500 army mo-
v tor trucks nt the service of the public
operating them over eleven mutes
11 through the most densely populated dis-
v tricts of the city.
Hundreds of business h<>.ses tonight
were contracting with automobile owr-
ers and agencies to furnish vehicles to
'• carry their workers to office and fac-
tory. Taxicab owners and bus lines
s । were arranging schedules and fate |
■ i scab 1 -.
KI Officials of the New York Central;
J । Railroad announced they were making;
I provisions to add eighteen trains to the 1
• I line between WiMidlawn in the Bronx. I
jand the Qrand Central Station at 42m* I
8 Street. Six more extra trains it was
said would be placed in sei vice between
King's Bridge and Marble Hill and Jie
Grand Central Terminal. The trains
• will comprise 00 coaches. Extra ticket
f sellers and police guards will be posted
tactile station. Both the Long Island
land the New Haven railloads also we»c
^making special arrangements to handle
- tin* suburban traffic.
I New Yorkers could scarcely grasp an
■ I idea of the effect the strike will have
Jits prospect seemed so ominous. Trans-
।l portatiou experts estimated that the
• I stopping of the overhead and under-
. I ground routes would throw a burden of
J traffic on the surface lines that would
. j result in endless congestion. It was
| stated too. that part of the surface sy>-
j t?m wgs dependent upon the interbm-
i ough power plant which indicated many
Jo* the ground lines .night be unable to
1 5 operate.
J WILL TRY TO RUN CARS.
1 1
Receivers for Pittsburg Company to
Endeavor to Overcome Strike.
Pittsburg Pa. Aug. 16. —Receivers
. for the Pittsburg Street Railways Com-
! pany in a statement issued tonight de-
. dared their intention to operate str»<*t
I cars in the Pittsburg district notwith-
. standing the strike of union car men.
The statement was made public at
; the close of an all-day conference in*
Mayor Babcock's office which was at-
tended by representatives of the Car- j
men’s Union and receivers for the rail- 1
> way company.
The strike which has been in progress
since Thursday night has completely
l tied up the street car transportation
. system in the Pittsburg district. More
than 125 lines are affected including
i those in McKeesport McKees Rocks.
Tarantum New’ Kensington Monesson
Donora. Washington Braddock Home-
stead and Charlcm.
Open Fire on Troops.
London Sunday Aug. 17.—A news
; agency dispatch from Queenstown. Ire-1
| land today said that a party of men
| believed to be Hinn Feiners fired u|>on
Rodt Island in the harbor. The mili-
j tary returned the fire with machine
I 1 guns. The fighting continued at length.
The dispatch gave no details as to cas-
ualties- cr the result uf the eneuu.iter.
FOOD SOLD 8?
MIL CANNOT
BE SOLD IBM
—
Precautions Will Be Taken
by Postmaster Against
Profiteering.
ARMY FIXES PRICES
List With Postal Charges
Added Will Be Given
Public.
Precautions will be taken by postof-
fice and military officials to prevent the
surplus army food products to bo sold to
the public through the parcel post
scheduled to commence Monday morn-
ing from falling into the hands of deal-
ers. The resale for profit of supplitb
purchased at bargain prices will not lie
permitted. Wholesale and retail deal-
ers in food products are barred from
participation in the plan by which the
government hopes to strike a telling
blow’ against high cost of living ami
profiteering.
San Antonians who place orders with
the postoffice for articles from the big
store of goods nt Fort Sam Houston
will be required to certify that the sup-
plies desired are for their own use and
not intended for resale. This procedure
is necessary in view of the fact that in
making his purchases from the quar-
tenmaster for distribution to the publ.'c
Postr^astcr George D. Armistead wl l
have to certify thut the supplies ordered
are not to be placed in trmle channels.
Cannot Make Profit.
“This feature of the proposition ran
not be emphasized too strongly" said
Mr. Armistead Saturday night. “The
government is selling at bargain rntes
solely for the benefit of the public and
anybody who attempts to eommen'ialize
his purchases by reselling for profit will
come to grief."
Both at the postoffice and in Colonel
Ililgard’s department at Fort Sam
Houston officials and employes wore
hard at work over preparations for in-
augurating sales. Their intensive activ-
ity wilf continue throughout Sunday.
Colonel llilgard and his staff must bo
in readiness to fill orders for case lots
of scores of different articles as fast
ns they are received from all parts of
Texas and the postmaster must be in a
position not only to meet local demands
but to route parcel post shipments
throughout the state ns they are filled
by the quartermaster.
The decision of Postmaster Armistead
to sell locally in broken case lots for
convenience of the public will greatly
increase 'the burden of work as far a^
the postoffiee is concerned. It will ne-
cessitate the handling of a multiplied
number of parcels with a corresponding
increase in paper work.
Under the direction of Mr. Armistead
Assistant Postmaster Joseph W. Fuller
R. 11. Hedges superintendent of mails:
Theodore Krause assistant superintend-
ent of mails and other postal employes
are figuring out a price list which will
show the price of all articles available
for purchase at Fort Sam Houston to-
gether with the parcel post charges
<»n them.
To Include Postage.
Calculated on the basis of single cans
the price quoted will include the p^<ge
cost in each instance. By this method
it will be a matter of simple calculation
for a prospective customer to ascertain
the exact cost of whatever quantity he
may desire to buy. All orders must be
accompanied by cash.
Efforts will be made to have this price
li<t in readiness Sunday. Thousands
<»f copies will bp mimeographed for pub-
lic distribution and in addition the
price list will be printed in newspapers.
Prices per can on goods that are now’
on hand were announced Saturday night
by Col. M. R. Hilgard. chief quarter-
master of the Southern Department and
zone supply officer. To these prices as
quoted must bo added the parcel post
charge which will show’ in the combined
price list to be gotten out by the post-
cffice. Th° army price list follows:
List of Prices.
Corneil beef ono-nound can. 29 cents:
six pound can. $1.75.
Corned beef hash 2-pound can. 37
cents.
Raked beans. 1-pound can. 4 cents.
Baked beans. 3-pound can. 9 cents.
Stringloss beans 2-pound can 9
cents.
Sweet corn. 2-pound can. 9 cents.
I‘aking powder 1-pound can. 9 cents.
Cinnamon. 1-pound can. 7 cents.
Cloves one-fourth pound can 11
cents.
Ginger crackers 1-pound carton G
cents.
Graham crackers 1-pound carton. 6
cents.
Soda crackers 1-pound carton G
cents.
Farina 1-pound tin. 14 cents.
Lemon flavoring extract 2-ounce bot-
tle. 10 cents.
Ginger one-fourth pound 7 cents.
Ijye hominy small carton. G cents.
Bulk maccaroni 25 pounds. $2.06.
Sweetened condensed milk 1-pound
13 cento.
Ground mustard can 17 cents.
Black pepper one-fourth pound 0
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CITIZENS HOLD PROTEST
MASS MEETING AND OPEN
W ON THE PROFITEERS
Enter Agreement Not to Buy New Fall
Clothes or Luxuries and Only Plain-
est Food —Committees to Investigate
Soaring Costs of Necessities —U. S.
Officials Libel Vast Quantities of
Hoarded Supplies and Will Seek
Court Orders for Forced Sale to Pub-
lic.
Dallas Tex. Aug. 16.—Hundreds of Dallas citizens
packed the city hall auditorium here tonight at a “price
protest” mass meeting to hear discussion of plans for reduc-
ing the high costs of living. The meeting was called by
young married men who have felt the pinch of post-war
prices.
Six committees for inquiry into the costs of food rents
laundry and ice clothing and shoes restaurants and barber
shops and miscellaneous necessities were appointed.
Plans for organized “legal boycotts” were formulated
by lawyers who had in mind state and government boycott
laws. Members of the “price protest league” agreed to buy
no new fall clothing to eat only the simplest food to patron-
ize the municipal produce market and to buy government
food when the Wai - Department supplies are available.
To Limit Number of 50 Cent Hair Cuts.
All luxuries and even some purchases considered neces-
sary are taboo. For instance in defiance of the new barber’s
rule of 50-cent hair cuts angry mass meeters propose to visit
barber shops no oftener than once a month.
Sweeping investigations into high prices of necessaries
were promised for Dallas next week.
Following a conference today F. M. Spencer chief of
the local bureau of investigation for the Department of Jus-
tice Mayor Frank Wozencraft announced tonight city and
federal officials will co-operate to secure additional evidence
of alleged profiteering hoarding and price gouging.
Retail Profits of 1000 Per Cent Reported.
Possible raids by federal officials on alleged hoarded
food stocks were forecast for next wetek. Names of retail-
ers who according to Department of Justice agents have
made gross profits as high as 1000 per cent also may be
made public it was said.
Both federal and city officials promised complete pub-
licity for all results of the investigations. Department of Jus-
tice officials this week gave out results of an investigation
into retailers profits and rents.
STORED FOOODS TO BE OFFERED TO PUBLIC.
Federal Action Begun in Many Cities to Force Millions of
Dollars Worth of Hoarded Supplies on Market.
Washington. D. ( .. Aut. 16.—Food ]
worth millions will be dumped into
wholesale markets to force down prices
in every section of the country begin-
ning Tuesday or Wednesday of next
week under plans being mae’e tonight
by district attorneys and officials of
the Department of Justice.
Two million dollars worth of butter
eggs and suzar libeled today and yester-
day in St. Louis Kansas City. Chi-
cago Toledo. Canton Ohio and De-
troit will be sold first.
Food worth more millions will be >
seized next week under evidence now
being gathered the largest seizures
are expected iu Boston New York New
Orleans and Chicago.
Libel action is the first step in seiz- [
ing the food. This is taken by dis-
trict attorneys. It is a request to a J
Federal court to enioin the removal or ।
sale from the place where it is : tored ।
or hoarded. The next step is a hearing
at which the court detiTmiues whether
the charge of hoarding is justified.
When the court so decides an order Is
issued from the bench directing the
forced sale of the libeled goods.
Federal attorneys in many * itios arc
now preparing arguments in libel cases.
Many Federal courts will bold hear-
ings Monday.
Meanwhile other Federal officials are
continuing to collect evidence of hoard-
iug in many cities assisted by the local
price-fixing committees organized by
food administrators and at the request
of Attorneys General Palmer.
Federal officials here today estimat-
ed that 590 may be arrested and
charged with profiteering and boarding
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
| next week through efforts of Federal
and state officials. Grand juries in
Ohio are considering complaint* against
more than 200 suspected boarders and
profiteers.
Several arrests were made today in
Chicago while warrants were issued in
' Detroit. Boston and Columbus.
Thousands of tons of hoarded food
have been located in Boston by F»*der*
al agents who plan to bring libel ac-
tion within a few hours.
More low priced food will begin to go
।on the market next week under the
I plans ju"t completed for its sale and
; distribution by the War Department
land Postnffice Department.
The $20000000 worth of meats and
’ vegetables in army store houses is ex-
! pecteil to prove inadequate to meet the
- rders that are expected to flow into
। the nostoffices.
Hearings will begin next week on ten
libel actions filed against 5000000
stored at Chattanooga^ Tout
Attorney General Palmer announced
todav that Governor W. P. Hobby of
Texas had placed all facilities of the
stat«» government at the disposal of the
justice department.
OHIO WARS ON PROFITEERS.
Drop in Retail Prices Is PrMHcted;
Cox Protests Delayed I reloading.
Cleveland. Ohio. Aug. IS.—Ohio wif
hitting th* high cost of foodstuffa to-
night with everything including tha
water bucket in its fight to gain a de-
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