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A A i the the the the the the the the the Abe Martin Sayer seema like: I'm allus the Democrat In th' crewd?" complained Lafe Bud 'day. Forty- Ninth Year No. THE DAILY JOURNAL these over. When days Tom she It Sima la data Just Sager about sunburned AND COMMERCIAL -STAR 88 Entered as second class mail matter at Mattoon, Lilinois, MATTOON, ILLINOIS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 17, 1923 Published every afternoon except Sunday, Price Five Cents JO JOHNSON'S MAJORITY TO BE 65.000 FARMER LABOR PARTY WINNER IN MINNESOTA Harding Opponents in Washington Jubilant Over Result. By The International News Service.

St. Paul, July Two members of the FarmerLabor party will represent the state of Minnesota in the United States Senate, following yesterday's special election, which resulted in the selection of Magnus Johnson to succeed to the seat left vacant by the death of the late Knute Nelson. Gov. J. A.

0. Preus, the Re- MAGNUS JOHNSON, Senator-Elect. publican candidate, has conceded his defeat. Indications today based on additional returns were that Johnson's majority probably will reach 65,000. Of 3521 precincts throughout the state reporting early today 2353 gave Johnson 213,562, and Preus 178,126, a lead of 35,000 for Johnson, with one third of the state yet to hear from, Johnson carried -Paul by over 4000.

and lacked only 341 votes of carrying Prous' home city of Minneapolis. Preus had been expected to carry Minneapolis by 20,000. Virtually all the remaining precincts to be heard from are farmer territory. These are expected to go for Johnson. Opponents Jubilant.

Washington, July 7. Opponents of the Harding administration, both' within and without the Republican party, were jubilant today over the election of Magnus Johnson, the farmer -labor candidate, to the seat in the United States senate which Knute Nelson, Republican, occupied for more than quarter of a century, The few Republican senators who are in Washington had little to say concerning Johnson's victory and scarcely anything at all for publication. It was expected, however, that formal statements commenting on the result would be issued during the day by the Republican Democratic national committees, both of which were greatly concerned over the Minnesota campaign. G. o.

P. Majority Cut. Johnson's election has reduced the Republican majority in the next gress to only six votes, compared with twenty-one votes in the last congress. Assuming that a Republican successor 18. named to All the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Dillingham.

of Vermont, the new congress will have Republicans, forty three Democrats and two farmerlabor votes. Senator Henrik Shipsted, who defeated Frank Kellogg last year, and will be Minnesota's senior senator in the next congress, has already lined up with the LaFollette progressives, and it is expected that. Senator-Elect Johnson will follow hits lead. In view of the tact, too, that Minnesota's new senator conducted his campaign largely upon promises of providing for government assistance for the farmer, he will undoubtedly become a leading member of the senate "farm bloc," group which already has left its mark on national legislation and whose power has continted to increase, DANCE Wednesday night, Paradise Lake Park. Mack's orchestra 7-18 WHEAT VALUE 1 WHEN FED TO LIVE STOCK Wall Street Journal Gives Some Figures in This Respect.

Pigs is pigs, 80 the story ran. But is wheat wheat? This is a ques. tion right now. Wheat today is priced by the local elevators at 88 cents a bushel. With the price of wheat in the Chicago: market below the even dollar and still sliding down the scale, the proposition of feeding wheat to stock and thus cashing.

in on a better price than by selling the wheat as wheat is taking the attention not only of farmers but of the agricultural departments of the various state universities. Wheat As Stock Feed. The following 18 taken from the Wall Street Journal and gives some interesting and instructive information on the use of wheat as stock teed: "Wheat at the elevators in Kansas bringing from 70 to 75 cents a bushel and in Oklahoma even less, according to the distance from market. By marketing wheat through hogs the farmers have an opportunity of realizing in the neighborhood of $1 a bushel. That this is feasible and practical there is no doubt.

"The Kansas State College of Agriculture has been making experiments and has just begun advising farmers along this line. The swine specialist of this state college, C. G. Elling, says that at present prices wheat will pro duce pork $2.26 a hundred pounds cheaper than corn. Wheat at 70 cents a bushel, he says, will produce 100 pounds gain on a 100-pound shoat at cost of $6.06, while corn at 90 cents bushel will make a 100.pound gain at a cost of $8.32 when both are fed with a 10 per cent tankage ration.

Value of Wheat Tankage. "Six and two third bushels of wheat and 40 pounds of tankage, he says, are equal to 71-7 bushels of corn and 54 pounds of tankage. Without the supplement, wheat is also superior to corn. Wheat is richer than corn in protein but for most economical tankage gains a protein suppleis necessary. Hogs on.

pasture will do well if fed with 5 per cent tankage with wheat. He recommends coarse grinding or cracking of the wheat, as will improve the feeding value about 20 per cent, but advises against finely ground. Wheat at 70. cents 'a bushel makes it advisable, he says, to put spring pigs on a full, wheat-tankage ration and get them up to 200 pounds as quickly as possible. They should be put on this wheat ration gradually allowing about' a week to get them fully started.

"This is considered of so much importance that the head of the extension work in Kansas, H. H. Umberger of the Agricultural College, is advising all of the 60 agents under him to call Kansas farmers' attention to this method of market their wheat, which it is claimed at present prices should bring them around $1 a bushel compared with the 70 or 75 cents now being paid at the elevators. If a large amount of cheap wheat is utilized in this way, he says, it will have a tendency also to increase the price for the remainder." BEGIN ORGANIZING THE STEEL WORKERS Gary, July of organizing the 40,000 steel workers in this industrial region was begun here ance yesterday of afternoon with the appearthree. organizers representing the national organization committee of the American Federation of La.

bor. Particular efforts will be centered upon the 12,000 workers in Gary of the United. States Steel Corporation. F. A.

Detrick, president of the Lake that the support of the 18,000 County Trades Unionist, announced 1 bers of county labor unions would be accorded the organizers. Both moral and financial support will be furnish. ed them, Detrick said after conferring with the trio. The organizers said more of their number would be sent here as the work progressed and that if successful, a strike would be called unless the promised 8 hour day were Introduced in the industry. FARM HAND NEAR CASEY DROWNS WHILE SWIMMING I Casey, July 17.

George Richard, 23 years old, farm hand on the George Stratton farm, three miles east of Casey was drowned yesterday afternoon In Northfork creek near the pumping station. He had been plowing when two friends came by and persuaded him to go swimmine. The body was in the water about three hours before" it was recovered. The body was sent to his home in Martinsville, GEDDES FINDS DRY CAUSE IS AID TO BANKS Such Is Report of British Envoy to His Government. London, July government yesterday published an official paper embodying a memorandum by Sir Auckland Geddes, the ambassador at Washington, on the effects of prohibition in the United States.

Stating the claims made in America of economio benefits, increased wages, heavier savings bank, deposits, the memorandum says: "So many other factors have contributed to restore economic conditions since the war is almost impossible to form any estimate of the extent to which prohibition has contributed to this recovery or otherwise." Referring to economic effects, the memorandum says that since the adop. tion of prohibition a marked increase, which is computed at 40 per cent, has taken place in the amount of savings bank deposits. Cites Hip Flask Fashion, The supporters of prohibition in the United it adds, claim that the average wage earner now has siderably, more, his money children, to spend on fur- on nishing his home, and on dress, sports and' amusements. According to the association against the prohibition amendment, many Americans who formerly drank little, or nothing conform, says the memorandum, novo the "fashionable at social gatherings of carrying small pocket flasks of home brew or imported spirits. Effective In Rural Districts.

Sir Auckland says prohibition on the whole has been effective in the rural districts and in the smaller towns throughout the country, but has been less effective on the eastern seaboard and in the vicinity of the great. lakes, where-, powerful organizations of liquor smugglers have succeeded in effecting a regular traffic in imported intoxicants. Large quantities of home made liquor also have been brewed, the memorandum set forth, but it has proved to be poisonous in many cases and the practice is reported to be on the decrease. DEATH TAKES OLD ARCOLA RESIDENT Special to The Journal-Gazette. Arcola, July Burkey died at his home in Arcola on Saturday after a few weeks' illness.

He had been in ill health for a number of years, but was not confined to his home until about a month ago. Mr. Burkey was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Burkey and was born in 1837 in Muskingum county, Ohio.

His father was a native of Switzerland and died in this country at the age of forty-four. His mother, a native of Germany, came to America at the age of fifteen years. Mr. Burkey was one of thirteen He married in 1860 to Redman of Muskingum county, Ohio. They were the parents of four children, Allie McCormic, Ida Jacoby, Emma Mrs.

Ida Jacoby, who has, since the Gwinn and Ellsworth, all deceased but A A death of Mrs. Burkey on February 27, last, Mr. been Burkey caring went for to her Clark father. county, Illinois, in 1869, living there for four years. He then moved to Edgar county, where he lived nine years.

In he came to Douglas county a and bought 232, acres of land a mile and a half southwest of Arcola, where the famfly lived for a number of years. A few years ago they removed to Arcola, where he had since made his home. Mr. and Mrs. Burkey celebrate ed their sixtieth wedding anniversary in 1920.

SULLIVAN BALL PLAYER IS SUED FOR DIVORCE Sullivan, July Maud Martin of Sullivan has filed suit against Guy Martin for divorce, including in her bill the complaints that her husband did not properly provide for her and their three children and that he was guilty of cruelty toward her. The couple were married in 1912 in Dahigren, where Mrs. Martin's parents lived at the time. The detendant is well known in central Illnois as an amateur baseball player. I CHARLESTON MAN LOSES TWO FINGERS IN ACCIDENT Special to The Journal-Gazette.

Charleston, July 17-Raymond Wright, employed by the Andrews Lumber Mill was seriously injured when two, fingers of the 'left hand were cut off. The thumb and third finger were badly injured, The accident occurred when canvas glove Wright was wearing became caught In a machine It Won't Hold Much Water Now DON'T YUR KNOW ME FATHER? IM YOUR LITTLE 12 HOUR DAY ARGUMENT A LOT OF EXPERTS AND INVESTIGATORS WENT AND SHOT ME ALL FULL OF HOLES AND WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO NOW GARY A VALPARAISO 'U' FACES CLOSING. LaPorte, July -Valparaiso University, which at one time was said to have the largest student body in the United States, was virtually closed by a recent action of the board of directors of the Valparaiso Realty Company, which owns the buildings and plant, it was reported late 'day. Dr. Evans, president of the institution, has -denied reports that the university would be closed permanently on August 15.

A preferred stock issue of the Val. paraiso Realty Company was underWild a state bank of Indianapwritten several years a ago by J. F. olis. The property was leased to the university for an annual rent to the amount of interest on the preferred stock.

During the war the university found it difficult to meet financial obligations and as a consequence number of rental payments were defaulted, it was said. Temporary relief was found and the annual rental for 1922 was raised through the loans. This year the trustees of the institution were unable to meet their obligations, and the board of directors of the company, in a meeting held this week, revoked the lease and let the buildings to the Cook Laboratories Company of Chicago. FORMER ASH GROVE RESIDENT IS CALLED Shelbyville, July Louisa Triece, mother of I. S.

Storm, passaway at the home of Mrs. Mattie Kimlel Monday morning, following a long period of invalidism. About twenty-two years ago she was stricken with home of paralysis her brother, while the visiting late, at Abra- ham Kemp, in Ash Grove township, and since that time she has been blind and unable to walk. Mrs. Triece, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Strother Kemp, pioneer of Ash Grove township, was born Circleville, in Fairfield county, Ohio, November 22, 1834. About the year 1846 she came with her parents to Illinois, the family settling on a farm near, In 1859 she was united in marriage to John Storm, and to this union was born one son, Isaac S. Storm. Her husband died April 7, 1877, and in 1883.

she came to Shelbyville and for a time lived with her son. She was married to Abram Triece in 1895. He died about 20 years ago. In early life she was united with the Ash Grove Christian church, of which she always remained a faithfut member. Besides her son, she leaves two, brothers, They are William Kemp of Shelby county, and Simon Kemp of Goodland, Kan.

TO MOVE TO MATTOON, Shelbyville Union: Dail Butler, tray. eling salesman for the American To bacco Company, has been transferred to a new territory, and will move his family to Mattoon, which will be his. headquarters, in the near future- IS IMPLICATED BY DRISKELLS Police Make Search But No Stolen Goods Are Found. The home of 'Frank Peicher, 605 Edgar avenue, and rooms at 1404 Broadway, said to be occupied at times by him, were ransacked by policemen Monday evening upon information furnished Albert Driskell and William 'Driskell, arrested Monday for alleged complicity in the Lew. ellen and Caton grocery store beries Saturday night.

No stolen goods were found in elther place, but Pelcher is still held, as the Driskells say it was Pelcher's automobile in which some of the goods taken from the two grocery stores were hauled away. Invan effort to apprehend another suspect in the grocery store robberies, the police arrested seven men loitering in the Big Four and Illinois Central railroad yards Monday night and early this morning. None of them answered descriptions obtained by police of the man they seek, and all were released. Back to Prison, William Driskell, one of the men ac-1 cused of robbing the Lewellen and Caton stores, has been on parole from Chester penitentiary since last September. He was placed in prison for robbery of the Lewellen grocery year or more ago.

A parole officer will be called to return him to Chester. It is probable that Albert Driskell is the only one who will be arraigned for the Saturday night rob. bery, Goods Recovered. Of the goods stolen Saturday night, A. L.

Lewellen has recovered about all that was taken from his store, amounting to about $75 or $80 worth, and Z. H. Caton has recoyered most of his loss, about $20 worth of cigar ets and tobacco. The loot, identified by the two grocers, was brought to headquarters just as it was found in the Driskell home, in a tub and in hand bags. FIRST CLAIM AGAINST GERMANY 3 MILLION Washington, July mixed claims commission, created to settle American war claims against Germany, today made its first decision, an award of $3,316,765.92 to the International Harvester company for property seized in Germany.

Several other. awards are expected before commission suspends its work for the summer, next week, when the German commissioner, Dr. Kiesselbach, and members of his staff leave for a visit to Germany, returning about Oct. Some of the American officials will go to Germany later to obtain information for submission to the commission. Today's decision was expedited by an agreement between the representatives of the German and American governments and was virtually a consent.

decree. The award, made in restitution of cash assets of subsidiaries of the International Harvester Co, seiz. ed by the German government in German banks, bears interest of 5 per cent, according to the terms of the German government, facts being disputed and Germany's liability unquestioned. HYPODERMIC NEEDLE IS USED BY BANDITS By The International News Service. Kansas City, July searched Kansas City late yesterday afternoon for two bandits who used the hypodermic needle as their weapons.

Two men entered a shoe store in the heart of the local business district shortly before noon, forced the lone clerk into a back room and attempted to render him unconscious by injecting morphine into his arm. Struggling with the pair, the clerk, R. 'W. Tucker, succeeded in breaking the needle, but his arm was badly lacerated by the bandits who tried to cut away his sleeve in order to inject the drug. When they found they were unable to overcome Tucker, the men rushed to the cash register, seized $500 and fled.

Both men looked like drug addicts, Tueker told police, and one of them was of the description given the murderer of W. Wallace Greene, former state senator, who was slain here recently. ROYAL NEIGHBORS BONUS CHECKS TOTAL 6 MILLION Springfield, July total of 30,570 bonus checks had been issued with the close of yesterday's business and the last of these will be, in the mails Wednesday, according to a report made by State Auditor Russel. The checks call for a grand total of $6,611,118. The state auditor and State Treasurer Nelson continue to be busy signing the checks, and indications are that by tomorrow the rush will be over and that the two state departments will handle without diffculty the 1000 claims which have been promised from the service recognition board each day.

To date, the highest number claim to be received from the service recog. nition board is 39,100. The service recognition board announces that 1000 claims are being approved daily and that 150 employes will be engaged in getting out this number. OPERATORS CLAIM MINER INTERFERENCE By The International News Service. Washington, July Charges that the United Mine Workers are interfering with the efficient operation bituminous coal mines in the south.

west field with the result that many operators are on the verge of bankruptcy were filed with the United States Coal Commission late yesterday by a group of operators of Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. The operators charge that the miners "potential interference with business due to the likelihood of strikes and the high prices due to an inflated wage scale and labor deficiency," have resulted in oil and gas supplanting coal as a fuel in industrial plants, public utilities and railroads. The railroads which have either changed their fuel from coal. to oil, or are contracting to do so, include the Rock Island, the 'Frisco, Cotton Belt, M. K.

Santa Fe and Missouri Pacific, it was stated. ARIZONA ESTOPPED FROM ENFORCING WOMEN'S LAW By, Los The International News Service. Angeles, July temporary injunction restraining the state of Arizona from enforcing the minimum wage law for women, which is $16 a week, was granted late yesterday by Federal Judges Ross, Bledsoe and Sawtelle, sitting en banc here. The injunction was granted pend-. ing ruling on the minimum wage law for women in the United States supreme court, which is considering the question in connection with.

another case. FARMER'S, TOURING CAR IS REPORTED STOLEN Vernon Hackley, a farmer living Special meeting for all new mem one and a half miles southwest of bers Thursday evening, July 19, 1. 0. Lerna, reports that his touring car 0. F.

hall. Refreshments and initiaVernway'si was stolen some time Monday night tion. Both old and new members 7-18 from a shed on the premises. urged to come 7-181 FLOODS IN COLORADO DO: HEAVY DAMAGE Large Section of Denver Menaced by the Surging Waters. By The International News Service: Denver, July Flood waters, pouring over the Castlewood dam today were threatening to undermine the structure and wipe out the entire Cherry Creek valley near Parker, and perhaps a large section of Denver.

Desperate efforts were being made today to strengthen the huge dam. which is the sole bulwark of billions of gallons of water. Flood warnings are being sent out to residents of lower Denver and numerous small surrounding towns. Property damage already caused by the food is inestimable. Due to Cloudbursts.

The flood waters resulted from succession of cloudbursts early this morning. Rushing torrents resulting from the overflow of the Castlewood dam, itty miles south of here, inundated several small towns. Residents of Franktown, Parker, Melvin, Sullivan and the lower sec tions of Denver spent the night in the nearby hills. "If the Castlewood dam breaks it will flood Denver and the towns between Castlewood to an almost unbelievable extent," John E. Field, who engineered the building of the dam, sald today.

Franktown and Sullivan and other towns will probably be wiped out altogether, and terrific damage to Denver would result." Livestock Lost. Guards have been placed by the city and county along Cherry Creed with instructions to flash signs of danger to Denver. Cattle and livestock in large num bers have been swept down stream, by the raging torrents. Reports of deaths throughout the state as yet are unconfirmed. Rancher Is Killed.

-Pueblo, July 17. Five feet of water was reported at Portland, a cement manufacturing community eight miles east of Florence, last night, but all communication with the town is cut off and the extent of the damage cannot be ascertained. Florence, twenty eight miles west of here, is reported to be flooded with two feet of water rushing through the streets. Frank Stevens, a rancher, was killed by lightning on his ranch on Hardscrabble creek, near Florence, when he tried to rescue cattle caught in the food waters. Approximately two thirds.

of FION ence was flooded with water. which got into the first floors of the rest. dences. In some places houses were undermined. Four creeks pass through Florence each of the four was flooded.

The flood came without any warning, about five o'clock, Early last night the wa ter had passed, TWO SMALL CROPS OF WHEAT SOLD THUS FAR One Brings Eighty-Six Cents, the, Eighty-Four: Cents--May Go Up or May Go Down, It is a little too early to forecast what the price of wheat for the growers of Coles county is to be, as two small crops have been threshed and sold thus far; that Is, in this mediate The Ashbrook and Big Four elevators have received the two small crops. For one of these crops, that of Harry Powell, eighty-six cents was paid; for the other, that of James Williams, only cents was received. The Powell crop was sold on Saturday, that of Wil-1 liams on Monday. Both these crops were grown on land at the northwest edge of the! city. A portion of the Powell crop, some that had been more or less ray-, aged by the chinch, bug, yielded only about ten bushels, while another small piece of land, which had not been so, badly attacked by these bugs, averaged double that amount, or about twenty bushels.

The Williams tract had been used for gardening purposes for some time, it was in unusually good condition. The yield was about three bushels. Local elevator men say it is too early to forecast what the price of wheat will be. The price may go up, and it may go down still further. The next few days are expected to decide this, as farmers generally are expected to begin threshing the latter part of the week.

MISSOURI MAN KILLED FOLLOWING WOMAN'S CHARGES By, The Stockton, International July News Service. A. Brown, 50, farmer, shot and killed Jesse B. Yancey and probably fatally wounded Mrs. here yesterday.

Brown's wife, who has been in poor health mentally for the last few months, accused Brown of being too friendly with Mrs. Yancey. Yesterday when Yancey and his wife drove by the Brown farm, Brown! followed and opened fire with a shotgun. Yancey was killed instantly. Brown ran away shouting that he intended to kill himself, and has not been found.

Physicians say Mrs. Yancey's condition is critical. WIDOW OF GARIBALDI, HERO OF ITALY, DIES Cagliari, Italy, July Garibaldi, widow of Italy's great hero, is dead at the age of 75. Her death was, quite, unexpected, as she was in apparently good health only a. few weeks ago, when Premier Mussolini visited her home on' Caprera island, where Garibaldi is buried.

Francesca was a Piedmontese and went to Caprera In.1867 as a. nurse to Garibaldi's, grandchildren. He married her after the annulment of his union with Marchioness Raimondi, DANCE LYTLE PARK Wednesday, July 18: La 7-piece orchestra. Usual prices, AMBRAW SITE FOR BOY SCOUT CAMP. At the regular meeting of the Mattoon Rotary Club Monday, F.

T. Mo loney of the Boys' committee stated that a site for the Boy Scouts' camp had been selected near the Charles ton waterworks plant on the Ambraw river. The place selected belongs to the city of Charleston, and the thorities of that city very generously gave consent for its use by the Boy Scouts of Mattoon. The place is also used by the Boy Scouts of the county seat. Some of the local Boy Scouts will go into camp on next Monday, Instead of a formal program for the meeting Monday, the Rotarians pres ent accepted an invitation from Manager Tolle of the Citizens' Ice Company to pay a visit to the company's plant, which was done immedi ately following the luncheon.

FREE MUSIC AND PICTURES At. Allison Park to night. 7-17 Weather Springfield, Illy July 17. Follow ing are the weatll er indications for Illinois for thirtysix hours ending at 7.p. m.

Wednes: days Generally fair ton night and, Wed nesday. Not much change. in tempers.