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TTTB NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRTBUE. WORLD WAITING FORVERDICT President Urges Indorsement of League of Na ions by People. NATIONALDEBTMUCH REDUCED Decreased During Month by Over $237,000,000. Constitutional Convention to Meet October 25. Washington, D. C. President WIN son, In IiIh first campaign npptMil, made directly to the people, urges the in dorsement of the league f natloiiK Is sue nt the election, anil declared "the whole, world will wait for your verdict In November as It would wait for an Intimation of what ItH future Is to be." The president characterized as "ab solutely false assertions that Article 10 of the league covenant would make It possible for other nations to lead the United States Into war. There was nothing In the covenant, he said, "Which In the least Interferes with or Impairs the right of congress to de clare war or not declare war according to Its own Independent Judgment, as our constitution provides." Will Convene October 25th. Lincoln, Neb. It Is said by parties who are supposed to be In touch, that the constitutional convention, which reconvenes October may submit ad ditional changes to the constitution nt the November, election. Leaders of the constitutional body frankly admit that there Is a possibili ty of at least one other proposal being submitted to the voters, but apparent sentiment Is fairly strong to let well enough alone and unless there Is a change the forty-one amendments of ficially approved by the voters at the September special election will be cor tljleil to the secretary of state. NATIONAL DEBT MUCH REDUCED Is Decreased Durinn Month by Over $237,000,000. Washington. The nation's gross debt was reduced by .fl!:i7,:U 0,1)05 In September, according to figures made public by the Treasury department. Most of the reduction occurred In the Hunting debt or Issues of ccrtlll cates of Indebtedness. Outstanding certificates now aggregate $2.!M7.701, 000, which Is. Included In the total gross debt of $2l,0S7.:ir(,000. At the time of the Income and profits tax payment, September in, nearly !prt.r,0,000.000 In certlllcates of Indebted ness matured. Simultaneously, a new Issue of $-I.r0,000,000 was offered. Tax payments provided funds to meet tbo difference In certificate Issues. Government receipts for the month totalled $011,000,000 while expendi tures fell below iffiOO.OOO.OOO. Fire Chief Injured In Collision. Lincoln, Neb. Fire Chief Nell T. Romnier was fatally Injured and four firemen seriously hurt as the result of a collision between the fire chief's auto and a fire truck respond lac to an alarm from a roof blaze In North Lincoln. Chief Sommer's skull was fractured and ho sulTere.d Internal Injuries from which be died a few hours later. lie was burled forty feet by the crash. No Reduction In Federal Taxes. Washington, D. C It Is now a prac tical certnlnty that there will be no reduction' of federal taxes on business for the calendar year of 1020, payable next year, and Mint no relief can be ex pected until after the Inauguration of a new president. Vote for President Not Electors. Lincoln. Neb. Due to efforts of former Governor Keith Neville to shorten the electoral ballot, voters of Nebraska next month will register their preference for president and vice president directly Instead of voting for presidential electors. Vienna. Four thousand doctors of Victual who have been treating pa tients under the auspices of sick ben efit associations, have gone on strike. They nre refusing to make vInIIs ex ept for the regular fees of their prl vatu practice. Chicago, III. Senator Harry S. New, chairman of speakers at republican headquarters, announces that phiim are bolng made for nation-wide observance of Roosevelt day, October 27, the until versary of the birth of Theodore. Roosevelt. Kansas City, Mo. Divorces were being granted here at the rate of about one decree every ten minutes, when five divisions of the circuit court be gnn disposing of !t7o default cases. All cases are scheduled to be disposed of within three days. Plenty of Coal In Sight. Des Moines, la. Prospects are good for plenty of coal for all purposes dur ing the coining winter, In the opinions of D, II. WenU anil J. D. A. Morrow, president nnd vice president of the na tional coal association, who say there Is no occasion for alarm. Near Physical Breakdown. New York. Franklin K. Lane, for raer secretary of the Interior, has been forced to give up buslnens tomporurl ly, because of a threatened physical ureal ' CITIES GAINJi POPULATION Census Figures Show Population In creases Are Confined to Cities and Towns Enormous Sugar Stocks in Country, Washington, ). C. Price cutting has taken hold of the wholesale trade to an extent that It soon must be felt substantially in lower prices to con sumers, according to the federal re serve board's monthly review, Just made public. Revival of the wave of price re duction and its spread to many retail lines was attributed to a "more exact In; demand by the buying public as to price and quality." Retail purchaser are showing continued determination to wait for dealers to meet these de mands, while foregoing luxuries and semi-luxuries, reports to the board de clared. Although the board believed the buying public was largely dominating the market now, It said that labor and production were having a marked ef fect on price. Thero was much evi dence, It said, of Increased elllciency on the part of labor and as a result production was on the Increase and factory operation beginning to ap proach normal. Immense Sugar Stocks In Country. Roslon Mass. Tim drop in sugar prices caused a shrinkage In value of at least 52."0,000,000, according to an estimate made to Attorney General Al len by Edwin I Atkins, an official of several of the largest sugar com panies. Stocks of sugar In this coun try now are enormous, he said. He estimated them at 2,000,000 tons. Be tween the time when sugar sold for 01.. cents a pound and the date It reached 22 cents, Mr. Atkins said "fortunes were won or lost over night" by the crowds of speculators who went Into the market to "clean up." OUTGROWING RURAL DISTRICTS. Cencus Figures Show Increases in Pop ulation Confined to the Towns. Washington, D. C Cities are In creasing In population seven and one half times as fast as rural districts, the census bureau disclosed, In a com pilation of figures covering approxi mately 8f per cent of the new census. The figures Indicated that the com pleted census would show the major ity of the population to be city dwell ers. For the last 10 years rural growth was but one-third as great ns It was In the previous decude, but the cities almost maintained their rate of growth, getting live new Inhabitants from 1010 to 10120 for each six added during the preceding 10 years. All population centers, even the, small country ham lets and towns, showed a greater pro portionate Increase than the purely rural districts. The Increases, how ever, were by cities of 10,000 or more Inhabitants. Facing Prison and $10,000 Fine. Chicago, 111. Assistant State's At torney Hartley Repllgle, In charge of the "crooked baseball" case, says that Indictments to he drawn up on true bills may contain several counts. The true bills themselves specified hut one alleged offense, "conspiracy to commit an Illegal act." The penalty provided upon conviction on tlds count would be one to five years In the penitentiary and a tine of not more than .$10,000. "And this Is Just the beginning," Mr. Repllgle said. Many Killed In Korean Rlota, Gensan, Korea. Twenty-live persons were killed In rioting here, when Korean students attacked and destroy ed or damaged branches of the Korea Industrial bank and the Oriental De velopment Co. and seven Japanese houses. The following night there was further shooting with additional cas ualties. Reports printed In Japanese newspapers alleged the mob was led by students from the Canadian Presby terian mission. i First Game at Brooklyn. Chicago. The national commission has reversed Its decision and decided to open the world's series at Rrooklvn on October fi, playing three games there. Reducing Rents in Chicago. Chicago, III. .1.. A. Greenberg, own er of several apartment buildings, has announced a 10 per cent reduction, ef fective October 1. Negroes On California Farms. Los Angeles, Cal. The possibility of negroes taking the place of Asiatics as farm workers In California was discussed at the national convention of the Industrial commercial council of people of African descent. W. II. Sanders, a delegate, said he was in direct touch with at least 5,000 negroes who will come to California to take up truck gardening In case persons of Oriental races are barred of further colonization. He said workers would be headed by graduates of the agricul tural department of Tuskogeo Institute. Big Increase In Use of Coffee, New York. More coffee was drunk In the United States In the year end ing .Line HO, 1020, than any previous year on record, according to figures-by the National Coffee Roasters' associa tion. The period coincides with the first year of prohibition. The total coffee consumption In continental United States for tills period was l.HfiS.OOO.OOO pounds and the per capita eousumptiou 12.7 pounds. This Is an Increase of :tO.000,000 pound, and a per i unlta Im-rcnse of 11.71 pounds. 1 The Union Jack hoisted lor th mi nine over the former knlser's palace on the Mount of Olives, Pales tine. 2 Senator Smoot speaking at the dedication of Zlon National Park In Utah. 3 Parade of the Grand Army of the Republic in Indianapolis. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Relations With Japan Becoming Badly Strained Though There Is No Danger of War. TOKYO LEARNS U. S. STAND Disclosures of Crookedness In Organ ized Baseball Arouse Indignation and Grief Poles and Baron Wrangel Still Driving the Reds Moscow Eager for Peace. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Despite the undoubted fact that the governments of the United States and Japan are earnestly striving to arrive at an amicable settlement of their dif ferences, the relations between the two nations are becoming more strained daily. This does not mean that hos tilities will ensue such nn eventual ity Is nlmost out of the question but the situation Is giving undesirable op portunity to the alarmists and the Jingoes of both countries nnd Is real ly worrying the statesmen and those directly Interested In International commerce. The administration nt Washington has sent to Tokyo a communication stating Just how far It Is willing to go to meet the desires of the Japan ese, and this proposition was taken under consideration by the Japanese cabinet. At neither capital was any Information given out as to the con tents of the American note, but It was reported In Washington that one of the fundamental considerations insist ed upon by the administration is that Japan shall give a new guarantee against Immigration, In the form of nn amendment cither to the existing treaty or to the "gentlemen's agree ment" under which since 1007 Japan has undertaken to prevent the emigra tion of laborers to America. If Japan agreed to accept any such amendment, It probably would be to the gentlemen's agreement, for the Japanese people would scarcely stand for a formal treaty by which they, al most alone, would be set apart as un desirable Immigrants Into America. If Japan cannot bring about a definite settlement of the trouble at tlds time, she desires at least to reach an un derstanding that will quiet the talk of Japanese domination In California and induce the people of that state to rejeat.at the coming election, the pro posed new alien land lnw which Is the cause 01 most 01 Japan s protests. The adoption of that law was pre vented last year by the administration, but whether this could be done again Is problematical. We have thought In America that the Japanese people wore considera bly wrought up over this question, but according to Marquis Okunia, former premier, they are not sulllcleatly aroused. It Is now announced In Tokyo that Okuma Is going to devote himself to awakening the Japanese people against "the unlawful attitude or I'aiirnrnia Americans." and tltn he will call a meeting of 100 lendlm; statesmen and other prominent citi zens to exchange views on the sublect. The marquis says his fellow country men are becoming weak and coward ly, like the Chinese, nre Indifferent to grave questions affectlng the nation's interests, and that a strong, unified national opinion must defend the In terests of the Japanese In California. He predicts that unless something Is done to check the Callfornlans. there will arise a similar state of affairs In Canada. Australia. New Zealand and other Rrltlsb dominions. That the Japanese already are re taliating In such ways as are open to them is Indicated by correspondence between Secretary of Commerce Al exander and Chairman Reason of the shipping hoard. Mr. Reason called to the attention of Mr. Alexander In stances of Japanese procedure at Kobe amounting to discrimination against American shipments to the Par Kam. In reply Secretary Alexan der wrote: "The nature of the dis crimination i)i In almost every case so subtle, notwithstanding Its effective ness, tltat It Is almost Impossible to lake formal action. The best solution of the matter seems to be direct trans portation of American goods in Amer ican Ships wherever possible." The proposed California law. It is held by Its proponents, would deny to the Japanese In this country no rights or privileges not denied to Americans In Japan by Japanese law. It may be as well to give liere the following sum mary of the chief features of the pro posed law. It says: That aliens, Ineligible to citizen ship In the United States, companies, corporations and associations, the ma jority of whose stock Is owned by such aliens, are authorized to own nnd con vey land only as provided by treaty ami not otherwise. That such persons, companies, cor porations and associations shall not lie appointed guardians for estates consisting wholly or in part of realty, but that the public administrator or other "competent person" shall act for the minor heirs of such estates. That ownership or leases, acquired in violation of the law, shall become and remain the property of the state of California. That evasions of the law governing conveyance of property shall be pun ishable by fine, not exceeding $0,000 nor more than two years In Jail or both. Governor Stephens says of It: "The bill does not and will not, be cause the state legally cannot, prevent Japanese control of our soil nor can it stop further Immigration. The full solution of this question cannot lie bad short of an exclusion act passed by congress." Hot Indignation nnd genuine grief have been aroused all over the land by the revelations of crookedness in or ganized baseball In the grand Jury In vestigation in Chicago. Tlint here and there might be found one or two players who would sell out would not l)n surprising, but that eight members on one club should be guilty of such shanieful If not criminal conduct would be unbelievable were It not at tested by the confessions of some of the accused. These men not only sold their honor and the respect and admi ration of the American people, hut they sold out for petty sums and to cheap gamblers, who "double-crossed" them, and now they have nothing left but bitter rellectlons and tbo rem nants of their bribes. Tbo grand Jury voted true bills against eight men, seven of whom are still members of the Chicago White Sox club, the eighth having been sus pended last spring. They are accused of "conspiracy to do an unlawful act." State's Attorney lloyue was doubtful whether any crime as legally defined laid been committed within the Juris diction of the courts of .Cook county, but the attorney for Charles Comlskey, the broken-hearted owner of the White Sox, says there are at least two counts on which each of the players named in the true bills may be prosecuted. He says the public pnld admissions to see honest baseball played, and the conspiracy to throw the games there by cheated the public. Also he as serts the men conspired to Injure the property of Comlskey, consisting of contracts worth more than $200,000 and the drawing power of the team and other good will estimated at 51100, 000. It Is believed that If the state does not take definite action against the players the government will prosecute those who received bribes for their failure to schedule the same on their income tax reports. Official word to this effect has been received In Chi cago from the Internal revenue de partment In Washington. Tbo White Sox, which were only half a gatae behind the Cleveland team 4n the race for tbo American league pennant, were of course badly wrecked when the seven players were suspend ed, and the chances were small in deed that thjy could win the lienor of playing for the world's championship against Rrooklyn, which already has captured first place In the National league. Cheers for tbo League of Nations council on the ground that It had stopped or averted hostilities Involv- Ing four nntlons may have been pre mature or ovet-entfcuslnstle. Lithu ania and Poland, which were actually lighting, have not ceased yet. though they probably will before long. As lor the dispute between Sweden and Finland over the Aland Islands, the former nation protests that there nev. er was any danger of hostilities, as she always settles International dis putes peaceably. Swedish otllclals said the quarrel with Finland would lie amicably ended, though they added that Sweden never would give up the Aland Islands. Roth the Poles nnd General Wrnngcl continued their successful warfare on the Russian soviet forces. The for mer at last reports had captured tbo Important cities of Llda and Plnsk, and were steadily advancing north eastward toward Vllna, whose fall was expected soon. Llda Is the place where Trotzky was said recently to have established the headquarters of a new Rolshevlk army of 00.000 for a fall campaign agnlnst the Poles. The Ukrainians, who arc operating on that front, have recovered Kanlnnetz-Po-dolsk from the Bolshevlkl and nre said to be planning a drive to form a Junction with Wrungel's forces and to sever the soviet line of communi cation between Kiev and Odessa. Wrangel, who Is now well to the north of Alexandrovsk. Is being aided by Makno, the Independent Ukrainian leader, and Is taking large numbers of prisoners. The soviet government has bad more than enough war with Poland, and at the Riga conference Is seemingly mak ing every effort to arrange an armis tice that shall lead to peace. Accord ing to a dispatch from Warsaw, Adolplt Joffe, head of the Russian delega tion, received Instructions from Mos cow to accept all the conditions laid down by Poland, however bard they may be, except those compelling Rus sia to partly or wholly disband her Red army. So far the chief matter In dispute lias been the line of demarca tlon between Poland, White Russia and Ukrainin. There has been no cessation of tbn guerrilla warfare In Ireland. Ncarlj every day one or more members of the British police or army are mur dered by Sinn Feiners, nnd In almost. every Instance reprisal Is swift nii'' bloody. Towns and villages are raid-1 ed and the homes of well-known Slum Feiners are burned, and often tbe are taken out an shot to death. Tin Rrltlsb government, though It hut) started an Inquiry Into the killings seems rather helpless In the tnatti 1 Mayor MacSwIney of Cork Is still alive, anil a London paper snys It hail learned he Is being given food in con centrated form. Though the effort to communlze tbo Industrial plants of Italy Is admit tedly a failure, the disturbances there are Increasing. The workers and own ers in the metal plants nre approach ing some measure of agreement, with the aid of the government, hut the employees In other lines nnd the peas tints In Sicily and other districts are yielding to the efforts of radical trouble-makers. Seizure of lands by armed peasants, beginning In Sicily, spread to the north during the week and threatened to become nation-wide. ' The best development of the week was tbo way In which prices In the United States began to decline.. In most cases manufacturers and denier; who offered the reductions tried to niako it clear that they were based on expectations of future conditions, ln order to free themselves from the sus picion of having profiteered at the for mer price. Economists called atten tion to two things: First, that safety demanded that prices decline gradual ly Instead of tumbling: second, that the people must not let the lower prices lend them Into another orgy of buying, lest the result be another rise. America met with defeat In the air plane race for the James Gordon Ren nett trophy In France. One of her entries wns thrown out by nn accident and the two others did not got far, owing to defects of construction In their engines. The race was won by a Frenchman, Sadl I.ecointe, ami the trophy now remains permanently In France. ME TO CLEi UP BASE BALL Plan to Take Control Out of Hands of Professional Managers SOVIET TRODPSBEING ROUTER. Fleeing to Escape Complete Slaughter.. Bomb Suspect Arrested After Making Boasts. Chlcngo. Representatives of four mnjor league base ball clubs havo started a movement designed to "clean up base ball forever" by taking con trol of the game out of the hands of men financially Interested, nnd placing It under a "civilian tribunal" to bo composed of men "of unquestioned,' public standing." A letter has been sent to every mn jor lengue club and dozens of others. Interested, asking their approval of the plan which was characterized as a means of "giving professional base ball to the American people where It belongs and taking ownerstilp of It: away from club owners and players." The letter was signed by Wllllnin Veeck, president of the Chicago Na tional league club ; Charles A. Comls key, president of the Chicago Ameri can league club; Barney Dreyfus,, president of the Pittsburgh club, andl John McGraw, vice president and man ager of the New York National league club. Bomb Suspect Under Arrest. New York. A man giving the nnme of Joshua Greenspan, who wns arrest ed for loitering In u Brooklyn build ing, was said by the police to have stated be knows the Identity of per sons responsible for the Wall street explosion. Greenspan wns sent to a hospital' for observation, while members of the bomb sqund nnd agents of the Depart ment of Justice began checking up bis record and story. Radical papers were said by the po lice to have been found In Greenspan's, pockets when he wns arrested nnd a. search of bis room In Brooklyn re voaled more. SOVIET TROOPS ARE ROUTED. Fleeing Eastward to Avoid Being Sur rounded by Poles. Warsaw. The defcr.t of the Rus sians qi the Polish northern front seems complete. Soviet troops are re ported lleelng eastward in disorder lm an effort to avoid being surrounded; by the Poles who nre in close pursuit.. The result of the Polish victory Is, declared by the military experts as; eliminating any chnnce of the bolshe vik! launching the fall offensive which Minister Trotzky wns credited wltbi planning to drive back the Poles from the territory they occupied after the failure of the soviet attempt to enp ture Warsaw. The advices from the front report thnt one Russian division surrendered! to the Poles after having murdered all the commissaries with It who tried to compel the troops to offer resistance. American GlrlB in English Colleges. London. A remarkable feature of the approaching term at the Engllsli. universities will le the attendance of a great number of women studontE from abroad. Many women from Scan dinavia have attended lectures at Ox ford since the war. They will soon be outnumbered by women students fronv the United States. American girls have proved lininensely populnr In tin universities. World Revolution Inevitable. London. "A world revolution will' be the inevitable consequence of the capitalist developments in western, Europe," Leon Trotsky, bolshovlkl war minister Is quoted as saying In an In terview with the Moscow correspond ent of an English newspaper. Explosion In Lincoln Gas Plant. Lincoln. Neb. An explosion follow ed by lire wrecked one of the build ings at the plant rf the Lincoln Gas and Electric Light company here, seriously injuring four men nnd left the city without gas. Drawing Closer to France. Madrid. Extensive efforts nre be ing made both privately and olllclally In Spain to bring closer together the relations between France and this country. Large numbers of Spanish French committees have been formed principally In the big cities with this object In view. Projecting Another Pacific Cable. Seattle, Wash. A project Is being advanced by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce for laying another cable across the Paclllc. Thinks U. S. Must Handle Alcohol. Washington, I). C W. J. Bryan told tbo International Congress Against Al coholism he believed the tlnn wns not fnr distant when, to prevent "leaks" in enforcement of the eighteenth amend ment, the government would have to take over all alcohol and declare a monopoly of alcohol manufacture. Nome, Alaska. Capt. Roald Amund sen's polar expeditionary ship, the Maud, Is reported wedged tight In tbo polar Ice pack west of Kolyuchln bay, Slberln