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m$. 'JM I J* ,• 9 i,. ,, If E E N I N E I I O N VOL. 14, NO. 124. General Headquarters at Chaumont Will be Closed Early Next Month Cob lenz Sector Will be Sup plied Directly From Ant werp. Washington, May 24.—Revised plans for the return of the overseas forces provide for the sailing from France of all troops except those In the regular divisions by June 2, Gen eral March, chief of staff, announced today. Units now in the service of supply are scheduled to sail, 100,000 in May, 200,000 in June, and the small re mainder in July. A definite schedule has been arranged for closing all the supply sections and leave areas now under control of the A. E. F. head quarters. General headquarters at Chaumont will be closed early in June after which time the Coblenz sector will be supplied direct from Antwerp. 60 Per Cent Discharged. _,Washington, May 24.—Demobiliza tion of the army has. now returned more than sixty per cent of officers and men to civil life, it was an nounced officially. The total, includ ing partial reports to date, was givfen as 2,215,161, of whom 112,556 were officers. Sailings from overseas since November 11, last, have totalled 1, 152,427. FRENOTFUER MENDS ID CROSS OCEAN Set Out From Paris Today For Morocco To Land In Brazil. Paris, May 24^—Lieutenant Roget, the French aviator who in April made a non-stop flight of moce than 680 miles from Lyons to Rome, start ed this morning on a flight from Paris to Morocco,, whence he plans to at tempt a flight across.the Atlantic to Brazil with Dakar as starting point. Roget made his start from here at 3 .a. m. He was accompanied by Mechanician Offrey.<p></p>RETURN Such is Decision of Tele phone Officials Regarding Winnipeg Operators. Winnipeg, Man., May 24.—A notice issued by George A. Watson, com missioner of the Manitoba govern ment telephones, orders all telephone employe's on strike to. resume work by noon qn Monday next. Failure to do so means dismissal from the serv ice, the order states. The central strike committee last night called out the long distance operators at va rious telephone exchanges in country districts: Settlement of the general strike here toda" rested squarely upon the effect which an order calling off the sympathetic walkout would have on union councils in other dominion cit ies. All issues seem to have been ten tatively agreed upon except the de mand that the strike leaders must as sume full, responsibility for the gen oral strike and restore local condi tions to'' normal before an agreement with the employers can be con cluded. Various actions of the central strike committee have been censured by fed eral, provincial and municipal gov ernments the Winnipeg press the Winnipeg citizens', committee and Mayor Charles F. Gray. Union men l\ave been told by mem bers of genera) conciliation conference committee that, industrial employers will recognize collective bargaining, although perhaps not along the ex act lines laid down by executive lead ers of uhidn forces. Attorney A. J.' Andrews,' member of the citizens* committee, in telling the union leaders that no settlement can be reached until the sympathetic strike is called off. declared that near ly 6,000 of the,30.600 union' men and women involved'in the walkouts have returned, to their former positions. President James Winning of the Trades ind Labor council questioned the size of the estimate. Spokesmen, representing the citi zens' committee, yhich took the posi tion that Winnipe- citizens recoenized the necessity fpi* economic improve ments, for better working conditions, in some cases fpr",hlgher wages for some crafts for provincial and fed eral legislation to bring about re forms and for "proper collective bar gaining." The committee- members also declared that employers recog nixed the rights of unions to strike, If necessary, to call public attentipn' to their grievances. On the other hand, It was pointed out' that. federal ministers have con demned the strike of Winnlpetf poe tal employes and ordered that they return to Work by Monday that the ', provincial authorities have met «he telephone situation in the same mari ner thatMayorCharles F. Gray and a majority of the council hav? dp sailed the action-of the central strike committee' In calling out the union firemen and that the Great Wc.r Vet erails' association, after indorsing the principle of collective bargaining at the outlet of the strike, refused .-u a •_ special meetifig to Indorse the strike method^ of the union' forces. TO HOLD CONFERENCE. Washington, May 24.—Ambassador 3onillas of Mexico is leaving here to tW for Mexico City :ta ftrenc* with President have Carra: i.^'-AirvyAi .1 *. l* '|I^ *t.t-VV -'.*:fr Ai-iV: riiSi SlC'V' V .«•*• SOLDIERS BUT THOSE IN REGULAR DIVISIONS SLATED TO SAIL FOR HOME BY JUNE 12 5f con- nsa. I n™"~,,"™™,™^™™,,*^™,™"™™T™ A "•!&?&<•. *t „, THIRTY PERSONS BADLY BURNED IN BAY0NNE FIRE Bayonne, N. J., May 24.— nUrty persons were burned, sev end probably fatally, in a triple explosion in the case and can department of the Standard Oil company here today. One man, a living torch, leaped Into New ark Bay but was rescued and tak en to the Bayonne hospital. The 4,000 employes at the plant, including nearly 600 girls, were panic stricken.<p></p>ENGINEERS U. S. HAY BIG PART IN RUB BATTLE Rebuilding of Railway Lines After Destruction Aids Allied Troops. (By The Associated Press) Archangel, Friday, May 23.—Ameri can railroad troops are playing.an im portant part in the rapid advance of the Allied troops southward along the Murmansk railway. The Bolshevikl are destroying bridges in an effort to hold up the Allies. The Americans however, are working hard putting the track into shape again. American motor launches have been brought' on flat cars from Mur mansk and it is expected will soon be operating with other craft on Lake Onega, which is connected by rivers and canals with Lake Ladoga, the largest in Europe the Neva River and Petrograd. The artillery continues active on the Archangel front and. there are occasional raids but no serious fight ing. Several hundred American in fantrymen are still in the fighting line on the Dvina and Vaga sectors. They will soon be relieved. American en gineers, however, continue to work on. nearly all sectors. PROMST OR NC4JOURNEY Weather Conditions Such That Aii-plspie May Not Get Away Sunday. Washington, Ma&24—Weather con ditions-still were unfavorable for the naval seaplane NC-4's start from Ponta Delgada for Lisbon today. A message announcing the flight would not be attempted was received by the Navy department from Admiral Jack son at Ponta Delgada this morning but caused no disappointment as: weather forecasts had indicated con tinuation of storms in the vicinity of the Azores. The morning weather .report from Ponta Delgada gave litQe promise that the NC-4 might get under way tomorrow. Continued winds varying from 15 to 30 miles an hour from the southeast, overcast skies and showers were predicted. The sea continued rough. International News Events Summarized (By The Associated Press) Germany's chief peace plenipoten tiaries are back at Versailles today after consultation yesterday at Spa with Premier Scheidemann and other representatives of the German home government. It had been announced from Ber lin that the framing of Germany's counter proposals to the Allied peace terms was to be considered at the Spa conference and it seems probable that the final form of these proposals has been' decided upon. Germany must present. the proposals within the week's extension of time for replying recently granted her which expires on Thursday next. While the Germans were absent the peace conferees were by no means idle but have been devoting much at tention to the shaping. of the peace treaty to be presented to the Austri an delegates. It has been announced that at a plenary Session Tuesday next the treaty with Austria will be" "For mally laid before the repreMntatives of the Allied nations assembled at Paris. The next day. It is expected, the terms will. xbe handed the Austrian representatives. The milititry terms of the docu ment, it is' understood, will provide that Austria's great army. In 1914 second only to that of .Germany, be reduced to a mere handful of 15,000 men. All implements of war now in the hands of the Austrians are to be destroyed and the further manufac ture of munitions is to be forbidden. The naval terms, published in part some time ago, sweeps away the whole Austrian nayy. Dispatches from Paris Indicate that the work of the peace conference will not end with the signing of the trea ties between the Allies and the cen tral empires, Bulgaria and Turkey. It is said that the work of adjusting conflicting-views on subjects which are important to the Allies Is likely to take considerable time. It is be lieved therefore, that American rep resentatives, will remain in J*airla after the peace has been made and Presi dent Wilson has left 'for, the United States, to consider with 'the repre sentatives of other governments the varied subjects Mill demaAdfttg atten tion. •. TROOPS. Camp Mills. N. Y., May 24.— Troops Jeaving today for demobilisa tion camps included: To Camp .Ouster, 17 officers and 4$1 men of the 125th infantry and two officer* and 194 men of the 12tth ln fatatry. ...*», I. i1A FAREW1 HELD IN OHIO Big Celebrations to be Stag ed in Many of the Wet I. Districts of State. is, Ohio, May 24.—The. first of a double, celebration marking the passing of liquor traffic in Ohio start ed here today and at mlghlght the state will virtually become prohibi tion territory under an amendment to the constitution adopted by the voters lastr aiHumn. While midnight -next Monday is specified in the new law as the time for the closing, the license year ends today and comparatively few saloon keepers paid the-$300 necessary to re open for the final celebration on Mon day. Big farewell. parties to John Bar leycorn were to be held tonight in nearly every wet municipality in Ohio, the biggest state in the country to have voted prohibition. The authori ties did. not anticipate trouble in any community as a result of the expect 'ed hilarity. For severa,l weeks some communi ties have been preparing for the ad vent of prohibition and the number of licensed drinking places, which totaled 5,600 a' few months ago, has been consdierably reduced. Saloonkeepers report that for sev eral weeks stocks of wines and whis kies have rapidly disappeared. Vir tually all the finer wines and liquors have been, disposed of. Despite the unusually high prices that have pre vkiled, 'the dealers say thousands of dollars worth of liquor has been stor ed in private warehouses and cellars for private consumption. Scores of saloons that closed today will reopen shortly as lunchrooms and refreshment stands. Several brew eries will reopen as ice manufactur ing and cold storage plants. Ohio will enter the list of dry states without the usual prohibition en forcement machinery. For the present the prohibition laws will be enforced by state officials. Prohibition leaders attempted to pass emergency legislation through the Ohio legislature this winter, but failed. A law enforcement bill was passed, but minus an emergency clause, and the "wets" have an nounced they .will call a referendum upon it before it can become effective. The state will lose revenue amount ing to approximately $4,000,000 an nually as the result of prohibition. Bills providing for new revenue-rais ing acts are pending before the Ohio general assembly. BAKER TO SPEAK AT FRATERNITY DINNER TONIGHT New York, May 24.—Members of the PHi Gamma Delta fraternity will give (a ^mner -*ere toAight at which ner, one of a Chain of thirty dinners to be held Simultaneously in as many cities, throiighout the'country, is part of the fraternity's projected memorial to 120 members who were killed- in the war. It is proposed to erect a me morial hill. Secretary Baker is chair man of the committee in charge of the arrangements. TEXAS VOTES TODAY. Dallas, .Texas, May 24.—Woman suffrage and prohibition were the principal issues in a general election throughout Texas today. Amend ments to th$ constitution giving right of suffrage tq-women and prohibiting manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors are being voted upon. i*w: NORTH DAKOTA'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER GRAND FORKS, N. D., SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1919. URNESS' BODY DISCOVERED! IN RED IVER Drowning Victim Found Today Half Mile Below Riverside Park. CORPSE IDENTIFIED BY STRICKEN FATHER No Trace Found. as Yet of Second Man in Double Tragedy. The body of Roy Urness, aged 19, 509 Chestnut street, one of the two young men drowned last Tuesday in the. Red Lake River, was found to day In the Red River about one-half mile below Riverside Park. It had. lodged in a pile of brush some 2 5 feet from the west* bank of the river, and was discovered by Charles Pict, residing on the east bank of the river, a short distance be low. The authorities were notified, and Sheriff C. C. Stewart, and Odin Over by, chief of police went to the scene early this afternoon. The body was taken from the river and brought to the city where it was taken to the undertaking rooms of S. H. Ashley. Body Identified. There it was identified by John Urness, father of the deceased. The body was in a bad state of preservation, the features being so badly swollen as to be almost un recognizable. The face had also been disfigured as a result probably of coming in contact with obstructions on its way down the river. Urness is believed to have been the man who leaped into the Red Lake river last Tuesday in an effort to rescue the man who fell from the dam, who is believed to have been William Peterson. The clothing in which the body was dressed when found today corresponds with that said to have been worn by the would be rescuer. No trace has been found as yet of the second river victim although the chief of police explored the river for some distance this afternoon in a motoi* boat. Shutter Not To Speak Here This Evening i'-.'ijafa 1'.: Ajn *., a 5*4 f» V** *V" v** who Dr. Marfon. D. Sbnl wa^ billea' tb dellver a lfeptare on" "Frou CoastiMattoti to Olilag" at the court house last nl»ht, did not vppear, and ho' word hiu been received from him today. He will not deliver an address here to night. N6 explanation of Dr. Shut ter's failure to reach the city has been received. According to a letter received by The Herald Tuesday from W. J. Arnold, Dr. Shutter was scheduled, to speak in Fargo at noon Friday and in Grand Forks that evening and The Herald was authorized to run advertising for this meeting. No word could be secured from him last night, and attempts to reach him today have failed. WHEN A MAN BUYS A STRAW HAT— By Morrit 5 THEY SAY MAX ISWT VAIN— 4 vtsfVii#.- •^sk MASCOT OF U. S. AVIATORS HAS TOUGH LIFE Shifted Around From Place to Place After Fliers Left For America. London, April 17—(Correspondence of the Associated Press)—AmericaJi airmen who befriended and made a mascot of a bright, curly-haired Eng lish boy named George Loveridge, will be grieved to learn that the lad had a hard time of it after they returned to the United States. Charged with sleeping under a hayrack and having no visible means of support, the youth was arraigned in the Ukbridge police court the other day. "Well, my boy," questioned the court, "haven't you any friends at all?" "Only the Yanks, sir,-" the prison er replied. He said his father and mother were killed and their house wrecked by a bomb in an air raid' in October, 1917. "Some American airmen," he went on, "took pity on me and called me the mascot of No. 186th squadron. They treated me very kindly, gave me a uniform and took me with them wherever they went. I was paid $10 a month by the paymaster. When the squadron went to France they wanted to take me, but the war office would not let them, so they asked No. 153a squadron to take care of me. When that left for France I was handed over to No. 228th squadron and came with them to Northolt. "Now they have returned to Amer ica. They tried right hard to take me, but the government said I couldn't go for four, years. I spent all my money and had to sleep under the hayrack." In handing the boy over to the po lice court missionary, the magistrate said: "You must not mind being in the dock. You haven't done anything very wrong."<p></p>GERMANSARE 4$* IN VERSAILLES AW TODAY Members of the Delegation Seemingly Satisfied After Meeting in Spa. Versailles, May 24.—Count von Brockdorff-Rantsau and the other members of the German peace dele gation .Who went to Spa Thursday, re turned here this morning with the excepttfip of Dr. Theodor ,Melchoir, the (Inanclal' .'expert All the taemb«rQ of the party seemed in good spirits. The. .delegation .alighted .from the train at the Noisy le.Roi station and entered automobiles for Versailles. 45,000,000 POUNDS OF WOOL USED IN APRIL -Washington, May 24.—Manufactur ers used during April 45.000,000 pounds of wool, an increase of 32 per cent over March. The increased con sumption indicates "a rapid return to normal conditions," the Bureau of Markets declared in a statement to day. TELEGRAPH BRIEFS London—Forces operating against Petrograd have taken several thou sand Bolshevik prisoners. New York—Federal Judge Mayer granted an injunction restraining gov ernment interference with the manu facture of beer containing 2% per cent alcohol. Douglas, Ariz.—Yaqui Indians kill ed H. S. White, an American, and sev eral Mexicans, in charge of an ore truck train, near Hermosillo, Mexico. London—Capt. Edmond G. Cham berlain of San Antonio, Texas, was acquitted by the court martial on a charge of perjury and forgery. The vote on the charge of falsehood has not been learned. Washington—Party membership on an equality with men was voted at the concluding session of a conference of republican women with National Chairman Hays. Washington—Chemical engineers of the department of agriculture will investigate the cause of the explosion of the Douglas Starch mill at Cedar Rapids, la. Boston Twenty-six democratic members of the legislature cabled President Wilson to return and "help reduce the cost of living." which they "consider far more important than the league of nations." Philadelphia Pennsylvania won the intercollegiate championship of the National Rifle Association of America.<p></p>TREATY FOR AUSTRIANS TO RECONSIDERED Terms May be Presented to Delegates on Wednes day, Says Report. Paris, Friday, May 23.—(By the Associated Press)—It was announced tonight that the treaty to be present ed to Austria would be considered at a plenary session next Tuesday and would be presented to the Austrian delegation probably Wednesday. The council of four today consid ered the military terms as framed by Marshal Foch, General Diaz and oth er* Military leaders. Austria's formi dable army. of upward of 'a million men, which was second to that of Germany only, is reduced by the treaty to fifteen thousand men vir tually all military supplies wouhd be surrendered or destroyed and further military production abolished. The naval terms are similarly sweeping, all warships being surren dered and Austria's position as a naval power terminated.<p></p>THINOIWKER LOST LIFE IN BIGCYCLONE Ocean Steamers Report Storm in Path Taken By Aviator. London, May 24.—As bearing on the possible fate of Harry G. Hawker and Lieutenant Commander Grieve, who have not been heard from since they started from Newfoundland in their attempted trans-Atlantic flight ,Iast Sunday, steamers which have ar rived from Liverpool report excep tionally severe storms in the Atlan tic Sunday night and Monday. The captain of the Vennonia. which ar rived from Boston, said that a cyclone in which no airplane could have lived was encountered by his steamer early Monday, the storm causing tremen dous seas. The crew of the steamer Tactician from New Orleans, in describing this storm, say that it began just as their steamer picked up the message from the cableship Farraday, reporting that it had sighted the red light of an airplane in the early hours of Mon day in north latitude 50 degrees, 28 minutes and west longitude SO de grees. The storm lasted 24 hours. 'v: E E N I N s.VH'i'' E I I O N PRICE FIVE OID BAY UNER DESTROYED BY FIRE FEAR ENTERTAINED FO SEVERAL PASSENGERS ON BO Great Change in the Russian Situation Anti-Bolsheviks Making Numerous Successes Reports Show That Petro grad is Threatened by Finns andf^Esthonians Bolshevik Attacks on the Archangel Front Have Ceased, London. Friday, May 23.—(British Wireless Service)—A great change come 'over the situation in Ros sia through the successes of the .va rious anti-Bolshevik forces there. Official and unofficial news shows .that Petrograd is closely UOSefatehed by the advanoes of the Finns and the Ksthonians on .either side of the Gulf of Finland and by that of Genetil Maynatd: in the region of Lake Onega," while Belshevik attack* on the Arch angel front have oeased. In addition the Bolshevik apparently have been unabje to check vihe advance of Ad miral Kolchak's forces West of the Urals.' The Rally Telegraph says the Brtt lsh an4 filled policy Of hell Russian opponents of the Baltimore, Md., May 24^-The did Bay liner Virginia, bound to Norfolk from Baltimore with 166 passenger* and a full cargo of miscellaneous freight, was burned to the water's edge near the mouth of the Potomac river last night Lieutenant Commander George V. Daws, U. S. N„ who was a pntiiinfn on board the steamer Florida, one of the rescuing ships, stated here today he believed ten or fifteen persons perished. Officials of the steamship company, however, expressed the belief that the loss of life would be small bnt they give no definite figures until the passenger list is compared with the names of the survivors. Passengers and members of the crew were picked up by at least four other steamers and taken to both Norfolk and Balti more. The fire started in the freight hold. Its origin was undetermined. This afternoon the office of. the steamship company gave out a list of survivors that totaled up to the num ber who are said to have sailed last night on the Virginia. It is feared, however, that a number of the crew were lost. Only 1C of the 62 were an nounced as having landed. Three Firemen Drowned. Norfolk, Va., May 24.—'Fears are entertained by officials of the Old Bay Line Steamship company for the safe ty of a number of passengers on the steamer Virginia, burned to the wa ter's edge off Smith Point in Chesa peake bay this morning. More than a hundred survivors were brought to Norfolk on the steamer City of Norfolk and the remainder were taken to Baltimore and Washington. Three negro firemen are known to have perished. The survivors, half clothed and showing every indication of a terror filled night, could hardly give a co herent account of the disaster. Hie majority of them were asleep when the fire was discovered. Baltimore, Md., May 24.—Captain W. G. Lane of the barned steamer, whose hands were badly burned, said he did not see any one drown and that so far as he knew every one reached the rescuing steamers. He saw three boats capsize but he believed the oc cupants were all saved. Many of the crew, he said, were burned or other wise injured. Stories as to the behavior of those aboard the vessel conflict. Some of the survivors said there was no panic and but little excitement except among a few .women. Others- said there was. oonfuslon around .the- ltfe». 'boils add "tHM^in one insfanoe a male passenger, who observed that a num ber of men were about to jump into a lifeboat as it was being lowered, drew a revolver and threatened the men if they persisted. Through some mishap, however, the boat capsized but the occupants, 18 in number, were all said to have been saved. Four of them were injured and were placed in hospitals here. Negro is Held. Norfolk, Va., May 24.—Alfred Coleman, negro, was arrested here this afternoon by the federal authorl ties on the charge of eetting fire to the Virginia. The warrant was sworn out by a stevedore employed on the Virginia. W,L~', KW Officials of Company De clare Death List Will Be Small Number of the Crew Still Missing Ship Sinks During Fire. CHINESE PROTEST AGAINST TERMS OF TREATY FOR GERMAN? I Amoy, China, Friday, May il. Protests were adopted against the terms of the peace treaty with Ger many as they affect Tsing Tao and Shantung at a mass meeting here to day. An address to the American press was adopted and telegrams also ordered sent to the Paris ference. the Chinese peace debates and the legations of the AJHed and associated powers in Peking. ROBERTSON TO MEET LIGGETT] Coblenz, Friday, May 23.—(By the Associated Press)—General Sir Wil liam Robertson, commanding the British army of occupation, came here today for a conference with Lieuten ant General Luggett, commander of the American Third army, regarding Allied military action should the Ger mans fail to accept the peace terma. British aviation, officers also have arrived at Coblenz and have dis cussed with the heads of the lltird army plans for aviation activities In case these should be necessary in connection with the military program. to- help themselves still remains in force. It says that the situation, today is that the movei is in a fai? way is that the movement led by Kolchak 1 is in a fait way to alamo oat Bol shevism. Admiral Kolchak, It is added. Is being assisted by British non-combat- lit ant troops commanded by Colonel S John Ward, a laborite and a social* ist Explosions Hmd. A* London. May 24.—Great llres and loud explosions have occurred in and around Petrograd, according to re ports forwarded by the- Daily ifiaira correspondent at Helsingfota Hater dateof^jjrsd^y. xtls belli*** that the Bolsbevikt, pressed tqr tlnaJMha nlan advanefe, an destroying thiliOT nitions in Petrograd." ltacfhlna MB tiring also has been heard la P«Dw grad and it Is reperted that the lettoA has risen against the *0oi TAKE nro irn