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PRICE OF JEWISH BREAD
ADVANCED 100 PER CENT

BOSTON, Feb. 6.-An increase in
wages of approximately 100 per cent
In the last six months caused the
advance In the price of Jewish rye
bread from 15 to 20 cents for two
pound loaves, master bakers told tho
commission on the necessaries of life.
Jacob Kazanof, formerly connected
with the State food administration,
submitted checks which showed that
one employe who In May last was re-
ceivtng $33 a week for his labor. to-
day Ii getting $50 for the same work
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PLANT OF FURNITURE co.
Quilted BY $4,000 FIRE

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 6.-Fire Of
unknown origin. early today swept
the George Menin q Co. furniture
plant, on North Third street, doing
damage estimated at $4,000. Three
alarms were sounded.
Deep snow drifts covering the fire
plugs, hampered the firemen In Tight
ing the blaze.
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WOULD ISSUE BONDS
FOR VETERANS BONUS

Issuance OF world war veteran
bonds for $500. .000. 900 to provide
payment or a bonus of 81 for each
day veterans OF the world war served
Is proposed In bill by Congressman
II. u. Osborne OF California
Under the provisions OF the meas
ure the bonds would not be sold to
the public, bnt would be issued direct
to soldiers and sailors by the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury.
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JUDGE REFUSES DIVORCE
TO COUPLE BEYOND 60

CHICAGO, Feb. 6.-Circuit Court
Judge David has set an age limit on
divorces,
David Wolf, sixty-seven. and his
wife. sixty, faced him.
"He hasn't spoken to me for six
months" said Mrs. Wolf.
"It's disgraceful for people OF your
age to be in court" said Judge David
and dismissed the case.
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G. w. U. CLASS ELECTS.

John II. Patrick has been elected
president of the senior class of the
George Washington University Law
School. Other officers are: Vics
president. Ellis w. Manning; secre-
tary. Miss Grace n. Eddy. and treas
urer, Lin Morgan.
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BOY SCOUTS ON TRIP.

Fifty members Of the Boy Scout
Band, under leadership Of James L.
Kidwell, director. went yesterday to
Winchester, Va, where they will
spend today, tomorrow, and Sunday
as guests of Scout Commissioner L.
NJ Baker, of the Winchester boy
scouts.
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ENTERS
20 CAMPAIGN
Opening Gun to Elect 200 Men,
bers to Congress Fired BY
Brotherhood Organ.

Announcing that they are out to
elect 200 workers and farmers to the
next Congress-. the railroad unions
and the farmers. allied with them
politically will fre the opening gun
In their campaign Saturday. when a
fAr' page editorial will appear In
Labor" the official organ Of the
Plum Plan League. editorialiy d.
rectsd by the railroad union execu-
lives. calling on the wage earners
and farmers to begin now to or
ganixe for the November election and
TO unite forces to got their share OF
representation in Congress along
With '-the lawyers. the bankers and
the trust barons."
Urges Political Action
Tho editorial. under the caption.
sWanted-20O Workers and Farmers
IN Congress-" declares that the wage
saFners and farmers have the votes.
the power and "the spirit of demo-
cracy to control this Government OF
ours" and can protest themselves
only by political action.
There are nearly 10000, 900 wage
earners and farmers In the United
States" says the editorial in part
Yet they have not moro than a
score Of representatives Of both
branches IN Congress.
"In a real Democracy the workers
and the farmers would control the
Government
-The workers and farmers should
have $50 men In Congress II they had
their share. The lawyers alone have
460 members The bankers have
many times their quota, as have the
packers and the food gamblers. The
steel trust, the sugar trust. the lum-
Der trust. tho mine owners are more
than adequately representa-"
Need Representation
1T In those who produce the wealth
that enable the lawyers, the bankers.
tho trust barons, and the mine oper-
ators to 60 to Congress who are in
adequately represented
Labor and the farmers will con-
tinue to be the Cinderellas Of politics
An this country so long as they are
willing to sit in the chimney corner
There should be at least 200
workers and farmers in the United
States Congress.
K Privilege never was so powerful.
Privilege was never more highly or
ganized And the things Privilege
wants means political and economic
slavery to the worker and the farmer.
The worker and farmer can only
protect themselves by political ac-
tion by sending their own representa-
tives to Congress pledged to their in
terests.
Tho place to strike is in the prim-
Imaries. In q Republican district q
.xAoat should be nominated who can
be relied upon to oppose the things
privilege wants.
In q Democratic district Demo-
erat should be nominated who will
oppose these things.
Labor and the farmers have the
votes. They need only to mobilize
these votes Tor results.
They should begin to organize
now. It will be too late after the
primaries close.
"And never was there greater rea-
son for such q union, and for such
An action than now. Privilege con-
trolls this Congress; It is laying its
plans, with its billions of resources
70 control the next Congress-"
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MARKETING OFFICIALS
STRIVE FOR ECONOMY

NEW YORK. Feb. 6.-DeclarIng II
their intention to effect greater
economy In eliminating friction exist
ing between producers and consum-
ers, representatives OF twenty-nine
states forming the National Assocla-
tion of state Marketing OFFICIALS, to-
day continued their study OF food
distribution problems here. The con-
ference is being held to form a perma-
nent organization.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-06
.|ND|CTS BOYS FOR
ATTEMPTED THEFT
Grand Jury Acts in Safe
Blowing Case; Other
Rulings.

The grand jury today indicted Ar
thur S. Bassi. twenty-one years old:
Dennis L. Smith. nineteen years old.
and Charles l.. Cummings. sixteen
years old, for housebreaking. The
boys are charged with attempting to
blow" the spfe of the Brewood En-
craving Company. $40 18th street
northw est. February IA last The
boys are said to have confessed to
the police and to have told how their
plans were frustrated because they
could not open the safe door. even
after holes had been drilled and a
charge of dynamite exploded. The
accused are said to have used spark
from a searchlight battery to ignite
the fuse.
An additional indictment was report
ed today against Henry A. Starr. a
former policeman. for manslaughter
Starr is alleged to have killed Leo A.
Mcleod, a young man. riding with two
companions, July IL last. in an auto
mobile on Pennsylvania avenue. which
was not stopped on the policeman's
order to halt.
Others indicted and the charges
against them are: Osborne Ellis. white
slavery: William c. Money. non-sup-
port: James Reeves. larceny after
trust; Clarence Lee, Furman w. Haw-
kins and Robert Herbert, housebreak-
ing; Thomas Reid and James Mathews.
robbery; Leo Taylor. James II. Buckier,
William Thomas. Marion Drew.
Thomas Maher. William r. Graham
and Henry Mcclellan, grand larceny;
Leo Taylor. receiving stolen property.
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INCREASES FAVORED
FOR BUREAU WORKERS
House Votes Pay Raises Totaling
$40, 125 in Sundry Civil Ap-
preparation Bill.

Two increases totaling $340,125 for
employees in the bureau Of engraving
and printing were granted by the
day when these items came up in
The amendments were offered by
Representative Nelson Of Missouri,
and were opposed by Chairman Good
Of the appropriations committee. The
was $4,000 and for printers as
sistants $11S.125.
Mr.. Nelson's first amendment was to
increase the amount for plate print
ers and plate printers assistants from
$2.357 to $3.50. He said that the work
was very unhealthy and that the light
impaired their eyesight. and that they
did not receive 50 day. Chairman
Good insisted that including the
bonus they received $3.13 a day, and
that not one of them received less
than ssl a month: Replying to an at
Texas, Representative Gallivan of
Massachusetts, said he was thorough
ly in favor Of the bonus and heartily
behind the amendment. He told the
House that the girls in the bureau
were watched as prisoners in a penl-
Tertiary.
He said they did not get thirty days
sick and thirty days annual leave.
Representative Good disputed this
statement and said that the girls had
splendid working conditions in a
modern plant, with model restau-
rant and modest prices in the lunch
room.
The increase for the plate printers
assistants was passed in the commit
tee of the whole by a vote of IS to 43.
Representative Nelson's next amend
ment was to increase the amount paid
to plate printers assistants, bringing
the total up from $1.905,000 to So
023,125. He said that these girls were
now getting a pay Of $40 year,
which is $2.37 a day with the bonus.
and that this increase proposes to
bring them up to $3.50 a day, the
same as similar employees in the
printing Office. Chairman Good also
opposed this amendment. but 1t was
carried in the committee of the whole
by a vote Of IS to a..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-06
JOHNSON MARGIN 156,899
IN CALIFORNIA PRIMARY

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, May g.
Belated returns today from Tuesdays
presidential preference election had
increased to 156.S99 the lead Of the
Senator Hiram w. johnson group Of
delegates over the Herbert C. Hoover
ticket.
with all but Ss1 Of the 5,724 pre-
cincts in the state heard from the
vote stood:
For Johnson delegates, 350,325: for
Hoover delegates. 1885.
The returns were from hfty-seven
Of the fifty-eight counties in the
state.
The Hoover ticket continued to lead
In Los Angeles and two smaller
southern California counties.
The republican contest apparently
settled, interest has turned to the
strength of the democratic and prohi-
bition votes. The fate Of the indie
pendent candidacy Of Henry H. Child
ers of Los Angeles. on the democratic
ballot still is In doubt and an official
canvass may be necessary before the
result is definitely known. Childers
announced himself as being opposed
to a drastic enforcement Of the ma
tfonal prohibition laws.
Incomplete returns showed that
Garvin McNab of San Francisco was
polling the heaviest vote Of the demo-
cratic group.
Scattered returns indicated that the
prohibition group pledged to the can
didacy Of Henry Clay Needham of
Los Angeles received a light vote.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-06
COLORADO REPUBLICANS
IN COMMITTEE CONTEST

PUEBLO. Col. May 6.-The repub-
1ican state convention. to name four
delegates at large and alternates to
the national convention at Chicago
will convene here at o'clock this
afternoon. Many Of the s3s delegates
had arrived last night. hlling the local
hotels to capacity.
Although the principal business Of
the convention was to be election Of
delesates. interest conferred in the
contest between DR.. Hubert Work of
Pueblo. incumbent. and John Vivian
OF Golden for national committeeman.
A possibility that eight delegates
OF large, with q half-vote each, would
be named developed last night. I'm.
der this plan three Of the eight would
be women.
Gov. w. L. Harding Of Iowa is here
TO deliver the keynote address Party
leaders predicted the convention
would remain in session until late
tonight. Judge George r. BradheId
of GIeeley was 70 be temporary
EaasrAl Ian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-06
NEWS PRINT PAPER TAX
BILL PREPARED TODAY
Aimed at Proiteering, Chairman
Stevenson Of House Post o.
flee Committee Saws.

Chairman STEVENSON Of the House
post ONCE committee today prepared
for Introduction q bill levying a tax
Of cents q pound on news print paper
sold by manufacturers and importers
at prices other then those listed by
them with the Federal Trade Commits
sion. Brokers would be authorized to
receive discount not exceeding one
half OF l cent a pound in the list
prices.
THE bill is an attempt, by means of
tho taxing power. to prevent prodteering
In news print paper" said a statement
issued by Mr.. Stevenson. Evidence
shows that manufacturers and importers
are now supplying the large papers with
paper under contracts at from to S
cents per pound. while at the same
time the small papers must get their
supply from brokers and middlemen at
from to 16 cents per pound. Circum-
stances point to a concert Of action on
the part Of the manufacturers and Inn
porters to bleed the small publishers and
extort from them these excessive prices.
The evil cannot be reached under the
power to regulate commerce, but 1t can
be reached under the taxing power, the
same as the evil of gambling in cotton
was reached by tho exercise Of that
power"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-06
new Y0RK'S DEMOCRATIC
DELEGATES FACE CLASH

ALBANY. N. Y, May 6.-New. York
states delegates and alternates to
the democratic national convention
at San Francisco were gathering here
today for a two-day conference. to
be opened tonight at the call of Will
liam w. Farley. chairman of the DEM
ocratfc state committee. The an
nounced purpose of the meeting was
the election of officers Of the dele
cation and the discussion of planks
that might be submitted to the plat
form committee at San Francisco.
Indications were that the meeting
would not be entirely harmonious,
as q group of upstate delegates.
under the leadership Of former Rep
resentative George r. Lunn of Sche-
nectady. was prepared to protest
against the adoption of a unit rule.
the inclusion of wet plank in the
platform and the reelection of Nor
man E. Mack Of Buffalo as the New
York member Of the democratic ma
tional committee.
At the unofficial democratic state
convention. held here in February. a
resolution was adopted which was
intended to bind the delegates to the
national convention to unit rule.
Mr.. Lunn declares that this action is
illegal and does not bind the dele
gates. on the ground that a party
convention cannot adopt a unit rule
in states where direct primary cleo
lions are held.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-06
FIRE FROM OIL LEAK
THREATENS Bull DING

A quantity Of oil that leaked from q
barrel today in rear Of the place of BUSH
ness Of the National Motor Company.
s22 New York avenue. ignited. Many
spectators gathered in front of the
building to watch the work Of fare-
men. but the blaze was quickly ex-
tinguished. Slight damage resulted.
A lighted match dropped on q guam
tity of trash resulted In IRE that did
$50 damage on the premises Of Harry
Gilman. S5A street. yesterday aft
ernoon.
Several companies of firemen re-
sponded to an alarm sounded from
box 781 last night and extinguished
e nre on the premises Of DR.. A. M.
Ray. $500 Wisconsin avenue. An cleo
trio iron set fire to basket Of cloth
ing and did $35 damage.
No. s engine company extinguished
= hre in the house Of Paul Hawkins.
633 X street southeast, early today.
A motor truck belonging to the Tex
as Oil Company caught fire at 18th
and b streets northeast yesterday
afternoon and was damaged to the
amount OF SIS.
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C0CKRELL ON TRIAL
TODAY FOR WIFE'S DEATH
Regular Panel Of Jury Exhausted
and More Summoned for
Mondav.

Philip Shirley Cockrell was called
for trial today before Justice Gould
in Criminal Division I to answer an
indictment charging murder in tho
first degree in connection with the
killing Of his wife. Pearl Hortense
Cockrell. at their home. go F street
northeast, July I. 1918. The woman
was beaten to death with an iron bar
as she lay in bed. Insanity will be the
plea Of the defense. Cockrell has been
in Jail nearly two years awaiting trial.
The regular panel Of Jurors was ex-
hausted and additional talesmen sum-
moned for next Monday, to which
time the trial was adjourned.
One Of the questions put to the
prospective Jurors by Assistant United
States Attorney O'Leary was. DO you
believe in spiritualism?" This was
taken to indicate that the defense
may seek to show that ono of the
Witnesses for the government had re-
ceived spirit Communication" from
the deceased wife.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-06
RAILROADS ASK U.S..
FOR $5(lD,o)O,0DO
Additional Fund Necessary
for Improvements, Execu-
tiveS State.

Railroad executives before the Sen
ate interstate commerce committee
asked Congress today to provide $500.
100000 during the current year, in
addition to funds of $500 100000 al
ready provided. to finance construc-
ton of necessary freight cars and
locomotives f. N. Brown, chairman
of the board OF the St Louis and San
Francisco road, speaking for the ex-
ecutives. said this would build 100. 900
cars and 1000 locomotives, and that
the railroads could not borrow the
amount on their own credit.
Increase Not Enough.
Even should the Interstate Com
merce Commission allow the general
rate Increase of % per cent now ask
ed by the main line roads. Mr.. Brown
said. they would be unable TO finance
the construction asked. Estimating
| the traffic increase during the past
four years and the amount Of equip
ment purchased. he said that the lines
were now short 226.000 freight cars.
$3.50 passenger cars and $3.50 locomo-
ask for enough to replace the en-
tire deficiency, which would amount
to $l.6O0.000. Roads have already
ordered on their own account he
said, PITTS cars and SIS locomotives.
paying an average OF x per cent on
equipment trust certificates sold to
defray the cost.
Bankers have now told US that it
will be impossible to secure on the in
vestment markets more than 100000
900 or $15O.00O.00O additional" he
added, land that this amount will be
at rapidly advancing rate OF inter
est. The present orders represent
about $144,000,000 in cost" II Con-
gress would authorize the immedi al e
use Of $125.000.000 from the $500. 900
900 revolving fund for the roads pro-
vided by the ch-Cummins bill in re-
turning them to their owners, he said
the loan Of another $500. 100000 later
would fulfill the requirements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-06
TELLS Of CHANGES
BROUGHT BY WAR
Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe Con.
ducts Services of McAII
Association.

Cooperation unprecedented in the
history Of the world and self-sacrifice
OF an order never before witnessed are
among the most noteworthy results
developed by the great world war. This
was brought out by Mrs. Wallace Rad
cliffe, while conducting the devotional
services at the thirty-seventh annual
meeting Of the American McAn Asso-
the Church Of the Covenant today.
Mrs. Frank B. Kelley presided at the
session. Minutes Of the last annual
meeting. held at Montclair. N. j..
were read by Mrs. Edward Yates
HUI. recording secretary. Mrs. H. B.
OF welcome.
Ten years have elapsed since the
McAll Association held its last annual
convention in Washington" said Mrs.
mcfarland. "and in that time a ter
rible crisis has occurred in the world.
Many changes have taken place. espe-
cially here in Washington, where
some OF you members find. instead of
a peaceful. quiet, old-fashioned town,
q hurry -scurry. overcrowded Wash
with death-dealing motors, and alien
crowds drawn from every point of
the compass. But with 1t all. you are
welcome"
Mrs. Kelly responded for the asso-
cation. She was followed by Mrs. H.
--.es~' nv ASo0 LILO report Oh
the corresponding secretary, who. in
turn, was followed by the calling OF
the roll of delegates
Fully 20 delegates answered their
names. many different towns and
cities Of the country being represent
ed at the session. After appointment
or committee and a delegates confer
ence, lunch was served in the church.
Later the orphan report from Miss
Harriet Harvey was read. This was
followed by a message from Paris. /"
by Director Henri Gue1.
The report of the treasurer was then
read by Mrs. A. B. Perkins, after which
Rev Charles Wood Of the Church of
the Covenant gave his impressions Of
France" The singing Of the GLORIA
Patria" concluded the afternoon SEES
sion and the delegates were driven
to the home of Mrs. John W. Foster.
who entertained them this afternoon.
kilograms of greetings were sent
TO Mrs Charles H Parkhurst Mrs.
Haughton and Miss Harriet Harvey.
all workers in tho McAll Associa-
ton.
As a preliminary 10 the convention
MrA Charles Wood gave q stereopti-
con lecture Of scenes in France at
the chapel last night
Tonfghts session will convene at
o'clock. with Rev. DIR. Wood pre-
siding.
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VETS GET SUPPORT
AS DEMOCRATS IN
CONNECTICUT ACT
(Continued from First Page

treaty Of peace contest In the United
States said:
I'VE condemn the Illustration by a
partisan Senate OF the rightful fruits
Of the nations victory"
Another plank in relation to Irish
affairs was as follows: I'VE sympa
thize with the aspiration of the Irish
people in the formation of a govern
ment of their own choosing and favor
the recognition of the republic of
Ireland"
The four delegates at large chosen
were David E. Fitzgerald of New
Haven. the state chairman: T. j.
Spellacy of Hartford, an assistant
United States attorney general
Charles D. Lockwood of Stamford and
Bryan F. Mahan, postmaster of New
London. Ten district delegates also
were chosen and each will name his
alternate.
The convention in actual business
session lasted less than fifteen
minutes and then United States
Senator r. L. Owen Of Oklahoma adj
dressed the delegates.
Homer s. Cummings. chairman Of
the democratic national committee.
In his keynote speech last night.
criticised the republican party for the
failure to ratify the peace treaty. He
said the democratic party had placed
more useful and constructive legisla-
ton on the statute books than the re-
publicans had placed there in a
generation"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-06
MRS. ALICE q. HUNT DIES.

Mrs. Alice Underwood Hunt. widow
Of Alexander Hunt. former Governor
Of Colorado. died Tuesday at her
home, S15 18th street, after a brief
illness. She was seventy years old.
Mrs. Hunt was for many years In
terested in charitable work in WASH
ington. She was the founder OF the
Home for the Blind in Georgetown,
and was instrumental in having open
ed In the Library of Congress a read
ing room for the blind.
Her father was Judge Charles C..
Underwood of Alexandria. Va. 1t
was in Judge Underwood's court that
Jefferson Davis. President Of the Con-
federacy. was arraigned. Tier husband
after no had served a term as Gov
ernor OF Colorado, was elected more
than forty years ago to a seat In the
Senate.
Eighteen months ago Mrs. Hun,
buried her daughter. Miss Gloria
Hunt.
Services were held today At Speare'e
undertaking establishment and inter.
ment and interment was in Congress
sional cemetery.