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Our Neighbors

to be at the home town Of Hon. N. +
Kendall, Iowa - next governor, anc
predicts for him the greatest majority
Of any governor, previously elected
She assured her hearers that N. 4. Ken
dali and the straight Republican ticket
will receive the solid vote Of the col
ored women and men as well, through
out the state.
Other ladies Of prominence in politi-
cal affairs who were on the porch and
were presented to the large audience
were Mrs. 8. w. Wilson, chairman of
the Women's Department Of the Coun-
ty Republican committee; Miss Myrta
Harlow, county superintendent of Pub
lie schools; and Mrs. N. r. Kendall,
wife Of Iowa's next governor.
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Public Opinion
DON'T SCRATCH.

Investigation has brought out the
fact that a few Negro voters of Des
Moines have contrated political eczema
When voters contract this disease, they
are in great danger of scratching the
ticket to death unintentionally. The
Negro will do well if he votes the
straight Republican ticket. The Repub-
lican party is alright and it's principles
are alright. If there are men, holding
offices, whom we think are not doing
their duty, they should be removed dur
ing the primaries and not at the gen
eral election. *
A few local Democrats are shaking
hands with Negroes and begging votes
upon the grounds that they have al
ways given employment to Negroes, 9th
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ORIGINAL NOTICE.

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Geraldine Riley,
Plaintiff.
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Joseph Riley,
...r...- Defendant.
To Joseph Riley:
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the goth day Of September, A. D. 1920,
petition Of the plaintiff in the above
entitled cause will be filed in the Office
of the Clerk of the District Court of the
State of Iowa, in and for Polk county,
Iowa, claiming of you a divorce from
the bonds of matrimony on the ground
on the grounds of desertion.
For fureher particulars see petition,
and unless you appear thereto and de-
fend before noon Of the second day of
the next term, being the November
term Of said court, which will commence
at Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, on
the LIST day of November, 1920, default
will be entered against you and judg.
n.ent and decree rendered thereon.
Dated this 2Sth day of September, 1920
JAMES B. MORRIS,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
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and economical administration if elect.
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Mrs. Susie Thomas and son, Jack,
have returned from a visit in Miami,
Mo.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. R. Lynch, a
/ fine baby boy, Oct. IL, 1920.
The Court of Calanthe gave style
show at the X. of P. hall Friday.
The X. of P. lodge No. ] initiated a
large number of young men Thursday
evening
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ALBA NOTES.

Mr.. and Mrs. NJ Davis are confined
to their home by illness. There many
friends hope for their recovery.
Mrs. Chas. Washington, practical
hair dresser has purchased several cleo
\ trical equipments for her hair parlor.
Mesdames Pride Allen, Maude
Richey, Silva Butler and Chas Wash
ington represented the people of our
city at the Republican gathering of
white ladies last week.
a Mrs Minnie johnson is entertaining
her brother and sister of Huntsville,
Mo.
Mrs Chas Polit, who has been visit
ing friends in Ottumwa for some time
has returned to her home in Kansas
City.
Mrs Eva Roper of Hooking was an
Abba visitor Tuesday.
d. o. F. WoMEN's
MASS MEETING
The big fall festival and Republican
. Women IS mass meeting, under the very
efficient management of Mrs. Chas. L..
Washington, at her home on avenue
west, Tuesday evening, October 18th,
L was q grand success, from every point
Z of view.
Mrs s. Joe Brown, state director of
the colored women IS department. of the
National Republican committee, deliv-
cred the principal address, striking
very emphatically upon the vital issues
of the day, giving valuable information
Il and timely instruction to the women
voters Mrs. Brown said she was happy
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Two Dead, S Blinded by
Strange Prison Malady
Twenty-Five Other Inmates at
Clinton Institution Suffer
Impairment of SIGHT
Impairment VI OISIIt
From a staff Correspondent


ALBANY, March 1.-Two Clinton
Prison inmates, at Dannemora, have
died, five have gone totally blind, and
twenty-five have partially lost their
sight from mysterious malady that is
battling state prison officials and high
medical authorities.
Charles F. Rattigan, State Superin-
tendent of Prisons. returned to Albany
last night after a weeks stay at Dame
mora, where he has personally con-
Quoted an inquiry into the cause of the
illness and deaths. The opinion has
been expressed that it possibly may
have been caused through wood alcohol
poisoning, but this belief is contra
dicated by the act that the reaction
from wood alcohol poisoning is very
rapid. The men who aresnow blind
lost their sight only after lapse of
five days.
Another theory advanced is that the
illness may have been caused by bac-
terra from canned salmon fed to the
men February 20. If this latter is the
cause, the germ is one hitherto un-
known, as neither DR.. Ransom. the
Dannemora prison physician; State
Health Department doctors, or eminent
physicians hurriedly called have been
able to determine the cause of the two
dgtths or the illness in the other cases
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
IS Die in Tornado;
Puir" BI0iu1s Aauay
Eight Missing After Mis-
souri, Storm; Man, Wife
and House Disappear

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, March liter
persons are known to be dead, one is
reported dead, and eight injured as the
result of a tornado which swept through
the valley of Turkey Creek, near Bran
son and Hollister. in Taney County
to-day.
Seven Of the dead are minor children
Of Ran and William Box, brothers, liv-
ing at Melva, a small town five miles
south Of Branson.
John Gross and his wife, living on &
farm near Oasis, north of Rranson
were blown away with their house and
no trace has been found of the home OF
it's occupants.
Ridgeway Manky was carried 1,O0C
feet from his home at Melva, and when
he regained consciousness on the oppo-
site bank of Turkey Greek he saw his
young brother, William, struggling in
the water. He was too weak to give
aid. Later the body of the brother was
recovered downstream.
NEVADA, Mo-, March 11.-Three men
were killed and property damage esti-
mated at 100000, involving every
building In the business section of the
city, was sustained when tornado
struck Nevada to-day. The three men
were crushed when the upper walls and
roof of the Nevada Trust Company
Building were blown over upon small
building housing shoe-shining stand.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
':D1y'' Agent Kills
Man in Struggle
Reuez,ue Officials Try to
arrest Pair after A.
legged Sale of Liquor

Harry Carlton, of 527 East Eighty
third Street, was shot dead last night
by Stewart McMu1lin, an Internal Rev
enue agent, who lives at the Hotel
C1aridge. The shooting took place at
234 East Seventy-sixth Street, where
McMullin and two other Federal detec-
tives were attempting to arrest Carlton
and Carlo Carine on charge of vio-
lating the prohibition law. McMullin
was locked up at the East Sixty-scv-
enth Street police station.
According to the police, the three
Federal agents fell in with Carine and
Carlton in front of the Claridge.
Carine and Carlton are said to have
told the detectives that if they would
come to Carine's home, at 234 East
Seventy-sixth Street, they could buy a
supply of whisky.
The revenue men said that they ac-
cepted the invitation and paid $3.50 for
the whisky. McMullin said that when
he revealed his identity and tried to
arrest Carlton the latter resisted, and
he fired in self-defense. Patrolman
Reynolds who heard the shot and en-
tered the house said that Carine then
was struggling with the other two rev.
enue agents. Carine was arrested and
his wife, Anna, was detained as wit
ness
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
British Labor
Votes Against
Direct Action
Decides, 100000 to
l,O5O,O0O, Not to Call
General Strike to Force
Naturalization of Mines
By Arthur S. Draper

From The Tribune's European Bureau
Copyright, 1920. The New York Tribune Inc
LONDON, March 1.-THE moderate
torces in British labor won a decisive
and highly important victory to-day
when the Trades Union Congress de-
cided by vote of 3.S70,0OO to 1850 ,OOC
against the use of direct action or q
general strike to force the nationaliza
tion of the coal mines.
Few labor organizations outside OF
the miners themselves supported the
proposition to use force as a means OF
compelling the government to take ovel
the mines.
After the congress the leaders Of the
different unions said they were sure
the minority would accept the decision
and that there would be no break ir
the ranks of organized labor.
The decision is considered of pro-
found Importance because it means
there will be no decrease in production
in the British Isles through the cessa-
tion of work.
Two arguments against direct action
which carried weight with the delegates
were developed by !. R. Clynes, former
Food Controller. He said that gen
cral strike would be welcomed by
Premier Lloyd George because he
would then call general election and
the country would support the Premier
His other point was that direct action
would be unconstitutional and political
labor couldn't afford to take any I'M
constitutional action if it hoped to gov
ern the country later.
Clvnes thought the abandonment OF
direct action might mean delay in at
tanning the political objective of the
thought, to progress along orderly, con-
stitutlonai lines.
The decision means that the Labor
politicians are in control of the sit
uation, and that henceforth labor will
fight at the polls and in Parliament.
A moderate labor policy is bound to
win many recruits here, they believe,
because of the widespread dissatisfac-
tion with both the Liberal and Coalition
parties.
The supporters cf direct action,
notably Tom Mann, contended that it
was merely industrial organization
under new name, and that everything
labor had won had been through the
use of the strike, weapon or threat to
use it. He upheld political action, but
said it was only supplementary to in
dustrial organization.
Intensified political propaganda,
therefore, will be labor's substitute for
force. The organization of the Labor
party is to be strengthened financially
and plans developed for contesting the
majority of the seats in Parliament at
the next general election.
AS there are nearly 100000 or
ganized workers-the largest number
in any country except Germany--what-
ever they decide carries great weight
with labor all over Europe. The de-
cision emphasizes the point that there
is little Bolshevism in the British labor
movement, and that it is fundamentally
moderate in spirit. Had the congress
accepted the principle of direct action
the whole country would have been
thrown into confusion, but now there is
a feeling of relief and optimism.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Sheffield Co. Urges Farmers
To Cut New York Milk Supply

DR.. Royal S. Copeland, Commissioner
of Health, said yesterday that James
B. Stafford, of Buffalo, Federal Fair
Price Commissioner for New York
State, had sent him copy of no.
tice posted on the receiving room door
of the Sheffield Farms Company, of
Franllinville, N. Y, urging all dairy
men not to increase their production
of milk and if possible to decrease it.
Commissioner Copeland made that
notice the subject of an attack on the
Sheffield company. The notice as quoted
in his statement follows:
"The export market Of milk products
has entirely stopped. 1t is therefore
necessary that we restrict our purchase
of milk. Under no circumstances can
any creamery take on an additional
dairy without first getting permission
from this office, and permission will
not be granted for new dairies until
conditions change. All dairymsn are
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Majority Report Granting
rs Per Cent Increase
Filed With President: :
Miners Man Dissents
Wilson Ignored
In Dissolution
l25 Indicted in Indiana
on Conspiracy Charges
Under the Lever Act
By Theodore M. Knappen

BY theodore M. Knappen
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE Goa
commission, ignoring President Will
sons earnest request that its decisio,
be unanimous, has split, turned in {
majority and minority report ane
dissolved.
Chairman 81. r. Robinson and Rem
brandt Peale sent the majority report
to the President at midnight last night
John P. White, former president of the
United Mine Workers of America anc
the miners representative on the com.
mission, still is working on his minor.
ity report, and probably will hand it te
the President tomorrow.
Officially there has not yet been any
announcement of the contents of either
report, but it became known to-day anc
has since been confirmed that the ma.
jority report grants the miners an in.
crease of approximately 25 per cent, fol
day as we'll as tonnage men, over the
old agreement, including the IA pei
cent they were granted when they re-
turned to work in December, after the
great strike of the bituminous men
which began on November l.
125 Coal Men Indicted
While the news of the commissions
report was being discussed here, dis
patches from Indianapolis announce d
that 1875 coal operators and miners had
been indicted there in Federal Judge
Anderson's court on charges of having
violated the Lever act during the coal
strike.
The majority report of the coal
commissions findings makes no recon-
mendations as to the increase in the
price of coal to cover the net advance
of IL per cent over present wages, but
such an increase is inevitable, and it is
known that members of the commits
sion calculate that it will cost the pub
lie $100,000,000 a year. The commits
sion evidently intends to leave that
mater to the fuel administration, as it
does not ask for any Of the fuel ad-
mlnistration powers.
The wage increase is not to be re-
truactive and presumably will be eff
fective at the beginning of the new
coal year, April 1. The check-off sys-
tenn, by which the operators deduct for
the unions the union dues of their
mine 3, is to be continued.
Tho question of differentials is to
be left to special commission ap-
PollllGu Dy Iue 1llHcTS ana operators,
which is to prepare it's report during
the next two years, for which the com
missions decision is to govern, and it
is then to be incorporated in the agree
ment to be made then for the next two
years.
Six-Hour Day Denied
The demand of the miners for six
hour day and five days a week is
denied and the working day is fixed at
eight hours.
The division of the commission was
caused by the pendency of the con-
ference between the anthracite coal
miners and operators now in progress,
the former making the identical de-
mands which brought on the bitumi-
nous strike.
Mr.. White did not dare to prejudice
the contention of his fellow workers
and members by subscribing his name
to q report that will be invoked as the
basis of the agreement covering the
new scale for the anthracite fields. It
Continual on paoe four
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Japan Closes u. S.
Schools IL, Corea


TOXIC, March 6 (By The AS
sociated Press) (Delayed).-Two
American Methodist Mission
schools in Corea have been or
dered closed by the Governor Cen
eral, according to dispatches re-
ceived by the local newspapers
to-day.
The edict closing the schools,
which were presided over by H.
D. Appenzeller and Miss B. A.
Smith, says that they failed to
prevent the students from cele-
brating Corean independence. Day
despite the governments strict
prohibition against such celebra-
ton.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Move to Make Pershing
Chief of Staff Defeated
Section of Army Reorganization
Bill Permitting Secretary to
Make Selection Approved

WASHINGTON, March Without
a record vote the House to-day refused
to amend the army reorganization bill
SO as to make General Pershing the
permanent chief of staff. In doing so
it approved the section permitting the
Secretary of War to make the
selection.
Representive Strong, Republican, of
Kansas, offering the amendment, de-
clared that without it Pershing's
war experience in the management of
the army will be lost" But Represen-
tative Greene, Republican, of Vermont,
and Representative Caldwell, Democrat,
of New York, contended that the Secre-
tary of War should be free to choose
"the chief military adviser" General
Pershing's assignment as chief of
staff, Mr.. Caldwell said, "would be a
step down."
Objections by both Republicans md
Democrats that the General Staff
would be permitted to rule the War
Department and the army under the
reorganization bill resulted in adoption
of an amendment which would prevent
assumption of administrative functions
by the staff
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Plea Ignored for Dread
noughts to Keep Ger
man Fleet Bottled He
Says; Tugs Withheld
Admiral Requests
Hoover as Witness
Declares Sea War Plans
Rejected at First Were
Accepted Later by Navy

From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 11.-Urrent
appeals by the British Admiralty for a
division of American dreadnoughts to
reinforce the British fleet in its task
Of keeping the. German high seas fleet
bottled up in Kiel harbor were refused
by the Navy Department at Washing
ton for period of four months in the
summer and fall Of 1917, Rear Admiral
William S. Sims testified before the
Hale subcommittee Of the Senate
Naval Affairs Committee to-day.
In the same way, the admiral testi-
fed, the department ignored or failed
to act for six months on urgent re-
quests for American submarines. For
almost year it failed to respond, he
said, to appeals for tugs to help, in
salvaging merchant vessels. attacked by
submarines, which might have been
saved if they could have been towed
into port.
All of these assertions Admiral Sims
backed up with extracts from the of
fetal correspondence passing back and
forth between him and the department
in the early months of the war, and de-
clared his purpose was to prove by
this means how lack of cooperation
and incompetence and on the part of the
department during this period almost
resulted in a German victory.
Sims Calls for Hoover
AS forecase in The Tribune this
morning, the admiral requested the
committee to summon Herbert Hoover,
formerly United States Food Admins
traitor, to corroborate the admiral's s
statement that the Allies during these
months, and because of the ravagcs of
the submarine campaign, were on the
brink of defeat
committee, "has assured me of his en-
tire Willingness to testify"
"Of the many men who could speak
with intimate knowledge of the situa-
tion in Europe ip 1917" Admiral Sims
said in making the request, "there is
one present in Washington who gave
me, when | arrived in London, my first
realization of the possible defeat of the
Allies in a short time. He pointed out
to me then this very fact which | am
emphasizing, that is, that the shipping
situation was such that it soon would
be impossible for the Allies to obtain
the essential military supplies and the
food to keep them going until Ameri-
can effort could become effective"
Before proceeding to detail the de-
lays and "vacillating policies" of the
department with respect to the requests
for the dreadnoughts, submarines and
tugs, Admiral Sims insisted that his
testimony up to this point had clearly
established the following contentious: !:
"The Allies were losing the war
at the time the United States en-
tered, as a result Of mercantile ton
mage losses, as this practically
amounted to cutting the Allied lines
of communication.
Department Knew of Crisis
"The Navy Department was fully
informed of the fact that the one
vital issue to be faced was this SUBJ
marine campaign
"Whatever plans the departm or
the government in general may have
had in mind for future operations,
it was pointed out at the time, and
Continued page four
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
6-Story Fall, Boy Unhurt

Tommy Burke, six years old, of 364
West Seventeenth Street, fell from the
street, late yesterday afternoon. A pa
trolman, summoned by half dozen hys-
terical women who had seen the acci-
dent, arrived in time to find Tommy
walking out of the areaway, rubbing his
elbow.
"Le'me be-" he advised the patrolman,
sulkily, "I'm late now, an mall be sore"
The patrolman followed the advice
only after an ambulance surgeon had
looked Tommy over and pronounced him
whole. Clotheslines had broken his fall
and he had landed in snowbank.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12

urged not to increase their production
of milk and if possible to decrease it.
SHEFFIELD FARMS CO., INC"
Commissioner Copeland's comment
follows:
Needless to say, this action on the
part of the Sheffield Farms Company
harmonizes with their entire policy
of dealing with the public. Just at
the moment when conditions in the
dairy market are such that if the nor
NAL supply of milk were permitted to
flow into the city, under the law of
supply and demand, OF which the milk
distributors have so much to say. our
citizens, for the first time in two or
three years, would be able to buy milk
at low price. Immediately this great
corporation takes advantage of its
power over the farmer and says to him
we will not permit you to increase
your number of cows and in effect
says, If you do not fnd some way Of
reducing the amount Of milk we, our
oestjsueA es pase thru
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Bryan on Way to Lead
Revolving g Democrats
La Final Treaty Fight
Syria Proclains Independence;
Arabs Seek to Force RECOGNITION

BEIRUT Syra March Deayed)-The Syrian Congress at
Damascus to-day declared Syria be
fireworks tonight independence It is
reported that Prince Fesa Of the King Medaz
crowned King Of Syria
Palestine Lebanon and northern Meopotama
districts where the Arabs voting freely
forcing the conference Syria
cooperation with the Turkish independence is refused
them.
The claim troops ready to cooperate with
the Turks in Cica and Anato Apparently they willing
accept French advisers
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Curzon's Charge Denied

From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE
United States government has not vet
been informed officially of any deci-
sions reached by the Allied govern
n1ents on the Turkish treaty, it was
said to-day at the State Department,
where surprise was expressed at the
cabled report from London attributinc
to Lord Curzon the statement that the
opinion of the United States was
awaited on the Turkish situation.
The failure Of the Allied powers to
keep this government property in
formed on the steps taken TO arrange
tor the treaty with the Turkish Empire.
1t is believed. has resulted in a definite
decision by President Wilson not to
have the United States participate in
the treaty.
This government has been prepared
for some time to inform the Allied
pren.iers fully Of the American position
on the settlement OF the Turkish ques-
ZION, but, of course. statement of this
position would not be furnished until
sought by tn Allied premiers.
Any statement, therefore, that car
ries the implication the United States
government was delaying the negotia-
tions by withholding knowledge Of the
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