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rm STRIKE OF ALL BIG PLAYERS IS CALLED BY FULTZ New Yorkr July 20. A general strike of all baseball players under contract to clubs in the American and National leagues has been ordered by David L. Fultz, president of the Base ball Players' Fraternity, who today served notice on the National Com mission. The strike will take effect Wednesday, unless the National Com mission give's in before then. This action results from the ruling of the commission in the case., of Player Kraft, former New v Orleans first baseman. Fultz claims OKraft should be drawing a salary from the Newark International League club, while the commission ruled that he belongs to the Nashville Southern Association club. The decision to call a strike was ar rived at at a secret meeting of the fraternity leaders here last night. Several prominent players signed the ultimatum which Fult zsent to the national commission. B. B. Johnson, president of the American League and one of the members of the national commission, declare dthat the strike will be fought to the finish. "The American League is ready to meet the issue with a' sdlid front," h,e declared. "Our club owners are a unit for war. It's about time that this fraternity onsense should end. We have been very patient with Mr. Fultz and his associates, but they have gone a trifle too far. We in tend to call their bluff in a way that will make them show their hand. "Ifthe American League players or a majority of them obey this strike order on Wednesday every American League club will close its gates. We will stop all salaries and inflict heavy fines, on every player participating in the, strike. This strike will be the lat one conducted by Mr. Fultz and his associates, too, as we will keep our gates locked all season if neces sary to break this up." Johnson admitted that he had tele-1 graphed all club owners to attend a, I special meeting here tomorrow. Fultz refused to have anything to say about the strike. "I still hope it.may be settled amic ably," he declared. GIRL UNABLE TO HOLD JOB TAKES CARBOLIC ACID For ten months 19-year-old Helen Geiss slaved for Montgomery Ward & Co. The first seven months she worked for $6 a week. Then, because-she kept he rfingers going all day, the yralsed her to $7. The latter part of May she was fired. Then she got jobs at several places. Among them was the Western Elec tric Co- A week ago today when she reported for work she was told she was needed no longer. She didn't want to go to her mother at 1511 Clybourn av. and tell her the news. Times had been so .bad for the fam ily. So she struggled along all week, hoping to find a job. But Saturday they found her in a field in Summer dale, 111. She had taken carbolic acid. She may recover. "I tried all week to get some money so I would not have to disappoint my mother," she, said. "When I failed I wanted, to die. My mother is ill and needed the money I brought home." s-o o FIVE HURT IS CAR CRASH Five people were badly injured and many women and girls badly shaken up when two street cars crashed at 38th street and Kedzie avenue. The cars were packed with men and wo men on their way to work. - o o The "Sockless Sawyers," about fifty young men of Sheboygan, Wis., have organized . the latest fashion club. The youths decided to wear san dais without the customary socks un til September 1, 1914. o o Jeweled or fancy pins are almost indispensable to'the present daytime coiffure. . mmmmmmmmmmmm