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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
COTTON GOODS TO ADVANCE
Indications Point to Still Higher
Prices Owing to Crop Failure
Mills Refuse Orders.

New York-Every indication points
to higher prices for dry goods during
the next few months. The demand
keeps up in excess of the supply, and,
in fact, production is so far behind
that there is little hope of its catching
up for months to come. There is
nothing in sight to give any hope of
anything cheaper next year
The cotton crop is the fifth of a
series of short ones. The scarcity Of
farm labor and the boil weeviI hold
out no hope for any increase next
year, while, il foreign credit condi-
tions improve, as it is hoped they will,
the demand for cotton from abroad
viii further reduce the amount avail
able for home consumption.
Mill products are sold so far ahead
that the mills are not seeking further
business and some Of them are not ae-
cepting all that comes IN without So
licitation.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
CALL ISSUED FOR
BIG CONFERENCE
International Gathering to study
the AfIer-War Chaos in the
World Industries.
NEED PRE-WAR STANDARDS
People Urged to Return to Former
Way of Living and Reasoning
in Strong Appeal.

New York.-A call for one of the
greatest international conferences of
commercial and financial figures ever
assembled in an effort to find a
remedy for the financial and CONNER
cial chaos in which the world has been
left by the war, was issued here fol-
lowing the meeting of a coterie of ma
tiOnalIy known financiers
The appeal was issued simultane-
ousIy with similar procIamations in
Great Britain, France, Holland. Swift
zerland, Denmark, Sweden and Nor
way In each case the documents
were signed by business, financial,
political aqd educational leaders in
their respective countries. In the
case of the European countries, the
appeal was addressed to the respec-
tive governments. In the United
States, the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States was asked to ar
range the preliminaries OF the confer
ence, while the appeal was addressed
jointly to that body, the American
government and the reparation COM
mission IN Paris.
While Germany and Austria are not
included in the original call, it was an
nOunced that the delegates from these
countries would be invited to attend
the conference. Tho sum up the doc
uments," says the official announce
ment, 1T is a call to the people to
retain to pre-war standards of reason
an appeal to the reparations COM
mission for wise moderation as to the
best business policy for all concerned
an appeal to governments to arrest
initiation and meet inevitable bur-
dens by increasing their revenue rath-
er than by increasing their debts-an
appeal to the people to work and
save-an appeal to leaders of COM
merce and finance to get together in
order to study the problems dispas-
sionately and take it up as a business
proposition, relying on independent
action rather than government inter
yention. Governments can be relied
upon, however, to remove as rapidly
as possible the obstacles that impede
such a course"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
TROOPS RULE IN GERMANY
Law to Be DecIared-Scores
Have Been Killed.

Berlin.-A state of siege has been
proclaimed throughout Germany with
the exception Of Wurtemburg, Saxony
and Bavaria as result of widespread
riots. Street parades, meeting and
demonstrations Of all kinds have been
prohibited. The proclamation was is
sued by President Ebert.
Scores have been killed in riots in
Berlin and more than one hundred men
and women wounded
The fighting occurred when police
and soldiers attempted to dispense =
great mob which had formed in front
Of the reichstag building. Hand gre
nades were used by the police with
fearful results.
When the reichstag convened at 3
O'Clock the crowd surrounding the
building was estimated at forty thou
sand and new delegations of working
people carrying red flags and banners
inscribed with the words, "An Power
to the SOviets" continued to arrive.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
TREATY IS NOW EFFECTIVE
Protocol Signed and Ratifieations Ex.
changed at Paris-OnIy United
States Is Left Out.

Paris.-The German peace treaty
protocol was signed by Germany
representative here, preliminary to
the ceremony OF exchanging ratifica-
tons putting the treaty into effect.
The entire ceremony, which took
place in the Clock hail at the French
foreign ministry, was completed at
4:16 o'clock
Previously, Baron Kurt Won Lers-
ner, head of the German mission,
signed the protocol OF November 1,
providing for reparation for the sink
ing Of the German warships at Scapa
Flow and to insure the carrying out
OF the armistice terms. The signing
of this document occurred in the office
OF the minister Of foreign affairs.
Peaceful relations between Germany
and the greater number of the nations
engaged in the great war with her
are established by the action taken at
Paris recently. The Peace Treaty
now goes into effect as between Ger
many and those powers that have IL
naIiy ratified it - Great Britain,
France, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Bolivia,
Brazil, Guatemala, Panama, Peru,
Poland, Siam, Czecho-Slovakia and
Uruguay.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
PEACE BY FEBRUARY FIRST?
suranee to Callers Claiming to
Represent 2o,ooo,ooo People.

Washington.-Assur that Dem
ocratic and Republican senators were
united in endeavoring to end the SEN
ate treaty deadlock and to avoid
carrying the treaty issues into the
coming political campaign, were Civ
en- by Senators Lodge Of Massaehu-
sets and Hitchcock of Nebraska, Re
publican and acting Democratic lead
ers, respectively, to spokesman of
organizations claiming to represent
100000 people DESTROYS of early
ratification of the treaty.
The two leaders were visited sepa-
rately at the capitol by more than a
score Of representatives of various or
CARNATIONS, including societies work
ing for ratification of the peace
treaty; labor unions, church and 9TH
er religious societies, and agricultural
and educational bodies. The calls on
the senate leaders followed a meeting
to urge immediate ratification OF the
treaty with reservations necessary to
secure the two-thirds vote.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
YANKs WILL LEAVE SIBERIA
Withdrawal of Portion of Expedition
any Force Announced by Secretary
Baker in Washington Recently.

Washington. A portion of the
American expeditionary forces in ST.
IBERIA is to be withdrawn Immediately,
Secretary Baker announced, adding
that the withdrawal Of the entire expe-
dition was under consideration Gin
anticipation with the evacuation OF the
Czechs'
Mr.. Baker could not say what units
would be withdrawn at this time. The
troops win go to the Philippines be-
fore being transported to the United
States.
Decision to withdraw all Of the
American troops in Siberia was
reached by the government several
days ago and a formal note notifying
Japan is now en- route to Toxic It
was expected that the note would be
made public after its delivery to the
japanese government
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
RADICALS ACTIVE IN MEXICO
Draft EVaders From United States
Said to Be Leading Spirits
Among Red conspirators.

San Antonio, Decentralization re-
garded by government agents as evi
dence that Carranza government Of
ficials are countenancing a plan to
establish a bolshevish regime in Mex
leo and that the radical program is
supported largely by evaders of the
American army draft will be given to
the senate subcommittee investigat-
ing Mexican affairs when it begins its
hearing here
Senator A. B. Fall, Republican, CT
New Mexico, chairman of the commit
tee, is expected to arrive soon. Sen
ator Marcus A Smith, Democrat, of
Arizona, already is here and scores Of
witnesses, many of them refugees
from Mexico, are awaiting an oppor-
tunity to testify. Summonses for
more than two hundred have been is
sued, but the number who have noti-
fled agents of the committee of their
willingness to testify is much greater.
1t is expected more time will be Civ
en- by the committee to an investiga-
ton of radicalism as it is manifested
now in Mexico, and TO the existing
conditions and relations of the gov
ernments Of Mexico and the United
States.
Assertions that Americans who fled
to Mexico to escape the draft are i'm
plicated in the plan to bring Mexico
under the rule Of the radicals is based
on statements published in the official
organ of the Communist party in Mex
leo. American government records
and reports of special agents tend to
support the statements. According TO
the published Mexican boast thirty
thousand Americans escaped service
in the army by flight to Mexico. Most
Of them have returned. to the United
States, but many remain, and the
names of a few have appeared in the
literature OF the Communist and L
w. w. organizations as actively en-
gagged in furthering the cause OF rad
icalism
Documents which will be placed be-
fore the committee include the or
ganizatiOn of the Communist party of
Mexico. The international secretary
is George Bareda. Enrique H. Arce
is secretary for Mexico, and c. F. Tab
Ter is treasurer. Tabler's nationality
is given as American
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
OPERATORS TO IGNORE BOARD
Mine Owners Prefer an AII-PubIie
Commission to Body as constI-
tuted at Present.

Washington--The policy of the BIZ
luminous coal operators in settlement
OF coal strike issues and the attitude
to be assumed toward the commits
sion Of three, appointed by President
Wilson TO investigate wages and
prices, was considered at a meeting
here Of the wage scale committee of
the central competitive field. which
was preliminary to the opening of the
commissions hearings, at which both
miners and operators viii appear.
Although no announcement was
made after the meeting, it was learned
that refusal to accept the commission
as now constituted was advocated by
some of the operators who have here
tofore publicly charged that the body
would begin its work with commit
ments.
Most Of the operators agreed that a
declaration of their stand should be
made before the work OF the commits
sion gets under way.
That this declaration would he
either flat refusal to deal with the
present body or statement of the Cd
orators willingness to cooperate
with reservations" appeared probable.
In opposing the commission as organ
lied with one representative for each
the miners, operators and the public,
some Of the operators argued that an
impartial tribunal, all Of the members
Of which would represent the public,
would be more satisfactory.
Another course favored by some Of
the mine operators was to furnish the
commission whatever information it
might ask, but with the expressed IN
derstanding that the operators would
not consider themselves bound by the
conclusions Of the commission.
The position of the operators out
side the competitive field in the pro-
posed settlement also is doubtful, it
was asserted by F. W. Lukins of Kan
sas City, president of the Southwest
ern Interstate Coal Operators Associa-
ton. Although only representatives
Of the central competitive field were
invited to the hearing, the attitude
of operators outside the central field
will be considered.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
-Bacteriologists of the state

-Bacteriologists of the state health
department expected to know soon
something definite OF the nature OF the
mysterious disease first noted at Skai.
took, and which has since been in evil
dence at Muskogee and Shawnee, and
Topeka, Kas., the latter city reporting
two hundred cases.
Pleading guilty to numbering a
newborn baby OF his own daughter,
Charles Swafford, a farmer living at
Lone Wolf, near Hobart, Ok, was
sentenced recently to life term in
the state penitentisry.
A Korean national army has
crossed the Siberian frontier into Ko-
reaL and has captured En- Chin from
the japanese provisional government
forces, according to cablegram from
Shanghai 10 the Korean National As
sociation at Honolulu.
Herbert Hoover told the house
ways and means committee recently
that the United States should serve
notice to the world that this govern
ment, after the immediate emergency,
can no longer extend relief to the suf-
fering people OF Austria.
Earth tremors continue in the
Vera Cruz district and buildings, dam
aged by the heavier shocks a week
previous, have fallen. according to
special dispatches. The big city tow
er at Vera Cruz was blown down by
q high wind after having been badly
cracked by the earthquake
Lieut. Bruce Struthers was killed
and Lieut. J Evans severely injured
when an airpIane IN which they were
attempting TO make a forced landing
crashed down a few miles east Of
Douglas, Ariz., recently.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
SWITCH OFF!
Put aside the Salts, OIL,
CalomeI, or Pills and
take ''Casczrets. "

Are you keeping your bowels, liver,
and stomach clean, pure and fresh with
Cascarets, or merely whipping them
into action every few days with Salts,
Cathartie Pills, on, or Purgative Wa
tersf
Stop having q bowel wash-day. Let
Cascarets gently cleanse and regulate
the stomach, remove the sour and fer
menting food and foul gases, take the
excess bile from the liver and carry
out Of the colon and bowels all the
constipated waste matter and poisons
so you can straighten up.
Cascarets tonight viii make you feel
great by morning. They work while
you sleep-never grippe. sicken, or
cause any inconvenience, and cost 80
little too.-Ady.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22

Gen. John ]. Pershing spent sever
al hours at Topeka on his way to
Camp Funston and Fort Riley, where
he will inspect the military establish
ments as part of a tour that will
take him to the Pacific Coast and
the Mexican border. The general was
greeted by large crowds and was Civ.
en- an ovation of almost five minutes
when he arose to speak at a public
meeting in the city auditorium.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
Water Not Always Cheap.

Milwaukee.-TEo Rachine saloon
keepers, believing they had purchased
whisky, paid $4,000 for thirteen cases
of water shipped from Milwaukee,
federal officials announced the other
day. Even the cask, which had con-
tanned genuine 102 proof whisky, had
been drained
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22

Senator Monte OF Crawford County
introduced a resolution in the senate
asking congress to require the sale
OF all food boards by the end of the
present year. The resolution urges
that a law be enacted which would
prohibit the holding in storage Of any
food or foodstuffs more than twelve
months and providing that any stocks
of foods held longer be taken over
by the government and distributed as
its Officials may see fit.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
NEWS ITEMS FROM
ALL OVER KANSAS
Happenings of More or Less
Interest Gathered From
Many Sources.
TAKE UP WHEAT CAR STORAGE
Legislature 20 Appeal to Washington
fer Relief From Present Condi-
tions in Grain Belt.

Topeka.-The Kansas legislature
may present the United States rail
road administration with a small
package of trouble. Plans are under
way for the legislature to call upon
congress for an investigation of the
railroad administration and it's han
ding of cars, and what is believed to
be an actual discrimination against
cars. If not a discrimination, mem
bers of the legislature believe that
the handling of the car situation has
been the worst bungled job that has
come out of government operation of
the railroads.
Governor Allen has been fighting
for months to get cars for Kansas
wheat. He has been given many
promises and few cars. 1t seems i'm
possible to get any reasonable &C
ton from the railroad administration.
They send kilograms to the govern
or that all the empty cars are be-
ing delivered to Kansas railroads
that the roads can handle, and the
railroad operating officials say that
they haven't been getting more than
a few cars.
A real case of what seems to be
the utter disregard Of the railroad
administration for the needs of the
state appeared when the farmers liv-
ing along the Jetmore branch of the
Santa Fee, told of their car shortage
trouble. This line is forty-eight miles
long, and the actual property produc-
tion of the territory was 1855, 900
bushels of wheat Thus far the
farmers along that line have been
furnished with 438 cars, according to
railroad figures, and these cars haul
ed $4,000 bushels. The farmers
have hauled by trucks to Santa Fe
or Missouri Pacific main line points
an additional $4,000 bushels and they
still have in their bins Or in the eIe-
Vators more than 100000 bushels of
wheat. Only slightly more than a
third of the crop has been moved and
nearly half of this was moved by
truck to other shipping points instead
of being handled in the most direct
fashion.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
BERGER WILL TRY 1T AGAIN

Milwaukee.-The Socialist commit
tee of the fifth Wisconsin congress
siona1 district, within half hour at
ter receiving the news that Victor l..
Berger had been excluded from con-
gress a second time, renominated him.
The statement WAS made that he
would be the candidate for the party
at a special election to be demanded
from the governor.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
STATE ROAD LAW IS UPHELD
Supreme Court Decision Affects 1850
Miles of Proposed Hard Surfaced
Highway Throughout State.

By unanimous opinion, the SUI
preme court in a decision handed
down recently, upheld in every par
ticular the Kansas good roads law"
Each of the fourteen unconstitutional
points cited by the defense was over
ruled.
The suit was brought as an original
mandamus case in the supreme court
to compel County Clerk Kenneth
Raub Of Shawnee county to execute
100000 good roads bonds voted by
the people. The writ was granted by
the supreme court
Under the good roads laws in ques-
ton, more than 100 miles of hard sur
face highway are now under construc-
ton and nearly 1900 miles have been
projected and are in various stages
of preparation. 1t made possible the
granting of nearly 100000 OF fed
eraI aid to Kansas through the es-
tablishment of the state highway COM
mission, and of the 1919 taxes, Kan
sas counties are raising more than
$10,000,00O by direct taxation, most
Of which is to be expended under the
provisions Of the state good roads
law for hard surfaced roads
The decision handed down was writ
ten by w. A. Johnston, chief justice.
Three appeals by men convicted OF
stealing automobiles, two from John
son county and one from MontgOm-
cry county, gained no redress for the
defendants, the court affirming the
lower court in each instance.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
a prixats Loan tn RsIninrn.

New York-Belgfum has been
granted a loan Of % million dollars
by a syndicate headed by J. P. Nor
gan & Co., it was learned here re-
Gently. The loan is In the form Of
1 and 5-year per cent notes, which
will be offered for public subscription.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
Japs to Restore shantuna7

San Francisco.-Japan and China
have started negotiations on the ques-
ton Of the restoration OF Shantung to
China, according to a cablegram re-
ceived by the New World, a Japanese
newspaper here. from Toxic.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22

Rio Janeiro-The new packing
plant OF Armour & Co, at Sac PauIo
was wrecked by fire recently. More
than one thousand head Of cattle
burned. The plant was just nearing
completion at cost OF 10 million
dollars. It was the largest in South
America.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
Bandits pidnn't GET His Ear.

Chicago.-Frank CLOWN, a returned
soldier, retrieved his right ear from
the street after it had been sliced off
by bandit, and took it to a physi-
sian, who sewed it IN place. CLOWN
announced that the robbers failed
either to get his money or his ear.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
chine.e RanaItn Hold kansan.

Peking.-Dr. A l. Shelton, Chris
tian missionary. was captured by ban
dts at Laoyakuan. near Yunnan-Fu,
January and is being held for ransom,
according to reports received here
He formerly lived in Anthony, Kan.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
LEAGUE SESSION
CALLED BY WILSON
Will Mark Beginning of a New
Era in International Affairs,
Says President.
CONCERT OF NATIONS IDEAL
The Executives cabIegram Was Ad.
dressed TO Great Britain, Italy, ia
pan, Brazil, Belgium and Spain.

Washington.-Assembly of the coun-
will mark the beginning of a new
era in international cooperation and
the first great step towards the ideal
concert of nations" President Will
son declared in issuing the call for
the meeting, as provided by the treaty
of Versailles. The text of the call, was
made public here recently
1T will bring the League of Nations
into being as a living force, devoted
to the task Of assisting the peoples of
all countries in their desire for peace,
prosperity and happiness" the cable
gram, addressed to Great Britain,
France, Italy, Japan, Brazil, Belgium
and Spain, said THE President is
convinced that its progress will accord
with the noble purpose to which it is
dedicated"
To Meet January is.
President Wilson's message was
transmitted by the state department
to United States embassies in the
countries named for formal presenta-
ton to those governments. 1t was
ception of the address, and the full
text of the call sent to London fol-
lows:
In compliance with article 5 of the
covenant of the League of Nations,
which went into effect at the same
time as the treaty of Versailles of
June %, 1919, of which it is a part,
the President of the United States,
acting on behalf of those nations
which have deposited their instru-
ments of ratification in Paris as certi-
fled in process verbal drawn up by
the French government, dated Janu-
airy 10, 1920, has ths honor to inform
the government of Great Britain that
the first meeting of the council of the
League of Nations will be held in
Paris at the ministry of foreign af-
fairs on Friday, January Is at 1920
a. m.
"A New Era in Cooperation"
THE President earnestly ventures
the hope that the government OF Great
Britain will be in a position to send a
representative to this first meeting. He
feels it is unnecessary for him to
point out the deep sifnificance at
tached to this meeting or the import
ance which it must assume in the
eyes OF the world.
cit will mark the beginning of a
new era in international cooperation
and the final great step towards the
ideal concert of nations. 1t will bring
the League of Nations into being as
a living force, devoted to the task
OF assisting the peoples of all coun-
tries in their desire for peace, pros
perity and happiness. The President
is convinced that its progress will ac-
cord with the noble purpose to which
it is dedicated"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
Still or Trial.

do you believe in woman suf-
rageT"
YES" replied Mr. Meekton, 'tfor the
present. But we've been talking it
over, and unless Henrietta gets elected
to some Office or another pretty soon
I shouldn't be surprised if our family
were to change its mind and call it 8
failure"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22

Fire caused the explosion of a gaso-
line stove in the store of the Wood
Mercantile Company burned six bust
ness buildings at Goddard recently.
The loss is estimated at $4,000 to
100000. Buildings destroyed were oc-
cupied by the following business
firms: Ward Mercantile Company,
Simmons meat market, King grocery
store, postoffice building, Wood Mer-
camille Company, DR.. c. F. McMillan's
building. The postoffice building and
the Wood store were two-story struc-
lures. The others were one-story
buildings.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
Find LARGO Vein of ouicksiIver

Boise, Idaho.-A large block Of
quicksilver has been encountered in
tunnel OF a mining company near
here. The vein has been followed
twenty feet and plans are to go one
hundred feet into the quicksilver.