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Arizona republican., 1921-08-17
Substantial Wage Cuts Agreed Upon
 By Concliators

NEW 1ORk, AuS. lo--N age Te-
 auctions ranging from 10 per cent for
 skilled men to 25 per cent for common labor today were agreed upon by the
 board of arbitration considering the wage dispute between union paper mill workers and II newsprint manu- featuring companies.
 The award, which fixed 40 cents an hour rate for outside common l labor, affects about 12,000 workers
 and will become effective Aug. P. | The International Paper company was not party to the agreement.
 The agreement provides for a re-
 turn to the 1919 schedule of practic-
 ally all classified positions above I common labor and paid below 60
 cents an hour, and 10 per cent re- duction on all positions receiving 50 I cents an hour or over. The average | reduction over the whole list is given | at Is per cent.
 A slightly lower rate, it was stated.
 was fixed for bag factories, craft and
 speciality paper mills. The agreement will continue in ef- feet to May 1, 1922, but it is subject to reopening by either party after ! Dec. l. l The same wage scale was fixed I for both Canadian and American manufacturers.
 l The following were parties to the agreement:
 I Labor organizations: Internationa !, Brotherhood of Paper Makers, unitec Brotherhood of Pulp. Sulphite ane Paper Mill Workers; United Brother
 hood of Carpenters and Joiners o1 : America; International Brotherhooe
 of Electrical Workers; lnternatloha Association of Machinists; lnterna' tional Brotherhood of Statonar. Fireman and Oilers.
 r Companies: Abitibi Pulp and Pa ? per company; Spanish River Pull : and Paper company; Union Bag an' :, Paper corporation; St. Maurice rape : company, Ltd; Minnesota and on 3 tario Power and Paper company !. Fort Frances Paper company; Hahh' : Paper corporations; Cliff Paper com . many. Tidewater Paper Mills com 7 pany: St. Regis Paper company l. Pettebone- Cataract Paper company.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-17
MAKE STRONG PLEA FUR LOWER RATES
 ON HAY AND GRAIN
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v
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 16-Iowa farmers are attempting to mature the largest corn crop in the history of the state, with no prospect of a market, and Minnesota farmers are preparing to burn their corn this winter instead of buying coal, farm CTS today told the interstate com merce commission in it's investiga- ton Of freight rates on grain and hay.
 Railroads, by maintaining abnorm- ally high freight rates. will lose the traffic on the coal which the form CTS would use If they could sell their corn, as we'll as that on the unsold grain. T. E. Cashman. a Minnesota farmer, told the commission. Lower freight rates on grain and hay. he said in reply to questions by mem bers of the commission would in- crease the volume of traffic. not only n those commodities but the in- trease would be reflected in the ada ed purchases by farmers on machin- cry, household goods, lumber and other necessities.
 E. H Cunningham, secretary of the American Farm Bureau Federation oi Iowa and a practical farmer. said that while the railroads probably were suffering as the result of the present readjustment. he believed the situation as regards a basic industry like agriculture should be given pre- .cedence in consideration over the carriers which he described as a 'commer0af' industry
 Commissioner Lewis asked whether reduction of freight rates would not have tendency to increase ship ments to points of consumption, thereby increasing competition and reducing prices. He was told that this probably would be true in the case of hay but that the reduction in price would not equal in the increa SC in tkc amount paid the farmer as g result of the reduced rates. De creased rates on grain. the witnesse: sad. would not reduce the marke price of grain.
 J. H. Mercer. secretary of tn, Kansas Livestock association, testi fled economic conditions in Kansas which in general, he said, were de | pressed.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-17
Asks Information
 About Presence Of
 Army Men In Cuba

HAVANA, Aug. 16-Information on the presence of American troops in Cuba is asked in a resolution sub mitted today to the president by the chamber of deputies. A request re- suited from the recent attack at Ca maguay by two Cuban on Leroy Foster, major in the United States reserves and the resultant search of the home of Humberto and Ascanio Sarcol by an American marine cap- tain and two enlisted men.
 Presentation of the resolution by Bartolome Sagara, representative from Oriente, provoked spirited de- bate in which the actuation of Ameri- can troops in the Guantanamo district was both attacked and defended and brought foi tn the statement that until derrogated by congress a military order promulgated during the Ma goon administration exempts from Cuban civil court jurisdiction all members of American armed forces
Arizona republican., 1921-08-17
GANG MURDER PLOT DISCLOSED BY MAN
 ARRESTED IN N. '.
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 NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-Information which the police believe will clear up IT gang murders which have occurred in New York, Detroit and Avon By The Sea, New Jersey. was given tol detectives tonight by Bartolow Fon- tano, the Italian barber. Terrified by secret threats of being baked in an oven.' Fontano gave himself up to the police and was charged with homicide. Six other men were ar rested on Fontano's information.
 The police spent several hours cross examining the men and sent to other cities information which they said would bring about several arrests before morning. Seven of the mur- to have been concerned occurred here and nine in Detroit. The other oc- cured in New Jersey. .....
 Fontano told the detectives that the gang which had threatened him and of which he had once been a member. had a fund of $200.000 to protect it's members who were caught while carrying out it's orders
 He told the police, they said. that he had lived for most of the past two years in Detroit and that he had killed his former pal. Carmello Caiozzo. on a farm near Avon-By- The-Sea on July 30, on orders from "the gang"
 The murders, according to the po- lice. have all occurred in Italian circles. where veil of secrecy has 1 protected the criminals.
 | Fo0fann fS <afd have dasfpp pd a man known as Francisco Puma as | the brains of the gang" Puma is one of those under arrest.
 Police said the murders, gang feuds and assaults had grown out of efforts by men both here and in Italy to con- 1 trol the lottery policy" game and a card game known as "zechinetto." Assistant District Attorney Brothers tonight declared there was no evil dence to show that the murders have | any connection with "Camorra" ac- | tivities. Police further supported his l statement by declaring that the men | arrested tonight were members of a group known as the Bonventre gang" which had its inception at the murder in Brooklyn. 15 years ago. of
 baker by that name, whose body
 was burned in an oven- Boventre's l friends swore vengeance and the Il murders of his assailant the accom- ! plices were followed by others. which I arose over women and gambling Il feuds.
 I Fontano said it was the custom of I the gang to employ one man to do
 killings and then cause him to dis I appear mysteriouSyy, lest he should T prove a menace. He said a. friend | had warned him that the gang in
 tended to throw him, alive, into the
 oven of a Brooklyn bak>--. He in-
 sisted that he gave himself up be- l cause his life was endangered so long as he remained free.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-17
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-The sen ate claim to a share of responsibility for the foreign affairs of the nation was recognized by President Harding today by the designation of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts. chairman of the foreign relations committee, as member of the Amer lean delegation to the disarmament conference
 Formal announcement of the ap- pointment was made from the White House, where it was indicated that the president felt he had formed the nucleus of balanced delegation by choosing as the first members Sem ator Lodge and Secretary Hughes
 whose selection to head the Ameri- can representatives was made known several days ago. Other members probably will not be chosen until i, is determined definitely how many places each nation is to have in tho conference.
 Entirely aside from Mir. Lodges personal qualifications, the view was reflected in high administration cir cles that the significance of his selec- tion lay in the fact that he was in 2 position to act as official spokesman for the senate committee to which ars referred international compacts re. quiring senate advice and consent The president was said to feel tha because of it's joint responsibility ir l foreign affairs 1t would be a grea
 mistake not to give the senate an of ficial voice while the negotiation.
 are in progress.
 Whether other senators will b.
 named on the delegation is question which the president himself canno
 answer. but it has been suggested among officials close to the Whit
 House that he might give represen 1 tation to the Democratic as well a the Republican side of the treat.
 ratifying body. Should he decide t
 do so, 1t is considered likely that Sen ator Underwood of Alabama. tn
 Democratic leader, will be asked t serve If another Republican senate 1 is appointed it is believed the choic will fall on Senator Knox of Penn 1 sylvania, a former secretary of state
Arizona republican., 1921-08-17
APPROVE MEASURE FUR BEER IN H0 M [
House Passes Bill Giving Individual Right To Make Home Brew For Own Consumption
RESTRICT SEARCH
Provides That No Search
 Warrant Shall Be Issued Unless Reason To Be- lieve Liquor Being Sold
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 WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. - Any householder could have homebrew under interpretations placed upon an amendment to the Willis Campbell beer bill. approved today by the house.
 The amendment adopted as sub, stitute for senate provision, would require federal agents to have war rants before entering homes in search of liquor. It providessL however, that no warrant shall be issued for search of a home unless there is is used as a place in which liquor is manufactured for sale, or sold"
 Representative Fields, democrat, of amendment would virtually sanction nome brew" provided it was not made to be sold, attempted to have the words flor sale" stricken out but his motion was rejected, 96 to 54.
 Representative Volstead, repub- 1ican, of Minnesota, author of the original prohibition act. favored the house substitute as adopted. He de- clared later it would not change the policy of the prohibition enforce ment bureau in reference to home brewing. No attempt of late has been made on orders from Washing ton, he said. to prohibit the home manufacture of potent beverages for personal use.
 ~rhe section we put in the bill pro vsdes that the law is to be enforced as we intended when we passed the prohibition act" said MT. yolstead. "Whfle it expressly stipulates that no hons are to be searched without warrant, and then only if the liquor Is being sold, federal officers can get evidence in other ways as to whether the law is being violated. The sec ton of the original act prohibiting the manufacture of liquor with alec holic content of more than one-hal of one per cent Is still in force"
 Search of homes without war rants" yo1stead said, usually ha been conducted under the revenu' act, which authorized such actiol under some circumstances.
 Pleading for . tight ban on hom brew. MT. Fields declared that if vol say a man can rig up distillery il his home, you kill the Volstead act.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-17
DEFEAT MOTION
 ID GALL M 'ADOO AS WITNESS AND HEARINGS
Senate ]. c. c. Committee
 Refuses To Summon The
 Former Rail Director To Testify On Funding Bill
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 WASHINGTON. Aug. 1s.-The mittee refused today to call William c. McAdoo. former director general of railroads. to give expert testi mony" on the administrators rail- road funding bill.
 The motion to call Mir. McAdoo was made by Senator Pittman, Dem ocrat, of Nevada, and was defeated. to 3, Senators Pittman, Stanley, Democrat, of Kentucky, and LaFol- lette. Republican of Wisconsin, sup porting it.
 By vote of six to four, the com mittee closed the hearing and pro- ceeded with consideration of the bill. Senator LaFollette voted with the DemocEats to hear additional wit nesses.
 The committee decided to strike out of the bill authority to reopen accounts of railroads. which had been finally settled and voted down, seven to three. an amendment by Sem ator Stanley to restrict railroad se- curities purchased from the govern ment by the war finance corporation to money derived by the sale to the public of war finance corporation bonds. Senator Stanley said it's ob- ject was to maintain unimpaired the present capital of the war finance corporation agricultural relief but Senator Townsend and other com mittee members said the railroad funding operations would not conflict with farmer relief work of the cor ! poration.
 An amendment offered by Senator l Poindexter. Republica0 of Washing | ton, providing that nothing in this act shall be construed or administer ed so as to prevent interference with l the financing of exports of agricul- | turaf products" was adopted A statement by William H. John ston. president of the International Association of Machinists. was pre- sent, urging the railroad indebted ness to the government be set off by government obligations to the rail- roads and the balance settled "by most expeditions methods He pre- dicted the passage of the bill would awaken bitter resentment" if ths government was forced to pay ths claims of railroads in cash while il allows payments of the goyernment claim against the railroads to b, postponed 10 years.
 ! % The committee expects to complete the bill tomorrow.
 Later MT. Johnston. speaking fo the railway employees department American Federation of Labor, ans I L. E. Shepard, president of the Or der of Railway Conductors and au thorized representative of sour rail way brotherhoods. issued a statemen declaring the committees action il I closing the hearings was most un I American. tyrannical and autocratic'
 and 'only one more evidence O
 railroad ownership of government
 as contrasted with our demand fo
 public ownership of railroads
Arizona republican., 1921-08-17
Premier Bridnd Frunce's Ch1ef
 At Conference
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 PARIS, Aug. 16.-The French foreign office officially informed the Associated Press today that only an absolute obstacle would prevent Premier 6riand from attending the conference on dis armament and Far Eastern ques- tion to be held in Washington late this year. The text of the foreign office says:
 "Premier Briand informed the American ambassador in Paris that he would 90 to Washington and that an absolute obstacle would bs necessary to prevent his attending the conferenee."
 it was pointed out in official circles today that the French government desired to have its premier go to Washington, is due not only to the feeling that it should have . delegate there equal in authority to Secretary of State Hughes, but more especial iy az an indication that France heartily supports President Hardinq's disarmament pro- gram.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-17
Youthful Mexican
 Confesses El Paso
 Murder, Police Say
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FL PASO, Texas, Aug. 16.-Ra- mon Ramirez. 20, confessed today, according to the police. that he en- tered the home of Mrs. Conrado Ala gar, five miles east of Fl Paso, late last night. stabbed her to death and clubbed her three infants as they slept. One of the children is said to be fatally injured Ramirez was found asleep in shed half a mile from the Alazar home. When asked why he killed the woman and at tackled her children. he told the po- lice, they say, that the family would be better off dead"
 Ramirez has long been afflicted with hemaralopia, an affliction of the eyes in which the victim can see at night but is blind in day light. Ramirez had for several years been well known in the neighborhood. sleeping in a dog kennel on a spall farm and living on food supplied by residents of the district.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-17
Potato" Flour
 In Bread Causes
 Death Of Three
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LAREDO, Texas, Aug. 16.-Inves- tigation into the origin of a sub stance thought to have been potato flour which was made into bread here Saturday and resulted in the death of three persons. disclosed to- day, according to authorities, that the supposed potato flour was part Jf barrel of poison which arrived here by freight some time ago with out label and bearing no address.
 It was found, officers said, that the barrel remained unclaimed for several days ana that after examin- ing its contents a railroad station employe. believing it to be flour, took a sample of it to baker here, who made F loaves of bread with it.
 All bread in the bakery has been seized and efforts of authorities now are directed toward tracing the shipper of the barrel.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-17
Majority Report By Republicans Sent to House With Agreement for Final Vote Saturday-Democratic Minor : ity Attacks Measure as Rich Mans BilP'
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-The nations tax bill will be cut 640OOO this fiscal year; $377 890 O0O in the calendar year 1922 and s79O, 900 in 1928 Chairman Fordney of the ways and means committee t, tax revision bill framed by Republican committeeman.
 Without disputing the figures, Democrats of the house prepared in caucus for broadside assault or the Republican measure planning to brand it rict mans bill. Their views to be incorporated in a minority analysis, attacking the by which the reductions were achieved
Arizona republican., 1921-08-17
BILLION DOLLAR CUT OVER } YEAR PERIOD COMMITTEE PLAN
 FOR NATIONAL TAX REVISION
SANTA CRUZ TAX RATE FIXED AT
 $1.63 FOR YEAR
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 MORALES, Ariz., Aug. 16-The Santa Cruz county tax rate for 1921, as fixed by the board of su- pelvisors, is s1.637. Last year it was SIPS.
 The total tax rate to be paid this year by residents of Nogales. including state. county. city and school district levies, is $4.3s9.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-17
Yovnpai Tax Rate Is
 Fixed Al 6O.6 Cents
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 PRESCOTT. Ariz, Aug. 16--The Yavapai county board of supervisors yesterday fixed the county tax rate at sos cents. The supervisors expect this rate to raise the $741,502 in the county's budget for the ensuing year Last years levy was 4S.5 cents
Arizona republican., 1921-08-17
Serbian King Is Dead Alter
 Long Illness
IRepublican A. P. Leased Wire1 BELGRADE, Aug. 16.-king Peter of Serbia died today.

Lung Congestion Causes Death
 King Peter, who for a long time had been Ill, was reported early in June to be in a serious condition. He was then suffer- ing from pIeurisy. A short time afterwards he was said to be steadily improving in health, and his physicians declared him out of danger.
 Nothing was heard of the aged monarch until a few days ago when a dispatch from Belgrade said he was seriously i'll with congestion of the lungs. He sank into unconsciousness Fri day, remaining in that condition until the following day. His con dition became worse Sunday night and he gradually failed un- til the end.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-17
DO YOU KNOW:-

That you help move the long staple cotton crop of the valley? When you are buying shirts, dress goods, socks thread, ask for those made of Pima cotton
 If Trade At Home is good for your neighbor it's good for you! We Believe In Arizona
Arizona republican., 1921-08-17
Seller of Death Weapon Confronts
 Accused Murderer
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LOS ANGELES. Cal, Aug. 16.-E A. Rosenthal, pawn shop proprietor, who yesterday identified to the satis- faction of authorities shotgun stock found on the beach near Santa Mon ica shortly after the killing of J. Bel ton Kennedy, broker. Aug. 5, as part of a gun he had sold to a customer entering his shop late in July, today was given an opportunity to see and talk with Arthur C. Burch, young college man, accused of the murder of the broker.
 Rosenthal was taken to the office of Deputy District Attorney Asa Reyes and there. it is understood. he looked at the young man recently l jointly indicted here with Mrs. Mada- 1 lynne Obenchain a college friend, in connection with the mysterious slay- l ing case.
 | After the meeting behind closed doors Rosenthal said he had been 1 It waa not known whether he iden- | tified Burch as purchaser of the gur | or not. From photographs shown him
 yesterday he was unable to do so, but
 authorities thought a ''close up" oi
 BurcIl might have a different result
 FIGHTING POLICE CHIEF WINS | LONG ISLAND CITY. N. Y. Aug I 16.-Harry DarneilIe. Washington:
 fighting chief of police" won hi. first professional bout tonight wher the referee stopped a 12-round matct | with Fred Schroeder of New York il the sixth round The two heavy
 weights had pummeled each othe
 without displaying much science ant Schroeder appeared completely ex
 hausted. The weights were, Darnein
 ls5. Schroeder 1SS1.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-17
Make First Seizure

WINDSOR, Ont, Aug. Is. - The first interference by Ontario en- forcement officers with the export of beer to the United States was made Monday night, 1t was learned today. when a shipment from a brewery at Walkerville docks was seized in transit.
 The seizure was made upon order from the attorney generals depart ment at Toronto. The attorney gen. eral recently announced his inten- tion of seizing all shipments leaving Canadian shores by any other mode of conveyance than a public carrier.
 Nicol Jeffery, a special prosecutor, was expected to come here and prose cute the case.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-17
Continue Efforts
 To Plug Leak In
 Flow Of Whiskey

DETROIT. Aug. 16.-State police men today continued their efforts to halt the flow of liquor from Ontario into Michigan as Canadian officials took a definite step in an attempt to plug the leak in the border. Acting on orders of N. M. Mosseau. Windsor lisence inspector, provincial authori- ties began to prepare a new test case on rum shipments, following the seizure yesterday of liquor in Windsor
 Word from Toronto was to the eff feet that W. F. Raney. attorney gen. eral for Ontario, was not satisfied with recent Windsor court ruling that provincial authorities could not interfere with shipments of liquor from the province into outside terri tory. Windsor police said today they had not as yet received orders from Attorney General Raney to stop all shipments of liquor by any other mode of conveyance than a common carrier Toronto dispatches declared the attorney general had made such an order.
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