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a Daily Bee ' .VOL. 50 NO. 44. Cattnc H SwMt-ClM MalMr In M. IN. It Oaalu P. 0. Umt At 1 Muk S. 1171. OMAHA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1920. sr Malt ( tnn, Dilti 4th Zen. Dally . : 0ll Ojhr, : ' tf Oultldt 4th Zoaa (I VMf). Dally . IK: Dally Oalr. lit: Saafay Oaly. IS. THREE CENTS The Omlah REDS PUSH ON WHILE POLES FIGHT HARD pefensive Line East of War saw Crumples When Rus ; sians, Reinforced, Launch i New Offensive. PLANS ARE ALL MADE FOR LEAVING CAPITAL Poles Deliver Counter-Attack, But Fail to Check Bolshevik Hordes Soviets at Standstill On South Front. (By The Anoclsted Preas.) Wanaw, Augr. 6. The defensive line east of Warsaw has been pierced in several places, according to reports from the front. Prepara tions have been begun for trans ferring the government if that move is necessitated by the Russian ad vance. The officials, however, still hope the soviet forces will be checked somewhere east of the Vis tula. No announcement has been made as to what place the government would move to, but it is reported it would be . Posen or Czestochowa, 143 miles southwest of Warsaw, near , the Silesian frontier, ' Reds Forge Across River. Of the developments along the eastern defense line, the word from the i front shows that after a halt of several days while reinforcements were brought up and supplies for warded along the river, the bolshe vik! forced crossings of the Bug at a number of places. At one point, southeast of Ostrov, soviet troops are reported to have . crossed the "river in large numbers. Last night's communique from headquarters announced that the Russians had forced the Bug in the region of Drohiezyn (about 70 mile! east of the capital), this being a part of the soviet movement to outflank the defenders of Warsaw. The Poles counter-attacked and fierce fighting is continuing. Between Drohiezyn and Brest I.itovsk, the communique continues, the Poles launched a counter-attack against the Russians, who had crossed the Bug below Brest Litovsk. In the region of Brest Litovsk, which is in the hands of the Russians, they recoiled for an at tack which compelled the Poles to evacuate Terespol.-just to the west of the river." :4-r.- v Stop'TRuisian Gains. There was fighting at various points . to the south, but without gains for the Russians. The soviet troops, have been checked in their westward push along the Prussian border, the state ment announces. They have reached Myszniec in an advance apparently desjgncd to bring them to the War-saw-Danzig railway. Military ob servers assert that this is part of the Russian outflanking movement planned to encircle the capital. I .Russian gains are conceded north and east of Warsaw, where the soviet forces are regrouping for what may be the final exertion in their attempt to bring Poland to (Continued on Pas Two, Colomn Fonr.) Roads Given Special Permission to File New Rate Schedules Washington, Aug. 1 6. SpeeM per mission to file blanket schedules containing new freight and pas senger rates and other charges re cently authorized was given the rail- froads by the Interstate Commerce (commission. The roads are required to file com pleted freight . tariffs within three months from September 1. The commission's decision author izing higher freight rates provides that the new schedules are to be ef fective five days after filing with the commission. There was no definite information as to when the roads would be able to file the schedule;, but announcement . has been made that the new rates would go into ef fect August 26. . Theatrical Field Latest To Be Invaded by Women New York. Aug. 6. Woman has invaded another sphere which man has called his own. They will be theatrical managers. Comstock & Gest, in announc ing today that Miss May Dowling will be their first woman manager, went' further and declared their in tention of placing many of their companies under a woman's direc tion. Miss Dolling will have charge of "Adam and Eve," the comedy success of last season. "Women don't smoke, don't gamble and attend strictly to busi ness," the producers said, in ex plaining their idea of the innova tion. ' ' - Steamship Grounded on ; Rocks of Barber's Point San Francisco, Aug. 6. The Steamer West Eldara, bound from Yokohama to New York, grounded on . the rocks of Barber's Point, Hawaii, last night according to a cable message to the marine depart ment of the San Francisco Chamber Yof Commerce. The members of the l,crew were not in danger. urge uuvuiuueut vnucisiuy. - St Louis, Aug. 6. Government ownership of packing plants was urged in resolutions adopted at the concluding session of an 11-day con vention of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers' Workmen of North America MAN IDENTIFIED AS KIDNAPER OF COUGHUN CHILD Authorities Sure They Have Guilty Person! Think Others Got Money. Philadelphia, Aug. 6. Postal in spectors and police today expressed conviction that "the crank" identified as Augusto Pascol and known to the authorities as Pasquale, is not only the man who secured the $12,000 from George H. Coughlin, father1 of the kidnaped Norristown baby, but is the abductor of the 13-months-old child. Pascol, arrested Monday at Egg Harbor, N. J., after he had been trapped into picking up a box sup posed to contain $10,000 as further ransom money, is still hidden by the authorities, who say they will not reveal his whereabouts until they complete their investigation. A development today was the identification of Pascol as Augusto Pasquale, with a police record, po lice asserting that finger prints of Pasquale and that of the kidnaper found in the Coughlin home agree sufficiently to convince them that they were made by the same man. Pasquale was released from Moya mensing prison here last1 March after serving nine months. According to George A. Leonard, chief postal inspector, Pascol said he did not know anything about the kidnaping, but that he was hired by a man to hang the white sheet along the railroad as a signal for Coughlin to throw a box containing $12,000 out of a train window. Imperial Press Meet Urges Lower Cable Rates for Newspapers Ottawa, Ont., Aug. 6. Considera tion of a resolution urging govern ment subsidy of cable companies and lower cable rates to insure the fullest interchange of news and opinion within the British Empire, occupied most of today's opening session of the Imperial Press con ference. British and Canadian delegates strongly opposed acceptance of sub sidies which might imply govern ment control of the character of news services. A resolution to be considered will ask that governments of the British mnir arlnnt attanuate wireless serv ice throughout .the emoire. bv public and private enterprise. .. More resolutions win acai wim paper supplies, independence of news services, uniform postal rates, interchange of staffs between vari ous portions of the empire and es tablishment of courses of journal ism in universities. V lavvuiti ... v. . ....... . - - - - - chairman, and Lord Atholstan, hon orary chairman ot the conference at this morning's session. A party of newspapermen from the United States, attended tne conierence. Long Airplane Race Planned as Feature - Of Tri-State Fair Nebraska's first airplane race is being planned between Omaha and Crawford, 473 miles northwest, as an opening feature of the tri-state fair at Crawford. September 16. Mayor Arah- L. Hungerford of Crawford, president of the fair as sociation, is in Omaha negotiating for entries to compete for prizes ag gregating $2,500. One stop will be arranged at Grand Island, ISO miles west of Omaha, for fuel. Planes entered will leave Omaha at 11 to arrive in Crawford in mid-afternoon of the opening day. Agricultural exhibits from bouth Dakota, AVypmmg and Nebraska will be shown at the fair. Crawford is within 40 miles of bqth state lines. Youth Kills His Father , For His Abuse of Mother Fairview, N. J., Aug. 6. After shooting and killing his father early today in defense of his mother, Louis F. pross, jr., 21 years old, telephoned to the police and awaited arrest. Gross, police say, declared his father was choking Mrs. Gross when he returned from a trip to Asburj park with her son's girl friend. Four of six shots fired at the elder Gross took effect. ' Boy Unhurt After Being Drawn Under Moving Train Akron, O., Aug. 6. Gus Pctro vich, 6 years old, while waiting with his father and brothers in the union station, was drawn under a passen ger train by suction. Six coaches passed over the boy. When the train had passed Gus got up, shaking and laughing. He had been thrown between the rails and was uninjured, but frightened. Things to Watch For 1 "Letters From Home-Made Father to HI Ban," by Ed Btreeter, author of "Den Mable." The bett humor In print. t The only rototravaro aeetlon pub lished by an Omaha newspaper. Tbl week's frontispiece, a full-pas picture of GoTernor Cox, the demo cratic nominee for president. S "The Dor CateherOl Get 'Em," local feature story for ereiy mem ber of the family. 4 "About Building a House" Things the bome-bollder should know, prsc- . tical questions aaswered. 5 "Heart Becrets of a Fortune Teller,1 4- fasclnatlnc tale of adventures In this unusual field. 6 Brlnilng Vp Father, The Gumps, an All-Womea's section, Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee leased who news, a snappy sport nags and all the regular Sunday Bee features. The SundaylSee mricaw TAKE STAND Indications Noe That U.S. Government Is Seeking Way To Assist Poland Without Congressional Action. EXPECT PRESIDENT TO TAKE DEFINITE STAND Confers With Department of State Officials Concerning Situation May Present Views to Allied Powers. By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire. Washington, Aug. 6. An intima tion that the president soon may de clare his views on the question of saving Poland from soviet Russia was given today, following a confer ence on the question between Mr. Wilson, Secretary of State Colby and Undersecretary of State Davis. The president called in the two officials to advise him of the latest developments in the plans of the al lies for halting the Russo-Polish war and of the "extent to which the United States ' might aid them in averting a Polish catastrophe. It was indicated that the president is considering the presentation to France and England of his views on the policy to be adopted, but that he had not fully determined what sug gestions he would make. Specula tion of the possibilities in official circles run all the way from a pro posal by the president that the ma chinery of the league of nations be set in motion to stop the war, to the suggestion that Mr. Wilson may re convene congress in special session to. consider means of furnishing ef fective aid to Poland. Hint Toward Course. Newspaper correspondents were told today by officials that they had taken too literally what was said concerning tht apparent inability of the Unted States government to af ford ,any assistance whatever to Poland, directly or indirectly; with out the authority of congress which will not assemble until December un less the president proclaims an extra session. No illuminating explana tion of this hin was offered, but it was construed as) a plain intimation that the government was still seek ing a means oi aiding the Polish au thorities without -congressional au thority, and -was hopcfuLof .finding,: a "way. Aa active exshange of views between the united States and Eu ropean powers over the Polish situa tion appears to, be in progress. i The -success of the , red army in Poland has had the effect of encour aging .the bolshevist military forces elsewhere to attempt new conquests. Today the state department received dispatches telling of an advance of soviet forces in Persia toward Tabriz and Kazbin. x Teheran, the Persian capital, is menaced, and the shah and his government are preparing to flee. Hope to Check Drive. j One of the dispatches came from the American minister at Teheran. John L. Caldwell, in which he said that, while the soviet army was ad vancing on Tabriz and the capital, the commanders of the mixed British and French forces hooe to check it. The shah's government. Minister i Caldwell said, was contemplating j flight southward. The foreien lerra-1 tions expected to accompany the j government, it was stated. Lonti dence expressed by the British mili tary authorities was not shared by the public, according to Mr. Cald well. The administration attitude to ward affairs in eastern Europe is en veloped in fog, the only certainty be ing that the president is still un alterably opposed to recognizing or giving aid and comfort to the Rus sian bolsheviki, whom he regards as misrepresenting the Russian peo ple. In his recent note to Japan protesting against, occupation of the Russian half of Saghalien island Mr. Wilson said that Japan, the United States, Great ' Britain, France and Italy must consider themselves the trustees of Russian territory until a government representative of the Russian people had been established. ' In , accord with this policy, the president has declined to recognize the little Baltic republics shorn from Russia. Nor did he register a pro test against the Polish offensive against the bolsheviki when it was undertaken several months ago or indicate in any publicvway the opin ion that the league of nations ought to have invoked the processes of the covenant to restore peace. G. 0. P. Chairman Invited To National Headquarters Chicago. Aug. 6. Chairmen of all republican state committees have been invited to national headquar ters, Senator Harry S. New of In diana, chairman of the speakers' bu reau announced today, to lay (plans for the speaking campaign in , each state. Headquarters also announced that Major Jackson Morris, former as sistant secretary of state and not Governor E. F. Morrow of Ken tucky, would debate the league of nations with Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock at Winona Lake, Ind., August 9. Omaha Dentist Resigns From State Examining Board Lincoln, Aug. 6.- Tr. J. H. Wal lace, of Omaha who has served 12 years on the state board of dental - , t . i , : examiners, nas lenaereu nis resigna tion. Secretary Antles of the public AGIST" welfare bureau has appointed Dr. h.. W Fellers, of Beatrice, to succeed him. Mr. Antles also has named Dr. Ferdinand Griess. of Sutton, to sus ceed himself ou the board. - . v RADICAL, WANTED BY MANY NATIONS, HELD AT CHICAGO Evidence Obtained That Man Ts Head of Red "Under- 1" QTT,lm Chicago, Aug. 6. Alexander Jaunusksa, said to be an internation al anarchist sought by the allied gov ernments for five years, was arrested yesterday and with him was taken documentary evidece, said by the po lice to show he was the head of an "underground'.' system of communi cation between radicals in this coun try and abroad. Questioning of Jaunusiksa revealed he had used the name of John Alexander. Terming the arrest "the most im portant since the war," officials said Jaunuiksa appeared to be the head of radicals in America; that he had joined the German radical socialists at the age of 18 and fled from England to escape conscrip tion and that he was wanted for evading the draft in the United States He was born in Russia 26 years ago. He was the editor of "Der Klas senkamps" (Class Struggles,) said to be a radical paper which advocated destruction of all government With Jaunuiksa, his secretary, Carl Brockmiller, and Carles Plahan, alleged I. W. W. organizer, were arrested. Jaunuiksa, according to the police, was the inventor of a code used by 10,000 radicals in this country and abroad. Knights of Columbus Pilgrimage to France Given Noisy Sendoff New York, Aug. 6. The Knights of Columbus pilgrimage to France, where it will present and dedicate a statue of Lafayette at Metz, was given a noisy farewell when it sailed on the Leopoldina. Twelve hundred relatives and friends on the steam ship Highlander escorted the French liner to sea, with bands playing and passengers cheering and waving flags. ' The delegation numbers 250, in cluding U Catholic priests. The Lafayette statu? at Metz, a gift of the order to France, is to be un veiled August 21 by Marshal Foch, who also will be presented with a jeweled baton. After the ceremonies the delegation will no to the Cath olic shrine at Lourdes, in . southern France, and then visit Pope Bene dict at Rome. Before adjot'.rnment - the order's convention authorized erection of a $1,000,000 tuberculosis sanitarium and drafted an expression of unqual ified support of the Irish cause to be ent Eammon De Valera. Bill Plans to Abolish ; : Six Army Departments; Propose 9 Corps Areas Washington, Aug. 6. An order abolishing the six departments of the army and establishing nine corps areas as provided in the army reorganization act has been pre pared in the War department and is awaiting the approval of Secretary Baker. The departments which would be abolished are the northeastern, Boston, Major General Edwards, commanding; eastern, Governor's Island, N. Y., Major General Bul lard, commanding; central, Chicago, Major General Leonard Wood, commanding; western, Jsan Fran cisco. Major General Liggett, com innnding; southern, Fort Sam Houston, Tfss, Major General Dickman, commanding, . and the southeastern, Charleston, S. C, Major General Morrison, command ing. Nebraska Officials Will Attend Car Shortage Hearing Lincoln, Aug. 6. (Special.) Rail way Commissioner Thorne Brown and H. D. Lute of the Nebraska farm bureau association will represent the state next Monday at a hearing in Washington before the Interstate Commerce commission for the pur pose of relieving the car shortage in western states and making it pos sible to ship the new crop of wheat, oats and other grain to market. Because the state board of equali zation of which he is chairman, has not completed its work and fixed the annual state levy, Governor Mc Kelvie had to decline an invitation from Governor Harding of Iowa to attend the Washington conference. Pays $65,000 for Farm. Fremont, Neb., Aug. 6. (Spe cial.) The. peak -of high prices for lands sold in this vicin.'ty this year has been reached at Cedar Bluffs, where E. J. Murphy has sold his 160-acre farm six miles south of there to Dan Shanahan for $406.25 an acre, or a tota"l sale price of $65,000. New York Landlord Asks Injunction for "Tenant Soviets" Chicago Trlbnne-Omaha Bee Leased Wire. New York, Aug. 6. An injunc tion against a so-called "tenant soviet" of 12 members, was asked by Max and Rose Cutes, owners of apartment houses in Brooklyn yesterday. It is sought to restrain the 12 tenants from hanging out "rent strike" signs, intimidating tenants who s are willing to pay rents and resisting all efforts r.t collection from themselves. . According to the affidavits, the owners tried to dispossess the 12 several months ago. but the pro-' ceeding was delayed under the re cent rent legislation. From that time until now, according to Cutes, Meyer Fishbein and 11 others named, have made it impossible to rent -apartments to new tenants, by threatening violence to them. ASSESSMENT ON DOUGLAS COUNTY FARMS DOUBLED Increase of 100 Per Cent An nounced Howl Expected ' When Farmers Learn of Boost. . - The 1920 assessment on Douglas county farm land was revealed yes totday to be a 100 per cent increase wrer that of last year. ; - This unprecedented boost in as sessment has roused farmers of the county, those of them who have heard it The boost has been kept quiet by the county assessor who admitted, he knew the storm would break when the farmers find it out. . Employes f the county assessor's office declared the "farmers would be coming in by the hundreds to protest against the big boost as soon as they get the 'bad news.' " Assessor Defends Boost. The increase is defended, how ever, by the assessor. He pointed out that even with the boost, Douglas county farms are assessed at only from $50 to $200 an acre. "This is the first new assessment since 1916," said Assessor Fitz gerald. "Everything has gone up in these 'four years and I see no rea son why farm lands should not bear their increased' assessmert. It means a doubling of the taxes they have been paying the last four years but the tax is just, neverthe less. - "They won': be paying more than their proper share now. In fact, they have been paying less than their proper share the last two or three year?." But One Objection. County Commissioners O'Connor, McDonald anJ Unitt went to Lin coln this morning to the meeting of the state board of equalization which will try to equalize the tax assess ments of the counties of the state. "There's only one objection to the big boost of farm values in Douglas county," slid Commissioner O'Con nor, "and that is that it means Douglas county may pay more than its share of state taxes. Some of the other .:ounties are putting a very low value on their land. "Naturally the assessment for state taxes touches "such counties lightly in comparison to Douglas county. Some counties return assessments on farm lands as low as $5 and $6 an acre. Of course, some counties have land that isn't worth much more than that." Sample " increases in Douglas county are these: In the Waterloo district, 47 acrs, assessed at $1,325 in 1916, and at $2,625 this year; 55 acres, assessed at $1,800 in 1916 and at $3,600 this year; 79 acres, assess ed at $4,400 in 1916 and at $8,800 this year; 80 acres, assessed at $6,000 in 1916 and at 12,000 this year. Valley district: 144 acres, assess ed at $10,975 in 1916 and at $20,150 this vear; 80 ices, assessed at $5,400 in 1916 and at $9,600 this year. Millard district: 160 acres, as sessed at $15,500 in 19'6 and at $31,- 200 this year. Ihe 1916 assessment held tor ne years 1917, 1918 and 1919, country assessments being made only every four years Mediation Board Fails to Hear Striking Railway Men Washington, Aug. 6. The United States board of mediation and con ciliation failed today to hear a dele gation of striking railway employes, headed by John Grunau, president of the Chicago Yardmen's associa tion, appealing in behalf of men anxious to return to work. Mem bers of the board were not present and the delegation was informed by the secretary that it would be neces sary to file formal application asking for consideration of their claims. A Handicap LEADER OF DENVER STRIKE FIGURED IN TROUBLE IN OMAHA Vice President of Union Said He Was Opposed to Violence. A. H. Burt, international vice president of the street car men's union, who is in charge of the car men's, strike in Denver, which Thurs day resulted in two deaths and the wrecking of the office of the Denver Post, was in Omaha during the recent street car .wage controversy.-,,,, -:;r s,Vr"-..''T'-... j, If the decision of the state railway commission, now pending, fails to clear up the wage dispute here, Burt will probably return to take charge of the situation, it is said. During the wage hearing before the railway commission here Burt took the stand and testified that he was against violence in strikes. Burt issued a statement after the rioting in Denver yesterday depre cating the violence and disclaiming responsibility. Chicago Is Bidding For Olympic Games In 1924, Announcemetn Chicago, Aug. 6. -Everett C. Brown, for years a member of the executive committee of the Olympic games, who left New York a few days ago on the Lapland, will ex tend an invitation to the Olympic games committee on August 10 at Antwerp, Belgium, to hold the 1924 Olympic games in Chicago at Grant park, it was announced here today. Mr. Brown will present the invita tion in the name of the city. The invitation will suggest to the com mittee that Chicago will have one of the largest stadiums in the world at Grant park, on the lake front, when work started yesterday on a $130,000,000 lake front improve ment plan, is completed. Three Stars On Booze Ship fs Tip to Federal Officers Prohibition enforcement officers in Omaha are looking for an air plane, it is said,, on which are paint ed three stars. , The plane is declared to be that of flying bootleggers from Canada. Prohibition Enforcement Officer J. ,F. Hanley was asked, yesterday the meaning of the three stars. "S-s-sh," he replied, putting his finger to his lips in warning. Don't tell anybody. I understand that it stands for 'Three-Star Hennessy.'" New Head Appointed for Code Law Market Bureau Lincoln, Aug. 6. (Special.) The bureau of markets establishel under the code law is being reorganized after several months of inactivity. W. C. Andrews, who has been serving as chief of the dairy division in the argiculture department, will also act as chief of the bureau. Lincoln Wants Roosevelt. Lincoln, Aug. 6. (Special.) Lin coln democrats are anxious to get Franklin D. Roosevelt, democratic nominee for vice president, to make an afternoon speech here on August 28, when he is to deliver an evening address at Omaha. Secretary J. S McCarty of the democratic state committee is trying to arrange the engagement. , The Weather Hourly TemperatntM. I a. m 70 1 p. m V) a. m 71 1 p. m... to 7 a. m 73 1 p. m 91 i a. m 77 i p. m HO . m HI 6 p. m... II 50 a. m M 6 p. m 11 a. m 5 7 p. m 87 U noon to S p. m SI WEST MAY BUILD FACTORIES TO BEAT RAIL RATES T - Business Men Believe Freight Increases Will Tend to Make Middle West Factory Center. Westward the course of industry takes its way and the hike in freight rates eventually will redound to the benefit of industrial Omaha, many business experts believe. If the cost. or transportation, is, nign, lactones are expected to move nearer the source of supply and shorten the haul. "It has always seemed foolish to me to send all our raw materials down east and then ship them all the way back as finished products," said. W. E. Rhoadcs, vice president of the United States Nationat bank, yes terday. "As soon as the new cost of shipping is found to be perma nent I think we may xpect many manufacturers to establish branches in the mid Jle west. Why should we clog the railroads shipping stuff back and forth? It looks like a waste of time and energy, to say nothing oi the amount it adds to the cost of the product. A Lesson of War. "The success of many big corpo rations is due to their abolition of waste. Manufacturing enough goods to supply the middle west right at home where we have the raw mate rial at hand is in spirit with the les son of conservation we learned dur ing the war." H. D. Bergen, assistant manager of the traffic bureau of the Chamber of Commerce, is another who expects the increase in freight rates which go into effect later this month to tend to draw factories closer to the point of production. . "Wouldn't it be a good thing if we could stop the western wool at Omaha instead of watching it go through to the mills around Bos ton?" he asked. We have to pay the freight clear across the country there and back, because the woolen mills are all in New England. Wool goes through here in trainloads. Pretty soon we wear it on our backs, but look where it's been." New Industries Coming. , New industries are steadily com ing to Omaha. One of 1he latest is a plant for making white tile fix tures. These will be cut, polished and assembled in a factory estab lished at Albright The tile is pro duced in West Virginia and shipped here, unfinished, by the carload, at the lowest possible freight charge. Another branch factory has leased a building to produce enameled kitch enware and -plumbing fixtures. Still another, a New York corporation, will soon spend $200,000 on a build ing to be erected on West Center street for the manufacture of com mercial oxygen and hydrogen from the air.' Business men consider that in this 'manner the car shortage also will be minimized, since the average journey of freight cars would be shorter if the west began to manu facture enough of its raw products into finished materials to supply its own demands. - Floaters Oet in Fen. Lincoln, Aug. 6. (Specials Twelve of the 24 new prisoners re ceived at the state penitentiary dur ing July were floaters from Oklaho ma, Missouri. Colorado, Iowa, New York. Ohio, South Dakota and Cal ifornia. ' Auto Burns Near LaPlatte. Plattsmouth, Neb . Aug. 6. (Spe cial) A large touring car of un known ownership was burned up along the highway near La Platte. It is thought to be the property of Omaha parties. 500 TROOPS ARE ORDERED TO DENVER Federal Soldiers Now at Camp Funston to Leave for Mile High City Not Later Than August 7. CITIZENS GUARD TOLD TO "SHOOT TO KILL'1' Business District Is Armed Camp Strike in Violation Of an Injunction Secured Several Weeks Ago. Denver, Col., Aug. 6. Five hun dred federal troops have been or dered to leave Camp Funston, Kan. for Denver "not later than the morning of Augusc 7," according to a telegram received here tonight by Governor Shoup from the cen tral department of the United States army at Chicago. Federal troops at Fort Logan, Col., have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness for imme diate call, according to the tele gram. "Shoot to kill." That was the in struction given this afternoon to 1,000 citizens who volunteered to protect life and property from a repetition tonight of last night's rioting, growing out of a strike of street car trainmen. The volunteers were furnished with sawed off shot guns and army rifles. Denver's business district will be an armedcamp tonight. Mobs bent"" upon rioting will not go unresisted. Armored tank cars, mounted with Browning machine guns, capable of belching forth 500 shots a minute, will patrol downtown streets. The city authorities announced late to day they were prepared for any eventuality. Theaters have been ordered closed at 7 p. m., and citizens have been . asked to remain in their homes. Armored Cars Ready. The armored cars were being put in readiness at the city shops. They will be modeled after military tank cars, and all occupants will be pro tected by steel plates capable of re sisting anything but artillery fire. Machine guns also will be station ed on the tops of buildings near pos sible fiot centers, manned by men who learned to use them in France.. Many veterans of the -"world wa"r, aroused by the menace to life and property created by last nights riots, have been sworn in as special police men Judge Greeley W. Whitford in the district court this afternoon ordered the leaders of the striking street car trainmen to immediate recall the order issued last Sunday for a strike The judge found seven of the lead ers1 guilty of contempt for calling the strikt. Attorney Wayne Williams, coun sel for the striking carmen following the action of. Judge Whitford, an nounced he. would attempt to have President Henry Silberg, of the car men's union, call the strike off to night. President Silberg announced that a meeting of the executive committee of the union would be held immed iately to consider the situation. Violation of Injunction. The strike leaders were alleged to have violated an injunction secured by the city several weks ago re straining the company from reduc ing wages and the men from strik ing. The men now ere striking for higher pay. - Judge Whitford this afternoon is sued a new injunction restraining the union from picketing the proper ty of the company ai.d also from in terfcrcing with the movement of street cars. Judge Whitford f.aid he would sen tence the seven men tomorrow morn ing af II o'clock. The court an nounced the sentence imposed wouid be governed largely by the conduct of strikers between now and tomor row morning. v Counsel for the city, after the judge had announced his findings, asked for clemency for those found guilty." i A riot call from the East Denver car barns was received at 4:25 o'clock this afternoon and was an swered by two truck loads of police men, armed with sawed-off shot guns. A picket at the barns was ait leged to have fired a gun in the di rection of the br.rns. The police dis persed the crowd without much dif ficulty. Nj onew as injured. Legion Takes Hand. The American Legion of Denver this afternoon promised to assist tha city officials in maintaining order. Between 400 end 500 legion mem bers, wearing the uniforms , which they wore during the world war. will patrol the outlying districts of the city to relieve the regular police force for duty in the downtown sec tion. There was no serious disorder to day, although there were frequent gatherings of strikers and strike sympathizers. So far the only deaths were the two men killed at the South Side car barns last night. Thirty-four persons have been in jured and 30 arrested in connection with the rioting. Statements by of ficers of the Denver Trades and La bor assembly and of the Tramway Men's union were issued late this afternoon denying that they were re sponsible for the rioting. J. S. Goble, an organizer for th Trades and Labor assembly, de clared that the blame belonged to local civic bodies which have been agitating for "open shops" in Den ver. He declared that their "propa ganda" had infuriated the workers of the citv and made them ready for violeno x f