Canadian Valley Record (Canton, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1920 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CANTON RECORD, CANTON, OKLAHOMA
FIGHT TO DELAY
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Tennessee's Ratification May
be Nullified by Injunction
Granted the Antis.
MISS ELEANOR WALKER
MAY HAVE TO WAIT 18 MONTHS
State Officials Will be Prosecuted for
Contempt if Proceedings Are Cer-
tified to Government.
Nashville, Tenn —From the snarl of
legal and legislative technicalities that
have enmeshed Tennessee's ratifica-
tion of the federal suffrage amend-
ment came the prediction of the Ten-
nessee constitutional league that the
injunction against certification of the
ratification, would prevent enfran-
chisement of the women of the nation
for at least a year and a hair.
The constitutional league, which
has been fighting ratification in Ten-
nessee on the ground that the state
constitution prohibited the present leg-
islature from acting on the suffrage
amendment and which claims to in-
clude both suffrage opponents and ad-
vocates in its meeting membership,
made its prediction in a message ad-
dressed to the governors of Vermont,
Connecticut, Florida, Alabama, Louis-
iana, Delaware and South Carolina.
Will Go to Supreme Court.
The league's message declared that
Tennessee had not ratified suffrage
and served notice that any state of-
ficial who attempted certification
would be attacked for contempt of
court under the injunction which the
league announced would, if necessary,
be carried to the supreme court of the
United States.
The thirty or more anti-suffrage
members of the house who went to
Decatur, Ala., in order to prevent the
quorum, still were in Alabama, and,
according to reports received here
were determined to remain there at
least during the next few days. Being
outside the state, they cannot be ar-
rested and compelled to attend ses-
sions of the house.
Injunction Hearing Soon.
Suffrage advocates who participated
in the coup in the house asserted that
action on the Walker reconsideration
motion would be upheld inasmuch as
state constitutional provisions did not
apply as the house was acting as an
agent of the federal government.
No date had been fixed for the hear-
ing of the temporary writ of injunction
issued by Judge Langfore, restraining
the secretary of state and the speak-
ers of the senate and house from cer-
tifying ratification to the secretary of
state at Washington. In some quar-
ters it was believed that the hearing
would be held immediately. The writ
is returnable any time within five
days upon agreement of the parties to
the action.
FARMERS PLAN TO
HOLD RACK WHEAT
Representafives of Four States
at Kansas City Confer-
ence Advise Action.
AV'M'
WOULD FORCE HIGHER PRICES
LEAGUE CALLS FOR TROOPS
High Commissioner at Danzig Asks
Allies to End Two Thousand Men
to That Place.
Paris.—Sir Reginald T. Tower, high
commissioner for the League of Na-
tions at Danzig, has requested the al-
lied nations to supply him with 2,000
troops before he will feel justified in
permitting the unloading of munitions
Intended for Poland now being held
up at Danzig, according to the min-
istry of foreign affairs.
It is the belief of the French gov-
ernment that an additional five thou-
sand troops will be the maximum re-
quired by Sir Reginald. aB there are al-
ready two thousand there, and the ex-
tremists among the population are
not numerous. The foreign office an-
nounced the arrival of the gunboat
Accra at Danzig, where she will ar-
range for the unloading of munitions
bring taken there by the French
cruiser Gueydon.
POLES TOOK 35,000 REDS
Many Others Supposed to Be Hiding
in Forests May be Captured in
Round Up.
Warsaw.—Military authorities an-
nounced that the Poles have captured
35,000 prisoners in their counter at-
tack against the Bolsheviki. Many
guns, thousands of rifles, hundreds of
machine guns and munitions carts and
a great number of horses also have
fallen into their hands. Thousands
are thought to be cut off in the forests
awaiting an opportunity to surrender.
Among the three hundred bolshevist
ioldiers killed in the fighting at
Mlawa were found, it is claimed, a
German officer and several German
wldiers.
Figures Cited to Show That Reason-
able Profit Can't Be Made At Less
Than $3.
Miss Eleanor Walker, formerly of
New Rochelie, N. Y., Is now in Wash-
Ington as the second secretary for the
Danish legation. 8he was prominent
in Copenhagen society during her stay
there.
POLISH TROOPS IN RIG GAINS
Bolsheviki Forces in Retreat in Many
Places Leaving Quantities of War
Material Behind.
Warsaw, the Polish offensive is
now in full swing. More than ten
thousand prisoners, thirty cannon, 300
machine guns and thousands of sup-
ply carts have been captured from the
Bolsheviki.
The Poles have occupied Plonsk,
Pultusk and Wyskow, through which
the Reds drove in their sweep towards
the capital.
Owing to the Polish pressure from
the northeast, it is reported that the
Bolsheviki are withdrawing their
forces which reached the Vistula
south of the Prussian border and to
the northwest of Warsaw.
The Warsaw sector is rapidly being
cleared of the Bolsheviki. North and
northeast of the capital the reds are
being shoved back by the Poles, who
are following them up all along the
front, using artillery in such quanti-
ties as to cause great confusion among
the invaders, who are now on the
run.
To the east the Bolsheviki are re-
ported to be making their way across
the Bug at various points.
Siedlce was taken by the Poles
early Wednesday.
Paris.—Polish forces are advancing
with undimished speed along the line
running north of Warsaw to Wlodawa,
about 110 miles southeast of Warsaw.
Principle interest, however, at-
taches to the maneuvers of General
Pilsudskl's forces. Massed reserves
which he had concentrated at Ivango-
rod, southeast of the capital, have ad-
vanced sixty miles in three days and
affected a junction with another army
operating from Cholm. United, these
armies were within eighteen miles of
the strongly fortified Brest-Litovsk,
120 miles east of Warsaw, at noon
Wednesday, and have now probably
re-occupied that important center of
communications, which the reds late
Wednesday night were reported to be
hurriedly evacuating.
Kansas City.—Organized farmers of
Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Ne-
braska are planning to force an ad-
vance in the price of wheat, to the end,
I as they claim, that they may make
a reasonable profit on their produce.
| At a conference at the Hotel Balti-
| more here of about thirty representa-
tives of the Faremers' Union from
Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska, and
the farm clubs of Missouri, it was de-
cided to urge the farmers of the four
states represented to withhold their
wheat from the market, and thereby
force a minimum tereminal market
price of $3 a bushel.
Decry Market Speculation.
A protest was set forth in resolu-
tions adopted at the meeting against
"recent manipulations of the American
wheat market," which were character-
ized as "a performance which has
forced a decline of more than 80 cents
a bushel in a few days, and which we
regard as one of the most unfair ma-
nipulations of the kind in the history
of the American grain market." The
decline of 80 cents reduced prices to
$2 a bushel and less, it was said. Tak-
ing thirteen bushels of wheat to the
acre as the average yield, the farmer
producing no more wheat than the
average loses at least 77 cents a
bushel on his wheat when the price is
an even $2, figures were cited to
prove.
Call Mass Meeting on Subject.
William HIrth of Columbia, Mo.,
publisher and editor of the Missouri
Farmer, said that plans for a cam-
paign to establish unity in the pro-
posed movement to force an increased
price for wheat included the calling
of community mass meetings and final-
ly other joint conferences of repre-
sentatives from each of the states to
direct the movement uniformly.
"About two hundred thousand farm-
ers in the fourt states are members
of the Farmers' Union and the farm
clubs," said Mr. Hirth, who was sec-
retary of the meeting.
C. H. Gustafson of Lincoln, Neb.,
acted as chairman at the meeting.
Others present included E. L. Shoe-
maker, Lincoln, Neb.; Maurice Mc-
Auliffe, Salina, Kas.; C. H. Hyde,
Alva, Okla., and a group of Farm
Club leaders of Missouri. The meet-
ing was in session from 9 o'clock in
the morning until 5:30 o'clock in the
afternoon, with a short recess at
noon. The representatives present
yesterday will meet again September
13 at the Hotel Baltimore.
MORE TOURISTS USE MOTORS
Washington.—A startling evidence
of the increasing use of motor cars in
touring is given in an announcement
of records of travel in national parks
in the present season.
The number of motor cars and the
number of tourists entering the na-
tional park service show, according to
officials, that at least half the persons
viewing the parks are motor car tour-
ists.
This is considered the more remark-
able because approximately 1 million
persons will pass through the govern-
ment owned parks this year, an in-
crease of % million over last year.
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TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
—The French garrison at Adana,
Asia Minor, which had been besieged
for two months, made a sally and, ac-
cording to the foreign office, has now
virtually been relieved. Eight Ameri-
can relief workers were with the gar-
rison.
—An effort is to be made to bring
about the establishment in Panama of
an international institute for the re-
search of tropical diseases as a mem-
orial to the late Maj. Gen. William C.
Gorgas, formerly surgeon general of
tfce United States army.
RETAILERS KEEPJJP PRICES
Lower Wholesale Costs of Necessities
Not Reflected In Dealings With
Their Customers.
Washington. — Although wholesale
food prices are coming down the bu-
reau of labor statistics announced re-
cently that retail prices have not
Btruck the declining stride.
The average family expenditure for
twenty-two articles of food, it reports,
increased from June 15 t& July 15 in
thirty-two cities, and decreased in only
seventeen cities. Here are the fig-
ures:
In Charleston, Cincinnati, Columbus
and Los Angeles the increase was less
than 5-10 of 1 per cent. In Atlanta,
Buffalo, Butte, Chicago, Cleveland,
Houston, Memphis, New York, Pitts-
burgh, Rochester and Scranton, the in-
crease was 1 per cent. In Baltimore,
Boston, Bridgeport, Fall River, Jack-
sonville, Milwaukee, Mobile, New Or-
leans, Norfolk, Savannah and Washing-
ton, D. C., the increase was 2 per cent.
In Manchester, Newark, New Haven,
Philadelphia, Portland, Maine, and
Providence the increase was 3 per
cent.
The average family expenditure for
July decreased leas than 5-10 of 1 per
cent in Birmingham and St. Paul. Fn
Detroit, Springfield, and Dallas the de-
crease was 1 per cent; in Denver.
Peoria, Richmond, San Francisco and
Indianapolis, the decrease was 2 per
cent; in Salt Lake City, Seattle, and
St. Louis the decrease was 3 per cent.
Iu Louisville, Omaha and Kansas City
the decrease was 6 per cent.
ROADS SHOW GIG JONE DEFICIT
Interstate Commerce Commission Re-
port Reveals a Total Loss for
Month of $15,616,328.
Washington.—Trunk line railroads
in the United States incurred a deficit
of $15,616,238 on June operations, ac-
cording to a preliminary report issued
by the interstate commerce commis-
sion. For the six months of 1920 in-
cluding June, the report fixed net rail-
way operating income at $13,664,120
against $154,930,908 in 1919.
Increased wage charges which the
roads have been obligated to pay under
the recent decision of the wage board
were included in a part of the mileage
reported on, the commision said, but
it had not been ascertained for all of
the lines. A full report on the earn-
ings deficit will be made after all of
the back payments have been allowed
for.
Gross operating revenue during
June, the report said, was $480,949,000,
while operating expenses were $464,-
965,000. The ratio of expenses to reve-
nues was 96-7 per cent, while for June,
1919, It was 83.5 per cent.
In addition, taxes for the period
amounted to $3,469,000, while back
wage due under the increase of the
wage board as estimated by roads
whose estimates were furnished in
time for the compilation amounted to
$25,371,765.
Railroad operations in all districts
excepting the Western contributed to
the deficit, which, it is indicated, will
be somewhat larger even than report-
ed when the full extent of the retro-
active wage increase is felt.
The Western district showed a net
operating income of $12,113,190, while
the deficit in the Eastern district was
$19,161,553, in the Southern district
$7,211,536 and in the Pocahontas dis-
trict, a new sub-division created by the
commission for the purpose of apply-
ing the recent rate increase, the deficit
was $1,356,434. The Chesapeake &
Ohio, Norfolk & Western, Virginian
and the Richmond, Fredericksburg &
Potomac are included in the new sub-
division.
THE ENTENTE IS RESTORED
The Delicate Moment in Relations
Between France and England
Has Been Passed.
London.—The official entente be-
tween France and Great Britain has
been more or less restored, says a
Paris dispatch to the London Times.
Following an extended interview with
Premier Lloyd George, the dispatch
adds, the earl of Derby, British ambas-
sador at Paris, again visited the
French foreign office and "the more
immediately delicate moment in Anglo-
Freeh relations has passed."
The ambassador now, the Times
states, feels justified in resuming his
vacation.
Although no new fact has arisen to
bring the French and British policy in
the Russo-Polish situation in closer
harmony, the Times points out, the
series of conversations which have
been going on in Paris developed the
fact that the fundamental difference
between France and England is on
the Polish question and that the two
countries are in complete agreement
on all other issues.
PRICES DECLINED IN JULY
But Report of Department of Labor
Shows General Level Remained
Above Last Year's.
Washington—Wholesale prices of
commodities declined approximately
2% per cent during July in the United
States, according t) a report by the
department of labor. The decrease in
cloths and clothing materials was the
most notable shown in the depart-
ment's list of index numbers, amount-
ing to 5% per cent, while foodstuffs
declined 4 per cent and farm products,
generally, 2.9 per cent.
At this point, the department re-
ported, prices were still above levels
of July, 1919, food articles having in-
creased during the year 24.1 per cent,
cloths and clothing 12.4. per cent and
fuel and lighting 47.4 per cent. Fuel
and lighting materials were products
which showed no decrease during
July, 1920,' according to the depart-
ment's statistics, but on the contrary
increased by 2% per cent, making
their current level the more dispropor-
tionate to other commodities.
Slew Wife and Himself.
Holyoke, Col.—Joseph Frederick, 60
years old, and his wife, Anna, are
dead here following an alleged family
quarrel extending over several weeks.
Frederick is believed to have shot his
wife and then committed suicide.
Salem, Ore.—John Curl, who cross-1 —j0e Bailey Tucker, 17, reported to
ed the plains from Missouri to Oregon be from Camp Funston, Kas., is dead
seventy-three years ago. died here re- jn an Enid, Okte., hospital a.s a result
cently. He was born in Missouri in of injuries received when he fell under
1832 and accompanied his family west 8 moving freight train near Medford,
In 1847. i north of there.
Father and Daughter
Get Relief by Eatonic
R. J. Powell, Sweetwater, Texas,
says, "Entonic helped me at once,
but. It was my daughter who got the
marvelous benefits. She could not
even taker & drink of water without
awful misery, but it relieved her; she
Is feeling much better. All this from
one box, so send me four more at
once."
Hundreds of people now take
enlonlo; one or two tablets after each
meal keeps them in good health,
feeling fine, full of m>. Eatonic
simply takes up the excess acidity
and poisons and carries them right out
of the system. Of course, when the
cause of-the misery is removed, the
sulTorer cannot help but get well.
Yon will find it a quick, sure relief
for heartburn, indigestion, sour, acid,
gassy, bloated stomach. It costs but
a trifle and your druggist will supply
you. If you don't feel well, you gtva
eatonic a test. Adv.
Truly a Worthy Cause.
The notice of the meeting was so
worded that a generous response was
assured. At the appointed hour the
hall was packed. The chairman called
the meeting to order and-Introduced
the speaker of the evening. lie was
a modestly dressed, unimpressive lit-
tle man, but he was an earnest talker.
"Ladles and gentlemen," he said,
"this meeting was called for the pur-
pose cf starting a campaign to raise
funds for the impoverished contribu-
tors to innumerable other campaigns."
The rest of the speech was not
heard because of the tremendous ap-
plause.
Cuticura Soothes Baby Rashea
That itch and burn with hot baths
of Cuticura Soap followed by gentle
anointings of Cuticura Ointment.
Nothing better, purer, sweeter, espe-
cially if a little of the fragrant Cuti-
cura Talcum Is dusted on at the fin-
ish. 25c euch everywhere.—Adv.
His Large Ears.
Old Farmer Hayes (to young Calk-
Ins passing by and just home from
college)—Good morning, Jlnnnie !
James Calkins (huffily)—I didn't
speak.
Old Farmer Hayes—Oh, I thought
you did; but it musta been your ears
flapping.
Benumbed.
Artie—"Oh ! Excuse me; did I step
on your feet again?" Gertie—"I
couldn't say. I did not know you were
off yet."
Back Lame and Achy?
Do you get up morningB tired and
achy? Kveiling find you "all worn-
out?" Likely your kidneys are to
blame. Ilurry and worry, lack of rest,
and eating too much meat, throw a
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with my back hard-
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