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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11
URGES ATRUCE IN AGITATION
Committee of New York Federation Of
Labor Says Present Conditions
Invite a Disaster.

New York Suspension Of all
strikes throughout the United States
and the declaration of q labor truce on
the basis OF the status quo for six
months OF more TO enable President
Wilson to bring about a reduction in
the cost OF living is recommended in
a report of a committee OF the New
York State Federation Of Labor made
public here recently.
The recommendation urge American
organized labor to cease wage and
hour controversies in order to increase
production and restore normal cOndi-
tons They express the hope that no
new strikes viii be ordered except TO
relieve workers from "'intoleTable op-
preston"
The committee was appointed by
James P. Holland, president Of the fed
Grafton. on July %, and made its re-
port after comforting with representa-
tives Of industrial, commercial, manu-
featuring, financial, transportation and
other interests with a view to devils
ing plans TO lower the cost Of living.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11
ULTIMATUM BY RAILWAY MEN
5rotherhoods Give Government 60
Days to Fulfill Pledge to Lower
Prices of Necessities,

Washington.-The cost Of living
must be materially reduced within
ninety days or the Nation viii find
itself Paralyzed by the worst railroad
tieup in its history, with probably at
tendant upheayals in other lines Of
labor.
Such, in effect, was the ultimatum
delivered to the Government by the
legislative council OF the railroad shop
crafts.
The time limit of ninety days was
set tacitly by the council in suggest
ing TO union locals throughout the
country that President Wilson's COM
promise offer In response 10 their de-
mand for higher wages should be &C
cepted, pending the outcome of the
effort to restore a normal price level
The decision of the railroad shop
mems council has brought the cost Of
living crises TO a very definite stage
The next three minths viii see the
administration fighting with every
weapon available to bring such sharp
declines in the costs of all the neces-
sites of life as TO satisfy the big rail
unions and at the same time head off
demands for increased wages from
many other organized crafts.
Can the government do it2
That question is being anxiousIy
asked on all sides. II is a must
matter. There are no apparent loop
holes for the administration There
can be no dallying Action must be
swift and sure in order to avert disas-
ter.
President Wilson has taken upon the
administration the pledge to bring
down prices. If he fails II will mean
a blow TO the Democratic party Of such
proportion that II can hardly hope to
recover before the election in NOvem-
Der, 1920 But, more than that. failure
viii put the Nation in q plight far
worse than war II will mean the
stOppage Of production in so many
lines that, naturally, prices viii soar
to untold heights. And with the trans
pCrtation of the country completely
tie up II would mean that in many
communities some articles OF daily
need would be almost impossible to
obtain at any price.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11
STATES TO HELP GOVERNMENT
Executives Offer Full Cooperation to
Federal Authorities in Fight to
Reduce Cost of Living.

Washington.-New impetus was Civ
en- the government campaign to re-
duce the cost of living at conferences
here, which assured the closest coop
Grafton between federal and state au-
thorities.
Six gOvernors-Gardner, Missouri;
Milliken, Maine; Burnquist, Mime
sofa; Campbell, Arizona; Sproul,
Pennsylvania, and Cooper, South Caro-
lima, and Lieutenant Governor Nc
DOweIl, Montana representing the Ma
tional Conference of Governors, spent
several hours studying the situation
with Attorney General Palmer and
then called at the White House to Of
fer President Wilson the full machin-
cry of the state in the effort to re-
store a normal price level.
As result, there was greater op-
timism in the Capital over the out
look than has been evident in many
days. With the far reaching state or
CARNATIONS carrying the message of
economy and increased production into
every county and aiding the federal
authorities in bringing to justice
hoarders and profiteers, officials be
heVe excellent results could be OBJ
tanned in the next ninety days which
would avert the menace of transporta-
ton strikes to obtain higher wages.
After our meetings with the Presi-
dent and the Attorney General" the
committee of governors announced,
certain facts are clear:
Il. That all the people of the Ma
ton and all organizations should i'm
mediately cooperate for the purpose
Of increasing the production Of the
necessaries of life
''2. That economy in consumption
and care in purchasing the necessaries
of life are equally important with prod
uction
SO. That every agency of the fed
eral and state governments should CO.
operate forthwith to prevent profit
eering.
THE Attorney General has assured
US that he will prosecute, under exist
ing and proposed laws, all profiteers
THE suggestion of the Attorney Gen
eral that fair price commissioner be
appointed in each of the states and fair
price committees in the different 10
calities of the states, upon the nomi-
nations Of the governors, was in
dorsed."
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11
A SPY ACCUSES CARRANZA
Mexican President Charged With Aid
ing Germans in Plans to In
wade the United States.

New York.-Dr Paul D. Altendorf,
former member of the American mill
tary intelligence service, who issued
a statement recently detailing what
he knew about the German plot to
stir up a Mexican invasion OF the
United States, has issued a supple
mentary statement charging Presi-
dent Carranza of Mexico with being
directly implicated in the plot.
Doctor Altendorf, who served in the
Mexican army as a colonel while rep
resenting the intelligence service,
said that he had an interview with
Carranza January Is, 1913. At that
interview he said Carranza said he
knew all about me, having been in
formed that I was on the way to
Sonora to help train the combined
army of Mexicans and Germans who
were to invade the United States
Doctor Altendorf said he asked Car
rama for letter to General Gales,
governor of Sonora. hoping to get
Carranza's completely in writing, but
that Carranza refused, saying he was
going ION very delicate mission
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11
CROWN LANDS TO PEOPLE
King Emmanuel of italy Takes Long
Step Toward Democracy
Tax His Property.

Milan.-King Emmanuel took anOth-
CT step, a significant one, along the
path Of democracy, when he Informed
Premier Nitti, according TO IN official
announcement, that he intended TO re-
Hnquish all the crown lands through
out Italy for the benefit Of the peas
antry and the "cOmbatants for Italian
unity
The official announcement states
that the king renounces possession OF
the buildings on those lands in favor
of charitable institutions and organ
fzations whose aim is 10 mitigate the
sufferings which have followed in the
wake Of the war
The king also announced that II the
future his own private property would
be taxed the same as that OF the com
mOneTs.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11
STORM HITS OKLAHOMA TOWN

Oklahoma City, Ok-The City Hail
and Oklahoma State Bank buildings
and a number of residents at Kona-
wa, Seminole County, were demolished
by a tornado which struck the city at
6 o'clock the other night, coming
from the northeast Trees were up
rooted and crops were damaged.
The extent of the damage in that
city is estimated at $25,OOO No one
was injured. The wires are down and
nothing definite could be learned from
the surrounding section, which is said
to have suffered considerably.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

king Emmanuel took another step
a significant one, along the path of
democracy, when he informed Premier
Nitti, according to an official an
nouncement, that he intended to re-
hnquish all the crown lands through
out Italy for the benefit OF the peas
antry and the "combatants for Italian
unity"
The first contingent of German
prisoners have arrived at Cologne AMI
Deutz from the British camp at Calais.
The men appeared to be well fed, and
they wore good clothing.
The adjustment of the Office of
military governor of Berlin, which has
just been effected, marks the passing
of a Prussian military institution dat
ing back to 1858 The military ad-
ministration of the city now devolves
upon the local command OF the regu-
lar army organization
Decision has been reached, accord
ing to military authorities at Douglas,
AriZ., to erecet a permanent aviation
camp east of Camp Harry J. Jones,
near Douglas. Thirty-five buildings
will be constructed.
Nine. Schumann Heink who sailed
recently for New York on the steamer
Rotterdam, was obliged to return to
America without having accomplished
the errand on which she came to HOl-
land, namely, to take her grandchil-
dren, who are now in Germany, back
to America to educate and make Amer
lean citizens of them.
The price Of staple foodstuffs in
Missouri has increased from 100 to 300
per cent since 1915. according to a
statement issued at ST. Louis by At
tcrney General Frank W. McAllister.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11
MEXEEcCANS FIRE ON
AMERICAN AIRMEN
Capt. D. B. McEabb Wounded
While Doing Patrol Duty
Along the Border.
NO RETAIIATORY MEASURES
Attackers Fired Upon Plane From Am
bush Before 1t Could Get Out
OF Their Range.

Laredo, Tex=Fired upon from the
Mexican side of the Rio GTande. Cap
tain David w McNabb. United States
aviation corps. was slightly wounded
recently while on aerial patrol duty
along the international boundary
northwest of here.
With Lieut. Won De B. Johnson, Cap
tain MeNab was flying slowly up the
river, close TO the water when suddenly
a group Of Mexicans fired a volley Of
shots at the airplane, wounding Nc
Nabb near the ear, while several shots
pierced the planes wings
Colonel Beaumont B. Buck. commSn-
der of the Laredo district, with head
quarters at Fort Mcintosh, here said,
all that is known OF the attack is that
the firing was from a point where an
outpost Of Mexican federal soldiers was
known TO be located
No additional statement would be
made by Colonel Buck, who forwarded
promptly a report of the attack 10 Ma
jOr General Joseph T Dickman, com
mander Of the Southern department at
San Antonio II was indicated no &C
ton by officers here likely would be
taken except On instructions from Gen
eTa1 Dickman
The Mexican consul here declared
that he had heard "a detrimental ru-
NOR" TO the effect that Mexicans had
fired on an American airplane. but
said did not believe it, There have
been unofficial reports for several days
that Mexican Shippers have fired at
patrolling airplanes-
Captain McNabb and Lieutenant
Johnson reported fully on the attack
10 Colonel Buck, but neither would
make a statement to the press re-
Gently
Both aviatOrs belonged to B flight.
eighth aero squadron. Captain McNabb
commanding the flight The unit was
transferred to Laredo from Kelly Field
San Antonio, several weeks ago when
other units were sent 10 various army
posts along the border for patrol duty
There was no warning from the at
tackers who appeared suddenly on the.
Mexican bank and fired several yolleys
at the plane before il could get out
/ of range According TO first reports
/ the aYiators estimated there were
! twenty-five men in the attacking group
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11

The Kansas Dental Board and the
state board Of health will begin the
enforcement of the compulsory dental
inspection law with the opening of
the school year. The law was amended
by the 1919 legislature so that it can
be enforced and the cost Of the inspec-
ton for every child is to be paid from
the school funds. The dentists are
required to examine the teeth annual
~ of every child in school and make
a written report Of the condition to
the school board and to parents or
guardian of the child. No work can
be done except upon the consent of
the parents. The officials of the den
tai board and the board of health had
a conference recently and worked out
their plans for carrying the law into
effect
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11

Capt. w. P. Mclean Of Topeka, has
been named as superintent of the Boys
Industrial School by Governor Allen
Captain Mclean formerly was the su-
perintendent OF Fairgrounds for the
Topeka schools and went to the border
with the old Battery A, K. N. G. When
the United States went into the World
War, he was the head Of the bat
terry that became Battery A, of the
both Field Artillery of the 35th Di-
vision. Since returning home Captain
Mclean has been handling the Topeka
section Of the War Camp Community
Service in helping to get the soldiers
estored to a peace time basis. H w
Charles who has been superintendent
OF the schools for eighteen years, has
resigned to go into similar work in
Tennessee
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11
ExPELL THE UNRULY MINERS
Twenty-Five Radical Organizations
by the United Mine Workers

Springfield, nl-The charters CT
twenty-five local unions. which revolt
ed against the officers Of the United
Mine Workers, have been revoked by
Frank Harrington, president Of the
state organization. The Belleville dis
trict is hard hit by the drastic action.
Action will be taken at once to weed
out radical leaders in locals that were
not expelled, so that the Illinois mine
union viii be purged Of the clements
which are attempting to wreck it, Far
Tington said.
Steps are to be taken Immediately
to organize new locals in the districts
affected. In the reorganization the
radicals will be eliminated.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11
NEWS ITEMS FROM
ALL OVER KANSAS
Happenings of More or Less
Interest Gathered From
Many Sources.
STATES CORN CROP SHORT
Secretary Mothers Report Shows Az
gust Drought Made Big Redue-
ton in Kansas Yield.

4 corn crop of 56, AS 900 bushels
an average yield of 1871 bushels pei
acre on the 100000 acres planted
is forecast for Kansas in the August
crop report issued by J. c. Mohler
secretary of the state board Of agri
culture Condition of the crop is 43.S
compared to 79.7sper cent on July -
The prospective yield indicated, says
the report, is the fifth smallest pro
duced in kansas in forty-five years
although it is more than last year
crop by about II million bushels. The
United States Department Of AgricuE
ture forecast a crop Of 81 million
bushels in its report three weeks ago,
based on August 1 conditions.
In most localities prospects for corn
declined steadily during August, and
so far as grain production is concerned
much Of the crop is total failure,
according to recent reports, which are
based on g canvass of the crop stu
alton made August g. The poorer
conditions prevail in the counties OF
the central third of the state. DOni-
.phan County leads in production with
an estimated average yield OF thirty
one bushels to the acre. Only ten
counties report acre yields of twenty
bushels or more.
The prospective aggregate wheat
yiled OF 159 million bushels forecast
in the June report, remains unchanged,
threshing returns Indicating probable
average yield of 1877 bushels to the
acre.
Sorghums are proving their drought
resisting powers, the report says, and
their condition is "a to SO points high
er than that Of corn. Acreage is 1881
900 acres, 40 per cent less than last
year
Condition of the growing kafir crop
is 67.8, with an acreage of 729, 900, or
1926 per cent less than last year.
Acreage of milo, grown principally in
the southwestern counties, shows a
decrease Of 174,3s1 acres, with con-
dition OF 1855.
Condition of the broomcorn crop is
72.5. Acreage is more than one-third
less than last year.
The estimated yield of prairie hay
remains 1.186,O0O tons, as forecast in
the July report.
Commenting on fall preparations, the
report says little fall blowing has been
done, owing to the dry condition of
the ground and the fact that the far
mers have lacked either time or
help. OF 784 correspondents report
ing to the board, 698 say the acreage
sown to wheat this fall will be re-
duced.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11

Samuel Fletcher of Kansas City,
Kas.. disappeared in 1916. His rela-
tives have asked the attorney general
for detailed descriptions of the skele-
tons and clothing found on the prop
erty occupied by Rufus King at Maple
Hill, so they might learn if any of the
bits Of clothing of trinkets were like
those worn by Fletcher. He left Kan
sas City to look at some horses some
were in Kansas and never returned.
Since the discovery Of the skeletons
at Maple Hill many inquiries have been
received from persons seeking lost
relatives.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11
KILLED NEGRO Ex-sOLDIER
Having InsuIted a White Girl
Near Star City.

Pine Bluff, Ark-Flinton Briggs, 90
years old, a discharged negro soldier,
was shot and killed by a mob of
thirty men near Star City. according
to belated reports received here. He
was accused of having insuIted a
young white woman. 1t was said the
negro was marched down the road by
the mob. but before a tree was
reached, shots were fired into his
back, killing him. The body was left
at the roadside. At an inquest a cor
oner's jury found that Briggs came
to his death by gunshot wounds in
flicted by unknown persons.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11
AGAINST THE ONE BIG UNION
State Labor Commissioner Crawford
Tells Unions that I. w. w. Plan
IL BoIsheVism.

John Crawford, Kansas labor COM
missioner, told the labor union mem
bers Of Topeka that the l. W. W. and
its "one big union idea would break
up the trade unions of the. country,
He termed the l. w w. 1.-The Bolshev-
Xxi OF America" Crawford was the
chief speaker at the Labor Day cele-
bration in Topeka The parade OF
Iaboring men was the largest ever
held there
'The danger to the trade unionist
is not in the visible troubls between
labor and industry" said Mr.. Crawford,
but in the life and death struggle now
going on within our own organizations.
For more than twenty-five years the
same elements have pursued a sys-
tematic campaign to control, under
mine and destroy the American trade
onion movement as represented by the
American Federation OF Labor. 1t or
ganized the so-calIed Western Labor
Union and it failed; then the Ameri-
can labor Union, followed by the So
cialist Trade and Labor Alliance, each
failure Then in 1904 and 1906, IN
der the control and direction Of
German, William E. Trautman, editor
of the Brrauer Zeitung, the official or
gan of the United Brewery Workers
Of America, the Industrial Workers of
the World was organized, and through
its spawn, the lone big union" pro-
poses to control the political, econom-
ic and social affairs of the state and
Nation, as well as the people, and to
enforce its .dictum by the general
strike and other like destructive agen-
cies''
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11

Lieut. Henry j. Dick of Inman is
dispensing justice. according to the
Kansas code in Germany, it has been
learned from g. letter received by his
family. Lieutent Dick was sent with
the 131st Infantry to Germany after
the armistice was signed and he was
stationed at Hartenfels, in charge of
the court, when the letter was written.
The American forces policing that
part of Germany were in charge of all
the civil affairs. everything done by
the Germans being subject to military
approval
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11

President Wilson Declines to
Accede to Committees Re-
quest for Documents.
DECLARES IT OUT OF QUESTION
In Letter to Senator Lodge President
Gives His Reasons for Non-com-
pliance With Demand.

Washington.-The request Of the
foreign relations committee for latest
drafts of the proposed treaties with
GeTmany's allies has been refused by
President Wilson on the ground that
compliance would set a precedent en-
cOuraging senatorial encroachment
on the presidential power of treaty ne
gotiation.
In an exchange of letters made pub
lie recently Mr.. Wilson wrote that 1t
was 'Out Of the question" to accede
to the committees suggestion, and
Chairman Lodge replied that although
the treaties were closely connected
with the treaty with Germany, the
president undoubtedly had authority
TO keep information about them from
the senate if he chose.
Make Complications
The correspondence apparently
brought another impasse between the
president and the committee on the
much-debated subject of what informa-
ton and senators should have in their
consideration OF the treaty with Ger
many. Mr.. Lodge and others have
declared the committee could not act
intelligentIy until all of the Versailles
treaties were before it, but at the
White House conference Mr. Wilson
told the committee that the form to
be taken by the four treaties under ne
gotiatiOn depended largely on the SEN
Rte's action regarding the instrument
now before it.
Would Embarrass Others.
A copy of the agreement of June 1e,
relative to the Rhine district, also was
denied the committee, the president
writing that it would only become
pertinent after the treaty was ratified,
and that its publication now might be
embarrassing TO other governments
To this Senator Lodge replied that it
already had been published in British
white book and from that source had
been circulated in this country through
the Congressional Record.
The only amendment pending before
the committee now is a proposal by
Senator Fall, Republican, New Mexico,
to strike out the provision for an in
ternationaI labor organization At its
open hearing, the committee will Ques-
ton Eugene Piyany OF the Hungarian
American federation, who asked to be
heard regarding the claims of Hun
gary at the Versailles conference.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11
A New Army Bill In.

Washington--A new army reorgan-
ization bill without any provisions
for universal military training was
introduced in the House recently by
Representative Dent, Alabama, for
mer chairman of the military affairs
committee.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11
stoIe Mastera Raintinn.

Bologna, Italy. Father Francois
masterpiece, The Madonna and
Child" has been stolen from the Ac-
eademia di Belle Arti, and a colored
photograph has been substituted for
It The photo was pasted in The frame
to conceal the theft
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11

The little city of Newton, is in a
fair way to attain nationwide fame.
81 believe the report from Newton
for July is without precedent any
where in the United States" declared
DR.. ]. s. Crumbine Of the state board
of health "Of the Twenty-Five births
reported to Us from Newton last month
a total Of twenty babies were born
in q hospital. Nurses and physicians
must have been doing good education
al work in Newton, for in this town of
approximately 5000 persons, the two
hospitals cared for SO per cent OF the
births occurring during the month"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11
%. s. cross to Three solsi.rs

Washington--The War Department
has announced that General Pershfng
had awarded the Distinguished Ser
vice Cross 10 Mechanic Zen Jamin e
Foust, Columbia. Mo-; Priyates Ava
Kane, Stfl1weH. Kas-, and Charles E
Kearns, Drumright, Ok
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11
A ~ParIor,' Labor Conference.

New York--Mrs. Henry P. Dawson,
wife Of one OF J. P. Morgan's part
ners. has invited several labor leaders.
economic experts and employers Of
labor to her country home for the
weekend to confer on means Of end
ing social unrest.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11
pain checked Forest Fires.

MissouIa, Mont-Rain throughout
Northern Idaho and Western Montana
aided greatly in the fight against
forest fires. Forest officials said the
fire situation was better than IL had
been in three weeks