The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • Page 1

THE REGISTER RECEIVES THE FULL REPORTS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1 Exceeds Any 2 The net pnld circulation of the le Moines Sunday Register Is greater (han Ihnt of any two other Iowa Sunday newspaper. Associated Press The Sunday Register Is the only Associated Press Sunday newspaper in Dcs Moines. fie, (Formerly The Register and Leader) DES MOINES, IOWA. TUESDAY MORNING, AlKUJST itf, SIXTEEN PACES. Pi; ICE 3 CENTS rm mm zjr 1 UJi.

71, -U. A FIRE COMPANY OR A BUCKET BRIGADE? TODAY'S PROGRAM AT THE FAIR WILSON ASKS THAT WAGE ADJUSTMENT DYERS SAYS CITY WILL TAKE CHARGE YES! AND STT TPS HAVE TO CL1M5 A. ry A YTr every time nyii Ni-rsr4 Va THERMS TUESDAY, AUG. 26. Forenoon.

9:30 to 11:00 Thavlu's Band and Grand Opera company-stand on plaza. 11:00 to 12:30 Henry and His Band and soloists Stand on plaza. 9:00 to 10:30 Royal Kealakai Hawail.uis Stork pavilion. 10:45 to 12:00 Royal Kealakai Hawaiians Agricultural building. 9:30 to 11:30 National Drum corps Assembly tent near poultry building.

10:00 to 12:00 Mahaffey orchestra Exposition building. 10:00 to 11:00 Boys' Training School band North entrance Machinery hall. Afternoon. 1:00 to 3:00 Thavleu's Band and Grand Opera company In front of grandstand. 3:00 to close of program Fischer's Burlington band In front of grandstand.

1:30 to 2:30 Iwiyal Kealakai Hawaiians Stock pavilion. 3:00 to 3:20 Royal Kealakai Hawaiians Auditorium women's and children's building. 3:45 to 4:45 Royal Kealakai Hawaiians Agricultural building. 1:30 to close of program National Drum Corps Assembly tent at east end of Grand avenue. 2:00 to 4:00 Mahaffey orchestra Exposition building.

2:30 to 3:30 Boys' Training school band North entrance' Machinery hall. 4:30 to 6:30 Henry and His Band and Soloists Stand on plaza. Evening. 7:30 to 8:15 Thavleu's Band and Grand Opera company In front of grandstand. 8:16 to close of program Fischer's Burlington band In front of grandstand.

8:00 to close of horse show Henry'and His Band and Soloists Stock pavilion. NOT PR EVE XT ALL THE FIRES IV THE WORLD Americans Caring for 40,000 German Prisoners at $1,000,000 a Month IIXTY THOUSAND AT WEEK'S OPENING lent City Contains 20,000 People and More Coming, Breaking All Records. TODAY IS VETERANS' DAY Judging Develops Sharp Com petition in Many Classes; Ma chinery Exhibits a Feature. A ifn1fl nna 1010 10.300 87,180 2,78 00,080 Wednesday 5210 Thursday 8B4fl "Way 20.718 Saturday 21 Sunday arn Monday'- ,) Six dnj 127,007 lUxncirTs. 1010 Advance, ioib conrosions, etc.

Kim oto ,000.08 Wednesday 7 nan in 027.05 Thursday JW7.0B IJ Miliar in hjy? U'l o'j narnniny 17,37.00 20 T.aV2.l2 34i.lfJ 427.30 Monday 47 Totals 84,798. $125,300.41 More than 60,000 persona saw he Iowa state fair and exposition Last evening the grandstand and paddock were packed with the hlggest crowd they have ever held, 24.837 persons. Reserved seats were' practically all gone by the time the afternoon program was finished. Hundreds stood up between the grandstand and race track fence. Twenty thouland were In the stand during the afternoon, making a total for the day of nearly With weather as perfect as yesterday's a new record for a single day's attendance Is expected today, Old Soldiers' day.

The high mark now stands 67,072 made on Thurs- ay of last year when the English flyers were here. Before 11 o'clock yesterday morning 31,000 persons had entered the grounds. Most of them will be here today, too. From every, corner of Iowa and towns In other states they came by train and automobile. Horse races were the feature of yesterday afternoon's program, when one world's record was broken and another was tied.

Nine of the eleven heats in the harness division finished under 2:10, establishing a new world's mark. Gordon Cummlngs, ridden by Cum- inings, made a mile, running, In 1:41 tying the record. Tent City of 20,000. The camping spare at the east end of the grounds is overrun. Campers' headquarters estimate that there will be 20,000 living in tents by this evening.

A continual stream rolled In yesterday. 'In the thirteen years I have been connected with the slate fair I have never seen so many campers here," says George Whitney, assistant superintendent of grounds. Today is Old Soldiers' day. All soldiers and sailors of the civil and Mexican wars, their wives and widows of soldiers and sailors will be admitted free not only today but every day of the fU. This afternoon at 1:30 the veterans will hold a campfire in the assembly tent at the east end of Grand avenue near the poultry building.

Addresses will be given by Department Commander A. G. Beatty of Independence, Nate Kendall of Albia, and Past Department Commanders D. J. Palmer.

M. McDonald, R. T. St. John, Byron C.

IVard, and other comrades. I Stock Judging Feature. The feature of the stock Judg-tig today w-111 be the National Draft Horse Breeders futurity for yearling stallions and fillies of the Percheron, Belgaln, Clydesdale and Shire breeds. Saddle and harness horses will be Judged In the show ring near the street car ROWD FAIR GROUND TO THE WHOLE VILLAGE. All But Eight Precints in, Count Shows Safe Margin Favoring Buy.

VOTE. LIGHT THROUGHOUT Women Vote "Yes" by Greater Majority Than Men, Early Count Shows. One-tenth of the voting population of Des Moines decided yesterv day that the city will own the plant of the Des Moines Water company at a price hot to exceed $3,525,000. With reports from forty out of forty-eight precincts showing municipal ownership carrying by p9l votes. City Clerk Frank Jeffries announced before he left his office at the city hall last night that the proposition will carry by about 800 votes.

There were only 3,761 votes cast In the forty precincts, 2,913 by the men and 848 by the women. The total of the votes will be less than 4,600, about one-tenth of the population eligible to vote yesterday, Jeffries estimated. Women Vote Women did their share in voting for municipal ownership. Though early returns ataoweJ that nearly three and one-half times as many men as women voted the proposition carried with tb women by 370 votes and with ths men by only 821. Very few precincts reported an unfavorable return.

In former Mayor John MacVlcar's precinct, the third of the fifth ward, the vote was seventy-nine for and forty-nine against. MacVicar has been one of the strong opponents of the purchase. Effective In Six Weeks. "Within six weeks, and possibly before that time, the city will operating the water works," Corporation Counsel H. W.

Byers said Inst night when told that the election had carried. The city will take possession as soon as the necessary legal proce. dure is carried out, the abstract properly drawn up and examined, and the transfer made. Charles Denman, manager of the water plant, estimated the time required at sixty days. The event of Interest will be the picking of the board of six who will operate the plant through a general manager.

These men have not open chosen, though several have announced their, candidacy. Vote Canvass Todny. At 11 o'rtneV thin mnrninr i Mayor Tom Falrweather and City nrlc Jeffries will puMlcly can vass me voie. i ney win wien certify to the election. When the bonds are sold, the company gets its money and representatives of the city and trte company sign on "the dotted line" and the end of a fight for municipal ownership begun more than twenty years ago will have been ended.

before that' is done the bonds must be printed and 'Mayor Falrweather, City Clerk Jeffries and City Treasurer Emmett Powers must sign their names 3.625 times, if it requires $3,525,000 to make the purchase. A price of was set as of Jan. 1, 1919. to whirh $75,000 was added to pay for improvements that have been mede since tho first of the year and to give the city leeway. Alresdv at least two bond houses have had men here investigating prnsnects.

Within a reasonable length of time districts that have no water supply will have mains if the population warrants them, and the water rates will be reduced, if proDhec.e? of the supporters of the proposition are fulfilled. Capital of $143,000. The city has $143,000 as a work-, ing capital because of the foresight cision of questions arising between the managers of the railroads and the railway employes. The employes may rest assured that, during my term of office, whether 1 am In actual possession of the railroads or not, I shall not fail to exert the full influence of the exec-i utlve to see that Justice Is dona "I believe, therefore, that they may be justified in the confidence that hearty co-operallon with th government now in Its efforts to reduce the cost of living will or no means bo prejudicial to tbeitt own Interests, but will, on-the con-trarv, prepare the way for mor. favorable and satisfactory relations in the future.

confidentially count on their pn-InAmtlon in this time of national! 4eJ and. crisis." ISSUE Shop Workers, However, Arc Granted Increase of 4 Cents an Hour. ASKS TRUCE FROM LABOR Seeking Permanent Relation Between Cost of Living and Rising Wages. WASHINGTON, D. Aug.

25. Postponement of the settlement of wage demands until normal economic conditions are restored was announced today by President Wilson as the policy which the administration will pursue in dealing with such questions, particularly affecting railroad workers. The president announced also that it was neither wise nor feasible at this time, when the most important question before the 'country is a return to a normal price level, to attempt to Increase freight rates to provide funds for higher wages. "We ought to postpone questions of this sort until we have the opportunity for certain calculation a.i to the relation between wages and the cost of living." the president declared in a statement to the public explaining his decisions as to wages. "It is the duty of eve-y citizen insist upon trui-e such contests until intelligent settlements can be made, and made by peace and effective common counsel.

I appeal to my fellow citizens of every employment to cooperate in insisting upon aud maintaining such a truce." Unions Asked to Co-operate. Mr. Wilson's statement was Issued in connection with the of himself and Director General Hines on demands by railroad shopmen for a 25 per cent advance in wages, but the general policy pronounced covers also the wage demands of other hundreds of thousands of railroad workers, which are pending before the director general or about to be presented. It is to be expected that other unions trying to obtain more pay will be asked, as the shopmen, to play their part with other citizens in reducing the cost of living by foregoing a temporary advantage which would add to transportation costs. The decision of the president and the director general was announced to a comittee of 100, representing the shopmen.

In reply to their demands for a 25 per cent increase, the shopmen were asked to accept an adjustment of their pay to the basis of ten hours' pay for eight hours' work, which they contended was given other employes and. dented them when the Adamso law became effective. This means an advance of the baBic pay from 68 cents to 72 cents an hour, whereas an increase of 17 cents to 85 cents an, hour was demanded. Retroactive From May 1. In view of the delay of the railroad administration board of wages and working conditions in reporting on the demands of the shopmen, Director General Ilines recommended that the new rate of pay be made retroactive from May 1.

although the board report was made July 16, the date of report generally being taken as the retroactive date. Under the scale of wages, machinists, toolmakers. boilermakers, riveters, blacksmiths, sheet metal workers and electricians, all of whom now receive 68 cents an hour, will receive 72 cents. Helpers will receive 49 cents an hour instead of the present wage of 45 cents. Decision to Lnbor Vote.

Acting President Jewell of the railway employes department of tho American Federation of Labor, and his advisers said they would communicate the decision to the union locals for acceptance or re-jetton. A strike vote completed but not yet tabulated. was on the question whether the men should quit work to enforre consideration of their demands by the railroad administration Instead of by a congressional commission as first suggested. As this plan was abandoned, the vote, whatever the result, is noeffective and rONTlM Kf OX TAPE 1. created, and so as soon as possible relieve our people of the cruel burden of high prices.

The railways are at the center of this whole process. "The government has taken up with all its energy the task of bringing the profiteer to book, making the stocks of necessaries in the country available at lowered prices, stimulating production and facilitating distribution, and very favorable results are already beginning to appear. There is reason to entertain t'ie confident hope that substantial relief will result, and result In increasing measure. "A general Increase In the levels of wages would check and might defeat all this at its very beginning. Such increases would inevitably rnise, not lower the cost of living; Manufacturers and producers of A FIRE COMPANY MAY IU IT tOULl) DO A 1A)T U.S.

OFFICERS CLAIM DANDIT CHIEF SLAIN Flyer Held Prisoner "Kidded" Renteria Into Firing' at Plane. I Ry The Associated Press.) CAXDELARI Aug. 23. The ocjilh of Jesus Ronterta fa believed to.be confirmed in the report made to Onlonel Ijiingliorne tonight by ('apt. T.itonnn! Mutlmk.

Ch plain Mat-lick says he got the story from woman In whose hou.10 Ken-torln and his fellow bandit counted the ransom money oh-Itiined from the Americans. Renteria is said to have qiinr. relied with the bandits about (ho division of the money in the house of woman at San Antonio Vie jo, opposite here. The bandits are said to have drawn guns and rode off fighting. Lieut.

W. H. Cooper and Frank Estill are given rredit for the death of Renteria with machine gun bullets from an airplane. MARFA. Aug.

25 The American cavalry border patrol tonight rested in their home stations along the hfcrder between Presidio and Hester ranch, after six days spent in Mexico in pursuit of the bandits who kidnaped and held for ransom two American aviators. With the reported killing Jesus Renteria, leader of the bandits, and four other baudlts, capture of nine more by Mexicans and WVTI XJUvfS5. everv sort would have innumerable additional pretexts for increasing profits and all efforts to discover and defeat profiteering would be hopelesRly confused. "I believe that the present efforts to reduce the costs of living will be successful, if no new elements of difficulty are thrown in the way; and I confidently count upon the men engaged in the service of the railways to assist, not obstruct. It Is much more in their interest to do this than to insist upon wage Increases which will undo everything the government attempts.

They are good Americans, along with the rest of us. and may, I am sure, be counted on to see the point. "It goes without saying that If our efforts to bring -the cost of living down should fail, ifter we have hi time enough, to Establish TO Is a as RUSSIAN PATRIOTS APPEAL TO AMERICA FOR HELP See Nothing but Ruin if All the Allied Troops Are Withdrawn From Field. NEW YORK, Aug. 25.

Further assistance for the people of north Russia against the bolshevlki 'is asked in a cablegram sent to Presl dent Wilson by representatives of the people of that region, assembled at Archangel. In this messape the government and peoples of all the allied democ racies are auuressea. is set forth that the tormulaters of the message were elected "by the entire population of the region," and represented its democracy, and were meeting in conference of the zemstvos and municipalities. By this assemblage the news that the withdrawal of the British troops had been ordered was recevled with misgiving, the dispatrn continues, and grave consequences for the people of north Russia are predicted should all allied support be withdrawn. After drawing a dark picture of the bolshevik regime which is charged with having throttled the people's will, Introduced an autocratic reg'me of terror and bloodshed and sold out Russia to "German and neutral bankers," the message points out that Insurrections have occurred against the soviet government in different parts of central Russia where the bolshevlki still hold sway.

SERGEANT LANDS FIRST Do Haviland lMtine Lead in Inter national Air Derby. (Br The Associated Press.) MINE OLA, N. Aug. 25. Tim first of twelve planes which from Toronto this afternoon on a round trip flight to Mlneola, N.

in the in'eruatloual air derby landed here tonight, at 7:11 o'clock. The plane, a D-H 9, with 100 horsepower Liberty inn-tos, was piloted by Sergt. C. B. Coombs.

Two other machines ar-rlrjd a few moments later. THE WEATHER TODAY WASHINGTON, D. Aug. 25. Following is the official forecast of the United States weather bureau: Iowa Generally fair Tuesday and Wednesday; somewhat warmer Wednesday.

The execess of precipitation at Des Moines since Jan. 1 is 4.08 inches. The normal precipitation at. Des Moines Jan. 1 to date Is 23.29 inches.

Temperatures at Des Moines yesterday: a. no; 2 p. in 76 a 2 4 p. 10 a A P- ni 76 11 noon 70! 7 p. 75 Relative humidity, per cent: 72! 1 2 noon 45! 7 p.

..45 Sun rises at Des Moines today at 6:33 a. m. and sets at 7:58 p. summer time. quest that you ask the men to reconsider the whole matter in view of the following considerations, to which I ask their thoughtful attention as Americans, and which I hope that you will lay before them as I here state them.

"We are face to face with a situation which is more likely to affect the happiness and prosperity and even the life of our people than the war itself. We have now got to do nothing less than bring our industries and our labor of everv kind back to a normal basis after the greatest upheaval known in history, and the winter Just ahead of us may bring suffering infinitely greater than the war brought upon, us it we or fail in the process. MVE HURT IN WO COUISION One Not Expected to Recover and Several Others Are Badly Injured. Twelve persons were injured, one possibly fatally, when can driven by William Zimmerman of Cedar Rapids, and James I. Kelley of Perry collided on the Camp Dodge road about 200 yards from the Hyperion club shortly after 10 o'clock, yesterday morning.

The Injured. The Injured are: From Zlmmermuu cat Porter Dinger, Dallas Center, cut on head and face and body injuries Simon Burger, Dallas Center, body injuries. Mrs. o. W.

Burger, Dallas Center, shou'der and head bruised, Mrs. Zimmerman. Cedar Rap.ds, I.rufeed about the body. Myrtle Miller, Cedar Rapids, body bruised, probably injured Internally. William Zimmerman, fractured shoulder.

In the Kelley car: James I. Kelley, stockman, body bruises and leg fractured. Mrs. James I. Kelley, ruts on head, arms and face.

JosepVne Ke'ley. Perry. Mrs. M. Z.

Kelsey, Perry, face and body bruised. Paul Kelley, Perry. Leola Raynor, Perry. Josephine Kelley, daughter of James Kelley, was reported to be in a critical cond'tlon last night. She rosTi i ir ii x4t (By 'The Associated Press.) PARIS, Aug 25.

rTeu thousand American troops are held ii ranee io iv.vuu uermans taken prisoners by the Americans who cannot be returned to Germany until the peace, treaty has been ratified by three powers. It is estimated that it is costing the United States-roughly $1,000,000 monthly to care for these prisoners. England's German number A quarter or a million and more than 60,000 British soldiers are required to look after them. When General 'Pershing, the American commander In chief, sails for the United States on Sept. 1 it is estimated there still will be about 30,000 miscellaneous American troops In France, not including the 6,800 on the Rhine.

AIRMEN FIVE DAYS LOST BELIEVED TO BE LOCATED Four Liberty Planes Out in Search of Missing Border Aviators. IBr The Associated Press.) SAN DIEGO, Aug. 25. An airplane, believed to be the machine manned by L'euts. Frederick B.

and Cecil H. Connelly, the Rockwell field aviators lost since Wednesday, Aug. 20, was sighted the same day, maneuvering above the Seita Viellas, about fifteen miles southeast of Ensenada, Lower California. The report was submitted to the commanding officer at Rockwell field by Maj. R.

Ferrier, who obtained the information from E. A. Sawday, a merchant of Ensenada, A squadron of four airplanes equipped witn 400 horsepower Lib erty motors was dispatched to scou." the country Sawday, according to the story told Major lerrier, noticed that th" machine was maneuvering as if attempting to land, but it soon disappeared on the other side of the mountains. If the aviators landed In this region and escaped unhurt they would have difficulty In reaching Ensenada as there is no roadway. The airplanes are expected to return late this afternoon.

They have a radius of 450 miles and do not intend to land at any point south of Jacumba. RAID CHICAGO SALOONS Allege Sale of Beer and Whisky Since July 1. CHICAGO. Aug. 25 United States depu! marshals and agents of the department of Justice today raided dpwrttown saloons and cafes and arrested a score of owners and employes charged with violation of the wartime prohibition art by selling beer and whisky since July 1.

All of those arrested were released on bond. "An admirable. spirit of self-sacrifice, of patriotic devotion, and of community action guided and inspired us while the fighting was on. We shall need all these now, and need them in a heightened degree, if we are to accomplish the first tasks, of peace. They are more difficult than the tasks of war more complex, less easily understood and require more intelligence, patience and sobriety.

"We monillied our man power for the fighting: let us now niobi-liie our brain power and our con sciences for the reconstruction. If we fail. will mean national disaster. The primary first Btep is to increase production and facilitate transportation, so as to make up for- the dWuction wrought bv the war, the terrible scarcities IN Sf KEEP IT FROM KPREADINU STRIFE IN HIGH COUNCIL ANNOYS U. DELEGATES Americans Called Upon to Act As Arbiters, Greatly to Their Disadvantage.

PARIS, Aug. 25. The endless bickering in the supreme council having a serious effect. The revival of many questions in which the United States is not directly interested is making the American delegation extremely impatient. The Americans are constantly called upon to act as arbiters In Balkan and other questions with fhe result that sections of the European press, especially the French press, are assailing the American position on questions iu which the Americans acted wholly without self-constderation.

Herbert Hoover's denunciation of the council's hesitancy in straightening out the Hungarian tangle and protecting the rights of all the entente nations in the matter of Hungarian reparations is reflected in the attitude of the entire American delegation. While some members of the supreme council appear to take the same position, the feeling is growing in American circles that several representatives of the great powers are not inclined at the present time to bring Rumania to account on the armistice terms. The American delegates feel at great disadvantage in the present arrangements, for the representatives of the other powers beini? near home, are able to confer directly with their governments, thus making the council In general a clearing house for European disputes not directly related to peace. It Is the belief that after the signature of the Austrian treaty the conference will have a long vacation, thus forcing the various foreign offices to handle matters heretofore loaded upon the conference. either success or failure, it will, of course, be necessary to accept Ihe higher costs of living as a permanent basis of adjustment, ami railway wages should be readjusted along with the rest.

"All that I am now urging is, that we should not be guilty of the Inexcusable inconsistency of making general increases in wages on the assumption that the present cost of living will be permanent at the very time that we are trying wiii great confidence to reduce the fosi of living and are able to say that it actually is beginning to fall. "I um aware that railroad employes have a sense of insecurity to the future of the roads and have many misgivings as to whether their interests will be properly safeguarded when, the present form iRRING APPEAL TO RAILWAY EN ON WAGE PRESIDENT WILSON of federal control has come to an eiid. No doubt it is in part this sense of uncertainty that prompts them to insist that their wage interests be adjusted now rather than under conditions which they cannot, certainly foresee. "But I do not think that thel' uneasiness is well grounded. I anticipate that legislation dealing with the future of the railroads will in explicit terms afford adequate protection for the Interests of tha employes of the railroads; but, quite apart from that, It is clear that no leg'slation can make the railways other than what they are, a great public interest, and it is not likely that the president of the United States, whether in possession and control'of -the railroads or not, will lack opportunity or per-suasivo force to Influence the de WASHINGTON, D.

Aug. 25. President Wilson In his statement to the representatives of the railway shopmen, said: "Gentlemen I request that you lay this critical matter before the men in a new light. The vote they have taken was upon the question 'whether they should insist upon the wage Increase they were asking or consent to the submission of their claims to a new tribunal, to be constituted by new legislation. "That question no longer has yy life ln.lt.

Such legislation is fcot now ia contemplation. 1 re.