Nevada State Journal (Newspaper) - August 11, 1919, Reno, Nevada Prices BAR electrolytic small lots for and prompt delivery Sept nominal 24 spot 15.60 5.75 East St Louis de- Sept FULL ASSOCIATED Weather The temperature recorded yesterday was lowest 47 degrees tor Fair NO 150 RENO AUGUST 1919 FIVE CENTS Food Price Problem to Replace Treaty In Interest at Capitol FARMERS ASK HEARING ON WHEAT SITUATION Both Branches to Begin Action On President's Suggestions This Week Aug tomorrow begins actual consideration of high cost of living problems Plans have been made by leaders for im- mediate consideration of the ment recommendations made by ident Wilson in his address and the cost of living question promises this week to overshadow even the peace treaty and many other important fairs at the capitol Work for several days will be in the hands of committees the house cultural committee will take up a for government regulation of cold storage facilities and Chairman mins of the senate interstate com- merce committee is expected to an- sub-committee to consider the president's proposals for regulation of foodstuffs entering in- commerce including federal licensing of interstate corporations Wheat Situation Tuesday the senate agriculture committee meets to consider the wheat situation extension of the food con- trol law and other similar questions Chairman Tenney and National Grange readers plan a statement early this week giving the farmers side of problems now under discussion All senators from agricultural slates have been invited to the ing Labor's Carranza Troops Get Taste of Real Warfare From Air Patrol SNIPERS GIVEN LESSON All Quiet Along Is Last Report From District Special to the Journal Ariz Aug over the railroad brotherhoods demands for increased wages to meet living costs shifted from congress to the president and Director General of railroads the house interstate commerce sion tomorrow will resume hearings on organized labor's railroad Glenn t Plumb author of the measure is expected to conclude his statement tomorrow and will be lowed by A B Garretson chief of the conductors brotherhood Other advocates of the Plumb plan and op- will be heard later in Senate Spirited debate on the high cost of living questions is expected in the senate tomorrow Senator Reed souri and McKellar Tennessee crats have announced addresses on the subject and others are in tion The peace treaty and league of tions however are not to into total eclipse in the senate Lodge to Speak Republican Leader Lodge Tuesday will deliver an extensive analysis of problems and other speeches are to follow Secretary sing tomorrow will resume his mony on the peace relations and re- lated subjects before the foreign re- lations committee He probably will read a prepared statement on his negotiation of trie agreement which de- fined Japan's special interest in China and reaffirmed the open policy Message From Wilson The committee also is expected to receive a communication from dent Wilson In response to requests for data and documents the at Parts Republican leaders said today that the end of tho committee's tions on the treaty was not in sight despite for early ratifica- tion as a means of securing peace and aiding in of living problems republicans are in- sisting that no action be taken on the treaty until Colonel House can appear before Oic committee federal soldiers yesterday received a lesson in real war fare from American army aviators Two airplanes ling the international border wore fired upon by Mexicans who are said to have been in uniform of Carranza soldiers The flyers turned their chine guns on the Mexicans and tered their The affair is reported to have occurred near An- drade Lower California The planes were plying on the American side of the border according to a tion gang of several hundred men who were working in the vicinity and the fight The airplanes were on their way back to their homo basa at Rockwell San Diego after making dally patrol trip to Yuma The used a machine gun and ritles in firing at The aviators did not at first discover they wore gets when they did turned their planes toward the international line the country where the were located with bullets from machine It is not known whether any cans were lilt It is not believed any were killed Names of the officers the planes are not known here After the Mexicans had fled the planes few times on Field Aviators here from patrol reported all quiet along the border Special to Journal CARSON August records of Stae Mine shown a general decrease of accidents in all Up to within a few weeks ifj looked like fatalities vere to be practically for the first iix months when along comes the Divide activity with three fatalities and a number of injuries Several reasons have been assigned or this The rush of new work In- experienced men and last and most powder CHICAGO August call for a convention of representatives of the striking railway shopmen of the be held here next Thursday to determine definitely what action shall he taken was issued today by the cago district council of the federated shopmen which called the trike August 1 In defiance of the in officers of the shop craft's nions This decision was reached as a re- ult of conference held yesterday by ome of tho international officers and of the council and The strike has been declared illegal y the international officers It ailed by district council officers declared such was lihe ish of the rank and file because the officers had failed to ain a since the demand or 85 cents an hour for mechanics nd 60 cents for helpers were pre- last February to the rail ad- ministration The council has stood for a con- of the strike until their de- mands should be granted and its sent a telegram to Presiden Wilson yesterday refusing to order he men to work L Hawyer president of the rict council said 200 telegrams were ent today to railroad centers request ngr that the men send delegates who yould reflect the attitude of the workers AMERICAN MERCHANTS latch from Berlin says that the Ger man Jf marked atten tion reported arrival of a com mission of American merchants a Archangel to with the sovie a of regular traffic It H said an agreement has bee providing for the suppl provisions Agricultural machine and raw by the Americans i which Russia Is to gran American industries relative reconstruction and com Three Fatalities at Divide Blamed on Old Explosive by Inspector MANY MISSED Stinson Asks Attorney General Regarding Condemning of Dynamite Several near fatalities in old Candelaria and Divide started an ion by Mine Inspector Stinson on the ause Missed holes were being reported in i score of small places and while there has been some fortune or tuck ng most of the cases two fatalities have been recorded Investigates Stinson instructed his deputy Kuber o look up the matter and it was found hat most of the missed holes came rohl old powder powder that should lave been condemned Investigation disclosed that considerable of the powder being used In development on he new properties came from ora Upon the closing down of the the large of stored was sold most of it in rn Nevada including Mina Tonopah Divide and other nearby sections old be- come the most dangerous demerit in mining Sh the as prospectors and miners have bought it at a re- price and take the chance of ho missed holes and attending Powder The mine inspector only has power the mines and not the merchants Where this powder Is found in the possession of the mining concerns it condemned but the trouble is that the power is there seems toe no law to regulate the sale of such dangerous powder Inspector Stinson has taken the nat up with the attorney general and s awaiting an opinion on the matter He contends that it Is criminal to sell or dispose of this unsafe material to miners or other and yet there seems to be no state law to stop the tice Congress is strict i to find alleged perfect condition and practically new American wastefully burned by orders of American officers at Belles The photograph pile planes just after the match was applied Food Price Censors In Each County to Watch Retailers Urged by Palmer Eighty Soldiers Ten Die In CHEMNITZ Saturday August Sixty were killed and the during Friday according to estimates Ten were killed and fifty wounded The city now is quiet and trains are running RESTORED i August tiie Associated quiet Ima been restored at Chemnitz vliere fifty persons were killed during food riots inspired by according to advices from Berlin Various ant buildings are still in the hands ol the government forces but ity of troops liave withdrawn 1 Further government reinforcements have arrived on the outskirts of Negotiations with the ers in progress During the legislative session son asked that laws be passed dating the manufacture of all powders thus making it possible to condemn thing that has passed its usefulness was ndt provided and the results have-been a-j number of serious accidents and two fatalities LADIES STAND AT BUT BRASS IS N for the and not finding it is the possible sensation of femininity as it stands before the bar in this city's leading sipping cool drinks when the floodgates of the flowing bowl were open man exercised his lege of the rail Now all Is changed The rail been removed even 2.75 per has been dispensed with Only Soft drinks are served so now before this palatial bar the gentle sex can without a blush ask or answer the question you Against ils Reported In Latin i City Want a Buffalo for Mr Huston to WASHINGTON Aug buffalo foe your home Write to Secretary Houston J it Provision is made hi the vent Agricultural Appropriation act for the Secretary of ture to give buffalo to ties and public Institutions from surplus which may exist In the herds now under the control of the Department of Agriculture No provision is made to give to individuals and only one may be given to each municipality or Institution There are approximately buffalo to has something more than and the total in the ed States is more than This is about seven tune the number in the States when the first buffalo census was taken There are eight government herds six of which are under the control of the Department of Agriculture The largest herd ill this country is fat charge of the Interior Department and is ed in the National Park where there are about The Smithsonian tion now has a herd of eighteen at the National Zoological Park P C MOTTO Hoover Aides Asked to Form Local Committees To Lower Costs WASHINGTON Aug General Palmer started out today to ascertain how much cost of living is duo to profits retailers In a- telegram to all state food ad- who worked with Ad- ministrator Hoover during the war he attorney general requested the pointment of a fair price committee in each county to investigate what is being charged for retail necessities and if in excess of what tee considers just to publish a fair prices for the the reaching profiteering J recently indicated con- sideration He has admitted from start that was no means to prosecute man guilty of in prices Retailors who the ultimate Consumer will have to be disciplined sentiment which of f have no doubt is sufficiently alert to the ation now to act vigorously in clear cases M Hoarders on the other hand can reached through wartime laws or the Sherman mer requested the state food to transmit to any dence of hoarding or other violations of the law which they might ler in their work with the promise that the government's law ment machinery would act promptly is a pressing necessity for the restoration of normal Mr Palmer's telegram said ing who did such effective work the to take up the They asked to servo without compensation the at- general believing lic to be performed is as important as was in and jia EACH MORE THAN 90 FIGHT OVER A WOMAN Appointed in Reno to Control Costs of Necessities THATCHER HEADS BOARD IN CHARGE M NEVADA Authority of National ment to Support Work of Agents Tex Aug Men never get too old to engage hi fistic battles or attempt to win the iove of a according the statement of Judge ander of this city atter ing of a carte where two aged men were charged with fighting and the evidence of the fray on faces Jonas Grogan ninety-six and a minister seemed to be the one who started tho fight to the evidence but Henry son ninety-eight Allison attempted to win the love Retail prices for the necessities ot life are to be supervised in Reno by a authorized by the tional government The machinery of the food administration is to be recalled to active duty for the pose only Is the movement to be re- in Reno but the activities are to be carried to every county In the stute by calling upon the various chairmen who served the fooli administration during the war to point fair price commissions ing to a message received yesterday by Hal Lemmon chairman of the food administration from United States Attorney General Palmer As Mr Lemmon expects to leave tho state within the next few Tie wired Attorney crul Palmer the pointment of George B Thatcher former general of- Nevada served the local food tion as its legal advisor during tho war to serve To Form Organization It is expected the appointment of Mr Thatcher will be confirmed and upon him fall the task of putting the food administration of the state into order again One of the first duties will be to call R Addenbrooke W H of eighty-seven summers a little the worst the tie One of his wae almost punched out and his mouth was turned inside out Allison was husband fought to Keep his was dismissed TOMATO PLANT BOTH BEAK v Aug 1 keo and American grafting promises to all-absorbing question of the high cost of living It has become known Wheeler horticulturist and assistant er at thp State Agricultural School at has been carrying oh seme experiments which encourage hopes for a crop of as well as be- low the noil on the same vine Wheeler has grafted a tomato vine to a- potato plant which beard fruit BL PASO Tex Aug A o have the Chihuahua garrison evolt against the Carranza ers and join Villa Friday was dis- early Wednesday morning and large number of federal officers nd soldiers Including one brevet ral were placed In the federal charged with a iny according to American and Mexican passengers arriving from Chihuahua City today The passengers they hoard hots fired m the patio of the en clary before they left and said this started that of mutiny executed Th not confirmed said AH and mail is out of stated c passengers of the revolt reaching of the eral are r At F 4 waB of the went to ta Rosalia the to saidi fort b call In accurate mation relative to enlarges of by dealers in com- it Is the desire to ascertain not such dealers are making than a fair margin of profit Will you sist in state by requesting those persons who have administrators under appoint in- one retailer one of a representative of the producers of of housewives two or lives of the also a local price regulation committee to serve again to request the county chairmen in Various parts of the state to get into action and point their local county price tion committees The chairmen who served during the war Arthur Smith White Pine county Prank Middleton Elko county Edna Covert Plummer Eureka county L A maire Battle Mountain and Neil S Easton Austin Lander county Joe D Humboldt county H J rlsh Pershing county George D Smith Ormsby county J A Cardinal Douglas county G A Ballard Storey county E E r Churchill county F W Guernsey Lyon county Thomas Lindsay county J A Cahan E W fith Clark county J R Smith coln county and S M Summerfield Mineral county Record at Washington 1 Mr Thatcher said lost night that the work will be handicapped what at the start for the reason that all of the records of the food were closed and shipped to Washington several weeks ago but It THIEF TAKES RED HOT expected that If occasion requires will ba returned to Reno 1 ever the list of names of the local DALLAS price regulation committee of Mrs Ella various county chairmen is in with her next door neighbor f possession bf Mr T who thief entered her and food stote bed refl hot cOok and for Nevada from Whom the fore- sizzling Sunday dinner It was a list Mr Thatcher gas and the thief just un- last night that the local the pipe and disappeared tee and the various chairmen would The following day another be advised of their tasty dinner waa re- ported stolen OCEAN GREENT GOWN MAKES AT NEWPORT NEWPORT Aug rome Napoleon Bonaparte of well the title of the gowned to pursue the same sued by your fair price body without to join the revolt as he had been de- of his command by Genera Manuel recently Instead joining the plot he telegraphed to General Enrique Martin of staff to General giving de- tails of the plot Tho plot was to have the garrison mutiny against the loyal officers at If prices are committee regards a fair price to have published its of prices reporting to you requested to report to the department of justice a general of the Hi your state Any evidence of hoarding or other violations of food control act which may be developed the work Of such turned Vt A-i during the the in at- the Clambake Club V cibak robm inV green ornamented with in a effect with a- of crystal ing silver slippers Long wiere Was the green r rogue of crystal the i SO StEPT IN A WAGON WILLIMANTIC Conn Aug 10 of a young here to beat the landlord to It by a wagon in a well-known barn ended in the police reat fires in national for- ests of Idaho a thunder storm afternoon and it reported day At least five of them were caused ha burned over 20 ft cst two of- being on Gold Creek only ago Six Mile and Elk also the scene of timber courier to Villa telling be instructed to and assume command of sources as well as and of the the Reveille Friday morning the United r 4 court Arthur Rojr aad hla L i lureau I months were fop I paM and on r RUMANIAN TROOPS IN SOUTH HUNGARY PARIS Angart official communication from Bucharest says troops en- tered 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