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THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. GIV TREATY tPact Presented to Mission at the French Foreign Office ' in Paris. Washington Showers All, Its Pent-Up Patriotism on Vet erans of "Regular Outfit. LED BY GENERAL PERSHING T NITTI IS MAKING GOOD IN ITALY BULGARIA MME. TSAMADOS TAL WILLIAM C. BULLITT 0 P" ' "' ' Nll I .1 W ....PI .I.UMrt HAVE 25 DAYS TO GDNSiDEfl Thrace Excised, to Be Left Under Rule of Allies Until Decision I Made Defeated Country to Have Seaport Paris, Sept. 22. The trenty of penco between the nllled and associated pow ers and Bulgaria was presented to the Bulgarian mission at the French for eign olllce. After the delegates had assembled Georges Clemenceau, president of the peace conference, spoke brlelly In open ing the session. lie was followed by General Theodoroff, head of tho Bul garian mission. M. Theodoroff spoko for 15 minutes, pleading that the Bulgarian peoplo were not responsible for the war, but that the Bulgarian government had thrown the country Into the Btrugglo. He realized, however, he said, that tho people must share the responsibility. "They are wP ing to do so," ho said, "'but they feel that In no way have they committed such n crime as will compel them to nccept servitude." King Ferdinand and Vusell Undo slavoff, Bulgarlnn foreign minister In 1014, were blamed for Bulgaria's en try Into the war by M. Theod'orofT. He said the Bulgarian people did not ap prove of tho German alliance, which he declared, "came to them as a cataclysm," but they realized they must accept part of tho respon sibility. "We have committed faults," he said, "and wo slmll bear their consequences within the bounds of equity, but there is n punishment no crime can justify, and that Is servitude." Representatives of all the 27 gov ernments participating In the confer ence, Including Jloumanla, were pres ent. Frank L. Polk, head of the United Stntes delegation, sat on M. Clcmcn ccau's right and Sir Eye Crowe, the new British plenipotentiary to the peace conference, sat on the presi dent's left. The Bulgarian delegates, M. Theo doroff. M. Ganoff, M. Sakessof, M. Stambullwsky and M. Harzoff, entered after tho other delegates, who rose when the enemy representatives ap peared. The Bulgarians were courte ously confident In their demennor. Twenty-five days are allowed Bul garia to present observations on , the treaty terms. ' Many delays have marked consider ation of tho Bulgarian treaty which was presented to tho representatives of that government todny. Work on j the pact was begun May 20, but tho negotiations with Germany nnd Aus tria prevented tho peace conference from completing tho convention until late this week. Although tho United Stntes was not fit war at any time with Bulgaria, It 'will be n slgnntory to tho trenty for the purpose of adding Its influence In securing observance by Bulgarln of the covenant of the League of Nations, which is nrn Integral part of tho pact. The United Stntes, however, will not be represented on the Interallied com- - mission chnrged with the enforcement of the financial clauses of tho treaty. Disposition of Thrace wasj a subject on which tho peace conference ' was forced to pass tho most time In the preparation of the treaty. As It de velops, this question has not been final ly adjusted, but Thrace Is to be ex cised from Bulgarlnn territory and left under the supervision of tho principal nllled and associated powers, which later will annonncc their decision as to the future status of the country. A plan by which the port of Dcdeagatch, on the Aegean sea, would bo given to Bulgaria with n corridor leading to It similar to that provided for In the German treaty, by which Poland was given ncccss to Danzig, on tho Baltic, lias been considered, but it has never been formally adopted. Bulgarln, un der tho treaty terms, however, Is as sured an economic outlet to the Aegean. Kill One; Loot Bank. Grand Rapids, Mich., Sept. 22. Shootjng and killing one man who at tempted to give warning, automobile bandits held np a branch of tho Grand Rapids Snvlngs hnnk nnd escaped with several thousand dollars. Tho exact nmount secured by tho bnndlts has not boon determined. Irish Fairs Forbidden. Dublin, Sept. 22. Fairs, markets and processions have been forbidden In Counties Tippernry and Gnlway. American Steamship Sunk. London, Sept. 22. Tho Amerlcnn steamship Weitnrvnda, en route to an English port from Fuschclllng, Hol land, has been sunk. The cause has not yet been determined. Efforts nro being rande to snlvngo the vessel. Germany Keeps Up Censorship. Berlin, Sept 22. An announcement has been made by tho minister of flnnnce that censorship of letters nnd telegram destined for outsjdo coun tries wfll be maintained. This Is to pretent sending of money out, Mine. Tsnmndos, wife of the charge d'affaires of tho Greek legation lu Washington, has returned to America after a stay of nenrly a year at her home In Athens. Slie Is nffectlonntely remembered In San Francisco as a Red Cross worker during tho Influ enza epidemic In thnt city , where her husband established the Greok con sulate general. Ho Is now In charge of the legation In Washington In the absence of tho minister. TEXAS DEAD NOW 500 AID IS RUSHED TO CORPUS CHRISTI AREA. Train of Thirty-Five Cars of Food and Other Supplies Dispatched by Army Commander. San Antonio, Tex.. Sept. 18. When a long-dlstnnce telephone message es timating tho dead In the Corpus Chrlstl district at COO was received, MaJ. Gen. Joseph T. Dlckman, commander of the Southern department, ordered n spe cial train of 35 cars loaded Immediate ly' with supplies and sent to the strick en area. Tho train wns filled mostly with big army motortrucks, such ns were used for transporting supplies in Europo nnd with these tho soldiers, nldlng Col. J. A. Porter, In chnrgo of relief work In the bay district, will be able to reach the sufferers In tho marooned district. The train will go ns far as the line enn bo trestled and if wash outs block tho way the trip will be finished by trucks. Besides the trucks there wove sev eral carloads of food, Including brend and canned goods, which can be con sumed Immediately after they are re ceived by the hungry people. There were also large qunntltlcs of cots, blnnkets nnd tents nnd army of ficers nt mllltnry headquarters an nounced that nothing would bo left un done to see thnt no ono suffers for wnnt of food nnd shelter. BEGINNING OF BIG BATTLE Fltzpatrick Says Steel Strike Starter of Fight to Socialize the Basic Industries. Chicago. Sept. 10. Ofllclnls of tho steel plants In the South Chicago and Calumet districts nro making prepara tions to operate their plants as usual In tho event of tho strike of workers scheduled for Mondny. They Insist thnt the great majority of workers will bo steadfast, and are supplying cots nnd carloads of food, with the Inten tion of housing nnd feeding the work ers Inside the plnnts. At Gary and tho Independent steel plnnt In Indiana Harbor It was said rllles and ammunition' for guards who will protect tho properties are being taken Into the plnnts, nnd tho snme conditions are said to prevail at tho Stnndard Steel plant In Hammond. TROOPS OUT AT. CAMDEN, N. J. Militiamen Summoned When Street Car Passcnuers Riot Over Zone Faro System. Camden, N. J., Sept. 10. With 300 stnto militiamen mobilized for emer gency duty In connection with the dis orders resulting from tho establish ment of a zone system of fares nnd with the entire force of policemen and firemen, In nddltlon to n number of speclnl sheriff's deputies doing guard duty, tho New Jersey Public Servlco company promised nt least a partial resumption of tho trolley servlco In this city nnd points throughout the county. Fenrlng mob violence, the mo tormen nnd conductors refused to take their cars from the barns and the serv lco on all except one lino wns sus pended. Train Robbers Get $25,000. Seattle, Wash., Sept. 22. At least $25,000 was obtained by a robber or robbers who bound nnd gngged a mnll clerk on an enst-bound Northern Pa cific passenger train between Scnttlc and Knnasket, Wash. Grape Growers' Case Falls. San Francisco, Sept 22. A petition by the California Grape Protective as sociation asking thnt government ofll cers be enjoined from enforcing tho war prohibition act was denied by Judge Van Fleet Former Commanders Take Part In Parade on Pennsylvania Avenue Chief of the A. E. F. Given Ovation In Conaress. Washington, Sept 20. Stnndlng In the chamber of tho house of repre sentatives, with both tho senate and house present and the galleries crowd ed with ndmlrers, General Pershing received the formal thanks of congress for the services he nnd the officers nnd men he commanded In France ren dered during the great war. There was an air of solemnity about the scene moro eloquent than words to tell Its full meaning. Senator Cummins, ns president pro tempore of the senate, snt with Speak er Glllett, and when General Pershing had been escorted to tho floor before tl)e speaker's desk, facing n great American flag draped on the wall, ex tended the first greeting. Speaker Glllett followed with n trib ute to the general and his nrmy. The formal resolution of thnnks wns then presented to the general by former Spenker Clark. Washington, Sept. 10. Tenrs nnd cheers greeted tho returned First divi sion, led by General Pershing, when It mnrched down Pennsylvania ave nue over tho Amerlcnn Way of Victory laid out more than 50 years ago. It was "Washington's first great pa rade of the war and tho crowds show ered nil their pent-up patriotism on these sun-bronzed veterans, the first to go to France. More than half a million people saw the parade. It was conceived nnd cnrrlcd out ns tho nntlon's tribute not alone to the veteran fighting men who mnrched, but to tho whole grent nrmy the nation created to mnke certain tho utter de feat of Germany. Marching In mass formntlon and equipped with all tho guns, gas-throw-ers and other death-dealing devices of the front line service, the First divi sion, fresh home from France, moved along the broad avenue, a living tldo of fighting manhood thnt filled the street from curb to curb. Above each solid block of Infantry rose the grim line of bayonets, the blue steel glinting dully ns It. caught tho light. Farther back came long lines of field guns, French "75's," to which French officers hnvc said Franco owes her snlvatlon nnd, nfter nil the trains and wagons had rumbled by, came a battalion of' tanks, streaked and yellowed with pnlnt to conceal them from enemy eyes, but now chink ing behind the troops In noisy response to tho cheers thnt greeted them. Up the avenue nt the bend of the di vision rode MaJ. Gen. Edward F. Mc Glnnch, commanding, nnd with him rode two former commnnders of the di vision the first to go nnd tho Inst of tho divisions to como home. They were Maj. Gen. William L. Slebert. who took It to France, nnd Lieut. Gen. Robert L. Bullnrd, who took It Into action an.d surrendered command only, to tnko n higher post. The Sixteenth Infantry, veterans of tho bitter fighting nt Cnntlgny, where Franco learned In what fashion Amer ica could nnd would fight nnd bronthed again nfter months of strain, led the wny. At various points In the divisional line nnd before the wallowing tnnks hammered nnd clnttered in nn uproar Ing conclusion to tho five-hour spec tncle, all manner of additional units, not part of the division Itself, were In NEW YORK, BISHOP ELECTED Episcopalians Choose the Rt.-Rev. Charles L. Burch on the Third Ballot New York, Sept. 10. The Rt.-Rev. Charles S. Burch, suffragan bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese f New York, wns elected' bishop to sue coed tho Into Bishop Greer on tin third bnllot at a special dlocosnn con ventlon here. JULIA HEINRICH IS KILLEr Metropolitan Grand Opera Sinner I Cruched on Station Platform at Hammond, La. Ilnminond, Ln., Sept 10. Miss Julln Ilelnrlch of Philadelphia, a Metropol itan opera singer, wns Instnntly killed hero when she wns struck by n bag gage truck which was knocked from tho Illinois Central tracks by n loco motive. Louisiana Bank Loses $10,000. Shreveport, Ln Sept. 22. Shortly before nooh three unmasked men robbed tho bank at Glltlam, about twenty miles north of here, of $10,000 nnd escaped lu n motorcar toward the Arkansas lino. , Chicago's Bio Strike Ends. Chlcngo, Sept. 22. The carpenter' strike and consequent building lock out In Chicago were settled flnnlly bint Friday. The carpenters get $1 nn ho ir the wago for which they hnvo contend ed during ten weeks' test of strength. A lav. pUotograpu oi H luiuiu O. Bullitt, lately attached to tho Ameri can peaco commission, who tcstltlcd before the senate foreign relations committee that Secretary Lansing ex pected the pence trenty to fall. lie also quoted Secretary Lansing ns bar ing said thnt he considered tho League of Nations entirely useless. Mr. Bul litt's testimony wns regarded ns tha most scnsntlonnl yet presented to tht committee. AIR RECORD IS SET ROHLFS SCORES ALTITUDE MARK OF 34,610 FEET. Believed to Be New Figure Achieved - In 78 Minutes Machine Balks for Time. Ilneoln, N. Y., Sept. 20. A new world's nltltudo record Is believed to have been made here when Roland Rohlfs, test pilot for tho Curtlss Air plane eompuny, sonred 3-1,010 feet above sea level, according to tho offi clnl barograph, In 78 minutes. A8 Roosevelt Held, his stnrtlng point. la 110 feet nbovo sea level, Rohlfs ac tually climbed 3-1,500 feet, uccordlng to the bnrograph. His altimeter reg istered 3-1,400 feet. Roldfs on binding' wns greeted by his wife who ran to his sldo nnd snld: "Whnt did you do?" "I think I have done It this time, all right," ho replied, and then nfter a few minutes ho snld: "I bellcvo nil official and unofficial records have been shuttered. I am satisfied this mnchlno can't be mnio to go auy higher with Its present equipment 1 am through with high Hying for the present nnd I nm glad to bo nble to bo down hero to say It. "At a height of about 31,000 feet my machine dropped about six hun dred feet. The machine turned over on Its ear nrul kept going from side to sldo with an oscillating movement. It wns terrible. After working with the mechanism for some time, I final ly .put on high speed and found tha machine righted Itself and began to climb ngnlu. "I began to use tho oxygen tnnks about 20.000 foot up. If tho oxygen hud failed for n second I would have i been done for. "I reached tho grcntest nltltudo after climbing 78 minutes, nnd main tained thnt altitude for about 20 min utes." Nothing unusual happened to htm, he said, except that his teeth nched. . "Another peculiar tiling that I no ticed this time was a sort of nervous twitching on my body," ho added, "where I have scars as a result)f burns I received several yours ngo. These begun to pull nnd twitch nnd It lasted for quite n while." COUNCIL TO DEMAND KAISER tondon Pall Mall Gazette Learns Request Already Has Been Made on Holland. London, Sept. 15). The nllled war ouncll, the Pall .Mall Gazette learns, ' i derided to nsl; Holland for tho rtrndltlnn of ex-ICalser Wllhelm. "The Dutch will receive If they ' 'ive not already received a formal "mnnd." says the paper, "and nl hough n protest from her Is possible, lilelnlH nro confident Holland will nc- ." DAR RAPIDS PUPS STRIKE Hundred HIqH School Glrlo and Boys Walk Out for Shorter Hours, Cedar Rapids, Sept. ID. Three bun- (IrOfl lllrvlt upllrlnl minllci l.tTf flw.li. nlifuu i - f... . ,rijr.ai ...... . . . . l.Ml.-.r,i rooms at ten o'clock In the morning, announcing n' strike for shorter class periods. They paraded the downtown itrects and went to Grant Vocational school, where they woro Joined by about 200 pupils. Many Poles Near Starvation. Paris, Sept 20. Henry Morgonthau, head of tho Amerlcnn commission which has been nt work In Poland since late In July, says hundreds of thousands are hungry nnd half clud nnd fears they will die by thousands. Back Gary Stand. New York, Sept. 20. The Steel Fab ricators of tho United Stntes, compris ing nenrly 100 of the leading producers, adopted resolutions nt a meeting hero approving tho stand taken by E. II. Onry of the Steel corporation. I i mini Tho whole of Italy Is gasping nt tho new methods Introduced by her young nnd new leader, Premier Nlttl. "Tho truth, above all tho truth," Is Nlttl's motto, nnd ho delivers. It to tho senate, to tho deputies and to tho peo plo with emphatic openness. Only a short tlmo ago It was said everywhere thnt his cabinet would not last moro thnn n few days. D'An nunzlo and his followers were shout ing themselves honrse la denunciation. Tho Hotel Bristol, where the premier Is living, hnd to be surrounded by armed pollco nnd riots ngnlnst tho government were tho order of the dny. Nlttl has revealed himself ns one of tho ablest men In Italy nnd by no means an unequal successor to former Premier Giovanni Glollttl, the veteran statesman who Is said to be tho power behind the scenes of tho present gov mcnt "The neonln of Ttnlv li nvn finnn told that tho war wbb won for no advantage," ho Buys, "because owing to dlplomntlc nnd economic rensons nil of her aspirations cnunot bo materialized. "Italy has won the war to very great advantage. Wo havo now a solid frontier, almost Impregnable. We nro now free to work for our greater program, which Is one of cconomlcnl nnd political enlargement. "Wo possess n greater number of men nble to work thnn nny other country. This la more thnn gold. It Is power. And by power I mean power to carry on a program of civilization nnd progress." r "" 1 11 j SERVICE THAT IS dom, the right of Initiative, the comDunlonshlp of family and friends, tho enjoyment of property, nnd tho right of Its lnwful accumulation. "When threatened or assailed the government summons the citizen to Its defense, nnd ho must respond. In doing so ho recognizes an obligation and pays n debt ho owes to society." Tho senator's conclusion was this service cannot bo mensured In money. It Is beyond price; It Is sucrcd; It lncnrnntcs sacrifice. It lu nbovo nnd beyond tho sordid standards of the workaday world. Tho attempt to apply them not only fulls, but fastens upon that Bcrvlco the repronch that Its Impulses and Its purposes were mercenary. PwAN WANTED: MORE AMERICAN PULP WOOD As a step towurd conserving tho decreasing supply of American pulp wood used In tho manufacture of news print paper, Senator Watson of Indi ana has Introduced a resolution author izing tho secrefnry of ngrlculturo to make u survey of the nation's avallablo pulp wood timber supply. Tho sum of $100,000 Is nsked to carry on tho sur vey and Investigation. "Two-thirds of tho news print pa per used by American newspnpers," Senator Watson said, ln Introducing the resolution, "Is Imported or Is man ufactured from wood cr pulp Imported from Cnnadu. One-third Is inado ln the United Stntes. The former pro portion Is stendlly lncrenslng, tho lut tor Is steadily decreasing." Nearly all of tho American news print manufacturing Industry Is lo cated In the northeastern stntes half In New Yor.V the senator continued. "But In the Pacific Northwest Wash- Ington, Oregon and part of California und the Inland empire of northwestern Montana and northern Idaho, are great forests that have been no more than touched by tho few pulp mills ln thnt section of the country." j CRA CHAMBERLAIN AND courts-maitlal for convictions not felonies, nnd discharges them automatically as though they had not been convicted. "It appoints u board of clemency and review to rovlew sentences Imposed by courts-mnrtlnl, slnco April 0, 1017, ln cases of crimes Involving felonies." -...-. ii r BEYOND PRAISE Senntor Thomas of Colorado wrote n letter tho other day In nnswer to ono Inquiring why ho does not favor a bill for tho payment of n bonus of $180 each to tho United States soldiers In the great wnri This, letter Buys, among other things: "Tho bill commercializes patriotism, Impairs tho sentiment of loyalty, and reduces to terms of money tho servlco and sacrlflco of tho citizen for tho public weal. "Every mnn In tho United Stntes Is the possessor of ccrtnlh rights which are reciprocal with certain duties or responsibilities. His enjoyment of tho one Is Inseparable from his recognition of tho other. Tho ultimate sanction of society, whatever tho form of its gov ernment, Is force, Whoso final analysis Is, the soldier In tho ranks: Tho ob ligation to servo when tho occasion arises Is Insistent mid Inexorable. Be causo of It you possess Individual free COURTS-MARTIAL "Vnntor Chamberlain of Oregon If a consist t friend of the Ynnkoo light ing man. Ho says ol his courts-murtlal bill : "I am advised that tho total of tho sentences Imposed by courts-martial during the world war passed upon American soldiers wns about 28,000 years. A clemency board has recom mended n reduction of sentences which brings the total down to about 0,700 years thut . Amerlcun soldiers must serve ln prison. "Tho stlgmn of conviction Is not removed by action of tho clemency board, und thero Is practically no re visory power over these sentences, whero tho court-mcrtlnl had Jurisdic tion and the proceedings have been regular. I have Introduced a bill be fore the ocnate tho purposes of which aro: "It restores soldiers, sallora and marines, who hove been sentenced by