THE 8EMI-WBGKLV TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA.
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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.
