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Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-04-29
MANY OBSTACLES.
CONF FRONT FARMER.
SECRETARY SAYS.
MORE sERIOiS TIil> ~ Any
OTHER I>Dt >Tbi MEHEDiIii
TELLS HEARERS.
ADDRESSES c OF c MEETING
Change, ~ England Holder IN Er,0
luton an Ambassador Ir,ld-> says
--Sens0n Makes rllh.

By Associated Press
ATLANTIC cry Apul - Farm
Ing WE pictured as confronted with
more serious difficulties tnan any utn"r
American industry by secretary Mere
/, diih II tie agriculture department In
IN address tonight at the annual meet.
ing of the chamber uf commerce" e IN"
l'nit'-l States
American farmers tho secretary
said. "arr not only In competition with
each other as producers. hu' they are
IN competition with producers NJ either
countries Not only that. but agrl
culture an an industry Is N direct com
petition with producers NJ other - IN.
tries Not only that. but agr'culiur
~ an industry Is In direct con.peti
ton with other Industries Tor capital
and especially Tor Labor Under pre-"
ont conditions farmers 40" losing IN
competition for labor"
Reports Fantastic.
Changes haN. been wrought In Eng
lrnd by the war almost deserve tn
title revolution Sir Auckland Odd
dos. British ambassador said Reports
~ disscrsiou hciW",u representatives
81 Brit,in ard France and FrHnr" and
Italy al San Rene n.c fantastic. ,hc
gmlassid,r sold tn chamber.
Drnic, Reports.
Admiral " : Henson, chairman "l
The United states shippirg board tod
the chamber that 10 Amr1r'u company
had reached an agreement with a."
hamburg American strm shin com"
many 10 use It's terminal facilities ~
Hamburg. w ~ officers or p'rs'uu'l
ns had been reported although the aurs
ton mad p,cr under runsinnj ruHsuvtl-
ton he said h' had disru-s'd 'h' mat
ter with a., Hamburg Anne i,ir ''m.
iany agent M thu Jnr"d states ana
had ,oid him eve would h,N" uuthI"g
to dn with amy American .fnN1i' iiN
lid not go TINT" %" preparation W.,h
, determination Co. m,kp u Tao r'l cent
American"
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-04-29

Opposition To- the importation Of Mcx-
lean labor nnd tu the poll tar law was
unanimously expressed. II IL reported
that tn matter II light vines and beer
viii come az but considerable opposi.
ton prevails = movement 20 organize
The school teachers II the state will be
launched
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-04-29
amarillo Leading.

The nomination of candidates for al.
lic"H ana ior III" 1871 convention city
will De- made tomorrow. and a heated
hnt friendly contest between Amaril.
lo Dallas and GALVESTON II expected.
u ~ believed that Amarillo will lead
~ Houston. san Antonio Wichita
Falls and the delegates from north ami
wet Texas viii support that city. Telc-
grains from cluhs and organizations OF
Amai.ll" are IRVING daily. Clcburns
also hvors Amarillo for the meeting
place 81 th" next annual convention.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-04-29
LABOR MEETING
GOES ON RECORD
AGAINST BAILEY
LABOR MEETING WILL. OPPOSE
CANDIDACY or FORMER
SENATOR.

Special io The News.
CLEBl rms. April 2s.--A resolution
that the members 81 the state FEEDER
alton oi Labor VIII oppose the candi-
dacy OF Joseph W. BAILEY for governor
OF Texas was passed at session OF
the convention of that org inixation hero
to-day Non partisan policies for organ.
lied labor received the endorsement OF
the rouNDutEs alsp the Plum plan.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17
EPIDEMIC OF PICKETING.
All Kinds of Women Take Part in Wash
ington Demonstrations.

WASHINGTON. April l7.-Political
picketing, often of the peaceful sort and
more often with militant accompani-
ments, is running epidemic in Washing
ton again and the thousands of tourists
who make the national capital their
Mecca all year round again see bands of
Women slowly parading about the streets
bearing banners with a wide variety of
inscriptions.
Seemingly, every cause which wishes
to impress its demands, arguments or
protests on the powers that be" ulti-
mately adopts the picketing system which
was first introduced in the capital by
branch of the woman suifragists about 10
years ago.
The personnel of the picketing forces
furnishes an interesting study in human
nature. They are women apparently
from all walks of life. Many bear evi-
dences of breeding. education and social
position. Others are women who appear
to be of the opposite types. Every pick
citing campaign brings out new charges
that many pickets are hired" for the
work by Others who are willing to pro
vide substitutes and do not wish to picket
| III the streets in all sorts of weather.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17
WOOD DIsAGREES WITH PALMER.
Finds No Evidence of l. w. w. Connec-
ton With Railroad Strike.

CHICAGO, April l7.-Maior General
Leonard Wood, commander OF the central
department. L. S. A.. who returned to
Chicago Thursday from an eastern
speaking tour because of the insurgent
strike of railroad workers, said he did not
find ANY evidence of connection between
the railwaymen's strike and Industrial
Workers of the World activities"
General Wood declared he found traffic
conditions improving throughout the de
partment.
Attorney General Palmer on Wednes-
day declared reports from his department
linked the Illegal switchmen's walkout
with Industrial Workers of the Worlds
plans for zone big union" and nation
wide walkout.
Military intelligence officers here had
| been unable to find any connection be
tween the two. General Wood said that
he would rely on the civil authorities to
| handle the situation.
After revoking the charters of three
lodges of the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen, two in Chicago and one in Sar
Francisco. A. f. Whitney, vice president
of the brotherhood, yesterday ordered al
striking members of the organization il
the Chicago terminal district to return t.
work by midnight Saturday or SUITE
expulsion from the union with loss o
their seniority rights.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17
CHICAGO'S HOUSE
SHORTAGE SERIOUS
Several Hundred People Living in
House Boats-Unions Object to
Using Portable Houses.

CHICAGO, April II. This city is
attempting to prevent rent profteering |
by regulating increases an rates and by
organizing a $1Oo,000,60O corporation
to build homes and sell them ON easy
payments Meanwhile Chicago's fiat
dwellers have been forming unions to
wage war on alleged prohteerlng land
lords and committees in the city coun
ell have been investigating increases
in rents ranging up to 100 and even
200 per cent.
Several hundred families have solved
their individual housing problems by
making their homes in households
moored in the branches of the Chicago
river, the Calumet and lakes in south
Chicago. Once in possession of house
boat, the owner only has to pay 81 a
month for the privilege of mooring his
craft If he does not like his location
he can move his home boat elsewhere.
Many of these boats cost 81, 900 each
and have five rooms parlor, dining
room, kitchen and two bedrooms.
In some cases groups of tenants have
solved the rent problem by forming co
operative companies and buying the
, apartment houses in which they live.
The housing corporation, which has
been financed by banks and business
men has under consideration plan
| to build a row of model homes in
Grant park, on the lake front. Elk
amples of many types of standardized
homes would be erected, furnished and
surrounded by settings Of trees and
shrubbery so that prospective pur-
chaser of new home could look over
the styles before placing his order
Attempts have been made to check
rent profteering by cooperation of The
city council and the Cook County Real
| Estate board which investigated COM
plants and, when increases were found
to be excessive, advised the landlord
to withdraw his demands In general
the investigators have allowed IN in
crease of about 30 per cent over last
year rentals.
a proposal was made to erect scores
of portable houses but the carpenters
union declared its opposition to that
plan even if the houses came from
union factories.
The recent tornadoes which des
troved 100 houses and damaged ACT
nore in Chicago and its suburbs hay,
augmented housing shortage which
; had already become acute through sns
pension of building operations in TN
war and long drawn builders con
, | tracts.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17

ported verbatim IN regular course to the
department OF labor, the secretary or his
lawful representative comes to examine
these records, 1t Is found i'll large pro-
portion of the large number of cases
have examined that there is no better rea
son for deportation than is disclosed in
the present case In some cases, the mem
bership Is automatic, the arrested alien
having been transferred from a lawful or
ganization to the unlawful one by vote
of group or branch of the former and
without his knowledge In some cases, he
has had the knowledge of the transfer
but none at all of the character of the or
ganization to which he has been trans
ferred. In other cases, he has signed alp
plcations before the existence of the mn
lawful organization and has never con-
firmed his membership by a conscious
act Sometimes an organizer or a friend
has signed the application for him. As
rule, the hearings show the Aliens ar
rested before, to be working men OF good
character who have never been arrested
before, who are not anarchists or reyo-
utionists or politically or otherwise dan
gerous III any sense. Many Of them as IN
this case have Americap-born children.
1t is pitiful to consider the hardships to
which they and their families have been
subjected during the past three or four
months by arbitrary arrests. Long de
tention in default of bail beyond the means
of hard working, wage carriers, to give
| for nothing more dangerous than atfllat
! ing with friends of their own race, couli-
try and language, and without the slightest
indication of sinister motive, or any dnlaW-
! full act within their knowledge or inten-
| ton. To permit aliens to violate the Dos
pitalitv of this country by consprng d
cainst it is something which no Ameli-
can can contemplate with patience.
| Equally inpatient, however, must any pa
! triotic American be with drastic proceed
ings on flimsy proof to deport aliens who
are not conspiring against our laws and
do mot intend to. Although these are
not criminal proceedings, being wholly ad
ministrative in their character, their et
feet upon the innocent individual who II
this summary way is found to be guilty
is as distressing to him and his family, t.
his friends and to his neighbors, as the
effect of conviction for crime by regular
judicial processes
As consequence of the foregoing case
Mr.. Post has drawn up certain r2les i"
the guidance of his department in hand
ling deportation arrests. This series o
| rules has come in for severe criticism
at the department of justice on the groun'
that deportation is made virtually lmpoF
: sble. The controversy between the tw
l departments is a friendly one and the IN
terest of the President himself mas beel
solicited to straighten II ont with IN
prospect that congress stimulated by n
outlaw railway strike, may also take
hand and investigate the whole quest,
cf the behavior Of aliens.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17
nth ANNUAL
CONVENTION /. o. O. F.
Grand Lodge to Meet in Burlington
May 18-22-Big Program
Is Planned

BURLINGTON, April Huntington
will be the Mecca for Odd Fellows of
Vermont during the third week in May, !
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Fri |
day, the 18th, 10Th, both and 2lst when
the Grand Lodge Of Vermont will gather
for its 74th annual convention Head
quarters will be established at the Hotel
Vermont, and the officers and special
guests, several Of whom are expected from
outside the state, will be located there
1t is expected that, during the four days
of the conference some 400 or 500 people
will visit this city
At a meeting of the officers of the gen.
eral committee, which has this conven-'
ton in charge, with Grand Master Alex
ander Duncan and Grand Secretary
Frank w. jackson, both of Barre, plans
were outlined for this convention.
This four-day program will include the
annual meetings Of four different branches
of Odd Fellowship. On the first day,
/ Tuesday May IS, the Department Council
! of Patriarch's Militant will hold its 18th
annual session of the Grand Encampment.
| On Thursday, May 20, the Grand Lodge
of Vermont will celebrate its 74th annual
session And on Friday, May u, the last
/ day of the convention, the 35th annual
session of the Rebekah assembly of Yer
mont will take place
i On the day when each lodge has its an
nual session. that lodge will have the use
of the Odd Fellows hall, and the business
sessions and general work will be carried
out there
Earl, will ho f1l ron llr with
cial attractions, as follows: Tuesday eve
/, ming, comforting of the degree Of ehivalry
land Patriarch's Militant ball, all in the
University of Vermont gymnasium. the
} dance being open to the public; Wednes
; day evening, banquet at the Hotel Yer
, mont, with special speakers. open to al
/ Odd Fellows and the general public
: Thursday evening, eXemnlfication Of the
| Rcbellah degree in the City Hall; Frida,
f evening, meeting of Beatrice Lodge No
/ 60, followed by open house in the lodg
4 rooms with entertainment and refresh
4 ments On Friday afternoon, there vii
g be a Rebekah reception from three unit
{ FIVE O'Clock in the roof garden of tn
{ Hotel Vermont.
Owing to the large number of visitor
/ who are expected to be in the city durin
II this convention, it is thought that tn
r hotels will have difficulty in accommC
it dating them, and the general committe
It will, therefore, plan to make a systemati
y canvass of such rooms in private house
W as may be available for this occasion
I in order to have place for evcrvbod
7 when the time arrives, and to avoid COZ
s, fusion in finding places on the days
6, the convention.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17
LODGE FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
Republicans of Oregon File His Name
With Secretary of State.

SALEM. Ore, April 1.-THE name of
Henry Cabot Lodge, United States sena-
tor from Massachusetts, was yesterday
filed with the secretary of state as a can
didate for the Republican nomination for
vice president of the United States.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17

sent from that section of Vermont was
shipped from Wolcott to New York
hotel this week The packages contained
three tons of butter shipped in 50 pound
lots This is the weight limit of parcel
post above 300 miles The shipment was
made by parcel post owing to the freight
and express embargo.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17

With the final adoption of the six
teenth amendment to the constitution Of
the United States, 26,3S3, 5G6 women be-
come eligible to vote in all elections. Sew
entecn million were already entitled to
vote for President under state laws and
100000 were entitled to vote for mem
bers Of congress under state laws
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17

Charles T. Stowell of Albany, n. Y.
has been engaged by the state engineer
for the purpose of ascertaining whether
some of the railway bridges that have
been removed by different roads can be
used as bridges on highways in Vermont
These have become too light for steam
railroad work, but they are heavy
enough for highway traffic
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17

While Nelson Hale, farmer living
about two miles outside the village Of
Fairfield Center, was absent from his
farm Thursday between the hours of 10
to ,, someone entered the house and
stole H p Hood & Co.'S checks amount
ing to between $500 and 5000 in value.
Some of the checks had been endorsed
by Mr. Hale The checks represented
Mn Hales milk money for considerable
period of time.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17

The first woman in America to hold
position as superintendent Of railroad
was Mrs j. B. Carson, of Toledo, who in
the early seventies was made superinten-
dent of the Toledo, Wabash, and Western
road. after she had demonstrated her abil-
ity in several minor positions.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17

Lawrence Richards, who has been spend
ing the winter at William Clark's on Put
MANS Island near Charlotte, was found
dead in row boat "wednesday afternoon
after he had been out an hour The
cause of death is unknown While
the boat was half full of water
it is not thought he was drowned Seem
ingly he had been in good health An
autopsy will be performed.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17

Tn the big conventions of the lumber
industry held during the past few months
women have had prominent part for the
first time Their partieipations in the
proceedings has served to direct attention
to the fact that they have become an i'm
nortant factor in the sales and other
branches of the industry.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17

Every war has produced its heroines
as well as heroes. Notable among the
heroines of the Russo-Japanese war was
Miss Ando Yoshi, a young japanese
seller of rice cakes at Port Arthur, who
stole the Russian war mans. disguised
herself as a coolie, and carried them safely
to the Japanese consul at Pekin.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17

Mademoisele Germaine Sablin, a French
Miss of ten summers. has written a novel
of which the critics declare ''Victor Hugo
might be proud"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17

Allen Wilcox of ST. Adams who with
his wife went to St Petersburg, Fla,
last October after selling their farm on
the Swanton road, was seriously injured
Friday when thrown from an electric car
in that city. The accident occurred when
Mr. Wilcox attempted to catch his hat,
which had been blown off by the wind.
He suffered injuries to his head and is
in critical condition at the hospital
where he was taken.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17
VERMONT NEWS.

Mrs. Clayton Libbey, who is i'll with
scarlet fever at her home in Lyndonville,
is the sixth III the family to have the
disease.
Hon Theodore n Vail of Lyndonville
was one of the three new directors elected
at the annual meeting Of the Boston and
Maine railroad this week.
1t is said that two Milton schoolboys
aged seven or eight years, have confessed
to tipping over more than 40 stones in
the village cemetery, some of them being
broken in two by falling
During the sickness of Charles Smith of
Wolcott, his two boys, Fay and Howard,
s and years old, did all the work, tax
ing care of 80 head of cattle and four
horses, besides lot of young stock, hens,
etc, except the milking A neighbor run
| the milking machine for them.
| The railroads Of the state have paid to
| the state treasurer their semi-annua
taxes which amounts, when all reach the
office to S257. 7S9.45, of which the Cen
trail Vermont Railway company pays S62,
500; the Rutland $69,953.l3; while the
Montpelier & Wells River pays S9,906.25
The Bac. Cat Textiles company a
Bennington has received an announcement
from the head Office stating that its cor
crate title will hereafter be the Allen A
COMPANY. Black Cat hosiery and Coop
er's-Bennington spring needle underwear
will be produced and marketed under thu
same labels.
1 Tho In paraal poct CHI aya
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17

The office of the adjutant general Of
the army sent to all department com
manders within the continental limits Of
the United States on April l eommuni-
cation announcing that beginning on Oc-
toh"r II and continuing until October 10,
1920, an endurance test for saddle horses
will tale place the start being made at
Fort Ethan Anon, ". and ending Mt
Camp Dcvons. Mass The nriZe IS to he
the L. 6. Mounted Service Gun. TIE wal
donartmert. it was explained, annrovoe
the participation Of the army in this test
both on account OF the benefit the service
is ovpcoted to receive and the closer 'nior
with civilian horeo~,"n which it is believed
such > contest will trirr about. II is IN
tended 10 send limited number OF army
officers to Fort Ethan Allen for participa
ton.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17

Edward II. Deavitt, after about two
weeks effort, has found an heir of J.
Franklin Severance. Mr.. Severance left
about $4,000 which was claimed by two
aumts The probate court instructed Mr..
Deavitt to search for a closer heir, which
he did and found daughter of the de-
ceased sister Mr. Severance and his sis
ter were separated when they We're small
children and never saw each other after
that time. The heir is Mrs Jessie Web
ster of Sunapee, n H..
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17

Mrs. Clayton Libbey, who is i'll with
scarlet fever at her home in Lyndonville,
is the sixth III the family to have the
disease.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17

The largest parcel post shipment ever
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17

William Smith of Waterford has Just
located his. daughter, who eloped in the
fall of 1913 from her home with Alfred
II. YOUNG. The couple were found in
Springfield. Mo-. and this is the first known
OF them for ore year and ene-half-
Young was a married man and lett his
wife and two children in I5arnet Mr..
Smith has gone to Springfield TO bring his
daughter home, and Mrs Young has
brought suit for divorce in the June
term of the Caledonia county court.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-17

Peter Moehytz, Russian of Berlin. \.
n, was arrested at St Johnsbnrv, We'd
nesday for having in his possession 1925
worth OF whiskey. He evidently had
brought the liquor from Canada and Gus
toms officers learned of his plans to have
big celebration with his friends and
they stationed themselves near the place
where the wiskey was hidden outside Of
the town, and arrested him as soon as he
came to take it away He was placed
under $500 bond for his appearance in
United States court at Windsor in May.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-23
SUICIDE ATTEMPTED
Tuscaloosa County Man Inflicts Ter
 ribIe Wound In Throat

Tuscaloosa, September 22.-(Special1 w. G. Jones, 35, prominent farmer living thirteen miles from Tuscaloosa on the Hargrove road, is in critical condition at the City hospital here as the result of supposedly self-inflicted wounds at an early hour this morning. Jones, it is said, cut his throat with knife and came near bleeding to death before medical aid arrived. He was brought to the hospital at o'clock this morning, where large number or stitches had to be taken to close the gaping wound which circles half of his neck How he succeeded in inflicting such a terrible wound with his own hands baffles the attending physicians and nurses of the hospital. No reason has been assigned why he committed the act. His wife is expected to arrive here tonight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-23
BACK PAY AWARD
Railroad Men Received Large Sums
 Through Increase of Pay
By Associated Press

Washington, September 22.-Four million three hundred and sixty -four thousand and six hundred and sixty one dollars covering back pay for in creased wages for the months of May June and July has been paid by the Southern Railway System to the em- pIoyes who were granted increases by the award of the railway labor board which gave increases to certain classes of railway employees and made the ln- creases applicable from May l, all though the award was not announced until late in July.
 The amount paid out by the Southern for each of the three months was: May, s1, ,4o1, 3os.5S; June, 1,444,5SS.74; July' s1.51S,s20.6S, which it is thought may he taken as a fair index of the amount that will be added to the Southern monthly payroll as the result or the increased wages made effective oy the award of the railway labor board