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IMrwn I Art l nr-r-tmnivaQ vr- i ni AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN - - -V.-.V ' . . . . 0. V ' A V. . A T.'M I W lllll II t -stus-zk ".u IMPORTANT MS THE WORLD OVER THE NEVS OfTHE SOUTH What It Taking Place In The South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Foreign Commenting on the reported inten tion of the United States Asiatic squadron to visit Australia, the Syd ney Daily Telegraph recently said edi torially: ""The American fleet may be assured of an enthusiastic and unani mous welcome. Our welcome swill show .how eager we are to frustrate the work of those who would spread suspicion and misunderstanding be- tween" the peoples of the British em pire and of the United States. . The supreme council has agreed upon December 1 as the date when the German peace treaty will be for mally ratified. Further informal dis cussions have been held with the Ger man representatives. Stephen Pichon, French foreign minister, and Sir Eyre Crose, assist ant under-secretary for foreign af fairs of Great Britain, exchanged rati fication of the treaty guaranteeing British aid to France if, without provocation, she is attacked by Ger many. The announcement of the ratification of the treaty caused con siderable surprise. Ten persons were killed and 120 in jured, 90 of whom suffered gunshot wounds, in a riotous demonstration at Cairo, Egypt. Three police stations were set on fire by mobs, which lib erated prisoners and paraded through the streets, carrying wounded rioters. The British restored order ultimately. Six thousand persons participated in the Coptic demonstration on. the oc casion of the funeral of a Copt killed. In , the afternoon ten thousand, most ly Moslems, paraded through the prin cipal streets of Alexandria, Egypt. The demonstration was orderly. Switzerland's adhesion to the league of nations was voted by the Swiss na tional council, 124 to 45. The vote came after eight days of debate. The revolutionary movement put on against the Kolchak government at and around Vladivostok, Russia, has been put down, it is reported, by the Kolchak government. General Gaida, who was wounded, was captured. The government forces are in complete control of Vladivostok. T T 1 a i xl rremier j-iioya-ueorge, la lue xung lish house of commons, during the course of the debate of the Russian problem, said: "In whichever direc tion we go we are marching into a fog. No country has ever intervened in Russia without coming to grief." v Ernest Lundeen, former ' congress man from the Fifth Minnesota district who was to speak at a local theater against the league .of nations, was taken from the stage by members of the American Legion escorted to tve railroad tracks and locked in a refrig erator car. Members of the train crew heard his shouts 4 and released him 20 miles from Ortonville. On tha eve of a final vote on the peace treaty President Wilson gave the senate to understands that unless It modified the reservations already adopted he would tawe me treaty I to the white house and lock it in his desk. . V n o (A domestic i The body of little "Billy" Dansey, for whom a nation-wide search had been conducted since his disappear ance from his home at Hammonton, N,-J., several weeks ago, was found by a hunter in a swamp near that place. After viewing the body, Cor oner Cunningham expressed belief that the boy was the yictim of foul Play. Judge Wellborne, Moore of Sparta, Ga., a member of the Georgia state legislature and widely known in po litical circles throughout the state and the South, is dead. He was instantly killed when his automobile turned over one mile out of Haddock, Ga. Westbound Union Pacific passen ger train No. 19 was held up and pas sengers robbed between Medicine Bow and Rock River, Wyoming. The train robber operated single-handed. The government has stepped to the front to force miners and operators to negotiate a new wage agreement and resume work in the bituminous filleds before' the country is in the grip of a coal famine. Clothed with all of his war-time powers as fuel administrator, and , acting by direct authority of the president's cabinet, Dr. Harry A, Garfield called a point meeting of scale committees, at which he was expected to give formal notice that the time had come to resume mining operations on a normal scale. Meanwhile word had been passed that the strike situation had reached that point where action was regarded by federal authorities . as absolutely imperative. Public ownership of timber land, national or state is advocated by the Paper and Pul association's commit tee on forest conservation in a report submitted by the association confer ence at New York. j.ue government oy an opinion iu the Supreme court won its fight to have cancelled pateuts for 6,000 acn d n.if . . - . . . vi. vomuiuiu on lanu vuiueu at ten million dollars, alleged tc have been obtained through fraud by the South ern Pacific company. The formal resignation of Carter Glass as secretary of the treasury, to gether with a letter from President -m . . A. mm vvnson, urging mm tu awvy. me ap pointment as United States senator from Virginia, has been made public by the state department at Washing ton. . ; , : : . -. ' ; Seven Chicago robbers bound and gagged three men, blew open a large safe in the offices of the Standard Oil company of Indiana, partly, wreck ed a smaller one and escaped with about eight thousand dollars. Detec tives pronounced the safe-blowing as the work it expert cracksmen. Washington , American exports in October, 1919, were valued at $632,000,000, an in crease of ; $35,000,000 over those in September and oj $130,000,000 over those in October a year ago. The secretary of war announces that in view of the fact that the num ber of men prescribed for the Amer ican forces in France and Germany for the infantry and engineer corps have been obtained, enlistments for those countries will be discontinued. President Wilson placed the gov ernment again in control of the na tion's food supply by transferring the authority of food administrator to At torney General Palmer. Revival of the war-time functions of Administra tor Hoover resulted directly from government efforts to avert a famine in sugar, but the, powers delegated to the head of the department of jus tice will be also to help put down the ever-mounting cost of living. For the presentNthe attorney general will not put into operation all of the machin ery permitted under the executive or der. . Avenues . of speculation leading many ways were 'opened up when of- ficials and diplomats turned over in their minds ' the possible results at home and abroad that are to follow termination of the special session of congress without senate ratification of the treaty. President Wilson has considered the possibility of negotiating a new peace treaty in the event of the rejection by the senate of the present treaty, but it now develops that he virtually has rejected that alternative as im practicable. It is stated by those in position to know that the thoughts of the peace treaty's friends in the senate centered on accomplishing some compromise for a ratification in the session begin ning December l,and to that end steps are understood to have been taken by them to ascertain from President Wil son what reservations the other great powers woufd accept. The Mexican embassy has received information that General Angeles, one of Villa's right-hand lieutenants, has been captured. Angeles had recently prepared a plan of campaign for Villa, the object of which was to cut off Mexico City from the north and to make it possible to formulate a plan of invading the City of Mexico itself. Another effort to bring industrial peace to the United States is to be made by, a conference of former fed eral and state officials, business men and economists, the . personnel of which has already been announced bys President Wilson. Lack of adequate training of pilots was responsible for some fatalities in the recent trans-continental derby, Lieut. Belvin' W. Maynard, the win ner, told a house sub-committee. Of ficers of high rank whose experience had been confined to desk work en-: tered the race- 'because there were no superior officers to pass on their ability. Junior officers were tested to determine their fitness to com- pete. , Whisky and beer made their last stand in .the Supreme court of the United States. Despairing of any hope that President Wilson would lift the ban in time to enable them to dispose of their stocks before consti tutional prohibition settles down upon the land, the liquor interests of the country are concentrating0 all their efforts toward obtaining even a brief hiatus. Settlement of the controversy over disposition of the German liner Im- perator was, indicated by shipping board oficials, who intimated the ship would be tendered immediately to Great Britain. Denyijg persistent rumors to the tficct that the federal reserve banks have contemplated the recall of loans made on cotton or the future issu ance of loan., W. P. G. Harding, gov ernor or the federal ? eserve board, in IoHqk tn Ronptnr Smith of South Carolina, states the only change made in the positio nof the bangs regard ing cotton loans is a tendency to strict er examination into grade of cotton Shown by the receipts pledged as col lateral. ,' Ludwig C. A. K. Mortens, self-styled "ambassador of the Russian Soviet government tc the United States gov eminent," has offered to prov'de trans portation from the United States to Russia for all Russian citizens who desire to leave the United States, or whose presence in the United States is undesirable. This offer iy made m a letter written by Martens to Sec retary of State .Lansinf. Compliance by the i-eople with pro visions of the prohibition enforce ment act during the first two weeks of its life is reported by Commis sioner Roper of the bureau of internal revenue. ' . ; ' ' ,. Mexico has been warned by the American government that any fur ther molestation of William-O." Jen kins, the American, consular, agent at Puebla, who recently was kidnaped by bandits would seriously affect the relations between the United States and Mexico, for which the government of Mexico must assume the full re sponsibility. lBread line of steel strikers outside their commissary at Xoungstown, Ohio. 2 Two thousand Italians board ing the Guiseppi Verdi at New York to sail for Italy, because, as many of them said, they had been deprived of their beer and wine. 3 Head of the great wooden statue of Hindenburg which was used as a means to raise funds during the war, lying in the Tiergarten, Berlin. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Treaty and Covenant of League Killed for Present by the Ac tion of the Senate. BOTH SIDES DISOWN BLAME Ratification With Modified Reserva. tions May Come at Next Session Efforts to Avert Coal Shortage Disaster President Wil son Summons New In dustrial Confer- , ence. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. The treaty with Germany, including the covenant of the League of Nations, is dead for the present so far as the United States is concerned. -Everyone knows that, but opinions as to who killed it differ irreconcilably. The lethal dose Administered to the pact in the senate was compounded of stubbornness, desire for revenge, per sonal pride, partisanship and desire to protect America against the more or less imaginary plots of foreign na tions. Who contributed these various elements the reader can tell as well as the writer. The firmness of the president and his most ardent supporters lasted just a little too long. Otherwise a compro mise might have been reached vhich would have been measurably satisfac tory to all except a few lrreconcilables so few that they would have been snowed under. But when Senator Hitchcock took to Mr. Wilson in his sick room the news that Senator Lodge and his followers had adopted the com mittee list of reservations, the presi dent declared he would pigeonhole the treaty if it were ratified in that shape, and asked the Democratic senators to vote solidly against the ratification. He gave no hint that he would, accept any compromise, and the Republicans with the few Democrats who had stood with them all through the fight, there upon brought the matter to a final vote at once. ' ' For four and a half hours there, were roll calls and parliamentary maneuv ers in the course of which Hitchcock vainly tried to get a vote on a mild reservation resolution, but the Repub licans were too angry to listen to him. Twice the senate voted on the Lodge resolution of ratification with reserva tions and twice it was defeated, the i first time by 39 to 55 and the second time by 41 to 51. Between these rol" calls a vote was taken on. Underwood'1 resolution for unqualified ratificatior This was beaten, 38 to 53. On the Lodge resolution 13 Republicans voter" In the negative both times. These sen ators had declared themselves against 'the treaty and league unreservedly. The mild reservation Republicans could have been captured for a 'Com promise if Mr. Wilson and Senator Hitchcock had started on that line' earlier, but as it was Lodge was able to hold them in line throughout. While the treaty is admittedly dead, It may be brought to life at the regu lar session which begins Monday, De cember 1. If President Wilson, re-submits It to the senate and shows a dis position to "accept modified reserva tions, it is not unlikely that it will be ratified in such4 a way that the other powers , will acquiesce. The alterna tive before the senate will be adoption of .the resolution Introduced by Sen ator Lodge just before adjournment Wednesday night and referred to the committee on . foreign f elatlons with out debate. This declares the state of war between the United States and Germany to be at an end. It, requires the concurrence of the house but, ac- able chiefly because of the language in which they are couched. Advices from London and Paris lead to the belief that if such objections were removed the other great powers would not hes itate to accept the American reserva tions. They all feel that without the participation of the United , States the League of , Nations would be a phan tom thing, and in the words of Gen eral Smuts : "The machinery- of the league is wanted' to save civilization from dissolving into fragments, from falling into decay. It alone can save tottering Europe." One London correspondent say? most Englishmen with a knowledge of world affairs would not be unpleased to see the league plan fall, because they de sire an Anglo-Franco-American alli ance rather than a league In which ev ery little nation would have equal pow ers with the great nations. French officials were disappointed but not surprised by the action of the American senate. They are more in terested just now in the fate of the Franco-American "defense pact. It is taken for granted that the allied pow ers will put the Versailles treaty into effect not later than December 1. Be fore this Is done, Germany must sigh the protocol to the treaty. The Ger man delegates are, objecting to the pro vision requiring them to niake repara tion for the warships sunk in Scapa Flow and want to argue the question. So far the government's legal vic tory over the striking coal miners has proved but hollow. The union leaders said i no court action could compel the men to work, and up to the present they have, made good on that proposi tion. In some fields some mines have resumed operation, bui the number is so small that the situation is growing decidedly desperate. Many trains have been cancelled and industries all over the country are becoming alarmed. When he opened the conference be tween the operators and the mine un ion leaders in Washington, Secretary of Labor Wilson told them they must get together. Later Fuel Administra tor Garfield laid before the scale com mittees figures that demonstrated these two things: That the 60 per cent increase de manded, by the miners is unreason able and impossible. - That the operators, have a margin heretofore paid out in "excess profit taxes upon which to base an increase of wages to the miners without neces sitating a rise in the price of coal to the public. Dr. Garfield then told the conferees that the country must and should have coal, and while he uttered no threats It was the belief in Washington that if an agreement were not reached, thfe government would resort to extreme measures. What thesewould be can only be conjectured, though it may be It -would follow the example of Kansas and North Dakota, where the state has taken over the operation of the mines by proclamation of the governor. Again it can only be guessed how,' in such case, laborers would be obtained! Meanwhile Director General HInes of the railroad administration is doing verything possible to conserve the na- -en's supply of coal and to distribute i equitably. He has forbidden any unnecessary use of fuel by railroads "and industrial plants. Also he has placed a censorship on all news con cerning the coal situation because, he said, of false rumors that had been Attributed to'ofticlals of the administra tion. Mr. Hines is especially endeav oring to keep as ; much traffic and in austry moving as is possible and is re vising freight traffic to reduce unnec essary mileage. The announced pri ority in allowances and deliveries is being continued. So far there has been no embargo placed on freight. In Colorado another strike of coal miners was called on Friday by . the district president thecanso of allega tions that not all the striking miners had been given re-employment. Those who were not taken back, said the op erators, were connected with th t i ,i ... . tu,u,,,s l Kcueiai practice, no acuon ; w. w. Hundreds of miners in the New by the president follows. River fields of West Virginia who had Senator Borah, one of the irreconcll- t returned to work milt nin hq ' ables,, who wants to keep the United ; the operators had discontinue w I - States wholly, aloof from the affairs of the rest of the world, predicts that , the treaty, with the league covenant includ ed and with the Lodge reservations somewhat modified, will Ultimately be ratified. According to Mr. Hitchcock. , I many of the reservations are objection- 'cheek off?Vsystem for, the collection of union dues. . President-Wilson has taken tbe nd vlce of the eronn.rpnrp'snMng't'M Mob ile In the rnrpnf 'fvtilo in-lqsif .. ,.ol egates to which are not divided up in to groups. He has invited 17 men to be members of this new conference and has asked them to meet in Wash it gton on December 1. The citizens thus honored are : Secretary Wilson of the labor depart ment ; former United States Attorney General Thomas W. Gregory; former United States Attorney-General George W. Wickersham; former Food Admin istrator Herbert C. EJoover ; former Secretary Oscar S. Straus of the com merce department; Henry M. Robin son of Pasadena, Cal., Prof. Frank W. Taussig, former chairman of the tariff commission; former Governor Samuel W. McCall of Massachusetts; former Governor Martin H. Glynn of New York ; former Governor Henry C. Stuart of Virginia; Dr. W. O. Thompson of Ohio State university; Richard Hooker of Springfield, Mass.y George T. Slade of St. Paul ; Julius Rosenwald of Chicago ; Owen D. Young of New York city; H. J. Waters of Manhattan, Kan. ; Stanley King of Bos. ton. , . In, his letter of invitation the presi dent says: "It is not expected that you will deal directly with any con dition which exists today, but that you may be fortunate enough to find such ways as will avoid the repetition of these deplorable conditions." The bolsheviki, while still ostensibly trying for peace with the Baltic na tions and ultimately with the entente, are scoring decided successes against the Russian armies that oppose them. Kolchak and his Siberian forces have been driven further east and have giv en Up Omsk, the seat of their govern ment, and several other important cit ies. The soviet commanders claim to have captured 28,000 of Kolchak's men at Omsk. General Denikine also has given ground before the bolsheviki in southwestern Russia. The campaign of General Yudenitch against Petro grad has collapsed and after retreat ing to Esthonia he resigned his com mand in the effort to avoid internment of his troops by the Esthonians. Some 20,000 of his men, it is reported, joined the bolshevik army. In Vladivostok there was a two days' rebellion headed by General Gaida. Af ter bloody combats in the streets and suburbs Gaida was wounded and cap tured arid the revolt was quelled. D'Annunzio pulled off another spec tacular stunt, which may or may not mean anything. Leaving Flume, he proceeded with some warships to Zara where amidst the plaudits of the populace he formally added the Dal matian coast to the Italian domain. Spalato, he promised, should come next. The general elections in France re sulted in a great rout of the radicals. They lost many seats in the chamber and Clemenceau's victory was so, pro nounced that his elevation to the pres idency of France Is considered not un likely. v - ; - - " Real trouble with Mexico looms as a result of the arrest of Consular Agent Jenkins' at Puebla, on charges connect ed with his abduction and rarisom. Thv government warned Mexico that Jenk ins must be released and that any further molestation of him would "se riously affect the relations between the United States and Mexico, for which the government of Mexico "Would as sume ole responsibility." The Mexi cans accused Jenkins of collusion with the bandits who kidnaped him. At the request of the government the Supreme court is expediting its hear ing of the cases for and against the war-time' prohibition act and the en forcement law. Arguments began Thursday and the court' promised an early decision. In this connection it was officially stated that the president would make no move to rescind the war-time prohibition act until peace had been formally declared. It is now predicted that the "wet" period, if there is any, will be very short. Secretary of the Treasury Glass has entered the senate as successor to the late Senator Martin of Virginia. 1 Mr. Glass accepted the appointment on the advice of President Wilson. It was said, his place at the head of the treas ury would . be filled by John Skelton Williams, whose appointment as con troller Of the ClirrPTWV ho a nof hoan CAMPAIGN FQR . ?R0TEc, LAUNCHED FOR OF USERS OF HEADQUARTEBS Statement; AntiT acterized as Cru , " X K and Honor cf .-erir " 'CS Washington.--Tar Hm ducers and crushers -,rp S a movement here. eres Tobacco League of Amerll organization- lannofei f. 1 ' a H nf "riofor V1 ie Tit Hon i .. ... "' ir tK . nas literally taken time bv lock and opened headqua4 campaign. 'm . The leae' is asw brought into exist ' users to combat tion." It publishes an tnti-tobacco official railed Tho rw.-,,i- the movement is' nmt crete organization tho J0lt sumers of this i--n,,ntr,. . 0 lieving that is the onii ' to "defeat anti-tnh , n a7 6!siation, 10BU. ine Defender chL lenges Dr. Clarence True Wi retary of the temperance boarfl the Methodist" Episcopal Church leading prohibition worker'ofVi ington Dr. Wilson is charged nmife .mciiL-an soiaiers wliejk charged that "young men trains great expense by the governs v.. to be led out of the fighting raabS' have cigarettes stuffed into their rnouths before they could stand n una nuiu a gun. This is characterized by Tie render "as cruel a libel as evert duced the honor and courage $ American soldier." 100,000 JEWS MARCH THROUGH N.Y. STREET New York. New Yortc today nV nessed its greatest parade of aaj one people more than 100,000 Jerah men and women marching to an age old Hebrew dirge, in protest against alleged massacres of their people in the Ukraine. Winding for hours from the lowest East Side' to Carnegie hall in the heart of the metropolis, the cortege continued uninterrupted from 1 o'clock in the afternoon until long after dark. Nearly 25,000 uniformed soldiers, sailors and marines, veterans of tie war, led the procession. ATTEMPT BEING MADE TO FORM ANOTHER NEW PARTY Chicago. A new national political body to be known as the Labor Partr of the United States was created br representatives of organized labor in convention here. . The object of the movement as w forth in its constitution will he organize all hand and Drain irfflW of the county to support the pnj pies of a political, social and mdnrtnJ democracy." AGREEMENT MADE BY HINES WITH RAILWAY TRACK MEN Washington. - A new wage j working agreement was signe tween the railroad administratis officials of the Broiherhood of Ma. Track laborers, niie av & the-union were not fuHy me. eight-hour basic day as e for track laborers and cthe s classification, and time aXA J after that hour was P Most of the other einplo e under the agreement will re and a half overtime hours. -r tract ' bT Sisning of the new contra rector General Hn gre tions which have been in since February. ITALY -s" REBELLION BY 5U "77hPVildestfW Rome.-Rumors of e o acter regarding :the J fl0t oDl very serious criM. in ing house cabinetbut also the ieiB opeEl! Italy, are in circulation of parliament approacne.. . The socialists.. Proud of victory are' eager to contrn they call their J" older, more authorise a! the party, however, are -excesses. AMERICAN TROOPS REMAIN ABRO paris TtT ' American troops from cupied Germany, American peace confer y ure of the treaty- , ify the German peace contended that the still one of the a ne powers, and that ihe io9t final action on the change its relation. 1 confirmed by the senate.