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WEATHER FORECAST.
El Paso and west Texas, fair; New Mexico, fair,
little change in temperature; Ariroaa, fair, teopera
tare unchanged. .
TODAY'S PRICES.
I Pesos, 76; Mexican gold, $50; rationales, $19; tar
s3ver, H. & H. quotations, 99e; copper, 1919J4c;
j grain, lower; livestock, irregular; stocks, weak.
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CONGRESS DOES
NOT TRUST
WILSDN
Arranges So It Can Re
convene at Any Time It
Wants to Meet.
BLANTON HAS TO
FIGHT FOR SEAT
West Texan Not a Clown
Capital Hotel Rales
Are to Be Probed.
By G. A, MAItTTST.
1ITASHINGTON. XX O. May 19. Con
If gress seems to get no nearer
the conclusion of Its labors as
the hot weather arrives, bnt the pros
pects are that the important measures
will all be wt of the way by the
urne a. recess ts taken tor tne ue
publican convention at Chicago and
that there will be no necessity for
the members returning to the national
capital before the early fall so when
tne recess Is taken for the Chicago
convention It will mean for the San
Frinclsco convention also.
They will probably come bade In
September so if It seems advisable
to pass any measures ror political ef
fect before the election in November,
this can be done. The body Ifi re
cesslng instead of adiournlnc so It
can meet any time the speaker calls
It together again. This keeps the
body from being left at the mercy of
me presiaeni. wno aione couta sum
mon It if It should adjourn now.
Opposition At Home
The recess is necessary for a lot
of the members want to get home and
look after their own political con
tests. Some of the Texans have a
contest In their own districts and are
anxious to get back.
Congressman James I. Slayden, who
represented the San Antonio district
eo long, is runnlncr attain against
f&rlos Bee. who succeeded him two
years ago, and Mr. Bee wants to get
back and get into the fight, although
he does not feel uneasy, as Mr. Slay
den is making the race on an antl
VT'lson platform, the president, by a
Telegram, having defeated Mr. &iay
den two years ago
Congressman Thomas I Blanton
-ants to get back home for a contest
he is facing, too. ithln the past two
years Ranger, De;demona and sev--aI
cities have sprung up in the
Blanton district and many of them
ha e filled up with union men. Blan
ton's specialty has been fighting
tan tons. His opponent is seeking and
receiving the -union supoort. Blan
ton savs he does not believe he will
1oe, but he wants to get back home
and get busy, and if he gets busy, he
i going to make the wool fly."
for, while he has drawn a good deal
f criticism in congress, it has to
be admitted that he is sharp in de
bate and is "nobody's fool on the
floor of the house.
TUssfon Xn Mere Clown.
"While he caused a lot of laughter
by the things he did and said In the
ho"e on the occasions when T have
been In the press gallery of late, he
has taken sound positions every ume
nnhrwv ran nnestton that.
Be angered his Temocratic friends
b taking a stand witn tne Kepuou
cans against Increased appropriations
for the shipping board, bnt many of
his own party, who stubbornly de
chred to vote with the Republicans.
inconsistently attacked the shipping
board as unworthy of trust.
All Ms activities were in the
Interest of economy and where
the Republican opposition proper
ly explained an appropriation
Blanton courteously withdrew his
objection. ITe did not act merely
like an obstructionist. He scted
like a man who wanted to be sure
he was rlcht before he voted,
T wouldn't call Blanton "the clown
of the house" not by a long shot.
Id call him a rather capable, level
headed man with a large bump of
humor and not half as much egotism
as a lot of his critics.
Busy on Probes.
pfltirTMi in husv nendine adjourn
ment, probing various things labor
secretary Post, the Daniels-Sims con
troversy, national capital bousing.
cost of living and many other things.
Just to keep its hand in on the
probing question, congress has now
decided to probe the raise of two
(Continued on page 18, column .)
Says 'More Perfect Union, 'Alone Able
To Save Nation From Radicalism, Is
Better Understanding Among Classes
XTEW XORK. May Is. Milo D.
i Campbell, of Coldwaler, Mich.,
president of the National Milk
Producers federation, told the Na
tionaj Association of Manufacturers
today that employers, whether farmer
or other class, had the sovereign
right to operate with open shop or
closed shep as they wished; and that
the employes also had. the sovereign
right to work in an open or closed
chop as they chose, but that if either
party Invoked illegal methods to en
force their will upon the other, the
power of the state should be em
ployed to maintain order and uphold
the law
Mr. Campbell spoke on "The
Farmer and the Closed Shop."
'While the war was making the
world fit for democracy." he said,
democracy was becoming unfitted
for the world. While a score or more
of kings, emperors and other mon
arch were being pushed from their
thrones in Europe, 200,000,000 of peo
ple over there and ltv.tM.4M over
here have been left wondering what
jort of democracy after all. the world
has been fighting for.
"Every representative democracy
of the past has been formed to give
tillers of the soil, producers of food,
tne peasantry of the nation, a voice
in government, and every republic
That has become wreckage along the
shores of history, has been driven to
the rocks through forgetfalness or
abandonment of this divine purpose.
"More Perfect Union.
The more perfect union that
aTone can save this nation from in
grt.no radicalism of some form, will
aste Makes High
RRANZA AGAIN
His Mosque, Koran And Harem
Are About All Sultan Has Left
By fraxk ir. sijioxds.
WASHINGTON, D. G. May 19. Two
circumstances stand out In the
Turkish treaty. There has been
something approximating a liquida
tion of the Turkish empire in Eu
rope. By contrast, allied statesman
ship has once more fallen back on
the old policy of compromise and
procrastination as far as the Osmanli
estate in Asia is concerned.
T?e fact that the sultan Is per
mitted to remain in Constantinople
under certain restraints and condi
tions really means little. What is
left of Turkey in Europe Is the pen
insula on which Constantinople rises.
Turkey has shrunk to exactly those
limits which existed at the moment,
when, following the opening vic
tories of the first Balkan war, eight
years ago, the victorious Bulgarian
armies came thundering down to the
Chatalja lines.
1912 Flriag Line 1820 Frostier.
What tni the flrinir line In 1912
has now become the frontier In 1920
Within those frontiers the Turk Is,
in rf&lltv a nrisoner. Every foot of
the European territory left him is
within range of the fleets of the al
lies, both from the Black Sea and the
Sea of Marmora.
In point of fact It Is the sultan,
as the Inheritor of the religious not
the political prerogatives of his
predecessors, who Is now to be main
tained. His position suggests very
strikingly that of the pope of Rome.
after the last of the wars which
brought Italian unity. Byrantium
becomes, after a fashion, a magnified
Vatican, inhabited by a great re
ligious potentate, whose temporal
power has been forcibly taken away.
Submerged Peoples Rising.
T&ua after seven centuries, the
Turk goes out of Europe, leaving be
hind htm. in tn oaa xasmon. in,
races which he submerged when he
broke as an engulfing wave Into
Eurooe. The Serb, the Bulgar. the
Magyar, the Rumanian, all his vic
tims in the remoter past, are free
again free, unhappily, to resume
their old quarrels, which contributed
so much to Turkish success In the
beginning, while the Greek regains
what had been his. in the more pros
perous days of the Byzantium em
pire. Adrianople. Salonlki, the coasts
and islands of the Aegean sea.
Yet the very recent history of
Adrianople is a grim reminder of
how transitory are contemporary
frontiers In the Balkans. In 1912, It
was Turkish, as it had been for more
than six centuries. Bnt the next year
saw It fall to the Bulgarians, ac
tually taken through the aid of the
Serbs and then, the Serbs and the
Bulgarians quarreling, pass again
into Turkish hands.
In Seven Short Years
It Is only seven years ago that the
vorM was eagerly discussing the
Bnos-MMis line, which was to ex
tend from the Aegean to the Blaok
Sea and separate Turkey from the
new Bulgaria. In that tune the con
ference of London solemnly assigned
Kavala, as well as Adrianople, to
the Bulgarians and tiie fcerDa ana
Greeks consented. But Ferdinand,
of Bulgaria, could neither resign the
temptation to enter Constantinople
as a conqueror nor accept the Greek
occupation of Salonlki as permanent.
The result has been fatal to Bul
garia, which of all the Balkan
states had the best chance and the
most external support. Before the
congress of Berlin, the treaty of San
Stefano assigned to Bulgaria two
thirds of the Balkan peninsula. Eng
land blocked this in Berlin, but time
seemed still to fight for the Bulgar
In 1912 everything was In his hands.
all that was required being a little
moderation and a man of real states
manlike capacity, who as for in
stance Venizelos. could surrender
something doubtful to be assured of
something certain.
Bulgaria Loses ller AIL
Today Bulgaria Is where she stood
a generation ago. She has lost all.
Rumania has taken the southern
Dobrudja, which was assigned to
Bulgaria In Berlin. Serbia has Mace
donia, in which Bnlgar agents have
worked more than 30 years. The
Greeks have Salonlki, all the Aegean
coast eastward to Galllpoil and all
of Thrace and Adrianople. They have.
If the international system now pro
posed for Constantinople falls, the
best chance of obtaining that city It
self. Bat what Is most Interesting, after
all. Is the fashion in which the
ethnic fragments have reappeared as
tha Turkish wave has receded. The
Turk conquered, but did not assami
late. He advanced to the walls of
Vienna, where a Polish army halted
him, but year by year, as his power
waned, another ethnic group re-
(Contlnned on page 1C, column C)
be a better understanding, a more
representative program between the
classes that have been growing in
size and power, but farther and
farther apart.
"Nobody longer questions the right
nor the accrued benefits that have
come to labor through organization;
the criticism of the union has arisen
from the abuse of the right.
"Capital equal to one half of the
wealth of the nation is organized Into
unions called corporations. They
have from a few to tens of thousands
of member each, doing collective bar
gaining, acting through delegates
and officers end performing exactly
the s&me kind of functions as the
labor union. The agent of these
stockholders hires men and dis
charges them; ho closes the chop and
lays off the men for a day or week
at pleasure; he sells or refuses to
sell the products of the company
where and when he wills. The labor
union has the same right to dispose
of its labor, its only saleable com
modity. "It is not organization, nor the
open or closed shop, that concerns
the Industrial world most at this
time ; it is the radicalism that is
found in the ranks of labor and In
the ranks of capital that causes con
cern. TToday. the farmer is the only alien
In our Industrial system. Re is the
only person who has no voice In the
matter of price of what he buys or
sells. He has demanded through
every farm organization and channel
the right and privilege to sell his
(Continued on page 3. column 3.)
MALL ORDER PLANKS
WORKED UP BY G.O.P.
By DAVID LAWRE.VCE.
WASHINGTON, D. O, Ma' 19.
Entirely apart from the ques
tion of what the Republican
convention may do with the volu
minous report of the special com
mittee on policies and platforms, to
oay may do eara to mars an epocn
in the evolution of the party plat-
day may be said to mark an epoch
form.
Will H. Hays, chairman of the Re
publican national committee, and his
right bower, state senator Ogden L.
Mills, of the New York legislature,
came to town yesterday and exhib
ited to a room full of Washington
correspondents the results of months
or research on puoac questions.
Later they submitted the 20 s re
ports of their subcommittees to the
members of congress who are to
help draft the Chicago platform.
Questionnaires Sent Out.
The reports are in pamphlet form
ana cover every suniect oi impor
tance, except the peace treaty and
league of nations, planks on which
members of the senate are drafting.
The unofficial platform committee
conducted a mail canvass, sending
broadcast a printed form asking
every conceivable question. The
queries were not phrased sugges
tively. but in a way that would bring1
out a variety or answers.
it doesn t make much difference
what anyone thinks of the Repub
lican party or the views that have
been summarized in the big report
brought here by Hays as a fair re
flection of American public opinion,
but the fact is that heretofore plat
forms have been made in the excite
ment and haste of committee meet
ings at national conventions and the
conventions usually have adopted
plank after plank without much de
bate. The assembly usually is too
large to permit of .engthy discus
sions. Mistakes of Past Recalled.
Both the ReoBblloans and Demo
crats have not Infreaoently been em
barrassed by the patchwork of their
committees on platform. Candi ates
have had to stand on these platforms
when usually they had no part in
framing them. The Republicans have
introduced a novel plan. They have
attempted to use the months before
the convention to get a true chart of
the desires of the electorate. In
stead of leaving the subject to mem
bers of congress, who are often too
eSose to legislative tangles to get a
good pel s peetlvey tc Republican
committee has gone to the factory
and the farm, the employer and em
ploye, and every delegate will teave
with copies of the resulting volume
oexore tne convention begins.
The Democrats, of course, point to
the futility of the whole business,
contending that all the material can
be found in the daily newspapers and
magazines and that even if con
densed into platform planks, the ma
chine politicians of the Republican
party will make the platform as in
nocuous and inoffensive as possible.
Will Kot Je Ignored.
But the Republicans who have
worked on the plan are not so sure
that the old line bosses who pull the
strings are going to be able this
year to brush aside so monumental
a piece of research work as has been
done by the unofficial committee.
They hope and privately they insist
that no body of politicians will be
able to ignore the work of the plat
form committee If public opinion
should get solidly behind it
Hays is a shrewd leader. He has
used the progressives in the Repub
lican party to draw up a series of
platform planks. He is courting the
widest publicity. He hopes to get
the Republican party committed to
these progressive prindDles. so that
no group of conservatives or stand
patters can defeat the efforts of the
progressives. A conservative might
even be nominated, but the platform
will breathe forward looking doc
trines. Who's Who In the Book.
Some eminent men have collabo
( Continued on Page 5, Column 5.)
GtUllOl,
BIKERS TOLD
Washington, D C, May IS Cur
tailment of long term loans covering
"nonessential operations and discour
agement of unnecessary borrowings
of all kinds" will be the foundatioon
of the federal reserve system's new
policy designed to deflate the na
tional finances. American bankers
have pledged themselves to cooperate
with the reserve board In the. effort
to carry out -the plan.
Governor W. P. G. Harding, of the
board, believes liquidation of super
tlfylng present inflation. Expansion
tlfying presen t Inflation. Expansion
of banking credit due to war require
ments, he said, amounted to $11,000,
090,000. while money in circulation
had Increased about 21,900,900,009 in
the war period.
The slowing down of "industrial
effort" as indicated by decreased pro
duction in important lines represented
the most unsatisfactory element in
the country's economical problem, he
said.
Headliners In
Today's Theaters
ALIXAMBRA
Pantages, Vaudeville.
BIJOU
"She Loves and Lies, Norma
Talmadge.
ELLANAY
"Partners of the 2!ght," Mary
Regan.
GRECIAN
"Dollars and the Woman," Alice
Joyce.
R I ALTO
The Beggar Prince," Sessue
Hayakawa.
UMQUE
-The Heart of a Child," Nazlmova.
WIGWAM
"The Luck of the Irish."
(Read amusement ads on page S.)
Prices, And Waste
Dollar Slumps
As World Gets
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PWUS, France. May 10 Another
decline la foreign currency
occurred In the Paris market
this morning.
The pound sterling opened at
4S franc and the American dol
lar at 12 francs 50 centimes. Yes
terday's closing quotations were
53 francs for the pound and 13
francs and 73 centimes for the
dollar.
Sharp deellne of exchange rates
was said to have meant the begin
ning of the return to the old
equilibrium, regulated by the law
of supply and demand.
An official rItcs It as his view
that the production of the world
Is relatively In a better poiltlon
toward consumption than since
1914. He noted that there had
been a general tendency toward
loner prices in cotton, wool and
silk.
Woman Will Be in Crew
of Americas Cup Race
New York, 3Iay 10 A woman
will be a member of a crew In
America's cup race for the first
time In history,, It was learned
today. Mrs. W. P. Burton, wife
of Capt. Burton, skipper of the
Shamrock IV. has been appointed
by Sir Thomas lip ton to be at
member of the after guard of the
challenger. Mrs. Burton won
many prises In regattas of the
Royal Corinthian Yacht club.
Suffrage Plea Spumed
by Louisiana Governor
Baton Roukc, La-, May 18.
Governor Parker has declined to
secede to the request of presi
dent Wilson that be ask the
Louisiana legislature to ratify the
federal suffrage amendment. The
president yesterday wired the
governor urging him to use his
Infloenee to bring nbeut Its adop
tion. Will Try Again to Sw;m
Across English Channel
Boston, Mass- May 19 Ilenry
C. Sullivan, of Lowell, who has
made several notable long dis
tance swims, today applied for
passports and announced his in
dention of again attempting to
swim the English channel, this
summer. In 1913, his efforts fell
short of success by two miles.
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AS MEAT COES
CHICAGO. I1L, May 19 Chicago,
meat center of the world, is eat
ing meat imported from Australia
and New Zealand. The price of lamb
has been forced down 2 cents in the
Chicago market, packers say, by large
importation of frozen tomb from the
Antipodes.
The coal supply here reached the
lowest mark in recent history today,
coal dealers declared, because of the
freight congestion and car shortage.
Practically all coal received la rushed
to manufacturing plants and orders
for coal for homes are not being ac
cepted, dealers declared.
Five Days Supply on Hand.
William H. Leland. vice president of
one of the largest fuel companies In
the city, estimated that the supply
on hand would hardly last five days.
Officials of several railroads cen
tering in Chicago denied charges by
some dealers that they were hoarding
coal by storing It in cars.
The campaign In price cutting con
tinues today, both in Chicago and in
other cities of the country, dispatches
show.
In Topeka, Kansas, a men's clotbfng
firm announced a "no profit" sale.
Department stores In St. Louis ad
vertised "underselling campaign."
Twenty percent cuts were the most
popular.
On the Pacific coast. Tacoma deal
ers announced cuts of from JO percent
flat to "profitless sales." Three
Seattle retailers cut clothing 30 per
cent. In San Francisco one retailer
announced a 2t percent cut in all
lines, another 20 to SO percent in cer
tain commodities.
Dentists Cut Price,
Several Omaha stores amid their
silk cuts were SO percent. Omaha
automobile dealers and dentists' an
nounced price reductions, while among
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Sick Folk Help Him To Win Trip
WILLIAM DUHN. Texas, who would
Photo by Bergner should write for
ORTED CAPTURE
70
PERCENT VOTE
IN HEfOiT
Pennsylvania Primary Elec
tion Is Won by Regulars
of Republican Parly.
DEMOCRATS FACE
HOOVER IN MICH.
Grand Rapids Convention
May Name Uninstrucled
Delegates to 'Frisco.
MONTPEUER, VU May It Incom
plete returns early today from
Vermont's presidential prefer
ence primary yesterday gave Maj.
Gen. Wood approximately 76 percent
of the Republican vote, the total of
which was about a twentieth of nor
mal. The Democratic vote was
negligible.
Senator Hiram W. Johnson. Cali
fornia, and Herbert C Hoover were
in a close race for second place on
the Republican ballot. Governor Cal
vin Coo ltd ee. of Massachusetts, and
William Grant Webster, an attorney
of New York, were contesting the
next position.
Gen. Wood ran better In the coun
try towns than in the cities.
His name and Webster's were the
only ones printed on the Republican
ballot. None was printed on the
Democratic ticket. The balloting Is
not binding on the delegates, who
will be elected at state conventions.
Regular G. O. P. Wins Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, Pa, May 19. Re
turns from yesterday's primary elec
tion tor all parties in Pennsylvania
were still incomplete early today.
Sufficient figures were received to
indicate that all except one of the
13 stated candidates of the regular
Republican state organisation .for
delegates at large were leading.
Presidential preferences did not
figure directly in the voting for
delegates at large, the contests being
largely to settle factional differ
ences and personnel of the delegation.
Attorney general A. Mitchell Pal
mer was the only person whose name
was on the Democratic ballot. At
the eleventh hour in the campaign
the Boaiwell faction urged Its fol
lowers to write in the name of Wil
liam G McAdo and many did so.
In Quandary in Michigan,
Grand Rapids. Midu May 19. The
stand to be taken by Michigan
Democrats on a presidential nomi
nee was the center of interest when
the state convention opened here to
day. With Herbert Hoover, an avowed
candidate for the Republican nomi
nation, the choice of the Democrats
at the April primary, there was
much speculation as to who would be
indorsed.
Party leaders, however, were
' (Continued on page 5, column 3.)
ci snows
HETJUL STORES
DOWN IN GHIGACO
the large department stores all but
one had placed on sale their entire or
greater part of their stocks at dis
counts ranging from 20 to SO percent.
Several shoe dealers also announced
discounts of a fifth of the selling
price. One exclusive ready to wear
concern said It had reduced prices 20
to 50 percent below the market
price.
In Wichita. Kansas, silk shirts
have been reduced. Coffeyville. Kan
sas, reported many cut price sales.
Cheenne, Wyoming, reported a cut
of IS percent on the prices of -all dry
goods and clothing, effective today
announced by one merchant.
At Youngs town, Ohio, a reduction
of 20 percent In prices of nearly all
goods was announced today by one
of the large department stores.
0 Percent in Bllnneapolis.
In Minneapolis, a large department
store announced a cut of 20 percent.
At Knoxvllle, Tenru one of the
largest department stores made a dis
count of 20 percent on its entire stock,
except a few contract price articles.
Shoe reductions also were announced.
In Oklahoma City, sales offers of
20 to 30 percent reductions were re
ported. At San Antonio, Texas, two depart
ment stores and one at Waco an
nounced sales with reductions of 20
percent, another a 25 percent reduc
tion sale.
At Fort Smith. Ark., special sales
said the reduction was 20 percent.
At Pine Bluff one men's and one
women's store are making the same
cut. Slight reductions In shoes and
wearing apparel were noted at Texar
kana, Springfield, Mo., and at Little
Rock, retailers last week made cuts
from a fifth to a quarter.
Atchison, Kansas, announced a 20
percent reduction.
I
"T SECURED nearly all of my 15 new subscriptions
1 at one of the sasatorinms," said Wflliara Dunn,
age 14, 3124 Montana street- "I went to all tie
rooms one day, and had such good luck that I west
back the next day and secured the rest of them. Yes,
t sure was very easy work and I liked it."
For doing this work, we will give any boy in EI
Paso a two weeks' trip to the Y. M. C A. camp at
Mountain Park, during the last two weeks is June,
with transportation, board asd lodging paid by The
Herald.
For further particulars, call to see H. H. Fris,
circulation manager EI Paso Herald.
Boys who lire in Arizona. New Mexico and west
like to join the El Paso boys is camp,
our big offer to out-of-town boys.
Of Time Is The Costliest Waste Of All
CLOTHES PRlGESjHOUSTON, TEX., PAPE1
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G0ESJ1ER
Crash in Silk Has Effect
on Woolen and Cotton
Goods in El Paso.
BUSINESS MEN
SHOW CONCERN
Further Advances Are An
nounced in Flour and
Sugar Prices.
By L. E. CLAYFOOL.
PRICES in El Paso on many things
people wear, excepting Jewelry,
are being cut. In some commodities-
the reduction has been a pre
cipitate drop of 2S percent or more.
In others, the reduction has been
gradual, simmering down in a few
instances to a mere tendency. In
food the prices are tending upward,
with no indication of a reduction. In
fact, advices from bases of produc
tion received by merchants here
Wednesday, announced an increase
of J2 a barrel on flour and sugar of
the best grade has jumped to I2S.7S
per 100 pounds, wholesale. Butter
went up 8 points.
To put it mildly there is consid
erable concern among business men
and some excitement over the pres
ent conduct of prices. At the lar
gest stores in the city cuts are be
ing made in the price of piece goods
to figures that are in some cases
lower than the present wholesale re
placement qrices of those goods.
Silk Prices Tumble.
The price cuts and those which
Myrtil Coblontz, president of the
White House, says are destined to
come in the future are due to two
or three causes. In this, other mer
chants agree with Mr. Cobientz and
the reasons given are: Silk specu
lators bought up millions of dollars'
worth of that fabric to hold for high
prices. A sudden slump In the de
mand and the pressure of banks
brought on the speculators to take
up tneir paper by means of whMt
they acquired their stocks have
caused the prices of silks to tum
ble. There Is. also, a panic in Japan
among Um silk producers which has
unloaded on the markets of the
world a quantity of silk that has
forced down the prices of silks here.
On the basis of the drops, the silk
prices to date and in anticipation of
stlH further drops, the price of silk
shirts in this city -has fallen from
211 and S12 to S7.9S. Hosiery and
other silk articles are affected In a
like manner, the sale cost in many
instances being less than the price
which the retailer has had to pay to
the jobber until a few days ago.
Clothing Passes Peak.
Mr. Cobientz of the White House
said Wednesday that the . peak of
prices had been reached and that
this fail nearly all clothing would
be cheaper. Mr. Co Menu lays the
blame right at the door of the man
ufacturer, the textile miller and the
speculator. He says the retailer has
been between two fires, that of the
profiteer and the public He said
the retailer would place an order
with a manufacturer In the fall, for
Instance, for spring delivery. In the
spring that delivery would bo made
only in part. Excuses would be given
by the manufacturer who would say
strikes, embargoes, etc, prevented
delivery.
Then, Mr. Cobientz said, the manu
facturer would store up his stock
against a price raise and when the
retailer ordered again in the spring
from that same stock, he would have
to pay a higher price for it- Yet,
the retailer could bo held to his or
der legally while the jobber and
manufacturer could not be so held.
These people, now, it was explained.
are forced to sell. The banks need
money, the demand is less and there
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RIliTi'S
PLEA IS DENIED
Chicago. Ill, May 19. The United
States Railway labor board today
flatly refused to hear petitions tor
increased wages presented by John
Grtinau, president ot the Chicago
Yardmen's association, and officers
ot other organizations, which west
on strike recently In defiance ot or
ders from the national railroad
brotherhoods.
The board, in a ruline handed
down by R. 1L Barton, chairman, an
nounced: ,
"It most be thoroughly understood
that the board cannot and will not
undertake to hear disrates or con
troversies except those which It is
aatborised by law to hear, and can
not and will not hear the applica
tion ot parties who are acting in
disregard of the law and who are
not complying with the law and the
rnlee of the board."
El Paso Shows Heavy
Gain in Construction
EU PASO made a gain of 246 per
cent In new construction costs
1 n A pril. 1920f compa red to
April, 1919. The new construction
concerned Is that covered by city
building permits.
Percy McGhee, jr.. city building
inspector, receives monthly re
ports on new construction In the
larger cities of the country, and
the latest report shows that the
average gain in new construction
costs for April, 1920. over the same
month of 1919. is IIS percent, so
that El Paso's gain Is far above
the average for American cities.
HEARS DEPOSED CHIEF
IS SEIZED BY REBELS
Gen. Escobar, Appointed Military Supreme Chief in
Chihuahua, Will .Leave at Once for His New Quar
ters in State Capital; CoL Fox Heads Juarez Gar
rison; Calles Starts South to Beprimand Villa.
HOUSTON. Tex, May 19. Gen. Carrania has been captured by revolntiOTiarv
forces and has been given, a safe conduct to Veracruz provided he leaves
Mexico at once, according to nnaificial messages received today by a local news
paper. The report cocld sot be conixrjzed.
GEN. J. G. K9COBAR. who for almost
a year has bean chief la com
mand of the Juarez garrison.
has been named chief of all of the
military operations in Chihuahua
state, according to authentic re
ports. Gen. Becobar will leave to
night or Thursday morning for Chi
huahua City to take charge of his
new duties.
Gen. F. Ellas Calles. who arrived
In Juarez at midnight Sunday, left
late Tuesday for Chihuahua City and
from there win go to Mexico City
to meet with the Mexican congress
which has been called to convene
May 24.
Gen. Calles will remain long
enough in Chihuahua City to hold
a conference with Francisco Villa,
whom he has ordered to appear there
to explain his action In holding
George Miller, an American citizen
and superintendent of the Alvaro
Mining company plant at Boquilfau,
for a ransom of S50.000. Gen. Calles
expressed his displeasure at the ac
tion of Villa in holding the Ameri
can, and stated that be will demand
a thorough investigation.
Accompanied by Cavalry,
The 44th and 17th cavalry will
accompany Gen. Escobar to Chihua
hua City, he announced. At a later
date the 57th infantry, which has
been under Escobar's command, will
leave for Chihuahua C y.
CoL Claudio Fox will be left in
command of the Juarez garrison,
which is to be manned by Sonora
troops, according to official an
nouncements. In the last week, the
officials say. more than 3000 troops
have passed through Juarez in troop
trains, bound for the south. Most
of these were brought from Sonora
by way of Casas Grandes.
Gen. Eugenio Martinez, who has
spent some time in Juarez, will re
main several days before going
south, it was stated.
The closing of the saloons Sun
day afternoon was considered by
Gen. Calles, who fat a noted prohi
bitionist, as a great compliment and
he so expressed himself while there.
Another reason was to prevent pos
sible trouble among the soldiery of
various organisations. Reports were
that two soldiers quarreled Monday
and that one shot the other four
times, killing him Instantly. This
is denied by the officials.
HREHOOSE FIRE
CAUSES BIG LOSS
Fire of unknown origin burned sev
eral thousand dollars' worth of furni
ture and badly damaged a building
owned by T P. Putnam, at Lee and
Magoffin streets, at noon Wednesday
The building formerly was occu
pied as an office by the West Texas
Fuel company, but recently has been
used as a warehouse. One half of It
was fllfed with packed furniture of
the Sterchi Furniture company and
the other half was occupied by a cof
fee sales company. The fire origi
nated in the furniture storeroom,
which was locked and in which no
one is believed to have been since
Tuesday.
The heavy loss was due to the fact
that the doors of the place were
locked and were blocked by furni
ture piled against them. Firemen.
In order to gain entrance, were forced
to cut open the doors with axes and
remove the furniture. The first alarm
was received at 11:50 and it was 2
oclock before the firemen extin
guished the blaze.
The furniture burned consisted
largely of crated goods, so that the
wrappings and excelsior packing;
made an unusually quick fire.
Railroad Workers Share In Bonus
From Operation Of Lines Under
Plan Up For Adoption In France
PARIS. France, May 18. The gov
ernment's proposed law for the
reorganisation of its state system
ot railroads and the five systems
operated under government conces
sion, presented In the chamber of
deputies today, provides for & director
to preside over a superior council
which will control all the systems,
unify the time tables and standardize
wages, equipment, rates and operating
methods.
Bach system is to maintain auto
nomy under its present management,
but Is to be subject to control. The
suporior council will be composed of
a director general with. IS members
of a newly created managing com
mittee and 25 members representing
the public. There will be financial
solidarity through the creation of a
common fund for surpluses, to make
up deficits and losses. Each system
will be allowed a fixed amount of net
Income and a bonus based on earn
ings about a predetermined minimum.
This bonus will be divided, four-fifths
to the personnel of the road and one
fifth to the management. This is
proposed as a method of encouraging
economy in operation and attainment
of a maximum operating efficiency
"The proved circulation of
The 131 Paao Herald Is nearly
-0 twice that of any other EI
Paso paper.
That the rebels have the situation
well la hand in Mexico City is indi
cated by telegrams to Gen. Cailes
from Gen. Alvaro Obregon. received
before his departure. The same ren
ditions prevail in Tampico wherr
Gea. Amalfo Gomez has received
from Manuel Pelaes some 8 000 00
rounds of ammunition which the fa
mous bandit leader was holding for
his own use, before he decided to
give his support to the new move
ment against Carranza.
Governor Adolfo de la Huerta wiT1
arrive in Juarez within a week en
route to attend the congress in ilex
ico Oty. where a provisional presi
dent is to be named. Gustavo Lu
ders de Negri, of New Tort City
a nephew of the consul general of
the Mexican government there, ar
zived here late Tuesday and wil
wait until the arrival of de la Huer
ta. to confer with him in Juu-ez.
Former Mayor Is Honored.
A report received In Juarez Tues
day night stated that Manuel Prtc
former mayor of Juarez and a dep
uty in the Mexican congress, has
been, appointed tax collector in Mex
ico City. Senor Prieto will leave
for his new post in a tew days
Mead Fierroc a congressional
deputy from Coahnila. was m E
Paso this week, enronte to Mexico
City to attend the congress. He ba
been a supporter of the deposed
president and his willingness to a
cept the government offered b tn
revolutionists is accepted as idic
atlve of the attitude of the majority
of former Carranctsta official"
First Chief Sees End.
Mexico City. Mex May 19 i h
the Associated Press.) WC bj
lost! Goodby. gentlemen' ' To
were Carranxa's final words beiore
his flight froca the besieged tram
the afternoon of May 14. while pa us
rag- TaemeutBtrUy before a crowd o'
terrified civilian refugees a few
miles east of San Marcos, accom
panied by a few intimates j.- d
guarded by what the special d -patches
term "a very small .aa..-
force."
The fugitive president crossed t r
narrow valley, stopped for a ft .
moments to watch the Liberal reo
lutionary forces occupy the staTei
trains, then disappeared among in
mountains.
CHAMBER DRUE
GOES OB I0P
Teams that have striven for 19 da--to
raise funds for operating th?
chamber of commerce for anothr
year, went over the top short l ai e
noon Wednesday. When the psj
was announced. John Regan, ass. -tant
manager of the chamber of cor
merce gave the signal and the city
fire whistle tooted the triuirph.
The amount needed to carrv o -necessary
chamber of commerce bus
ness is slightly In excess of 2100
The amount reported as snbscr b
was ) 102,000. Assuming that full co
lection Is made on all subscript o
this will enable the chamber to mak
some extensions in departments
work.
Still More Expected.
The central committee in charge
the drive, announced through Jatcs
G. McNary, general chairman thar
some big prospects were being workeo
on who might subscribe a lew thoi
sand dollars more, enabling the or
ganization to carry out all cf i
proposed program.
C X. Bacsett. president of th
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CAMPAIGN EXPENSE QUIZ
IS FAVORABLY REPORTED
Washington. IX C, May 19 Fa
orable report was today ordered fc
the senate auditing committee on t -
LBorah resolution calling for an in
vestigation by the senate into at' ex
penditures made by Republican an
Democratic presidential canJ dat
as well as Into contributions re
ceived in their behalf
CENSUS GIVES SALT LAKE
POPULATION OF 118,110
Washington, D. C May 19 Cer.
figures include Salt Lake City, n
110, increase, 25.322, or 27 3 percen
Roanoke. Va. 50.&42. increase, ia f"-
or 45J percent.
Daughter of Jack Sayers
Seeding Him in El Paso
TACK SATKRS, are you 'n El Paso"
I Tour daughter. Hazel. ha vr t
J tea to CapC Keene. of the I- 1
Paso Salvation army, asking at ,
you be told that Hazel's mother & J
111, near death's door, that sh? '
Hazel, is not able to work on a -count
of her years, and trat
Hazel's elder sister has jone awa i
from their home, 1506 M 3'ivr-r
Galveston. Texas. Your 1 tt
daughter and your wife want you
they love you. Jack Saers )