LATEST NEWS IN ABRIDGED FORM Events That Concern the Two Hemispheres FOREIGN NEWS EPITOMIZED Executive and-Legislative Ac- tivities at the Capitals Sales in bulk by Army stores to mu- micipalities and community-buying or ganizations was authorized by Secre tary of War Baker. Orders must be placed locally and goods delivered to consumers at the prices prevailing in the retail stores. Efforts to force an immediate issue, jabor's proposal that the steel strike be arbitrated, failed in the Industrial Conference. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, is suf. fering from nervous exhaustion. Brig.-Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt has been awarded the Distinguished Serv ce Medal. Appointment of General March, chief of staff, and Major Generals Hunter Liggett and Robert L. Bullard to the permanent rank of lieutenant general in recognition of their services during bill introduced by Chaimman Wads worth, of the Senate Military Commit tee. . American troops, which will form part of the force to occupy the Prov. ince of Silesia, if such action is ordered by the Supreme Council in Paris, will sail this week from New York on the transport President Grant. A favorable report on a resolution extending for one year after the prod lamation of peace war-time restrictions on passports so as to keep radicals and ndesirable aliens out of the country was ordered by the House Foreign Re lations Committee. Secretary Glass recommended to Congress an appropriation of $20,000, 000 to enable the Federal Board of Vocational Training to carry out the purposes of the vocational training act director of the United States Grain Corporation, has President Wilson the export and import embargoes on wheal Julius Barnes asked tO raise Instructions that preparations be made to distribute part of the Army's reserve supply of sugar to the public were canceled after Secretary of War Baker had been advised by offices that the present surplus in the hands of the dephartmen® was sufficient for only two and a half months, Americanization of foreigners should be an immediate effort of Congress through legislation, declared Senator Kenyon, of lowa, chairman of the Sen- ate Labor Committee, which returned from an investigation of the strike in the Pittsburgh district steel More than 1,200 men of the Marine Corps serving In Haiti and San Do- mingo, who enlisted for the period of the war, will be brought to the United 1 Some official action, either by Presi dent Wilson or the threatened strike of soft-coal min. ers November 1 is to be expected, it was said at the White House. Medical officers killed in action meet death accidentally, within the meaning of the Standard Accident Insurance contracts, the Supreme Court in effect held. Failure of Governors to call special legislative sessions to ratify the Fed eral woman suffrage amendment be met by has been adopted Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, stated in an opinion sent to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, The House Military Committee ap E. H. Crowder the rank ol Lieutenant General on his retirement, in recognition “for conspicuous serv- lce in execution of the selective law.” The world’s supply of cattle, sheep and swine is approximately wbat it was at the outbreak of the Europeafl War, according to a report by the De. partment of Agriculture. The Senate Military Committee voted unanimously to recommend an additional appropriation of $15,000,000 for army aircraft construction. General Organized labor's course in calling strikes in American industry was de. nounced in the Senate by Senator Myers, Democrat, Montana, -» he Greek delegation to the Inter national Labor conference, opening in Washington, October 28, will start next week for Washington, Creation of a budget bureau under supervision of the President was pro posed in a bill reported by the Special House Committee appointed to inves tigate the feasibility of such a system. ‘GENERAL There will be no poMtical debate on the League of Nations covenant in the House of Deputies of the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Walter A. Shaw, of Illinois, was elected president of the National Asso ciation of Railways and Utilities Com: mission, The plant of the O. H. Whiting Mill ing Company was destroyed with a loss of $125,000. The Episcopal veanvention decided to erect a new dMocese in Southern Virginia, At Delaware City there was a cele bration marking the transfer of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to the Federal Government. Among these making speeches were Mayor Broen ing and Congressman Linthicum, of Baltimore. Congressman J. Hampton Moore, candidate fer Mayor of Phila delphia, was the central figure in the exercises. An explosion of oil occurred on the United States merchant marine tanker Chestnut Hill on the Delaware River. Four workmen were kllled and twelve othars were burned. Coal operaters and miners of the central competitive fleld which em braces Western Pennsylvania, Ohlo, Indiana and lllinois, came to a com plete break when the joint wage con ago at Buffalo was adjourned in Phila been reached. Because of failure to reach an agree ment between striking engine house employes and Penneylvania Company the six allied crafts Altoona and Juniata the in road the In addressing a zone meeting of the Mississippi Valley Association Presi dent Harry H. Merrick, of Chicago pledged the entire power of the organ backed by 50,000,000 popula 32,000,000 farmers, ization including tion, and eggs, two or present size at a than present Alton E Super New York.—A natica-wide wom- en's campaign to urge the United States Senate to conclude imine diately peace by ratification of the peace treaty was inaugurated here with organization of the Women's Nonpartisan Committee for the league of nations. Mrs. J. Borden Harriman was elected chairman of the executive committee, Dr. Katharine B. Davis was made chairman of the general body with Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt as honorary chairman. A New York committee of 100 was formed to forward intensive work to obtain signatures to a pe- tition to the Senate from the wom- en of the State in support of the league of nations. Enlistment of the women of the other 47 States in the Union In the nonpartizgan committee was planned, and steps to begin enroll ment in the national campaign were initiated, SENATE VOTES ON SHANTUNG Rejected DEBATE ENDS AT LAST Three Democrats Voted With Repub 14 Re publicans Voted With The licans For Amendment; Cemocrats. The peace Shantung amend treaty pre and approved Committee, the Senate wilh a Yen score nin ts de the word “Japan “China' {tee In amendments now by the on J Senate previously cted ing. one 'n to American 06 on n the mi and yoling power in ihe Reparations Co gsion, two to equalization of League of Na tions assembly After the vole was wounced tha would move to strike out entirely the sections awarding the Shantung rights to Japan 3 1] i 3 completed Sen ator Lodge an: later he Notice also was given by a number of the Republican who opposed the ment that they senators amend wixild present reser commitiee | award Senator Williams, Democrat, Mis elssippi, injected into the discussion a bitter denunciation of the attitude of Irish-Americans, and sharp re plies were made by Senators Phelan and Garry, Democrats, Rhode Island | Senator Hale, Republican, of Maine, announced that he would vole against all amendments pending and witk Senators Edge, New Jersey, and Ster ling. South Dakota, Republicans, known to be against any textual some all amendments offered by opponents | of the treaty would be defeated. TO PROBE WHEAT SITUATION, ized To Act. Washington. Favorable report was the resolution of Senator Owen, Dem ocrat, of Oklahoma, providing for an investigation by the Agriculture Com: mittee into the wheat situation. Un der the resolutions provisions the committee would inquire into the rea gong for the embargo on wheal, as to transportation facilities for wheat other States and as to tonnage for shipment of wheat abroad. FOUNDRY TO RETAIN WOMEN, Brass Concern Finds Their Wark Good Under Male Foremen. Cincinnati. Women who took war jobs are working in one line of the industry in this city. Several of the brass foundries have found women adapted particularly to work on small copes. They have determined to rely upon female help. A male foreman, however, is kept og the job to super! vise the work. The women turn out good work. ¢ WARCHISTS PLO Plan the Destruction of Canton ments and Other Property West Virginia To Colorado Said To Have Been Marked For Destruction, Chicago.—Federal military authorities assigned low the trail of radicals who | been spreading their propaganda | connection with the strike of the steel | workers, have discovered an anarchis | tic piot to destroy | cantonments and | property. i i i have fry ina abandoned other army to have been un The plot is said { earthed in covery at Gary, tion with the dis ind. leader, conned of Anton Gorski { alleged radical who is sald to | be { with the hic upder survelllagee in connection explosion of a t bomb he #80 postoflice in September, when four persons wel thirty in HWreq 4 * Tra ¥ & G intel raids at erature sary They reported finding a quar sw uf a 1 ps -y a or tty of radical propaganda and a larg: print a ¥ Lerman German ag mad of silk 4 piatoon he windows The ging] wt Kers disavowed roclamati yesterday by the communist r of America “calling on the work establish a diciat control of Gary troops. sn to orshit and wrest from Federal LEAGUE INVITATIONS DRAFTED, Supreme Council Approves Text To Be Sent Neutrals. Paris. —The Supreme ap proved the text of a notification to be addressed to the neutral powers which will be asked to join the League of Nations, setting forth the conditions | under which they may adhfre to the covenant of the league The council also approved the draft de Allied Germa: Council of 2a note to be sent to Germany manding the surrender fo the and powers of ships which were turned over during the war to companies in the Nether lands and which are at psesent in Ger man ports The declares that the sales are void bocause of their ir Another draft of a Cermany, regarding German represen tations on the subject of the territors of Meme!l, on the eastern Baltic associated note note to fron Memel nounced by the treaty of Versailles. The solu of this question, it is said, con corns only the Allies and associated powers. ’ with Germany, which re VISCOUNT GOUGH DEAD. In Washington. Viscount Gough (Hugh €ough), secre tary of the British embassy in Wash: ington from 1884 to 1806, and later secretary of the British embassy in Berlin. He was 70 years old. consnamibosnssoin ¥ GEN. PERSHING TO TESTIFY. Will Give Congressional Committee Views On Army Bill Washington.—Gen. John J. Persh. ing probably will appear before the Senate and House Military Affairs Committees, to give his views on army reorganization. Pershing's appear’ ance will conclude the hearings on the army reorganization bill before the House committes, which have extend ed over four woeks. i COURT IN CERMANY TO PLACE BLAME FOR WAR get up by the eral request question the leading of the war, and charges statesmen and mil 1 # _ “ut & ¥ leaders alleged to have erimuinally culpable for thelr bringing unnecessarily, will open this week. (The stitution i on in or continuing it its sillings direct ocecarior of the a demand for a charges Former and a resolution Assembly investigation.) Laudendorff, For Bernstorflf and Beathmar AMOng of the in- nvestigation was Laodendor inquiry upon the against him by Chancellor Beheldemann National general by General court of made of the demanding a General Ambassador mer mer For- Chancellor von 1 be Hollweg will witnesses be heard the to takes tribunal presenta iy was NEARING NORMA German-Russian Attempt io Take City Seems Failure POLES ASSIST DEFENDERS Reported To Have Captured Town Of Kovno, Near Courland Border— A State Of Siege Has Been Declared. GERMANS AT MATAU OCUSTED. rn Russian Cen- usted the German aun placing them by tussian ZOV- HNUssian go ernor general eidemann, ac ived siege cording to a wireless dispatch rece from Berlin A state of has been declared at Mitau General Von Eberiand has the Lithuanian government delegates to a conference at Satkany and the in been accepted, the dispatch here invited w¥ nd held has declares. A dispatch filed at Helsingfors Octo- ber 12 by the British mission confirms press reports 1x ment which fled from Riga at the proach of the German-Russian had returned to the city. that the ttisl vern- ap forces, 1 RB ESTHONIANS GIVE Berli Newspaper dispatches ceived here from Mitan tinued fighting between Russian and Lettish AlD. 0. Tre con- the Germano troops, the en- report arrival of 6,000 Esthonian reinforce The messages report mano-Russian forces munde, the port at the mouth of the on the south side of the river, Bolderaa, just to the south of that the occupied Duna- Ger Duna ITALY TO SEND NEW ENVOY. Di Cellere. Rome. Baron Romano, Avezzano is to be appointed Italian Ambassador to the United States. The Baron, whe has been Minister to Greece, arrived in Rome Tuesday. SHIP LOSS 7,769,000 TONS. Britain Announces War Damage To Merchant Vessels, London. British merchant vessels lost through enemy action during the ‘war totaled 7,759,000 gross tons, it was officially announced. Submarine ae tion was responsible for the loss of 6.636.059 tons of this total. The loss of 14,287 lives was involved in the sinkings, the official réport adda. §