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BRIEF RIGHT REEZY BITS OF NEWS OMAHA, THE GATE CITY OF THE WEST, OFFERS YOU GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES. The . Omaha Daily Be 3 AWL OF CALF STOPS ORATORY OF ATTORNEY. The loud lamenting of a calf put a sudden end to an impassioned bit of oratory in the superior court in Council Bluffs yesterday. The court occupies the coun :i! chamber in the city building and the calf was occupying a truck in the alley immediately beneath the open windows of the court room. The case on trial was the suit of 'red B. Peterson against the Non pareil Publishing company growing out of an automobile accident. At torney Dickson was representing the plaintiff and D. E. Stuart the defendant. Attorney Dickson had drawn out fine point of law and was arguing j t with fiery impetuosity, address ing his remarks chiefly to Attor- ' i.ey Stuart. He had reached a criti- : cal point and had paused with his finger pointing at Stuart. There was intense stillness in the court room. "What is your answer to that? There can only be one answer," the voung lawyer shouted. "Ba-a-al Ba-ah-ah-ah !" the calf bawled. Judge Capell almost fell of the bench. The jury screamed and everybody in the court room, was convulsed W'ith laughter. The at torney sat down without another word and the argument was ended. The court had to order a recess be fore the trial could proceed. VOL. 49 NO. 49. Eat.r4 Mwnd ctan nattw Miy It, 1906, l Oath P. 0. aadw ct of Kirch 3. 1879. OMAHA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1919. By Mall (I yur). Dally. 4.M:ar. S2.30: Dally tad Sua., MM; outllda ItaaT aaatai antra. TWO CENTS. THE WEATHER: Fair and continued warm Thurs day: Friday partly cloudy and cooler, possibly local thunder showers in east portion. Hourly trmiu'raturti: & 64 1..... 1 6.1 I M 7 '! I : .H n 64 ; 4 66 t 67 M 10 7I i 6 II 74 I 7 M It 7 I , IS I El rn WD FIGHT ON COVENANT ABOUT WON Nebraska Representatives Make Fight for Bill to License Foreign Potash Judge Kinkaid Takes Exception to Statement of Lang ford of Georgia That Domestic Product is Not Up to Standard of German Mines Says People Who Invested Money Are Entitled to Protection. MUDDLE OF NAMES, UPSETS OFFICIALS. Washington. Aug. 1 J. (Special Telegram.) In looking over the settlement of allotments of claims of returned soldiers Congressman Jefferis came across some remarka ble figures in the war risk bureau. He had presented a claim on behalf of A. N. Anderson of Omaha, first name and number of enlistment not giver.. The officer in charge in looking uo the matter found that there were over 100,000 Andersons on the rolls and that "A. N. Ander sor" i an into the hundreds. At an other time it was discovered that there were more than .100.000 Smiths on the rolls and that 125,000 were named John Smith. BLUNT ENGLISHMAN RAPS AMERICANS. London, Aug. 1.3. W. H. Apple ton, chairman of "America's tribute to British merchant seamen", in augurated a campaign to raise among the Americans in England $5,000,000 of the $50,000,000 which it i expected will be gathered from Americans throughout the world, with a luncheon at which Joseph Havelock Wilson and Sir Edward Nicholl, presidents of the British Merchants' and Seamen's league, were the principal guests. Mr. Ap pleton explained the project and read a message from President Wil son endorsing it. Sir Edward Nicholl created a rip ple, of surprise in his reference to the tribute to British seamen when he bluntly said: "America ought to do it, because Americans have collared most of the Hipping." Sir Edward paused, noticing the profound silence of the listeners, and then added: "By right, I suppose. Anyhow, the Americans have benefitted to a large extent in securing shipping." HEIR TO MILLION HELD FOR FORGERY Salt Lake City. Utah, Aug. 13. Ray G. Craig, 28, of Los Angeles, is under arrest here. Craig is al leged by the police to have forged a number of checks. He is, also said to- be the long-sought heir to a 51,000,000 estate in Ireland. HENRY FORD ACTS IN ROLE OF PEACEMAKER Tilton, N. H., Aug. 1.3. Henry Ford, wfto is visiting here with Thomas A. Edison, the noted in ventor, appeared in a new role Tues day when he acted as a self-constituted conciliator in the Tilton cap ital employes' strike. Ford circulated among the strik ers. He expressed belief that their pay should be increased but urged them to return to work and sub mit their demands to arbitration. 1 SAY $6 SHOES ARE DRUG ON MARKET. Boston, Mass., Aug. 1.1. Shoes retailing from $6 to $7 a pair are a drug on the market, according to witnesses who appeared at the grand jury investigation of the high cost of living. They testified that customers demand a more expensive grade and that as a result profits have to be made on the finer grades of leather, while there is no call for parts X)f hides formerly used for manufacturing cheaper shoes. The needs of foreign governments after the war began and the in creased demand for shoes after America became a party to the con ilict were among the causes of the increases' in price, according to other witnesses. Tanners and manu facturers, it was claimed, were all anxious to have prices drop. CARNEGIE'S NEPHEW LIVES HERMIT'S LIFE. Leadville. Colo., Aug. 13. James Carnegie, who says he is a nephew of Andrew Carnegie, wilt" not be 'among the mourners at the funeral of the celebrated steel .magnate. The aged musician, who for years earned a livlihood by playing in dance halls in the west and Alaska in the earlv days, received the news of his uncle's death with little inter est. "When I came to this country, he said. "Andy gave me a job in the steel mills, but in the great strike at Homestead I preferred to stay with the men and as a result lost mv position." He lives almost a hermit life in a little cabin on the edge of town. POSTOFFICE ROBBED OF $50,000 IN BILLS. Edmonton, Alta.. Aug 13. Fifty thousand dollars in paper currency, in registered parcel post, was stolen from the postoffice here between Saturday and Tuesday morning, it was said. The money was cousigned t9 I local bank, Republicans Who Advocate Reservations Practically As sured of Democratic Assent to Their Program. BEGINNING OF END IN CONG CONTROVERSY Both Parties Insist That Public Sentiment Demands Dispo sition of League Pact With out Further Delay. Washington. Aug. 13. (By The ssociated Press.) The trend to ward agreement on reservations in the peace treaty reached the stage todav where the group of republi can "senators advocating reserya .ions received assurances which thev accepted as guaranteeing dem ocratic assent to their program. Word reached members of the group, it was stated, that as soon as they could pledge a score of re tublican votes for reservations to the league of nations covenant along the lie recently agreed on by seven republican senators, the" administra tion forces in the senate would be willing to line up on that basis for ratification of the treaty. There was an intimation also that the reservationists had reason to be lieve their ranks eventually would include Senator Lodge, chairman of '.he Foreign relations committee and republican leader of the senate. Twenty republicans, it was de c'arcd, would be enough with the administration democrats to make :ip the two-thirds necessary for rat ification. The program on which it is sought to unite these elements contemplates reservations to further protect the Monroe doctrine, to in sure domestic control over domes tic questions, to amplify the right of withdrawal and to fortify the power of congress to decide questions of peace or war under Article X. Hitchcock Not Spokesman. It was declared the information that democrats were in a receptive mood toward, such a proposal did not come from Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska the administration leader, but from a source considered entirely authoritative. The Ne braska senator himself denied that he had taken part in any such ne gotiations and said his advocacy of unreserved ratification remained un altered. Mr. Lodge also denied that tie had given assent to the proposed reservations. Meantime, however, at a meeting of the foreign relations committee. Senator Hitchcock gave notice that unless the committee completed without undue delay its considera tion of the treatv. some independent action might be expected on the floor of the senate. In the sugges tion for speedv action ' Chairman Lodge concurred, and the upshot of a neatecl discussion was an an nouncement that the committee would begin tomorrow the consid eration of proposed amendments. Although Senator Hitchcok said no definite plan for independent senate action had been formulated, it is known that the possibility of taking the treaty away from the committee and bringing is to a vote has been discussed informally in many conferences among senators. Both the democrats and the reserva tion republicans have been insist ent that public sentiment demanded disposition of the treatv without de lay. End of Fight in Sight. Among many senators the day's developments were interpreted as marking the beginning of the end of (Continued on Pare Two Column One.) Spain Faces Crisis; Cabinet Threatens To Resign Thursday Madrid, Aug. 1.3. A ministerial crisis is impending in Spain and the government has summoned all ab sent deputies to Madrid. The fate of the present cabinet is expected to be determined at the meeting on Thursday. The statement given out late last night at the premier's office said: "The government has completed the task for which it was created. It passed the measures for the budget and that regulating the eco nomic situation. It -will give full liberty to the royal prerogative at the next meeting on Thursday. The monarch and the general opinion will decide the cabinet's fate. Suit to Dissolve Cement Combination Announced Washington, Aug. 13. A suit in equity to dissolve "the cement com bination" is announced by Attorney Genera' Palmer. The action is to I brought in the district of New Jersey against 19 individual capital- By E. C. SNYDER, Staff Correspondent of The Omaha Bee. Washington, D. C, Aug. 13. (.Special Telegram.) Potash, essen tial to the farmers of the south and the west, held the stage Wednesday :n the house. Representative l.ang lord of Georgia, started the discus sion en the merits of domestic pot ash and the foreign article by in sisting that biils now pending in the way., and means committee for li censing the domestic product should he killed, as the domestic product in purity and strength was inferior to th . German product. Judge Kinkaid of the Sixth Ne braska district, in whose bailiwick the potash lakes are located, took exception to the statement of the Georelan and championed the out put of potassium salts in his district as comparing most favorably with that of the mines af Alsace, insisting thai, the Nebraska potash was just as ricr in fertilizer content per hun dred pounds as the German product now under French control. "Uncle Mose' came out flat-footed for a licencing system, insisting that the people, not only in his state, but other states, who had invested their money in the building up of a war necessity had a right to be protect ed in what was essentially an infant industry and make the domestic arti cle independent. McLaughlin Wants Licensing. Representative McLaughlin of York, a member of the agricultural committee of the house was given close attention as he took up the cudgels for licensing the output of domestic potash for a short time, therebv saving to the domestic pro ducers" $50,000,000 which the citizens of the United States had put into potash production at the earnest so licitation of the war board. Mr. McLaughlin said that the sup ply of potash in this country, ac cording to reports of the United States geological survey and sub stantiated by many university chem- ists from different states, was prac i tically inexhaustible and that Searles lake alone has 12 square miles of I potash deposits, enough to supply j the United States on its present I basis of consumption for 80 years I and that while the supply in the Nebraska lakes is not fully known, it was believed to be even greater than that of Searles lake in Utah. "In this developing our own pot ash industries," said the representa tive from the Fourth District, "by using our own supplies we are also making use of American labor in its production instead of allowing our recent enemy to dump in on the country vast supplies of potash mined in Germany by prison labor during the very time in which we were engaged in the war. , Many People Affected "In Nebraska, alone, two towns, Hofland and Antioch, aggregating a population of 3,000 people, have been established by the potash in dustry. Lakeside has grown from a mere elevator station to a village of 1,000 people. 1,500 people are employed in potash development in my state alone, and as'the indus try grows throughout the Ration multipled thousands of laborers wi'l be profitably employed in producing this great national necessity. "It is enough for us to know that by providing temporary protection for the potash industry we are sav ing to patriotic investors $50,000,000, making possible the speedy deyelop ment of a potash supply that will take care of the needs of our coun try for all future time, and that we are thus rendering ourselves inde pendent of any other country that would seek to handicap us by con trolling a great industry necessary to our food production, either tn time of peacg or war. It is hoped the members of this congress will not be so near sighted as to fail to see the justice of this provision and the tremendous future of the potash industry of America that hinges en tirely on the result of our attitude toward this pending legislation. "THE FOLLIES" ! PIONEER WOMAN COMPELLED TO I STRUCK BY AUTO CLOSE IN N. Y.I DIES IN HOSPITAL Five Principals Walk Out i Driver of Car Which Killed Just Before Rise of j Mrs. Margaret Gedultig Curtain. i Arrested. New York, Aug. 13. (By The Associated Press.) Striking actors tonight closed their twelfth theater here. The New Amsterdam, where Zieg feld's Follies was billed, was filled when announcement was made that five principals Eddie Cantor, John Dooley, Gus Van, Joseph Schenck and Phil Dwyer all members of the Actors' Equity association, had walked out. Their action followed revocation today by Supreme Court Justice Lydon of an injunction ob tained by Florence Ziegfeld re straining "unionists" from "inter fering with" his production by step ping from the cast. Overtures lor a conference be tween the striking actors and the Producing Managers' Protective as sociation have been received by the attorney for the managers from the attorney for the actors. The Actors' Equity association announced that delegates from the Milkmen's union, Barbers' union and United Mine Workers pledged their support. The Barbers' union, said the announcement, had notified members that any who attended a performance in a theater where actors were on strike would be fined $5. The barbers' delegate told the meeting union barbers along Broad way were refusing to shave actors who could not produce union cards. Temporary Truce. Chicago, Aug. 13 A truce was declared in the actors' strike which Tuesday night closed the Cort the ater and Cohan's Grand opera house and threatened to spread to other playhouses. Following the application to the courts for an injunction by A. H. Woods, proprietor of Woods' the ater, seeking to restrain the com pany playing "Up in Mabel's Room" from going on strike, both sides entered into an agreement to halt hostilities pending hearing of the injunction proceedings. Taking of testimony in the hear ing on the petition for an injunc tion was begun before a master in chancery and will be pushed to completion. If the injunction is denied, Frauds Wilson, president of the actors' or ganization, intimated the fight will be renewed and every theater in Chicago closed. Off to Honolulu. Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 13. Sec retary Daniels departed for Hono lulu this morning on the battleship New York, accompanied by four de - vers. No ceremonies marked the sailing. j Mrs. Margaret Gedultig, 76 years I old, 4802 Farnam street, died at !6:30 o'clock last evening in Lister j hospital, following injuries received i when she was struck by an automo j bile at Sixteenth and Douglas I streets yesterday morning. I The car which struck Mrs. Gedul i'ig was being driven by Allen Mc Clare, negro, chauffeur for W. M. Jetfers, general manager of the Union Pacific railroad system. Mc Clare was arrested and booked at Central police station for investiga tion. Mrs. Grant Williams, daughter of Mrs. Gedultig, was near the scene of the accident and was attracted by the crowd, but did not know that the person injured was her mother until shown her purse and hat. . McClare said that he had waited for a street car to move on, nd when Traffiic Officer Brigham sig nalled him to pass his engine stalled and then suddenly shot ahead. Brigham said he signalled McClare to cross, but added that McCJare was "going too fast". An inquest will be held at the Brailey & Dorrence undertaking parlors at 10 o'clock this morning. Mrs. Oedultig was a pioneer resi dent of Omaha, having lived in the city more than 50 years. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. H. L. Loring, Mrs. Clair Olmstead and Mrs. Grant Williams. Armed Forces of Austria Protest Against Monarchy Berlin. Aug. 13. (By The Asso ciated Press.) It is reported from Vienna that the entire armed forces of Austria are protesting against alleged efforts to establish a mon archy. The soldiers in a demonstra tion before the parliament building demanded that the republican form of government be obtained. There were similar demonstrations in the country districts. The Hungarian public prosecutor has issued an announcement that proceedings wilt be begun against all individuals charged with crimes during the Bela Kun dictatorship and that steps have already been taken for their arrest and extradi tion, according to advices from Budapest. . Winnipeg Labor Leaders Committed for Trial Winnipeg, Man.. Aug. 13. Eight Winnipeg strike leaders were for mally committed for trial at the November assizes by Magistrate R. M. Nolle, on the charge of seditious conspiracy BRITAIN TO FIX PRICES OF FOODS House of Commons Votes to Empower Board of Trade, After Investigation, to Name Wholesale and Retail Figures. ACTION DENOUNCED BY SOME MEMBERS Peace Questions Bringing Lord Grey as Ambassador To U. S., Bonar Law says These Questions Understood in Washington to Include Readjustment of Complicated Financial Relations Between Britain and America New Envoy Always Supporter of League of Nations Idea. One Liberal Says Amendment Savors of "Rank Socialism of the Most Muddled Kind" Amazes Lord Cecil. London, Aug. 13. (By The As sociated Press.) The house of commons this evening, after heated debate, adopted an amendment to the profiteering bill empowering the Board of Trade, after an investi gation, to fix wholesale and retail prices. The vote was 132 to 95. The amendment was denounced, among others, by Lord Robert Cecil,-former minister of war trade, who expressed amazement that the government should accept "an amendment destroying the whole basis of the bill and revolutionizing the trade of the country.' Sir Donald MacLean, a liberal member, also denounced the amend ment, characterizing it as "rank so cialism of the most muddled kind." Aim to Starve Paris. Paris, Aug. 13. (By The Asso ciated Press.) The government is invpetityatinor flip nricin nf and the real motive for sending yesterday 1,000 telegrams, addressed presum ably by commission merchants to producers in the country, advising producers to cease shipments to Paris. The telegraph employes, sus picious of the significance of so many telegrams of this character, held up the messages. For this they, vere officially blamed, but unoffi cially praised by Premier Clemen ceau, who took upon himself all the responsibility. In some quarters these telegrams are taken as evidence of a plot by merchant profiteers to attempt to starve Paris in revenge for the ac tion of the consumers' vigilance committees and in the hope of frightening 'both the authorities and the consumers. It was announced at the ministry of commerce that if the investiga tion shows concerted action among commission merchants they will be expelled from the central markets. ANTHRAX MAKES APPEARANCE IN THREE COUNTIES Outbreak Reported in Cedar, Knox and Boyd Only Cattle Affected. Lincoln, Aug. 13. (Special Tele gram.) Anthrax has made its ap pearance in Cedar and Knox coun ties and reports coming to the office of the state veterinarian indicate that the disease. has spread to Boyd county. In every case the cattle are quar antined and every precaution taken to keep the disease from spreading. The report says that one man in Boyd county has lost 12 head of cattle. So far the disease has been con fined entirely to cattle and no indi cations that the disease has affected other jmimals has been reported. Robber Asks $150,000; Fires at Cashier and Gun on Himself Tu London; Aug. 13. (By the Asso ciated Press. Lord Grey is con senting to go to Washington' tem porarily. Andrew Bonar Law, gov ernment spokesman, said in the House of Commons today, in order to deal particularly with questions arising out of the peace settlement. Mr Bonar Law added thai a per manent ambassador to the United States would be appointed early next year. Commander Kenworthy asked why Lord Grey was not appointed permanently. In reply Mr. Bonar Law said the government would only be too glad if Lord Grey would accep. a permanent post, but every one who knew of the former secre tary's disabilities would share in the satisfaction over his present action. Viscount Grey of Fallodon (Sir Edward Grey) comes to the United States to represent the British gov ernment after a brilliant career as head of the British foreign office. For 11 years momentous in the po litical affairs of Europe, he was sec retary of state for foreign affairs from December tl, 1905, to Decem ber 11, 1916. Tried to Prevent War. O.. several occasions it was the initiative of Sir Edward Grey that caused the gathering clouds of war to disappear. It was he who made the last effort to prevent the-Europe? n war when he urged the am bassadors of the leading powers to meet to discuss the' situation in an attempt to put off hostilities. His effort failed through the attitude of the German government and the German emperor. Gladstone, under whom Sir Ed .vard served in his younger days, described him thus: "I never knew in a man such ap titude for political life and such dis inclination for it." Since his retiremenf from the for eign office Viscount Grey has been living in Northumberland. The new ambassador's eyes began to trouble him in 1918 and at one time it was reported he was blind. This report was erroneous, but the viscount has difficulty in reading, although his eye trouble has improved some what. Vacant Since Reading Left. The ambassadorial post at Wash ington has been vacant since the de parture last spring of tfie Earl of Reading, who has resumed his of fice as lord chief justice of Eng land. A liberal in politics, Viscount Grey sat in the house of commons from 1885 to W16. From 1892 to 1895 he was under-secretary of state for foreign affairs under the Earl of Roseberry. The new British rep resentative was born April 25, 1862, and succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his grandfather in 1882. his father, Capt. George Henry Grey, having died previously. Viscount Grey has always sup ported the idea of a league of na tions. Last December he headed the delegation of the British league (Continued on Page Two, Column Three.) LIQUOR WORTH $15,000 FOUND IN OMAHA HOME Raid by State Agent Samardick on Charles Lewis' Resi dence Nets Varied Assortment. Fifteen thousand dollars worth of choice wines and whisky were seized last night by State Agent Robert P. Samardick and the morals squad at the home of Charles Lewis, ex saloon keeper, 1030 South Thirtieth avenue. Lewis was arrested and charged with illegal possession of liquor. He was later released under $300 cash bond. According to Samardick, it was the largest haul ever made in Omaha. The contraband contains a varied assortment of some 80 brands in all sorts of containers, jugs, pints, quarts and cases. Lewis had the liquor stored in his basement. The raid was made at 8 o'clock on a search warrant. A summary estimate of the liquor seized was placed at more than 50 cases of bottled wine and whisky and several dozen kegs. Samardick says liquor from Lewis' stock has '..een peddled to dance halls in neighboring small towns re cently by a man driving a Ford car. Some of the ll'u seized last nigh' bore before-pi ohibition stamps, ac cording to the police, but most of it was unmarked. Some cases were tagged "April, 1919," Samardick says. rns Washington. Aug. 13. A hold-up man, entering the banking room of the Munsey Trust company in the heart of the Pennsylvania avenue section today, pointed two pistols at a teller, demanded $150,000 and then after firing one shot at a clerk, turned a pistol on himself. He shot himself in the jaw and was taken to a hospital. The man told the police his name was John E. Fetzer of Defiance. O The man is a mechanic. 34 years ofd. He came here todav from New York. The man also said he picked out Washington because he understood there was plenty of money in the capital and that a hold-up was easy. The hospital physicians said he probably would recover. Capt. Castle Dead. Washington, Aug. 13. Capt. Guy W. S. Castle, commanding officer of the transport Martha Washing ton, is dead at Brest. France, the Navy department learns. Captain Castle died on board his ship He was appointed in 1897 to the naval academy from Wise Russ Monarchists Offer Throne to Romanowsky of the Romanoff Family London, Aug. 13. A bolshevik wireless message received here as serts that, after a meeting of Rus sian monarchists in Siberia, the Rus s;an throne was offered to the Duke of Romanowsky, a member of the cidet, or younger branch of the Romanoff family, headed by former Emperor Nicholas. The dispatch adds that the duke accepted the offer. The Duke of Romanowsky re ferred to probably is Prince Alex ander Romanowsky, head of the house of Beauharnais and son of the I rite Duke Georges Maximiliano vitch and Theres, duches of Olden burg. He also bears the title of Duke of Leuchtenberg. Prince Alexarder is 39 vears old. Letts Arrange Loan of $60,000,000 in America London, Aug. 13. A Russian soviet government wireless dispatch from Moncow states that the Let tish government has arranged a loan of $60,000,000 in America. The loan is to pay for food received front the allies, the dispatch says. Kerensky in Vienna. Basel, Aug. 13. Alexander Keren sky, former premier and minister of war in Russia, is in Vienna, accord ing to the Frankfort Zeitung. a copy I of which has been received here. RIOTERS SHOOT THREE PERSONS AT STEEL PLANT Score of Others Cut and Bruised Governor Dis patches Troops to Peoria. Springfield, 111., Aug. 14. Gov-. .Frank Lowden has ordered the Tenth Illinois infantry, com manded by Col. O. P. Yeager of Danville, to Peoria for riot duty. This morning it was reported that three severe blasts occurred within the plant. The blasts could be heard for several miles, but the extent of the damage could not be ascertained. Peoria, Aug. 13. Three persons were shot and seriously wounded and a score of other persons re ceived cuts and bruises when several hundred strikers and sympathizers charged the Keystone Wire and Steel company's plant in South Bar tonville five miles from this city Wednesday night. A handful of deputy sheriffs, who have been guarding the plant" where a strike of 800 workers has been in progress for several weeks, fought off the rioters, returning volley for volley. Iate Wednesday night it was believed the worst of the storm had passed. The seriously wounded are Reu ben Sommers and Alvin Sommers, who are connected with the firm, and a night watchman who was shot :n the back by snipers. The Som mers were fired upon several times. Sporadic outbreaks continued throughout the day and resulted in the wounding of two strikers who had fired oi the deputies. The first outbreak came when a truckload of strikebreakers were carried to the plant under protec tion of deputy sheriffs. The principal outbreak followed the shooting of a woman by a sniper rear the plant. She was only silghtly injured. Later a truck load of strikebreakers approached the plant and firing was renewed. Minor outbreaks started eight weeks ago when the company em p'oyes struck for higher wages and a closed shop. VVage increases were granted, but the company re used to recognize the union and for a time the plant was closed down. ilERCHAN CONVICTED T PAYS $500 Retail Grocer Penalized at Binghamton, N. Y., Under Federal Statute for Selling Sugar at 15 Cents a Pound. AMENDMENT TO FOOD CONTROL BILL OFFERED Tinoco Leaves Costa Rica; Brother Is Assassinated Washington, Aug. 13. President Tinoco has left Costa Rica. This information reached the State de partment Wednesday, but details have not yet been received. Joaquin Tinoco, brother of the resident of Cota Rica, was assassi nated August 10, according to re ports to the State department. N'o details were given. Decorators to Strike. New York, Aug. 13. A strike of 12.000 interior decorators was called here today, threatening to prevent tho general autumn renovation of hundreds of apartments. Palmer Asks Legislation That Would Extend Food Control Act to Cover Clothing and Containers of Foods. Washington. Aug. 13 (By the Associated Press) Important new developments in the government's fight to reduce the high cost of living came today. One of the most interesting was the announcement by Attorney General IV'mer that the first fed eral conviction for profiteering had been obtained. District Attorney -Lucey telegraphed from Bingham ton, N. Y. that a retail grocer had been fined $500 for selling sugar t 15 cents a pound. No details were given and the law under which the -case was brought was not known here. "A few good cases of piofiteering in each state will settle that trouble" ' Mr. Palmar remarked. In order to bring to book persons guilty of raising prices exorbitant ly or hoarding food to advance prices, Mr. Palmer submitted to the agricultural committees of con gress the draft of an amendment to the food control act extending its provisions to clothing and contain-, ers of foods and feeds.and providing a penalty of $5,000 fine or two years iinpi lauiiiiiciu ui uuill lur V1UIBHUII of the law. Chairman Haugen, of" the house committee announced the amendment would be considered immediatly by a sub-committee and that a report might be made to morrow. It is Mr. Palmer's idea that this before taking up other amendments suggested by President Wilson to pvtpni.tliA fffpftivA tif n ( tUm (nrtA control act beyond the war period. Ask Appropriations. Three cabinet officers asked spe cial appropriations from congress for the campaign against inflated price';. Secretary Redfield request ed $410,000 for the, work of the bur- f , r 14 eau oi standards m assuring fuu weight and measures of the bureau of fisheries in introducing new fish foods. Secretary Wilson asked for $475,000 for the employment of spe cial agents and others and Mr. Palmer, requested $1,000,000 for the bureau of investigation and for the expenses of the state food adminis tration assisting the Department of Justice. , Another $200,000 was asked for anti-tri.st suits. especially that against the five big packing compan ies. The attorney general also wants $300,000 for other work of the de partment, not directly connected with the living problem, such as the enforcement of wartime prohibition, prosecution of appeals and hiring of special assistants. Want "Red Tape" Cut. Asked today if he had any reports indicating sufficient food held in storage to affect prices materially, if released, Mr. Palmer revealed -that a number of governors had appealed to him to cut "red tape" in forcing on the market "amazing quantities" of foodstuffs now in storage. In some cases it was said. the food has been held longer than permitted by state laws, but technicalities re garding interstate commerce had prevented the governors from un dertaking seizure or prosecutions. Mr. Palmer ordered all district at torneys to assist the governors. Reports of excessive stocks of (Continued nn Huge Two, Column Poor.) Veteran Sub Chasers to Leave Bermuda on Kace to botham Washington, Aug. 13. Six sub marine chasers, veterans of th U-boat campaigns in the North se and the Adriatic, will leave Bermuda Thursday and race to New York.' The race will be under service conditions and an effort will be r.ade to lower the Bermuda-to-New York record for gasoline vessels of W hours Naval officers expect the chasers to lower this record to about 72 hours. The .distance is about 700 miles. Officials of the 'ew York Yacht club will act as jiidges. . The craft are the 129 and 324, both of which took part in the naval operations that resulted in the de struction of the Austrian naval base at Durazzo in 1918, the 12) credited with sinkinc a German submarine and the 90, 137. 217 and ,5I. The ti'g Ontario will accompany the chasers and will end wireless rt ports of the race 1