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The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1920-01-29
LAST MONDAY
Was A Big Day In Lam
caster.

One Of the largest crowds seen in
Lancaster in several court days was
here last Monday. Quite lot Of
mules were on hand and some Of
them sold well Good mules are sell
ing higher than ever known and when
the farmer begins to look around for
something to pillow later in the spring
he may have to pay great deal more
than the owners are asking for them
now. Up to this time very little IL
any blowing has been done and when
the season does open up, the demand
for work mules will be greater than
the supply. Take il from US.
Mr.. Fletcher Mann, OF Lexington,
one Of the best mule buyers in the
state was here last Monday and
bought fourteen mules. He pur-
chased eight Of them from Center
Brothers. for which he paid s235.0O
a round. He also bought six cracker
jacks from Virgil Gastineau. for
which he paid n total Of 100000.
These are all mare mules and good
ones.
Center Brothers bought one OF
Logan Hubble for $4,000 that wasn't
so good but well worth the money.
Percy Hager bought a horse mule
from Royston Ray for $4,000 that
looked high but knowing ones claim
he was cheap.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1920-01-29
Called For A
"Show Down"

FRANKFORT. Ky.-The Senate,
Tuesday called on Governor Morrow
for show down with regard to the
claim Of 3il useless offices created
since Wilson's administration. The
vote was IL TO l6. Senator Il. II. Hsr-
RS. a well known Republican, voting
with Democrats and ofsetting the de-
fection Of Senator {. W. Burton.
Democrat. Of Grant county. who has
consistently voted with Republicans
since beginning. Harris said he was
elected on the platform Of abolishing
useless Offices and he wanted TO know
about them.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1920-01-29
Rankin Home Burns.

Mr.. James ID. Rankin had the mis-
fortune to lose his handsome home
by fire last Sunday morning about
ten o'clock. supposed TO have caught
from defective flu. The home is
known as the Chestnut place and was
purchased By Mr.. Rankin about three
years ago and lies near the Fork
church on the Lexington pike. His
losses will run into the thousands.
with only $500 insurance. A pOr-
ton Of the contents were saved. The
building would cost $4,000 to re-
place IL at present prices.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1920-01-29
l.. B. Conn Here.

We are glad TO welcome back to
Lancaster, Mr.. L. h. Conn. who has
been making his home in Danville
for the past five years, where he has
had the exclusive agency for the
Buick cars in connection with his
garage. which he sold recently.
He will handle this splendid and
popular car here and has already re-
ceived several Of the 1920 models.
Watch for his advertisement in the
next issue.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1920-01-29
FACTS
Come To Light In Big
Booze Case
OHIO MEN PAID kNEBELKAMP
$4,000 FOR ESQ CASES FROM
wATHEN DIsTiLLERY.

Louisville-Whiskey shipped from
the Wathen warehouse on Seventh
street road. which accompanied the
truck seized at Versailles, KY. Jan
uary IL. was purchased by Charles
Butcher, Covington; his brother-in-
law. Dennis Buckley. and Geo. Rem
ners. Hamilton. Ohio, according to
an affidavit made Friday before inter-
nal revenue agents at Cincinnati.
Butcher. who swore 20 the AFT
davits, claims the whiskey was pur-
chased from w. F. Kneblekamp. con-
nected with the Wathen distillery;
that Knebelkamp was given s35.500
in cash for ESQ cases Of whiskey.
A truck carrying 100 cases Of whis-
Key was seized at Versailles, January
18th. after the two negro drivers had
opened a case, got drunk and lost
their way.
The whiskey, it is alleged, was rep
resented to be used for medicinal
purposes. The tax paid was $3.50 a
gallon. instead of the $40 rate re-
quired on beverage liquor. Accord
ing to Butcher the whiskey was to
have been shipped to Hamilton Ohio.
Efforts Of internal revenue agents
TO locate the missing truck have been
unavailing Butcher claims that he
and his brother-in-law paid sl0.i6e
each to knebe!kamp and that Renners
paid the remaining sl5,666.
Two large trucks were provided
for the shipment northward Of the
liquor according to Butcher. along
with drivers and negro workers. One
truck, he said. was loaded with 100
cases and the other with $50 cases.
The largest Of the trucks was to
precede the other, which was sup
posed to keep close behind. Two
negroes on the second truck lost their
leader at a fork in the road on the
outskirts Of Frankfort, KY. but con-
tiued going. They were halted at
Versailles and arrested.
Revenue agents were at once mott
fled. Every bridge was closely
guarded and every automobile halted.
As yet the whiskey has not been To-
Gated. but Butcher says he believed
IL reached Hamilton. il. supposed
destination.
Al one place on the road. within
25 miles Of Cincinnati. a truck was
hailed by revenue officers. but when
the cheauffeur sang out; "why. yes.
We've got the whiskey, we're the
agents taking il TO town."
they were allowed to pass.
Both trucks were covered with
black tarpaulins and together with
the cases Of whiskey other articles
were loaded for eamouhage.
Aside from alleged violation Of the
prohibition and revenue laws bear
ing on the case. the men implicated
are subject. il is declared to- prosecu-
tion under the Reed amendment in
the event that the whiskey was taken
from Kentucky into Ohio.
The whiskey was priced to the pur-
ehasers at si22 a case for the ESQ
cases. according TO Butchers state
ment.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1920-01-29

Owing to the destructive sleet last
week. which was very disastrous to
the Telephone Company. we warn the
public To be careful Of poles and wires
on public highways. and in case Of
serious trouble please report to the
Telephone office. We have a crew
Of men working and are trying to get
all lines in as soon as possible.
It. Basin Telephone Co.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1920-01-29
URGES PROFITEERS
BE JAILED.
Senator Capper Flags
Manufacturers Who
Gouge Public.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 2l.-Jail
bars for profiteers was urged by SEN
ator Capper. Republican. Kansas. in
an address today in the Senate. Pro-
fiteers. he said. are more dangerous
than REDS.
Advocating legislation by Congress
to curb profiteering. Senator Capper
said the people could help themselves.
too. IL they would organize TO boy
colt the profit hogs by refusing to
buy goods offered at extortionate
prices"
The Kansas Senator declared there
could be no doubt that "the public is
being sandbagged" in view Of profits
received by large manufacturing cor
porations and the rise in the value Of
their securities. He cited figures re-
garding the American Wooden Com
pany. the Central Leather Company.
the Crucible Steel Company. the Uni
ted States Steel Corporation and
Others.
Cites Profit In Clothes.
Referring 10 increased prices Of
clothing Senator Capper read a tele-
gram from the National Wool Grow
ers' Association stating that the wool
in a suit Of clothes selling for 500
costs only s7.37.
"a so per cent increase in the price
Of shoes by next summer is predict
ed by the president Of the National
Shoe Travellers Association" con-
tinues Mr.. Capper. THE day this
prediction appeared another extra
dividend was declared by the Central
Leather Company"
Common stock Of this company
was rated at 5s a year ago. II is
now quoted around los. While the
people contemplate going barefoot
the leather trust walks on velvet.
made thicker. A year ago II was the
war demand for leather that made
shoes high. Now il seems to be the
peace demand for velvet.
Just now the greatest 'get-rich-
quick game in America is gouging in
sugar. The increase in the price Of
sugar will add 81 900. zoo. 900 to the
burdens now being borne by the
American people. The stock Of the
uba-American Company has ad-
vanced more than 200 per cent in the
last twelve months, probably because
Of the sugar shortage
Stid?t
Fisys Lumber Trust
I'VE have 1000, 900 homeless per-
sons in the United States as a result
Of the melon cutting in lumber.
There has been and Is shameless pro-
fiteering in that industry.
THE market price Of the farmers
livestock has declined nearly SO per
cent. bringing many farmers to the
verge Of bankruptcy. but the high
PfNtS bie eohruihef pays iof meat
are virtually unchanged.
THE income tax returns prove the
mine operators get excessive profits.
IAN the quotations have referred
to eonspire to prove there's profiteer-
ing by the great industrial corpora
tons that have sandbagged the pub
lie, rather than by merchants who
deal directly with the consumer.
"No doubt there is price gouging
by some Of the retailers. but it is the
price Of goods, when they leave the
factory to which the Administrations
best attention should 5e first direct
ed"
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1920-01-29

Buy your Clover. Timothy and
Blue Grass seed from X. C. Bailey
and Sons. before another advance.
Phone IS.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1920-01-29

American Legion Msssias neat
Saturday aishs 81 The Peiies cssst
Room at 7,iS 2. NJ. All Ex-Ssrvies
men are srssatly requested TO be
present
Virgil c. kiaasird.
Post CemmAndsr.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1920-01-29
rHIRriErHsyEAR
(Editorial.)

tulnk VI DonuS w aN''b' Wv,
Federal Aid and try the plan Of
building permanent highways.
This naturally will bring "A
great deal Of discussion. BY
this agitation every voter in
the County may be enlightened
before he is called upon to act.
We are going to publish for our
readers a few short letters
each week from both those
who favor and those who are
against the bond issue. At
the same time we wish IL under
stood that the editor of this
paper favors the issue of the
bonds and shall continue from
week To week TO give our rea-
sons to the public. We do not
agree TO publish all the letters
that we receive either for or
against the proposition. but
such as we think may bring out
new ideas and new points as
the agitation grows. One of
the first arguments that we
have heard against the bond
issue is that IL would favor
those who live and own prop
erty as against the outlying dis
trict of the County and those
who live upon the lateral mac
adam and dirt roads. We think
this is both narrow and sell
fish view TO take of the PROPOSE
ton. In the first place, the
Federal Government and the
State offers us about Two Hun
bred and forty-hve Thousand
Dollars. Unless We vote these
bonds we lost this money. Our
roads need work too much al
this time To reject such an Of
fer. Again. when "A road is
built in any part Of the County.
il il is to be assumed that il Is
for any specific neighborhood
or adjoining property holders.
II would be a discrimination
against all other parts Of the
County, II the above reason
was taken as "a test.
But a complete answer to
this is that permanent road
construction is for all the coun-
~ and must begin somewhere.
and over the highway that
brings the most good TO all the
County is the place where II
should start and IL is the road
that should be built first. The
road upon which this money
would be expended is the one
main highway in the County
that must be maintained. II
is estimated that the annual re-
pairing Of this road is more
than the interest would be up
on the proposed bonds. And
even if the Federal money is
not accepted that is offered US
the Richmond pike at this time
must be reconstructed, which
would cost more than one
eighth of the proposed bond
issue, in fact. the contract has
already been let subject to a
cancellation upon the carrying
of the bonds. for the expendi-
ture Of a large sum of money
on the Richmond pike. Ii the |
bonds are issued and this road |
is rebuilt IL releases the entire
annual road fund to be used in
rebuilding and maintaining of
the other roads in the County,
and instead of the voting of the
bonds being to the detriment of
the outlying roads of the
County. il is the only hope for
assistance 10 any extent.
The releasing of this large
sum of money for this main
highway would afford quite a
sum TO repair the roads which
are not required to bear heavy
traffic. One of the principle
reasons which lead US to be
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
tor still further confidence Of the
nation In the Prssident's soundness Of
Judgment.
British Press Vie,u
OF Lansing Case
Shoes Wilson Has Re.
gained Old Spirit, Says
"The Pail Mall Cusetteo

LONDON, Feb. 14.-This afternoons
London newspapers print tho news OF
Secretary Lansing's resignation under
variety Of prominent captions, such
as UNITED States Political Bombshell. u
"Washtngton Sensation" "Great United
States Sensation" etc. "The Pail Mall
Gazette" in It's article says,
President Wilson's return to politi-
cal activity has been announced by q
sensational stroke" During his ILL
ness, the newspaper says, all kinds OF
reports were current as to where the
real seat Of authority lay in the con-
duct Of the American Administration.
"The curtain now has been thrust
aside and We have the lively spectacle
OF the President not only using his
prerogative but employing 1t to dis
charge his chief legal adviser"
The newspaper considers tho Presi-
dents self-assertion "emerges all the
stronger for his enforced rest, and he
is evidently going to take up the reins
OF government again in spirit that
will not parley with opposition"
"The Westminster Gazette" says:
"The dismissal Of Secretary Lansing
by the President Is a dramatic illus
tration Of the peculiar power assigned
to the head Of tho government by the
American Constitution. What 1t is
exactly that Secretary Lansing has
done is not very clear, but he would
appear to have applied on his own ac-
count what has been described as tho
American principle of one-man man
agement, while President Wilson in
sists on monopoly Of the idea"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
Branch Office for Tax
Payers to Remain Open
Edwards Announces Moro Sta.
ti0ns Will BE Established
in Manhattan

William H. Edwards, Collector of
Internal Revenue for Manhattan, yes
terday announced that the Offices at %
West Twenty third Street and 126th
Street and Lenox Avenue will be con-
tinued for the convenience Of taxpay-
ers as branch Offices to receive returns,
reports. payments and the sale of
stamps. Later additional branch of
fees will be opened throughout the
Borough of Manhattan
There have been many inquiries in
the last few days as to whether per-
sonal state income tax is deductible in
filing a Federal income tax return.
Collector Edwards says where Federal
returns are filed on a cash basis the
state income tax is not deductible until
next year. Where returns are made
up on an accrual basis the state income
tax may be accrued and deducted from
this years return.
The Collector is prepared to handle
food of returns in the next four
weeks-the last day for filing returns
is March Is. In the Second and Third
districts. now made into one district,
there were filed in the year 1919 348,-
315 separate returns. 1t is estimated
the Second and Third districts, COM
prising Manhattan, paid in income
taxes last year close to $1.500,000,000.
Collector Edwards said that this
year, with the increases in salaries and
wages, it is fair to assume there will
be more in the income tax paying class
than there were last year.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
Boy Bond Thief Leads
Police i'm ssFence'' Hunt

Acting on information obtained from
the Ave boys held in connection with
an alleged s5,ooo,ooo bond theft plot,
Detectives Mayer and Brown yester-
day led Joseph Gluck. ole of the
accused youths, through the financial
district to point out the broker said
to be the man "higher up" and to have
received the bulk Of the stolen
securities.
Joseph Gluck says he turned over to
this man more than $500,000 worth of
securities stolen by his brother Irvirg,
but that the broker refused to give
them any cash. They did not know
the mans name, but gave the detec-
tves and Richard C. Murphy, Assistant
District Attorney, description Of him.
The detectives are looking for broker
who is known to have been connected
with irregular stock deals and is said
to answer the boys description.
1t is believed by Mr.. Murphy many
Of the $2,o0o,00o worth Of securities
stolen have been buried in deposi-
tories in the city. A search for these
has been begun, he said, and many
banks and safe deposit companies have
been questioned about the matter. Mr.
Murphy also feels the boys are pro-
tccting the men who have been son
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
Plan Offered
To Make Phone
Service Better
Justice Benedict Suggests
Supervision by Single
Commissioner To Be
Appointed by Governor
Wage Increase Advised
Law to Enable Patrons to
Sue Company for Ineffi-
cheney Also Is Favored

Methods Of improving telephone serv-
ice in New York City, which he criti
cized severely, were suggested in let
ter written by Justice Russell Bene-
dict, Of Brooklyn, to Assemblyman
Warren I. Lee, made public yesterday.
In his letter Justice Benedict sug-
gested placing the telephone service in
one Public Service Commissioner to
New York City under supervision Of
be appointed by the Governor and re-
moved by him on written complaint
Of fifty subscribers.
The letter advocates also increased
pay of from to 10 per cent to the
employees in order to lure them back to
the telephone business from other and
more lucrative fields. The suggestion
also is made that there should be legis-
lation by means Of which a subscriber
or telephone user, on failure to obtain
call or proper connection, might in
stitute proceedings to recover damages.
$4,000 Employees in War Service
After calling attention to the fact
that more than 1900 employees Of the
telephone company enlisted in the
service of the United States during the
war, Justice Benedict says:
The first step which | suggest for
your consideration is by an amend
atory act Of the Legislature to take
away the powers and jurisdiction
which are now possessed by the Public
Service Commission of the Second Dis
trict over the telephone service within
the limits of the City of New York,
an area Of 326 square miles, containing
population probably equal to one-half
the population Of the entire state, and
to vest these powers and jurisdiction,
in one commissioner residing in the
City of New York and to be appointed
by the Governor, by and with the ad-
vice and consent Of the Senate, for a
term of five years. The act should
provide for the removal by the Gov
ernor on charges to be preferred in
writing by any fifty subscribers.
"Second-1f, instead of piling up an
enormous surplus or putting aside
such huge amounts yearly for reserve
for betterments and upkeep, the tele-
phone company would grant sufficient
increases IN salaries or wages to at
tract back again to its service the
greater number of it's highly trained
employees who have left it to enter
more lucrative employments in other
fields, an instant Improvement would.
| am confident, be noticeable.
IF subscriber were authorized TO
sue the, company for delay or failure to
render service | believe it would not
be long before the telephone company
would find some way of putting the
service back to the condition which it
was in before the year in which the
government control operated"
Efforts of Company Cited
j. 5. McCulloh, vice president of the
New York Telephone Company, when
shown Justice Benedlct's statement. re-
fused to comment on it directly. but
offered figures to show what the tele-
phone company has had to face and
what it is doing in the way of bringinc !
back the service to its pre-war status
The main difficulty the company has
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
Inquiry Asked
In House Into
Wilson's Action
Representative Mason Seeks
to Determine Whether the
Constitution Is ssBroken
Beyond Hope of Repair"
Nation Aroused, He Says
''Triaing'' Difference on
Handing Nation Over to
World State Is Blamed

| From The TYfbune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-Represen-
tative Mason, Of Illinois, Republican
member Of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee. introduced resolution to-
day for an investigation of the resigna-
tion Of Secretary Lansing by that COM
mittee. The resolution reads:
"The people Of the United States
have heard with fear and trembIing
the startling news that one Robert
Lansing, late Secretary OF State, has
willfully and wantonly and with malice
aforethought broken the Constitution
of the United States by calling infor-
mally together members of the Cab
met and talking over interdepartmental
affairs.
The same people are shocked and
chagrlned beyond measure and view
with alarm the fact that other mem
bers OF the Cabinet have been present
at such unconstitutional atherings
and have consplred together with
Robert Lansing to break, destroy and
utterly dsmolish the Constitution Of
the United States so that the aforesaid
people will be obliged to live on their
bylaws until a new Constitution can
be adopted or the old one repaired.
1T is charged in defense of the late
Secretary of State that he did not
usurp the powers Of the President, but
that he attempted to usurp the powers
OF one Joseph Tumulty, at one time
and still secretary Of the President Of
the United States.
"Trihing Question:" the Origin
ut is charged also that this differ
ence OF opinion between the late Secre-
tary of State and the now President
started upon the triAing question as to
whether he should turn over the Gov
ernment of the United States to a
superstate, to be controlled by Great
Britain, and that this difference with
so insignificant starting has finally
broken forth upon the most solemn
question as to whether a Cabinet min
lister shall be permitted to destroy the
llfe of his nation by speaking to his
colleagues in the Cabinet without the
presence or written consent Of the
President.
"And it has also been reported that
Secretary Josephus Daniels, now Sec
retary Of the Navy, and Secretary New
ton D. Baker, Secretary of War, met
clandestinely in the hallway Of the
building known as the State, War and
Navy Building, and conversed on the
subject of the evidence of one Rear
Admiral Sims, which evidence involved
interdepartmental matters.
"It is further rumored that one AL
bert S. Burleson, still Postmaster Cen
eral, has repeatedly cracked the Con-
stitution Of the United States by seek
ing the advice of the Department O.
Justice as to how he could possibly de
stroy unfriendly newspapers, and also
the postal service by reducing the pay
Of the postal employees. And it IS
further charged that the aforesa. d
meeting has been held without the
presence of the President and without
his consent in writing.
ut is rumored that our Constitution
has not been broken, but that, on the