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VOL. XXHL NO. 37. SOUTH NEW BERLIN, CHENANGO CO., N. Y., SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, 1919. TERMS:—$1.25 PER YEAR M WAY WORLD WABS TOLD INJABLOIDS Big Stories and Minor Events Blue PencAed Int'' Quickly Read Paragraphs. DOINGS AT NATION’S CAPITAL. . Happenings That Caused a Stir Briefly Chronicled—Bulletins About the Progress of Things in General Throughout the World. I PEACE BULLETINS | Wilson quotes Theodore Roosevelt and declares the League of Nations is the fulfillment of the plan the former President advocated. Senator Hiram Johnson will return to Washington immediately after mak ing his appeal in the Northwest against ratification of the League of Nations constitution without reserva tions. He will make his trip to the . Pacific coast later. Summary of the treaty with Bul garia, given out at Washington, shows the Bulgars are required to cede West ern Thrace, pay as reparation 2,250,- 000,000 francs and reduce their army to 20,000 men. Lloyd George’s proposal to withdraw the British troops' from Russia, for Avhich he sought the approval of the peace conference, is considered in Par is a prelude to the premier’s abandon ment of the coalition for a combination ■of Liberals and labor parties in Eng land. Rumanians have begun thV\ evacua tion of Budapest, tgking with them ev erything that is not nailed down, and the Council of Five is anxiously-await ing the establishment of some stable government in Hungary to which they ■can present the treaty of peace. President Wilson was given assur ances at the peace conference by the representatives of allied governments holding territorial and economic con cessions in China that he might soon ■expect the retrocession of those rights. The French government has appoint ed a special mission of financial spe cialists to proceed to New York. The mission will study the measures neces sary “to reduce the tremendous losses suffered by France through the tension in exchange.” WASHINGTON ‘ I Two million pounds of surplus army meat have been allotted to New York city. U. S. Transport Mount Vernon-broke the record by bringing ^106 war brides to this country from Brest. The state department in one day re ceived application for more than 700 passports to France, Belgium, Spain and Switzerland. The number is the largest on record. It is estimated that owing to the demand it will take about two weeks to issue them all. Department of commerce reported seagoing fleet of 2,245 ships of 8,ioo,- OOO tons August 31. Reaching its climax in a scene dur ing a joint session in the house cham ber that drew ad^ed dignity from the simplicity of the setting, the nation’s welcome to General John J. Pershing ■came to an end, when *the thanks of Congress and of the American people M-ere extended to him and to the army lie commanded. Navy department protested against fhe Esch-Pomerene railroad control bill because it might interfere with the right of the navy department td con trol its wireless and other radiq' plants, Washington’s* welcome to General Pershing and the famous Eirst Divi sion assumed the form of a national cflicial greeting to these overseas fight- ■ers. Washington called it a holiday and turned out in thousands along Pennsylvania avenue from the Capitol to beyond the White House to view the great military spectacle headed by General Pershing and the composite regiment known as “Pershing’s Own.” f GENERAL I Proposals of establishment of a isteamship service between Danzig and New York by American financiers are under considerdtion. Six vState Guardsmen, members of the force of 7,000 men guarding Boston during the recent strike, are in hos p itals s u ffering from grm sbot w o u n d s. Reports to the department o f justice from 12 states indicate there was a decline of 10 to 15 per cent in food pr'eps s’ncG investigations began. Tom Fitzgerald of Ashtabula, O., gained the distinction of being the first conductor in the country to inspect a .road job by airplane. Judge Carpenter of the fedora! court, Chicago, in charge of the grand jury investigating the packers, is not pleased with Attorney General Palmer or Special Prosecutor Kresel, who, it is asserted, are trying the case in the newspapers. He clamped the lid down on the prosecutor. The judge threat ened to dismiss the grand jury. Pood prices drop from ten to fifteen per cent, in twelve states, reports show. Howard Elliott says West is en joying era of unprecedented pros perity. Five armed automobile bandits held up a clerk and a patron in the Not tingham Savings and Banking com pany, ten miles east of Cleveland, and ^escaped with $10,000. Within ten minutes after the robbery scores ot police in automobiles and 100 afoot were in pursuit of the robbers. A deputation of Republican and Democratic senators and representa tives will call on Governor Holcomb, of Connecticut, to present a petition asking a special session of the legis lature for ratification of the Federal women suffrage amendment. K a n sas car shortage reported to be worst ever known. With the exception of minor dis- turbane, all mines of the Lackawanna Company, in Pennsylvania, are work ing. A letter from E. H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, gives reasons for declining to deal with unions and explain the corpo rations attitude toward employees. The Right Rev. Charles S. Burch, suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Church, of New York, was elected bishop of the diocese, succeeding the late David H. Greer. \Equipment for Army of 30,000 Also Sought—French Force to Be Sent—^Threat is Being Carried Out. ;i SPORTING I Benny Leonard, world’s lightweight champion, intends to do a lot of scrap ping during the winter season. His next antagonist probably will be Jack Britton, holder of the welterweight ti tle, the bout to take place in Newark. Georges Carpentier and Joe Becket will meet in a 20 round bout December 4 at London. The winner is expected to meet Jack Dempsey. The White Sox pitchers are just about half portions, all except Bill James. But, oh, boy, how they can twist the old apple! Esther R., after winning the first two heats in the 2:09 pacing class of the Grand Circuit meet at Columbus, O., was sent to the baru owing to in eligibility. The formation of the New’ Interna tional Sporting Club of New York city, which soon will have a $500,000 arena at Sixth avenue and Fifty-fifth street, is calculated to put boxing on the highest plane. Reports from all parts of the United States where boxing is permitted indi cate a tremendous boom for the sport. There is no doubt that the Willard- Dempsey battle provided some of the impetus. It also is true that the army and navy greatly increased the popular favor which the ring game now enjoys, Benny Leonard outpointed Johnny Dundee in a fast eight round bout at Newark. Betting men' already are making the Chicago White'Sox favorites over the Cincinnati Reds to win the world’s series. 'Kle odds quoted so far are about 8 to 5. ' So great is the desire in Cincinnati to witness the world’s series games to be played in that city that the leading hotels are swamped with applications. Proud as they are of the Reds, Cin cinnati fans are not over optimistic concerning the outcome of the world's series. Chicago fans in their excitement over the White Sox, have forgotten the Cubs. Last year they raved .about the 'Cubs and didn’t have a bit of use for Coraiskey’s stars. Prominent club owners of both major leagues met in Chicago to take action regarding the--future of base ball, the driving out of B. B. Johnson as president of the American League and the deposing of August Herr mann as chairman of the National Commission being the main issues in volved. - A I FOREIGN Two of eight Mexican soldiers found guilty of participating in the mutiny of September 8 in Lower California were executed at Mexicalif. Arrivat at Munich of American meat enabled the authorities to resume the regular meat rationing practice. Official announcement has been made of the appointment of Kijuro' Shidehara, vice foreign minister, to be' Japanese ambassador to the United States. As a result of an agreement readied! between the French government aiuf that of the Czecho-Slovak republic a number of professors have been sent by France to A^arious parts of Czecho slovakia to organize courses of lec tures on the French language, French literature and French civilization. TURKSRENEWWAR UPON ARMENIANS Very Existnee of Nation Is in Im minent Danger, Says Appeal to America. 10,000 U. S. TROOPS ASKED. New York.—The Turks have resum ed their attacks upon the Armenians, and the very existence of the nation is in danger, according to a cable message received by the American committee for the independence of Armenia and made public here. The message was sent by the Paris repre- senative of the Armenian republic, transmitting information received from hiis government. Forces of Turks, Tartars and Kurds are surrounding Armenia, the message says, and the Armenian soldiers have been compelled to surrender one bor der province after a hard struggle. An urgent appeal is made for 10,000 American soldiers and the necessary equipment for 30,000 Armenians. Mustaplia feemal, who was arrested last January and charged with being responsible for massacres of Greeks in Asia Minor, is at the head of the Turkish forces. The message-said: “Telegram from Armenian govern ment states that-Turkish-Tartar threat against Armenia is under way of re alization. Mustapha Kemal’s regular troops, assisted by Turkish-Tartar bands and Kurdish crews, have started surrounding the Armenian republic. “Our troops were forced to abandon Nakh-Itchevan province (southeast of Erivan) after a hard struggle on ac count lack of munitions and owing to enemy superior forces. Population this province recently returned to its homesteads now at mercy of invaders. Two divisions of Mustapha Kemal at tacking Sari-Kamisch and Kaghisman. Tartar and Kurdish bands attacked Koulp, which was exacuated by Armen ian forces retiring on Igdir, which also now threatened. “Owing to advance Turkish forces population of Kars district, together Avith refugees living th^re, escaped to ward Erivan. Occupation of all this district by Turks imminent. “Our numerous steps with the con- jference nave remained fruitless. We mow ask your committee to appeal to the great and noble American people and gdvernment so that everything possible be done to assist us at once. Urgent that 10,000 soldiers be sent itn- mediately with necessary equipment for organization of Armenian army of •30,000. If acted upon at once sit uation can be saved. Very existence and future of Armenian people depend upon your answer. We await most impatiently.” Agreement Reached to Send 10,000 French Troops Into Armenia, Ppris_Ten thousand French troops are to be sent into Armenia, through Mersina and Alexandretta, according to an understanding reached by the British and French for a realignment of their forces in Asia Minor. These troops will replace tlie British troops for the most part and while the num ber is not large enough to keep up a line of communications far north into Armenia, it is generally agreed that the French will have a steadying effect on the Armenian situation, even if they do not proceed far north of Murdin (Mardin?) and the line of the Bagdad railway. 4- AMERICAN DOLLAR 4* 4- WORLD'S COIN UNIT. 4- 4- ^ 4« Paris.—“The dollar probably 4* 4- will be worth ten francs short- 4« 4« ly,” says the Agence Econo- 4* 4* migue et Financiers, a leading 4* 4* Paris financial orgap. -4» 4* “The dollar is rapidly^ becom- 4* 4* ing the monetary unit of the ❖ 4* world. It already has usurped 4^ 4- the place of the pound sterling, 4* 4- which no longer is the interna- 4* 4* tional monetary standard.” 4* 4..|.^4,4*,4-4.4'4«4‘ 4*4*4*4*4‘ 4*4* PLAN yVESTPHALIAN REVOLT. Reported Movement to Be Led by Bolshevists From Russia. Amsterdam. — The .Comtnunists of Westphalia, the Prussian province ly ing betw e e n Hanover and the Rhine region, are planning a revolution _f0r this autumn under, the leadership of Russian Bolsheviki. Red companies now are arming themselves secretly. The signal for the movement wUl be given by the breaking out of a general strike in the industrial district, it is , declared. MISS EMILY FARNUM. \ Chief of the Appointment | Division for 1920 Census. Z Miss Emily Farnum of New York city, for many years connected with the department of commerce, has-dieen named chief of the appointment divi sion for the 1920 census. WILSON PICKS MEN FOR LABOR PARLEY Twenty-two Selected to Repre sent Public at Conference In Washington October 6. San Francisco.—President Wilson made public here the names of the 22 men who will represent the general public in the national conference which is to begin in Washington on October 6 to consider plans for a new relationship between employer and employee. On the President’s list of those who will represent the public are Bernard M, Baruch of New York, former chair man of the War Industry Board; Rob ert ,S. Brookings of lit. Louis, former chairman of the price fixing commit tee of that organization; John D.- Rockefeller, Jr., Judge Elbert H. Gary of New York, Dr, Charles W. Eliot, president - emeritus of Harvard; Charles Edward Russell of New York and John Spargo of Vermont. The last two are Socialist leaders. The others on the list are O. E. Bradfute, Xenia, O., president Ohio Farm Bureau Federation; .Ward Bur gess, Nebraska; Fuller B. Callaway, La Grange, Ga., extensive cotton man ufacturer ; Thomas L. Chadbourne, New York; Chalies G. Dawes, Chica go ; H. B. Endicott, Milton, Mass.; Paul L. Feiss, Cleveland; Edwin P. Gay, Harvard University; George R. James, Memphis, Tenn.; Thomas D, Jones, Chicago; A. A. Landon, Buffalo; E. T. Meredith, Des Moines, la., editor Suc cessful Farming; Gavin McNab, Sah Francisco; L. D. Sweet, Carbondale, Colo., and Louis Titus, San Francisco. To each of those selected the Presi dent sent the following telegram : “I have called a conference at Wash ington for October Q for the purpose of discussing The labor situation and the possibility of formulating plans for the development of a new relationship between capital and labor. I beg that you will accept appointment as one of the representatives of the general pub lic in that conference. There will be 22 representatives of the public and an equivalent number of representa tives of various bodies of organized labor and organized employers. I sin cerely hope that it will be possible for you to undertake this very important service.” WORLD NEWS IN CONp£^(SED FORM MARTfNSBURG, W. Va.—Congress man J. B. Thompson of Oklahoma died of heart trouble' on a ffaih here, an hour out of Washington. He'was ac companied by hfs son, Xleut. J. B. Thompson, lately quartered at Camp Funston. * CHICAGO.— Brig.-Gen. Charles G. Dawes, one of those selected by Presi dent Wilson to represent the public at the industrial conference in Washing ton October 8, advised the President that he would be unable to serve, Gen eral Dawes, who is president of the Central Trust Company, recently re turned from France. BEATEN BOLGARS GET PEACE TERMS OR. LIVINGSTON FARRAND | Directing the New Red Cross'Drive for Funds. ^ Envoys T)isclaim Crimes and Protest Against Servitude Sentence. TO PAY $450,000,000 IN GOLD. Serbia Gets Part of Western Front— Western Thrace Given Up—Army Cut to 20,000—Nava! and Air Forcess Surrendered.urreni S Paris.—Under the terms of the treaty of peace with Bulgaria the de feated Balkan nation agrees to: Reduce her army to 20,000 men and gendarmerie to 10,000. Surrender her warships aiid sub marines to the Alli’es. Recognize the independence of Jugo-Slavia and re$urn property taken from that state during the war. Cede western Thrace to the Allies for future disposition. Modify her frontier in four places in favor of Serbia and compensate Serbia for stolen coal. Pay $450,000,000 in gold as repa ration for damages. Renounce the treaties of Brest-LI- tovsk and Bucharest. The treaty of peace between the allied and associated powers and Bul garia was presented to the Bulgarian mission at the French foreign office. After the delegates had assembled (ieorges Clemenceau, president of the Peace Conference, spoke briefly in opening the sesion. He was followed by General Theodoroff, head of the Bulgarian mission. M. Theodoroff spoke for fifteen min utes, pleading that the Bulgarian peo ple were not responsible for the war, but that the Bulgarian government had thrown the country into the struggle. He realized, however, he said, that the people must share the responsibility. “They are wiling to do so,” he said, “but feel that in no way have they committed such a crime as will com pel them to accept servitude.” King Ferdinand and Vasell Radosla- voff, Bulgarian foreign minister in 1914, were blamed for Bulgaria’s entry, into the war by M. Theodoroff. He said the Bulgarian people did not ap prove of the German alliance, which, he declared, “came to them as a cataclysm,” but they realized they must accept part of the responsibility. “We have committed faults,” he said, “and we shall bear their con sequences within the bounds of equity, but there is a punishment no crime can justify, and that is servitude.” Each of the twenty-seven govern ments participating in the conference, incMding Rumania, was present. F r ^ k L. Polk, head of the United States delegation, sat on M. Clemenceau’s right and Sir Eyr% Crowe, the new British plenipotentiary to the Peace Conference, sat on the president’s left. / The Bulgarian delegates, M. Theodo roff, M, Ganeff, M. Sakessof, M. Stan> builiwsky and M. Harzoff, entered after the other delegates, who rose when the enemy representatives appeared. The Bulgarians showed courteous con fidence in their demeanor. The delivery of the treaty was marked by little ceremony. Led by Gen. Theodoroff the Bulgarians entered the foreign office, their dark visages show ing not a trace of emotion, contrasting sharply with the pale, drawn coun tenances displayed by the German plenipotentiaries at the Versailles cere mony and with Dr. Renner’s almost jovial appearance ‘ on the occasion of the Austrian treaty signature at St. Germain. They were ushered into the large dining room where the plenary sessions nf the Peace Conference formerly were held—a departure from the course adopted with the German and Austrian delegations, which, were not allowed to come to Paris. The Bulgarians have been in Paris since July 25 and have been living in the beautiful Chateau de Madrid, in the Bois de Bologne. They have been allowed grat freedom of movement'and have frequently been seen promenad ing the street in the warm sunshine. Last Sunday two of them were seen apparently deeply interested in watch ing the running of the Omnibus Stakes from a vantage point outside the Long- champs race track. SOLVE HOUSING PROBLEM. Bungalow Dwellers to Occupy Summer Homes During Winter. New York.—Thousands of occupants o / small bungalows built on the Roeka- way peninsula for summer are prepar ing to solve a shortage in housing ac commodations in this city hy convert ing these frailly built homes into win ter quarters. Members of the summer colony who have decided to Stay, say that even the severity of winter hard ships will be better thafi crowding into apartments. Dr. Livingston Farrand is in Wash ington directing' the new Red Cross drive for funds for peace time and re construction work. FOOD PRICES DROP IN TWaVE STATES United States Department of Jus tice Tells of Retail Food stuff Cost Reduction. Washington.—The cost of living haih- been reduced from ten per cent to fifteen per cent in twelve states, ac cording to reports received and made public by the department of justice. The identity of the twelve states was not made known in the official announcement, but some of them. It is said, are in the East. The ten to fifteen per cent reduc tion was in retail prices of foodstuffs. Reports received from four states indb cate a reduction in wholesale food prices of from two per cent to five per cent. One significant feature of the oflacial announcement is, however, that there has been no reduction reported in the prices of clothing or other necessi ties of life except in a few small com munities, This, would indicate tliat commodity prices with the exception of food are holding up despite the efforts of the department of justice and other government organizations. In some’ cities, here for inftance, fair price committees have not got their work under way. Publication of the fair price list in Washington has- been frequently delayed first from one cause and then from another. The re ductions reported to the department are from fair price committees, where organization has been in full swing for some time. ^ Government efforts at price reduc tion are not to be halted. On the other hand new pressure is to be brought to bear from every possible quarter. The Federal Trade Commis sion has brought action against Chi cago mail order grocery concerns and against a Pittsburgh bakery concern. Other actions are likely to follow. The President’s industrial confer ence. upon which labor is waiting be fore making many wage demands is but t||ree weeks off and in general there has been no appreciable de crease of living costs. Officials here maintain that the tendency of living prices is downward and that the price chart Is receding from the highest point. This general terfdency, they say, will be felt more and more with the passing weeks. Whether it will outweigh, the natural increase of prices of many food products through the non-productive season that is com ing cannot be foretold. It seems, how ever, that more definite results will have to be shown if the acquiescence of labor is to be obtained in holding down wages. PITH OF THE VICTORY NEWS Acting for the League of Nations, H. B. Butler arrived in Washington to direct plans for organization of the international labor conference pro vided for in the peace treaty. The conference is scheduled td*open on October 29, bringing to Washington more than a,<thou8and delegates from league member 'countries and -neu trals ipvlted to send delegates. All American prisoners’\ in Germany have been repatriated. Brigadier General George H. Harries, head of the Commission for the Repatnation of American Prisoners, reported upon his arrival from Brest
