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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
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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."
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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."
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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