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1 RIEF RIGHT REEZY BITS OF NEWS ARCHBISHffr OF PARIS S ORDERS PEACE TE DEUM. Paris, June 25. Cardinal Amettc, archbishop of Paris, has ordered a te deum to be sung Friday in the church of the Sacred Heart at Montmartre and on Sunday in all churches of the diocese. ' The order adds: "Let prayers for peace be continued until the treaties are concluded with the powers with which France was at war." WYOMING GIRLS PROTEST OMAHA PRIZE BEAUTIES. Cheyenne, Wyo., June 25. (Spe cial Telegram.) A regular weste-n cowgirl on a regular western horse in a regular wild western way rode up the steps of fhe state capitol here today, right into the governor's ot fice and delivered a spectacular protest against the admittance of beauties from Omaha and other out side cities and states as models for the Frontier Days' poster. ( "FLYING DOCTOR" ATTENDS RACES IN HIS AIRPL'ANE. . Beatrice, Neb, June 25. (Special Telegram.) Dr. Frank Brewster, known as the "flying doctor," made a spectacular airplane flight from his home at Beaver Crossing, Neb, today, a distance of 200 miles, in two j hours. Lt. Wade Stevens is pilot of the machine, which will give daily flights and carry passengers 'during the circuit races here. BOSTON SALOON MEN PLAN TO SELL BEER. Boston, June 25. Boston saloon keepers plan to sell 2H per cent beer after July 1, Secretary John J. Calvin of the Retail Liquor Deal ers' association announced. His statement explained the eagerness of dealers in applying for licenses recently. . PROMISES TO MAKE $100,000 IN YEAR. ' New York, June 25, (By Universal Service). Upon his pledge that he would engage only in lawful pur suits and thathe will make $100,000 within a year, regardless of the fact that "friends" had stripped him of all his property, Frank Thompson, just discharged on parole, after serv ing part of a five-year term at Dan nemora state prison, won favor from Judge Otto A. Rosalsky in general sessions and was given another chance. Thompson was haled before the court on an old grand larceny in- - dictment. In pleading for his lib erty, he said: v "My real estate is all gone. It was taken from me by alleged friends while I was in prison. I have made millions in my time and I can make them again if I am given an opportunity. That is all I ask. . Thompson's visit to prison arose from his alleged organization in 1915 of a "millionaires' club," where, in'' crooked faro game, wealthy men were mulcted of large sums of money" by confidence men. All the , promoters of tht-xlub received Iqng sentences. :-..T:i " ' ' PREACHER TO SPEAK FROM NAVY BALLOON. . Columbus. Oi June 25. What probably would be the largest gath ering oi Methodist bishops and of firiaTs of the Methodist church will be held here Thursday and Friday in connection with the Methodist centenary celebration. Hundreds of preachers and other officials of the church will gather to witness a spec tacular procession ot tne nations io be put on at the exposition. Dr. F. B. Fisher will deliver a sermon from a navy dirigible balloon Fridav while it remains stationary in mid-air. His address will be de livered throueh an electrical con trivsnce which will enable ( the crowds below to hear him distinctly. BERTILLON'S DAUGHTER ARRIVES IN DENVER Denver Time 25. Mademoiselle Jacqueline . Bertillon, advocate of the court of appeals, Paris, and niece of Alphonso, Bertillon, the French scientist who invented the criminal identification System, has Denver to become, for hrief tim. a orobation officer in the juvenile court here. The object of her visit is to obtain information on the workings of the court. She was sent by the French govern ment . , ADDITIONAL $5,000 FOR DARING AVIATORS. Hilo, Hawaii, June 25. Stirred by the report that Thomas Ince, mo tion oictlre producer, has offered $50,000 as a prize for the first avia tor to reach Australia from Calif or nia, touching in Hawaii, L. Barron, local banker, is raising by subscrip tion a fund of $5,000. which will be presented to aviators competing for the ince prize u mcy nisi uu i. Hilo. More than half of the fund was subscribed in a few hours. H. C OFVL.TO STAY UP, RETAIL GROCER SAYS. Salt Lake, June 25. Food prices will not be -lower for some time. according to John A. Green, former secretary of the National Retail Grocers' association, who addressed the annual convention or the organ ration here. - "It will take two, probably three, harvests to restore the world to its normal food state. Mr. Green de elared. "Meanwhile," he continued, "tht retailer must do business upon as substantial a foundation as he ran" . v Mr. Green warned the delegates - against being too cautious, and de clared that the cost of selling must rome down, but that there could not be any reduction in the wages of , employes at tne present time. CHICAGO SALOON MEN RENEW LICENSES. - . ChiSaaro. June 25. Eighty saloof keepers and 10 wholesale liquor dealers paid the internal revenue tax for the fiscal year beginning juiy J just as though prohibition had never been heard of. Anti-saloon league officials hold that possession of i federal tax receipt is prima facie evidence, under the new Illino search and seizure act, of law viola BEE The V VOL. 49 NO. 7. REFUSES TO SANCTION GENERAL WALKOUT Centra! Labor Body Defeats Motion That Would Have Called Out Every Union Man in Omaha. After more than four hours of stormy debate and discussion, 102 delegates of the various locals com prising the Central Labor union, defeated a motion to call a general sympathetic strike in this city. The meeting was held in the Labor Tem ple last night. The action of the central union makes any sympathetic strike un likely for some time to come, it was announced by members of the gen eral committee. In an effort to strike back at em ployers who had refused to confer with employes now on strike, all business houses or other institu tions handling goods or material transported by nonunion men are to be boycotted by the organized workers or the city. Union men will refuseto handle any material which is transported by the team sters who continued , to work, de- pite the strike order of the team sters' local. Members of the vari ous locals will be assessed a cer tain sum each -week. The money raised will be used in extending fi nancial aid tajhe striktngleamsters and truck drivers. Some Teamsters Going Back. Teamsters who obeyed the gen- ral strike order about a week ago and walked out after the .firms Which employed them had acceded to "the requests of the union will return to, work for these concerns as soon akthe action taken by the central iody is made known to them. The Federal Labor board, it was learned, is to be asked to investi gate labor conditions in the city. Officials of the board will be re quested to use their efforts to end the present controversy. ' A resolution denouncing Mayor Smith for his attitude during the trouble and especially Aor state ments he made at a meeting of the American Legion, was introduced and unanimously accepted. The resolution was introduced by T. P Reynolds, president of the Nebras ka State Federation of Labor. The majority of the locals which voted on the sympathetic strike fa vored a walkout, Thomas Menzies chairman of the general strike com mittee, stated. Street Car Men for Strike. Two hundred and eighty street car men voted for and 208 against a general sympathetic strike at their meeting just before the central body convened. The following official statement was issued by the Committee of 15 headed by Mr. Menzies and J. J. (Continued on Face Two, Column Tfcree.) Winnipeg Strikers Rush to Get Back in Jheir Old Positions Winnioesr. June 25. A grand rush for their old jobs was made by mosv of the strikers Wednesday, although the strike committee had designat Thursday, at 11 o clock, as the time to return to work. Federal, provincial and municipal officials and industrial employers an nounce emphatically some, of their men would not be reinstated. Mayor Charles F. Gray declared those who are taken back by the city must sign pledge not to join sympathetic strikes. Official notice of the termination of the strike was sent to Premier T, C Morris of Manitoba. It is under, stood that the government will ap point Judge H. A. Robison as a one man- commission for the fullest in vestigation into the causes of the strike and, to make recommendations to the provincial government Vancouver, June zs. contirma tion of press reports calling off the Winnipee strike were received here by labor leaders tonight. A nur ried consultation was called and a bulletin was posted at Labor temple by the strike (committee calling off the strike in Vancouver, Friday noon.nexti "if no discrimination is shown." Alleged . W. Agitator Arrested in Colorado Fort Morgan, Colo., June "25.- Phiny Aleas, alias Pat Early, alleged I. W. W. agitator-said to Je wanted in Kansas for complicity in de struction of crops and machinery in the wheat fields, is under arrest at New Raymer, 30 miles north . of here, government agents announced today. He was secretary of the I. Vv W. at Augusta, Kan, in 1917 durinfc the I. W. W. disturbances in that state, according to government officials. WANT, DS WILL HELP YOU TO THE JOB YOU SEEK OR TO s Calm Motud-eUM nittaf Miy M." I9M. it OMtu P. 0. mndtr Ml Mink S. 1179. SECOND BRAVEST ' YANKEE SOLDIER HIGHLY HONORED New Yorker Gets Congres sional Medal for Alone Bring, ing in Eighty Prisoners. Camp Dix, N. Y., June 25. An other humble American doughboy took his place in the hall of fame in the person of Private Frank Gaffney of Company G, 108th infantry, Twenty-seventh division (New York National Guard). Sergeant Alvin York, of Palma, Tenn., is the only man in the American army credited with a larger bag of prisoners than Gaff ney. The lanky Tennesseean brought in 132 Germans, but he had a few men to help him round them up, while the New Yorker, alone and suffering from a wound which cost him one of his x arms, piloted 80 into the American lines. You re the second bravest man the war produced," declared the major general when he pinned the congressional medal of honor upon the breast of the blushing boy. BLUFFS SUFFERS FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ndian Creek Overflows, Del uging Part of City; Omaha Escapes Lightly With Nine Fires of Little Moment. . The rain arid thunder storm that struck the city shortly before last midnight caused more damage in Council Bluffs than in Omaha. In dian creek, in the Bluffs, overflow1 deluging about five blocks in Broad way trom wintn street west wan mud. Following the storm last year, when Indian creek mud caused con siderably property loss by a like overflowing after a severe rain storm, city officials voteTl -sum -ot money to dam tne creek." The heavy rainfall of last night caused the waters in the creek to break this dam, with heavy consequent damage to property in the deluged area. Ihe monetary loss entailed is not known. Traffic has been in terrupted between this city and the Bluffs. Lights are out, connec tions haying been broken by trees felled by the" heavy wind which ac companied the rainstorm. South Side is also reported to have suffered from the storm. Two blocks of wirfes are down in tKe vicinity of Twenty-fourth and F streets. Aside from nine fire calls in Omaha, no damage has been re ported. None of the fires caused much damage. Six Children of One Family Burn to Death; Parents, Baby Escape , Bode. Ia.. June 25. (Special.) Six of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Matt Faber of Bode were burned to death when the Faber farm house. Kossuth county, four miles north of Bode, burned to the ground. The cause of the fire is unknown. Flames awakened-the father and mother, who made their escape from the house with the youngest child, a baby. All efforts to save the other children failed. Commercial Travelers . Elect George E. Hunt Columbus. O.: June 25. In equalities and inconsistencies in the administration of internal revenue laws as they pertain to commercial travelers and traveling brokers were discussed here today by the supreme council of the United Commercial Travelers. ' Geortre E. Hunt of Boston was elected head of the Imperial Guild of the Order of Bagmen. . Louis Wirth of Cincinnati was re-elected secretary-treasurer. J Peace Council Discusses - Germans' Scuttling Ships Paris. Tune 25. The council of three, composed of Premiers Cle menceau and Lloyd George and President Wilson, at its meeting to day discussed the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow, ac cording to the Paris office of Reu ter's, Ltd. The council hadbefore it and examined ' fully, it is added, the facts relative to what took place with regard to the ships at the time the armistice was signed. Baker Honors Plnnkett. Washington, June 25. Secretary Baker has personally presented to Rear Admiral C P. Pluhkett the Distinguished Service medal award ed him for his supervision of "the production, transportation to Eu rope, and the placing in action of the United States naval gun bat talion of five 14-inch guns on rail way mounts, the most powerful ar tillery weapons brought into action against Germany and her allies dar ing the war." ' OMAHA, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 19J9.' CLEAR CUT BILL FOR DRY U.S. DRAFTED ' x Wilr Be Reported Out Thurs day by House Judiciary Committee; Decision After' All-Day Sesson. Washington, June 25. A straight.' clear-cut bill for enforcement of wartime prohibition will be report ed out Thursday by the house judiciary committee. Decision to separate the wartime from the constitutional prohibition enforcement measure said to be the most drastic liquor bill ever present ed to congress was reached after an all-day session. A proposal that two distinct bills be drafted was rejected Tuesday, but it was brought up again by Representative Walsh, republican, of Massachusetts, and was pending when a motion to ad journ abruptly ended the discus sion. Plan Quick Passage. There was no indication as to how the committee would have voted, but several of the leading pro hibition members agreed, in view of the manifest differences between the two issues, and the possibility that the sale of beer and light wines might be permittted until January by presidential proclamation, that the wisest thing to do was to report out the wartime bill the first thing Thursday, and the constitutional bill later in the day. In this way there is every assurance, they said, that the wartime bill would be passed probably by both houses before the end of the month, at which time the "dry" act becomes effective. Joker Defeated, V An amendment by Representative Steel, democrat, Pennsylvania, which, it was admitted later, would have nullified the entire law, got through by a vote of 9 to .8, subse quently was reconsidered and de feated, 10 to 7. The amendment stipulated that provisions of the enforcement act, except as they re late to interstate and foreign com merce, should not be effective in any state until ratified by the peo ple. It was said that one or two members voted for the amendment as "a joke." When the committee adjourned without acting on the Walsh mo tion for separate enforcement bills, Representative Gard, democrat, Ohio, returned to the house and in troduced the enforcement bill of fered at the last session. The com mittee measure tlat will go to the house is considered far less drast'i: than the general bill. During the day democratic leaders in the house made inquiry of Chairman Vol stead as to when the liquor b ill might be expected and were in formed that it might not be ready before Saturday. Jump Into Fight After more than a dozen com mittee roll calls on various pro visions, none or general public interest, Mr. Welsh, Mr. Gard and -ai : i . : i. ii - imiers juiupcu actively . miu uic fight with a vigorous demand for separation of the measures not withstanding the previous action of the committee. Mr. ' Walsh de clared the committee ought to take the bull by the horns, get the war time enforcement bill introduced at the last session before the house and urge quick enactment. Then if the president wanted to lift the ban it would only be necessary, he said, to suspend the act providing for wartime enforcement and not interfere with legislation affecting the constitutional prohibition. Gong Ends Meeting. The committee, Mr. Walsh added, "then could go ahead and make ready machinery for perma nent prohibition. Unless the ques tions were separated there would be no responsibility of enacting any law before July 1, Mr. Walsh stated, adding that he would go be fore the rules committee and get a rule by which the measure could be passed promptly and without extended debate. Several members of the committee, including Chair man Volstead, took part in the dis cussion that followed. A vote was within sight, but the house gong. calling .members to a roll call, sud denly ended the meeting. There has 1een no straight pro hibition and anti-prohibition align ment in the voting heretofore on the various amendments. Some of the ardent prohibitionists have sup ported amendments eliminating drastic features, and they 'have agreed that it is necessary to separ ate the measures in order to get action- betore the country goes dry next week. Bill to Tunnel Hudson Passed Washington, June 25. With s record vote the house passed the senate bill to permit the states of New Jersey and New York to co'.- struct a vehicle tunnel under Hud son river at New York. Daily nn BERLIN STREETS , SCENES OF RIOTS AND PLUNDERING Pedestrians Attacked and Robbed; General . Strike Faced Germany. Berlin, June 25. (By the As sociated Press). The streets of Berlin were scenes of rioting 'and plundering Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Incited by speeches from agitators in Alex ander Platz, mobs attacked and robbed pedestrians and maltreated lated soldiers. Troops sent to Alex ander Platz were fired on by crowds in the streets and from the roofs of buildings. They finally succeeded in clearing the streets. Elsewhere in the city bands of marauders robbed shops and at tacked citizens, rifling their pockets. The neighborhood of the Stettin railroad station was notably disor derly. Street cars were held up while rioters searched the passen gers pockets and stole women s rings. Here, also, soldiers were beaten and shots were fired from roofs and windows and the soldiers returned the fire. After daylight the city was quieter, but at noon the police ap pealed for troops, as the crowds were gathering once more. Four thousand workers in the shops across Gruenewald railroad had struck, i Troopshave occupied the Goerlitz and Stettin stations, which are still being used by the public. PLAN TO DECLARE PEACE SHELVED BY COMMITTEE Senator Fall's Proposal Fails to Command United Support of Opponents of League of Nations. Washington, June 25. Failing to command the united support of op ponents of the. league of. nations, the proposal for n immediate declaration of peace by congress was blocked in the senate foreign relations committee. After a long and lively discus sion the committee voted, 12 to 4, to defer action for the present on the resolution of Senator Fall, re publican, New Mexico, embodying the peace declaration, five sena tors opposing the league, including Chairman Lodge, joined the league advocates in supporting the post ponement motion. Besides Mr. Fall, those voting for immediate action were Senators Borah, Idaho, Johnson, California, and Moses, New Hampshire, all re publicans. Later a special meeting to re sume consideration of the resolu tion was called for Monday and Senator Fall predicted a favorable report of the measure would result. Its opponents, however, declared the discussion today revealed such strong opposition in the committee that favorable1 action would be im possible. Won't Ask for Action Now. After the committee's decision, Mr. Fall announced in the senate he would not ask for action on his amendment to the army bill, also embodying the peace declaration The amendment thus failed actual1 to come before the senate, having been technically disposed of previ ously, when a section to which it had been attached went out on, a point of order. Although the peace declaration proposal was not discussed in the senate chamber during "the day. Senator Borah aroused a three-hour debate on other issues of the treatv fight by renewing his attack on ti e league covenant. Citing the army bill's provisio for an army of 400. 000 men, the Idaho senator declared the league would increase rather than decrease armament. Senate Asks Purpose of Troops in Siberia Washington, June 25. The resolu tion of Senator Johnson, republican, of California, calling on the presi dent for information as to presence and purposes of American troops in Siberia, was favorably reported to day by the senate foreign relations committee. Senator Johnson expects to ask for a vote on it within a few days. Makes Record Flight From Gotham to Atlantic City New York, June 25. A record flight from Atlantic City, N. J., to New York, was established when LieuU Kenneth H. Murray, formerly of the American air serv ice, piloted a Sopwith "camel" over the route, 140. miles, in 61 minutes. The time was officially recorded by the Aero club of : America. Won't Hold War Emergency ' Students' Against Desires Washington, June 25. Young men who enlisted in the navy for the war emergency and desire to continue their education will.be re leased in time to enter schools and colleges at the beginning of the term next fall, Secretary Daniels announced. u u THE MAN FOR THE JOB. Bee By Mall (I ytr). Dally. 14.50: Snafu, .M Daily and Sua., M.SO: aulilda Nab. awtata aatra. ROTTING PRODUCE FILLS UP I Y. PIERS Gotham Faces Fresh Vege table and Fruit Famine Un less Market Teamsters and Others End Strike. New York, June 25. Commis sion merchants whose produce is rotting On New York piers because of the strike of market teamsters, porters and chauffeurs, sent tele grams to the governors of Noriii Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, Mary land and California, asking them to request Governor Smith of New ork to intercede in the contro versy on the ground that the farm ers in those states will suffer great financial injury if the strike con tinues. Situation Is Acute. The situation became so acute that a representative of the Depart ment of Labor arrived in the city to aid in the settlement of the strike. The walkout Monday has seriously diminished the city's sup ply of fresh vegetables and fruits and New York is actually without some of these commodities. The only break in the embargo was the arrival of a ship with 700 barrels "f potatoes. Business at the markets handling green vegetables and fruits was at a standstill. The on y movement out of these markets was that of government trucks taking supplies to hospitals. These were operated under a guard of military police. L. J. Lippman, chairman of the produce dealers' committee, an nounced that if assured ample po lice protection the dealers would at tempt delivery. While the strike .s in progress thousands of barrels of potatoes, cabbage and other vege tables are rotting. Eight hundred refrigerator cars of fresh vegetables and fruits, val ued at $1,000,000, lying in adjacent New Jersey railroad yards, may have to be diverted to other points unless a settlement is soon reached. Irish Delegates Must Sign Peace Treaty, Says De Valera, President New York, June 25. Eamom. De Valera, "president of the Irish republic," reiterated a statement forwarded by him to Premier Clemenceau of France, warning the peace1 conference that Ireland would not be bound by a peace treaty signed on her behalf by English peace commissioners. He declared "the Irish people will scrupulously observe any treaty obligation to which they are legitimately committed, but the British delegates cannot bind Ire land. The only signatures by which Ireland will be bound are those of its own delegates, de liberately chosen." Bill Would Provide Training for Disabled Soldier and Sailors . Washington, June 25. Soldiers and sailors disabled by war would be given the opportunity to begin immediately courses in vocational training at government expense un der terms of an amended senate bill appropriationg $6,000,000 for the purpose passed by the house. Large increases in payments to men while being educated were made by the. house in passing the bill, which' would fix $80 a month as compensation for single men and $100 per1 month for men with de pendents, in addition to govern ment family allotments. Guard Mormon Colonies Against Villista Raids Juarez, Mex., June 25;Ger;. Francisco Gonzales, commander of the federal garrison here, held a telegraphic conference . with Gen Manuel Dieguez at Chihuahua City khe telegraph line to Chihuahua City having been restored for the firs1 time since Villa begaifhis advance on Juarez several weeks ago. The railroad line to the state capital is expected to be ready for use in an other week, it . was ' announced at military headquarters. . The Mormocolonies near Casas Grandes are being guarded from Villa raids by 350 federal troops under' Colonel Porcayo, who reached Casas Grandes today from Juarez. Telegraphic reports from, there re ceived by General Gonzales said no Villa rebels had been. there re cently. Gen. Pedro Quiroga, with a cav alry column ,was pursuing the Viila rebels west of Villa Ahumada. - TWO CENTS. YANK UNITS TO REMAIN UNTIL ' PEACE SIGNED Three American Divisions Are Concentrated East of the Rhne. , Coblenz, June 26. (By the As sociated Press). The three Ameri can divisions which were concen trated east of the Rhine in the American bridgehead area will re main there until the peace treaty is actually signed, according to an an nouncement. As soon as peace is signed the Americans 1 will begin to return to the quarters they occupied before the concentration of a week ago. The Third army consists of five divisions and the auxiliary units of the third corps, approximately 160, 000 men. Transportation . officers said that the divisions and the vari ous units could be out of Germany by August 1, if general headquar ters gave orders to that effect. According to present plans the Fifth division, which occupies part of Luxemburg, will . start for France probably within a day or two after peace is signed. ARMYliLL IS PASSED WITHOUT CALLING OF ROLL Appropriation Measure Car ries $888,000,000 and Pro vides for 400,000; Senate Considers Naval Bill. Washington, June 25. The army appropriation bill, carrying $888,000, 000 and providing for an average army of 400,000 men next year, an increase over the house bill of $171,000,000 in funds and 100,000 in personnel was passed by the senate without a roll call and sent to con ference. Before passage of the bill. Sena tor Fall, republican, 4 of New Mexico, withdrew, his amendment to declar the war af an end ex plaining he expected action within a day or two on his joint resolution to the same effect now before the foreign relations committee. Consider Naval Bill. The senate, following disposal of the army measure, began considera tion of the annual naval appropria tion bill, carrying $646,272,00, an in crease of $45,000,000 over the house bill. Passage of the naval bill is de sired and leaders, in their effort to enact all appropriations bills needed tl' July 1, plan then to rush through the $500,000,000 sundry civil budget. Final vote on the army bill was delayed temporarily by protracted discussion of the peace treaty and league of nations. In yiis connec tion Senator Borah, republican, of Idaho, opposed the increase of the army for 1920 from 300,000 to 400,000 men, but without a record vote the senate approved the 400,000 pro vision. Main Army Bill Items. As passed by the senate, the prin cipal items of the "army bill are: $215,885,000 for army pay; $523 991,000 for subsistence, and trans portation; $54,400,000 for aviation an increase of about $30,000,000 over the house appropriation; $12,215,000 for the national guard; $19,000,000 for ordnance,' and $45,000,000 for storage and shipping facilities. The senate reduced from $3,260, 000 to $2,660,000 the appropriation for-purchase of the Dayton-Wright aviation field at Dayton, Ohio. Another amendment adopted and reapproved would limit the salary of C. W. Hare, in charge of disposal of surplus war supplies, to $12,000 a year, a reduction of $13,000. Riojters Storm Food Plant When Dogs Found In Them Copenhagen, June 25. Serious rioting occurred at Hamburg on Monday and Tuesday when mobs attacked food preserving factories, it being alleged that the bodies of dogs and cats had been found in them. The war provision -depart ment also was attacked and its of fi ces were wrecked. , The mob tried to disarm troops marching through the streets and the latter opened fire, a number of persons being killed and wounded. Big Cities to Install. "' Automatic Phones Chicago, June 25. Automatic telephones, are to be installed by the telephone companies of the large cities soon, a. h. bunny, presi dent of the Chicago Telephone com pany, -said, believing the machines would reduce the manual labor about -50 per cent. All of the 7.500 local operators will be retained. The automatics would not replace the party lines at present Prince of Wales to Start International Air Race Toronto, June 25. An interna tional aerial race, which will start simultaneously from Toronto and New York, will be held August 25, with the prince of Wales as the starter, it is announced. A prize of So.lHXJ and a trophy have been of feied by John McE. Bowman of Isew York. THE WEATHER: v Generally, fair and con tinued warm Thursday and Friday. - 4 Hourly tempemturtai S a. m.. 14 I 1 p. m .SI ' a. m H IS p. m 8t I a. m 11 1 S p. m...,,...,.W S a. m IS 1 4 p. m.. ....... .9 a. in SI I 5 p. in 9'1 10 a. m S3 I 6 p. in.'. M II a. ro..,.. M t 1 p. m M It m S& p.-m mm. ENTENTE WILL NO WAIT ON TEUTONS Enemy Fails to Send Definite Word When Delegates Will ' Be Ready to Sign the s , Peace Treaty. (By the Associated Press.) Another day has passed with ths delegates of the allied and associated powers in Paris awaiting in vain : definite word from the Germans as ' to when they will be ready to sign the peace treaty. Unofficial opinion in the French capital is that the mo mentous event will not take place . before Saturday and possibly not un til Monday. ' The council of four was informed that during Wednesday the German 1 government was busily engaged H -trying to arrange the personnel oi its delegation in Versailles. v The Germans thus far have given ' no intimation as to what men are to be the choice of the Bauer gov ernment. Unofficial advices indicate ' that the cabinet is experiencing -great difficulty in finding men who are willing to take upon their shoul- ' ders the duty of acknowledging, in a document which will become world ; ; history, Germany's utter defeat in;, the war and "her unqualified ac quiescence to the terms of .the vie- ' tors. ' Mueller Refuses to Sign. Reports are that Herman Mueller. 1 foreign secretary in the Bauer cabi net, like Dr. Haniel von Hainhansen, declined to accept the onus for. sign-. ing a treaty - admittedly- obnoxious to the. Germans.'1"'. , Even a visit Wednesday to Ver sailles, where the members of the original German delegation still are, by the general secretary of the peace conference, failed to bring forth any knowledge of what was. being done in Germany toward the selectjon of plenipotentiaries. , . . . Fans dispatches assert that ow ing to the uncertainty of the situ ation the heads of the allied and associated powers are contemplat ing issue of an ultimatum setting, a day and a time satisfactory to the-.n " for the appearance of the Germans before the peace congress to sign the treaty. . ' ' Field Marshal von Hindenburg is understood to have resigned V the chief command of the German army. . ; May Send Ultimatum. , t - Paris, June 25. (By Associated Press.) If the heads .of the allied powers in Paris do not hear from ' Weimar very soon regarding th German delegation for the signing ' of the peace treaty an . ultimatum will be sent to the German govern ment according to the Paris office of Reuter's. Ltd. The ultimatum. will demand the appointment of pleni- potentiaries within a certain number ol hours. ; ' ' , It was announced today that ' President Poincare's official dinner to the peace plenipotentiaries will take place Thursday night. It wat originally planned to hold the din ner on the night of the signing of the treaty but the uncertainty ss-to , the date of the ceremohv has caused ' Thursday to be named definitely for -the dinner irrespective of the time , " of the event at Versailles. ' . Officials Are Uneasy. " ' This lack of official advices fro'ii Germany with regard to the nsw ' plenipotentiaries has caused ,: somt. uneasiness in conference circles and the plans for the signing oi te ; treaty are in a complete sate of ; (Continued on Pare Two, Column Foar.) . Airplanes Arriye in i J Omaha for Flightsto j Towns in Nebraska , - " ' i ' Three Curtiss airplanes, the first to be purchased by the Omaha Fly : ing company, arrived in Omaha last night by express, and were unloaded in preparation for a flight to North Bend, Neb., where flying exhibii -tions will fee held. .The three machines -will "hop off" at the Ak-Sar-Ben field sometime this morn ing, according to Clarke G. Powell, one of the promoters of the com pany.. ' ' ' " ; . Arjhur Balis, Walter R. Johnson ' and John Brooks, all ex-army aviators, - and stockholders in the Omaha Flying company, will pilot " the machines to North fiend. The , three planes are of the, type used by the. Canadians for training their ' airmen. They are easily handled, ' and highly practical for commer- -cial purposes, according to Mr. Powell. - . After giving exhibitions in several ; Nebraska and South Dakota towns, the three aviators will fly back to Omaha, where exhibition flights will be made from the Ak-Sar-Bea field. . - V