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IMPORTANT HE'JS
THE 170RLD OVER
M POUT A NT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOB
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
HE HEWS OF THE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In The South
land Will Be 'Found In
Brief Paragraphs
Foreisrn
The Japanese government, in its re
ply just forwarded to Washington, to
the American note of last September
complaining of a lack of co-operation
by Japanese troops in the operation
of the trans-Siberian railroad, draws
a sharp distinction between the mili
tary protection of the railroad which
i'- is willing to undertake.
Owing to the menacing advance of
the Bolshevist force, Admiral Kol
chak has ordered a preliminary evacu
ation of Omsk "by the American hos
pital and such government' depart
ments as are not directly necessary
in Omsk.
Colonel ; Emerson' has rescinded the
order to the American railway corps
to : retire from Siberia and the men
are remaining at their posts for duty.
The French government, as a com-;
pliment to Hugh C. Wallace United j
States' ambassador, has presented to
Tacoma, Wash., Mr. Wallace's home
town, one of the largest guns captur
ed, by the French from the Germans.
The German government, it is re
ported, does not consider itself bound
to surrender its authority over the ter
ritory of the free city of Danzig until
the United States shall have ratified
the treaty of peace.
November 10 has been fixed by the
supreme council as the date when
the plebiscite commission created un
der the German peace treaty shall
meet in Paris to discuss the elections
in the various areas the political af
filiation of which is to be settled by
popular vote. The United States will
not be represented even unofficialy at
this meeting.
France has taken the initiative in
presenting to the Washington govern
ment a new proposal for settlement of
the Fiume question. The newspapers
say tbe move has the support of Eng
land. The French Aedaemy has fixed the
conditions by which . next year ninety
endowments of five thousand dollars
i .!n i a a m v. :i :
eacu win ue inaue tu r reucu laiuuies
with the largest number of children.
The lockout which commenced in
Barcelona was the starting of a fight
tc the finish between the employers
and employees of Spain. Each side is
well organized, but it is freely pre
dicted that the employees will win.
Viscount Milner, British secretary
for the colonies, has sent a telegram
to the governor of British Guiana, de
nying that the British government has
any intention of selling British Guiana
-or any British West Indian colony.
Domestic
Finding of a note in the Chicago fed
eral building telling of a plot to blow
up the structure resulted in the rush
ing of several details of police to the
building.
Approximately fifty thousand bales
of cotton have been forwarded to Ger
many from Savannah and Galveston. ''
Approval by the Toledo, Ohio, voter's ,
of an ordinance forcing the street cai
company to suspend business finds the
city entirely unprepared to provide
transportation. Toledo will have to
walk unless there is some speedy so
lution. Mayor-elect Hancock of Mobile, ac
companied by te"n city commissioners
made formal demand of Mayor Phil
lans , and Commissioners George E.
Crawford, and Pat J. Lyons that they
relinquish the city government into
the hands of the new mayor and com
missioners. The demand was re
fused. .The price for this season's yellow
clarified sugar was fixed in New Or
leans at 17 cents a pound. The price
is subject to the approval of Attor
ney General Palmer. ;
Nothing but the official count,
which probably will not be completed
for a week or ten days, will determine
whether Ohio voters have approved
or repudiated'the action of the general
assembly in ratifying the federal pro
hibition amendment. The wets so far
are leading. . '.' .
In Mississippi, the Democrats, fac
ing a Socialist ticket, won a victory
by a plurality of approximately fifty
thousand. ; " ...
'Thomas Perry, a Chicago bantam
weight boxer, who was injured in his
bout with Sammy Marino of New York
at Milwaukee, die'd at Emergency hos
pital in Milwaukee, where he had hov
ered between life and death for three
clays. Death was caused ; by a frac
ture of the skull. : ' i
The question of a forty-eight hour
Jweek was debated by the international
labor conference ' at Washington. An
international convention limiting the
hours of work . in industry to 48 a
week in all countries ; ratifying the
agreement by July 1, 1921, was, pre
pared on the basis of the organizing
committee. ''. -'',.....'. '
In .New Jersey, which, was one of
the five states holding gubernatorial
elections, prohibition was an indirect
issue. The result ' is still in doubt
The Republican candidate said he
would, if elected, make New Jersey as
wet as the ocean.
'Agents of the department of - Jus
tice, led by William J. Flynn, arrest
ed more than two hundred radicals as
sembled in the headquarters in New
York City of the" Russian Soviet re
public, and, after they had been taken
to headquarters of the department of
justice, and cross-examined, fifty
were held for deportation as undesir
able aliens. Eight women were caken
in the raid, of whom two were held
for deportation. , ' ,
Five are dead and several others
are seriously injured as the result of
a fire that burned out the Wilson ho
tel in Atlanta, Ga. Property loss is
small. Besides the dead there were
twenty-five other people in the hotel,
including seven women. Some escap
ed by the stairway before the flames
cut them off. Some jumped to neigh
boring roofs . and escaped. Others
were xescued by firemen. A number
stayed in their rooms until the fire
was over without any injury except
smoke suffocation, which was slight
Wn.cMnf oil
Congress is preparing- to adjourn
without enacting any big reconstruc
tion measures. s
It has been definitely decided by
senate leaders that no more domestic
legislation of importance can be put
through at this session.
House leaders are still fighting for
action on the railroad bills, but the
decision of the senate interstate com
merce committee to abandon the Cum
mins i bill until next sossion dashes
that hope. . .
Army bills have been introduced in
the' house, hearings held, , but no bill
can be put through until after the
Christmas holidays. l
Tarif legislation has struck a snag.
The house has passed several bills
to protect the dye industry and other
industries likely to be liit by Euro
pean competition. These have bump
ed against the stone Vail of -the sen
ate, and will go over till the next sees
sion. Believing that Mr. Wilson intends
to end war prohibition as soon as the
peace treaty is ratified, the aggres
sive dry element in the house, led
by Representative Randall of Califor
nia, have laid all their plans to check
mate him, it is stated. It is their in
tention to seek an extension of the
war time prohibition for six months,
which extension will be added to the
food and fuel control act.
The first affirmative step toward
qualification of the peace treaty was
taken by the senate after administra
tion leaders, with the backing of Pres
ant wiierm hurt ronf f irmfid their in-"
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tention or voting agamsi rauueauuu
if the reservations drawn by. the sen
ate majority are adopted.
By a vote of 48 to 40 the senate
approved, after all efforts to amend
it had failed, the committee preamble
to the reservation group, requiring
that to make the peace treaty bind
ing at least three of the four great
powers must accept the senate quali
fications. Relief from threatened congestion of
wheat shipments apiars certain, it
is announced by the railroad adminis
tration. Notice has been served on Germany
by the allied and associated powers
in a note accomp? ying protocol for
warded, that the treaty of peace will
not go into force until Germany exe
cutes to the satisfaction of the allied
and associated powers, obligations as
sumed under the armistice convention
and additional agreements.
Vice President Marshall made a
short address to and shook hands with
the delegates to the international la
bor conference in session in Washing
ton. ' .
. A compilation just completed from
official sources of crimes during the
months of July. August and September
of this year in the Tampico oil fields
(Mexico) has been placed at the dis
posal1 of. the American government.
Six employees of the 'oil companies
were murdered and a total of more
than $71,895 in American gold secured'
by Mexican bandits in three months.
On August 11 two masked men, with
rifles entered a camp near EI Tigre,
Mexico, and murdened the boss car
penter in the very presence of his
wife by cutting his throat from ear
to ear. The carpenter and his wife
were the only persons in the camp
at the time and the wife was pros
trated. ; : ' " ,
The specific charge is made that
some of the robberies reported in
Mexico were participated in by Car
ranza soldiers. Discarded clothing
at the scenes of some of the robberies
bore the Mexican federal stamp that
is' placed upon soldiers' clothes.
A dispatch from London, August 3,
quoted the National News as saying
that a suggestion that the British West
Indies be ceded to the United States
in part payment of Great Britain's
war debt, is being seriously consid
ered on both sides of the Atlantic.
Pleasant A. Stovall, former, editor
and owner of the Savannah (Ga.)
Press, has resigned as ambassador to
Switzerland." ? He has held the post for
six and a half years, and it is his in
tention to retire permanently from
the diplomatic service and ret rn to
his Georgia 3 home. ; -
Plans for concentrating in the same
buildings the regional offices of the
war risk insurancj bureau, the fede
ral board for vocational education, pub
lic health sen Ice and the Red Cros3
in all cities where separate offices al
ready have been established are an
nounced by the treasury department
Announcing results of s the first au-1
thoritative information concerning the
comparative . meat consumption of the
city and country : population of this
country, the bureau of crop estimates
of the department of agriculture as
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1 Opening of the world's labor conference In the Pan-American building, Washington. 2 Pouiet and Beno
ist, French aviators,, photographed Just, before their start on a flight from France to Australia via Italy, Greece,
Arabia, Persia, India, Slam and BomeolSrJewish Poles offering ; to President PilsudskI of the republic of
Poland the traditional bread and salt of friendship .. . ' " '
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STRIKE
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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Government Refuses to Vacate
Legal Proceedings Against
Coal Strikers.
GOMPERS APPEAL IS IN VAIN
Operators Declare He Has Misrepre
sented the Facts People's Atti
tude Toward Radical Labor
Leadership Shown in Mas
sachusetts Election.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD.
Firmly refusing to be put In, the po
sition of compounding a felony, the
federal government has rejected the
proposition of the union labor leaders
that It abandon the legal proceedings
against the coal strike as a' prelimi
nary to negotiations for peace.
On Saturday Assistant Attorney
General Ames asked Federal Judge
Anderson at Indianapolis to make per
manent the restraining order, thus es
tablishing the Illegality of the strike.
If this is done, according to the lead-,
ers of the miners, the strike will be
of long duration because the men 'will
resist to the last any attempt at
wrongful compulsion."
In most of the bituminous fields
there was little change in the status,
though operators In Colorado . and
West Virginia reported gains In pro
duction. - In several . states the shortage of
coal began to make Itself felt and
there were appeals for the release of
coal confiscated by the railroads ; . a
number of trains were cancelled to
save fuel ; in some places the schools
were closed for short periods.
President Wllsbn gave to. Fuel Ad
ministrator Garfield full authority
over prices, distribution and shipment
of all fuel- Doctor" Garfield delegated
to the railroad administration his au
thority over distribution.
Such broadly was the. coal strike
situation at the time of writing. There
was little sign of yielding on either,
side. The operators of; Illinois were
of the opinion that the "strike would
last two weeks; longer and that then
public opinion and the government
would compel the miners to call it
off and accept arbitration, in which
case the operators would agree to the
five-day week, if assured of adequate
supply of cars, and would grant an
Increase ;of wages. -
Samuel Gompers, who with W. S.
Stone, head of the locomotive engi
neers, has been working to bring about
a compromise, made the appeal for
vacation of the injunction against, the
strike, and issued a statement de
signed to Justify, the demands made
by the strikers and accusing the op
erators of much wrongdoing and un
fairness. The latter retorted with a
statement saying that Mr. Gompers
pronouncement was full of misrepre
sentations, continuing: ,
"It is not true that the operators'
representatives walked out of Secretary-
Wilson's conference, leaving Mr.
Lewis with no alternative but to call
a strike. The operators' representa
tives accepted President Wilson's pro
posal in its entirety and withdrew
from the conference in order that
their "presence might not embarrass
Secretary Wilson in his effort to per
suade the miners to take the honorable
course thus opened to them. " '
"At the time of their withdrawal,
the operators advised Secretary Wil
son that they, would remain in Wash
ington, awaiting his call to further
conference. ,-: , ;(, .:, .
."It .Is not true, as Mr. Gompers Im
plies, that the miners, are not permit
ted by the operators to work full time.
The operators have no control over
the demand for coal. They can merely
stand ready to produce and furnish
It ! when the public requires and Is
willing to accept It.
"It is not true that the miners ' re
ceived an advance of 20. cents a ton
In 1914.
'It Is not true that the operators
raised the price of coal $5 a ton In
1914. On thet contrary, the price was
reduced. . . v';il-v;.'V
"It is not true, as L- Mr. Gompers
states, that, for the. past several years
the miners have ' averaged only 160
to 180 working days a year.
"It Is a fact, however and . Mr.
Gompers could easily have ascertained
it that virtually every bituminous
mine In the country has on Its pay
roll a substantial number of men who
deliberately lay off from one to three
days a week when they have an op
portunity to work."
Samuel Gompers and his conserva
tive associates among the leaders of
the American Federation of Labor de
serve commendation for their efforts
to keep the radicals and anarchists
from . gaining control over organized
labor In this Country, but they are not
doing their cause or themselves any
good by giving their full support to
such movements as the coal strike,
the steel strike and the strike of Bos
ton policemen. Public sympathy Is be
ing rapidly alienated by some of the
methods adopted by union labor, and
In America public sympathy is abso
lutely necessary to success in such
matters.
- That the people really are waking
up to the perils of the situation was
fully demonstrated In thai Massachu
setts election. Governor Coolidrre,.
who had taken a firm stanQ against
the striking policemen and had in
sisted on the maintenance of law and
order, was up for re-election and was
opposed by Richard H. Long. The lat
ter, running on the Democratic ticket,
had promised to reinstate the police
men if elected, and the contest really
centered in the strike. The result of
course, everyone knows Cool idge was
returned by an overwhelming' major
ity and the radicals, who had gath
ered their forces to the support of
Long were crushed.
Of the other elections of the week
the most Interesting was in Kentucky,
where E. P. Morrow, Republican, de
feated Governor Black by a large plu
rality and ; the state-wide prohibition
amendment won.: In New Jersey E.
I. Edwards, Democrat who ran on a
wet platform, was elected governor;
and Ohio voted wet on all four of the
liquor propositions presented, accord
ing to Incomplete returns. Maryland
and Mississippi were carried by the
Democrats. In New York city . Tam
many sustained a terrific defeat, los
ing ten aldermen and eighteen assem
blymen besides various pther offices.
The Oyster Bay district sent Lieut.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt to the as
sembly with a whopping big vote.
President Wilson warmly congratu
lated Governor Coolidge on his vic
tory over the forces of misrule, as do
all good citizens regardless of party.
The Republican leaders also, rejoiced
because they looked on the results In
the BayJ state and in Kentucky as a
forecast of the results in the ,next
presidential election. Democrats were
elated over New Jersey, and the wets
derived much comfort over the vote
In ;. that ; state and In Ohio.
Despite the apparent deadlock over
the peace treaty' in the senate, the in
dications are that pn agreement for
early final action is at hand. Secre
tary Tumulty arranged with the pres
ident's physicians for a visit by Sen
ator Hitchcock to Mr. Wilson In order,
to lay before him the entire situation,
explain the evident intentions of the
majority concerning reservations and
obtain the president's word as to what
he would accept in that line. - Over
and over again Mr. Wilson has said
he would accept no change In the
treaty or reservation ; which would
compel the resubmission of the pact
to the other nations, and the majority
senators are taking cognizance of his
determination. Already they have
changed " the Lodge reservations by a
sentence pointing out that the . ac
ceptance of the v reservations Jby the
other, powers, as required by the pro
posed ratification . resolution, may be
obtained through an exchange of dip
lomatic notes. They also planned to
strike out the fourteenth reservation,
declaring the, United ; States is not
bound to submit to the League of Na
tions questions of vitaj interest .or na
tional honor. V - ' : .
According to Paris advices the
treaty of .Versailles will become eff ec-
ti ve on November 28, when the ex
change of ratifications between Ger
many and such nations as have rati
fied the . pact will take place. Ger
many has not ", yet fulfilled a njumber
of. the provisions of the armistice and
was Instructed by the supreme coun
cil to send a delegation to Paris on
November 10 to sign a protocol guar
anteeing to carry them out, and also
to surrender certain vessels and float
ing 'docks as a penalty for the sink
ing of the warships In Scapa Flow.
Germany Is excited over the revela
tions In a leading Berlin paper of a
big communist plot for an uprising
this winter which, beginning with
strikes to cripple industry, shall end
in the establishment of a soviet form
of government in close association
with the present bolshevik govern
ment of Russia. The conspiracy. It Is
said, is led and financed by Russians.
The outbreak Is to have its beginning
In the Ruhr coal-mining district, al
ready full of ISpartacans,; and Munich
and Brunswick will be among ths
main centers of uprising." The com
munists believe a .Jarge part of the
national defense army will desert and
join their red army.
The pendulum of civil war swings
back' and forth with -considerable
regularity In Russia. At this writing
It is the bolshevik! that are winning.
General Yudenitch and his white
army of the northwest not only failed
to reach Petrograd but are nowv said
to be In a most precarious situation.
The reds assert they are surrounding
him, that they are receiving heavy re
enforcements and that bolshevik
troops are attacking him in the rear
from Luga. This, however, came di
rect from Trotzky, and he Is a notori
ous liar. Consideration must be given
a report from Helsingfors that 20.000
Finns have secretly volunteered to
join Yudenitch and are well equipped.
Denikine's artillery has destroyed
Derbent on the Caspian sea, and he
claims the Don Cossacks In the tatted
part of October captured 55.000 i bol-
sneviKi. jam ne aoes not seem to. be
getting much nearer to Moscow. Ad
miral Kolchak's Siberian armies,
which' were defeated on the Tobol
-ver. have retired far to the east and
,.kely are still on the move.
The bolshevik government leaders
have reiterated their willingness to
make peace and to pay the old Rus
sian debt if they are let alone.
Congress had been dawdling along
in the matter of railroad ; legislation,
bnt was aroused to action last week
when Director General HInes in
formed Senator Cummins that Presi
dent Wilson had determined to return
the roads to their owners on; January
1 whether or not congress had passed
any bill for their regulation. It was
recognized as impossible to pass the
Cummins bill or anything like It at
this session, so work was begun at
once on a temporary measure to meet
the emergency and to avert a threat
ened financial catastrophe. It will
provide for the restoration of the
roads to their former owners and for
continuation of the government guar
anty, but all controversial matters,
like the anti-strike provisions of the
Cummins bill, will be omitted.
General Pershing, appearing before
the" senate and bouse military commit
tees, opposed the creation of an Inde
pendent department of aviation as pro
posed In the New bill, but urged the
concentration of authority for the pro
curement of airplanes' for the army,
navy and post office departments.
A special army board has Just made
a report recommending that congress
enact an aviation policy based either
on a ten-year program with large i an
nual appropriations 1 1 guaranteed to
stimulate commercial aeronautics, or
make appropriations for air! develop
ment by the post office, war and navy
departments, flf the former policy Is
adopted the . board recommended- that
a f separate department of aeronautics
be created ; if the latter, that a com
mission, under the director of aeronau
tics .reporting directly to the president
be formed to co-ordinate the work. :
Secretary Baker transmitted the re
port to the senate committee, stating
that he . disagreed with both the pro
posals, x He said if -a ' single agency
were to be, created. It should -be ap
pointed and controlled, by ; the cabinet
members whose - departments wot$d
be directly affected.
that
orders of nff5,L ot.
not above the hJ
Formal and fiaal fl
sovernment'3 nm,v., CH
the coal strike d(
attorney gcnoral
miners' cvlt
were stnin.,. . a' Ii.
how to answe, the
Peremptorj- commandT
strike order dto
Descrihincr ..
speaking with full a"?N
government, announced 72
Power of the United SuS
exerted to
court.
"Although no reference I
the attorney ?0ni.. H
the Dronnntifonit .
bor, supporting the
manding withdrawal offaw
ceedines. it mK
mer had that documenting
DEPORTATIbiTpJI
iu BEGIN IMMEDIATE
Washington.-Deportation v
in OTrt V.A 1 J
nave ueen instituted in
ugl "4 Cities lu HQ tfift pnmh.j
. - ""Willi (U
violent radicals caught in jd
wme rams, Attorney General
announced.
Instructions have gone fat
.ment of justice agents, tie at;
general said, to permit no Mk
stltuting formal hearings, preij
to the actual deportations,
ances have been received from
government departmnts having
with deportations that action
be taken to expedite the cases.
FIRST CONVENTION OF THE
LEGION GETS SMOOTHES
Minneapolis, Minn. The it
vention of the American legia
underway smoothly here, altioc
Chairman Henry D. Lindsley, oIM
expressed it, "the conventioaM
powers and I hope no legion nr.!
tion ever will have a program"
The importance of decision! ti
.would be expected of the various
mittSfes was emphasized, howerer.
Mr. Lindsley when he "declared
legion "would affect the Wi
thought of the American people
other organization has ever dow
TOLEDO TRACTION MEN
WANT ANOTHER CH.
Toledo, Ohio With the $
trarMnn rnmnanv officials la
lock over settlement of the sW
question the operating concerij
Toledo Railways and Light WEj
began the circulation or a p
f h an ordinance,
bodying the granting of a m
. .i,.--. cuVvmittpd to the TO !
another election.
. ..ir.MllTWT OF
SPEEDY ADJUU"11 - - a
CONGRESS IS EXPH
. . . rr-ua railroad If
Washington . u
have the right of way to WJ
with final vote set undtf y
ment reached by ' J
the bill will be follow
by adjournment of t e S
of Congress, the agree
consideration of the J
senate going over . npcemher
session beginning"
CANADA MUST J
RESTRICTIONS
Washiiigton.-m is
more American coal ' i
for emergencies Can f
restrictions on m u. cited
to those in effect s th ,
This statement a
railroad s
committee afte ' m hj
complaint In the
commons by J ng of Alb
raUways, thai ,
suffering from lackol
developed over g
increasing
who desire final act
ve a rece before , I
slon of congress
weeks, 0PV0sMWtm
treaty rMfJttW
ten of the
which was fflmitte.
tign flatios -