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LANCASTER HERALD
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Tenn—The . Tennessee
-“* •1‘ i“' ” -with a quo-
rst time siace
from its jour-
ratification of the suf-
rotad *7 to 24,
not vrtttfig, to hot concur
of the senate in rati-
.' V .'V I
the house convened
that the anti-rati-
>rity of whom have
on a filibuster for
were in the major-
of several of the
to arrive in tinge,
the antis pro-
gh their plan of
what was done on
was accom-
was a motion to ex-
journal of that day
proceedings upon
resolutions,
led 47 to 17 with
■ferns made and
led copy of the
of which is
senate, be spread
Idick, floor leader
Ipade the point
was out
and how a
constitution
l of Secretary of
ms overruled by
vfva voce votie
to ^consider
upon the resolu-
made and cat-
action of the
the ratification
declines flfaMK
the effect of the
that the matter
>ne and in the
ral Thompson,
is not taken ae-
generai opinion
or illegality of
ecided upon the
Washington by
ARE
CONDITION
e state’s new fis-
lth 114,000,000 in
s and with
fund of at least
general reve-
of any fie-
ry of Texas,
JohifxW. Ba
ample to take
without the
on a de-
is such
of the state
:iency basis
said
will
year
it doable that
the last fiscal
over *>.-
fund
*on Sept X,
time was the
revenue
day of a pew
L 1918, the gen-
14,035,000,
Bwt U lW "
i the available school
'to a record*
being over $1,*
of that fund,
on Bept 1,
1918, and 81226,000
highway depart-
a balance of 81210,-
are in good
nt RUSSIA
-With the armies oi
crushed oq two
ken onslaught o!
told in Moscow
International situation
rendered complicated
policy, toward Rusal*
orious blow.
to Kuban expedii
wiped out, Moscow as
have beet
.not only the hoadqufir
entire army has beet
declares
Before Subcommittee
Mo.-^Demand s of coal
'findOkla
increased
to a sub
miners.
waUO Man still gaining as be-
TEO RETURNS CONTINUE ..
TO COME IN.
INDORSE FREE LEGAL
ADVICE FOR THE POOR
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION IS
TOLD THIS WOULD TEND TO
CURB RADCALS.
'.Dallas.—Pat M. Neff of Waco was
nominated .for. governor of Texas in
irthe democratic primary election held
Saturday, decisively defeating former
United States 8enator Joseph Weldon
Bailey. Mr. Neffs victory is a general
one, his lead being maintained in all
sections of the state. Bailey failed to
show the strength his partisans had
predicted, even in sections known as
Bailey strongholds.
Election returns received thus far
give Mr.- Neff a lead of 72,657 votes
over MrydBallev for governor.
Fallowing are the totals to date:
For Govemir—Neff 237,165, Bailey
164,508.
For lieutenant governor—Davidson
174,096, Johnson 152,176.
For supreme court—(Pierson 181,-
644, Hawkins 134,95*
The total votq will probably run be-
tween 425,000 and 475,000, or, approx-
imately as large ad the first primary,
when the total vote for governor was
in round numbers 450,000.
It is indicated by the present re-
turns that Mr. NefFs majority over
Mr. Bailey will be abott 109,0 0<? and
possibly more.- < ' - •
Mr. Neff's .victory is overwhelming
in many parts of Texas and ifi only
a very small number of the counties
that he did Jose was he far behind
Mr. Bailey—apd these were mostly
border or so-called German counties.
Neff 'tan steadily ahead of Baiiey
In north, east, west and central Texas
and ran ahead of him in south, south-
west and southeast Texas. One of the
atures of tne returns was Mr. Bail-
ey's failure to show an outstanding
lead over Mr. Neff In the southern
part "of the Btate. 4
Mr. Neff ^carried the Texas cities,
with the exception of San Antonio,
where Mr. Bailey’s Mad is about 1,000.
Mr. Neff carried all the larger coun-
ties except Bexar.
Mr. Bailey failed to carry the “Old
Fifth District’’ that first sent him to
congress. -
Neff carried Gainesville by a good
majority. a" " '
Mr. Neff carried Waco a fwo-to-
one majority
Cooke County also gave MF; Neff a
majority.
It is practically certain that Lynch
Davidson of Houston is nominated for
lieutenant governor over the present
incumbent, W. A. Johnson, of Hall
county. It seems certain tha£ Judge
William Pierson of Hunt county
nominated for associate justice of the
supreme court oyer &e present incum-
bent, Judge William EL Hawkins of
Travis county.
In the only congressional run-off
Morgan Sanders of Canton, Tan
Z&ndt county. Is certainly the nomi-
le. Reports ssfar give him 18.081
and Thomas R. Bond of Terrell 8,848*
This is fce- third district:
The following results in the legis-
lative races in the run-off primary
Saturday' are indicated by late re-
turns:
State senate, district 5—Woodvflie
J. Rogers of McKinney nominated.
resenmtlve, district 28—Julian
Greer of Poyner nominated.
Representative, district 32—John R.
Gris son. Mount Pleasant, nominated.
Representative, district 35—J. M.
Melson, Sulphur Springs, nominated;'
opponent withdraw.
Representative, district 61, ,r place
1—XL I* Henderson, Waco, nominated,
opponent withdrew. Place 2—Newton
IX Williams. Waco, nominated.
Representative, district <8—J. I*
Quisfcsall, Waco nominated.
Representative, district 96—H
Orady Perry, Dublin, nominated.
Representative, district 121—R. M.
Chitwood, Sweetwater, nominated, op-
ponent withdrew
Villa- Advises Zomara to Surrender.
Mexico City.—Francisco Villa, the
former outlaw, who, with his troops,
surrendered recently to the govern-
ment, hn» written to Pedro Zamora,
who raided Curale and carried off
British and American subjects, advis-
ing him to surrender. Villa urged
Zamora to “sacrifice his pride’’ and
obtain from President de la Hberta
and Secretary of War CaUes a letter
containing guarantees for us all.
SL Louis, Mo.—Establishment of
legal aid bureaus throughout the Uni-
ted States to give free legal advice to
the poor was recommended as a means
of checking the spread of radicalism
by speakers at the convention of the
American Bar association, in session
here.
“There is no more serious men-
ace,’’ Charles Evans Hughes declared,
‘than the discontent which is fostered
by a belief that one can not enforce
his legal rights because of poverty.
To spread that notion is to open a
broad road to bolshevism.
“The poor man must have legal ad-
vice, and except in the simplest mat-
ters, he needs skilled assistance to
present the merits of his case.
“Without opportunity on the part
of the poor to secure such aid, it Is
idle to talk of equality before the law.
You may provide the machinery of
courts, but to have justice according
to law, save in a very limited class of
cases where a Judge may act as ad-
viser, you must have the aid of law-
yers. The legal aid society is the poor
man’s lawyer and gives him the essen-
tial assistance he can not obtain else-
where.’’
The legal aid society of New York,
Mr. Hughes said, gave advice to 34,-
000 applicants last year. Mr. Hughes
urged that free legal advice be given
the poor In criminal as well as in civil
cases. ]
Reginald Heber Smith of Boston
said simplified court procedure would
obviate the necessity for legal coun-
sel in certain cases, but where the ser-
vices of a lawyer were demanded, they
should, be available, irrespective of the
financial standings? the client.
$85,000,000 RAISE IS
GRANTED COAL MINERS
PRESIDENT WILSON APPROVES
MAJORITY REPORT OF AN-
THRACITE COMMISSION.
Washington^—President Wilson has
approved the majority report of the
anthracite coal commission, awarding
anthracite miners wage increases ag-
gregating $85,000,000, and notified the
miners that he expected them “to ac-
cept the award and carry it into ef-
fect in good faith.”
Replying to threats from the miners
that they would stop work Sept. 1 un-
less the minority report of the com-
mission, recommending a higher award
than provided in the majority report,
were accepted, the president definitely
stated that the majority award would
not be set; aside.
The majority report of the commis-
sion, signed by W. O. Thompson, pres-
ident of Ohio state university, represen-
tative of the public and chairman,
and by W. L. Cornell of Scranton, Pa.,
representing the operators, granted
wage increases of 20 and 17 per cent
above the present scale. The 20 per
vage increase was awarded con-
tract miners and the advance of 17
per cent was recommended for com-
pany miners, mostly monthly men,
miners’ Laborers and consideration mi-
ners. , •
Neal J. Ferry of McAdoo, Pa., rep-
resenting the miners, whose minority
report the workers in district meet-
ings have indorsed, recommended a
minimum wage of $6 a day for adult
day laborers and an increase of 31 per
cent tor contract workers.
In refusing the request of the mi-
ners for acceptance of the minority
report, as made in a telegram sent
through their local representatives,
the president called attention to a res-
olution adopted, by the miners in con-
vention agreeing to accept the fln-
A warning that war between the ings of such a commission as he ap-
United States and an alliance of
Japanese, Germany and Russia, was
imminent and that partisanship would
interfere with America’s proper pros-
ecution of it, was sounded by former
United States Senator James Hamil-
ton Lewis of' Illinois, in an address at
a banquet which ended the conven-
tion.
MAT HAVE TEST CASE OF
TRANSPORTATION ACT
Judge Cowan Holds Conference With
Oklahoma and Texas Attorneys.
Austin, Texas.—That there is to he
instituted in the near future proceed-
ings to test the constitutionality of
the federal transportation act to de-
termine the authority of the interstate
commerce commission to fix intrastate
rates in Texas, was indicated when
'Judge 8. H. Cowan of Fort Worth dis-
cussed the subject in conference with
'JC. M. Cureton, attorney general of
Texas, and 8. P. Freeling, attorney
general of Oklahoma. General Free-
ling is here attending the hearing at
which is being taken testimony in be-
half of the state of Oklahoma In the
Qj^lahoma-Texas boundary suit.
At the conclusion of the conference
Judge Cowan said that it -had been
held for the purpose of determining
the course of procedure that will be
followed in the event the test suit is
brought and also the manner to be
pursued which will ultimately take
the case Into the federal courts of the
.United States.
“The act is unconstitutional -if in-
tended to state a rule for making in-
trastate rates tor a state by denying
to the state the power to make rear
sonable rates, because it would be
compelled to provide a scale of rates
to pay into the railroad contingent
ftfifed from the pockets of the shipper
excessive and exhorbttant rates and
Rentes to him the right of recovery,
hereby confiscating his property by
taking It through this channel for the
public use without just compensation
or due process of law,” said Judge
Cowan.
Airplane Makes 223 Miles.
Atlantic City, N. J.—“The Texas
WJld Cat.” airplane entered by S. E.
J. Cox, Texas oil magnate, in the Gor-
don Bennett cup race to be held in
France Sept. 27, has attained a speed
of 223 miles per hour in secret test
flights st Mineola, Long Island: This
speed is 61 miles per hour faster than
the previous world’s record.
Reduction In Coal Price Predicted.
Indianapolis, Ind.—Material reduc-
tion in the price of coal as a result of
the order of the Interstate commerce
commission that no open-top cars
shall be furnished wagon mines which
have no tipple or chute tor loading.
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pas for
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English Labels
Is dumpini
roods in *th«
and I*
Land Banks Show Increase.
Washington.—Earnings of the fed-
eral land banks established a new rec-
ord In July, their net return totaling
6257.203, approximately $18,000 more
than last February.
BRITISH SHIPS BEING
TIED UP BY PICKETERS
Longshoreman Strike In Hope of For©-
ing McSweeney’s Roloase.
New Yark.—Elated by their tie-up
of virtually every British ship in New
York, 2,000 or more longshoremen
who suddenly quit work expect to
spread their walkout to every port In
the United States in the hope of forc-
ing Great Britain to release from jail
Terrance MacSweeney, lord mayor of
Cork, and permit Archbishop Mannix
to land on Irish soil. Women pickets
who inspired the unexpected walkout
of longshoremen and the marine fire-
men, water tenders and oilers who
joined them, feel the same way about
it. They will not go back on British
ships, they said, until Great; Britain
meets their wishes.
Irish sympathizers working on
American, French and Belgian steam-
ships also quit work during a whirl-
wind campaign the strikers waged
along the North river.
Japanese Comas fee America.
Honolulu, T. H.—Viscount Klkaneo,
rat of tha Japanase American
of Tokio, |a going to tha Uni-
ties on a special mission owing
aatl-Japanese agitation It Col*
Suspend $10 Demurrage.
Dallas.—The clause of the national
ealr demurrage rules. Imposing a
charge of 610 a day on all open-top
cars loaded with coal or coke when
not unloaded within the free time
limit, has been suspended by the in-
terstate commerce commission, at tha
request of the executive committee
of the national industrial league.
The suspension of this rote is ef-
fective until Dec. 17, and no change
Will ho mads in tho present rate un-
less authorize^ by special permission.
pointed
Closed shop conditions were denied
the miners.
By all the laws of honor upon which
civilization rests,” the president in his
telegram to the miners added, “that
pledge should,, be fulfilled. Any inti-
mation that the anthracite mine work-
ers will refuse to work under the
award because it does not grant them
all that they/expected is a reflection
upon the sincerity of the men who con-
stitute the backbone of the commu-
nity in which they live.”
SCORES OF HOUSES
ABLAZE IN BELFAST
Catholic Stores In ghankhtll District
Are Being Destroyed.
Belfast.-—The Sbankhill district of
Belfast has been turned into a blaz-
ing inferno. Nearly a score of fires
have been started, and virtually all
the grocery" stores and public houses
owned by Catholics in - the district
are being destroyed. The police fired
On the crowd during the disturbances,
inflicting several casualties.
Rioting Is Bald by the police to be
the worst Belfast has yet seen.
In the fighting between Sinn Feln-
ers and Unionist shipyard workers,
many shops were wrecked in York and
North streets. Soldiers got between
the combatants in York street and
kept them apart. There were numer-
ous baton charges by the police. The
military held York street with ar-
mored cars.
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$250,000,000,000 8tate and Federal Aid.
Washington.—Combined federal and
state expenditures for road building
reached, a total of $250,000,000, during
the -current fiscal year, according to
Thomas B. MacDonald, chief of the
bureau of public roads, department of
agriculture. The last installment of
federal aid funds, totaling $100,000,-
000, became available last July 1.
Three-quarters of this apportionment
was derived from the 1919 appropria-
tion, while $25,000,000 was provided
from the original appropriation In
1916.
Yantia Buys Belton Evening News.
Temple, Texas.—Col. R. E. Yantis,
veteran newspaper man and legisla-
tor of Athens, will move his home to
county and conduct the Belton
Bell
Evening News, which property he has
just acquired through purchase.
Epidemic of Infantile Paralysis.
Boston, Mass.—An epidemic of in-
fantile paralysis which threatens to
issume large proportions has visited
Ms city. In the last three weeks
.here have been twenty-three cases of
the disease reported.
Kurds Slaughter 400 Armenians.
Paris.—Dispatches from Uonstanti-
lople report the massacre of 400 Ar-
nenians by Kurds in Anatolia. The
Curds shot the men, but the women
md children were locked in a cuhrcb
ind burned to death.
Airplane Postal Service to Cuba.
Postmaster General Burleson an-
lounces the conclusion of a contract
with the Florida West Indies Airways
company for carrying mall daily by
teaplane from Key West to Havana.
The mail will be taken from Key West
(mmedioately after the arrival of the
forenoon train and should be deliv-
ered in the business districts of Ha-
vana tfa® same afternoon in time for
a reply by the returning seaplane,
which will leave Havana at 5 p. m.
dally.
State News I
The Dounley County Agricultural
Fair dates have been changed from
SepL 2, 3 and 4 to SepL 17 and 18.
* Mallory and Morgan line steamship
agents consider all negotiations for
calling off the strike of coastwise long-
shoremen at Galveston as closed, ao*
cording to indications.
Harold J^oggs of Kaufman was killed
at Royse City recently by a live wire.
Boggs was an electrician and was
strapped to a light pole when he came
In contact with the wire.
A tri-county teachers’ institute is to
be held at Belton beginning on Sept.
6 and continuing until the 10th, at
which 1,000 teachers, of Bell, William-
son and Milam counties are expected
to attend.
%
The Gulf Sulphur company at Gulf
Aas a tile-stucco hospital under con-
struction. There will be fourteen
equipped rooms for patients, besides
the general rooms. No estimate of the
cost has been revealed.
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Narcissa Maxey, three daughters and
two other negroes were drowned at
San Angelo last week, when Joe Grigs- *
by, father of two &t the victims, drove
the wagon in which they were riding
into the flooded ConQho river.
Appointment of a vigilance commit-
tee and the offer of $100 reward for
any person arrested on a charge of
intoxication was the result of a mass
meeting held at Breckenridge last week
to take steps to stop the sale of liquar
In that city! >
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Crane county supplants its neighbor,
Cochran county, as the least populous
county in the United States, so far
as the 1920 census has yet shown.
Figures announced give Crane county
a total of 37 inhabitants, or 30 less
than Cochran. _ *
“The Panhandle section of Texas,
with the lower plains lands, wHl this
year produce its greatest crops of corn,
cotton, pialze, sudan and feterita,” ac-
cording to Porter A. Whaley, general
manager of the West Texas Chamber
of Commerce.
The International & Great Northern
railroad- will not accept cotton loaded
In stock cars, coal cars or flat cars for
transpotation, and will not accept cot-
ton In such cars for switch movement
unless delivery line will indemnify that
road tor loss or damage by fire.
A big -crowdof DeKalb citizens went
out to Josh Stewart’s farm, about two
nailer south of De Kalb, test week and
caught an alligator measuring 86
inches. It is the firkt alligator ever
caught in that county. He is supposed
to be something like s hundred years
old. •
More than 1,500 Victory medals
have been distributed from the army
recruiting station at Dallas, according
to recent reports received from Lieu-
tenant Ira C. Dimmick. in charge of
the department. Applications have
been coming In at the rate of fifty
dally.
* — /
While the family and friends mourn-
ed his supposed death T. B. Stephens*
a young man of the Noodle community
in Jones county, returned home last
week. The father, S. M. Stephens,
received a telegram recently notifying
him that his son had been killed at
Hermanns, Mexico.
Special supplements to freight tar*
fffs have been authorised providing a
minimum weight per car on grata ship-
ments of the marked capacity of each
car, except where the marked capacity
is less than 40,000 pounds, in which
case the minimum weight of such ship*
ments will be 40,000 pounds.
Lightning ignited a 50200-barrel oil
tank of the Magnolia Petroleum com-
pany at Its refining plant about three-
quarters of a mile northeast of Fort
Worth last week The tank was valued
at about $60,000, it is' reported, and
contained a large quantity of oil vab
ued at more than $3 a barrel.
An increase in the volume of whole-
sale and retail business, increase In
building activity, improvement in the
condition of crops and ranges and an
improved movement and supply of
freight cars is reported by the eleventh
federal reserve district in its- month’s
review of business and indu«trlal con
ditions Just given out.
A11 railroads have raised the em-
bargoes on grain to Galveston, ac-
cording to A. R. Atkinson, assistant
freight and passenger agent of th«
Southern Pacific lines. Due to recent
clearances of ships carrying grain ta
foreign countries there -is now plenty
of room at the elevators and grain may
be shipped to Galveston without per
mits, h« said.
Bids for the Bonham RM river
bridge to be built about 23 miles north-
east of Bonham, were opened at Bon-
ham recently and on examination It
was decided to ask for new bids to w
opened Sept. 20.
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A number of fanners interested lx
potato growing through the east Texas
chamber of commerce have issced q
call for a meeting to be
Sept. 10, nt which time
tani
association.
The statfe banking boai
n charter to the First
Tishoma, capital stock
guaranty fund plan for prot
depositors, was adopted.
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The state fire Insurance coma
has granted the maximum of
cent for good fire records durl:
last three years to the
rock, which did net have
during that period.
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The attorney
has approved the
sues: Independent
county $18,506 wat
$70,600 road and atreet
Patricio road district No.
Mrs. Harriet N,
has been appointed d
mlssioner and inspector in
division, state labor
succeed Mrs. B. B. Did
Mrs. Leary will shortly
new duties in the depa:
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The act of the fourth
of the - thirty-fifth Ml
county commissioners*
dependent upon populatl
erative at such time as
tion o feach county is
approved by the director
correct, complete and
The attorney genera!
has approved the toll
sues: Refugio county
No. 2 $90,000 and road
$50,000. Kendall coun
I No 4 $40,000.
district No. 1
paving bonds
• . .
The Scottish Rite
elation of Texas, w!
purposes establish
student dormitories at
of Texas, for d
the
ed a charter by the
‘The association has
Masonic fraternity.
12 l»2per
comBuitoft
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Amending its orde*
railroad commission —,
der effective at on^e,
rates for transportation
gage between points In
20 per cent of the
ticket rates, with a m:
100 pounds and mini
30c per shipment.
...
Application of the ,
way express company
advance of
state rates to
crease allowed by
meroe commission !
granted by the Texas
sion becomes
end was signed by
members of the.
. v*
Judge George Calhoun
third district (court of
has granted a temporary,
the cassr of the Fort ^
City railway company vs.
commission, restraining
sion from enforcing r
30,1920, requiring the
to stop its passenger
catur, Wise county,
discharging passengers.
...
Records of the
ent candidates filing ]
tifleation of their
the ballot in the general
ably have been broke]
cording to J. D. Mips
state. Mr. Mims said
tions had come
and
Jorlty are from
isteture. There
for district judge.
. • .
Tig; railroad
an order providing that
pantos shall
pressing cc
which is to be deli ye red
tion compreased, as
per 100 pounds o«t of
that are not tees than it
pounds. When the th
tacted is less than 81 l-2c
than $ll-2c. the cost of
shall be assumed to the
excess over dl l-2c.
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Answering an Inquiry
Land Commissioner J. T.
attorney general's depa
rendered an opinion to the
one who leases university
the state for oil and gas
purposes is liable to the
sum of money equal to $1
all tends embraced In cm
same to be paid when such
executed and for n like sum
thereafter, payable in ad
long as such tease remain
It is further held thnt the
or grouping of permits eo
tends with permits on other
not authorized.
e e e y
The railroad commission
a statement showing oil
pipe lines tor Jnly
barrels. The
with 1,285,685 barrels
ridge second with 1,139,
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State Health Officer C.
and Dr. Oscar Davis,
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