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Peflin VOL. XXIV. NO. 25. SOUTH NEW BERLIN, CHENANGO CO., N. Y., SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1920. BRIEF CHRONICLES BY LAND AND SEA Ticks and Flashes Which Bul letin in Condensed Style the News of the World. TIMELY HISTORY PARAGRAPHS events at Washington Which Loom Large as Crucial Happenings. Industrial Activities at Home and Abroad. WASHINGTON All federal district attorneys ^were ordered to give special attention to charges of coal profiteering and to seek indictments. The intimation by Lloyd George in the house of commons that the United States had agreed to consider a reopen ing of trade relations with Soviet Kus- «ia was checkmated by information ti’om the State Department that the XTnited States had in no way changed Irom its policy of aloofness toward ne gotiations with the Soviet authorities. The Department of Justice sent in- 5tructions to d istrict attorneys thrqugh- tout the country to give attention to re ported profiteering in bituminous coal and to prosecute where investigation discloses unreasonable profits have heen taken. President Wilson is preparing a message to the Democratic conven tion, which will be read at an oppor tune moment during the San Fran cisco conclave, to further his effofts to bring about the “solemn referen- <lum“ which he has urged with refer ence’ to the peace treaty and the league of nations, it was said in Democratic circles in Washington. An embargo on coal exports as a fneans of relieving serious fuel short ages in various sections of the country, notably in New England, was taken up for consideration by several depart ments of the Government. Two hundred and seventy members sof the graduating class of West Point received their diplomas from Secretary -of W ar Baker and will be commission ed second lieutenants in the array im mediately. a# ^ The Wheat harvest of Kansas has lieguii. and once more Governor Henry J. Allen has arranged for the parole of convicts to help gather the grain. JMen from the sta'^e penitentiary and others from the reformatory will be re leased for the work. The Czecho-Slovak government, at Prague, Bohemia, has sold 7,000,000 kilograms of sugar to the United States (a kilogram is approximately 21-5 pounds). Negotiations are continuing for the sale of an additional 8,000,000 kitograms. The grasshopper menace is growing more serious in the western part of Alichigan, and destruction to the wheat crops is estimated at $400,000. Farm ers are organizing to fi.ght the pests and all available material is being sent out by the State Farm Bureau. Master plumbers at their annual convention at Pittsburgh indorsed without reservation the open shop. Establishment of additional trade routes from ports on the South At lantic and Gulf Coasts so as to provide shippei’s of the manufacturing sections of the Middle West a freer access to the' seas, was recommended by the Shipping Committee of the Southern Commercial Congress. A memoran dum was submitted to Admiral Ben- The Bureau of Internal Bevenue will continue to enforce the child labor tax section of the revenue act of 1918, which was recently held by the North Carolina courts to be unconsti tutional. An eight-day heat wave wa® Oilded in Omaha by a snowfalL Martin Debosky and his two children were electrocuted and Mrs.,Debosky was injured near their home at Monon- gah, W. Va., when wires leading from a toy telephone with which the chil dren were a t play came in contact with a high tension traction wire. Chief Prohibition Agent Counts and federal agents at Cleveland seized S35 cases of whisky being transported by automobile trucks into Cleveland from a Kentucky distillery on what the fed- eial agents claim is a fake government permit. Robert Ella, one of the^aliens held In connection with the bomb plots of June 2, 1919, was ordered deported by Assistant Secretary Post. More than 6,000 motor vehicles are to be set aside for the use of the Na tional Guard, according to orders is sued by the War Department. Bankers have notified Chicago offi cials that the request for a $15,000,- 000 loan will not be granted and that no more money will be loaned to the city at this time. The American Federation of Labor condemned the Kansas Industrial Court as a machine for “confiscation of liberty” in a resolution unanimously adopted at the annual convention in Montreal. A. Mitchell Palmer will attend the meeting of the Democratic National Committee in San. Francisco on June 25, he announced. Mr. Palmer is a member of the committee from Penn sylvania. He said he would remain in San Francisco during the Demo cratic convention. Justice Weeks sentenced Inspector Henry, formerly in charge of the Fourth Inspection District, New York city, to not less than two or more than five years at hard labor in Sing Sing. Infant mortality rates for 1919 of the twelve largest American cities In the birth registration areas showed de creases from 8.5 to 23.4 per cent, com pared with the last four years. * Hearing of the cases of “Big Bill” Haywood and 93 other members of the I. W. W., scheduled to take place be fore the Chicago Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, was postponed indefinitely. Gustavus T. Kirby, president of the American Olympic Committee, arrived at Antwerp on the steamship Kroon- land, and, together with American com mercial representatives who are on their way to Paris, inspected the Olympic stadium. M. J. 6. Ritchie, English tennis star, was defeated by William M. Johiiston, the American champion, 6-2, 6-2, in the fourth round of the London tennis championship tournament. The defeat of Jim Higgins, bantam champion of England, by Charlie Le- doux, bantam champion of Europe, at Peggy Bettinson’s new club at Holland Park, London, was not the only reverse suffered by England on that occasion. Mike Honeyman, the featherweight ti tle holder, was vanquished by Arthur Wyns, the bantam champion o i Bel gium. George Papin, the French fighter, will not ^^main in America. He in tends sailing for France on July 10 with Carpentier, his wife, and Des- champs, his manager. On account of an injury wh|ch he received in a moving picture show a few days ago in California, Benny Leonard has called off his Pacific coast fights. Leonard left San Fran cisco for Chicago. He boxes Charley White, July 5, at Benton Harbor, Mich. Ralph Knight of Newburyport, Mass., ’varsity pitcher, for the past three years, was elected captain of the Brown University baseball team for next year. The release of Outfielder Wallace Hood to the Salt Lake City Club of the Pacific Coast League was an nounced by the Brooklyn Nationals, Resolute won the seventh cup trial race with Vanitie for America’s Cup defense honors. Jack Dempsey, heavyweight cham pion of the world, was found not guilty of conspiracy to evade the draft laws. The sale of Outfielder Toney Con nolly of the Tulsa Western League team to the New York Americans was announced by Manager Spencer Ab bott. Connolly will remain with the Tulsa club until the close of the pres ent season. Johnston’s main opponent in the English tennis chiampionship will very likely be Gerald Patterson, the Aus tralian. . There is a shortage of 1,800,000 pe sos in the Mexican treasury as a result of unsecured loans made during the Carranza administration “by the su perior command” to General Francisco Murguia, former minister of war. Reports from Warsaw state that Americans who were in the Kiev re gion when it was won back from the Poles by the Bolshevik forces have all escaped. The American Federation of Labor’.s indorseinent of government ownership of the railroads at Its annual conven tion Montreal, Canada, was declared by labor leaders to have been the first genuine defeat Samuel Gompers, its veteran president, has suffered in years. The final vbte was 29,059 for government ownership and 8,349 against. Djemal Fasha, a member . of the young Turk party, who is now In Mos cow, has arrived at an understanding with the soviet government over points of mutual interest to Russia and Tur key. ALLIES CONTROL TURKISH STRAITS Treaty Clothes International Commission With Powers Gov erning Port of Constantinople. WATERS- MUST BE FREE. Sovereignty Over a Strip of Turkey Larger Than Some of the States of Europe—Straits Not Sub ject to Blockade. Washington.—Limited internationali zation of the port of Constantinople and its inclusion within the “zone of the straits” is provided for in the provisional terms of the Turkish treaty. This is disclosed oy an official summary received here of the jurisdic tion provided for the Inter-Allied Com mission of Control. Granted its own flag, budget, and separate organization, the commission, by the lines of the boundaries, fixed for the “zone of straits,” will have au thority over a territory considerably greater than some of the smaller na tions of Europe. Made almost sovereign in itself, the commission is to be practically inde pendent of the League of Nations, as stipulation is expressly made that should it find liberty of passage of the straits Interfered with, it shall take such measures as may be deemed necessary to preserve tlie freedom of the straits. The zone includes not only the Bos porus, Sea of Marmora and Darda nelles, but also three miles of shore from the mouth of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus and the Aegean Islands of Samothrace, Imbros, Lem nos, Tenedos and Lesbos. A land zone also is provided extending from ten to seventeen miles northwest of the Sea of Marmora and eight-twenty- ei^hths of a mile southeast of It. Its northwestern limit is partly common with the new Greek frontier, fifty-two miles west of the Bosporus on the Black Sea; its eastern limit is forty miles east of the mouth of Bosporus and its southwestern limit is partly common with the district of Smyrna, fifty-five miles southeast of the en trance to the Dardanelles. The zone also Includes an area on the western sWe of the Gallipoli Peninsula, which Turkey cedes to England, Prance and Italy for war memorials and ceme teries. Regulations laid down for enforce ment by the Inter-Allied Commission provide th a t : No belligerent warships may remain within ports of the zone longer than twenty-four hours, or take 6n food, stores or recruits. The Dardanelles, Sea of Marmora, and the Bosporus are to be open in peace and war to every vessel of com merce and war. The straits are not subject to block ade. No belligerent right to he exercised and no act of hostility committed with in the zone, except upon special au thorization of the League of Nations. All military works and fortifications to be demolished and no rr-;ds or rail roads to be constructed within the zone for movement of mobile batteries. These regulation.^ are to be enforced, chiefly with naval forces and a force of special police, recruited within the zone and commanded by foreign of ficers, as well as such military and naval air forces and guard ships of their own as Great Britain, France and Italy may deem necessary. In addition to the general laws per taining to the admihistrr-tion of the straits, the commission is further charged with execution of any works considered, necessary for the imurove;- ment of the channels and the ap proaches to harbors, the lighting and buoying of channels, controls of pilot age, towage, anchorage' and all matters relating to wrecks, salvage and liter- age. Maintenance of the ports of Con stantinople and Haida as ports of in ternational concern, where the citi zen’s goods and flags of all countries belonging to the League of Nations shall enjoy complete freedom is also placed within the control of the com mission, which shall provide - a t the two ports free zones for the erection and use of warehouses. • SIGNS WATEB p o w e r BILL. P r e s ident Affixes Signature Under^ A t torn e y G eneral's Ruling. Washington.—^President Wilson has signed the water power bill. This was announced at the White House as one of the eight bills which it was sup posed had been killed by the “pocket veto” method, but which could be dis posed of during a period of ten days according to an opinion by the attor ney general. A few other hills which also were in the list have been allowed to die. DETROIT FOURTH -- ----------------- - --------------------- — MRS. S. GREENFIELD i; AMONG BIO CITIES !; Volunteer Worker In the > Z i 0 n i s t. Organization. . ...... . .............. Wesley Frost, who has been appoint ed foreign trade adviser under the state department, succeeding Julius G. Law, resigned. During the war Mr. Frost was American consul at Queens- U.S. TO INDICT GOALGOUGERS Palmer Orders Federal Attorneys to Act Against Many Bitu minous Operators. Washington. — Attorney General Palm e r has ordered a sweeping, cru sade looking to the trial and convic tion of bituminous operators who have used the excuse of .car shortage and export demand to boost prices and take unreasonable profits. Instructions were sent to every United States attorney in the country to obtain the indictment of any operator or dealer where inves tigation shows unreasonable profits. The Department of Justice has re ceived many complaints that the prices of bituminous coal at the mines ranged from $7 to $11 a ton, with a further increase Imminent. W riters of the let ters say the operators are attributing the advance prices to car shortage and export demand, emphasis being placed upon the latter. Governors of the New England states were in conference with members of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Shipping Board on the New England coal situation. They declared industries were on the verge of closings down, with little prospect of getting in next winter’s supply. They ask that New England coal be shipped by boat from Norfolk and the Shipping Board was asked for vessels. “Production cost figures gathered by the Federal Trade Commission from 1,589 bituminous coal operators in the principal production regions, mining roughly about 60 per cent of the an nual output, show that during .Janu ary, 1920, their costs averaged $2.82 a ton at the mines. Since then there has been an increase of 27 per cent in the cost of labor, enhancing the production cost to $2.79 a ton. The accuracy of these figures is borne out by informa tion in letters coming to the depart ment from purehasei^s of coal, from which it appears that prices in May did not greatly exceed those furnished to the Federal Trade Commission for January. “This situation demands the prompt attention of all United States attor neys. Please give special attention to the m atter and seek indictments where investigation discloses that an unrea sonable profit has been taken, advising the department of the action taken.” r LATEST EVENTS AT WASHINGTON In order to aid New England in obtain ing a supply of coal for the coming winter, the Shipping Board will al locate between 400i000 and 600,000 tons of shipping to the coal carry ing fervice between Norfolk and New England ports. Unless there is a modification of exist- ing regulations, many manufactur ing concerns dependent upon the use of Industrial alcohol will be forced ou t o f business. T h is w a s t h e asser tion of a committee of twenty-five manufacturers, who conferred at Washington with officials of the Bu- reau of Internal Revenue,^ Displaces St. Louis by Reaching 993,739 in Population, a Gain of 113.4 Per Cent. TOPS NEW YORK’S GROWTH Michigan \Metropolis Now Outranks Boston, Cleveland, Baltimore and Pittsburgh — Outstrips St. Louis and Boston for Fifth Place, Washington.—Detroit, with a numer ical increase and rate of growth larg er than Chicago’s and \second only to New York’s during the last ten years^ is now the fourth largest city of the country, displacing St. Louis and out ranking Boston, Cleveland, Baltimore and Pittsburgh, all of which were larg er than the Michigan city ten years ago. Detroit’s 1920 population, an nounced by the Census Bureau, is 993,- 739, an increase of 527,973, or 113.4 per Detroit is the only city of 100,000 or more which has more than doubled its p'opulation in the last ten years!. Cleveland, also with a large increase, has outstripped St. Louis and Boston and takes rank as fifth largest city of the United States. The Ohio city had the fifth largest numerical increase of, any municipality in the country during the last ten years, its increase having been exceeded only by New York, Chi cago, Detroit and Los Angeles. Cleve land’s population exceeds that of St. Louis by 23,000 and that'^of Boston by almost 0,000, its totalTjelng 796,836, an increase of 236,173, or 42.1 per cent over 1910. With announcement of the popula tions of Clej^eland and Detroit the definite ranking of'-the country’s 18 largest cities has been established. New York and Chicago remain first and second largest _ cities, respectively. Philadelphia is the only one of the 18 whose 1920 population has not been announced, but it is not likely th a t the Pennsylvania city’s rank as third larg est in the country will be changed. De troit had jumped into fourth place and Cleveland into fifth position, forcing St. LoYils into sixth, Boston into sev enth, Baltimore into eighth and Pitts burgh into ninth places. Los Angeles, with a largest rate of growth, advanced from seventeenth rank to tenth and displaced Buffalo as well as attaining the honor of being the largest city west of St. Louis. San ITrancisco retained eleventh rank and Buffalo dropped from tenth to twelfth, while Milwaukee was forced into thir teenth place. Washington, D. C., moved from six teenth to fourteenth position, dlsph ing Newark, N. J., which dropped into fifteenth position . ' Cincinnati, thir teenth largest c i t / in 1910, now ranks as sixteenth. ' New Orleans, through the advance of Los Angeles and Washington, wa& forced from the fifteenth rank to sev enteenth position, while Minneapolis* retained its rank as eighteenth largest city. ^ The ranking of the cities below Min neapolis cannot be determined until the populations of Kansas City, Mo.; Providence, R. I., a n d , Rochester, N. y., have been announced. The population of Lynchburg, Ya. was announced as 29,956, an increase of 462, or 1.6 per cent. *■ VILLA HAS 300 WOMEN SLAIN ★ •Ar ------------- Hr Mexico City.—Three .hundred ★ ic women, camp followers attached ★ ★ to the government forces, have ★ A been killed by the orders of ★ A Francisco Yilla, according to ★ A Jacinto Trueba, a wealthy mer- ★ A chant of Jiminez, State of Chi- ★ ★ huahua. ★ A According to Trueba, Villa ★ ★ captured the women during an ★ ★ encounter with a regiment of the ★ *• de facto government’s cavalry A A between Parral and Jiminez. He ★ ordered the women lined up for ★ A review to see whether any were ★ A soldiers masquerading. One worn- ★ A an shot twice at Villa but ★ A mi’ssed. \Unable to learn which ★ ★ one attacked him Villa ordered ★ ★ all the women hered together ★ A and shot down. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A A A A ' A A A A A ' A ' A ' A A A GEORGE W. PERKINS DIES. Financier Gave Many-Years of Life to Aid Fellow Man, New York.—George W. Perkins, lead-* er in finance, commerce and industry, past master In the field of life insur ance, member for a decade of the bank ing firm of J. P. Morgan & Go., pub licist, philanthropist and pioneer in re forms for bettering industrial relations between employer and employed, died in the Stamford Hall Sanitarium, Stamford, Conn., as a result o f a phys ical breakdown. Mrs. Caroline Greenfield, just back from eight months in the Holy landk where she went as a volunteer worker in the IZionist organization of America, has made some interesting statements anent the housing situation in that country. “New Yorkers who think it difficult to find a place to dwell, should go to Palestine and see what real housing problems are like,” says Mrs. Greenfield. She suggests large apart ment hofises and hotels in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haifa. 200,000 GERMAN ARMY MUST RE HALVED SOON French War Minister Reports That In Reduction of Formations Treaty is Not Carried Out. Paris.—^According to Andre Le- fevre, French Minister of War, the German Army has been reduced to 200.000 men. His figure is still a long way short of 100,000, to which, ac cording to the treaty terms and the subsequent agreement, it must be. re duced by July 10. The reduction has also not included the reduction oi for mations and M. Lefevre states tliat in many matters the Germans are 'still showing bad will. Some conditions of disarmament have been carried out, but others have been repeatedly delayed. What has been done, Lefevre says, is th is: The Germans have suppressed all but four of the military schools and have re duced the ammunition supplies to the required amount. They have also in fulfillment of ArtieJe 180 of the Peace Treaty disarmed the occupied ateas and to fifty kilometers to the east of. the Rhine. In the work of destroying and hand ing over artillery the peace conditions have not been so fully fulfilled. Seven teen thousand five hundred cannon,. 20.000 machine guns and 108,000 small arms have been handed over to tlie Allies and the Germans claim to have destroyed 10,000 cannon, 4.200 machine guns an d '66,000 small arms. But Lefevre states that there is no doubt th’at large quantities of arms still re main hidden in the country. It is in the non-execution of Article 211, which demands the modification of German military laws in conformity with the treaty terms, that the French see German bad will and bad faith. These laws have been in no way modi fied, and before the Spa meeting the French are seeking to obtain a united front on the part of the Allies for the demand that this important clause shall be fulfilled. I WORLD NEWS IN } I CONDENSED FORM | MEXICO; CITY.—Both^ Italy and Spain have granted recognition to th e De La Huerta government, and rec-. ognltlop' 4s about to be announced by Great Britain, according to semi-official rumors aflokt around the National Palace. TOKIO.—The^ recent financial slump in Japan has wiped out nearly all th e $500,000,000 profit made by paper miliff in that country during the last five years, .^s a result, the owners of forty mills in the Fuji district of ShizuoJka* Keu have decided to close their plantar which means that a large number of' : people will be out of employrnfent
