Evening Progress, The (Newspaper) - May 13, 1920, Petersburg, Virginia THE WEATHER WASHINGTON May Forcast VIRGINIA cloudy S and cooler tonight Friday fair f moderate to fresh winds mostly i northwest ESTABLISHED XXXI No 52 Carranza Troops Rebel Force fc nous Deposed President Said to Be Personally directing Move ment of Reported to Be Ap Five Square Miles for By The Associated Press CRUZ May fighting between rebel and ces commanded by President Carranza occurred yesterday at Hacienda Tamariz on the Mexican National railroad north of San Marcos state of according to despatches received here The area of the battle field reported to be approximately five square President Car ranza is said in wireless messages from Mexico City to have personally directed the operation of his troops for eight hours on Tuesday Storm Terrific storms have swept the mountain region where the struggle is going on and telegraph communi cation has been interrupted ir the of the scene of battle It is known however that heavy rebel reinforcements have been sent to San Marcos by rebel chief tians artillery being rushed f to force the surrender of the troops still loyal to the president General Guadalupe Sanchez has gone to Esperanza with his personal staff and of troops to cooperate in what is be the decisive action of the rebellion Esperanza is about forty miles southeast of San Marcos A correspondent of the newspaper El Dictamen is with the rebel forces in the battle zone but up until an early hour this morning nothing had been him This silence however was probably due to the break in the telegraph line hi the state of Puebla General who is at near Orizaba is begging the rebel authorities fori permission to join the president and share in his Col C R Announces Sugar Violators Will Be Prosecuted Following explicit instructions from Attorney Mitchell Palmer sugar mar fixed by Col C R Keiley Virginia fair price commis Colonel Keiley that wholesalers in the Old Dominion may charge only one the price paid by them and retailers may charge two cents per pourd over their costs The commisioner declares that any profits beyond those fixed by the atj torney general will be declared illegal and violators of this order will be prosecuted Those who pay that which may appear to be unduly high Mrs Paul R Sauber Is Run Down by Car Near Peters burg High Mrs Paul Sauber 51 of Washing ton D a delegate to the Eastern Star PETERSBURG THURSDAY MAY Lro THREE CENTS S INJURED BY NE HENRY t WILL ME DRY Candidate for Congress Has Conference with His Petersburg Friends Dr Henry Clay Smith of Crewe who has announced though not for now being heM in this city his candidacy as an opponent was painfully injured last night shortly to P H Drewry for midnight when runover 011 near the High school bv au automobile driven by Bruce Tench She taken to the Petersburg hospital was where her condition is today reported as on being much improved Her con sist bruises and cuts about the head and According to witnesses was unavoidable Tench the accident was driving eastward on Washington street and a short the High school a denly loomed up in front of the machine The wet pavement prevented him from stopping quickly and the lady was knock a short u auber had come f tfa treet street and was struck by the machine the TO BE ORATOR AT 7 EXERCISES IN CITY sent to the rebels that he de sired to pass through the lines to San Marcos and permission was given on condition he would lay before Garran true situation and the pres ident of the given him by General for the commodity have been f requested by Colonel Keiley Lb get into him the State Capitol building in Rich mond HONOR SYSTEM AT i Confer PASO May Adolfe DeTia of Bead of the constitutional to leave f or City in furtherance of wthe plans of the authorities v bring a stable ac leaders here r Governor De Xa the state government in the hands of a gov ernor to be elected by the now in Cession for that ary agents heresay they believe Governor De prove a satisfactory temporary executive to all candidates for the presidency in the election scheduled tor July next 3ocal the success of the revolutionists in Carranza troops be Vera Cruz al though reports from other ABOLISHED CHICAGO of the honor system among the students of Northwestern university is announced by the Roy C Flicker of the college of liberal stated to day of the reasons for the sus was stu dents to live up ttf the coni A fetter t ctl Drewry for representative in congress was in Petersburg last night and declared that he would make formal announcement in a few days and would also state the plank he will make the race He gave some inkling of this plank however by saying that anyone who votes for him and will have a better chance of getting beer wines and whiskey will be sadly disappoint ed Such a man had better vote for another Smith said Ke has been a staunch prohibition ist as far back as 1914 when he took issue with Dr Stuart McGuire of Richmond who in a speech delivered then upheld the use of intoxicants as Memorial 5 6 afc the An day exercises At part The soldiers section i pots now e and flowers p A number of dead from each Confederate state as well as lie within the Sel tion Confederate HilL and special care is given these by the fol of women who have never forgotten to strew flowers on the ROADS AROUND CITY 1NNEXTFEWDAYS placed in that cheating during examinations had increased under the honor system Hereafter some mem ber faculty will be present students are Th honor Instituted vears prisoner last PULLMAN COMPANY SEEKING INCREASE Hearing will be given the mailman in progress Several company tomorrow morning In Rich reported taken bythe State Corporation com mission to show why it its fares on runs of 100 miles or less The increase has already been granted on a minimum charge of 27 cents but many organizations the state are fighting it With the increase the fare from Pet to Richmond is the same as BATTLE IS WAGED AGAINST LANDLORDS The Associated Press more in year under the in the cooperative ownership plan protest against high rentals it was learned today Uf this amount of for private occupancy by the while cooperative owners have apartments and business 50T Millionaires as well as ordi nary have joined the move ment which has gained considerable momentum in the past few months FOUR CANDIDATES FOR NEGRO BISHOPS By Tho Associated Press DES Mav for negro bishops made pos sible by the action of the Methodist era conference are being for tion by their supporters today All have wen prominent for vears in the work among race Those mentioned are Dr RE Jones of North Carolina conference Dr J W E of At conference Dr W K Brooks of conference bishops are to be elected of Virginia Good Eoads as of to W M Martin secretary of the Chamber of Commerce stated that a man will be in to take es New the film association is producing to show the need of good roads Already a number of scenes have been indifferent parts of the state and with those to be taken here and at other picture pin be shown all over the state and later taken to other states to show what store fo motorist who visits the Old Dominion from Norfolk and peo ple here believe this to be unfair dis crimination CAPTAIN JOHNSON ADDRESSES LEGION corn Branch Johnson formerly mander of the Richmond post of the American Legion and now represent ing the war risk bureau in Washing ton and Clarence Bottoms repre senting the federal board of vocational education addressed the executive committee of the local post last the subject of war risk reinstate ment and offered several suggestions i which are now being considered by the committee and which will prob ably come before the meeting of the entire post tomorrow night Trt CANT GET PAPER JOHNSON CITY May 13 to inability to get newsprint the Daily Mail is issuing liK nanoT t Two of INCREASES SHOWN IN VIRGINIA TOWNS Associated Press WASHINGTON i May VaM increase 428 or per cent Tazewell increase oi or per cent North Tazewell 626 in crease 284 or per cent increase or per cent a stimulant Smith also said that his plat roim would contain a plank radicalism in organized labor He declared he was bitterly opposed to the Plumb plank and that he has told several railroad men who came to him to get his views on the subject that he was opposed to that of railroad ownership I am strongly in favor of an in court for the settlement of industrial Dr Smith said He declared that it is an outrage that when the farmer has a dispute with a railroad he has to take the matter to court for settlement but that the em ploye wants can strike to gain what he The Crew e man has written to Rep Drewry asking him to join him a series of joint debates over the Fourth district which sev eral days ago he declared he would Iso reply has yet been received Washington Where Sir Drewry took his seat Monday Congress adjourns in andit is possible that if the representative wi 1 jom m these debates the matches will be held shortly after as Ur Smith Kas said he would not hold them until after present session of he national lawmaking body is over ary Signature On Delegates And Alternates To Democratic Convention Meet Friday To Organize s Matters That Are Expected to Come Up at Roanoke Gath to Be Discussed At Caucus Here Select Chairman Will Delegates to the state democratic convention to be held in Roanoke next Wednesday will meet tomorrow night at in the council chamber to organize the dele gation and to discuss what they shall do at the meeting It is probable that a chairman of the delegates will be elected as well as a secretary Delegates and alternates were elected at the city democratic con vention held April 8 as follows First W R Duel Louis L Kidd Alternates F O Stailman Dr H R Boyd Second Robert Gilliam P H Drewry Alter R H Mann William Pilcher Third H H Wright Forrest W Tucker Alter nates G M Smith W H Wilcox Fourth S D Bodgers C Alternates Fred Pilcher Fred Moore Fifth W W Jefferson W Alternates Fred Cole I W Andrews Sixth W R Turner B W Matthews Alternates J J Pulley Carson Gregory At the April convention resolutions were passed instructing the delegates to see that nothing was done at the state convention to relax the enforce the state and national pro laws favoring these laws to prevent the manufacture and sale of intoxicants A second resolution was passed fa voring the reelection of Rorer A Dinwiddie as chairman of the state democratic committee j The Petersburg delegates were also I Secretary Asserts Sims Owes An Apology to Himself and Nation By The Associated Press WASHINGTON May Charges that a cablegram pro before the senate naval in committee during the testimony of Rear Admiral bore a forged signature were made today by Secretary He referred to a message which Admiral Sims had presented as part of his criticism of the navy department purported to have be eh signed by tary Somewhere somebody was of instructed to instruct the state j signing my name to to the national convention which the here to vote for Carter Glass for I told the nomination on the W the democratic ticket as long as there was a chance of his getting the nomination These were the only instructions to the delegation from Peters burg as thecity convention is the only one which has mm AT Members of Organization Are This Afternoon Guests of All mirth and this on oi the local Alabama Primary By The Associated BIRMINGHAM itn incomplete and scattering re gathered Birmingham from all but eight coun tiesin Alabama Senator Oscar W Underwood early today was leading b B Musgrove union labor candidate ry 1 c votes nomination to the United States senate in th state pri Bounties Weakley the third candidate in the racer had a totel He has admitted his defeat In th contest for the tary going to C G Alley of Rotar riPete Baugh Headlining joviality column 0 or per cent GERALDINE FARRAS IS ILL IN RJ By The Associated P RALEIGH N May to a slight Farrar grand opera singer who was to have suner at Greenhorn V president of the Rotary of Roanoke who was one livest wires at the Seventh ells convention in Joe is firm believer in songs games and by the Rotarians and in the Hill City has gathered around him an aggregation that is full of pep and y was laid put before the visitors everybody indulged to the limit All during the ies Kids quartet was OJi smg i t the Rotarians restrain them every nU selves and joined ISeal Not a single sne BAPTISTS TO HEAR CAMPAIGN REPORTS By The Associated Press WASHINGTON May single speech was made B W MattKews and Williamson Honored Jn Norfolk Gole v and Were i elected officers of the so ci But a meet chers which was at ing of retail merchants and butchers of the state at yesterday Mr Matthews was made third dent and Messrs and were made members board of of new organization More retail merchants and butchers of the state present at the was yesterday under the the IN or Retail son iaga dispatch erasing the and subs ti The concluding paragraph of the cablet grani said In regard to convoys I American vessels having armed sa fcr when in Daniels upon reading the admirals ha knew that he never sent such a cable grani and he started an invest Says Forged I nanie on such a t woul cl be because Had forged my name secretary Ke original of the dispatch in the embassy through which it had beea sent and that the signed to it Carter bv directions of the chief of naval statement that it is Ap such signed ever sent to A this dispatch ed with over and again e wi m j swn the Pt a shippi and vas system I I never entertain opinion stated in the dispatch he displayed the purpose of effecting al V altered the s Mr Blared adding v inn f me and to th furnished number undertaken to of delegates to Jhe meeting with t0 testimony based a 11 swerf Much of the naval secretar devoted to the ths report of the Baptist campaign commission was taken up at the sessions continuing today of the 75th annual Southern convention Messengers entered into the discussion of foreign t STid 4Via t u vij CUC board and the Southern Baptst theological 323 annual session of the W omens Missionary union an aux promised to lend their machines visiting Eastern Star so that they can see the and here this NEW YORK STOCKS By The Associated Press of power effected further shrink exception of eleven merchants of this mg the j was B t Morgan president of the Nori oxer associa head bf the state 01 ft wit be after the plan successfully used by the Norfolk asso Among the speakers in uw this plan was C Parsons secretary I of the local Retail Merchants vessel 7 Ix that first duty of j to protect t dur PLANNING GAS PLANT FOR LANGLEY FIELD WASHINGTON May nro age of quoted values at the moderate cess has for iy active opening of todays stock ing nere tms evening had committee o postpone these engagements until of next week Mme Farrars condition IS Om n committees were read womens wo It baid not to be serious She passed helium gas so that it may be used J soldier in military lighter than Haniels f i T to a war 1 Sims cial conditions were mostly of a statement Professor i from the give renewed encouragement N Davic of Harvard is now hf t campaign fche hort account Pressure con ine a plant for this purpose for the protection and various concentrate m steels will be erected at field Va were motors and textiles in which few d iegen her husband Lou Tel reaction averaged a point Invest j A concert will be given in tbe Around on pros taoca High school tomorrow night at of a new strike m the middle 5 8 will include hre SSE book paper COTTON Associated NEW YORK May fu i May 4060 Ju 071 December January 3445 A yedding of considerable interest to and Trentonians cc cured m New York City Saturday April 24 1920 wmen Mrs Ella Wo Jey Turner formally of Petersburg but for the past few years city wel fare nurse of Trenton N became A i of Mr West of Akron O Tne wedding ceremony performed at the home of the s sister Mrs Winnie Wor ley Kahn on Riverside Drive follow ing which an elaborate reception was held invitations having been issued to the many friends of the couple in New Philadelphia Akron and Petersburg with the re sponse of a large attendance of friends eager to greet the newlyweds with their wishs of MERCHANTS TO SELEC i TW v TO MEETING I lire board of directors of the Retail Merchants will met at 5 o clock tonight in the offices of the association to elect 19 delegates to the t INABILITY TO UNLOAD FREIGHT CARS QUICKLY CAUSE OF CONGESTION CHICAGO Colo Colosimo restaurant here Tuesday afternoon has been located in Los Angeles ac cording to a Chicago morning paper Police here had search ing for her as the result of a rumor had arrived in Chicago on one was shot She advanced several theories as to the provable motive for the der according to view and said she was ready turn to Chicago and aid the ties in solving the mystery CALL ON PARTIES TO SUPPORT DRY apt attacked far there wasnt anr sab Imp ted action to relieve the freight congestion on American railroads in order to prevent serious cur of production engaged the attention today of all the gov agencies which deal with the national arteries of transpor tation Reports from important terminals agreed that while the situation was not as as it was two aos it still threatened a slowing down of in dustry with resulting unemploy ment and economic NEW YORK May con gestion in the of the ATTACK POLICE BARRACKS Tne Associated Press today DUBLIN May hundred The roads were almost unanimous Sicks 1 m asserting that the recent i hours early Wednesday r th strike of switchmen and has ins rifles officials declared was being speedily cleared up I A strike of union longshoremen and j the refusal of union Jeep r SHIPS TONNAGE SHORT the By The Associated Press v BERLIN May have that German ships f freight cars 2 a of the Uble for w to the by illness at his home 211 Tir social service be ana is avenue and requests his friends to
