Pittston Gazette from Pittston, Pennsylvania • Page 1

oUdDDbo TTlk OSoaB Allll Wtoon RSoogQ 7s 0 tiOeairt flood! A ODdDlJlls TODAY'S NEWS TODAY COMPLETE TELEGRAPHIC NEWSSERVICE OF THE UNITED PRESS TODAY'S NEWS TODAY. THREE CENTS PER COPY WEATHER. mm. Rain tonight anil Saturday in west portion; east fiortioii ltnritior. TEMPERATIHE.

Sliomi by Recording Thermometer on Giieltc Biiildina: 110 00 p. in. Jt a. 5 1. p.

111. on Streets and at News Standi). II TY CUNTS A MONTH, SIX DOLLARS A YEAR TWELVE PAGES. 09TII YEAR WEEKLY ESTABLISHED DAILY EST. BY THliU.

HART. 1882. PJTTSTOX, FIJI DAY, DKCEAJ BEli 20, 1018. Ij CIRCULATION BOOk BULLETINS "ORGANIZED RIOT" MARKED BUILDING WASHINGTON SAYS THAT THE ALLIES GERMAN COUNCIL OF WORKMEN SOLDIERS FOR CONSTITUTION ENGLISH WORKMEN ARE STRONGLY FOR I LEAGUE OF NATIONS OF HOG ISLAND YARD I PA DEL. DIVISION ITALIAN LEADERS 1 CONFERRED WITH Paris.

Dec. 20. Italian leader went into cotilVretice with president Wil today. Premier Orlando and Foreign See i clary Sonnino called at the Mural palace at 11 o'clock and were closeted with the President for sump time. 1 'resilient Wilson will return Kins Victor Kmmanuel's call, and will be his guest, at dinner tonight, at the a linn embassy.

The President plans To visi London immediately alter Christmas. Andre Tardieu. commissioner of Franco American relations, will to the palace, to arrange final details for ttie reception to the foreign diplomatic corps, president of the Senate and a committee from thai hody. The reception will he held at this afternoon. "FLU" CONTINUES IN PRESIDENT TODAY Vicuna.

Dei Delayed.) Austrian official who shared the iosiofi I Nihility for start ifcig; the war will be punished. A bill has lioen introduced in the Chamber of Deputies providing for prosi outiosi and punishment of army liMidcrs and v. submarines. including the famous Boiit ehland. have arrived at "Clu hoiirg.

diplomatic adices stated toilav. Amsterdam, Dec. 20. Strikers were attacked by troops during a riot in ISollrop. it was declared io a dispatch received here today.

No dvlail were given. Itotlrop is in West piialia. 50 miles north of Cologne. Athens. Doc.

(Delayed.) Srv cial casnaMics ot'iirrcd in a cla Ii lie tween Bulgarian and Serbian soldiers near ivrusowi. a dispalch from Sere ves says. The ISuigars tiro said to have fin into a crowd of Srrhiiin soldiers. wouiKliiig throe. 'Ihe Serbs returned the lire, inflicting many casualties.

KM 1 1 ti I ilO 1 1 I an national couiH'il 2i). hr Ansli i 1... il.u.i.L.I 11 i a(t "If tin crown laiuls, at' I cordiii lisiatln.s yvt oii'i I Ikti tiMlay. Tin iniM'rial easily will lo roiivorlril iftl'i a rliiltlrcsi lioim. airii li.

iUt 20.. Kt'l'ilHIS llisiUMlt'l 11 Wisi dlsialihs aixl military ri Ma. ivi'(t hrr. il rits have Ikvii opciKMl and the males set at lilM rty. il is said, 'street fighimg is portiil.

111 and Anistcrdain. Dee. 20 Three of the piilicipal directors of the Krupp inu iii 1 ion works al Kssen. including Dr. ISraiisenlierger, inventor of the "Itijr Iter! has." have lwcn arreslcd hy.the revolutionary imiinittiv in that ell cordingr lo ad vices rci eivcd hero.

St. Louis, Deo. 20. Charles Henry Jlrlire. it.

president and editor of Ihe St. Louis (ilolM' Dcmoerat. is dead here today. Pneumonia, following inf ueii4 is the cause. Washington, Dee.

20. Appointment 11 new Piii dor id' Kail i i i I i I Washington. Dee. 20. Cross mismanagement and extravagance permeated the great Hog Island Shipyard tc according to findings of Department of investigators made public al the White House to day.

While no criminal responsibility is i fixed, recommendations were made for examination by a board of experts into the corporation's expenditures. I'he investigators are O. Caroil Todd mil Mark Hyman, assistant attorneys; general. The reports say officials of the cor Deration attempted to justify their position by exolanation that they were forced to sacrifice economy for speed. They claimed also, that in giving them 1 second contract, the Cnited Slates shipping Boa rd had waived any ai (gf mismaiiagenien t.

But the increase from he first estimate of the to $61,000,000, was not in the full satisfaction of $21 yard's cost, counted for the investl says the report. "Such discrepancy must be du to tome fundamental miscalculation in original estimates, to supervening londitions, including eniargtment ot V.ans, to mismanagement in opera tion. or to a combination of these fac tors." the report continues. "A dis i frepancy of this magnitude, would leeni to call for a clear explanation 'Irom the corporation but this has not leen furnished." In ten specific charges, the investigators tell the story of how $61,000. 000 was expended in building the big plant: they reveal how the govern nent paid "two to three times as auich per ship way at Hog" Island" as for building other yards, which were, lOustrucied under like contracts, and mder similar conditions.

F.mpioyes were brought from, the of sub contracto's. to be pine i d. on the Hog Island payrolls, at 'really increased salaries, according' i evidence gathered by the investi So many men were hired, that I effect was an "organized riot." md the entire organization was disrupted with unsatisfactory labor con litious resulting'. i In some cases, the report say's, the pay rolls were so overloaded, that i men stood about idle. The labor turn H'l'f.

as a result, ranged as high as 100 pi cent a week, the data showed. It is charged that although the merican international was paid a 'very substantial fee for the 'know how" and was expected to be equal the task, it allowed seven weeks to. lapse after slmning its contract be fore giving attention to transporia i tion features of the enterprise. as Hy.dfO cars of piled tip Philadelphia, and fir. Xfly an embar had UDbe placed against all freight lifrrmehfB io.

mat city. 1 Congestion in freight yards, due to the careless methods, the report says. I i I ALL THE ARMY CAMPSlTWO TRANSPORTS resigned, is eMMi U'il to ttino(mci'll i rnjs by Ihe hite a few days. 1 Lettish Washingion. Pee.

20. The has asked A lied assistance to ligbl Hie Itolsheviki. The re(iiest eaini to this (Government through Ihe Stockholm legation. i WOUNDS PROVE FATAL svas not alone confined in Philadel phia, but extended as far as Washington. Dec.

20. Order in Bo Va. hernia ill be maintained by the re "I spite of formal warnings from turning Czecho Siovak troops, diplo the Kmergency Fleet Corporation and malic advices indicated today. Colo the railroads, the report savs. "more nel Husak, heading the first contin freisrht was being or.iered th in could i Kent to return from France, spoke at Jie ttsed, officials of the American In a mammoth demonstration of wet teinational disregarded advice, audi come in Prague, declaring' that the took the position that they were re j'ainiy would protect the country from ponsible for the job and would prop i anarchy as well as from external foes.

handle the situation. OF RED CROSS IS Jaa.es burea 11 Chanler A. Joyce, chairman of the development of the Pittston Red Cross, this morning re night letter frf.n l'r u. is ceivr a Farquh chairman of the van la Delaware Division of the Roll Call Campaig. pleading for a more vigorous presecution of th" membership campaign in this division.

The message kvp statistics that showed Pennsylvania and Delaware beiiind their enrollment. the firs; the Pen four days of the campaign y.van1a ware Division. has secured less than 300,000 mem hers from inicKiy populated terri ory. The Atlantic Division reported noil new members on the fn the drive, while certain counties of the western divisions are mak ing ond. rfui records.

Whiting eoini ty. Indiana. has enrolled 5.500 out of a population county, Iowa, enrolling its The Rt. R. bishop of the and Hon.

A. issued strong people of this of S.uOO and AVehster lias gone one better by entire population of r. Philip R. McDevitt. diocese of Hurrisburg.

Palmer, both appeals today to the division to make their membership in the organization unanimous. Surgeon (Ieneral Rupert Blue, of the Cnited Slates. Public Health Service, another ardent) supporter of the Red Cross, in a forceful appeal for the organization, made a special point of the importance of the work that lies before it in spite of the fact that tile is over. He says: "At no time since tin American Red Cross began mini. terir.j; ,0 war stricken world has there been more need for its services than at present.

The American people will expect the Red Cross to continue its care for their soldiers, ami continue it without, relaxation. Furthermore, one cannot think of the devastation in Europe, witiiout ihe eon vicuon that our lied Cross will have to eontinui relief operations over the! for long time to come." TROOPS TO MAINTAIN OBITUARY Ambrose Joyce. Much sorrow was occasioned in Pittston today when word reached here of the death of Ambrose Joyce. son of Mr. and Mrs.

Ambrose Joyce, win. moved from this city to Xew York seven months ago. The young man passed away in Xew York yesterday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock of pneumonia. He was IS years old. Ambrose was taken ill in Washington.

D. C. where he had a O.overnnient position, but managed 'o mike the trip to Xew York, where lie died. Tile Joyce family were life long i.lents of Pittston before they moveJ to New York, having made their res'i 'i 1 deuce on La 1 1 r.i nge street. Ambrose, formerly attended St.

John's HiKh School and had a host of friends in the city and its vicinity. I Besides his parents the young' man lis survived by three brothers, Francis. I Robert and William, and one sister. Cleaner. The l'n tier 1 1 services will be held in New York tomorrow, and the remains then be brought lo this city and taken to the home of the young mails aunt.

Catherine Tigue, LaOrange street. On Monday morning it lo o'clock, the remains will he taken from the Tigue home io St. John's for burial. Albert Schmall. Death has claimed, in the prime of life, an esteemed young woman of this city, Mrs.

Albert Schmaltz, of street, who passed, away this morning at 11 o'clock. Mis. Schmaltz had been ill of pb uro pneunionia for three weeks, but the end came so suddenly as to be a severe shock to the members of her family. Mrs. Schmaltz was 2(1 years of age on May 11th of this year, hiving been a native of Ransom.

She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Stephenson, well known residr nts of Parsonage street, and was united In marriage to Mr. Schmaltz on April loth, 1912. She wis a member of the Firm Presbyterian Church.

Besides her husband, she is survived by her parents and the following brothers and sisters: Andrew, a soldier in France: Kitty. Margaret and Joseph SonotliovisUt. Joseph Sctieikowski. axed 49. of Dupont.

died 'at the family home this 'morning at 8:30 o'clock following an i illness of influenza pneumonia. He was employed nt the Heidelhut'g colliery. Lehigh Valley Coal Co. Surviving him are his widow and five children. The funeral will be held on Sunday afternoon and Interment will be in St.

Mary's Cemetery, I'pper Pittston. FALLING BEHIND Rl "Washington. Dec 20.The Allies and the United States are harmonious in the peace preliminaries, tin. State Department assured today. The word was given to counteract (lernian propaga nda.

which seeks I split the nations by discord. While the President has done comparatively Hit'. lo in Paris, so far. he has been met. with extreme cordiality.

It i admitted that certain differences of opinion may develop. But the State Department believes that such will be the honest differences which would prevail in any group, with varied interests. The League of Xations freedom of the seas are 10 eiicounier rough going before final Rn lOngiand's leaders were for a League of Xations a year or more ago. The Kretich now say il is imperative. Freedom of the seas will have many interpretations.

There will probably be important discussions as to British navai strength, and as to apportion of sea strength in the proposed I international navy. ANTI SALOON HEAD DECLARES TRIS IE LAST WET CHRISTMAS! Washi'ljrton. 2o. (l.itiflca tion of the prohibition amendment to fedi ra! eonsiii! ution the necessary three fourths of the states by next 1 is predicted in a of the prohibition situation made public by the Board of Temperance. Prohibition and Public Moi.i's of tli Methodist 'piseopa! chinch.

Citteeii slates nave approved the amendnit nt. and the board declares that ii in other stales "M'ps of which will meet next nreitli. ote favorably on the proposal iiaiion prohit'iTioi. The states which the Liar I declared will lilt ii.jii!cii the coming legislative sions Alalbinia. Ai'l'.

1 r. 'as. Californ'a, do. Cinrect Idal'io. lllnois, Ltdir.n 1.

Iowa. Kansas. Maine, Michigan, Minnesota. Missouri. Wbrask.i.

Nevada, Xew Hampshire. X' Mexico. Xorth Carolina, Ohio. Oklahoma. Oregon.

Rhode Island. Tennessee, i Vermont Washing iou. Wisconsin Wrft 1 Wyoming. Pennsylvania is classed as "hopeful," X'ew Yo: "an i.vn inn" and Jersey "iteiabiy onf.oscd." SANTA CLAOS IN FRANCE Xew York. Inc.

Christmas boxes containing chocolate, cigarettes, tobacco and chewing gum will be dis tributed to every member of the Am erican 1 lxpei it icui.i ry 'orces iu I 'ra nee Sfinta Clauses of tin Y. M. C. according to a cablegram from Paris received litre today, flighty million cigarettes will be given away to ihe dough hoys at Christ mas tree celebrations in I 1 In addition to this they will 'eceive chocolate bars. tins 1 fif smoking tobacco and 2.

moi. 11101 packages of chewing gum. I 'ive miiii(jn Christmas post cards! have been distrihiited for the men to mail home. French children will be the soldiers' i guests oil Christmas. In every hut I will le presented Thomas hing's 1 play.et.

and iitiioe dally written for 1 lie A. K. 1 Will also be Special minstr and moving pictures. pe There show DEMPSEY AND GIBBONS. MAY MEET IN THE RING New York.

20. A match between Dempsev. hhea vyweight. and Mike CibboiLs, middle weight, is fit beyond the realm of possibility. Certain inducements, it was 'ei.

1 today, have been offered both men. F.aeh. hile not vet a seing. ha to give the matter serious oie ideration. and there are reasons le beiieve the fight wll be staged.

A world famous promoter is be hi'i'l the scenes, pulling the wires, ir i' off it is a certain'y tlv.t the fighters wdi have to take a guar an'ee tnnt precludes any possjbility of high fintince, instead of a battle. A l.iitii between these two masters of the ring, would bo the standpoint of the be absolutely fair. a scrap It ould 1 rot. in. LEAVE FOR PARIS Wash inuton the summons Dec.

20. Answering of President Wilson, Bernard M. Rarueh. head of the War Industries Board, and Vance Mefor mick. head of the War Trade Board, will leave soon for Paris.

The State Department announced today that they will act as experts in an advisory capacity at the peace conference. Bnriioh on the subject of raw materials and MoOorniiek on trade I agreement matter ai.lik; 111) MMlDUKKIt MAKKIIID I HI! MOM1Y Mu 'kegon. I 20. Belief that Frieda Weichman. of Chicago, would inherit $20,000 ed Miio 11.

Piper to marry the girl, with whose death he is charged, according to the police oil ay, angle of the case developed through the discovery of love letters written to the girl by Piper, police say. IN HARMONY! I 1 I 1 I I i Ky FRANK .1. TAYLOR, trailed Press Staff Correspondent. Berlin, 10. iNiirht.) The A I Letter Soldatenrat (Workmen's and I Soldiers' Council) decided in favor of I a constitutional form of governmeni I today by a four fifths majority.

It fixed Jan. 19 for the meet ins of r.ationay assembley. Count Bernstorff. ii was staled likely to become Foreign blister, in the event that Count Broek Minister to Denmark, declines the post. It was reported several days a so Bernstorff had been suggested for Foreign Minister.

Later it wtc slated the plan had been abandoned, in view of possible objection by the Kit erne. Taylor's dispatch indict' tnat Bernstorff 's appointment is again being agitated. NO DKI.Kti ATKS I IUI ocopiih; districts Copenhagen. Dee. 20.

Marshal 1'och him refused permission for i Workmen's and Soldiers' ilelcRUcs I front ihn occupied districts to partiei Ipate in the Reichs (imperial) con fer ence. declares tile A dec meine Zeititng. I Foeh is said to have taken this stand i in replying to questions from Mathias KrzbertTer. chairman of the German armistice commission, regarding his I attitude toward the Workmen's and Soldiers' Council. LANDED TODAY WITH AMERICAN SOLI mroc Li Xew Yirk, Dec.

20. The (15th Iri gaile, Kieid Artillery, commanded by BriK Oen. U. W. Y'oung, a grandson of Brigham Young, reached Xew York today aboard the I'niied States transport ii.

R. Mallory. The brigade includes the 143rd. 1 44: li and Kuld Artillery, whicii will entrain a once for Chicago. The men come principally from The steamship also an American transport.

arrived today bringing 1 r0 officers and 4.D0H enlisted men. They include ail of the 116th 1'ield Artillery, part of the foUh Field Artillery, the lofith Ammunition train, headquarters company of the infantry. 118th Cield Artillery, and ten officers and (t men of the I st Also aboard the Manchuria were 050 sick jind wounded men. This ship Driff. Oens.

Robert K. Sterner and John OF STRONG MOVE TO i Wa hing ton, 1 ee en i report about i he that Herbert Hoov; I're to lift tl gr iin to brev. erii confirmation. Acrording to ihi is fr inklv told 20. A persist ea iita 1 tocia' wa had nrgC'l the de'iyiiu; Theta report.

II. 'over President neces sity lor the 1" re wing ce.i her hen were shut ord'M' no IonL'cr exi ts. 'ed ihe i'irst of In: 111 lants the ovet down. While Hoover still insists that be practiced for a lung it is under tood that fold the Preside it ergency war order re for brewers, may now Bone dry i'ors sa order is as mus. liaie to eonie.

believr that the em girding grain be rejicaled. lliey believe now a was. issued. They point that it he si em il cessati el lio.ailiiies caused little char the situation a re ned, )oth must be fed. in ated peoples.

so far as food need and there is i here and broa 1 111 addition to the iibei WEATHER ARMISTICE LIKELY TO CONTINUE Washingion, Dc 2o, The weather armistice, according 10 official information from the wcalher bureau 10 day, will last at least the rest of the yea r. The progn ostica tors, evidently saddened by memory of what the weather was a year ago, have been passing out the mildest kind of December days Oh ri' i ias time a year ago is memorable by 1 ho fact, that there was a blanket of snow, almost country wide, railways wore lied up by extreme cold and oil its were suffering front lack' of coai. So far this year there have been 110 extreme cold waves in inv section. NEW GERWAWL FOR AMERICAN AIO Washington, Dec. 20.

lermany has addressed lo the S'at DenaM 1'ient another appeal for Am riean The Department. i no: making the 11, public inasmuch as i' contains 110 new faets. The general teeling i that the roe' age of the (Icrnian prfiiri 1 nd 1 designed to stir up false sypi Itliy t'oi tiie Cerriians. MAV KISKDIT M'li: I MilAM) Washington. A ic i'liii.

et. ed in favor i.r Knivland bv the Trr ni i.id. iv, nuil iiig a tola' deb: for Rr'taln of 1 '1 11 0 A. oon and D.tai all.etl indebtcilne 1 1 13.000. 20.

l'lii lisb mirk. I uien uin that tile League of Xations be made the most important al the l'Pnr'" conference. I lo torce delegates into line on this question. the workmen, I through the Trades Union Congress and the Rabor parly wiii initiate a gieat public campaign. JDemon.stra jtion.s advocating the League of Xa lions will be held in London, (ilas Birmingham.

Xew iCastle. Cardiff, Leeds and Rristol. The first demonstration will take place in Albert hall here Jan. 2. Speakers will include Arthur Heiider 'son.

deorge Lansbury, (Jeoi'ge lard Shaw. Will Thome and 1 McDonald. Be rn la msay I On Jan. ath a vote will be taken on 'a resolution congratulating President Wilson oil his work for the League of Xations, and demanding that the Jirtl peace delegation make formation lof the league its principal work at tin jiea.ee conference. CRUEL TREATMENT DF POLITICAL PRISONERS Paris.

Dec. 20. Five thousand IMr i.tuguese citizens have been held as se Icret political prisoners for more thai. year, Albert Costa, former l'ortu Iguese Premier, declared in an inter jxew with the Matin today, The sufferings of these men. who jwere whipped and otherwise tortured, jwere responsible for the assassination Presid'ent Paes, it was intimated.

Some of the victims of this modern 'inquisition were even executed, Costa said. The prisoners, according' to Costa included former ministe: formei presiilents of the Chamber, senators officers, soldiers. They hav been imprisoned since the Paes eonj d'etat in 1 1 7. Costa said he had revealed only i of Portugal's sufferings, which ihe declared, explain the recent act of violence. Sidonio J'aes headed a revolution ir Portugal in December, Hi 17.

and was named president of the provisional for 0, of At tile outbreak of" tl At tile outbreak of tl war. Ice wtis Portuguese Minister to t.lermany. land remained in P.eriiu' nnt early ii when he returned to Lisbon. j0 W.1S at walking ir. the streets of Lisbon, Dec, ti.

Tilt shot went wild, and his assailant wa. arrested. Kight days later he was again attacked as he sat in a Lisbon station, waiting Oporto, lie was struck lets and died within a His assailant. named lynched by a mob. for a train by three bill few ml JeeTnee, wa.

omen felt Mimiers. all new eol Keonoiiiy Shoe Store alu St. ORDERS FOR 96,000 AUTOS CANCELLED BY THE GOVERNMrNT X'ew York. Dec. 2a.

Ninety six thousand automobiles truck and pas senge." ears ere left on the hand. of manufacturers by cancellation oi War Department orders, it developed today. In addition, nianufact arers have 20. 000 motorcycles and 35.1100 bk'y jcles that the govern men ordered and icanceled on signing of the armistice. It was.

est i ma ted that about half ol these heeled vehicles" would have f.eeii ready for delivery by 1. As a counter balance to this sud jden stoppage of government demand lor cars, automobile men that fthe passenger car production for 10 18 is tdiort of the 1017 production. Buy your Christmas at A. Fiegelinan's Jewelry Store. 5 7 Xorth Main street, and get handsome calendar for 1919.

ISDlit MEXICANS CLAIM STRENGTH ENOUGH TO STOP REVOLUTION Mexico City, Dec. 2o. Th" Mexican government has sufficient troops in the State of Chihuahua lo suppress any attempts at revolution there, (ieneral L'ios. in charge of the Mexican War Department, stated today. Rios declared ail railroad lines were entirely controlled, by Federal forces.

He said rumors of revolutionary activity probably emanated from agents of Villa, who spread them In the nope of making the Americans believe the ext inguished rebillion is re kind'ing. Come si 'i our pays, lcoiiomv Maid SI. Holiday Sllpixus. It Shoe North 201 I SPECIAL PRICES FOR CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS, A special discount will be given on all purchases before Christmas. received a large shipment of new and a tiractivc coats and suits for ladles.

men and boys. You can Kt etch dollar farther here than at any other place. Liberty Bonds accepted in payment on your purchase. LEVINE, THi: Kt'ONOM Cl.OTUlPIt, North. Main.

Fpsf; TO PRIVATE H. W. WOODii in It Washington. Dec. 20 Though influenza continues at practically all large irmy camps, in this country.

the weekly i i ilth report today shows apparently on the. a i n. Pneumonia cases also were fewer fol the week ending Dec. 1 man tney viotisly have been. 1" Th War Department is keeping in camp for treatment, soldiers unlit lor a r.

lurn to civil life. Reports showed 3.16o influenza and l.iit',1 pneumonia cases for the week ended Dec. 1 ITALIAN CHOWN PKlNC'i: I ALL PARIS line t'O. Kntranced bv the i i i of President Wilson, Paris is now enthralled by the smile or io.u Pi ince Humbert, 14 year old heir to i hi Italian throne. The young prince is reputed to he (hi "smi nicest Du Burope.

despite his long' cruises on aJii wat shlns. a4ld. he a rdsh i)s shared with his fat, gyl at the Italian front. in this bis first visit to Paris. Hum bert has been unable to concea.

ms boy: sh pleasure and excitement. His dancing eyes, bis dai eager lace, ra diaiios' the nniest. of smiles, instantly won the hearts of Paris isms. He is already the i.lol of the Italian people. KIS LYN TNANCES The county commissioners have ed a resolution appropriating mi more for the support of the I Lvn School, making iflO.OOO lor tar.

This is offset, however, by ck of $5,000 paid by Supt. Controller Hemiershoi for pro and cattle sold during the year, superintendent promises to pay ii a litinr before the end of ve.tr. making a total of $6,500 from the Kis Lyn farm this from the sab' of stock and pro The money, paid to th ounty iced in the general fund. eh en due Tlr 1.." year i uee i ST KM I. PKKKIDKNT RKSKiXS v'cw York.

Dec. 2o. President cmi tod: rke. of the Lackawanna tei I 1 mnor.nced his resigna lion, lif eome head of the newly organized Sioel Products which wid protect Ainer: rical steel prouiiciM inic.tsi.s a liro id I.Ol GIILIN Itelnn, l'lec. 20.

l'rancis in. American League umpii died here today from pneumonia, fol lowing influenza. HKKI.IN M1WSPAPKK WOKKKKS Mill ON sl ltlKIl! .1 TAYLOR. i l'n i ted Be 'ii! Press Staff Correspondent 1 Dec. Xight.

A strike id' 11" wsp i.er workers has 01 ceo dl nore than dozen dalles 10 ''i ii' miblic tion eoiopi omise deriMllld "11 Kfforts to effect witii the v. orkers. who I iccet sf in wages having leile.l. Among newspaper which were tin able publish today. were the I i 1 1 ihe Lokal Aneager, 1 tie ossiscbe Zelt.mg' Hid 'he X.

Y. STOCK MARKET When shipyard officials began to disentangle the freight congestion, they found that little of the material needed at once could be had. Construction of the ways and ihe yard proper thus was held up for weeks, according' to report. Kiaborating further, the charges of mismanagement. the report says: "Having failed to make adequate progress daring the first twelve weeks when the weather was good, the corporation sought to make up for lost time by jamming the work through six or seven weeks of unusual cold, when il was impossible to make progress commensurate with the effo.

nr expense, often working night shifts, overtime and holidays, at enormous increase, in payrolls, to do work that could be done ill a fraction of tip time, in the proper construction weather. of this work could have been postponed without detriment to the program as a whole. "Large quantities of construction and floating equipment were brought to the island and held idle during these weeks at a monthly rental of 5 per cent. "The effort at speed under such impossible conditions resulted in abandonment of most forms of dredging and machine digging, forcing the substitution of hand picking and hand shoveling, often accompanied bv blasting or thawing frozen ground, and involved a sudden and horizontal increase again in the number of laborers needed without adequate tune to build up the supervising force Amplifying fheir charge that tremendous increases in saiaries were authorized out of the government's funds, the investigators repoit.d thai 37 employes of Stone Web.t (subcontractors on the job) were rians ferred to the Hog Island payroll, mid their salaries raised from each, annually, to each. Against all the "alleged oxtrava gance," officials of the Fleet Corporation and the Shipping Board continually protested, records show.

officials of the American International contended that all these expenditures were swept aside by the granting ol additional contracts. But the opinion was expressed in the report, thai: While the alle'gations of waiver are serious, we do not regard them as conclusive. As to the jump in cost over the original estimate, the report says: "Considerable effort has been made by 'officials of the American International to stultify their own estimates by claiming that they were mere guess.s that nobody could rely upon. But the Kmergency Fleet Corporation did lvly on lhe wi Mtd there is no con ieinporaneous evidence jutislying the American International's position." The investiKators reported that ihcy c.iuld not examine into the affairs of the plant without "superficially, at liiist, coming to the conclusion lh.it it would impress anyone as an 'or iiiiuizeil riot, 'tangled mass, or 'suite Mr. S.

Claim will establish his slip per ncaoqua i i ei neve. nemomner niii prices are low. Koonomy Shoe at ore, 55 No, Alain St. 1WH Mrs. Main in in Harry A.

Wood last evemn that her of 50 South rcct ived the ion .1 'ri vate F. 1 45th In I ct. WS 1 rt i 1 Wood o. fantry. nrevimisl tt porled woundeii in acti.

n. died id' his wounds. Xov. 12. in a base in France.

Private Wo. id was horn in Johnstown X. and 'lie family re iib iu West 1 1 an Pit tston for the past four years. a ipeuiber or' the Fori i ib i' of K. tales, X.

Y. i dead saldi' left Pittston for Lee. Airi! 27th last, and lowing Jove saile fur France.1 "his nioiher. he is survived by )e C'ti niii the Besid Olle sister, llizab. th, at home, and! brother.

Burton, of "Denver. is seriously ill of pneumonia. one win WERE DISMISSED TODAY Judge Woodward the jurors court, no further ca. trial this week. this mainiiig dis irs in com man picas cases being ready for Irani Court right and L.

W. V. R. on Strauss, was common and given to the The ea oi wife against the trial bi.fore Jud pletcd thi i aft er .111 ry. Judge Fuller is presiding in the trial of tin e.ise of Watsontown Door Sash against H.

L. Campbell, and is hurrying the case to a completion so that it may reach the jury tomorrow. The suit of M. .1. Henley against C.

O. Bowman, on trial al! week before Judge Cummings cannot be completed before next week. HUGH JENNINGS WILL REMAIN IN THEM A ore printed by New York news papers yesterday to the effect that liughey Jennings, manager of the Detroit Tigers, had been summoned to Hie K. of C. headfpiarters there for instructions prior to departing for France, has been denied by Jennings' friends.

The Tigers' manager enlisted for work in the K. of C. shortly afler thi1 baseball season closed but was never ordered lo report. Xow that the ,1 J. ii.iirhev will be needed on this sid.

of tlx ocea n. HKiix.i: mil mils pphov ID have The con unapprove. I and "i pairing ihe Al street which had Th. v.ork was Bock well. com in issioners icccpted the work of east abutment of trie bridge.

Wil krsbarre. cracked and sagged, by contrnelor W. of Nsinticoke, He re em sid repaired this bridge red In is'nod brand We'! is a but men i now con condition. I i Am. Can 4 4 4(5 Am.

Car 'dy 85Tj.i 5 1 1 8 5 Am. Ltico til 'i 1 "I 's Am. Smelting SI i 3s Ti1 Am. Sugar 1 10 'j 1 1 0 'a xArn. T.

HS OS Anne. Copper 4 1 '14 T. A S. 1'. OS 8M4: Bill.

Ohio a2 1 I it. it. 3o '4 2s y4 so 'j, I 'an. Pacific 1 .18 ITiT, lei! cent. Leather iin a.i i.s r.ii ('lies, (diio r55 C.

M. Si. P. 42 11 til 42 Iiel. Hud 10 Hi 5 14 10f.4 1 I'Jrie 1 7 tv IT 1 7 1 1 il.

pfil. 0(1 4 Kan. City So 10 i 1 0 10 Lehigh Valley 57 Vs SB riii Mo. l'acifie 2S 24; Xational Lead fi4 1 14 1 (14 Xew Haven 32 31 'L 3 2 I X. Y.

Central Vfc i 7(1', Xorf. Al West. lot! Dl''. Xorih. l'acifie Ilfi 03 1 P.

R. 11 45 'ii 45 "ii 45 Beading: K2 So SI i Rep. Iron 75 tj, 74 Rubber 77 'i 71 71 7 South. Pacific lK I South. Railway 2S 29 Ciiion Pacific 128 12' 12): 1 I'.

S. cl 'h 1 Wabash 's' f. Westinghouse 4 3 4 2 4 3 I Kxtra dividrnd. THE PEOPLE'S CASH MARKET 41 South Main Street. will hold a special sale Saturday nt ustiiil, where you can buy the best in en I at the lowest prices.

We Will also have a first class lln of Turkeys, Geese, Ducks and Chicken for Christ Leave your orders now at the old stand. 41 Mouth Majn Street. Men's Itlnck or Tun slippers, at $1. 1 cononiv 8lioc Siorc, 55 No. Main Si.

20dlt Geo. T. AkIi p'lmublnir. 6.