Lancaster Examiner and The Semi-Weekly New Era from Lancaster, Pennsylvania • 1

VOL. 1, NO. 10 LANCASTER, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1920 SEMI-WEEKLY EDITION. FARMERS RESEN1 BAND "GLEANERS' EV. DR.

RICHARDS ALARMIST-STOR WILL CANVASS FO CARRANZA DIRECTING SOLDIERS IN FURIOUS BATTLE 'WITH REBELS PRESIDENT OF LOCAL SEMINARY HOSPITAL FUi Staff Correspondent Visits Five Townships In Company With Well-Known Farmers and Finds Reports of Conditions Greatly Exaggerated President's Son-in-Law MEXICAN SITUATION Women Appoint Ward Captains To Organize Teams And Visit Homes Of Lancaster. Board Of Trustees Plan To Build More Buildings When Funds Have Been Raised. Requests Permission To Share His Fate Heavy Reinforcements Hurry To Insurgents To Beat President DECISIVE BATTLE IS RAGING SUBSCRIPTION OF $92,847 REPORTED ON WEDNESDAY PLEA GRANTED BY VICTORS To offset what appears to be a deliberate propaganda on the part of the Intelligencer and its offshoot juvenile organ against the very best interests of the southern end of the county, and to set aright a series of misstatements that have appeared recently in both these organs as well as in a Philadelphia newspaper whose knowledge of agricultural affairs throughout the State is in the journalistic joke category, the "Examiner-New Era" sent a staff correspondent to the -lower end on Wednesday, the express purpose being to visit personally the so-called "abandoned'' -farms and' "twenty- JOHN W. APPEL, IS CHOSEN CHAIRMAN OF TRUSTEES Will Be Allowed To Pass Through lower end better; and L. T.

Hensel, the "Examiner-New Era's" -correspondent from that The visiting party covered Colo-rain, Little Britain, Fulton, East and West Drumore townships, with stops at Kirkwood, Union, White Rock.Elim, Wakefield, Chestnut Level, Buck, Rawlinsville and Quarryville, a detour of perhaps 40 miles, and every farm in these sections was visited, stops were made at rflany of them, and the net result of the day's work was just this: In the entire section covered there is not a single farm that is completely abandonsd, and there are only three that will hot be intensively operated and for excellent business reasons on he part of the owners. Tenant houses to the number of a dozen were found uninhabited, but not more than1 three of these are fit for human beings to inhabit. labor, Provisional President Till July. Elections Is Desired By Revolutionary Chiefs. The Rebel Lines To Inform Carranza Of Conditions.

Vera Cruz, Mexico, May 13. (By Rev. Dr. George W. Richards, of this city, eminent local scholar and church historian, was this morning elected president of the Eastern Seminary of the Reformed Church in the United States by the Board of Trustees.

Dr. Richards will continue to teach church history at the institution and will assume the duties of the presidency October 1. The establishment of a course in music at the Seminary, to be included seven" vacant tenant houses of which the journals above mentioned seem to delight in exploiting very much to the detriment the entire lower end of Lancaster county. In order to be ciira rt Tiio rrvM 1 ft anil in rwrlai rf in the Associated, Press.) General Aguilar, Carranza's son-in-law, who is By the Associated Press. Mexican rebel forces seem to be rapidly closing in on President Carranza and all that remains of his army, entrenched in the hilly country between San Marcos and Apizaco, 150 miles northwest of Vera Cruz.

Rebel chieftains are evidently determined to capture, the president, who fled from the capital last Friday. General Trevino, one of the leading figures in the revolution, has gone to Apizaco to protect Carranza if he Is taken. Dispatches appear to clear up some of the obscure details of the flight of Carranza. When he left Mexico City he is alleged to have taken government funds amounting to 27,000,000 pesos." His trains were stopped, but he and the troops accompanying him made their way down the railroad approximately 35 miles before being halted by rebel forces. Dispatches say the treasure has been captured by the rebels.

Governor De La Huerta, of Sonora, who has. been named supreme leader of the revolution, is preparing to go to Mexico City to take control. Dispatches from V6ra Cruz state that rebel leaders hope to hold the presidential election in July, according to the provisions of Mexican law. at Jalpilla, near Orizaba, begged the rebel authorities for permission to Yuma, May 13. -A former lieutenant of the Carranza forces after shooting to death Captain Carter G.

Calles, nepticw of General Elias Calles, at San Luis, a small garrison town in Sonora early today, took possession of the town in the name of the Carranza regime, according to a telephone message received here and later corroborated. join the President and share his fate miss anything man was accompanied on his trip by Mr. E. B. Fritz, a farmer for half a General Aguilar, on Tuesday, sent word to the rebels that he desired to pass through the lines to San Marcos, as a matter.

of course, is scarce, but in century and a large land owner; Harry Neff, than whom no man knows the (Continued on Page 5.) In order to give' every home in Lancaster an opportunity to contribute to, the Generai Hospital campaign, more than 125 Lancaster women have organied into a "Gleaners' Band," and will make a house to house canvass of the city from Friday noon until next Monday at three o'clock. The canvass will be conducted on ward -and precinct lines, and it is hoped will turn in a considerable sum toward the $250,000 needed by. the hospital. Mrs. Chas.

StaUffer, Mrs. John L. Atlee, and Mrs. P. Harry Wohlsen will direct activities oS- the "Gleaners' Band." Ward captains have been'appointed and each captain Is organizing a team of ten or twelve women.

The workers will, go in pairs and 'call on the homes in each square block, as, wag done in the Liberty Loan drives. Following are the ward captains who have consent-, ed to serve. First Ward Miss Elizabeth Davis, Mrs. H. R.

Bowers. Second Ward John L. Atlee, Miss Dorothy. Alberts, Mrs. Arthur G.

Mrs. James Spotts. Third, Ward Mrs. D. Shprman Smith.

Fourth Ward Mrs. Harry Forry. Fifth Ward Mrs. Ralph Cummings. I0Y BADLY INJURE SOCIALIST PARTY and permission was given on condition that he would tell Carranza the true situation and inform him of the guarantees given him by General Obregon, through a military commission headed by General Trevino.

When this reply was received by General Aguilar he broke down and pleaded to be permitted to go to Carranza and stand by him to the end. Colonel Orozco, chief of operations ia the Tampico district, who was arrested when he arrived here on the in the regular curriculum, was taken up as a probable development. The matter was presented by Rev. W. Stuart Cramer, of Lancaster.

A committee consisting of Chairman Rev. Dr. C. B. Schnader, of Shamokin; Rev.

John W. Pontius, of Butler, and Rev. D. E. Master, of Huntington, was appointed to decide the matter.

Rev. Dr. James Crawford, of Philadelphia, was re-elected president of the Board of Visitors and Rev. Dr. Wm.

D. Happel, of Lebanon, was reelected secretary. The other members present were: Rev. Dr. E.

E. Kresge, of Allentown; Dr. R. L. Gerhart, of' Lewisburg; Rev.

Dr. Charles E. Creitz, of Reading; Rev. MATES DEBS BY DYNAMITE AP steamer Jalisco early this week, hasj Charles Finefrock, 11, Suffers 50 Lacerations As Brother Strikes The Cap. 'Conservative" Group In Control And "The Hillquit Platform Will Be Adopted.

NAME FORGED 10 (Continued on Page 3.) been sent to Tampico. He is alleged to have had public funds when apprehended and will be tried for embezzlement. The Dutch steamsr Zuyderdyk sailed from Vera Cruz today after it was Nffl Vera Cruz, Mexico, May 13, (By the Associated Press.) Furious fighting between rebel troops and forces commanded by President Carranza occurred yesterday at Hacienda Tam-ariz, according to dispatches received here. Carrahza is said, in' wireless messages from Mexico City, to have directed the operations of his troops for eight hours on Tuesday. Terrific storms swept the mountain region where the struggle is going on, and telegraphic communication has been interrupted.

It is known, however, that heavy rebel reinforcements have been sent to Marcos and artillery hurried to force the surrender of the troops loyal to the president. General Sanchez has gone to Esperanza, about 40 miles southeast to San Marcos, with his staff and five trainloads of troops to co-operate in what is believed to be the decisive action of the rebellion. General Dieguez, who is loyal to Carranza, has withdrawn his forces from Guadalajara and is marching toward Colimo. Five trainloads of troops have seen sent after him, but the pursuit is retarded by breaks in the railroad line. Felipe Sanchez Carranza, who was taken prisoner by the rebels at Tex- HAMMER CAUSES EXPLOSl6N PARTY LEADER IN PRISON UPHAM DIRECTING GENIUS OF REPUBLICAN CONVENTION detained here some time.

When she arrived it was announced she had in He Did Not Sims Offered Daniels Says Document Sign In her cargo airplanes bought in Europe by the Mexican Government. There was a suspicion that her real mission was to take a large amount of gold Charles, the. eleven-year-old son of Mrs. Gertrude Finefrock, of 6i2 South Duke badly injured on Wednesday by the explosion of a dynamite cap. He and several other children playing- with the cap, which was found.

Milton Finefrock, brother of Charles, exploded it with a Criticism Of Department. New York, May 13. Eugene V. Debs, Federal convict No. 2,253, was nominated by acclamation for the presidency.

of the United States at the Socialist party's National convention today. Debs is serving a ten-year term in the Federal prison at Atlanta, for violation' of the Chicago, May 13. The directing genius of four republican conventions, Fred W. Upham, Republican National Treasurer, this year has planned his fifth and greatest one. He has been chairman of the Chicago convention coin sent by Carranza for deposit, in Europe.

When such reports became current the ship was forbidden to quit port and searched byfflcials. It was WANTS ADMIRAL'S APOLOGY committee for 16 years and probably Washington, D. May 13. Charges that a cablegram produced Sixth Ward-nMiss Elsie Miller. Seventh Ward Miss Fanny Bowers, Mrs.

John Linderman, Mrs. Raymond Myers, Miss Catharine Hersh. Eighth Ward Miss Elizabeth Ran-sing. Ninth Ward Mrs. Harry Wohlsen.

Despite the fact that it was raining, more than 75 of the Gleaners responded to a call for a preliminary meeting at the Manufacturers Association rooms last evening. It was brought out that the women workers never had a more urgent cause for which to approach the people of Lancaster. With room for only 125 patients the hospital reports 141, a number of others being denied kdmission. The women felt that the situation was critical and. the need imperative.

They also felt that every dollar that the Gleaners' Band can collect will be well wojth while. According to F. L. Suter, chairman of the city-drive; who addressed- the espionage act, he was selected by all leaders of the party as the logical man to head the ticket. When the delegates convened this morning they began consideration of the platform.

Illinois delegation had its substitute ultra radical plat hammer stroke. Charles was the only one of the' boys struck by the shattered metal cap. He received fifty lacerations on face and body. Dr. Chadman attended the victim.

While badly hurt his injuries are not of a serious nature. The boy's mother is a widow. Last November 13, her seven-year-old son, William, was electrocuted near his home by catching hold of a broken electric light wire, and was instantly killed. before the Senate Naval Investigating Committee during the testimony of Rear Admiral Sims bore a forged signature were made today by Secretary Daniels. He referred to a message which Admiral Sims presented as part found she carried no Mexican money and she was given permission io leave.

The American destroyer No. 292 and the transport Maumee arrived here today. General Obregon has spread broadcast an appeal to the people to return to their customary vocations. In explaining the cause of the revolution, he says, a revolt was necessary "to liberate the country from a regime which was breaking down the intellectual and material life of the peo has promoted more national political gatherings than any man living. He has organized and financed the local arrangements for the Republican gatherings since 1904.

In 1904, the first year the Republicans met at the Chicago Coliseum, the convention arrangements cost $70,000. In 1916 the expenses increased to $110,000 and this year the sum will exceed $150,000. To raise this money, contract for building alterations, extra seats, decorations, tickets, badges and all the other details of staging 'the big quadrennial spectacle, in which more than 13,000 delegates and spectators of his criticism of the Navy Department and which purported to have been signed by the Secretary. d'Somewhere somebody was guilty of signing my' name to an official dispatch which the original, here pro ple and which was violating laws." LEVI S. RHOADS, VETERAN FARMER, DIES SUDDENLY duced, shows I never signed," Mr.

Daniels told the committee, "or of ah tering a dispatch by erasing, the real WOMEN SAY THEY WITNESSED BOYS ESCAPE FROM WINDOW signature and substituting Mr. Daniels testified that immedi form ready to offer in place of the one submitted by Morris Hillquit for the regular platform committee, but it was predicted that the "conservative" group in the convention will put through their platform with minor amendments, as they did the declaration of principles. The report of the resolutions committee was before the convention today, "it includes a resolution in favor of woman suffrage and. demands that the legislatures of" Delaware and Louisiana immediately ratify the suffrage amendment to the Federal constitution. It calls upon the governor of Connecticut to convene the legislature in special session to ratify the amendment.

The convention will conclude tomorrow. The delegates and a large number of members of the party will then go by special train to Washing- ton, where a demonstration will be held 1 Saturday in- behalf of amnesty I for nolitical prisoners. A committee coco, committed suicide by shooting himself through thn head, according to advices. General Dominguez, who has been in control of government operations in the State of Tabasco has joined the revolutionary movement. General Obregon has given assurances to the press that correspondents of foreign newspapers with Carranza will not be molested.

He has said he will not exercise censorship over newspapers or the telegraphic systems, and that correspondents may use wireless in communicating with the world. The newspaper El Dictamen, of this city, has a correspondent with rebel forces which arrived at San Andres and Chalchico-mula to fight against the Carranza troops. Governor De La Huerta, supreme chief of the revolutionary movement, is expected in Mexico City in about a week, according to dispatches from the capital. With him will be General Calles at the head of 5,000 Yaquls, who will serve as garrison forces in the central part of the country. Revolutionary leaders say they de will this year participate, is Upham's task.

'Cost of altering the Coliseum and decorating it will cost more than $50,000 this year. The task of obtaining and guarding the tickets is a problem In itself. The admission cards are printed on safety paper, in special ink, and locked in vaults until Levi S. one of best known men in the southern end of the county, died very suddenly on Wednesday night at the home of his son, B. F.

Rhoads. near Quarryville, death resulting from heart disease. The deceased had been apparently in the best of health and had been in the borough of Quarryville early Gleaners' Band, the total of $92,847 reported Wednesday noon falls short at least $10,000 of what the campaign committee hoped would be on hand at that time. Mr. Suter" said that contributions.

may fail to $250,000 total unless all connected with the campaign make sure that the canvass Is thoroughly done and everybody is given an opportunity to contribute. Mr. Suter had only words of praise for the 24 city, teams? and the work they are doing, and he also said that while the county reports were coming In very slowly was evident that good work was being ately upon reading the admiral's he knew he never sent such a cablegram and he started an investigation. "I knew," he said, "that if my name appeared on such a telegram it would be because somebody forged my name to it." He s'aid he found the original dispatch in the British embassy, through which it had been sent, and that the name signed to it was F. Carter, by direction of the chief of naval operations." "The statement that it was signed 'Daniels' is untrue," said the secre- Another version has been given as to the escape of1 the two boys, John Elliott and Charles Kripps, from the local police station Tuesday night by a letter received by the "Examiner-New Era" this afternoon.

The letter follows: "In last night's 'Examiner-New Era' I saw an account of two boys escape from our police station, and that the police cannot account for their escape. Well, two women in an apartment on Duke street were just getting up when one called to the other to look at the police station window. By that Wednesday evening and he died shortly after he reached home. Mr. Rhoads was born in Manor township on June 11, 1835.

In. 1881 the Thursday before the convention. None are sent by mail, all being distributed here. In spite of these precautions, many fall into the hands of speculators, who sell them from $60 to $100 each; alid even counterfeiting of the cards is not unknown. Mr.

Upham, who has been treasurer 'of the national committee since Feb he moved into Eden township, pur- will call upon Secretary Tumulty to chasing what was known as the Bush-place before him a memorial on the 0ng farm. He retired only a few subject for President Wilson's con- years ago. He was a member of the slderatlon. 1 i Mennonite church and in politics was (Continued on Page 3.) MORE CHILDREN'S ESSAYS COME IN EVERY DAY Mm. time' one boy, the boy inside the window on the second floor, just dropped the one on the outside, and ha fell with a thudto the ground.

Then a second later the second boy was seen to swing from the wire that is near the win tfssays continue to flow into the of a Democrat. His wife, who was Miss Francie Ilerr, of Lancaster, died three years ago. The following children survive: Benjamin, Drumore; Charles, Quarryville; Abraham, Eden; Levi, Bart; George, S. and Irwin, Lancaster; Mrs. Benjamin Yeag- fice of the "Examiner-New Era," in DUBLIN POLICE BARRACKS BESIEGED BY ARMED MOB Dublin, May 12.

Two hundred men besieged he Holly-Ford police barracks-in County Tipperary for four sire the appointment of a provisional president who will assume a neutral attitude in politics and give assurances that tho presidential elections will be protected. It is hoped the election can be held in July as provided by law. Representatives of employers of street railroad companies and manufacturing concerns held a meeting at the capital and agreed that strikes which have henn in progress will Iir cancelled. It is agreed that matters in controversy will be settled by. conciliation.

Trains left Mexico City today for Tampico, Laredo and Tor-reon, it is announced. er, strasourg: Airs, ueorge vv. lieen ruary 1918, has been associated with national politics 28 years. Irf 1892 he was a delegate to the national convention from the Eighth Wisconsin district. He represented a Chicago district in 1912 and 1916 and ran on Governor Lowden's slate for election as a delegate-at-large from Illinois this year.

He was western treasurer of the national committee In the first Taft campaign in 1908 and in the Hughes canipaign in 1916. The only elective offices he ever held were alderman in Chicago in 1S96 and member of the Cooke county board of tax review 14 years. He is president of a coal Two Women Eurned to Death. Ottawa, May 13. Two women patients were burned to death in a tire which damaged the Doctor Hacnr Maternity Hospital today.

tiie prize contest for the best articl3 in favor of the bond issue for improved streets, a sewage plant, and a comfort station. In each day brings more essays than the previous one did. Some bf those that came in today were so good that they looked suspiciously jlike the work of father and mother; -others were equally as hours Wednesday morning, usingl ler Christiana; Mrs. Jacob Eckman. rifles and bombs.

Part of the building QnarrvvlIle. Mrs. A. B. Collins, Phila-was set on fire, but the ten officers Two survive Mrs.

Benjamin Hoffman and Miss Sue withdrew to another section and continued their resistance. No casualties were reported. dow, and he dropped, and off they ran. One of the women hollered at them, but they ran faster. It was just 6 A.

The police were unable to account for the disappearance of the boys, and some thought that they might have come right down the stairway and out the front door while the officers were in the back room. This story, as told in the letter, could not be confirmed, but may be tho solution of the problem. 1 Rhoads, Maytown. godd, but bore the "earmarks" of PROPOSES COAL EMBARGO TO RETALIATE ON CANADA 600 Strikers Resume Work. Fittsburgh, May 13.

Six hundred shopmen, yardmen and trainmen of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie who have been on strike at the important terminal at Dickerson run, returned to work today. It Is the most important break In the strikers' rank's since the strike called a month ago. AMERICAN SOLDIERS ENJOY ARMY LIFE IN GERMANY 122ND REGIMENT WILL HOLD REUNION 1NC0URT HOUSE Scores of veterans of the Civil War will attend the reunion of the 122d Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, Friday morning in tho Court Houije. The roster of the regiment is being rapidly depleted, many veterans answering the last roll call annually, GEORGE A. MARSHALL GIVEN preparation by a child.

There are a number of essays that have been received good enough ro win the fifteen and ten-dollar prizes for the best and next best essays, but nothing is ever so good that it cannot bo. Improved lupon. Every child attending any school in the city, has an equal chance to win an easy prize. All essays must be in this office by 8 P. M.

Saturday. The prizes will be awarded and the winning essays published that afternoon. Get busy now! JOHNSON WILL TOUR LARGE CITIES FOR NOMINATION JEWEL BY LODGE NO. 43 Sharon, May 13. As a retaliatory measure for the Canadian embargo upon pulp wood and pulp wood paper, Congressman Willis J.

Hillings announced today that he will Introduce a bill In Congress shortly for an embargo upon coal to Canada. Louisville, May 13.Lager beer, increased salaries, and decreased cost of living in Germany, are the lures that attracted 10 men of the In recognition of his membership of fifty years in Lodge No. 43, Free and SENATE VOTE ON PEACE RESOLUTION SATURDAY First Division at Camp Zaehary Taylor Washington, D. May 13. The to apply, for tranfer to the American Accepted Masons, George A.

Marshall, of 413 West Orange street, was presented with a jewel Wednesday night by the Lodge. The presentation was made by Dr. T. Appol, worshipful master of the Lodge. Marshall made a brief response.

forces in Germany, according to members at' the detachment. Soldiers returning from Germany said an American army private's pay of $1 day would buy him 1,400 "schooners" of beer. A dollar is eiul to 140 marks nnd a glass of beer cost one-tenth of a mark. The finest Rhine wine, it Is reported here, coiUs provision In the Republican peace resolution requesting the President to open negotiations with Germany for a separate treaty was stricken out today on motion ot Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, the Republican leader. After the provision had been stricken out, agreement was reached for a final vote on the resolution at 4 o'clock Saturday.

New York, May 13. Senator Hiram W. Johneon will make a tour of the large cities in the East and Middle West between now and the date of tho Republican convention in Chicago to place his candidacy for the. Republican Presidential nomination, before business men. It was announced at Johnson headquarters today.

No dates were given but It was said the itinerary will include New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Chicago. Senator Johnson's speeches, it was stated, will be do-slgued to counteract flood of literature disseminated among business men picturing him as an extreme ru (Ileal. State Engineer Inspects Willow Street Turnpike I L. G. Krause, an engineer, of, the 1 tatives of (he Automobile- Club and tho State Highway Department, Harris-! Conostoga Traction Company.

The burg, came to Lancaster this morning i trip was made by automobile, for the purpoHe of inspecting the Lan-! After the Inspection is completed caster and Willow Street turnpike, the! the results will bn Hied by Mr. Kraimo bad condition of which has been com-j with the State lllghwuy Depart mout. plained against by the Lancaster Au-j Tho rain of Wednesday night and this tonioblln Club. morning placed the road in a comli- Englnoor Krause was accompanied tlon whjcli will reveal its worst fca-on his tour of inspection by rcprescn-' turci BISHOP DARLINGTON WILL ADDRESS KNIGHTS TEMPLAR Bishop Darlington, of the Diocese of Ilarrlsburg, will deliver a sermon in St. John's Episcopal church at the Ascension 'Day service at 7:30 o'clock tonight.

The local Commandery of Knights Templar, of which Bishop Darlington is: chaplain, will attend. The njrvico will be sung by the combined choirs of St. John's and St. fames' churches. Jj marks a quart.

HONOR SYSTEM ABOLISHED; STUDENTS CHEAT TOO MUCH. Chicago. May 13. AlKilitlon of tho honor system among the students of Northwestern University is announced by the faculty. Dean Fllckingcr said today that one of tho reasons for annulling the system is that cheating during examinations increased und'T 1L TODAY'S TEMPERATURE.

The temperature today an recorded at Demuth's cigar store follows: Life on the Rhine is joyful for the American soldiers, according to returning veterans who tell of week eit'l boat excursions on German rivers week-lung trips to European cities. 40; 9 17; 12 a. m. 5(5,.