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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
GOMPERS POINTS THE WAY
American Federation Head Says
There VIII BE No Strikes if La
boris Advice is Taken.

Washington. - Industrial relations
IN the United States can be improv-
ed if employers accept and act up
on the recommendation of the
leaders of the trade union movement,
and in no other way, according to the
answers of Samuel Gompers, Matt
hew Vol and Frank Morrison, mem
bers of the platform committee, ma
tional non-Partisan campaign Of the
American Federation OF Labor, to the
questions submitted to them by the
advisory committee on policies and
platform of the Republican national
committee
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
FILES HAIL INSURANCE RATES
Schedule Varies From to 10 Per
Cent according TO the Various
Districts.

W. c. Hodges, manager Of the Kan
sas inspection bureau maintained by
the fire insurance companies in Kan
sas, has filed a schedule of rates for
hail insurance in compliance with the
law passed by the special session Of
the Kansas legislature. The new
schedule is effective at once.
East OF the east line of Washing
ton, Clay, Dickinson, Marion, Harvey,
Sedgwick and Sumner counties, per
cent is provided.
Six per cent is fixed in the follow
ing counties: Barber, Clay, Cloud,
Comanche, Dickinson, Ellsworth. Har-
per, Harvey, Jewell, Kingman, Kiows,
Lincoln, Marion, Mcpherson, Mitchell,
Ottawa, Pratt, Reno, Republic, Rice,
Saline. Sedgwick, Sumner and Wash
ington.
Eight per cent is the rate in: Bar
ton, Clark, Edwards, Ellis, Finney,
Ford, Grant, Gray. Haskell, Hodge
man, Hamilton, Kearney, Meade Nor
ton, Osborne, Pawnee, Phillips, Rocks,
Russell, Rush, Seward, Smith, Stat
ford, Stanton, Stevens counties: and
enne, Decatur, Graham, Greeley, Cove,
Lane, Logan, Ness, Norton, Rawlins.
Scott, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas,
Trego, Wallace, Wichita
The foregoing rates apply to sugar
beets, grasses and grains Two per
cent additional will be charged for
insurance on barley, rye, garden vege-
tables, peas, beans and cantaloupes.
A limit is set at 81 an acre on non
irrigated fields and SIS on irrigated
fields for small grains, corns or 9th
er crops, insured in one company. The
maximum permittedzin all companies
is $40 per acre on non-irrigated and
$50 on irrigated lands Alfalfa in
surance is limited to $12 per acre for
three cuttings on non-irrigated, and
$25 on irrigated land. When notes
are given in payment of premiums
they must draw interest at 6 per cent
from the time the insurance becomes
effective, and must be payable not
later than October l.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
WHY PRICES OF FOOD CLIMB
Federal Trade Commission After In
Vestigation Finds That Production
and Distribution Are Too Costly.

hington.-Asserting that the
costs of food distribution are too
great, the federal trade commission
has recommended improved market
ing facilities and processes at the
great consuming centers as a long
step towards lowering the high cost
of living.
1.-The movement of food should be
made most direct from field to fac
tory the commission said in report
on wholesale marketing of food, one
of the series in the food price investi-
cation ordered by the President.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
PLAN FRANCO-BELGIAN PACT
Baron o'Eiestroy, Ambassador at Paris,
Says the Conclusion of a Mill
tary Entente, Is Near.

Professionalism of a defensive
military entente between Belgium and
France is imminent, according to a
statement by Baron De Gaiffier
OHestroy, Belgian ambassador, to the
Petit Partisan. Rumor of negotia-
lions between the two countries have
been current for some time. Belgium
will ask for admission to the San
Reno conference, according to a dis
patch from Brussels to the Journal.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

While professional building climb
er, who styled himself as a human
fly" was spelling to crowd for $50
his fee for making the ascent of a
4-story building at Emporia-Earl
Phillips, 16-year-old boy, climbed the
building without removing his shoes,
smoked cigarette on the way and
did other stunts The city" then
climbed the building, but failed to
thrill the crowd, which cheered the
home boys stunt.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
Station Thief Gets $500

Ponca City, Ok--Fifteen hundred
dollars was taken from the Santa Fe
station safe here the other night by
an unknown man who held up J. A
Shelp, the night agent, marched him
across the tracks and locked him in
a building prior to blowing the safe
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

Maj. Albert H Krause of Lawrence
has been custodian of the state house
at Topeka by the state executive coun-
Gil He replaces E. McDougall of Sum-
ner County who is a candidate for the
legislature. Major Krause will begin
his work April Is. Beginning with
the Spanish-American War he has
served with Kansas troops in every
military crisis. He commanded COM
pany H Goth Kansas, in the Philip
pines, commanded the machine gun
company Of the 1st Kansas on the
Mexican border, and was with the
35th division at Camp Doniphan, but
did not go overseas.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
LOANS WILL COST U. S. MORE

Washington.-A high record for in
terest rates on war or postwar gov
eminent securities was disclosed re-
Gently by Secretary Houston announc-
ing two new issues Of treasury certifi-
Gates Of Indebtedness, maturing in
three and six months and bearing in
terest at per cent and 81 per cent
respectiveIy.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

A Curtiss airplane, flying from
Tulsa to Kansas City and driven by
A. H. Waite, became entangled in the
tree tops on the POttawatomie River
near Osawatomie. The machine fell,
splintering the propeller. Both the
pilot and a passenger escaped serious
injury and left by train for Kansas
City.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
A Move to Keep carranza In9

Ell Paso.-In a signed statement ap-
pearing in Ell Universal at the City of
Mexico, Gen. Pablo Gonzales offers to
withdraw his candidacy for the presi-
dency of Mexico. providing General
Obregon and Ignacio B0nillas will do
the sane.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

Boston.-Vandals who entered the
headquarters Of Lieut. Lawrence J.
FIaherty post OF the American Legion
in East Boston the other night, tore
down the American flag and trampled
upon it, defaced pictures Of Washing
ton and Lincoln and wrecked the
furniture
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

For Disabled Soldiers, $es, sos, 900.
Washington.-The federal board for
vocational education recently asked
congress to appropriate S9S, 3O3, 900 for
1921 to be used in the care, rehabiIi-
tation and training of wounded sol
diers
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
Mystery In ST. Louis Murder.

St. Louis.-Police here are investi-
eating the mystery surrounding the
death Of Mrs Ruth Cusman, q yers
old, who was found shot and hacked
to death in an alley. A large knife
was found beside her body.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

Native stone, quaried near EN-
poria, will be used in the construction
of hard surfaced road-the Santa
Fe Trail-through Lyon County. The
county commissioners decided to
change the composition of the con-
crete road from gravel TO stone, and
the Chase County road builders will
also use stone.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
obieet to De Valera In South.

Charlotte, N C-Hornet's Nest
Post Of the American Legion has
adopted a resolution, opposing the
appearance here OF Dr. canon De
Valera, who recently was invited by
local Irish sympathizers to deliver an
address here this month.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

w. F. Muenzenmayer, a banker, has
purchased the Joseph Glenn farm OF
80 acres, located between Junction
City and Manhattan, at price in ex-
cess Of $3.50 an acre, a record for
farm land in that vicinity.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
Michiuan Can't Vote on Booz,

Lansing, Mich--Aetion of the Michi-
gan legislature in ratifying the nation
al prohibition amendment is final and
cannot be submitted to referendum
vote Of the people. the supreme court
held recently.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
National Education Meeting in MAY

Representative citi-
zens from every state have been
called by Commissioner of Education
Claxton to meet in Washington May
10, 20 and 81, ito consider the press
ing problem of education from the
standpoint of the public welfare
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
PuhIIe Market In RrookIYn.

New York-A public market nearly
a quarter OF a mile long viii be start
ed in Brooklyn April 20 In the city's
war on the high cost Of living. If
the market proves successful a half
mile more viii be opened
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

Russell Highely. 81 years old, who
had lived in Atchison county since
1853, died recently at the home OF his
son, Frank Highely, south of Atchison.
He became wealthy and retired in
1895.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

Hearing the crying of child fol
lowing him, the motorman of a Coun-
try Club street car at Salina stopped
his car and found the 3-year-old
daughter of Ernest Miller on the web
fender in front The child had been
picked up and carried two blocks
without the motorman's knowledge
and without injury.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
cabvfs Je,,eIs Worth = Million.

MarseiIIes-An expert valuation OF
the jewels OF the late Gaby Deslys,
the dancer, has just been completed.
according to the Petit Parisien- The
valuation Of the jewels was placed at
I million dollars.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

The prize fish catch Of the season
and an event that has caused the resi-
dents of Osawatomie to get out their
fishing tackle, was made by Miss Leo
ia Blackmer, the 15-year-oId daughter
of Elmer Blaekmer She landed a
55-pound cat fish with an ordinary
hook and line while fishing in the
Marais des Cygnes River, two miles
west of Osawatomie.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
CIVIL war BEGINS
IN SONORA, MEXICO
New Republics Troops and the
Carranza Forces Engage
in Their First Clash.
HASTILY RECRUITING ARMIES
Secessionists Will Have Aid of Yaqui
Indians in RepeIIing invasion
Of Their State.

Aqua Prieta, Sonora-Carranza has
thrown down the gauge Of battle and
a new era of revolution and civil war
is on in Mexico.
This time, however, it is not mere
renewal of banditry-depredatio
quick descents on popuIous centers
and equally as swift flight, kidnap-
pings and murders. Instead, it will
mean, in the belief of many officials,
a stubborn conflict between a power
full state, which has seeded from the
federation, and the federal govern
ment.
The outcome depends greatly upon
the attitude OF some of the other
states, it is held. Carranza's rule is
seriously threatened and he can hold
the federation together only through
united support Even then it will be
difficult task to bring Sonora back
into the fold
The First Battle Fought.
The Sonora troops engaged in their
first battle against the Carranza
forces recently. The engagement &C.
CURED on the Sonora-Sinola boundary
here. No details, however, were Civ
en- and the result is not known.
But, in the minds of the military
authorities here, it means War-and
they are preparing to defend the from
tiers of the newly declared republic
with every resource at their COM
mand.
Sonora army officers, under direc-
tions from Gen. P. Elias Gales, COM
mander-in-chief, are fortifying the ST.
noIa frontier and also the mountain
passes along the Chihuahua boundary.
Carranza troops are reported to be
marching from Casas Grandes, Chi
huahua, toward Aqua Prieta. Gales is
said to have dispatched a large force
to pass through which the federal
troops must come To reach Aqua
Prieta. the CarranZa soldiers must
march overland two hundred miles
through mountainous and desert
country.
A Test of States Rights.
All officials of the new republic
are agreed that a civil war must set
tie the doctrine of states rights be-
tween Sonora and the central govern
ment of Mexico. The question of
states rights caused Sonora to secede
when Sonoran leaders declared Car
rama had no right to send troops into
the state against its wishes. Carranza,
however. would not withdraw from
his attitude and the states secession
resulted.
AS a measure of preparedness, all
saloons in the state were ordered
closed the other day by General Cal
les. He ordered renewed efforts to
recruit soldiers 70: the Sonora army.
Four thousand men have joined the
cOlors in the last sixty hours, it was
announced
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

The body Of Levi Calmore, an aged
man of Great Bend, was found recent
ly in a snowbank one half mile south
of the Santa Fe railroad and near the
river bank. He wandered away from
home during the blizzard.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
JUDGE r. s. TuthiiI Dead at Chieaoo

Judge r. s. TUthiii Dead at Chicago.
Chicago.-Richard S. TuthiH, 70
years old, judge OF the circuit court
thirty-five years, died at his home in
Evanston after brief illness. Judge
TuthnI was the founder Of the Chi
cago juvenile court
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

William c. Campbell, a resident Of
Cloud County since 1870 and former
sheriff, is dead after an illness of two
weeks. He was 20 years old.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
Munitions Plant Killed 400.

Paris.-Three hundred persons were
killed in the explosion Of a munitions
dump at Rotenstein, East Prussia, the
other day. according TO a dispatch
from French headquarters at May
ence
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
Union Pacific BUYS 2. 900 Cars

Omaha, Neb=President c. R. Gray
OF the Union Pacific has announced
that orders have been placed for two
thousand steel coal cars, to cost more
than million dollars.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

Baker university debaters won a
unanimous decision over Washburn
at Baldwin in a debate on the ques-
ton, Resolved, that the United
States should establish a protectorate
over Mexico?" Baker argued the neg
alive.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

The municipal election at Ottawa
resulted in the election of Pleasant,
Peoples candidate for mayor, over
Mansfield, Citizens candidate, by q
majority Of so, and Finley, on Peoples
ticket, for finance commissioner, over
Becker by majority of 802. Bonds
of $4,000 for improvement of water
and light plant carried three to one.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

Felix Becker was acquitted in the
Saline County district court of the
charge of aiding and abetting H. J.
Lefferdink in the issuance of four GER
tificates of deposit for $4,000 each
on the Kansas State Bank, which later
closed its doors. 1t was charged that
their existence was factor in break
ing the bank.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
Omaha Postmaster Is DEAD.

Omaha.-C. E. Flaming, postmas-
ter, died recently OF heart disease
The body wiz be sent to Washington,
his birthplace, tor burial.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

A severe gasoline explosion partly
wrecked the high school building at
Pratt, recently. Four pupils, Earl C..
Smith, Francis Woolwine, Fay
Hughes, Jr., and Evan Bales. were
severely burned over the face and
body. The instructor, Miss Rose Tip
ton, and T. C. Griffith, George Moody
and c. o. Green also were burned.
1t is believed that Bales cannot live.
Several barrels of extra high test gas
oline had been stored in the coal
room room near the furnace and
when the cocks were turned on the
barrels to obtain specimens for school
work the explosion occurred. The fire
department controlled the flames,
which spread rapidly.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

DR.. K. E. Sheriff., a Republic physi-
sian, during the recent snow storm
reached his patients by driving a team
of horses hitched to a barn door.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

Courts are not the proper place
to settle church rows, the supreme
court held recently In reversing a
Sedgwick county district court deci-
sion.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
The kaIserIn Near naatn.

Berlin-The ex-empress of Germany
is seriously. III at her retreat in Hol-
land and her death is expected short
y. the Deutsche Tages Zeitung said
the other day.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
pr. AnoelI Co carneale Foundation.


New york--Dr. James Rowland An
CELL, for many years dean of the Uni
versity of Chicago. has been elected
president and chief executive officer
of the Carnegie Foundation.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

Mrs. Larina Mcmahon, 65 years old,
alyzed limbs. was burned to death at
Wichita recently when her dress
caught fire from a stove. Her cloth
ing was burned completely off and
the body badly charred.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

March was the windiest month on
record in Kansas. according to fig
ures made public by the university
weather bureau. The total run of
wind for the month was sixteen thou
sand miles A maximum velocity OF
fifty-fiye miles per hour was reach
ed March 4 and again March Is.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

Nearly Every Industry Feels
ParaIYzing Effect of the
SWiiShmen'S MaIkout.
WILL BOOST COST OF LIVIEG
Production Of Many Essentials Falls
Behind and Prices Soar When
Factories Shut Down.

New York.-The OUTLAW" railroad
strike is sweeping eastward with its
paralyzing effect on industry. The
growth of the strike east of the Allie
ghanies was more marked than at any
time since it started.
The cost of the strike in the way Of
stoppage of production in some OF the
big Industrial plants of the country
already has run into millions. Many
more factories closed the other day,
adding thousands to the ranks Of
those forced out of work.
Government and state officials, in
terested in the problem Of fighting the
high cost of living, said that the walk
out of trainmen and switchmen will
be a serious setback to efforts along
this line. Food distribution is SO bad
ly hampered that it may take days to
return to normal after the strike
ends, while prices for many cOmmod-
tiles will remain higher for several
weeks afterward, it is feared.
Hits Big Eastern Lines.
Packing houses, steel mills and coal
mines chiefly are affected by the
strike. Food distribution concerns also
are badly handicapped, although the
railroads are making every effort to
move milk and other essentials.
While in the West number of the
rail workers are returning to their
jobs, here in the East more of the big
trunk lines were facing an almost
complete suspension of traffic. The
Pennsylvania announced that nearly
seven thousand of its employees were
out on its various divisions. The Cen
trail of New Jersey annulIed practical
Iy all of its trains on which the com
muters to points along the New Jer-
sey coast are dependent. At COlum-
bus, o., where several hundred men
returned to work the other day, an
other strike call was issued recently.
1t was said that three thousand men
employed in the yards would respond.
At Newcastle, Pa, five hundred went
out Bay City, Mich, reported that
the switchmen there had Joined the
strike
Like a Beseiaed City.
The strike recently presented the
most menacing situation this city has
faced since the unauthorized walkout
began. Freight service on the rail-
roads over which come the bulk Of
the city's food and fuel virtually was
paTalyzed and passenger service al
ready seriously crippled, was still
further crippled.
The first act of federal Intervention
cd TTT1ffnd States
troops went into Jersey City to I'M
lead stranded mail trains, and depart
ment of justice agents extended their
investigations into every corner of the
New York district.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
~. kiIIed Rv Iandslld.

Knoxville, Tenn.-Three employees
OF the Little River Lumber Company
were killed when a landslide on the
Little River railway, near Townsend,
buried them under tons Of rock and
earth.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

When a baker buys flour which
fails to produce standard quality OF
bread he is not required to accept
subsequent shipments from the mil or
wholesaler, the supreme court held in
affirming the Butler county court de-
cision in the case of Charles T. Rock
vs.. A. E. Vandine, a baker.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

Joseph Haag, IS years old, the first
established photographer in Leaven-
worth, died the other day in Wichita,
according to news received by rela-
tiVes.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

The board of education announced
a bonus of $50 to high school teachers
and $40 to grade teachers and promis-
ed higher wages to the faculty next
season at Emporia. The bonus viii
be given at the end of the string term.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22
MARYLAND MARRIAGES to Cost More.

Maryland Marriages to Cost More
BaItimore-Beginnin June 1 the
cost of getting married in Maryland
increases 100 per cent. Licenses which
have been 81 will be 81.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

The board of education of Great
Bend has raised the pay of the super,
intendent of schools, to $4,000 per
year and advanced teachers salaries
an average of 40 per cent for the
coming year.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

Many Kansas towns. which were
completely isolated for about twenty
four hours by the recent blizzard, are
again in touch with the world through
restored railroad service. The mois-
ture was of inestimable benefit to the
winter wheat and early spring CROPS
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-22

W. D. Kuller, a Santa Fe engineer,
was injured severely when he struck
by projection near the track and
knocked from his cab near Florence
the other day.
Arizona republican., 1920-02-13
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