The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
July 23, 1919

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A RETVIIM".1 SOl,TIER says: "I'a trtotlm may have built TiipcLn's on in-1, hut civic pride should tear Hum down." H7EATHER FOR.?CAST for Kunsns: Fair tonlplit and Thursday and Friday. Warmer Friday. HOME EDITION MAIL BY AIR IN TOPEKA BY FIRST OF SEPTEMBER That Is What Postmaster W. 0. Bigby Believes. f Colonel Morrow Coming Here To Pick Out Field. HE IS GOVERNMENT AIR CHIEF Eastern Boutes in Operation Are a Big Sucrfss. Bigliy Is enthusiastic Over the Future of Service. Col. Joseph C. Morrow, of Chicago. chief of the air service of the war de partment, will be in Topeka in ft few days to make final preparations for the inauguration of aerial mail serv ice here. This announcement was made today hy Postmaster W. O. Klghy. who has' returned from a trip thru the east. Righy stopped in Chi cago on his way home, where he con vened with Colonel Morrow regard ing the establishment of a first class government landing field here. The aerial mail service here will probably be put into operation about September 1. Righy said. Just where the airplanes will fly to and from here Is uncertain, no definite routing bavlnj yet been revealed to the post master, but it is probable that the air route will connect only the largest cities at first. Chief BtaacH Coming. In a letter received at the local post office from the war department a few lavs ago It was stated that Colonel Morrow would send a representative here to look over the situation. Rigby ays. however, that the chief told him he would come in person and help ticlfct a landing field. It waa intt m.ite.l that the Washburn field is the or.e most likely to be chosen. When Colonel Morrow arrives, the lan'inn field will be selected and probably the contracts between the city on one hand and the war depart ment and postoffice department on the other, will be signed, providing an agreement can be reached. l'ostmaster Rigby said the aerial mail established between Cleveland and Chicago is proving a marked suc cess Only first class mall will be carried at first, it was said. City Must OM Bny. By the terms of the contract which Is now In possession of f 'oat m aster Rlffby In blank form, the city will be required to furnish, equip and main tain a landing field of such dlmen s.nns and in t'uch a location as the government specifications may desig nate. Material for an expeditionary stel hangar will be furnished by the government, but the construction work must be done by the city. Kqulpment and apparatus conforming to federal specifications must also he borne by the city, the contract provides. R!(by said today that he did not believe the government would take kindly to the proposition of a univer sal landing f !eld on which mail, pas senger and other planes could alight. Cncle Sam will demand a field to be used exclusively by himself, Rigby be lieves. PLANNED A RED GUARD K-ds Would Bare Vsetl Fx-Soldiers To (Mrrilirow Govt by Scheme. New York. July 23. Reported at tempts to form a "red guard" to op poM the government will be investi gated by the Lusk Joint legislative committee which resumes its sessions tomorrow. The plan is alleged to have been fostered at a meeting held In Iluffalo las: Mny. addressed by radicals from New York. Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, Pittsburgh. Boston and Chicago. Information in the possession of the committee is said to indicate a plan to form the "red guard" from ex-soldiers and sailors thru the soldiers, sailors and marines' protective asso ciation. A reported move to form workmen's councils or Soviets in factories thru out the state also was to be probed by the committee. CARMEN WIN STRIKE Forty Days Walkout In ami Around Tulsa Knds Today. Tulsa. Okla.. July 23. The forty days' strike of carmen on the Okla homa I'nien railway was ended at 11 o'clock this morning when the om pany agreed to recognize the carmen's union. This decision was reached fol lowing a long conference early today at Sa-nd Springs. Tracks nt I'arthenla. station, to n up by a mob late Monday night, have been reluilt and repaired. WOULDllypFRADIOS Naw Head Ban (b,.r win tlon Systems Can t Handle Business. Washington. Julv 22 Secretarv Daniels in asking congress to enact legislation permitting the raw depart ment to continue handling commercial radio messages, declared that "an in tolerable situation In the business world was threatened because of the inadequacy of other International com munication systems. CONFER ON SAARMINES German and French Delegations Ne gotiate for Tlteir Trailer. Paris. Julv 22 v.diiuiu.. l tw-en German and French delegations for tho transfer of the coal mines of the Saar valley began today at Saare hruck. The delegates are mostly min ing experts. 17. S. Kmhassy in Belgium Now. Washington, July 23. The senate today voted to raise the legation in Belgium to an embassy as requested by President Wilson. i KEPT EDSEL HOME Ford Says His Son Wanted To Go to War. Manufacturer Takes Blame for Dissuading Him. HE REFUSED COMMISSIONS Could Have Stayed Bight On in Factory. But Father Says He Didn't Like 'Camouflage" Uniform. Mt. Clemens, July 23. According to tho testimony of Henry Ford to day, his ion, Kdsel, wished to go to war, but was dissuaded by his father. The examination of the elder Ford who took the stand eight days ago in his libel suit against the Chicago Daily Tribune, was concluded. He was examined by Attorney ma liott G. Stevenson, for the Tribune, and by his own lawyer, Alfred Luck ing. It was the latter who brought up the subject of the exemption of Kdsel Ford. Necessary to Factory. "Will you state whether your son had become necessary to the work of your great factory when the United States entered the war in order to re lieve you of the detail of it?' asked Mr. Lucking. "We have worked together all his life time," said the witness. "Had he reached the position where he was a groat relief to you?" "Yes, he Is a great relief to me." "He- personally was willing to go to war?" "Yes, he had many offers." 'You felt you needed, him In the factory?" "Yes." Was Offered Commission. "Was hrt offered commissions in the army alt ho he would stay right in the factory'-" "Yes."' "On war work?" "Yes. but he declined them." 'Do you remember saying that yu did not care to see him camouflage; to wear a uniform and appear to be in the service, when he was actually attending to necessary war work in tho factory?" "Yes." Attorney Stevenson asked Mr. Ford if he assumed all responsibility for his son not enlisting. "Yes. I think I did," replied the manufacturer. "He whs more useful to you in the factory?" "Yes." I Waft Hortrf! m.snfirroil. "The draft board disagreed with you V "I think so." "That is all." John It. Lee. for many years as sociated with the Ford Motor com pany, testified to a conversation at which Kdward Marshall interviewed Mr. Ford. "I heard Mr. Ford say. with some thing of a shock, that the word 'murderer' should be placed on the breast of every soldier," said Mr. Lee. He confirmed many other re marks attributed to Mr. Ford by Mr. Marshall in his subsequent magazine article. LICK AT SPOKANE Fires Break Out in Washington City Still Burning. Forest Conflagrations Raging 2 Towns in Imminent Peril. Spokane, Wash., July 23. A smoke pall bun,; over Spokane today. Back in the timber thousands of weary men fought a losing battle against a score of forest fires. Altho a light rain fell in Spokane early today, none had vis ited the burning areas. Local firemen for four hours last night fought a stubborn fire in one section of tho city -which Is covered with pines and brush. New fires are reported from hnlf n dozen sections. There is a shortage of lahor and a high wind Is fanning old fires Into renewed activity. Thompson Falls and St. Regis. Mont., were in imminent danger, while fires were desperately headed off from Newport, Wash., Enaville, Kellogg, Mulland and Burke. Idaho. The Bear creek fire started during the night, traveling about a mile -up tho north fork of the Coenr P'Alene river. Asks Congress for Aid. Washington, July 23. Secretary of the Interior Lane today asked con gress to permit him to use $500,000 from the department funds to fight forest fires raging in Idaho. He re quested adoption of a joint resolution permitting this as an emergency step. japTnXdenial Envoys Scout Charge Racial Clause Was Traded for Shantung Award. Paris, July 23. The Japanese dele cation to the peace conference today issued a denial of assertions that the Shantung settlement in the Geininn peace treaty was In exchange for the withdrawal of the Japanese conten tion regarding the racial clause in the league of nations covenant. kilWh'is guest Oklahoma n Fired Shotgun When He Heard Door Opened. Weleetka. Okla., July 22. Awak 'ned by the opening of a door, Walter fields fired a shotgun at the door, and Wiley Moffett. his guest, fell dead Moffett had gotten up to go Into the vard and was returning when his friend shot and killed him. A Texas River Out of Baiilis. Iallas. Tex.. July 23. Trinity river stood at 36.5 feet here today, more than eight feet above flood Etage. Lowlands were inundated. TOPEKA, KANSAS WEDNESDAY i TRIAL WASN'T FAIR Thomas J. Mooney Didn't Get: Full Justice, House Is Told. Densmore, Justice Department! A iron.. Makes Report. INDICATES A "FRAME UP" Attempt To Discredit Union Labor Is Alleged. Nothing Consistent About Bomb Outrage Trial, Report Says. Washington. July 23. Thomas J. Mooney did not receive full Justice in his trial at San Francisco for alleged connection with the preparedness day bomb explosion, according to a report by John B Densmore, former special agent of the department of Justice, who investigated the case for the gov ernment. The report, dated November 1, 1918, was submitted to the house to day in response to a resolution. Densmore points to several incidents as indicating the trial was a, "framo up" to discredit union labor. The re port was sent tr the house by Secre tary of Labor Wilson. "The plain truth is," the report said, "that there is nothing about the caso to produce a feeling of confidence that the dignity and majesty of the law have been upheld. "There is nowhere anything resemb ling consistency, the effort being a patchwork of incongruous make-shift and often of desperate expediency." The report indicates Densmore for several months had a dictaphone in the office of Charles M. Fickert, San Francisco district attorney, obtaining much information. "The reading of the testimony In the case is apt to cause one to wonder at many things," the report says. The report then enumerates the fol lowing objections to methods used at the trial: Enumerates Objections. "The apparent failure of the dis trict attorney's office to conduct a real Investigation at the scene of the crime; the easy adaptability of some of the star witnesses; the regular methods pursued by the prosecution in Identifying various defendants; the sorry type of men and women brought forward to prove essential matters of (act in a case of gravest importance; I the seeming inefficacy of a well estab- I llshed alibi; the sangfroid with which I the prosecution occasionally adopted an untenable theory and then changed 1 to another not quite so preposterous; j the refusal of the public prosecutor j to call witnesses who actually saw the falling of the bomb "In short the general flimsiness and improtabiHiy of the testimony adduced together with a total absence j of anything that looks like a genuine I effort to arrive at the facts in the case. "These things are calculated to cause in the minds of the most blase a decided mental rebellion." MAYOR GETSlUSY He Says He Will Go to Bottom of Cop Scandal. Investigation of Police Begun This Afternoon. Mayor Corwine began an lnvestiga tion this afternoon of the charges re cently made by four policemen that there has been considerable drinking on duty in the department. Patrolmen were summoned to ap pear before the mayor at 3 o"clock. The first one called was Chief of Tolice Hannan. Mayor Corwine stated that he In- tends to sift the police department scandal to the bottom. PREMIER IS ASSAULTED Loading Victoria Statesman Victim of Attack by Soldiers. Melbourne, Monday, July 21. As the outcome of a stormy interview between H. S. W. Lawson, premier of Victoria, and a deputation of soldiers in the premier's office today, the pre mier was struck on the head and cut by an ink well thrown by one of the soldiers. The men then proceeded to j throw the office furniture into the I streets and tore up important official documents. The police dispersed the rioters and arrested five of them. Later a crowd j attempted to rush the watch house near by and stoned the police but were dispersed with several casualties. The difficulty had its origin yester day when a crowd, including returned ja military barracks. hasItITrevenge Lnst St. Louts Takes Sarcastic Raps nt Washington's Row Riots. Kast St. Louis. 111.. July 3. Kst St. Louis took sarcastic raps at Wash ington, D. C, today. Telegrams of sympathy to senators, co n gr esm en and Wash in gt on n e ws- j papers were sent by TSast St. Louis I citizens and F. W. Mollman. former I mayor, today. Civic organizations also t,ent condolence telegrams. Kast St, Louis was retaliating against congress for sending an In vestigation committee here after te Kast St. Louis race riots In 1917. citi- zens explained. MEX BANDITS DISBAND i.'la Will Go to Japan for Ammuni tion Reassemble in Fall. Kl Paso, Tex.. July 23. Francisco Villa and Gen. Felipe Angeles have disbanded their forces until September and announcd to their troops they would go to Japan in an effort to ob tain ammunition for the Villa revolu tion. Americans who arrived here from Chihuahua City, reported. THE United Rower. OF FREE NATIONS tMUST PUT A STOP j I jmM-L 1 THREE PROBES ON u. s Illinois and Chicago In- vestigating Dirigible Disaster, Mechanician Says Crew Knew Engine Was Faulty. Chicago, July 23. The three inves tigations federal, state and city into the cause of the destruction of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber com pany's dirigible on Monday causing the death of twelve persons, the injury of 28 others and wrecking the in terior of the Illinois Trust and Savings bank, were resumed today. The investigation which was started yesterday was adjourned because of the refusal of two witnesses John A. Doettner, pilot of the ill-fated airship on its last trip, and W. C. Young, local aeronautical expert of the com pany to testify on advice of counsel They are being held by the state's at torney while the other members of tho crew, who had related in detail the events which led to the plunge of the machine thru the roof of the bank, were released to their attorney. It was announced that Important testi mony wi I be given by Henry Wacker, sole surviving mechanician of the dis aster, who is in a hospital suffering from fracture of the skull, a broken hack and fractures of the shoulder and three ribs. Wacker said that the disaster was caused hy backfire of the motor. He declared that the crew knew of the trouble which was being experienced with the engines and that Chief Pilot Kraft had refused to go aboard for the final trip. He said that "Buck" Weaver, who was killed, had imper fect knowledge of airplane engines. Several of the victims' funerals were to be held today. Officials of the bank, where most of those killed both g!rl stenographers and men bank clerks were understood to have arranged relief for families whose sole support the dead persons were. The Goodyear company also, It was said, had sent representatives here to give relief. CLEMENCEAU WINS AGAIN (.ovcrnnu'iit Receives Vote of Contt Uoiice From French Chamber. Paris, July 23. Premier Clemen ceau's government had weathered an other storm today, having received a vote of confidence. 272 to 181. in the chamber of deputies late yesterday. Ascending the tribune himself dur int; interruptions by Socialst members, the premier declared he was eager tn finish the work of peace, but that he desired to receive the country's opin ion in the new elections. "It Is harder to make peace than it is to make war." he said. "It is a matter of confidence. I have obtained all that France could desire and many things France could not hope for." Clemenceau asserted his opponents expected pre-v.-ar conditions to prevail on the very day prace was signed. AMERICA WLLSIGN C S. Will Be Party to Treaties With Bulgaria and Turkey. Washington. July 23. The United States will sign the treaties with Bul garia and Turkey, it was announced today at the state department Altho the United States never has been actually at war with Bulgaria and Turkey, it will sign the treaties to show its concurrence in the terms im posed upon these allies of German and Austria. Like those with the Teutonic powers, the treaties change boundary lines and create new nations, some of which, particularly Armenia, probably will ask that the United States act as mandatory for them un der the league of nations covenant. EVENING, JULY 23,

TONGUE AND SHANTUNG WILl IN FAIR i rattle Chnngv In Temperature Is Ex- i-"1 HcrP- Fair tonight. Thursday and probably Fri day somewhat warmer tonight. I TODAY'S TEMPERATURES: 7 o'clock. .68' 1-1 o'clock .S3 8 o'clock 7012 o'clock 85 9 o'clock 74 1 o'clock 87 10 o'clock SOI 2 o'clock 87! There will be no great change in j weather in Kansas during the next 24 hours. Temperatures will be mod erate, a south wind will blow today, tonight and tomorrow, and no rain is expected. During the last 24 hours Kansas has recorded the lowest temperatures of any place In the United States. A temperature of 50 degrees was re ported this morning from Hutchinson. It was 66 degrees here at 5 o'clock this morning. No rain has occurred in Kansas dur ing the last 24 hours. Fair weather prevailed from Ohio to California. A few cloud banks were reported in Colorado. The only rain reported fell in the eastern states. New York and ((nntlinipd mi Pnge Two.) 25 REBEL BANDS Mexican Revolutionist Factions dumber 35,000 Men. Carranza Has 60,000 Soldiers, hut Can't Control Railroads. Washington. July 23. Twenty-five distinct bands of rebels with a strength of about 15.000 men now are i operating in Mexico, according to a tabulation which has Just been pub lished in .Mexico City. Opposing them. Carranza has a force of aboiit 60.000 which, however, is able to control lit tle more than the railway lines, a nar i row strip along the Pacific coast from Guayamas to Sanlas and the terri tory around Tampico. The report asserts there is a cer i tain decree of co-operation among various rebel forces in the north as well as in the south. Villa and Argeles are shown in the tabulation to have 5.100 men: Felix Diaz. 5.100; Manuel Pelner, 3,000 and General Cantu, 1,900. BEER BEFOREjUPREME COURT j Will Vrffc Speed In Oetcnnining Te jrality of 2 Per tent. j Wahingrton, July 23. The question j of the right of brewers to manufac-. ture beer containing 'Z per cent of alcohol han reached the supreme j 'court thru appeals filed hy thp gov-j j ernment from federal court decrees In Baltimore quashing indictments against the Standard Brewing Co. j Because of the Importance of the t question, court official expect the gc v'ernment o ask that the case be expedited. Unless thi were done a j decision probably would not be hand- j ed down until after prohib tion by j constitutional amendment became ef-1 j feet i ye. SCHOONER IS ASHORE C S. Ship Ounlnp Apparently In No Danger, TUo. New York. July 23. The four masted American schooner, Dunlap, from Port. Rico with a cargo of co coa nuts, ran aground on a sandbar one-half mile off the shore at Far I Rockaway in a rough sea early today The vessel apparently is in no dangei and an attempt will be made to float her at high tide 1919 -TEN PAGES '"mi H in The National Republican 10 SHOT IN RIOT Radicals Break Up Hun Major ity Socialist Meeting. Try To Lynch Man Who Fired Shots He Escapes. Berlin, July 22. -Ten persons were shot during disorders which attended the breaking up of a majority Socialist meeting by Communists and Sparta cans here yesterday. Those attendirg the meeting, which was held in the Trades Union build ing, attempted to lynch the man who fired the shots, but he was saved by hospital helpers who were In the build ing. Communists and Spartacans by pre arranged plans smuggled fellow radi cals into halls where the majority so cialists were congregated and there broke up the meetings by cat calls and even by violence. Table and Beer Bottles Thrown. At countless meetings the majority socialist speakers gave up attempting to speak and in the trades union build ing where the biggest meetings were held, chairs. bjer bottles, glasses and even tables were flung about in a suc cessful attempt to break up the gathering. The communist agitators in the trades union building jumped on the stage while Frick Kuttner. edi tor of Vorwaerts. was speaking and made a counter-speech. The hall instantly was transferred in a bedlam which increased as the opponents began to throw glasses and seizn chairs with which to belabor each other. Suddenly shots werr fired. Some ten persons were wounded, in cluding Herr Kuttnrr, who were at- ,"XV ,1 T. entering Mmpson s rorenena. screams ,erted here today following announco ers. The government troops had to 1 nt the vonne woman caused the as- r,... quell riots in other halls. HONOR TO TOPEKAN 17. H. Ijewirt Vice President National Optometer Association. Rochester. July 23. fficcrs have been elected and pledge amounting to $45,700 received for a national edu cational fund at the session of the twenty-second annual conjrress of the American Optometrlc association. R. C. Augustine, of Decatur. 111., was re elected president, and other officers included Fourth vice president, H. H. Lewis. Topeka, Kan. Harry H. Lewis is connected with the W. J. Lewis optical firm at 809 Kansas avenue and is well known in Topeka. He went to Rochester sev eral days ago to attend the conven tion of optometrists. He has always taken a prominent part in the national association. SCRI3ES WIN STRIKE Boston Ncwspn?rs frant Wage- Yhf- Boston. Mass., July 23. The News- paper j-uousners association nave ate I it to gTant the demands of the News Writers union for a minimum wage schale of $45 per week for re- write men and copy readers $38 f or reporters and staff photographers, and 17.1 fr.r rllalnr-l mun aa-a e an n..rt h Willi. r:-or-

"even Boston newspapers are rep- resented in the publishers' association. CAMBRIDGE HONORS PERSHING Confers Honorary Octree on I'. S. Commander, Returning to Frame. London Julv 9jl funeral P.r.hln. motored today to Cambridge, where an honorary degree waa to be conferred upon him. He planned to return to France immediatelv. "SOVIET" AT PEN Striking Prisoners at Leaven- worth Demand Amnesty. Ask Their Request for Freedom Be Placed Before Wilson. j SITUATION THERE IS TENSE Hundreds of Troops, Bayonets j Fixed, Surround Prison. Ex-Soldiers, I. W. W "C. O.'s" Have "Red" Organization. Fort Leavenworth. Kan.. Julv 23. "Free us" continued the demand to- j force American Intervention In Mex day of the striking ex-soldlers. I. W. W. ico. Is under way. according to Man and conscientious obiectors in the Carplo of Kl Heraldo de Mexico, dean great Insurrection at the disciplinary I of Mexican newspaper men In New barracks. I Tork. It started, he said, the moment The "soviet" demands a general am-I President Wilson arrived from Franc, nesty befor- a man will return to "In certain newspapers. In congres work. The committee representing and among the inner circles of the mutinous prisoners further de- your big financial Interests," Carplo mands that their request for freedom charged, "insidious Influences are at be placed before President Wilson. j wrk- Insistent jingoes are n-ovlnj heaven and earth to force the Lnited, feo far no violence has been reported gULteJ to commlt a Kr(.,uer crimo but the situation is tense. against humanity than that for which Hundreds of troops, guns loaded Germany must atone, and bayonets f:xed. surround the To Make Mexico Vassal, Charge, prison awaiting the eventualities. "For the first time the Mexican peo Commandant Rice has wired the ad- pie are being told the truth. Thruout jutant general of the armv at Wash- I Mexico newspapers are Informing the. ington details of the prisoners- de- j publlcN what is transpiring across tho mands but has not refirred them to Klo Grande. The nation Is being President Wilson. awakened to the un-American Influ- Since release of 11S conscientious j ences that are at work to make us m objectors on full pay and with honor- vassal of the "colossus of the north." able discharge, some months ago. ""The people, informed of the antU morale of prison inmates has slumped, i Mexican propaganda some news This has resulted in severl "strikes" papers are printing, are amazed, and organization of a general prison-. They are bewildered that great dailies ers' conference virtually usurping can unqualifiedly charge the Mexican rights of prison officials. Prisoners 1 government with attacking the Amer cunslder the organization a soviet. J ican flag when a few ragged robber Conditions rnchanged. s,f,aI watch, a ring and a pair of "Conditions remain unchanged." said shoes from an American sailor Commandant Rice at the military t rtmo Against Mexicans In I S. barracks where yesterday 2.600 pris- j "Crimes against American citizens oners were demanding the prison in Mexico are fewer and of less con gates be thrown open. I sequences than offenses committed Prison routine is at a standstill, j against Mexican citizens In this coun Colonel Rice said, the prisoners re- try. The latter the Mexican govern mained locked In their cells refusing J ment sees as police court cases rather to return to work. vwn o-iwumcni prwrnsa Rice added nothing would he done "But while we are informing our until he received instructions from the 1 people of the evil designs of your un central department at Chicago. No principled ones, we are also telling word had arrived from General Wood I them that four million Americans, t noon under the leadership of Samuel Gom- With half the day gone there was P- pledged themselves to us. still no attempt at Violence, but en- I all thr p-r and Influence to pre Hsted men at the post have been re- rld"'""""0"" .v.. f.,.H Thov win h held at the gar- Thp campaign of degradation that fused. They will be hem at tne gar na fcen on Mexico is rison until the trouble is over. aMerne ltReU more tnan ev,r. 0ur nice Has F"nll Oiarge. of ,he question has not been Chicago. July 23. "Colonel R'ce shown and proltably will not be shown has full charge of the Leavenworth j at all to the American people until barracks." Major Holm of Oeneral i a crime against the rights of human Wood's staff said today. "Until Colo- I ty has been committed. The name nel Rice asks for help the situation Is of that crime is 'intervention.' his to control. I understand he needs no help now. It's improbable he will ask for assistance." HUNT FOR SLAYER Kansas City Police Confronted by Baffling Murder Mystery. Texas Lieutenant Shot in Fash ionable Residence District. Kansas City. July 23. The police flenartments of both Kansas Cities to- day are seeking a solution of the mys- The correspondence, it was stated, terious murder early today of Lieut. I contained alleged communlcationa Fltzrov Simpson, of Lamesa, Tex., on from former Gov. George W. P. Hunt, a boulevard In Mission Hills, one of of Arizona, intimating to Villa that the greater city's fashionable real- Senator Fall and other Americana dencc districts, lying across the state w shed to visit him at some appointed line. place in the state of Chihuahua to dls- Slmpson was riding in an electric cuss the extension of aid in his cam coupe in company with Miss Evelyn palgn against the Mexican govern Hall when, according to the young j ment. woman's story, a roughly dressed man Villa Sought Pnrley, Not Fall, leaped upon the running board of the Washington, July 23. Francisco car. covered them with a revolver and j villa attempted to arrange a confar ordered Simpson to get out of the enre wi!h Senator Fall, New Mexico, machine A few seconds later. Miss and othr influential Americana fol- Ilrill .n v thp man firr-ri. thp bullet l i i u i. sailant to flee, and brought a number correspondence captured at Juarez will of persons to the scene. I be published by Carranza soon. Simpson had served for more than villa, according to Information hero, a year as a first lieutenant of artillery wanted to assure Fall that American In the Tenth division. He was edu- citizens would be given every proteo cated in the local schools and In the ton during the campaign against Car I'nlverslty of Missouri, but in recent I ranza. years had lived in Lamesa. where his Villa's request was made to C. Ti father Is a merchant. Hunt, an El Paso. TeY. broker, not to former Gov. George W. P. Hunt of HflfiN 9FI I AT V Arizona, it was stated here. Hunt re- MUUJ "tLL Ml pCU.t)J plied that Fall would see Villa organ- ization leaders If they wished to como New Record Price Ijinl, Bacon ami to him, It was said. The state depart Pork PrrnaHns- for 'lll.t ment wa" to have the correspond- Chicago. July 2. The basis for the Kali refused to make any form! cost of lard, bacon and perk rose to comment on the Mexican announca a new record today. That is what Is ment. meant hy the fact that live hogs this morning were selling at S28.35 a hun- dred weight as sgatnst $23 yesterday. Lntil today 923 was the highest price ever reached Increase in the number of arrivals of hogs is the reason given for the new record breaking advance of prices. St. Louih, July 23. Western mar ket records again wer shattered to- day when hnK sold on the market I here at $23.35. REVOLT IF DEFEATED

j Obregon, Mexican Presidential Candidate, Refuse To Agree Not To. j TTl ,IH,, July 22. Genera Ob- regon ha formally declined the invi- Itation of len. Pablo Qonxales to sign ta narr not tn rUirt to ri-nlnf Inn (n of defeat at the coming pretl dentfal elections, said ."av'th'ru'oml Mexico City, received today thru ofn cial channels. Cardinal (;ihhon 8.1 Today. Baltimore, July 23. Cardinal Oib- bona Is SS years old today. As has been his custom for many years, he rMched h re yesterday from Arrhaa spent the dsy at the estate of Mra. gri I T. Herbert Shriver near l nion Cardinal f5ib- Mills. Carroll county. bona enjoys the best of health and 'takes dally walks. THREE CENTS MAKE 0. S. A HUN That Is Charge Brought by Mexican Newspaper Man. i Says Insidious Forces at Work To Force Intervention. WORSETHAN GERMANY'S CRIME Mexico Sees Herself as Vassal of U. S., He Says. Calls Incidents Like Tamplco Affair Police Court Case. New Tork. July 23 A drive to A VILLA AID PLOT? Carranza Goyernment Makes Charges Against Americans. V. S. Senator and Governor Are 3Ientioned in Alleged Deal. Mexico City, July 28. It was an nounced officially today that the Mex ican government will publish correa- pondence captured in the recent Villa- Angeles raid on Juarez ence in full between Villa and Hunt. REDS IN PEACE BID

Carrlea Ix-nlne Pro- poftal to Rumanian Dniester Troop. London, July 23. A Bolshevik delegate has arrived at KUhlneff with an offer of peace to the commander of ine Rumanian un'e:e-r troop, on r- llsa.it. t'L .Mn"l'W l.'-lllli'-, III'- I sfc premier, according to a Berlin gov ernment wlrelesa dispatch. Lenlne offers, to cde Bessarabia to Rumania on condition that Rumania hall prohibit I'kralnisn citleens and ban(-of Admfra, Kolcnak he.?d of the all-Russian government at Omsk. from crossing the Rumanian frontier. An armistice to last eight days has been concluded on the Bessarablan front and the delegation has gone to Human! aead quarters BACK FROM ARCHASfiEl I First Battalion. SlOtli Knirlnccrj'. 8SO Dlvlxlon. Remhcs Brest. I Brest. July 21. The first battaliom i nt rh. :ifith American engineer i i Th. aitirh engineers are from thO S5th division. Michigan and Wiscon. I sin national guard.