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2 CENTS PER COPY VOL. XXXII. NO. 245. EFFORTS FAIL TO DIM M’ADOO AS CANDIDATE Antics of G. 0. P. and Party Press Show Strength of Famous Democrat. BIG QUALITY By Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK. Feb. 20.—William G. McAdoo Is just as much a candidate for the presidency of the United States as any other democrat in the country. Furthermore, he possesses the dis tinction of being the only democrat whose nomination is feared by the republican party and whose possible future course is the subject of much speculation on the part of the repub lican press. • In other words. William G. McAdoo Is the only prospective candidate for the democratic nomination who has become "big enough to be lied about." The various antics of the republican press relative to McAdoo are being watched with considerable Interest by his friends in New York. They are so Indicative of the fear that he will lead the party that they cause more amuse ment in New York than anything else. Also, they are Interesting as showing that the kind of a man McAdoo is can not be comprehended by the political leaders who are endeavoring to run tht nation at this time. William G. McAdoo will never seek the presidency of the United States as Leonard Wood, Hi Johnson and Senator Harding are seeking It. ne has too high a regard for the office to make an unseemlngly scramble out of the nom inations. He Is entirely too whole-souled an American to stoop to the channels that the republicans are using in their desperate efforts to create “sentiment” for H FAVORS PRINCIPLES ABOVE CANDIDATES. McAdoo believes that the party should seek a candidate on whom it can unite in a real effort to express principles. But the politicians who are fondling booms for "favorite sons" need not think they can take advantage of this attitude on the part of McAdoo to further their own choices. William G. McAdoo has done and said nothing that will Interfere with the peo ple in the selection of their own candi date. He will do nothing to influence that choice. He does not propose that a candidate he selected and a platform written about that cand’date. He is willing to lead the democratic party ouly in event the democratic party is willing to rally arcJund hiui as a lead er. He would uot be disapointed if his name received no consideration at the ban Francisco convention. He would not be unhappy if he might be left to his law practice in New York and permitted to watch the wheels go round from the • viewpoint of a private citizen who has accomplished much in public life and is satisfied with a record unblemished. PATRIOT WITH CONFIDENCE OF PEOPLE. But William G. McAdoo is an intense patriot. He believes in the ability of the average American to judge the needs of the nation and he has supreme con fidence in the stability of the American people. McAdoo Is the man who appealed to the people of the United States for the money with which to finance the war. Am secretary of the treasury he taught the great financial interests of the na tion that their grgsp on the wealth of America was ns nothing to the ability of the people -to control money. When he floated the first Liberty loan he risked cruclflcatlon on a gold cross on the ability and willingness of the peo ple of America to teach the money barons a lesson In finance. The great financial interests that cen ter In New York refused to consider Me* Adoo’s call for money. They told him they were willing to take $500,000,000 bonds at per cent. He advised tlrnn the loan would be three billion dollars at 3% per cent. .When they combined (Continued on Page Twelve.) WILSON FAVORS SALE OF SHIPS Approval Given Action of Board, Says Payne. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—President Wilson has approved of selling the for mer German liners, Chairman John Bar ton Payne of the shipping board told a house committee today. Replying to a letter from the chair man of the board, requesting his judg ment, President Wilson informally said he would await the action of the board. When the board’s resolution to sell the ships was sent to the president. Chair man Payne said, the president wrote on it, “Action of the board approved.’" Assistant Attorney General Ames an nounced at a conference with .JusMce Bailey of the supreme court of District of Columbia that the government will file an appeal from the injunction granted "William B. Mearat to halt the sale of the former German passenger m ships. The senate commerce committee today ordered a favorable report on the Jones bill to prevent sale of the ships until congTess has authorised it. BOSTON, Feb. 20.—Legislators of New England are on record today as over whelmingly against the sale of the for mer German liners at a sacrifice. The Massachusetts senate passed an order protesting the sale and a poll of the •Massachusetts house showed a majority of representatives of the same opinion as the senators. Polls taken at Concord, N. H.; Mont pelier, Vt., and Augusta, Me., showed a majority of the legislators of the north ern tier of New England states lined up with a majority of Rhode Island leg islator* against tha sale. Want Wilhelm Sent to Curacao Island PARIS, Feb. 20.—The allies have sug gested to Holland that the former kaiser I be interned on the Island of Curacao, in ► the Dutch West Indies, said a dispatch from The Hague to the Journal today. Curacao lies in the Caribbean sea, for ty-one m'les off the coast of Venozuela. The capital, Wlllemstadt, long has been a place of refuge far ex-dictators and other political refugees from South and Central America. - Published at Indianapolis, Ind., Dally Exoapt Sunday. YES, SIR, FOLKS, BARBERS STUDY They Have College Just Like Doctors ’n Everything— Ye Prexy Talks a Bit. By WALTER D. HICKMAN. 11 qrv £ r7* EXTI , ] Every man knows \ I what that means. | ,w It Is a barber’s | j way of saying, “Get I 11| h in the chair." I j V. Men just don’t 1 L \ grow up to be bar -1 1 ! They are trained 1 and schooled now- I Y iP% adays just like law .vers, doctors, book keepers and other gjTToSyfTSSS professions. lii Barbers hsve their gsrafi? colleges Just like c other trades. In- WW i * V diauapolis has sucb IVI iNI/ fli I a co,les< *’ and 11 ,s 1i a itaAl 'I known as Torr’e ' I XrA I Kar^er college, on ! °ui. f West Wash lnglon ’llfll Here men and taking lessons ia K/ 4r the barber profes v sion. Claude D. Torr is the owner and presiding head of this institution. Grant Bailey Is the manager of the college. When Torr was only 11 years old he decided that he wanted to be a barber. He -was so short then that he bad to climb up on a soap box to shave his patrons. • Torr wore short trousers then and when he was very young he owned a bar ber shop in Terre Haute. “The barber business is a profession," said Torr today, while he sat In his offb'e and saw a number of student barbers at work. “This is a college and we teach a system and operate an institution which is as much a college as a medical school or a veterinary college. We have ex pensive equipment Just like a college.” Whil> Torr was talking a young wom an student was shaving a man. To the right and left of her were men also learning the prefession of harberiug. Torr by bis college has dignified the life of a barber. There is as much decorum and order in this barber college as there is in a military school. “And. remember, that many a man wbo eliir.bs Into a barber's chair is not making as much money as the barber,” said Torr. True to the re- I qulrements of a col- —-‘-Sy.‘— ?IV ’’ lege, this eoliege fur ,'/ i making bar Iters has . i instructors. Kffi- PJ®* cioncy Is taught vbl This barber's col- / jj, F/JjFjl v^\| lege has one ad- , jj school. The barber _ mrA B 8 (/ stud-pit pnjs tuition , ! {=~T ; but lie gets p ill '/ jj )VWJKm,'A/ /] while he is iearti- YMFT& K f j “The grouch does n>>t make n good KJ ’VjjjdSy Jj //V/ , barber.” suggested Wi!// 1 Mr. Bailey. “He j [ must lie an all- i ! round sociable per- \ “He must be a * sensible person and “$/}s'/I a groneh is not a _ > /////\' | sensible man,” cor- e '’'//iV'Y'' '' rected Torr. A ... THREE STATES BURIED IN SNOW Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont Under Huge Drifts. BOSTON, Feb. 20.—Northern New England today was literally buried under snowdrifts from nine to fifteen feet high. Nearly all of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont wag trolieyless. M„ny railroad trains were stalled In drifts. Highways were impassable. Drifts left by the blizzard In many Instances reached to the second stories of farmhouses. Isolating the Inmates. Drifts nine feet, h’gli were piled up In the busi ness sections of Bangor, Lewiston and other Maine cities. With transportation agencies crippled, New England was facing the most men acing period in the coal famine. Steam ships, too, on their way north with coal, were delayed, having been forced to make the nearest point in the storm. The situation was further aggravated by a tie-up of freight ears frozen to the rails in New England yards nnd sidings. HOUSE THIEF NIPSJEWELRY Carries Off Watches and Other Articles at East End Home. A thief entered the home of Otto F, Wurrn, 301 North Bradley avenue, early today. Jewelry value at S2OO was stolen. This included two watches, a diamond ring and a diamond pin. Hobert Cbenaught, rooming at the Y. M. C. A., reported to the police that a thief ransacked his room. Chenaught said an overcoat, with a sealskin col lar, was missing. The coat was valued at sllO. Other clothing and a suitcase of a total value of $l7O was also missing, Chenaught said. William Loving, 367 West Fifteenth street, returned home last night and found his bouse ransacked. He told the police that two pairs of shoes were stolen. 'Jewelry valued at SIOO was alsc missing. British Ambassador May Be Lord Lytton LONDON, Feb. 20.—Newspapers today added the name of Lord Lytton to the list of possibilities for appointment to the post of British ambassador to the United States. Watch Your Step; Read This! GLEN CAMPBELL, Fa., Feb. 20. —Shade* of Duns and Bradstraat: The women of this community can learn whether their husbands, fiances or prospective bridegrooms drink, smoke, chew, swear, gamble or stay out late at nights by visiting a “moral credit bureau” Just organised by sixty-six leading clttb women. Mere-mac will b# Hated as a No. L jnftiawa Jlauig ffix ucs Entered • I Second Class Matter, July 25, 1914, at Postofflce, I ndlanapolis, Ind., under act March 3, 1879. FEAR EXPLOSION OF OYERGASSED WOOD BALLOON Many Believe General’s Boom in Indiana Is Floating for Big Air Hole. LOWDEN MEN ARE QUIET Just when is the Wood balloon going to burst? A visit to “candidates’ row” In the Claypool hotel, where many and various more or less hopeful members of the grand old party are making their head quarters, today brought, out that In nearly every office this is one of the prin cipal subjects of discussion. The Wood headquarters itself was no exception. “Somehow the tmpression has got out that the Wood boom is largely artificial,” said one of the employed campaign workers. “This is not true,” he con cluded, as he handed an unsuspecting voter, who had enlled to find out what it was ail about, a half dozen blank pe titions, fifty circulars and as many cam paign buttons. In the opinion of many of the hangers on around the vnrloua headquarters and elsewhere, -the Wood boom Is afflicted with too many circulars, campaign but tons and petitions. In other words, the balloon Is filled with overheated atmos phere and is already leaking at tho | seams. THEN, TOO, THERE j If THAT SORE THUMB. Every day the headquarters hands out a formal statement from someone or other telling all about what a great mm the general is, how he saved the natiov In Cuba, how he won the world war and how he has a sore thumb, which, even wtth his boasted skill as a physician, he has not been able to cure. The sore thumb ta not emphasized, but a great I deal more stress is laid on the fact he is a physician. It is this way—no phy stcian has ever been president. There fore, one should be elected. No expla nation Is made as to whether he is ex pecting to administer an anastheflc to the peace treaty and thus painlessly re move some of the things to which Sena tor Lodge et al. are objecting or whether he Intends to use his skill to cure the same outfit of their many apparent Ills. Anyway, a lot of publicity is being given out. Some of it is even being used In one or two places. The Wood head quarters is a very busy clearing house for printed matter, but no endorsement hns yet been forthcoming from printers who are dranving overtime to get it out. “SIGN I P" FIRST WORDS TO VISITORS. Everybody -‘ailing at the headquarters is first asked to sign n petition. One voter said he didn't believe he ought to sign another one as he had signed three already. No announcement has been made us to how tnanv “repesters" there are on the boasted long list of signers of petitions. Ail this Is simply to show that the Wood balloon is largely filled wtth noth ing more substantia! than atmosphere i created by the man who dis-'overed that soap would float and others wbo have “money to burn.” Tbia process is heat ing the atmosphere which is threatening. to burst the none too securely constructed cover of the balloon. At Lowden headquarters things are moving quietly. A few petitions are be ing sent out but no effort is being made to obtain a large number of signatures, i The Lowden managers believe the pc j titlons to be of no particular significance ; and that they are merely a means of I getting a candidate’s name on the ballot (Continued on I‘age Twelve.) COP’S SLAYER IS EXECUTED Only Doctors and Newspaper Men at Chicago Hanging. CHICAGO, Feb. 20.—Prisoners were re moved today from cells facing on the courtyard at the county Jail, where “Smiling Jack” O’Rrler. was hanged ?c 10:45 o'clock. Only physicians and news ! paper men wero allowed to see the bang i ing. Sheriff Charles Peter* ruled, fol lowing a strong protest against his plan to allow other prisoners to witness tho execution. Among the prisoners who were re moved were O’Brien’s two brothers, Michael and Will, held on charges of robbery. O’Brien was convicted of slaying Pa trolman Richard Burke last June. Last minute efforts to procure a reprieve failed. O'Brien's last letter was addressed to John Neville, a pa! at. Joliet penitentiary. “If you ever see the fellows who done this to me, repay them," the letter read. It. closed with this warning: “The stralgth path leads to sunshine. Stay on It. The crooked path leads here.” Until the last O’Brien maintained what he charged in an eleventh hour statement several days ago, that “he did not kill the policeman, but stood trial for the murder to save ‘Sonny’ Dunn, a police character whom he charged with the murder. He declared that, in return for this, Dunn had promised to “use his In fluence in high places” to obtain merely a short prison sentence for him. POLICE OFFICER SLAIN AT DUBLIN Another Hurt and Civilian In jured in Fighting. DUBLIN, Feb. 20.—One policeman was killed, another wounded slightly and a civilian wounded dangerously in fighting here late last night. It coaid not be learned whether the police were ambushed or the shooting took place when they at tempted arrests. The fighting began at 2 o'clock and about twenty shots were fired. LONDON, Feb. 2ft.—Attacks wero madt against the British military and con stabulary throughout all of Dublin to day, said .; Central News dispatch from that city this afternoon. Bands of armed men were reported to be roaming the city. The leaders were said to have planned attacks upon isolated military patrols. < If he Is free from all moral In iquities, while If he diverges from the narrow path in any particular, bis rating will be materially lower. “It’s for our own protection?” said one member. “We want to know every man morally.” The rec ords will be held confidentially, but any woman can obtain a report on any man In the town. INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1920. WILSON GIVES ‘LAST WORD’ IN ADRIATIC NOTE Reply to the Allies Is Reported Framed in Conclusive Language. CRISIS HELD AVERTED WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—President Wilson's latest note on the Adriatic set tlement Is regarded at the whitehouse as his last word on the subject, It was stated today. One official said "he thought no further correspondence would be necessary.” Before the president’s note is put on the cables a copy will be submitted to him by the state department for final approval. SUMMARIES OF ALLIES’ REPLY CALLED GARBLED. Officials who are anxious for publica tion of the entire correspondence hope to arrange for giving out the notes at once; It Is believed the president is not averse to such action, but will defer his consent until he is advised on the subject by Acting Secretary of State Polk. Published summaries of the allies’ re ply to Wilson’s first note were declared not authentic by the whitehouse and state department. A summary published In Buenos Aires was described by the state department as “fragmentary, garbled and very Inaccurate.” Taking an unyielding stand in his po sition with regard to the Adriatic prob lem, the president la understood to have pointed out to the allied premiers that their argumentative note does not anawor his original protest that tho council of premiers has taken action, to which this nation would be bound, without con sulting this government. FOUR RESULTS FROM EXCHANGE. The results of the exchange of notes, at cording to the opinion of high officials of the state department, are these: The proposed settlement of the Adriatic problem will be abandoned b,v the council of premiers, unless ■’resident Wilson nut be convinced of Its justice. The council of premiers will consult tlie United States In the future before taking definite action on any matter to which this government might be bound. A crisis hns been averted, hot a long druwn out controversy Is likely to follow. The treaty of peace Is not likely to be withdrawn from the senate. It is believed here that the president’s latest note has averted a crisis. BLAMES ALLIES FOR A RMESI4 X MA SSA C RES LONDON. Feb. 20. The charge that allied leniency towards Turkey since the i armistice wus signed has allowed the j Turks to re-create their military forces ; nod resume the extermination of Chris tians in Armenia and Anatoia. was made itl the Manchester Guardian today by Viscount Bryce, former British ambuss*, j dor to the United States. Viscount Bryce declared that the al lies are responsible for the live* of Chris- ' 1 tfame in Turkey and Armenta and that j it is the allies' duty to protect them, i “Thp stretching out of the hand of friendship to the Turkish nationalists, J who are close aiiie* of Germany, was a wanton act of folly,” said the viscount. He demanded the extradition .of the Turkish officials responstbel for launch lug Turkey Into the war and those re sponsible for war crimes after Turkey entered (he conflict The council of ambassadors after tak ing up discussion of allied relations with Russia at its session yesterday, decided j ,to discontinue debr.te on the question ! until Premier MUlerand of France re 1 turns Monday, it was learned officially j today. Austen Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer, in an open letter revealed that Great Britain’s loans to Russia to- i tal ,VSB 000,000 pounds. Other loans, he said, were: France, 471,000,000 pounds; Italy. 4f0.000.000 pounds; Belgium, 8(1,- 300.000 pounds; other nations, 71,000.000 pounds. These loans the chancellor said, were exclusive of 21.500 000 pounds to be granted the allies and other powers for reconstruction work. It was reported this afternoon that Pre mier Nitti of Italy has intimated to the I ! council of premiers that Italy will make ■ pence with Russia regardless of the future attitude of the other allies. The allied ! plan to deal with Russia In a commercial i way through the Russian co-operatlva societies has been virtually rejected. The return of Premier Mlllerand from Psrls Is being awaited anxiously. It is believed he will Interpose strong objec tion to any peace plans. FIUME IN GLOOM; FOOD SHORTAGE ACUtE ROME, Feb. 20.—President Wilson’s first Adriatic note has "cast a shadow of gloom" over the entire city of Flume, according to advices here. “The Wilson note has struck a stag gering blow to the morals of the popu lation,’’ a dispatch said. The situation in the disputed city, now held by the forces of Gen. Gabriele d* Annunzio, poet, aviator and formerly an officer in the Italian army, was described as pitiful. There is au acute food short age, raw materials enn not be brought In because of the blockade, and Industry Is paralyzed, the dispatches said. D’Annunzio is reported til, suffering from nervous prostration. Prince of Wales to Visit California LONDON, Feb. 20.—The prince of "Wales .expressed desire to see California will be gratified this spring, according to plans for bis Australian trip an nounced today. He will sail on the cruiser Renown early In March, reach ing San Diego, Cal., March 31. Considerable time will be spent In Cali fornia waters, the Renown not sailing for the orient until early in April. Hears Obregon Will Succeed Carranza LONDON, Feb. 20. —It was reported on the stock exchange today that Presi dent Carranza of Mexico is retiring from office, to be succeeded by Gen. Obregoq, according to the Financial Times. ft&TBE WEAJHER, Local Forecast —Unsettled tonight and Saturday; probably rain or snow; warm er tonight with temperature near freez ing ; colder Saturday night. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 37 7 a. 38 8 a. m 39 9 a. m................ 83 10 a. m....... ...... 88 11 a. 86 12 (n00n).... 87 ADMIRAL PEARY, NORTH POLE DISCOVERER, PASSES AWAY PEARY'S STORY OF POLE “The pole at Ittßt,” wrote Admiral Peary In his diary on April (5, idOi), the day he discovered the top of the earth. “The prize of three centuries. Mine at last. I can not bring myself to realize it. It ms all so simple and commonplace.’’ In his book, “The North Pole,” which he wrote after his return from his successful expedition, Admiral Peary said; “Os course, there were some more or less informal ceremonies connected with our arlval at our difficult desti nation, but ?hey were not of a very elaborate eharai ter. )V<- planted five flegs at tho top i tho world. The first one was a Ilk American flag which Mrs. Peary gave me fifteen LIFE TERMS TO TWO IN MURDER McCoy and Spaulding Equally Guilty in Stringer Case. j Two men pay the penalty for the mur der of Detective Leo Stringer. Earl McCoy, negro, was found guilty of the murder and bis penalty fixed at life Imprisonment by & Jury, whose ver ; diet was read In criminal court ut b i o’clock today. The verdict was reached ; at 5:45 last evening and sealed, j Abe Sapuldiug, negro, waa found guilty j of the murder by a Jury last week anti j his penalty also was fixed at life In- - ] prison men t. j The two Juries found the men equally ! guilty. The state contended that Spauitl j log did the actual shooting of Detective j Stringer. Spaulding accused McCoy of the raur ; der and McCoy accused Spaulding. Spaulding was sentenced last week and ; MfCoy was sentenced today after the ' verdtet wbs read. Both will be taken to prison at once, the officers state. l Detective Stringer, wiio was a special j detective for the Lnko Erie A Western ! Railroad, was killed on Oct. 30, last, when he attempted to prevent McCoy and Spaulding from stealing coal from a ! car In the railroad yards. Stringer, who formerly wa a city de ' teetlve, wa* sworn in aa a special detec j live for the railroad to break up coal stealing at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of Oct. 30. About Bp. in. the same day he was murdered. PATRIOTIC PLEA MADE IN COURT Newberry Defense Scores Lonff-Foupht Point. GRAND RAPIDS, Mlelu. FVb. 20. - Patriotism—and other burning Issues 1018—were rekindled to flames at today’s : wsslou of the Newberry elections fraud and conspiracy trial. j Incidentally, the defense for the fir-t j time was successful in Its unremitting j effort* aince the trial’s Initiation to get 1 liefore the Jury its version of the pn i triotic motives which actuated the bitter j Xcwberry-Ford senatorial fight in 1318 Through questions put to Clnlre It. i Higbee, grand Juror, who had testified re ! gnrdlng te*tlmony of the 123 defendants, j <icorge E. Nichols for the defense re hearsed the entire pacifist vs. tnilltant question. One of the main contentions of the defense-that the defendants on trial were actuated by patriotic motives --was read into the record. Previous attempts to establish this point have been ruled out by the court. GRAIN DEALERS FIGHT GRONNA Association Secretary Says Bill Would Injure Trade. The passage of tho Gronna bill, now pending before congress, which will re peal the wheat guarantee law and abol ish the United States Grain Corporation, will be a serious blow to grain dealers if passed, according to Charles B. Riley, secretary of the Indiana Grain Dealerts' association. Mr. Rilsy has Issued a statement in which he declare* that It It. extremely hazardous at the present tlm for grain dealers and millers to buy wheat at any price, due to an unstable market. Ho also said that In his opinion tho gov ernment could not avoid its guarantee to the producer, yet he maintained that if the grain corporation was destroyed a great deal of loss and trouble would devolve upon grain dealers and millers. Farmers are supporting passage of the bill. Mr. Riley also warned grain shippers to refrain from paying tax on foreign shipments until the outcome of an in junction suit which is to be filed in the federal court is known. WOULD AMEND VOLSTEAD ACT House Bill Asks for Vote on Beer and Wine Issue. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. An amend- j ment to the Volstead prohibition enforce ment act permitting a referendum vote by the people on whether the sale of 2.75 per cent beer and light wines shall be permitted Is proposed In a bill Intro duced In the house today by Represent ative Mlnaban. Representative Minaban said this leg islation should be enacted speedily “be cause It meets the manifest wishes of large numbers of the American people, because in meeting their wishes In a lib eral manner it will be a genuine help to ! law enforcement; because It Is truly j democratic in spirit; because it recog nizes that American people can take care 5 of themselves aud do not need narrow paternalistic legislative restrictions to govern their dally lives, and because it promotes true temperance in far greater degree than restrictive laws which breed discontent, social unrest and attempts at evasion of Vaw.” ) By Carrier. Week. Indianapolis. Me; Subscription Rate*. { Elsewhere, lie. By Mall. 50c Per Month. yars ago. That flag has done more traveling In high altitudes than any other ever made. “After I had planted the American flag in the Ice, I told Henson to time the Eskimos for three rousing cheers, which they gave with the greatest enthusiasm. Thereupon* I shook hands with each member of the party, surely a sufficiently un cermonlous affair to mtet with the approval #f the moat, democratic. “Then in a space between the Ice blocks of a pressure ridge 1 deposited a glass bottle containing a diagonal strip of my flag and records.” (Copyrighted. UXXi, by Frederick A. Stokes Company and reproduced by permission.) Save Stitches For Thread’s Going Up Now A stitch in time saves nine, but whatta you gonn-i do if you haven't got the stitch? * To be perfectly frank tbere’& a fam ine In thread. Yep. if some of you men are In the habit of sewing on your own buttons or mending your old breeches, ymi’d better yourself. Thread ranging from sizes 40 to 60 is Just about cleaned out In the notions departments of downtown store*. Some stores are entirely out of these sizes. According to the buyer in one store the scarcity is caused by the changing over of the factories to the manufacture of larger spools. In other words, the factories In the future will concentrate in the manufacture of 250-yard spools In stead of the smaller spools, which has always been the custom. Then, too, thread bag Joined In the high price parade. Bark in 1917 one could buy a spool of 200 yards of thread for 5 cents. The new 250-yard spool sc-lls at 15 cents. EMPIRE STATE FIXING PLANKS Woman Not to Be in York’s Republican Big Four. NEW YORK. Feb. 20.—Adoption of resolutions expected to outline possible planks In the national platform and se lection of four delegate* nt-large and four alternates to the Chicago convention, constituted the important business of the republican unofficial state convention here today. Elihu Root, as temporary chairman, madae the keynote speech at the initial session. Unless the pence treaty Is adopted with reservations, he satd, the republicans should muke it an Issue of the national campaign. In connection with labor problems he said: “We should by law limit the right to strike at the point where it coms In con flict with the communities' higher right of self-determination.” Hopes of the republican women to win a place among the four delegates at large to the national convention were dis pelled when stute leaders selected Nathan Miller, Syracuse, to take the place for which Elihu Root had been suggested. HIGHER SERVICE PAY IS BLOCKED House Blocks Bill for All in Army and Navy. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.— Passage of legislation providing for the Increasing of the salaries of officers and men of the army, navy, marine corps, coast guard and public health service lias been delayed by the refusal of the house to agree to the appointment of a con ference committee on the measure. The house passed the Kelly bill pro viding for the navy nnd marine corps. Tho Wadsworth bill providing for al! branches of the service was passed in the senate. The senate substituted the Wadsworth bill for the Kelly bill and asked for a conference committee to draff a final bllL “The house steering committee refused to agree to n conference, wishing only to provide for the navy,” Senator Page, chairman of senate naval affair* com mittee, said today. “This will delay the passage of the bill. .The house can change its opinion and a conference re port can be agreed to expediting the passage of the bill." VOTE UPHOLDS ARMY TRAINING House Committee Approves Universal Plan. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Universal military training, to be instituted on July 1, 1922, was approved today by the houso military committee by a vote of 11 to 9. Quit Worrying if You Talk in Sleep CHICAGO Feb. 20.—What a man Bays when no talks in his sleep has no positive bearing on his dally thoughts, according to a judge’s rul, Ing In a divoice case, made public today. So, when William Henry Valias, a well-to-do manufacturer, murmurqd “Sis” while deep asleep one night, bo, was nor thinking of his stenog rapher, with whom his wife alleged I he was infatuated. “What, a person may say while dreaming may be the exact opposite of what he may say or think in actual consciousness," ruled Judge George Fred Rush, who heard the case, ordering that portion of Mrs. Valla’s testimony stricken from the ' record. EXPLORER DEAD | ROBKRT E. PEARY. RAIL GUARANTY LAW IS FOUGHT Fixed Return of 5 1-2 Per Cent V igorously Opposed. WASHINGTON, Feb 20.—A concerted act on the guaranty section of the rail road bill appeared today as the main obstacle that proponents of the measure must overcome If It Is to be passed by congress before the return of the lines to their owners March 1 by presidential proclamation. Organized labor is backing up the stand of the majority of the house demo crat-- that the guaranty provisions mean higher rates and give undue advantages to the railroad owners. The prrt oi the bill under fire is the section order ing the Interstate commerce commission to adjust rate# so the roads may be guaranteed a return of 5Va per cent on f their aggregate property. Labor and the railroad brotherhoods, according to a 'memorial snlmitted to congress, appear to lie more opposed tj this provision than the pla; In the bill for arbitration of labor and sputes, al though several details of this system are attacked. It Is regarded as possible that passage of the biil may upset entirely the semi agreement for settlement of wage de mands reached between the president and the rail union leaders. This will be de termined Monday when general chairmen of all the road unions meet here in spe cial session. The general chairmen are closer to the rank and file of the workers than the International officers who have been conducting the negotiations with Rail Director Hines and the president. LIFEBOATS WAIT CREW OF FIFTY Passengers Also Stay in Periled Ship Off Chicago. CHICAGO, Feb. 20—The $50,000 cargo was removed today from the steamship Alabama, fast on a submerged concrete superstructure of an abandoned crib off the Chicago harbor. j The vessel was taking water and sev eral feet were reported in all holds. The engine room was protected by ws ter-tlght bulkhead doors and the pumps were kept in operation. Although the crew of fifty men was still standing by, lifeboats were slung over the side ready for any emergency. A few passengers, all men, were aboard. With the cargo removed, further at tempts were to be made to pull the ves sel off the cr.u by tugs. A fog hung over the lake yesterday and (’apt. Elmer Reddenger in attempt ing to pick his way around an Ice field, encountered the crib. The vessel was bound from Muskegon to Chicago. GROWERS RAP SUGAR PIRATES Refiners Under Fire in Com parisons on Prices. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Evidence in dicative of profiteering in sugar was laid today before representatives of 4,000,000 farmers assembled here to plan a fight against rising prices, according to C. G. Patterson of Salt Lake City, president of the Beet Growers' assocK ntlon, who prepared the evidence. “Farmers receive sl2 for one ton of ; sugar beets,” said Patterson. “One ton ; of beets produces abdut 300 pounds of sugar, which now brings "*the retail dealer about ssl. Who gets the surplus $30?” After leaving the farmer the beets go to the refiner, who takes a profit and passes the sugar aloug to the whole- 1 saler and the retailer. “The refiner gets many by-products which sell’ for enough to pay the cost of refining,” Patterson said. The delegates also were to hear a re port of the resolutions committee dealing with plans for co-operative dealing be tween farmer and consumer. Senator Poindexter, will address the fanners tonight Four in Bandit Gang Collect Union Dues CHICAGO, Feb. 20.—Four robbers to day held up thirteen members of the International Moulders’ Union and took $2,000 collected as dues from tho cash drawer, in charge of Paul Becker, finan cial alcretary. The bandit* escaped. Home EDITION jf TWO CENTS. ILL TWO YEARS, ! EXPLORER DIES IN WASHINGTON Recalls Famous Event of 190fl| and Controversy With ‘Doctor Cook’. BLOOD SUPPLIED IN YAINI WASHINGTON'. Feb. 20.—Rea* Admiral Robert E. Peary, discovere* of the north pole, died at his homfik here early today after an Illness otf several weekß, as the result of pen* nlcious anemia. Rear Admiral Peary bad been sn#< sering for nearly two years. A few weeks ago he underwent an opera* Uon for blood transfusion, but this failed to relieve him. $ Those offering their blood for the transfusion operations were enlisted men of the navy and attaches of the naval hospital. WIFE AND DAUGHTER AT DEATHBED. The relatives with him when ho died were the wife, hi# daughter, Mrs. Edward Stafford, famous as the “snow baby,” bom in the Arctic; his son, IRfhert E. Peary Jr., and his niece, Miss Madge Dleditsch. v Peary’s last public appearance was In February, 1919, when he Introduced Stefansson. the Arctic explorer, to tho National Geographic society at a meet ing here. Peary has been a close follow er of aviation development, and was pres ident of the Aerial League of America and a member of the board of governor* of the aero board of America. Teary, although born in Pennsylvania and in later life a resident of Wash ington, was claimed a# a son of Maine. The Roosevelt, the ship that carried hi# party to the pole, was built In a Maine shipyard and Peary for many years lived during his summers on an Island In Casco bay, near Portland, Me. In fact be owned several Islands In that ! neighborhood. FIRST TRIP NORTH 34 YEARS AGO. It v is In 1880 that Peary, then but 30 year* old, made his first trip north and aught the Arctic fever, a “malady” be was never able to cure. From that date to September. 1909. was a continu ous period of planning and effort t® reach the top of the world. Ills Initial trip was for the purpoaa ' of making a reconnolsance of the Greea ! land Ice cape. It was on Sept. 13, 1909, that Com mander Peary cast the first shadow ove® . the claims of Dr. Cook, that he had dia covered the North pole. “I have hina nailed,” he telegraphed Mrs. Peary, who from tho first had disbelieved Dr. Cook's j story of finding the pole. It was on Sept. 6, 1909, that Peary'* announcement that he had “nailed tha stars and stripes to the pole” was re j celved in America. That was five days after Dr. Cook had sent a telegram to Denmark declaring he had found th pole. Bom In Cresson. Pa.. May , 1856, Teary go his early education at a Nortk Bridgeton. Me., academy and later en tered Bowdoiu college from which h® was graduated In 1877. lie entered tha United States navy In 1881 as a civil i engineer. MANY TRIPS MADE TO ENLARGE KNOWLEDGE. In 1893 Peary went north to study tha habits of a tribe of Esqulmos. This voyage lasted until 1895. The fourth and fifth Journeys were In reality summer trips to the northlauda to enlarge the explorer's knowledge of the habits and customs of the people In IX9B Peary took bis sixth trip. Peary’s most serious attempt to reach the pole, with the exception of the trip on which he actually succeeded, was on his eighth Journey, begun In July, 1906, It was on this journey that he and his party, traveling on the Roosevelt, en j countered so many obstacles and suf fered such privations. Teary reached “fartherest north” on April 21, 1900, Just three years to a day before the day Dr. Cook ascribed as his date of alleged discovery of the pola, Peary's readings showed he was then at a latitude of 87 degrees and 17 minutes. Forced to leave most of his supplies be hind to lighten the load on the dogaled% l’eary realized that If he attained his am bition and dashed for the pole, he an<| every man and dog In the party woul<| die of starvation and exposure on th< j wav back. SUCCESS ACHIEVED IN JULY, 1906. The final dash for the pole that at last proved successful was started on July 6, 1908. His date of discovery was given as April 6. 1909. Since his triumphal return from hla Arctic expedition and the subsequent controversy over the discovery of tha north pole, Admiral Peary has not been in the best of health. Two years ago hla ailments became more serious and ho has been fighting against an anemic con dition for many months. He submitted to the blood transfusion operation after physicians had decided it was his only hope for life, but though he rallied from • the immediate effects of the operation. It failed to ward off the disease, which was gradually dragging him down. Ad miral Peary was one of the most pic turesque figures In American history. Peary spent thirty hours at and beyond the pole. The Journey to the pole wsa made in twenty-one marches and tho return trip to Cape Columbia was mada in sixteen marches. For his discovery lie was given the thanks of congress by a special act of congress, made a rear admiral and showered with decorations and honors from every government In the world. Grain of Corn Sends Boy, 5, to Hospital Clifford Burkett, 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Burkett of Shelbjrvlll*, won’t try to swallow a grain of com soon again. • While feeding chickens he also sod a grain of corn to himself. It was neces sary to bring him to the Robert W. Long ospltal here nnd have surgeons remove it. He’s none the worse for his - ■ perience, it is said. KIDNAPED AMERICAN FREED. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—W. W. Adams, American cltlaen, who was kid naped by Mexican bandits Feb. 18 ha Zacatecas, has been released, tha dsl> department was advised today.