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OUR ARTISTIC ROTOGRAVURE PICTURE SECTION MAKES THE SUNDAY BEE UNIQUE. The Omaha Daily Bee THE WEATH5K: Partly cloudy .dy i Wadnaaday, probably unsettled in outheatt portioa Tuesday; not much change in tamperature. Hourly trnifraturr: 5 a. m Si i 1 p. tn It H a. ni OS ! 5 p. in It 7 a. in M ' S i. m ?n It a. M 4 p. in It a. m M S p. m It III i. m lift I A p. in 78 It a. m Ill 7 p, m ..7a it in ; I p. ni is B RIEF RIGHT REEZY BITS OF NEWS LEIPZIG TO HOLD GREAT ANNUAL BAZAR. Leipzig, May 26. The famous Leipziger Messe, the greatest an nual bazar in Germany, will be held this year as usual by the grace of the independent socialists. The 'after, in reply to inquiries by the Leipziger Neueste Nachrichten, de clared that the working masses of this city "have no idea of disturb ing the orderly process of the Leip zig messe. GRANT, EXTENSION OF TIME ON TAX RETURNS. Washington, May 26. Delay in the printing of forms caused the in ternal revenue bureau to extend to day until June IS the time for mak ing tax returns on bottled soft drinks, motor vehicles, musical in struments, cameras, sporting goods, chewing gum, firearms, riding gar ments, furs, pleasure boats, dirk knives, toilet soaps. insurance, transportation, admissions, initia tions and dues. GLASS WARNS AGAINST "WAR STAMP RASCALS." Washington, May 26. A new "by product" of the country's post hel ium days is the "VV. S. S." rascal. Secretary of the Treasury Glass in a statement issued today warns the public against those "rascals who are buying war savings certificates and stamps fbr less than their re demption value and promptly turn ing them into the government for redemption at a profit." The department serves notice "upon those people who arc engag ing in this disreputable business that it will use all the means within its power, and has asked the co-operation of the Postoffice department to prevent payment being made to them." War savings stamps and certifi cates were not meant to be nego tiable. Furthermore, the govern ment still needs money and the Treasury department asks all holders of the securities to retain them, if possible. If not, however, it will place no obstacle in the way of bona fide holders who request re payment. MOVIE PRODUCER GIVEN TERM IN PRISON. San Francisco. May 26. Sentence of three years' imprisonment of Robert Goldstein, Los Angeles mo tion picture producer, for violation of the espionage act in the making and presentation of a film entitled, "The Spirit of 1776," was affirmed today by the United States circuit court of appeals. The objectionable feature of the film was depiction of alleged British atrocities on Ameri can citizens. The original sentence of Goldstein to 10 years imprison ment was commuted by President Wilson to a term of three years. NEW MARK SET ON NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE. New York, May 26. Gordon F. Hanby, in jail at Tacoma, Wash., on a charge of killing two officials of the East Brooklyn Savings bank while robbing the institution last December, was indicted today for murder. Detectives at once started for Albany to obtain Governor Smith's signature on extradition pa pers. Hanby, who was arrested in Ta coma tinder the name of Jay B. Al len, also went under the alias of Boyd Browning, according to the district attorney. TENNESSEE HERO TOURS SUBWAYS LIKE A KING. New York, May 26 Sergt. Alvin C. York. Tennessee's famous world- war hero, today had his "subway" 1 ambition fulfilled, when in the pri vate car of President Theodore P. Shonts of the Interborough Rapid Transit company, " he toured the great underground transportation system like a king. Before taking the trip he telegraphed Senator Miles Poindexter acceptance of nomination to honorary member ship in the Red Head club of Spo kane, Wash. WOMAN TELLS HOW SHE SPENT $2,000,000. Los Angeles, May 26. How she spent $2,000,000 in cash left her by her father, the late E. J. ("Lucky") Baldwin, was related in detail by Mrs. Clara Baldwin Stocker at a triel to determine her competency in the probate department of the superior court here today. The pro ceedings were brought by Albert E. Snyder of San Francisco, a son, who asks that Mrs. Stocker be declared incompetent to manage her $10,000, 000 estate and fhat a trustee be ap pointed. Mrs. Stocker, when questioned by her attorney, declared she had spent $500,000 for diamonds, given anoth er sum of $500,000 to an attorney to invest for her, and had spent the balance in various ways. When questioned about one item of $400,000 in particular, Mrs. Stock er answered: "I spent it, and I'm the girl that can do it." PRICES SOAR IN LAST HOURS OHIO SALOONS. Columbus. O., May 26. Soaring prices in the last few hours, a rush of business never before equalled and sale of package goods in enor mous quantities marked the passing today of the liquor business in Ohio. The state becomes the biggest pro hibition state in the union at mid night tonight, constitutional prohi bition becoming effective tomorrow. It was voted last November. The state will lose annually $4,000,000 that it obtained from liquor revenues, it is estimated. PLAN DEMOBILIZATION BY 25TH DAY OF JUNE. San Francisco, May 26. Complete demobilization of the war army by June 25 will be undertaken, accord ing to orders received by the west ern department headquarters of the army, it was announced here today. This will embrace all army forces except regular army units. It was stated that probably certain num bers of war troops may be held at the western and southern depart ments of the army temporarily after that date until their places for the regular army establishment are filled fey hi recruit. VOL. 48. NO. 294. mm PLANS TO WELCOME SOLDIERS FRAMED Citizens of Omaha Getting Ready to Greet "Fighting Farmers" When They Ar rive Home From France. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, who passed through Omaha last night on his way to Chicago after deliv ering the address to the Univer sity of Nebraska graduates at Lincoln yesterday, announced that he would return to this city to take part in the reception to the Nebraska troops Friday. He inspected the canteen at the Union station and expressed him self as greatly impressed with it. The "Fighting Farmers." Nebras ka contingents of the 89th division, he 355th infantry and 341st machine sun battalion, will find Omaha, on their arrival in the city Friday, pre pared to greet them with as much vigor as they attacked the Germans at St. Mihiel and the Argonne, though it will not be that kind of a greeting. Executive members of Mayor Smith's "Welcoming Committee of One Hundred" met last night at the Chamber of Commerce and paved the way for Omaha's "greatest day." The principal features of the pro gram will be: Official welcome at railway station, the parade, grand review by the governor and his staff, informal reception and feed by Red Cross and relatives, balloon and airplane flights. Eight subcommittees as follows were appointed by the mayor to take care of detail arrangements: Parade-rWachob, chairman; Tuc key and Brogan; information: Bro gan, chairman; Black, Wachob; can teen: Fodrea, chairman; Brown, Tagg; reviewing stand: Smith, chairman; Black; decorations: Brown, chairman; Black, Tagg; mu sic: Lovell, chairman; ' Caldwell, Slabaugh; publicity: Manley, chair man; Brown; finance: Folda. Noise and Big Feed. "Lots of noise, a good feed and a rousing welcome, with the grand review by Governor McKelvie were among the points emphasized. The mayor particularly 'requested that the city make "plenty of noise" and that "Old Glory" be seen and saluted frequently. "Don't worry about that, mayor," Randall K. Brown, chairman of the war service committee said. "Omaha generally knows how to greet her boys." A telegram was sent last night to Governor McKelvie at the Hotel McAllister, New York, by Chair man Brogan of the information com mittee, asking positive identity of the various organizations of the homecoming units that their places in the line of march may be as signed in advance. Companies of the incoming troops will be assigned to a block each below Seventeenth street, on Howard and Jackson, for an informal reception and "feed" by the Red Cross and relatives. At least one member of the infor mation committee will go to Chi cago, arriving there Wednesday night, to meet and confer with com manders of the troops en route, to ascertain this information and relay it on ahead of the troops. The blocks assigned to each company will be marked with placards and the places published in the papers as soon as assigned. It is probable that a large delegation of Omaha's self appointed will accompany the ad vance guard. Route of Parade. The parade route as indicated last evening will be from Mason to Far nam on Tenth street, north from Tenth to Nineteenth street, south on Nineteenth street from Farnam to Harney, east on Harney to Seven teenth and south on Seventeenth street to Jackson. Here companies will be marched to their allotted po sitions below Seventeenth street on Howard and Jackson. The mayor's committee is co-operating with the Chamber of Com- (Continutd on Pare Tiro. Column Three.) Units of 88th Will Be Allowed to Parade Through Des Moines Des Moines, la., May 26. Units of the 88th division discharged at Camp Dodge. Ia., will be allowed to parade in Des Moines, according to a telegram from Adjutant Gen eral Harris, at Washington, received by the Des Moines patriotic com mittee today. The telegram said instructions had been issued to all detachment - commanders authoriz ing the parade. Previous plans had been for a pa rade at Camp Dodge, so as not to delay discharge of the men. About 15,000 men of the 88th di vision are from Iowa, the remainder being from nearby states. Entara M MOMt.tlati Miy 2. IMC. at Oath! P. 0. uadar act at Mareh 3. 1879. nn Ruth Law To Try for $50,000 Prize of Daily Mail for Ocean Flight Woman Aviator, En Route From China to New York, Between Trains, While in Omaha, Confides to Re porters That She Proposes Soon to Out-Hawker Hawker in Flying. Ruth Law, woman aviator, will attempt to 'fly the Atlantic in the near future, she announced to Omaha newspapermen for the first time last night. Ruth Law is hurrying across the continent on the Overland Lim ited in order to make the flight be fore Harry Hawker, the Australian, whose recent attempt came to grief, may make another attempt. Miss Law will follow Hawker's example by attempting a direct non stop flight from St. Johns, Canada, to Ireland, a distance of 1,850 miles. She will pilot a 12-cylinder, 400 horse power Curtiss land plane, a tvpe never yet flown except in trial flights. Out After Coin. Speculation as to why Miss Law gave up her proposed flight around the world has been rife since her announcement of its discontinuance in China last month, but the first definite confirmation of rumors that it was to try for the $50,000 London Daily Mail prize was given to Omaha newspaper men last night. Determination and confidence lit vp Miss Law's eyes as she told of HAWKER GIVEN WARM WELCOME AT THURSO PIER Senior Naval Officer and Par ish Councillors Greet Flyer; England Overjoyed at News of Rescue. Thurso, Scotland, May 26. (By the Associated Press.) Harry G. Hawker and Lt. Com. Mackenzie Grieves were warmly received to day when they landed from a torpe do boat destroyer at the Scrabster pier, two miles from Thurso town. The senior naval officer and the parish councillors welcomed the rescued aviators officially. "In the name of the people of Thurso," said Provost Mackay, "I offer you a welcome not only to Thurso but to the shores of Great Britain. Your countrymen greet you warmly and proudly as heroic pi oneers and sportsmen. "It was at this landing stage that Lord Kitchener said farewell to the land he loved, and now we shall also know it and mark it as a place of wonderful welcome to two brave sons of the empire." Hawker, replying, merely said: "I thank you for your kind greet ing." Hawker Tells Experience. London, May 26. The Daily Mail today prints a dispatch from Thurso, Scotland, giving the simple narra tive of Harry G. Hawker regarding the unsuccessful attempt to fly across the Atlantic made by himself Lt.-Com. Mackenzie Grieve. "We had very difficult ground to rise from on the other side," said Hawker. "To rise at all we had to run diagonally across the course. "Once we got away we climbed well, but about 10 minutes up we passed from a firm, clear weather into Newfoundland fog banks. We got well over these, however, and of course at once lost sight of the sea. Encounter Storm. "The sky was quite clear for the first four hours, when the visibility became very bad. Heavy cloud banks were encountered and event ually we fiew into a heavy storm with rain squalls. "At this time we were flying well above the clouds at a height of about 15,000 feet." "We, of course, realized that un til the pipe was cleared we could not rise much higher without using a lot of motor power. When we were about 124 hours on our way the circulation system was still giv ing us trouble, and we realized that we could not go on using up our motor power. Sighted Steamer. "Then it was that we reached, the first fateful decision to play for safety. We changed our course and began flying diagonally across the main shipping route for about two and a half hours, when to our great relief we sighted a Danish steamer, which proved to be the tramp, Mary. "We sent up our light distress signals. These were answered promptly and then we flew on about two miles and landed in the water ahead of the steamer." Caught With Whisky. Missouri, Valley, la., May 26. (Special). The three men, caught here with 65 quarts of whisky and sent to Logan May 10, were fined $200 by Judge Arthur, plus $23.75 cost. After their fines were paid, they went to Omaha. When they were first arrested they gave "The names: Joseph Vazac. lames Bleck, and Louis Rep OMAHA, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1919. rn her intent to cross the ocean by air. "The real glory of the transatlan tic flight will go to the first aviator to make a nonstop flight from North America to Europe," said Miss Law. Sure She Can Make It. "I am sure I Can make it," she said. "The machine I shall use has been under construction in Hemp stead, Long Island, for nearly a year. In a trial flight recently, it made 190 miles an hour, at a height of 9,000 feet. "I am to meet Glen H. Curtiss in New York and arrange at once for the flight. My mechanic on the trip across the ocean will be James B. Lamont, whom I consider the most proficient man in that line in the country. He is not a navigator. I'll have to do the navigating if there is any to be done. I'll not drop my landing gear as Hawker did. I don't think that is necessary. "If Hawker had had better luck with his engine he probably would have crossed the ocean. I will take only the ordinary precautions that Hawker took. It is impossible to (Continued on Pago Two. Column Six.) MISS WILHELM MARRIES NEGRO, 'CURLEY' STINSON Couple Involved in Exposure of Omaha "Dope" Traffic Joined in Wedlock in Council Bluffs. "Curley" Stinson, e negrw known by the police as king of the Omaha dope peddlers, and Beatrice Wil belm, alias Ruth Clark, his 19-year-old white paramour, whose expose of the illicit drug traffic in Omaha startled federal and city authorities into, unusual activity recently, were married yesterday in Council Bluffs by Justice Baird. The incident again emphasized the fact that Iowa is about the only state in the union where such a mar riage could take place. On the eve of his wedding, Stin son was arrested and charged with assaulting Marie Collins, Sioux City"! negress, at his home, 216 North Thirteenth street. Beatrice Wilhelm charged city po lice with protecting "dope" peddlers and told startling stories of the drug traffic here. Stinson is now under indictment by the federal grand jury on a charge of violating the Harrison drug act. Efforts to Expedite Woman Suffrage Vote Defeated in Senate Washington, May 26. Efforts to expedite a vote in the senate today on the woman suffrage constitution al amendment resolution were de feated. By parliamentary tactics op ponents of the measure succeeded after two hours in postponing all action until tomorrow. After numerous roll calls and oth- J er obstruction, the motion to dis charge the suffrage committee from considering the resolution, which was passed by the house, last week, was set aside under the rules at 2 o'clock for renewal of debate on the resolution of Senator Johnson, re publican, of California, requesting a copy of the peace treaty with Ger many. French Paper Says Wilson Kept Text of Peace Treaty Secret Paris. May 26. (Havas.) The Echo de Paris today declares that it was on the request of President Wilson that the heads of the allied and associated powers have declined to permit publication of the full text of the peace treaty presented to the Germans. President Wilson, adds the newspaper, "foresaw incon venience and risk in opening an im portant discussion in the United States during his absence." Dispatches from American cor respondents in Paris have stated that it was understood the chief opposition to making the treaty pub lic came from Premier Lloyd George, although President Wilson later had approved the British pre mier's view. "That Is Communism," Note Left by Robbers Berlin, May 26. An employe who, robbed the cash register of a large local firm of several thousand marks left a note in the cash drawer on which he had written, "That is com munism. The time has come to divy ur " MM HITCHCOCK AND REED CLASH ON T Nebraska Senator Accused of Losing Temper; Knox Sug gests Reading of Treaty Before Discussion. Washington, May 26. The league of nations was debated in the senate again today with an increasing show of bitterness. Senator Reed, democrat, of Mis souri, attacked the proposal in such vigorous terms that he aroused re peated objections from senators sup porting it and developed a running debate colored by dramatic accusa tions and heated retorts. The Mis souri senator declared the league would place the destinies of the white race in the hands of ignorant and superstitious nations of black and yellow populations, and charged that many democrats were support ing it for partisan reasons. - In frequent interruptions of Sen ator Reed's speech, Senator Hitch cock of Nebraska, ranking democrat of the foreign relations committee, insisted that the premises for these charges were false and that the infer ences drawn were unfair and dan gerous. He drew in turn a reply from Senator Knox, republican, of Pennsylvania, who suggested that supporters of the league covenant should read it before they discussed it. Called to Order. So heated did the exchanges be come at. one point that the chair rapped for order and Senator Reed decfared that Senator Hitchcock had "lost his temper." The measure which brought the league issue before the senate was the resolution of Senator Johnson, republican, requesting from the State department the full text of the peace treaty. There was no at tempt to reach a vote on the resolu tion and it went over again as un finished business, to come up when the senate reconvenes Wednesday. Race Question Involved. Without speaking directly on the Johnson resolution, Senator Reed made a general attack on the cove nant itself as a proposal to hand over control of the white race and the civilized world to an assembly of nations where a majority always could- be brought together on any race question in opposition to white supremacy. He declared support of the plan never could be explained at home by senators from the south, with its negro problem, or from the west, with its Chinese and Japanese problems. Turning dramatically to his democratic colleagues, he con tinued: "If a republican president had brought it here if Roosevelt had brought it here there isn't a demo crat that wouldn't have been stand ing by my side fighting to the last ditch to rescue the country from so monstrous and so cruel a thing." Names Countries. As the nations where white blood does not predominate, the senator named Liberia, Haiti, Hedjas, Pan ama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guate mala, Ecuador, Cuba, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, South Africa, Siam, India, China and Japan. In these coun tries, he asserted, the average of illiteracy was 85 per cent and he quoted extensively from reference works to show that many of them were overrun with superstition. While the Missouri senator was assailing the league in the senate, Representative Madden, republican, of Illinois, made a speech criticis ing it in the house and declaring the American people never could min gle on equal terms with the peoples of Europe. No general debate de veloped, however. When the Johnson resolution comes up in the senate Wednesday Senator Robinson, democrat, of Ar kansas, expects to open debate with a speech supporting the league. Discharged Troops of England Demand Work of Government London, May 26. Thousands of discharged soldiers and sailors out of employment, armed with stones and other missiles, marched toward the House of Commons today. They came into conflict with the police barring the approaches and were scattered. Later the procession was reformed and marched toward Buchingham palace, but the demonstration broke up before it reached the palace. There were no further disorders. The demonstration followed a meeting in Hyde Park, where the discharged soldiers and sailors de manded work and a minimum wage scale. Similar demonstrations were held throughout the country. COVENAN By Mall (I yaar). Daily. S4.M: Dally and Sun.. MM; outtlda Nik. to Ole Hanson Would Class Unemployment As Crime; Much Depends On Congress Fighting Mayor of Seattle Says Government Should Provide Work for Every Man ; Labor Entitled to Receive Better Wages Than Prevailed Before the War; Co-Operation is Solution. (Hy Iniverital Service.) New York, May 26. "I wouldn't class unemployed as a menace," said Ole Hanson, fighting mayor of Seat tle, today in outlining his plan for saving this and other nations from further inroads of extreme radical ism. "I would class it as a crime a national crime. The government can prevent it and should prevent it. There should never be idleness in this country. It is preventable waste and preventable waste is a crime. "The government should provide opportunity for work for every man who is out of employment in great divisions which would add to the wealth of the country and make pov erity unknown. Every man who can work should be required to do so, choosing the work for which he is best adapted. He should produce with either hands or brains. The time is coming when the law will see to this. Much Depends on Congress. "Much depends upon the action of the present congress. Business wants to know where it stands, wants to know what it may do and what it may not do. Uncertainty raises the spectre of danger. If con gress lays down right and definite rules I think we are bound to go forward with a rush to the greatest prosperity we have ever enjoyed. BURGLARS MAKE LARGE HAUL IN DAYLIGHT RAID Fur Coats and Silverware, All Valued at $1,667, Taken From Dr. C. C. Rose water's Home. Burglars yesterday afternoon committed the boldest daylight rob bery perpetrated in Omaha for more than a year when they plundered the home of Dr. Charles C. Rose water, 3424 Farnam street, some time between 1 and 3 o'clock. An Alaskan sealskin coat belong ing to Miss Irene Rosewater, val ued at $700, and a Hudson sealskin coat, valued at $500, were taken by the robbers, who gained entrance by breaking the glass in the rear door. Silverware, jewelry and clothing amounting to $467 were also taken. A squad of detectives was put on the case at 3 o'clock when Dr. Rose water reported the loss to the po lice, but at 3 o'clock this morning no arrests had been made. Detec tives are working on several clues which they believe will materialize this morning. Miss Nora Roehrkasse Killed When Auto Slides Off Into Ditch Lincoln, May 26. (Special Tele gram.) Sunday was a day for trou ble around Lincoln, and in some instances a day of tragedy. Joy riders traveling at 50 miles an hour, ran into a ditch, en route to Crete and Miss Nora Roehrkasse was in stantly killed. The driver of the tar, Guy Deats, was probably fa tally injured Miss Gertrude, sister of the dead girl, was seriously in jured, while H. M. Pughuy was bad ly cut and bruised. There were eight people in the car. William- F. Caltley, a farm hand, while riding a young horse, was thrown from the animal and badly injured. He lived near Cook and died just before reaching a Lincoln hospital. Two Men Killed in Wyoming Nitroglycerine Explosion Casper, Wyo., May 26. Two un identified men were blown to pieces, residences and business houses shaken as if in an earthquake and windows broken for a radius of many blocks in an explosion tonight which wrecked the storage plant of the Wyoming Torpedo company. It was feared that two others may have been killed, and the debris is being searched. The two dead men were oil well "shooters" and their death precludes any explicit explanation of the nitro glycerine explosion. Iowa Farmers to Ask for Repeal of Daylight Law Washington, May 26. Congress was asked to repeal the daylight saving law and to provide funds for the continued operation of the fed eral employment system, by resolu tions which the executive and legis lative committees of the National Grange adopted' today. A petition asserted to contain the names of .300,000 Iowa farmers, ask ing the daylight saving abolition, was prepared for presentation to congress. TWO CENTS. "Capital and labor must adu.st their differences and I believe this can be arranged through co-operation, so that we may have peace and love instead of hate and strife and that bolshevism may be destroyed in America. I believe if employers will do their share toward satisfying the demands of labor the workers will reciprocate with a full day's work for a full day's pay, and will do their full share in stamping out radical ism, anarchy and treason. Labor Entitled to More. "Labor is entitled tu more than it received before the war. Even at the rates that prevailed before the war, labor did not receive suf ficient return to enable the work ers to maintain their families in decency and comfort and make proper provisions for the future. All this must be altered and I be lieve it will be altered. "It will be to the advantage of both capital and labor for the vork man to receive a fair wage and give a fair return in labor. In every business I believe there should be well paid labor, equally well paid administration and equally well paid capital. One is as necessary and important as the other. Upon the co-operation of all three the suc cess and prosperity of the country depends." WIFE WHO SHOT "OTHER WOMAN" NOW ON TRIAL Mrs. I jams, on Witness Stand, Tells Story of Her Tragic Encounter With Mrs. Van Ausdell. Mrs. Viva Ijams yesterday after noon related to the jury in Judge Redick's court the quarrel and strug gle between herself and Mrs. Blanche Van Ausdell the night of February 16, 1919, at Twenty-second and Leavenworth streets, when she was shot and wounded by Mrs. Van Ausdell. Mrs. Van Ausdell stated to the po lice, following the shooting that she had shot Mrs. Ijams because Mrs. Ijams had wrecked her home. Mrs. Van Ausdell is being tried on a charge of shooting with intent to kill and, if convicted, faces a peni tentiary sentence. Mrs. Ijams, on the witness stand, wore the same dress that she wore the night of the shooting, a dark brown velvet. County Attorney Shotwell had her turn her back to the jury and show where the bullet went through the dress. Walked Side By Side. "Mrs. Van Ausdell met me just after I came out of my home, 811 South Twenty-seeond street," said Mrs. Ijams. "She said she wanted to talk to me. I said I didn't care to talk. She walked by my side until we crossed Leavenworth street. "Then she said, 'I understand you have been practically living with my husband for the last two weeks.' I said, 'Are you sure of that?' We walked a little way and then she dropped behind and I felt the shot in my back." Witness described how she ran back across the street with Mrs. Van Aus dell pursuing her. They grappled, she said, and fell, Mrs. Ijams on top. They got up and Mrs. Ijams ran down Leavenworth street to Twen- (ContinuPd on Pair Two, Column Two.) 16,000 Killed or Injured in Volcanic Eruptions in Java Tokio, May 26. Sixteen thousand persons were killed or injured in a volcanic eruption in central Java May 20, according to official advices from Batavia. Amsterdam, May 26. The vol cano of Kalut, in Java, has hurst into eruption, wiping out 20 villages in the district of Brengat and 11 in the vicinity of Blitar and causing deaths estimated at 15,000, according to a Central News dispatch received here. The volcano Kalht (Keloet) is one of the 14 active volcanoes on the island of Java. Kalut is in eastern Java, south of Surabaya. Boy Struck by Auto. Donald Butts, 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Butts. 2620 Leavenworth street, was struck yes terday afternoon by an automobile driven by E. S. Cloyer, 1317 South Twenty-eighth street and escaped with slight bruises. Cloyer was ar rested and booked for investigation. Donald attempted to run across the street and slipped, falling directly in front of Suaiay. 12 M; aettaaa antra. .(v. LANDING ATSOKIA OPPOSED BY TURKS Orlando Refuses Explanation Demanded by Wilson Until . Greek Premier Withdraws From Session of Council. Paris, May 26. The Italians tiav landed additional troops at Sokia, in Asia Minor, 50 miles southeast ol Smyrna. The Turkish government has pro f-tested to the peace conference and has expressed regret that the Greeks were permitted to occupy Smyrna, saying the government felt it would have been wiser to have had a joint allied occupation. The protest says it is feared thai trouble would ensue as the advance into the interior of the country con tinues. Ask vExplanation. It has been learned in trust worthy quarters there that the United States, Great Britain and France united in sending a note to Italy requesting an explanation of the landing of Italian forces in Tur key. As a result of the request an in cident occurred during a meeting of the council of four. When Premier Orlando entered the council cham ber President Wilson addressed the Italian premier directly, asking what the answer was to the note of tiie three powers. Signor Orlando replied that he was prepared to explain to the council, but would not do so until Premier Venizelos of Greece with drew from the chamber. Prest dent "Wilson, it was declared, in sisted on Venizelos remaining,, but Orlando was obdurate. Venizelos finally left, and later the council expressed its regret to the Greek premier for the incident. The dispatch did not add what the reply of the Italian premier was. Germans Say They Will Ask No Further Extension (By the Associated Press.) As the day for the Germans to give answer to the peace demands of the allied and associated govern ments approaches and the German plenipotentiaries have announced hey will ask no further extension of time beyond Thursday, the limit set by the allies there apparently has been no change in the sentiment of German government circles that the treaty should not be signed. "Should I, under pressure from our own misled countrymen, sign this sentence of death?" an utter ance attributed to Count von Brock-dorff-Rantzan in reply to a question as to whether the demands of the independent socialists that the com pact should be duly sealed sums up generally the state of mind supposed to exist in the higher walks of Ger man political life. Meanwhile, allied commissions are preparing to hand to Austria and Bulgaria the treaties that are to be drawn up for them. The Aus trians, who have been for some time at St. Germain, are chafing under 'he delay in being called before the peace congress. The delay is de clared to be mainly due to the set tlement of conditions regarding rep arations. Urges Haste. Dr. Renner, head of the Austrian delegation, has appealed to Premier Clemenceau, urging the hastening of the presentation of the peace treaty, declaring that the delay is creating a "regrettable strain" on Austria fi nancially. The belief is expressed in Paris that the allied and associated pow ers will exempt the new states formed from parts of the former dual monarchy from any payments on account of reparation or public property taken over by them. The council of four is now engaged in thoroughly going into the situation of these new states. Automobile Firm Resumes Work Following Strike Toledo,' O., May 26. Work was resumed in several departments c4 the Willys-Overland company today under guard of armed soldiers under the personal supervision of Mayor Cornell Schreiber. There was no disorder. Officials of the company announced tonight that other departments will be re opened as soon as the workers sig nify willingness to return under the 48-hour-a-week system.' Pickets installed by organized la bor were ordered not to distrub em ployes entering the plant. Civil War Veteran Dies. Lawrence. Kan.. Mav 2f Ailrii. Gentry, 80, a gardener near here, died when he stopped to rest after a short period of plowing after sup per. Heat is believed partly re sponsible for the death, as it wa very warm all the afternoon oi f3 day he plowed.