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The 'Omaha Daily Bee yOL. 49 304. tatarae' Sacoarf-ClaM Mitttr May 21, I9M. It Oaaha r. 0. Uadar Act of Mirth t, 1879. OMAHA, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1920. By Mall (I vir), laslde 4tft lot. Dally ae 6uajay. $9: Dally Oaly. M: Sunday, U. TWO PRMT orwmit OMAHA AM) tut'N- i Outilria 4th Zona (I yaar), Dally and Sunday. Daily Oaly. 112: Suafay Only. 15. 1 " Va-UIlp ULBLUTrtk FIVE CENTS, , rui Ju .TO LI 0)0) $)-UUl L J 1 . SITUATION AT CHICAGO ONE BIG MUDDLE Candidates. Managers and Delegates All Swimming in Sea of Doubt as to Outcome Of Republican Convention. WOOD SLATED FOR FIRST SQUEEZEOUT PROCESS Opinion Growing That Once Drift of Importance Sets in, Final Choice Will Be Reached Sooner Than Expected. i By, ARTHUR M. EVANS. Clitrnffo Tribune -Omtilm Beo Wire. Chicago, June 6. "Nobody Knows' as a convention anthem has crowd ed "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here," and "Onward Christian Soldiers," off the hoards. Candi dates, managers, committeemen and delegates were still swimming' in a sea of doubt today and for the fiist time in 32 years the Sunday . her ore a G. O. P. national pow-wow found the old timers unable to get a real line on the candidate who would land on the ticket. In theTlobbies there was a toss ing up of hands and none of the wise birds hazarded a forecast. Managers in every camp, of course, smiled genially and said, "Our can didate will be the winner," but so far as having a real tab on the del legates who. In turn, have the votes, the managers know about as much as the outsiders. "Nobody Knows." "Nobody Knows" was the diag nosis. "All is chaos." said Murrav Crane, oracle of the old guard, which this time is shot to pieces. He expressed, it. The day's deyelopcmcnts. how ever, did indicate some discernible tendencies. They were: ' The episode of Mayor Thompson and his tossing up of the sponge for national committeeman after a count of noses showed hi would lose, was held to have strengthened Governor Lowden, who has made a "no com promise" fight against Thompson ism. , Incoming delegates from the prai ries indicated that Lowdcn's candi dacy has not been impaired by the matter of the two Missouri delegates who salted away funds given them to organize for the primary fight. JoHnson to Show World. Hiram Johnson is ready to show the world at his auditorium meet , , (Continued cn Titge Two, C olumn One.) Dentist Is Arrested When His Automobile Crashes Into Window ' Dr. - G. F. Eadcs, dentist, 601 Pax ton block, was arrested by the police 'a.;t night charged 'with in toxication and reckless idriving after his automobile had crashed through a plate rlass window in the front of the Lricm Insurance office, 1715 Druglrs street. His t automoblie collided with a car driven by Dick Egan, of Coun cil Bluffs, who was driving east on Douglas street, and then crashed ovfr the curb into the window. His machine was badly damaged, one front wheel being completely broken and the. front of the car being badly smashed. Eades sustained a few facial lac erations. A dog'in the back seat of the car was undisturbed by the acci dent. Boost Prichard for Vice President As Last Resort Chicago. June 6. Judge J. C. Prii chard of North Carolina will be pro posed for the vice presidential nomi nation if members of the North Carolina delegation become con vinced that he cannot be nominated for the presidency. Former United States Senator Marion Butler made the announcement that Judge Prit- chard had finally consented to this program. Capitol Lunch Room Is Destroyed by Night Fire The Capitol lunch room,- 1610 Capitol avenue, was . destroyed by fire shorty after midnight last night. The btaze is believed to have start ed from a fire in the kitthen stove. The fire was well tinder way in the rear of the building before it was discovered. The loss is esti mated atabout $1,500. The Victory tailor shop, 1612 Capitol jivenue, also was slightly damaged. ' May Stop Bullfights If Children Are Not Educated Valencia, Spain, June 6. Munic ipal Counsellor -. Margaia, in fhe course cf a council meeting last night threatened to invoke the exist ing laVv prohibiting bull fights un les the city provides sufficient op portunities of educating the chil dren. He charged the council with neglect in not appointing-the neces sary amount for erecting schools Convention Along to Jazzless Grave Whoop 'Em Up Ginger and Pep A. W. 0. L. So Far As Chicago Is Concerned, Dorothy Dix Says After Hunt for Excitement Looks Bad for the General, She Finds. By DOROTHY DIX. Chicago, June 6. The main trou ble with this convention is that it lucks ginger and pep. It's not the Sabbath calm either, for the delegates"a"re playing poli tics of a Sunday when they wouldn't dare play poker after passing the plate in the First Baptist church back home. About the time the heathen among us swere turning over for a second snooze this morn ing. The president of the First Na tional bank of Cedar Creek and the leading merchant of Four Corners were out, clad in comfortable sack suits with a red necktie and pos sibly a Wood1- feather. But were they church bound? Not a bit of it. They were bound for the Congress lobby, there to swap cigars and conversation until the ltjncheon bell rang. Conversation is about all ther is to the doings so far. The crowds are here and some of the hopeful candidates are here. There is a good deal of the usual blah blah and deep and dark and mysterious prognos tication. But the awful truth must be paged: Deep down in his heart nobody seems to give a dern who gets the nomination except the can didates themselves. It's a Dead Affair. The convention is dying on it's feet before it begins. Old man Gloom has the delegates by the throat. A political frost has nipped it in the bud. It's lifeless, ossi fied, frapped. At least that's what the men say. It was the men's game first and they know the rules. The very air of patience and indul gence and patronizing , superiority with which they answer our simplest ARMISTICE WITH MUSTAPHA KEMAL BLOW TO BRITISH Leaves Route to Suez Canal Open for Drive by Turkish Forces. BY HENRY WALES. New York Tlmea-Chlraso Tribune Cable, Copyright, 1920. Paris, June 6. Because Prime Minister Lloyd George insists on dealing with' Krassin, Premier Mil lerand replies by recognizing Musta pha Kemal Pasha.' ;For the same reason that the British prime minister urges peace with lie bolsheviki betause Great Britain cannot affor to send troops to fight them the French premier states he is forced to make an armi stice with the Turk nationalists, be cause "France cannot maintain an army of 80,000 troops in p'h'cia and Syria, as they are needed elsewhere, cn the Rhine for example General Gouroud's armistice with Mustapha Kemal, which is a prelude to French retirement to the littoral and withdrawal of more than half its forces from Asia-Minor, is a bitter blow to the British because it leaves the route toward Egypt wide open and permits the Turks to make a drive on the Suez canal. That the Turk treaty of San Rcmo becomes a scrap of paper through recognition of Mutsapha Kemal and that France will draft a new treaty is the belief of the foreign office. "The Turks never will accept the less of Smyrna and Thrace," said the foreign office oifficiat. "and France never supported Clcmen ccau's act in sejndingyan army to .Cilicia to watch over the British in terests. France will benefit greatly b-' making a separate peace with Turkey along lines with which" the Turks will comply. "Marshal Foche warned the su preme council it required an army of 300,000 to enforce the Tuii treaty, and Lloyd George believed Venzelos when he offered 300,000 Greeks. But the Greek troops were solely for Thrace and Symrna and not to protect the British, French and Armenian interests. The bol sheviki occupying Teheran and Mesopotamia, the arising Arabian foment,, and the Egyptian troubles sound the death knell to the ambi tions of the British in Asia-Minor." VENNING MISSED Tkf Bee rVgrets to announce that Arthur Sears Hennlnj, etiief Waah IngtonTorrefcnondrnt of the Chicago Tribune and one of The Bee's special orreapondenti at the republican na tional convention, nas oeen recaucq to Washington, by of his wife, he by the serious illness hopes to return to Chicago by Thursday. While Mr. I Hennlng's Illuminating 1 accounts will be missed. The Bee's convention service) is so complete that the loss of no single writer can 'be a serious handicap. Edne C. Snyder, Arthur M. Evans, E.trhilllps, Fhil ftlnnler and William Phillip Sims, all expert newspaper men, will lead the field of a score or mors of lesser lights. And don't forget W. J. Bryan, Senator Borah .and Dorothy Dix la The Bee, i ... . V , is Dragging GangJNfeeded question; the words of one syllable with which they frame their replies, leads us to but one conclusion: We are still classed with imbeciles, aliens and convicts politically. But when, a male person has been attending '"conventions since he was a callow young thing he really ought to know what he's talking about when his wife isn't around to con tradict him. . The reminiscent individual is abroad who shakes his head dole fully and siighs, "This isn't like the old days. There were real conven tions in' my time. Now, back in '84, them were the happy days." Jazz Is Needed. And you do a quick duck while ha is enveloped in the haze of memory and make your getaway and g'i around looking for something with a little more pep. But it's hard to find. All manner of excitement is being promised us. -Each candidate'.; own particular gang claims that it is going to whoop it up. But the prom ises snuff out like Roman candles on a wet Fourth of July. The California delegation arrived after a loud fanfare of vocal trum pets by native sons already on the job. For the last two days I had been heading nothing but "Wait 'till California arrives, then things will begm to cut loose." So I stood my ?elf along with a few hundred others in a conspicuous position on Michi gan avenue, where I couldn't by any chance miss the arrival and what happened? And Then More Quiet. The Califomians arrived about five hours late, headed by a discour aged brass band. When the delega (Continued on Vage Two, Column One.) DELEGATES FROM NEBRASKA LEAVE FOR CONVENTION Groups Divided Between Wood - And Johnson Leave Omaha Sunday for Chicago Meeting. Members of the Nebraska delega tion to the republican national con vention at Chicago learned as they entrained last evening at 6:30 on the Burlington, that there will be 2,300 sergeants-at-arms at the big conven tion and that they will have to be "good little boys" while away, from home. Gould Dietz, delegate from the Second Congressional district, was in charge of the party which will have headquarters in room No. 130, Auditorium hotel. Delegates were elected from this state to the republican national con vention as follows: At-large: L. D. Richards, Fre mont; Don L. Love, Lincoln; Charles E. Sandall, York; JohnW. Towle, Omaha. First district: W. A.lsclleck, Lin coln; O. A. Cooper, Humboldt. Second district: W. G. Ure, Oma ha: Gould Dietz, Omaha. Third district: Ber Mapes, Nor folk; A. R. Davis, Wayne. Fourth district: H. E. Sackett, Beatrice; H. C. Beebe, Osceola. Fifth district: W. H. Miller, Bloomington; H. E. Stein, Hastings. Sixth district: Horace F. Ken nedy, Broken Bow; Earl D. Mall wry, Alliance. John H-. Caldwell1 and Amos Thomas went from Omaha as alter nates. R. B. Howell, national committeeman, was iji Chicago last week, attending meetings of the na tional committee. Rev. John Albert AVilliams, negro, of this city, who was a candidate for district delegate, accompanied the party, to attend a meeting for negro editors in Chicago this afternoon at 2, and also to attend the convention. Republican voters at the. primary .on April 20 instructed for Leonard Wood in the First and Second Con gressional districts and for Hiram Johnson in the other districts. All of the district delegates elected except Gould Dietz of the Second and Bert Mapes of the Third were known as Wood delegates during the primary campaign, although pledged to abide by the instructions of the voters. v Fire Destroys TNant of St. Joseph Paper Company St. Joseph, Mo., June 6. Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the plant of the American Paper Stock Co.. just after midnight Sunday morning. The loss was estimated at $100,000 and was not covered by in surance, according to J. Ungerman, owner. Denver Educator Dies. Denver, June 6. Carlos N.Cole, superintendent of the Denver public schools since 1915, died in a local hospital Sunday afternoon. Mr. Cole had Teen suffering from influenza since an operation for appendicitis May 28and Saturday suffered a re hfcse which ended in death. SEC. DANIELS RAPS ACTION OF CONGRESS Failure to Appropriate Full Account Asked for Naval" Air Development Arouses Ire of Cabinet Member. WILL RENEW EFFORTS 'AT DECEMBER SESSION Criticizes Clause Slipped Into Bill Over Protest, to Limit Coast and Overseas Aviation Will Ask Repeal. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee leaned Wire. Washington, June 6. Failure of congress to appropriate as much as was requested for naval aviation drew a criticism from Secretary of the Navy Daniels today. The sec retary took a shot at republicans in congress and particularly Repre sentative Mondell, the party leader in the house, nvho hoasted of a re duction of $139,851,680. In all naval estimates. "As a matter of fact." said Sec retary Daniels, discussing the an nual naval appropriation bill, "the bill only postpones expenditures'un til after the election and makes no reductions except it the cost of naval efficiency." Secretary Daniels aired . three other grievances in addition to his criticism of the slashing of the aviation item. These were a failure to make provision for a desired nnval expansion on he Pacific; failure to authorize the construction of a single new ship and failure to appropriate sufficient money to re pair and keep in condition the ships of the fleet. A clause slipped into the army ap propriation bill over the protest of both Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of the Navy Daniels, limit ing the coast and overseas activities of jiaval aviation aroused Mr. Dan iels'ire. He said , he intended, to.ask congress at the next session to re verse this action, which he described as arj unnecessary and unwise limita tion upon r.aval efficiency in avia tion: A special commission of senators and representatives will visit the Pa cific coast this summer to investigate the needs of naval development nec essary bv reasop of the presence of the Pacific fleet. Secretary Daniels said he believed this commission would see the need of the enlarge-' ment of naval bases als recommended by the department. Announce Names of Temporary Officers For G. 0. P. Convention V Chicago Tribune-Omaha nee Leased Wire. Chicago, June 6. Announcement of the selection of temporary officers of the republican national conven tion, to be elected was made by the subcommittee on arrangements to day. The selections are: Chairman, Henry Cabot Lodge, Massachusetst; secretary, Lafayette B. Gleason, New York; sergeant-at-arms, Edward P. Thayer, Indiana; chief assistant sergeant-at-arms, Guy V. Howard," Minnesota; second as sistant sergeant-at-arms, McGinais Hatfield, West Virginia; . parlia mentarian, Lehr Fess, Ohio; official reporters, Herman A. Phjllips, New York, George L. Hart, Virginia; chief doorkeeper, Brig. Gen. James A. Ryan. Chaplains, Cardinal Gibbons ftf Baltimore; Bishop Thomas P. Nich olson of the Chicago area of the Methodist Episcopal church; the Rt. Rev. Charles E. Woodcock, Epis copal bishgp of the diocese of Louis ville, Ky.; tjie Rev. John Timothy Stone, D. D., of the Fourth Presby terian church; the Rev. Johnston Myers, pastor of Immanuel Baptist church, Chicago; Dr.Emil G. Hirsch of Sinai Congregation church and the Rev. Gardiner A. McWhorter of St Chrysostom's Protestant Epis copal church, Chicago. Ask 5,000 Mexican Troops Be Sent to Lower California Calcxico, Lower Cal., June 6. A recommendation that 5,000 Mexican troops be sent to the port of En senada, Lower California, was tele graphed from here to ,Gen. Alvaro Obregon at Mexico Crty by Baldo mero A. Almada Mexican de facto appointee to the governorship of the northern district of Lower Califor nia, i The telegram contalnnig the rec ommendation was made public by M. Paredes, consul here for the provisional Mexican government, after Senor Ahnada bad announced his intention to start for the Mexi can capital to discuss the situation in Lower California, with Gen. Obre gon and, Adolfo de La Huerta, pro visional president. Bolsheviki Massacree Many Japanese Nationals Honolulu,' June 6. The bolsheviki massacred Japanese nationals at Ni kolaevsk and set fire to the city be fore evacuating it, according to. a statement of the Japanese war quoted in a Tokio-dispatch to the Nippu Jiji, a Japanese language newspaper here, . Home Brew Continues To Brew to Delight of Bottle-Nosed Bums Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee laaed Wire. Chicago, June 6. For months there has been something com pelling about the atmosphere of the federal building. Coincident a'ly it was noticed that a large number of bottle-nosed bums were hanging around the place, sniffing the air. The aroma per vaded the corridors, seeped into the courtrooms and filtered into the offices. Undoubtedly it was the bouquet of spiritous fermenti, but its source remained a mys tery. With the arrival of spring days the odor became more no ticeable and the loungers arrived in droves and haunted the corri dors all day. Secret service men were final ly called in after two or three floors had been searched without avail. One of the sleuths watched a bottle-nosed gent, one of the steady visitors, ascended the stairs and stopped before a seaJeJ door sniffing and sighing. The secret service man oriened the door and found a great quantity of sewed stills and tubs of mash that had been fermenting for months and truckloads of home brew that had blown out the corks and was filling the air with their fragrance. Much of the stuff had been locked in the room for a year and had been forgot ten but it kept right on working. Inasmuch as most of it is wanted for evidence, it cannot be de stroyed, but a force of officials cleared the building of the snif fing hoboes. ' JOHNSON CLAIMS BIG VICTORY IN NORTH .CAROLINA Says Meagre Returns Show He Has Carried State by 10 to 1 Waxes Sarcastic Toward Press. 1 Chicago, June, 6. Senator John son had a stack of telegraphic re turn from the1 North Carolina pri mary election when he met newspa per correspondents for his regular interview today. , "My reports which ( are very meagre," said he, "say that I have carried the metropolis of the state 10 to 1, and that it is safe to say that I have carried the entire'state. North Carolina is the purest Ameri can state in the union, with less than 1 per cent of its population of foreign birth. Yfct.I suppose that a certain section of the press will announce tomorrow that these Americans have been metamor phosed into Sein Feiners, pacifists," pro-Germans, and 'red' radicals by the act of voting for me. "How, logically, a candidate can be selected by the republican na tional convention for presidential nomination from among a field of four, who has never been better than third or fourth, passes belief with rrre, - I'm convinced that a republican convention will heed the will of re publican voters. y "It will be very unfortunate if the convention forgets the wishes of the rank and file of the party, who make the party and make the country as, well." , Somebody asked him how much of a vote was cast in the state. A questioneri asked the senator if he was "weakening on the league of nations." "Rot!" he declared. "Rot! I have said I came here to make a fight in relation to. the platform. I'll be represented in the ultimate conference on the league of nations, wiherever that will be anywhere it comes up." Niece oLBuffalo Bill Breezes Into Windy City for Convention i i Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire. Chicago, June 6. From a ranch in Wyoming, "upstcen miles from no where," Mrs. Mary Jester Allen, a ! niece of Buffalo Bill Cody, breezed I into the national republican women s headquarters. She had stopped in Iowa on the way here, to organize Baby Elephant clubs among college Eirls. Her mother was Helen Cody : Wettmore, youngest sister of Buf-1 falo Bill and the author of "The Last ! of the Great Scouts," a story of west ern life, which has been translated into more languages than any other book except the Bible. When she is not expending her western energy in political spellbind ing, Mrys. Allen is managing her own ranch. Mrs. Allen is expecting the arrival of her 17-year-old daughter before the close of the convention, who will ride in the South Shore Country club horse show here next week. . .( Alleged Confidence Man - Arid His Wife Arrested Elmer Seiglar and his wife, Mrs. Goldie Seiglar, 1813 Chicago street, were arrested at the Loyal hotel last night by Detective George Sum mitt and are being, held by the po lice for investigation. Seiglar is an alleged fToufidcnce mart-and is an associate of W. O. Woodward, who was arrested vith his wife at thei.Flomar hotel last Thursday night, according to the police. Nebraskans Arriving in Chicago Join in General Scramble for pasteboards National Committeeman Howell Spends Sunday Counting Tickets for Friends, While Many Must Be Refused Governor McKelvie Delivers Address Omaha Men Are on the Job. i By E. C. SNYDER. Washington Correspondent Omaha Bee. Chicago, June 6. (Special Tele gramsNational Committeeman R. B. Howell, who is extremely popu lar with his associates in the com mittee, notwithstanding his indepen dent and fearle;); attitude on many questions that properly come before that body, had a most strenuous week assisting in ironing out anum bcr of contests that had to bet set tled before the temporary roll of the convention could be made. Although he was a witness to the crushing force of the steam roller, or the tank as Senator Moses of New Hamp shire and one of Gen. Leonard Wood's managers, called the ma chine that flattened out a number of Wood delegates from the south ern states, he was diplomatic enough to say that the methods used by the committee on contests were very much less revolutionaryand obnox ious than those of 1912 when the "steam roller first came into use as a descriptive phrase for "rough work." Frankly, Mr. Howell is of the opinion that in some of the contests all of the contestants should have been thrown out because of the glar ing irregularities n the selection of delegates, but generally he be lieves that the decisions of the com mittee were fair and as impartial as they well could be under all the cir cumstances. Many Without Ticket Today Mr. HoweH speiit in a con scientious effort to parcel out the seats allotted to him as national committeeman and to assign the es sential pasteboard to a multitude of friends who had made requests upon SUFFS IN EIGHTH WORLD CONGRESS IN SWITZERLAND ' i Carrie Chapman Catt Principal Speaker at First Official Meeting. Geneva, June 6. Theeighth con gress of the International Woman Suffrage alliance was opened Sun day morning with a sermon deliv ered in Geneva cathedral by Miss Maud Royden, up to a. short time ;igO pastor of the City temple In London. Miss Royden's rail fig ure in black seemed almost lost in the great pulpit from which Calvin and Knox preached. The cathedral was crowded. A touch of qolor was lent by 10 Indian women delegates in their costumes of many hues. The first official meeting of the congress was held Sunday night in Communal hall. . The principal speaker was Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the alliance. Among those, present were Lady Astor, member of the British house of commons, and Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wfe of the secretary of the United States navy. No Easy Chairs for j ? Delegates Attending ( Chicago Convention Chicago Tribune-Omaha Beo Leaned Wire. Chicago, June 6. Delegates to the republican national convention are going to sit on hard wooden chairs of the old-time kitchen, variety which may prove irksome during a long speech. The Wood delegates say it is a good sign. In the . gallaries, however..-thert are soft. folding chairs for the 'vis itors. The tables and chairs on the platform where the committeemen and distinguished guests will sit ar; of handsome pattern and built for comfort. Built-in benches are pro vided for the press. Mexican Embassy Formally Delivered to Alvaro Diaz Washington. June 6. The Mexi can embassy has been formally de livered to Alvaro Torre Diaz, repre sentative of the de facto government of Mexico, by Salvardor Diego Fer nandez, minister and charge d'af faires appointed by the late Presi dent Carranza. While the new charge d'affaires has no diplomatic standing here, as the new regime in Mexico has not been recognized by the United States, he will be in touch with of ficials of the State department un officially. The Weather Forecast. Nebraska Fair Monday and probably Tuesday; not much: change in temperature. Iowa Partly cloudy Monday and probably Tuesday; not much change in efmperature. I Hourly Temperatures. a. ni ..Ho I 'p. m 1 a. m IM C p. m .....TO 5 a 7 a. m. .si 8 D. m. .S3 ft a. m. 0 a. m. 1A a. m. II a. m. It noon .A .M .' .7S .78 4 p. m.. . . . . . 5 p. m p. m 1 p. m - r ' ...nit . . . .mi i ... 1 ... is .4.-. him to view a great convention at work in the making of a presiden tial nominee. Like every other com mitteeman, Mr. Howell is far short of the number of tickets needed to take care of applicants and innurrf: berable somebodies will have to re sign themselves to the inevitable and content themselves with watch ing the parade, listening to the bands and soap box orators loudly extoll ing the attributes of the various presidential candidates. Omahans Arriving. Assisting Mr. HowelJ in making his ticket assignments was Robert Smith of Omaha who had been in Chicago since last Wednesday ready to do yeoman service for both the national committeemen and the party and the rooms of the Nebraska delegation, which are adjacent to the Johnson headquarters in the Auditorium hotel, have been put in shipshape condition v by the same Robert Smith. Mr. Howell also had the assistance of Robert C. Druese dori, a Omaha dealer in stocks and bonds, who with Mrs. Druesedon ar rived in the convention city this morning. Frank A. Harrison of Lincoln is much in evidence at the Johnson headquarters when not giving out badges and Hiram literature orates on the vote getting qualities of the CaVifornian and his splendid person ality Across the street in the Congress hotel F. P. Corrick, also of the Nebraska capital, holds forth in the Wood headquarters which is run for all the world like a great manufac turing plant with the names of the managers and their assistants over (Continued on Fage Two, Column One.) PUBLIC'S RIGHTS SAME AS TOILERS, GOfflPERS SAYS Labor Leader Makes State ment in Reply to -Queries by Governor Allen Qf Kansas. Chlraco Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire. Washington, June 6. Replying to a question as to the rights of the public in strikes, Samuel Gomper, presidont of the American Federa tion of Labor, in a statement issued today, declared that "the public has no rights which are superior to the toilrrs' right to live and to his right to defend himself against oppres sion." " The statement was an answer to queries propounded to him by Gov. Henry Allen of Kansas in their re cent joint debate in New York rela tive to the workings of the new Kan sas industrial court. Mr. Gompers said rre had not been able to do full justice to the question of the rights of the public in the debate and so has elaborated his views on the sub ject. "The question propounded by Governor Allen is an inquiry as to whether the public has any rights when strikes affect production or distribution of the necessaries of life, thus threatening the public peace, and impairing the public health," said Mr. Gompers. "In such cases the public, including union men, has rights and the striking union usually is first 'to recognize those rights. Fe,w strikes affecting production 01 distribution, "actually threaten the public peace and fewer become a menace to the public health. "Labor has m desire to cause in convenience to the public, of which it is a part. "The public has no rights which are superior to the toilers' right to live and to his right to de fend himself against oppression. "When but a few were organized, when employers were able to dictate and enforce their will, there was no great outcry against strikes. So long as labor was ineffective and unable to protest there was little concern for labor. "The right to strike, with all its disadvantages, is an agency of prog ress, a buttress of manhood, of health and vigor, a promoter of pub lic thought and education an instru ment for good; democratic in concept and essential to freedom. Its great est justification is found in" its re sults." Mexico to Elect Chamber . Of Deputies-on August 1 Mexico City, June r. Members of the chamber of deputies and the sen ate will be elected - on Sunday, August 1, and the presidential elec tions will be held on September 5, according to a decision reached by Adolfa de la Huerta, provisional president. Declaration vwas made that the government had determined not to enter into any negotiation's with Felix Diaz, a revolutionary leader for "Some time past in the, state of Vera Cruz. General Diaz recently announced he desired to support the government. INJECT NEW ISSUE INTO CONVENTION Disclosure of Plank to Curb Walkouts in Tentative Plat form of Republicans Enliv ens Proceedings at Chicago. BUTLR REITERATES CHALLENGE ON LEAGUE Renews Offer to Johnson and Borah for Showdown Over Irreconcilable Attitude . Towards Covenant. ' By CRAFTON WILCOX. Chicago Trihune-Omaha Bee I.eaaed Wire, Chicago, June 6. Republican con vention proceedings were enlivened today by the injection of a new issue into the platform deliberations. President Wilson's defiance of con gress to strip him of autocratic war powers, disclosed that the tentative platform includes a plank for gov ernment curbing of strikes which is certain to provoke desperate opposi tion from labor. Continued efforts of party leaders to reconcile all ele ments to the tentative league of na tions plank, and revival of the fight against Senator Watson of Indiana, for chairman of the resolutions com mittee, also enlivened .tKe prelimi naries. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, New York's candidate for the presidential nomination, reiterated last night his challenge to Senators Johnson and Borah for a fight o;er their irrecon cilable attitude toward the league of nations, but at the same time de clared thatthe league would by no means be regarded as the prime issue of the campaign. The high cost of living and economic prob lems before the country, he said, . must be gfyen carfful attention by ! the party in its declaration of prin ciples,' and the president's retention, of ( war powers through his veto of the repeal resolution, he insisted, must alsd be given attention. Makes New Issue. "President Wilson has made a new issue," said Dr. Butler, "which the republican party cannot afford to ignore. His defiance of congress in its effort to take away from the executive powers of an autocrat which were granted him in war, must not be ignored. The presi dent's action is a culmination of a long series of congressional defi ances by the chief executive which this convention must consider." That the tentative pfftform fram ers had completed an anti-strike plank with tseth in it had not been generally known until last night. This resolution is certain to start the fur flying when it reaches the resolutions committee, and wilt send the labor leaders scurrying toward Chicago from their conven tion in Montreal. , The antistrike clause deals pri marily with settlement of transpor tation industrial disputes and is said to go even farther than the indus trial court proposal urged, by Gov ernor Allen of Kansas. It cites forcibly that strikes which interfere with -traffic and are fatal to peace ful industries should be restrained by government means, recommends the creation of an industrial rela tions court, patterned after the la bor war board, but would create a court with a punch -in it and with power toenforce its decrees through ' application of the commercial law and authority to protect employes at their work. No Changes in Plank. The arrival of Senator Lodge; leader of the senate league reserva- '" tionists: Senator Borah, the treaty irreconcilable, and others interested.:1 primarily in the treatv issue did not'.: serve to clear up the differences over, the peace treaty, although party leaders were-Ied to believe that con ferences which began immediate! would result in final acceptance b all factions of the tentative league plank, which would leave the candi date to be nominated to give it his own interpretation. No changes were made in the league- plank by the "preliminary framers during the day. It stands where it was, re pudiating the Wilsonian leaguei commending the senate for its course in rejecting the peace treaty,, urging establishment of an indus trial court for -adjudication of jus ticiable disputes and reaffirming the policies of Washington antTMonroe in international relations. y . Two Professionals Turn y In Perfect Spores at Shoot ,. Coffeyville, Kan., June 6. Two perfect scores in the y)-targct professional registered shoM herc today were scored by Phil RMvil ler, Dallas, Texas, and James HeedT' t St. Louis. Perfect shooting con tiinied in shooting off the tie. until Mr. Head missed On the 125th shot, Mr. Miller breaking 125 for the honor. ; Police Car Damaged. An automobile belonging to the police partment was slightly dam aged last night at Eighteenth an J Davenport strces when it wns Mruck by an automobile driven hv ; R. 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