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THE MODESTO MORNING HERALD WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, lift PAGE THREE- 'MILITARY DEFEAT IS CAUSE OF GERMANY BUILDING TRADES ON iSTATE BUILDING IN RECORD AGAINST ALL SAN FRANCISCO IS GIVING UP FIGHT ELEMENTS OF HATRED I PLANNED BY BILL THREE CENTS QUART IS POSSIBLE SAYING IF MIDDLEMAN QUITS SLAIN BY EXPLOSION WOODLAND DAIRYMAN TESTIFIES BEFORE LEGISLATIVE COMMIT-TEE THAT MILK COULD BE SOLD AT TEN CENTS SECRETARY BAKER IN SPEECH IN BAY CITY DECLARES HUNS DID NOT SURRENDER BECAUSE OF, MORAL EFFECT i SACRAMENTO, March IS The legislature brought its first labor controversy to a final vote today when the assembly passed Whites bill to amend-the eight-hour law to permit women laundry employes to work nine hours a day in weeks where holidays occur. The lower house is expected to Vacuum Packed) THESE THREE FIVE POUND CANS M.d. B. COFFEE 20 THE WORLDS BEST IN ORIGINAL PACKING CASE WE GUARANTEE EVERY CAN SAN FRANCISCO, March 18. Had they armistice not been signed on November 11, the German armies would have been surrounded and captured, was an outstanding statement in an address by Secretary of War Newton 11.

Baker at a luncheon tendered him by the Commercial Club here today, following his arrival here with General Peyton C. March, chief of stalf, to inspect army posts. The secretary told his hearers that the war ended with a military defeat for Germany. "Germany did not sur-tender because of industrial or political chaoes at home but because she was militarily beaten and she was beaten by an army of young Americans who a year before had been behind the counters and following ploughs practically none of whom had ever heard a shot fired in anger. A CASE Groceries for! the Yourself- Cost of Service SACRAMENTO, March 18.

The price ol milk to the consumer in Sacramento could be reduced from thirteen to 10 cents a quart if the distributor were eliminated and the product went direct to the home from the dairy, Sylvester Lawson, Woodland dairyman, testified today at the legislative food inquiry into the present high cost of milk, bread and eggs. Lawson said he thought a proportionate reduction could be made in other parts of the state on the same basis. He said he was getting a gross return of 30.1 cents a gallon on milk which be sold through the Northern California Milk Producers Association, and that his net return, was between 34 and 25 cents. "I am satisfied with thp profit I am getting," Lawson said. I believe if the extra expense of the middleman were eliminated and the dairyman delivered direct to the consumer, the price could be reduced to 10 cents a quart.

C. D. Pickford, manager of the Milk Producers Association in San Francisco, said for the producer to undertake the distribution of milk would require a very big capital. There is $5,000,000 invested in the delivery business in San Francisco, Pickford said. Pickford submitted figures showing the overhead and operating expenses of the producers association in San Francisco amounted to fifty-seven hundredths of a cent a gallon.

F. H. Harvey, dairyman of Galt, testified that he was only making three per cent on an investment of $100,000. The committee decided that no hearing would be held tomorrow but that instead it would confer and determine a plan of further procedure. Arrangements probably will be made to sun-poena a number of witnesses from southern California to testify, Chairman Slater said.

CALIFORNIA ASUALTIES dispose of the measure finally tomorrow on Assemblyman Hurleys motion to reconsider. Farther labor discussion may be precipitated over Mrs. Dorris bill providing for a 10-hour day for women in domestic service which is now ready for a vote, as is Flaherty's anti-injunction bill in the senate. The White bill, as finally passed by the house, limited laundry employes to 45 hours in weeks where holidays occur, and provided for time and half pay for the additional hours worked to offset the holiday. Consideration of the Breed primary bill, passed last week by the senate, and proposed amendmens, is expected tomorrow if the assembly succeeds in getting to pending senate bills.

Wriglt today warned members that because of increasing congestion of files bills twice passed by when on final reading would be sent to file foot of the file. The assembly passed fifteen bills today and the senate six. Among the assembly bills was Doran's bill to make the display of a red flag or any other symbol of anarchy a felony, punishable by imprisonment from six months to five years. The Broughton-Thompson bills to 1-lace the wife on an equal basis with the husband as to community property are to be considered by Hie assembly and senate judiciary committees tonight. The measures have the support of the -womens legislative council.

A public hearing was arranged tonight on Mrs. Hughes bill providing for part time education for minors in industry. Daniel C. Murphy, president of the state federation of labor; Fred M. Hunter, Oakland superintendent of schools, and Stanley B.

Wilson of the state board of education were ot appear in behalf of the bill. Senator Canepa asked permission to introduce a bill todav to appropriate $35,000 in addition to the $1,000,000 bond issue already pro-ided, for the construction of a state budding in San Francisco. (Contnued from Page One) lTwwpt the servants. According to the police a letter demanding $5,000 and threatening to destroy his home with dynamite unless the amount was paid was sent to Qreenwood in January, 1918. This letter, the police said, was signed C.

0. of the initials, they pointed out, were similar to those affixed to threatening letters sent to Governor William 15. Stephens before executive residence in Sacramento was dynamited last year. The body of Mrs. Greenwood apparently had been hurled ten feet by the explosion of the bomb.

A brick wall In the garden was marked by a deep Indentation and was badly damaged. This caused the police to jieve that it was on or near the wall that the bomb exploded. The theory most favored by the police is that the bomb had been planted, was discovered and picked up by Mrs. Greenwood and exploded in her hands. Servants, in neighboring houses, heard the blast and saw the debris and smoke arising.

Buildings in the neighborhood were jarred severely. Myron T. Harris, deputy district attorney, aftei visiting the scene ot the tragedy, said: We believe we have definite information as to the persons responsible for this outrage. All windows on two sides of tile Greenwood house were shattered. had been sick, Greenwood said.

1 was upstairs in my dressing room when the explosion took place. I ran downstairs and, lying there beside the walk, 1 found the body of my can't imagine why this was done. I haven't an enemy in the world that 1 know. Mrs. Greenwood has none.

I don't know whv they did this." A cook in a residence near the Greenwood home, told the police: 'I looked out the kitchen window and saw a great eloml of black smoke. The smoke was so heavy I could see nothing else; even the house was hidden. As it cleared 1 saw Mrs. Greenwood lying beside the gravel walk." CHILE DECLARES FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS VALPARAISO, Chile, 18. The Chilean foreign minister, in a statement today, declared the adhesion of Chile to the league of nations as an entity.

International co- operation would assure world peace and compel respect for existing treaties as outlined by President Wilsons preamble. Armando Quezada, president of the cabinet, declared that all the ministers approved the foreign minister's i views on the league. Most of Hie ministers referred to President Wilson as a world peace maker" and "benefactor of humanity. i (By Associated Press.) FRESNO, M.urh 18. Denunciation of bolshevism and I.

W. Wism as a menace to organized labor was the keynote of the proceedings at ihe second days session of the 19th- annual convention of the California State Building Trades Council, now in session here. The discussion was led by the report of Olaf A. Tveit-moe, secretary-treasurer of the state building trades council, at the morning session today, and was continued at the afternoon session E. P.

Marsh of the United States department of labor, from Seattle, and 'J hornas Barker, also of the United States department of labor, from Los Angeles, and representatives of the state and local councils spake strongly against the threat to propel ly organized labor principles held by the I. W. W. movement. Declaring that there was great cause for restlessness in the world, Secretary Tveitmor said that this restlessness was likely to stay for some time to come, and how long It would last would depend largely upon the reaction of the employing classes.

If that is light, he said, the uprisings will be correspondingly diminished, and if heavy, it may amount to small sized revolutions. There may be a small faction of Americans who are tained with bolshevism, Tveitmoe declared, but -the overwhelming majority of the. working people detest the least thought of it, and because of its destructive elements, which would only bring ruin not only to labor but to society. The surest cure for this disease, lie said, was for loyal trades unionists to carry out the principles to which they were jiledged. He spoke favorably of the work -of the state building trades council In the pasi year.

All the -advances in wages and conditions, hp said, had been attained through negotiation and without strikes. R. P. Marsh traced the causes of the recent disturbances in the northwest, and while he denounced the attitude of the misguided men, he also claimed that a responsibility also fell upon the employers, especially in the lumber camps, for not modifying the conditions of labor and granting recognition of organized labor in time to avert the disaster which followed. Thomas Barker of Los Angeles, also of the department of labor, indorsed the remarks of Marsh, and emphatically declared that the only way to better working conditions was to deal fairly with the employers, and not to worship false gods either of bolshevism, I.

W. Wism or any other ism. Other speakers, including most of the officers of the organization, spoke along the same lines of denunciation of the I. W. W.

movement, and warned the council to take care that only those who were loyal to the principles of conservative trades unionism should be tolerated in (heir ranks. President P. H. McCarthy summarized the discussion and. declared that trades unionism bad no sympathy with, and would not tolerate the unfair methods, and the anarchistic ideas of bolshevism and I.

W. Wism, that was now threatening the country. Automobile and Truck Springs We have greatly improved our. shop equipment lately and in addition have just received several tons of fine Alloy spring steel of every size for automobile and heavy truck springs. We also have in stock the following springs made up for Overlands, Buicks, Fords, Dodges, Elgins, Grants, Hupmobiles, Oldsmobiles, Reos, Studebakers, Kissels, Chevrolets, Haynes, Willys-Knights, Saxons, Hudsons, Mitchells, Chalmers, Chandlers, Libertys, Cadillacs and others too numerous to mention.

We give with every Spring a written guarantee tor one year against Breakage or sagging. Our offer to the people of Stanislaus county is the quickest service to be had. Remember! our springs are made of an ALLOY steel and made in Modesto. King Spring Works Phone 752-J L- St. between 9th and 10th WASHINGTON, Maid) IS.1 The following casualties are reported by the commanding officer of the American expeditionary foiccs: DIED OF ACCIDENT AND OTHER CAUSES.

Walter W. Holt, Los Angeles. Otto F. Schmidt, Chino. DIED OF DISEASE.

Walter G. Dyckman, Fullerton. WOUNDED, DEGREE UNDETERMINED. Walker Appercon, Woodland. WOUNDED, SLIGHTLY.

Harvey Abrahamson, Kingsburg. Joe M. Alegria, Gaviota. Harry Alger. Los Angeles.

Horace C. Allen, Berkeley. Andrew Fitzgerald, San Francisco. DIED, PREVIOUSLY REPORTED KILLED IN ACTION. Henry C.

Duncan, Clayton. WILL SELL SUPPLIES TO ALLIED NATIONS PARIS, March 18. Pocks, railroads, warehouses, hospitals and barracks built by the American expeditionary forces, valued at $165,000,000, will lie sold to Franco for the lust figures the American liouidalion commission can obtain. None ot these can readily or piotitably be removed. The liquidation commission 'is negotiating for disposal of various surplus properties belonging to the expeditionary forces.

Hundreds of thou-sans of uniforms have been dye.l, so that they may now serve other armies, such as Holguin, Polish and some 1'alkan. The present plan is to dispose of those surplus supplies among governments which need them. WAR TIME INSURANCE CONVERSION GRANTED CLEVELAND TRACTION COMPANY NOT TAKE BACK WOMEN CL KV KLA March 1 8. The Cleveland Railway Company will abide by its agreement with the city and carmen's union not to employ women conductors after March 1, notwithstanding a war labor board order directing reinstatement of 64 conduc-torettes, John J. Stanley, president of the company, announced late today.

Under the a remen a three-day street car strike was settled, and Mr. Stanley said ho could not reinstate the women and be a partv to another strike. The conductorettes will meet tomorrow night to discuss action, if not taken back. Give your motor a chance to perform its best and this means the right Mexico Sending Troops To Rescue Bishop Bentley JUAREZ, March 18. Mexican federal troops have been ordered to proceed to western Chihuahua by forced marches to rescue Bishop Joseph C.

Bentley, president of the Juarez Mormon stake, James E. Whet-ten, chief missionary of the state, and Albert Tietjen. another member of the Mormon colony in Mexico. They were captured by Villa trops near Las Croces, and are being held in Villas main camp, according to unconfirmed reports received here by Mormon church officials. Colonel Augustin Mora announced lale today that General Zuazua with 500 cavalry had been ordered to proceed from Nuevas Casas Grandos into western Chihuahua in an effort to rescue the three Mormons.

At the same time Colonel Del Arco, with an infantry command, he said, will proceed from Guzman toward Ascension, Ojitos and Janos with orders to drive off the Villa command under Martin Lopez and Ramon Vega and rescue Bunk" Spencer, the negro foreman of the Ojitos ranch, and the ten cowboys who are being held by Lopez for payment of $5,000 which was sent to Oji-tos Saturday by Superintendent Moorehead of the Warren Cattle Company. Colonel Mora stated that Spencer and the Warren companys cowboys were being held in northwestern Chihuahua while military information showed Bishop Bentley, Missionary Whetten and Albert Tietjen were being held in Villas headquarters camp near Rubio, 70 miles west of. Chihuahua City. No ransom has been demanded for the release of the Mor mons, according to Bishop A. 1.

Pierce, in charge of t-he church al'Iairs here. Inquest Into Melcher Death' Results in Verdict Accident BOS ANGET.ES, March IS. The county coroner todav signed certificate assigning the death of Walter Melcher, automobile driver fatally injured hist Saturday in the Santa Monica road race, to an accident. He said relatives of Melcher had waived their right to insist upon an inquest. The body will be sent to San Francisco, Melchers home, for interment.

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All of them declared their approval of the plan. The members of the party were guests at a banquet here tonight. They plan to leave for Los Angeles tomorrow morning. Corporation Blanks Will Begin to Circulate Today SAX FRANCISCO, March 18. Justus S.

Warded, collector of internal revenue for the district northern California and tomorrow will begin sending out income tax rind excess profits forms just received from Washington to the 15,000 corporations in the district to replace' the tentative forms issued before March 15. The new forms are returnable not later than 45 days a'ter March 15. Sixty deputies will be distributed among the principal cities and towns in the district to act as collectors and advisers in aiding the corpora- tions to make their returns. SAN PEDRO FISHERMEN STILL STAY TO BOATS PAN PEDRO. March 18 Fishermen who tried up their boats operating from this port yesterday because of dissatisfaction with the prices fixed by the state fish exchange for their catch, continued to hold their boats idle tonight.

They said there was no prospect of their returning to work unless they were, nlllowcd better prices. WASHINGTON, March IS. Secre tary Glass today approved regulations governing conversion of soldiers and sailors war time insurance to standard forms of government life insui-ance. The policies will be ready lor issuance soon and the woik of issuing and maintaining the policies is expected to make the war risk bureau I he largest life insurance agency in the world. A treasury announcement explained that the forms of policies which may be obtained at option in exchange tor term insurance of war time arc: Ordinary life, twenty payment lite, thirty payment life, twenty year on-j dowment, thirty year endowment, and endowment payable at the age of 62.

The premium rates for these converted policies are lower than those charged by private insurance compan- i ies, said the announcement. In previous iinnounremenls it was said the rales would be thirty per cent lower. The policies contain exceedingly libei.il privileges, continued the announcement. providing for cash and loan values, paid up and extended insurance and lnrther ptosiding that lie insured will be paid for life monthly income in the e-. ent that he becomes totally and permanently disabled.

All of these policies are incontestable from the dale of issue and are free from rest riel ions as to residence, travel or occupation. The holders of the policies will he eligible to share in and receive dividends from gains and savings, and the proceeds of the policies are exempt from all taxation. Premiums on the new forms of government life insurance are payable monthly, but may bo paid annually, semi-annually or quarterly. Tim monthly premiums, due the first ol each month, may be paid tit any time during the month," Secretary Glass expressed the opinion that the unusual values and liberal provisions" of the new forms should ncourage all holders of wartime term insurance to convert as THIS is the lubricant that resists heat also a full line of greases of this brand. GOODYEAR TIRES STR0MBERG CARBURETORS Y0SEMITE Garage Ninth and Needham Streets E.

J. 0 Y. Memory Grover Cleveland Honored By Organization NEW YORK, March IS. Army and navy officers of h.rr'.i rank and men distinguished in civi: life joined here today in paving tribute to the memory of Grover Cleveland on the 82nd anniversary of his birth. Following memorial services in St.

Pauls Chapel on Lower Broadway, public exercises were held in theater under the auspiees of the Grover Cleveland asoeiation, of which George F. Parker, who was private secretary to President Cleveland, is head. rapidly as their iinancial circumstances will permit and in any event1 1 to continue without fail the largest po-sible proportion of their present) insurance. An opinion by Attorney General Palmer that insurance may be paid to the estates of deceased persons today removed the last obstacle to issu ttne-e of thp new policies. Just to see our display of Home TT 1 rurnishinps dives youtheTeelin of ComfortCoziness Johnston-Wherry Furniture Co.

Artistic Furniture Need Not Be Expensive House Committee Visiting and Looking at Los Angeles LOS ANGELES. March IS. The house committee on naval affairs will arrive hi re tomorrow shortly after noon from San Diego and will pass the remainder of the day sightseeing in the eiv and environs. The com mittoe will visit San IVdio and Long Beach harbors, near here, Thursday, and probably will make trip to Santa, Catalina Island or some other nearby pleasure resort Friday, leaving that night for San Francisco. How Long Must I Suffer From the Pangs of Rheumatism? 1 1.

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S. has been successfully used, for Rheumatism for more than fifty' years. Try it to-day, and you will find yourself at last on the right track to get rid of your Rheuma-, tism. You can get valuable advice" about the treatment of your indi-' idual ea-e by writing to the ChieE Medical Advi.er, Swift Specific Co-Dept. Atlanta, Ga.

NOTICE TO THE PUBUC My wife, Mary M. Silva, having left my home, and an action for divorce being in the courts, I will not be responsible for her debts made In my name from this date. ANTONIA M. SILVA. March 18th, 1919.

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