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1010? EIGHT
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23,
Editorials Adnf?rtis.f>mpnts
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Coal Factions in Bitter Clai
Three Slain as Ex-Soldi?
sh; Parley Near Collapse;
?rs and Labor Radicals Battle
Negro Causes
Fatal Clash
In Louisiana
500 of Loyalty League
Besiege A. F. of L. Men
Guarding Blaek; Ex
Army Captain Killed
Hunt for "Reds
Starts Trouble
Lumber Camp Lock-Out
of 2,500 Inflames Union
Followers Against Law
special Correspond? ne,'
BOGALASA, La.. Nov. 22.?Three
persons were kiPed ami several
?vounded, one mortally, in a pitched ,
battle here to-day between mem-|
ers of the local Loyalty League, j
omposed of former service men and :
;hers. and a'leged union labor agi?
tators. The dead are L. E. Williams,
resident "f the local branch of the
American Federation of Labor and
? !' "The Press," a union labor
newspaper; A. Bouchillon, and
Thomas Gaines, union carpenters.
i e wounded include A. J. O'Rourke,
. leader in union labor cire'es, mor?
tally, and Jules Leblanc, former
irmy captain and member of the
L? ague,
trouble l? tween the :wo
Loyalty League, com- :
representatives- of the Great
Lumber Company, builder3
?? Hogalttsn and o'. her important busi
ter? '-. on the one hand, and j
ibor, whose members assert the ?
Ment South? m locked out about 2.500
?8 because they would not "tear i
? ?? union cards" on the other I
followed h'.--; night's action of about
members of th?? Loyalty
/ .- in holding up a train half a
the railroad station anil
..?; ;:. fur "undesirables."
t rov d Starts Negro Hunt
After ?? aarch of the train failed
i reveal ur.V"r:-> ??hose presence wrs
unwelcome here, he crowd started
??ut, to foui Saul D?chus, a ne?rro, al?
leged t?j have been active recently in
'""yintr to stir un ill feeling among his
ace .?irr: nst until a ?ate hour, but was
uccos3ful.
This morning, to the surprise of the
Loyalty League men, the negro they
jought marched forth from side hiding
ii!ace and walked boldly down the pryn
cipal street of the ?own. On either side
ff him. how? ver. was an armed khite
linn, ont- of them J. O'Rourke, a
leader in union labor circle., and the
other a strong union sympathizer
whose identity has nut been ascer?
tained.
Sight of ? i" negro, protected by the
two wh ?? '.?,'?: maddened the Loyalty
Leag .? ? :? They claimed the black had
been trying to cause race rioting, and
did nol pi ..(.. to permit him to linger
h< ?
Three Slain in (?arage
forces the Lo altj
Leaguers forced the impromptu parade
'" ret? u1 to I. E. Williams' automo?
bil garage. When ?.ailed upon to sur
negi o Tin n men in t he
d arid then firing began.
?'??? dafiant "agitators" drew first
ilei la Blanc, former army
' ' shot through the arm.
increased th?.- z cal of the
ers, who constantly increased in
, ,. ,
VVh n th eattackers finally silenced'
? barricaded forces in the garage
three dead and one fatally injured
found within. Th ? negro, how-i
: escaped. Williams, Bouch
' ' ?ones apparent y had sac
\ ' ii lives in protecting the
s?ro, ai , O'Rourke had suffered fata!
?cund?.
'Brien, a former head sawyer of
'''??'? (?real Southern Lumber Company,
? n forced to leave Bogalusa by
I a "vigilance committee' of which Le
? anc was a member only a few days
?1 o b'-cause, it was alleged, he had
been guilty <?f making unpatriotic re?
mark? sympathizing with the I. W. W.
who killed United States soldiers in
n ashington.
Friday, in New Orleans, O'Brien and
''? her union labor man filed charges
' '" e the United States Commissioner
'gainst the committee, accusing them
of wearing the uniform of United
*'/'"- soldiers contrary to the aw.
?'?"tl of the lilil?^ of the charges was
'?? ephoned to Bogalusa, and incensed
members of the Loyalty League.
Meeting of the train fioni New Or?
leans to b,nck the entry into town of
objectionab.e characters t-o.lowed. Ex?
citement increased when search tor the
ttileRed disioyal negro was made and
needed only the provacation to battle,
which wu? given when the labor men
Accompanied the sought-for b.ack
thiounu the streets.
rire Hose Turned on
73 Heiligerem 1. W. W.s
SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. '22. Twenty
[hree ivel Industrial Workers of the
World spent the nicht in a dark cell
:". the city jail and fifty others, thor?
oughly soaked, were he'd in the main
> Pari of the jail after they had been
\ subdued by a tire nos?.
In protesting against the quantity
M foo?l they received the prisoners
''??1 slammed their beds against the
ours and refused to cease the noise
they weip making until a hose was
> turned on them,
1
Denikine Reported
To Have Wiped Out
50,000 Bohheviki
Helsingfors Dispatch Says
He Broke Enemy Line
Southeast of Moscotv;
Letts Have Taken Milan
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 22. - General
Denikine, commander of anti-Bolshevik
troops on the southern Russian front
claims to have broken through the "Red"
lines between Orel ami Tambov, south?
east of Moscow, and to have annihilated
50.000 Bolshevik troops, according to a
Helsingfors dispatch to the "Svenska
Dagm ladet."
General Nicholas Yudenitch. the anti
Bolshevik commander on the North?
west Russian front, has arrived at
Reval, capital of Esthonia, with his
staff, according to another dispatch to
the "Svenska Dagbladet."
LONDON. Nov. 22.?Lmttish forces
yesterday captured Mitau, capital of
Courland, according to the Lettish Le?
gation here. The Letts continued their
victorious advance.
Genera] von Eberhardt. who has as?
sumed command of the West Russian
army, has asked the Lettish cora
mander-in-chief to accept a truce,
pending the conclusion of an armis?
tice, according to a Riga dispatch, un?
der ^Friday's date, received herp by
waj of Copenhagen. General von Eber
hardt's telegram declares the Weal
Russ an army has placed itself under
German protection, it is said. The
truce will become effective at mid?
night next Wednesday.
No reply has been sent by the com?
mander of the Lettish troops who liow
ever, points out that General von Khor
hardt s action makes the aggressive
campaign of Colonel Bermondt against
Riga a German affair, according to the
dispatch.
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Mail Fraud Is Charged
To Ante graph Collector
"Winning Way With Pen" Se?
cures Col. House's Signature
and Arrest Follows
Simon Goldstein, of 17'i Henry Street,
a complete letter writer, was held in
SI,000 bail for the Federal grand jury
yesterday because of his winning way
with a pen. The. formal charge against
him is that, he used the mails to de
fraud. A similar charge, it was said,
would be made against his wife when
she was found.
Goldstein collected autographs. Be?
cause of his genial epistolary style, all
he had to do 10 get. an autograph was
to write to the person whose .signature
he wanted. He wrote to Colonel E. M.
House and the colonel was so impressed
with tin- letter that, he no only auto?
graphed the pamphlets sent him, but
dispatched his chauffeur with them to
rhe address Goldstein liad given. As
Goldstein wasn't '.here the colonel had
to mail the autographed pamphlets as
t equested.
m .-..m ?ir simple fashion Goldstein
obtained the autographs of General
ePrshing, Brander Matthews, Dr. Henry
.?an D ke, Enrico Caruso, Lord Dun?
s' ,ny and Vicente Blasco Ibanez. But
it is Alleged that he did not sign hi.->
letters with his own name and that
later he sold sjme of the autographs
which he had obtained on the assump?
tion that he wanted them only for his
own satisfaction.
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Hail Wagon Driver Held
As $58,600 Bond Thief
Suddenly Tempted, Pol'e?? Say
He Confessed; Seized Poueh
as Train Pulled Out
Special Cor.ettpondence.
DUNKIRK, N. Y., Nov. 22.?A scrap
torn from an envelop found in the gar?
age of Mito Elwell, driver of the local
mail delivery wagon, led to the recov?
ery of $E8 600 in Liberty bonds and the
arrest of Elwell on a charge of robbing
the mails. Elwell is said to have con?
fessed and was held for the Federal
grand jury in $LA-.tiUi) bail.
A registered mail pouch was stolen
from a truck at the Union Station last
Wednesday evening, it was found in a
vacant lot near the station. Elwood,
who had turned the pouch over to the
station agent, according to the police.
said when he saw a train pulling out
' he wa.s suddenly tempted, grabbed the
pouch and, riding a short distance,
rifled it in a vacant lot. He hid the
i bonds under his home, the police say
j he confessed, where they were found
to-day.
A scrap from one of the envelopes
? which he stuffed in a pocket fell on
| the floor of his garage and was found
| by Police Captain Nieber.
Belasco Fined in Chicago
j Under Child Labor Act
Ordered to Pay $1,340 on Each
| of 168 Charges, Involving Five
Youngsters in "Daddies"
CHICAGO. Nov. 22.?What is said to
he the largest tine ever as* es ed in
Chicago for violation of the child labor
; law was imposed to-day by Municipal
. Judge George B. Holmes against David
Belasco, the theatrical manager, owner
of the play "Daddies,'' and the manager
of Powers'a Theater, where th<?.piece was
hown in Chicago, when they were lined
$1,340 on 1GK separate charges. Five
children under ten years of age ap?
peared in the play.
The defendants were fined for every
appearance of the childrcai on the stage
during its four weeks' run in this city.
EUROPE AFTER THE WAR?Map o?
Ih? new count es and the postage stamps
tlu-y us?*. Interesting exhibit in window
of rnlle-i Cigar Store, l'*lnUron Rullding,
UrouUway, i-'ift?? Ave. r, ?-?asd SUr-AUvt.
Harvard Wins
From Yale by
Score of 10-3
-
Blue Loses by 18 Inches,
Missing Golden Oppor-I
tunity for Victory on
Crimson's Last Line
-
Eli Uses Old time
Bulldog Tactics
With Braden as Battering
Ram, Yale Discards |
All Modern Methods i
W. O. McGeehan
CAMBRIDGE. Mass., Nov. 22.
Harvard beat Yale by a score of 10
to 33 to-day, according to the cold
records, but the 50,000 w'-o saw the
third period melodrama on Soldiers'
Field to-day know Yale was beaten by \
i matter of just eighteen inches.
With an irresistible series of charges
that smashed through Crimson bar?
riers, the Yale eleven brought the bal'
to within a yard anil a half of the
Harvard goal line.
There on the fourth down the sig?
nal was given for the same stubborn,
bulldog play that seemed to he all of
Yale's strategy Braden through cen- |
ter. With his head down, Braden,
charged straight at the massed might '
of Harvard, For a brief moment the
Crimson defense seemed to waver,
then it held ami when the pack was
uncovered, the ball held by Braden's
outstretched arms was just, half a
yard from the white line, the last bar- \
rier of Harvard.
Yale had come to within striking ;
distance of the goal line in one steady |
'triumphant march.
Magnificent, But Lacked Strategy
If that last attack had been directed |
at any other point of the line the ball
might have been carried across. But
that was the play on wuich Yale
scene?! to place its main reliance -to
send Braden, tue glorified young bull?
dog, charging with his head down,
blindiy into the Crimson line t?i bat?
ter and crash through by main
strength. It was characteristic and
magnificent, and all that, but it was
not strategy and it was not modern
i'ootball.
Harvard scored early in the first
period when Ralph Horween kicked a
? ?id goal rr m the 42-yard lina. It
was a remarkable achievement, for
tiorween kicked into t.-.e teeln of a
driving wind. The ball slatted like a
bullet, then the wind pressed ".gainst
it and it finally cleared the bar by a
i'e*.v inches.
Casey Scores Only Touchdown
It was Fddie Casey who carried the
ba!. acioss the '?a.e ?ine for the only
touchdown on a beautifully execute.I
foiward pass. Held on the 3V-yard
line, Felton, of Harvara, laid hack as
ti.ough jor a kick. Then lie tutted
backward, eluding the charging Yaie
ends, and made a teint a', passing
over the Harvard right end. in the
mean time. Casey hail wormed his way
through and was cicar of the Ya.e
secondary defense on the left. Felton
. hoi the ball to him and Casey, twist?
ing and digging through the Van
backs, crossed toe line foi a touchdown.
Ka ph JriOiWeen kicked the goal.
U was im Brauen who saved Yale
from coming out of the game scoreless
in ?.no i.,ui?ii period. ?vuh tne lime
eieven stopped near miuiic<d Braden
started a drop kick from the bo-yard
| line. The ^a.e line did not seem to
i hold, ami two tacklers were charging
? at Braden when he iinahy dropped the
i uall to the ground, une o, mem was
.waving his hands fraiuica-.y. bin.
brauen, l'oimerij an arti.iery orlicer in
I the United States Army, measured the
? distance coohy and de.iberatciy.
tasty Fumbles Ball
The ball shot low and hard ovci the
' heads of the Harvard team as Braden
? was huned to tue lur , and me pigskiti
; snot eieau.y between the --.oui pos.s and
over tue oar. The kicK lucked .iusi two
yards oi neing the record. 1 n-.it tens
i now the aci.ua. points were .-cored, out
jit does not ten how cose, isue came
I to Heilig in that thiid penOd and again
\ in the .ourdi. Towaiu the end oj ihe
! *ast period Casey, o. uaivaid, lumb.ed
the uail on Harvard's oo-yaro line.
The uali ro..en v?ul CuWb.ru lue Vli.i
! left end and four of the blue men wer?
' snapping and snarling alter it. 'i he
I naivaio secondary ueiensc was drawn
I in and there w,?u.d have been notniuR
! between one o? thv.se Vale men aim ?.
i touchdown, but all tour of them
, pounced on it with a swiri of blue
j jerseys.
Opportunity Is I.osl
Reinert finally got it, but he was
! flattened beneath tnree of his own too
j eager Yale men and the gieat oppor
? tunity was lost. There was the on
j chance where cooi-headedness and ?iu.?
vision mi?ht have turned the tide ?.
I the struggle the other way. but i.
through me game Yale seemed to 1
playing with the bulldog spirit nlon
? l'hey were playing the nattering, crus
mg footban of twenty . ears ago ai
for the greater part of the time Ha
' vard played the same sort of gan
only the Crimson attack varied sligh.
Two tinies out of three Yale s?.
' big Jim Braden crashing at the !..
i with lowered head and seemingly wi
! his eyes closed, for there wore tim
when that bul.dog charge of Brad
would carry him clear through ti
Yale line, but still with lowered hi.
l-lraden wou.d crash blindly into t
Crimson secondar defense. It w.
Continued on page twenty
Man Drags Wife
In Boat h
Attempted Double Fatal?
ity Under Train Fol?
lows Conciliation Move
Louis Greenberg, a bookbinder, of 13
Norfolk Street, and his wife, Kate,
were standing in the Long Island Rail?
road station at Atlantic and Van Sin?
tieren avenues, East New York, last
night. The couple had quarreled and
were living apart, but had met yester?
day to path up their differenea with a
visit to their two children, who are in
a charitable institution at Rockaway
Park.
Mrs. Greenberg had a big doll in her
arms for their little girl, a ball for the
boy and other playthings. They were
chatting together when a Brooklyn
bound train approached.
Without warning Greenberg grabbed
his wife by the arm nnd threw himself
under the wheels, dragging her with
'???im. The motorman, Merman S. Ran
dell, put on the brakes, but the train
continued 100 feet before it could be :
stopped.
It was found that Greenberg had ;
been crushed to death between the first
car and the third rail. His wife, seri?
ously injured, crawled out from under
Lhe train and was taken to Su Mary's
Hospital. There it was said there was :
iti e hope of saving her life.
Mrs. Greenberg asked Dr. Lind, of
St. Mary's Hospital, whether her hus?
band were alive. When he evaded a
direct answer, fearing the shock might ?
be fatal, the woman said:
"I don't care. I don't like him
anyway."
Mrs. Greenberg is an attractive
rooking woman of twenty-seven, and
he police believe that jenlous*y on the
part of her husband prompted the
attempt at a double death. The dead
man wasMihirty-two.
Mexico Holding
Consul to Defy
U. S., Is Belief
F a i I u r e Immediately to!
Release Jenkins, as De?
manded, Is Regarded
as Inviting Invasion
.Wir York Tritium'
Washington Hut can
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.?The fail?
ure of the Mexican government to
promptly order the release of Ameri?
can Consular Agent William 0. Jen
kin.--, at Puebla, from the penitentiary
there, in compliance with the sharp
: note of this government, dispatched
; Thursday, is interpreted here as
studied defiance of the United States
| government, and has made more gen?
eral a discussion of the possibility of
armed intervention as the one step
? that must finally be resorted t.o
The department to-day received ail
: vices from the American Embassy at
Mexico City which stated that news?
papers publ shed there yesterday re?
vealed, that Mr Jenkins was still in the
penitentiary. He is under arrest on
charges of conniving with Frederic?)
Cordova, his bandit kidnaper, who held
?Mr. Jenkins for a ransom of $150,000.
Charges Not Substantiated
State Department officials declined to
discuss the Jenkins case, although Sec?
retary Lan ing frankly f dmitted that
: as far as he knew Mr. Jenkins was still
; in the Puebla penitentiary. The de
? partnvnt. however, made pubic the fact
that Charg? d'Affaires Summerlin of
the American Embassy at Mexico City
had delivered to the Mexican Foreign
i Office on Thursday night the American
i note demanding the immediate release
; of Mr. Jenkins.
To-day's advice? said no information
has been supplied by theMexican au?
thorities thai would tend to sustain
! the charges made against Mr. Jenkins.
I and on the basis of Mr. Jenkins's re
? ion to the department, made public
1 yesterday, it is assumed this govern?
ment will hold Mr. Jenkins innocent of
any conspiracy until indisputable evi
:dence has been presented by his cap
; tors.
"Reasonable Time" Allowed
While the demand of this govern
! ment called for the "immediate" release
of Mr. Jenkins, it was said to-day that
a "reasonable time" would be given
the Carranza government to instruct
the Pueb-a authorities to liberate the
American official.
The Mexican Foreign Office to-day
i advised this government that it is tak
ing steps in the case of Eugene Lack.
an American citizen, who was shot a?
' Mexicali last Friday and died later al
"1 Centro, Calif. The Mexican reply,
which was dated November '20, said
the proper authorities hail been noti
i ed to bring about an "early admin
istral ion of justice."
1.:.?''?' w:.s an officer connected will
i the office of the sheriff of Imperi
rjounty, Calif. The shooting whic
j resulted in his death was reported t
the department as bein unwarranted.
'ernian Emblem Draws Fire
Special Correspondence
BALTIMORE, Nov. 22. ? The terra
ta replica of the German imperial
gle over one of the entrances of the
'..I Zion Lutheran Church, the oldest
1 most prominent German church in
timor?, has been condemned by the
ecutive committee of the Maryland
inch of the Amer can Legion. At a
eting at its headquarters to-day a
oluticn was adopted directing the
retafy to write to the pastor of the
ireh. The letter will say the Legion
?ents so conspicuous a position for
.? emblem and request its removal.
t is not at all likely the request of
.e Legion will be complied with, now
the war is over, according to several
members of the cor^regation.
Leap
Prince Sails,
Promising to
Come Again
Eight U. S. Destroyers j
Convoy His Ship on Way ;
to Halifax After Day
of Hearty Godspeeds
Dread noiigh tBreaks
Navy Precedents
Salute Is Fired After
Sunset as She Swings
About to Return to Port
The city bade godspeed to the Prince
of Wales yesterday. Although the
prince insisted thai the parting was
only temporary and that he intended
to visit America again, th?? ceremonies
lasted from 9 o'clock until 4:45 in the
afternoon and extended from the Hud
ion River at the foot of Eighty-sixth
Street to beyond the Ambrose Channel
1 ightship.
At this latter point, the dreadnought
Delaware shattered all navy precedent,
and although it was after sundown,
tired a salute as she swung v. i de to
return to port, and allowed the Re?
nown to continue on her way to sea.
Although the prince has left these
shores he is still under the protection
? f the Stars and Stripes. Te?ese
butter from the mastheads of eight
destroyers of the Atlantic heel, which
are corivnyincr his craft to Halifax.
New York in general bade the Prince
farewell in trie same maner in which it
had hailed him?by mighty cheering,
tooting of whistles, waving Hags and
banging guns. The royal visitor, for
his part, hod an investiture ceremony
aboard the Renown yesterday morning
and later reviewed a brigade of Boy
Scouts at the Columbia Yacht Clih
later.
Promise? to Come Again
The prince is coming again to visit
us at the first opportunity, he made
known in a farewell message to
America he gave out just before he
sailed. He said he particularly desired
to see something of the West, as well
as to sec more of New York. He ac?
knowledges the receipt of "hundreds
of charming letters" an;1, expressed tin
wish he might have personally an?
swered them all. He concluded by re?
iterating his gratefulness for the wel?
come accorded him here.
The prince lunched aboard the Re?
nown and immediately thereafter the
? crew of the big battle cruiser pro?
ceeded to get her under way. Clouds
of smoke poured from her wide, stubby
? Macks, and sailors sw irmed over her
.leeks making thiirgs ship shape.
Among th?! American warships lying
. in the river there was' airo much ac?
tivity, The destroyers Stockton, Rob?
inson, Taylor, Southard, Fairfax, Mc
Kee, Hush and Ingrain were getting up
steam and preparing for the long run
to Halifax as escort to the Renown.
'i ne dreadnought Delaware also was
ready to weigh anchor.
Through tin- Autumn haze that hung
1 over the water, tenders darted, and
from the masts of every ship signal
flags whipped in the keen wind. The
I Columbia Yacht Club, Riverside Park
; and the drive wer?? black with people.
Their voices raised in final cheers for
the prince must have reached his cars
I on the long gray ship that was to car?
ry him home.
At 1:45 the Delaware began to drop
down stream, and halted just above
i Ninety-sixth Street, waiting for the
Renown to move. Over the battle
cruiser two airplanes swooped ami
circled, and when at 2:,'50 she pointed
; her nose downstream, drove away to
the south.
Then Final Cheer Is Heard
The smoke cloud over the Renown's
! stacks thickened has her propellers be
; gan to push her slowly from the berth
? n which she bar lain more than a
i week. From the Columbia Yacht Club
; there came the thin sound of a final
, .-liter ami the saluting gun began to
pound out, its farewell.
Ahead of the mighty battle cruiser
as she ^rept ?low.,.,.ream slipped the
British light cruiser Constance. Be?
hind her wallowed the Patrol with the
1 Mayor's Committee and a band aboard,
?till further in the rear came the de
I stroyers and the American "dread?
nought.
At Sixty-sixth Street, the Constance
dropped back of the Renown and the
. destroyers began to close in on both
flanks. The prince stood on the Ad
| miral's bridge wkh Rear Admiral S:r
! Lionel Halsey and two signal boys. As
| the American torpedo craft siid past
! the battle-cruiser, bugles sang out and
I their crews manned the rail. As each
: vessel came by the prince saluted.
The cannon on the yacht club's land
| .ng had on.y just finished its work
; ,'hen the guns of the cruiser Columbia
? .cok up the salute. The whistles of
j he river craft joined in, and as the
! Irive faded away in the heavy haze the
j , ,und of New York's human voice?
I cheering to the last-came over the
1 water.
The towering buildings of the lower
city, reaching up through the cloudy
atmosphere, slipped past. Liberty helti
; her hand aloft as though bidding the
great vessel farewell, and the Renown.
after threading her way through the
frowzy crowd of tramps that lie in the
T - ? r Bay, stood out to seat ut fifteen
knot?.
.. ue Delaware Takes the Lead
'lire smoke cloud oer im- stacks of
the Deb.ware thickened. She gathered
. sneed. passed the battle cruiser, and
look the lead through the Ambrose
Channel. To left and right the de?
stroyers under the command of Com?
mander Baldiidge divided and kept the
: path of the prince's ship clear.
When the skyline of Manhattan had
Continued on page twelve
Revolt Against Italian
Monarchy Threatened
Revolutionary Spirit Stirred by Result of Election;
Movement to Make d'Annunzio President Is Ru?
mored ; Jugo-SIavs Prepare to Resist Aggression
ROME, Nov. 22 (By The Asociatedi
Press).?"A minority in d'Annunzio's
forces, counting on the support of
friends in the interior of Italy, persist
in the idea of attempting seditious ac?
tion against Italy itself," says a semi?
official statement issued to-day.
The statement aiids that during the
first fortnight of November two of
d'Annunzio's officers assured Rear Ad?
miral Millo, commander of the Italian
forces of occupation in Dalmatia, that
no move against Dalmatia was con?
templated. However, no one was al?
lowed to enter or leave Fiume after
November 12, when plans for the Zara
expedition were completed, the state?
ment indicates.
LONDON, Nov. 22.?The situation
on the Adriatic as a result of Gabriele
d'Annunzio's campaign has reached a
grave crisis. Private, advices leave no
doubt that he is determined to annex
Dalmatia and attack Montenegro. The
Jugo-Slavs are stated to have concen?
trated troops and to be prepared to
nsist aggression.
A still more alarming report says a
republican undercurrent directed
against th" Italian monarchy exists
among d'Annunzio's forces. It is not
known, however, whether the insurgent
poet-leader shares the reported ambi?
tion of tins military element to attack
the government.
It was stated in the advices that
further aggression by D'Annunzio cer?
tainly would precipitate hostilities
with the Jugo-Sl?vs, who, however, it
is declared, would direct their attack
against d'Annunzio, and not against I
the Italian government. '
A late report fmrn Rome say? the
military pariy, which is favoring an- ;
nexation of Dalmatia, has brought such
Btrong pressure to bear upon the gov?
ernment that the situation is delicate.
D'Annunzio, it appears, has been j
stirred to further efforts by the fact
that the Italian elections were un?
favorable to his cause. Many advent?
urers are flocking to his standard, the
reports state, and among a certain ele?
ment there seems to be a desire to
make D'Annunzio President of Italy.
Some well informed quarters believe
D'Annunzio merely desires to annex
Dalmatia for Italy and has no repub?
lican ambitions. Whatever his attitude
may be on this question, however,
there appears to be no doubt that he
has not abandoned his plans of aggres?
sion in the Adriatic.
To-day's London dispatches supple?
ment, direct advices from Rome re
. ceived Friday night, which reported the
American Embassy in the Italian capi
i tal actively engaged in watching the
situation in Italy, which was said to
hold the possibility of serious devel
'? opnient from hour to hour, as regarded
i both Italy proper and the Dalmatian
coast.
The City of Venice, to which Naval
Attache Reeves has gone to report on
conditions, is only about seventy-five
; miles from Fiuine by the water route
; and nearer yet by the land lines.
Possibility of a move into Istria by
Gabriele d'Annunzio was mentioned in
: recent advices, in which case the pre?
diction was made that whole divisions
of Italian regulars would be likely to
i follow him. An Istrian move would
; take the insurgent Italian poet to the
1 borders of Venetia, in which Venice
lies..
Threat Made
To Kill Treaty
In Committee
President Must Agree to a
Compromise or Pact Will j
?Not Come Up Again, Is
View of Keservationists !
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. ? Unless !
President Wilson indicates that he will j
yield in his determination not to ac ?
| cept she peace treaty with the sag-;
gcstecl reservations. the document !
never will leave the Foreign Relations
Committee in the Senate, it is believed!
. here.
Th declaration of Senator Lodge that ?
; the treaty light will be carried to the ',
| people, with the rejoinder from Sena-|
j tor Hitchcock that "eighty-one Senators
! out of the ninety-six favor ratification ;
't in some form" and that a compromise i
i plan would be suggested and be ac- j
cepted when the Senate meets in De- !
cember, was followed to-day by a state?
ment from Senaotr McCumber, of North
Dakota, leader of the group of "Mild
Reservationists," that a compromise is
the only possible remedy for the pres?
ent apparent deadlock.
Senators to-day pointed out that the
majority party controls the Senate For?
eign Relations Committee and thus rx
? en.- sufficient stiength to kill the
', treaty in committee alter the President
; re-submits it at the opening of the
regular session next month.
May Sidetrack Treaty
With the treaty held in committee,
the Lodge resolution, calling tor peace
with Germany, would be reported out
, by the majority members and effort*!
made to pass it and definitely side?
track the Versailles treaty.
Because of the absence of many Sen?
ators from Washington activity in
connection with the treaty was con?
fined to-day chiefly to speculating on
the probaoie effect of Senator Lodge's
announcement last night that the treaty
tight shou d be made an issue in the
13120 Presidential campaign. In this
connection it was said that public sen?
timent on this point may have crystal
ized oy the time Congress reconvenes
December 1, and it wou d then be
known whether the "finish fight'would
. be on between the two great parlies
over the Versailles instrument.
Little Chance of Comoromise
, Senator McCumber, m discussing the
avenu.' for compromise open to the Ad?
ministration, declared that the Lodge
reservations furnish the only possible
basis of compromise.
"Those reservations must lie accepted
| withoiu suostantia change, although
he wouid be w.lling, probably, to
modify the preamble somewhat," said
Mi*. McCumber.
"If any substantial change is made,
'. it will be to make the reservations more
drastic.
"I think there is not much possibility
of a compromise. The Administration
has not shown any inclination to com?
promise on the only basis upon which
an agreement is possible, and the only
1 way any agreement can be reached on
reservations is for the Administration
to accept the Lodge program.
"The Lodge reservation.-, are not as
drastic as they are made to appear,
and the Administration knows it. Take
the reservation on Article X, for in?
stance. The reservation simply says
that the United States shall not be un?
der any obligation to preserve the ter?
ritorial integrity and political indepen
T
'Red' Plot to ?
Seize U. S. Ship
Bared in Raid
Members of Communist Par.
ty Advised to Join Crew,
Mutiny at Sea and Run
Vessel to Russian Port
The police bomb squad and agents
of the Department of Justice made a
raid yesterday afternoon on the Fifth
Branch Headquarters of the Commun?
ist party in 274 Grand Street. No ar
rests w;?re made, but quantities of
Communist literature, a b?? red iiag
and several hundred emblems of mem?
bership, red lapel buttons, were
seized.
Fifty persons, men and women, who
were in the headquarters, were
questioned by Detective Sergeant
James J. Gegan and Inspector Fran?
cesco of the Department of Justice.
All denied they were members of ?-he
Communist party and offered various
excuses for their presence. The Com?
munist headqjarters occupies two
floors of the building, the upper one
being divided into class rooms, where,
apparently the membership was in?
structed in the doctrine and purposes
of the organization.
Says He ({uit Party
Ivan Jarmulowsky. was seated at i
desk in one of the offices when th?
police arrived. He became excited an?
began to protest that he was no longe
a member of the Communist party. H
said he had been the financial secre
tary of the Fifth Branch, but had re
signed because he was not in sympath;
with all of its aims. He told Sergean
| (legan he had gone to the building yes
i terday to gather up some of his per
: sonal belongings. He mentioned hi
! wife and children, and said he wa
? trying to keep out of trouble. Th
: police told him he was free to go.
Jarmulowsky denied knowledge of th
! ownership of the lar^e ?ed flag foun
? in the headquarters. These word
1 were inscribed in white letters on it
'red field: "Russian Socialist Fee
erated Republic."
Two weeks ago the police arreste
Maurice Nessim, of '2,'>5 Eldridge Stree
manager of the Fifth Branch Con
munist headquarters. He had bee
doing most of the printing for tue o:
ganization, anil was held in $5 000 ha
; on the charge of criminal anarchy.
Many Copies of Manifesto
In addition to the flag and emblen
of Communist Party membership, t!
; police seized many copies of the ma
i ifesto, similar Gegan said, to tho
| Chief Magistrate McAdoo recently sa
? betrayed anarchistic tendencies. The
] were also quantities of postear'
?bearing pictures of Karl Marx, Lenin
: Trotzky, members of the Bolshev
. Cabinet, Rosa Luxemburg and oth
radicals.
One of the newspapers seized, e
cording t?> detectives, was printed
Russian, and was issued from the ma
headquarters of the Communist par*
: in East Fifteenth Street. According
; the detectives this contained an arti?
urging members to apply to the Uni?
States Transport Service, 54 Dey Stre
, for positions of any kind aboard trar
port vessels of the United States, a
; then to mutiny at sea. The steamsl
! Mercury was suggested as a likely si
on which to stage the mutiny.
According to the detecitves' trans
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Nation Faces ?
Winter With
Fuel Famine
Lewis Says "Sinister In?
fluences" Conspire to
Prevent Agreement, but
Refuses to Name Them.
Secy. Wilson Called
Partisan by Owners
Next Step of Government
To Be Decided at Cabi?
net Meeting on Tuesday
.\VU- York Tribune
Wahington ftttrea,*
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.?Unless
the government brings into the ne?
gotiations between tiie bituminous
operators and miners some new fac?
tors or exerts far greater pressure
than it thus far has exerted, the
conference here between owners and
representatives of the workers may
come to an abrupt conclusion next
; week, and the country be left to face
the winter with the soft coal produc
i tion not even 50 per cent of normal.
The bitter feeling that has devel
; oped between the miners and oper?
ators, and between the operators.
i and the government, came to a head
to-day when John L. Lewis, acting
president of the United Mine Work?
ers, charged that "sinister influ?
ences" which he did not identitfy
are at work to prevent an agree?
ment, and the operators through,
their spokesman declared the atti
! tude of William B. Wilson, Secre?
tary of Labor, to be partisan on the
side of the miners.
No conference t?>ok place to-day
and the two sides stand as they did
last night when Mr. Wilson once
again failed to get them together
Mr. Lewis said the miners would
accept the proposal made by Mr.
Wilson for an increase in wages
amounting to 31.61 per cent, over the
existing scale if it were coup'ed with
a seven-hour day, a half holiday en
Saturday and the understanding
that local conditions and questions
should be left to local adjustme3iL
Operators Spurn Proposal
The operators rc?'?sed that proposal
last night, and emphatically said again
to-day they would not accert. it The
wage increase backed b. Mr. Wilson
was based on his figures sh wing the.
increase in the cost of living in inini-g*
towns to be 79.8 per com from De?
cember, 1914. to June. 191;*.
The operators, taking their own pro?
posal for a wage increase of 15 cents
a ton, amounting to about '-0 per cent,
argued it would mor., than meet the
increased living cos* s which Mr. Wi son
i produced, give the machine min"rs an
I increase of 118 per cent day workers
| an increase of 131.7 per cent and
?drivers 111 ner cent over 1914.
I "If the government feels the public
i must pay more than our figures show."
? sa?d the spokesman for the operators.
I "then we would like to have the gov?
? ernment say so."
The situation will be tak?*n up Mon
: day by Attorney General Palmer,
Di-ector General Hines. of the Rail?
road Administration; Dr. Harry Gar
iield. Federal Fuel Administrator, and
possibly other government officials.
Just what the government tan do to
! force a settlement neither operators
' nor miners understood to-night, unless
; it ussures the operators ?hat an in -
: creased cost to them ovc-r the increase
which would com?- with tie wa^e ad
; vanee they were willing to grant would
1 be taken up by the public.
Issue Ip to abinet
There is not likely to b<* a decision
: at the Monday meeting, for if it af
? fects the price of coal it must come
! from Dr. Garfield. and there is a de
! cided feeling here that he would not
; be willing to assume the responsibility
! of putting the burden upan the con
? sumer without Cabinet approval. The
. Cabinet is to meet Tuesday and thts
; government's future course will be <Je
' termined then.
If the government fails to bring
about a settlement, the miners and
\ operators must return home and work
: out their own problems in their own
: districts. In some fie'ds this would
; bring agreements speedily, but in eth?
ers weeks might be required. Mr
I Lewis said to-day many operators her*
? are ready to sign up for their miner
I at the miner's figures, and if no ad
I justment can be made on a genera!
j basis the plan of separate agreement*
j must be fal'ow*?d.
All through their discussions to-daj
j the operators aid stre**? on arbitra
I tion of the points in dispute. Thej
j feel their ligures are incor.trovertibh
: on the cost of living and the sufficienc.v
\ of the wave increase they will give t<
i meet it, and are willing to go beten
i any tribunal on them.
General Slrike Plan Hinted
To the charges of "sinister inrtu
' enees" working to pr?tent an agree
? ment, they declared they knew of .ion*
; and on their side intimated the un
! willingness of the miners to accep
j their -propo als might indicate a desir?
to bring about a general strike tha
wou.d affect al. industry.
After the operators had posthoJH