Waterloo Evening Courier (Newspaper) - March 6, 1920, Waterloo, Iowa The street price In Waterloo of edition of the Courier Is THREE CENTS Newsboys are all supplied with ano buyers are asked to Insist upon paying only the advertised price AND WATERLOO DAILY REPORTER WEATHER FORECAST March Fair to older In arid central por Sunday fair rising temperature ti and north Courier ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE A T 13 R L 0 0 I 0 W A S A T U K D A Y M A 11 C II t 1920 1 X T K K N P A G E S TWO KOKX MOTHER CHURCH LOSES LAWSUIT STRIKE II TURKS ALLEGE BOTH MASSACRE STORIES UNTOLD Deposed Officer of Union Calls Walkout Branded as Illegal by President of Order 500 TO 2600 ESTIMATED AS OUT TO FORCE RAISE U S Attorney Begins Inquiry to See If Transportation Act Is Being Broken By tho Associated Press Constantinople March j lutious asking the United States to j send a commission to investigate j the Marash massacre and condi lions generally in Anatolia passed unanimously today by the i Turkish chamber of deputies This action followed an address by Arif Bey who today was elected dent of the chamber succeeding Bey decreased During the debate it was charged the interallied censorship did not permit Turkish language pers to tell the Turkish version of the Marash incident GO SCOTT BEE LEVER PUBLISHERS BODY ASKS 10 P C CUT IN USE OF PAPER Federal Decision Holds Law Too Uncertain as to What Unfair Profit Is By the Associated Press Chicago March workers in downtown railroad sta tions variously estimated to num ber to 2600 walked out at 6 a m today All deliveries of express to and from the railroad de have stopped it was announced mand sterling VIOLENT DROP IN EXCHANGE WHEN LEAVES NATION WITHOUT CURB ON HIGH PRICES MARKET Takes Occasion to Flav Profiteers Waterloo Food By the Associated Press New York March j sterling opened today at 14 j or 5 cents below yesterdays close j Franc checks opened at 1381 to the dollar a 21 centimes and lire checks at to the dol lar off 2 centimes Marks were quoted at 106 cents express to and from the railroad de Closing quotations were De erling 5368 12 franc checks 1377 and lire checks Sterling had another violent drop in the late dealings Quotations Dealers Are Interested at the office of the American way Express company Other employes including wag reported for work this morning but the strikers claim the I were Demand 357 34 cables wagon drivers will walk out 35012 day morning Declare It Outlaw Effort See Rise Unwarranted London March Robert E Shepherd who called I cable transfer opened still higher the strike yesterday after being in the foreign exchange market to posed as a grand lodge officer of i day moving to but declined the Order of Railway Clerks by J afterward on buying orders to R Abbott vice grand president is i i leading an outlaw organization Opinion in the market seemed to other express unions declared toj be that yesterdays rise was hardly day A Bellinger grand president I warranted of the Order of Railway Express issued a warning to his niei Siot to strike and branded the Shep herd walkout a direct violation of the transportation act passed cently by congress The American Railway Express company posted similar notices ati offices i Contract Violation Seen Mr his one rival cralts In which express employes are listed reads I Grain Corporations j Authority Allows to Europe Decision On Feb 26 an agreement was By the Associated Press Washington D C March Holding tuat tHe States Grain corporation has authority to extend relief to central European j nations the rules committee American Rail today decided against giving execu company Preference tho the j ider of extension ling working conditions Chairman Campbell told the com this act was not entirely that necessity for executive satisfactory to labor yet with action had been removed by the i sibly one or two exceptions all have decision of the grain corporation to give it a trial therefore any strike at this time would be a violation of our contract and could not be sanctioned by the heads of this organization monthly Increase The strikers demand a flat in crease of a month The pres ent scale ranged from 90 to a month with a bonus of i States monthly for night work according j announced to the committee yester day bv Julius H Barnes president to ship to Europe and sell xn credit I 5000000 barrels of soft wheat Hour should congress not act to mit sales for cash President Bar nes told the committee that the cor had found it impossible to r sell the soft wheat flour in the j Again Known He Would Not Run for Presidency District Attorney Clyne began an j investigation today to determine whether the strike is in violation of the new transportation act If the evidence warrants he in that the first test of the I new law will be made here j Rv Associated S Gibbon to VICG nni President Emery A Stedman of the j York inten i express company declared company his naml To be never received official Qn presidential preferential tice of the strike when he sent a telegram to Mr Shepherd who called d to B F Kwing chairman of the i tue strike declared it is not Democratic state committee of s matter of malice or revenge requesting that he be it is a matter of common justice to the men aud women engaged in his industry Some Clerks Get Per Month out of the California primary Mr McAdoo reiterated the he recently made to Georgia Democrats that he favored the send Shepherd said some of the of unrestricted delegates to the clerks affected by the strike national convention Allies on Economic Condition of Europe paid salaries as low as per month janitors received land other clerks collectors sorters IV VI revisers and foremen re from to a month Mr Gibson denied regular em received only a month but said some beginners were paid that salary Paris March has Employes simply could not live neither signed nor approved the on the wages paid them Shephi declaration regarding the economic said and added We have been i situation of Europe which the al patient and have waited since supreme council has proposed August pursuant to President make it was declared here sons communication asking that j employes in the railway and Instructions are being sent to j press business give the government Ambassador Cambon in London it a chance to reduce the cost of declared that he si ing but since that time no whatsoever has been given sign the dec relief i with certain reservations Has i Waterloo Orders were received at the Wa office of the American Exi press company this morning io emi bargo all freight aud m cuts lo Chicago until further no tice This does not include general freight special classifications The has no city or sub urban at Chicago for re and storing freight pending settlement of the strike and is obliged to place a embargo from points of original shipment Presumably the same order has been sent to all company officers cedar Falls In March turnout Iowa j two games of the Private messages received in thei semifinals to be played this after indicate that a settle men I of moon in the I S T C tournament j the strike and general reare Waterloo east high vs Cedar sumption of business to that city Falls high vs Lime may be expected in a few days I Springs i j winners in these games will contend for the championship to night at the I S T C at i Scores this mornings were Ce dar Falls 23 Waterloo west high 5 I Waterloo east high 25 Manly high 23 Lime Springs 22 Grundy Cen ter 14 Teachers high 21 Dike 13 Tho Courier should be deliv ered at your home before oclock If thru error of the carrier boy or other cause you fail to receive your paper by that time please Phono and a copy of Iho paper will bo sent Phono rails must roach this office before p TO Americas Favorite j San and Kl Verso Cigars advertisement Every effort of nation state municipality and individual to bring down the high cost of food products becomes negatory under a decision just handed down by Judge Faris in the United States district court at St Louis This decision which is being scanned with interest by Waterloo wholesale and retail dealers in food commodities holds that the Lever food control act is al because the law fixes no stand ard by which a jury may determine what is a fair or unfair margin of profit Raises on Prices In effect this decision raises the lid on high cost prices and leaves it open to the retailer jobber and wholesaler to demand any price he may wish with assurance the fed eral law cannot touch him In er words it leaves an open field for the profiteer The Cohen grocery company of St Louis sold 100 pounds of sugar for or with two per cent de duction for cash The com pany was brought into federal court for violation of the Lever act the market price at that time be ing 11 12 cents per pound Epitome In his decision Judge Faris said Briefly this statute makes it a for any person to make an unjust or unreasonable charge in any necessity It nowhere defines what is unjust or what shall be deemed unreasonable It leaves it to the jury to find what lar thing itis that the law has made a of One jury may very well say that a profit of one cent a pound on sugar above cost and carriage is unreasonable and so a felonious act while another jump might say that a charge of 25 cents was not unjust No criminal statute ought to be so vague and uncertain that the citizen cannot know at any given moment wheth er he is a felon or a patriot Judge Faris flays thp profiteer unmercifully and regrets that the decision must be against his own personal feelings on the subject He says Judge Regrets Decision In the presence of the existing rapacity and greed of the profiteer I confess it has been difficult for me to approach this question in a judicial frame It is to me a matter of most sincere regret that I find it my duty to say so far as the application of this law to the facts presented in this case are con cerned that it is invalid for the reason I have stated It is regrettable that a law which was intended to be so benefi cent as this law is intended to be and which was designed to remedy a most outrageous and crying evil should be found to fall short by reason of constitutional difficulties There never was a time when a curb of human greed and rapacity demanded as now and I repeat that the T feel ofthe selfish hoggishness of the profiteer is such that I can scarcely deal with the question with the amount of judicial plumb with which I ought to deal with it Because the law is vague nite and uncertain and fixes no im mutable standard of guilt but leaves such standard to the views of different courts and juries and because it does not inform de fendant of the him T think it is constitutionally invalid Appealed twp theories in Wa as to where this situation may lead The first is that congress will take immediate action to amend the law to remedy the de fect the second is that the case will be carried to the United States court of appeals and ultimately to the supreme court and final con struction of the Lever act obtained The latter would inevitably mean delay and it leaves the field open to speculation as to what advantage the of the country may take of the opportunity Offered Fred Hart on g of the Fowler company wholesale grocers said this morning that an appeal is al most certain that a question nf such vast importance cannot be al lowed to rest as final upon the de of a single federal judge So far as Waterloo is con cerned he said T cannot Imag ine the decision will affect prices to any degree Quotations Not Several retailers interviewed said their prices are fixed at a fail percentage above cost and overhead and wll only vary ai these two items vary Sugar is selling in Waterloo to day at IS to 20 cents There is a tho some bak By Uiti Associated Press Boston Mass March trustees of the Christian Science Publishing society may not be con trolled by the directors of the moth er church the First Church of Christ Scientist in the opinion of Judge Frederic Dodge whose find ing as master in the Christian Sci ence suits was filed with the su judicial court of the state today The master also finds that the directors had no legal right to remove John V Dittemore from their own board or Lamont Row findings was prepared two mouths lands from the board of trustees Findings Heady Months The original draft of the masters ago aud since then counsel for the directors have sought to reopen the suit so far as it concerned Ditte more These requests were refused The directors already have indi that they proposed to con the fight before the full bench of the state supreme court As soon as the masters report was filed the board of directors with the exception of Dittemore is sued a statement declaring that fight was not ended Court Clerk Gets Report New York March reduction of 10 per cent in con j sumption of newsprint paper by all i newspapers and a request to adver to reduce their space 10 per cent during the present cy were urged in a resolution adopted today by the board of tors and paper committee of the American Newspaper Publishers association In case advertisers will not cooperate the resolution advises publishers to raise their advertising rates to bring about the proposed reduc tion Saving Already Appreciable Appreciable saving has been effected according to commit tees in charge of the campaign for newsprint conservation A major ity of newspapers are reported to be cooperating in such economies cutting size and number oC editions eliminating wastage and raising advertising rates Increased de mands for advertising space how ever have interfered with the cam to bring the consumption of newsprint within the limits of the present mill production The general sentiment of pub attending the meeting the resolution states was that the sit while serious does not jus government action or the pas sage of any of the various measures which have been introduced in congress Small Papers Plight Magnified Reports of the inability of small newspapers to obtain paper may have been exaggerated the resolu tion adds because only a meagre re sponse was drawn by the associa tions request to 2500 small pa pers for information of those un able to get newsprint in rolls The association wishes to be of service i in this respect by placing the pa in distress in touch with sour ces of supply For this purpose the resolu tion continues the information needed is Minimum quantity I necessary for the balance of 1920 j statement of sizes of present sup ply its source tonnage and price number of pages and advertising rates and circulation at present time compared with corresponding i period of last year I IF Til PICT Vessel on Fire Calls for Help From Atlantic IN FIGHT TO to lc the bound Norfolk for for help by faido today her bunkers Their Needs Too Great to Be Met by District Which Foe Can Take Any Time Biggest Navy Called Necessary Unless Nations All Help to Keep World Peace ABUSES TURN ALL RACES AGAINST HIM U S Officer Quoted as Saying He Has Data on Outrages Native Crimes Aliened Sects Printing Society Was Not to Be Under Formers Rule Finding of Master ROWLANDS CHARGES NOT IN GOOD FAITH HE SAYS Uy the Associated FICHS Washington D G March Secretary Daniels told the house naval committee today he would recommend naval building pro gram for the next fiscal year larger than that proposed by the general if the peace treaty is not this session of congress Withholding final recommendation however the secretary added that if this country rejected the league of nations ho would feel impelled to renew his recommendation for another year program of construction Must League or Big Navy Reiterating his statement that we must havo a league of nations by which every will help preserve the peace of the world without competitive naval building or we must have tho biggest navy in the world Mr Daniels declared there was no middle ground I hoped to appear before this committee today the secretary continued with a final dation as to a building program but as the senate has not yet acted on the peace treaty there are un certainties in ithe situation If the covenant had been ratified our duty would have been plain With the league in operation it would hot to payers of America the assessments necessary for building more capital ships Cruisers Added by Daniels The program which the secretary By the Association TreM March bol begun u new nt Uuk on Finland tho Central News at Hol After artillery bombardment on Wednesday they attacked Hie at Sut Jervi Direct Settlement of Fiume Is Plan Apparently Satisfying to Him Pertinax Says the Associated Press j Paris March Wil sons reply to the note sent him by the allied premiers relative to the Adriatic was not discussed by inem March vik elements numbering more than 35000 have reached ind the problem of feeding cloth ing and giving medical attention to the men after their terrible inarch exceeds the resources of the dis according to a dispatch to the London Times dated Feb 22 Stores have been hurried to Chi forces have huge i 1 and equipment which were captured at Omsk and other points They are therefore able to take ever they like it is said Alienates AH liases Gen Semenoff in control of the antisoviet troops in eastern Siber ia has lost support of and may haye suffered abuses and brutalities all races from him but no reputable Russian is willing to take his place Col C H Morrow commander of the United by the bers the supreme allied council at London yesterday of ob agreed with the boards proposal as to capital battleships and one battle added to that proposal 20 cruisers and 16 j flotilla The light cruisers and jly six were by the board It bad been his intention if tho peace treaty were ratified with the possibility of armaments being ur and regulated the secretary j i declared to recommend definitely such a modest building plan in the text the cable pany being asked for a repetition says Pertinax in the Echo De Paris As far as can be ascertain ed however he says Mr Wilson does not show any desire to with draw from European concerns and accepts the French and British sug gestions that efforts be made to reach a direct understanding be Italy and JugoSlavia rela to the Adriatic problem Evidently Treaty It is said that should this step fail Mr Wilson would be ready to sanction any agreement tory to the Italians and JugoSla via but that he lets It be under stood he regards the agreement of Dec 9 tentative the most solution the problem and most consistent with the prev allied policy The American president is understood to reject Two Votes to Oust Him Illegal as One Was Telephoned Other Unqualified i Boston March in favor of the trustees of the Chris tian Science Publishing society and of John V Dittemore in their suits I against the directors of the mother church the First Church of Christ Scientist are contained in the re port of Frederic Dodge as master which was filed here today in the office of the cleric of the supreme judicial court The master holds what the directors had no legal right to remove Lament Rowlands of Picayune Miss from the board of trustees or Dittemore from the board of directors Not Under RuJo of Church The trust deed of the master says referring to the deed creating the publishing society trustees seems to me to contem plate a church whose voting mem bers were to elect the new members and make its bylaws and a publish ing society in close alliance with but not under the rule of the church or its officers Mr Dodge who formerly vas judge of the United States circuit 1 court here was appointed as mas ter Loring of the supreme court toL determine the facts at is sue and deede of trust made in 1892 and 1898 re by Mary Baker Eddy founder of the Christian Science the treaty of London as a meens church In the first gols and Buriats less lawlessness perpetrated by Gen SernenofCs men Trouble With Forecast Disavowal of the administration ot Gen Horvath in eastern Siberia and recognition of the zemstvo government of Vladivostok ing reunion of Russian dominions I under the government of Moscow are contained in a note issued re cently by the Socialist conference at Harbin Manchuria according to Minor Zones to Be Allotted Entente Supreme Council Job By the Associated Press Paris March agree ment on features of the Turkish has been reached says Pertinax political editor of Echo De Paris who adds that the posi itiou of the Turkish financial control commission will be quite distinct from the administration of the Ot toman debt The supreme council he says is i about to take up the establishment of a judicial commission and settle zones to be accorded Greece Italy France and Great Britain in Asia Minor Plans con would forbid the main tenance of allied garrisons Alexander Vaida Koi manian premier ami minister of j foreign affaire has obtained the consent of tlie supreme allied coun cil to a settlement of the Bessar question in accordance with Uhe Roumanian wishes In return has agreed to evacuate i Hungarian territory and be guided the powers in her attitude to the Budapest CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL PROPOSITION LOSES OUT 255 TO 154 AT GREENE program he added but in the un j settled condition of tho world today he declared the American navy i must be prepared for any emer 1 British Colonies Urged to Build Chairman Butler said Sir Auck iland Geddes new British dor to the United States had been quoted as saying that the British navy would not be larger than that iof the United States but Mr Dan iels said Great Britain was en its colonies io build na val vessels Mr Daniels insisted that he would urge construction of a much lerger fleet so long as the status quo remains 1 In other words you want us to add about to the naval appropriation this ye said Representative Kelly Mean Michigan Would Not All This Your It would not all bo needed this year replied the secretary Some could he appropriated next year Replying to suggestions of Chair man Butler that the United States i need not fear any other nation on the sea so long as an agreement vith Great Britain continued the i naval secretary said he believed only a leagi of nations with a 1 force strong enough to enforce its edicts could insure for the State operation of the Chinese railway and this road affects the i Chinese too deeply to admit of 1 by them of the Socialist j conference this reason it is Kaid clash is inevitable in that i region j Japan to Keep Siberia Hold i Washington D C March planning to withdraw the bulk of her troops from Siberia Japan will not relinquish control of i Vladivostok aud vicinity the Chi eastern railway and the portant railroad junctions accord ling to information received here j Other nations beside Japan planning to withdraw their troops i i front Siberia it stated j settling the controversy while care fully refraining from offering any other methods for consideration As matters stand adds the Italian cabinet has trans mitted to the Belgrade government its latest concessions the most important of which is the abandon ment of continuity of territory be tween Fiume and Italy The Jugo slav answer has not been received in Rome Premiers Invite Him to Join Washington D C March Pending publication of President Wilsons answer to the latest com of the French and Brit ish premiers on the Adriatic situa tion the state department has made public the text of the premiers Mrs Eddy named four trustees since designated as directors in the second she provided for trustees should have all pub lications intended to promote the growth of the Christian Science movement Directors Claimed Supremacy The trustees of the publishing society claimed that under their deed they were independent of con trol by the directors The tors contended that under the by laws and manual ot tne mother church they the supreme au over all Judge Dodge upholds tne ground taken by counsel for the trustees and for Dittemore that the bylaws of the church did not confer pow ers upon possessed by note containing an invitation that deacons or wardens of churchin Mr Wilson join them in urging under the statutes of Italy and JugoSlavia to seek a These bylaws in by direct negotiations be tween themselves No hint has come from any cial quarter as to the course the president plans to follow The premiers invitation was founded on a statement in the last Ameri ran note that such a settlement un der certain conditions would be a ti the opinion of Judge Dodge are simply a contract created by the signed applications for membership in the church Not One and Same Body He denies the contention of coun sel for the directors appointed un der the deed of trust of 1892 tnat these directors and those created to the president The the church bylaws are one and premiers characterized the direct negotiation method ideal They Intend to Consult U S the same body having equal powers and authority to dismiss one Tof their own members as weir as a The state department made pub of ae publishing society LOSES THAT IT DOES NOT BACKl U S Rule of Packers Urged by Officer of Women Voters Band Bv the Associated Press London March i guese cabinet has resigned after the j defeat of the government on a vote i i of confidence in the chamber ac i cording to a Valencia message i transmitted by the Central News i correspondent at Madrid The vote I followed the governments anj that any public ice strikers who did not return to i work within 48 hours would be i summarily dismissed Antonio Silva former minister of i public works has formed a new i lie last night the texts of the pre miers note containing the invita tion which was coupled with rej assurance that it was their purpose to consult the views of the American government whatever course the Adriatic problem took short of ultimate failure to nego a compromise of the treaty of London In that event the note pointed out France and England would be bound to adhere to their war time agreement with Italy The master rules that at present there are two sets of directors of Science church each name one consti of four under the deed of 1892 and the other of five members acting under the bylaws made by the directors in 1903 after first members of the church had transferred their powers to the di rectors Radio News Gleaning From All Over US Tried at la March G The pro position to establish a i ed high school with he Greene district as the center was defeat i eel in a special election yesterday i 235 to 154 The vole in tho coun try sections was IS yes and 110 against In the city tho vote was 95 for and 154 against I erios and restaurants I uy it difficult to supply themselves foi moro ban 24 hours Bv Washington D March Mrs P a repre of the of Wonton Voters and president of tho National Consumers up before the house tural committee to urge federal rep of the packing industry fi KiO IMKI children in in suffi Mrs told the Tho price of living in of wages meal substitutes are dis from Iho tables of the About cient food committee has kept Meat and appearing poor We havo come Io the conclusion that behind the trade exists manipulation of food supplies and prices thai is a menace to this coun try A fow people control the mar kets in which they buy and the markets in sell Miss Smith of I mans Trade union league present od resolutions passed by her or favoring enactment pf I the for regulating the packers JKAIN Minneapolis Minn March Declaring that the salaries of 000 paid vice presidents of the grain corporation are in no sense remunerative for the value of ices rendered Frank T Carey Min neapolis vice president of the ed States Grain corporation yester day came to the defense of the ex of the grain corporation which were characterized as exor i His Unlawful In deciding in favor of Rowlands j Judge Dodge says that his removal j by the directors was unlawful be cause there was not concurrent ac tion on the part of the first mem bers of the Christian Science church as required by the deed of Mrs relating to vacancies the had the i power to abolish themselves and av the Associated i transfer their duties to the 0 March 6 The I tors says the master those first actual attempt to tors were the ones appointed under bv wireless from all parts of the Mrs Eddys deed and not the States will be put into tors since created by the bylaws of ation here during the Cleveland the church electrical show March 10 to 20 Only TAVO Had to otc A huge wireless station capable The only two directors be says of receiving messages from across had a right to vote lo remove by the i R Rathvon and their the ocean brought here sta Judge Dodge fds had 0 eS I By th Press Washington D C March Weather predictions for the week 1 beginning Monday are Upper Mississippi aud lower Missouri valleys Generally 1 fair altho some prospect of lo snows over the extreme north portions by the middle pf the week temperatures will remain low Holiday The brand that equals Butter advertisement to get their j stories from newspaper offices of their local cities i HAUL OK BOOZE By the Associated Press St Mo March ky valued at was stolen by four unidentified men who broke into the government bonded ware house at Valley Park Ma 17 miles vest of here shortly before mid night last night The thieves were fired on as they drove away in a truck but escaped to Safe i Eight cents to preserve the quality advertisement The judge further declares that the charges against Rowlands were not made in good faith in that the directors hoped that the remaining trustees would refuse to fill the vacancy and thus give cause for their removal also HeW The court that temore is a director under tlut deed and could be removed only by a court of equity and that as n bylaw director he could be re moved for cause an inn Cat the first members church may at some time TAOS i
