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Appleton Post-Crescent (Newspaper) - March 31, 1920, Appleton, Wisconsin Are you a member of the chamber of Commerce the weather probably rain tonight Anil thursday cooler Appleton Cre scent last edition the daily i out jct Kunu k8ta11i.ih11ed 18m 12 pages Appleton Wisconsin wednesday March 31, 1920 full tka8kd Wiki 8erv1cr of tub dn1tjbo Rbert aw9ociation8 Price three cents shortage of farm labor will increase the Cost of living Campaign committees report satisfactory Progress at meeting this noon drive will be continued until Satur Day night so that every Man m Appleton will have Opportunity to join fifty one More memberships were added to the new Appleton chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon and this morning making a total of Ico according to reports submitted at a meeting of Campaign team captains and workers at the Sherman House this noon. The wonderful Success of the Campaign augurs Well for the future of. The association captains and workers said. The drive is to be continued until saturday night in the Hope of secur ing not less than 800 members. Many business men have been out of the City since the drive opened and it is believed they will subscribe for one or More memberships. Captains and workers Are Well pleased with the Success which has attended their efforts. No Steps looking toward formal organization will be taken until after the membership Campaign is completed. The temporary committee formulated the plans is still in control and it will make preparations for a meeting of All the members As soon As everything is in readiness. Despite the Early Success of the mooch Pinkk gives up we Lex still is raided by United Porchm wire a Frau Alt Midi. Gash a dish Neau gave himself up to the authorities after his still and 30 quarts of Moonshine whisky had been confiscated. Dishneau explained that he was forced into the manufacture of liquor by ill health. He is married and has eight children. General she of Al City employ threatens is 10 police Axi firemen Are sex pkctk1 to join ranks of employees seek ing wage boosts United i Russ leaned wire strike of City employees demanding wage increases approximating 20 per cent threat ened today when seventy food inspectors joined the thousand City Hall employees who quit yesterday. The strike would mean a general tie up of the City s activities and might seriously Handicap the police and fire departments. Six Hundred policemen and police women Are expected to resign tomorrow. Firemen met today to consider a Blanket res ignation to enforce their demands for an increase. The City Council had until mid night to include an additional 0-00.000 in the City budget to care for the increases demanded. Efforts chamber of Commerce Campaign the to include this amount failed by teams Are working As hard As if the three votes last night. According to drive was attended with unusual the budget must be passed by efforts Are made to see _ Midnight tonight. A police guard will be posted at the Council meeting today to prevent demonstrations. Last night employees jostled and pushed or they Defeated the additional appropriation. Every prospective member and every one will be Given an Opportunity of joining. Those who May inadvertently Lije missed by should Avail themselves of the application Blank printed elsewhere in this paper. The Blank Sho uld be filled out and mailed or delivered to the chamber of com Merce temporary Headquarters at the Sherman House. T. A. Gallagher temporary Secre tary of the organization committee is devoting his entire time to the work and is keeping membership records up to Date. Water continues to pm West la Crosse Iso walkers guard against wrecks. By of Niril 1 Rush wire conditions have this City from All communication except on the main lines of through railways. The Mississippi. Chippewa. Black and la Rivers continued rising today. Traffic is almost at a stand still on the Northwestern. Milwaukee. Green Bay and Burlington railways and All rails May be covered before Sundown. Nary and Douglas to work together Mary Pickford weds Doug Las Fairbanks less than month after divorce from Moore i Nithil wire Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. Newly weds who were secretly married Here sunday night Are going in the movies to Gether. Married life is not going to be confined to after work hours. Doug and Mary Are going to take their venture into Matrimony before the movie Public. According to plans announced to by by Fairbanks. Mary and he will appear As co stars in at least one motion picture to be produced shortly All of Fairbanks Energy was i called into play today dodging news paper reporters and camera men who ire camping out near the Fairbanks Home at Beverly Hills. Doug and it was said were somewhere track walkers Are stationed every in but weren t seeing any 100 feet in the danger zone. Switch ing has been stopped on All Side messengers tracks. Attempts Are being made to Rescue merchandise stored in cars on the Guobis removed from basements and first floors of wholesale and manufacturing plants to higher floors. The interstate Bridge on the main state High Ray has been closed to traffic and is guarded Day and night. To streamed constantly the Fairbanks Home today with congratulations. One was assigned to answer the continual tu.-7i.ig of the phone. The newly weds plan to leave Loe Angeles May 19 and sail from new Vork to Europe. The honeymoon Ivill include a tour of England Ranee. Denmark Sweden and Italy. I Herr i Winona Minn. The Mississippi River Here reached its highest stage in four years Early today and was Mill creeping up on the lower sections of town. The stage was 16.2 feet. Weather Bureau officials said the Crest of the flood would be readied tomorrow. Dozens of cellars and basements Are flooded. Russ ambassador faces trial As an agitator by i Riford few. Ludwig c. A. K. Martens bolshevik ambassador to the United Spates went on trial Tofor acting Secretary Tom of the labor department Here today Char cd with membership in a society overthrow by Force of the i filed states government proof of the Charco will make Al mandatory upon the labor department to Deport Martens to Russia. Accord ing to recent interpretation of the Law by Secretary Wilson. Upon the outcome of his Case de pends the question whether Trade re lations May be resumed Between the United states and Husla. According to Martens Brandt a in Laski visitor today. Oshkosh gained Only 100 people in 10 years fail Rel i Rawl wire the census Bureau announced today the following population figures Lla Risburg. A 75.iu7 Osh cosh 53.162 grand rapids. Wis. 7.243 Peru 12.561 Maywood. 111. 12. 072 Tofic Forest 111., 3.s60 Sulphur Springs. Tex Lakeland. Fla. 7.062 Concord. X. A. 9.903. Increase since 1910 Harrisburg 11.731 or 1j3 per cent Osh cosh 100 or 0.3 grand rapids 722 or 11.1 Peru 1.651 or 15.1 Maywood or 5.3 lace Forest 11 or 0.3 Sulphur 407 or. Ii Mccland Good wages and easy life in cities keeps men away from farms and production will be decreased Ity in Ltd Chicago luxurious dinners. Plenty of shows and late hours to Jether with easy jobs at High wages or eaten to cause a labor shortage on farms this year which May cause Urther increases in living costs observers Here said today. Tempting offers by Farmers in the rain Belt arc meeting with Little response and unless farm help is of Iii Ned shortly Farmers will have to work night and Day to get in their crops according to reports. There is a very great labor Short age on the said c. S. Boyd. Lead of an employment Agency Here we receive 50 orders for farm hands daily and Are Only Able to fill ten. The jobs pay from to a month with room Board and Wash no. This is an increase of per Jent Over last year. Jobs for mar couples pay a month and hey Are Given n House Garden and n plenty of Money the Lack of farm labor is caused by the fact that the saloons Are closed ind the labourers have lots of Money said Sam Cummings. Farm labor agent. They can get a Day and 3ity life attracts them. With plenty f Money to spend they Don t care to Ive up life in the Boyd estimated the shortage of Arm workers at 30 per cent. We could place 300 single men at Between and a month right said Boyd. But we can t get hem. The farm hands got Good jobs during the War and Don t want to give them up. The shortage will have a bad effect on crops and Means higher rices. If the Price goes up the farm land will demand More Money and Hen More increases will that the situation is serious was asserted by b. M. Snow Grain expert. Acreage decreased there is a very serious shortage n every farming Section of the coun try which will interfere with the up t ing in of he said. Unless the season is perfect All the Way through so that the smaller amount of labor can do the usual Vork of previous seasons there will be a great shortage in acreage John Fitzpatrick president of the Chicago federation of labor blamed t All on the unwillingness of the far to pay More Money. If there is any increase in Grain , Fitzpatrick said it will not be due to labor shortage but to men on farms Milwaukee the Only Hope of Ever reducing the Cost of living is to get the people Back to the farms in the opinion of Harry Lippart. Superintendent of the Federal employment Agency Here. Where in March of 1910 a total of men were assigned jobs on farms the total this month is Only events seven. And the demand is greater than it was a year ago. The Are higher than in 1910. To a month and keeps Ripon is Birthplace of new party he Rill no i Truk wire a ton group of citizens has launched the nucleus of another political party Here where the re publican party was born. B. Hazeltine was temporary chairman of a meeting of 100 citizens who declared themselves for a non parti san clean political league without being tied up to any party simply supporting constructive measures for the Good of the country and candidates who will Back these poli the organisation will be perfected monday night. Me i Belo final report of Resolution is ready and favourable report is expected tomorrow m wire Resolution to de Clare peace Het Vyleen the United states and be called up in the House Friday. Chairman Campbell of the rules committee and chairman port i of the foreign affairs commit tee said today. A final draft of the Resolution has been agreed to by the Republican Lead ers and it will be introduced in the House today they said. Consideration and a favourable report by the foreign affairs committee is expected Tomor Row and the rules committee Camp Bell said is ready to make it the Spe Cial order of the House the following Day. Original plans of House leaders were to adjourn Over Good Friday but it has been decided that this will be a fitting Day to consider a Reso Lution declaring peace. Germans not permitted in Ruhr Region Franco holds that presence of troops in it Nair District is she s Sultan must Leim Europe by United i Rush wire regards German occupation of the Ruhr District Asun necessary Premier Milliand said in a letter he handed to or. Von Mayer this afternoon. The Premier refused the German charge s request that Fiance state conditions under which she would consent to occupation of the disordered area by German troops. Earlier it was understood that France would consent to Germany s proposition that troops be sent into he disturbed Section for Twenty Days to put Down the communist uprising provided the Berlin government stave satisfactory guarantees the troops would be withdrawn when the time limit expired reversal of the French attitude was attributed to the Tion ble in obtaining satisfactory guarantees Foj o Bythie Keit Al Xis always he a familiar sight ily a Niril i re kit wire kegs will be Back again no matter what happens to prohibition legislation. Chemists Brewers and milk dealers and health Otti cers arc agreed Here that the old Keg can serve As Container for condensed milk. They must be Paraf lined inside and might sour Sweet milk say the experts but in View of the shortage of barrels they la do. Senator Lei Root Wisconsin con Defuso ultimatum Paris the Fieney foreign of lace was advised from Berlin today that the German Rihr rebels have re fused the ultimatum of Gen. Von demanding that they give up their arms and disband their meantime the advices said inde pendent socialists in Berlin had declared an ultimatum to the govern ment demanding removal of von Walter commanding the govern ment s troops which have taken the Field against the rebels. Sultan must go Washington. C. Vigorous expression of president Wilson s Opin Ion that the often expressed intention of the allies that the anomaly of the turks in Europe should cease should a 0 e pro of w c is bit Ion it away the caretaker of summer Home is induced to permit eight men to raid wine cellar my United Prens leaned Lake wis. Posing As Federal prohibition officers eight men carted away Worth of Choice whiskey Here yesterday after noon from the summer Home of Frank Rehm. Son in Law of j. B. Grommes of the Grommes and us p carried out in framing the Turk j Rich liquor company. Chicago. The ish treaty characterized the Ameri Jare held at Woodstock. 111., by Slier can i Joinder to the recent Allied Iff Roy Stewart of Mchenry county. Note transmitting information As to Paul Haas caretaker of the Rehm the status of treaty negotiations. I Home was kidnapped and Only upon feared with House leaders this morn ing and is understood to have approved the plan. The status of treaty negotiations. While the strength of arguments for retention of the turks in constantinople was recognized the note said the american government be or single men and Narried men. Along the Western about for part of the the wage is even higher about and worst of All. The Type of farm labourer applying for work now is much inferior says or. Lippart. Road work interferes farm labor shortage in Wisconsin this year is a serious problem. In addition to the farm hands who Are deserting the agricultural Fields for the higher wages of the City this state s Good roads program is adding to the worry of the farm employer. Five dollars a Day paid these work ers appeals to the farm boy More than so to a month he has been Ece Ivins. The labor situation is More scrims this year than during the Andrew Hopkins. Wisconsin col lege of it Means a de crease instead of increase in product production Lii Cate cd production in Indiana is threatened seriously by a shortage of farm labor. George c. Bryant Field agent of the department of agriculture said today. Farmers generally contemplate reducing production about per Bryant asserted. This is due mainly to the labor shortage and the High wages the labor is demanding. Arc Way St. Are offering Twenty per cent higher wages year than last for farm help officials Here said today. Wage1 Are double or More than double those paid four labor leaders ready to present plan for Gener Al ministry powerless Ity United a taxied wire were to present their plan to Call a general strike in protest against the King s action in dismissing the Cabinet of Premier Zahl to a meeting of the Trade Union Congress today. The King it was said charged the new ministry of labor with responsibility for preventing the strike but was told the ministry was powerless. Railway workers and postal workers agreed to walk out if the strike was called. Social democrats at a meeting last night adopted a Resolution denouncing the King s coup and de manding new elections after the plan followed in republics with Extension of the voting Power. The King approved the new Cabi net under the premiership of Otto Jebe late yesterday. The ministry was pledged to Call immediate elections and to Endeavor to obtain internationalization of Flensburg. Rumours of a Republic persisted to Day. His release did the robbery become known. Driving up to the Rehm Home in a touring car about o clock su1u, Italy i Iii Icil. Us v lives that the arguments against it i tuesday afternoon the men present Are far stronger and contain certain j de what purported to be a Federal imperative elements which it would j warrant and told the caretaker that not seem possible to the american rejoinder was handed to the French ambassador Here on March 24, or transmission to pre Mier Millerand and made Public by Ana Imu me Mui. Uhey were authorized to search the place for the whisky which was said to be concealed on the premises. The state that1-wine it had been delivered. I vials revolt against allies revolution directed against the allies has broken out throughout All Turkey except constantinople a Budapest dispatch quoting the news paper pester Lloyd said today. Of Foon adoption contract 11e tween miners and operators is expected before Midnight Smalli in cellar the caretaker had no key to the cell fatso the offi promptly smashed thei. Way in. A few minutes later an Auto truck Drew up. Forcing the caretaker to help they loaded thirty nine cases whisky and departed Tak ing the caretaker with them to pre vent him from communicating with his employer. They told him he was needed As evidence. After driving through Hebron. 111., Thev stopped and discussed the necessity of taking the caretaker with them. The Leader of the gang into a nearby House and re turned a few minutes later. Caretaker Weed it s All right my he said. Chicago says we won t need you just now As evidence. You can go Back and wait further by United pret.-. Wire new York adoption of a contract Between bituminous miners and operators before night was forecast Here today. The sub committee of the Irish Home Rule Bill passes second Reading or Concord 1.1ss or 13.c. Mother kills her five children and herself lib to Hmil Ivlow i Wkho mrs. J. Cowart and in ill health Cut the throats of her five children and then slash Al her own this morning the five children Ransing from four months to 12 Jears in ase. Are dead. Mrs Lowarl is in the Hospital Here unconscious from loss of blood and probably or five years ago. There 3s a great shortage of farm said n. B. Secretary of the state Agricol turn department. In Many places the situation quite there is a farm labor said Dean ii. Thatcher of univer sity of Minnesota agricultural school but we have a general that Farmers Are cutting Down their ask this year and won t much Tho Federal state and municipal joint employment Bureau has twice Many requests for farm help As it can fill with wages offered ranging from to a month and Board. Tho average Jice offered is to if her than Ever before. Ily t n Frd smut i mix to wire London prime minister Lloyd George s Home Rule Bill for Ireland passed second Reading today. The vote is to i4. Do ing final debate sir Edward car son. Irish unionist Leader said he had been warned by Scotland Yard that clan a Gael members had landed from America with the avowed in assassinating him. Eam inon do Valera. President of Tho Irish Republic is putting for Ward the same arguments in the United states that Jefferson Davis did when he attempted justification of secession of the Southern states. Prime minister Lloyd George declared when he took the floor in de sense of his measure. Say this to the prime minister said. De Valera is Prtt inc Forth the same claim in the same language that Jefferson Davis the the Irish fam Ilies which fought each other to the death in the american civil War Over demands similar to those Ireland now makes upon great Britain. We claim nothing More than the states claimed and to will stand for nothing Carson reiterated Ulster s unalterable opposition to any form of Home Rule. Scale committee today adopted the tentative contract formulated by a special committee of two one Miner and one operator and agreed to report it to. The meeting of the joint scale committee this afternoon. The tentative contract As adopted the eur committee embraced the Erms of the majority report of the president s special soft Coal commis Sion without change. John l. Lewis International vice president of the miners refused to comment on the tentative contract. Pointing out that it was subject to revision in the committee of the whole. He expected an amicable agreement however. Operator. Expected an agreement to be reached which will be effective tomorrow. Did. Some senators voting on recent motion the motion in United states Senate favouring arc descended from new Coal mid joint out the caretaker got out. And suspecting that everything was not As t seemed went in to Telephone former world food dicta Tor announces himself As affiliated with Republican party Campaign is started California boosters launch nation wide Campaign to place Hoover in White House in Illinois knee by Harold d. Jacobs ily in Ltd a rtt ked presidential Pri Mary though regarded by Many politicians As ineffective forced her Bert Hoover to make a premature declaration of his alignment with the Republican party it was Learned today. J this announcement which is made conditional on the understand ing that the Republican party with the Independent element with which 1 Hoover am naturally affiliated adopts a Forward looking Liberal constructive platform on the and our economic issues and is neither reactionary nor was made in a Telegram from Hoover to the in Sovei Republican club of California. Friends of Hoover had planned that the former food administrator s formal declaration of affiliation with the Republican party should be made after or during the proposed con Ference in Chicago next month. It was believed this would be the psychological time for Hoover to de Clare himself a Republican. Opposes Johnson however the California preferential and direct Prima Ries Are scheduled for May 4. The state Law provides that a candidate must make a declaration of principles least 30 Days before the California is the Home state of both Hoover and senator Hiram Johnson. The latter his on a program including opposition to the league of nations in any form. Hoover favored a league with cer Tain reservations. According to Hoover s friends they decided the emergency demanded an immediate declaration. Campaign underway san for an Active nation wide Campaign to secure the Republican presidential nomination for Herbert Hoover were being launched Here today following Hoover s announcement that he would accept the Republican Nomina Tion. While i do not and will not Ray Back and wait further h nomination if it is Felt sorry we have to leave of Heie. Get that the issues it and it is demanded of me. I cannot refuse ser Hoover declared in a Telegram received Here by Warre Gregory. Pics t seemed went in to Telephone d f h Hoover Republican club where the prohibition of Hal had of cai5fornja just been. He found the place to be a vacant House with no Telephone connection. Before he could communicate with the police of Chicago where the Rob Bers Are believed to have fled with their loot they had escaped Chance of Pursuit. Wood Wil answer Borah charge Ofuji Warange army officer to Tell a Limcaco people to Nitrel How Juichi 3ioney he spent in the Kiln Campaign by Vii Ltd Virr general Wood will answer senator Borah s charges that huge sums of Money Are bins spent in Minort of his candidacy for president in a speech Here to n Tabt. It was stated at Wood head quarters today. Borah charged that was re favors world league the recent developments Over to e treaty stagnation in adjustment of our great economic problems and particularly the Many urgent representations that i have received As to the situation in my own state con Vince me that it is my duty to con firm the action that my Republican friends there have already taken without consulting Hoover s Telegram declared. Hoover intimated he would pain on a league of. Nations with proper reservations safeguarding american traditions and interests solution of Domestic problems. Hoover Headquarters Here started the Hoover for president Campa ten today by issuing an outrageous lie statement and a wilful misrepresentation accusation. One statement health with he other Cam Minnesota ready eur women voters Hecke Taky of state is pkg a Iulg to Phi it Kytka ballots Koit com ing elections by United w Irr St. That women their requisite qualifications will be entitled to vote in june primary providing Federal suf senator Johnsons supporters to what Frage is ratified meantime. Expected to be a bitter fight be Schmahl. Secretary of state. Toda tween the two Cah Fornias in their was preparing to print nearly a for the Republican nomination lion ballots for the election. The i male voting population heretofore has required printing of about half that number. Attorney general Hilton in reply to questions from Schmuhl. Advised him women will be permitted to vote either at june primaries or the no vember general elections providing suffrage is certified before hand. In my opinion the adoption of the Federal suffrage amendment will the charge of Hoover s opponent Cleveland Dodge had Given ?20f. To the Hoover Campaign fund or charac Eri Rcd is an out racemic lie statement Here Jav Ioe a National Republican club of new York. Democrats Boom Mcadoo Chicago William g. Mcadoo was placed in the race for the presidency of Boom for him me ii Uvias inc launch inc of Boom for have the effect in Law. Of removes 1113n05s Donio crafts Here today. M the state Constitution and Ouraim Mew from is Iii Coivin Bis contributions and provisions which re spending liberally to get control of str3cj the right of suffrage to the g. Of p National convention. It Hilton. He said the disc rim been charged by his opponents unating word in the state that Wood spent a Quarter of a Mil and statutes referring lion dollars in his South Dakota Cam be to vote will be and the right to vote according to Wood officials i conferred on n 3n Liis tonight smoke overcomes children in Vii Ltd it i Virginia Minn. Three children were ote rcom by smoke and eleven other persons trapped in Flats above two stores late last night by fire Flint caused Damace estimated at s40aoo. All the Orcsi Jonts of the Flats wore by firemen. Were brought under control by mid Naglit. Will give details in his speech tonight of expenses in South Dakota. J according to forecasts. Wood will say that he expended less than 000 in South Dakota. It is not stated whether be w5h name contributors to his Campaign fund. Miss Dorothy Belling has left for to spend several Days As the of Margaret Laww of Al Plask Falls a Sioux Simon. Flying instructor and Arthur l. Peterson 22. Student from Viborg. S were billed Here late yesterday when an air plane from the City Iljin went into a Tai spin and Flash of. An attempt by the slide no to to of the plane is thought to the Accident. Movement to Boom the former of the Treasury was begun by leading made former Sitter nov state Sembly. The Boom according to . Launched on the responsibility of Illi Nois democrats though it was declared that t was believed Mcadoo had knowledge of open Headquarters the movement Well under Way for Mcadoo. Supporters of attorney Genera Palmer s candidacy Are expected 10 open shortly. As it is now. Continued on Page spa Fri

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