MUTUAL, NON-ARMAMENT
* AGREEMENT IS URGED
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 21.—The estab
lishment of a mutual agreement among
the nations of the western hemisphere
similar to the non armament agreement
between the United States and Canada
was urged in a report submitted to the
house of deputies of the Protestant
Episcopal convention today by a com
mission headed by Rev. Henry Lubeck,
of New York.
The report of the commission was
placed on the house calendar.
Tlie report said:
“By agreement, armament on the
great lakes has been limited and the
border has been unfortified for 100
years and our relations with our north
ern neighbors are increasingly cordial.
We are part of a pan-American union
with our Latin-American neighbors.
This extends the cooperative idea over
the whole western hemisphere and
makes for peace. These are practical
successes and suggestions for the or
ganization of making in the interest of
the normal condition of peace."
The commission said that a similar
agreement on the part of European na
tions was a possibility and would tend
toward a permanent condition of in
ternational peace. The delegates to the
general convention and the woman’s
auxiliary were guests this afternoon at
a reception at the Missouri botanical
gardens, a park and garden given to
the city by the late Henry Shaw.
NEW STEAMSHIP LINE
REPORTED ORGANIZED
New York, Oct, 21.—A new steam
ship company, to be known as the An
-chor-Donaldson line, organized by a fu
sion of the interests of the established
Anchor and Donaldson steamship com
panies, has been organized for Glas
gow-Canadian passengers and freight
trade,, according to a cablegram re
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tives of the Anchor line.
Directors of both companies will be
represented on the directorate of the
new company with Sir Alfred Booth, of
the Cunard as chairman, the Cunard
line having large interests in the An
chor line. The steamers, Letitia, Cas
sandra and Saturnia, heretofore fly
ing the Donaldson line flae. will be
transferred to the new organization.
The Donaldson line is now operating
a service between Liverpool, the
river Plate and leading South Ameri
can ports. It has a fleet of 25 ships,
totaling 89,992 tons. The Anchor line
operates a passenger and freight service
between Glasgow and New York, call
ing at Liverpool, in conjunction with
Cunard service. It has a fleet of 15
ships, writh a total tonnage of 114,222
tons.
JAPANESE WORKERS IN
WEST WILL ORGANIZE
Chicago, Oct. 21.—First steps in an
attempt to solve the Japanese labor
problem on the Pacific coast were tak
X en here today with announcement that
™ the nine Japanese labor unions, to af
filiate into a separate Japanese labor
council, have been formed and that the
movement would be extended through
out California, Oregon and Washing
ton. The action follows suggestions
made recently by Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor in a letter to San Francisco
labor leaders.
B. Susuki, president of the Laborers’
Friendly Society of Japan, who fath
ered organization of the Japanese, said
he would have 30,000 Japanese work
men in California members of such
unions within a year.
OYSTER BEDS INFECTED
BY STRANGE NEW MALADY
Washington, D. C.—(by mail).—Why
is the oyster in some of the waters of
the Cresapeake and Atlantic coast
region dying out?
Does the oyster hibernate?
s What, in general, is the life history
Y of the oyster?
1 These and other facts are being
F searched for by the scientists of the
i department of agriculture, or. more
Bpeclflcally, of the bureau of chemistry.
Millions of folks have been eating
oysters for years and don’t know much
about them. In fact, science has yet a
lot to learn about the oyster.
But with the soaring cost of living
and the oyster becoming more and
more useful for food purposes, it be
comes of moment that the government
A food experts know all about the oyster.
And they have set out to learn It.
Not only that, but the pollution of
the oyster and the sale or offering for
sale of oysters which have been soaked
In water until they have absorbed a
lot of it and their weight has been
thus increased, are matters which the
bureau of chemistry is sharply watch
ing.
Oystermen and shellfish experts, in
cluding the Maryland shellfish com
missioner, are much concerned over
the evidences that a strange malady is
visiting some of the oyster beds and
killing off the oysters. The disease has
not been defined, but it is being studied.
Why the oysters from one bed should
die off suddenly and those from a near
by bed not be affected is something
the oyster sharps of the government
and of the states, as well as oystermen,
are pondering painfully over. They
have not reached a solution.
People of Washington and other lo
calities where the oyster is letgely
used, the consumers are concerned
chiefly in two ways in which oysters
may be adulterated in the meaning of
the pure food law. The first method
Is by pollution, that is, by handling of
oysters which have grown in filthy
water near mouths of sewers and the
like. The second method is by putting
oysters in water less salt than the
water in which the oysters have grown,
^ and thus causing them to drink in
water and add to their weight. It is a
simple thing to add 20 or 25 per cent
to the weight of oysters by soaking
them in fresh water or water nearly
fresh and this practice of watering
oysters has been so common the gov
ernment is working hard to break it
up as an auuiima uun uuuur Lite ruuu
and drugs act.
According to a South Dakota scien
tist who has studied thousands of cases
about 4 per cent of human beings are
born left handed.
To suffer a broken leg by being hit
on the head was the queer experience
of the Syracuse man who got into one
controversy too many the other day,
the strangeness of the case not being
lessened by the fact that his leg was
artificial.
Strong interest in baseball is devel
oping in the Central American republic
of Honduras At first the game inter
ested only foreign residents in some of
the towns of the republic, but now, it
is reported, games betiveen natives in
the town of Sar Peclro Su’.a are well
attended and ar6use genuine enthusi
asm among* Honduran spectators.
| f HERE IT IS! FIRST ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPH OF BRITISH “TANK” IN UNITED STATES
. I . —. I ■ ■ -- A. • K
This is the great British armored "tank" or caterpillar tractor, the last word in the modern machinery of war. Although artists have drawn
from description numerous pictures of the British land-dreadnought during the past few weeks, this is the first picture of the “tank to reach this
country. The steel protected monster crosses streams, climbs hills, varitably leaps chasms and mows down hundreds as it is guided on its way.
RANKS TO DIVIDE
GIG FRENCH LOAN
About $100,000,000 Will Be
Advanced 25 to 50 Concerns
to Finance Purchases
In America.
New York, Oct. 23.—Banks through
out the country will be allowed to par
ticipate in accepting bills of French in
dustrial concerns for whom bankers
here are arranging a credit, It is an
nounced, of approximately $100,000,000,
to cover purchases ot goods in this
country. The credit is the largest of
the kind ever undertaken, it is said.
From 25 to 50 French concerns will
be represented and to make their bills
acceptable to American bankers who
have not the facilities to investigate
their credit 120 per cent in French
treasury bonds will be deposited here
as security. The acceptances, it Is stat
ed. will run for 90 days, with the priv
ilege of five, renewals, making the full
length of the credit a year and a
half.
The acceptances will be distributed
so that the liabilities each bank as
sumes will be divided among a good
many of the French concerns.
The credit is being arranged by the
Guaranty Trusty company, the Bank
ers’ Trust company, and William P.
Bonbright & Co.
NEARLY 30,000 GUARDS
NOT YET IN SERVICE
Washington, Oct. 21.—There are 28,
169 enlisted men of the National guard
not yet called into federal service, but
who, having taken the dual enlistment
required by the army reorganization
bill, may share in federal appropria
tions for state troops.
This was disclosed today by the war
department apportionment among the
the United States of approximately $2,
000,000 of the $3,000,000 available.
By direction of the secretary of war,
the allotment is made on the basis of
the enlisted strength in each state, not
called into the federal service at the
time the apportionment Is made. The
apportionment is made strictly upon
the basis of state troops not called into
federal service. Troops in the federal
service are not regarded as guards
men for the purpose of the apportion
ment.
New York received the largest sum
$497,185, with 7,541 enlisted men shown
in the record. Iowa with 27 not in the
federal service received the low allot
ment of $3,886. Hawaii received $329,
551.
VON KLUCK IS GIVEN
AN HONORABLE POST
Man Who Led Drive on Paris
No Longer In Active
Army Service.
Berlin. Oet. 23.—(by wireless to Say
ville.)—Field Marshal von Kluck who
3ommanded the right of the German
irmy during the invasion of France in
the fall of 1914, has been appointed by
Emperor William chief of the Sixth
Pommeranian regiment, an honorary
position.
A Berlin dispatch received y ester
lay, said the field marshal who has not
been in active service since he was
wounded in the spring of last year, had
been placed on the retired list at his
bwn request.
CHINESE SOIL IS
TAKEN BY FRENCH
Square Mile of Territory Seized
at Tien Tsin—Chinese Gov
ernment Lodges a
Protest.
Peking, Oct. 23.—A square mile o.
territory adjoining the French conces
sions at Tien Tsin, has been forcibly
seized by the French consul with the
assistance of troops. The Chinese po
lice were arrested and Frenchmen sub
stituted for them. Replying to a protest
from the Chinese foreign office, the
French legation at Peking replied it
assumed the responsibility for the
action and for any violence that might
result.
The district occupied by the French
is thickly populated and the Chinese
are threatening- violence as they have
stubbornly resisted for many years an
nexation to the French concession and
in this protest to the French legation,
the foreign officers gave warning that
it would not be responsible if violonce
resulted.
The Chinese press is violently assail
ing the action of the French, declaring
that it surpasses Japanese tactics and
is actual in warfare against defenseless
, China.
GERMANY WILL RAISE
FIFTH BIG WAR LOAN
Amsterdam, Oct. 20.—(via London,
I1 Oct. 21.)— Advices received here from
Berlin aie to the effect that a bill will
be held in the reichstag Saturday ask
PREMIER OF
AUSTRIA IS
SHOT DOWN
London, Oct. 21.—The premier 01
Austria has been shot.
Reuter’s Amsterdam corresponded
says the premier, Count Karl Ktu.ergh
was shot today by the publisher of a
Vienna newspaper named Abler, ac
cording to a telegram received at Am
sterdam from Berlin.
INQUIRY DROPPED.
Washington, D. C., Oct. 21.—Westerr
railroads have abandoned proposed
changes in regulations and practices
governing grain shipments in transit
the Interstate Commerce commissior
today has abandoned its proposed in
vestigation.
AMERICAN WOMAN IS
DECORATED BY SERBIA
Vodena, Greece, Oct. 19, (via Lon
don), Oct. 21.—Crown Prince Alexan
der, of Serbia, has decorated personally
Mrs. Charles Farnham, of New York,
with the order of St. Sava for her serv
ices in Serbian relief work. Mrs. Farn
ham was the first woman of any na
tionality to enter reconquered Serbian^
territory. She accompanied the crown
prince when the Serbians crossed the
Cerna river above Dobroveni and
stormed the Bulgarian stronghold of
Brod.
CONSIDER FOOD PROBLEM.
Berlin, (via London), Oct. 21.—A con
ference in which all the leading minis
ters of the German federal states will
participate, will be held in Berlin to
day. Invitations for the meeting al
ready issued by the imperial chancelor,
Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg. The con
ference will deal with food problems,
mainly the question of providing the
empire with potatoes for the winter.
MILLIONS ARE URGED TO
AID IN ARMENIAN RELIEF
New York, Oct. 21. — Subscriptions
and collections will be taken through
out the United States today and tomor
row for the relief of destitute and
starving Armenians and Syrian sub
jects of the Turkish empire, according
to a proclamation issued by President
Wilson. An appeal has been issued to
the 17,000,000 Sunday school children
of America to contribute. Armenians
and Syrians in this country are fasting
today in order to give the money usu
ally spent for food to relief work.
The American committee for Armen
ian and Syrian relief estimates that
about $5,000,000 is needed for Armen
ians alone and that at least $1,000,000
is necessary for the Syrians. The com
mittee says:
“There were 2,000.000 Armenians
when the war began. Three quarters
of a million have perished. A quarter
of a million are refugees in other coun
tries. One million remain who must be
fed and clothed and put upon their
feet again. The situation of the Syr
ians Is similar."
RUSSIA WILL SUE FOR
PEACE HE IS INFORMED
Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 21.—Hugo
Muensterberg, professor of psychology
at Harvard university, in an address
last night, before the International Pol
ity club of the university, asserted that
he had been reliably informed that Rus
sia and Germany would sign terms of
a separate peace before spring and that
after this peace there would be an al
liance between Germany, Russia and
Japan.
"I know from reliable sources," he
said, “that Russia is out of Joint, is half
bankrupt, is starving and will be ready
for a separate peace before spring. The
result is to be an alliance between Ger
many, Austria, Russia and Japan. Ja
pan and Russia are pushing toward this
combination and an overwhelming ma
jority of the German people would wel
come it today.
“It is the old Bismarckian tradition
that Germany ought to be the friend
of Russia and that such an alliance
iiiior h new war ureuit oi ia,uuu,uuu,
000 marks.
RAILROADS ARE SUFFERING
GREATEST CAR SHORTAGE
New York, Oct. 21.—Railroads of the
United States are suffering from the
greatest shortage of cars ever experi
enced at this time of the year, accord
ing to figures made public here today.
On September 30 there was a net
shortage of 61,030 cars. This compares
with a surplus of 131,027 cars on Octo
ber 1, 1914 and of 78,299 on the cor
responding date last year.
The greatest shortage Is In box cars,
totalling 33,016, while coal and gondola
cars total 19,872. The greatest short
age of box cars Is in the granger states.
Railroad men say the high point of the
shortage will be reached next month.
SUPREME JUSTICE, LIFE
REPUBLICAN, FOR WILSON
New York, Oct. 21.—John Ford, a
justice of the supreme court in New
York, a life long republican, announced
today that he will vote for President
Wilson.
“I am a Yankee, but I am proud ot
my Irish blood.” he said today. “I waa
born In this country, but my father
was born In County Roscommon and
my mother In County Mayo. This
makes me pretty much of an Irishman,
but I am no hyphenate, and the propa
ganda against our president In certain
quarters entirely disgusts me.”
CARRANZA TROOPS ARE
ON HUNT FOR BANDITS
Ran Antonio, Tex., Oct. 21.—Carran
za troops are operating in the territory
between the American expeditionary
command and Villa forces to the south,
according to a report from General
Pershing received by General Funston
today. The dispatch said that definite
Information regarding location of the
bandits were lacking. Official reports
have not yet reached headquarters
concerning the new campaign against
Villa undertaken by de facto troops
under General Ozuno.
HUGHES TO OHIO.
New York. Oct. 21.—Charles H.
Hughes’ remaining campaign tours will
Include trips through -New England,
New York state, Ohio, Indiana, wind
ing up here with speeches at Madison
Square Garden, November 0. He will
resume his speech making here, Tues
day, October 24. Mr. Hughes spent to
day resting In Montclair. N. J.
FIVE OF CREW LOST.
Detroit, Mich., Oct. 21.—Five of the
crew of 10 men are reporto drowned
with the sinking of the tug Shaun
Rhuo, owned by the Dunhar-Sullivan
dredging company of Detro't, oft
Kingsville, Ont.. during a storm early
this morning. Vessels are goir,g io tlie
rescue.
OUR AMERICAN BASEBALL ENTERTAINS
_PROMINENT CANADIANS IN EUROPE
would ue uei surcsi pnnemun.
GRANDSON OF TENNYSON
IS WOUNDED IN FRANCE
London, Oct. 21.—The latest list of
wounded from France Includes the
name of Capt. Lional Hallam Tennyson,
eldest son of Lord Tennyson and
grandson of the poet. This Is the sec
ond time that Captain Tennyson has
been wounded.
MOHAIR IS SELLING
FOR RECORD PRICES
San Antonio, Tex., Oct. 21.—The
highest price ever paid for mohair in
Texas was paid today when 150,000
pounds was sold to eastern buyers at
56 cents, which was 20 cents a pound
higher than wa3 paid a year ago. The
cons'gnment came trom the late clip at
Uvalde and was said to be of average
tiuaUty.
General Sam Hughes and the Duchess of Devonshire watching a baseball
game in London.
American baseball has been taken up in England and nas the en
, thusiastie support of Canadians who have known the game at home. In
the picture General Sam Hughes is seen watching a baseball game with tba
Dueness of Devonshire, wife of Canada’s new governor-general and tho
“First Lady of Canada.” General Hughes has received high praise from
King George for his work in recruiting.
NW THIRD OF
Exactly 32 Per Cent of Total
Supply Now Held By This
Country—$2,000,000,’
000 In Treasury.
DISPOSITION IS PROBLEM
Government Officials and Fi*
nanciers Wonder What Will
Be Influence on Future
and Business.
Washington. Oct. 23.—Uncle Sam
now has a third of the world's stock
of gold and more is coming into the
country daily.
What is going to be done with it,
and what will become of the enormous
gold supply after the war?
These are questions over which
treasury official, bankers, business men
and students of finance of every sort
are pondering. They are worrying over
the spectacle of the streams of yellow
metal pouring into the United States
and over the possibilities of the unset
tling of conditions when the war ends
rmU| un mail j 1110 bv'*“
suonly will proceed to leave the coun
try.
Hold 32 Per Cent.
Director of the Mint Von Engleken
has had figures prepared which show
in exact terms that 32 per cent of the
stock of gold of the world is held in
this country. This is more than is be
ing held by any other nation. Gold has
been coming into this country on the
average at the rate of about $2,000,000
a day above ordinary importations,
for the last two years. Not long ago
it was entering this country at the rate
of $25,000,000 a week.
The treasury statement shows that
in gold coin and bullion the treasury
holds aproximately $2,000,000,000. This
does not Include huge sums held in
other hands in this country.
Depleting Europe.
Europe is making enormous war sup
ply purchases here and this is one
reason gold is pouring In. Enormous
volumes of new gold are being added
to the world's supply. Moreover, say
experts of the treasury, great sums in
gold are being taken out of the socks
and various hiding places of the people
of Europe. Much of this is finding
its way here. That the presence of the
extraordinary volume of gold in this
country tends to Inflation is generally
admitted.
Some of the government experts on
finance see danger in the situation and
fear that once the war is over and gold
begins to move out there will be hard
times.
To this matter of the movement of
the world's gold supply after the war
and the financial conditions which will
obtain after the war, there are so many
angles that, as one treasury expert re
marked today: “You see a new phase
of it every time you look.”
Depends Upon Belligerents.
Tn the first place, no one knows what
will be the financial situation of the
belligerent nations nfter the war. They
are piling up staggering debts. Some
of them are already issuing paper
money, not backed by gold, but by a
simple government promise to pay.
They are like the “greenbacks” of this
country. The interest burdens of some
of the nations, Germany, for instance,
will be such that it is a question
whether these burdens can be met.
Hence it is a fair interrogatory whether
there will be repudiation of the debts
of some of the European governments
when the war ends. Any such thing, of
course, would have far reaching finan
olol nffppta
Will Affect Trade.
Bearing on the 'departure of gold
from this country after the war, a
high treasury official today said
England, Germany and other great
European nations would be organized
Industrially as never before when th£
War closed and it might be expected
they would purchase as little from us
os practicable. In the purchase of
cereals, foodstuffs and raw materials,
colonies would be given preference.
The European countries would sell us
as much as possible. The tendency
would be to draw gold from the coun
try. Perhaps loans would be made to
foreign oountries, and, unless the
money was spent here, outward move
ment of gold would be caused. This
official pointed out that if the United
States secured a heavy trade with
South America it would help this coun
try materially after the war.
Hut he added that he saw little sign
that trade expansion in South America
and Latin America was being brought
about in a fashion which would enable
this country to hold its own after the
European struggle.
Handy But Didn’t Need It.
As this official looks at it, it would
be highly desirable if the United States
had much less gold but to have it de
part would be a hardship for a time. He
declared if the huge gold stock re
mained here four or five years, it would
have a demoralizing effect on the pop
ulation and then any loss of it would
be accompanied by all the more diffi
culty in the readjustment and reorgan
ization.
MEXICAN EX-PRESIDENT
WEDS YOUNG MANICURE
New Orleans, La., Oct. 21.—Fran- .
cisco Carvajal, former provisional
president of Mexico and for the last
year international lawyer with offices
here, was married yesterday afternoon
to Miss Loui:*' Martin. 20-year-old
manicure in a local hotel. The ro
mance dates back a year to when the
former president of Mexico had his
nails manicured in the hotvl barber
shop. _
RELEASE THREE PITCHERS.
Philadelphia, Oct. 21.—George Chal
mers, George McQuillan and Chief
Pender, veteran pitchers of the Phlia
iV-lphia Nationals' baseball club, will
iie released next seasoJl, according to a
statement of Mgr. Pat M ran today.
They will be replaced by younger
players.
RAPHAEL COLLIN DEAD.
Paris, Oct. 21.—Raphael Collin art
ist, is dead. He was 6G years old, an
officer of the Legion of Honor, and a
member of the aeadcjnie Mcs C>-au*
Arts.