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0 MAHA my THE WEATHER , Fair VOL. XLVII. NO. 59. OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 25. 1917. FOURTEEN PAGES. On 1rlK, at Hatth. Ntw Suadi, Etc.. M. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. Mi! TEUTON .!( aM As"" m IS WRENCH DRIVE T U.S.PREPARES TO FIX RETAIL PRICE OF COAL - y - Officials Turn Attention to Reg ulation of Distribution; Completion of Pro; gram in Sight. 1 Washington, Aug. 24. Completion of the administration's program for iederal control of the coal industry was in sight today when officials turn ed their attention to the fixing of re tail prkes and the regulation of dis tribution. ' x Dr. Harry A. Garfield, appointed "to head the coal administration, will take active charge of the work as soon as he finishes his duties with the committee fixing prices on wheat, The new anthracite prices, effective September. 1, vary but slightly from the rates now charged at the mines under a voluntary agreement made with the federal trade commission by operators. Retail cosfts probably wiil 'drop as a result of the drastic restric tions placed on jobbers' profits. President Wilson fixed antlirite prices for producers and jobbers and set a limit on profits to be made by bituminous wholesalers. Present Costs Cut. ' The next and final step will be to make regulations for coal distribution and to fix anthracite and bituminous retail prices. This will be done whe'n a distribution program is perfected .and when the Federal Trade commis sion has completed a plan under which retail profits may be fixed. The anthracite prices fixed Septem ber 1 are virtually the same as those now charged at the mines, under a voluntary arrangement made by the producers with the trade commission. The prices that may be charged by jobbers, however, will reduce present costs sharply. Bituminous jobbers' profits, too, will be cut by the new price scale set for wholesale transac tions, .' - Prices Named. :, The anthracite scale for railroad owned mines, which - include prac tically all the big producers, follows: Whit Ath 8tov S4.90 broke 1.55 Chestnut 4.90 tr ......., 4,5;Pea 4.19 Store .......... .7U! Xykeoa alley C'hettaiit ....... 4.80; Bci ken .(!( Pea 4.00 Kjrc 4.90 Rod Ash IStovo 8.30 Broken- '.. 4.75 Chestnut 8.30 Vtt 4,65; Pea 4.3 J Other producers may charge an ad vance of '75 cents, a ton of 2,240 pounds over the figures set for railroad-owned mines. Those who incur the expense of rescreening it at At lantic or lake ports may add an addi tional 5 cents a ton. , Screening Charge Allowed. Anthracite jobbers delivering coal at Buffalo 'and points east of that city will be allowed a maximum profit of JO cents a ton of 2,240 pounds, and those delivering it west of Buffalo may charge an excess of 30" cents. The . combined gross . profits of any number of jobbeis handling a ship ment must not exceed the limit of profit set for a single jobber, except that a screening charge ' of . 5 cents may be made on water shipments at (Continued on Pare Two, Column One.) Henry Ford's Son, Edsel, Claims Industrial Exemption Detroit Mich., Aug. 24. Edsel Ford, son, of Henry Ford, the multi millionaire manufacturer, was exam 1 ined by a local draft board today, and it was announced he passed the phy sical tests. Ford "claimed exemption on industrial grounds. Ford is one of the officers of his father's automo bile company, which is now working on orders for the Red Cross. ! The Weather For Kebruka Fair, warmer. Temperature at Omaha Yesterday. ( Hour. 8e. i i. m Compare the Local Krcoril. 1917. 1516. 1915. 1914. Hlgheit yesterday. ... 78 95 70 85 Tywet "yesterday. . . . 67 64 54 68 Mean temperature. .. . 66 80 S3 72 Preclplatlon ."i , .00 .00 .00 .00 Temperature and preclplatlon departures from tha formal at Omaha yesterday: Normal "temperature 73 Deficiency for the day 7..' 7 Total deficiency since March 1 ,. 192 Normal precipitation............ .18 inch Deficiency for the day.... .12 inch Total rainfall since March 1.. U. it Inches Deficiency slnoe March 1 1.60 Inches Deficiency for cor. period, 1 UK. i. 79 inches Excess (or cor. period, 1916..... . 72inci Beports From Stations at 1 P. M. Station and Stato Temp. High- Bain 1 of Weather. '7 p.m. est. fall. Cheyenne." clear 74' 78 -.00 Davenport,' clear 8 74 ' .00 Denver, -clear.... 82 88 .00 Des Moines, clear 72 78 .00 Dodge City, clear...... 84 90 .00 Tender. Clear.. 8(1 88 .00 North Platte, clear 80 84 .00 Omaha,' clear 7S 70 .00 Pujblp. part cloudy... 84 88 .00 RapW City, clear...... T8 M" '. ' .00 Sale Like City, clear... 88 .00 " Santa Fa, cloudy 72 78 ; .28 Sheridan.:. fclar 84 . .00 Sioux City, clear 76 7 .00 Valentine, clear 76 80 ' .00 , - T indicate? ' trace ef precipitation, j ' -' ' il- A WELSH, Meteorologiit. t - iM. . fc- II - " A i 11 a- m '-'.'.'.'.'.'.'..'.'. 72 ZyfeTOWn 1 IP. m..... 74 H 2 P. m 74 TR ' ' 3 p. m 75 4 p. m 76 i 5 p. m 76 Sfe I " 7 p. m 73 ' 11 , ' 8 p. m 70 oover Goes to Chicago To Confer With Packers Washington, Aug. 24.--Herbert C. Hoover, the food administrator, will leave for Chicago late today for a fly ing twelve-hour visit, during which he will confer with the agents of the fed eral trade commission who have been L investigating the meat packing indus try, with-the packers themselves and with editors of farm papers. MANY ARRESTED FOR VIOLATING AUTO ORDINANCE Traffic Officers Take in More Than Fifty; All Are heav ily Fined as a Re minder. ! The motorcycle officers are still at it . Thursday night more than fifty au tomobilists were arrested for speed ing, operating without lights and hav ing cut-outs open Judge Holmes presided in court in the absence of Judge Fitzgerald and in one morning's work struck such terror into the hearts of motorists that it is safe to say the work Of the traffic officers will be lightened for some time to come. Almost every speeder caught was fined $25 and costs. The rest were fined $10 and costs, some twenty $1 and costs for operating without lights, or having cut-outs open. Robert Storz, 3708 Farnam, Sam Steinburg, junk dealer, R. E. Wagner, Forty-eighth and Davenport, Harry Herschman, 407 North Nineteenth, Fred L. Gallup, all arrested for driving thirty miles an hour or faster were fined $25. P, Gallagher, 513 South Thirty-eighth, R. F. Brainard, 27Q2 Pratt, R. N. Thomas, manager of the Welch restaurants, and L. H. Hauser, were arrested for exceeding the speed limit and received the fine of $10. I Share Same Fate. Each of tile unfortunates arrested for operating without lights or having open cut-outs had an excuse to offer, but none were of any avail. Miss H. Dreibus, 3033 Harney and Miss A. Detweiler, charged with driv ing without tail lights, were released with warnings. Those who were fined $1 and costs were A. C. Greene," J. G. Lewis, W. R Liddell.'R. W. Loomis, M. Krajicek, A. J. Adams, J. B. Cooley, A. L. Hobbs, W. L. English, E. C.Kimmey, Nick Bowley, E. M. ' Houser, J. G Kreckie. E. G. Carter, H. Studyden and R. B. Updike.. President May Go Before Congress . To Talk on Peace Washington, Aug. 24. President Wilson may decide to address con gress on peace at the same time he makes reply to Pope Benedict's pro-, posals. In that way he would not only inform the country on the ques tion, but also enable members of con gress to carry the government's views home to the people when con gress adjourns. No indications of the president s ilans had come from the White louse today, but the possibility of his discussing the subject before Congress m this way and consequently betore the nation, was being considered at the capitol as a probability. Bail Bond Is Refused to Bomb Murder Defendant San Francisco, Aug. 24. Mrs. Rena Mooney, recently acquitted here of one of nine indictments charging mur der growing out of a bomb explosion last summer, was denied liberty on bail today by Superior Court Judge Frank H. Dunn. Two other superior court judges had agreed" recently to accept bail on the six indictments pending before them, but unanimous action was required beforebail could be granted.; Fails to Register for Drafts Gives Self Up Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. 23. (Spe cial.) Frank Kunert, a Montana man, walked into the office of the federal attorney and started that he had not registered under the selective draft act and asked what he should do. He was placed under arrest and the fed eral authorities in Montana were no tified. September 1 was fixed as the time-for his. preliminary hearing, giv ing time for an investigation. Cites Mother-in-Law As Grounds for Divorce ' Georgia A. Fleming was freed from Charles T. Fleming, jr., by Judge Troup, sitting in divorce court, on grounds of alleged cruelty. She tes tified her husband made her live with his parents. She says the "domineer ing attitude" of her mother-in-law constitute cruelty on the part of her husband. '; Women to Be Called for jury Work in California San Francisco, "Cal., Aug. 23.r-. Women , jurors will constitute the majority for venire service on the 1918 superior court panels, it be came known here today through ' a statement by Presiding Judge Thomas F. Graham. PbTAWantitTflN BRILLIANT ASSAULT RECAPTURE LAST POSITION LOST TO GERMANS Taking of Important Hill Places on Verdun Front Held Before Beginning of Great German Attack Last Year; British ...i . is Hold .Trenches North of Lens. - . (Jfy Associated Preas.) In & brilliant attack yesterday on the Verdun front the French carried Hill 304, one of the most bitterly disputed posi tions of the war, in the struggle for which thousands of men have lost their lives. The French advanced to an average depth of one and one fourth miles over the sector between Avocourt wood and Dead Man hill, Paris announces officially, and in addition to Hill 304 stormed the fortified works between Haucourt and BethincourL "0 OMAHA COAL MEN 'UP IN AIR' OVER O.S.PRICE ORDER i Difference Between Long and Short Ton Leaves Dealers in Quandary;' Await Further Action at Washington. The announcement from Washing ton that the government is in com plete control of the coal industry and has fixed prices for producers and jobbers and set a limit on profits 2v. MrvyA.Gacfield NEW COAL ADMINISTRATOR. has complicated the situation to the extent that not a coal dealer in Omaha "knows where he is at." At the offices of the C. N. Dietz company, one of the big coal job bing and retail concerns of the city, when asked whether the action of the government would result in raising or lowering prices here, Mr. Dictz said: "We are up a tree and before we can make any figures we'll have to wait until we get instructions that are more clear and specific." None of the dealers know what is going to he the outcome of the price and profit fixing order. Long or Short Ton. The5' do' not know what is meant by the "ton" referred to in the Wash ington dispatches. All anthracite coal is mined on the basis of the long ton 2.240 pounds and is sold to the jobbers that way. In selling to the consumer the jobber uses the com mon ton of 2,400 pounds. .. In fixing the pjrice the government has designated" 4to ..$5.30 -at. the mines. If Iheie ponces'. arc on the basis of a' 2,000-pound ' ton, jobbers here assert they are higher than at present, whereas if they are on the basis of the 2,240-pound ton, there is but little" change; "from the present charge.; Atfany rai they: say: that they fail'to see how. the present r-. tail prices of $13.75 a 2,000-pound ton is going to be cut to any extent. At the retail yards dealers assert that at the present prices they are not making to exceed 35 rents a ton on anthracite coal sold. They point to the fact that three years "ago the price paid for unloading coal into the stor age bins was 10 cents a ton and that now they are-gaying shovelers 25 cents. Formerly,they paid drivers 70 cents a ton for .deliverinn to custom ers and now they are paying $1. Jobbers Are Anxious., In the matter of the bituminous coal jobbers are unable to determine what the effect of the government's action will be. They say that they cannot even guess until they get lined up and know what the different grades of coal will cost at the mines. This may require several days they say. - - Garrett Appointed New Minister to Holland Washington, Aug. 23 The'nomina tion of John W. Garrett of Baltimore, to be minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg, was confirmed late to day by the senate rirrnr-iffiii if'itfiMiiitiiiii Leaves French Mastes of All FRENCH ARE MASTERS. The French are masters of all the important points on the Verdun front which they held before the beginning of the great German attack last year. On the British front the bitter fight for possession of Lens was continued during the night The official British statement announces that the British now hold German trenches iramedi ately northwest of the Green Grassier, to the south of Lens, and that espe cially heavy losses have been inflicted on the Germans. Poituguese troops which are hold ing a sector in northern France re pulsed German raids in the vicinity of La Bassee. Heavy artillery fighting continues around Vpres, where the British have improved their positions and success fully withstood counter-attacks. Berlin, Aug. 24. (Via London.) The evacuation byV the Germans of Hill 304, the famous stronghold on the Verdun front, is announced by the war office. It is said a weak gar rison was left there. First Break in -Embargo; Food , Goes to Holland Washington, Aug. . 24. The first break in th food .embargo to Euro pean neutrals came today; on condi tions imposed by the United States, Under agreement to furnish some of the cargoes for relief of Belgians the government will permit a score, of Dutch grain ships to catry their car goes to Holland. i In return for the privilege of im porting 270,000 bushels of American rye Sweden released 600,000 bushels of wheat from American elevators to the Belgian Relief commission. Four Men Are Held for Street Car Strike Murder San Francisco, Aug. 24. Charges of murder and assault with intent to commit murder' were entered against each of four men ai rested early today following the killing of James Waters, a conductor, and the wounding of two others during a shooting affray be tween a car crew of the United Rail roads and strike sympathizers late last night Lawrence O'Connell, said to be a striking conductor, was arrested when he reported to the emergency hospital with an injured hand, following a re port that one of the assailants had been hit in the hand. His brother, Thomas, and John Hogan also were arrested. The fourth man arrested was Charles Cantiell, who, police say, is a conductor. Nebraskans in Capital For Business and Pleasure (From s, SUff Correspondent.) Washington, Aug. 24. (Special Tel egram.j C. J. Miles of Hastings, Neb., is in Washington en route home after attending a manufacturers' con vention in Philadelphia. Rev. John O'Grady, of Omaha, who is in charge of the "college unit of harvesters under the direction of the secretary of labor, is in Washington -to'make a report on his work in the harvest fields of Oklahoma, Kansas and South Dakota. Senator Hitchcock returned to Washington yesterday after a ten days' visit with his family in New England. . A Japanese University Prof. ' Faces Hindu Intrigue Charges San, Francisco, Aug. 24. Tarak Nath Das, declared by federal authori ties to have been a ringleader of an afteged plot in the United States to foment a revolution against British rule in India, who was recently in dicted on that charge by the federal grand jury together with a 100 or more Germans and Hindus, was ar rested on his arrival here today on a trans-Pacific steamer. Tarrak was held in $10,000 bail. Das came voluntarily to face trial, according to United States District Attorney Preston, who said he was a professor of political economy in a Japanese university. Appeal Through The Bee For Yarn Brings Results Eleven dollars -worth of yarn al ready is the response to The Bee's appeal for yarn with which aged women at the Old People's Home on Fontenelle boulevard may knit hel mets, wristlets and sweaters for Un cle Sam s boys in the army and navy. Mrs. C. C. Belden gave $10 anfl her neighbor, Mrs. F. P. Ddolittle, $1. ' Ship Program Calls Fori J70 Vessels Washington, Aug. 24. The gov ernment's ship building program calls for a total of 1,270 ships of 7,968,000 tonnage, it was revealed today in estimates the shipping board has sent to Secretary Mc Addo, on which to base a request for a new billion dollar appropria tion. HARRIES ARRIVES AT CAMP CODY FOR WORK WITH ARMY Nebraska's Brigadier Genera Reaches Demlng, n! M., to Take Up Duties; Many Army Officers Assembled. (From Staff Correspondent.) Deming, N. M., Aug. 24. (Special Telegram.) Commanders in Camp Cody will hardly know who is the rea ranking officer for the next day or two so fast are the brigadiers gather ing here. Major General A. P. Blocksom, division head, is due by Sunday and his staff will soon line up the sergeant majors and the staff. Brieader General George II. Har ries of the Nebraska troops arrived this morning from Omaha accom panied by staff officers and twelve men. Captain Eugene T. Harris of Oma- har is acting adjutant. Aidi With Harries. First Lieutenant Warren H. Har ries. Omaha, and First Lieutenant Ernest J. Meyers, Grand Island, are among the staff. One company of each of the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Nebraska infantry in camp. Brigadier General H. T. Al len fro Cedar Rapids, Iowa, will arrive iu Cody Saturday morning. He stoo ped in El Paso this afternoon. He will find the three arms of his state represented. He is accompanied by Major C. B, Robins, Cedar Rapids, Adjutant aim Lieutenant frea it Winslow. Aide. Lieutenant Colonel. J. M. Cofin, di- . m i Vision surgeon, win go la tamp wim the senerals Situfday to have general charge of base and field hospitals and ambulances. lie has just nnisnea teachinir ambulance and hospital of ficers at Fort Riley. He .liad charge of .the medical department with Gen eral Pershing in Mexico. Friends of the officer say he is one ot the ablest i nthe armv and that the health of the command will be in" good hands. He said today that accommodations will be provided for 3 per cent of the .i . i i i t - men in camp in me uase nospuais and auxiliaries. Negroes to Columbus. Chief of Staff Lieutenant Colonel W. H. Raymond probably will arrive with General Blocksom. Colonel r. L. Winn. Twentv-fourth infantry, will reiinquisn camp command snoruy. j report today said that prt of his regiment, involved in the rioting at Houston, Tex., will , be returned to Columbus. N. M.. where the com , J I. ..I A mand has been since its return from Mexico. The negroes here are doing provost guad duty in town as well as holding down the older section of the reservation, built last year when the Arkansas troops were here. Suartc rmaster Sergeant H. R. Kim of El Paso is the only regular army soldier on the construction job. Major George R. Logan, Jr and Cap tain M. E. Gillette from Des Moines and. Captain "Frank Barthol from St. Paul are guardsmen. . United States to Loan Huge Sum to Russia Washington, Aug. 24. The United States reaffirmed today its faith in the new Russian democracy and gave con crete evidence of its confidence by loaning another $100,000,000 to the provisional government. s Announcement of the loan came from the Treasury department soon after Secretary Lansing had denied formally .that report JlfrOm Russia were of an unfavorable nature and de clared that on the contrary confiden tial dispatches to the government were the basis'foi his belief that the administration at Petrogra4 was strengthening its position. Jury in Russia First Time in Treason Case Petrograd, Aug. 24. The case against General W. A. Soukhomlinoff, former minister of war, who is charged with high treason, and his wife, accused of being an accomplice, came yesterday before the cassation department of the senate, assisted for the first time in Russia by a jury. Suit for $25,000 Damages Brought by Plainvie wWoman Pierce, Neb., Aug. 24. (Special.) Last week Mrs. Mabel Rich of Plainview filed a suit in the district court of Pierce county against John M. Fuiton, a farmer near Plainview, asking for $25,00Q damages. The pe tition filed alleges breach of con tract and slander. Allies Capture 167,780 Men Since April Ninth London, Aug. 24.The British, French, Italians and Russians have captured 167,780 war prisoners since April 9, when the 1917 campaign opened, according to a statement is sued by the British war department this evening. . TRAIL OF DEATH LEFT IN TEXAS CITY WHEN BLACK TROOPERS START MUTINY Policemen, Civilians and Soldiers Killed When Negro Infantrymen Storm Houston Bent on Avenging Alleged Insults and Abuse ot Colored Regulars by Civil Officers. Houston, Tex., Aug. 24. More than 100 negro soldiers of the two companies of the Twenty-fourth infantry which en gaged in a riot last night and caused- the death of sixteen and the wounding of more than a score of persons, are being sought today by strong patrols of regulars and Illinois National Guardsmen under the command of General John A.'Hulen, gov ernoi of the city, now under martial law. , DUAL MONARCHY CRIES FOR PEACE, SAYSJOSTRIAN Prominent Subject of Emperor Charles Tells Copenhagen, Press His Country is Ready to Quit. , Copenhagen, Aue. 24. An Austria which is literally crying for peace, which has discarded any thought of territorial expansion and, is even will ing to buy its way out of the war by territorial sacrifices on the Italian front and in Galicia; an Austria of frequent food riots, unable to last through another winter of war; an Austria wnose population wuuiu rise in revolution if any reasonable peace o,ffer were rejected by the govern merit,' is, pictured "by an intelligent Austrian who has arrived from Vi enna, In a long talk with the correspond ent today he told a story which, though perhaps unduly pessimistic, exp'ains the persistency of Count Czernin, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, and of Emperor Charles in returning again and again to the sub ject of peace negotiations. Talks With Germans. This Austrian, who socnt several days in Berlin on his way to Cop enhagen, had an opportunity to talk with representatives of the German foreign office, including Baron von dem Bussche-IIaddenhauscn, the un- der-secretary, and other prominent Germans of the stamp of Prof. Hans Delbrueck of the University of Ber lin; Phillipp Scheidemann, the social ist leader, and Maximilian Harden, editor of the Zukunft. He said that all of these men with the exception of Herr Harden were convinced peace was coming before winter. Indemnity Necessary, London, Aug. 24. Telegrams re ceived here from Rome say that prominent persons at the Vatican, in terpreting, the papal neace note, as sert that Pope Benedict believes an indemnity necessary for the restora tion of Belgium and northern France and also that the pope lakes the view that restoration of Serbia is essen tial, but did not mention it in his note as he believed the whole Balkan ques tion would be dealt with more effec tively by negotiation as a separate problem. . . From the same source it is ?aid that issuance of the peace note was preceded by unofficial conversations with prominent Germans in an en deavor to obtain Germany s consent to provisions for restoration of in vaded territories. Says He Is Russ Diplomat; Held as German Spy Suspect San Francisco. Cal.. Auir. 24.--- Boris De Laskine. who claimed to be a Russian diplomat, was arrested on his arrival here today on a trans Pacific steamer by federal authorities as a German spy suspect. He had a Russian passport, $2,000 in cash and seventeen trunks, the authorities said. He was to be que;ioned conccrnintr his mission. Texas House Committee Draws Impeachment Charge Austin, Tex., Aug. 24. After a committee of nine members of the house had been appointed today to draw up impeachment charges against Governor James E. Ferguson, for presentation to the senate, the house recessed until 2 o'clock this after noon. Two Federal Prisoners v Escape Through Sewer Leavenworth, Kan., Aug. 24. Jo seph Campbell and James Thomas were still at large today after escap ing from the federal penitentiary late yesterday by crawling through a sewer for ZOO yards and sawing off steel bars across the end of it. Campbell was brought here from Alaska, where he was sentenced for the killing of two brothers to gain possession of a gold mine. Thomas was convicted for the robbery of the postoffice at Nemaha, Neb. OPfircR RF.STORF.n Three companies of coast artillery regulars from Fort Crockett rein forced the 1,000 or more Illinois Guardsmen today and order, which was restored early this morning, is being maintained. 1 Roll call this morning by Major Snod, in command of the battalion of negroes, developed 125 men were ab sent. Eighteen of these have sur rendered and others-are being round ed up by the military patrols as the search of the negro district pro gresses. . Under military law, it is stated, sol diers may be shot for having muti nied and fired, on their officers. Arrest Causes Trouble. The trouble is said to have been begun late yesterday, after some of the negro soldiers hat Complained ot treatment accorded them by members of the Houston police force. About 9 o'clock last night some eighty negroes, later being joined by others, formed ;at their camp and be gan a inarch toward downtown Hous ton. Lights in residences along the way were shot out and a number of persons wounded as they sat inside their-houses. Crowds of Houston men, with unarmed Texas Guards men, here,, started.. forthR caniPi hut stopped when an army officer mount ed air automblle and addressed them. Men Beyond Control, Major K, S. Snow, commanding the negro troops guarding Cjmp Logan, early today declared that he attempt ed to control the men when he saw what was about to happen, "but they were beyond cqntrol and some ISO of them started to shoot promiscuously in the camp and soon scattered in every direction." The dead: IRA D. RAINF.Y, mounted police officer.- . RUFE DANIELS, mounted police officer. MIDDE-AGED MAN NAMED SMITH. - . S. SATTON, barber. CAPTAIN J. W. MATTES, Bat tery a, becona held artillery. E. J. MEINKE. police officer. EARL FINLEY. A. R. CARSTENS, painter, MANUEL GARREDO. FRED E. WINKLER. BRYANT WATSON, negro sol dier, Company K, Twenty-fourth in fantry. M. D. EVERTON, member of local artillery battery. C. W. WRIGHT. HORACE MOODY, policeman, died in hospital. E. J. MEINEKE, policeman. E. M. JONES, jitney driver, found near Camp Logan. , - The dead police officers- were among the first to reach the rioting negroes. One., Rufe Daniels, helped to make the arrests yesterday after noon that led directly to the riot According to police reports, the trouble arose when a negress was ar rested in a principal section. A negro soldier asked that the prisoner be turned over to bim. A refusal led to an argument and the soldier was sflo ducd and taken to headquarters. A little later another negro soldier approached the policemen and asked concerning the first man. When told that the negro was at headquarters more words followed and this negro was sent to headquarters after the policemen had clubbed him with a pistol. , ' From every source Thursday night came reports that this treatment of the soldier led to the riot. Previously (Continued on Pate Tiro, Column Two.) Fourteen Base Ball Players Are Injured in Train Wreck Champaign, III., Aug. 24. Eleven members of the Dayton, O., Central, league base ball team were hurt this morning -when a fast freight crashed into the rear end of a passenger train in which they were riding at Mans field. The rhost seriously injured of the ball players were: Ray Spencer, right fielder, who lost an ear. Lewis Schettler,. one eye knocked out. Pat Donohue, brother of Jack Don ohue, big leaguer, catcher, two fin gers cut off and back hurt, ' City of Saloniki ' Is Again in Flames Athens. Aug. 24. A second fire is burning in aaloniki, where great dam age was done last Saturday by a con flagration which destroyed a consid erable part of the city, making 60,000 persons homeless. Thus far 1,00(1 ' houses have been destroyed. 4 1
