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SAN FRANCISCO, April 3. Tho
Southern Pacific and Union Pacific
systems should be consolidated If the
old rail lines In the northwest,
are united as proposed to the Inter
state commerce commission by Hate
Holden, president of the Chicago,,
Burlington & Qulucy, Judge Robert;
S.rLovett, chairman of the Union Pa- j
clfic; declared at a bearing on con
solidations held here today before
Henry C. Hall, a member of the coiu-
mission. .... ,
Judge Lovett declared that the con-'
solldatlon of the Great Northern,
Northern Pacific and Burlington as;
proposed by Wr., Holden in his "four,
system" plan for consolidating west
ern railroads, would set up a system
far -overshadowing the competitors
provided by that project. There was
an apparent recognition of this, he
declared, in the plans on "jumbling
of other lines with the Union Pacific
and Southern Pacific In order that
there should be other systems equal
In mileage and Investment to the Hill
combination, however unequal in solidarity."
Criticising the Holden plan in de
tail, he asserted It sent both the Un-;
ion Pacific and Southern Pacific '"far.
afield Into territories where they
have never been and where there is
apparently no reason for them to go,"
and added "the Hill linos are treat
ed very conservatively in this respect."
Judge Holden said the Holden plan
weakened the old Harrlman lines by
loading them' down with lines for
which they had no natural affilia
tion and by making them competitors
of their natural allies.
The Union Pacific head also dis
agreed with Mr. Holdcn's view that
each Pacific coast road should bave
a line extending to the Gulf of Mex
ico, assorting that the east and west
traffic was the Important and con
trolling factor with transcontinental
lines and that the Holden plan would
disarrange long existing export grain
arrangements through Atlantic purls
by favoring gulf ports.
On the geuerul matter of consoli
dation Judge Lovett said the com
mission's own plan, providing for
seven systems Instead of tho four pro
posed by Mr. Holden, should bo de
parted from only with great caution.
He stated that tho attitude of his or
ganization as acceptance of the prin
cipal of consolidation as a govern
ment policy added: "It is our pur
pose to cooperate to the greatest ex
tent we can consistently with what
wc regurd as our duty to our stock
holders and employes and the com
munities and traffic we servo."
Judge Lovott said conditions Im
posed by tho commission on the
Southern Pacific application for per
mlssison to retain control of the Cen
tral Pacific protested his road with
reasonable adequacy and that he had
no objection to the Southern Pacific
continuing in control under them.
Judse I.ovett declared the Holden
plan was kinder to the Atchison, To--peka
and Santa Fe system than to
bis own, by giving it connections
into the St. Paul region and tho Spo
kane region now relied upon by the
Union Pacific for traffic and by
turning over to the Santa Ke the
Chicago nnd Northwestern, which he
said was n principal gateway for
westbound traffic out of Chicago in
competition with tho Santa Fe Itself.
Judgo Lovett made it plain that
ho had no objection to the commis
sion's authorizing a consolidation of
tho Hill lines, but insisted that if
this were done the commission should
also authorize tho reconstitution of
tho Harrlman group to meet tho
strong combination that would bo ef
fected by tho Hill consolidation. Hit
said the Holden plan would also run
counter to the legislation under which
the Union Pacific and Central Pa
cific were constructed as one con
tinuous line by assigning the South
ern Pacific a half interest in the
Donvor and Klo Grando Western and
Denver nnd Salt Lake, which with
other conditions would make it to the
interest- of the- proposed Southern
Pacific group to tear down Instead
of build up the Ogden route of the
Union and Central Pacific.
He continued:
"The Union Pacific Is sent down
into Tennessee. Alabama. Louisiana,
Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma with
lines to New Orleans, Laredo on the
Mexican border, and to El Paso and
again Into Northern Michigan. The
Hill lines' only new territory is from
Fort Worth to Houston, Texas and
over tho Kansas City Southern .and
another short line to New Orleans.'-
Judge Lovett said Mr. Holden's sub-!
stttutlon of tlio Chicago, Milwaukee
ami St. Paul for tho Chicago and
Nnrtbfcstern for consolidation with!
the Union Pacific would not only dis
rupt existing channels of trade, but
would lessen competition becauso the
St. l'uu! road Is the competitor of tho
Union Pacific while tlio Northwest
ern is a connection.
Summarizing this portion of his
testimony, Judi;e Lovett said:
"Tho consolidation of tile Hill lines
with their subsidiaries into a single
system would so far overshadow its
competitors nnd any other railroad
system proposed in the United States
In size and financ-lul strength and
possibilities thut one might infer a
deisre to meet this objection had
something to do with tho jumbling
of the International and Great Nor
thern. Texas and Pacific and St.
Louis-Sun Francisco Bystems With
tho Union Pacific and of Missouri
Pacific, Toledo, Peoria and Western
and tho Missouri, Kansas und Texas
nnd various other linos with the
Southern Pacific, In order that thero
should bo otlrer systems equal in
mileage and investment to tho Hill
combination, however unequal In fi
nancial strength, solidarity and pros
pects and In traffic and operating
relatlosbips."
Judge Lovett praised tho mannor
In which Professor Ripley (Harvard
economist who nlded the commission
In formulating Its plan) had worked
out a scheme for consolidation of
American railways. !He Bald, ho
doubted whether railroad men them
selves could have formulated a plan
so fair and workable.
Judge Lovett opposed tho sugges
tion that all lines In western terri
tory should bo consolidated Into four
systems., , v
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SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 3. (By
the Associated Press.) A new reign
of terror exists in western Thrace,
where the Greek army is driving out
I the Bulgarian population, it Is as
serted In statements issued by the
Bulgarian government, which has
setn a note of protest to the allies.
The note claims protection for the
minority population of the district
under tho terms of the treaty of
Netiilly the Bulgarian peace treaty.
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HEARTS
MEMPHIS, Ten n., April 3. Frank
JoiH'B. 23, who fs in jail hero churned
with murder in connection with tho
killing yesterday of "Keystone Jack")
Brltton, middleweight boxer, told of-i
fleers ho hud houkIU liritton I'ontin-'
uously since Friday when his 17-year-1
old oi st or told him that tho pUK.Uati
had vronsed her, until ho fired two'
loads from u shotgun Into the man's
body, when ho drovo up t their (
home yo8toiday. . i
Tho Btorien told officers by young
Jones and his sinter were Hlmilar, hut
tho authorities have ordered u full
lnvestiKiUlon of all facts connected
with tho case, which may furnish t
more light.
Htitton vug regarded as only
second rnto boxer here.
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PHILADELPHIA, April 8. P.O-
cnuHo of alleged tampering with tho
foreman, Judgo J. Whitnkcr Thomp
son in tho United States district court
today discharged the Jury trying the
case of 21) men charged with con
spiracy to illegally withdraw and sell
liquor. Terrnneo O'l.oughlln, tho
foreman, was held in $5,000 hail on
a charge of contempt of court. Ho
will have a hearing Thursday. Judge
Thompson' directed that a new panel
ba assembled April 28.
DETROIT, Mich., April 3. Re
publican voters of Michigan "swung
back Into line,' Kurt D. Ondy, chair
man of tho stato republican central
committee declared today in discus
sing yesterday's election in which the
entire republican ticket of minor
state officials was victorious.
The republican candidates for state
offices early today continued to lead
their democrat opponents by approxi
mately three to one.
SEATTLE, April 3. Preliminary
plaits wero twins made today for a
conference to bo held hero tomor
row between Washington coal opora
tors und officials of district ton,
L'l.itod llino Workers of America, to
negotiate a now wage agreement to
r.pply in (he unionized field of the
Koalyn-Cle Elum dustrlit and at Tono
in Thurston county. Miners of tho
field quit work Saturday midnight
at the expiration of a temporary
agreement signed last Summer.
Martin J. Klyzik, district president
of the miners' union, and John H.
Wallace, commissioner for tho Wash
ington coal operators' association,
will partlclpnto In tomorrow's con
ference. Doth appeared recently be
fore the cool fact-finding commission
In Washington, D. C, and were told
that any settlement reached must bo
local In this district.
Roth oporntors and minors' repre
sentatives reiterated todny tholr opin
ion that a sottlcmcnt would bo reach
ed shortly.
Doctor's lteccnt Discovery, Also
Urals I'lrein, liotlH, t'ai'buwics.
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SEATTLE, April 3. To carry out a
lifelong ambition to go adventuring in
command of his own vessel, Dr. ltob
ert H. Ellis, a Portland physician, was
to leave hero this morning on the
Admiral Oriental liner President Jef
ferson.
Dr. Ellis is taking with him a party.
They are to go cruising in out-of the
way places of tho Orient on a boat 104
feet long that he has bought and Hint
1b waiting for them at Hong Kong. He
expects to navigate her to Java and
Formosa and then across tho Pacific
ocean into the Columbia liver. Next
year lie plans to explore the coasts of
Mexico and Alaska In his craft.
'LOST' SOLDIER OF
YAKIMA LOST
YAKIMA, Wash., April 3. No
trace has been found of Hurry Gor
man, the "lost" veteran who has
been enjoying Yakima's hospitality
for tho past woek and who yester
day went A. W. O. L. Descriptions
have been sent to police officers In
the towns between Yakima and Spo
kane, as it is believed he will try to
beat his way to tho latter city. He
had no money with him at tho time
he evaded the Red Cross official who
was with him while ho was trying to
put through a telephone call to an
assumed undo. For six tlnys tho man
Insisted he could not remember his
namo.
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SPOKANE, April 3. "Possibility
of federal anti-trust law prosecutions
In eastern Washington was indicated
todav bv United States District At-
I torncy Frank Joffroy, who said he
I had' conferred here yesterday with
; William E. Humphrey und Henry
Culler, special assistants to the at
! torney general In charge of anti-trust
prosecutions.
Mr. Jeffrey said they had Inquired
Into conditions and alleged violations
of tho anti-trust laws In this district
with a vlow to fedoral action.
INVENTED BY INDIANS
WASHINGTON, . April 3. Cer
tain Indian tribes have evolved a ro
cipo for "hooch" which would he In
valuable to the urban bootlegger, ac
cording to reports filed In tho Inte
rior department. Manufactured
from tho dried flowers of a cactus
plant which grows profusely. In most
western statos, tho beverage known
as peyote Is declared to have the
kick of triple distilled moonshine.
News Summary
of Last Night
NEW YOKK Poor nnd suspicion, to
be removed only by some form of an
association of nations, are the forces
betwoen France nnd Germany prevent
ing the settlement of tho reparations
problem, Lord Robert Cecil declared,
ESSEN Two Germans wounded by
French soldiers at the Krupp phiiit
last Saturday died, bringing the total
dead to 11. ',
STAR INJURED
LA ORANDK, Oro., April 3. Earl
Tilton ot Spokane, a member of the
Whitman football team. Is recover
In nt tho sanitarium at 'Hot Lake,
Oro. from an operation for romoval
of shot from his right knee, following
tho accidental dlschargo of a gun In
an nutomobllo In which bo wan riding
at Cove, 18 miles enst of Ia Orando.
Saturday. Tilton was spending his
KaHtnr vncation at Cove.
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MADRID An unconfirmed rumor
has it that tho Spanish cabinet has
resigned.
NEW YORK Miss Cnthlccn Van-derbllr-,
granddaughter of tho late Cor
nelius Vanderbllt, was announced to
bo engaged to Harry C. Cushlng, HI.
Tnnos Found Guilty.
ATLANTA, Ga., April 3. Victor
E. Innes was found guilty In I' n I loll
States district court here today on
the charge of using the malls to de
fraud, lie was sentenced to flvo years
In the penitentiary and to pay a fine
ol 11.000.
Turkey Goes Dry.
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 3.
Tho authorities put Into effect today
the prohibition order In response to
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