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The Washington times., 1920-04-28

DFORESEEN
Agreement of Refiners and JUS
tice Department Will Curb
Shortage.
PRICES EXPECTED TO FALL
Elimination Of Spectators En-
abIes Strict Regulation OF
Stock Distribution.

Plenty Of sugar for small consum-
ers, and at prices closely approxi-
mating the present quotation. VIII
result from the agreement OF the
sugar refners and officials OF the
Department of Justice. 1t was author
itatively announced today.
Prices Near Peak.
Positive assurances given Assistant
Attorney General Howerd Il. Figg by
sugar refiners, that future sales OF
sugar in wholesale lots will be made
in such way as to ELIMINATE specu-
lators, encourages the department in
the belief that the sugar price Will
not go much beyond the present mark.
There is some ground for hope that
the present quotations on raw sugar
may decline, as sugar imports from
foreign countries, exclusive OF the
Cuban market, continue TO increase.
Foreign sugar imports show heavy
increases due to high prices.
Strict rules for closer regulation OF
sugar distribution were accepted by
the sugar refiners. The Department
of Justice proposal, unanimously
agreed to by the refners, puts an ef-
fective check upon re-sales.
The direct cause OF the consumers
complaint is the fact that sugar, after
II leaves the refinery, is handled ny
speculators a half dozen times or
more, and in each transaction an ex-
ira margin OF proht Is eNacteo' OIL
ficials stated.
Officials today stated that even In
event raw sugar quotations remain
at the present level, the consumer viii
be saved from to 1C cents a pound
by the eliminat ton Of brokers.
Close examination is being made
TODAY Of the monthly reports pf sugar
refining companies, in an Z, .ort TO
trace boarded stocks. These , cords
reveal the names of many hnarders
who will be forced to part with sur
plus stocks. These supplies Will be
thrown upon the open market, Of
ficials declared.
Other evidence gathered by At
torney General Palmer's force OF in
yestigators points directly to flag
rant profiteering. Such cases are
being prepared for presentation to
grand juries. with the speculator
eliminated, through cooperation OF
the refincr, and a close watch kept
upon sales to candy makers and other
large users, the Attorney General is
confident that the price of sugar Will
not reach further unreasonable levels.
To Check Profits
At tho department it was officially
stated that the refiner is not primar-
ily responsible for the present short
age or high prices. The refiners'
margin Of profit is fixed, it was said.
and he rarely makes more than 2
cents a pound out of his refining and
handling of the product The only
complaint considered by the depart
ment concerning the refiners, is
that, as a group the refiners have not
taken the initiative in a more cquit-
able distribution OF their stocks.
A more direct line will be estab-
lished from refiner to wholesaler and
retailer, under the plan worked out
by the Department of Justice, Off
cials declared today. This will keep
margins of profit at a minimum, as
refiners' reports will offer a quick
check on all sales, purchasers, costs,
and profits.
The Washington times., 1920-04-28

SONORACAUSE
Gen., Gales Orders American
Slackers Barred From
Liberation Army.
REVOLT MENACE GROWS
Decisive Battle Expected at
MazatIan-Attack Threat
ems ManzaniIIo.
'0LT MENACE GROWS

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April
28.-General Obregon, heading
a heavy revolutionary force, has
captured Cuautola, important
city in the state Of MorelOs, and
is now occupying that city. This
information was contained In
authoritative advices received
here today.
HERMOSILLO. Mexico. April 49,
General Jose Lorenzo. with Car
rama force of $500 men. that has
been encamped twenty-five miles
south of the Chihuahua-Durango
State line, waiting to join federal
forces enroute through the State OF
Chihuahua to invade Sonora, surren-
dered to Lieut-Col. Escabar, COM
manding Yaqui and Mayo Indians.
Lorenzo and his command took the
oath of allegiance to support the
cause of the Sonorans.
Aqua PRIETA, Mex. April ss.---
General p. Elias Gales. cSnmancer-
in-chief of the liberation constitu-
tonal army, today issued sweeping
order to military commanders In
Sonora and Sinaloa to weed out OF
their forces all American slackers.
Gales Weeds Out "Unfit."
General Gales in an interview de-
clared that any foreigner who fails
his own country in time of need is
UNFIT to join the cause of the Sonora
army
More than $4,000 soldiers in Mexico
now are in revolt against the Car
rama government, it was announced
at military headquarters. Nearly half
this number, Ii was said, have joined
the revolutionary forces in Sonora.
Mexico has been divided into four
military zones, the first of which in
cludes Conora. Sinaloa and Navarit,
according to General Gales, COM
mander of the army of the northwest.
Commanders of the central zone, gulf
coast and southern zone have not
been named, 1t was said, nor the
boundaries definitely fixed.
Expect Fight mt MazatIsn.
The first decisive engagement OF
the revolution is expected at Mazat-
Ian. Sinaloa, a west coast port, the
possession of which will give the reb-
els the key to practically all the west
coast of Mexico. Another rebel force
working further south was expected
soon to launch an attack on the port
of ManZanillo. =
Gen. Angel Flores continues slowly
toward Mazatlan, II was said. repair
ing railway bridges and other prop
erty destroyed.
Rebels Well Armed.
Troops in Aqua Prieta and those
which have passed through en- route
to the mountains apparently are well
supplied with arms and ammunition.
A considerable number OF machine
guns and artillery also has passed
through here. Dynamite in large
quantities has been sent to the noun.
tain passes for mining the slopes.
The Washington times., 1920-04-28
johnson Runs Strong
hJersey; Ohio Clues ~
To Harding, Wood 4
BY International News Service.

BY International News Service
NEW JERSEYGen apparently has beaten Sen
ator although the
close doubt General Wood led Johnson by
precincts Of zoos The count Wood 4s39O
johnson, 47,650 3N.
MASSACHUSETTS states both Democratic and
Massachusetts, delegates will be
pledged favong Coolidge Opponents OF League OF Ma
tions win.
OHIO-Senato Harding candidate elected forty
deeeaes 10 Gen Hoover and
Senator Johnson written in
WASHINGTON delegates will instructed for
Senator Miles Poindexter.
The Washington times., 1920-04-28
NJ WILLIAM PHILIP sIMMs,
Interna attonal News Service.


Two striking facts stand forth out
of yesterdays primaries In New Jer-
sey. Ohio, and Massachusetts. accord
ing to watchers In Washington:
THE strength shown by Senator
Hiram johnson, the "unreconcilable,"
and by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
leader of the fight against the treaty
In Congress, are taken as a sure sign
that unless the Democratic candi-
dates soon take TO the open. when they
do come out they will find sentiment
in the country fairly crystallized
against the Wilsonian point OF view.
S2-Returns from New Jersey re-
moved all trace Of doubt that the
fight against prohibition at San
Francisco will be something worth
crossing the continent to see, with
William Jennings Bryan on one side,
leading the "drys." and Governor Ed
ward i. Edwards. Of New Jersey. and
his cohorts, on the other, hesding the
..wets"
Yesterdays returns from the three
States holding primaries were not
surprising to experts here. Nor was
the result OF the Washington state
convention where Senator tles
Poindexter, the "favorite son, was
indosed as standard-bearer.
Senator Johnson fully lived up to
his friends expectations in New Jer-
sey, where he ran neck and neck with
Gen. Leonard Wood, despite his lack
OF organization in that State to cope
with the machine of his chief oppon-
ent
Victory for Lodge.
In Ohio, according TO latest returns.
Senator Johnson ran third on ticket
which did not bear his name. Every
man who voted for him had to take
the time and trouble to write in his
name.
In Massachusetts Senator Lodge ran
ahead of his ticket. This is taken
to mean that his battle against the
treaty in the Senate received this eI-
ira Endorsement and, though minus
great significance in itself. many be-
lieve Ii serves as a sample of what
is to be expected at least in Republi-
can communities throughout the coun-
try.
More than ono Democratic leader
here Is beginning to feel uneasy as
to the treaty issue. They point out
Senator Johnson's growing strength
as shown in recent State primaries,
this they attribute to the great ac-
tivities Of the anti-treaty campaign
ers.
AntiLeaguers Winning.
Thus 1t Is the growing belief among
Democrats here that II the league OF
nations is to be the paramount issue
in the Presidential campaign. and II
party is to make it's fight on this Is
sue as interpreted by the President,
IL Is high time that a strong and ac-
tive candidate running on that issue.
should come out into the open and
wage battle with the Republicans,
whose candidates, primary returns
show, are rapidly converting the
country to their way of thinking,
The Washington times., 1920-04-28
WOOD MEN ANNOUNCE
new JERSEY VICTORY

TRENTON, y. j., April 2s.-Major
General Leonard Wood apparently has
won the Republican preferential
primary over Senator Hiram johnson
by a very small majority. Unofhcial
and nearly complete returns from all
over the state indicated today that
the Wood majority is small, but
steadily increasing.
The returns from the more popu-
lous ccnters OF the State which were
the first to come in, piled up good
lead for Senator Johnson, but the
later returns from outlying sections
and from the more thinly populated
sections cut down this lead and piled
up a majority for Wood. The up
state cities of Jersey City and Bay
onne went to Johnson.
Johnson supporters in the state
would not concede today that the
California Senator had lost the state,
although they admitted that General
Wood apparently has jumped into
the lead.
NEW YORK, April 2S.-Norman j.
Gould, eastern campaign manager for
General Leonard Wood, claimed at
t0.20 a. m. today that General Wood
bas carried the state OF New Jersey
bv 1 900 majority over Senator Hiram
Johnson in the Republican preferen-
III urinary. The slower returns
from down-statc Jersey counties rap
idIy cut down Johnson's early lead
and will return the general a small
but safe winner. II was said.
Johnson's eastern headduarters
here would not concede the state. all
The Washington times., 1920-04-28
FIFTY DIE IN INDIA WRECK.

STNIA, India, April 2S.-Fifty per-
sons were killed and fifty injured In
n train collision on the Oudh and
Rohilkhand Railway near MorRdabad.
east Of Delhi. Four coaches were
burned in a fire caused BY the COLI
ai0W
The Washington times., 1920-04-28

though there was little optimism ex
pressed that General Woods smal
majority could be overcome. John
sons strength was centered chief.
In the larger cities OF the State ant
returns from these are practically
complete.
The Washington times., 1920-04-28
ALLIES TORESUME
RUSSIAN RELATIONS
Premiers at San Reno Agree to
Recognize Soviet, Says
Rome Tribuna. 49,

ROME, April ss.-The British.
French and Italian premiers ~
San Reno decided upon q gen
eral resumption Of relations with
Soviet Russia, according to the
Tribuna, today.
The Washington times., 1920-04-28
new IRISH CRISIS
MENACES ENGLAND
Sympathizers of Sim Fein
Threaten Tie-up of English
Ports as Protest.

LONDON, April 20.-A. Bonar
Law, government spokesman in
the House of Commons, an
nounced to the House today that
the government will not release
the Irish prisoners held at
Wormwood Scrubs prison.
The Washington times., 1920-04-28
Going to
New York?
Let The Times Help
You Secure Your
Hotel Accommodations

Realizing the difficulty Of
securing hotel accommodations
in the great metropolis, The
Washington Times has estab-
lished d Hotel Bureau with a
branch in New York.
There is no charge for the
accommodation. You simply
phone our local bureau. The
request is Immediately for
warded to our New York bu-
leau and you are instructed
Just where to telephone when
you arrive in New York in
any case where time does not
permit a reply from New
York in advance of the pro-
posed trip. In this way you
know that YOUR accommoda-
tions have been provided be-
fore you reach tho hotel.
JUST PHONE MAIN $500
The Washington times., 1920-04-28

Oeeu beCIleO Oh u ecuSlpio pooio VI
accepting the amount that Ger
many probably can pay.
Three billion marks every year
for thirty years win nUt be beyond
the paying power Of Germany.
once she gets back 10 producing.
The end of nGlitarism under the
German republi will keep at work
at least half a milton young men
in their prime that ordinarily
would be wasting time, producing
nothing, in the army.
The wealth produced by those
half million men, transferred from
military life into a productive life
will go a long way toward paying
the annual indemnity.
Every man personally interested
in profiteering, extortion through
monopoly, increasing the~ cost OF
living through combination, is in1
terested in the extraordinary po-.
litical campaign OF Hiram WI
Johnson and intensely anxious
that he should be defeated. That
fact interests you.
With organized capital so strong
ly against him, that is to say, the
dishonest kind OF organized capital,
for organization is not in itself dis
honest. the remarkable thing is
that johnson should have been
able to make any showing at all
1t takes strength to conquer paid
politicians and servile newspa-
pers.
President Wilson returning to
politics might well concentrate his
mind on the national sugar barrel.
Sugar sold by the manufacturers
at fourteen cents is retailed by
profiteers at twenty-five. Govern
ment officials say so.
The Government Postoffice could
deliver fourteen-cent sugar at the
citizens door for sixteen cents and
make money on it. Is that worth
considering?
The important thing in this
country for those that have any
thing to lose is to keep the people
as nearly as possible in a contented
frame of mind. II that is not
done, look out for trouble in year
or two.
Sugar, -four, meat, bread, potd-
toes. Keep those things, within
each Of the crowd and the crowd
will remain fairly peaceful. Let
them get beyond reach and the
crowd will get beyond control.
Those that exploit the country
through profiteering should be will
ing to let the people have sugar,
meat, potatoes and bread, since the
people are willing, apparently to
let them take everything else.
A young man, married, to whom
this Is dictated, interrupts to say
that he buys potatoes at the rate
of five pounds for forty-seven cents.
That Is not a healthy condition.
especially after the potatoes are
peeled and one-quarter of the
weight peeled away.
Let the people eat, at least, and
let the nation interest itself in the
farmers. They will soon, perhaps
this year, cut food production.
The Washington times., 1920-04-28

While the hippopotamus baby
was breathing its last, thousands
Of human babies of about the same
age were doing the same, also
breathing their last. As rule
they didn't have two doctors sit
ting by each baby. Probably not
one doctor was divided among ten
babies.
II the pigmy hippopotamus baby
in the mysterious world to come
meets the human babies that left
the world when he did. he will
have q right to put on airs.
The Washington times., 1920-04-28

interesting "Good Reason"
Pigmy Hippopotamus.
Germany Can Pay.
Sugar, Meat, Bread, Pota-
toes.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.

tcopyrisht isss.)
There's another good reason. 1t
seems. for holding back the bonus
from soldiers.
The United States Chamber of
Commerce. deeply agitated, says:
Half . million negroes in the
South. who would probably receive
i've or six hundred dollars each,
would immediately quit work until
tthe money was spent"
Also labor in the North would be
demoralized by getting SO much
money, say the patriotic business
men.
The profteer can get anything
from a million up to a hundred
millions without any particular
protest from the United States
Chamber Of Commerce. But when
you talk about giving five hundred
dollars to each Of the soldiers that
quit his job to work for q dollar
day, you Immediately threaten the
safety of the nation.
The Washington times., 1920-04-28

JUST PHONE MAIN $500
And Ask For Hotel Bureau.
The Washington times., 1920-04-28

Did you hear about the great
pigmy hippopotamus, first one
born in captivity. new dead, after
struggling against death for thirty
hours?
It looked like small baby hip
popotamus or like a big baby pig.
During its short life Of thirty
hours, two distinguished doctors
sat beside 1t, doing all that science
could TO keep it alive, in vain.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-07-08
Nine Per Cent and Safety

The Company operates a stores
in Benton county and all are grow
ing and all earn fair profits. The
81 employees are efficient, well paid,
loyal and well organized.
The class of merchandise carried
would not. under any circumstances
show much. shrinkage and could
readily be converted into cash at
small loss.
The undersigned has been man
ager from the start and expects to
so continue. In case of his death
The Produce Company would real
ize 100000 cash from Insurance
companies.
The Company deals in necessities
only. Being so well established it
is sure to continue to grow and
develope.
Preferred stock shares are $25
each and dividends will be paid in
cash on the first days of january,
April, July and October of each
year.
Detailed financial statement and
complete. information will be fur
nished to all who are interested.
This stock will surely sell at pre-
MUM in very few years. We Of
fer it now at par. 1t will draw
nine per cent in quarterly pay
ments and is free from income tax.
All statements above are guar
anteed and will be verified when
ever requested.
THE PRODUCE COMPANY,
By E. M. SLY, Sec'y and Mgr.
July 1, 1920.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-07-08

1t does not often happen that a
really high grade investment and
nine per cent net income are COM
bined. This is, however, offered by
The Produce Company in its issue
of Preferred Stock.
The Bylaws provide, and it is
so printed on every certificate,
that the Company must at all
times, maintain margin of two
dollars. net assets for every dol
lars worth Of preferred stock is
sued. This means that after all
debts are paid there would remain
in the possession of the Company
property worth at least twice as
much as the total of all preferred
stock outstanding. The; facts are
that were we to sell 100000 worth
of the. stock this year we would
actually have a net margin of over
two and one-half to one, and this
will doubtless grow still larger
from year to year. Consider the
above with what follows:
The Produce Company entered
the merchandise business March 1,
1909 with capital of $4,000. It's
sales that year were $4,000. It's
net profits s1,116.00. Every year,
since the sales have increased and
in 1920 will nearly or quite reach
a million dollars.
The Company has carried fair
net profit every year and in adj
dition to paying six cash dividends
of from ten to fifteen per cent, it
retains for use in the conduct of the
business over ninety thousand dol
lars profits.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-07-08
What Drove Him to Suicide


A man was found dead in the
Withlacoochee river, who commit
ted suicide under the conviction that
he was his own grandfather. He
left the following letter:
81 married a widow with a
grownup daughter. My father Wis
tied our house very often, fell in
love with my stepdaughter and
married her. So my father be-
came. my son-in-law and my step
daughter my mother, because she
was my fathers wife. Some time
afterward my wife had son. He
was my fathers brother-in-law and
my uncle, for he was the brother
Of my stepmother.
"My fathers wife, i. e., my step
mother, had a SON. He was, of
course, my brother and in the mean
time my grandchild, for he was the
son of my daughter. My wife was
my grandmother, because she was
my mothers mother. i was my
wife's husband and grandchild at
the same time, and as the husband
of a persons grandmother is his
grandfather. j am my own grand
father"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-07-08
Be Sure Get
Your Cook Book

We still have a few cook books
to be given with Calumet" Bak.
ing Powder sales. Calumet" is a
very high grade baking powder. II
has been used in the East and Mid
die West for years, but is Just be.
ing introduced in the far West. If
you have not had a can, now is the
time. Buy while you can get a
good cook book free. Calumet ia
sold on a "money-back" guarantee
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-07-08
Volume /.
Don't Forget
The Big Picnic

We don't want any of our friends
to forget the big community get
acquainted nicnic next Sunday. It
will do us all good to rub should
ers and get better acquainted with
our neighbors. We are going to be
there with our lunch baskets and
we want to do lot of handshak-
ing not in a business way, but just
as community folks.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-07-08

The early fly's the one to swat.
1t comes before the weather's hot
and sits around and files its legs,
and lays at least a million eggs,
and every egg will bring a fly to
drive us crazy by and by. Oh, ev-
cry fly that skips our swatters will
have million sons and daughters,
and countless first and second cous-
ms, and aunts and uncles, scores of
dozens, and fifty-seven billion
nieces, so knock the blamed things
all to pieces.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-07-08
Silenced the Ringleader

The head teacher in a Sunday
school was much worried by the
noise of the pupils in the next room.
At last, unable to bear it any long
er, he mounted chair and looked
over the partition. Seeing boy
little taller than the others talk
ing a great deal, he leaned over,
hoisted him over the partition and
banged him into a chair in his room
saying:
"Now, be quiet"
A quarter of an hour later a
smaller head appeared around the
door and a meek little voice said:
"Please, sir, you've got our teach
er.."
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-07-08

While attempting to enter his
apartment unobserved at 2 a. m. the
other morning Salem man stubbed
his toe against the piano. care
you hurt, DEAR" inquired the alert
wife. "No," replied the head of the
family, 81 struck the soft pedal"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-07-08

Teacher-"James, what season is
it when the flowers begin to bloom,
the trees start budding, and the
grass comes up?"
James-"Baseball season."
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-07-08

edo you sell good, honest goods,
my mans" asked the fussy man.
"Well," said the baker, thought
fully rubbing flour on the end Of
his nose, 81 have an idea that the
soda crackers are square, but, to
tell the truth, I am almost sure
that the pretzels are crooked"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-07-08

This week we will sell White Ma
Wy Soap II bars for $1.00. Soap of
this class ordinarily sells three bars
for a quarter.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-07-08
THE ANT HILL

You have, no doubt, kicked into
an ant hill and seen each and ev-
cry ant pick up a white egg and
run with it. So did The Produce
Company look as if something had
kicked it Saturday, July Bird while
the crowd was continually pouring
from its doors, all carrying pack
ages.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-07-08

Our.line Of Fruit Jars, Stone Jars
Water Coolers and Stone Churns
is complete. Have you tried the
'Tdeal" Mason glass top for cold
packing? They can't be beat.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-07-08

Remarkable man, that Jenkins"
"What has he done? 2"
81 asked him for the loan Of $50
and he sat on me in spite Of the fact
that was standing while he did it."
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-07-08

AS protest against the high cost
of shoes, Vienna fashionables go
barefoot. That's all well enough.
but what about the high price of
trousers and overalls?