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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<chickens
three times their
colt not much greater
prices, predicted by
Briggs, Boston, president
was
of
ciation,
York's latest strike—that of
members of the
Brotherhood of Teamsters,
Helpers—tied up the principal
railroad terminals of the greater city
Three
New
11.000
and
more entrants In
and six others arrived at San Fran
cisco.
labor in and about the
anthracite coal mines
of the men will be reduced below
scale they were paid April 1, 1316,
class of
of any
President Wilson has been pro
claimed a prophet by the Mohamme
dans of Egypt.
FOREIGN
Freight traffic between Hamburg and
New York has resumed Monday when
Keroles safled for the United
States with a mixed cargo.
the
The bill providing for a progressive
income tax was adopted in the Belgian
Senate by a virtually unanimous vole,
The crews of German sybmarines
who have been interned in Spain have
sailed from Vigo en route for home.
The income tax in France amounted
to 712,600,000 francs in 1918, according
to the report published in the Journal
Officiel, an Increase of more than 460,
000,000 frames over the returns of the
in afcordance with orders from the
Entente establishing a blockade of Bal
tic porta, all German ships have been
Reports of a crime wave in Frante
accentuated by criminal acts
According to a rédport in Vatican
guarters, there is still a probability
that a new American cardinal will be
appointed at the Consistory. :
Two thousand lives have been lost
in the wreck of an unnamed British
ship on the Norwegian coast, accord
ing to a wireless dispatch from Hel
singfors.
A modus vivendi has beer reached
in' Siberia between the Japanese and
American expeditionary forces con
cerning the protection of the trans
Siberian Railway.
Authoritative information was re.
ceived that the Russidh-German troops
under Von der Goltz had captured Riga
from the Letts,
The French Senate ratified the
peace treaty and also the Franco
American and Franco British defense
treaties,
Hugo Haase, leader of the Independ.
ent Socialists, was shot only a quarter
of an hour before he expected to make
a sensational disclosure in the Nat
tional Assembly.
10 ASSIST STATES
American Army at the Service
of Governors
ORDER MUST BE MAINTAINED
War Department Head Announces
That Federal Troops Will Respond
Te The Call Of Any Governor
Teo Suppress Riots.
Cleveland.-—Addressing the dele
gates to the comvention of the Ohio
Federation of Women's Clubs, Becre
tary of War Newton D. Baker, refer
ring to the agitation and unrest in
this country since the signing of the
armistice, manifesting itself. some
but for the most part evidepced
widespread industrial
sald the National administration is de
termined that federal laws be enforced
and federal agencies left
and federal
spond Instantly to
governor
orders ln any state,
After referring to the di
in countries of
world, Secretary Baker said
“In since the
unobstruct
will re
of
and
ed that troops
the call
to suppress riots
sturbhed
Various
our
Own country
ar
growing agi
itself
mob dis
ting
i
netimes no
denced by
widespre
Hila
filled
counsel
ial revolution.
“The Ameri
Peopis
foundations
Ww pr
IErams
capital are
at
f representative
Ol representiat
and
President,
of
the
with confidence
mature dell
“In the meantime, the
heart Sometime
goverr
Union that
il disorder which he
graphed to the
tata | rh
state in }
11 ¥ % ts rf resl Fy
Un WO CORIro: Oy
¥
of the of
Guard
demobilization
the
directly
of
governor shot
with the
the department
Hes, and 1 «
telegraphed to every depart
mander to respond instantly
federal troops, to any eal
found himsel
means at his
posal, to suppress disorder and t
governor who
with the
%
har % |
the local la
“The adn
ws
at
iinistratic
od
be
performance
We have Army
f true Americans
tod disorder
undervalue law and order
country.
“They
laws are
cies left
mn
that eyery
maintained
of its
of tried
They
in the
shall
functi
an :
sean
word to
in their own
have
much
will see to it that federal
enforced and federal agen
unobstructed, and they will
respond instantly to the call
governor suppress riots and
order in any part of the country. They
are not partisans in any dispute ex
cept one, and that is the dispute be
tween those who want order and those
who try to create disorder in America
As between those lwo contestants,
they are on the side of order.
dis
to
GAMBLERS MUST PAY TAX.
Winnings Classed As Earnings In Un.
official Report.
Albany, N. Y.-—-Poker® winnings,
market profits and other earnings de-
rived from gambling are
state income tax, according
unofficial
head of the Incgme Tax Bureau.
the same reason IOsseg by
may be deducted in compiling net in
come schedules. ;
subject
to
SENATE TO RECEIVE ALBERT.
Body Will Recess October 28 To Wel.
come Royal Visitor.
Washington. The Senate will re
ceive the King of Belgium on Tues.
day, October 28,
man of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee, offered 8 motion that the Sen.
ate recess at 130 P. M. that day in
order to welcome the royal visitor,
It was agreed to without digcussion.
WORLD WAR LEGION ENDS.
Abandonment Announced In State.
ment-—Encampment Cancelled.
New York.-—Abandonment of organ.
ization of the World War Legion and
cancellation of its national encamp
ment scheduled for this week at Pitts.
burgh were announced in a statement
from its Washington headquarters. All
World War Legion members have been
urged to join the American Legion as
the officially recognized body of vet
erans of the war, the statement sald.
WOMEN LAUNCH NATION.
WIDE DRIVE FOR TREATY
AND LEAGUE.
>
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.
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