BRIEF
RIGHT
REEZY
BITS OF NEWS
GERMAN SPIES IN U. S.
ARMY -FOILED IN WAR.
Washington, June 18. The -manner
in which German spies in the
American army were foiled during
the war w-4s iold to the senate mili
tary affairs committee by Brig. Gen.
Marlborough Churchill, head of the
military intelligence service.
Through their marvelous methods
of organization, the German secret
service in the United States under
took to place agents in every bri
V'gade, division and other large unit
of the army, General Churchill said.
They succeeded in partially carry--ing
out this plan, but the system
was ttftrooted and driven out
through the agency of the military
intelligence and other branches of
the American secret service.
INDIANA HENS ARE LAYING
EGGS FOR RICH GERMANS.
t Indianapolis, Ind., June' 18 Hoos
ier hens probably are supplying
- Germans, that is, the remaining dis
guised aristocratic classes, with egg
sandwiches which are probably cost
ing from SO to -75 cents per. In
diana eggs are being shipped to New
York nd thence to Switzerland, and
there is no doubt that some of them
eventually reach Germany, accord
ing to Stanley Wyckoff, former
federal food commissioner of Mar
ion county, Indiana.
SPECULATE AS TO DELAY
ON SINN FEIN REPORT.
Dublin. Tune 18. Sinn Fein lead
ers are speculating as to the reasons
for the delay of the Castle govern
ment in issuing the promised refu
tation of the Walsh-Dunne reoprt
on Insh prison abuses. On Sunday
it was announced that a detailed
denial of the charges would be im
mediately fothcoming. Subsequent
ly it was announced that the reply
to the charges had been "indefinite
ly postponed."
In the face of the demands of
the London Times and others for a
reply from the British government
in Ireland, the delay of Chief Sec
retary MacPherson is puzzling. The
Sinn Fein meanwhile is making
much capital out of copies of the
Walsh-Dunne report smuggled from
1 England.
17 SONS OF FRENCHMAN .
IN SERVICE DURING WAR.
Paris. June 18. (Correspondence
, of the Associated Press.) ThirteehJ
sons killed on the fields of battle,
three discharged with grave injur
ies, one wounded four different
times, the father and one daughter
summarily shot by the Germans fr
going to Lille to celebrate the cen
tennial anniversary of a relative, and
another daughter killed by a Ger
man shell at Dunkirk, Is the record
of the family of M. Vanhee. a
French farmer of Remlnghe, near
Ypres. '
M. Vanhee had 36 children, 22
sons and 14 daughters, all of whom
were living when the war broke out.
One of his sons was valet to Pope
Pius X; be returned to France to
.:' fight and was wounded in four dif
ferent engagements. . .
LOCUSTS EAT VEGETATION;
GOATS LIKELY TO DIE.
San Diego, Cal., June 18.-Locusts
have eaten practically all vegetation
on Guadalupe Island. 175 miles
south of here, and officers of the
motor ship Gryme, estimate that
fully 75,000 wild goats on the island
will soon starve to death. The is
land belongs to Mexico. It is 20
miles long and eight miles wide.
The Gryme brolight 395 goats to
port. Many of the goats which were
put aboard died on the way. The
locusts are the first to visit the
island in more than 50 years, ac
cording to natives.
AMERICAN FENCER TAKES
MEASURE OF FRENCHMEN.
Paris, June 18. Six of France's
best fencers went down to defeat
before Lt. William C. Westphal,
American middle western fencing
champion, who came out victor in a
series of round robin fencing
matches at the Joan of Arc tourna
ment held by the Parisian Fencing
society. Another American, Sergt.
John F. Murphy, won fourth in the
series.
NEW YORKERS STOCKING
UP FOR LONG DRY SPELL.
New York, June 18. New York
er who like their drinks to have a
kick, and their name is legion, are
making a concerted rush on the re-
" tail liquor shops these days in order
to stock up for the long dry spell
.that is predicted to begin July 1.
One house reported a sale of $ZU,
000 worth of champagne and other
stimulants to one customer, .while
orders of from $5,000 to $10,000 are
3uite common. Total sales for three
ys were put at $250,000.
' Many qf- the big clubs are offer
ing their liquor stocks for sale to
members with the privilege of pri
vate lockers irT which to store sup
plies at owner's risk. The Crescent
club, Brooklyn, offers to rent lack
ers of four-quart capacity at $5 a
vear. 'unless forbidden earlier by
law."
"FLAG OF HUMANITY"
UNFURLED IN COURT.
Mount Clemens, Mich., June 18.
A shadow of Henry Ford's "Flag of
Humanity" was unfurled in Judge
Tucker's court in the course of the
hearing of Mr. Ford's libel suit
against the Chicago Daily Tribune.
Evidence in the case has quoted
Mr. Ford as opposing flags of na
tions s obsolete "something to
rally around," or "as the refuge of
scoundrels" and as advocating a
"flag of humanity," the creation of
which he was said to have referred
' to in a fugitive remark in 1915.
Today Irving Bacon, an lllustra-
tor in the photographic and adver-
tising departments of tne Ford Mo
"tor company, was called tothe
stand. .
"It was quite a long time ago and
I do' not recall clearly the incident,"
w said the witness. "I think, however,
that the idea of designing sucli a
flag was put to me either by Dean
Marquis,' head of the educational
department of Mr. BrowneJl. the
advertising manager. I made some
sort of a sketch in water colors. I
believe the field was purple and the
world was shown, and symbols of
universal brotherhood, fraternity,
peace and industry things like
COMING -
VOL. 49 NO. 1
BOMBING
EXPECTED
William J. Flynn States Every
Precaution Is Being Taken by
Police to Safeguard Citi
zens Against Radicals.
Washington, June 18. The men
ace of bomb outrages still hangs
over the country in the belief of
officials of the Department of Jus
tice. William J. Flynn, chief of the de
partment's bureau of investigation,
said he believed there were "more
bombs to come," but said it was im
possible to say when the next at
tempt to create a reign of terror by
explosions might be made.
The department made public tes
timony of Attorney General Palmer
before the house appropriations
committee asking for a special fund
of $500,000 to carry on the hunt for
radicals. The attorney general told
the committee government officials
had been advised of a day set for
another attempt by radicals "to de
stroy the government at one fell
swoop."
Learn of New Plot.
"We have received so many no
tices and gotten so much informa
tion," Mr. Palmer said, "that it has
almost come to be accepted as a
fact that on a certain day in the
future, which we have been advised
of, there will be another seriols and
probably much larger effort of the
same character which the wild fel
lows of this movement describe as
"revolution, a proposition to destroy
the government at one fell swoop."
"Mr. Flynn said he knew of no
plot planned for Independence day,
and asserted every precaution was
being taken by police throughout
the United States.
"We know the source from wh'ch
the bomb operators have come,"
Mr. Flynn said. "The agitation is
purely domestic and has ijo foreign
connections, although there may be
some foreigners active in it."
Plans Miscarried.
Mr. Flynn said investigation of
the recent attempt made on the life
of Attorney General Palmer had
revealed that two men were in
volved and,that only a miscarriage
of the plotters' plans prevented the
attempt being carried out success
fully.
In tracing the source of the ex
plosions, it has been established,
he said, that the man killed here
was in New York two weeks before
he met his death, but his identity
still in unknown.
Arrests being made throughout
the country include many persons
not connected with the bomb out
rages, Mr. Flynn said, but who have
been under surveillance and are de
tained for further investigation.
Responding to the attorney gen
eral's plea, the house appropriation
committee today recommended that
the requested appropriation be
granted by congress, the special
fluid to be included among the hems
of the sundry civil appropriation
bill, which will be taken up tomor
row by the house.
St. Louis Woman Gets Omaha
Real Estate in Divorce Suit
St. Louis, June 18. (Special Tel
egram.) Ten thousand dollars in
cash and real estate in Omaha, val
ued at $56,000. is the alimony which
Mrs. Nellie Ware, 5528 Waterman
avenue, is to receive from Charles
Ware, former vice president and
general manager of the Union Pa
cific railroad. Mrs. Ware was
granted a divorce from Ware in
Circuit Judge Kimmel's court and
her alimony was fixed by agreement
with Ware's counsel.
Mrs. Ware testified that for the
last three years Ware has foifid
fault with her, cursed her and ac
cused her of immoral conduct. She
said that as a result of his treatment
she became a nervous wreck,
Johnson-for-President
Club Asks Incorporation
Sacramento, Cal., June 18. Ar
ticles of incorporation of the Hiram
Johnson-for-President club of In
gleside, -Cal., were filed with the
secretary of state. The- articles said
that it was a" "non-profit" organi
zation and that its purpose was to
promote the candidacy of Johnson."
WARNING
SAYS WORE
"THE WOMAN IN BLACK"
By Edmund C. Bentley, who has written a cheerful tale
a murder. Don't miss the opening chapters, because if
be eagerly waiting each day for the continuation.
AN INTENSELY INTERESTING MYSTERY
The Qm
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wmeUn mtltr Nur 23.
0. act of Mirth
BritaiirPlans to Dominate
Air As Well As Sea, Senate
Committee Told By Officer
Chief of United States Naval Aviation Station Appears
Before Legislators to Urge Increase in Naval Ap
propriation for 1920 Says Next War Will Be Won
or Lost in Air and Wants America to Be Prepared.
Washington, June 18. Increase to
$20,000,000. of the $15,000,000 avia
tion appropriation carried in the
1920 navy appropriation bill s
passed by the house was urged -before
the senate naval committee by
Capt. T. T. Craven, chief of naval,
aviation, who declared that ijnless it
was granted the United States
would fall far behind other nations
in the race for aircraft development.
Rear Admiral J. S. McKean, act
ing chief of operations, and Capt. R.
H. Leigh, acting chief of navigation,
also asked the committee to author
ize a larger naval force than the
house plan calls for.
Captain Craven declared England
intended to spend $300,000,000 next
year for the' development of avia
tion, and France $200,000,000.
Plans for the construction of rigid
dirigibles would have to be aban
doned entirely if the senate did not
increase the appropriation, Captain
Craven said.
The program for dirigible con
struction, the captain said, included
the erection of two hangars at a
Senators Jockey in Fight
For Showdown on League
Washington, June 18. The league
of nations was supported in the
senate today by Senator McCum
ber of North Dakota, a republican
member of the foreign relations
committee, who argued in a three
hour speech that the league cove
nant offered a just and practicable
plan for the preservation of world
peace.
Senator McCumber replied to
arguments of Senator Knox of
Pennsylvania and other republican
leaders and declared he could jtot be
influenced against the league plan
by party consideration.
The speech aroused no debate, but
while the senate was at work most
of the day on appropriations there
was much maneuvering in prepara
tion for the fight expected Friday
or Saturday to force a showdown
of senate opinion regarding the
league.
Some progress was made, how
ever, on plans to co-ordinate the
speaking tours of senators who will
reply to President Wilson when he
SENATOR GORE
INJURED WHEN
AUTO OVERTURNS
Was Speeding to Sioux Falls
to Catch Train When Ac
cident Occurred.
Sioux Falls, S. D., June 18. Sen
ator Thomas P. Gore, of Oklahoma,
was injured when an automobile in
which he was rushing from Mitchell
to Sioux Falls overturned, throwing
the senator out onto the ground.
Senator Gore was not painfully
injured, according to attending phy
sicians. His shoulder was badly
bruised but he suffered no internal
injuries.
The Oklahoma senator was
speeding to Sioux Falls to catch
a train for Washington when the
accident occurred.
A front wheel of the automobile
caught in a rut, overbalancing the
car. He plans to continue his trip
Thursday.
Former Lincoln Woman
Held by U. S. Authorities
Lincoln, Neb., June 18. Miss
Metta M. Hansen was arrested here
on complaint of Assistant Attorney
General Maurice M. McNeill of
Kansas. Miss Hansen is accused of
complicity in the issuance of alleged
fraudulent securities of the Kansas
State Bank of Salina, recently
closed. Miss Hansen, who formerly
lived in Lincoln, was traced here
by the assistant attorney general,
and is in the city jail.
Omahan on Trial for Attempt
to Bribe Camp Dodge Officer
Des Moines.Ja., June 18-. (Spe
cial Telegram.) George Lahood of
Omaha is on trial in federal court
here, charged with having offered
Lieut. W. E. Evans, of the quarter
master corps at Camp Dodge, $75
to accept a car of potatoes shipped
by Lahood's firm to Camp Dodge.
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OMAHA,, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 199.
cost of $2,000,000 each, the purchase
of one of the latest models of Brit
ish dirigibles for $2,500,000 and the
construction of two more in this
country at a cost of $2,000,000 each.
Asked by Chairman Page why
Great Britain contemplated spending
such a large sum on aviation, Cap
tain Craven said it was England's
avowed intention "to dominate the
air as she has the- sea." He added
that the British already had made
rapid strides in that direction, and
that if the United States did not
want to be hopelessly outdistanced,
it should make liberal appropriations
immediately.
"The importance of dirigible con
struction was stressed by Captain
Craven, who said that battjes of the
future probably would be "won or
lost in the air," and that dirigibles
would be almost as valuable as bat
tleships. Captain Craven said that $10,000,
000 would be needed to carry for
ward experimental work in heavier
than air craft and make it possible
for fleets to be accompanied by air
planes. goes before the country early next
month to appeal for support of the
league. Although these plans have
not reached a definite stage, Senator
McCormick, republican, of Illinois,
has been .given general charge of
the co-ordination scheme for the
present.
Those expected to make public
speeches in reply to the president
include Senators Borah of Idaho,
Johnson of California, Harding of
Ohio, and Watson of Indiana, all
republicans, and Reed of Missouri,
democrat. The opposition leaders
also are counting on Senator Goie,
democrat, of Oklahoma, but it is
understood he has given no definife
assurances. Senator Knox and
Chairman Lodge, of the foreign re
lations committee, may make some
speeches, but probably neither w'll
go on an extended trip.
A proposal that several of tie
opposition senators follow Mr. Wil
son on a special train has been con
sidered, but' so far there has been
no effort to arrange for such a
course.
DAYLIGHT SAVING
REPEAL VOTED
BY IIS. HOUSE
Furnishes Vehicle for Maiden
Speech of Representative
From Nebraska.
i Washington, Tune 18. (Special to
The Bee.) The repeal of the day
light saving law under a special
rule brought in by the committee
on rules in the house furnished the
vehicle for the maiden speech of
Representative McLaughlin of the
Fourth Nebraska district. The new
member was accorded a very re
spectful hearing and was liberally
applauded for the manner in which
he approached the question and the
clarity of his thought in behalf of
the bill repealing the measure.
The congressman said the day
light saving law had been passed un
der the name of a war measure, at a
time when everything was being
subordinated to the winning of the
war. He ealled the law a misnomer
and trnT arguments used by the ad
vocates of the measure originally
were not based on either reason or
fact, experience having proven that
the law does not give any of the
advantages its proponents said it
would.
It was shown in the hearings, ac
cording to Mr. McLaughlin, and
petitions from all parts of -the coun
ty reveal the fact that 6,000,000
farmers and their families consti
tuting a population of 30,000.000 and
the 10,000,00 laborers' and their fam
ilies including an additional popula
tion of 50,000,000 were almost unani
mous 1 for its repeal.
Spartacans Attack Castle. -
Weimar, June 18. Fifty Sparta
can and communist prisoners recent
ly released from the Weimar jail at
tacked the castle where the members
of the government live. They were
repulsed by a lone guard, who stood
by a machine gun until he had driven
off the mob.
MYSTERY
though it begins with
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AMAZING DETECTIVE STORY
STORY OF LOVE
Daily Bee
COUNCIL
NSiSTS
ON KELLY'S
EVIDENCE
Ringer Agrees to Produce
Man and Hearing on Charges
v Against Police Officers
Is Continued.
The city council yesterday con
tinued hearing charges againsfmem
members of the police department,
in connection with the unlawful de
tention of Mrs. Thomas Brown, un
til next Monday afternoon at '2
o'clock by which time Police Com
missioner Ringer agreed to get Roy
G. Kelly, alleged bootlegger.
"I move that the matter be con
tinued for further hearing unil
next Monday," was the motion of
the police commissioner, and the
motion was adopted by six mem
bers of the council, Commissioner
Butler alone dissenting. i
Yesterday's session of the hearing
was opened by an offer from At
torney Lloyd Maguey to bring Kelly
before the .council within an hour
if the . council would agree that
Kelly would not be molested by the
police or the juvenile authorities.
Would Substantiate Charges.
"I can produce Kelly within an
hour. I can also have Miss Ray
here within an hour if it is agreed
that she will not be molested," an
nounced "Mr. Magney, whose offer
was not accepted. Mr. Magney
added that Miss Ray would sub
stantiate the charges made by Kelly
in his signed statement. :
One of the features of the session
Tuesday night was the bitter r
raignment of the police department
by Mayor' Smith for its failure to
produce Roy Kelly, bootlegger, who
in a signed confession published in
The Bee, admitted that the raid on
the Cass street house of Mrs. Brown
was a frame-up with the detectives,
who he also charged with being
drunk at the time.
Allowed to Escape
Kellv is the same man who Po
lice Commissioner Ringer in a
signed statement given out about 10
days ago, declared "had been rear
rested and was being held by the
polite." Kelly also is the same man
who was allowed to escape from the
Cass street house at the time of the
raid and the same man who walked
the streets for more than a week
boasting that "the police were afraid
to arrest him because he knew too
much on them."
While the mayor's apparent eager
ness to have the hearing go over
until Kelly could be produced was
one of the dramatic scenes of the
session he did not call either Com
missioner Ringer or Chief of Po
lice Eberstein to the stand to tell
just why Kelly had not been ar
rested, nor why the commissioner
of police had said he had been jailed
when, as a matter of fact, he had
not.
Says Kelly in Omaha.
In submitting the Kelly statement
to the council Mr. Magney stated
(Continued on Tage Two, Column One.)
The Bee's Fund for
Free Ice and
The Bee's fund for free milk and
ice has alleviated suffering among
the babies and small children of the
poor in past summers.
The sweltering days are here
again, and these little ones are suf
fering. Their fight for life and
health is hard.
The Bee, with the help of the
charitably inclined, is again "starting
to help these handicapped children.
A large fund is not sought nor are
large individual contributions asked
for. A limit of $5 is placed on each
contribution. '
Every cent is used to supply
milk and ice to needy families with
small children or babies, preference
being given to those where there is
illness.
Not a penny is used in administra
tion of the fund.
The need is great. Will you con
tribute now?
Anything from 10 cents to $5 will
be welcome' and will help the good
work. Acknowledgement will be
made in this column.
Send or bring what you want to
give tfi The Bee office.
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You will love The Woman in Black. She is tangled in a maze of circumstan
tial evidence but for later disclosures would be absolutely convicting, yet
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VILLISTAS GATHER
OPPOSITE TEXAN
TOWN IN MEXICO
Members of U. S. Regiment
in 1 Paso Ordered to
Report at Once.
Fabens, Tex., June 18. A number
of Villa followers, estimated at Ices
than 100, early Wednesday night
gathered on Mexican soil opposite
here. The 7th cavalry is stationed
here.
A campfire could be plainly seen
tonight from the American side it
San Agustin, just west of Guada
lupe. It could not be determined
whether this was the camp of the
Villa men or of another band. The
people of Tornillo, east of here and
directly opposite Guadalupe, were
much alarmed tonight at the report
ed presence of the Villa band in the
Mexican town. Tornillo is a sma'l
border settlement pf two stores, a
postoffice and about 30 inhabitants,
and is guarded by a small cavalry
patrol.
Ordered to Report.
El Paso, June 18. All members
of the 19th infantry on pass here
suddenly were ordered to report to
their company commanders imme
diately Wednesday night.
Troops to reinforce the 7th cav
alry were rushed from El Pasor in
motor trucks to Fabens and placed
in position to prevent a raid on the
little valley town, which fs 32 miles
east of here on the Southern Pacific
railroad. Gaudelupe is five miles
south of Fabens on what is known
as "the island" formed by the dry
bed and the present course of the
Rio Grande. The river is not the
boundary at this point on the border
and 1 bisects "the island." Many
raids and fights with smugglers
have occurred there. Gaudalupe
was the headquarters of the Madero
revolution.
Get Word from Villa.
Villa agents claimed to have re
agents here claimed to have re
ceived a communication from Villa's
column in the field southwest of
Juarez. They located the Villa
headquarters at a point near Villa
Ahumada and said Villa still con
trolled the railroad at that point. It
was admitted that a part of the Villa
column, under Martin Lopez or
Ramon Vega, was moving into the
Galeana district, but that Villa was
near his former base at Villa Ahu
mada Tuesday.
Efforts were being made here o
send letters to Villa from Ameri
cans in El Paso stating that the
signers did not ' approve of ti.e
American expedition to Juarez Sun
day night." So far as known to
night, these letters had not been
sent. Several messages protesting
against the expedition were sent to
Washington.
Among the 11 prisoners being
held at the Fort Bliss stockade as
suspected Villa men) one is believfd
to be a Villa staff officer. He gave
the name of Jesus Medina and
claimed to be a Carranza officer of
Colonel del Arco's command. Upon
investigation it developed that the
man was not enrolled in Del Arcr.'s
62d infantry and was declared by
the Carranza officials to be a Villa
general and a signer of the famous
Villa plan of Rio Florido, issued in
October, 1917. He is being held for
further investigation. The prison
ers were brought from Mexico by
American troops Monday.
Strikers Foiled in
Attempt to Prevent
Moving of Scenery
One striker was arrested at mid
night last night when 50 union men
gathered on Douglas street between
Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets
while, stage hands were loading the
scenery of "Going Up" onto wagons
to be hauled to the depot.
A squad of police was sent to pre
vent interference.
When the three- wagons were
loaded one police automobile led
them to the railroad station and an
other following, playing a spot light
on either side.
- When Sergeant Samuelson at
tempted to disperse the crowd Earl
Kelsey, 2012 North Eighteenth
street, became unruly, according to
the officer, and was arrested. He
was charged at Central (station with
disturbing the peace by violating
the strike injunction.
Calls for police to break up crowds
of strikers in different parts of the
city were frequent all night.
Cable Communication With
Germany Partially Resumed
Washington, June 18. Cable com
munication with Germany has been
partially resumed. The war trade
board announced all cable compa
nies and censors had received in
structions to accept and transmit
cablegrams relating to the supply of
foodstuffs to Germany under the
Brussels agreement.
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REJECT PACT,- SAYS
PEACE DELEGATION
TO HUN CABINET
Experts With Germans Returned From Versailles Are
Also of Opinion Entente Terms Should Be Refused; .
Teutonic Body Awaiting Result of Conference
of Southern Premiers With Government;, j
Full French Text Distributed. '
By the Associated Press.
Basle, June 18. The German peace delegation at
Wednesday morning's meeting at Weimar advised the cabi.
net to reject the peace treaty, according to a dispatch sent
from Weimar by the correspondent of the Frankfort Zeitung.
The correspondent added that the experts with the dele
gation also were of the opinion that the treaty should be
rejected. . .
SUSPEND POLICE
FOR STONING OF
GERMAN ENVOYS
- y
Demonstrants Who "Strafed"
Huns Severely Dealt With
by France.
Paris, June' 18. The demonstra
tion against members of the Ger
man peace delegation Monday eve
ning, according to the Petit Paris
ien, apparently had its inception in
the crowd's interpretation of some
gesture by a German typist or se?
retary as a provocative let.
The throwing of stones and
bricks, which struck two Germans.
occurred as the automobiles of the
Germans passed through Chesnay,
Roquencourt and Bailly, suburban
points, on their way to the railway
station at Noisy-le-Roi. At Ver
sailles the demonstration was con
fined to hooting and jeering. Two
French military chauffeurs, skuck
by bricks, were more seriously in
jured than were; the German dele
gates. Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau
took another route to the- railway
station, and- escaped the demon
strants. '
The investigation by the Petit
Parisien seemed to show that the
demonstration was not spontaneous
and that a number of persons from
Paris were involved in it.
Besides-the dismissal of the pre
fect of the department of Seine-et-
Oise and the police commissioner
both officials are to offer apologies
to Dr. H-a,niel von Haimhausen of
the German delegation. . "
The police officials were held by
Premier Clemenceau to have with
drawn certain of their guards to
the outskirts of Versailles, notwith
standing instructions given them as L
to the methods of maintaining order.
"Vicious Speculation"
in Pork, Charged by
Relief Administration
i
New York, June 18. Conviction
that there is a "great deal of vicious
speculation in pork products"- was
expressed in a statement issued by
the American relief administration
signed by Edgar Rickard, joint di
rector, and Julius Barnes, whea di
rectorA . ,
The statement' was issued "to
clear' misapprehensions in regard to
the control of pork prices by the
food administration and the miscon
ception that government organiza
tions are holding large stocks of
food to the detriment of the con
sumer. The only stocks carried, it con
tinued, art under the powers granted
by congress to control the 1918
tvheat crop.
Speculation in pork products, the
statement said, is indicated by the
fact that the volume of pork prod
ucts in the United States is at the
highest level ever before known at
this period. v -
Want Increased Rates
for Independent Phones
Chicago. June 18. Frederick C.
Stevens, general counsel for the
United States Independent -Telephone
association, comprising 4.500.
000 telephone stations in 42 states,
left for Washington with a petition
to congress for a wartime increased
telephone rates for the independent
companies to remain in effect at
least one year. He said 20-per cent
was a fair estimate 'bf the increase.
He asserted that telephone rates
have increased only 4 ger cent dur
ing the war and the cost of opera
tion 102.
last the happiness she
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The cabinet Joday debated the
peace" terms of the allied and asso-
ciated powers. It was officially an-'
nounced that no decision had been '
arrived at. ,:,.
Await ,Word From Premiers. v'
The cabinet probably is awaiting
the result of a conference of the
south German .premiers with the
government. There will be no fur
ther cabinet sitting- until Thursday
The full' original French text ol
the entente, answer, including the.
covering note, was finished Tues
day mbrning by the printers t and
was distributed in .the afternoon, -The
government received Premier
Clemenceau's apology for the ston
ing of members of the German
peace; delegation at Versailles. '
No Statement Issued.
Weimar. June 18. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) No statement has
been issued by the German cabinet
on the allied reply to the German
counter proposals, but the AssoHat
ed Press learns that sentiment in
the cabinet is almost unanintously
againstsigning the freaty, the only
objection being ' the possibility of
bolshevism and chaos in Germany.
The cabinet met at noon yester
day and continued its session until
late inthe day.' The peace com
mission began,' deliberating on the
entente" answer at o'clock. A ifiim
ber of the cabinet members ndv'
other dignitaries stayed up all night -to
read the allied terms without de-,
lay. Indignation is said to benr
creasing in Weimar.
Arouse Resentment.
The amended peace terms
liavc
aroused a (sentiment of erowinar im
placability in Germany and armed
intervention by the allies is re
garded as inevitable, according to
the Berlin correspondent of the '
Politik6n. It is reported that Count-,
von Brockdorff-Rantzau. the head
of the peace, delegation, jind Mathias -Erzberger,
chairman of , the armi- ;
stice ' commission, have reconciled
their differences. ' . , ; s w' '
The correspondent savs that it the -
report is true, the reconciliation will .
have an important bearing on the ;
acceptance or non-acceptance of the
terms. ' v., v.. " ';
The socialist Voerwarts of" Berlin -says
it expects a reopening of hos
tilities as soon as the seven dava
I given Germany to make reply have
expired. . .
The Fremdenblatt of Hamburg
says it learns that the allied term?.',
have caused great excitement - in
eastern Germany where the popu- ',
Jation is ready to reopen the fight. '
Troop Are Concentrated
Preparatory to Advancing
Coblenz, June 18. (By the Asso- '; ,
ciated Press.) The concentration ol
troops preparatory . to advancing - '
further-, into Germany if the Ger
mans refuse to sign the terms of
peace was begun today throughout
all the occupied area. Orders to
this effect were received Tuesday ',
from Marshal Foch, commander-in-'v -chief
of the allied armies, who sent
similar orders to all the allied forces ' - -on
German soil. . -,
Lieut. Gen. Hunter Liggettcom
mander of American forces in the . -Coblenz
area, said that the Amcr-.-''
ican forces were 11 ready td move
ahead at a moment's notice.
Prominent Berlin Paper rH '
Urges Acceptance of Pact
Berlin, June 18. Commenting on fi,
the allied, reply to the. German T
counter fTroposals to the terms of'
peace, the Frankort Gazette says:
"Whatever we do wilt be terrible. -T.
Germany is in no position to refuse. .
to sign the treaty when the sig
nature is forced by an ultimatum.,
Let us resign ourselves to the in--'
evitable and hope for a better'
futnrej' "
Yank Officer and Seminoff ;
.Adjust Their Differences
Omsk, June 18-(By the Asso-
ciated Press). A conflict of author
ity between Co!.. C. H. Morrow, -commander
of the American guard
at Verkhnie-Udinsk, and General v;
Seminoff has. been adjusted arnica-
bly, according to official informa
tion. ' -.(
Rescue Frustrated. '
Brest, June 18. Two hundred'
French sailors, carrying a red flag,
attempted to enter the naval jail
here yesterday to rescue imprisoned v
sailors. The attempt failed, -Thcr '
were no casualties.
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