RIEF
RIGHT
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BITS OF NEWS
FASCINATING! GRIPPING! ADELE GARRISON'S LOVE SERIAL, REVELATIONS OF A WIFE.
RIOT INSURANCE
POLICIES TAKEN OUT.
New York, Sept. 22. "Riot and
civil commotion" insurance policies
aggregating more thau $100,000,000
have been taken out by business
men. in Pittsburgh and other cities
M-here plants of the United States
Steel -corporation are located, it was
estimated by insurance men here
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tuuay. x ucy auuea mai mis amount
prooahly would be doubled within
a week.
The amount called "for by the
.largest policy is $6,000,000. while
tlnu of the smallest is $2,500. The
policies provide for covering dam
age resulting from rioting and other
causes not specified in regular fire
insurance and apply to buildings as
well as to their contents.
WILSON DISPLAYS
BEST PART OF "SHOW."
On Board President Wilson's
Special Train, Sept. 22. A "travel-
ing show" was the way the president
laughingly characterized his special
train to a crowd late in the day. In
response to shouts for Mrs. Wilson
lie presented her with the remark:
. "This is the best part of this travel
ing show."
ENOUGH COLORS TO
PLEASE ANY WOMAN.
. New York. ept. 22. Feminine de-
,-1 1 15 O r( fmlliMt 111 . . Iinilnnl. I, . . .
. v v. j j la..iiuti inaji v. uiLI nielli-
- selves next spring in gowns of 78
new and staple shades, all "made in
America" according to the textile
. Color Card association of the United
IStates, which began today distribu
tion of cards to the textile and ,al
)'nd industries. '
Last year only -14 colors were sent
but.
Germany's record is said to have
tieen eclipsed in the number of new
'colors which will bid for popularity
Sicxt spring and which include rose
bud, a bright pink; Venice, a tur
quoise blue; scarab, a bluish green;
cinder, a grey; firefly, a striking red
and orange; aero an atmospheric
lilue; aztec, a yellowish brown;
eagle, a deeper shade of brown;
middy, a scintillating navy blue;
inusketeer, a dark blue green;
sponge, a brownish ochre, and date,
an Arabian golden brown.
GERMANS EAGER TO GO
0 SOUTH AMERICA.
Berlin, Sept. 22. The1 rush of
Applications by Germans for passage
to South America is so great that an
nouncement has just been made that
passage facilities are taken up to
February.
To control, regulate and assist the
Steadily increasing stream of expect
ant immigrants, the office recently
organized by the ministry of the
interior has beeu extended and 30
branches of the department of immi
gration are to be established, scat
tered in all parts of Germany.
VACATIONS DE LUXE
FOR STEEL STRIKERS.
New York, Se'pt. 22. Vacations de
Iiimc are to be enjoyed here by many
of the striking steel workers, as well
as by officials of the corporations, it
vas indicated when it was learned
that a large number of hotel room
reservations had been received on
telegraphic orders from the various
. eteel manufacturing centers.
Many of the highly paid workers
liave large savings and part of these
are to be 6pent seeing the sights of
New York.
AMERICAN GIRL
BEATEN BY JAP.
San Francisco, Sept. 22. Miss El
sie Merz, daughter of Capt. Henry
Merz, U. S. A., arrived here aboard
the China mail liner Nanking, bear
scars received by her when she was
attacked by a Japanese thug at Yo
kohama. Miss Merz is accompanied
by her mother and they arc euroute
to their home in New York.
Miss Merz, according to her story,
and which was verified by other
women aboard the Nanking, was at
tacked in front of the Grand hotel
and within a short distance of a po
lice station. She ' was dragged
nearly half a block by the Japanese,
who beat her when she refused to
release her hold on her handbag.
Miss Merz and her mother were
'in the company of Mrs. Arthur
Harticpn. wife of a New York ma
chinery manufacturer. A number of-
Japanese witnessed the assault, out
made no effort to prevent it, accord
ing to Miss Merz.
NEW PROFITEER ACT
IS REDUCING PRICES.
London, Sept. 22. The new Brit
ish profiteer act is now in effect and
prices have begun to collapse. 'A
drop of $10 a ton is registered in the
price of potatoes. Chickens are low
er than the maximum of the food
control price. Eggs have dropped
to $1.20 a dozen. California oranges
are considerably cheaper, now cost
ing "only" 22 cents each.
SPIRITUALISTS CHARTER
BOAT AFTER SEANCE.
Hav.-uia. Sent. 21. Chartered by
members of the Dr. Antonio Valetti
society, an organization ot spiritual
ists, a tugboat is expected to leave
this port shortly in search of the.
Spanish steamship Valbanera, which
reports declare sank recently near
Key West with the probable loss of
, all on board.
The spiritualists claim to have re
ceived a communication at a recent
seance from the spirit of Dr. Valetti
that the Valbanera , was still afloat
near Cape Sal. t
DEPORTED ORCHESTRA
LEADER .HOLDS CONCERTS.
Berlin, Sept. 22. Karl Muck, the
deported former leader of the Bos
ton symphony orchestra, arrived in
Scandinavia a fortnight ago and has
since been engaged to. conduct two
rnni-ri nf ihn Rrrlin Pli ilho rmnnii.
orchestra of Berlin in October.
Arriving in Copenhagen, Muck
said.
"I am a complete nervous wreck
as a result of the agitation against
' me in America and my internment
experience."
Accompanied by his wife, he
went to Sweden for a rest. A
great ovation is planned for his re
appearance here.
GERMAN-JAPANESE
SECRET PACT DENIED.
Rome, Sept. 22. The Japanese
embassy here denies reports that a
secret tir''- between Germany and
lapaa exists,, ,
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CARRANZA
VILLA ASKS
"General-in-Chief" of Revo
lutionary Forces in Mexico
Issues "Manifesto for' the
Nation," Copy of Which Is in
Washington.
CALLS ALL MEXICANS
TO AID IN CAMPAIGN
Rome Wants D'Annunzio
Out of Fiume But Asks .
Allies to Turn the Trick
In
the Meantime "Rebel" Italian Leader Makes
Ready tQ Appeal to Wilson, King George and
Clemenceau to Uphold His and Compatriots'
Claims to Port on Adriatic and Support Them
in Maintaining Position.
lAfiin Dinr
vvilu iiiul
HALTED BY
GUN SHOTS
Says Latest Offense of Presi
dent Consists in Permitting
American Troops to Cross
Border Into Juarez.
Washington, Sept. 22. Francisco
Villa, "general-in-chicf" of the revo
lutionary forces in Mexico, in a
"manifesto for the nation," a copy
of which has just reached Washing
ton, assails President Carranza as
"a traitor" and calls upon Mexicans
to join him in a new campaign
against the regime of Carranza. This
manifesto, which is daten "En Camp-
amento in Durango, begins:
"To the large number of crimes
against the democratic regime,
against the tranquillity of the coun
try and against the security and
welfare of its inhabitants, Carranza
has onlv now added a new offense
against the dignity and sovereignty
of Mexico.
" This new offense consists in per
mitting American troops to cross
the border into Juarez last June for
which Villa blames Ca'rranza and
Gen. Francisco Rodriguez.
"Effrontery" of Gonzales.
"Gonzales was so slow," the mani
festo says, "that when the city of
Juarez was occupied by a foreign
force, he asked in the most servile
manner permission to re-enter .the
city; the defense-of which had been
confided to his military honor, and
now he" has the effrontery to say
that it was his troops that defeated
us."
SENATOR THOMAS
LATEST "QUITTER"
AMONG DEMOCRATS
Writes Colorado Constituents
Can't Vote 'for Peace Treaty
in Present Form.
Washington, Sept. "22. Senator
Thomas, democrat, Colorado, in a
letter to the Colorado democratic
state committee, which he placed
in the Congressional Record, today
announced that he could not vote
for ratification of the peace treaty
in its present form because of ob
jections to the league of nations
covenant. He did not state whether
he would support amendments or
reservations.
Severe criticism of the league
structure was made by Senator
Thomas, who replied to a letter
asking for his view of the opposition
to the treaty.
"I cannot under my oath of of
fice cast my vote for ratification
of this treaty in its present form,"
wrote Senator Thomas. He said
the treaty was a "victor's treaty,"
with imposition of harsh terms, and
added:
"Doubtless Germany deserves its
punishments and much more, but
the treaty, nevertheless, is freighted
with a ghastly cargo of future
wars."
Citing controversies over Fiume,
Shantung, the Roumanian boundary
and other disputes, Senator Thomas
continued:
"I cannot perceive the wisdom of
ratifying a treaty pregnant with
strife and conflict and hoping to
avoid them by intertwining its ar
ticles with covenants for a league
of nations."
Senator Thomas cited the funda
mental principles enunciated by
President Wilson in many addresses
for a league and added:
"The league in one or two very
important particulars fails to meas
ure up to the president's require
ments for a successful covenant. It
does not embrace half the world's
population."
French Treaty Held Legal
by Six U. S. Senators
Washington, Sept. 22. By unani
mous vote of the six members pres
ent, the senate judiciary committee
decided today that the proposed
treaty guaranteeing immediate as
sistance of this country to France
in the event of an unprovoked at
track by Germany was constitution
al. Twelve members were absent
and their votes were not cast.
Under the working rules of the
committee six members constitute
a quorum. The vote was on a reso
lution by Senator Walsh, democrat,
Montana, calling for the commit
tee's opinion as to the constitution-
iality of the treaty. A subcommittee
l rpntiy aeguiea tnat the pact would
i cvusujutional.
London, Sept. 22. (By The Asso
ciated Press.) The Italian govern
ment has appealed to the allied pow
ers to end an allied force, exclusive
of Italians, to drive D'Annunzio out
of Fiume, according to a report here
tonight, which is considered re
liable. Jt is understood that the Ameri
can naval authorities here, who con
trol the operations in the Adriatic,
have declined any assistance what
soever, pending final decision from
Washington or the peace delegates
in Paris.
The Iitalian government, it is re
ported, has pointed out in its ap
peal that it would be difficult for
Italy to handle the situation in view
of D'Annunzio's popularity with the
Italian people and also because of
the fact that the Fiume decision has
been a thorn in the side of the Ital
ians. It is understood the Italian gov
ernment declared that it deplored
the situation and did not wish to
make the slightest move against the
decision of the peace conference,
but pointedly inferrd that if D'An
nunzio's hold on Fiume was to be
weakened it must be done by other
than Italian troops.
The Associated Press learns that
even should the appeal be favor
ably received, no United States
troops are available and pending
instructions from high authority.
United States naval vessels would
stay outside the three-mile limit.
Making Ready Appeal.
Fi,ume, Sept. 22. Gabriele D'An
nunzio has declared m in interview
here that he was making retdy an
appeal to the president of the United
States, the king of England and the
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I VIJV..I ll.Vpii w JWJ'I'Ul k latlli Hi tliO
occupation of Fiume for Italy, which
he intended to maintain to his dying i
da', having determined never to
leave the city. He was confident,
he said, that his appeal would bear j
fruit. !
"I cannot believe there will be any j
complication with France or Eng- j
land.'' said the poet-commander, "as !
ir. the past I have done something
in the interest of both countries.
Therefore, it is impossible that they
should repay me with ingratitude. In
fact, 1 am preparing an appeal to
Fresident Wilson, King George and
ihe people of France.
Troops Will Not Fight.
"My men here are ready to die for
our cause, while I will not leave
Fiume either alive or dead. I" have
already chosen, in a fine cemetery,
dark with cypresses, a small hill
looking toward the sea, covered with
laurel, where I wish to be buried."
"I do not believe the allies will do
anything against me," Captain d'An
minzio continued, "as I will do noth
ing against them. I consider the
blockade, however, contrary to the
rights of man, no one having the
right to attempt to starve the 30,
000 inhabitants of Fiume simply be
cause they wish to remain Italians
forever.
"No conflict is possible with the
Italian troops, as I do not believe
there is a single soldier who would
fire against my men."
Rome, Sept. 22. The cost of the
necessaries oi me in fiume eive
Careening Down Bluffs
Streets at 60 Miles an Hour
James -Cosgrove Arrested
After FusiJIade of Bullets.
Strike Breaker Suspects
Precipitate Trouble at
Steel Mill in Donora, Pa.
Crowd Attempts to Stop. Automobile Which Refuses
to Halt, But Is Driven Back When Mill Guards
Open Fire; Another Outbreak Occurs at Home
stead, But State Police Disperse Mob and None
Seriously Hurt.
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ELUSIVE OMAHA MAN
AGAIN OUTWITS POLICE
Roy Kelly Jumps From Car and
Hides in Railroad Yards
Cosgrove Held for Holdup
on Carter Lake.
A fusillade of shots
Bluffs police officers halted a thrill
ing sprint through the streets of
Omaha and Council Bluffs of an
automobile driven by James Cos
grove of Omaha and a companion
whom police declare to be the no
torious Roy Kelly, who has suc
ceeded in eluding the police of both
cities for the past six months.
When the car was finally stopped
at Thirteenth street and Broadway,
Council Bluffs, a man said to be
Kelly jumped from the machine and
escaped in the railroad jards. Cos
grove, after being stopped, put up
a desperate fight and was not sub
dued until beaten by police.
Auto Going Fast
Officer Lon Troby of Omaha first
noticed the auto traveling south on
Fourteenth street on the wrong side
some idea of the food situation in ! 01 te street and at a high rate of
the blockaded city. Flour is bring
ing 80 cents a pound and sugar $2.
(Continued on rag- Two. Column live.)
WILSON TALKS TO
THREE AUDIENCES
AT SAME TIME
Contrasts Peace Conference at
Versailles With Vienna Con
gress" in Reno Address.
Reno, Sept. 22. Contrasting the
peace conference at Versailles with
the congress of Vienna, President
Wilson declared in an address here
tonight that the Vienna peace effort
had failed because all the govern
ments represented there were in the
hands of "a small cotrie of auto
crats." At Versailles, said the president,
the league of nations covenant was
drawn up by great democracies so
that autocracies never again could
enslave the peoples of the world.
One of the purposes of the Vienna
conference, Mr. Wilson asserted,
was to form such a union as would
hold in check the growing tide of
democracy-. The chief concern of
the delegates who sat at Versailles,
he added, was to accomplish exact
ly the opposite.
Speaking in a theater here to a
crowd of about 2,000, the president
frequently was interrupted by ap
plause. By an electrical device his
words were carried to three other
theaters holding 1,000 "persons each.
Crowds Welcome Wilson.
The president was welcomed to
Reno by crowds which cheered him
at the railway station and along the
line of a short automobile ride
through the streets. Governor
Boyle presided at the meeting and
Mr. Wilson was introduced by
Charles Chandler, a republican law
ver, wlio said he denied the right of
"a few prominent senators" to com
mit the republican party to opposi
tion of the peace treaty. The treaty,
he declared, contained "good repub
lican doctrines."
The crowd rose and cheered when
the president was introduced and
there was a demonstration for Mrs.
Wilson also when the chairman
mentioned her name. ,
In his reference to the congress of
Vienna, the president said that the
effort there made to stifle revolution
and democracy had been unsuccess
ful in every nation but Germany.
It was the invocation of the Mon
roe doctrine, he said, that broke the
backbone of autocracy's effort to
overwhelm South America,- and
added that at Versailles the cycle of
liberty had been completed by appli
cation of the Monroe doctrine to the
whole world.
Carried Out Promises.
Unh'ke the Vienna congress, con
tinued the president, the conference
at Versailles was made up of men
who knew they were the servants
and not the masters of the people.
As the people's servants, he said
they had carried out their promises
of a permanent peace.
"This treaty was not written, es
sentially speaking, in Paris," he said.
"It was written at Chateau Thierry,
in Belleau wood and in the Ar
gonnc. "Our men did not fight with the
purpose of coming back and having
the same thing happen again They
fought with the purpose of seeing
i tCyutinued on l'w Cvluuui four,)
COURT DECIDES
THAT FAMILY CAN
REMAIN IN HOME
Jury Upholds Year's Lease,
Which Runs Until
July. 1920.
Scarcity of houses in Omaha has
reached the stage where people in
possession of houses go into the
courts to keep possession.
Such a case was in county court
yesterday and the jury decided in
favor of the family in possession of
the home at 2006 Willis avenue.
The suit was brought by the First
German Presbyterian church
against J. F. Thornton, who lives in
the church parsonage at 2006 Willis
avenue. Recently the congregation
secured a pastor, but when request
was made for possession of the par
sonage Mr. Thornton claimed he
had a lease for one year.
The trustees of the church testi
fied that only an oral contract was
made whereby Mr. Thornton agreed
to move out at any time upon a
month's notice. Notice was served
on him July IS to move out by Sep
tember 1. When he failed to do so
the court action was brought.
The alleged lease, which the jury
upheld, runs until July 1; 1920.
1 2 Victims of Texas
Storm Found Lived
1 1 Days Without Food
Miami. Fla., Sept. 22. Eleven
days without food or waier, 12 sur
vivors of the recent hurricane hud
dled in a lighthouse 'on North El
bow hay, a small island in the Flor
ida straits, which was swept clean
of every vestige of human habita
tion during the storm, were located
yesterday by a submarine chaser
which brought back a story of de
vastation and human suffering un
surpassed by any that has come from
the storm area.
Huge waves sweeping over the is
land carried away sepulchres con
taining the bodies of former inhabi
tants, it was reported, swept all live
stock into the sea and destroyed
other food supplies, leaving the in
habitants, whose only hope of sur
vival lay in the impregnability of the
lighthouse in which they gathered,
absolutely destitute.
15-Year-0ld Bluffs Girl
Attempts to Take Own Life
Carmen Disalvo, IS years old shot
herself in the stomach at 8:30 last
night in her home. 913 Avenue I,
Council Bluffs, in an effort to commit
suicide. She is in Jennie Edmundson
hospital. Her chances of recovery
are slight. ,
A note on her dresser, scrawled
just before she committed the act,
was addressed to "Dear Jim."
"Dear Jim." it read, "excuse me
for going-into your room I
only "took the gun. Goodbye and
many kisses. Carmen."
According to Joe Disalvo, the girl's
father, she has been keeping com
pany with a young man named Jim
for some time. The young man was
not located bv the police up to a late
Jour iast night, . I
speed. Between Douglas and Far
nam .streets it crashed into another
car occupied by a man and woman
and, turning into the alley, went to
Thirteenth street and escaped by
crossing the Douglas street bridge.
Officer Troby secured the license
number ot the machine and tele
phoheafo "Council Bluffs Tot "their
arrest. '
When the machine passed the
Bluffs police station at a high rate
of speed, the officers ordered Cos
grove to stop, but only received a
sneering laugh as the car went ca
reening down the street. They gave
chase in a police auto.
Almost Hit Cop.
At Broadway and Pearl street the
traffic officer on duty stepped in
front of the car, ordering them to
stop, and when they increased the
speed of the machine he narrowly
I pscanpd beiiiar run down. He turned
and opened fire on the speeding car
just as the polic: car followed them
down the street. The officers in the
police car also commenced firing as
they followed the machine down the
street.
The bullet-riddled car stopped at
Thirteenth street after being tem
pararily delayed at the Northwestern
clossirg by a block signal. The man
who was accompanying Cosgrove,
and whom Bluffs police say answers
the description of Roy Kelly, then
fled.
The machine Cosgrove was driving
he says belongs to Floyd Shelton,
Morris apartments, Omaha, and was
being used with his permission. The
back of the machine has several bul
let holes, the gasoline tank is punc
tured, one tire was shot off and sev
eral bullets lodged in the seat close
to where Cosgrove was sitting.
Ask Cosgrove Held.
Sergt. Frank Rose of the Omaha
department last night requested the
Bluffs police to hold Cosgrove for
investigation in connection with the
holdup of a number of Omaha mov
ing picture magnates Sunday night
on Carter Lake boulevard. He is
said to answer the description of one
of the three highwaymen.
During the entire time of his trip
through the streets the police say
Cosgrove never .drove the car less
than 40 miles an hour and "while
making his escape in Omaha and
while being chased through the
Bluffs streets increased the speed to
60 miles an hour.
Cosgrove was charged by Bluffs
police with driving an automobile
while intoxicated. This charge in
Iowa carries a penalty of one year's
imprisonment in the state peniten
tiary. Ordered to Leave States.
Cosgrove was twice indicted by
the Council Bluffs grand jury and
was sentenced by Federal Judge
Woodrough to leave Iowa and Ne
braska not later than Tuesday. His
present confinement will prevent his
obeying the court order.
The indictments for which he was
convicted in Council Bluffs were
conspiracy and representing a peace
officer. It was charged that he
twice went to the William Roden
berg farm near McClelland, where
he searched the farm for whiskv.
representing himself as a sheriff
and another time as a state agent.
Advertising Clubs to Meet
in Indianapolis in 1920
Xew Orleans, Sept. 22. Indiana
polis was chose'n unanimously as the
1920 meeting place for the annual
convention of the Associated Adver
tising Clubs of the World. Selection
was made by the president and for
mer presidents of advertising clubs
oi the association.
Pittsburgh, Sept. 22. Disorders,
so much feared by police authorities
in the steel strike zone, were in evi
dence tonight in several places in
the Pittsburgh district. The most
serious occurrence was at Newcas
tle, Pa., 50 miles from here, in which
seven persons were shot in a riot
at a Carnegie mill gate.
With the exception of a small dis
turbance in Clairton, in the morn
ing the opening day of the big strike
passed in comparative quiet. With
the coining of night, however, when
night shifts w.erc going on duty
there were disorders reporte from a
number of places.
During a melee in front of the
zinc plant of the American Steel
Wire company at Donora early this
evening one man was shot and
slightly wounded. Several other
persons suffered minor bruises.
The trouble started when the
crowd attempted to stop an Auto
mobile carrying alleged strike-breakers
from entering the plant. The
crowd rushed for the car when it
failed to halt, but was driven back
when mill guards opened fire. Do
nora police and guards succeeded in
dispersing the crowd.
Men Are Arrested.
Riding into a crowd at the
Fourth street entrance at the Car
negie company's plant at Home
stead after it had refused to dtB
perse, state troopers tonight arrest
ed 11 men and turned them over t
the Homestead police.
Another outbreak occurred short
ly afterward at Dickson street ami
Fourth avenue. Homestead, w:here a
large crowd assembled. The state
police charged and, it is alleged, used
their sticks freely, several men suf
fering bruises, but none was serious
ly hurt. At Clairton tonight state
troopers were called to break up a
gathering of steel workers near
steel plant. Two -rrests were made
and th crowd was dispersed.-Earlier
in the day the troopers and a
POLICE OFFICERS
RUNOUTOFTOWN
BY ANGRY MOBS
Chief Compelled to Resign His
Job on Threat of Losing
His Life.
Drumright. Ok!., Sept. 22. A
mob took control of Drumright
late tonight following a demonstra
tion in connection with a strike of
telephone operators, during which
the members of the police force
were driven from town and the chief
of police disarmed and threatened
with death unless he resigned his of
fice. Three young women operators
who refused to join the strike are
held prisoners at the telephone com
pany's plant by the mob.
The trouble is said to have been
the outcome of the clubbing of a
picket by a policeman this morning.
Convicted I. W. W. Set Free
v by Supreme Court Order
Helena, Sept. 22. The sentence of
J. A. Griffith, said to be a member
of the I. W. W., to from eight to
16 years in the state penitentiary for
sedition, was set aside by the state
supreme court and Griffith, who has
been in the penitentiary for several
months, was .ordered released.
The court in reversing the judg
ment of the Yellowstone county
court. Held that use of vulgarity or
vile language in commenting upon
governmental activity in prosecuting
wartime cases does not of itself con
stitute sedition, and said that Grif
fith's alleged remarks concerning the
Chicago I. W. W. cases, expressed
in connection with the case, probably
would not have led to prosecution.
Man Arrested Says He
Set Off Fatal Bomb
Watsonville, Cal., Sept. 22.
George Edwards, who was arrested
here last night, stated emphatically
he set the bnmh uJiiVh trill4 Wre
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George D. Greenwood in Oakland.
Marcn is, according to Chief of
Police S. Whitsitt. Kdwarrfa ar.
cording to the police, said he made
ine oomo in nis room mOakIand.
"Greenwood has too much money.
I wanted to cause a little excite
ment, that's all." was the motive
Edwards gave for his alleged act,
acording to Whitsitt. j
Police of Oakland arc expected
here to take Edwards back to Oakland.
Montana Forest Fires
Are Threatening Farms
Helena. Sent. 22. Farnn almicr
Cottonwood creek, just south of
Lewiston, Mont., are threatened by
the forest fire which has broken
out there, accordine to reoorts
made to Tohn C. Vanhook staff for
ester, and the residents of the neigh
borhood have organized to fight the
fire in conjunction with state rang
ers in that regiou, .
Fellow Boarder Kills
Steel Worker Who
Refused to Walk Out
Pittsburgh, Sept. 22. The city,
council of McKeesport adopted
a resolution giving Mayor G. If.
Lysle full authority to "use his
own judgment" in handling the
situation.
A crowd of men attempted to
intimidate workers at the en
trance of the Duquesne plant of
the Carnegie Steel company to
night, during the change of day
and night shifts. They were dis
persed by Duquesne police. Eight
men were arrested.
The first fatality to result
from the strike in Farrell oc
curred when Alexander Russ was
killed by a fellow boarder be
cause he had not struck.
The East Liberty post of the
American Legion tonight adopt
ed a resolution declaring that if
the necessity arises it will offer
its services to the proper authori
ties to aid in maintaining law and
order during the present emergency.
RIOTING IN
niT-rnminn
miMHJHu
DISTRICTS
At End of Opening Day of
Economic War Both Sides
Rest Apparently Satisfied
With First Test of Strength;
REPORT 284,000 MEN
HAVE JOINED WALKOUT
Steel Corporation, Against
Which Main Offensive Is
Directed, Able to Operate
Most of its Plants.
crowd were in a clash, in which 14
persons were arrested for alleged
rioting.
Two men were slightly injured in
an outbreak which occurred at the
entrance to the Farrell, Pa., plant
of the American Steel and Wire
company this evening during the
change of shifts.
The two men were attacked by a
crowd of about 2,000 persons while
entering the plant. The trouble was
soon quelled by mill guards.. .., . ,
New Castle, Pa., Sept. 22. Seven
persons were shot. one . probably
CCnmlliiurd on Page T, Column Two.)
GALLERIES LAUD
SENATOR REED;
SCORES TREATY
Demonstration in Chamber Lasts
Long; Condemnation of
Cheering Hissed.
Washington. Sept. 22. At the
end of a four-hour attack on the
league of 'nations by Senator Reed
of Missouri, a democrat, who has
refused to stand with his party for
unreserved ratification of the peace
treaty of which the league covenant
is a part, the senate galleries late
today started a demonstration that
had to wear itself out and then hiss
ed violent disapproval when the
cheering was condemned from the
floor.
There has been no outburst like
it since the treaty fight was put
sharply before the senate by the for:
eign relations committee. But there
were indications today soon 'after
Senator Reed began his speech that
the crowds, swarming for admit
tance at all doors, were in sympathy
with his argument. Mindful of the
evidence of feeling in the galleries,
Senator Cummins, president pro
tern, gave warning that while ap
plause might be tolerated despite
senate rules, at the end of the ad
dress, it would not be permitted at
other' times. Threats, to clear the
galleries if repeated had no effect
and no attempt was made to enforce
the long-standin'g rule.
Applause Breaks Forth.
When Senator Reed, with arms
lifted high, closed his speech and j
sat down the applause broke, f ol-1
lowed instantly by lusty cheering j
from every gallery. Men in uni-!
form joined in the demonstration
and many women stood, waved their
arms wildly and shouted with the
men.
Senator Ashurst, democrat, Ari
zona, sitting nearest Senator Reed
and first to congratulate him,
shouted loudly for order a moment
later and the crowds, not knowing
what to expect, suddenly became
still. But the quiet orderliness of
the senate did not prevail long, for
as the, spectators realized that their
conduct was being condemned a
wave of hissing swept through the
chamber while gallery guards strug
gled manfully, but unsuccessfully,
to subdue and eject those responsi
ble for it.
Fate of Nations at Stake.
Still speaking to the crowds, Sen
ator Ashurst declared the fate of na
tions was at stake while they "were
attempting to make the senate of
the. United States a police court,"
and appealed by name to Sefiators
Lodge and Hitchcock, the party
leaders, to stop it. The Arizona sen
ator declared the galleries would
not applaud a decision of the high-
cst court, which had never been
called upon to tisane a question ot
' ''vnitidotis importance to the
By The Associated Press.
t . . i. i e .1. j - t
I ji ine ena oi me opening tiay oi
economic war between organized la
bor and the greater part of the iron
and steel industry of the country
both sides rested last night, appar
ently satisfied with reports received
from the farflung battle lines reach
ing into 20 states and affecting di
rectly or indirectly 500,000 workers.
After the first test of strength in
dustrial leaders and commanders of
labor's legions were willing to ad
mit that they faced a struggle which
might prove long and bitter. Grim
evidence of preparations made for
the industrial conflict were seen in
the armed guards surrounding the
mills, but the first day of the strike
ended with no signs of serious dis
order except in Newcastle, Pa.,
where seven persons were shot in
rioting following an alleged attempt
to prevent workers from entering a
plant and at Donora and Farrell. At
Donora one man was shot and at
Farrell a striker was killed and two
state police officers wounded:
Until the first smoke of battle
rolls away an accurate estimate of
the number of workers who marched
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der and the number who remained
at their posts is not obtainable,
284,000 Men on Strike.
From strike headquarters iw"
Pittsburgh came claims that -284,-000
men had taken their places in
the ranks of the strikers, but, al
though no statement was forthcom
ing from the steel corporation's
headquarters in New York, company
officials in the zone of action has
tened to challenge the estimate of
labor leaders.
The steel corporation, against
which the main offensive is directed,
is abb to operate most of its plants
in the Pittsburgh district, according
to company officials. In the Chicago
steel center some of the largest
plants were forced to close down, but
others, operated on a reduced scale.
il tv n s III iuv. iiaiiuin vaujr iiihi.
the strikers seemed to make the most
headway, for with three large mills
in the Youngstown district shut
down and others running only part
capacity the steel producing indus
try in that section was reported to
be fast approaching general paral
ysis. Strikers Succeed in Attack.
In the Cleveland district, too. the
strikers apparently made a successful
attack. Only four of the 20 plants
labor leaders 19,000 men are af
fected. Telegraph wires leading into head
quarters of both capital and labor
were kept warm, as report followed
report on conditions at 145 plants
affected by the strike order. As it
became evident that neither the cor
poration had been able to keep all its
plants in operation nor the strikers
had been able to produce a complete
(ContiiMFd on Page Two. Column On.
"To Hell With Kings;
I d.-J f .1
i oiana ror trie
Man Who Works
Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 22. "I
stand for the man who works. To
hell with the kings!"
ms quotation closes a letter to
A,,T-' VanScoy, president of the.
Milwaukee Association of Com
merce, from Mayor Hoan, in which
"is. lauEi iciuscs to invite rung Al
bert and Queen Elizabeth of Bel
gium to visit Milwaukee. The
mayor offers, however, to forward
such an invitation presented bv anv
group of citizens.
Mayor Hoan's letter in part read
as follows:
"Please do not ask tn tn
any king, kaiser or czar. The peo
ple of Milwaukee in choosing a
mayor do not require of him a for
feiture of self-respect. ,
j. "Did they not know that social
ists refused to hobnob with Prince
Henry and royalty before my elec
tion.' ... ,
"While I mean no disrespect to
nor discourtesy to you, yet these are
days that try men's souls. We must
take our place with kings, their gold
en v'aics ana satellites or line up ;
with the rights of common men.
"I should go to my grave in ver-'
lasting snanie were I to boost one ;
iota the stock of any king. Mr.
1 r ........v. jvKki aaavnaic
that I stand for the man who Work
To hell with the kino's."