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CANADIAN GOVERNMENT WILL
DEAL DIRECTLY WITH U. S.
INSTEAD OF THROUGH ENGLAND
WASHINGTON, May 11 (by Associated Press).—Formal
announcement of the purpose of the British government to
place, under certain conditions, the relations of the Canadian
government with the United States completely in the hands of
the Dominion government, was made here yesterday, when the
British embassy made public a statement of the British crown
which was read in the Canadian parliament Monday afternoon.
Unusual powers are to be conferred on the Canadian min
ister to Washington, who will take charge of all diplomatic re
lations. The name of the minister will not be announced until
later.
* Whether the United States will have a minister or a rep
resentative at Ottawa will be decided soon.
DEBS ISM l
FOR RESIDENT
. BY SOCIALISTS
NEW YORK, May 11 (by Associated
Press).—Eugene -V. Debs was pro
claimed as the Socialist candidate for
president at the Socialist national con
vention here yesterday, in a speech
by Morris Hillquit in which he de
nounced the national administration
and both the Republican and Demo
cratic parties as “radically revolu
tionary.”
Hillquit bitterly scored President
Wilson and General Leonard Wood
as foes of the workingmen.
DREADNAUGHT IS SENT
TO KEY WEST FOR DUTY
WASHINGTON, May 11 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The dreadnought Okla
homa has been ordered to proceed
from New York to Key West for pos
sible duty in Mexican waters. She
carries a full complement of marines
from the League Island navy yard.
MATERIAL ADWANCE IN
, PRICES FOR CRUDE OIL
PITTSBURGH, May 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—Grude oil purchasing
agencies here announced yesterday an
increase of 25 cents to 35 cents a bar
rel on two grades, to $4 and $2.10.
MISS HELEN LOSANITCH
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Miss Helen Losanitch, daughter of
the former minister of agriculture !n
the cabinet of King Peter of Serbia,
photographed in New York on her ar
rival from Europe to assist in the work
of the Serbian Child Welfare Associa
tion of America. Miss Losanitch was
decorated by her country for her serv
es during the war.
ORIENTALS IN HAWAII
DO NOT ACQUIRE LAND
THROUGH GUARDIANSHIP
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HONOLULU, May 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—So far as the land of
fice is aware, Orientals in Hawaii
never have obtained public lands
through being appointed guardians of
their minor children, who are citizens
of the United States, according to
Land Commissioner G. T. Bailey, who
made the statement in answer to re
peated inquiries on the subject.
The land commissioner’s records
show that Japanese today are holding
164 homesteads, comprising 4,513.34
acres, valued at $114,294. Chinese
hold seventy homesteads, comprising
1,877.04 acres, valued at $65,596. The
largest number of homesteads is held
by Hawaiians, their total being 1,113,
or 31,673.65 acres, valued at $613,698.
VENERABLE JQURALIST
DIES IN PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPHIA, May 11 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Wilmer Atkinson,
founder of the Farm Journal, died
here yesterday, aged 75.
MUNICIPAL CAMP SITES
FOR AUTOMOBILISTS
CRAIG, Colo., May 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—Municipal camping
grounds here are being made ready
for automobile travelers. The ground
is a gift to the town for this purpose
by W. H. Rose, a pioneer of the north
western part of Colorado.
POLYGAMIST SENTENCED
TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
LOS ANGELES, May 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—James P. Wason, alias
Huirt, the alleged polygamist and
murderer, was yesterday sentenced to
life imprisonment. A stay of execu
tion was granted until May 14.
COMMUNITY BUYING
IN NUTMEG STATE
WATERBURY, Conn., May 11 (by
Associated .Press).—Experiments in
community buying are to be tried here
through the assistance of public-spir
ited citizens, and based almost entirely
on the excellent record of a public
market which was maintained for a
six months’ period last year. The
public market was more or less an
exchange place for farm and garden
products. The value of commodities
exchanged was placed by an agent of
the United Sates department of agri
culture at more than one million dol
lars. In August, 1919, alone, $292,000
worth of food was sold at prices un
der the current list which governed
retail dealers.
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JUDGE CHARLES E. BUNNELL 'f
Who is on his way from Fairbanks to Cordova, and due here on the next
train
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PRESIDENT OF KANSAS H1NERS
CONDEMNS PUN OF THAT STATE
TO COMPEL MINERS TO WORK
PITTSBURG, Kan., May 11.—When
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Governor Henry J. Allen entered the
coal fields of the Pittsburg district last
November to ask the idle miners to
work for the state under the receiver
ship which the governor had instituted,
the question asked on every hand was:
“What will Alexander Howat say
about it?”
The governor was told frankly that
Howat, district president of the Unit
ed Mine Workers, would reject the
plan. Howat was in Washington at
tending the negotiations in progress
for the setlement of the nation-wide
strike of bituminous miners. A close
friend of Howat’s volunteered to go
to Washington and seek his consent
for the men to return to work. Not
only did Howat reject the offer, but
he issued a statement in which he
bitterly condemned the plan as an
“invasion of the governor in an at
tempt to disrupt the union.”
The campaign to work the mines un
der a state receivership continued,
however. A call then went out for
volunteers. Scores of husky young
Kansans, many of them war veterans,
answered the appeal. They started
to work in the face of a blizzard, but
they turned out coal. State troops
were brought into the district to guard
the workers, with federal troops at
hand for reserve duty.
The Kansas governor organized a
temporary executive office in Pitts
burg, and while here formed a tenta
tive plan for a court of industrial re
lations. W. L. Huggins, then chair
man of the Kansas state public utili
ties commission, and Judge F. C
Price, a leader in the state senate and
chairman of the judiciary committee
were called into conference. A day
or two later the governor issued a
call for an extraordinary session of the
state legislature, and in January the
law creating the court of industrial re
lations was enacted. Howat, mean
while, at meetings of the miners in
Indiana, Ohio and Illinois, declared
the law was designed “to enslave the
working people of Kansas.” He
threatened a fresh strike of the Kan
sas miners.
After the new industrial court had
begun functioning it was announced
that an investigation of the coal min
ing industry of the state would be
held here. The court assembled and
Howat and other officials of the mine
workers were summoned to appear as
witnesses. The order was ignored.
The presiding judge then applied to
Judge A. J. Curran of the Crawford
county district court to order Howat
to appear before the industrial court.
When Howat and the other officials
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did not appear, Judge Curran found
them in contempt and issued an order
committing them to jail “until such
time as they consent to appear before
the Kansas industrial relations court
and answer all questions asked them.”
Howat is serving his nineteenth
year as an official of the United Mine
Workers. He was born in Scotland
and came to the United States when
three years old. At ten he went to
work in a coal mine. A foe to com
promise, when the nation-wide bitumi
nous strike was settled, in November,
1919, Howat denounced some phases
of the settlement. On December 22,
1319, he was sent to jail in Indianapo
lis foV contempt because a strike in
the mines of the Central Coal and
Coke Company in Kansas, called the
previous July, was still, in progress
after the nation-wide settlement.
Howa was released the next day upon
his promise, it was said, that he would
endeavor to induce the miners to re
turn to work.
The court of industrial relitions,
which launched into an entirely new
field of legislative endeavor, was at
tacked before the Kansas legislature
by representatives of capital and la
bor. Ample time was given both sides
to present arguments, and the bill was
condemned as inimical to the interests
of capial and labor alike. Mr. Hug
gins presented the views of the pub
lic. Both houses of the legislature
adopted the measure by overwhelm
ing majorities.
The new law has been in opera
tion only a few months, but petitions
have been filed under is provisions by
local, state and national labor union
organizations, as well as by groups of
workers and by individuals. It not
only prohibits strikes and lockouts
in essential industries, but It requires
essential indutries to operate with “a
reaonable continuity necessary for the
TURKISH ARMY IS SUPPLIED
WITH ARMS AND MUNITIONS
THROUGH BLACK SEA PORT
NEW YORK, May 11 (by Associated
Press).—Mustapha Kernel Pasha’s
Turkish Nationalist army, which has
been a disturbing factor in the ef
forts of the allies to solve the Turk
ish peace problem, is being regularly
supplied with arms and ammunition
from Constantinople through Trebi
zond, a Black sea port, according to
information received here from J. P.
Ryan of Muncie, Ind., a Near East re
lief worker in that district.
“Arms are smuggled in regularly,
and with almost no attempt at con
cealment,” writes Mr. Ryan. “A Turk
ish schooner makes a trip every few
days from Constantinople, and an
chors right here in Trebizond. The
cargo is discharged at night, and is
loaded into Turkish army wagons, that
you can see almost any night follow
ing the same road "out of town that the
lines of Greek refugees were driven to
their death in 1915 and 1916. They
pass right by the Near East relief
orphanage on their way to the in
terior.”
“I have no way of being certain
where they go, but most probably to
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Erzingan and Sivas, where MustaphA
Kernel, in spite of the French mission,
is very strong. There is a British
control officer here, of course, but he
would not believe that arms were be
ing shipped into the country until he
happened to be here one night, and I
showed him the wagons passing. He
has stopped a few of them, but the
j smuggling goes on, just the same.
“The Turks realize that most of the
; hinterland of this country, if not Trebi
! zond itself, is bound to go to Armenia,
sooner or later; and they are pre
paring to resist Armenian rule, and
to try to discredit the Armenian gov
ernment, by inspiring disorder just as
soon as the Armenians take charge.
“It is a pity that Admiral Bristol
and the American navy are not
charged with the surveillance of the
whole coast from Batum to Beyrouth.
The trouble with France and England
is that the Mohammedans have them
bluffed, on account of their Mahomme
dan colonies, and the Turks are put
ting it over on them right along. The
only nation the Turks respect is the
U. S.
CALIFORNIA COUNTY
TO RETAIL LUMBER
AT COST TO FARMERS
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BERKELEY, Cal., May 11 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The Farm Bureau in
I Glenn county has formed a lumbering
! department for the purpose of manu
! facturing and selling at cost to farrn
j ers all products prepared by the de
partment, according to W. H. Heile
man, secretary of the California Farm
Bureau Federation. The department,
financed by the membership of the
Glenn county bureau, has bought a
sawmill and has acquired stumpage in
the California national forest. Con
tracts have been let for the logging,
! sawing and delivery of lumber and
box material, said Mr. Heileman, and
it is believed that the lumber will be
sold at $35 per thousand board feet.
SHORTAGE OF LABOR
NOT TO AFFECT ACREAGE
DALLAS, Texas, May 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—The farm labor shortage,
which is threatening to become acute
in Texas, has not caused farmers to
reduce acreage planted to any appre
ciable extent, according to S. D. Fra
zer, secretary of the Texas Cotton Gin
ners’ Association. The wheat acre
age will be reduced as compared with
last year, but the cotton and corn
planting probably will be normal, he
! said; and an increase is likely in oats
: and small grain.
LODI, Cal., May 11 (by Associaed
Press).—At the suggestion of the
American Legion members, Lodi’s new
grammar school, soon to be erected,
will be named Clyde H. Needham, in
honor of a citizen of this city killed in
action during the world war.
protection of the public.”
-The court which it created is em
powered to regulate wages, hours and
: working conditions, pending agree
ment between employer and employe.
Labor officials or employers violating
provisions of the law may be charged
with a felony, subject to jenalties
reaching a maximum of $5,000 fine
and two years’ imprisonment. Maxi
mum (penalties for employes who vio
late the law are $1,000 fine and a
year’s imprisonment in a county jail.
The court is composed of George
H. Wark, a lawyer; Clyde M. Reed, a
newspaper publisher, and Mr. Hug
gins, the "father” of the new law.
HOMESHORTAGE
IS BIG PROBLEM
IN BOSTON TOWN
BOSTON, May 11 (by Associated
Press).—Massachusetts has njbt yet
been able to make up for its shortage
of homes and keep rents from sky
rocketing. A state commission on
the necessaries of life is struggling
with the problem, but meanwhile the
tenants in this city and elsewhere
have obtained little relief. Several
tenant groups recently refused to pay
advances in rent demanded of them,
and by joint action avoided eviction
which would have been legal upon
thirty days’ notice.
Two hundred tenants at Revere have
formed a corporation known as the
Tenants’ League, to combat rent in
creases, and have announced that they
will tolerate no more advances in rent,
and requested aid from the city’s legal
department. The issue there is still
in doubt.
An attempt to solve the problem by
arbitration has been made in Brock
ton, a shoe-manufacturing center. A
board composed of two tenants, two
landlords and a fiffh member to be
selected by the others is to decide
wheher rents have been unduly ad
vanced when disputes arise between
landlords and tenants.
GEN. ROBERT LEE HOWZE
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Conditions in Mexico were de
scribed as intolerable by Gen. Robert
Lee Howze, commander of the El Paso
district, when he testified before the
senate subcommittee investigating the
Mexican situation.