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1 ID)RIEF I n ir urn Man x J REE ZY BITS OF NEWS GODSPEED GIVEN TO BELGIAN ROYAL PARTY. Old Point Comfort, Va, Oct. 31. The transport George Washing ton steamed away from Hampton Roads at 1:30 today bearing King Albert of the Belgians, Queen Eliz abeth, Prince Leopold and their suite, homeward bound after 29 days in the United States. The guns at the Norfolk navy yard boomed a national salute as the barges, which carried the royal party to the ship, cast off from the pier, after the king and queen had inspected the navy yards. Aboard the George Washington, boat swains' whistles piped them over the side and the ship's band played the Brabanconne, while Captain McCauley stood at - salute at the gangway and the ship's crew manned the rails. N King Albert stood on the bridge of the transport with his wife and son beside him, gazing shoreward ' ata the big vessel steamed slowly down the bay, escorted by battle ships and destroyers and with the royal standard of Belgium fluttering from the masthead. The kin? and his party, accompa .' nied by Secretary Lansing of the State department and Assistant Secretary Long, who has been with I the party throughout its tour of the United States, and by Secretary Daniels of the Navy department, ar rived at Fortress. Monroe on a spe cial train from Washington. There and later at Portsmouth, the king was warmly greeted by crowds. WILL LAY WREATHS . ON AMERICANS' GRAVES. Paris, Oct. 31. As a special tribute to, the Americans who fell in the great war, the Fntnch people are to lay wreaths on the graves in the American' military cemeteries throughout France on All Saflits' day, November 2. NATIONAL LOTTERY PLANNED IN BRITAIN. London, Oct. 31. The chancellor of the exchequer, Austen" Chamber , lain, will" enter no objection against the proposed national lottery loanr ' the' Daily Mail announces., The paper adds. that the treasury has a scheme for such a loan ready. The will be $100 bonds bearing no in- U'resi, dui a ciany drawing jor jov,- V 7 - OUR ARTISTIC ROTOGRAVURE ' PICTURE 'SECTION MAKES THE SUNDAY BEE UNIQUE. TV 1JUJL The Omaha Da Bee VOL. 49.-NO. 117. f tfn4 u MMS-IlM niter Nu 21. 1 90S.' 0h4 P. O. nto act Wl Hank 3. !? OMAHA; SATURDAY, NOVEMBER'!, 1919. ,TTJJtSJr SSfe TWO CENTS. M IT THE WEATHER i - Generally fair Saturxfay and Sunday ; warmer Sun day. V Hourly tomponUurwi 10 it 41 XS 3 . IS u S ....... ........ i M .......4 1 ... ... s ... ;;; i ... a ......a V 3 raw YOUTH WITH $130 JAILED AS VAGRANT Detroit Machinist, With Let ters From Home, Paid Up Union Card and Cash, Given Fifteeri Days' Sentence. POLICEMAN IN CASE IS 0. P. PETERSON 7n i 000 in prizes , REFUSAL TP PART WITH v DOG LEADS TO ARREST. La Orange. Ore., Oct 31. A wo man's love for her dog has led to the arrest here of Mrs. E. W. Mc Carthy for alleged complicity in a batik robbery. ' Police say that William Anderson and James Miller robbed the. Bank of Springville, Springville, Utah, of $9,000 and escaped to La Grange, Ore., and that Mrs. McCarthy was with them. . The police, tracked her spotted dog to this city and arrested the trio." It was Jaid that the mend urged, her, to par with the dog in - Utah.-but shefescdv iM""i BRICE CRITICISES ' PEACE CONFERENCE. " : London,' Oct 31. Secret diplo macy in general and the methods of the peace conference in particular were condemned by Viscount Brice, former British ambassador to the United States, in i-tpeech at a gathering of young liberals. Lord brice said, the Paris confer ence had committed "very great errors," and there was the danger of committing others. : It seemed to him, said the speaker,- that the border populations in the Balkans were assigivedto states to which they did not desire to be long. ; He added there was no part in Jthe world ( where the rights of minorities ought to be more re spected than in t'je Balkans, and if the peace conference did not act accordingly, it would sow seeds for future wars. - - . CARRY BALL TO GAME AT HURON IN AIRPLANE. Huron, S. D., Oft. 31. Backing a 60-mile wind an airplan, piloted by Day Miller and Vick Engle, ar ' rived here from Sioux Falls. The aviator carried with them the foot ball used in the Yankton-Huron col lege game. The .ball was dropped from the plane as it settled over the gridiron a few minutes before ' the start of play. SUICIDE BRIDGE IN CHICAGO PARK RA2ED. jChicago.'Oct. 31. Park employes Have begun razing suicide bridge, the high viaduct in Lincoln park, from which some 40 persons have leaped to death ornjury in recent '. years. - . - CREPE DRAPED BOTTLE BIDS WHISKY FAREWELL. New York, Oct 31.-A whisky bottle draped with crepe and a wreath of cabbage leaves with an inscription reading, "Here lies the I body of Barleycorn's tool, he died s by the hand of a temperance fool," r hung on the door of a saloon in Stapleton for a few minutes. It was removed when a man wearing a badge ordered the bartender to take it down in a hurry. , SOCIALIST DEMAND, ' BLOCKADE CALLED OFF. Paris, Oct 31. "Call, of . the blockade or every worker in Eu rope will throw down his tools." This dramatic threat was uttered by M. Longuet socialist deputy at the labor conference. By reason c4 the absence of Jot. - hauxvPem6ulin andy Lenoir, the conservative labor leaders, who are attending" the -international labor conference iM Washington, Longuet managed to carry' out a coup giving him control of the unions. His op ponents say Longuet's threat of a general strike, is merely camouflage to cover a movement for the estab lishment' ui a soviet government in France..;.. .... ' ' PHOTO ENGRAVINGS . USED TO BREAKTRIKE. ' . Nashville, Tenn., Oct 31. Photo engravings of the editorial columns and some advertisements will be used in the Saturday morning issue nf th TrniiKWan in order to ret ,V out the paper despite a printers' walkout. i nree . newspapers oi Nashville 'are affected by a "vaca- in tj rnmrAincy rnnma wVifl they refused to grant a fourth bonus f il a to prtfiterf. Boy Released From Jail on Surrendering $100 of His Funds to Lawyer Omaha Union to Stir Things Up. A sentence of IS days in the county jail on a charge of vagrancy, when he had $130 cash, letters from his mother and other members of his family and a paidun working card in the machinists' union in his pocket was the experience of Fred Miller, about 20 years of age, with Patrolman O. P. Peterson, of Omaha, and Judge "Foster of the Central station police court yester day morning. ' Miller, having been sentenced to IS davs. and having been placed in a cell in the connty jail, gained his freedom two hours later by sur rendering $100 of the money taken from him.by the police at the time of his arrest tq Attorney R. H. Bremers, of Bremers & Lee, 709 Keelinc building, he states. 1 Miller is .a clean looking young fellow, well dressed, and has all the appearance of a competent ciervc in a hisrh class 6tore. as far as looks go, and in the opinion of many in the courtroom should ordinarily have been released upon his appear ance, his possession of the $130, his union card nd tne tact mat tne officer made no chargt against him qther,,;tha,nw hj$y statement , of va grancy. . Hunting for Room. Young Miller, who is on his way from Detroit, his home', to Cali fornia, arrived in the city at 7:30 Thursday night. He checked the srio- containing his machinist tools at the station and with one contain ing a change of raiment started out to hunt a room. , He first sought the. Y. ,M. C. A., where he could get no room, and was taken by a chance companion to a hotel at Nineteenth and Har ney streets. It was then that Officer Peterson approached and demanded to know what he was doing and other par ticulars. Miller gave htm all details about tis home, his business and object at the hotel, and surrendered his grip for inspection. . Peterson arbitrarily ordered' the two youths to "come along" and took them into the fire station While calling for the patrol - ' On the arrival of this he turned them over to the wagon men, ao cordingvto Miller, with the state ments " - . . "Book vthese two " for investiga tion.". At the station they were booked for vagrancy. Money Is Taken, In accordance with the custom in all stations, Miller was searched and the $130 and other effects taken from him. He was then placed in a cell, and taken before Judge Foster in the morning. Peterson was present and whtled away the time by glaring at the cul prit he had arrested. When the case was called Peterson approached the bar and said, according to the story of -the youth:" "Now, judge, I've got two genuine vagrants this time." Miller attempted to tell his story to the judge, he says, and gave a (Contlnnwl on Pmy Two, Celnma !.) Injunction Granted Prohibiting Sale of I Liquor in New York Ort, 31. United State District Judge Augustus N. Hand torlav Granted a temporary injunction at the request- of the United States district attorney pro hibiting the sale ot all liquor con taining one-half of one per cent or more alcohol." . , Under the injunction saloon keepers who violate the' prohibi tion enforcement law can ne sum marilv arrested and imprisoned for contempt of court. j ' THe Bee's Free Shoe Fund ; Mmnrv nf kind deed' remains long after the money given is for gotten. . Will you do a kind deed in keep ing some poor little kiddie's feet wtm this winter? Then send your contribution to The Free Shoe Fund, Omaha Bee, Omaha, Neb. It will be acknowl edged in this column and expended on a really needv chiid. Prerfomlr ftcluraw lodged SSt.M ;B Cany 1-f Wok Crry l.M lwum JK. IwH iAbaaaa. K.. !. i. n.wurt""1 WM CHANCELLOR' OF GERMANY SAYS HE URGED PEACE Army and Navy Commanders Insisted on Submarine War fare, Probe Shows. Berlin, Oct. 31. Dr. Von Beth- mann-Hollweg, German chancellor during the greater part of the war, spent nearly two hours in the wit ness chair before the National As sembly subcommittee which is in vestigating what had been the pos sibilities tor bringing about peace during the war. The former chancellor said he sharply condemned the submarine warfare, but adjnitted he influence of Admiral voir Tirpitz, General Ludendorff and Field Marshal von Hindenburg was so strong that the German people were absolutely con vinced of its justification, and fol lowed their generals blindly. His voice almost broke with emo tion as he told of his efforts to meet his responsibilities, both to the peo ple at home and the soldiers in the trenches. When he tried to oppose the sohmarine war, he said. Generals Ludendorff and Von Hindenburg wired the foreign office that Ger many would lose the campaign on the west front and th&t she must have the submarine war. It was considered finally, accord ing to the former chancellor, that even 4merica should she enter the war, could be handled, and the army authorities threw down the gauntlet to political figures who opposed the submarine campaign. . Warnines not to underestimate America, which the former chancel lor said he issued, tailed ot their purpose, because, he declared, in tense hatred of America ruled solidly in all political circles, owing to the delivery of ammunition to the entente by the United States. CREEL DENIES HE WAS NEGLIGENT IN HANDLING FUNDS teKEofisa-niait Member of National Coun-; cil of Defense. New York.. Oct.. 31. George Creel, former chairman of the com mittee on public information, issued a statement; here terming as ."false in many particulars and viciously: misleading as' a whole" charges of Vtiaoie" and "cross negligence" by the committee in handling govern ment funds. These charges were made in a re- nnrt tn.rnnffrps hv E. K. Ellsworth of the council of national defense, who was appointed to liquidate the affairs of the committee after- it went out of existence. : Mr. Creel also made public a let ter to Secretary of War Baker, de nying the charges and asking him, a chairman nf the council, for an early opportunity of appearing be fore it Tells of Earnings. In his statement Mr. Creel refuted the charge that the committee cost tVi ornvornmpnr ahnllt 6.000.000. as serting the committee's appropria tions totaled $6,850,000 and it re turned in earnings $2,385,397.61 be fore its final accounting. "The committee on public mtor tlicrfrire rnst the taxnavftrs just $4,464,602.39for two years of work in the Unitedtates and every foreign nation, less tnan tne amount spent in a single country in -one year by some of the, belligerents," said Mr. Creel. Bandit Holds Up ; Prnnriefnr nf Delmar Hotel and Gets $5C( VA lone bandit 50 years old, en tered the Delmar hotel at 10 o'clock last night held up Mrs. A. K Arm strong, proprietress, who was acting as clerk, and took $50 cash from her. Harold Marvel, clerk, was show ing a guest to his room wheji the bandit entered. Mrs. Armstrong was behindthe desk. The bandit asked for a room, and when Mrs. Armstrong turned to one side, , he drew a gun-and commanded her to "hand over her money." , Mrs. Armstrong handed hini $50 in bills, but retained $100 in sitveri in the cash drawer. As the bandit pocketed the money, Mrs.' 'Arm strong screamed an alarm, and the bandit fled out the'front door.- " Suspend State Railroad , - Due to Coal Shortage Kansas City, Oct 31. The Kan sas City Northwestern railroad, con necting Kansas City, Kan., and Vir ginia, Neb., will cease operations Saturday, E." H. Campbell, superin tendent of the road, announced. The shutdown is due to - coal shortage and financial difficulties. The road is in the hands of a federal receiver ship, and judge S. W. Hook of the United States court of appeals, in whose court the road's affairs are being handled, has declined to allow it to operate after November 1, un less it can do so without loss, and Superintendent Campbell said he did not know when the. line could re sume operations, PERSUING IS OPPOSED TO LARGE ARMY War Department Proposals For Conduct of Peace Time Military Forces Attacked by A. E. F. Commander. INCREASE OF GENERAL ; STAFF PLAN EXCESSIVE Important Changes Advocated by Federal Officials Emphat ically Opposed on Basis of Experiences in France. Washington, Oct. 31. Dissenting in many important respectsrom the program recommended by the War deparflment and the genera! staff, General Pershing told the military committees of congress that 300,000 men, raised entirely by voluntary enlistment, should be the outside figure considered for a standing army. He' favored universal military training to provide an emergency reserve, but thought general educa tional work should be combined with it and military discipline 'somewhat relaxed" sar thatthe- system would be in complete harmony with dem ocratic institutions. He fixed six months as the training period. The department had recommend ed an army of more than 500,000, with a system of universal training not embracing the educationa fea tures. Its recommendation for a training period was three months. - Favors Air Bureaul Departing again, rfrom: the. ex pressed views of the department, the general declared army purchas ing, shgjdjbe repfganjrrj a, new bureau apart from the Quartermas ter corps and that a separate de partment of the government should be organized to co-ordinate and su pervise military, naval and commer cial aeronautics. He considered the department's request for 231 general staff officers excessive,, and made clear his opposition to any effort by the staff to extend its authority into the details of the department bu reaus and of the line. During his day of testimony be fore the two committees which opened a series of spfecial joint ses sions to hear his views on peace time reorganization ot . the army Generah Pershing expressed several times his-unfamiliarity "with the pres ent makeup and policy of the gen eral staff and emphasized that he was speaking directly from his ex periences in the field. But he did not hesitate to put into pointed lan guage his opinions on the abstract questions presented by committee members. Avoid War Experience. When one representative asked whether he approved an apparent tendency of the staff to project its control into details of the line he brought his fist down upon the table and snapped: , T certainly do not. .He was equally emphatic when a senator asked whether the staff ought not to take military commit; tees into its confidence about the general situation in the army. "I am quite sure of it," he quickly replied. Only once or twice did the ques tioning lead him into discussion of the activities of the American armies in Prance, though that is expected to come in for more detailed consid eration before he completes his tes timony. He will appear again to morrow and his statement, which is expected to be the last heard by the committees before they begin fram ing reorganization legislation, may run into next week. - Bank Clearings of Omaha Show Enormous Gain Bank clearings for Omaha for the month of October, 1919, amounted to $306,226,956.42, showing a gain of $42,144,898.31 over the clearings for the corresponding month last year. The-total for October, 1918, was re portedas $264,082,058.11. These figures were compiled by the Oma ha Clearing House association, of fieials of Which believe this to be the largest gain which will be re portedin the country. TomorroW The Queen -4i Alc-Sar -Ben and her royal puges in beau tiful roto print THE SUNDAY BEE .Phom Orders t TyUr 1000. UPHOLD VALIDITY OF FEDERAL FARM LOAN ACT IN SUIT Appeal to U. S. Supreme Court Immediately Granted by Judge. Kansas City, Oct. 31. -Validity of the federal farm loan act was in effect upheld by Judge A. S. Van Valkenburgh whn he dismissed the suit brought in the United States district court here by Charles . Smith, a stockholder and director of the Kansas City Title and Trust company, against that company to test the constitutionality of the act. Judge Van Valkenburgh granted an appeal to the United States su preme court, which will be made immediately, according to William M. Bullitt of Louisville, attorney for the plaintiff, who announced a motion would be filed in the su preme court -November 10, moving that the case be advanced for early hearing. In defending the suit here, "the at torney general's office was repre sented by Charles E. Hughes, Wil liam G. McAdooand George vV. Wickersham. Mr. Hughes also rep resented the federal land bank of Wichita, Kan., and Mr. McAdoo and Mr. Wickersham the First Joint Stock Land bank of Chicago, both of which banks had filed inter-pleas to the suit. N . EIGHT AVIATORS OUT OF 62 FINISH - ARMY AIR DERBY Contest Officially Closes, Al though Last Two Planes Will Attempt Finish. Chicago, Oct. 31. When sundown Friday had officially ended the 5,402 mile twice transcontinental air race, wliich began October 8, eight flyers had reached their goals in the great est aerial endurance journey ever made. Three of them finished to- Sixty-two, aviators started from Mineola, N. Y.v and San Francisco, the majority of them dropping out of the race because of broken or de fective machines, adverse weather conditions and accidents, in wliich seven men were killed. Besides the eight which succeeded in the test, which was directed by the War ,department and held un der auspices of the American Flying club, two others tonight were still preparing to finish. For. their ben efit it was announced that i control stations would be held open for them, althpugh they are out of the contest. Lieut B. W. Maynard, the Baptist minister who was known as the "flying parson," won the distinction of behg first to fly across the con tinent and-' return. He piloted- a DH-4 machine and covered the 5,402 miles in time of 67:03:40.5. Best time went to Capt Alex Pearson, so far as computed, with 45:37:16. The eight flyers who finished fhe race were in .order of reaching their destination: Lieutenant Maynard, Capt. j. O. Donaldson, Capt Lowell H. Smith, Capt. Alexander Pearson, Lieut Earl Manzelman, Lieut. Col. H. E. Hartney, Lieut R. M. Bagby and LieuR. S. Worthington. Lieu tenants Hartney, Bagby and Worth ington completed the race today. The great race was marred by seven fatalities and a number of. less serious and minor , accidents. "A number of machines were wrecked or burned, and one fell into Lake Erie. : . . ' Constitutionality Of Prohibition Is ' Attacked in Chicago NET H AWAY INDICTED BY GRAND JURY Man Who Is Alleged to Have Been Most Prominent on Night of Riot Charged With Conspiracy to Murder. SIXTEEN MORE TRUE BILLS ARE RETURNED Six Indictments in Riot Cases Walter' McGill Held on Charqe of Assault With Intent to Kill Mayor Smith. Sixteen indictments were returned by the special grand jnry, sitting in the court house yesterday. Six of these were in rifit- cases, three were in other cases and the names in the remaining seven were not given out because they are not yet under arrest. Claude L. Nethawav, a real estate man, was indicted on the charge of conspiracy to 'commit the murder of Will Brown, the negro lynched by the mob the night of September 28 Nethaway, witnesses said,' was ex tremely active, especially during the early hours of the rioting, making excited speeches at the court house and urging the mob to lynch the negro. Wife Was Murdered. Nethawav came into " notoriety two years ago when his wife was murdered. The body was found on the railroad tracks near Florence and suspicion finally was fastened upon a negro who was convicted, and is now serving a ife sentence in the state penitentiary. Nethaway has married again and his home is-at 8013 North Thirtieth street. He is 52 years old. -The grand - jury yesterday : re noon returned an tncictment against Walter McGillt charging him with assault with intent to kill Mayor fc-a P. Smith at the court .house, Sep tember 28. A former indictment also charges McGill with unlawful assemblage and rioting.; . . In Jail Since Riots! Nethaway was indicted also on a charge of unlawful assemblage and rioting. Fourteen witnesses testified asainst him before the grand jury He has been in the county jail since he was arrested the day after the riot, The following were also indicted on the charge of unlawtul assem blaee and rioting: L. H. Behring.M417 Cass street. switchman, 29 years old; Walter McGill, 1508 Olin avenue, 21 years old, clerk; Edward Woodruff,. ! 433 North Eighteenth street 49 years old. laborer: Anton Munch. 2618 LSoutH Eleventh street 22 years; fid, laborer. : Charles L. Schulze "was indicted for abandoning his wife and child at 2606 Kees street. July 15. 1919. Behring was released on bond of $1,500 to await trial. He entered a plea, of not guflty to the charge of unlawtul assemblage and rioting. ; Two Women Indicted. Mrs. Bertha C Kingsley of Provi dence, R. I., and her 16-year-ola daughter. Normal were indicted by the grand jury on charges of steal ing a fur piece valued at $15 from (r. N. Aulabaugh, a tur dealer. .They were arrested last Tuesday and charged with the theft of furs worth $1,100 from Brandeis Mores, Burgess-Nash, Orkin . Brothers, Hayden Brothers and G.-N. Aula baugh. The indictment is on one of. these charges only, that being as adequate to secure a conviction as an indictment on all the alleged thefts, They were en route from Rhode Chicago, Oct. 31. Suit to enjoin the irovernment from enforcing the wartime prohibitionact and attack-1 Island to California in a large tour ing it as unconstitutional was filed jing car ar the time they were ar in tne unuea states oisinci court; by Levy Mayer,-counsel for the dis-J tillers. - The suit alleges that wartime pro- 1 "1 ' . ' .1 Cf .1. J . U - niDlllun yiuiaics uic iiiiu aim mc tenth amendments to the constitu tion, whichr respectively prohibit confiscation of property without just compensation and affirms that power not delegated to the United States nor prohibited to the states shallbe preserved to the states or to the people , Omaha Man Is Appointed Federal Labor Examiner Lincoln, Oct 31. (Special.)-4-Secretary F. A. Kennedy of the de partment of labor is to be ap: pointed federal director for Ne braska under the Department of Labor at Washington, and C. H. Davis of Omaha has been recom mended as examiner under the de partment i - , The job of federal inspector has now been . placed in the "dollar-a- year ' class.. Armour & Co. Fined. Milwaukee, Wis., O'ct. 31. Plead ing guilty to 29 out of 30 counts. Armour & Co., Chicago, was fined $1,100 by ' Judge -Page in district court today for keeping 160,000 pounds ot meat in cold storage tor more than a year without obtaining a permit, from -the health, depart ment. . rested. Bonar Law Insists ABies Wffl Place the , - Ex-Kaiser On Trial London, Oct. 31.-The "kaiser question," came up' in the coirjmons again Thursday and from what was said by the government it is as de termined as ever to bring the former ruiej: to trial Maj. Lane Fox asked whether the government is aware that there "is a growing feeling in the country against trying the kaisfr," and that the majority of the people seemed to' feel he should be left to he pun ishment of his conscience. Anddrew Bonar . Law, the govenment's spokesman, replied: "I am not aware that this repre sents the feeling of the country. Nor has the government any reason to' sidestep the matter." Secretary Redfield Ends Service as Cabinet Member Washington, Oct 31. William C. Redfield Friday retired as secretary of commerce, after serving for six and a half years as a member of President.. Wilson's cabinet He leaves Saturday for his home tn Brooklyn, but said that he had made I no plans for the immediate future.! OWNS UP TO FIVE BURGLARIES HERE, SAY THE POLICE r 7 H 4 If Cornelius Lakoia. SoutK Dakota Boy Caught With Goods In Fremont, - ' "Neb. Cornelius Lokato. 17 years" old, giving his home as Lead, S. D., has confessed to five burglaries in Omaha, according to police. He is being held for the grand jury on a charge of breaking and entering. Young Lokato, who says his par ents are retired farmers, declares that he came to Omaha two weeks ago to seek work. "I needed clothes and money," he told police, "so I went after them' The boy was arrested Wednesday in Fremont, Neb,, when he it tempted tp dispose of two suitcases identified as stolen property from Omaha. Police .savoHng -Lokato has con fessed to the' theft of clothing and gttns from Omaha pawnshops the nights? of' October 18 and 19, amounting to over $1,000. During his first robbery, the boy told police, he changed complete clothing in the rear of the store. . . t4. The alleged robberies were com mitted in the stores of Sam Orlando, 610 North Sixteenth street; Mrs. M. Zamkvitzer, 408 South Tenth street; A. Levy, 103 South Thirteenth street; the restaurant of H,J. Perry, 1012 South Tenth street, and an other" pawn shop, the location of which the boy said he could not re member. From the restaurant the boy told police he took $5 and can dy. The other places he obtained clothing and firearms, he declares. Papers found in the boy's pockets show that he kept an accurate ac count of .all articles stolen, police say. ' ) " . Railroad Officers ' . Testify They Urged Cheaper Timber Road New York, Oct. 31. A route for a government railroad tapping spruce " districts of -V Washington which would probably have cost $1, 400,000, instead of the actual route adopted, that cosf 4,000,000, was urged by R. M. Calkins and H. B. Earling. vice presidents of the Chi cago, Milwaukee and St Paul, ac cording to their testimony befote the congressional subcommittee in vestigating the army air service. Calkins said an extension of th: Milwaukee by way of Deep Creek wouhf have reached 11,000,000,000 more feet of timber than the road as built by way of Crescent Lake. Earling-said it was .obvious that the Crescent 1-ake route would have cost the, more. . He denied that af ter the armistice he had urged that 14 miles of the Crescent Lake line be completed. - The committee will resume its in vestigation in Washington, D. C Gen. B. P. Disque, formerly direc tor of SDruceoroduction. will testifv at his own request. ,. . J Cavalry Sent to Hidalgo to Watch Mexican Trops McAllW -Tex.. Oct. 31. Five troops of United States cavalry, three from Fort Sam Fordyce and two from MfAllen, were ordered o Hidalgo, Tex., following receipt of reports at military headquarters here that Villistas were planning an attack on the Carrancista garrison of Reynosa, Mexico, across the river from Hidalgo. t Wilcox Man Murders Wife and Then Takes Own Life Wilcox. Neb.. Oct. 31. Arthur Holben, 35 years old. who came here, a week ago from his home at Tabernash, Colo., shot and killed his wife and then took his own life Letters addressed to relatives in Kansls found on the dead man in dicate the act was premeditated. Find Miners Bodies. Amsterdam. O . Or 11 P..... 1 T I vwm . . l.9l,Ut Darties found th hnriu nt I,... Gray, foreman, and- six other bodies of the 20 entombed miners in the xougniogneny and Uhio Coal com oanv'a mine na. 2. - i.. j the entrance to entry No. IS. PRODUCTION PARALYZED, CHIEFS SAY Federal Court Injunction Pre vents Leaders From Instruct ing Men or Giving Encour agement and Benefits. MOBILIZE TROOPS TO COPE WITH DISORDERS. Miners Qease.Work When Day Shift Completes Task Union Officials Protest the Action of Government. Chicago, Oct. . 31. Bituminous coal fields of the nation tonight were in the grip of a strike, effective at midnight, which leaders of the union miners declared aiready : had ; seen . more than 395,600 of their members out of the works, to remain out un til the strike should be settled. Thousands more of the miners, whose whole number is roughly placed at 500,000, will be out tomor row, they said. The men already on strike, the leaders reported, were those who had, left the mines today, taking their tools with them. Reports from the soft coal fields were completevtonight and even the union leaders agreed they would await to morrow before being able definitely to know the number of men who had obeyed the. strike call. But in almost every instance, the miners' spokesmen asserted, that the tieup of the mines would be complete,, al though the unions will leave a suf ficient number of men in the mines to man the pumps and keep the property in shape for resumption of w(ork when the strike shall be end ed. Some union leaders refuse to talk on account of the restraining order issued at -Indianapolis. Effects Known Monday.. Repots to the union leaders to night indicated that the bulk of the miners in the great producing re-" gions-of Pennsylvania, West Vir ginia, Ohio. Illinois, Iowa. Ken tucky, Colorado, Kansas, Montana 1 and Wyoming, had left the mines at . $ the cjpse of the day shift to remain on strike. v , 'j But with the strike officially start ing at midnight, tomorrow being p virtually a holiday in coal mining, and Sunday also a day of "non-pro- !i duction, it was generally conceded . j that not befpre Monday wuld the " ' actual effect of the strike be known ' definitely. By that time union. lead ers will have nearly complete re ports from union locals, and the coal - operators will know to what extent they will bevable to operate if they should decide to attempt actual min- ing work. - Reports from Locals, .-"v The following table by states of men who left the mines today and tonight-to obey1 the strike call is based on reports, in most instances estimated, received by unio leaders throughout the country:' Arkansas 4,000, Colorado 5,000, Illinois 80,000, Indiana 25,000, Iowa 14,000, Kansas 12,000. Kentucky 20,000, Maryland 1,800, Michigan 2.400T Mississippi 1.000." Montana 4,000, New Mexico 4,000, , North Da- Kota. 1,UW, Ohio 40.000. Ok ahoma 6,000, Pennsylvania-100,000, Tennes see AUUU, Utah 1,000, Washington 6,000, West Virginia 40,000, Wyo ming 8,000, Texas 2,500. : While no reports were available from Alabama, Texas and Virginia, union leaders said there were num bers of men on, strike and thousands would be out tomorrow in the southern fields.' What tomorrow's reports would show, the union chiefs said, they were unable to predict, except that the strike would be of sd vast an extent as to paralyze production of ouuminous coai. 1 A. F. of L. Leaders Issue Warning to Government Washington, Oct. 31. The , big news in the coal strike situation to day was. the 'federal court's order, forbidding the walkout. It was fol lowed by a long line of develop ments and opened the door to wide possibilities. The principal leaders in the miners' union met the court's action with denunciation as a "violation of constitutional rights," declarations that it came too late to reach their men with a countermanding order, and with predictions that it would be disregarded, any way. " During the day mixed reports were coming in from the mining states of men who decided to re main at work and others .who went on strike despite the court's re straining order. It is hot possible it5Jlma?e what Proportion of the 425,000 miners affected remained at work and what proportion walked ont- The real test may not come until Monday. Saturday generally is a "dead" day in the mines. : Plan General Strike. ! Meanwhile organized labor lead- ers showed signs of taking up ' cudgels on a general issue over the right to strike. - President Gompers of the Ameri- (CeottBM m tmtm Xw. Colt ! NT V V 8 sr; i ax