Ar'* : £ ■ rcMJpï W> m ■w - ç M\i '•y ■ v* ; : -*5T s?*«®* rU?w 1 f Sv "V.' 4* t *' ' ' -% PH % * - isf : .r « - 1 öl $ nF m i'-m :„#r * % i * v M ■■■*. -die # A. «SF .' *1 « , -4 £-fc V ZT - « ? BUBÜSHED É^ERŸ -AJ I J. L. & ,S. GILLESPIffi Ed itors and Publishers VOLUME 4—NUMBER 210 4 1 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SERVICE HU Al > _r_ ä_ -*• GREENWOOD, LEFLORE. CÔUNTY • -- ^ lJ* MAY 1, 1920 ' LMW 1 SUBSCRIPTION : ,S< SINGLE COPY r^, PER MONTH 60c ov ' HER YEAR $6.00 «i » Ä_ MANY FAMILIES ; CHICAGO GO ON A RENT STRIKE s,:* Refuse To Vacate Their | Apartments In Com pliance Orders. ; TEN THOUSAND ARE IN STRIKE n V Will Defy Landlords Ef forts To Evict Them From Premises » Associated Press CHICAGO, May 1—Thousands of families in Chicago went on a "rent strike' today, refusing to vacate ap artments in accordance with May. Day moving oi'ders, according to S. J. Stan dish, president of the Chicago Ten anta Protective League, who predict ed that 10,000 tenants would defy the efforts of the landlords to evoct them.; * ' \, I o \ Methodist Revival Increases In Interest A larger congregation attended the revival services ^.at the Methodist Church last night than on the prev ious evening, and Dr. Shade Walker delivered an intensely interesting ser mon. Considerable interest is already be ing manifested in these revival meet ings, and the attendance will contin ue to increase as they progress. Dr. Walker will preach tonight at 8 o'clock, Sunday morning at 11 and evenitig at 8. An invitation is extended the public to attend each service, morning and evening. •< -o COMMUNITY SING AT THE THEATRE I \ Numbers Of Splendid Selections Will Be Rendered By The Band At The Sunday Concert. The regular Sunday band concert J and community sing will be seid at ; • four oelock Sunday afternoon in the special vocal numbers to be announc-1 be 'rende red^bv'' the band are Auber's 1 be rendered by the band aie . „j famous French overture Masamello, I written as the prelude to the musical! dramatization of \ictor Hugos Hxm Greenwood theatre. There are no the popular chback of Notre Dame," selection of melodies from the English opera, "Maritana," by Vincent Wal * lace (this number being played byj special request); one of Victor Her bert's daintiest compositions, entitled) "A1 Fresco;' and a reminiscent sug-! gestion, "The Approach of Spring, written by Chriatian Bach, theAmeri-, descendant of the great Father ' , probably one of the most famous bass solos ever written and as rendered by Mr. Carl Taylor, basso of the local band, is truly well worth coming to; hes * r ' As the mass singing on pr. k Sundays has been so wel taken hoM of and has seemed °J'' esu Ä 1 wm I," rr^ndi! tion of old time favorite and "'no admission is chafed no, coi lection is taken up, and everybody is » can , of Harmony." The "Maritana" selec tion mentioned above contains what is • welcome. à n -o CIRCUIT COURT OPENS MONDAY;: \ Petit Jurors For The Week And Grand Jurymen Have Been Summoned »—Judge Davis To Preside. The May term of Circuit Court will convene in Greenwood on Monday morning, May 3rd, with Judge S. F. Davis of Indianola presiding. The first three weeks will be occupied with Civil cases and during the last docket will be -week the criminal tried. About 192 civil cases will be tried at O»« term and 60 criminal cases are scheduled to be called. Among the are five murderers which are confined in the county jail. The petit jurors for the first week and the grand jury, have been sum ' wned and will be impended Monday. : % criminal cases ...» K F Ü IS MANY PEOPLE ARE SUPPORTED In „ n A M l ■ —.'*■ ■k % . V * ; By Levy On - Tax-Payers, AccordingTo The Eight O'clock. * The - » / Associated Press f. VIENNA, the population of Austria, 1,200,000 members of the families of Central, provincial and municipal government employees, are supported by'the tax payers, according to the paper NEW EIGjHT O'ÇLOCK, in an article ques tionlng a statement by the Finance Minister, Dr. Rersch. In the negotiations recently con cluded between the Qabinët Council and employees of the Central Govern ment for a general increase .in salaries and allowances the top heaviness of the Austrian governmental machine was revealed. Foreign observers and investigators having *to do with the peace settlement hâve repeatedly com mented on the extravagant number of civil servants en^ployed in all 'depart ments. May 1—One fifth of Dr. Reisch admitted in the discus sions that the civil list m^nberel 220, The NEW EIGHT 000 persons^ O'CLOCK, however, challenged those figures as too low and - declared that if the various liquidation commissions and other positions created under af t^r war conditions were taken into consideration it would be shown that there are not far from 300,000 govern ment employes. ** Austria has pnly 6,000,000 popula tion and it is estimated that each gov ernment salary supports £k family of four. The .newspapers generally are uniting in demand that the ci vil list be reduced by the; immediate dismis L I sal of ten per cent. The adjustment'Veached about Mar. 15 adds around 2,000,000,000 crowns, to the already appalling deficit that confronts the government. It is to be met by another increase in the price of tobacco products and in public util ity rates, such as railway freight and passenger, tariffs and possibly postage and telegraphs. About the only concession the gov ernment won was an increase in hours of from six to seven a day with the understanding that a possible exten sion to an eight-hour day would be the subject of fui'ther negotiation. Employes of the National States or provinces, apart from those of the Central Government, are also manding a heavy increase in salaries At first they made de and allowance. an effort to join forces with the latter ; became complicated and was defeated by the demand of the mun ieipal employes of Vienna to be ad to ^ combination favored by 1 the new £° vcrnment scale. Govern- ; „j me nt servants in Austria, enjoy a! I ^ low raiIway rate but among | ^ demandg they made , wh ich was!*® - efused , was free transportation. Figures just compiled show that in j ! 1913 an average of four persons, liv- 1 ing in the most modest manner^ an i eliminating all luxuries, spent ^'°^ , .while now the same j . 1 n point out that the increa-; j ^ waj?e scale is on l y another step in [the "vicious circle" and that the un ! controlled merchandizer will put up riceg correspondingly. On every the question iVasked: When! ^ the end come ? And what then ? to; Meanwhile the government says it cannot decrease the civil list and dis k ; miss so large a number of men, when ^ . g nQ employment open to them, | and emigration is practically prohi-j 1 Mted, It^would, they say, brin g about' popular;*™^ it is ' «Ta is crowns a year necessities, if available, would cost 1 231,898 crowns. The more thoughtful and serious firmly entrenched relic of the em pire, it is said, and to touch it wou ld mean political death for the govern ment brave enough to attempt it. ^ Jlesie*:**!*********^ -MISSISSIPPI Partly cloudy to night and Sunday, probably showers in the South portion. ■o s************** * THE WEATHER si * ■o Negro Boy Makes Escape From Jail F. be Luther Anderson, 10 year old negro boy, escaped from city jail yesterday morning and has disappeared, boy was given his breakfast at 8 o'clock yesterday morning, o'clock Chief of Police Bonner went to get the boy to take him before Judge Hughston for trial and found that he had gone. He escaped through the iron bars and wriggled through an op ening jabout six inches wide. The are the At 9 ■o Take the Daily Commonwealth ! . • -**-• ^ - lJ* - = =* M ■y 1 4fr 4M ^•SSÜ J*. ■v äm May '> r -* V # -Y *?£» > 4 tAmtmrn. X r: WHERE 00 Ute bfi öotrom J »TB H6«t, «»«fUj# /> ^ - i \ ^ gy ; ; 5? fj) A £C. m 7/2 » 1 7 i ■t m \ i V, *7/ : ? I °"i\l °o 1 t i i :i i i i ; iri Ooi ;1 m f : % } ft V. y ■ E' 4 m-* . •ar r % £ 1 j hi mm v\ ! ! * ■^y ty r m t „ of Kolchaks army in Trans-Baikalia , „ and the opposing Bolsheviki faction j. , . j, „ t>,, r according to reports from a Russian m, t . , . j source. The Japanese are declared , ,. -«r -j. l ft i „ to be supporting Voitzekoffsky. " Additional Markets For Food Selling _ TOKIO, May 1—Fifty more Public markets to sell food and other nec essities will be established here and in the suburbs by the Tokio prefect-) ure, 50 similar markets opened l ast year to adjust the price of commo dities having shown satisfactory re-; suits. j believed, to the tightness of the mon ' ey market. For the past week prices of various rice have have hail an aver A general slump in prices of stocks occurred today on the Tokio exchange. The drop was most noticeable in the cotton spinning companies. Prices of rice and silk also declined, due, it is age decline of six percent. ; ; j o COLONEL LEA MARRIED TODAY ; \yas Commander Of 114th Artillery; In The World War—Wed Miss Percie Warner. I NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 1—Col.) j Luke Lea, commander of the 114th Ar ! tiHcry in the world war, and forma 4 ' United States Senator, was marri* thej^W Mta Percie Warner of th.s C1 ty o Send Donations To Mrs. W. R. Humphrey ; j j j * All persons who have not been so licited for the Tri-State Crippled Children's Home, and who may be de of giving to this worthy cause, Please sirous can mail their checks to me. send the donations in by the last of the week. MRS. W. R. HUMPHREY, Chairman. -o I .jf..*.#.*#.****-***** 5 COTTON MARKETS 1 « ************** NEW YORK COTTON MARKET Open High Low Close C os y p Tev ;38J)6;38T0 37.97 38.00 37.95 35.16)35.28 35.16 35.20 35.17 - - 134.35 34.49 34.35 34.41 34.40 ~ July - Oct. Dec. Closed 1 to 5 up. New Orleans Spots 41.00—25 down. New York Market closed on count of May Day. -o Says Lever Act Is Unreasonable BUFFALO, May 1 —United States S. P. Judge Hazel today held the Lever Food Control Act provision as unjust and unreasonable. being CITIES IN EAST AND WEST UNDER GUARD OF POLICE Officials Are Ready To Cope With Any Sit uation. I of j ! j of SERIOUS TROUBLE IS NOT EXPECTED Many Radicals Are Un der Arrest In Chicacro And Other Places. Associated Press NEW YORK, May 1 The dawn of May Day found many cities of the East under strong police and military guard ip anticipation of possible acts re- oi violence by Radicals. In New York City the entire police force of | eleven thousand men were on duty. The soldiers at Governor's Island arc the Ad- were armed with one hundred rounds of ammunition and held in readiness for instant duty. Arrangements have been made to mobilize the state guard in case of I necessity and a hundred posts of the American Legion volunteered their services and the public buildings are closely guarded . Guards have been s ^ a ^ one ^ at homes of prominent men. The hundred meetings of the Radi cals scheduled to take place will be held under police protection and scru tiny. at of Seven men are under arrest at , Scranton, Pa. A regiment of State ' Guardsmen is patrolling the State . 1 , t .. , „ Capitol and public buildings at llart * ^ * , , . ■ .^ford, Conn. In several towns patriotic ' 1 j i observances were held to oltset pos . „ ' sible activities of the Extremists. j COMMUNISTS AT WORK. | WASHINGTON, May 1—While vo ports early today indicated the Com munist agitators were doing their ut j most to arouse the workers to a May 'Day "show of power," it is generally j predk . ted no violence will In* attempt -1 ef] and i ARRESTED CHICAGO. CHICAGO, May 1—The ast i state and city authorities ;tra j an( j Western States were prepar re-; 1 Federal, in the Cell ed to stamp out any disturbances in connection with the observance of May Day, but it is believed that no violence will be attempted. Fifteen hundred Radical suspects and alleged crimin als were arrested here. A Red flag was discovered flying ' j f rom a pole at a school house in a J t ydckly populated . the of is distriet Westside this morning and was removed under the direction of the police. o 12 THOUSAND OF I MINERS STRIKE : Men In Toronto Protest Against Strike Leaders Being Imprisoned—Gen eral Tie-Up Occurs. Associated Press Ar- ( 4 TORONTO, May 1—Twelve thous 1 and coal miners in the Sidney District th.s , May Day strike today in went on a protest against the imprisonment of whe leaders of the Winnipeg general strif.? last year, according to reports A general tie-up of the build here. ing trades in Ottawa is reported, with London, and so strike in The milk wagon drivers in street car ; Ontario. de- , Toronto have quit work, I ; a of 1 —o ORDERS RECOUNT NEW JERSEY VOTE * Chief .Justice Of Supreme Court To day Signed Tlje Order other Court To Be Taken. For An * os - . . , „ Tev Associated Press 37.95 NEWARK, N. J., May 1—Chief Jus 35.17 tice Gummerce of the Supreme Court 34.40 today signed an order for a recount of the vote cast Tuesday in the pres idential preference primaries for Sen ate," Johnson and General Wood. down. ac ' -o Street Car Men On Strike At Rochester Associated Press : I ROCHESTER. N. Y. May 1—Street States j car traffic at Rochester is at a stand result of a strike of Lever ; s tiH today as a being j employees, who demand an increase in wages of approximately 90 per cent.