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TIIH NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKTA" TRIBUNE LEADER RECALL UNCOVERED HANTUNG KEPT PLEDGE OF LABOFk Gompers Rises Fjom Bed of Sickness to Deny Charge of Bolshevism. THE TREATY Foes of tht5 Pact Are Defeated in Senate Test Vote on Deal. BliiJ .Mill I Fl RECORD STANDS 55 TO 35 FIVE MILLIONS TO COMBAT "FLU wicT) wno D -flSSERTSUNIOMS TRUETO U.S. declares Government of the United States Is Solidly Anchored In the Heart of Every True Ameri can, In Answer to Loree. Washington, Oct. 20. Suimicl Gom ,jners, weak from several days of 111 pess, took the lloor tit the national In jdustrlal conference to bitterly assail fin Insinuation that the worklngmen of juio united States planned tin attempt o overthrow the government. Mr. Gompers was moved to what was 'called the most eloquent speech pf the conference by the remarks of ju F. Loree, who, speaking fnun the viewpoint of the employers, referred 10 what ho said were attempts of bol Bhevlsm to gain a foothold In the Uni ted States through labor. lie added that "there is nn clement 'Unit believes that because It wos easy to tear down the established govern--rnent In Russia It will be easy to destroy the government of the United States. "That is not true," he asserted. "In (Russia tho government was centered In one czar and his ministers, but the government of the United States Is fcolldly anchored In the henrt of every true American." When Loree, who Is president of tho Delaware & Hudson railroad, said that labor took advantage of tho most critical period of the recent wor to force Important concessions from the ,war labor board, Mr. Gompers rose -to Ills feet. Speaking In n weak voice the feder ation president recalled tho confer ence of 130 labor leaders on March 12, 1017, at which labor pledged Itself, three weeks before. President Wilson asked for n declaration of war, to back the government to the limit, come iwhut might. "And American labor mado good Its pledge," he added hoarsely. Plainly drawing on his reserve of strength lessened by several days of illness the veteran labor leader re ferred with scorn to air. Loree's In sinuations that labor had enjoyed un--duo bcnellts from the war. "Ah, wc should go to the great cor porations, to the board of directors to jfind tho philanthropists of our time," pie exclaimed sarcastically. "Perish Jthe thought 1" Asserting that "whether you llko it jor not, the masses of labor of the Uni ted Mutes have at last found their ability to articulate through orgnnlza Won," Mr. Gompers told the delegates jthat the laboring people are producing the wealth of the world and that, with out minimizing the grent contributions made by men of thought and direction ;to that production, the time had come (When in America Inbor was determined to gain a fair share of the rewards. flEDS SLAY 23,652 IN RIGA intoxicated Executioners Shot Men, women and Children Aided by Young Girls. Stockholm. Oct. 20. Prof. Guldo Schneider of Riga, In n lecture here staled thnt the bolshevlkl shot 2,1,0.": men, women and children In Riga. Tin executioners, Intoxlcnted and unable to aim straight, wounded their victim time and again, laughing at thei agonies, which sometimes lasted ; whole day and night, he said. Young girls, elegantly dressed, volunteered as executioners. SLAYER OF CHILD IS HANGED Thomas Fitzgerald Pays Penalty for Crime on the Gallows at Chicago. Chicago, Oct. 20. Thomns Fitzger ald, slayer of little Janet Wilkinson, Is dead. lie was hanged for his crime In tho Cook county Jail. Fitzgerald was calm up to the mo ment when he went to the gallows. A religious exaltation seemed to sustain !hlm through tho ordeal of the death oell. AUSTRIA RATIFIES TREATY 'German Party Members, Solid Against Pact, Alone Vote "No" on Proposition. Vienna, Oct. 20. The Austrian na tional nssptnbly ratified the peace treaty of St. Germain. Tho ratifica tion was oted without debate. Tho Germnn party alone opposed favorable action, that party being a unit In oppo sition. Lutheran Synods Merged. Itockford, 111.. Oct. 20. Merger of the northern, central, southern and Chicago district synods, tho organiza tion to he known as the Illinois stnte synod, was effected at the northern lillnnlB Evangelical synod convention. Germans Arrive In Brazil. Rio Jnnelio. Brazil. Oct. 20, Among the passengers of the Dutch liner Ilol landin, arriving here, were 400 former Germnn officers nnd soldiers. Of these 23 will remain In Brazil, while tho re mainder will go to Argentina. CHICAGO TRIBUNE. GARY ANARCHY HOTBEO MAJ. GEN. WOOD SAYS REDS DUPED STEEL WORKERS. Colonel Mapes Says If Evidence Was Published Strike In Mills Would End at Once. Chicago, Oct. 10. MaJ. Gen. Leonard Wood, commanding the central de partment of the United States army. went to Gary and took personal charge of tho rounding up of reds who are running away with the steel strike. "I Indorse all Colonel Mapes hns told you," he said to the newspaper correspondents. "This place Is a hot bed of anarchy. I believe that the worklngmnn Is loyal, but the red ele ment has seized upon this strike situ ation as a good place for the open ing wedge for their propaganda of vio lence and destruction." There have been many threats thnt the wives and children of workers will be made to suffer if tho men do not Join tho strikers. Also, complaints were made to tho police that men wearing masks and long robes have stopped tlieni in tho streets nt nlgnt and threatened dire things if they did not strike ut once. The reply of Colonel Mapos to these turtles was a series of raids on red houses, shops and poolrooms. Forty two places were raided at night and 18 men arrested, of whom 10 are In Jail, marked "hold for the mllltury." Colonel Mapes says they will be sent to Indianapolis aud deported. All are alien reds. Tlie raids were renewed. The sol diers began making their descents on the places marked as hiding places of radicals. It is the beginning of n definite nnd determined campaign to put the reds out of business. "If the evidence we collected in raids were revealed," said Colonel Mapes, "tho sudden termination of the steel strike would be the result.-" Colonel Mapes refused to reveal the evidence. The natural Inference Is thnt the military has found documentary evi dence the strike was brought about by tho same rndlcnl element which a few days ago circulated handbills call ing on the "workers" to overthrow the United Stntes army and seize the gov ernment. CABINET TO RUN THE U. S. President Wilson's Illness Makes It Necessary for Aids to Take Over His Duties. Washington, Oct. 10. The cnblnct met and prepared to assume as many as possible of the actlvlMes of Presi dent Wilson for tho remainder of the period of his Illness. This means, In short, cabinet operation of the execu tlvo branches of the government until the president Is well enough to re sume his duties or at least sufliclont ly recovered to guide the cabinet. Meanwhile, there was no pro nounced change in the president's condition save that ho passed a rest less night because of a swelling of the prostate gland. Action of the cabinet In proceeding to take over some of the functions of the chief executive was deemeil an In dlcntlon that the president wi.uld he sick for a long time. KING SEES NATIONAL PARK Royal Family of Belgium Enthusiastic Over Scenery In the Yosmlte Valley. Yosemlto Valley, Col., Oct. 10. Al bort, king of Belgium, and tho royal visiting party are spending Wednesday In this great national park. Years ago when King Albert came to tills country as the then crown prince and traveled incognito, lie walked through the hills and valleys of Yosemlto. Yesterday he enthusiastically pointed out each point of Interest and each site which holds a memory, to his wife. Queen Kllza both, and his son, Princo Leopold. Irish Prisoners to Go Free. Dublin. Oct. 20. The lonl mayor has been Informed that all the Irish political prisoners In Mount Joy pris on will be liberated Immediately. This Is the outcome of tholr hunger strike, It was explained. U. S. to Sell $500,000 Leather. Washington, Oct. 20. The wnr de partment announced nn auction sale of approximately $500,000 worth of leather to be held November 14 at the office of the zone surplus property of ficer In Chicago. 2 AIR RACERS KILLED CRASH IN WYOMING FATAL TO ARMY FLYERS. Lleuts. Miller and Klrby Meet Death In Trying to Land After Englno Had Stopped. Salt Lako City, Oct 10. Lieut. French Klrby, pilot, and Lieut. Stanley C. Miller, observer, of airplane No. 44. In the transcontinental air derby, were killed at Castle Rock, Utah, when their plane, traveling westward, fell a dis tance of approximately 200 feet. Lieutenant Klrby was killed Instnnt ly, according to the manager of the Hlgby ranch at Castle Rock, where the accident happened. Lieutenant Miller died a few hours later. According to the ranch manager, the machine was flying high when the en glue was heard to stop and Klrby was seen to iloat downward. Suddenly, when about 200 feet In the air, the machine banked sharply and dived straight for the ground. Lieutenant Klrby was dead when rnnch hands reached the machine Lieutenant Miller was allvo and medi al I assistance was sent for, but ho ex pired before physicians could arrive from either Castlo Rock or Evanston, Wyo. FIERCE FIGHT AT PETROGRAD AntibolBhcvlst General Asked Not to Bombard City British Capture Krondstadt Fortress. London, Oct. 20. Gen. Ytidenltch has captured Krnsno Selo and Gat china, south of Potrograd, where he met worklngmen from the city who nsked that the northwestern Russlai army refrain from shelling Petrograd, and pledging If this promise was given to join the nntibnlshevikl, according to n llelslngfors dispatch received here. Forces of the soviet government of Russia, are, according to latest advices, still desperately defending the city, toward which antlbolshevlk troops have been advancing since Oct 11. Confirmation of dispatches tell Ing of the fall of tho former Russian capital has not been received In ofll cial quarters here. The army com mended by Gen. Yudenltch is within n comparatively short distance of the city, but the rapidity of Its advance (luring the first days of offensive does not seem to have been maintained The white ling was hoisted over tin bolshevik fortress of Krondstadt on Friday night, according to a Ilelslng for dispatch quoting Finnish general stuff report. London, Oct. 18. Krondstadt, the great fortress standing sentinel nt the gate of Petrograd, the former Russian capital, has capitulated to British naval forces, which, after a terriiic bombard ment, entered the place. The fall of this bastion of the defenses of Petro grad appears to seal the fate of tho city. SUGAR RATION FOR GOTHAM One Pound Only to Be Sold to Each Purchaser; Envelope to Appear In Restaurants. New York, Oct. IS. Arthur Wll llnins, federal food administrator fo: New York, Is perfecting plans to plain the city on a sugui ratlonlni: basis similar to that In force during the war. Sales of sugar will be limited to one pound for each customer, and many restaurants already have put In to effect the sugar envelopes employed during the wur, Instead of the open bowl. Wilson Foe to Be Deported. Leavenworth. Kan., Oct. 18. Frank Geizler. an Austrian, was ro-nrrested by thj chief of police when lie was released from the federal prison here. Do Is being held for deportation. Geizler wns convicted of threatening the life of President Wilson In K'orth Dakota In 1017. Flyer Crosses Alps. Paris, Oct. 20. Lieutenant Poulet, tho French aviator who started from Issy-Lcs-Mnullnenux Tuesday on n flight to Melbourne, Australia, nr rived at Rome, at the aviation Held of Centocclle. Sugar Ration for Gotham. New York, Oct. 20. Arthur Wil liams, federal food administrator for Now York, Is perfecting plnns to plnco tho city on a sugar rationing basis, similar to that in forco during tho war. Fourteen Republicans Voted Against the Amendment While but Three Democrats Favored the Change In tho Treaty of Peace. Washington, Oct. 18. The sennto voted to place tho seal of Its ratifica tion on the Shantung settlement. By a vote of 05 to 35, the foreign relations commit too amendment re storing Shantung to China was re jected. Senator I.odge, Republican leader, Immediately upon the announcement of the roll call, gnve notlco that he would offer a motion later to wipe all reforenco to Shantung from tho trenty. The result was no surprise, although the majority ngntnst the amendment was somewhat larger than had been anticipated. This was caused by tho defection of 14 Republicans, nil of whom, however, declared they would Insist upon a reservation expressing America's disapproval of the Shan-1 tung award. Most of these senators opposed tho amendment, not because , of any lack of sympathy with Its pur-, poses, but because they feared an amendment might destroy tho treaty. i For the snmo reason, some of them will vote against tho Johnson amend-, mcnt, to glvo the United States ns ninny votes In the league ns the Brit ish empire, and Indications r.ro that tho Johnson amendment will meet the same fato ns tho Shantung amend ment. Here Is the way the senate lined up on the Shantung amendment: For the amendment Republicans: Ball, Delaware; Borah, Idaho; Brnnde- gee. Connecticut; Calder, New York; Capper, Kansas; Curtis, Kansas; Dil lingham, Vermont; Fnll, New Mexico; France, Maryland ; Frclinghuyscn. New Jersey; Gronnn, North Dakota; Hard ing, Ohio; Johnson, California; Jones, Washington; Knox, Pennsylvania; La Foiletto, Wisconsin; Lodge, Massa chusetts; McCormlck, Illinois; Mc Lean, Connecticut; Moses, New Hamp shire; New, Indiana; Newberry, Mich igan; Norris, Nebraska; Page, Ver mont; Penrose, Pennsylvania; Phlpps, Colorado ; Polndexter, Washington ; Shermnn, Illinois; Sutherland, West Virginia ; Wndsworth, Now York ; War ren, Wyoming; Watson, Indiana 02. Democrats: Gore, Oklahoma; Reed, Missouri ; Walsh, Massachusetts 3. Total. 35. Against the amendment Republic ans: Colt, Rhode Island; Cummins, Iowa ; Hnlo. Maine ; Kellogg, Minneso ta: Kenyon, Iowa; Keyes, New Hamp shire; Lenroot, Wisconsin; MeCumbcr, North Dakota; MoNary, Oregon: Nel son. Minnesota; Smoot, Utah; Spencer, Missouri; Sterling, South Dakota; Townsend, Michigan 14. - Democrats : Ashurst. Arizona ; Bank bond. Alabama; Beckham. Kentucky; Chnmborlnln, Oregon; Culberson, Tex as: Dial, South Carolina; Fletcher, Florida; Gay, Louisiana ; Gerry, Rhodo Island; Harris, Georgia; Harrison, Mississippi; Henderson, Nevada; Hitchcock, Nebraska; Jones, New Mex ico; Kendrlek, Wyoming; King. Utah; Klrby, Arkansas; McKellar, Tennes see; Myers, 'Montana ; Nugent, Idaho; overman, North Curtrtlnn; Owen, Ok lahnina; Phelnn, Callfornln; Plttman, Nevada; Pomereno. Ohio; Rnnsdell, Louislnnn; Robinson, Arkansas; Shep pard, Texas; Shields, Tennessee; Sim mons, North Carolina; Smith, Arlzonn ; Smith, Georgia; Smith, Maryland; Stanley, Kentucky; Swanson, Virglnln ; Thomas, Colorado; Trammel!, Florida; Underwood, Alabama; Walsh, Mon tana; Williams. Mississippi; Wolcotc, Delaware 11. Total. 05. of the senators not voting Senators Edge (liep.). New Jersey; Martin (Dein.) Virginia: Smith (Dem.) South Carolina; Johnson (Dem.), South Da kota, were paired against the amend ment. Senators Elklns (Rep.) of West Virginia and Fernald (Rep.) of Malno wen- paired for It. CAPTAIN SMITH OUT OF RACE Plane of Westbound Air Derby Leader Is Totally Destroyed by Fire. Buffalo. N. Y.. Oct. 1C Captain L. II. Smith, leader of the westbound flyer In the transcontinental air der by, was put out of tho race here, when his big de Havlland'4 plane was totally destroyed by fire at the Curtis con trol station. The piano caught flro from a gasollno torch bolng used to repair u leaky radiator. Letts Cross Duna River. Copenhagen. Oct. 18. Lettish forces have fought tholr way across tho Duna river at Riga and operations there arq now developing favorably, according to o dispatch received from Llbau by the Lettish press bureau here. Siberian Reds In Flight. London, Oct. 18. A general retreat by the bolshevlkl before tho nrmlcs of Admiral Kolcjiok In western Slbcrln Is announced In n wireless mcRsago from tho Kolchak government at Omsk, dated October 13. Bomo of tho hundreds of lives that probably will bo claimed by the flu next winter. If the bill Is passed, however, It will bo but a emull factor In tho fight to control Influenza and pneumonia epidemics. What tho nation needs Is n national department of health, with branches In every city and stato in tho Union, with almost unlimited funds to combut contagious diseases. ALMOST A RIVAL Henry L. Doherty In these days Is an international celebrity because of his prominence as an owner of oil, gas and electric properties. Ho has, for Instance, enormous oil properties in Mexico. Just now he is chairman of n committee of petroleum producers and retlners which Is negotiating with motor-makers. These producers suy the limited supply of petroleum in the United States has forced refiners to put a lower grade gasoline on tho mar ket nnd automobile manufacturers must readjust their engines to now specifications. This is ono of the problems which is expected to come before n statis tical nnd research bureau which tho American Petroleum Institute IntenUs to cstnbllsh In which tho producers, refiners arid consumers of oil mny Join In co-ordinating their efforts for tho Improvement of the Industry. Dr. Vim H. Manning, director of tho United States bureau of mines, Is also chairman of the Improvement com mittee of the Institute, nnd he has nindo n recommendation to tho Institute directorate that the new bureau he established with an appropriation of $1,000,1)00 a year, to be raised on a pro rata busts from refiners and producers. Mr. Doherty says a satisfactory solution will bo found which will not cnusoautomoblle owners to suffer serious loss In the efllcleucy of their fuel. LODGE IS DEAN OF THE U. S. SENATE m on n.r r i urn im ni ir mm i ni i iim or it an nwiinn h iiii i m m ml Bi'lse Penrose of Pennsylvania entered the senate March 4, 1S97. Charles A. Culberson of Texas and Porter J. MeCumbcr of North Dakotu entered to gether March -1, 1809, and have served since that time. William P. Dillingham of Vermont entered tho sennto October IS, 1000, and F. M. Simmons of North Carolina entered March 4, 1001, und they still riro serving. Leo S. Overmun of North Carolina and Reed Smoot of Utah camo March 4, 1003, and still are in their scats. METHODS OF THE Big business has developed an en tirely new form of trust which tnakes tho old Standard Oil outfit look like a two-cylinder car In comparison, Chair man W. B. Colver of the federal trade commission told the house Judiciary committee tho other duy. The new combines, Mr. Colver said, are rapidly Gtrnngllng competition, but aro out side of the pale of the law and can not bo reached by the courts under tlin existing antitrust statutes. To meet this situation before It gets be yond the power of federal control, ho urged that legislation be Immediately enacted to broaden the scope of the federal t ratio commission net and the Clayton antitrust act. "The 1020 model trust," as tho trade commission chairman styled the new organization, strives not only to control Us own Immediate products, but also reaches out after all by-products aud substitutes. Pointing out tho now trusts, Mi. Colver said If the Standard Oil compuny wero to put Into operation tho new principle of development, It would go nt It In this way: Wood alcohol competes with gasoline, so it would control wood alcohol. Then It would control thu by-products of wood alcohol. Both gas and electricity compete with kerosene, so It would control gas und electricity, und tholr related and by-products, bucIi as coke and electrical machinery." The American Medical association, with n membership Including practi cally every physician In the country, lino naked cougrcss to npproprlato money for nn Investigation of "flu" conditions, to bo conducted under tho direction of the United States public health service. In nnswor to these ap peals for a real fight against the flu, Senntor Harding and Representative Fcss, both of Ohio, Introduced a bill appropriating $5,000,000 for n flu In vestigation which should havo for Its purposo tho Isolation of tho flu germ and tho discovery of tho best pre ventive and curative methods. In tho senate tho resolution Is be foro the committee on public health and nntlonal quarantine. Senator Jo seph I. Franco (portrait herewith), himself a physician, is chairman of this committee. Ho says: "I am heartily In favor of It as nn emergency mensuro to try to save OF ROCKEFELLER Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, portrait herewith, oc cupies a largo shart of public atten tion because of his prominence in tho treuty tight In congress. Also the new congressional directory of tho Sixty sixth congress shows that ho lias thq longest continuous service of nny sen ator of the United States.'' He entered tho sennto March 4, 1803, and has served ever since. Thrco senators, Francis E. War ren of Wyoming, Thomas S. Martin of Virginia and Knuto Nelson of Minne sota, entered the senate together on March 4, 1893, and have served con tinuously since then. Senntor Warren, however, nerved us United States sen ntor from Wyoming from December 1, 1800, to March 4. 1893. He has served a longer time, therefore, as n senator than any other man In tho upper chamber, but, as will be seen, his service hns not been continuous. 1920 MODEL TRUST 1 Kti 4 vim t-vm w. tt i