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T%r fv^-v.i ^V-waRa THE McHEXBT PLAITOBALTO, McHENBY, • :%HVt TIES UP ALL CUB lUbor War Expected to Involve More Than 35,000-- Troop* Called Out. Havana, Cuba.--A general strike of whlon labor throughout Cuba began at ten o'clock Saturday night with « complete tleup of all transit facilities. The Ctrikc is expected to Involve more than i organized workers and to affect •II industries employing union labor. * The strike was called suddenly late Saturday. The steam and electric 'railroad workers were the first to go out. causing a stoppage of transit lines throughout the republic, including the electric lines of Havana and those connecting the city with the adjacent municipalities of Mariano, Quanabacoa, feegia and Rincon. • - The Federation of Bahia, the workers' organization, includes the textile 'Industries, the chauffeurs and sugar * .Will and tobacco workers, machinists, -lice workers, the pharmacists' helpers, Jftnotypists and other tradesmen. .". No newspapers are being issued, fjfrlps will not be able to discbarge 7their cargoes, as the longshoremen are .Strongly organized and are joining the Walkout with solid ranks. > The direct cause of the strike is the ftfusal of General Jack of the United i|llroads to permit his workers to afflllate with tlie Brotherhood of Rail- Way Workers of Cuba. "The afternoon newspaper La Noche •ays that "behind all this there has been organized a revolution of sinister proportions." The government la distributing troops at strategic points. DR. W. S. SOLF .. .. $enate to Investigate S1,000,000 McAdoo Offer •Washington.--The investigating committee op Mqpday reopened the great naval oil lease scandal with William O. McAdoo again figuring as one of 0 the central figures. | The former secretary of the treasury may be recalled, to explain his " • statement made in Los Angeles that the $100,000 fee received by his New. York law firm from Edward L. Dohen y would have been $1,000,000 had McAdoo's mission to Mexico been entirely successful. Senator Lenroot, chairman of the Investigating committee, said: "It was an amazing statement. It Indicates that Mr. McAdoo was. not • entirely frank with the committee." r McAdoo's activities after he left fSie Treasury department, viewed in " Hie light of this statement, are causing senators to favor the introduction of a new resolution for an exhaustive Investigation. Such a resolut'on may be presented in the senate this week. . ' « - The committee took the position '.".' that their "legal latitude *did not per- J&tdt them to inquire into cases where llcAdoo's firm, instead of McAdoo individually, appeared before the Treasury department. ' ADD MILLION TO LUSITANIA CLAIMS German Reich Ordered , to fay U-Boat Victimfc ,i Washington.---The German retrtr tsh Thursdny was ordered to pay another ronnd miiliun in American dollars on claims arising from the£ sinking of the Lusitania, May 7, 1915. Beneficiaries announced by the mixed claims commission, 57 - in number, are claimants who obtained no award, or a partial award by the first settlements, November 1, 1923, because their nationality was unsettled or the full measure of damages had not been determined. The largest of the new awards Is in favor of Cora H. Page, individually, and Cora H. Page as executrix of the estate of John H. Page, the aggregate being $83,092. Other heavy awards are: May Davis Hopkins. $80,- 000; Bessie Elms Bloomfield, $45,000; Margaret Lavlnia Kellett, $30,000; Minna E«. Schwartz, $32,000; Mrs. Bertha V. Trumbull, $50,000; Anna B. Mills, individually, $40,000, and Mrs. Virginia Leney Gtffhble, $26,700. Four Killed, Two Shot in Fights With Dry Agents Middlesboro. Ky.--Two men are dead and two are probably fatally wounded, one other man was slightly wounded, and two are in jail as the ' »esult of a clash at Nash, Ky„ In ^iiiilch federal prohibition agents and _ eflvilians engaged. • - The dead are: William Litterell, Justice of the peace, and his son, John JUtterell of Kaylor, Ky. W. B. Says: fpr, federal prohibition agent, "and Roy r • ;$Mtterell, are critically wounded. Mll- •fard Overton, a raider with Say lor, was slightly wounded. The men ar rested are D. C. Sellers and It. S Say lor. Booneville, Ark.--A three-cornered , pistol fight--sequel of a prohibition offl «er's raid four years ago^was staged 'In the street here. Two men were and a third is under arrest on a charge of murder. The dead men are W. H. Wilson, fifty-six, former federal enforcement officer, and* Jess Woolrldge, thirty, farmer. Four Burn to Death When Oil Lamp Upsets Pittsburgh, Pa.--Four men were burned to death in. a fire which de- -rtitroyed a three-family dwelling house • i«t Etna, near bene. Two other men - Escaped t>y jumping from a second •"-pSjjptory window. An overturned oil lamp believed to have started the fire. ' -------' •JName Roosevelt G. O. P, • Convention Delegate Mlneola, N. Y --'Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, was unanimously chosed as delegate from Nassau county to the Republican national convention at a meeting of the county Republican committee, ^ Dr. W. S. Solf, it is reported. Is likely to be appointed German ambassador to the Unites States if Berr Weldfeldt 16 recalled. Mexican Federals Cut Off Retreat of Rebels Washington.--The Mexican embassy in a statement on Friday said: "Gen. Lazaro Cardenas, who Joined forces of General Aroar'i at Santa Ana, Jalisco, after escaping from rebel captivity, brought the news that the rebel general, Anzaldo, who commanded the rebel forces that evacuated Guadalajara, together with those garrisoning the state of Colima, arrested the rebel Generals Alvarado, Garrido and Nunez, who later were tthle^ to effect their escape and board a vessel at Manzanlllo for an unknown destination. 'General Anzaldo with all the forces under his command placed himself at the orders of the federal government. "It can now be said that the campaign against the rebels in the states of Jalisco, Colima and Mlchoacan has practically come to an end, as the only scattered group of rebels fleeing with General Dleguez and General Estrada Is !>elng hotly pursued and its complete annihilation is expected at any time." ^ Oil Leases Can Be Found When Needed, Says Walsh Washington. -- Senator Walsh on Friday confirmed the accuracy of the statement made on Thursday by Universal Service that the ^senate oil Investigating committee Is without the originals of any documents vital to the Investigation, having photostatic copies only. He said that In the case of certain documents, particularly the Doheny leases of December, 1922. there was not time to make copies of documents for the committee and Walsh, therefore, read the originals into the record and returned the originals to their source. He expressed the opinion that when the President's special counsel. Pomerene and Robert, are ready to use the originals of the. documents, they can get access to them In govei'nmeut files. Bank Run Halted New York.--The sight of $2,000,000 in currency being unloaded from armored trucks before thei* very eyes on Saturday succeeded in stopping a run in Ilarlem'g "Little Italy" on the private bank of Llonello/ Perraia & Co. Edward R. Stettinius Operated On in Gotham New York.--Edward R. Stettinius, member of the firm or J. P. Morgan & Co., and one of tlie best-known hankers in the United States, went to Itoose- Velt hospital on Sunday for an opera tion, the nature of which was not disclosed. He underwent an operation for abdominal trouble there In March last, and It Is understood that the forthcoming operation is at a similar but less serious nature. Coolidge Files in Ohio • Columbus. -- President Coolidge's "^declaration of candidacy for the Republican nomination has been filed Iclaily with the secretary of state. Fear Tryout of Big Gun Paris,--Itesorters along Mont St.Michel bay .have registered protests against the proposed tryouts of France's new long range gun. They claim that if the shells fell short of the bay they would land in the resorts. C00UB6E MAKES RADIO ADDRESS Message Broadcast to Na> tiou Urges Sacrifice for ^ Common Good. Washington.--President Coolidge, In • radio address delivered from the White House on Friday night, combined with a tribute to Washington an appeal to accept the responsibilities and sacrifices necessary to make, enduring the institutions Washington founded. Mr. Coolidge described the part played by Washington in the founding of the American government and declared he accomplished the results "by accepting great responsibilities and making great sacrifices.", "If we are to maintain the Institutions which he founded, if we are to Improve what he created, we must be like minded with him; we must continue to accept responsibilities; we must continue to make sacrifices,'* the President said. "Under all the laws of God and man there Is no other way." | The address was delivered by the President In his study In the White House and was made by invitation of the International Rotary clubs, members of which recently asked that the President deliver an address on tlie anniversary of the founding of Rotarlanlsm. Millions of radio enthusiasts throughout North America are believed to have "tuned in" on the President's speech. RICHARD f. O'TQOLA * Saunders, Former Chief of \ Piggly Wiggly, Bankrupt Memphis, Tenn.--Clarence Saunders, fbrmer president of the Piggiy Wiggly corporation and Piggly Wiggly Stores, Inc., filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy In United States District court here on Saturday. Saunders listed assets aggregating $3,244,- 070, and liabilities totaling $1,976,919. Mr. Saunders attributed his action to the protracted* litigation which resulted from his sensational operations in Wall street more than a year ago. "Accommodation paper," aggregating $1,408,369 and listed as the largest individual debt,/Represents money borrowed "for stock purposes." . The largest item in the list of assets is "unliquidated claims," $1,880,- 560. Petitioner's property is valued at $700,080, Including Mr. Saunders' present home and his unfinished million- dollar mansion, "Cla Le Claire." 1 Auto Racer Breaks Five Records at Los Angeles Los Angeles, Cal.--Harlan Fenglef, the youngest American speed king, shattered five world's records here on Sunday on his ride to fame in the 250- mile speedway classic In the national championship--the last to be ran on the historic Beverly oval. Fengler won the event with an average of 116 miles an hour in a Wade special, a Los Angeles built car. Fengler broke five records, establishing new marks of 50, 100, 190, 200 and 250 miles. - Fengler's time for the entire distance was 2 boars 9 minutes 14 3-5 seconds. Britain Plans Polar Flight - ^ 1 London.--Great Britain may attempt J&A-fz# North pele flight with a dirigible as •fc'..;* result of the abandonment of-the 'ipian of the United States Navy der » '"• martin eat to sendLtbe Shenandoah •m sen<| | the ito the Arctic. . Poincare Tax Bill Wins Paris.--The chamber of deputies by a vote of 363 to 218 voted for adoption of the new tax program of Premier Poincare. "This measure increases French taxes 20 per cent. Man Dies en Wife's Grave Crestville, Fla.- S. J. Manning, jelghty-seven, dropped dead aero us uufi Igrave of his wife a« the body was beS fny lowered Into theearth. Muogiujt i$was weakenet by age and sorrow. ' Villa of Mikado Periled Tokyo.--The villa ut Numazu, where the_ Japanese emperor and empress have been living, was seriously threat ened at midnight, by a fire suspected to be of Incendiary origin. The fire destroyed 400 surrounding' houses, had been announced that Prince Regent Illrohlto and his bride were to visit the emperor and empress. 35,000 See Firpo Giv* Lodge K. O. in Sth Round Buenos Aires.--Luis Angel Firpo on Sunday knocked out "Farmer" Lodge In the fifth round of what was to have been a 15-round bout. The knockout blow was a terrific right to the body preceded by a left to the Jaw. Lodge had to be carried to his corner. Frequently Jurado Benigno Rodriguez, the referee, was obliged to pull Lodge out of the clinches by sheer force, , It Is estimated that 35,000 saw th« bout. ~ "" Woman Kills Pair of Alleged Blackmailers Cleveland, O.--Two alleged blackmailers were shot and killed in a pistol battle with Mrs. Nettle Annelll, twenty-one. Mrs. Annelll told the police the three men came to her home and demanded money. She barricaded the doors and windows, armed herself with three revolvers and fired through the door. . Police found Mike Marino and Rafile Transo dehd In the front yard. Sisters Die in Fire in * Telephone Exthattge Andalusia, Ala.--Edna and Maude Donaldson, sisters, met death in a fire which gutted the building where they were working as telephone operators. Miss Edna sncrlQced her life, officials think, In turnlqg In an alarm. Her sister, who was a guest, died by her sldtt. Rescue attempts by $Minen failed. --' RIcfiard F. O'Toole of Qulncy, Mass., who baa be^n selected by Secretary Hoover as chief of the Latln-Amerhrant division, «f the Department of Commerce. ' •- J- • • V i!' V. S. GOVERNMENT MARKET REPORT Washington.--jr0r the week endlns Feb. 21--LIVE STOCK--Chicago prices: Hogrs, $7.25 for the top and 16.90 @7.20 for the bulk. Medium and good beef steers, $7.65@11.25; butcher cows and heifers, $3.75@10.50; feeder steers, $4.50 ti-8.00; light and medium weight veal calvei", $9.25^12.50. Fat lambs, $13.50 @15.50; feeding lambs, $12.25@14.00; yearling*, $10.75® 18.75; fat ewes, $6.00 ©10.00. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES--Eastern round- white potatoes, $1.75 @2.00 sacked per 100 lbs.; northern sacked round whites, $1.30@1.45 In Chicago. Tellow onions, $2.00@>2.50 sacked per 100 lbs. Northern Danish type cabbage, $30.00 @ 33.00 bulk per ton in Chicago. New York Baldwin apples. $3.50&<4.50 per bbl.; Illinois and Missouri wtnesaps, $4.50@5.00; northwestern extra fancy, winesaps, $2.00@2.50 per box in Chicago. GRAIN--No. 1 dark northern spring wh--t. $1.16%Q1.304& Minneapolis; No. 2 hard winter wheat, $1.09%@1.13H Chicago; No. 2 refl winter wheat, $1.1S @1.18 St. Louis, $1.13 Kansas City; No. 3 yellow corn, 77@78c Chicago; No. S white oatB, 48%@49^4c Chicago, 46c Minneapolis. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Butter, 92 score. 49c Chicago. Cheese prices at Wisconsin primary markets: Single daisies, 21@22%c; longhorns, 21@31%c; square prints, 21%@22^c. (Incomplete on account of wire f&il- Miiri arid Woman Poutid Murdered in Chicago Chicago.--A sensational double murder mystery, lnvolviug the theories of bootleg murder, revenge, or domestic trouble, centered the activities of most Chicago detectives on Friday. Friday morning the body of a man identified as John Duffy was found in a snow bank on a prairie on the southwestern edge of town. At seven o'clock Friday night the body of a woman, believed to be "Mrs. John Duffy," was found in an apartment at 1216 Carmen avenue. Both had been shot to death. Duffy, also known as "Edward Curtis," had. It is supposed, been slain and then carried in an automobile to the far southwest prairie. The woman who formerly resided at 447 South Third street, Louisville, Ky., was shot as she lay asleep in the Carmen avenue apartment. Immediately a search was started to find Mr. and Mrs. Cecil C. "Jack" Hopton, a young couple who shared the apartment with Duffy and Ids witj&i Charles B. Warren New U. 5. Envoy to Mexico Washington.--Charles Beecher Warren, formerly ambassador to Japan, was on Thursday formally nominated by President Coolidge to be ambassador to Mexico. He will leave for his new post as soon as the senate confirms the nomination, probably within a week. At the same time the President Is expected to select two American claims commissioners, so that they may proceed to . Mexico with Mr. Warren. With the arrival of the Uplted States warship' Tulsa ut Tuxpam, *a decisive battle between the Mexican federals and the revolutionists In that district Is expected momentarily, according t" State- department advices^-. ... . . . j 1 • Senaior Greene Shows Slight Improvement Washington.--A slight Improvement was reported on Thursday in the condition of Senator Frank L. Greene, Bepuhllcan, of Vermont, who Is believed to have been fatally wounded when he was shot during a battle between prohibition agents and bootleggers. Physicians at the Emergency hospital feared, however, that, Greene would not survive the rest of the we*tu Quake Rocks Ecuador ' -Guayaquil, Ecuador.--A very strong earthquake shock was felt ber*. . J. E. Fairbanks Dies Jersey City.--John E. Fairbanks, secretary and treasurer of the Amer lean Railway association, died on Sunday at his home. Mr. Fairbanks, who was fifty-three years old, is aurylved by Ui wife. Farmers Demand Lower Tariff Ottawa.--Fanners' delegations from western provinces will attend the opening sessions of parliament to urge lower customs on Uulted States goods entering Canada. > Designer Killed by Train ^Chicago.--Jay Itassett Beel, forty six years old, wealthy designer of art light fixtures, was killed on Friday by an Illinois Central suburban train at the Forty-seventh street qtatlon Beel lived at 4701 Dorchester avenue. Quake Rocks French Towns Tarbes, France.--An earthquake on Friday afternoon rocked buildings fcere and at Bagnerese, Cauteres, and other places. The watts ot auqae build lags were cracked. , ' Vandal Blurs Painting Boston. Mass.--Chemical analysis of a black, Inklike material spattered on John Singer Sargent's famous painting, "The Synagogue," on the walls of the Boston public library has been ordered by the librarian. The police are trying to trace the vandal. State Owned Flour Mill Shut Grand Fork. N. D.--The state owned flour mill nt Drake, N. D., will remain closed until market conditions warrant Its reopening. rj^iiT^Tip'ntr ii'nnroTniwiMw iin iH'-' 'P Progressive Republicans 0e- Party to Vote for IV. " Amendment ^ ; I Zt • Washington. -- Maximum federal taxes on estates and inheritances were boosted from 25 per cent to 40 per cent by the house over the protest of Secretary of the Treasury^ Mellon. A combination of Democrats, insurgent Republicans and some Kepublicun members from the agricultural states put over an amendment to the administration tax bill in direct defiance of the wishes ef the administration. Secretary Mellon has protested that the estate tax rates already are excessive, and in this view he had the support of President Coolidge. Yet the house adopted an amendment offered by Representative Ramseyer (Rep., Ia.), proposing a scale of graduated estate taxes ranging from 1 to 40 per cent. The present maximum is 25 per cent. The house approved the amendment by a vote of 190 to HUi An Increasing number of regular Republicans in the house have determined to vote against the tax bill if it comes to a final vote in its present form carrying "the Garner income-tax rates, the radical proposal making It possible for committees of congress to get any Information on corporation tax returns and a similar provision including the Increased estate taxes. . Republicans who feel that the value of the bill has been destroyed through the amendments which it now carries, representing, as it does, an attempt to bring many "Wisconsin ideas" to fruition, are talking seriously of standing against it in the final showdown in the house as notice to the country that President Cooljdge will not accept the measure. _ "•r.:.a-v -**. -V-. f i wt v" - v 's. Greece Ousts Royal Houset Cabinet Quits Athens.--The Kafandaris cabinet resigned. The action followed the refusal of the cabinet to consent to the abolition of the Glucksbourg dynasty by the Greek assembly and the plans for setting up of a republic before the/ people have a chance to express their preference in the forthcoming plebiscite. M. Kafandaris in a si>eech before the assembly assailed former Premier Venizelos because he was willing to accept the ouster by the assembly of the royal house, of which the late King Constantine and King George, "now on vacation," were the last reigning monarchs. Bonus Bill Endowment, | New Insurance Plan Washington.---A modified soldiers' bonus bill was introduced in the house by Representative Fish (Rep., N. Y.). Hie bill provides for twenty-year endowment Insurance for all veterans of the World war based on length of service. The poflcies start a> $400 for over sixty day«' service and increase at the rate of $400 for each six months' service up to a total of $1,600 for twenty-one months or more. . Provision Is also made to,pay insurance to the beneficiaries of veterans who have died since their discharge or died before Jan. 1, 1925, when the act will go Into effect. , Reed Opens Campaign " 1 by Attacking McAdoo "St. Louis.--Referring to oil disclosures in an address formally opening his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator James A. Reed declared that "not one-tenth of the corruption and iniquity which has existed is yet laid bare." Senator Reed charged that William Gibbs McAdoo expected to receive $1,000,000 in legal fees from Edward L. Doheny, the California oil operator, from the Charles W. Morse Interests and frouL Biotloa picture .concerns.---- •s; Baby Sues for Damages to It Before Birth Philadelphia, Pa.--Tlie right of an Infant to sue for damages because ol Injuries received before birth was established here by Judge Gordon In common pleas court. This decision, unprecedented In Pennsylvania, was maae in th<r suit of Florence Kioe, ii£ fant daughter of Israel Kine. She was injured a month aud elev.e^ ,(lajs before birth. "~" ; McCray Islttdicled by U. S. Grand' Jtiry Indianapolis.--Governor McCray'8 fe gal troubles were Increased when a federal grand Jury Ihdicted him on charges of using the mails to defraud and violation of th^ national banking lawS. Alreadv Govern# McCray has been indicted for state offenses includlng fraud, embezzlement and larceny. Elect Farm Credit Officers Minneapolis, Minn. -- Arthur P. Kemp, president and treasurer of the Auburn Automobile company of Auburn, Ind., was elected president at on organization meeting of the Agrlcttl* tnral Credit corporation. Two Delegates to Russia London.--Great Britain's two municipal delegates to the Anglo-Russian commission, which must thrash out the chief questions between the two countries before complete recognition is granted the Soviets, were appointed. J. D. Granger, counselor of the foreign office, is head ofv<be political section, and Sir Sydney Chapman, permanent secretary of the board of trade, Is chairman of the financial section. This commission will no| ter part of Harch.? Utah's Wealth Gains • Washington.--Tlie census bureau announced that Utah's wealth at the close of 1922 was $1,535,47T,000. This figure is an increase of 05.2 per cent over 1912. Solvation Army Threatened New York.--The American branch of the Salvation army may secede from the English parent organization because of a new ruling forbidding officers from accepting membership to secret societies. Phillips to. Belgium. Washington.--William Phillips, ent undersecretary of state, wai^ Inated by President Coolidge to be Ibassador to Belgium. Phii'ipg H. P. Fletcher, transferred "to •«* ••• if!S- -a •. * Buy these Juice cocoas from your Regular RetailGrocer at th« money saving prices offered here. Mot»ch ©quaUtWfinest imported btaixls in quality, yet ooeteluft as much. 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