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THE 8EMI-WBGKLV TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA. f DRAFT WARNING GIVEN STRIKERS President Tells Machinists They Must Fight if They Refuso to Work. WILLIAM TH0RNE 24,000,000 MEN GENERAL FAYOLLE FORMAL SUIT IN RICH PILE FABRIC NOW REGISTER 13,000,003 Names Are Added to 11,000,000 Already Enrolled. MUST ABIDE BY DECISION STATEMENT BY CRUDER fWllson Notifies Men at Bridgeport, Conn., That Unloss They Return They Will Be Ordered Into Army, Washington, Sept. 10. Striking ma chinists nt Bridgeport, Conn., have been notlflcd'by President Wilson tlmt unless they return to wore ond ubldo by tho wngo award of tli war labor bonrd they will be barrel from em ployment for a year nnd draft baords will bo Instructed to. reJe-'H any claim of exemption from military service based upon their alleged Usefulness on war production. Tho president's warning went In a letter addressed to tho machinists re plying to resolutions forwarded to him announcing tho strlko because of dis satisfaction over tho war labor board's nward and a later interpretation by an umpire. Tho war department also has taken over the mltk & Wesson company of Springfield, Mass., and will operate the plant and business to secure continu ous production and prevent industrial .disturbance. Tho company recently gave notice jthut It .would prefer tp have the gov Crnment oporato its plant rather than jnblde by a decision of the war labor board enforcing collective bnvgatnJng. Mr. Wilson's letter was addressed to tho Bridgeport district lodge of the In ternational Association of Machinists nnd other striking workmen of Bridge port, Conn. !"PEACE NEARER" HERTLING 'German Chancellor Declares Govern 1 mont and Army Chli'fo Are Op ' posed to All Conquests. . London, Sept 10. Notwithstanding' the allies' declination of Germany's peace offer, Count von Hertllng, tho imperial German chancellor, Is con vinced that peaco is nearer than Is .generally supposed, according to an jaddress made by the chancellor before the trades unionist leaders In Germany, says a dispatch to tho Exchange Tele Igraph from Copenhagen. ; Tho chancellor declared both tho 'German government nnd array leaders jdeslrod an understanding nnd peace j&nd that the government and tho army ileadera were against all conquests. : As soon as he was convinced of the, Impossibility of an agreement with the npper houso on the suffrage question, the chnnccllor said, ho would dlssoivo tho lower houso. U. S. TO FIX COTTON PRICE President Will Act After Committee Investigates the General Situation. Washington, Sept. 10. President Wilson announced that a fair price for raw cotton will be fixed if that should bo deemed necessary after tho commit tee to be nppolntod by the war indus tries board has completed its Inquiry into the gonernl cotton situntlon. During the Investigation a separate committee of throe, soon to be named, will buy cotton for use of tho United States, government and the .allies nt prices to bo approved by the president. Stnco most of tho cotton of the coun try la required for war uses, thlsov ernmcnt buying is expected to stabilize prices. HOUSE PASSES BOND BILL Designed to Aid In Sale of Liberty Se curities by Making Them Exempt From Federal Tax. Washington, Sept 10. Tho houso on Friday pnssed tho bill designed to aid tho salo of Liberty bonds by mak ing thorn exempt from federal tax when sold to individuals and corpora tions. There was not a dissenting vote. TWO FLYERS DIE IN TEXAS Lieut C. R. Janes of Chicago and Enlstcd Man Killed When Plane Crashes to Earth. Fort Worth, Tex., Sopt 10. Lieut. C. It. Janes, Chicago, was killed In stantly and an enlisted mnn named Lantz, was fatally Injured hero when 'their airplane 'crashed to earth In u spin. Lnutr. died shortly after tho ac cident Deserters Fill Cologne. Amsterdam, Sept 10. "Flcolng de serters recently have been repeatedly fired at In tho busy streets of Co logne," said Herr Oserfold, member of tho rclchstng, In n message ad dressed to Chancellor flertling. Premier Lloyd George III. Manchester, Sept 10. It was offi cially announced that Premier Lloyd Georgo is suffering from a chill. He has a high temperature and may be prevented from fulfilling all his en gagements in his present tour. William Thome, M. P., one of Eng. land's biggest labor authorities, found er of the National Union of General Workers In 18SO and general secretary ever since, hns been discussing labor problems with Samuel Compere, pres ident of the American Federation of Labor. At tho ago of six Mr. Thome worked In a barber shop and at eight In n brlcklield. He hns been a mem ber of the Trades Union Congress and lias written numerous labor articles. FIRST 'TO BE CALLED MEN 19-21 AND 32-36 TO GO AHEAD. General Crowdcr Says These Regis trants Will Be Sent Question naires at Once. Washington, Sept 12. Provosf Mar shal General Crowder announced on Tuesday that tho first call to the col ors of men who register Thursday will include men In tho nineteen nnd twen-ty-yenr-old classes and In tho clnsses from thirty-two to thirty-six years In clusive. Questionnaires will go first to registrants within tlicso specified ago limits and local boards will bo or dered to classify them first In readi ness for calls beginning in October. Young men in the nineteen nnd twenty-year-old classes, General Crowder said, will bo accepted for Induction Into the students' army training corps, but ho pointed out thnt tho authorized strength of this corps Is only 150,000 men, whereas tho total number of reg istrants below twenty will bo over 0, 000,000. The general refused to discuss fur ther the oducntionnl plans, snylng they were not within his province. Ho pointed out that the total -number of fit men which ho expected to be se cured from tho clnsses over thirty-two was only 001,000, nnd repeated tho statement thnt class 1 of men now reg istered would bo almost completely exhnusted by October 1. CITIZENS OF ALLIES HELD 8ubjects of Britain and Franco Thrown Into Prison by Bolshevik Officials. Stockholm, Sept 13. Eleven Eng lishmen nnd eleven French citizens have boon arrested and Imprisoned in the, fortress of SR. Peter and Pnul In Petrogrnd, according to apparently ro Unb'e Information received here today from tho Russian city. The Englishmen IncnrcQrntod Include It. IT. B. Lockliart, tho British con sul general at Moscow, who was con demned to loath by the bolshevik gov ernment but who escaped execution ns tho result of tho Intervention of nil the neutral diplomatic representatives. (The fortress of SS. Peter and Paul Is one of -tho most famous dungeons In tho world. Under tho regime of the cznr po'itlcal prisoners were confined thero nnd Its rigors often meant thnt they never enmo out alive.) PEASANTS TAKE PETR0GRAD Many of Population Join Invaders and Opposlnn Force Fight In Streets Fires Rage In the City. London, Sept. 14. Itnsslnn peasants who revolted against tho bolshevik government n few days ago are report ed to have entered Petrogrnd nnd to hnve been Joined by n lnrge part of tho population, says a dlsnnteh from Copenhagen to tho Cenrrnl News Agen cy. Severe fighting Is proceeding In the city nnd fires have broken out nt some places. . Plan $50,000 Liberty Bond Gift. Baltimore. Md., Sept. 14. Friends and admirers of Cardinal Gibbons have completed plnns for th presentation to the cnrdlnnl of a ?rt0.000 Liberty bond on tho ocnslnn of tho golden Ju bilee of his consecration ns a Jdshop. Says Beware of Assassins, Amsterdam, Sept. 14. The soviet government hns Issued a significant or der to the nil people's commissaries to tnko precautions for their personnl safety, according to a dispatch to tho Ithenlscho Westfnlllbcho Zeltung. Provost Marshal General Says Great Problem Now Is to Classify Registrants Justly and Wisely. Washington, Sept. 14. With assur ances from every section of tho coun try tlmt tho registration of Amorlcn's millions of men between tho ages of eighteen and twenty-one nnd thirty two to forty-llvo, inclusive, had boon accomplished with precision, Provost Marshal General Crowder turned his attention to tho great task of classify ing this vast, army. Thirteen million names, approxi mately, have now been added to tho 11,000,000 already registered, making a total man-power census of about 24, 000,000. Tho great problem now, General Crowder said, Is to classify (ho regis trants justly and wisely both for tho welfare of tho army and for tho eco nomic nnd Industrial good of tho na tion. "An erroneous Impression," General Crowder said, "Is current that tho nonproductive list of occupations con tained In tho provost marshal general's work or light regulation of last May corresponds to tho group of Industries omitted from the proferenco list an nounced by the chairman of tho war industries board on September Q. "Because tho former list was brief (only five classes ofc occupation), whllo tho latter group Is. very largo (Including all Industries except tho 70 priority classes enumerated), nnd be cause tho announcement of September 0 stnted thnt tho 'preforonco list' Is tho bnsls for industrial exemption from tho draft,' somo persons- hnvo formed the Impression that the small list of five 'nonproductive' occupations has suddenly been enlnrgod by tho pro-, vost marshal general to Includo the ex tensive group of Industries omitted by tho chairman of tho war Industries. "This Impression Is so erroneous and misleading that It calls for prompt repudiation. Tho 'nonproductive' list of five classified occupations has not been enlarged, and it will not bo en larged without tho amplest and most explicit notlco. "An Industry ondttcd from thnt list is In the position of Jiot being omitted to a priority privilege. Tho relation of that list to the selectlvo service system is that an Industry included in It is. thereby recommended to tho district bonrds as being a 'necessary' industry, nnd the district bonrds may take advantage of thnt recommenda tion In determining whether an Indls pensnblo mnn In such an Industry should bo placed in a deferred class on that ground. "But thero are, of course, many scores, perhaps hundreds, of Industries not positively essential to tho war pro gram nor to tho maintenance of na tional Interest during tho emergency. In those Industries are, or will be, millions of registrants deferred on grounds of dependency, and many oth ers in class 1 without deferment "At this point tho 'work or fight' order comes Into piny, but only n few classes of occupations five In nil ex pressly enumerated In that order, nnd to n relatively small number of indi viduals. "Among this cxtenslvo nnd unlisted group of 'nonpriorlty' Industries, It finds a few which It designates ns 'nonproductive.' The policy involvod Is thnt those men of drnft ago would servo tho country best by getting out of those occupations, cither Into tho military forces or into somo other oc cupation. "Thus the war Industries bonrd is concerned merely with strengthening the priority position of n limited num ber of Industries nt tho top of tho scale, so to spenk, in relation to war needs ; while tho provost marshal gen eral's regulation Is concernod mainly with strengthening tho array by talc ing the registrants who citooso to stay In n small .number of. occupations at the bottom of the scale." EUGENE DEBS FOUND GUILTY Socialist Leader Convicted Under Spy Law Faces Sentence of Twenty Years and Fine of $20,000. Cleveland, O., Sopt. 11. Eugeno V. Debs, Socialist leader, charged with violating tho espionage uct, was found crick Charles of Hesso has accepted guilty by a federal Jury. j tho Finnish crown. Tho Finnish diet Thif maximum penalty Is 20 years' I will moot soon to coniirm tho accept Imprisonment and a lino of $10,000. anc, Deport Fifty Mexicans. j Toledo, O., Sept. 10. Fifty Mexi cans from Toledo, Detroit nnd Clovo-, land, In cliarge of Immigration ofllcials, left hero pn Friday afternoon for the ' international line, whoro thoy will be j deported, , 72 Rubs Rebels Executed.' Stockholm, Sept. 10. As a resnlt of attempts to kill Soviet Commander Berzlun nnd Military Councillors Smll gin and Goloshkln, 72 countoi-revolu-tlonarlcs have been executed In Petro-grud. General Fayn u i- m Immediate com mand of the French troops that aro taking part In what may be the great est battle of the war the contest for control of the forest of St Gobnln, which protects Laon. IL S. TROOPS SAVED WHITE STAR LINER PERSIC IS TORPEDOED. Destroyers Rescue 2,000 American Sol diers Not a Man Lost or Even Injured. Washington, Sept. 13. Tho navy department announced on Wednesday tho receipt of n dispatch from Vico Admiral Sims stating that a British liner carrying American troops was torpedoed September 8 off tho English coast. All on bonrd were saved. v London, Sept 10. An American troopship with 2,800 men on board has been torpedoed. All hands wero snved. Tlio ship was beached. (Tito United States navy depart ment nnnounced that the vessel was tho White Stur liner Persic of 12,043 tons.) In order to save time, Instead of launching the boats the men clambered down ropes to destroyers which sur rounded tho stricken vessel. Tho troop ship was ono of n largo convoy ap proaching tho English coast and was about 200 miles out Tho torpedoing took placo Friday at 8 p. m. vIfChero was no sign of panic on board. Many of tho troops wero from Chicago and Cleveland. No ono was injured. Something had gone wrong with tho troopship's engines, which compelled her tor a timo to lag behind tho rest of the convoy, but tho trouble hod been fixed up and sho was fast cntchlng up with the other transports when a tor pedo hit her Just forward oi tho en gine room. RED SOX WIN WORLD TITLE Boston Americans Defeat Chicago Na tionals In Battle for Champion ship Score, 2 to 1. Boston, Sept. 13. Max Flack, by muffing n lino drive In tho tldrd Inning, gave Boston a 2 to 1 victory In tho deciding game of tho world scries of 1918. Boston wins tho title, four to two Tyler and Mays had been pltoli inr; beautiful ball with tho margin In favor of tho Chicago southpaw. IIo had wavered In tho third, passing two of tho enemy. Then ho had game ly pitched himself out and two wero gone when Whltcmnn, tho Jinx of tho Cubs during tho whole scries, lined to Flnck. It looked as If tho Inning was safely over but tho ball popped out of Mux' mitts and two runs raced over tho plato. U. S. ARMY AT ARCHANGEL American Troops Land In Siberia to Assist Allied Forces In North ern Russia. Washington, Sept 13. American troops hnvo landed at Archangel to as sise tho other allied forces thero In their cumpnlgn for tho re-establish-mcnt of order in northern Russia. This announcement was authorized by Gen eral Mnrch, cldef of staff. For military rcusons the number of soldiers landing was not revealed, nor was It mado clear from whenco they had embarked. It was assumed, however, that tho sol diers had been sent from English camps, where Americans aro training. Accepts Crown of Finland. Stockholm, Sept. 18. Prlnco Fred- Admits Hun Position Is Serious. Rotterdam, Sept. 10. "Our position is tho most serious In Germnn history," the Cologno Zeltung says. "We fight tho world with only our own strength. Suggestions that wo evnenato Belgium avail us nothing." Brusslloff Reported Killed. Copenhagen, Sept. 10, General Brusslloff, former commander In chief of the Russian armies, has been killed at Moscow, near tha Sahrln prison, ac cording to dispatches reaching hero from Klov. Anyone who can remember all of tho now names by which the various and beautiful new pllo fabrics aro called mny go to tho bend of the class in memory culture. Thoy aro nil plushes In reality, and thoy promise u season that will bo mcmorablo for the llch effects they mnko posslblo In for mal suits and In nftcrnoon nnd din ner gowns. No commonplace design ing is worthy such fabrics, and they hnvo inspired artists in women's ap parel to such efforts of clcganco ns nppears in tho costume pictured nbovo. Among mnny handwme BUits this was tho stnr ut tho recent style show at Chicago. This suit Is mndo of a black fabric resembling panne velvet but having n longer nap and therefore a sturdier ap pearance. Blnck Is never somber In these brilliant surfaces, and this fab ric is both brllllnnt nnd rich. Its de signer hns acquiesced In tho season's voguo for lengthened skirts, tunics, wide, soft, girdles, tho strnlght-lino silhouette, and incorporated nil of them into an original model tlmt han dles them in a distinctive, Individual munner Tho skirt In this suit 1ms a tunic LUXURIOUS COATS "Whoro nro you going, my pretty mold? I'm going to keep wnrm, kind sir, she snyed." This might bo a new version of tho old nursery rhyme If tho maid addressed were muffled up in ono of tho new winter coats which now nwalt her plensure. In spite of difficulties that follow in tho wake of war, manufacturers have mndo ready lines of conts that mnke comparisons with those of former seasons odious. Hero arc two examples, among many others that set forth tho styles dis played ut tho recent Style Show. They were part of tho goodly company as sembled recently In Chicago when tho Woman's Apparel association pre sented tho work of Its members to nn admiring audience of critics nnd buyers. It was an extensive show, with two features that made It espe cially notoworthy. Thoy wero. the wearablencss of tho garments shown and the general excellence of their do tlgnlng and workmanship. At tho right of the picture above K cont Is mndo of ono of tho new sit- that Is uneven In length and u straight line, except for n bit of drapery nt tho back. Tho coat In more accurately described as a Jacket, with high nuf Her collar and fronts much longer thnn tho sides or tho back. Tho fabric is Just tho right background for very handsome cut steel buttons, used with Just tho right reserve, in two sizes, on tho front of tho coat Thdro nro four of the smaller buttons nt the back. Coat and skirt nro wedded by tho most clever of wido girdles, which loses Itself in the novel back drapery. Tho lengthened skirt mny not bo ac cepted for practical cloth street suits, but it Is most appropriate for this af fair, with Its air of limousines, con servatories, and grand oporn. Batiste Ruffling. Somo of tho prettiest whlto rufillngi for collars Is mado of bntlsto of a fine sheer quality, combined with nar row Valenciennes laco gathered on In llttlo frills. Fine tucks are run be tween the bandings of tho Ince. ' Twenty girls from Hunter college, New York city, worked on farms Uv Burlington county, Now Jersey. THAT DEFY COLD vcr-tono cloths In which tiny flecks of, whlto appear In brown, tnupc, gray,' blue or Burgundy-colored cloths. It Is a straight-hanging garment with plaits, at the front and bnck, rI Itched down In nccurnto straight lines to tho dopth of tho waistline and finished with arrow bends. Squirrel fur mnkeci tha convertible collar ond deep cuffs on this coat nnd it harmonizes delight fully with tho Indistinct whlto decks In tho material. Tho other coat Is mado of taupo cotored Yularan cloth, - n new namo for a smooth-faced heavy wool fabric. It is cleverly cut and mnchlne-fltltchcd and lias largo pockets cut In ono with n panel nt tho front. Flying squirrel fur nnd very largo taupo buttons fin ish off a cont that compels us to turn round nnd look again when It passes: nur way. It hns the distinction of com. blnlng originality with beauty.