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THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1917. V 4 mi STRIKE MAY "Ml BUSINESS v IN ALL CHICAGO .ottlcmsnt is Not Reached .,' ' i Ten Days City Will .Be : Paralyzed; Appeal to " Government. U BULLETIN. Washing' i Oct 17. Federal Fuel .Idm-nistn;:!;. jarfield today warned oal operates and miners where jtrikes have occurred or are impend ag that the n .Merriment would take hsrge of coal Reduction jfjt con- nucd to be threatened by strikes. - Chicago, Oct. 17. Unless the coal strike is settled within ten days busi ness in Chicago will be paralyzed, ac cording to a statement made today by Fred V. Upham, president of the largest coal company in the city. "There is less than ten days' supply Unspeakable Turk Tjirns Upon Christians of Greece When Slaughter of Syrians and Armenians Fails to SatHis Passions , Three-Quarters of a Million In offensive People of Asia Minor Are Murdered, Maimed or Deported. New York, Oct. 17.Not the slaughter of hundreds of thotfS ands of Armenians and Syrians, the Turk has also turned against Greek Christians in his dominions and more ttan 700,000 have fallen a victim to persecution in the form of death, suf fering or deportation, it was declared I here tg,day by Frank V. Jackson, of this city, chairman of the Relief Com mittee for Greeks of Asia Minor. He said the real details of these new Turkish "atrocities were just beginn ing to leak out. 'lat story of the Greek deportation is not yet generally known," said Mr Jackson, "Quietly and gradually the in the city and no coal is coming in'-Wme treatment is being meted out to i said Mr. Upham. , , "The situation is. the most serious that ever confronted 'the city," con- - tiiiued Mr. Upham. He addled that his company has but three" days' supply on hand. He said he. believed there was not a buil'ding in the city outside the industrial plants with more than n, six days' supply. Most of them, he said, ' could run only three days more. ' "Commercial life in I Chicago will be wrecked by next weetc unless Fuel Administrator Garfield moves quick ly," said Mr. Upham. - "Before the strike the situation was bad. This is the climax." Appeal to Government. " t; That the coal production, of Illi nois is reduced 75,000 tons a day on account of the walkout of the miners and. that the situation has developed into a "runaway strike" are two reasons pointed but bv James E. Williams, fuel admin istrator for Illinois, why the fed eral government, through National Coal Administrator Garfield, should take some hurried action in coal af fairs in' this state. Twelve thousand Illinois coal miners are said to be on a strike which, according to menbers of the United Mine Workers'" union, is un authorized. Reports are that the miners have struck under a misappre hension that the increased wage stale was to go into effect at once,. Union leaders have informed the men that no wage increase can be effective un til an' increase in coal prices at the mine has been decided upon to cover it. i ... Southern Miners Still Out. Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 17T No defi nite action in .deferring the strike of the 35,000 coal miners of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas in response to telegrams from John P. White, president of the United Mine Workers' of America, and Fuel Ad ministrator Garfield, requesting that such action be taken, has been an nounced early today. Unless some ac tion is taken in the meantime the gen eral walkout of the miners probably will result Friday. Terre Haute. Ind., Oct. 17. Ap proximately 5,500 coal miners areNon strike in the district north of here, re sulting in twenty-five mines being shut down today, due to the operators refusing tp grant the increase in pay. The average daily output of each of these rajnes is about twenty carloads. Officer and Four Of His Men Held Por.Abnsing Private Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C, Ocfl7. Captain Howard E. Sul livan, commanding Battery D, One Hundred and Fifth field artillery, composed of. New York state troops, and four of his company officers face charges today as the result of an ac cident v in Camp yesterday, in which it is allegedthat Private Otto Gott schalk, charged with minor infraction of regulations, was," at Sullivan'p di rection, thrown into the sewerage ditch at the rear of the kitchen tent, .belabored with sticks and then scrubbed with stiff brushes and sand. Dinh Gilly, Algerian Sanger, is Starving 1 "New York, Oct. 17 Dinh Gillv. the Algerian baritone and formerly with the Metropolitan opera company in New York, is starving in an in ternment cajnp at Raab, Austria, ac cording to a letter received from him by Eugene Boucher of' this city. The letter was dated August 27 last. New York friends today started a fund to ie forwarded to the singer for the urchase f food. The baritone left London three 'ays-- before war began and was at itratzcastle, Bohemia. whenvhe was put under guard as a French subject. Vfter two years he was removed at lis own request to the detention amp. Here he has been obliged to ay for special lodgings and foremost f his food supplies. lust Ship Wheat East At Once for Winter Use .New York, Oct. 17. Wheat re uired to meet needs of mills in east rn and central sections must be it-ought forward at once in order to ake advantage of the remaining period of Great lakes transportation, it was announced here today by James F. Bell, chairman of the mill ng divisioifof the United States ad ministration. ) Mr. Bell warned mills- thatbecause A a short crop of hard wheat they nay not expect to receive quantities -is large as heretofore and that neces sarily the quality of their established brands will be affected through the use if soft wheat. The situation "calls :or the spirit' of self-denial," Mr. Bell -,aid. 'Service Medals to Be Presented to Boy Scouts Tar service medals and other ards will be made to Omaha Boy outs at a mass meeting of all com mies of the organization at the First lethodist church Saturday night, at .':30. Dr. J. C. Elsom, national scout commissioner, and a member or the faculty of the University of Wiscon sin. -:" deliver the illustrated lec ture. " - the Greeks as to the Armenians. Al though closely guarded, certain echoes of these horrors come out from time i to time. "There were two or three million Greeks in Asia Minor at the outbreak of the war, in 1914, subject to Turkish rule. According to the latest reliable and authoritative accounts, some sev en op1 eight hundred thousand have been deported, mainly from the coast regions into the interior of Asia Min or. ' . Were Loyal to Turkey. - "The Greeks in Asia Minor have always been law-abiding and per fectly loyal to the Turkish govern ment. Under Abdul Hamid they were well treated, but his successors adopt ed a program to crush thcmV "At the declaration of the present war all persecutions were stopped, but the spring of 1915 brought to the stage a tragic, novel drama, unique in the historv of the world as to its horrors and destructivness, that is the Armen ian deportation; under that innocent name the extermination of a Christian race was started. "Along with the Armenians most of the Greeks of the Marmora regions and Thrace have been deported on the pretext that they gave information to the 'enemy. Along the Aegean coast, Aivalik stands out as the worst suf ferer. According to one report, some 70,000 Greeks there have been deport ed toward Koria and beyond. At least 7,000 have been slaughtered. The Greek bishop of Aivalik committed suicide in despair. . Send Men Into Interior. "The latest account from Trebi zond shows the towns along the Black Sea afe being emptied of their Greek population. From Lyndon S. Craw ford, missionary of the American board at Trebizond, we have a letter dated July 24, 1917. in which he says the following order came from Turk ish army headquarters at Sheisliehie: 'By 12. 25 July, let no Greek man over 16 and under 50 be founnd in Ordou. Send all such on into the interior. As for the families, we will send further orders later.' "Mr. Crawford also wrote: 'First let us express once more our thank fulness to God for the deliverance He has sent us by the great, grand Rus sian army and people. We are more and more appreciating what the Rus sians' have done for this region. Im mediately after the Russian occupa tion of this province in April, 1916, hundreds of Armenians began to come out of their hiding places.' Exterminate Greek Element. "From the Greek minister to the United States, George Rousses, I, have a letter September 21, 1917, m which he says: '"Backed by the Germans, the Turks have Dut into execution and even organized their wildness. They have decided to exterminate the Greek element ,which is the most important and most numerous in Asia Minor. " 'Under pretext of necessities of war, entire populations have been de ported. Members, of families have been separated. The old, the men unfit for military service and the women, were sent into the interior. the country, abandoned without the slightest help and exposed to all sorts of deprivations. The men fit for mil itary service were taken by force into the army despite the fact, of having paid for exemption; some of the wealthiest have even been called on to pay this exemption fee three times over. , , . ' The Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor, Mr. Jackson said, has been organized for non-political and purely humanitarian purposes and aims at securing means to aid these GVeeks reduced by sudden persecu tions to a state of want. Mestas Named Governor. Mexico City, . Oct. 17. General Manuel Mestas has been named gov ernor of the lower halfxf Lower Cali- tornia ana nas leu tor La raz to as sume his post. Every Silver Mint in Country Overworked - Washington, Oct. 17. Demand for silver coins is so great that every mint in the country has been placed on a twenty-four-hour a day basis to meet it. This never has been necessary before. j irel Raymond T. tWof Baker. Hi the mint, announced todfy that the total subsidiary silver cbinage thus far this year totaled $16,551,000, or an .increase of more than 800 per cent over the corresponding period last yean LONG LABOR STRIKE HEARINGfAT.AN END Judge Leslie Takes Case Under Advisement ; Expensive Litigation for All. , J U.'S. TO TAKE PART IN ALLIES CONFERENCE Official Announcement Wit held, But America May Have yoice in Determin ing ampaign. Washing n Oct. 17. While of ficial announcement is being withheld, it is practically certain that the United States frill be represented at the coming conference of all the na tionsat war against Germany, which probably will be held in Paris. ' Secretary Lansing today authorized the statement that it difinitely had been decided that there would be a conference and 'hat the United States was considering participating in it with the possibility that it would be decided to do so. Evasions of War Tax. On Munitions Total $17,500,000 Washington, Oct. 17. Internal revenue agents have reported that evasions of the special tax of lj4 per cent by munitions manufacturers have totaled so far, approximately $17,500,000. More than $10,000,000 of that'Sum already has been recovered by the government. The amount of tax voluntarily paid by theHhunitions manufacturers last year was approximately $26,300,000. Field investigators, checking the re turns, notified them that in many cases the amount was far below the sum actually due the government. One of the methods said to have been used in returning minimum taxes was to charge off a large per centage of the value of a plant under the head of depreciation. In some cases he entire value of the plant was said to have been deducted from the profits of the concern, representa tions being made that at the end of the war the plants would be of no further use. The practice is said to :have been quite general and to have been followed by some of the largest manufacturers. i Long drawn out litigation between the state of Nebraska and Omaha business men and unions as a result of the strike troubles last spring came to attend yesterday whe Judge Leslie, sitting m equity court, took tne una chapter in the case under advisement. Attorney General Reed is asking for a permanent injunction against both the Omaha Business Men's associi' tion and fourteen labor organizations, The recent hearing before Judge Les lie, in which the case was gone intcH on its merits, lasted three weeks. . The legal fight arising out of the state's intervention in the Omaha strike proved long and costly. A con servative estimate of attorneys' cost in the final hearing for a permanent injunction, but onejihase 6f th case, is $750 a day. Added to that are the fees of the hundreds of witnesses ex amined, the court costs of the scores of bills, cross-bills, motions and other legal action filed and the expense to the state and county. ' Bitter court fights which featured the early stages of the injunction hearing caused hree district judges Judge Sears, Judge Leslie and Judge Redick to sit Ion the bench. Attorneys who have figured in the three-cornered fifth t include Attor ney General Reeu, Deputy Attorney General Munger, -D. M. Vinsonhaler and Norris Brown, representing the state; F. H. Gaines, F. A. Brogan and Alvin Johnson, counsel for the Busi ness Men's association, and Anson Bigelow, M. D. Owen of Chicago, at torney for the International Bricklay ers' union, and O. M. Ninde of Chi cago, attorneys for the unions. ' At least five, of the attorneys in the hear ing for' permanent injunction known to have' received each for their services. $100 a are day London Prepares for. Coming of German Airmen Shortly 1 Lond5n, Oct. 17. London's bomb proof shelters are being card-inf dexed in preparation for further Ger man raids. Sufficient tunnels, arches, crypts, basements and substantial buildings have been ihventoried to accommodate 1,000,000-persons. The decision of the educational authorities to close all the London schools during the last week in October is, perhaps, the most inter esting of Jihe many, steps being taken in anticipation of the recurrence of German raids as soon as the moon is up again. 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