Lancaster Eagle-Gazette from Lancaster, Ohio • 1

Will E. Repass Drops Dead in Columbus on Way to Church Last Night WEATHER- Partly Cloudy tonight and Friday; probably showers; much change in temperature. There's Nothing So You'll Find the News Productive As An THE LANCASTER DAILY EAGLE In THE EAGLE Eagle Want Auv. If It Happen PRICE THREE (3) CENTS. LANCASTER, OHIO, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1920.

VOLUME XXXI, NO. 308 HARDING WILL HAVE 18,000 PLURALITY Returns Show Election of Seven Wood Delegates DAUGHERTY IN CLOSE RACE Columbus, April returns from the Ohio primary indicate that Harding's plurality will be between 17,000 and 18,000 over General Wood. The Wood forces elected seven and possibly eight district delegates. It may take the official count to determine whether Harry M. Daugherty, Senator Harding's campaign manager, has defeated W.

H. Boyd, Wood candidate for delegate-at-large. Former Governor Herrick still :5 leading the big four, former Governor Willis nosing out Mayor Galvin of Cincinnati for second place. Returns from 5.251 precincts showed: Herrick (Harding), Willis (Harding), 106.631; Galvin (Harding), Boyd Turner (Wood). Daugherty (Harding), 94,275.

If Daugherty keeps gaining on Boyd at the rate he did in the last 2,000 precincts reporting he will win out slender margin. The official count will not. be complete for eral days, until which time the fate of Dougherty and Boyd will remain in doubt. With only 190 of a total of 5,882 precincts in the state missing, returns gave Harding 121,485, Wood 107,652. Harding's plurality, 13,833.

The number of written-in votes on the preferential ballot will approximate 20,000. In 3,357 precincts Johnson led with 8,181 against Hoover's 6,845. half the normal Republicans of the state seem to have participated in the primary, a larger percentage than had been anticinated by done- DAUGHERTY Harding Candidate for Delegate at Large Gaining on Home Stretch Boyd, Wood Delegate Still in Lead. Columbus, Ohio, April Later returns show gain for Daugherty, Harding candidate, for delegate-at-large. Boyd, Wood candidate had lead of about 500 over Daugherty with 100 precincts missing.

BUCKEYE BRIEFS Sugar Price Boosted. Dayton, April 29. Dayton dealers tacked 11 cents per pound on the price of sugar, and the retail price now is 35 cents a pound. Boy In Contact With Live Wire. Bowling Green.

April his head came in contact with a live wire. Ray Malone. 18, was instantly killed. His father. who is employed at the electric light plant, turned of the current.

Fail of Slate Kills Two. Athens, April' William Mo Whorter, 50, and George Mc Whorter, 22, father and son, were killed by fall of slate in a mine near Carbondale. Another son of MeWhorter, working near by, found the bodies. Challenge a State Law. Dayton, April The city commission ruled that under the provi sion of an ordinance passed four weeks AgO a $3.000.000 bond issue, which failed of the prescribed two thirds votes in Tuesday's election, had been legally adopted.

The commission challenges, the state law re quiring A two-thirds, vote for city bond issues. Sheet and Tube Dividend. Youngstown, April 29. -Directors of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company have decided to issue stock dividend of. more, than 400 per HARRY L.

GESSFORD Superintendent of Washington Police Entered Service as Clerk. MABRIS EW FOOD SUPPLIES CUT OFF City of Fiume Closely Besieged by an Italian Army. Trieste. April blockade which Fiume is now undergoing is admittedly the most severe to which it has been subjected. The town's communications have been completely cut.

Regular Italian troops tore up section of the railway and brought up machine guns to guard the frontiers. Passage in and out of the city is forbidden, not: even milk going in. Connection with the outside world by the sea route also has been severed. Gabriel d'Annunzio, the insurgent commander, threatens counter action. "My army, navy and air forces are ready to occupy the coast of the Bay of Quarnero, on which Fiume lies, including Abazzia and Volosca.

if the Nitti army continues its acts of reprisal against me," he said. FIGHTING OCCURS IN THE OIL FIELDS Revolutionists Overrunning the State of Chuhuahua. San Antonio, April ing between Carranzistas and rebels has broken out in Tampico. Mexico. according to advices received here.

Troops from the federal garrison at Vera Cruz were ordered rushed by boat to Tampico to the aid of General Francisco Murguia, Carranza commander in the oil district. Murguia was reported hard pressed by the revolutionists, commanded by Generals Arnulfo Gomez and Manuel Polaez. Carranza officials in El Paso and Juarez are preparing to move against threatened attempt to swing the Juarez garrison into line with the Chihuahua revolution. Funds of the customs office in Juarez have been brought to an El Paso bank. All Americans in Chihuahua City are safe.

Four thousand Carranzistas in Chihuahua have joined the revolution. General Francisco R. Serrano has been appointed military commander in Chihuahua by the revolutionists. General Serrano is to leave Hermosillo, capital of Sonora, to join the rebels in Chihuahua. The newest revolt in Chihuahua, it was said, will give the revolutionary army large quantities of ammunition and other war supplies.

Airplanes in Chibuahua used by the against Francisco Villa also have fallen into the hands of revolutionista. it was said. Mazatian, Sinaloa. port on the Pacific coast of Mexico, is being. by revolutionary forces under General Angel Flores.

French Troops Ambushed. Paris, April Official accounts of the French retreat from Urfa, Asia Minor, confirm the reports that the retreating column was ambushed, al though the French had an agreement with the Turks which they believed would insure a safe retirement, The French left Urfa only when food and water were lacking after a sustained slose of two months. SUDDEN DEATH Comes Early this Morning to Mr. W. E.

Repass of Columbus Former Lancaster Resident -Is Overcome by Apoplexy on Way to Church--Body to be Brought Here Friday Funeral and Burial Saturday p.m. Lancaster friends and relatives of Mr. William E. Repass of Columbus were shocked this morning to hear of his sudden death which occurred this morning at his home in Columbus. Last evening, Mr.

Repass nis home in apparently good health and or the way to church he fell in an ur onscious condition on the sidewalk where passersby found him. He was identified by papers in his coat pocket and removed to his home at 551 West Fourth avenue, where medical aid was summoned. He never regained consciousness but passed away this morning at two o'clock as the result of apoplexy. Surviving to mourn their loss are the wife, cue daughter Migs Berniece and one son John of the home, also one brother, Mr. Roy Repress of Chicago, and a number of other relatives and friends.

He with his family formerly resided on East Sixth aveue this city. For many years, Mr. Repass was associated with the White Star Laundry, later taking a position with the Central Union Telephone Company. About two years ago he moved his family to Columbus where he had been employed In the auditor's department of the Pullman Car He was a prominent member of the local lodge K. of P.

Mr. Alfred Repass, father of the deceased. passed away quite suddenly in like manner few years ago on East Main street. Lancaster, on his way home from church. F.

E. Smith. funeral director, was called te Columbus this to charge of the body be machinin brought here te Lancaster Friday in the Smith motor ambulance and taken to the home of his uncle, former Mayor, H. F. Repass on North Broad street.

Funeral services will be held Saturday afterncon at the E. Church and burial will take place in Forest Rose cemetery. At 94. Is Still Active in Directing Great Lumber and News Print Plants John Rudolph Booth make possible the production of our newspapers. He is also a director of several Canadian railways.

Although he recently celebrated his -fourth birthday, John Rudolph Booth, pioneer lumber manufacturer and owner and operator of lumber plants in the world. is still actively engaged in directing his business. Mr. Booth is Canadian and his plants supply Canada and the United States with thousands of tons of paper which WILL DELIVER ADDRESS. Judge Brooks E.

Shell went to Delaware this afternoon where he will deliver an address before the Kiwanis Club banquet this evening. NO LIMITATION On Number of Whisky Prescriptions Doctors May Issue. Washington, April 29. -No limit has been placed upon the number whisky prescriptions a physician may issue to supply legitimate needs. Emphatic.

denial was made by John F. Kramer, federal prohibition commissioner, that any limitation had been put upon doctors. Contrary reports, which give the impression that the commissioner sought to restrict permit holders among doctors, probably were based upon instructions sent to supervisors to check illegal use prescription blanks, the commissioner stated. No limitation whatsoever has been put upon the number of prescriptions a physician may issue to meet the normal demands of his practice, Commissioner Kramer said. Three Firms Indicted.

New York. April 29. On evidence procured by the government's flying squadron' of profiteer hunters. the federal grand jury indicted two Arms for alleged profiteering in sugar and third on charges of asking illegal profits on potatoes. Fourteen For Poindexter.

Bellingham, April 29. Washington's 14 delegates to the Republican national convention "are safely within the Poindexter fold. following the unanimous indorsement of the "favorite son" candidacy at the state convention here. SERVICE MEN MAY OBTAIN LOANS Paid- Insurance Plan Proposed By House Committee. HELD AN ATTRACTIVE OFFER Plan Will Be Included In the Soldier Relief Legislation Program of the Ways and Means Committee.

Would Allow $1.75 a Day For Each Day of Service, to Popularize the -Other Features of Proposal. Washington, April members of the house ways and means committee virtually decided to include in their soldier relief legislation program a plan of paid-up insurance, its value to increase annually by compound interest and on which loans could be obtained from any postoffice. With this addition, ex-service men might elect any one of the five following plans included in the Republican program: A cash bonus of $1.25 a day for each day of service; aid in buying farm land, to be reclaimed by the government: aid in buying city homes: aid in their education; or the insurance. To popularize the last four plans, the Republicans propose to allow $1.75 a day for each day of service, instead of the $1.25 cash bonus the basis for computing farm and home aid. loans and the amount: of financial aid each man might receive in the form of educational training.

The insurance plan as such was said by committeemen to be a nomer," but they declared it was the "most attractive" of any of the five plans. The average period of service for world war veterans was 400 days, they said. explaining that under the insurance plan the average veteran could receive a paid-up-insurance icy of $1,857 payable to him in cash at the end of 20 years, or immediately to his heirs in event of death. The loan value of the insurancedenoted in the legislation as "adjusted service would not accrue until the end of the third year the plan had been in force, and at that time an ex-service man, with record of 400 days' service, would be entitled to a lowu of $551. This would be the cash value of his "certificate' at that time at 5 per cent interest.

compounded annually. This plan, if adopted generally by the world war veterans, would cost the government far more than the cash bonus of $1.25 a day, committee. men said. Estimating that 3,390,000 ex-service person's will be affected by the bill, committeemen declared that the ultimate cost of the insurance plan. if adopted by all.

would. be approximately $6,000.000.000. The cash bonus, it was estimated. would cost. $1,907,000,000 If accented by all.

FARM PROBLEMS HIS SUBJECT Sec. Meredith Addresses Chamber of Commerce sters. The primary Republican total will exceed 250.000. No compilations have been made of the Democratic vote, as there was no contest against Governor Cox for the presidential preference. The total probably is less than 100.000.

Wood carried Cuyahoga county by 8,000, Franklin county by 1,900, Mahoning county, Stark, 1,300, and Montgomery by a narrow margin. Harding carried Hamilton county 1,800, Summit, Lucas, 2,000, by and less populous counties by uniformly large, percentages. The more rural a county, apparently, the larger Harding's majority, except in some of the lake counties and the Western Reserve. Among the Harding district delegates defeated was George H. Clark, Canton, chairman of the Republican state committee.

and his running advisory, William Miller, Alliance. were defeated in the Sixteenth district by T. F. Turner, Canton, and Major Edwin Morgan, Alliance, Wood delegates. In the Nineteenth district (Mahoning.

Trumbull and Ashtabula) the delegation is divided. Judge W. P. BarWood delegate, and J. G.

Butnum, ler. Harding, supporter, both of Youngstown. elected. The other Wood district delegates elected were G. R.

Hedges and J. B. Miles, Columbus, Twelfth district, and W. L. Day and W.

F. Eirick, Cleveland, Twentysecond. In the Eighteenth district George Mallens, Salem (Harding), was elected with Mike Gallagher, Steubenville (Harding) and Stephen Lewis. Martins Ferry (Wood), running close. cent, or over $80.000,000, it was nounced by James A.

Campbell, president of the company. The announcement said a stock dividend of 000 was ordered at once, thus raising the capital stock to the full amount authorized. What Daugherty Says. Columbus, April 29. -Commenting on the Ohio primary.

H. M. Daugherty, Senator Harding's manager, made this statement: "It was a remarkable victory for Senator Harding in Ohio and we must consider the fact that there was a very light vote, that no money was used for billboard advertising. and no money was used to pay workers for Harding. He won by a large majority on his own merits while he was campaigning in another state.

Considering the results in Idaho, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Ohio. everybody now can see that General Wood's nomination is impossible." THE MEAT OF IT Population of Springfield. was announced by the census bureau as 129,338, an increase of 45.4 per cent since 1910. Elmira, has 45,305. an increase of 21.9 per cent.

Detroit United Railway company received demands for a wage adjust ment of its 3,000 city and interurban car men. One dollar an hour is the maximum asked by the employes. Colonel George W. Lyons, formerly commander of the old Sixty-sixth in fantry. New York national guard.

and Spanish war veteran. was found dead with a bullet wound in his head at his home in Chicago. An army pis tol was found at his side. He had been 111. A Jury, in New York convicted James Larkin, Irish labor leader, ol anarchy, GIVES BOND.

Allen Thomas indicted by the 1'0- cent grand jury under white slave law, appeared court the morning and gave bond in the sum of $1000. THE SICK Mr. Roy Strickler of East Fifth, avenue, has been confined to his. home by illness for several days. Atlantic City, N.

April Farming was pictured as confronted with more serious difficulties than any other American industry by tary Meredith of the agriculture partment, in an address at the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. "American farmers," the secretary said, "are not only in with each other as producers, but they are in competition with producers of other countries. Not only that, but agriculture as an industry is in direct competition with other industries for capital and especially for labor. Under present conditions ers are losing in competition for labor. "Farmers hesitate to pay higher wages because.

unlike other industries. there is no opportunity for, quick turnover or to pass, the increased along to consumers. Not only are wages higher than ever before. but farm hired labor is scarce at any price and. on the is said to be relatively less efficient than formerly.

"Farmers are now faced with the problem of deciding whether to pay high prices for all the things they have to buy--farm labor, equipment, seed, fertilizers, clothing and supplies- and the investment of INSURANCE Rates May Be Lowered in Lancaster. Test of Water Supply and Pressure Highly Satisfactory. Mr. Louber and three other representatives of the National Board of Fireunderwriters of New York came down here from Columbus, Wednesday to test water supply, and works pressure and of the the city's Lancas- ability to fight fire. While here they tested a number of fire plugs and afterwards stated to Public Safety Director Swope that the pressure and supply were splendid and were certainly unexcelled anywhere.

It is hoped the fire insurance rates will he reduced since they have discovered the excellent fire fighting facilitice in Lancaster MARRIAGE LICENSES. John Raymond Giles, glassworker. of Lancaster and Miss Ola Thomas of Lancaster. Rev. Baker.

Harry D. Bowman, farmer of Stoutsville and Miss Elsie A. Leach of near Canal Winchester. E. W.

Boerstler, J. P. Hary D. Rowman was once before married and divorced. J.

Bremen Frank and Miss Shumaker, Fannie bank B. clerk Ruff of near Bremen. Rev. J. F.

Bair. Fred W. Burton, butcher, of Baltimore and Miss La Varich Macklin of near Basil. Rev. J.

C. Bers. BROTHERHOOD MEETING. The Federated Lutheran Brotherhood of Fairfield County will hold its next meeting either at Amanda or Stoutsville on the evening of May 13th. BIRTH OF DAUGHTER.

Mr. and Mrs. Beck announce the birth of a baby daughter this morning at the City Hospital. Mra. Beck was formerly Miss Esther Van Gundy GIRL RESERVES REHEARSAL All Girl Reserves who are in the May Rrill are reqquested.

to meet Friday afternoon at four o'clock for rehearsal at the Armory. part of the cost of production in the early spring months, with the prospect that, After hurvest, when they come to market their crops, they will he compelled to accept lower prices for everything they have to sell: or whether they shall cut down the ittal expense of production by investing less capital in equipment, supplies and hired labor by reducing acreage and number of live stock. "The latter course means smaller production. The food situation during the next 12 months will depend upon what answer the farmers give to this difficult question." Changes have been wrought by the war in England which "almost deserve the title of revolution." Sir Auckland Geddes, British ambassador, said. Vast new classes have been enfranchised.

he said, and the working classes, strongly anti-militaristic, now hold "ultimate political power." "They seek to the limit of the tion's power." the speaker declared, "to secure tranquillity in Asia Minor, in Asia and Silently and without fuss they have reduced the army to a strength many think barely sulficient to police the empire. They are determined to deal with problems of health, housing and education. They see clearly that to secure their purpose they have to end the rancors and animosities which have torn Europe and brought her to the brink of disaster." BURGLARIZED Was W. F. Burdell Summer Cottage, near B.

I. Escape With Considerable Loot. When Mr. F. C.

Wolfinger who takes care of the summer cottage of Banker W. F. Burdell, near the 3. 1. S.

called at the cottage yesterday, preparatory to doing some work on the inside of the biulding he discovered that the cottage had been broken into and burglarized. He found that two suits of clothes, several shirts, a quantity of silverware, shoes and a revolver, 38 caliber. had been stolen The job had been done since Sunday evening, when he had last visited' the cottage. He notified Mr. Burdell by phone today atter notifying Chief of Police Wallace here of the burglary.

THE COURT Orders Created Basil- Sanitary Sewer District. In the matter of the Basil-Baltimore Sanitary Sewer District, Judge Brooks E. Shell ordered in court atter a hearing of the case that the cer tain territory described be created a sanitary sewer district under the Sanitary District Act of Ohio under the corporate name of The Basil-Baltimore Sanitary District, with its office at the village of Basil and Davis S. Cook was appointed director of said district for the terin of fire years. He was instructed to qualify and proceed according to law.

The case is retained on the docket for consideration of other matters. FIRE DAMAGES Outbuildings at Swartz Heme on E. Wheeling Street, to Extent of $30 this Afternoon. A telephone call at 12:50 o'clock celled the fire department to 524 E. Wheeling street, residence of Mrs.

Swartz, the property of Otto Anspaugh. Several outbuildings in the rear of the lot had taken fire 'from burning brush and damages to the extent of about $30 resulted from the flames..