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HOUSTON TEXAS SATURDAY JULY 5 1919
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ECONOMY MEAT
AND WHEAT IS HO
LONGER NECESSARY
' Department . of Agriculture
Advises American Pub-
..... lie to Eat All -They
Want
PEOPLE VICTIMS
OF PROFITEERING
Statement Declares Prices
Are Being Artificially
Inflated by the
Packers
' Associated PreaaReport.
- WASHINGTON July 4. Federal su-
pervision of the packing sale and distri-
bution of meat producU was declared by
the department of agriculture to be the
only solution for the present situation
in which meat prices to the consumer are
t so high that he is denying himself and in
which prices of live stock are so low that
the producer is losing money.
The department emphasized that "save
food" signs should now he disregarded as
to meat especially beef and wheat pro-
ducts. Faced by the largest wheat crop
. on record and with many cattle raised in
response to the demand for meat pro-
duction for the army now maturing the
American people the department assert-
ed must realize that no necessity for
conservation of such foods any longer ex-
ist. A survey of the meat price situation
the department said reveals that the ex-
esniv retail prices now existing are not
justified by wholesale quotations. Prices
to the producers have declined since the
war it was said but prices paid by the
consumer have not materially lessened.
The only fJtlution the department be-
lieves is more strict federal supervision.
The entire meat situation based on
conferences with senators' and represen-
tatives from live stock producing regions
was summarized by the department as
follows: : 1
"There is no longer need for meat con-
serration. The supply is pientum ana
patriotic' citizens may freely disregard
the neat saving placards which are still
displayed at many eating places. - "
"Europe needs onr surplus port-but
is filling its beef requirements by impor-
tations from South America and .Aus-
tralia. Trices of beef cattle have fallen
sharply since March 1 uu account of the
stoppage of export for army use and a
slack demand for beef at home. Beef
producers and lamb producers who sell
their products at this time are confronted
with the danger of heavy financial losses
which would tend to restrict production
and cause a serious shortage in the fu-
ture. "The United States will never have a
satisfactory and permanent solution of
the problem until the manufacture sale
and distribution of meat products are of-
ficially supervised by authorized agents
of the government working in co-operation
twith State and municipal authori-
ties whose only aim is to serve the pub-
lic at large and. not any particular class.
When the federal government is enabled
by law to maintain a just supervision
over the meat producing Industry that
will prevent unfair dealings speculation
' and profiteering and when the States
and municipalities are enabled by law to
exercise similar supervision over intra-
state and local business then only can
we expect to have fair and stable mar-
kets in which producer and consumer
alike will have a square deal."
I. W.Ws Plan Strike to
Snnnlant All Emolovers
-rr 4
Associated Press Report .
CHICAGO July 4. That information
bad been received that the I. W. W. is
straining all efforts to gain strength
among American Federation bf Labor
unions with plans for a nationwide strike
within a few weeks in an effort to de-
pose industrial employers and put the
vorkere in charge was disclosed by Chief
i f Police Darrity Friday.
- 'According to information given out
last week at the police chiefs conven-
tion in New York" said the chief ''the
strike Is to be called some time between
July 20 and August 1.'
The leaders of the movement will not
accept compliance with their demands
for Increases in wages and shorter hours
if they are allowed but will order the
'.men to staf out until the employers give
up meir places to tne men.
- . io x w. r. oeaas are not carrying
on the scheme in the interest of the
' 1. 1 rvi. j r . .1 i
own personal gain. .
' "If the scheme succeeds we shall fact
a most serious situation. The plan as
' suggested by the I. W. W. leaders la to
overthrow capitalism and place labor in
charge of Industry." . ..
Today's Calendar :
FORECASTS OF THE WEATHER.
A AmocUu4 Pren Report.
WASHINGTON. July tsEatt Tt
iaiurday mud Sunday tartly cloudy.
. Wt Ttnt Saturday and Sunday partly
' (Icudy. : : j
4 LoiiifSt'dJ uud 'Sunday gtutrtily
Voir. .' ; .- -:
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Good roads meeting at Chamber of Com
merce 10 a. m. . f-
In Three Whir
Rounds Jack Dempsey
- Wrests Championship
From Jess Willard
Kansas Giant's Gameness Woefully Weak Foil
Against Tornado-Like Attack of Youthful
Challenger Willard Practically Knocked
Out in First Minute of Fighting Con-
tinues Unequal Combat Until Seconds
Throw Up the Sponge.
By Harvey T. Woodruff.
By Leased Wire to the Houston Post.
TOLEDO Ohio July 4. Bayview Park Arena. Jack Demp-
sey is the world's heavyweight champion. It took this modern David
just three rounds to usurp the title and dissipate all claims of Jess
Willard the contemporaneous Goliath at Bayview park arena Fri-
day afternoon before a crowd estimated at 50000 persons.
Never before in the history of the heavyweight crown has a title-
holder accepted sucK concentrated punishment as "Jack the Giant
Killer" meted out in those nine minutes of milling before the seconds
of the champion tossed into the ring a towel the accepted white flag
of surrender in fistiana shortly before time would have been called
for the fourth round.
Whatever else may be said of Willard his gameness never can
be questioned. Fifty seconds after the bout started he was upset
by one of Dempsey's left hooks landed just as Dempsey had planned
in his training work. Five minutes' thereafter six times in all Wil-
lard was sent to the canvas usually taking the full count in the first
three minutes of milling. The gong signifying the end of this first
period sounded while Willard was sitting on his haunches in a neu-
tral corner apparently helpless from the terrific pummeling he had
received.
Instantly there was a wild cry of acclaim for the supposed vic
tor from the crowd which olf
course could not hear the bell.
Even in Dempsey's corner his
handlers thought he had iwor
and a way was opened for Jack
through the. press seats as he
climbed off tiering only to be
called back by frenzied shouts.
Willard a Beaten Man.
Probably not one man in twenty then
thought the" falling champion could sur-
vive the second period. His ability to
stand punishment his great recuperative
power asserted itself in the one minute's
rest and he faced the eager challenger
with a brave attempt to attack.
Dempsey assured hat the issde was
settled difoot leap to the attack as some
had fancied he would. He never gave
any rest for the arm-heavy and leg-
weary champion but set himself aud
timed his terrific hooks delivered from
either right or left to Willards' jaw.
Jess' blows had become tissue paper and
Dempsey feared nothing. Dempsey ap-
parently was trying for a knockout
against the bruised battle-red but game
giant opposed to him. Willard took a
world of punishment but less than in the
first round while Dempsey spent his
energy only when it was directed with
unerring and staggering aim. There were
no knock downs in this round.
If Dempsey rested any in the second
round and rest would be a misnomer for
any part of a bout as fast as this one
he eg&n the third in whirlwind style.
Three left hooks in succession to the
champion's jaw Bhowed how accurate was
Jack's judgment of distance and how fu-
tile was Jess' defense. In fact Jess
never showed any defense worth mention-
ins against this relentless young tiger.
Following these three hooks ou then
Jaw Dempsey landed a few body punch
es. It was apparent he was not attempt-
ing to win with these blows but to lower
what was left of the champion's guard
for a finishing blow to the jaw. Sudden-
ly those bronzed arms began to work like
pistons with hooks alternating from left
and right as Dempsey rocked Willard's
head from sille to side. Still the champion
did not fall.
Championship Changes Hands.
As the bell again sounded denoting the
end of the third round Willard was a
pitiable spectacle. His face was smeared
with blood which had trickled down over
his huge chest; bis right eye bruised and
battered in the first round swollen shut
while his left eye was rapidly joining the
early-closing movement A large lump
showed on his left cheek bone. His power
to strike an effective blow even were
his opponent less elusive was gone.
As the spectators were wondering
whether Willard would be able to weather
another round the towel was tossed into
thj& ring and the championship passed to
Dempsey. v
Dempsey had aoswered the question of
his class and ring generalship. In the
opinion of a majority of those present
Willard at his best could not have van-
quished this fighting machine opposed to
him.
In looking at the battle in retrospect
Dempsey fought and won just as he had
planned in his training work. The opposi-
tion was less formidable probably than
even Dempsey and his handlers had an-
ticipated. Willard as was said in ad-
vance was 1b as good physical condition
as a man of his years could be expected
to be. His ability to survive that awful
first round and come back for more
proved that.
Willard's weakness came from his
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lwind
"Afraid to Face Crowd"
at Home Gathered to
Honor Bravery in War
Associated Press Report.
DBS MOINES la. July 4. Pri-
vate Clyde M. Boyd of Payne O.
cared so little for danger when fac-
ing German fir-e in France that he
came out of the war with 23 wounds
one leg missing on thumb missing a "
finger split In two Ihe Croix -de
Guerre the distinguished service
cross and a .special letter of com-
mendation from Geperal Pershing.
Thursday night however he and
Private Joseph Buffalo of Bixby
Okla. and Corporal John Coakley of
Kansas City sent a communication to
the commanding officer at Fort Des
Moines asking that the decorations
they were to receive riday be pre-
sented in the hospital because they
"were afraid to' face the crowd"ex-
pected to attend the July 4 celebra-
tion. The request was refused.
Boyd and Buffalo received the dis-
tinguished service cross and Coakley
the Croix de Guerre.
Big Turtle in Mail
Is Mistaken for Bomb
Gets a Swim in Tub
By Leased Wire to The Houston Post.
NEW YORK July 4. John T.
McPartland Brooklyn acted quickly
when he heard a strange scratching '
ticking sound inside a special de-
livery package he had just received.
He threw it out the window
cleared his borne of occupants tip-
ped off the neighbors to stand clear
of collapsing walls and phoned for
the bomb squad.
Detective Mahon pulled a tub of
water up beside the package drop-
ped the package in just like that
'quickly.
. It turned out afterward to be the
very best thing the bomb expert
could have done. Some friend had
mailed McPartland a turtle for soup.
Women's Emancipation
Bill Killed in England
Associated Press Report
LONDON July 4. The women's
emancipation bill which has been before
the house of commons for some time was
defeated Friday. The motion to reject
was offered by Major Waldorf Astor and
was carried by a vote of 100 to 85.
Major Astor announced that the gov-
ernment next week intended to introduce
a bill to take the place of the emancipa-
tion bill. This bill would place men and
women a equal terms in civil and ju-
dicial matters. The mean tire .Major
Astor said will be wide and comprehens-
ive. Gulf Storm Central
. East of Pensacola
. . . '
-Associated Press Report.
WASHINGTON July 4. The gulf
storm was central early Friday imme-
diately east of Pensacola where it will
move inland during the day Std probably
diminish in intensity. The disturbance
has been attended by shifting gales on
the northwestern coast of Florida and
storm warnings remain displayed be-
tween Biloxi Miss and .Cedar Keys
BRITISH COMMONS
UNRESPONSIVE TO
PREMIER'S SPEECH
Oratory of Lloyd George in
Presenting Treaty and
Lauding League of
. Nations Fails
PRINCE OK WALES
LEAVES CHAMBER
Even Assurance That Ex-
Kaiser Would Be Tried
in London Brings
Little Laughter
BY HENRY M. HYDE.
By Leased Wire to The Houston Post.
Chicago Tribunn Cable.
(Copyright 1919.
LONDON July 4. 'The a-s have
unanimously decided that the German
kaiser shall be tried by an international
tribunal which shall sit in London."
It was Lloyd George speaking in the
house of commons. '
"So the kaiser is going to get to Lon-
don after all!" cried a member from the
labor benches. There was a rattle of
laughter. That was alL
"The greatest guarantee of this treaty
is the league of nations!"
A single high pitched voice on the high
labor benches cried repeatedly: "Hear
hear."
It was followed by Tthat sounded lik
gusts of derisive laughter from various
parts of the crowded house of commons.
Lloyd George turned toward the corner
from which came the loudest laughter.
"I beg no one in Great Britain to sneer
at the league of nations" the prime min-
ister said. "I look on it as a great and
hopeful experiment I beg that this
country may give it a fair and honest
trial. Let us try it. It will not stop all
trouble. It may stop some."
It was a strange and dramatic scene
in the little brown ball of the commons
Friday afternoon. The premier with the
treaty completed had come home fro;.
Paris to lay on the tnble the results of
his seven months' labor. He . spoke for
the greatest empire in existence at the
moment of its greatest power. He
brought in his hand he garnered fruits
of a complete and overwhelming vic-
tory. ' . J;
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The most magnificent audience had
gathe d to hear him. ( Every member of
the house who cou!d tbul t a seat ha'
squeesed into the benches which ran up
on either side of the speaker's table.
Hundreds of members for whom there
was no room stood about the walls and
occupied seats in the galleries. The am-
bassadors' gallery and that reserved fo
the peers were full. From behind their
broken screen scores of women looked
down on the floor.
Most strikfling of all the Prince of
Wales came in and sat in the front row
of the gallery just over the dock in the
seat which his grandfather King Ed-
ward VII favored.
It was a wonderful setting. It should
have been a most impressive and solemn
historic scene. But something was the
matter don't know what. The atmos-
phere was strangely cold and unsympa-
thetic. Lloyd George with the sensitive nerves
of an orator felt it at onre. And he
past master of swaying parliaments and
peoples quite failed to rise to the occa-
sion. I have heard him speak several
times on great aud splendid days and
have always been thrilled and delighted.
This afternoon I found myself after the
first half hour nodding. - And then I
hastened to wake up the man next to me
who had fallen quite asleep.
Prince of Wales Leaves.
1 The Prince of Wales a fair hajred and
handsome youth who amused me by re-
peatedly adjusting his neoktie got up
quietly and slipped out of the gallery at
the same time. Down on tbi floor half
a dozen members on the government
benches were sitting back on Iheir shoul-
der blades with their feet on the edges
of the great table top.
Perhaps it was because Lloyd George
was all tired out physically and mentally.
He leaves Sunday for a fortnight's holi-
day in Wales. He was ill the last two
weeks in Paris. At any rate for that or
some other reason his speech Friday aft-
ernoon was exceedingly dull which is al-
most incredible. It lacked conviction and
left the great audience cold and unmoved.
It seemed to falter and go back and re-
peat itself. It seemed impossible it Was
the same man who a few weeks ago bad
a similar gathering in a tumult of cheers
and laughter when they were not sitting
in strained attention to catch every syl-
lable which fell from his lips.
United States Ambassador Davis in
the front row of the gallery leaned for-
ward on his hands to watch and was
wondering perhaos what augury this was
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Mercury Touches 1 00
in Big Eastern Cities
Associated Press Report
WASHINGTON D. Cr July 4.
Thermometer readings in five cities
Washington Boston Hartford Conn.
Philadelphia and Harrisburg Pa. regis-
tered 100 degrees Friday aud weather
bureau forecasters said the day was one
of the hottest Fourth of Julys on rec-
ord ' . V
LIST0F MEXICAN
OUTRAGES AGAINST
AMERICANS GROWS
Within 17 Months at Least
-Eleven U. S. Citizens
Murdered Mostly
for Money
OTHER ATTACKS
WITHOUT NUMBER
Americans at Mercy of Car-
ranza Forces Because They
Are Not Allowed to
Carry Arms
BY A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.
By Leased Wire to The Houston Tost.
WASHINGTON July 4. The killing
of two Americans in the Tampico dis-
trict of Mexico announced within the
last two days by the state department
brings the total number killed in that
section alone during the last 17 months
up to 11. .
Even this list is admittedly incom-
plete as there have been some deaths in
the southrrn part of the district that
have not been officially reported. The
complete list of outrsges robberies at-
tacks attempted holdups murders and
atrocities reported to the state depart-
ment would fill four columns of news-
paper type.
The lists of authenticated murders
with dates' follow:
February 21 191 Paymaster House
of the Texas Oil company killed on a
launch in Cbijol canal. Paymaster Min-
nett Dr. Brisbane and Walter Prather
all Americans connected with tho Island
Oil company wounded. The Mexicans
secured about $7000 of the payroll.
Four Are Murdered.
June 29 Alfred Esparola machinist;
L. R. Millard assistant cashier; L. A.
Dunn warehouse clerk and II. M.
Cooper commissary clerk all Americans
employed by the Mexican Gulf Oil com-
pany and Navitavid Flores a Mexican
foreman killed by five armed Mexjcans
four miles above the Fiscal wharf at
Tampico. The Mexicans secured $3502.40
American money.
July 24 A Porto Rico pipe line fore-
man name unknown here Cortea Oil
company killed by Mexican marauders.
July 81 A. W. Stevenson cashier of
the Texas Oil company shot in the back
and killed as he was bending to open the
hafn at the demand of the Mexicans.
December 17 .7. M. Franklin and W.
H. Itose of the Transcontinental com-
pany disappeared. Their bodies were
found some weeks later on an island in
the canal showing they had been shot.
June 17 1919 John W. Correll shot
by Mexicans on his farm near Colonia
his wife attacked and his son wounded.
July 2 Leroy Moye murdered by
Mexicans.
Americans Unarmed.
The Carranzista leaders Major Mar-
tinez General Lopez de Lara and Cap-
tain Enrique Rodriguez have been ac-
cused in complaints to the state depart-
ment of a habit of "borrowing" money
to pay off soldiers for food and clothing
and of seizing launches of the companies.
It is alleged there is never any restitu-
tion of property or payment for the use
of boats. By the regulations put into
force in this territory none but Car-
ranza soldiers are permitted to carry
arms so the Americans have no way of
defending themselves.
All the robberies and murders hare
been committed by armed men. Some-
times the men declared they were rebeN
but on manv occasions they have been
identified as Carranza soldiers and
officers.
The Tepetate 'district where Moye was
murdered on Tuesday has been con-
trolled by the Carranza forces. This dis-
trict has been one' of the most seriously
affected parts of the oil fields. At one
time the oil company employes struck
and went to Tampico. The United States
government at the time was calling upon
the companies for all the oil they could
produce to be used in the war. The oil
workers told that they were fighting a
more important battle in producing oil
than they could in the trenches oonsented
to return to work.
Oil Companies Robbed.
Other incidents in the Tepetate dis-
trict reported to the state department
were:
"On March 5 1018 the camp of the
Metropolitan Oil company was robbed by
armed soldiers. On two successive days
April H and April 7 the workmen of the
Texas Oil company camp were robbed.
April 12 the foreign employes of the
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President Watches Sports
Aboard George Washington
Associated Press Report.
ON BOARD THE U.S. 8. GEORGE
WASHINGTON' By Wireless). The
Fourth of July was celebrated on board
the George Washington with sports and
games and a tug-of-war between army
and navy teams. The principal event of
the day was the address of President
Wilson to the assembled soldiers and
sailors at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
The weather continues fine and the sea
calm the wind moderate and the most
of the day bright and sunny. Six Amer
lean destroyers were passed this morn-
ing proceeding eastward
Anti-Saloon League
Serves Plain Warning
" On President Wilson
Chief Executive Notified That He Can Not "Af-
ford to Act as a Life-Saver for the Liquor Traf-
fic" Say None but Bone Dry Pro-
hibitionist Can Be President.
By a Staff "Correspondent.
Leased Wire to the Houston Post.
WASHINGTON July 4. While one prohibition organization
was serving notice that none but an advocate of strict enforcement
of the anti-liquor law can be elected president next year the Anti-
Saloon League issued a declaration that President Wilson "can not
afford to act as a life-savef for the liquor traffic" by vetoing any
legislation banning beer and wine of one-half of one to 2 3-4 per
cent alcoholic content.
"The suggestion that the president will veto the national pro-
hibition act if it includes beer and wine is brewery propaganda"
said Wayne B. Wheeler attorney and general counsel of the Anti-
Saloon League. "Thirty-three prohibition States have prohibited
beer and wine along with whjsky The local option laws in 14
States define intoxicating liquor substantially as proposed by the
bjll pending in congress. No State or local prohibition law in the
United States has ever included such an absurd provision as pro--posed."It would nullify prohibition so far as the federal law is con-
T a -m- a a .
COLORED TROOPS
AT BISBEE RIOT;
SHOTS EXCHANGED
Fight
Starts When Members
of 10th U. S. Cavalry
Attack an M. P.
Associated Press Report.
BISBEE Arts. July 4. Fouteen sol-
diers of the 10th United States cavalry
(colored) are under arrest as the result
of a fight at midnight Thursday night be-
tween the negroes and civilians during
which more than 100 shots were fired.
Three colored soldiers Deputy Sheriff
Joseph Bardwick and a Mexican woman
were wounded.
The trouble it said to faivt started -with
a taunting remark o George Sullivan
military policeman for tbe 19th United
States cavalry as he was passing a ne-
gro club. Sullivan was attacked his
pistol taken from him by tbe negro troop-
ers and police and civilians joined in the
fight.
Fouteen of the negoes were arrested
and tirned over to the military author-
ities by tbe police after the troub'e bad
ended at midnight.
The negro soldiers were here from
Fort Huachuca under command est Colo-
nel George B. White for I parade today.
The officers of the regiment were at-
tending a dance at Warren.
The negroes refused to disarm at the
request of their officers. The officers
then started out for a general disarming
of all negroes in the course of which
shots were exchanged.
Two troops of the 1st cavalry arrived
from Douglas early Friday to assist mili-
tary authorities here and tbe Bisbee po-
lice in preventing a recurrence of last
night's riots. Authorities were unde-
termined early today whether to permit
the negro troops to participate in tbe
Fourth of July parade as planned.
Dirigible R-34 Making
Slow Progress Down Coast
Associated Press Report.
WASHINGTON. July 4. The British
airship R-34 on its way to New York
wirelessed the navy department Friday
night asking for tbe forwarding of all
weather reports via Bar ring ton Passage.
The message; selayed from the navy radio
station at St. Johns was received at 8:30
p. m.
SYDNEY. N. S.7july 4. The British
dirigible R-34 en route to Mineola N.
Y. from East Fortune Scotland and the
Ilandley Page bombing plane which
stalled for Mineloa from Harbor Grace
N. FM Friday afternoon both were about
50 miles off Sidney at 8:40 o'clock (New
York time) according to wireless reports
received here.
ST. PIERRE July 4. The dirigible
R-34 was sighted by officials of the co-
lonial administrator's office at 4 p. m.
local time crossing slowly between Lit-'
Miquelon on Langley Island and the
island of St Pierre headed westward.
Chilean Cabinet Quits;
Spanish Ministry Out
Associated Press Report
SANTIAGO Chile July 4. The min-
istry has resigned.
The cabinet of which Armanda Ques-
ada is the head resigned March 20 nut
withdrew its resignation. i
SPANISH MInTsTER OUT.
MADRID. July 4 (Haras). Tbe min-
ister' of justice has resigned. Tbe
course the discuasloa concerning the elec-
toral policy of the government is tak-
ing is said tobt the reason for bis ac-
tion. .. ' -
deemed it would be taken as a
recommendation to the 33 pro-
hibition States and 14 local op-
tion States to amend or repeal
their present prohibition laws de-
fining intoxicating liquor.
"This is no time for reaction or sur-
render to the "brewers who ase encour-
aging defiance of the law at this hour.
The president can not afford to act as a
life saver for the liquor traffic under
these conditions."
Mr. Wheeler disputed Samuel Compere
assertions that prohibition is breeding
bolshevism in Michigan. "Mr. Gompers' '
statement" he said "is a reflection upon
the patriotism of loyal sovereign wociA
ing men. It does not represent them. If
any group of men put loyalty to beer be'
fore country the people ought to know it. :
When that issued is raised the champions
of beer will be as lonesome as the kaiser
and his stalf after their trial by the allies.
The overwhelming majority of this nation
Is loyal and lawabiding. '
Oltss Pro-Germis Methods. '
"If every 100 per cent American will
read the official report just filed by the
senate judiciary committee on the brew-
ers and the pro-German propaganda and
the corrupt methods used by tbe brewer
to perpetuate their Industry it will "
strengthen his determinstion to be loyal
to bis country and oppose the selfish cor- '
nipt brewery propaganda to rescue beer
from the grave where 45 Htates buried
it by ratifying constitutional prohibition.
If any answer was needed from Micbigaa
it would be in the 207000 majority
against tbe beet and wine amendment at
the lost election. It would be interesting
to know who made tbe investigation it
Michigan and who co-operated with the
investigator in Detroit."
The plans of the drys for the 1920
presidential campaign are revealed in tbe
dip sheet issued by the board of temper-
ance prohibition and public morals of
which Dr. Clarence True Wilson is sec-
retary and the directing bead.
"Notice No man can be elected presi-
dent of the United States in 1920 who is
not openly and emphatically In favor of
strict enforenment of the prohibition
law" says the amendment. Every re-
form agency and every church and every
iuformed patriot will fight a man of any
other type to a finish no matter whether
he is republican democrat or mug-
wump." -
Rail Traffic Tied Up
by Strike in Germany
Associated Press Report.
FRAIfKFOUT Germany July 4-AU
traffic in the Frankfort district except
for a few passengers and food trains) is
at a standstill because of the railway
strike. The postal service baa entirely
suspended. The strike is extending to
neighboring towns v
Half Score Die When
Excursion Boat Capsizes
i f
Associated Press Report.
SIOUX FALLS S. D Between 10 and
15 people are reported to have been
drowned when an excursion steamer on
Lake Madison about 40 miles northwest
of this city struck a suag and ever
turned late tonight
German Supreme Army
Command Is No More
By the Associated Pre.
BERLIN July 4. Field Marshal Yon
Hindenburg left Kolberg Prussia Thurs-
day. Ilia departure marked the dissolu-
tion of the supreme army command.
Turkish Peace Mission";
Leaves for Constantinople
- Associated Press Report.
VERSAILLES. July 4. (Uavas) Tbe
Turkish nilaaion to the peaca conference
left at 8:40 o'clock Friday night os. the
Lausanne express for home.
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