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^0tttli l^eto 5^^ VOL. XXIII. NO. 38. A DRAGNET FOR WORLD NEWS Flotsam and Jetsam of Live In terest Caught From the Wires and Boiled Down. SOUTH NEW BERLIN, CHENANGO CO., N. Y., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1919. LATE DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE Important Happenings in the Forty- eight States of the Union—Occur rences at the Capita!—Latest Cable Condensations. PEACE BULLETINS President Wilson was forced by ill ness to cancel the rest of his en gagements on his speaking tour in be half of the peace treaty and to hasten to Washington for rest and quiet. Dr. Grayson, his physician, said the Presi dent was suffering from nervous ex haustion, due to overwork. He added that Mr. Wilson’s condition was not serious, but a c..nsiderable period of rest would be necessary for his recov ery. In the house, where treaty talk bobs up now and then. Representative King. Republican, 111., introduced a resolution proposing^ the support of the body for the senators “standing for Americanism.” The resolution was thrown in the house hopper without discussion. Senator Hiram Johnson announced that his amendment to give the United States as many votes in the League of Nations as the British empire, would be the very last to he voted upon, and that he would go to California to re sume the trail of the President. Senators New (Rep., Ind.) and Smith (Dem., Md.) spoke on the treaty. New in opposition to ratifica tion without reservation, and the other for it as it stands. Representative Husted introduced a resolution in the house opposing the use by this country of any military or naval forces at Plume. Meanwhile Gabriele d’Annunzio’s seizure of Piume already involves the Italian navy, four warships adhering to his cause. From Paris, Carlisle' MacDondald cables, the Piume crisis is* beyond Italy’s control and there are many^ signs of an open revolt by the army and navy. Edgar E. Clark, Interstate Com merce Commissioner, advocates a law to restrain railway strikers and make arbitration of disputes between the operators of the roads and their em ployees compulsory. . The issue in the steel strike was defined before the senate committee by Samuel Gompers, presidenKof the American Pederation of Labor, as rec ognition of the right of employees “to be heard, to organize and to have some voice In determining conditions under which they labor.” Naval machinists sent demands to Secretary Daniels asking for a 44-hour week and increased pay. A message was sent by Senator Ashnrst of Arizona to President Wil son, declaring he had decided to op pose every amendment or reservation to the League of Nations, and support the treaty as it is written. A formal declaration was made by Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin that he will not vote for the treaty unless it carries a reservation against sending troops out of this country to defend the territorial integrity of any nation that becomes a part of the League of Nations without the consent of Con- According to the department of agriculture, the cranberry crop this year is exceedingly large. It will amonnt to 637,000 barrels, compared with 350,000 a year ago. Attorney General Palmer said that the campaign so far made against the high cost of living had at least result ed in keeping food prices from going up and that some material reductions had been effected. GENERAL I t was announced that the American Sugar and Refining Company intend to build another plant in Brooklyn equal in capacity to the plant already owned there, which is the largest in the country. The Prince of Wales will leave Ot tawa for the United States on Novem ber 10. Investigation of charges of irregu larities on the part of employees of the State Insurance Fund of the New York State Industrial Commission reveals that many awards were increased, in some instances more than 200 per cent. The Democratic National Committee held an executive conference at Atlan tic City. Possibility of restoring the lakes of the eastern central part of South Da kota is brought out in connection with the efforts of the state game depart ment, Marcus M. Marks, president of the National Daylight Saving Association, said “scores of cities and towns in the eastern line zone will introduce day light saving.” Senator Norris, of Nebraska, de clared in tile senate: “The Postmaster General has done some things that to me mean sufficient grounds for im peachment.” Secretary Daniels announced ap pointment of Rear Admiral Coontz to succeed Admifal Benson, retiring as chief of naval operations. Estimate value of output of Detroit automobiles, is placed at $56,000,000. President Gompers, of tiie American Federation of Labor, told the senate committee that to deny the police employees the right to affiliate with the A, F. of L. would invite affiliation With the I. W. W. STEEL DEADLOCK STILL UNBROKEN MRS. WILLIAM T. BLACK. Argues Ably Against Bolshe vism and Internationalism. WILSON TAKEN ILL, CANCELS TOUR Each Strives to Prevent Stam pede Which Would Bring Al most Sure Victory. STRIKE PHASE IS CRITICAL Disorders Decrease—Foster's Esti mate of Men Out Climbs to 342,0 0 0 - Eight American Sheet Company Works are Running. « - SPORTING J. A. P. Rarasdell, seventy-eight years young, won both the champion ship and reserve championship at the Mineola, N. Y. Horse Show with Lightiiin’ and Powelton, novice saddle horses bred and developed by him. Mrs. Franklin I. Mallory and Mrs. David C. Mills won the doubles, tennis championship of New Jersey in the. annual tournament a t Orange. Tris Speaker is entitled to all the credit for Ray Caldwell’s remarkable “comeback.” S. C. Hildreth bought Krewer, a two year old colt, a t auction for .$6,000, and thx’ee hours later won him out in the Oakdale Handicap at Aqueduct. Pal Moore, Johnu.v Griffith and Greek Brown, the Chicago middle weight, will go to England in Novem ber to take in the winter boxing sea- Dick Kerr uses a bat that is almost as tall as he is. He used it with rood effect. French promoters have offered champion Pete Herman a big purse to box Charley De Donx in the city of Paris some time in December. If the match is arranged it will be for 20 rounds. There is no better third sacker than Buck 'Weaver. It is believed that the railroad ad ministration will have to run special trains overnight between the contend ing cities—Cincinnati and Chicago—a ride of 300 miles, to carry the wild eyed rooters back and forth. The British Golf Rides Committee, at its first meeting since 1914, resolved to submit to the association a new rule standardising golf balls. Decisions were made against plans to abolish the stymie and change the size of the hole. Edio, a two-year-old trotter owned by Charles Weiland of NeAv York, won a race in 2 :15% on the half mile track at Mineola, beating the season’s record for one of her age. ■For the third successive time Major R. W. Schroeder, chief test pilot at McCook Field, Dayton, O., broke the world's two-man airplane altitude rec ord, when he ascended to an indicated height of 30,900 feet, or approximately six miles. A Lapere two-imssenger plane was used in the flight. A stupendous aerial derby around the world, with $1,000,000 in prizes, is contemplated by- the Aero Club of America and the Aerial League of America. FOREIGN Pbiiil) Musgrave was killed and Andy Sehuttinger had a leg broken when four jockeys and horses fell in a mix-up in a race at Havre de Grace, Md. Governor Smith of New York ap pointed a committee of New York financiers to draft a law against bogus securitie.s. A strike of 200 000 \^shipyard em ployees on the Pacific coast and of an equal number on the Atlantic coast unless the navjr depaJtment and the Shipping P.oard revoke their order pro hibiting wage increa.ses was predicted by James O’Connell, labor chieftain. The Paris teachers’ conference has voted for the affiliation of a new teachers’ union with the General Con federation of Labor. Within the last six months 30,000 divorce petitions were granted in and around Berlin. A strike affecting 680,000 men is called on tiie British railroads follow ing the failure of negotiations between union leaders and the government on the standardization of wages. The government arranged to commandeer motor vehicles, carry mails in air planes and protect with armed forces all loyal employees. A butter, sugar, meat and petrol rationing system has been established. Governors of Spanish provinces oi Saragossa, Zamora, Toledo and Canary Islands will attend the mternational labor conference at Washington. Pittsburgh.—^The critical period of the great steel strike has been entered upon showing both sides straining every nerve to swing their way the stampede into or away from the mills. Corporation officials asserted the trend was into plants in t t e Pitsburgh district, where the w*orks are operating strongly. Labor declared a gain of 15,000 was made, for a total of 342,000 men now out. The situation in the West, where the Industry is crippled, remained unchanged. “The strike will end a minute and a half after Judge Gary copsents to a conference with representatives of tine unions on strike,” was the declara tion of John Fitzpatrick, chairman «f the American Federation of Labor’s National Committee, at its conference in Pittsburgh just before be left for Washington to atend the senate steel investigation, , The National Committee will ask the railroad brotherhoods to aid in the general strike, it was authoritatively reported. Sporadic rioting bx'oke out in steel cities. At Glassport, Pa., the state con stabulary charged 2,000 strikers and four persons were wounded, shots were fired and clubs freely used. Four men were stabbed, two prob ably fatally, and two others were badly beaten near the entrance of the Newberg plant of the American Steel and Wire Company, in Cleveland, O. Strike leaders at Buffalo will ask Governor Smith to order an investiga tion of Tuesday’s riot at Lackawanna, in which one person was shot dead. Governor Sproul. of Pennsylvania, wired William C. Foster, secretary of the labor committee, in answer to his protest against the state constabulary. The governor supported the activities of the troopers and declared armed mobs from across the Pennsylvania state line were preparing an invasion and that If they came over they would be dealt with as invaders, ■y^iolence is decreasing in this dis trict and the state constabulary, depu ties and regular police seem to have the situation well in hand in the out lying districts. The outstanding features of the situ ation today were: The United States Steel Corpora tion still holds the key position in _ Pittsburgh and the Monongabela Val-i lev through its subsidiary, tiie Carne-'^ gie Steel- Company, although the unions say tliej' have called out enough men to cut the production in half in the district. The employers gained ground in t t e Chicago district, where the slab mills of the Illinois Steel Company at South Chicago reopened ; in Canton, O., where the striking employees of the Canton Steel Company voted to return to work, and in Cambridge, O., where, it is reported, the men who had quit were slowly returning to the mills. The National Tube Company did not attempt to start up its plant, Init reported that the McKeesport mills were running AVitb almost the full As far as perm itted by police regula tions, the striking workers were estab lishing pickets about those steel mills that are still in operation. In the streets of the various towns were great numbers of men moving sullenly a t the orders of the mounted state constabu lary, whose full cartridge belts gave evidence of a grim determination to suppress any rioting which might break forth. Rumors of importations of strike breakers have proved false. Transpor tation promised to bring a problem, with trainmen reported reluctant to handle supplies for Iffie steel mills and lake seamen grumbling over handling ore for the companies. Mrs. William T. Black, one of the ablest members of the National Se curity league’s flying squadrons, has just returned to New York after or ganizing a flying squadron in Minne apolis. She is brilliant in debate and shatter.*; the arguments of bolshevists and internationalists on the ground of their menace to the home, DRY ENFORCEMENT Department of Justice Not to Ease Up on Prosecution of Violators. Washington.—“The department of justice has no intention of letting up in its prosecution of violators of the war time prohibition law,” declared Attor ney General Palmer. “I do not look for a proclamation by the President de claring demobilization complete until the ratification of the peace treaty by the senate.”- Mr. Palmer would not discuss the case pending in court at Trenton by which it is sought, in trying to prove that the war is over, to justify the sale of liquor. He declared the law was clear on that question in that it pro vided that wartime prohibition should remain in force until the end of the war, which had been defined as “upon the exchange of ratification of the treaty of peace and thereafter until demobilization has been completed.” The attorney general said he did not know of any reason why President Wilson should declare by a proclama tion that the demooilization of the army was complete, except for the purpose of stopping the effect of the prohibition law. This the President ha.s said he would not do until the sen ate has ratified the peace treaty. Prohibition advocates here say the Trenton case is a ruse being worked by the liquor interests to secure freedom to dispose of their stocks before the eighteenth amendment puts a stop to them for all time. It is pointed out that the first move of the sort was to get a court decision that 2.75 per cent, beer was not intoxicating. Then the wartime prohibition enforcement act put tiiat out of business. Now it is charged they seek a court decision that the war is over. It is said they intend to try to obtain such a decision by a lower court to this ef fect and with it in hand it would be difficult to secure a conviction by a jury of any person selling liquor. By the time the case would reach the Su preme Court, which the drys say would overrule such a decision if granted by a lower court, a large part of the liq uor now on hand would have been dis posed of. ROCKEFELLER GIVES $20,000,000. Latest Donation to Used for Medi cal Education. New York.—^The General Education Board, founded by John D. Rockefel ler, announced the gift of $20,000,000 from him for the improvement of medical education in the United States. According to a statement i.s.sued from the office of the board, at 61 Broad way, the income of the gift is to he flistribnted within fifty years. Prefer ence will probably he given to the larg er schools. WORLD NEWS IN CONDENSED FORM PITTSBURGH.—The steel strike is at a standstill in the Pittsburgh dis trict, William Z. Poster, union organ izer, declared, while steel officials re ported gains there. WASHINGTON.—Samuel Gompers, president of the American Pederation of Labor, told a senate committee that the issue in the steel strike was rec ognition of the right of employees “to be heard, to organize and to have some voice in determing conditions under which they Ihhor.” WASHINGTON.—Viscount Grey of Fallodon arrived in New York and went to Washington. Unable to Stand Strain of Long Journey and Constant Speaking. OVERWORK CAUSES COLLAPSE Has Never Fully Recovered From Influenza in France, Says His Physician, and Has Since Overworked. Kansas City.—^Rebellious nature de manded her already overdue toll a^d brought to a dramatic end the one sided conflict between the mental and physical resources of Woodrow Wil son. The President was compelled to sur render to a greater force than he could hope to conquer. Threatened with ^ a complete nervous collapse as a result of the almost superhumait struggle to which he has devoted every ounce of his spirit and energy for more than two years, the President has been or dered on the sick list for the time be ing. How long he will stay , there depends entirely upon future developments. His campaign to educate the people of America in the terms of the League of Nations was abandoned at the order of Bear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, his personal physician. It ended under dramatic circumstances at 9 o’clock in the morning in a little clump of shanties tenanted by negroes border ing the railroad tracks leading into Wichita, five miles away, where a great ovation awaited him. Assistant Secretary Brahaney went by motor to Wichita station, a mile away, to tell the local reception com mittee that the President could not leave the train. On the way the streets were lined by thousands who had gathered along the route of the scheduled automobile i-ide in tixe busi ness section. Later the' following statement was issued from the train : “To the People of Wichita: “It is with sincere regret that I am unable to meet the fine people of Wichita and Kansas to lay before, them all the facts regarding the treaty of peace and the League *of Nations. I know with what candor they would desire to treat this important matter, and I am confident what their judg ment of tlie facts would be. It is a real disappointment to me that I must leave Kansas without having the pleasure of again coming into person al contact with them. “WOODROW WILSON.” Although outwardly the President had appeared to be standing well the hard ordeal of more than three weeks of travel and speechmaking, it be came known that for some days he had suffered from headache. He also has been much fatigued by the con finement of his special train, broken only by brief stops which have been mostly in riding through crowds and speaking to audiences so large as to require all his exertion to make his voice heard. Mr. Wilson had made nearly forty speeches since he let Washington on September 3, and had spent all but about half a dozen nights on the train. Five addresses remained on his un completed schedule. After the two in Kansas he was to have spoken in Lit tle Rock, Memphis and Louisville. It was declared by members of the President’s party that one of the oi*- deals which seemed to be most trying on his nerves has been the automobile parades through the cities he has vis ited. He has traveled many miles standing in his car and waving his hat in response J:o the cheers of welcome. YPRES r u i n s TO REMAIN. Will Be Place of Pilgrimage for Allied Peoples. Brussels.—The famous Cloth Hall of Ypres, together with the cathedral and adjacent buildings, are to be main tained in their present state of ruin. The minister of the interior, making this announcement in the Chamber of Deputies, declared the decision had been reached after a conference with the British authorities and that steps had been taken to preserve the his toric ruins from vandalism. 600,000 R. W. MEN STRIKE. Biggest British Walk-Out in History Started. London.—-All railway workers in Great Britain went on strike. The number of union men called out is ap proximately ^00,000, and other em ployees of the lines, such as clerks, will bring the total number affected up to the million mark. The London Underground men, who are members of the National Union of Railway .Men, probably wlU be included, as 1 well as the omnibus and tramway men. Ti^lMS:—$1.2S PER YEAR PHILIP B. KENNEDY. Director of Bureau of For eign and Domestic Commerce. Philip B. Kennedy of New York, for merly commercial attache at London, has been^ appointed director of the bureau of foreign and domestic com merce, department of commerce, suc ceeding Burwell S. Cutler. GARY SPURNS PLAN FOR LABOR PARLEY Steel Corporation He^d Un changed in Opposition to Meeting Union Chiefs. New York.—After being shown an Associated Press dispatch quoting John Fitzpatrick, director general of the steel strike, as saying the walk out would end immediately if the United States Steel Corporation would . arbitrate differences, Elbert H. Gary, directing head of the corporation, de clared in a statement, speaking for himself, that he believed the board of directors “cannot negotiate or con fer with Mr. Fitzpatrick or Ills as sociates.” Mr. Gary was shown the dispatch while he was attending a dinner given here by Baron Kondo, pi’esident of the Japan Mail Steamship Company, and was asked to make some com ment. Breaking the silence he has maintained since the beginning of the strike, Mr. Gary wrote a statement while seated at the table, • and then, calling the newspaper men into the hall, read it to them. “The board of directors of the United States Steel Corporation are the z'epresentatives of nearly 150.000 stockholders including from 60,000 to 70,000 employees,” said the statem e n t “We are their servants and are select ed to represent and protect their in terests and also the interests of all our 250,000 employees, the majority of whom, I think, are not members of labor unions. “Moreover, I believe our corporation is under great obligations to the geu- ei*al public concerning the issues in volved in the pending strike. In these circumstances I would not at present assume to answer the question propounded to me. “However, I will say for myself that questions of moral principle cannot be arbitrated nor compromised, and, in my opinion, such questions are includ ed in the present unfortunate strugj. e. I also think we cannot negotiate or confer with Mr. Fitzpatrick and his associates as union labor leaders con cerning our employees, whom tliese gentlemen have volunteei’ed to repre sent.” E. R, Grace, head of the Bethlehem Steel Company, refused to meet rep- resfentatives of the workmen under threat of a strike. PITH OF THE VICTORY NEWS ■ ------------------------------------------------------ Landing of United States marines in Delmatia is interpreted in both houses of Congress as an act of war on Italy, and the senate wants to know what it means. Early ratification of the treaty of peace by France seems assured as a result of Premier Clemenceau's speech in the Chamber of Deputies. The United States will protest the al location among the allies of twelve Standard Oil tankers, interned in Germany during the war. The senate is kept in turmoil by a spirited debate on the six to one British vote amendment. Cl . ' w .
