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The Omaha Daily VOL. 49 NO. 253. 0k P. . -) imr Hay M, IM. it Mtar Mt Mtnk S. IV. omaha, Thursday, april 8, 1920. T y Mall (I w). Hr. : fcntfty. M.M. Bally Sim.. I7.N; MhM N.k. trtrt. TWO CENTS V lit vote m PEACE PLAN NEXT FRIDAY Special Rule Provides for Si Hours' Debate on Proposal in House Today and But Five Hours x Tomorrow. FLOOD CHALLENGES POWER OF CONGRESS Virginian Characterizes Sec tion Five as Attempt to Pre serve Something Out of Wreck of American Rights. Washington, , April 7. Final de termination "was reached today by republican leaders in the house to bring to a vote in that body late Friday the resolution to declare the ablate of war with, Germany at an end. A special rule reported today by the rules committee provides for mx hours' debate on Thursday and five hours on Friday, "after which opponents of the resolution may of fer only a motion to recommit. Completion today of the minority report presenting views of demo cratic members' of the foreign af fairs committee on the resolution cleared the way for the long debate. - Representative Flood ofc Virginia, ranking democratic member of the committee, presenting the minority report, challenged the power of congress to bring the war legally to an end and characterized section 5 of the resolution as "an attempt to preserve something out of the wreck of American rights which have been so outrageously surren dered in former sections of the reso lution." . Says Proposition Confused. "From whatever angle this reso lution is viewed," he continued, "it presents itself as a proposition not only ineffective in achieving its pro claimed purpose, but as a sure method of confusing our foreign re lations, injecting new and compli cated questions into an already dif ficult situation and involving a sur render of American rights and an impairment of American . prestige and honor." The minority report took particu lar exception to the statement in the resolution's preamble that the presi-. dent had informed congress the war 'was at an end. "At no time and under no cir cumstances has the president, made any such assertion," the report said. "It is true that, on thevaigning of the armistice, the president, in the course of an address to - congress, used the words, 'the war thus comes to an end.' But he spoke of actual hostilities, as every one knew, and not of the technical state of war. It takes a treaty to end a war. "The drafters of 'the resolution and the members of the committee on foreign affairs who voted for it, knew that this was the case. . ' Cite Kentucky Case. "By quoting this statement of the president as the basis for this resolu tion, the authors of the resolution lay themselves open to the charge of insincerity and sharp practice. "The supreme court .recently de clared 'that what the president had done did not announce the legal ter mination of the war,' the report de clared, citing the decision in the Kentucky distilleries cases. "Representative Flood asserted that sections of the resolution restricting trade with Germany or seeking to repeal war time legislation were within the powers of congress, but cited many authorities to sustain his contention that "so far as it seeks to direct the president to issue a proclamation to the German gov ernment, it entrenches upon the treaty-making powers and is not within the power: of congress." Plan Bill to Forever Bar Socialists From Politics in New York i . Albany, N. Y., April 7. Two bills designed to carry 6ut the recom mendation of the assembly judiciary committee "for barring the socialist party of America from participation fn politics in New York state" were introduced in the legislature today. One measure is intended to re quire the attorney general of the state to begin an action in the appel late division, Third department, for a judicial determination of the ques tion whether the "principles, doc trines or policies" of the socialist party, "if carried into effect, would i destroy, subvert or endanger the povernmeni of the state and na ;:on. . . The companion measure is design ed to amend the public officers' law relating to qualifications of persons to, hold office and to provide for their exclusion from public office and preventing the exercise of official duties. S ' ' Mexican Agent Has Been Summoned to Washington Washington, April 7. George T. Summerlin. charge of the American embassy at Mexico City, has been summoned to Washington. State department officials said today his visit had nothing to do with Mexi can affairs and the impression was gained that Mr. Summerlin was slated for transfer to a more impor tant post. Secretary Hanna is act ng as charge at Mexico City now. ; Bandit Is Wounded. Alhuquerque. N. 1U April 7. A r.ian who gave his name as Fred Repka, and his address Buffalo, N. Y was shot and dangerously wounded while attempting to hold ut .an . automobile between Albu querque and Bernalillo, Hoover Not in Favor of His Name on Republican . Ballots in AnjrState Prefers That Former Food Administrator friends Further His. Chances by Prqso Their Views to the Country and Delegv ready Named Doesn't Think Loyjrden, JoN .Son, Harding or Wood Can Be Nominated. New York, April 7. (Special.) Movements started by friends and political admirers of Herbert Hoover to have his name written in on the republican ballots in Illinois, Nebraska, Ohio and other states do not meet with the approval of the former food administrator,' it was made plain here today, . ' Hoover "himself in a statement said: . . "Having refused to allow my name to be put into the primaries hitheto at every place . wtyere I have been consulted, so far as I know, it has only been done in Michigan and California and in one solitary dis trict outside. As there is little or ganization in my-bfhalf except the clubs that have sprung -up spontane ously over the country, and as most of the primaries are closed and at this late date no organization is pos sible that could compete with other organizations, I do not consider my friends will find any advantage in that direction in other primaries. Those who think I should be nomi nated will, I bejieve, find their en ergies better applied to promotion of their views to the country and the delegates already named, with full respect, to their prior .pledges." Playing Careful Hand. Hoover's carefully worded state ment that efforts be centered on the delegates already elected "with full respect to their prior pledges "re moves all doubt that the former food administrator " believes 'that none of the four actively competing candidates for tat presidency Lowden, Johnson or, Wood-can be nominated, that the convention will deadlock, and that by actively boost ing the Hoover candidates before the delegates already selected and to be selected, the! convention might turn to Hoover to break the dead lock., i. Backers of Hoover are determined that his followers do not make the mistake the Wood forces made in ...s allowing tfVeir candidate to go into the home, states of Harding, Low den and Pershing to compete with tm state's candidate. It is taken for granted that Harding, Lowden and Pershing will carry their home states. Fear to Create Bitterness. .It is believed that by pitching contests in these three states the Wood forces have created a bitter ness that in any circumstance would pi event the delegates selected from ever turning to 'Wood. The Hoover forces want no such enmity in what it now appears will be. a long drawn out convention with many ballots, Neither do Hoover leaders want his'name written in on democratic ballots. They say that Hoover, in his statement was emphatic that he would not accept a democratic nom ination, and votes for him on the democratic ticket would, contribute to the defeat of the well thought out Hoover plan of campaign. Hoover's friends in Illinois, Ne braska, Ohio and New. Jersey where the next primaries' tests are to be had will be in full possession of .the fact that he does not wish his name written on the ballots within a short time. Hoover, who may be said to be directing his own campaign, has asked Capt. J. F. Lucey, chairman of the Hoover National Republican club, to write these friends that he does not careo risk embarrassment of his chance by the use of his name in this manner. Wish to Defeat Johnson.- It 'is' no secret that the Hoover forces are anxious to defeat Hiram Johnson in California, and feel cer tain that they will be successful. It is an unwritten anxiom of 'politics that a candidate who cannot go to the nominating convention with the delegates of his home' state is no. candidate at all. They reason that any candidate who has his home (Coatlnord ob Pe Two, t'olamn Fonr.) IRISH PICKETERS CENTER ATTACK ON SECRETARY COLBY Transfer Scene of Activities Front British Embassy to r ' Department of 'Stite " - i.' ' '." . -s Washington, -"April ; 7. Bearing banners inscribed with quotations said to be taken from a recent speech by Secretary Colby, the Irish pickets transferred their activities from the British embassy to the State depart ment. '.''' F : ; . During the busiest hour of the af ternoon, the pickets presented to the gaze tf homeward bound war work ers, banners bearing thequoted in scriptions: t "There is not even a scintilla of legality in England's claim to rule Ireland." "The death of your martyrs has called into existence millions . of Irish by principle," and, ' "1 cannot stand by mute and pas sionless while these votive offerings aie laid upon the altar of patriotism." At the end 01 an hour, the pickets withdrew- to their headquarters'. A squad of pr.lice appeared On the scene as soon as the banners were erected, but no effort was made to interfere with tlie picketing. Further Patrol Postponed. Resumption of the patrol in front of the British embassy has been definitely postponed until after the trial ndxt Monday of the four pick ets now under arrest. Arraigned be fore United States Commissiuner Richardson, the quartet was released on $1,000 bail each, after pleading not guilty to having "feloniously menaced bodily and by violence the person of his excellency, the coun sellor of the embassy and charge d'affairs of Great Britian, the Hon. Ronald C. Lindsay." One of the four prisones was pronounced "indisposed" after her release from detention. vJust an attack of wonian's nerves," her colleagues said. None of the women offered any complaint against the food and lodg ing afforded them at the house of detention. Plenty of Irish potatoes, they said, were offered them besides Hungarian goulash and New Eng land family dinner. Michigan Vote Criterion, According to Edwards 1 - Jersey City, N. J April 7. Gov-' ernor Edwards before leaving for Trenton today, declared the vote for hint in the Michigan primaries "in dicated an awakening of the peo ple to the dangers of an invasion of their personal liberty." He was enthusiastic over the result, not withstanding that latest returns in dicated he ran- behind Herbert Hoover. - "It was not opposition to prohibi tion so much as opposition to being deprived of a personal right with out an opportunity to pass upon, the question that brought out the vote for me in Michigan," he said. "It was spontaneous. I did not lift a hand for it and no one campaigned for me in that state." Roumania to Ratify Treaty. Bucharest, April 71. The council of ministers has decided to ratify the treaty of Versailles. ; The rati fication will be by royal decree, as the parliament is not in. session, making Rumania's approval of the 4 treaty similar to that of Italy, . . COMMUNISTS OF GERMANY CROSS THE RHINE RIVER "f wo Thousand Men Interned in British Zone of Occupation Ruhr Revolt Near End.- r Coblenz, April 7. Two thou sand communists have crossed the' Rhine into the British zone of oc cupation and have been interned Twelve hundred more are expected to arrive today. Flight of large numbers of the communists into occupied territory is considered an indication that the revolt in the Ruhr region is near an end. 'The ' situation in the Rhyr valley is bad and living conditions are almost unbearable.. . A railroad strike at Essen is reported and no trains are-running. . The reaction locally to the move ment of French troops into German cities east, of the Rhine has not dis turbed the population. Firm con viction is expressed by Germans that the action of the French will solidify more than ever, sentimen all over Germany against the allies. The chief of staff of American forces here has repeated his declara tion that he has no direct concern with any action outside of American occupied territory except cTn spe cific instructions from Washington. . , Germany Protests Move. - Berlin, April 7. The German charge d'affaires in .Paris was in structed today to hand to the French government a note protest ing against the French occupation of Frankfort and other territory on the right, bank, of the Rhine. "We must in the name of justice, reason and humanity," the German note says," make the sharpest pro test againsf the acticm of the French army. It cannot possibly have been the intention of the treaty of Ver sailles to prevent Germany from restoring order as quicklyas pos sible in the part of its territory most seriously disturbed by bands of fobbers. A great military conspiracy, which was to have been a Bavarian parallel to the recent Berlin revolu tion, has been discovered in Munich, is was announced. 1 Part of the: plan was that General Ludendorff be made dictator over Bavaria and Dr. Heioi of the Ba varian separatists, a sort of civil and economic dictator. No Assets Found in Estate . Of California Promoter San Francisco, April -7. No as sets have been found in the estate of Robert, G. Hanford, one of the or ganizers of the United Properties company of California, with hold ings valued at $200,000,000. accord ing to an announcement in the su perior court by counsel interested in the settlement of Hanford's affairs.- Hanford died in New York January 5 at. a" time when he was said to be endeavoring to effect a merger of surface railways there. Occupation of Hamburg Ends Move of French Army Frankfort, . April 7.-"-Occupation of Hamburg by French troops vir tually completes the operations out lined to General De Goutte in charge of the occupation movement, in his orders from the war office. The en tire plan has been carried aut with out any significant incident. The inhabitants of Frankfort arc accept ing the occupation, with complete outward indifference. BARE PLOT TO OVERTHROW MtRANZA Widespread Plans for Revolikffl tion Against Mexican Gov ernment Nipped in Bud by De partment of Justice Agents. YOUNG NIECE0F VILLA ARRESTED AT BORDER The Summer White House (Copyright. 1920. by the Chicago Tribune) Papers Seized Said to Reveal Plans to Cross Into Lower California and Later Attack Sonora and Sinaloa. El Paso, Tex., April 7. A wide spread revolutionary plot fostered by agents in the United States to overthrow the present government in Mexico is being investigated by the United' States grand jury, in ses sion here, it became known Wed nesday, Three alleged participans in the plot are in jails in this coun try, while a fourth was arrested by Mexican federal authorities at Mexi cali, Lower , California, while at tempting to smuggle munitions of war to the revolutionists. The plot, became known when United States army authorities in the Big Bend district arrested Andre's H. Vvllegas, a Mexican boy, and Concepion Perez, a young niece of Francisco Villa, when the pair at tempted to cross from this country into Mexico. Military authorities seized from the pair much corre spondence from Villa agents in- this country addressed to Villa. Federal auhorities here said the correspondence revealed a plot of Villistas and other revolutionists to cross into Lower California, seize that state with the large quantities of arms and ammunition available there and then attack the state of Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico, while at the same time Villa was to aggres sively open a revolutionary - cam paign in Chihuahua. r Indians to Help. The correspondence purports also ftfshow that an agreement had been entered into with the Yaqui Indians of Sonora, whereby the7 Indians were to have returned to' them rich tribal lands in exchange for assist ing in the revolution. T 1 . -M 1 , ) iamDeri ynevez, a coionei 111 Villas army, was. arrested by De partment of Justice officers at Los Angeles and he is said to have con fessed - ' ..' :, ;. The Mexican arrested by the Mex-, rcan authorities at' Mexicali ""was said to be A. Barbea, another Mex ican revolutionary army officer. Villegas, Miss Perez and Chevez, it was said are accused of violating the United States neutrality laws by conspiring to foster a revolution against a government recognized by the United States. Mexican authorities and American officers are open in their comments that revolution is an immediate probability in Sonora, Mexico, where the entjre operating personnel of the Southern Pacific railroad of Mexico is on strike. Another revolution, fostered by the "Free Men of Mexico." also is brewing, it was said today. A demonstration by "The Free Men of Mexico" has been set for May S, next. Admiral Rodman Savs Sims' Criticism of His Chief Was Indiscreet Washington, April 7. Admiral Hugh Cj Redman, commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet, told the senate investigating committee to day that Rear Admiral Sims' letter to Secretary Daniels cnticjsing the navy's part in the war was "very indiscreet." J "Admiral Sims' indiscretions," he said, "lay very particularly in his breach of confidence in making public an intimate and confidential conversation which should have been held secret." The witness referred to Sims' testimony that Admiral Benson, former chief of naval operations, told him prior to his departure for London "not to let the British pull the wool over your eyes, we would as soon fight them as the Germans." "Had Admiral SimsX letter been less indiscreet," Admiral Redman said, "it would, no doubt, have . . . received due consideration by the proper authorities and doubtless some good would have come from it." Seattle Editor Cleared Of Criminal Libel Charge Seattle, Wash., 'April 7. A di rected verdict of acquittal was or dered in superior court for E. B.. Ault. editor of the Seattle Union Record, a labor daily newspaper, charged with criminally libelling the memories of the four former sol diers killed by alleged Industrial Workers of the World at Centralia, Wash. . v Dedicate Grand Canyon National Park April 30 Washington. April 7. Dedication of the Grand Canyon national park, created by act of congress February 2(5, 1919, will take place April 30, Secretary Payne announced. The ceremony will mark the end of the great task for its creation begun 33 years ago by President Harrison, then senator from Indiana. Wood Petition Filed. Salem, Ore., April 7. The presi dential nominating petition for Gen. Leonard Wood was filed with secrer tary of state here, The petition places Wood's najpe on the Oregon ballot as a candidate for the repub lican nomination. Thm prwrniimt wK W Hm in t Wmmda Fm, km mm, tm b mm S tir Wf. 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Thereafter luncheon will be served aboard ' the Idaho, Vice Admiral Williams of the Pacific fleet presid ing, in the absence of Admiral Hugh Redman. ' After luncheon the prince and his party, will come ashore, and will be guests on an automobile ride to near by points." The ride Will terminate at San Diego's outdoor auditorium, where the prince will speak briefly, using a Sound amplifying device that was tried out when President Wilson was heard last fal), and by the aid of which it is expected that 50.000 persons can hearf his voice. The stadium will accommodate that many and the local committee expects to see it filled to capacity. ' ' Following the speech at , the stadium,' the prince will be taken to a hotel at San Diego, where he will be the dinner guest of Maypr and Mrs. Wilde, of San Diego. The day's events will conclude with a ball, also arranged by Mayor and Mrs. Wilde. New York People Favor Pershing Instead of Wood New York, April 7. The New York World today continued its poll of downtown sections for straw preferential president sentiment. A surprising feature of the poll is that General Pershing, a passive candi date, led -Gen.- Leonard Wood in a poll at the Commodore hotel and had more votes than Johnson, Low den or Harding at the Hippodrome theater. .Many of those voting for Persh ing in the poll to date are demo crats who express a willingness to vote for. Pershing on any ticket. Governor Edwards of New Jersey is far ahead of aU candidates. This is accounted for Ty the fact that Edwards is an avowed wet. Clemenceau Seriously 111 Cairo, April 7. (Havas.) Gecrges Clemenceau, former pre mier of France, -hafe been suffering fiom bronchitis, since his return to this city from Luxer and his con dition causes some apprehnsioh. The Weather slightly I : . Forecast. Thursday unsettled and warmer. ..... 3 B. m. .-. 33 10 . m. . ft a. m.-.. ....... :Vi II a. m.. 1 . ..., 3tM noon.. R it. m. SB 1 p.- ni..- it. to 40 S . wet bulb. jSKj rrlatlv humidity, 33. At Boon, wind velocity! U taUei m hour, V ll. to 4lt S II. m 48 At 7 , tn.. dty nulH. '?,ti wet bulb. 30; rlatlvo Ihitnldlty, 1,V4.'At. D'Hin. dry bulh. INDICATIONS POINT TO REJECTION OF TRAINING MEASURE Fight on Army Bill Opens in Senate With Sharp ' ' Debate. Washington jApril 7. The big fight against nniversal military train nig "opened 'fn the . senate"" with' indications that the final vote, prob ably tomorrow, would- result in is rejection. ' Leaders on both sides who -formally canvassed the senate vote re fused to comment on the probable outcome. It was said, however, that 40 democrats and 13 republicans were against the training plan. In this situation a movement will be begun aiming at the substitution of ,a program of voluntary training. 1 here was sharp debate on the training scheme, which was com,- . ,J ,! 1 1. I 1 . .UJ sum total of action was the decisiovn to postpone from 1921 to 1922 the date on which the plan would be put into force. This was done with less than a dozen senators in the chamber. Senator Wadsworth, republican of New York, in charge of the bill, de clared the regular army would never be big enough to defend this coun try. Urging adoption of the train ing -plan, he contended the senate bill, including the training scheme, would cause an annual maximum ex penditure of $700,000,000, or. j'but one-twentieth as much as spent for the army alone during 18 months of the world war." Senator Pomerene, democrat Ohio, opposing immediate adoption of the'plan because of the expense, declared the "tragedy of untrained jnen being sent into battle was not due so much to unpreparedness as to the negligence of officers who sent them into the fight." ' Score Are Injured in Series of Sewer Gas "Explosions in Akron AkronO,, April 7. A series of violent explosjons in downtown sew ers at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon in jured a score of persons here, broke hundreds of plate glass windows in stores and office buildings and started a fire in the Buckeye; hotel. Following the first reports which rocked downtown - buildings, thou sands of people congregated on the streets, adding to the danger and making it difficult for the fire depart ment, ambulances and police to care for women who fainted from shock and for those injured by-flying glass. , Gas from broken : mains filled nearby buildings. New explosions and fires are momentarily expected. The office of the Evening Times was filled with smoke and had to be abandoned. Waitresses Go on Strike When Powder Is Banned Fairmont, W. Va... April 7. An anti-paint and powder order issued to waitresses at the' Hotel Watsdn caused so much indignation among the girls that they quit work. - Miss Betty Johnson, the head waitress, leading the walkout,' said:' "If we entered the" dining rooms looking other than neat and. well groomed we would lost our, jobs. When we tried to make- ourselves attractive and good to look vpon the management stooped o such Tow down tactics as ordering us to r-top using paint and powder--even though our aUract:v:;;i?sfi d:Yw busi ness. So we have quit a?. J we won't return until they rescind- the or der." - I MAN'S DEATHBED TALE UNCOVERS CASE 0R1URDER Authorities Investigating . His ;$tajemit Discover Body of Woman r In Deserted - Antloch, House. ; .j Antioch, Neb., April 7. (Special.) A woman, known here as-"R6se," was found "murdered in a shack south of town by authorities investi gating the Story told by Sam Bart lctt, who is lying fatally wounded as the result of an ttemp to escape from thes town marshal after his ar rest upon a larceny charge. -' Bartlett was taken into custody Saturday night in , connection with the theft 'of five gallons of alcohol from a chemical laboratory. When hiing lodglfd in jail he-made a break for liberty and was snot through the right lurrg- by the marshal. Be lieving that he was about to die, he told the marshal of the body of the wemari in the shack.' Before his arrest Saturday night, Bartlett said, he, the murdered wom an, a man named Jackson and an other women had held a drunken spree in the house with the stolen alcohol, i. Following an argument, he said, Jackson shot "Rose" through the head and made his escape. Bartlett tod the authorities that Jackson stole an automobile from a local garage and drove east It is believed that he headed for-Sioux City, his home. He was last seen at Lakeside, Neb. . ' ' v The body of the. murdered woman was found in the .house when au thorities investigated the story.- A bullet hole through her cheek indi cated the course the shot had taken. Sheriff Bruce at Rushville was notified of the nrhrder and posses searched the vicinity in unsuccessful attempts to apprehend Jackson or the second woman implicated in the affair. - Bartlett is not expected to recover from his wound. 200 Shares of Stuti Motor Steok Are Sold at Auction "New York, April 7. Two hun dred shares of - Stutz Motor stock, trading in which has been suspend ed by the New York stock ex- change, brought $710 at auction. The purchase was made by a lawyer acting for a client. The last quotation on the ex change before trading was suspend ed was $391, the stock having risen to that figure from $100, so rapidly that officials; of the exchange ex pressed the belief that there was a corner. Since the suspension the stock has been quoted at $380 bid and $430 asked over the counter. 3,000 Troops of Mexico Land on the West Coast Agua Prieta,' Sonora, Mex., April 7. -According to a statement made jit military headquarters here today byy federal officials, the Mexican transports Guerrero and Chapac .ar rived at Guaymas, the principal west coast port, Tuesday night and. un loaded 3,000 troops, the majority of which were infantry and the balance artillery units. Resume Air Patrol. Washington. April 7. The air plane forest fire patrol of the 'west ers states m to be resumed this year and the Ninth aero sauadron at Rockwell field. .California, will ' be assigned to this work, General Menoher, director of air service, an nounced, v "OUTLAWED" RAIL STRIKE SPREADING . 4 . ' More Than 10,000 Men at Chicago and Several Hun dred at Buffalo and Cham' paign, III. Now Idle. STOCKYARDS EMPLOYES THROWN OUT OF WORK Two Organizations, Charac terized as "Rump" Unions Challenge the Right of Labor Heads to Lead Their Men. Chicago, April 7. An unauthor ized strike of railroad employes which started a week ago in the Chicago switching district by the discharge of a yard conductor, to night had spread until it had affected 25 railroads and in Chicago had thrown more than 50,000 men out of work, either directly or indirect ly. More than 10,000 union railroad men in Chicago and several hundred at Buffalo and at Champaign, 111., were on strike. Hundreds of i Chi-, cago packing house employes Were idle for lack of live stock. V Two "outlaw" organizations, branded by the established brother hoods as "rump" unions, had sprang up to challenge the right of the labor heads to lead their men.. Pledge Support to Roads. ' In the face of this opposition from within the brotherhoods of engin eers, railway trainmen, firemen, and enginemen and the - Switchmen" Union of North America pledged their support to railroad officers irT7 breaking the walkout and ' to .tftft end union railroad men throughout the country have been urged to re port to Chicago to serve as strike breakers.' Managers of 25 roads in the Chi cago terminal district affected by the; strike, today agreed to give . brptherhood officers at least another day in which to restore normal con ditions and, through their spokes men, declared themselves confident that the, unions would succeed. Some ' union leaders voiced the same confidence, but others declared the strike fever was "in the air," that even the most conservative men were quitting work and that the task of keeping the'trains mov ing appeared difficult Difference of Opinion." , V Wide difference of opinion tx isted as to how many men had joined the 'walkout. Charles Riley, .vice president of theChicago Yardmen's association, who called the original strike, sjjet 14,000 switchmen and 3,000 engineers were idle, but rail- road officials and brotherhood heads scouted his figures as far too large. W. J. Trest, vice president of the Switchmen's Union of North Amer-. V ica, said approximately 2,000 of that organization's members "bad struck, and that the Soo line was the only railroad entering Chicago, the union had been able to keep open. Secretary Snyder of the Railroad Managers' association announced after a conference of road heads that between 40 and 50 per cent of normal freight traffic ,was being handled. Sufficient crews to operate about 30C locomotives had been re cruitcd in the Chioago area, he said. ' New "Outlaw" Organization. One of today's developments "waS the formation a new "outlaw" organ ization, the National Engineraen's . association by striking members of the Brotherhood of Engineers and Brotherhood of Firemen and En ginemen. ' . Announcement was made by the striking engineer and the Chicago yardmen's association that branches of the two new unions would be foimed throughout the country and that strikes would be called else where in sympathy with the Chicago movement and in an effort to, force wage advances which the railroad ben had demanded since last Au gust. .-' 1 ' "Five dollars a day is the mini- mum which will support a man and his family," the strikers said In a statement today. Demands they made to the General Managers' as sociation were: - - , .:. j "Conductors, $1 an hour, present scale 66 2-3 cents, switchmen, 93 : cents , an hour, present scale 62J4 cents; switcVjenders, $5 a day, pres ent wage. 50 cents an hour. Brotherhood Chiefs Say Chicago Strike Is Illegal Cleveland, O.,' April 7. W. S. Carter, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine men, had received no official report early today of members of his- or ganization joining the strike of switchmen in Chicago "So far as this organization is concerned, the Chicago strike is il legal and will be treated as such," Mr. Carter said. Warren S. Stone, president of the' Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi neers, issued the following statement regarding the Chicago switchmen's strike: , . "The strike of Chicago switchmen is illegal and Cill be so considered by the engineers' brotherhood." .... 1 .. Wilson Grants Permanent Rank to Major Generals AVashington, April 7. Charles P. Summerall and Henry T. Jervey were nominated today by President Wilson to be major" generafj In the regnlar' army. Both now have the emergency rank of major general ' Nomination Confirmed. Washington, April 7. Nomina tion of Hampson Gary of Texas, to be minister to Switzerland wa con firmed by.tlie senate,