davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington herald., 1920-02-15

Prices of building materials are
therefore still on the upgrade" the
bulletin concludes and asserts that
the tremendous pressure OF the de-
mand for housing would in itself
maintain these prices for five or ten
years of construction work. even II
therc were not other fundamental
causes for the situation"
The Washington herald., 1920-02-15
Eleventh Street Building Sold.

Sale of the three-story brick
building at sos Eleventh street
northwest was reported yesterday
by Charles d. Sager. The sale was
made for ID. ]. kaufman and the
purchaser lis Samuel Yeager. Con-
sideration is about $4,000. The
street floor is used for business pur-
poses, the upper floors being divided
into apartments. The purchaser is
the present occupant.
The Washington herald., 1920-02-15
St. Martin S Catholic
Church Buys Property

st. Martins Catholic Church has
purchased from the Daniel Doody
estate the property at T and First
streets. The consideration is under
stood to be about $4,000
The property has the distinction of
being one Of the highest points in the
District.
The Washington herald., 1920-02-15
Latimer to Attend
Realty Men Banquet

Lee D. Latimer, president Of the
Washington Real Estate Brokers
Association will represent the Dis
trict real estate profession at the
annual otnner of the Real Estate
Exchange Of Pittsburg, Pa. Febru-
ary H. John Weaver. of Washing
ton. president OF the National Real
Estate Exchange. announced yester-
day that be would be unable to at
tend the dinner as planned
The Washington herald., 1920-02-15
DISTRICT OVER
MILLION MARK
January Building Shows
Remarkable Ac-
+ tlvlty.

Building operations in January went
over the million mark" the actual
! figures beng s1,OS2, go.
Suburban building account for pracl /
tically all of the months construc-
tion. A total of forty-nine brick, thir-
ty-six frame and eight tile STRUCTURES
were erected.
The total for the country as a whole
was $325, 10000
The Washington herald., 1920-02-15
Fischer & Friedland
Sell Avenue Property

The business building at 326 Penn
sylvania avenue was sold last week
by Fischer,& Friedland TO ]. Naviaser
for a reported consideration of S2O, 600
The Washington herald., 1920-02-15
Colored Purchasers
REAL HOME BARGAINS FOR COLORED IN EVERY SEC
TON OF CTY-REASONABLY PRICED AND
ON EASY TERMS

Kenyon St. N W-Two-story 6-room and bath Colonial
front brick furnace heat and light large front
yards. Price, $4,000. Cash. $1,000; balance easy. -
Sixth St N W.-Scvcn rooms and bah s-stoy brick; hot
water heat light Price $500 Cash. $1,000; balance easy
St y. W-Brck; rooms and bath; good condition; gas
light Price, $2Ioo Cash. $780, monthly payments $25oo
Tenth ST. N. W-Two-stoTy 6 rooms and bath brick; good
condition. Price, $500 Cash. $780, $1,000 monthly.
Harvard St. N. W-Six rooms and bath brick; excellent
condition; furnace heat light; yard paved alley
Price, S4,25o Cash, 500; $4,000 monthly
St N W.-Thrce-story brick rooms and bath; furnace
heat fine condition Price, Cash. $1,000; $1,000
monthly.
Oregon Ave N W-Nice Groom and bath brick in excel
lent condition; immediate poession hotwac heat electric
light Now vacant Price, $500. Reasonable terms
ST. N Wood 2-story and basement brick rooms and
BATH light atrobe heat Price, $6ooo Only $500 cash.
balance easy. = :
Price, S25oo; easy
Second ST. N. Good Groom brick; 1atrobe heat eas
light; lot Sxoo Price only $1,000 About $500 cash. monthly
payments, $500.
Eye St N.W.-Two complete apartments of : rooms and
bath each all in good condition; construction Price
only $500 Cash, $3.50; monthly payments. $500
Ninth ST. N. w, Stood 2-story 7-room frame
in excellent condition. ltrobe heat gas Price $1,000; about
$500 cash.
Eighth ST. N. W.. St-Finc 2-story and basement
red brick containing rooms arob heat; good gas fix
large front back YARDS ef allev
This good buy in neighbohood Price s. 2so
and your
The Washington herald., 1920-02-15
Northwest-S6,O 600,

just Off North Capitol, large
6-room house. terraced. bay
window front, large yard. room
for garage: allowance for
minor. repairs. Fine home for
The Washington herald., 1920-02-15
Brookland-S6,250.

Fine 6-room house. all modern
conveniences; lot 30X125: close
to cars. Considered an unusual
house at the price. $3.50 and
terms will make this your
home.
The Washington herald., 1920-02-15
Northeast-S6,300.

New-home section, six rooms,
hot-water heat. gas, electricity,
paruuet floors. garage, large
yard, convenien to cars, H,5OO
cash, easy monthly payments
will handle this.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-17
SAYS SLUMP IN
PRICES IS DUE
To CONSP Tracy
Poor Marketing Conditions
for Farm Products Laid at
Door of Grain Gamblers
and Some FinanCierS.

Columbus, O., Nov, leblanc
for the present slump in prices for
farm products was laid at the door
OF a well organized conspiracy on
the part of grain gamblers and
some of the captains of finance"
by o. G.. Smith of Nebraska, presl
ldent of the Farmers National
Congress in his annual address at
the annual convention of that body
today. Mr.. Smith Expressed the
hope that congress win endorse
farmers in the refusal to sell their
products at d loss"
1t appeared the consensus of
opinion among speakers that the
American farm bureau federation
was the organization beS fitted to
protect the farmer by seeing that
he gets "a proper return on his in
vestment."
Smith urged passage by con-
Ercss of the French bill requiring
labelling Of woolen goods as to vir-
gin wool content; the Kenyon bill
to control meat packers: urged re-
striction of immigration; urged dis,
missal of Louis *. Post, immigra-
tion mmissioner, and praised the
American Legion for it's work. He
the Nolan bill, which
seeks to levy a tax OF one per cent
on farm values in excess of $40, 900.
"If agriculture goes, the rest of
the nation goes with it," said J. A.
Springfield, Mass, mana
ger of the Eastern States League,
speaker.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-17

or ten weeks when the real CRISIS
will arrive, Conditions in the belt
he traversed in journey by cart
between two railway lines near
Techow are believed to be typical
of those generally existing through
out large areas in the provinces of
Chilli Shantung, Honan and Shan
81. He found indescribable misery
and -stoical facing of starvation by
millions of people who already had
disposed of everything salable and
saw in the future nothing but
death.
Sell Furniture and Clothes.
When the frost will have killed
the unconsumed leaves and weeds
there will be literally nothing to
eat for at least half the population.
one out of ten has already mi
grated without money and without
destination. In the worst spots
half the people are already sub
sisting on the proceeds of the sale
of furniture and clothing, which
means that those temporarily es-
Gaping starvation will ultimately
die from cold and exposure.
In the town of Chi Chow, which
is typical, the magistrate informed
the correspondent that out of every
three families two are quite sure to
starve before the end of the year,
barring effective relief from out
side. There are 100000 people in
the administrative district in ques-
tion.
Crop An Absolute Failure.
In Ming Ching two bankers who
were engaged in raising relief funds
said that the crop had been an
a absolute failure following two or
three previous and serious short
ages. OF 10000 families, they es-
timated that eight out of ten were
without means. One of
the informants said that he was
the owner of the largest pawnshop
in the vicinity.
There are constant streams of
farmers coming with clothing, fur
niture, implements. anything upon
which to realize a few coppers.
They are selling their children
where possible. or leaving them
where there is hope that they may
be fed" he said.
Chaff and the residue from cot
ton seed after the oil has been ex-
tracted have become valuable be-
yond the reach of the average per-
son, who exists on watery con-
coctien chiefly of leaves and weeds,
with perhaps q few kernels of
grain. and a sort of cake, If he is
affluent enough, made out of the
cotton seed waste. 50
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-17
STRIKE OF STUDENTS
AT ANNAPOLIS ENDS

Baltimore, Md, Nov. lb.-Ihe
strike" OF the students of sSt.
Johns college at Annapolis Was
called off today by representatives,
of the student body after a confer
ence here with Osborne /. fellott,
president of the college alumni as
sociation, and other members OF
the association.
The committee promised that the
striking students would return to
college Internationally tonight.
According to a statement issued
by Mr.. Yellott, the hazing feature
was only an incident in the con-
troversy. The dissatisfaction of the
students, he, says, centered largely
around the commandant of cadets,
Major S. G. Leassure, signal corps,
who was assignated TO st. Johns
about year ago.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-17

Declaring that the articles re-
ferred to, charge-first, that the
war department bought too many
supplies; and second, that irregu-
larities, favoritism and profiteering
have characterized the disposal of
surplus stocks. the statement en-
phatically denied both allegations
Supplies We're bought, it said, on
the basis OF an expected longer
duration OF the war.
Had the campaign of 1919 been
necessary" it said, the American
army would have been greater in
numbers than the combined French
and British armies in France"
The rapid demobilization of the
army, the statement continued,
left a vast accumulation of mate
rial, which, If dumped on the mar
lIet, would have resulted in wide
spread unemployment, with demo
bilized soldiers and war workers
Iobless and the economic condition
OF the country prostrated.
Industry Resumed.
The policies which were pursued
encouraged the resumption of in
dustry and America is the only
country actively engaged in the
war which has up to this time at
tanned full employment conditions,
it added.
Total appropriation for the war
department from April 6. 1917, to
juno 30, 1920. were approximately
s26, 500. 900, 900, of which $t6,i00,-
100000 was expended and $7,S00.-
100000 turned back to the treas
ury, the statement said. Deducting
balances on hand and amounts
realized in sales prior to June. 1t
continued. the net cash outlay to
June 80 was $5,770,000, 900, which
credit and cash sales not yet turned
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-17
80 MILLION CHINESE ARE FACING
DEATH BY STARVATION; CHOLERA
is ADDING TO GENERAL DISTRESS
Soil Is Barren as in Mid-Winter; Prices Are
Soaring; People Are Living on a Diet of
Weeds, Chaff and Thistles; Children Offered
For Sale; Situation Desperate.
tBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,

Pekin. Nov. 16.-Cholcra is add :
Ing to the general distress in the
Ia mine stricken district where
from 25,000,000 to 10000. 900 peo-
pie are facing death by starvation.
The Associated Press correspon-
dent, who recently Travelled through
the heart of the territory most Sc
riously denuded of food, found
conditions even more desperate
than had been indicated by in
formation previously received here.
In the town of Hwai-an, where
there were 100 families, 80 persons
had died of cholera and similar re-
ports are common from various
other districts.
A Dismal Picture.
The picture presented to the eye
of the correspondent was a dismal
one: The soil barren as in mid
winter, prices soaring. migration
OF those having more money or en-
terprise. the people living on a diet
OF weeds, chaff, thistles and leaves;
children, especially little girls, Of
fered for sale at the average price
Of the small Chinese mule cholera
from underfeeding, suicides OF in
dividualS in extreme despair; old
women and children cleaning
patches of weeds. men with no
work to do and clusters of refugees
living IN the shelter OF temples in
market towns.
Information obtained by the cor
respondent indicated that the pres
rnt suffering is only forecast of
that to come in the course of eight
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-17

by the net output from their six
mines and were assessed also on
$4,000 for mineral reservations.
Thus. their total valuation was
$1,505, ,706. or an average of $2.Sl
on the mineral coBJent of their half
million acres of coal land.
Laws Misappiicatiou Blamed.
Mr.. Downer laid this ridicuously
low average to the misapplication
of the output tax law. He asserted
at the hearing that the law con-
tcmplated taxing the net output rs
in lieu of the mineral content of
the mine and Of the contiguous
lands which may be used for the
further extension Of existing min
ing operations. He showed that it
was usually conceded that not more
than 1000 acres. possibly 5000
acres, could be mined from a sin
gle shaft, and that not more than
that amount should have been con
sidered as contiguous to each of
the six mines of the Rocky Noun
tain company. AS matter Of fact,
however, total of $4,000 acres
was considered contiguous to the
six shafts instead of from $4,000
to $4,000.
Mr.. Downer. further pointed out
that if the law was applied prop
erly and six thousand acres allotted
to each shaft, the $4,000 acres
would be taxed from the net out
put, which was $t.323,531, or an
average of about $400 an acre. The
lands would be taxed
~~~~~~~-~-~-~-~~-~~~-~~N ~-~-~~S~~~
(Coutinued on Page Twol
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-17
LEN|ENCY IS
PROMISED
PITCHER,
REPORT
Banishment From Organized
Baseball to Be Only Sen
tenCe For His Fart in Al
legged Throwing of Games
PUTS UP $4,000 BOND
AND IS TURNED LOOSE
Officials Say He Has Prom
iSed To Tell the Court the
Same Story He Told the
Grand Jury at the Probe.

Chicago, Nov. 16.-Eddie
Cicotte, Chicago White SoX
pitcher, whose confession re-
suited in numerous indict-
ments by the special Cook
county baseball grand jury
in connection with the 1919
world series scandal, prob-
ably will not be punished
for his part in the game
throwing, according to Off
cials of the states attorneys
office. Cicotte will turn
states evidence when the
men indicted are tried and
his only sentence will be
banishment from organized
baseball, it was said tonight.
Cicotte Furnishes Bond.
d. +. Cassaday, Of Detroit. CT
cotte's attorney, conferred today
with state attorneys over the
pitchers confession and possible
testimony. At this conference. ac-
cordlng to state officials Mr.. Cas-
saday promised that Cicotte would
tell the court tho same story he
told the jury. AS result, it was
arranged for the pitcher to furnish
bonds without personally appear
ing. While other indicted players
who have voluntarily surrendered
have been required to furnish $lO,-
600 bonds, CicOtte's bail was fixed
at $4,000 on the plea Of Mr.. Cas-
saday that It would work a finan-
cial hardship on the White Sox
player to force him to put up more
than that amount Mr.. Cassaday
deposited $4,000 in liberty bonds
as bail.
His Testimony Important.
While no official announcement |
was made by states attorneys Of
flee. an official let 1t become known
that but for Cicotte's testimony |
the jury never would have had
sufficient evidence to indict more |
than one or two persons and that |
there would be little chance for
without the pitcher as a |
state witness.
Before Cicotte confessed we had
reams or hearsay evidence" this
official said tonight, but none of
it would have held In court. We |
might have returned u few indict- |
ments on it but that would have
been the end OF the case. We
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-17
SHIPPING BOARD LEFT MILLIONS
OF DOLLARS WORTH OF EQUIPMENT
EXPOSED TO DETERI0RATE, SAYS
Witness Before the Walsh Committee Says
Valuable Machinery Was Not Protected
from the Weather; Steps Taken to Halt De-
livery of Supplies Ordered Prior to Ending
of War.
tBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

possible, He inroiced the proper-
tles as 70 quantity and percentage
deprecated, but not as to value.
HIS guess at It's value was be-
tween $l,aOO,OO0 and $2,0OO,OOO.
he also asserted that in the audit
ing OF the affairs OF the plant lOl
numbered vouchers could not be
accounted for.
Another point he made was that
equipment ordered previous to tho
closing of the plant, was still COM
ing TO the yards.
lie tried to have it stopped and
suggested It was new and could
be returned to the vendors by pay
ment Of the freight only.
Told 10 Keep His Hands Off.
They told me to keep my hands
off and let the machinery come"
MacNcil declared,
The Ferry yard, he testified, had
complete equipment and contract
for several taukers and composite
ships, none Of which was COM
pleted. Ie valued the equipment
"t inns yard at about $I5o0,0oo.
and added that while there was
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-17

in would reduce it to about $751;
500, 100000.
Planned to Meet Needs.
"Tn other words" the statement
said, congress provided with an
unstiuted hand and the war de-
partment took every step in its
power to prevent shortage Of any
necessary war material and built
its plan to meet the great army in
the process of formation. There
was no shortage. In spite of all
this, however, out of total Of
about $25,000,O00,0 900 appropriated
about $13,O00,O0O,O00 will be tho
net cost of the war through the
war department and this figure in
cludes great and substantial prop
critics and facilities acquired by tho
department and permanently for
the use of the military establish
ment."
Specific charges of irregularity
and favoritism, made by Major w.
o. Watts, former executive officer
OF the surplus property divisione
have been carefully investigated
by the inspector generals depart
ment and found to be unsupported,
the statement declared. More re-
cent charges appearing in the pub
lished articles, declared the state
ment, also will be investigated.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-17
Trunk of Whiskcy.


Eppclc and Olguin were charged
with Implication in the theft OF
two barrels and a trunk contain
ing whiskey from combination
baggage and express car at So
corro, The Indictment gave the
car as No. 3205, but it developed
in the testimony that the number
was 2305. The United States rep
resented by Henry Coors, Jr., had
closed its case when W. c. Hca
cock, attorney for the defendants,
moved that the court instruct the
jury to return verdict of not
guilty because of the variance In
tho Indictment. This was done.
Fortune in Bootlegging.
Mrs, Walters. n witness for the
government, testified that she and
her husband had made between
$4,000 and $4,000 selling whiskey
in Socorro county.
When Mr.. Walters was asked by
W. G. HeacoCk what he was doing
in Magdalena at the time the theft
of the whiskey occurred, he re-
Piled 'Wcll, you might say / was
barbering and bootlegging." Mrs.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-17
D'ANNUNZl0 ACCEPTS
RAPALL0 SETTLEMENT

Rome, Nov. 15.-Rear Admiral
Milo, commander Of the Italian
forces of occupation in Dalmatia,
is reported to have persuaded Ga
briele D'Annunzio, the italian in
surgent commander at Fiume, to
accept the Rapallo settlement un-
der which Dalmatia was conceded
to the Jugo-Slavs, according to a
Stefani News Agency dispatch from
Triest today.
The message reports a dramatic
interview on board a warship at
sea between D'Annunzio and Ar
miral Mia. The admiral is re-
ported to have declared that he
would keep his word as a soldier
and remain loyal to the king.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-17

walters denied that she was a
bootlcgger, and declared that she
was respectfully engaged in selling
whiskey under protection.
Whose protection? ?' asked Mr..
HCacOck.
THE marshal and the sheriff"
she replied.
Clerk and Bell Hop.
Harry S. Hail, the marshal at
that time, was convicted last May
on the charge of stealing the two
barrels Of whiskey and the trunk
from the ear at SocorrO. John A,
Anderson, another witness for the
government, testified that he had
been employed as clerk at the Hall
hotel and bell hopped and boot
legged on the side.
The government attempted to
show that Eppele was watchman
at the depot the night the barrels
labelled "crockery" and the trunk
had been transferred from the
main line to the combination car
which was to leave for Magdalena
the next morning, and that he bad
given the key to the ear TO Halls
wife, Evidence was introduced in
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-17

an effort to prove that OlSuin had
taken Il truck from a garage in
Socorro and hauled the whiskey to
the Hall hotel
Bottles Hidden in Coal.
Mickey Cronin. a telegraph OPP
orator at Socorro, who at the first
hearing given Hall, pleaded that he
knew nothing about the case, turn
ed states evidence in the second
hearing and admitted that he knew
all about the case. He was wit
ness for the government yesterday.
Anderson testified yesterday that
the trunk containing whislley had
been burned and the bottles buried
under coal in the basement of the
hotel.
f. r. Longbottom charged with
perjury in regard to homestead
entries made at the Las Cruces
land office. will be given a hearing
this morning. A. u. lvie and l.. S.
Ivie, brothers have been sentenced
to serve twelve months each in the
state pcnitCntiary after having
pleaded guilty to having stolen cat
tie from Navajo Indian rescrva-
ton in San Juan county year ago.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-17

New York, Nov Machinery
and shipbuilding equipment valued
at millions of dollars was left out
In the open to detcriorate in value
months after the plants We're closed
down with the ending of the war
Paul II. MacNeil, a former resident
engineer of the shipping board in
the South Atlantic, testified today
before the Walsh committee inveS-
tigating shipping board affairs.
MacNeil said he was stationed at
Savannah and had five men under
his supervision, his immediate chief
being r, IL. Dillingham; at Jackson
Vile, the district plant engineer.
Just what his own authority was
he did not know, he testified, but
he said he "assumcd q great deal in
the endcavor to straIghten out
tangles."
Yards Well Organized.
He said the yards were well or
better perhaps, than the
emergency fleet forces. for they
generally could get the better of
the government organization" He
brought into his testimony the
I"hi' VI itlt ltllJ t1iilPg al 10 dH'l
the National Shipbuilding company,
aud q marine railway organization,
over which he had supervision. He
said that the Terry people had
trust loan from the fleet corpora
ton to be used in the ship con-
and that over his pro-
tests money in this fund was used
to finance a subsidiary organiza-
tion engaged in dry dock work,
when their contracts were only
about one-third complete. Through
his efforts $4,000 of this fund
was held up, but he added that he
had ascertained that part o. the
money was again diverted.
IIopclessly Unprotected.
Speaking of the National Ship
company the witness said
that work there had shut down
previous to his arrival on the
scene.
Il found nothing had been done
to take care fthe properties and
valuable machinery was left un-
covered to the weather." he said.
On his own responsibility he took
steps to save as much Of 1t as was
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-17
CANADIAN BORDER is
PROTECTED AGAINST
ENTRANCE OF REDS

UttaWa, Nov. l6.-Denial Of re-
ports that bolshevik agitators were
slipping into the United States
across the Canadian border be-
cause of lack of passport control
by Canada was made today by I'M
der Secretary Blair, OF the depart
mont of immigratie and coloniza-
tisn.
Mr.. Blair declared:
The laws of Canada. as well as
those of the United States bar the
dangerous agitatOrS. Nationals of
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bul-
garia and Turkey are not permit
ted to enter Canada"