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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-07-13

ROBBED OF TRAVELLERS CHECK.
". H Alhouse, a guest at the st
Regis hotel, reported to the police
Tuesday that thieves had stolen 800
from his room at the hotel The
money was in the form OF a travellers
check.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-07-13
NAVY \ hlAAs HAS
EIDDRI BEHIND
A NEWSPAPER
ISHlELD At SlGHr
lOFA CREDITOR

Relative humidity IN Fl Paso at noon
Tuesday was II percent; temperatures at
noon vas % degrees
Precipitation last "a hours Onchesl--
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-07-13
FLORIDA GOVERNOR WON'T
CALL SPECIAL SESSION

Pensacola, Fla. July I3.-Governor
Cats has refused TO call a special
session Of the Florida legislature TO
act on woman suffrage, local suf-
frage leaders announced today. They
said the governor contended such ac-
ton would be useless A telegr; I
from the governor said: i tried 70
get this through the last session The
same members constitute the legis-
lature now and an extra session
would be useless
CkRPETs CLEANED the best way
by the best cleaners WlLSON-MlL-
LISAN Plant Phone 7ss--Adv-
sen oil Stock to Curtl.- a Co.-Adv
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-07-13

sen Oh stock to CurtIsa q Co.-Adv
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-10
Allen McCurdy at Opening of Convention of
Committee of Forty-Eight Tells of His
= Ir> Model Platform.
BOTH OF OLD PARTIES HAVE FAILED.
Says Republicans Made Bold Bid for Votes Of
People, While Democrats Were Very
Brazen in Their Claims

change for the lives and treasure OF
the people, Mexican oil shall be de-
livered to the interests; endorses the
infamous -Cummins bill over the
protests Of farmers, workers and in
formed citizens, and consistently
crowns It's work by nominating as
candidate for the presidency a
proven, steady. wheelborse politician.
guaranteed to stand without hitch
ing.
"The democratic bid is more than
bold: it is brazen. With mild reser-
vations,, 1t not only claims a partisan
credit which belongs to the whole
nation, Tor fighting and winning the
war. but 1t declares it administered
the conduct of that war without the
taint Of scandal And the ghosts az
Hog Island, aircraft and shipbuilding
and cantonment construction and nj
trate plant appropriations are still
stalking through the land
Nor is that all Failure to protect
people against profiteering in time
of war might be forgiven, but to
break the faith of whole nation cam
not be forgiven That is the bitter
experience Of these past years. We
all remember with gratitude the
words that thrilled our hearts and
kindled fervent hope that we were
really in the dawn Of a new day. We
felt the inspiration of leader who
was to guide US into more complete
realization of the things we had al
ways held nearest our hearts.
"Yet it is by these words the demo-
cratic party must be judged. BY these
words it is weighed in the balance
and found unworthy Of human conf
dence For into the expectant hope
went the devastating arm of Burleson
and Palmer. destroying every vestige
of civil liberty we ever held dear and
turning the light of freedom into
darkness"
McCurdy attacked Palmer. saying
the democratic party, through its en-
dorsement Of that officials work.
would '1ead us back to the days of
Phillip II Of Spain and the unspeak-
able Metternich of Austria, and cause
their inquisitions, secret police. spies,
espionage, arrests without warrants.
private prisons, illegal detentions and
star chamber proceedings to supplant
the methods provided in the bill of
rights which has been the bulwark
Of Anglo-Saxon freedom for nina CEN
turies-"
The proposed platform. abolish
economic privilege" he said. declares
the principal cause Of the distress OF
this people economic in it's nature,
and can be removed only by economic
actor.
"No reference is made TO any no
litical reform" McCurdy said. With
privilege abolished, they Will not be
needed. Other needed improvements
in the organization OF government
will afford no relief until after privi
lege is abolished"
McCurdy said the com-nittea CT
forty-eight endorses the right CT la
Dor to bargain collectively and de-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-10
CARL WANDERER
HAS CONFESSED
Admits Having Hired Tramp for Mock
, Holdup and Then Murdered
His Wife and the
Tramp.

limited Press Leased Wire Service ]
CHICAGO, July 10.-Carl Wanderer
loved his wife "too much to let an
other man get her, but didn't want
her myself according to an alleged
confession explaining the murder of
his bride of eight months and an un-
identified stranger here June Il
In new confession obtained by
police after sixteen hours of ques-
tioning, Wanderer detailed how he
hired tramp to stage a mock hold
up and murdered his wife and the
tramp, according to the police.
II want to be hanged. l hope 10
join her in death. l wonder if she
will forgive me-" Wanderer declared
after the alleged confession.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-10
IHuvI1s
..'...
nHN
KIN .. 49,.
HE nhV
WOOD AS A VISITOR

! [By Raymond Clapper, United Press
| Staff Correspondent
! MARION, Ohio, July 10.-A busy
week faces Warren G. Harding, re-
publican presidential candidate.
He will try to get in some work on
his acceptance speech today. General
Leonard Wood, defeated candidate for
the nomination, will arrive late today
for conference. Will H. Hays, ma
tional chairman, will spend Sunday
with Senator Harding.
Political leaders here this week
have given much attention to ques-
tions OF strategy in the coming cam
paign and indications are that Ohio,
New York, New Jersey and Indiana
will be the scenes of the hardest
fighting
Information reached here that dem
!ocratic leaders plan to concentrate
their fight on a few of the big doubt
full states, hoping thereby to carry
enough electoral votes in these to-
lgether with those of the "solid south
to put Cox in the white house.
Harding forces will meet this plan
Itrated fire. They are in no respect
conceding Ohio to Cox and as for
New York they estimate a republican
majority from 100000 to 100000.
Harding advisers are counting
states west of the Mississippi, claim
ing they will carry them on the pro.
hibition issue.
They count California safe because
of Senator Johnson's declaration to
support the Harding ticket. Mime.
sofa and other doubtful states they
believe will go republican on the dry
question
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-10
Called to Order.

HOTEL MORRISON, CHICAGO
July 10.-The national convention oi
the committee of forty-eight was
called to order at 11:45 a. M. today
| by National Chairman ]. A. H. Hop
kins, of Morristown, N. j.
With the exception of bare spots
in the Kentucky Montana, West Vir
ginia and Louisiana reservations, the
hall was well filled.
The assemblage, including specta
tors, numbered about 1900, of whom
twenty per cent were women.
Rev. Noble S. Elderkin, of the Park
Ridge Community church, Chicago
delivered tho Invocation,
Give us the courage Of those OF
long ago." he prayed. Lead us out
in new spirit, a new. hope and will
a holier ambition than men have
dreamed before"
Chairman Hopkins, following the
prayer, said: ~.
I'VE are here today to open up ta
the American people channel by
, which the country will be able to
fight for the things nearest to their
hearts. Just as Lincoln, half cen
tury. ago, struck off the shackles OF
slavery, we are here today to strike
the shackles Of economic slavery
from u.s. We need such channel
Opportunity never comes to a man
twice. and we have that opportunity
today "... .
,"There are difficulties in our way,
but they are minor difficulties. The
essential job for us to do is to unite
our forces upon a common platform
and upon a common candidate.
This convention is not concen-
trated on one candidate" shouted
Hopkins. 1--WE may even beat the
record and take fifty ballots. Let no
man think he is the only man who
can lead this movement to success
At the conclusion Of his brief
speech, Hopkins turned the gavel
over to Allen McCurdy, of New YORK,
temporary chairman
When McCurdy declared that the
kcall for the convention was based
upon the conviction that the two
existing political parties were united
in their determination to perpetuate
evils which the American people
were determined to Destroy" there
was an enthusiastic burst OF cheers
McCurdy's speech denounced spe-
cial economic privilege, and when he
declared that the capital of the
United States was in Wall street, and
not in Washington, the delegates
stood and cheered.
Mccurdy's reference to 'thd non
partisan defeat of the old POLITICAL
narties in North Dakota also was
greeted with shouts of approval.
Can we unite on this issue?' ask
ed McCurdy, when he declared the
paramount issue of the 1920 campaign
would be the destruction of special
privileges.
Delegates leaped to- their feet and
cried Eyes"
When McCurdy declared that the
democrats. and republicans after years
of secret slavery had come into the
open and revealed themselves to them
selves and the nation as birds of
prev, great yell of approval arose.
McCurdys jibes at the old order OF
things continued to tickle the crowd.
Continued on page ~ ~.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-10

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
CHICAGO, July 10-Allen Nc
Curdy, New York City. temporary
chairman Of the committee Of forty
eight national convention, in his key
note speech today proposed as a
platform abolish economic privi-
| lege."
Dilating on that phrase, McCurdy
said host of reforms would follow
the victory Of party fighting for
that abolishment.
McCurdy prefaced his assertion OF
the necessity for third party with
the statement that the COMMITTEES oil
lforty-eight believes in the two party
system: that the two parties now IN
existence really are but ''the right
and left wing of the same bird OF
prey"
The democratic and republican par.
ties, he said. conceal under these
names an unyielding opposition to
the popular will" That they are OF
1.-The same stock is proven, he said,
! by the fact that they consolidate
when the people, as in North Dakota,
unite in their own behalf.
The new party, he said, offers no
panacea for all Ills and it is not so
cialiStic.
Through our PLATFORM" McCurdy
said, Eve declare that just as in 1860
the paramount issue in American life
wa. the abolition Of special privilege
g :chattel slavery, SO the paramount
issue Of 1920 is the abolition of eco
nomic privilege, which has grown
more powerful than slavery ever be-
came.
IF we can unite, there is ground
to hope that in that union we will
have formed political party with a
platform through which the majority
of our fellow citizens can realize a
hope too long deferred. A failure
will strike severe blow at a gen.
Grafton already twice disappointed
once by the collapse of the progress
sive party and again by the incom-
prehensible contradiction between
the words and the deeds of the pres
ent admin stration."
The platform Of the two old parties
might have been written by con-
vention of corporation lawyers and
Wall street bankers, McCurdy said
and added:
"Over the trail Of these nation al
failures is to be drawn the red her
ring of international relations. This
is an ancient trick of reaction. IF It
succeeds in 1920, the American peo-
pie will discover too late that they
have assumed the position Of a man
gazing intently at the moon that the
pickpocket may more easily relieve
him of his possessions. How dare we
permit foreign relations to dominate
this campaign? Exploited ourselves.
shall we give the power to exploit
other people to our own exploiters?
"The republican bid is bold. 1t
reads out Of its councils every man
and woman who ever stood for any
form of human rights; adopts plat
form that evades, equivOcates or
straddles every living issue; paves
the way for a war by which, in, ex-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-10
TABLOIDS .
FROM FAR AND NEAR

state chemist, informed Judge Has.
tings in city court. Every Vender of
buttermilk is liable to prosecution,
Watson said.
Booze in Phonogrsph.
SOMERVILLE. Mass, July To-
How dry I am" walled phonograph
in home here. Police investigated
and found forty-seven bottles OF Ja-t
maica ginger Of high alcoholic content
stored in the machine
Ice and Snow.
BOSTON, Mass, July 10.Edward
J. Lord paid fine today for falling
to clean ice and snow from his side
walk. The mercury was lowering
around the eighty mark when the case
WAS tried. 1t dated back to February
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-10
NERVE OF DOC. SCOTT
GOES INTO PHRASE BOOK

cagos phrase book today.
It grew from the fact that Dr. Or
ilando f. Scott, operating upon him,
self with no anaesthetic whatever
tore twelve square inches from MS
own thigh and transplanted them to
his wife's leg. The SCOTS are re
cuperating in adjoining wards.
Mrs. Scott was injured in an auto.
mobile accident, her leg being broken
lin Ave places. Gangrene set In and
DR.. Scott decided on the stansfer-
renee Of flesh as the only cure
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-10
lndependence Of Armenia.
Unconditional Sure nder.

srTJnited Press Leased Wire Service
MEXICO CITY, July 10.-Only un
conditional surrender of Francisco
Villa. bandit leader, will be consider
ed by the Mexican government, it was
omcially announced today. This was
a flat refusal of Villas armistice
terms, published in Isi Universal yes
terday. -
The official statement SAID Villa was
no longer a military problem and the
government forces were capable of de-
feating him, making negotiations un-
necessary. r.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-10
New Heads speaker,s aureau.

CHICAGO, July 1O.-The appoint,
ment of Senator Harry S. New, of In
diana, to head the republican speak.
ers' bureau. was announced today by
Chairman Will Hays of the national
committee
New will be assisted by Congress.
man Thomas Miller, Delaware. in
charge of New York headquarters,
and Congressman J. w Good. Iowa,
in charge of Chicago headquarters
New Will be. stationed here
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-10
Single Takers, Labor Party, Committee of
Forty-Eight and American Constitutional
Party Members Gather.
MAY ALL COMBINE INTO ONE CROWD
Seats for 400 in Hall With More Than That
Number Of People Requesting Tickets
of Admission.
Chicago Convention Schedule.

Chicago Convention Schedule.
Saturday, 8 a. m.-Single tax part,
at Auditorium hotel.
Saturday, 10 a. m.-Committee O
forty-eight at Hotel Morrison
Saturday, p. m.--American con
stitutional party at Auditorium recita
hall
Sunday, 10 a. m.-Labor party al
Garments hall.
National Convention.
[By Don E. Chamberlain. United Press
Staff Correspondent
HOTEL MORRISON, CHICAGO
Jluy 10.-Steps toward lanching a
new political party were taken here
today with the calling to order Of the
national convention of the committee
of forty-eight.
National Chairman J. H. A. Hop
kins was scheduled to open the con
yention at ten a. m.
Following the invocation, the first
order of business was the announce
ment of Allen McCurdy, of New York
City, as the temporary chairman, and
his delivery of the keynote speech
Announcement was then to be made
and credentials, and committees on
permanent organization.
AS the opening hour approached, il
became apparent that Cameo hall
the scene of the convention, would
not hold all the delegates and specta-
tors.
Seating arrangements had been
provided for 1,400. but more than this
number have applied for seats.
Convention officials plan to adjourn
after the organization of the conven
tion until Monday morning.
The single tax party convention
was scheduled to start at nine O'Clock
and shortly thereafter adjourn for the
purpose of attending the convention
of the committee of forty-eight-
Although devoid of much or the
paraphernalia of conventional pollEf
cal conventions the forty-eightera
have one thing in common with 'e
publicans and democrats. They are
slow in getting together. AT Ten
o'clock, the hour set for the opening
of the convention, scarcely haf a
dozen delegates were in the hail. III
fact there were more newspaper men
on the job at that hour than real plat
form and candidate makers. 1t was
explained by convention officials that
the Chicago double time system was
largely responsible. Most of the ar
riving delegates had failed to change
their watches from central to locai
time.
At 1885 the doors were thrown
open and the general body OF dele
!, gates and spectators filed into the
Ahall.
As some delegations overflowed the
space allotted to them, they moved
into the seats of adjoining delegates
Illinois was congested in a few min
utes and overfowed into Utah.
Three cheers for Hopkins! calico
delegate as the national chairman
entered the hall.
They were given vigorously and
the band followed with "On Wiscon
SIM" the University of Wisconsin
song, in which most OF the audience
joined
The Wisconsin delegation gave the
university yell at the conclusion Oh
the song.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-10
Some Short and Snappy Items
Which Make News Wire
Sparkle.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
NEW YORK, July 10--Elie Eareh,
hot dog vender, was sued for divorce
by his wife who demanded S75 weekly
alimony. She declared her husband
makes $4,000 a year from his dog
stand in Coney Island.
Alcohol in ButtcrniTk
WILMINGTON, Del, July 10.-Real
ripe butter milk contains three per
cent alcohol, DR.. Herbert Watson,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-10
ADMIRAL FISHER
DIES AT HOME
Former First Sea Lord Of Great
Britain Was Strong Advocate
for Oil Burning
Ships,

TUnited Press Leased Wire Service ]
LONDON. July 10.-Sif John Ar
buthnot Fisher, admiral of the feet
and former first sea lord Of the Brit
ish admiralty, died at 7:15 a m. at
his home here today.
He has been strong advocate of
the proposal to convert all British
warships from coal to oil burners.
He was born January 25, 1S41 ~.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-10
Next Weeks Weather.

TUnited Press Leased Wire Service.l
WASHINGTON, July 10.-Weekly
weather forecast:
Upper Mississ ippi and Tower Mis-
souri, valleys: !.
local thunder showers Tuesday or
Wednesday. Generally sfair there
after. Nearly normal temperatures.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-10
STIFF OBJECTIONS
To PREPARATIONS
German Strategy at Spa Con-
ference is to Conceed to All
Minor Points in
Treaty.
SETTLE DISARMAMENT
Coal Question is Next on Program
With Failure So Far to Live e
Up to Terms Of
Allies.
SETTLE DISARMAMENT
BY Carl d. Groat, United Press Staff
Cores sDOndenf

By Carl d. Groat, United Press Staff
Correspondent
SPA, Belgium, July 1O.--With the
diarmament question definitely dis
posed of by Germany's acceptance of
the allied ultimatum ordering the
treaty terms fulfilled within six
months, the matter of coal deliveries
stood first on the program, of the
conference between allied and Ger
man representatives today.
Lloyd.George has notified the Ger
man delegation that Germany must
recognize the right of the allies to
priority in deliveries of coal. Ger
many must consent to establishment
of permanent allied coal commission
which will function at Berlin to keep
track of all coal movements to Ger
many. "
Premier Millerand declared that up
to June l, Germany had delivered only
81 per cent of the coal required under
the peace treaty. The French pre-
mier declared France must have pri-
ority up 10 the amount fixed by the
reparations commission. He said a
reply would be made at eleven o'clock
today. 1t was belived the Germans
WOtllu dSItc w tllC hlllCo PA opo'si'''
With regard to trial of Germans
guilty of war crimes, the German
delegations said no arrests had been
made as yet.
German strategy apparently will be
concession of all points on armaments,
war criminals and coal but to make
"a stiff fight over reparations. Ihe
latter was expected to come up for
discussion at today's session.
It was not belived the conference
would be able to settle the Belgian
and Polish proportions at today's con-
ference. At Mondays session, these
will be discussed further and the Rus.
sian and Polish problems threshed
out.
One Unre asonable Demand.
BERLIN, July 9.-(Delayed)--
'Newspapers here today deplored
failure of the German delegation at
SPA to plead for retention of the
security police. The socialist news,
,paper Vorwaertz said the other allied
demands were reasonable
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-10
~ One Unreasonable Demand.
AGREES
TO MAKE PEACE
Accepts Proposal Of Great Britain
and Denies Ever Attacking
British Empire or Its
Possessions.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
LONDON, July 10.-A Stockholm
dispatch to the Labor Herald today
carried the text of the Russian soviet
governments note accepting the Brit
ish proposal for peace between Rus
sia and Great Britain.
"The soviet government agrees to
the British plan" the note said. AT
the same time the soviet government
wishes to protest that it has not at
tackled the British empire or 1ts
possessions. :,
The note was signed by the Dol
shevik commissary for foreign az
fairs.
lndepe ndence Of Armenia.
+ LONDON, July 10.--The Russian
soviet government IS ready to recoog
nize the independence Of Armenia
and has agreed to sign document
to that effect, according to wireless
dispath from the Armenian delega
tion at Moscow, received by the Ar
menian bureau here today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-10
Tears Flesh Off Thigh to Trans.
plant on Wife to Save
! Her Life,

/ [Irited Press Leased Wire Service.
CHI ICAGO@ Il July 10.-.The nerve OF
Doc Scott earned place in Chi
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-10

Keokuk merchants, through
their advertisements printed in
The Gate City, invite you to
trade with them.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-10
THE WEATHER

Unsettled, but Mostly Fair
Local temp. z p. m, -; 7 a. M,
65.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-10

Continued on page -
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1920-09-09
.wORKED" THE MExIcANS
Slick Fellow Got Money In Bogus
cauAe

Solomon Tribune: II recently came
to light that smooth fellow with the
easy money" idea relieved quite
number Of our Mexican residents OF
from IS to $40 each on fake suit
scheme. His method was to take
orders for a tailor made suit selected
from samples he carried, and by the
victim paying So to $40 down re-
-eeived a receipt for his money and
was to pay the balance Of $25 on the
delivery Of the finished suit The
receipt was signed by the Rice Tail
oring Co. of Chicago. One Of the
Meyicans told his troubles to "Dick"
Darby. who made investigation and
learned that there was no such firm
doing business In Chicago. As the
orders were given nearly two
months ago 1t looks as II the Mexi-
cans are out the cash given the
"easy money" man. There We're a
bunch of seven employees Of the
Santa Fe worked" In this manner,
and how many more we have been
unable to learn.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1920-09-09
START WORK ON NEW SCHOOL

Manchester Motor: At meeting
of the school board, Thursday night.
the contract was awarded for the
new school building.
The Peterson Construction Com
pany, of Salina, secured the contract
for the erection Of the building. the
big being $10,s50. The contract for
plumbing and heating was awarded
to the Salina Plumbing Company at
$4,000.
Excavation will be started at
once and it Is hoped to have the
building completed by the first OF
the year. In order to keep within
the bond limit, only half or the
building will be built at this time.
the auditorium and two class rooms
being omitted from the original
plans. However, the building VIII
be finished in such manner that
the balance can be built on at any
f1ture time