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ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SERVICE
J. L. & S. GILLESPIE, Editors and Publishers
GREENWOOD, LEFLORE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 27, 1920
SUBSCRIPTION: 8 g^5c
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VOLUME 4-NUMBER 155
TOURIST TRAFFIC
RESUMPTION IS
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Wanted Throughout Italy Despite the
Shortage of Hotels and Limited
Housing Facilities.
Associated Press
ROME, Feb. 27—Demand for im-;
mediate resumption of foreign tourist
traffic is general in Italy despite a
shortage of hotels and limited hous- 1
ing facilities. Premier Nitti and oth- '
er government officials have declared
it important to bring foreigners to
Italy so as to lessen the balance of
trade against this country and im
In no peace time within the last 40 :
years have there been so few Amer- 1
icans in Rome as at present. Their a
number is said to be about 300. The
hotels are virtually all crowded with
Italians. Tourists who corné without
making reservations in advance find it
difficult to obtain accommodation. The
government requisitioned 50 of the
largest hotels in Rome for war work
so that hotel space is far below nor- !
Hotel keepers are making vigorous
' efforts to recover the use of their ho
telries and each week a few hotels are
1 turned back to their proprietors. But
Rome has grown from 550,000 to 800,- j
000 since the beginning of the war
and lack of apartments and houses
has lorced Italian families into ho- ;
tels as rapidly as the rooms become
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prove the exchange rates.
mal.
available.
Space will be found, nevertheless, ;
for American tourists if they come to
Rome, said an officer of the Hotelkeep
ers' Association to The Associated
. Press. The hotel managers have ;
granted no u ases to Italians and, it
is stated, will give preference to tour
ists. It is pointed out that exchange
rates are so favorable to Aemncans
that the charges of Italian hotels
W Ttalian C °rTnvv r a^°are 1 making prep-!
ration»; for a heavv tourist traffic
next surine The hope "s generllln
rates are so favorable to Americans I
will come to Italy in large numbers
within a few months. If so they will
not find conditions normal. Motor,
transportation is said to be almost out
of the question. The cost of petrol is
prohibitive and it is so prohibitive and
it is so scarce that it cannot be had
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Movement Launched In o io y n j
iversity Students Spreads To All
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Associated Press
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HONOLULU, T. H., Feb. 27—The
movement recently launched in Tokio
by university students for universal
suffrage in Japan has spread to all
parts of the country and to Korea an _^
Manchuria as well, according to Tokio
advices to the Hawaii Hochi, a local
The police bureau of the Home Af
fairs Department has instructed pre
fectural police chiefs to restrict suff
rage agitation, the Hochi's correspon
dent adds.
Two of the opposition parties in the
lower House of the Japanese Diet, the
Kokuminto and Kense ; kai, recently
introduced a universal suffrage meas-.
in the Chamber of Deputies.
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Motor cars also are scarce and trans
portation by that method high.
in unlimited quantities at any price.
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FOR UNIVERSAL
SUFFRAGE JAPAN
Parts of The Country.
Capt. James T. Buckleyt^of Winona,
Deputy United States Marshal, was in
th ecity today on business with Gen
Japanese language daily.
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TO MEET THE HIGH
COST OF LIVING
Candidates For Rhodes Scholarships
lit Oxford University Have To
Pay $250 Extra Yearly.
Associated Press^
OXFORD, Feb. 27—Candidates for
Rhodes Scholarships in Oxford Uni
versity will have to pay an extra $260
yearly to meet the increased cost of
living, as the present scholarship of
flJKK) "ia longer sufficient to cov
he expenses of a full year, indud
terms mnd vacations." This is
ited out in the statement of thq
ém Trust for 101». The trustees
grant of a
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MEETINGS BEEN
HDD IN TURKEY!
To Protest Against The Removal Of j
The Sultan And His Government
From Constantinople.
Associated Press
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 27 —I
Meetings have been held throughout
Turkey for several weeks to protest
against the removal of the Sultan and
his government from Constantinople,
which has been rumored. One hun
dred thousand Turkish men and wom
en attended the meeting held here.
The Crown Prince occupied a seat on
the speaker's stand and, for the first
time, it is said, in the history of the
Turkish Empire, the women addressed
a political meting and discussed mea
usures to be taken to save the remnants
of Turkey in Europe.
Resolutions were adopted and dele
gâtions appointed to deliver them to
representatives of the Entente here,
In these it was declared that Con
stantinople, being the seat of the Cal
! ifate, and the Thracian hinterland
around Constantinople should remain
Turkish; that Smyrna, "the outlet of
western Anatolia," should be saved
from foreign hands; that the Southern
and Eastern provinces in which Turk
j s h populations are in the* majority
should remain Turkish and that the
rights of the minorities of the Christ
; Jan elements in Turkey and Turkish
elements in the Balkans should "be
i settled on an equal basis."
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Rotary Club Was
Organized Last Night
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Governor Ben Brown, of Louisiana,
organized the Rotary club of Green- i
wQod yesterday . The first mee ting!
^ ^ ^ night at the Confederate)
Memorial Building. After a delight-j
ful banquet ' a number of speeches*
were made b ^ tbe visitin £ Rotanans,
and the lofty idea,S f ° r wh * h
I stands ' were brou £ ht out an exp am
then begun and the foUow ing
compose the ehartw members: R. C.
R ^ G L Ray> j g Love> W . R .
H ' hrey> g R Keesler, John Ash
cr » ft w M Hamner> W . b. Dickins,
ed of the following men; J. S. X J ° ve ' f
I W .M. Hamner, W. R. Humphrey, E.j
: K. Myrick, C. R. Crull and the officers
; are J. S. Love, president; W. M. Ham-j
j ner> v ice-pres.; W. R. Humphrey, ;
2nd vice-pres.; E. L. Whittington, aec 'i
; retary and treasurer; C. R. Crull, ser ' ;
geant-at-arms.
This club will have regular weekly,
meetings for fellowship and discus
; sion of problems. The mottoes are.
; «» Serv i ce abo ve Self," and "He Profits
]yj os t Who Serves Best.' A complete
j accour ,t of what Rotary is and stands
j f cr wd j ^ published in tomorrow s
i paper.
^dgred during the banquet by Mes
dames Harper, Holly,
j and Miss j anes Casey,
j rp be exce n e nt five-course menu was
served b y members of the King's
daughters Circle,
ed fully.
The business of organization was
men
I. T. McIntyre, C. R. Crull, Geo. Wil
son, Jr., W. C. McBee, J. W. Quinn,
^ D Duncan> c E Saunders, Dr.
James Moore, W. L. Craig, C. E. £
Wright, G. A. Wade, E. K. .
B. Schlater, F^ P. Fox and E. L. Whit-,
; tington.
The Board of Directors is compos
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LONDON, Feb. 27—Two young ar
in igtocrats are going to California to
j , f the film world . They
Captain Vesey A. Davoren, "The
an Irishman who. claims !
to be a descendant on -his mother's
side from the great Duke of Welling
Zt a"d on his father's side fron,
Wrt kings; and Eliot Gordon, nep
earl and heir to big estates
beautiful musical program
was
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Seek Film Fame
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are
O'Davoren,
hew of an
; i n Hertfordshire. Both have already
I played in films here.
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Preacher Refuses
. Salary Increase!
Associated Press
f BRISTOL, Feb. 27—The Rev. Gus
tav Francis Beckh, a native of San
Francisco, who is pastor of the Oak
field Unitarian Church here, has caus
ed some comment by refusing to ac
cept wi increase of 60 pounds in his
stipend offered by his congregation.
Dr. Bac)(h, who is married and has
one child .receives 260 pounds a year.
Ha said many of his congregation had
been hard hit by the war and that
all the clergy have a right to ask for
is, shelter, clothes, access to educa
tion for their children, and a mini
mum of leisftre.
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Manifested Toward Some British Of
ficers On Their Recent Visit.
Associated Pre^s
KIEL> Feb . 27—The intense feeling
ex j s ti n g i n Germany against Eng
land was manifested toward some
British officers w ho accompanied the
Inter-Allied Commission of Control
on a recent visit here. The town was
crowded with German sailors who Ma
were clean and smartly d^ssad.
They passed by with averted faces;!
but civilians on the contrary show-'*'
ed the keenest interest and stared at
the visitors, occasionally remarking
"Gott strafe England'.' The British
visitors took no notice and walked on,
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tervals. - of
The shopkeepers, however, were quite
f r i end l y and trade became very brisk.
Fur ^ ber evidence of the present at
^ Rude 0 f ^he Germans was forthcom
^ tbe gj e j Canal, where the chil- !
; dren gatbered on tbe banks invariably
'i sbouted out t b e old cry of "Gott strafe
; England."
Qne man cr j ed "w e will have you
whüe the final effort at the close
^ ^ return journey was that of the by
.. .. ho proc i a i m ed: "We shall
anot h er war in five years time."
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Men And Women i
£ 0 jj 0Wed by a t ra j n Q f small boys
'jmany of whom repeated in a childish
„ Gott Strafe England" at in
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Are l*amDiers
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MADRID Feb. 27—This country,
the men and women of which have ed
the reputation of being willing to put
their last °" ^™ ged ga gp ® h ° a
C ia C 'f crambline' as that which is
wave of gambling as that w^ch ^s
now flowing over the country ana nas
been in existence since the conclusion j
i of the war. Casinos have been erected
the borders of the larger cities, so q»
as not to interfere with the conces
sions in the cities. These gambling
houses are crowded during the after
noons and evenings and until late in
! the morning with men and women
playing games m which the odds eg
against them made it impossible f<*
any but the extremely tacky to a™.
The newspapers have started a cam
paign against this gambl.ng in Mad
rid especially where, as one newspa
per put it, "men and women are pau
perized in gambling houses which op
erate under government license and
then turped on the streets to beg.
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Relief Funds For
Armenian Sufferers
On last Sunday night at the Union
service at tbe Methodist church an of -1
fering was made for the Armenian
Sufferers and the neat sum of
contributed, which was duly for-1
warded to the Mississippi headquart
ers at Jackson.
I Any one who feels like making a
Contribution to this worthy cause can)
send it in to The Daily Commonwealth |
»«d it will go forward to proper par
ties.
r AU contributions will be acknowl
edged in the cohunaa bf this papek.
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NEW YORK COTTON MARKET
Open High Low Close Cose
Prev.
37.50 37.95 37.35 37.67 37.67)
May - - 34.76 35.15 34.55 34.89 34.901
July - - 32.30 32.67 31.93 32.20 32.52)
Closed unchanged to 32 down.
New York Spots 39.65—20 down.
Mar. -
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON MARKET
Open High Low Close Cose
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Mar - ' ' 38.55 Ô8.95 38.55 38.88 38.66)
Ma y ' ' 35.50 35.74 35.30 35.42 35.52)
«^y - ~ )32.90 331.6 3 2.66 32.83j33.071
CÎosed 24 down to Î2 up.
New Orleans Spots 40.25.
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON LETTER.
(From J. F. Clark & Co.,
by Abe Silver.)
Liverpool is disappointing with
near futures lower than due and spots
42 down, sales 4,000. Cables said lack
of storage room and tighter money
affecting the market. | al
The Wall St. review says there is
nothing to cast a brighter hue on the
situation. Report that the Canadian
! Government placed an embargo on
dealings in foreign securities caused
comment. .Drygoods reports says cot
ton goods and yarns quiet with little
pressure reported.
New York Harbor tieup threatened
by strike of Marine engineers. Wash
ington says Farmers want veto of
Railroad bill as they declare it means
25 to 40 per cent increase in freight
! cbarges
i Strictness of the contract and sus
fli tained quotations on better grade cot
ton constitute a technical combination
with sustaining effect for Marchi fut
ures. The end of the month demand
I is thought to be about satisfied. Yes- :
terday , g gpot revision further widen
ed the allowance of gra des below Mid
dRn g by 25 points. !
° a Weather map shows fair the entire |
is belt ' "° P recl P ltatlon - Freezing cent- ;
^s &nd Easte b ^ lt warmer over
nas h Southwest. Indications are for In
j cloudiness warmer over the
^ g robably rain in Sout hwest '
so q» exas Generally fair and rising tem
peratures over the rest of belt.
The market acted irre gular, it ral- j
Ued whenever SO me March covering
in came Qn and react ed when this
guppQrt su bsided. New York still giv-1
eg evidenc# of technical strength in
f<*
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GREENWOOD COTTON RECEIPTS.
1918-19 receipts .
1917-18 receipts
Since Sept. 1, 1919 ..
Same date last year
Week ending Feb. 26
^ame week last year
Stock oq hand now ..
Same date last year
.160,064
133,197
.109,523
.135,916
. 1,244
. 2,021
. 29,547
_ 45,527
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MISSISSIPPI —Fair tonight and
for-1 Saturday ; continued cold tonight and
Saturday,
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can) T EMP ERATURE—Highest, 46 de
| gree8> lowest 26 degrees. Précipita
par- ^ ^ 1 . River gauge 28 feet;'fall
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The Bath To Be Installed With
Historic Ceremonials.
Associated Press
LONDON, Feb. 27—A solemn 'in
stallation of Knights Grand Cross of
fche 0rder of the Bat h will take place
^ &u the higtoric ceremonials in
the Henry VII hcapel of Westmins
ter Abbey during May, says the Ex
press the
Tt ie Chapel holds 36 stalls and the ™
s'cèhr eevived the. car-$
mony 7 years ago was one of mag
jnificent splendor surpassed, only by a
Coronation ceremony.
An outdoor procession from' the
Princes Chamber in the House of 1
Lords, where the Knights and Corn
panions put on their crimson robes 1
and white plumes, to the Abbey, will
be followed by a complete procession
| al and a rendering of th^ Te Deum.
The solemn Bath Ceremonies in the
chapel include ^the redemption of their as
swords by the Knigbis about to be
installed, the -actual installation by
the Sovereign as Grand Master, and
the taking of the Solemn Oath of the
Order,
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MADRID, Feb. 27—The young so
ciety girlg and youtbs 0 f Madrid have
takgn to the American habit of chew
ing gum and their elders have been
mucb exercised as a result.
: s ^ a j d conservative journal ,the A. B. *
c devoted recen tly a column to this
new practice which is denounced in
! s t rong terms.
| Accord j ng to the writer of this ar
; ticle gum c hev/ing is the result of
reading articles by Spanish writers
, h rPf . P ntl-r visited America 7
ImeriL p c ^res produced!^',
' &nd t0 th6 AmGncan piCtUreS P ro(luced
j Resumption Pre-War
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Associated Press
That
. in the Spanish cinema theatres.
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LONDON, Feb. 27—Resumption of
pre-war shipping relations with Ger- j
many is not progressing very smooth
ly. At Barry, the dockers refused to
load the Herdwig Fischer, a Germany
steamer which was to take a cargo j
of canned meat for Bremerhaven. She ;
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was thereupon sent to Av °?T£
where the dockèrs were reluctant to
do the work, but finally consented.
None of the German crew were allow
ed ashore. ^
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into possession of a piece of land un
der which it is estimated ther<? arc
2,000,000 tons of coal, has been offer
ed 70,000 pounds for his rights.
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Associated Press
CARDIFF, Wales, Feb* 27—George
Morgan, a miner who recently came
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AWAIT ANSWER
FROM WILSONS!
Latest Note To The Allied Supreme
Council. Wilson Has Stuck To His
Original Position.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—Official
circles are awaiting with interest to
day for the reply of the British and
! French Premiers to President Wil
| son's latest note on the Adriatic ques
j tion which should be delivered at the
j Whit* House not later than tomorrow.
j Publication of the previous exchan
i ges disclosed that President Wilson tlhe
! adhered to his original position that
i unless the Adriatic settlement be
| made on a basis of the December
agreement, to which the United ed
States was a party, instead of the
i London pact which the United States n
have declined to acquiesce in, he will
be placed in a position where he "may ers
take under consideration" the question
of withdrawing from the Treaty of the
Versailles and the French alliance
from the Senate.
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Domestic Reservations
Before the Senate;
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—Domestic
questions of the reservations to the
^ „ ere
peace treaty arc up for co.sideration
of the Senate today, following the ing
j y est " da y » vo*» o f «* *o
4 oi the reservation regarding man
: datories.
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Find No Objection
To Railroad Bill
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Associated Press
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SHINGTON, Feb. 27 Attorney,
general Palmer has informed the;
President that he saw no constitu-j
tloaal objectmns to the compromise
raür ° ad bl " whlch was returned to! to
the White House today by the depart
™ ent °f i^tice, to which it Wa s re- j
car-$ rr f d ^Wednesday for an opinion as to
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Sir Auckland GeddeS !
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inquiry was made by the British em
bassy at the State Department today
as to the acceptability if Sir Auchland
Geddes to be Ambassador to the Unf^
ted States.
Rpgrîri InVestifiTatlOn
Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Feb.
27—Formal
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Of Liquor Rebellion
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IRON RIVER, Feb. 27—Feb. 27
I George F. Comer Ford, special agent
i of the Department of Justice, today
began federal investigation of the
Iron county prohibition fracas.
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ArkängäS Authorized
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Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—The War
of Department today authorized Arkan
gag P to organize J regiment of infan _
7 . - . ,
& ^ ^ e ^ ineers and a
motor ambulance company as its quo
Archduke Engaged
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To Mme. RoSa Jackel
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To Organize Infantry
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ta of national guards.
Associated Press
of LONDON, Feb. 2f—Archduke Jos
j eph Ferdinand, head of the house of
Tuscany, has become engaged to Mme.
to Rösa Jackel, widow of an officer in the
arm y ,if reports reaching here from
j Berlin be true.
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MADRID, Jan. 27 All central Spain
.including Madrid has enjoyed perfect
springlike weather during the first,
three weeks of January. On Sundays
and holidays the open air cafes in the
surrounding foothills have been
crowded with patrons taking their
midday meal in the open air,- while I
the hills themselves have been spot
Springlike Weather
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ted with family picnic parties. j
weather nas done much
The fine
to check the epidemic of influenza
which was causing so many deaths in
December.
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SUPREME COURT.
American People Assured There Is No ^
Possibility of Food Monopoly
By Packers.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—The
greed decree under which the "Big
Five'' packers were forever enjoined
from engaging in any line of business
other than that of handling meat and
produce, was filed in the District of
Columbia supreme court today by At
torney General Palmer, Counsel for
tlhe packers in a statement
court, said that the
agreed to by the defendants
cause of guilt for they had not violat
ed any law, but that the American
people may be assured that there is
n °t the remotest possibility of food
monopoly by the packers." The pack
ers after hearing the satements of the
counsel, Chief Justice McCoy signed
the injunction making the agreement
effective,
a
to the
decree was
'not be
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Massacre Of Armenians
Was Overestimated
Associated Press
LONDON,
dispatch announces that the French
a sev
Feb. 27—An official
forces which have been having
ere struggle with Turkish forces at
Marxsh, Syria, succeeded in extficat
ing themselves after had fighting. A
message from the same source con
firms the reports of massacres of Ar
menians ip* the Marash district but
do not substantiate the statement that
the number slaughtered were several
thousand.
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Russian Soviets On
Chinese Frontier
Russian Soviet forces have advanced
to the Chinese frontier in the Ila riv
er area in northwestern Turkestan,
j fording to dispatches to the war of
Lee. They are said to have demande«!
mese governor of the province
; o »» îango to give up the Russian
! ^ nsul and a11 and , to allo ' v
[ tbe a PP°* n t nien t of Bolshevik consuls
LONDON, Feb. 27—(Thursday)
in the provinces.
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COHON GOODS
MANUFACTURERS
Profiteers of Worst Sort, Says Con
necticut Representative.
ported For Invasion.
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! WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—Inquiry
i into reasons for the enormous advan
1 ces in the price of cotton goods would
conducted by the Federal Trade
Commission under a resolution order
cd favorably reported today by the
house interstate commerce committee.
Representative Tilson, Republican
from Connecticut ,the author of the
1 resolution, told the committee that the
f, otto " BOOd * l "' anufac * u, ' e, ' s „
"profiteers of the worst sort.
said prices advanced 600 per cent
since 1914 although the cost of cotton
and mill labor has not shown any
where near such advance.
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ESTIMATED VALUE
OF THE ESTATES
Which Belonged To The Former Ger
man Emperor And His Family May
Reach 1,000,000,000 Marks.
BERLIN, Feb. 27 The value of
the estates which belonged to the for
mer German Emperor and his family
may reach 1,000,000,000 marks,
In
attempting to fix the compensation
to Count Hohenzollern for that part of
I his private property taken over by the
state, the authorities have experienc
I ed difficulty in deciding what part
* belonged to the Crown and how much
! was strickly private.
The difficulty arose in part from
the fact that the appraisers have had
to inventory properties which have
been accumulating for five centuries.
The settlement will be dictated, it
it stated, by a desire to offer to the
Hohenzollems a generous adjustment,
I Their acquiescence is said to have
been obtained to the bill in the Prus
j sian Diet to pay the former Emper
or 100,000,000 marks for property ta
ken and 'permit him to retain a num
in ber of castles, real estate and person
al property.