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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-03-05
THE NATIONS BUSINESS

Senate Post Office Committee ap-
proved one-cent rate for local or drop
letters.
Another issue of S3OOOOO,0O0 treas
ury certificates may be expected about
March 10, Secretary Houston an
nOunced.
Not since the first days Of the war,
when manufacturers and merchants
were fully aroused to the necessity for
organizing to win the war, have these
representatives of the nations indus
trial life been so thoroughly up in
arms now that they have realized the
full significance of the action of the
house committee in cutting down the
appropriation for the Bureau of For
eign and Domestic Commerce.
Thirty-three unions, comprising the
Chicago Building Trades Council, are
preparing to demand $1.25 an hour in
stead of 81, as decided on last fall.
No governmental action in recent
years has aroused such strong protests
from the business men of the nation as
that of the House Committee on Ap-
preparations in reducing the appropri-
alton for the conduct of the trade pro-
motion work of the Department of
Commerce at the most important period
in the nations foreign trade develop
ment.
John Barton Payne, chairman, told
the Shipping Board that the recondi-
tioning of the former German vessels
for passenger service would involve an
expenditure of more than S75,0OO,000
and offered a resolution approved by
three of the four members of the board
requesting authority to put the ships
on the market. All bids recently re-
ceived for the purchase of the liners
have been rejected. r. 81. Stevens
placed the value of the fleet at nearly
S75,OO0,OO0.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-03-05

One month OF national prohibition
has convinced Prohibition Commission
er John F. Kramer that the "bone dry
age in the United States is at least a
generation away If drink can be abol-
ished in one generation he will con-
slider that good progress. Permit sales,
speakeasies and smugglers are giving
authorities trouble, he says.
A bill designed to open the way for
return of property Of American wives
of enemy subjects was introduced IN
the house at Washington by Represent
ative Butler (Rep., Pa.).
Boring its way through more than
13 inches of armor belt steel, 16-
inch projectile produced at the new
naval ordnance plant at South Charles
ton, w. Va, the third shell fired out Of
a test group of five, met every require
ment in a test at the Indian Head,
Nd. proving ground.
Appointment of a commission of 10
congressman to investigate the cost
and advisability of a system Of univer-
sal military training was proposed by
a group of western Republican sena-
tors.
The house of representatives of the
New Mexico legislature, at Sante Fe,
ratified the federal woman suffrage
amendment by vote Of 36 to 10. The
senate passed the resolution by vote
of II to 5. New Mexico is the thirty
second state to ratify.
Dissatisfaction among the 1900 op-
orators of the New York Telephone
Company over their present wage scale
is to be adjusted at a conference be-
tween the management and represent
atives of the employees.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-03-05
A Summary for Busy Readers
of the Significant Doings
of the Day.
OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST.
PROGRESS of the World in General.
Legislative Activities at the Ma
tons capitai-News From Ev-
cry Corner of the Country.
WASHINGTON.

Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary,
retired, Arctic explorer and discoverer
of the North Pole, died at his home IN
Washington from pernicious. anemia
after several days suffering.
Acknowledgment that the treaty IS
In hopeless deadlock from which it
can be extricated only by vote of
the people at the next election was
made in the senate by Senator Hitch
cock, the administration leader. This
aroused no adverse comment from Sem
ator Borah, who insisted that the Re-
publican party should make the treaty
an issue.
Opponents of the railroad bill con-
ference report marshaled their forces
In an effort to prevent its approval by
the house.
Justice Thomas Jennings Bailey, in
the District of Columbia Supreme
Court, granted the temporary injunc-
ton applied for by William Randolph
Hearst as a taxpayer against the sale
by the Shipping Board Of the former
German fleet The board announced
that it had decided to reject all of the
bids received.
Land settlement in all states for
former service men, federal aid to en-
courage their purchase of either rural
or city homes, vocational education
and adjustment of compensation based
on length Of service were recommend
ed by the Legislation Committee OF the
American Legion.
The railroad bill, which has been
practically rewritten since its passage
in the house and senate, was formally
reported by the sonferees of the two
branches.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-03-05
FOREIGN.

Canada announced it would import
1000 Alaskan reindeer for breeding
purposes.
Canada's 1919 gold output placed at
S16,275,0O0 compared with S14, ,463, ,5SS
in 1918.
Witnesses living in Great Britain,
France and Belgium who are against
Germans accused of war crimes will
have their testimony taken by com.
missioners, it is declared in Berlin
dispatch.
Switzerland has signed a provisional
convention with France and Great
Britain dealing with air traffic, which
comes into force March 1. Each coun
try agrees to grant free passage over
its territories and territorial waters
during peace time to registered aircraft
which live up to the conventions con.
ditions.
Newfoundland is icebound, and rail
roads are completely tied up. Inhab
itants in the interior are suffering in
tensely.
Dublin has been the scene of violent
street battles between Sim Fein vol.
unteers and British government police
and soldiers, using armored cars and
tanks.
The Sim Fein have executed their
first traitor. He was a youth who is
said to have given the authorities some
secret Sim Fein documents. His bull
let riddled body was found just outside
Colk.
The German national debt is expect
ed to reach OOO,OOO,000 marks by
the end of March, OO,0OO,0OO,OOO
marks of which comprises non-interest
bearing treasury notes.
Grip patients are overcrowding the
Berlin hospitals, and the scarcity of
nurses and the inadequate accommodate
tions are complicating the conditions
of treatment for this prevalent dis
ease. Malnutrition and inadequate
clothing are chiefly responsible. Simi-
lar epidemics are reported in Breslau,
Dresden, Hamburg and Bremen.
M. Clemenceau's paper, L'Homme Ii,
bre. under the title '1ntrigues" refers
to what it is pleased to call an often
sive against American cooperation in
European affairs in general, and
against President Wilson in particular.
rs rather cIumsily conducted
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-03-05
GENERAL

The President issued his reply to the
Brandagee senate resolution in which
he made public an agreement signed
by Lloyd George and himself whereby
the absolute title to all enemy ships
In the osSession of America should
remain the property of America, thus
proving conclusively that England has
no string tied to the vessels the Ship
ping Board offered for sale.
The Senate Committee on Com
merce, by a vote of 10 to 3, reported
the Jones bill directing the board to
recondition the former German ships
before their final disposition is decid-
ed upon.
Senator Pomerene's withdrawal from
the presidential race gave the lead to
Governor Cox Of Ohio as the foremost
active candidate for the Democratic
domination. The Pomerene strength,
chiefly in Ohio, will go to Governor
Cox, according to the general opinion
of politicians.
President Wilson has improved so
much, according to Rear Admiral Gray
son, that he is at his desk daily and
will soon be able to use his typewriter.
Petitions to place the name of Will
liam J. Bryan on the ballot as Dem
ccratic presidential candidate were re-
ceived in Michigan.
League of Women Voters indorsed
the League of Nations, urging Ameri-
cas- adhesion and rejected military
training.
President Wilson's note to the allied
Supreme Council regarding the Adri-
attic question, which caused something
of stir in this as well as the allied
countries, apparently has served to re-
open the whole subject to negotiation.
For n week a wolf pack has invad-
ed nightly the western end Of Duluth,
MINI. Trappers and scores of people
"iying OUT for the pack succeeded in
killing one, wounding another and
trapping a third of the pack Of l..
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-03-05
SPORTING.
The Detroit Tigers will be the earli-

The Detroit Tigers will be the earli-
est big league team in the field.
Everett MCGOWAN of st. Paul, Mimi,
won the international outdoor ice skat-
ing championship at Lake Placid, n. Y.
MCGOWAN clinched the title by winning
the three mile race, having previously
taken first place in the half mile, one
mile and two mile races and scoring
total of 120 points.
Joe Stecher, worlds wrestling cham
pion, in the presence of a great throng
that packed the Seventy-first Regiment
Armory, New York, defeated Jim Lon
dos, known as the Greek champion, aft
er desperately contested bout last
ing hours and Is minutes. To the
astonishment of the onlookerS Lon
dos, who weighed but 180 pounds to
2OS by Stecher and was handicapped
also in the matter of height, reach and
experience, gave the champion one of
the hardest battles ever seen on pad.
Outfelder John L. Sullivan of the
New Orleans Southern League baseball
club has signed with the Boston Ma
tionals.
At least one of England's defenders
Of the HarmswOrth or international
motorboat trophy, for which America
has challenged, will be the largest hy-
droplane yet built for racing purposes.
Jimmy Wilde, fyweight champion of
the world, made a chopping block of
Mickey Russell at the Arena A. c., in
the Fourth Regiment Armory, Jersey
City. and knocked him out within five
seconds of the close of the seventh
round.
Squadron A Polo Club, which for
nearly 20 years furnished New York
with the only polo matches that were
open to the public gaze, has disband-
ed. Disrupted by the war, its members
scattered and its playing field gone,
the club that entertained thousands
on the Van Cortlandt Park parade
ground annually has not been able to
get to its feet again.
A bill has been introduced in the
New Jersey legislature by Assembly
man Sullivan of Hudson county ex-
tending the limit of the boxing bouts
from eight to twelve rounds.
1t looks as If the Dempsey Carpen-
tier affair was in rather peculiar way
just now. c. B. Cochran has Carpen-
tier under contract till February, 1921,
while Tex Richard is reported to have
the Dempsey end of the match sewed
up tight.
The new International League de-
cided against raising the prices of adj
missions at its schedule" meeting in
New York.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-03-05
BOTH HOUSES GET
Rail BILL REPORT
Provides for Present Wages and
Rates for Six Months After Re-
turn to Private Ownership.

Washington.-With a provision that
railroad employees shall not have their
wages reduced before next September
and that rates also shall be maintain
ed for the same period, the report OF
the conferees upon the Cummins-Esch
railroad control bill was filed with the
senate and house. Two and one-half
hours debate each will be allowed to
the proponents and opponents OF the
report, who will be led, respectively,
by Chairman Esch of the Interstate
Commerce Committee and Representa-
tive Sims of Tennessee, ranking Den-
ocrat on the committee. No date for
debate on the report has been set by
the senate.
Two of the conferees-Represen
tives Sims and Barkley Of Kentucky,
both Democrats-refused to sign the
report. Mr.. Barkley obtained consent
to extend his remarks on the bill, thus
presenting his views in the Congress
sional Record. Mr.. Sims disapproval
of the bill is founded on objection to
a guaranteed return of 512 per cent, a
division of excess profits of over 6 per
cent and allowing the Interstate Com
merce Commission to fix minimum
rates. Mr.. Barkley is dissatisfied with
fixing any specific sum for the return
does not agree that the standard re-
turn to the railways should be con-
tinued and does not agree with the
labor provisions.
Under the bill as agreed upon the
regulatory powers of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, which will be
increased from nine to eleven mem
bers, will be greatly enlarged and am
plified.
The outstanding feature of the pro-
posed law is the direction to the COM
mission to establish rates that will
yield to the carriers in each rate-mak-
ing group a net railway operating in
come equal to 5B per cent of the ag'
gregate property value Of the roads in
such group
The commission may add to this one
half Of / per cent for additions, bet.
terments and improvements, which,
under the accounting rules of the com.
mission, are charged capital account
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-03-05
INSTALL DESCHkNEL
PRESIDENT OF FRANCE
Is Formally Inducted Into Office
as Tenth Head of the
Republic.

Paris.-Paul Deschanel became tenth
Presidentrof the French Republic, sue
ceeding Raymond Poincare, who laid
aside the robes of Office after one of
the most critical periods in the his
tory of the country. The formal trans
fer from the old to the new regime oc-
Cured at the Palace of the Elysee.
The ceremony was favored by brill
liant, spring-like weather, and Paris
intellectually improved the occasion
to pay homage 20 both the incoming
and outgoing executives, between
whom, to all appearances, the honors
were impartially divided.
The Inauguration Of the French
President is a formal ceremony, ar
rangements for which are made long
in advance of the event. Precedents
having historic approval are closely
followed and the number permitted to
witness the transfer of authority is
limited to the presidents of the sem
ate and the chamber of deputies, COM
mittees from each house and members
of the cabinet.
Premier Millerand, shortly before
the hour set for the ceremony, drove
to the Palace Bourbon, where, as pres
ident of the chamber, M. Deschanel has
maintained his residence, and called
for the President elect. Entering a
state carriage and escorted by regi-
ment of cuirassiers and preceded by a
flag bearer, they drove to the palace.
where the ceremonr was to take place.
While the crowds massed along the
route on both banks of the Seine were
cheering NJ. Deschanel as he passed
with his escort, the members Of the
cabinet and the officials of the senate
and the chamber assembled around M.
Poincare in the palace to greet the
new President.
With the arrival of NJ. Deschanel at
the EIysee, the formal transfer of pow
er took place. On the conclusion OF
the formality President Deschanel and
ex-President Poincare, with their es.
cort, were driven through the crowded
streets to the City Hall, where they
were received by the president Of the
Municipal Council, the prefect of the
department of the Seine and the presi-
dent of the General Council.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-03-05
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

DUBLiN-EngIishs soldiers are using
armored tanks on Sim Feiners and
Tralee barracks are beseiged.
LONDON.-Sir Auckland Geddes,
minister of national service and recon-
struction, has been selected as British
ambassador to the United States, ac-
cording to report in the lobby of the
House of Commons.
COLUMBUS, o.-ResoIutions favor
ing the Standardization of dress for
business women to combat the high
cost of living was adopted by the
Board of Directors of the National
Woman's Association of Commerce in
midwinter conference here.
PARIS.-Sugeestions that former
Emperor William be sent to the island
of Curacao, off the Venezuelan coast,
are received more favorably in some
quarters at The Hague than the idea
of transporting him to one of the
Dutch East Indies.
LONDON.-A British syndicate will
build a railway in Persia from Bagddd
to Teheran.
LAIN WiSTls-EIiOdSii HClilloIiS
were received by the Michigan state
secretary to place the name of Eugene
V. Debs on the presidential preferen-
tial primary ballot as a Socialist candi-
date.
THE HAGUE.-The second chamber
of the Dutch parliament voted 81 to :
in favor of Hollands entrance to the
League of Nations.
WRIGHTSToWN, NJ. J-saIvation
Army hotel, near Camp Dix, was burn
ed to the ground. Ninety guests es-
caped, but two were injured.
BERLIN.-It has already become
evident that the present personnel of
the Supreme Court at Leipzig is quite
inadequate for the trial of the German
war criminals named by the allied
powers. The court will have to be
greatly increased, at least Temporal
rilv
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-03-05
LATEST EVENTS
AT WASHINGTON

An act SO as to permit the states, by
referendum, to authorize sale of 2.75
per cent beer and per cent wine
was proposed in bill introduced by
Representative Minahan, Democrat,
New Jersey.
Acknowledgment that the treaty is in
a hopeless deadlock from which it
can be extrcated only by vote of
the people at the next election was
made in the senate by Senator Hitch
cock, administration leader. Senator
Borah, consistent opponent of the
treaty, promptly accepted senate
Democratic leaders view of the stu
alton.
Secretary of Commerce Alexander in
statement described the cut in es.
Inmates for the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce by the
House Appropriations Committee as
"the most serious blow ever aimed
from within at our foreign trade"
President Wilson prepared and sent
to the state department a reply to
the entente premiers' note on the
Adriatic question.
President Wilson has improved so
much, Rear Admiral Grayson, his
physician, said, that he goes to work
at his desk in his study every morn
ing at $50.
Another bill providing for removal OF
President unable to transact his
duties was introduced by Represent
ative Madden.
Ii is announced that farmers intend to
cut production owing to the high
cost of labor, transportation and
distribution.
The railroad brotherhoods declared
wa- upon the railroad bill as report
ed out by the senate and house con-
ferees. In a memorial addressed to
Congress and the people the work,
ers assaiIed the measure as a "vio-
iation of the Fundamental principles
of American government"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-03-05
BoREs 13 INCHES OF STEEL
New 16-Inch Naval Shell Meets All
Requirements.

Washington.-BorIng its way through
more than 13 inches of i.rmor belt
steel, 16-inch projectile produced at
the new naval ordnance plant at South
Charleston, w. Va, the third shell
fired out of a test group of five, met
every requirement in a test at the In
dian Head proving ground and estab-
lished what the United States naval
officers believe to lie record in big
sheu production.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-03-05
"TANKS" USED IN NUMBERING
Whippets Bought From Government
Dispace Horses and Mules
In Arizona.

Flagstaff, Ariz.-The whippet tank,
which roared and banged and clanked
it's way to victory in the war against
Germany, is putting horses and mules
out of business in the great pine for
ests of northern Arizona. One big
lumber concern mere has just put two
tanks to work, having bought them
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-03-05
CHICAGO HANGING PRIVATE.
Sheriff Heeds Legal Warning AS To
Execution Of o'Brien.

Chicago.-Prisoners in Cook county
iail will not witness the execution Of
Smiling Jack" O'Brien, 21-year-old
gunman, convicted of numbering a po'
liceman.
Sheriff Charles w Peters announced
that he would remove prisoners from
the death corridor following notice
from Matthew Mills, Assistant Attor-
ney-General, and States Attorney Mac
Lay Hoyne that he would be prose
cuted if he carried out his plans for
public hanging.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-03-05
PROTEST TURKISH EUROPE.
British Parliament Opposes Letting
Sultan Hold Constantinople.

London.-The latest developments
in the Turkish situation have for the
moment pushed the Adriatic question
into the background in both public and
official interest.
The reservations which France and
Great Britain are said to have made
with regard to the Turkish peace
terms, including the retention of
the Turks in Constantinople, have
aroused great feeling in parliament.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-03-05

from the war department. Each tank
has displaced 80 horses and II men,
according to company officials. Using
horses, it was impossible for the COM
pany to haul during the winter
months. The tanks, however, take no
account of weather conditions.
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O NEW MEXICO is 32D
Q STATE FOR SUFFRAGE. 4

. Santa Fe, N. M.-The House
. of Representative of the New
. Mexico legislature ratified the
. federal woman suffrage amend
. ment by a vote of SO to 10. The
= senate passed the resolution by
q vote of II to 5.
. New Mexico is the thirty-Sec-
. ond state to ratify.
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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-03-05
PRAiR1Es AFIRE SIXTY MILES.

Fifteen Thousand Live Stock Perish,
MiIIion-DoIIar Loss in Argentine.
Buenos Aires.-A great prairie fire,
60 miles wide, has swept through the
territory of La Pampa, in the central
part of the republic.
Fifteen thousand sheep and much
other live stock are reported to have
perished.
The material damage is estimated at
$1,0OO0OO. The confagration is said to
have been the biggest ever known in
Argentine.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-03-05
SHIP SALE INJUNCTION.
Justice Bailey Issues Restraining Or
der in Hearst Suit

der in Hearst Suit.
hington.-Prospects of a legal
battle to complicate the controversy
over the Shipping Board efforts to dis
pose of so former German passenger
liners loomed large when Associate
Justice Bailey, in the District of Co
lumbia Supreme Court, granted tenn
porary injunction against the sale upon
a taxpayers application filed by Will
liam Randolph Hearst, the newspaper
publisher
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-03-05
Policeman Leaves 500, 600.

Lond0n.-SiXty-Seven years service
G1 the police force of Camhridgeshire
enabled Constable Charles ]. J. STREET
ten to leave IN estate of $50. 600 when
he died last week
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-03-05
s TAT c
CAPITAL

Annapolis
Every secondhand dealer, pawn
broker and junkman would have
little Bertillon system work if the bill
introduced in the House by Delegate
Hicks, by request, passes, for the bill,
which is designed to prevent traffic in
stolen automobiles and other loot, re-
quires the dealers to get pretty good
and useful line on a would-be sellers
life history.
He must record, says the bill, the
weight, height, name, address and
leading characteristics of the would
be seller of any article, together with
a statement showing where he got
the goods to be sold and how he got
them. All this must be recorded in
a properly kept book, open at all times
to Inspection.