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CARRIER DELIVERY. SI A MONTH. SINGLE COPIES. 5 CENTS. 14 PAGES TODAY, ON MAKING MORE ROOMIN JUAREZ TO UP Gambling House Doubling Floor Space; Fencing In Its Property.

BIGGESTCROWDS EVER AT TABLES Irrigation Ditch Widened; More Land to be Farmed; Bridges Repaired. By G. A. MARTI V. i UAREZ is going to gamble on a bigger scale than ever.

Its half-million dollar gambling promoters, having succeeded in having the piker keno games closed, are now planning to greatly increase their capacity for the American visitors. At the old Tivoli gambling hall, extensive improvements are going on in the form of a big frame structure in the rear of the present adobe building. Tt will give double the present space for the patrons of the gambling games. Never in the history of Juarez have the crowds at the gambling games been so large. There is scarcely room at times for all those desiring to lose their money to get a chance to place it on the games.

It is necessary to elbow into the crowd and do some maneuvering to get tip to a table. While Americans leave in a continuous stream with empty pockets, others take their place immediately in a vain effort to lure the fickle goddess of the ones who went broke return to El Paso and boast how much they Avon. Did you ever nee anyone who returned from Juarex and admitted losing They eome back of whether they walked or rode home. The gambling casino also being enclosed inside a high wall, which is being erected along Calle Comercio and Avenida Lerdo. to keep prying eyes from the outside seeing what is going on inside, presumably.

The fence is now completed along Calle Comercio. where Gen. Juan Navarro had his little cannon belching shrapnel at the rebels in 1911. and swinging screens have been placed across the entrance at the Lerdo-Comercio corner entrance. Workmen are.

now putting up the wall along Lerdo. While the gamblers are fleecing the tourists, the farmers irt the vicinity of Juarez are planning to raise more crops next year. A much larger area than ever before in recent years will soon be in cutivation in the Rio Grande valley on the Mexican side. The street car company is putting in new bridges over the Acequia Madre in Juarez on Lerdo and Juarez avenues, making more room for water to flow beneath the bridges in conformity with the widening of the canal. The Mexican people have already done considern.ble work in the way of widening and cleaning this canal the city, in preparation for carrying more water in it this spring, to accommodate the increased cultivated acreage that is to be put in.

H- Many improvements are being made in Juarez lately. The cutting of a street through from Lerdo to avenue, in front of the bull ring, has relieved Calle Comercio of much of its traffic and is a notable improvement. With the big new concrete hotel going up on Calle Comercio next to the railroad track and another new, substantial structure on Lerdo avenue, near Comercio, the business district is taking on a growth that indicates substantiality. In keeping with the general progress that is marking improvements in Juarez, both the old cathedral and the market house have been repainted trimmed with a light the city hall and police patrol have also received new coats of paint. But the jail is still as dingy and as smelly and as full of begging American hopheads as ever.

if Work having been completed on flooring the Santa Fe street international bridge to Juarez and leveling up the structure, which had suffered from high water and settling during many years of usage, the street car company is now at work on the Stanton street bridge. The structure has sunk considerably at the El Paso end and at several points over the river bed. These defects are being remedied and a new floor will be laid. Observations Gathered Around The Town ETECTIVE JUAN FRANCO looks younger today than he did 20 years ago. Juan has lived in both the anti and the prohibition eras, so he attribute it to either.

rf Prohibition enforcement officers assert that the 18tli amendment was really intended to apply to El Paso also. Y- People who say "he love his know. The Galley Boy says: the water table rising and pumping accordingly cheaper, why does the price of milk stay Park Pitman introduced Charles Davis as next mayor of El the other night and when asked why he correct himself, said: qu only correct Willie Winch calls his car his fountain it won't run. The little boy had finished reading an excerpt from Robin Hood in his reader. there is a more one in he said, about Sandbag, the A.

M. MAYOR MUST QUIT U.S. TODAY, REPORT Grace Expires For Stowaway Irish Leader Rated As Seaman. Washington, D. Feb.

Ponal J. O'Callaghan, lord mayor of Cork, who came to this country as a stowaway without a passport, fail to leave today, a warrant for his arrest and deportation will be issued immediately, it was said at the department of labor. DOMINIONISTS REFUSE AID TO HOME RULE ACT Dublin, Ireland. Feb. big meeting held under the auspices of the Dominion league, but including representatives of every section of Irish moderates, placed itself on record, with only three dissenting votes, as refusing to lend support to the home rule act in Ireland.

Resolutions were adopted defining the home rule demand as full national self government and financial independence, conditioned by an agreement for safeguarding the strategic unity of the British isles and calling on the government to take the first step, by making an offer of such terms, accompanied by a pledge that when peace is restored amnesty for all political prisoners will be granted with reparation of the losses inflicted. Constable Wounded. Tralee, Ireland, Feb. Molahy was wounded at Abbeydorney, county Kerry, Wednesday night. Crown forces arrived early in the morning and ordered the villagers to leave their homes and then, according to the report, burned 11 houses.

A seargeant and a constable were wounded here Wednesday night by soldiers when they failed to halt on command. JAP SHIP HELD BY U. S. AFTER SUIT IS FILED Houston, Feb. Japanese steamship Fukuve Maru, from Marseilles, France, was seized by a deputy United States marshal in Galveston harbor Friday afternoon on a libel suit filed by D.

E. Simmons, of Houston, United States district attorney. Immigration officials charge that the ship brought 11 Japanese into port as stowaways. The Japanese have been taken into custody. DISCHARGE OF CHAMBERLAIN IS APPROVED BY PRESIDENT Washington, D.

Feb. Wilson has approved the dismissal of Capt. E. G. Chamberlain, Marine corps, of San Antonio, Texas, under a court martial sentence imposed in London, May, 1919, following the conviction of and in connection with his claims as to exploits as a volunteer aviator with a British aerial bombing group in France.

CONSUMERS URGED TO BUY IN WHOLESALE LOTS DIRECT FROM FARM ORGANIZATIONS LEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. plea for the organization of consumers with the object in view of purchasing in wholesale lots from farmers direct, wa3 made here today by Herbert F. Baker, of Michigan, in an address before the All-American cooperative congress. are no uptodate figures on the extent of direct trading between farm producers and city Mr. Baker said.

1914, according to a bulletin issued by the United States department of agriculture, there were 1706 cooperative creameries and cheese factories distributed among 39 states, but with two-thirds of the number located in the three states of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. There were 871 fruit producing associations representing 42 states. Since that time there has been a rapid increase, while many cooperative milling plants have been established, and potato, general vegetable and other cooperative exchanges have been organized. Supply by Carload. very large proportion of all of these farm cooperatives are ready now, or will be in a short time, to send products in carload lots or in larger quantities, directly to organizations in cities if these organizations have the machinery necessary for the financial end of the transaction, and for local distribution.

This is pre-eminently the task to which the labor organizations and cooperatives should devote themselves immediately. Such direct trading between farm producers and city consumers will put millions of dollars additional into the pockets and save an equal amount to the city The main point of cooperation between the producers and consumers is to get the consigner organized to bargain with the farmers, Rev. R. A. McGowan, assistant director of the National Catholic Welfare association, told the council.

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ARGUMENT ON FOREIGN LOAN DUE TO ERROR Treasury, Congress Mean Same Thing on Cloudy Question. ALLIES BORROW; SPEND IN AMERICA Delayed Negotiations On War Contracts One Of Many Tangl es. Bj- DAVID LAWREXCR ASHINGTON, D. Feb. and the treasury depart- Tnent have managed to misunderstand each other on the question of canceling foreign debts and making further loans to European governments.

The treasury never had the remotest idea of canceling the present war debt, but the necessity of advancing $75,000,000 more is really the puzzling factor in the situation. Both the treasury department and congress mean the same thing and probably have the same idea of what constitutes a to advance money, but the testimony thus far taken indicates that' all is not clear on the question of making further loans. Bookkeeping Errors. The tangle can all be set down as the result of bookkeeping and unadjusted contracts growing out of the war. Many people have the idea that the treasury department loaned money outright to the allies during the war.

Such was not the case. America promised to advance large sums of m6ney, but to pay out cash as it was actually needed. The understanding, moreover; was that the allies would purchase most of their goods in the United States. Thus the allies got many millions of dollars from the treasury which never went to Europe, but went directly to American manufacturers and their workmen. In transactions with the allies amounting to $10.000,000,000, something like $75.000,000.

a relatively small sum, hangs over as unpaid by the treasury. It is not a new indebtedness. Strictly speaking, if the bookkeepers of our department and the bookkeepers of European governments could havo balanced their books on the day after the armistice, the $75.000,000 would have then been paid and promise would have been kept. Tangles Arise. But' delayed negotiations over war contracts and a thousand and one other tangles which have arisen since the war about contracts have made it impossible to tell just how much money must be paid out.

It will not be in excess of Now, if senator Reed's bill should go through, and it may pass, unless congress and the treasury get closer together, the American government would be in a position of repudiating an obligation, or, as secretary Houston terms it, As internal finance goes, $75.000,000 is a small sum. but if America repudiated its obligation, the fear is that Europe might accept the American action as a precedent and consider that it could repudiate some other debts entered into in more or less the same way. Moreover, our officials point out that' America cannot afford to go back on her promise and that the $75,000,000 is part of a commitment made during the war. Cables Cause Outburst. The outburst in congress resulted, of course, from the news cabled from England that Great Britain had informally proposed a cancelation of war debts.

There is an anti-British element in the American senate which never fails to make an attack on' policy that appears to have a benefit for Great Britain concealed in it. Some of the senators believed the $75,000,000 was still owing to Great Britain, but that is not true. The treasury has not disclosed which government is involved, but it is stated officially that no more money has been paid or Is due Great Britain. And another misunderstanding has arisen, too, over the loans to Russia. Some newspaper accounts have given the erroneous impression that' since the fall of the Kerensky government, the United States paid out $200,000 of her own money to one of the representatives of the succeeding regime.

The fact is that when the Kerensky government fell, the liabilities of Russia were in the neighborhood of $100,000,000 while her assets were about $56,000,000. The United States government prevailed upon the bank which had the $56,000,000 not to pay out any of that money if the department of state or treasury interposed any objection. Russia Owed Americans. It came about that several American contractors were owed money by the Russian government. Had the treasury department insisted upon preventing any of the Russian money from being paid out, several American firms would have gone into bankruptcy.

Instead, the treasury expressed no objection when the bank which handled Russian funds paid upwards of $200,000 to certain American firms who had sold their goods to Russia prior to the fall of the Kerensky government. It was $200,000 of Russian assets that were paid out and not money out of the American treasury. There is much that is puzzling about' American indebetedness to Russia, but careful study of the way the treasury handled foreign loans shows that the advancing of credits was largely a case of protection for American firms that had shipped their goods to the European governments. It was natural, under the circumstances, however, that congress should be surprised that American obligations were not paid, as the details of. international finance are not easily grasped.

And on this point, Gen. Pershing told a story last night at the National Press club which well illustrates why congress bestirred itself over new loans: American said Gen. Pershing, on leave in Paris. He stood reverently before the tomb of Lafayette for several minutes. Then he said, we have paid our debt; who the hell else do we owe 1921, by David Lawrence.

DAY. As tomorrow is the second Saturday in this month, your carrier will call and collect 50 for thev first half of February. Please remember that these boys attend school, and it will be appreciated if Herald subscribers are prepared to settle with them. Six Young Girls Confess They Formed Band Of Shoplifters ansas city, Feb. 11 stylishly dressed girls, admitted members of a shoplifting band, were released by the police after half a dozen wear and department store firms 4 victimized refused to prosecute.

The girls, the police said, signed a sworn statement concerning their part in the operations and named two negro women employed in a downtown drug store as the persona to whom they sold the stolen goods. Complaints charging the negro women with receiving stolen property were issued. A police announcement said more than $1100 worth of goods taken by the girls, who ranged in years from 17 to 21, had been recovered. According to the statement, the band originated as the result of their attendance at a public dance hall. They worked in pairs, they caid.

HARDING SEES HOBBY RIDERS IN BIG DROVES President-Elect Unable To Get to Pressing Business For Job Seekers. AMBITIOUS GROW HOPELESS OF AID Besieged Official Slips Away For Golf Each Afternoon In Florida. Girls In Revolt Against Hair Style, Parade In Bare Ears ORTON, Feb. the hair at the ears will disappear at "Wheaton college if the campaign begun by the second year girls succeeds. Hair nets, this for the sake of economy.

At dawn the rest of the student body was awakened by the sound of beating drums and blaring wind instruments to find the sopoho- mores parading, all wearing their hair and with their ears bared, many pairs for the first time in months. Banners explained that the campaign was for reform in hair dressing and economy in the interests of the endowment fund. Later the freshmen endorsed the latter purpose by hurling from the roof of the dormitory building an effigy of the slacker who does not do her part. NEW RULING IS GIVEN ON INCOME TAX Collections From Profits Sale of Capital Assets Will Continue. on Washington, D.

Feb. of income taxes on profits realized from the sale of capital assets will continue, internal revenue commissioner Williams announced today, until the constitutionality of that provision of the law has been determined by the supreme court, notwithstanding the recent decision to the contrary by a Connecticut court in what was known as the case." In view of the severe penalties provided by law for false or fraudulent income tax returns, taxpayers are warned not to omit from their returns for the year 1920 such gains and REPORT COAL COSTS IN WEST TO CONGRESS Federal rade Commission Gives Last of Seven Statements on Production. Washington, D. Feb. figures on bituminous coal production in the 13 coal producing states of the Mississippi river were submitted to congress today in a report from the federal trade commission, the last of a series of seven reports covering cost figures in the various producing districts.

The fiugres, based on reports from 628 mines producing about 61,000,000 tons in 1918, show that for that year the average f. o. b. mine cost of production ranged by mining districts from to $4.45 per toh. The average sales margin realized without deduction for taxes, interest, selling costs and like charges, ranged from $1.36 to $4.66 per ton, the report showed.

For selected districts in the states of Iowa, Oklahoma and Montana tables were submitted showing that f. o. b. mine costs in 1918 ranged from 42 io 48 percent higher than in 1916, while the increase in the sales realization ranged from 46 to 69 percent. T.

AUGUSTINE, Feb. quadrennial tidal wave of office seekers and advice givers that always engulfs a president-elect on the eve of his inauguration, is rising steadily about Warren G. headquarters Screened away from Marion by the conferences of and then held at bay for three weeks while Mr. Harding was on vacation, the rush of the job- hungry and the hobby-riders promises now to assume the proportions of a deluge. With just three weeks remaining before the advent of the new administration more than one of the aspiring is becoming less and less confident of his prospects and is taking his case in his own hands with a certain touch of desperation.

Some Were Summoned. Of course, many of those who have to see him have been summoned for consultation on various serious problems, but the president-elect prides himself on being a good listener and he wants to be accessible to every one. So long was the waiting line that he made little progress with his correspondence or with any of his other accumulated business. On the other hand, if the conversations produced any definite development toward solution of the big problems ahead, there was nothing to indicate it. Mr.

arding slips away during the afternoons for a grame of golf. A workout on the links is expected to be a part of his daily routine. Cabinet Senator Phipps, of Colorado, brought to Mr. attention his friend, C. C.

Dorsey, a Colorado lawyer, whose qualification he set forth for the post of secretary of the interior. Mr. Dorsey accompanied the senator. Another who saw Mr. Harding was W.

Davies Warfield, head of the Association of Railway Securities Owners. He is understood to have presented his idea of the attitude of the government toward the railway problem. Harding said he did not expect to celebrate his accession to the presidency by any of the usual social forms. He has made no plans to have Mr. Wilson to return to the white house for luncheon.

The inaugural plans have not been worked out in detail, but he declared they were certain to be much more simple than for many years. PROPOSED LAW WOULD GIVE MAN Wisconsin Legislature Seeks to Insure Share In Estate. Madison, Feb. equal rights bill with a reverse twist, designed to mjen, was introduced in the Wisconsin legislature today by assemblyman Thomas A. Sullivan, of Reedsville.

Mr. Sullivan proposes to amend the law to give husbands the same dower right in their estates as now are shared by widows in their property. He also provides that a married man or woman who has and without just lived from his or her mate for one year or more, loses all dower rights. Husbands, under the Sullivan bill, would be entitled to a one-third dower in the property of their wives. have passed laws to protect the parks and the game and the fish, but forgot to protect Mr.

Sullivan says. ESEE BANKRUPTCY IN BIG NAVY, ARMY Newspapers Show Signs of Continuing Battle Against Present Plans. MINISTRY STATES 150 BILLION MARK LIMIT IS UTMOST I This Sum Must Include All So Far Paid In Cash and Goods; To Be Paid Off In Thirty Years; Proposition Will Be Submitted To Paris Authorities To Learn Whether Coming London Conference Will Permit Its Consideration. HEARST SUES TO HALT U. S.

ALLIED LOANS GERMANS REM' U. S. CBWS. Berlin, Germany, Feb. 11.

Coys donated to Germany by American farmers will be rented out at the rate of one mark a year for each cow so that they will remain American property and not be delivered to the allies under the peace treaty, German agents of the American dairy cattle company have announced, after a conference with the German Red Cross. GEORGIA TORNADO DEATH TOLL PLACED AT 30; BIG WINDS MOVE CARS, PICK CHICKENS; KILL MANY CONEE, Feb. death toll in tornado that swept through the Gardner settlement near here remained today at about 30. Many of the dead had been sent to nearby points and scores of the injured were in hospitals at Tennille and There was no way of obtaining accurate information as to the exact number. The list of fatalities stood at two whites and more than a score of groes, but a number of the injured, chiefly negroes, were expected to die.

Territory extending almost to Toomsboro, nearly five miles long and about a half mile wide, is barren, not a building or tree standing. Man Decapitated. Among the dead is Benjamin Orr, 14, who was decapitated. The other white person who itaet death was the it-year-old daughter of E. L.

Meinor, manager of Shepperd's eoinmi.ssnry at the plant of the Cleveland-Oeontee Lumber company. Eighty-two children and three teachers were in a school building near the Gardner settlement when the tornado struck. The building was twisted to pieces and the fragments scattered for miles. Children were picked up by the wind and carried for some distance, but it was announced only one was seriously injured. Approximately 40 houses were blown down in the settlement.

The Shepperd commissary at the big lumber plant was reduced to kindling wood. Orr and four negroes met death there. Twenty yards away the general office of the lumber company was untouched. The 15-acre plant of the company was not seriously damaged, although millions of feet of lumber were scattered. From Dinner to Death.

Negro and stores faced the tracks of the Savannah ilivi- xlon of the Central of Georgia railroad. In the rear of the houses was a field. it was into this field that men, women and children were carried to their dcnth from their dinner tables. Ten minutes after the tornado had wiped out the Gardner settlement a Central of Georgia local freight train arrived. The conductor immediately ordered the locomotive detached, and with the crew hastened to Tennille.

11 miles away, for aid. Coaches were commandeered and a relief train sent back. Doctors found one negro boy with a board driven into his forehead. They removed the board and gave temporary aid. It is believed the youth will ive.

The body of a 3-year- old negro infant was found at the Heroic Teachers Save Children As Roof Starts To Fall A UGUSTA, Feb. devotion of three women school teachers is reported here today to have saved the lives of school children during the tornado which partially wrecked the Gardner settlement near Oconee, yesterday. One end of school building crumpled under the drive of the wind and the roof sagged down over the heads of 75 pupils. The teachers held it up unaided while their charges escaped through the gap, then leaped to safety themselves. Tokio, Japan, Feb.

(By Associated of Yukio Ozaki's resolution proposing curtailment of naval armaments in the house of representatlves here today does not end the campaign against military and naval expansion and in favor of more constructive work at home, according to newspaper comments on the situation. The Asabi Shimbun of Osaka, declares that M. suggestion was while the Yomi-Urin bun of this city asserts an agreement between the powers to limit armaments is obligatory to save Japan from Will Protect Sentry. Formation of an association to support the cause of Toshigoro Ogaza- wara, the Japanese sentry who shot and killed Lieut. Langdon, of the United States cruiser Albany, at Vladivostok in December, has been decided upon by a group of army reservists here.

It is urged that a petition be sent to the court martial which tried Ogazawara, asking for his release and declaring that his punishment would destroy military discipline. Alleged Murderer Is Hanged; Shames State In Innocent Protest Chicago, 111., Feb. Brislane was hanged In the county jail here today at 9:10 a. m. for the murder of William Mills, manager of a motion picture theater.

Mills was killed in a hold up of J.he box office of the theater. On the scaffold Brislane protested his innocence and denounced horrible form of murder by the state should take shame upon he said. roots of a tree, the top of which had been twisted off. The child's head had been crushed in, having been carried head foremost against the tree. One body was cut in two.

Hung in Trees. A negro man and his wife were found more than 100 yards from their home, lying side by side in the road, both dead. The bodies of several small negroes were found in out of the path of the tornado, suspended by their clothing. The bodies of grown negroes were thrown into the field in a semi-circle and in the center was a goat, too frightened to move for hours. Six, oak trees along the railroad were Snapped off at different heights.

On top of one stump, 20 feet from the ground, was a pillow. According to residents, the clouds lowered just as the employes of the lumber plant left their work for dinner. The atmosphere became extremely hot and because of the darkness many lamps had been lighted when the tornado broke. Wind Picks One person on the onter edge of the storm path who escaped injury declared he saw box ears moving toward him, then as suddenly, he said, the box ears were reversed and when he looked again, they were again coming toward him. The ears found to have been blown from the Chickens that escaped rieuth were in many Instances plucked of their There were many killed.

The tornado developed during a period of heavy rains. All rivers are at flood stage. STANDARD OIL BUYS INTEREST IN RIVAL CO. New York, Feb. of one half interest in the Sinclair Pipe Line company, heretofore owned by the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation, to the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, is announced.

H. F. Sinclair, president of the corporation, said the sale does not involve the granting to the Standarl company of Indiana of any interest or representation in the corporation. The Sinclair company owns and operates about 2800 miles of pipe lines. Headliners In Todays Theaters lil.ior— Varied program.

CRAW FOB "Bringing Up musical comedv. Jack the Knife Florence Vidor. Gladys Walton. Romantic Dorothy Dalton. Mme.

Ernestine Schumann-Helnk in concert. UMQ.UE— Bruce Gordon and May McAvoy. Comedy bill. (Read amusement ads on page 11.) DLRLIN, Germany, Feb. the Associated ministry of finance has reached the conclusion that the utmost sum Germany can pay in reparations is 150,000,000,000 marks, this including all she has so far paid in cash and goods, according to information which the Deutsche Zeitung says it has received from a source.

This 1 iiO.000,000,000 marks would be paid off in 30 years under the plan outlined by the inform-' who also is quoted as declaring? that the proposal to pay it would be submitted to the authorities at Paris for the purpose of learning whether the coming London conference on reparations will permit of its consideration along with the allied pro. I posals adopted at the recent Secretary of Treasury Is De- conference. i Refusal Alternative Given. fendant; Would Prevent to the German counter proposal would Afivanrp'? result in Germany absenting herself V.ICU 11 from the London conference, set for 1, the newspaper declares it Washington, D. i eb.

has learned. It adds that Germany for an injunction restraining ijecre- then would suggest that the United tary Houston, of the treasury depart- called in arbitrator for the purpose of preventing the en- ment, from making further iOans to tente from adopting measures such foreign governments was filed in the as an invasion of the Ruhr district, district supreme court today by coun- i which it declares would be looked sel for William Randolph Hearst. upon by Germany as an act of war Justice Hitz issued a rule on secre- which would positively destroy the tary Houston to appear and show treaty of Versailles, cause on February 21 why an injunc- In the Deutsche Zeitung article, tlon should not be granted. suggestion was made that, while the Besides praying for an Injunction entente was extremely desirous of to prevent establishment of any fur- bringing about the London conference, ther credits to foreign governments, it was not unlikely that the deliber- Mr. Hearst also seeks to enjoin the atlons would be postponed to a date secretary from making any further around the middle of March In order advances of credits already established I to give the new Washington govern- for France, Italy, Greece, Czecho-Slo- ment an opportunity to participate in vakia and other countries.

them. SOVIET RUSSIA AND POLAND REACH PEACE TERMS; REPORT SAYS DELEGATES HAVE AGREED J.JELSINGFORS, Finland, Feb. treaty of peace between soviet Russia and Poland was signed at Riga yesterday, it is announced in a wireless dispatch received from Moscow. While official confirmation of the i report is lacking, there is no doubt but that peace commissioners of both factions have been negotiating for several days with the view of signing a definite peace treaty. The intial of peace between the Bol: sheviki and Poland started following the disastrous defeat of the soviet army several months ago on the eastern front.

Since that time the soviet leaders have been at work preparing a new army for the invasion of Poland, but it was felt in diplomatic circles that a treaty would be arranged before a serious engagement occurred. The Polish army is at present occupying advantageous positions on the eastern frontier. I PHOTI It has been lately augmented by Poland's appeal for league troops at French troops and has been in a position to withstand a heavy onslaught. SOVIET RUSSIA IN THREAT ON LEAGUE ARMY London. Feb.

Russian soviet government has notified Lithuania that it will be considered a definite act of hostility by Lithuania if a league of nations army is allowed to occupy the Vilna district pending the plebiscite, according to a report. The soviet warning Is a result of Vilna, on the plea that the forces of Gen. Zellgouski. insurgent leader, have been disbanded on the request of the league of nations and that the RATTLE TRIALS Williamson, W. Feb.

three Lithuanian armies now on the! more than two weeks of preliminaries, borders will occupy the district and the ilatewan battle trials got under render an impartial plebiscite impos- way here this afternoon, when the sible. I first witness was told to prepare to Dispatches from Riga express the take the stand. Only 19 defendants fear that the soviet authorities are were present, at two, N. H. Atwood employing the Vilna situation as an and B.

R. Page, were dismissed bv the excuse for action against Lithuania state because witnesses against them and the Baltic states. could not be found. GREECE FACES CRISIS; FOOD SCARCE, HIGH Athens, Greece, Feb. the Associated conditions in Greece are becoming serious.

The exportation of tobacco and other products is at a standstill, the army in Smyrna is costing 3,000,000 drachmas per day and treasury receipts are daily. The new Greek premier has informed Edward Capps, American minister to Greece, that the financial situation is and has declared that only action by the United States in advancing some $33.000,000 on credits created in 1918 can bring relief. Food prices are mounting in proportion to the decline of the exchange rate on the drachma, which at present' stands at 15 to the dollar. It is almost impossible to obtain meat, and belief is expressed that it soon will be necessary for the government to issue bread tickets. In addition, labor troubles appear threatening.

The strike of electricians. which was called this week, may become general unless the demands for wage increases are granted. Naval engineers have occupied the electric power station as a result of the electricians' strike, but the current was suddenly cut off at 7 oclock last evening. The city was plunged into darkness and parliament was forced to adjourn its sitting. A meeting of the labor party was dispersed by troops.

ITALIAN ENVOY TO U. S. ARRIVES TO TAKE OFFICE New York, Feb. 11. Senator Roland Ricci, recently appointed ambassador from Italy to the United States, arrived today from Genoa.

Accompanied by his son, a captain in the Italian army, the Guido Sebetta former consul general of Italy at Chicago who is to be counsellor for the embassy. He was met at quarantine by Victorio Faresi, secretary of the embassy, and consul general Bernard of New York. During the war he served his country on the commission of finance, foreign relations and army reorganization. He was vice president of the international chamber of commerce at Paris and went to Brussels as Italian representative to the international financial conference. SHEPPARD AIDS INDIANS.

Washington, D. Feb. Morris amendment to the Indian bill appropriating $5000 for the Alabama Cushatta Indians in Polk county, Texas, was accepted by the senate. HO HERALD MEX IX. Herald employes w-ish it stated again that they have no connection with any newspapermen's ball being given in El Paso.

Many Bargains Offered For Saturday Marketing I WILL pay every El Paso housewife to read carefully the advertisements on page 9 of Herald. Local grocers and meat markets are there offering some notable values in good things to eat, and also making some attractive suggestions for the Sunday dinner menu. Annual Review Edition Is Out Tomorrow; Send It To Friends big Week-End Herald will be worth sending away. It embraces The Annual Review sections detailing the progress of the city for 1920 and is not only replete with facts regarding the growth of the city during the year, but is well illustrated, as usual. This big edition, besides the regular news section, will consist of 16 pages devoted to the growth and the outlook in El Paso; ten pages devoted to the automobile industry, road work and paving in El Paso and the southwest, and the usual eight-page comic and magazine section.

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