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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-04

The Mexico trade excursion Is intended for heads Of
firms and chief executives only. The party VIII WoThiy
spresent FL Paso and the United States Any idea that
it is mere joyrids IS The party viii be ezen
svey entertained in formal fashion by the first people Of
the republic business and public life veighty repon
bity devoEes the e Paso party to carry the right
message in the right way.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-04

Cox continues his sanderous assertions IN spite Of his
complete failure to make good with any Of them. He must
be running short Of speech material
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-04

The Dutch manage to keep out Of the newspapers which
may be because they keep TOO busy to invent the customary
European varieties Of cussedness.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-04

If the police and county officers would tel what they
know about one another the mayors secret inquiry would
get alcng faster.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-04

Every householder is advised weigh his coal before
it goes into the bin for he can't locate it afterward
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-04

Paul Deschane president of France Is another eosg
professor and France is tired Of him
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-04

The way that submarine picked up indicates that
American sea-rovers haven't lost any Of their keenness
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-04
.YE TOWNE GOSSIP
By C. B.

G..
~ DEAR K BIve felt the written
lVl I've followed the advice
you don't succeed again but all avail The publishers
listen TO Haven't you word for met Agnes II.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-04

Re Macswiney, is it suicide OF j, it moth
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-04

The neighbOrs are al climbing the Poles.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-04

The best way to fight the mail order houses is to start
one yourself
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-04

It. wonderful how much detective can hids
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-04

Never IN the worlds history brains and energy and
faithful work so much demand OF well paid for,
right Never opportunities for self Advancement
SO numerous accessible
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-04

Equity is roguish thing.
John sslasn.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-04

'ils.ve features and complsts
'cial Coi-esrcndents covering
ton d G. aud NaW ~
class matter.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-04
Bedtime Stories For The Little Ones
UNCLE WIGGILYS QUEER RIDE.
UNCLE W1GGlL1'S QUEER RlDE-
BY HOWARD n. GARIs. an

N NJ !" eaid the PlD. ''But
49,. VVfrrilyZ
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-08

OF them said after the accident that the
car was going at the rate Of forty miles
ar hour
The Broadway end Amsterdam Ave
nue. car, in charge of Steven Kelly,
motorman. and Witherax, conductor,
was leaving the barn at 12Sth Street
and had just rounded the turn into
Amsterdam Avenue. healing south,
when the runaway hurtled into it,
Patrolmau Priall Of the West 125th
Street police station, ran to Knicker-
booker Hospital, at l31st Street and
Amsterdam Avenue, and got Dr.. Shapiro
and Dr.. Spalding. The sha tered and
teleseoped cars were filled wish groan-
ing passengers when they arrived.
Legs Are Amputated
The plight of Helmes was seen to be
the most serious. One of his shattered
legs hung limp and free of the debris,
hut the right leg was still gripped by
the locked cars While the mctorman
gasped out his brief story OF the brakes
that would not work, Or. Shapiro am
putated his right leg. heimes was
pulled free of the cars and taken to the
hospital. where his other leg was am
putated
AS soon as Witherax was found and
removed from his wrecked car, he also
was taken to the hospital. DR.. Spaldng
set UP an emergency hospital at the
curb, where ne dressed the injuries of
nine passengers, men. women and chill
dren who had been hurled about the car
by thu shock and cut Av broken glass.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-08
New Rent Acts We Have Full
Not Retroactive, Ship Control,
Lawyer Argues Says Hartman,
Eleven Tenant Defendants.
ia Suit to Evict, Signed
Lease Before Laws We're
Passed, Plaintiff Saws
A greed to Move On Oct. [
First Case Under Special
Legislation in Supreme
Court; Decision Reserved

Justice Mullan in the Supreme Cour
yesterday reserved decision in tn,
first rent case heard in that cour
under the new laws enacted bv tn,
special session of the Legislature il
September. The courtroom was tillet
with lawyers, landlords and tenant.
interested IN the test case, whose out
come IS likely to have an importan
bearing on the future administration O,
that phase OF the rent laws heard b,
the court
The case was brought by William
Brandt & Co., Inc, owners Of an apart.
ment house at Audubon Avenue anc
10th Street, for a writ to GUST from
their apartments eleven tenants who
refused to move when their leases ex-
pired on October l.
NJ. D; Siegel, for the realty company
said that under the new rent laws
there was nothing lett for the landlord
to do in seeking redress but to ask the
Supreme Court for equitable relief
He argued that no law could be made
retroactive and that was the effect Of
the September law, for at that time The
leases were already in effect under
which the tenants agreed to give VI
possession of their apartments on Sep
TENDER 80 Then, taking advantage of
the new law, they refused to move and
are holding over without lease.
Wants Case to Go to Higher Court
n~repl y to a question by Justice
Mullan whether he wished to a-guc on
the constjtutionaiity Of the new law
Mr.. Siegci said he had no such desire
and, in fact, would have the Justice
deny the motion Of the Brandt COM
pany at once, SO that the matter could
be expedited en- appeal t. the Appel
late Division and later, perhaps. to the
Court of Appeals.
Abraham Upton, for several Of the
tenants, argued that the application
OF the landlord to GUST the tenants
should be dismissed, as the landlord
mad not made out d cause Of action if
ne conceded the constitutionaiity of the
rent legislation. The remedy of the
Brandt company said MIR LiDton, was
to bring d suit for rent
Justice Mullan interiected: From,
time immemorial it has been right
or landlord to sue for recovery of
his property
But court of equity cannot nullify
a Legislative enactment to give relie:
to the landiord.' said Thomas Crawford,
attorney for two OF the defendant ten
ants.
This is America, not Russia,' SAID
Justice Mulian.
Were it not fer the recent rent leg
isIation in this city" replied Mr.. Craw-
ford. the city would nave been Rus
sianized. These laws are the enactmen,
: IL a.
long as they remain on the books
Il own house; my butcher, my
baker and my plumber make me pay
the present high costs. They are not
restrained by the Legislature Why
should the landlord alone bear the
tcontaund on page twenty three
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-08
~ estern Roads Lay OF
10 TO Is 2. e. OF Forces
Employment, OF Excessive Nuna-
bcr Under (. S. Control and
TrGdn Stump 4n1ong Reasons

Special Dispatch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, Oct. Reductions in per
sonnet on the principal railroads were
reported in advices today from the
traffic centers Of the middle West.
Railroads centering in Chicago are
letting out from 10 to Is per cent Of
their employees, according to Clason
Thompson, of the Railway News Bu-
reau. Most of these are in ire clerical
and equipment departments, he added.
This move is not brought Oh by
business depression said Mr.. Thomp-
son. While the government had the
roads there vas q tendency 10 employ
too many men. This was especially
true IN the accounting line The roads
are now trying 70 get back to norma"
In Cincinnati the movement Of
freight has dropped so much N the
last ten days that more than 200
clerks and switchmen employed by the
even railroads in that city have been
laid off.
In Decatur, H., the Wabash will lay
off more than 800 men in its mechani-
cal department on account of slump
IN business.
The New York Central has decided
to reduce its forces 20 per cen:
reports in Elkhart. Ind, and Cleve-
land to-day, but this could not be
verified. The reduction is said to be
planned for next week.
Reports from St. Paul say that the
Great Northern has laid of clerks in
It's general offices, pay rolls on the
Northern Pacific are being sliced. and
other roads.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-08
Britain Plans
Rail and Mail
Tie-U p Of Erin
Government Said to Threat
ell Reprisals for Refusal
of Irish Employees to
Transport Its Munitions
Two More Are Slain
Dublin Castle Statement
Scores Failure to Punish
Assailanis of the Police

DUBLIN, Oct. (By The Associated
Press 1T is limited in authoritative
quarters here that Ireland is faced
with a further curtailment in railway
operations and possible cessation. or
a least severe curtaiment, of all
postal and telegraph services. The cor
respondent understands that the gov.
ernment's position is accurately re-
fiected in the following statement made
to him this afternoons:
"for more than three months the
railway employees have refused to car
ry munitions or the military and po-
lice. The railways were taken over
during the war under an act to insure
priority for government use. Large
sums were paid the Irish railways
which benefited both EMPLOYEES and
shareholders, who arc mostly Irish
men.
Deprived of Priority
But the government has not re-
celved the priority TOR which it paid.
IN TACT, 1t has peen actually deprived
with two exceptions, Of the use of the
railways for its most urgent needs.
Care hitherto has been taken to re-
iialn from any action which would be
ilkely to force an issue. 1t has been
hoped that way out might be found
winch would not involve the stoppage
OF railway facilities, but the time is
coming when the government NAV
have to insist on its rights. The pos
tai and telegraph services are in the
same position, as a result of raids on
the mails and the cutting of telegraph
wires"
The police barracks at Feakle, East
Clare, were attacked to-day BY larpo
body of armed men Constable Viii
IAN Stanley was shot dead and Ser
geant Doherty severely wounded.
police patrol was attacked near
Fomeroy, County Tyrone One con
stable was shot through the breast
me other ten members OF the party
escaped injury.
raining to answer sentry's chal-
lenge, John Clifford. seventeen years
Old, was sho. last night near his home
IN Londonderry and died to-day.
Outstanding OTenscs
Dublin Castle this AFTERNOON gave
out hist Of outstanding offenses from
January | to the week ending October
- III was accompanied by the state
ment that it was "a significant fact
that for all the murders and shooting
OF police the number of perpetrators
apprehended could be counted on the
fingers on one hand'
" IN this fact" the statement adds.
might be found the motive for re-
prisals. The authorities cannot get
the men responsible, or, if they do,
they get off through hunger-striking
or clemency of the government. No
one can be found to testify against
them, either through intimidation or
because of political sentiment. There
fore, many of the police feel that
drumhead justice is the only way to
deal with them.'
The list OF offenses follows:
"Courthouses destroyed, g. Royal
Continued next pase)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-08
Ill Hurt When Runaway Car.
Going Down Hill, Hits Another

"A Third and Amsterdam Avenue car,
carrying thirty-eght passengers, ran
away last night while descending the
NIL on Amsterdam Avenue above Man
haitian Street and crashed into q Broad
way and ANS terdam Avenue ear at the
bottom. The cars telescoped. t1ingng
wreckage to the sidewalks and were
carried by the impact full block be-
low the scene Of the collision.
Henry Helmes, motorman Of the run
away car, suffered crushed legs. Sur
geons were compelled to amputate one
of them before he could be extricated
from the wreck William Witherax,
conductor of the other car, was hurled
from the rear platform half the length
of the car and suffered fracture of
the skull Nine passengers required
medical attention.
Brakes Failed
Helmes discovered at 135th Street. a
little below the crest of the hill. that
his airbrakes did not hold the car. He
began to twist at the hand brake and
was working furiously but vainly at it
throughout the whole wild ride. Pas
sergers who wished to get off we're
pressing their thumbs on the buzzer
buttons on the side panels and glane-
Ing wonderingly at the speeding street
lights and buildings, but none Of them
realized the peril they were in. One
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-08
Official Paris Minutes
Reveal Wilson Promise
10 Send Aid to Ru1llania
official Peace Conference Record
III Statement Made by the President

me controversy 6eceen Senator Sede Spencer of Missouri;
an" fesden wilson military Runa;o and
oro started hen Senator Spencer President had
0e" sue" promise at the conference The denied
he had giren TIE pad0e
me FRENCH official minutes of the eighth pnary session OF the
peace conference contain the tolg statement ,ade a
President Wlsom ~ -
81 monde trouve de trouble les conditions que
nous reoohs ous CONNIE fondamenaes question
garane dire que les ftasrn
paser de ce cote de locean leur ct leur dotte
fonow1ng IS literal translation of French tert:
If the world finds itself anew the conditions which
all regard fundamental into question the
ch given to you will that the United will send t
'lls sloe OF the ocean their and their navy"
Senator Spencer quoted President as hnrino
You must not forget that is the final naran+x
OF the public If the world
Will send to this side of the their army and their fleet
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-08
U. 5. Population l05,683,108:
81 Per Cent Live in Cities
f's"res May Reach ll8, O0O,O 900 When Possessions
and Citizens Abroad Are ~Tabulated: War
and Influenza Halt Gains

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. - The 1920
population of continental United
states was announced to-day by the
census Bureau as 05,6S3 ,1Os. This
was an increase of 13,7lOS42, or 14.y
per cent, since 1910
To-day's total does not include tho
populations of outlying possessions,
which will be announced as soon as
ehe hgures for Alaska and the mill
tary and naval services abroad are
tabulated. 1t is estimated, however,
mat those possessions have l225O,OUU
inhabltants, so the total number of
people living under the American flag
is IN round numbers 118,000,00O
me figures for continental United
states compare with 9l972,266 ten
wears ago and 75,994.575 twenty
years ago. The increase for the last
decade, however. fell 81 per cent be
low that OF the preceding decade
Immigration Decrease Felt
Director Rogers of the Census Blu
reau, IN formal statement, attributed
this reduction to the almost complete
stoppage of immigration during the
World War, an increase in emigration
during the same period, deaths in the
influenza epidemic of 1917-191S, and
war casualties.
The statement noted that the trend
Of population from the country to the
city had been greatly accentuated since
1910. For the first time in the coun-
try's history, it said. moro than half
the entire population was now living
in urban territory.
Preliminary fluctuations. Mr. Rogers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-08

said, showed that 54,s16.209 persons
were living in Incorporated places OF
.,hoo inhabitants or more and 5O.S66.-
s99 IN rural territory.
inns situation was clearly reflected
IN the figures as to farms in the coun-
try, which also were made public to-
day. These placed the total of farms
at o,4o9.99S, an Increase of only 98,49G
or 10 per cent in ten years, as against
an increase of 624, 100 or 1913 per cent
In the decade ending in 1910.
ut may be roughly estimated that
the annual excess Of births over deaths
throughout the United States is an
proximity l per cent.
The excess of Immigration over
emigration during the decade was an
proximately 3,733,00O Since the bulk
of these forei gn- born persons came to
the country during the first four years
OF the decade it may be roughly esti-
mated that the increase due to excess
OF births over deaths in their families
was about 10 per cent.
Many Quit Farms for City
During the decade there has been
an increase in that portion of the
population living in urban territory of
l2,l92, o26, or 2S.6 per cent, and in that
portion living in rural territory of / :
5lo,ol6, or only 81 per cent; and if
the comparison is extended to cover
the two classes of rural territory it
appears that that portion living in in
corporated places Of less than $500 in
habltants shows an increase of 1,715.-
III, or 21.5 per cent, whereas that por-
ton living in purely country districts
shows an actual decrease Of 227,555, or
SlX-tenths of | per cent"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-08
Five Killed, 20
Hurt i'm anker
Blow-Ul p at Ter
Three Others Missing in
Brooklyn Gas Explosion;
Two Victims Are Burned
B yond Recognition
Man in Hospital May Die
Use Of Acetylene Torch
or Spark From Ciga,
Thought Possible Causes

An explosion Of gas OH the tank
steamship G. r. Grove, in her berth at
the James Shewan {, Sons shipyard
at the foot of Twenty Street,
Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon, killed
FIVE men and injured more than a score
Three are missing and it IS believed
they either were blown to pieces or
were thrown into the water and
drowned.
The dead men, all of them workmen
employed by the shipyard, were:
Joshua Start, thirty-three years old,
o. Third Avenue and Nineteenth Street
Brooklyn. Start, who is survived by a
widow and three young daughters. was
blown through the roof of a machine
shop and instantly killed.
Thomas Fox. thrty-four years old
of 1914 Boyntop Street, the Bronx.
Johu Mccoy, forty years old, OF
1901 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn,
Two unidentified men.
Six in Hospital
Six of the seriously injured are in
hospitals. They are:
fcter Ncanc, tnlfty-SlN years old, oil
5Gi6 Seventh Avenue, Brook yn, in
Norwegian Hospital, with burns of the
body, face and mead and fractured
leg lie may die.
Albert Suyerson, twenty-nine years
old, of 5lS tifty-second Street, eyes
Ind face burned.
Herbert Hastesd, forty years old, of
1915 Sixth Avenue, burns of head and
face.
Lawrence McKeon, thirty-two years
old, of 442 Forty-hrst Street, body
burned.
Fred Perry, forty-eight years old, of
1873 East Third Street, head and face
burned.
Edward Daton, twenty-nine years
old. Of 442 Forty ninth Street, burns of
eyes and face.
Twenty other men who were caught
in the blast were attended on the DOCK
by ambulance surgeons and sent home
Continued paea sevon)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-08
HE Makes Public Letters to
Benson Declaring That
American Interests Hold
81 Pct. of Capital Stock
Nay Own Entire Issue
Financier Asserts Germans
Wanted 1t So; No Plans
tor Foreign Holdings

correspondence purporting to SHOW
that the contract between the Ameri.
can Ship and Commerce Corporation
and the Hamburg-A erican Line for
establishment of world trade routes
provides that the capital is to be con-
trolled by American interests was
made public yesterday by w. A. Harri
man, president Of the corporation.
On July Mr.. Hartman, in response
to questions from admiral Benson,
challman of the United States Ship
ping Board, wrote that 81 per cent, and
probably all, OF the stock of the com
pany which is 10 sign the final con-
tract with the Germans will be owned
by the American Ship and Commerce
Corporation. He said that there was
no agreement, either expressed or in
Piled, for foreign interest in the stock.
Admiral Benson asked the questions
before giving his approval to .hc
agreement.
Mr.. Harriman's action in making the
letter public is part of his answer to
10 "nt .-4c.sn ieat h ta,5
viii serve to restore German shipping
at the expense of American shipping.
Mr.. Hartman, in his letter, ex
planned that it was the intention to
form company subsidiary to the
American corporation, which would
control the subsidiary stock
L. S. Company May Own All Stock
The officials Of the Hamburg-Ameri-
can Line, sa id Mr.. Hartman, "wished
to be sure that the operations of this
new company would be controlled by
the American Ship and Commerce Cor
poratlon-a company IN which it had
coniidence-and therefore we inserted
the provision in Clause c by which 81
per cent of the stock Of this new com
pany should be owned by the American
ship and Commerce Corporation. As a
matter of fact, the American Snip and
Commerce Corporation probably win
own all the stock of the new company.
If. however, this was for some reason
lnadvsabe, certainly all the stock
Continued on page twenty three
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-08
Sim Fem for Dominion
Rule if Majority Agrees


LONDON, Oct. 7.--Leaders of
the Sim Fem have intimated
that, although they desire COM
plete separation Of Ireland from
England, they would not oppose
a broad measure Of dominion
home rule if it,can be proved a
majority Of the Irish people de-
mand it, says the Daily Mail.
The first thing that Will be done,
the newspaper says, will be the
creation of a constituent assem-
bly, for Ireland, in which Ulster
will be given representation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-08
Ebert i'm Trial Refutes
Charge of Drunkenness
Writer Who Published Report
President Visited 'Barroom
Expresses His Regret
Special Cdblc to The Tribune
.rlcht. 1901 Nnu. York TrihNnn

BERLIN. Oct 7. --- Pres dent Ebert
defended himself essfully in court
m Munich yesterday against charge
OF drunkenness made by Frederick
yreska, writer in the humorous week
~ Phosphor. Witnesses were called
from Ebert's immediate encourage, who
oeiong TO the old bureaucracy and
are not Socialists. They completely ex-
oherated the President, testifying to
me rigid simplicity of his manner Of
NVlng and to his abstinence
frcska based his charge on a report
mat President Ebert had visited /. eer-
IAN barroom in Berlin at a time when,
me delense proved, Ebert was not even
IN Berlin. Freksa finally agreed to
withdraw his charge, express regret
and admit the falsity Of his writings.
= ne also agreed to stand The costs of
the suit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-08
u. s. Hospital Uses Force
On insane Hunger Striker
Denuer Objector Civen Enough,
Nourishmen. Daily to Sustain
HcahIs, bM Refuses to Eat

From The 1ri6rmc's Washington Eurcda
WASHINGTON, Oct. t. Hunger
striking does not thrive as successfully
in st. Elizabcth's Hospital, the Federal
Governments institution for the treat
men Of insane patients in this city,
as it does in Brixton Jail inirmary,
where Terence MacSwincy, Lord Mayor
of Cork, has gone without food for
fifty-six days
Forcible feeding e begun and con-
tinucd on patients in the United States
hospital before hunger strikers rea ly
ret under headway The latest in
stance of unsuccessful hunger strik-
hg in st. Eli2abeth's is the case of
Benjamin J. solomon, of Denver, a con-
scientious objector, who was brought
to the Washington hospital from the
Government hospital at Fort Douglas,
Utah. on July Is, eighty-four days ago,
He Immediately refused to eat and has
consistently declined voluntary feed
ing since. Forcible feeding, however,
was decided upon by the hospital au-
thorities within few days after Solo
mons fasting began and he has been
given sufficient nourishment each day
to sustain him in comparative good
health, hospital physicians said.
Solomon, through the Civil Liberties
Union OF New York City, is seeking
his release from the hospital on the
cround that he is illegally confined
them Habeas corpus proceedings for
his release have been filed in the Dis
trict of Columbia Supreme Court by
Attorney Seth j. Shepherd jr.
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