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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-03-03
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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-03-03
MARIELLO

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Cream, Motor Cream, Acne Cream, Foundation
Cream Combination Cream, Antseptic and Bleach
Lotion Marinelo Powder Bouquet, Compact Rouge,
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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-03-03

EI'Y WAR SAVINGS STAMPS -
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-27
KANSAS miners
ATTACK STATE
LABOR STATUTE

Pittsburg, Kan, April 27.-The
law which created the Kansas court
of industrial relations was put to a
test today. Opponents Of the law,
centered around Alexander Howat,
chieftain of the Kansas union min
ers, this morning attacked the law
as unconstitutional when the in
junction hearing in the case insti-
tuted by the state to prevent the
calling of a mine strike came up
before Judge Andrew ]. Curran in
the Crawford county district court.
On March 30, Judge Curran
granted an order restraining Howat
and scores of other union officials
from calling strike. The follow
ing week the industrial court came
to Pittsburg to open its investiga-
ton of the mining industry. Howat
and other officials ignored sub
poenaes to appear as witnesses be-
fore the court. AS a result, Judge
Curran found them guilty of con-
tempt and sent Howat and three
other officials to Jail. After a week
in jails at Girard, Ottawa and lola.
the officials gave bond and now
are at liberty pending an appeal to
the Kansas supreme court
Counsel for the miners an
nounced yesterday that they would
make a complete attack on the new
law alleging it is unconstitutional
They deny allegations Of a con-
spiracy made by the state.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-27
SOLDIER BONUS
IS DISAPPR0VED
BY US. CHAMBER

Atlantic City, n. j., April 27.-
The United States Chamber OF
Commerce would go on record as
opposed to the granting of bonus
to soldiers who served in the World
war by the adoption of resolution
submitted for action by the reso-
lutions committee at its annual
convention today
The resolution declared that
mot only 100000 negroes in the
south, who probably would receive
$500 or $500 each. would immedi-
ately quit work until the money
was spent" but predicted there
would be generally IAN orgy OF
spending and that labor would be
disorganized and production de-
creased"
The chamber also received a re-
port of its national committee on
European finance, which held that
while American bankers and bus
mess men are friendly toward aid
ing in the rehabilitation of Europe
by private investment, no such &C
ton can be looked for until peace
has been formally concluded.
Revision of the excess profits and
income taxes is urged in the re-
port.
Discussing the need for a fixed
governmental policy of sanction
and cooperation, the report said
there was no thought of suggesting
that the government alter its pol
icy of not increasing the 100000
900 it already has advanced to Eu-
ropean countries.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-27
UNDERWOOD IS
ELECTED Demo
SENATE Chief
Alabama Senator Selected by
Unanimous Vote of Minority
After Five Minutes.
tBy United Press.l

Washington. April Ex-senator
Underwood, of Alabama, today was
elected Democratic leader of the
senate by unanimous vote of the
minority. The caucus at which Tn
derwood was elected lasted five
minutes.
Underwood said he had no state
ment OF policies TO make at this
time and that he did not contem-
White house. He intimated that
another caucus might be held to
discuss party plans.
To Oppose Peace Pact.
He said he had no plans regard
ing the treaty or the peace resolu-
ton. except that he expected to op-
pose the resolution. Asked con-
cerning the published statement
that the president will resubmit
the treaty this summer, accompan-
led by reservations acceptable to
him, Underwood said he had no
knowledge on the subject and
doubted anyone except the presi-
dent had definite Information.
Underwood election, however,
revived treaty talk in the senate to-
day because many Republicans feel
that with him as leader it would be
possible to reach an agreement on
reservations. Senator Lodge and
other Republican leaders appar-
emily find Underwood easier to
deal with than Senator Hitchcock,
who was acting leader and in
charge of the treaty.
Agreement Sought.
Mild reservationist Republicans
are expected to initiate movement
for agreement on treaty reserva-
tions.
1t is probable that they will sug-
gest to Underwood that he take up
the matter with the Democrats and
that they work together to obtain
signatures to an agreement to be
submitted TO President Wilson.
Mild reservationists believe, they
said, that il 81 senator's would
agree on a set of reservations, the
president would resubmit the
treaty.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-27
INSANE MUST
RECOVER CIVIL
RIGHT TO Vote

Springfield, Ill. April 27.-Re-
suming consideration of the suf-,
frage article to be incorporated in
the new Illinois constitution, the
constitutional convention today in
serted a provision that person.
adjudged insane shall not be en-
titled to vote until his civil rights
have been restored.
Delegate Frank S. Whitman OF
Belyidere, told the convention that
it was now a common practice for
Cook county patients in psyche.
pathic institutions to obtain paroles
on election days in order to return
home to vote
The present constitution does not
prevent insane persons from voting,
Delegate Whitman said, although a
ruling OF the supreme court has
held that their votes are not desir-
able.
After lengthy debate on Sec
ton s of the suffrage article, which
provides for one election day in
| November of each year, the section
! was sent back to the suffrage com
mittee for further consideration.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-27
SIMS REPORT
"M0NSTR0US,"
M'KEAN SAYS

Washington. April 27.-Charac-
izing as "monstrous" Rear Admiral
Sims charge that delays by the
navy department prolonged the war
four months and cost 100000 lives,
Read Admiral J. S. Mexican told
the senate investigating committee
today that had it been made by
any foreign Official. allied or enemy.
it would have aroused the indigna-
tion OF the whole American peo-
pie"
Had il been claimed BY the in
famed. exaggerated, diseased ego
of Q patient at the Elizabeth gov
ernment hospital for the insane. no
one would have been surprised"
the admiral said. That it was
made under oath by rear admiral
of the navy on the active list, pres
ident of the naval war college, in a
hearing before a committee of the
United States senate. is. in my
opinion. an insult to every ofiicer
and man now in the navy, or who
served in the navy during the
World war"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-27
u. S. EXPECTED
TO SPURN RULE
OVER ARMENIA

Washington, April 27.-Rejection
of the allied proposal that the Unit
ed States accept the mandate for
Armenia was forecast today when
Senator Hitchcock, administration
spokesman, declared he did not be
lieve the American people would
sanction such a proceeding.
Added to Republican comment
which declared the plan was an at
tempt to wish on US the poorhouse
of the world" Hitchcock's attitude
was believed to indicate definitely
that congress will never give its
consent to the project.
Crumbs to L. s.
Senators take the position thai
the allied statesmen have stripped
the near east of everything the,
want apd now offer to the United
States the mandate for Armenia.
This mandate would involve
America in large expenditures ant
possible war. it is held.
IF we accept the mandate. WI
should most certainly have Con
stantinople and control OF the Oar
danelles. but I see no mention O
this in the offer of the allies" sait
Hitchcock.
~POOrhouse of World.
| Senator Moses, New Hampshire
Republican, said that the action o
/: the allied premiers represents tn.
! final effort to wish on US the poor
| house of the world
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-27
ALLEGED TRUST
SUITS WILL Be
PUSHED BY U. S.
Result Of Supreme Court Dissolu.
ton Of Reading Combine Spurs
to Action in Other Cases.

Washington. April 27.-Pending
and contemplated antitrust court
actions will be prosecuted with
vigor as the result of the supreme
courts order yesterday dissolving
the Reading coal combine, govern
ment attorneys indicated today.
Verdict Paves Way.
Plans were held in abeyance
since the steel trust decision,
which was unfavorable to the gov
ernment, some officials of the de-
partment of justice thinking that
future prosecutions might be fu-
tile. In the Reading decision, how
ever, the court took drastic action
when it was shown that there was
a clear violation of the antitrust
statutes
Rule on Lehigh Soon.
A decision on the government suit
against the alleged Lehigh Valley
railroad coal combine, which is
similar to the Reading case, is ex-
pected soon. 1t. was not in any
way affected or decided by the
courts decree yesterday. Justice
Clarke, at the outset Of his opin-
ion, announced clearly that he was
delivering the Judgment only in the
Reading case.
Other antitrust cases pending
in the court are those against the
Eastman Kodak company. the Qua
ker Oats company and the Key
stone Watch company.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-27
POUND A WEEK.,
PLAN TO FIGHT
SUGAR famine


Chicago, April 27.-One pound OF
sugar a week to each household
until the present critical sugar
shortage is relieved was advocated
here today by wholesale grocers.
According to sugar buyers, un-
less some such voluntary step is
taken, the appointment of a sugar
administrator to regulate price and
distribution may become necessary.
The present sugar situation was
likened to a famine.
There isn't enough sugar to go
around and something must be
done to prevent disappearance of
sugar altogether said B. L.
Thomas, buyer for a large whole
sale grocer here.
Retailers here are limited to 80
and 100 pound purchases and urged
to apportion their sugar in one
pound allotments to regular Gus
toners.
The situation is a natural one,
said one wholesaler. THE crop pro-
duction was Overestimated and
there has been an enormous III
crease in consumption"
Sugar prices in Chicago today
went as high as 80 cents pound
retail. Wholesalers were selling
around 25 cents. Sugar specula-
tors with carloads on hand were
asking wholesalers 80 cents a
pound.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-27
REDS lombard
HAvAR0vSk IN
new OUTBREAK
By United Press. J

{ Toxic. April 27.-Strong bolshe-
vik forces are bombarding Havar-
ovsk, according to a communique
jssaed by the japanese war Office
today.
Bombardment from airplanes fly
ing over the city has badly dam
aged railroad lines north Of Mix
DISK, the official report said.
The bolsheviki bombardment ev-
identity is directed at the city OF
khabarovsk. tHayarovsk is not
listed in Siberian guides.)
Khabarovsk is the seat Of gov
ernment of the Amur and capital
of the Littoral provinces. 1t is To-
Gated at the junction of the Amur
and Ussuri rivers. on the Ussuri
branch of the Trans-Siberian rail-
way, several hundred miles north
of Vladivostok.
Recent reports of fighting in the
khabarOvsk region have made no
mention of use of airplanes. The
latest report is taken to mean the
opening of a bolshevik spring Of
fensive.
Japs Annihiliated2
London. April q. - A Russian
firm in Tien-Tsin, China, has re-
ceived a cablegram announcing the
annihiliation of a japanese division
in khabarovsk district in Siberia,
according to dispatch from Tien-
Tsin to the Exchange Telegraph
company, under Mondays date. No
official statement on the incident
could be obtained, the dispatch
adds.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-27
TWO SUSPECTED
FOR MURDER OF
FAMILY IN n. D.

c,,9lie ,aftie Lake, N. D., April 27.-
n. .aited Press.)-The arrest of two
NJ oelieved guilty of the murder
ts;,., s,snt members of Jacob VOLTS
y na mere. was expected today.
rb;nA,ers spoke with awe of the
nso. .ea steel nerve Of the two sus-
NJ @, 49,. who mingled with the crowds
s;,sa ssar'ous at the farm home where
a,ss s' ot the family were obliter-
bor.o ,"o guests We're at the Wolf
mn.s s fhursday-the day of the
n, to,u1esr-since 1e the table was set
nn,o ~ Wolf was shot at long
Of ~ ~ There was evidence others
rars" e family were killed at short
p..ss' probably to silence wit
lliys oniy the baby was left
Sn.-
sp'cion conferred on two men
Nj, Muse they had had trouble with
stot,r. one recently received a
n. Msan from a mail order house,
hts, weapon was similar to that
Acu.. 'ound in pond near the
smo.. The two men assisted in
ID Ing y the bodies from the home
HAar ~, andins empty shells and
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-27
LATE BULLETINS

New York. April 27-James
Larkin. Irish labor leader,
charged with criminal anarchy.
today was found gully by the
supreme court Jury before
which his case was presented,
Washington. April 27.-The
house bill appropriating $780,
OOW.OW for Deficiencies in gov
ernment operation of railroads
and IS. 400 for miscellaneous
deficits. was passed today by
the senate and sent to confer.
ence.
Washington. April 2..-Com.
mittee Increases Of nearly So.
OOO, 900 in the funds of naval
aviation were approved today
by the senate when the annual
naval appropriation measure
was taken up.
Chicago. April ga general
conspiracy indictment was re-
turned against 10 members OF
the Chicago express and freight
handlers union. by a grand
Jury in the criminal court here
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-27
SHORT LINE
ROADS May
VOICE PLEA
Rail Labor Board May
Hear Demands Before
Taking Final Action.

Washington. April 27.-Short line
railroads may be given hearing
on the wage demands of railroad
workers before. the railroad labor
troversy.
Chairman Barton announced to-
day that the board had this matter
under advisement. E. T. Whittier,
chairman of the railroad execu-
tives' committee, told the board
that his committee represented Us
of the some 600 roads Of the coun-
try and that these 115 had between
so and 80 per cent Of the total mile
age.
Pleas Rejected.
The board today refused hearings
on the wage demands of striking
railroad employees at Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh and the non<ecog-
nized Chicago express and freight
handlers union.
Timothy Shea, vice president of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Flremen, told the board that the
employees wage demands would be
presented to the short lines by to-
morrow. This was necessary, he
said, in order to comply with pro-
visions of the Transportation act,
which require conferences between
employer and employees before a
case can be brought before the
labor board.
Asks Relief for Firemen.
Shea continued today the report
then of the firemen's demands. He
asked the board to grant relief to
the men on duty on the larger en-
gines, either by requiring the in
stallation of automatic firing ma
chimes or placing an additional fire.
man on duty. Firemen at present,
he said, are compelled to perform
labor much greater than the capac-
ity of an ordinary man.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-27

u. S. SHIPS FOR
SALE SOON TO
ANY AMERICAN
Terms for Disposal of
Vessels Being Formu-
lated. r+."
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial to The Argus.)

Washington, d. G., April 81
Everybody will have an equal
chance to buy the ships built by
the United States and they will be
sold on uniform basis of valua-
ton and on such terms as will per-
NIT the operators to distribute pay
ments over a period of IL years.
Only those persons or companies
who can satisfy the shipping board
not merely OF their ability to pay
the initial cash payment, but to
meet their obligations periodically,
will be given ships.
Furthermore, the shipping board
is going ahead to lease the German
ships seized in American ports at
the outbreak of the war. These
leases are being made irrespective
of the outcome of the injunction
suit begun by William Randolph
Hearst which is now being appeal
ed to high court. But the per-
sons who obtain the leases must
guarantee to buy the vessels in the
event that the courts confirm the
shipping boards judgment that
they may be sold just like other
craft built by the emergency fleet
corporation.
Map Out Sales Policy.
The foregoing principles of ship
ping policy were given the writer
by Admiral Benson, chairman of
the shipping board, and represent
the outline of policy thus far for
mulated. The sales program is not
yet worked out in detail. A COM
mittee Of four-Eugene Meyer of
the war finance corporation; Alex
ander Legg, vice president of the
International Harvester company:
Owen Young. vice president of the
General Electric company, and
Charles B. Warren OF Detroit, a
Republican national committeeman
and former aide to General Crow
der in the establishment of the Sc
lective service system during the
war-are mapping out the sales
policy. They were selected out of
d group of business men called
here by Admiral Benson to confer
with the senate and house commit
tees on commerce and merchant
marine and with the officials of the
shipping board
The program was left to such a
committee to draft because it was
realized that the strain on the
money market would be dangerous
if the ships we're offered for sale
in the open market without care
fully safeguarding the future pay
ments to the government as well
as the credit market today. The
fear was expressed that wouldbe
purchasers would borrow large
sums from the banks to make the
initial payments and then the
banks would be intermittently
alarmed about deferred payments
if freight rates dropped or inter-
national trade was disturbed by
factors not now foreseen.
So it has been virtually decided
that a 10 per cent cash payment
will be required and per cent
every six months until the end of
the second year, when 80 per cent
will have been paid. The remain
der will be collected on payments
of per cent per year for 10 years.
An interest charge of per cent
will be charged on deferred pay
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-27
BANKER SOUGHT
IN FRAUD CASE

Cedar Rapids. Iowa. April 81
A warrant has been issued here for
the arrest of H. c. Beeson. former
ly Of the Des Moines branch of the
Iowa Bankers Mortgage company,
on charge of fraud.
Il is alleged that he has failed
to account for 100000 he obtained
from the resale of the company's
stock at an advance OF from $50
to 500 above the par value of $50.
It is charged the stock was resOld
on the company's blank forms.
BeesOn's present whereabouts is
unknown. The company is in the
hands Of receiver. and Federal
Judge Henry T. Reed will decide in
the federal court at Dubuque to-
day whether the company shall be
declared bankrupt
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-27
"SuK MASK THIEF"
JEKYIL-HYDE; HELD
SLEUTH BY WIDOW

Chicago, April PA DR.. Jekyll
and Mr.. Hyde existence was re-
vealed today in the life of James
Harrigan. debonair burglar, shot to
death when attempting to escape
from police here Saturday night.
Mrs. Ida May Needham, 40,
comely widow, identified Harrigan
as one of her ropmers.
II never knew he was a crook" :"
she said. HE told me he was a de-
tective. 1t seemed impossible that
a man like he was could be a thief.
His room was always like band
box. He proposed several times to
me but would never tell me about
himself"
Harrigan's cache revealed more
than 100000 worth of stolen goods.
He had hidden it in secret vault
under a sidewalk.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-27
b0LSHEvIKI
REVOLUTION
HELD GRAVE
Hundreds Reported Slain
in Belgrade-London
Discredits News.

London, April 27.-A bOI.
shevfki revolution has broken
out in Jugo.Slavia, says q Cen.
trail News dispatch from Rome,
quoting Trieste sdvices to the
MassaggerO0 Of that city.
Machine guns have been
brought into action in Bel
grade, where hundreds are said
to have been slain, il is said /;
while fatal riots have occurred
at Laibach and Agramud.
Official Jug0.Slavian quarters
here are not alarmed over re.
ports Of revolutionary troubles
in that country, and declared
dispatches from Belgrade yes
terday indicated nothing amiss.
The Trieste report of an up
rising is attributed TO ~ fac
tiOn of trOuble.making ItAl.
ians. who are seeking to EN-.
barrass the impending ltaiio-
Serbian negotiations"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-27
ARMY AND NAVY
OFFICERS VOTED
INCREASED PAY

Washington. d. C., April 81
Reaching a complete agreement OF
the army and navy pay bill. house
and senate conferees yesterday de-
cided on increases to be given Of
ficers.
First lieutenants. lieutenant-colo-
neIs. and colonels in the army and
lieutenants, junior grade, COM
manders and captains in the navy
will receive an increase OF $500 an
nually; majors and lieutenant
commanders, $40: army captains
and lieutenants, senior grade. in
the navy. $720. and second lieuten-
ants and ensigns. $420. The in
crease will be retroactive until Jan.
Il last and will remain in effect un-
til June so. 1922.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-27
Rebels Take Cities
HOUSE HEARS
ALIEN CHARGE
AGAINST POST
Rules Committee Told of
Alleged Aid to
Reds.

Washington, April 27.-Charges
that Louis F. Post, assistant secre-
tary of labor, had violated the law
''in behalf of aliens who have con-
tempt for this government and who
are trying to overthrow it," were
made before the house rules COM
mittee today by Chairman johnson
of the house immigration commit
tee.
Mr.. johnson was the first wit
ness at the investigation into Mr..
Posts conduct in handling deport-
alton proceedings against radical
aliens. He was followed by Rep
resentative Hoch of Kansas.
Post Not Present.
Mr.. Post was not present, but
was represented by counsel. Chair
man johnson presented report Of
committee Investigators, prepared
by W. A. Blackwood of Seattle,
Wash. which reviewed many scores
of deportation proceedings in
which Mr.. Post was said to have
cancelled deportations. recommend
ed by immigration inspectors and
the immigration bureau. The cases,
Mr.. johnson said. we're those OF
allen communists and anarch-
! lists"
The report, said Mr.. Johnson,
showed the assistant secretary fol-
lowed for a time the opinion OF
Secretary Wilson," that member
ship in the communist party was
ground for deportation, but that he
later changed his mind and or
dered many communists freed by
cancelling the deportation war
rants. Chairman Johnson declared
the public is not seeing red with.
out a reason.
Officials Accused.
at is seeing its laws violated by
public officials" he declared. "ir
behalf of aliens who have contempt
for this government and who art
here trying to overthrow it, and who
are in league with similar revOlu'
tionists throughout the world
whether they contribute dollars to
the cause or throw bombs for the
| cause Neither these aliens noI
their revolutionary notions are
needed in the United States. and il
necessary. congress should clean
out any executive department that
encourages these aliens. or en-
dorses their ideas. Personally. |
cannot believe that Secretary Will
son knows what sort of boring
from within is going on within his
department. do not believe that
President Wilson knows of the sit
uation and its dangers.
Representative Hoch declared his
resolution had not involved any
political or partisan considera-
tion," but he added that there
should be a showdown in situa-
ton which has become intolerable.