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THE NORTIT PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. RECOVERY OF TDARC OTADI E IllHLIE gIMDLt Monthly Review Says Business Conditions Carry Assur anco for Future. ROADS CLAIM BIG SHORTAGE CJalm of Annual Loss of Nearly One and a Half Millions By Rail roads of Nebraska. Washington. Recovery - from war and post-war conditions Is "proceeding upuce In the United States" und tho "nutural forces In evidence which make for stabilization, carry assur ance for tlte future." the federal re serve hoard declares In Its monthly review of business conditions. Although the readjustment has been marked by uncertainty und some sus- pension of uctivity, the bpurd de- perilled tho economic nnd. business situation as a whole, as one showing "much Inherent strength and an ablll- ty to" attain a position of relative stability through tin orderly transi tion." "Price revisions in textilo lines and In other branches of wearing appnrel, as well as numerous staple cotiimodl- ties, ' sad the board, "have been tho .......,. uk u.einvmn ... u.u nuu.iuu V,H(J wnyH nI1j ,nenn8 ot 0J)talnlllg cred Just as during tho preceding month." . u. foP tllfi nri,rW tnnri,Pnntt Lfrni Mac8wlney's Body Laid to Rest. . Cork. In the presence of surpllced cluirch dignitaries, scores of his for mer comrade volunteers, nnd thou sands of his countrymen, the body of Terence MacSwIney. lord mavor of Cork, wns lowered to its resting place ury department and th in the "republican plot" In the St. Fin- serve board, it wau said. borrs cemetery, Just outside Cork, Sun day afternoon. Despite the splendor lent by the at tendance of the high churchmen, there was a simplicity marking tho cere monies tint was Impressive. FILE SCHEDULE OF LOS8E8. Rallrods of Stato Claim Big Shortage In Revenue. . Lincoln. The seven railroads op orating In Nebraska havo filed with the state ralhvny commission a sched ule purporting to show that refusal to grant the JIG iter cent freight rate In- orenso recommended by tho Interstate commerce commission would mean an annual loss of $1,420,000, figured on a unsls of their 1010 business. More than thirty attorneys and ac countants represented the rnllroiuls at the hearing. Chambers of Commerce of Kaiisns City, St. Joseph, Sioux City and other cities sent representatives. air.Kers ueav.ng ror umer ne-as. Denver, Colo. Striking coal minors vara leaving points In northern .Colo- rado for other Holds, "according to re- ports reaching here. There seems to - lie no indication that the deadlock bo- twoeh miners and operators Is near ,tho breaking point. Whllo declining to comment specifically, miners' union representatives and operators say no agreement had been reached In confer ences held. Lassen Again In Eruption. Redding, Chllf. Against a cloudless sky at dawn Saturday, Lassen peak poured oht a great volume of black- smoke to' on estimated height of 10,- 000 feet, It was tho most spectacular eruptlon' this year. There was another less tluui a week ago. Asks Aid On Cuban Situation, Washington, D. C.Tho Cuban gov- ernment nns asueu uio stftto Depart- inent tt! deslgnnte a financial expert to Gloasoti, president of tho Mnssnehus go to Cuba to assist In working out a etts women's Christian Temperance solution of the Cuban situation. Union in her uddress before the union's i, Big Fight to Be Held In Havana. New York. -The fight butween Jack DeniPHey nnd Georges Carnentler for At tho heavyweight championship of tho ,worltl will ho held In Havana, Cuba, It was announced here. Students Stone British Consulate. Barcelona. Barcelona university atiwluntu ei.mftil tlift HrlHali ...itiaiiliitu is a protest ngauist tho death of Lord iluyor MacSwIney of Cork. Every window was broken. , Fear Serious Freight Congestion. Galveston, Tex, Failure of Moxl can rallwaj'H to supply sulllelent roll ing Htoclr at Tamptco threatens to cause a serious freight congestion at the Mexican port. Ocean freight wns 'reported to bo arriving at tho rate of three tons to one ton moved by rail. Gold Shipment Arrives. New York. Tho steamship Coltlc Jins arrived hero from Liverpool and Queenstown with 814 boxes of gold valued at approximately $11,000,000 consigned to the federal reserve bank. Early Recognition of Mexico. Washington, D. C Early recogni tion qf the new government of Mex ico Is, forecast by Secrotary Colby. "Whether It will precede inauguration ef President-elect Obregou next De- ceniber, wns not stated. Cokl Operator. Pledge Co-Operatlon. U In French "clal circles French PhllndeJphln. Pu.-Anthraclto coul oltlclnls emphasize Uie gravity of this aerators have pledged themselves to vp. w they fear Germany will uinko -operate with the Department of n 8 i bir request of France, wlilcb, It ' Just Ice in 'attempting to reduce the K declared, could not bo granted. How 'Excessive prices of coal to the .,- ver, they point out that the rehuucla .,;' ,, ' I tlon by Great Britain Is not as sweep- ?"""' I ing ns reported ut first. ?m m mm m Gra'n Shipments Have Fallon Off Fifty Per Cent in Last Few Days. Parties to 8ult Must Give Consent to Bring Case Before Court t , Labor Unions to Help Farmers. Lincoln, Neb. Shipments of grain In Nebraska linve fallen off GO per cent In the lam few duys, according to Tliornc A. Browne, state railway com missioner. About 200 cnrs a day to the Omaha market Ih a normal Hlilpment, according to Mr. Ilrowne and this has been well kept up the last-few weeks since tho crop started to move. It has often been exceeded. Last week the shipments had fallen to little better than 100 cars a day. according to Information In the hands the railway commission, "The situation Is acute," Mr. Browne "I the western part of tho state the farmers have not been able to hold H their grain. They have had bills to meet that huve forced them to sell at least part of their crop. This has been done and It lias kept the shipments up, Hut now, the bills paid, the farmer Is going to sit and wait for higher prices. Labor Unions to Help Farmers. Washington, D. ,C. Labor leaders nnrtfrtlrtntiwl trlli rniifiuinllvnu rt fftrnlcr8i In n furtm;r coflfcrcnee to de- products. Failure to secure such cred its, speakers declared, might result In the Inauguration of a general crop lidding movement until market prices would provide cost of production nnd a reasonable profit. Further confer ences might bo sought with the Treas- federal re- PLANS FOR WORLD COURT. Both Parties to Suit Must Give Con tent to Bring Case Into Court. Brussels.- Tho council of the league of nations has approved the plan for a permanent court In International Justice, as adopted by Thn Hague committee of Jurists, with exception of provision for obligatory Jurisdiction and some minor matters. The council decided that It could, not recommend to the assembly of tho league a plan going farther than the covenant of the league of nations, which provides that both parties to a dispute must give their consent In or der to bring their case Into court. The question of tho compulsory adherence of a defending nation will, however, be submitted or ptudy to all the legal associations, including the. American Institute for International Law, along with other nnlntn Hint iniiv mn nn The -"decisions of tlte court will not hind nations nor parties to a cuse, and hence they will not constitute prcce- dents. The language used by the court will depend upon the choice of the nnr- ties at Issue, but French and English linve been recommended ns the atllelul languages, Refuse to Permit Body to Bo Landed. i.omion. tho government has re fused to permit tho body of tho lato mayor of Cork to be landed In Dublin mid has provided a special steamer to convey the remains to Cork. Tho rea son assjgned by the government for not permitting tho body to io landed any where except In the lord mayor's na tlvo city was "the risk of political dem- onstratlons which might result In the loss of Innocent lives." Starts Crusade Against Tobacco. Boston,- Mass. A crusade against to tmcco s anonunced hv Mrs. Klin A annual convention. The union has uc- cepted the "divine commission," she Biiid, to conduct a crusade agulnst to- bacco as strenuous as that waged agnlnst liquor. , , Ottawa. importation ct liquor will bo posslblo for slxt days In tho prov inces or Ainerta, Aiaiinoiio, Nova Sco tia and Saskatchewan, which voted dry. Tho Canadian .temperance act "; ,h,,t Prohibition proclamations l liv flu, i.iU'nrnniAiif ftitttutt 1.,. .... by the government cannot ho Issued un til sixty days after the adoption of tho bone-dry principle by the provinces. Prohibition Fight But Begun. ScottshluIT, Neb. Not for ton or fif teen years will prohibition become a certainty In tho United States, In the opinion of Dr. Howard Uussell, found er of the American Anti-saloon league, in an interview here. Tho fight against lax liquor laws, and to keep the rigid letter of the Volstead act, has but begun, he said. St, Louis, Mo. Reductions In dry goods prices, In some Instances as high as SO. per cent, are announced by sev eral local wholesale companies. Waives Claim to German Property, Paris. The French foreign olllco has received notification that Great 1Jrtn,u ixomccn the right of contls- t"1 """' "v,,"r, uiiueu iviuguuiu, hum nan caused great surprise, which Is freely express' .V.: . . 7. it jtyfryy lflT" HsflhMflliMMMilMsllsMlittflMiilflHifl 1 The revived ivu-Klux Klan m . . . .moiiy ,, . ,.,uii. ...... greeted in London after his world tour, li Dr. Carl L. Asberg, chief of the Agriculture, the arch enemy of food crooks. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS British Cabinet Succeeds in Its Efforts to Settle the Coal Miners' Strike. EMERGENCY HOT IS PASSED Government Ready for Any Contingen cyIrish Everywhere Deeply Af fected by MacSwIney'e Death prince Paul Offered Greek Throne American Farm era' "Strike" by Hold ing Wheat By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Excepting for our presidential cam paign, of whose closing days' there Is little or nothing to say, the affairs of Great Britain Supplied the most Inter esting and Important news of the week. Tho strike of the coal miners, with its threats of further and greater economic troubles, added to the Irish problem, gave the British enough to worry over and these two matter con tinued to draw the attention, sympa thetic or otherwise, of the English speaking world. Primo Minister Lloyd George and his cabinet wero unremitting In their efforts to settle the 'miners' strike, and on Thursday It was announced that they had succeeded, If the miners would accept the plan. After repeated conferences with the labor lenders a tentative agreement Wns reached. The settlement upon which the min ers delegates, coal mine owners, and the government are agreed Is n very complicated one. Brlelly the men get a sliding advance of two shillings to one shilling six pence, according to uge as was originally demanded. The miners and owners solemnly pledge to co-operato to secure an fcv creased output of coal. National and district committees are to be estab Ulshcd Immediately to control the out put and n Joint national wage board will be established at the earliest pos slblo time before March til. for regula tion of wages for tho whole Industry, with regitrd to profits of the industry and the principles on which profits should ho dealt with. The miners' executive commltteo was to submit the settlement to the miners' federation for approval, so the return of the men to tho pjts will not be de layed. The railway men and transport workers, in view of the hopeful char acter of tho negotiations, postponed any action looking to a sympathetic strike. ThoUgh very optimistic, the govern ment made ready for nil contingencies by rushing through to final passage Its emergency bill. This arms the govern ment with ndded powers to enforce the law in case the strike continues nnd tho rail and transport men be come Involved. Though It was passed by a large majority, somo concessions wero demanded and received by the la bor party. The law as enacted pro vides that nothing In the act shall be construed as authorizing tho procla mation of nny form of compulsory mil itary service or Industrial conscrip tion or mako It an offense for any per son to participate In n strike or peace fully persuade uny other porson to participate In a strike. Terenco MacSwIney, lord mnyor ot Cork, flnnlly succeeded In starving himself to death In Brixton Jnll, a "mnrtyr" In tho cause of Irish free dom. Tho second death among the hunger strikers In prison In Cork also was recorded. These events deeply stirred all the Irish, In Ireland and America ns well, and there were nu merous masses and other ceremonies In connection with the deiiths. The British authorities took every precau tion to guurd against outbreaks, nnd presumably they wero seconded ln.fhls by the wiser among the Sinn Fein lenders. For the latter know thnt these would but bring on more re prlsals and further repression. The coronerVlnquest on MacSwIney was held Wednesday- The British Jury -refused to accept the position that MacSwIney was a suicide, bring ing in a verdict that "The deceased died from heart failure due to a di lated heart and acute delirium, follow ing scurvy due to exhaustion from pro longed refusal to take food." The body was then taken to St. George's cathedral In Bouthwark, where It lay In state. Thursday requiem high mass was said and then a tremendous throng Qf Irish and their sympathizers accompanied the casket t6 Euston stu tion, wnence It wns taken to Cork. In that city arrangements were made for the final ceremonies on Sunday, and there wns a great deal of uneasiness over whnt might accur. The authori ties placed no limit on the size of the procession, forbidding only military formations. The people of Cork were said to . be In sullen una threatening mood. The Irish sympathizers In the Uni ted States are not letting up any In their activities. The other day a dele gation of them, headed by Frank P. Walsh, presented to Secretary of State Colby arguments favorliig the recogni tion of the "new republic of Ireland." Mr.. Colby listened without comment, but cautioned Mr. Walsh, when refer ence wns made to Eamonn de Vnlera as "president" of Ireland, that as sec retary of stato he could hear them only on tho understahiilng that they were there ts American citizens und not ns representatives of officials of the Irish people. "We demand recognition, not as a favor," said Mr. Walsh, "but as a right. The Irish- republic la now estab lished as a de Jure and de facto gov ernment. Its stability and representa tive character are attested by tho In dorsement of the ballots of 00 per cent of the Irish peopled The courts of the' Irish republic are functioning dnily and their decisions are respected by the entlro population." Though not so lmportnnt nn event ns It would have been before the World wur, the death of the king of Greece may lead to developments of some moment In that country. Alex ander died on Mondny as the result of n monkey bite. The state council at once decided that the throne should bo offered to his younger brother, Prince Paul, but stipulated that If he accept ed former King Constantino must for mally renounce his claim to the crown. Paul let It bo known tbnt his decision must be made by his father. There Is a chance that If he declines the throne Will be offered to Prince Chris topher, Constant llie's brother, who early In the year married Mrs. Wil liam B. Leeds, an American. Still moro likely, howeveV, Is the establish ment of a republic, probably with Pre mier Venlzelos ns Its first president. Tho expected concerted movement pf the Reds ngnlnst Bnron Wrungel In southern Russln has not developed very rapidly, possibly because tho Bol shevlkl are too much occupied In com bating revolts within the territory which they control. Tho latest of these outbreaks are reported to bo In the regions of Odessa, Kherson nnd Podo lla. That the sltuntion In the Moscow district Is serious for the soviet gov ernment Is Indicated by the fact that Dzersjlnskl, president of the extraor dinary executive committee, has been appointed commander in chief of all tho troops there. IIo Is tho most bru tal of all the Bolshevist leaders and Is considered responsible for much of the Red terrorism and for ninny murders. Mennwhllo Wrungel continues to In flict defeats on his adversaries and to enpturo prisoners and material; nnd ho does not .seem to have lost any ground to the Reds. The all-Russian soviet bus ratified the peaco treaty with Poland, and has given the Poles more territory than they asked at first, In return for a pledge not to help Wrnngel. Being Informed by their mllltnry missions In-Lithuania that large bod ies of well equipped German troops wore crossing Into that country from East Prussia and concentrating In tho Kovno region, the allies protested to Berlin, but tho German foreign office replied thnt It was powerless to pre vent the movement. It was supposed the Germans were preparing to assist . . .nmuta. 2 Princu of Wales bureau of chemistry, Department of the Lithuanians In an offensive against the Poles. -The plan, appar ently, Is first to drive ZellgouskI out of VHnn nnd then sweep southward to Suwalkl, Grodno nnd the Ossowlecs fortress. The matter of Vllna was re ferred to a plebiscite by the council of the League of Nations. Last Tuesday the council adopted the plan for a permanent court of In ternational Justice recommended by The Hague committee of Jurists, with tho exception of the provision for obligatory jurisdiction. The plan was In large measure the work of Ellhu Root. The council closed Its session Thursday. Somer of the farmers of Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and the North western states began, last week their "strike" against the low price of wheat on the Chicago board of trade. Following tho Instructions of their or ganization leudcrs, they are .withhold ing their wheat from the market, nnd the effect of decreased receipts begnn to be felt at once. In the vicinity of Wichita, Kun., farmers picketed the roads, urging those on their way to the elevators to turn back. The wheat raisers of Iowa were urged to take part In the "strike" by E. A. Cunningham, secretary of the state farm bureau, who said the Iowa wheat crop cost $1.88 a bushel to har vest and the onts crop cost "75 cents a bushel. He blamed manipulation for the recent sharp declines In prices of grnln. "There Is no Justification, for the tremendous break In the market, he said. "We believe a reaction must come. We urge every farmer to with hold his commodities. "The sivntlon cannot become more serious and a further decline can do nothing more 'than to add to the seri ousness of the situation. On the other litflid, a reasonable reliction would probably avoid financial ruin." The farmers are asked by Mr. Cun nlngha'm to buy nothing but essentials. Farmers complain that they have to pay high rates to borrow money to handle the bumper crops. Meanwhile Canadian wheat, which Is coming Into the United States duty free for milling purposes, Is being bought In large quantities by mills nnd exporters In this country. The duty on Canadian whent was taken off by Prcs-j Ident Wilson at the suggestion of Wheat Director J. H. Barnes in the effort to reduce tlte cost of living. It was expected that In this way our millers would be enabled to lower the price of flour; the effect was limited, however. For the first time since he was taken 111 more than a year ago Presi dent Wilson delivered a, speech on Wednesdny. A group of pro-league Republicans, headed by Hamilton Holt, called on him In the White House, and In response to. their nd dress he spoke, from his whcerchnlr, in oerense or me league covenant, ua he brought It from Paris, In uphold lug nrtlcle 10 he said: "It is the spe clfic pledge of the members of the league that they will unite to resist ex actly the things whjch Germany nt- icmpieu, no mauer wno attempts inem In tho future. It Is as exact a deflnl tlon ns could he given In general terms of the outrage which Germany would have committed If It could." Instead of being a threat of war, he said later, article 10 Is "an assur ance of the concert of nil tho free peo ples of tho world In the future, ns In tho recent past, to see Justice done nnd humanity protected anil vlndlcnt ed. This Is the true, the real Amerl banism. This Is the role of leadership and championship of the right which the leaders of tho republic intended that It should play. The so-cnlled Americanism which wo hear so much prating about now Is spurious nnd In vented for party purposes only." One sporting event closed last week and another began. In the Interaction nl balloon race, In this country, the Belglnn entry Belglcn was declared tho winner. On Saturday there was sailed, off Halifax, the first race of a contest between tho fishing schooners Esperanto and Delawnnnn, the repre sentatives respectively of the New England and Canadian fleets. The contest Is officially recognized by tho governments of this country nnd the Dominion. FARMERS UNION FAVORSHOLDING Nation Wide Movement to Wait for Better Grain Prices. WOMEN BEFOSEJO REGISTER Opponents of Suffrage In Georgia Op pose the Amendment Body of Mayor MacSwIney Reaches Cork. Washington, D. C B. M. Pollard of Nehawkn, Neb,, representing the- armers' union, strongly indorsed rec ommendations adopted by tho Joint agricultural conference at the close of Its session here, looking toward nation-wide movement of withholding farm products from tho market until nt lenst the cost of production can ba realized from. its sale. "Thousands of Nebraska farmcrav particularly live stock producers, are in severe financial straits," said Mr. ollartj, "and face ruin because they ure unable to obtain credit. "Tho snme sltuntion obtains In- practically every farming section or the country, And something must bo done If tho nation's food supply Is to be conserved and Its production In the. future Insured." All. farmers were urged by the con ference to Join existing co-operative- marketing organizations or organize now ones nnd congress was asked to give the federal farm loan board au thority to issue and sell la the open market short term securities based on Warehouse receipts issued under thtt federal warehouse act. MacSwIney'e Body at Cork. Cork. The body of Terrence Mnc- Swlney.lnte lord mnyor of this city, ar- Ived here on board an admiralty tug. The tug, whose flag was flown nt hnlf mast, docked at the customs house quay. Enormous crowds lined the op posite qunys and the nearby bridges- The government authorities Imme diately notified Deputy Lord Mnyor O'Collahan nnd tho bishop of Cork. thnt no military display would be- permltted. No one wns at the dock to receive- the body when the tug arrived. A large military force had been sent from the barracks In lorries and ar mored cars, but the troops withdrew leaving only the usual customs house- guards on duty at the dock. . . Relatives were warned thnt unlesss the body was removed nt once It once it would be taken to" Cork bar racks and burled there. WOMEN REFUSE TO REGISTER- Opponents of Suffrage In Georgia. Take That Stand. Mncon, On. Women members of the Georgia association opposed to equnfc suffrage have voted not to register ass i step In their battle against the na tional suffrage amendment. They adopted a resolution calling on tencn ers and preachers lo explain to the public "why we so bitterly oppose- woman suffrage," and adding: "We quote the official manifesto of" the conimunlst party, knowing thar Georgia men and women, black and white, can see the dangers ahead of the United Stales.. Suffrage or ontl suffrago, they will help us defeat theso iniquitous schemes of Alice Paur (women's national party) and her crowd who intend to destroy the? home life nnd moral uplift for which Christianity has been struggling for two thousand yenrs." Faked U. S. Revenue Stamps. Washington, D. C. Widesprentt counterfeiting of Internal .revenue- stamps In connection with violation of the prohibition laws, was disclosed: when the burenu of Internal revenue- Issued a warning against "bootleg in, bond" whisky. The country was. being flooded, Commissioner Wil liams said, with beverages, labeled "bootleg In bond" which boro spurious, stnmps. Call Paul to Throne. London. Prince Paul has been call ed to the Greek throne to succeed his. brother Alexander. Because of Paul's. absence from the country n regency will bo established, n council or cabi net ministers ruling the country until tills Is accomplished, It was said. Flags at Half-Mast Nov. 14. -Washington, D. C. An order has been Issued requesting thnt on Sun day, November 14, all flags on gov ernment buildings and shlps.and at all government posts whatsoever, shall be at hnlf-mast In honor of Ameri cans who gave their lives In the great wnr. Big Oil Stock Dividend. Chicago, 111. The Standard Oil Co. of Indiana recently voted a stock div idend of 150 per cent, payable Decem ber 17. Want Japanese to Retuurn. Seoul, Korea. Japanese settlers la California should all leave the United States, where they are apparently not wanted, to come to Korea and Man churln, where they are very much needed, says the Seoul press, semi official organ ofhe Japanese adminis tration here. Silk Exchange Closed. Toklo. Tho Yokohnmn silk ex chnnge has been closed because prices have dropped below the minimum fixeO. by the buying syndicate. a