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AUSTIN, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1920.
Vol. 48; No. 353.
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of American Citizens.
‘OUTLAW’SWITCHMEN
the Baltic and Black Seas.
FIGHT FOR FIELD'S
NEW STRIKE OF COAL
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Additional Price Charged for Ex-
plosives Nullifies 26 Per Cent
Wage Advance, He Declares.
MINERS IMMINENT,
SAYS UNION OFFICER
Bolshevik Government Officials at
Moscow Admit Suffering Se-
rious Defeat in Ukrainia.
BERLIN POLICE;
CRIME RAMPANT
YOUTH, CONVICTED OF
KILLING GIRL MAY
Peggy Marsh to Press Son’s
Claims Against Legitimate
Heirs of Merchant Prince.
Capitals Reported to Have
Joined Insurrectionists.
KIEV; ROUTING
SOVIET FORCES
Little or Nothing Being Done to
Check Steadily Increasing
Wave of Lawlessness.
PROHIBITION LAWS
WELL ENFORCED IS
OFFICIAL’S VERDICT
Realizing Fight Is Lost Chicago
Strikers Making Things Inter-
esting for John Grunau.
HOTEL OF 4000
ROOMS PLANNED
BY CHICAGOANS
Bolshevik! Claim Retreat From
Ukraine Capital Is Being Con-
ducted in Good Order.
WEATHER
FORECAST
Second Oldest Paper
in the State
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Nothing of Value Safe These
Days Unless Protected by
Locks and Bars.
BRITONS GRAB GERMAN
TRADE WHILE OTHER
ALLIES MARK TIME
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Calls on Heaven to Witness His
_ Innocence a* Judge Passes
Sentence.
SHORT WHEAT CROP
ESTIMATED BY BUREAU
PEOPLE TO BE USED
AS PIECES IN CHESS
GAME AT NEW YORK
STORM CAUSES DAMAGE
IN BROWN COUNTY
GERMANS MAY REFUSE
TO ATTEND MEETING
OF ALLIED CHIEFS
PICTURESQUE MEXICAN CAPITAL AGAIN
IN HANDS OF INSURRECTIONIST FORCES
D’ANNUNZIO PIRATES
CAPTURE ITALIAN SHIP
SPA CONFERENCE MAY
BE IMMEDIATELY POSTPONED
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HELENA. Ark., May L—Alf Banks
Jr., one of the six negroes previously
sentenced to death for alleged partici-
pation in the uprising at Elaine, Ark.,
last fall, but granted new trials by
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H. M. Gaylord.
Deputy Commissioner H. M. Gay-
lord of the prohibition enforcement
bureau recently returned to Wash-
ington after an inspection trip and
declares that the enforcement of the
laws is successful in all parts of the
country that he visited. He predicts
conditions will be even better within
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hands several times in the fighting
between contending groups in the
Ukraine and the conflict between the
Denikine forces and the bolsheviki.
The latter have been in possession of
it since December, taking the city on
the collapse of the Denikine army in »
southern Russia. Kiev, in addition to
its importance to the Ukrains as its
chief city, has also been looked upon
from the entente side as a valuable
outpost against the advance of beshe-
vism along the extended line between
UNDER GEN. HILL
OCCUPY CAPITAL
By Associated Press.
TRIESTE. May Capt. Gabriele
d’Annunzio today captured the Italian
steamship Bero Fejervary, bound from
■ Triente to Cataia with a cargo of
grain. He Rent two anti-submarine
craft to make the capture, which oc-
curred In Quarnero bay. The captain
of the ship was ordered to proceed- to
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By Associated Press.
BROWNWOOD, Texas, May 8.--
Wind and rain storm which visited
this section on two consecutive nights,
has resulted in severe damage to build-
ings, trees, fences and outhouses.
" Roofs weakened by the strain have let
water seep through, and in some in-
stances caused loss to merchandise.
Mrs. M. I. Campbell, who resides in
North Brownwood, sustained injuries
when her home was practically "
clothing have a way of vanishing into
thin air, and hotel proprietors decline
is, Missouri, Nebraska, Mjpne- } all responsibility. Police statistics in-
Wisconsin, Ohio and New York. I dicate that the number of hotel rob-
y 8.—Anson
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By Associated Press.
LONDON, May 8.— Polish and Ukrain-
ian troops captured Kiev on Thursday
night, according to an official state-
ment issued at Moscow yesterday and
received here by wireless. The text
of the statement says:
“In the Kiev region, during the night
of May 6-, our troops engaged su-
perior enemy forces northwest and
southwest of Kiev. Toward evening
the enemy broke into the outskirts of
the town, but were held by counter
attacks. Later our troops, in accord-
ance with orders, started to withdraw
ip good order to the left bank of the
Dnieper River.
“In the drection of Pytaloff our
troops repulsed an enemy advance
twenty-eight miles suth of Krasny.
In the directiom of Igumen (east of
Minsk) the enemy attempted to cross
the Beresina River near Beresina vil-
lage, but was driven back across the
river."
By Associated Press.
Kiev, a eity of 250,000 or more popu-
lation before the war, is the capital of
the Ukraine. The town has changed
By Associated Press.
FORT WORTH, Texas, May 8.—If
mine operators continue insisting upon
their interpretation of the bituminous
coal commission’s award relative to
charges to miners for explosives, it is
doubtful ifyminers’ union officials can
keep the men in the mines much longer,
said John Wilkinson, chairman of the
unfon for the Oklahoma-A rkansas-
Texas district, just before he left for
Kansas City by way of Muskogee and
Fort Smith.
The adoption of the operators' in-
terpretation, said Wilkinson, means
that the miners will pay as much more
for explosives as their advance of 24
cents a ton on coal will amount to. In
other words, the award of the bitumin-
ous coal commission means no advance
in wages after all.
The disagreement with the Texas
operators, said the unton official, is not
nearly so acute as that encountered by
the union delegates who are meeting
at Kansas City with operators from
Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and
Arkansas. The Texas settlement will
depend largely, however, upon the out-
come of the negotiations at Kansas
City. Wilkinson will meet with the
conferees at that place and endeavor to
assist in the reaching ef an agreement,
relating Fort Worth, the latter of next
week.
AGUA PRIETA, Sonora, May 8.—-
General P. Elias Calles, commander of
troops in northern Sonora, stated to
the Associated Press today that he had
just received a telegram from orreon
informing him of a revolutionary at-
tack being made upon the suburbs of
Mexico City. He xpressed no surprise
at reports the capital had fallen.
clear. Despite persistent reports that
President Carranza has fled to Vera
Crus, General Jose Gonzalo Escobar.
Juarez commander who recently joined
the revolution, has declared that the
chief executive, though preparing for
flight, has not actually left the capital,
Five thousand troops from Sonora
were expected to arrive at Casas
Grandes, Chihuahua, today, These
forces will be used in the march to
Mexico City. it was said.
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PONTIAC, Mich.; Ma
By Associnted Press.
BERLIN. May 8.—Germany’s dele-
gates to the Spa conference will re-,
fuse to attend that meeting if not
assured they will be given a hearing,
said Dr. Zirth, minister of finance,
speaking at Dresden Yesterday, ac-
cording ot the Nord Deutsche Ange-
melne Zeltung.
They wll be prepared to lay the true
state of aftars before allied represent-
atives, he declared, and will be able to
demonstrate that the economic con-
dition depends upon that of Germany.
By Associted Press.
PARIS, May T.—That great Britain
has stolen a wide march on the United
States and France in the resumption of
bustness relations with Germany is the
opinion expressed by French merchants
who have tried to buy goods across
the Rhine. In a great majority of cases,
the merchants report the German man-
ufacturers reply jo inqulry that his
plant will be tied up for a long time by
contracts with British customers
An investigation based on these re-
ports is said to have developed the fact
that the British are exporting great
quantities of raw material to Germany
for which they are asking no payment
in money, but are taking manutactured
articles in exchang
By Ansociated Press.
WASHINGTON, May 8.— winter
wheat production this year was fore-
cast at 484,647,000 bushels, or 32.8 per
cent less than last year’s crop by the
Department of Agriculture today.
The condition of the crop May 1 was
79.1 per cent of a normal compared
with 75.6 on April 1 this year, 100.5
on May 1 last year and 87.1 the ten-
year May 1 average. The area remain-
Flight of Don Venustiano Appar-
ently Definitely Confirmed in
TIGHTWAD OFFERS DALLAS
BELLBOY SO CENTS FOR $1400
DALLAS,. Texax, May 1.—Robert
Swan. a bellboy in a local hotel. es-
By Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 1.—A chess game
in which people will nerve NS pieces
will be played here on May 52 by
Frank Marshall, chess champion of
the United States, and Charles Jaffee,
a New York expert. It was announced
today.
A giant board will be laid out on the
stage of the Manhattan Opera Houae.
The pawns will be naval boy scouts in
whit. and blue uniform* King* rook*
bishops and knights will be played by
actors made up tor the parts, while
two stage benutlen will appear as
Administration for
’ Attacks on Rights
By Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 8.—An attack on
the administration of President Wilson
and a prediction that the Socialist par-
ty would poll more than 2,000.000 votes
in the presidential campaign, were
made today by Morris Hlllqult, tempo-
rary chairman of the Socialist national
conventio nat Its opening session here
today.
He said that the party would survive
the concerted attack “unparalleled In
ferociousness and lawlessness," mado
on It in the last year by "all the
powers of darkness and oppression in
the country."
He declared that the last three years
had furnished the- most striking and
abhorrent proof of the fallacy of the
"good man” theory In politics. "If
there remained any large sections’of
workers who put their trust in old
party Messiah," he said. "Woodrow
Wilson must have effectively destroyed
their naive faith For. be’it remem-
bered that in 1918 Woodrow Wilson
ran as a radical.
“The promised socialism through
the short cut of the Democratic party,
and thousands of radicals throughout
the country voted for him rather than
to throw away their votes on the hope-
less candidates of the Socialist party.
“One-half of the normal supporters
of the Socialist party ticket cast their
votes for him. Woodrow Wison was
elected over Charles E. Hughes by the
vote of Socialists. In California alone
the defection in the normal Socialist
vote determined his victory in the pres-
idestial contest.”
The names most prominently men-
tioned for the nomination for Vice
President are those of Seymour Sted»
man of Chicago, general counsel of the
party; Scott Nearing, formerly pro-
fessor of economics at the University
of Pennsylvania and the University of
Toledo, and Mrs. Kate Richard O’Hare
of Kansas City, Mo., who, like Deba,
is serving a term for violation af the
espionage act. She is confined at the
Federal prison at Jefferson City, Mo.
In addition to Ithe 200 delegates at-
tending the convention, a number of
fraternal delegates are present from
sympathetic international labor bodies.
The latter will be permitted to par-
ticipate in-the debates, but will have
no part in the convention.
By Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 8.—A demand that
John Grunau, head of the Chicago
Yardmen’s Association, inform striking
switchmen how they can get their sen-
iority rights restored, was made public
today in a letter sent to Grunau by
It S. Murphy, publicity chairman of
the association. P
“Great numbers of the members of
the C. Y. A. are asking, ’When do you
expect to land the 95 cents and $1 per
hour?’ ” the letter rends. “It is log-
ical to conclude that the board will nct
give our members recognition or con-
sideration until we return to work.
What have you to offer us?
“We all know that the roads have
recalled their property which has been
in the possession of all the switchmen
on vacation and are hiring great num-
bers of new men to man the yards.
We also know the roads are operating
fairly well under the circumstances,
but the question is, how can the sen-
iority rights of the men who have fol-
lowed the C. Y. A. be restored. -
“Come out from under cover now and
say something definite one way or the
other.”
The People’s Gas, Light and Coke
Company faces a shutdown soon unless
coal held up by the switchmen’s strike
arrives. G. F. Mitchell, assistant to the
president. Informed the public utilities
commission yesterday.
operator, and sentenced to life impris-
onment at Marquette, will not be taken
to the northern Michigan prison imme-
diately. A movement to finance an
appeal by popular subscription begun
Immediately after the verdict whs said
to have netted 81000 this morning.
In his statement before sentence was
pronounced. Best called upon heaven
to witness his innocence.
The prisoner maintaned he had
never known Miss Schneider and that
the confession offered by the prosecu-
tion was obtained from him under
duress.
By Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May I.—What Chicago
attorneys say will be the most ex-
pensive array of legal talent ever called
in a case here will appear next Tues-
day before Judge Foell of superior
court to argue for an interpretation
of the twentieth article in the Mar-
shall Field will.
The article provides that two-fifths
of the residuary estate should go to
Marshall Field III, two-fifths to Henry
Field and one-fifth to Gwendolyn
Field, provided that all reach the ago
of 50. Upon the death of any with
issue, their share was to be held in
trust for the children until they
rec ched 21.
Peggy Marsh, English actress, as-
serts her son, Henry Anthony Marsh,
is an issue of the late Henry Field.
Judge Foell will be asked to construe
the term "issue” as to whether “legal
issue” was mount, or any issue.
Marshall Field III contends in the
present action that the share of Henry
Field should be turned over to }m
and his sister, Gwendolyn Field at
once. Whether nr not Nancy Perkins
Field Tree, Henry Field’s widow, is
entitled to dower rights is another
question.
By Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 8.—Plans for
the largest hotel in the world*
to front three blocks on Iake
Michigan and Sheridan Road,
were made public today.
According to the plans, the
hotel will be In five units with
the present Edge water Beach
Hotel as one unit. The archi-
tects have planned 4000 rooms.
The cost is estimated at $15,-
000.000.
A theatre, seating 2500. is a
feature of the plans. A “peacock
alley” three blocks long, connect-
ing all the units: 400 kitchen-
ettes for those who desire to cook
their own meals, and a sixteen-
story unit for bachelors are other
features.
A minimum charge of 816 a day
in one of the units is contem-
plated.
beries has trebled within the last five
• years.
To leave typewriters unpadlocked is
sheer culpable negligence on the part
of the owner. The Berlin criminal
police has been obliged to organize a
special department dealing exclusively
with stolen machines.
Cases of housebreaking have quad-
rupled within the last three years.
k Articles of clothing, bedclothes, carpets
’and curtains are the objects most de-
l sired by the thieving fraternity.
Dishonesty among factory hands has
grown to a deplorable extent, the police
say. Leather belting disappears whole-
‛ sale; it is cut up and sold to shoe re-
pairers.
By Associated Press.
BERLIN, May 7.—In these disturbed
days, when the “revolution profiteer”
—the successor of the war profiteer—
flaunts his newly acquired wealth in
the face of an impoverished populace,
robberies and burglaries in Berlin in-
crease at an abnormal pace. Street'
signs are full of announcements offer-
ing rewards for the return of stolen
goods, and in one of the main business
streets of Berlin a fancy goods store
displays this notice:
“Gentlemen burglars are requested
not to break open the shop front nor
to tamper with the locks. There is
nothing to steal here. All property is
removed from the shop windows at
night.”
There have been scores Qf hold-ups,
and the other day a man was stripped
of his clothes, shoes and hat and left
on the sidewalk in his underclothes. .
It is not safe for hotel guests to
leave any portable property of any de-
scription in their rooms. Articles of
CARRANZA ON HIS WAY
By Associated Press.
EL PASO, Texas, May 8.—From
various parts of Mexico, especially
immediately south of the Texas hordes
east of.Ojinaga to the Gulf of Mexico, J
reports of revolutionary gains have
come pouring into El Paso during the
last twenty-four hours.
Matamoros, opposite Brownsville, 2 J
Texas, and Piedras Negras, across the
Rio Grande from Eagle Pass, Texas,
were tottering, according to claims
made by agents of the liberal const!- .
tutionalist party here.
Camargo. Tamaulipas, already has
fallen into the hands of President Car- 1
ranza’s enemies, and Nuevo Larede, (3
Tamaulipas, was seriously menaced, It------4d
was said.
Victories have also been won in the
south,- revolutionist agents here said.
Tehuantepec Isthmus and Oaxaca, both
in the state of Oaxaca, and the railway ve
junction of Cordoba, Vera Crua, have
been lost by the federals, according to
report* given ot at military head-
quarters in Juarez, opposite here.
The situation in Mexico City is net
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, May 8.-—Senator
Johnson of California today replied to
Herbert Hoover's query of yesterday
as to the senator’s position on the
league of nations. He said:
"The league presented to the Senate
by the President, which Mr. Hoover
advocated last year, neither promotes
peace nor reduced armaments. During
Mr. Hoover's advocacy of this league
lastyear he never mentioned reserva-
tions; on the contrary, the tenor of his
speeches was in direct opposition to
any reservation.”
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By Associated Press.
PARIS, May 8.—Reports of a pos-
sible postponiement of the Spa confer?
ence between allied and German dele-
gates from May 26 to June 10 have
caused a universal protest from editors
of newspapers here. They fear the
meeting may be deferred indifinitely.
Premier Millerand’s visit to London
next week for the purpose of confer-
ring with Premier Lloyd George as to
indemnity payments will be important,
it is indicated, as the British premier
is believed to favor the payment of
a lump sum by Germany in place of
the present plan by which the allies
would be paid an indeterminate
By Associated Press.
EL PASO, Texas, May 8.—Revolu-
tionary forces under Gen. Benjamin g
Hill, have taken Mexico City, accord-
ing to an unconfirmed report received
today from Chihuahua City and made I
public by revolutionary leaders here.
The message from Chihuahua said: 09
"It has been confirmed President
Carranza left the capital for Vera j
Cruz."
Three state capitals in Mexico fell
Into the hat.ds of revolutionists today
through the revolt of Caranza gar rl- i
sons coincidentally with the uncon-
firmed report that Mexico* City had
been taken by Gen. Benjamin Hill.
Saltillo, capital of Cuoahuila, which
borders on the United States, revolted
late yesterday, revolutionary advices
said today. It was announced that
Gen. J. Augustin Castro and Caeserto
Castro, former Carranza leaders, had . 3
revolted with their troops in several
garrisoned towns, including Saltillo.
Coahuila Governar Floss.
Gen. Espinosa Mireles, Carranza gov-
ernor of Coahuila, which is the homo
state of the Mexican president, was re-
ported to have fled with all the public
funds to Monterey, Nuevo Leon, where
Carrancistas wore reported concen-
trating to resist the revolutionists.'
Carranza troops at Las Vacas. op-
posite Del Rio, Texas, revolted, accord-
ing to local rebel leaders. Coal mines
and towns in northern Coahuila were
reported in the hands of the revolu-
tionists.
"Piedras Negros, across the bound-
ary from Eagle Pass, Texas, will fall
today," the announcement said. "Gen-
eral Reynaldo Garza, in a telegraph to
communication with President Car-
ranza, asked him to resign and said he
was holding Iaredo notwithstanding
the fact his soldiers were on the verge
of joining the revolution.”
All railway and telegraph communi-
cation between Aguas Callen ten. Zaca-
tetas, Torreon and Saltillo was reported
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Ns Resistance at Saltillo.
By Associated Prers.
EAGLE PASS, Texas, May 1-8*1-
tillo, capital of the state of Coahuila, 1
was taken over by Mexican revolution- «
Ists yesterday, according to unofficial
reports received here today. The fed#
oral garrison offered no resistance, it
was said. Train service was suspended
south of Monclova, about 100 miles
south of the border today. The eause *•
of the suspension cotd not be learned.*
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