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THE HAYS FSES '
I1WS ITEMS FROM
ALL OVER KANSAS
HEAVY LOSS OF LIVE ST0GKIJ pfl
REAR ADMIRAL C0WIE
CABINET
6ERMAH PEOPLE ARE BITTER
ITALY ABM'OQiIS
A SECRET TREATY
TO AUSTRIA SOON
REJECTS TREATY
Disease and Exposure Killed 131,700
Head of Cattle in the State
Last Year.
Terms of Peace Cause Wave of Indig
nation Throughout Country
All Parties are United.
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Happenings of More or Less
Interest Gathered From
Many Sources.
BOOSTERS WOII PAVING FIGHT
State Supreme Court Orders City Of
ficials to Proceed With Construc
tion on Principal Street.
The Anthony Booster Club won its
fight in the Kansas Supreme Court to
get street paving for the city. The
.court granted the writ of mandamus
against the mayor and city commis
sioners of Anthony directing the city
to proceed at ,once with construction
of the pavement of the principal street
of the town.
This is the first case ever submitted
to the Kansas Supreme Court by a
civic association organized to boost
for improvement of a town. The An
thony club decided that the streets
ought to be paved, and obtained the
necessary petitions for the improve
ment. The city officials would not
order the work done.
Supreme court decided that the
Booster Club had ample authority for
bringing the suit and that the tech
nical questions raised by city officials
"were not of sufficient weight to war
rant a refusal to grant the writ.
When Mrs. Sarah Jones waved her
greeting to returning heroes from
overseas she counted the fourth glad
reception of victorious sons of Uncle
Sam since she was lifted in her fath
er's arms to wave and cheer with the
others at Harper's Ferry when the
troops returned from Mexico. As a
young woman she watched the return
of the men who had marched with
Sherman to the sea. In 1890 she saw
the Grand Army of the Republic sweep
down Kansas avenue after she had
moved to the Sunflower State and in
Topeka she witnessed the glorious re
ception given Funston's fighters of the
famous Twentieth Kansas.
The State Supreme Court has de
cided that a Kansas physician must
possess an ordinary degree of skill,
but when he makes an error of judg
ment he cannot be compelled to pay
damages for the mistake. This was
the ruling recently in the suit of Louis
Paulich against Dr. F. E. Nipplewas,
appealed from Douglas County. The
physician set a broken ankle and a
year later it was found that the bones
had not been" adjusted properly. The
lower court and the supreme court
decided for the doctor.
Two records have been broken and
one tied in the ninth annual state
high school track and field meet held
at Manhattan recently. First place
went to Abilene's well balanced tesv.
which won twenty-one points. Pope
of Garden City, the individual point
winner, placed his school in second
place with thirteen points, and - the
weight ability of Sahlsburg was im
portant in placing Osage City fourth
with twelve points. Eskridge, Pratt
and Perry won eleven points, Norton
ten and "Woodbine eight.
Lieut. Hugh Garvie of Abilene, an
engineering student at .the University
of Kansas in 1917, has returned to
Lawrence after being in the active
aviation service for fifteen months in
France. He had brought down four
Hun planes when he was shot down
behind the German lines, and spent
the last two months of the war in a
boche prison camp.
The Kansas State Nurses' Associa
tion will meet next year in Wichita.
The development of the public health
nursing work was discussed in the 2
day meeting at Wichita. Mis3 W.
Pearl Martin of Topeka was chosen
president; Miss Dena Grovewald, Mc
pherson, vice-president; Mrs. W. R.
Saylor, Hutchinson, secretary, and
Miss Kate Williams, Hutchinson.-treas-urer.
Lieut. Leo L. Gibbens of Scott
City gave a memorial address com
memorating the nurses who died in
service.
When William Heberllng of Com
pany H, 137th Infantry, returned to
Lawrence recently he found he was
$14,000 richer than when he went to
France two years ago. While he was
overseas his aunt died, leaving him
an estate valued at $14,000, including
eighty acres of land.
The McCracken city commissioners
have employed Leonard L. Ryan as
city manager. McCracken, with a pop
ulation of 371, is the smallest town in
the United States with commission
manager form of government.
An investigation by Congress Is ex
pected by Senator Capper relative to
the, War Department order removing
Gen. Charles I. Martin on the eve of
the Argonne battle. Investigation may
also be made as to the rejection for
overseas service of CoL Wilder S. Met
calf, Col. P. M. Hoisington and other
Kansas National Guard officers.
Petitions have been signed for seventy-seven
miles of paving on the Mer
lden Highway, which runs south from
Newton through Wichita and Welling
ton to CaldwelL
The Public Utilities Commission
has agreed to ask the dismissal of its
injunction suit against the Kansas
telephone companies on condition
that the companies file their applica
tion for authority to Increase rates
as directed by the postmaster general
with the commission. The agreement
Is then subject to . the commission's
approval. .
A herd of cattle, being unloaded at
Strong City stockyards recently, stam
peded and thirty-two were drowned
in the creek near the yards. .
Loss of live stock from exposure
and disease in the past year was great
er than in any previous year since
1903, according to the May report of
the state agent of the Department of
Agriculture.
The loss of cattle was 1.9 per cent
from disease and 3.5 per cent from
exposure. The normal loss for six
teen years was 1.7 per cent from dis
ease and 1.2 per cent from exposure.
The greatest loss was in west and
southwest counties, where January
and April storms caused many deaths.
Swine losses were about normal, 2.6
per cent.
On the basis of the January estimate
of live stock in the state, 3,365,000
cattle and 2,381,000 hogs, these per
centages indicate that Kansas lost
181,700 cattle and 61,906 hogs from
disease and exposure in the past year.
The Kansas Board of Agriculture
has started an investigation of the
dairy industry. J. C. Mohler, secre
tary, announces that every phase of
the business will be inquired into not
only for increasing the quantity and
quality of dairy products, but also for
determining ways and means by which
dairymen may obtain better profits.
"Dairying in Kansas is due for a big
expansion," said Mr. Mohler. "There
13 no reason why Kansas should not
rank among the leading dairy states."
The first step in the investigation has
been the mailing out of more than ten
thousand 12-page questionnaires to
milk and cream producers.
Lieut. John W. Hamilton of Pleas
anton has been cited for exceptional
bravery in leading his company in the
attack on Bellecourt, September 29,
and decorated .with the Distinguished
Service Cross. Lieutenant Hamilton
was severely wounded by shrapnel
but refused to leave his command. He
was commanding his company because
all other officers were wounded. He
refused to go to the rear and was
wounded a second time in the leg. He
is still in a hospital in France. Ham
ilton was graduated from K. U. in
1917. He was commissioned a first
lieutenant at the first officer's train
ing camp at Fort Riley.
A warning against bonfire celebra
tions has been issued by L. T. Hussey,
state fire marshal. "The dangers of
the peace celebration bonfires, which
may be contemplated by people
throughout the country when the
peace treaty is signed, are many,"
Mr. Hussey explains. "I sincerely
hope this method of celebrating that
important event will not only be dis
couraged, but forbidden by the author
ities everywhere. There are so many
means of celebrating that are safe,
sane and much more economical that
there is really no necessity for a bon
fire." The state tax commission contends
that banks which have invested funds
representing capital stock in Liberty
Bonds must pay taxes on the bonds.
The commission has submitted the
matter to the attorney general's office,
and S. N. Hawkes, assistant attorney
general, stated he probably would ap
prove the position Gf the commission,
but make a definite opinion later. It
is said banks cf Kansas have hundreds
of thousands of dollars invested in
Liberty Bonds affected by this ruling.
Junction City was selected as the
meeting place next year of the county
treasurers of Kansas at the closing
session of the conventionat Lawrence.
J. M. Price of Atchison was elected
president for the coming year; R. C.
Anderson, vice-president; J. F. Berlin
of Ottawa, treasurer; Miss Margaret
Law of McPherson, secretary.
Charles W. Saunders and James
Dwyer, charged with stealing an au
tomobile in Augusta, and wwo were
arrested in Cushing, Ok., and Joe
Pierce and Tom Patterson, who were
arrested in Cushing about two weeks
ago charged with highway robbery, es
caped from the county jail at Eldo
rado.. The men asked Night Jailer
Avery Robbins for water. When. Rob
bins unlocked the door between the
jail corridor and the jailer's office the
men attacked him, taking his keys.
The annual convention of the Kan
sas State Sunday School Association
closed at Wichita with an address by
Gov. Henry J, Allen. Next year the
convention "will be held in Topeka.
Officers were elected as follows:
Ralph Melntyre, Topeka, president;
George Dougherty, recording secre
tary; R. M. White, treasurer. H. P.
Armstrong of Atchison was made vice
president of the administration di
vision. James Gailey, 75 years old, is dead
at Greeley. He had lived there more
than fifty years.
The Presbyterian Church of Law
rence has voted to erect a $100,000
modern fireproof hospital to be com
pleted in a year. It will be modeled
after the Chicago Presbyterian Hos
pital and will have a ward for the
poor. The Prebyterian Church hired
a visiting nurse last month.
Governor Henry J. Allen has made
requisition on the governor of Indiana
for John A. Field, who is wanted at
Abilene on a charge of wife desertion.
Field, it was stated, is under arrest
in Indianapolis.
The contract has been let by the
Hugoton Elevator and Warehouse
Company for a large concrete terminal
elevator, the capacity to be four hun
dred thousand bushels and the cost
to be in excess of 100,000. There
will be sixteen tanks and a main op
erating building, and it will handle
twenty-five to thirty cars a day.
The Parsons High School won four
firsts in the inter-state high school
musical contest held in connection
with the spring festival at the State
Manual Training Normal recently.
The Council of Four Has Con
cluded Task of Defining
the Boundaries.
QUE SOVIET IS RECOGNIZED
Allies Sent Invitation to Hungarian
Government -German Austrian
Dislike Proposed Peace Terms.
Paris, May 13. The council of four
spent the greater part of the day on
the Austrian boundaries and com
pleted the task of defining them this
afternoon in a session with the for
eign ministers. Such progress was
made that the members of the coun
cil believe that the Austrian treaty
may be completed this week.
Recognize Hungarian Soviet?
The Allies for' the first time appar
ently have officially recognized a Bol
shevist government the Hungarian
soviet republic.
A formal invitation was forwarded
to Budapest, simultaneously with the
one to Vienna, to send a delegation to
the peace conference, it was U-arned
today. At first it was reported the
invitation was made under the impres
sion that Bela Kun had been ousted,
but the French foreign office later
stated that this was not the case.
The German delegation- has handed
to the Council of Four the German
plan for a League of Nations. This
plan was drawn up by Professor
Schuecking, and the principal feature
is an international parliament com
posed of ten representatives from each
nation.
German-Austria Dislikes It.
Copenhagen, May 13. Dr. Otto
Bauer, foreign minister of German
Austria, in a speech to the workers,
protested against the peace terms
handed to the Germans at Versailles.
An account of his speech is printed by
the Vossische Zeitung of Berlin, a
copy of which has been received here.
Doctor Bauer objected to the pJan
for making German-Austria a neutral
ized state and concluded:
"This small German-Austria cannot
exist, alone. Unless we join with big
Germany we shall not even be German-Austria."
Geneva, May 13. A number of Aus
trian delegates bound for St. Germain
to take part in the peace negotiations
arrived at Buchs, on the Swiss fron
tier, this morning. They will take the
Simplon express and expect to reach
Paris .Tuesday night.
ROOT HAS A RAILROAD PLAN
Former Cabinet Member Opposes Fed
eral Plan and Outlines Dangers
of Compulsory Incorporation.
St. Louis, May 14. Compulsory
federal incorporation of railroads, gov
ernment guarantees of income and the
removal of the roads from the jurisdic
tion of the present state commissions
as steps proposed prior to the return
of' the railroads to private ownership
were condemned by Elihu Root in a:
letter read today before the Missouri
bankers convention in session here.
Mr. Root's letter was read by S. Davies
Warfield, president of the National As
sociation of Owners of Railroad Se
curities, who had requested an opin
ion from Mr. Root as advisory counsel
to the association.
As an alternative, Mr. Root unquali
fiedly indorsed the plan put before the
Security Owners Association under
which Congress would fix a fair rate
of return of the railroads of each rate
making authorities to fix rates which
would presumptively yield that return.
In the event of any road making more
than the prescribed return the excess
would be taken by the government and
used to promote public interest in
transportation.
PLAN TO RUSH WITADRAWAL
Coblenz, May 12. General Pershing,
commander-in-chief of the American
Expeditionary Forces, arrived in
Coblenz today for what may be his
last official visit to the American
occupation area. He will arrange with
Lieut. Gen. Hunter Liggett final plans
for the complete withdrawal of the
American forces as decided upon some
three weeks ago.
General Pershing confirmed the
Washington announcement that all, or
at least nearly all, of the Americans
would be out of France and Germany
by September 1. He announced that
plans for the withdrawal of troops
from the occupied zone were even
further advanced than general head
quarters had anticipated. Assuming
that the Germans will sign the peace
treaty, the troop withdrawal from the
Rhineland will go forward with a rush.
Shot a St. Joseph Policeman.
St. Joseph, Mo., May 14. Charles
Hensley, a policeman, was shot, prob
ably fatally, early today by negroes he
discovered breaking into a store. Hens
ley fired five shots, but the negroes
escaped.
Whipped Two "Gobs" Got Job.
Chicago, May 14. George Wissman,
a marine, whipped two big jackies, af
ter having been refused a job as po
liceman because he was too smalL A
police sergeant saw the fight and
Wissman is now a policeman.
Kept Wood From Review.
Chicago, May 14. Maj. Gen. Leon
ard Wood, commander of the Central
Division, looks just like any other sol
dier to a traffic policeman. That ex
plains why he was not in the review
ing stand when the 13th Engineers
passed yesterday.
'Soldiers Killed In Quarry.
Dijon, May 14. Several American
soldiers were killed and ten were se
verely injured when a case of dyna
mite exploded yesterday In a quarry
near Is-Sur-Tile.
Rear Admiral Thomas J. Covric,
whose slogan, The Battle of the
Bonds," and able mmagement of pact
Liberty loan campaigns in the navy
were an Inspiration to the "gob- to
do their utmost to back up the coun
try's fighting men on land and sea,
was selected by Secretary Daniels to
launch the navy Victory loan campaign.
PECK PUTS BLAME ON HIKES
Chairman of Defunct Industrial Board
Says Railroad Head Wrecked
Control of Price Plan. -
Washington, May 12. George N.
Peek, chairman of the department of
commerce's industrial board, which
was dissolved last week after a long
controversy with the railroad adminis
tration concerning steel prices, de
clared in a statement tonight that the
public would "demand an explanation
of the wrecking, apparently on the
obstinacy of a single individual, of a
plan to make an immediate reduction
in the cost of living of such an ap
parent national value."
"I can only conjecture an ex
planation," said Mr. Peek. "Through
out the baffling controvery the board
has found itself checked by forces in
opposition which it could neither un
derstand, reason with nor overcome,
but which grew in strength until they
rendered further progress impossible
and forced abandonment of the plan.
"In theory the plan has been ap
proved unanimously by business men
and associations and by editorial and
press comment the country over; in
practice the, plan has been proved by
the order books of steel producers and
the buying revival which immediately
followed the announcement of steel
prices and ceased immediately upon
the railroad administration's rejection
of those prices.
"It is inconceivable that the rail
road administration's unsubstantial
objection alone was sufficient to
justify the abandonment of a policy of
such importance.
"Nor toward that end has the di
rector general been alone in thwart
ing the . purpose of the board. The sec
retary of the treasury has taken a
stand in direct contradiction with his
message to the president urging the
creation of the board. The attorney
general has rendered an opinion that
the plan of the board contravenes the
Sherman Act, but the facts assumed
as the basis of that opinion are so in
consistent with the actual course of
conduct of the board as to render the
opinion inapplicable, yet it has been
used as a basis for the abandonment
of the board's plan.
"In all this opposition the board has
sought in vain for a substantial rea
son. It has urged the railroad admin
istration first, to aid by one single
fact, or argument to arrive at a lower
price for steel, and, second, to name a
price which the railroad administra
tion would consider fair."
Planes to Protect Forests.
Washington, May 10. Patrol of na
tional forests by army airplanes to
give early warning of forest fires will
begin June 1, with the inauguration
of two patrol routes from Marchfield,
Cal., Washington announces.
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
One Bolshevist gunboat is reported
to have been sunk on the Dvina- River
in an engagement between the British
river flotilla and land batteries and
the enemy fleet. The Allied flotilla,
aided by airplanes, also conducted a
brisk bombardment along the Vaga
River.
Contracts for at least 500 airplanes
of the very latest types would be
awarded American manufacturers un
der plans prepared by the army air
service and sent to Secretary Baker
recently for his consideration.
Commissioner Enright announced
recently that the New York police de
partment would pay "a substantial re
ward" for the apprehension of the
May Day bomb plotters who attempted
to throw the country into a panic by
mailing bombs to federal officials and
prominent citizens.
William Howard Hamilton of Eagle
Station, Ky., born in the Civil War
after his father had gone into service,
met his parent for the first time re
cently when he found Jeremiah Ham
ilton, 86, at West Mansfield, O.
According to a report from the spe
cial correspondent of the National
Tiende, in Stockholm, military prep
arations are being made at Helsing
f ors which, it Is expected, wiir be the
concentration point for the expedition
ary force of 50,000 whose object is to
be an advance on Petrograd.
A wireless dispatch from Chris
tinia states that the foreign minister
has sent a request to the Peace Con
ference at Faxia seeking an indemnity
from Germany for Norwegian vessels
sunk by the Germans.
Declaration of the Chancellor
Greeted by a Hurricane of
Cheers in Assembly.
MURDEROUS SCHEME, HE SAYS
Scheidemann Declares Terms of Peace
Mean Practical Strangulation of
the German Nation.
Berlin, May 14. The declaration
by Chancellor Scheidemann in the
national assembly Monday that the
peace terms were "unacceptable"
brought the members of the assembly,
the spectators and those in the press
gallery to their feet in a hurricane of
cheers and applause.
The chancellor reached the climax
of his statement on the peace terms
ten minutes after he began. He paused
in his address and then thundered out
the word which announced the Ger
man government's rejection of the
Versailles conditions.
"This treaty, he said, "is, in the view
of the imperial government, unaccept
able. I am unable to believe that this
earth could bear such a document
without a cry issuing from millions of
throats in all lands, without distinc
tion of party. Away with this murder
ous scheme."
All Cheered Except Socialists.
With the exception of the Independ
ent Socialists, led by Hugo Haase, all
factions In the assembly arose and
cheered vociferously. The assembly is
sitting temporarily in the assembly
hall of the University of Berlin on
Unter Den Linden.
After the chancellor's speech the
leaders of the various parties, with the
exception of the Haase group, made
speeches in which they declared they
backed up the government.
Said Wilson Deceived Them.
The chancellor described the peace
treaty as a "dreadful and murderous"
document. He said it would make an
enormous jail of Germany in which
60 million persons would have to labor
for the victors in the war. The chan
cellor said German trade would be
strangled should the peace terms be
accepted.
He criticized President Wilson, and
said that the President, by his atti
tude," had deceived the hopes of the
German people.
Herr Scheidemann said that the oc
casion was the turning point in the
life of the German people, as the as
sembly was to decide the attitude to
ward "what our adversaries call peace,
conditions."
HONORS FOR EDITH CAVELL
Guards Escort Body of the Murdered
British Nurse on Way From
Belgium to England.
Brussels, May 14. Escorted by hon
or guards of British and Belgian
troops, the body of Edith Cavell, the
heroic English nurse, murdered by the
Germans, was removed today from the
city where she faced a firing squad in
1915.
The heavy casket, containing the
body recovered from the graveyard
where the Germans had rudely In
terred it, was placed on a gun car
riage, draped in the Union Jack.
Troops preceded and followed the cor
tege. There were many band3 and
thousands of silent spectators uncov
ered as the first notes of the dirge
sounded through the streets that had
seen the Germans strut as conquerors
in 1914, rule as conquerors four years
and slink away defeated in 1918.
The procession passed slowly
through the boulevards, the way lined
by thousands of people, including
many soldiers in uniform. Flags flew
at half mast.
At Ostend a British warship was
waiting to carry the body to England.
Two sisters of Miss Cavell and her
brother-in-law accompanied the re
mains. BOND BUYERS, 15 MILLIONS
Number ef Subscribers to Victory
Loan Not as Great as that
in Fourth Drive.
Washington, May 12. Fifteen mil
lion Americans bought Victory notes
in the campaign which closed last
night, according to estimates received
today by the treasury from federal
reserve banks. This compares with
about twenty-one million purchasers
In the Fourth Liberty loan, seventeen
In the third, nine million four hundred
thousand in the second, and four mil
lion in the first.
Italy Seeks an Adjustment.
Paris, May 13. Baron Bonino, the
Italian foreign minister, conferred to
day with Col. E. M. House of the Amer
ican peace delegation, with a view to
adjusting the Italian situation before
the Austrians arrive.
Yanks Out of Russia in June.
Archangel, May 13. Tentative ar
rangements are being made to begin
the withdrawal of. American troops
from North Russia early in June, but
no definite orders have been received
by the American commander.
"America Not Money Mad."
Paris, May 13. Presldsnt Wilson,
in his recent address to the French
Academy of Moral and Political
Sciences, entered a strong disclaimer
of the idea -that the American people
were largely materialists or dollar wcrv
shippers.
Vill Reduce Austria.
Paris, May 13. The Austro-Hun-garian
peace terms, while designed to
reduce the former dual monarchy to
the status of third class nations, will
crcrrid economic rehabilitation.
Berlin, May 12. The protests that
came from various quarters in Ger
many over the peace terms, as they
were reported before the official terms
became known, are as nothing in com
parison with the wave of re monstrance
angry, bitter, disappointed in tone
that is sweeping over Germany now
that the treaty has been presented.
States, municipalities, districts, organ
izations of various sorts, business
men's and women's clubs and the polit
ical parties through their spokesmen
are vying with each other In finding
words in which to express scorn and
condemnation for the document.
For perhaps the first time In history
all German parties are united in opin
ion, each of them assailing the terms
Germany is asked to sign, for the body
of the Independent Socialist rarty
does not appear to agree with its or
gan. Die Freiheit, that Germany should
sign the peace on the terms presented.
The newspapers are utterly swamped
with the protests, being able to print
but a fraction of them. They are urged
to this by the Tageblatt. which says
the unfriendly attitude towards the
treaty taken by the Socialists of other
countries will not be of assistance, be
cause they are in the minority ia their
countries and the Germans must pro
test for themselves.
The government likewise is being
rverwhelmed with telegrams which it
is utterly unable to answer save by
public announcement of its gratitude.
In the criticisms. President Wilson
is only mildly assailed here and there,
since word has gone to the press from
official quarters that he s not to be
taken to task. The assertions upon
which stress are laid are that the pro
posed peace lacks all elements cf jus
tice and conforms in no way to the
president's fourteen points, while in
dignation is expressed over terms
characterized as unbearable and as
spelling slavery for the German peo
ple. Some of the protestants declare
they are deeply moved and outraged
by the provisions of the treaty, while
others express deep contempt for what
they call a "brutal peace of force."
The expression "a verdict cf death" is
one frequently used.
GLASS DENIES PECK'S STORY
Secretary of Treasury Says Charges
of Industrial Board Head Are
Without Foundation.
Washington, May 13. Charges made
yesterday by George N. Peck, chair
man of the recently dissolved board,
that Secretary Glass had taken a
stand on the board's efforts to agree
on price for necessities, "in direct con
tradiction with his message to the
President urging creation of the
board," have drawn a sharp reply from
the secretary.
In a statement published today, Mr.
Glass said the board in attempting to
"fix minimum priceB for the public did
precisely that which it had been
warned not to do," and In the action
had been promptly repudiated by him
as "contrary to fundamental principles
of economics, of public policy and of
the law."
"Mr. Peck knows perfectly well,"
said Mr. Glass, "that I have never, in
any way or at any time, suggested
such action as that taken by the In
dustrial Board. Hence, his reference
to me on this point perverts the actual
truth."
REVOLT IN MEXICO GROWS
The Second Capture of Parral by
Villa's Forces Indicative of
Rebel's Increasing Strength.
Washington, May .13. What is re
garded as further evidence of the
growing strength of the revolutionary
movement headed by Francisco Villa,
which has shown signs of rapid de
velopment recently in the State of
Chihuahua, reached Washington to
night in dispatches stating that Villa
had recartured the town of Parral un
der rather striking circumstances.
It was the second time within less
that a month that Villa had taken Par
ral. According to these advices 260
Carranzista soldiers of the force of
government troops that had gone back
into Parral were captured. Their com
manding officer, General Gomez, es
caped when Villa re-entered ParjaL
but his men were taken prisoner. . '
The apparent ability of Villa to do
very much as he pleases in the con
duct of his campaign in various parts
of Chihuahua bear out confidential ad
vices recently received In Washington
indicating that the Villista movement
is spreading and which predicted that
by June the Villa revolution would be
under full headway.
Unveiled Statue of Belgium.
New York, May 10. A marble
statue dedicated to Belgium was un
veiled at the customs house today,
replacing the statue cf Germany,
which was ordered removed last year.
Honors 22 American Women.
New York, May 12. Twenty-two
American women doctors, nurses
and motor drivers composing the
staff of the American women's hospi
tal No. 1, at Luzancy, France, have
been decorated . by the French govern
ment for their services in the war.
Gets Demand for Kaiser.
Paris, May 12. The Temps pub
lishes a note from the Dutch legation
at Paris, declaring that the demand
for the extradition of the former Ger
man emperor has reached Holland.
Met to Start Fight Early.
New York, May 12. Plans for the
fight against national prohibition, to
be opened at the outset of the special
session of congress, called by Presi
dent Wilson for May 19, were an
nounced today at headquarters of the
Association Opposed to National Pro
hibition. Paris, May 12. An Abyssinian mis
sion was received today by President
Polnc&re. The mission came to Paris
to request that France establish a- pro
tectorate over AtytJlr.ia.
Adjustment of the Controversy,
However, Leaves Status
of Fiume Unsettled.
ANSWER THE GERMAN NOTES
Council of Four Replies to Counter
Propositions of Berlin Foch
Ready to Act.
Paris. May 15. Italian delegates
to the peace conference are no longer
insisting upon the fulfillment of the
secret treaty of. London and this part
of the controversy relative to territory
on the eastern shore of an Adriatic
is tending toward an adjustment, ac
cording to those who have taken part
in recent conferences.
The status of Fiume is still being
discussed, as the plan to make it a free
city similar to Danzig has not proved
acceptable,
London, May 15. The Italians axe
landing large military forces at Zara.
and Sebenico on the coast of Dalmatia,
according to a Keuter dispatch from
Belgrade, the Serbian capital. The
troops are being moved eastward and
are fortifying the ridges and passes.
Zara and Sebenico are near the cen
ter cf the Dalmatian cost and are be
tween Fiume and Spalato. They are
opposite the Italian port of Ancona.
The mountains to the east of the two
ports are the Dinaric Alps.
Committee on Proposals.
Paris, May 15. The council of four
of the peace conference appointed this
afternoon a ub-committee comprising
one member from each of the five
great powers (Great Britain, France,.
Italy, the United States and Japan),
to deal with objections and proposals
from the German peace plenipoten
tiaries. The council held a meeting this
morning considering problems relative
to ports and waterways and some de
tails of the Austrian treaty. It is pre
sumed that the German note, which
was reported to have been delivered
last evening, was also taken up by the
council.
One of the notes under consider
ation is a note presented by Count
Von Brockdorff-Rantzau on Tuesday
night, asking authorization for the
sending of German officers to greet
the Austrian peace delegation on its
arrival at St. Germain. Press opin
ion is that the request will be denied.
Text of Three Notes.
The three German notes delivered
to the council of four, the Havas
Agency says, deals with the following
subjects:
"The first, the effect of the peace
terms upon Germany's economic sit
uation; the second, with the manner
in which President Wilson's points
are applied, which is protested against
awl the third, with the principles of
the reparation demands, which are
protested, although it is declared that
Germany is prepared to subscribe to
them.
HOOTED WILSON IN BERLIN
Fifteen Thousand Majority Socialists
Engage in Anti-American Demon
stration in Streets of Berlin.
Berlin, May 15. Fifteen thousand
Majority Socialists made a demonstra
tion in front of the Hotel Adlon yes
terday, crying, "Down with Wilson!
Down with the Americans! x
The tumult grew in front of the
American headquarters until fifty sol
diers arrived and cleared the streets.
The crowd had gathered for a dem
onstration against the peace terms in
front of the Reichstag. It was ad
dressed by Richard Fischer, who said
the confidence of the Germans in Pres
ident Wilson had been shamefully
abused and that the government would
refuse to sign the treaty.
The demonstrators then surged to
. ward the Hotel Adlon, hooting, jeer
ing and shouting "robbers! The tu
mult lasted half an hour.
Chancellor Scheidemann later ad
dressed a large crowd in front of the
Reichstag.
WILL STUDY BIG BUSINESS
Washington, May 15. Thirty-five
specially trained business agents of
the internal revenue bureau have been
dispatched to all parts of the country
to study commercial and industrial
practices in certain lines of business
with a view to advising on future reg
ulations. They will ascertain prac
tices in regard to amortization, deple
tion, depreciation and valuation of as
sets as of the pre-war period and for
mulate guiding rules concerning "re
sponsible salaries' allowed as busi
ness expenses to corporations.
War Tax on Patent Medicine, Too.
Washington, May 15. Consumers
must pay a tax of one cent for every
25 cents in the purchase price cf prac
tically all toilet articles and all pat
ented or advertised medicinal articles,
the Internal revenue bureau says.
Colorado Miners Wages Cut.
Durango, CoL, May 15. Silverton
miners have accepted a wage cut cf
twenty-five cents a day and an in
crease of twenty-five cents a day at
the company boarding houses. Two
thousand men are affected.
Plan a Cotton Export Corporation.
New Orleans, May 15. Cotton grow
ers, dealers and bankers of the South,
formulated plans today to organize a
100 million dollar cotton exporting cor
poration and the permanent organiza
tion of the cotton interests of the tea
cotton states.
Will Discharge College Students
Washington, 'May 15. Practically an
men in the army who desire to return,
to college will receive discharges be
fore the fall term, the War Depart
ment announced..