Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 63, Number 20, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 October 1920 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER DEN ED. DOANE, Publinhor JAOPER - - INDIANA

IJfe lr Europe Is Juki one war after another. Ideal vacation days for tlio.se who can afford them. The children nvcr become too old to want to see the circus. Thus far profiteering landlords have been merely slapped on the wrist. Something has happened to the oldfashioned slogan. "The Turk must go : That bolshevik bear treats opposition forces along the Iiug as mere Infects. The man who pays the freight now Is the ultimate consumer, whoever he may he. That avaltor who expects to fly around the globe: wants the world under his feet. After paying the new Pullman rate there will not be much left to tip the porter. Wood alcohol causes blindness, which nullit to be a warning to a man to keep his eyes open. Maybe it Is the brat in Japan that Is causing them to worry about things we do not say or think. Why worry about the eoal shortage? Some experts announce that tin? millennium will be here In 10.T. The wets acclaim the London dentist who says champagne and beer make an excellent tooth wash. Maybe there Is honor among thieves, but the way the whisky runners client one another Is shocking. The porter Is likely to consider n 2r-cent tip as Insullicient from a man who can afford to travel these days. Itoumania may bo small but It Is not too proud to tight and the bigger they are they better It likes to tackle them. More twins are being borfc in this country than ever before. Fortunately this Is the liest country on earth for twins. American spinsters find it hard to credit the government report that there are more than enough husbands to go around. Paper suits can bo made to sell for HO cents retail, and thus a real use may be found for the Congressional Record. Among other catastrophes no one will weep over is the passing of the silk shirt era, as noted In a New York dispatch. Trotzky has ceased to write books. The royalties to be derived from literature now represent hut" a slight inducement. What has become of the old-fashioned family that used to reach the conclusion that It would have to economize? In Ids secret heart the vacationist In a breezel ess resort ye:irns for the hard, commercial dependability of the electric fan. If, as is now proposed, the European countries quit issuing paper money, the paper shortage ought to be helped quitt a bit. Tlie Russian reds do not place much faith in the Riblo, but they will be wise if the remember what comes after pride and a haughty . irit. A song has been heard across the ocean by wireless telephone. Science lias celebrated one more victory over time and distance in this wonderful age. When there's plenty of coal there's not enough cars: when there's enough cars it' because there isn't enough coal. The joys of life are often delicate. We not that, under the new wage schedule, the gentleman who cleans off the ItN-omotives will have to struggle along on a salary little more than twice that paid the average college professor. On the very first day that women jurors were empaneled in England the court decided that women who have children to care for may be excused. The men. we suppose, will still have to join the militia or something of that kind to secure exemption. France i sending an expert to the United States to solicit a loan. An expert in this calling is one who is on" to the tine points around lunch hour. Those paper suits the government Is proposing to import should go well with some of thoie paper-soled shoes we have been wearing. Evidence continues to accumulate proving that bo!heism and democracy are not only different but Irrepivsib!y antagonistic.

SOVIET DATA IS SEIZED IN RAID

Chicago Police Confiscate Secret Index of 2,000 Reds in United States. PROPAGANDA FOUND If HOUSE City Is Supply Base for Distribution of Communist Ideas by Thousand Agents Scattered in Various Parts of Country. Chicago, 'Sept. 25. That Chicago Is being used a3 a base for the spread of "red" propaganda was discovered by detectives of the bomb squad in a raid. Under the direction of Detective Sergeant Lawrence McDouough. detectives and police searched the house at 3010 South Union avenue, discovered to be the abbess of Peter Za lietskas, organizer for district 5 of the Communist party of America. They found there a complete distributing plant for circulating Communist and Ilustinn soviet literature, together with a list of 1,000 names of Communist agents throughout the United States, who have been 'active In spreading the propaganda. Zalletskas has been under arrest since last Saturday. He was taken by Cldef of Police Garrity'y orders durIng the roundup that followed tho bomb explosion In New York. When arrested, he gave his address as 2Ö10 South Halsted street. Tho police Investigated, and found that lie no longer occupied the building there. Neighbors said that he had been there Home months ago, and had operated n printing plant there. It was found that Zalletskas had been engaged, while at that address, In printing thousands of Communist and soviet pamphlets, which were later transferred to the Union avenue address. That Zalletskas and those whom ho represents are taking no chances of being prosecuted for the illegal use of the malls was found In the system by which the "red" literature has been distributed. Pales of 100 or more pamphlets, under Zalletskas plan of distribution, were sent out by express to the various agents throughout the United States, and these agents In turn distributed them, thus obviating the use of the malls. Among the papers confiscated were several printed lists, bearing the names of 1,000 of these agents, and covering the whole country in h veritable network of "red" propoganda. Every state in the Union Is represented In the list. It jvas said, as are nil of the larger cities. Zalletskas will be turned over to the federal authorities, and action probably taken by them for his deportation. A roundup of the agents throughout the countrj Is another probable result of the raid. GERMANS GIVE UP TONNAGE Surrender of 1,944,565 Tons Meets Main Obligation of the Peace Treaty. p. Paris, Sept. 23. Germany has surrendered 14)14,500 gross tons of steamers and sailing vessels up to September 1G, according to the reparations commission. She has thus delivered virtually all the tonnage unquestionably due under the treaty except some vessels under construction and repair, ami tho vessels in the Schleswig district held pending the plebiscite decision. The commission is proceeding to the execution of the other shipping clauses of the treaty. G. A. R. CHANGES ITS RITUAL "One Country, One Language and One Flag' the Creed of Organization Now Reads. Indianapolis, Sept. 23. The ritual of the Grand Army of the Itepublic, which now reads "one country and one Hag" will be changed to read "one country, one language and one ting," as a result of action taken at the first business session of the fifty-fourth annual encampment of the war veterans. SIGN 300,000 BOYS TO TRAIN New York Youths Between 16 and 18 Required to Sign Up Under State Military Law. New York, Sept. 20. About 300,000 boys in New York state were required to register under the provisions of the state's military training law. The ages for registration are between sixteen and eighteen years. Get Ten Years as Traitors. Tokyo, Sept. 24. Two Japanese have been sentenced to ten years' Imprisonment on conviction of an attempt to sell documents stolen from the Yokosuka naval station to Americans, according to newspapers here. Train Plunges Into Royal Gorge. Pueblo. Colo.. Sept. 24.OtHcia!s of the Denver and Klo Grande railroad here have received a report from Canon City that a freight train had plunged Into the Royal Gorge. Details of the accident are lacking.

A SUBSEQUENT EXPLOSION!

PRICES COMING DOWN Prewar Conditions of Supply and Demand in Sight. Government Refuses to Aid the Profiteers by Giving Credit at the Reserve Banks. Washington, Sept. 24. Gradual return to the law of supply and demand as a governing Influence over prices and the end of "war wages" for necessary commodities, was predicted by government olliclals in explaining the government's attitude on credit extension. Secretary Houston said request for credit could not be listened to where such aid might mean the preservation of high price levels. He added that many persons -complaining of what they term the restrictive policies of the federal reserve board wish credit to enable them to hold their commodities until market conditions produce higher prices. Mr. Houston said the government could not lend aid under such circumstances without becoming a party to a conspiracy against the consumers. Credit for marketing of commodities may be had from the local banks. Governor Harding of the beard has told the representatives of the cotton and wool growers, stockmen and farm associations who have sought the influence of the board for the extension of credit. Disposal of their stocks as the dei nd will absorb them. Mr. Harding said, will enab'e producers to liquidate their holdings and cas,e a falling market. HENRY FORD CUTS PRICES Prewar Rates Are Established on All Products of His Motor Company. Detroit, Mich., Sept. 2:. Re-establishment of prewar prices on all products of the Ford Motor company, effective immediately, was announced by Henry Ford. The price reductions range from approximately 14 per cent on motortrucks to 31 per cent on small automobiles. In making the announcement, stating that someone has to start the movement from high prices downward. Henry Ford says: "The war is over and It Is time war prices were over. There is no sense or wisdom in trying to maintain an artificial standard of values. For the best interests of all it Is time that a real, practical move was made to bring the business of the country and life of the country down to normal. "Inflated prices always retard progress. We had to stnnfl iv during the war, although it wasn't right, so the Ford Motor company will make the prices of its products the same as they were before the war." AUTO BANDITS HOLD UP MAIL Escape With Loot Valued at Between $5,000 and $20,000 at South Bend, Ind. South Bend, Ind., Sept. 24. Auto bandits held up a United States mail truck here and escaped with mail valued at from $3,000 to $20.000. Marylanders Hit Suffrage. Annapolis, Md., Sept. "3. Uatifieation of the suffrage amendment was defeated when the house voted down the resolution by a vote of 30 to 43. Most of the ratification votes came from the Republicans. Find Body of Capitalist. Los Angeles, Ca I.. Sept. 20. The body of Jacob Charles Denton, capitalist, who disappeared four months ago, was found under tons of earth In a hermetically sealed box in the cellar of n houe.

CHICAGO TRIBUNE.

BASEBALL PROBE ON Ban Johnson Admits a Certain Game Was "Fixed." American League Magnates Before Chicago Grand Jury Comlskey Has No Knowledge of Crookedness. Chicago, Sept. 23. Knowledge of baseball games having been "thrown" in 1010 in .the Interests of gamblers was admitted here by lian H. Johnson, president of the American league. Air. Johnson made the admission to reporters shortly before going into tho grand Jury room In the criminal court as a witness In tho Investigation of alleged crooked baseball. "Have you auy information of any baseball games having been 'thrown' this year?" he was asked. "No," Mr. Johnson answered. I have no information that any were 'thrown this year. I have information that leads me to believe, however, that some were thrown last year." "Have you any Information of any attempts made this year to throw a game?" he whs questioned further. His answer was: "No. I have none." Charles A. Comlskey, owner of the White Sox, was the first witness. In contrast with Johnson's admission that he knew now that some of last season's games were sold out to the professional bettors, Air. Comlskey denied that he had been able to obtain any information that any money had been paid over to the players. While acknowledging that lie had offered a reward of $10,000 to anyone who could furnish information concerning crookedness In the world series, he stated that private detectives whom he had employed found nothing to substantiate the rumors. TO RESTORE ITALIAN PLANTS General Confederation of Labor Guar, antees Return to Normal Conditions in Shops. Rome, Sept. 22. The Messagero says that it learns that the general confederation of labor lias ordered the workmen to leave seized plants and resume normal work. The confederation has guaranteed that order will bo preserved, the newspaper adds. Representatives of tho employers and workmen agreed that the Increase granted the workers shall be retroactive to .Tuly 15. SHOT BREAKS UP RED MEET Firing of Pistol Causes Reign of Confusion in Mexican Communist Gathering. Mexico City. Sept. 22. Confusion reigned at the "communist meeting of the Mexican proletaria" when, during a sharp debate, someone tired a pistol into Jhe ah. There were no casualties, but the meeting adjourned soon after the Incident. Huerta to Undergo Operation. Mexico City, Sept. 23. Physicians attending Provisional President de la Huerta announced they had decided an operation for appendicitis was necessary to restore hira to health. Many Drunks in New York. New York, Sept. 23. Attention, Mr. Volstead : "I have never seen so many drunks in court as I have in the last few days." This was the declaration of Magistrate McGeehan in the West side court. New President for France. Versailles, Sept. 23. Premier Alexandre Millerand, a Socialist, was elected president of France ty the national assembly. He succeeded Paul Deschanel. who resigned on account of 111 J health.

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1 Hoosier ETevs I Briefly Told OCCOCOGOOGCOCOOOOCCSOCCOCO Jeffersonvilie. The price" to be fald by Clark county for coal for county Institutes this year will be more than three times what formerly was paid for a much superior grade. Only one agent for a company owning its own mines In western Kentucky, submitted a hid. and will receive $10.30 for Indiana mine run, $10.73 for western Kentucky mine run and $11 for lump for the courthouse nnd Jail, and $8.73 f. o. b. mine run for the county Infirmary near Charlestown. The company would not make a rate to Charlestown to Include frefght." Indianapolis. There3 Is a serious shortage of high school teachers in Indiana at the opening the new school year, according to I. X. Hlnes, state superintendent of public Instruction. Superintendent II Ines estimated that 200 additional high school teachers are needed in the state. Indiana has been more fortunate than some of the other states in regard to grade school teachers, the state superintendent says. There Is some shortage" In the rural schools but it is not as serious as In ninny other states, Mr. Hlnes believes. Indiana Harbor. A verdict of guilty was returned by the first Jury of women ever to sit In the municipal court at Indiana Harbor. Mrs. Anna MIrmak, who appeared in court with lier four children, was found guilty on a disorderly conduct charge In connection with a spanking sin administered to Mrs. Anna Malcha and was lined $10 nnd costs. All of the jurors reported on time nnd the verdict was reached after only ten minutes deliberation. Washington. I). C Kosldents of Indianapolis and vicinity have been paying $1.30 to $2 a ton more for coal, both anthracite and bituminous, this summer than they paid last summer, according to figures issued by the department of labor. In July, 1010, the price for anthracite In Indianapolis was $12.23 a ton. while In June, 1020, tho price was $111.73. For bituminous the price last year was $7.r8, while the price this year was $0..11. Holla. Podles of two unidentified men, evidently slain by being beaten over the heads with a hammer and shot In the backs, were found In a field near here by a farmer boy. The men were about HO years old. The authorities believe they were murdered and their automobile stolen, as tracks of a machine led away from the scene nnd a tire air guage was found In the pocket of one of the victims. Ploomington. Fire in the Allen block, opposite the Monroe county courthouse here, damaged the College Avenue Motor Sales company storeroom and garage, destroying six automobiles nnd also damaged the Hub Clothing company stock. The loss at the garage Is about $20,000, and Is covered by insurance. The Huj clothing store loss Is about $3,000, and also Is covered by Insurance. Mundo. Branding Muncle as a gamblers' paradise and declaring that In the last two or three years gambling has flourished openly and publicly, William A. Thompson, judge of the Delaware circuit court here, asked the grand jury to sot In motion machinery by which shall be ferreted out all perpetrators of crime. A careful investigation and the indictment of all lawviolators was urged. Itushville. Fred Dunn, age thirtyfour, shot and killed Cordelia Dunn, age thirty-nine, at her home In Arlington. He also shot and slightly wounded Lee Hücker, his brother-in-law, and then placed the barrel of the revolver In his mouth and pulled the trigger. Physicians said Dunn will recover and the authorities will arraign him on a charge of first-degree murder. Itising Sun. Sidney Thatcher is accused of murder in the first degree for killing his brother a few weeks -ago and with arson for the alleged burning of three barns in four indictments returned by a special session of the Ohio county grand jury. Thatcher, will be tried on the murder indictment during the December term of the circuit court. Vincennes. Pastors for churches in scores of Hcosier cities and towns were announced at the closing session of the 1920 meeting of the Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church here. The conference has eight districts, taking In practically nil of the state south of Indianapolis. Lafayette. County agricultural agents and agricultural extension workers will hold their annual conference at Purdue university here November 3, 4 and 5. Various addresses dealing with grain raising, st ck raising and other farm topics will be made. Huntington. Every man In Huntington county who has bought a home during the last seven years, paid the mortgage on his home or bought an automobile during that time has been Invited to take part In a "prosperity pr.rade" through the county September 30. Indianapolis. Fishing tackle no. permitted by Indiana laws, such as nets and spears, valued approximately at $13,000 has been destroyed since April. 1019. by the fish and game division of tie state conservation department. George N. Mannfeld, superintendent of the division, said. The new stcte conservation department law became effective hi April. 1919. Sullivan. Th? city council placed the tax rate of Sullivan for the year 1921 at $1.1- on each $100 of valuatlon. This year's tax levy was 41 rnts.

P.loomlnglon. According t. Information from Washington. D. C. t!ie center of population of the Unl:l States for the new census will again remain In Monroe county. According to the census department It is located from six to eight miles due east of Pdoomlngton. Ten years ago th-j population center was located by census experts on the William Stephen farm, eight miles east of here, but three weeks later the department revised its llgures and located th" center on the Shower's furniture factory site within the city of U'oomlngton, where It has remained until now. Twenty joars ago the center was near Columbus, and this will be tho first time In the history of the United States that the drift has been eastward Instead of westward. Evansville. Coal production In tha southern Indiana district south of the IJaltlmoro & Ohio Southwestern railroad, from April to September of this year.' exceeded the production In the same period of 1019 by about 200.000 tons, according to Harry W. Little, secretary of the Southern Indiana Coal bureau at Evansville. The working hours during April to September preceded the 1919 working time by about 1,000 hours. The number of working bours in 1919 was 17.1 OS; for 1920 It was 1S.290. In 1910. from April to September 1, 977,300 tons of coal wero produced In the listriet, according to reports to the bureau. In 1920. 1.131.420 tons were produced in the period. The reports In 1919 Included i-omo mines In the district that are r.ot reporting to the bureau this year. Indianapolis. Members of the Indi ana Ilctnit Coal Merchants' association In the fourth annual convention of (he association here, were urged by E. E. Heller, president of the organization, to fight against the action of the state legislature at the lust speclal session, creating a special coal and food commission to have control of the coal business in the state. "Tin determination of the lawmakers and officers of this state to bring the retail coal business under the control of this commission should be fought with all the force, energy and resources of the retail coal trade of the state," Mr. Heller declared. Brazil. Although coal miners ami operators have agreed on a new wage contract for the day men, the day workers having obtained an Increase of $1.30 a day, the operators have refused to enter Into negotiations with the miners of District S. United Mine; Workers of America, for u revision of the tonnage mining scale. The miners' committee Is taking the matter before John L. Lewis, international president of the miners, contending then Is an Inequality in the mining scale In the block coal field. District 8 Includes the block coal fields In this part of Indiana. Martinsville. One of the largest Illicit liquor stills that has been found In the state since the prohibition law went in effect was confiscate on a farm near the old Stlne mill, northeast of this city. Michael Classey and R. E. Totten were arrested as they drove up to the place In an automobile arid Dan Lockwood was arrested In an old log cabin where a 100 -gallon still, two four-hole oil stoves. .1. barrels, 23 of which were filled with mash, and about five gallons of whisky were found. Anderson. Madison county wool growers who pooled their summer clip and stored It with buyers subject to order of sale by the growers have been notified that they will have to pay storage from September 13, the 00-day period of free storage having expired without sale. The best nffor received was 30 cents a pound. The growers say they will not sell until the price Is higher. They have heard that more than 20.000,000 pounds of wool are being held in-Texas and other southwestern states' awaiting higher quotations. Indianapolis. Jesse K. Esohbach, chairman of the special state fuel and food commission, sent a telegram to the interstate commerce commission asking that railroads be permitted to send coal cars to wagon mines in order to relieve the coal shortage in Indiana. The request was made after Mr. Kschbach had been Informed that the municipal light and water plant of Oxford faced shutdown on account of inability to get coal. Evansville. Mrs. Elizabeth Cornell, a colored woman who gave her ne as one hundred nnd twenty years, tiled a registration application at Evansville, and says she will vote In the fad election. She is believed to be the oldest woman In the state. She was a slave In Tennessee many years ago. Indianapolis. Twenty-five per cent of the Indiana corn crop has reached the stage of maturation and will not be affected by frost, says George C. Bryant, agricultural statistician for the co-operative crop reporting service, in his summary of Hooicr crop conditions. Wabash. Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the diet tile mills at North Manchester with a loss of approximately $23,000. The North Manchester fire department was called, but was unable to save the building, it being outside the corporation limits. Portland. The first womaji jury to sit In a case In Joy county, report -d a venllct in favor of the plaintiff In the case of the state against Mrs. Daisy Färber, heard In the court of A. G. Lewis, a Justice of the peace. A fine of 3 cents was assessed against the defendant, who was accused of provoke by Cameron Silvers. Noblesville. Isaac Wolf on!, sixtyone years old. Is dead at his home 111 the northwestern part of Hamilton county from sleeping sickness. He had been HI five weeks and slept most of the time.