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VOL. XXV. No. 39
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SATURDAY. JULY 2 i 1919.
WHOLE NUMBER 1237
FRANK LYON POLK "H
GERMANS RATIFY
TREATY IH FULL
PRESIilEIT READY
FOR IHQUlSITlOr
MRS. TRUMAN H. NEWBERRY
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Frank Lyon Polk, counsellor of the
stnte department and acting secretary
of state, has been nominated by Pres
ident Wilson as under secretary Of
state, a new office created under . the
1019 legislative and judicial appropri
ation bill. The salary of the new un
tier secretary Is $7,500. The office cre
ted Is expected to simplify the trans
action of business with Great Britain
and France, where cabinet officers
are assisted by under secretaries rather-than
by counsellors.
17 PROFITEERS JAILED
Chiefs of Fish Industry Sen
tenced for Boosting Prices.
F. Monroe ' Dyer of New York and
Others Must Serve Year and
' 1 Pay Fine of $1,000 Each.
house of collection and fines were Im
posed today' upqn 17 men connected
with the financing and management of
the fish Industry of New England.
They had been found guilty of con
spiring to raise the price of fish In
war times, and . of creating a
monopoly. F. Monroe Dyer of New
York, president; Ernest A. James,
treasurer; John Burns, Jr.; manager,
and Joshua Paine and Joseph A. Rich,
directors of the Bay State Fishng com
pany of Maine, were sentenced to'
serve one year each and to pay fines
of $1,000. ; Twelve other men connect
ed with subsidiary or associated firms
of six months each, with $500 fines.
Sentence was stayed in each In
stance, pending a ruling by the Su
preme court on exceptions taken dur
ing the trial. "
NOTED ENGLISH BEAUTY SHOT
Mrs.
Eliot, Once Atherton, Figured
in Divorce and Several
Other Suits.
London, July 10. Mrs. Arthur Eliot,
better known as Mrs. Mabel Louise
Atherton, divorced wife of Col. Thomas
Atherton, was found shot In her home
In London, according to the Evening
Standard. Mrs. Eliot, who is a sis
ter of Sir Aubrey Dean-Paul, sued
Baron Churston, then John Reginald
Yarde-Buller, some years ago, for
breach of promise. Last April she
was married ta Capt. Arthur-Eliot, a
dramatist, grandson of the late earl
of St. Germans. In 1909 Mrs. Ather
ton, who was a noted benutyn Eng
lish society, was one of the four prin
cipals In the sensational Sterling di
vorce case in Edinburgh. Mrs. Stir
ling filed a cross-suit naming Mrs. Ath
erton. - Mrs. Atherton In 1911 brought
suit for slander against her sister-in-law,
Lady Dean Paul, and was grant
ed damages In the sum of 1 farthing
(half a cent). '
. U. S. Gives Quake Victims $10,000.
- Florence, Italy, July 10. Col. Ed
ward Bartlett, )iead of -the American
; Red Cross mission In Italy, has con-
tributed -50,000 lire ($10,000) to the re-
Uef of the vlctlres of the earthquake.
SAYS THAW VISITS CABARETS
Charge Made at Hearing on New York
Prosecutor's Request for Million
aire's Extradition.
NtW York, July lO.-fAJlegations
that Harry K. Thaw, while supposedly
Incarcerated in nn asylum, was mak
ing the rounds of Philadelphia cabba
rets was made at Harrisburg, Pa., at
the public hearing on District Attorney
Swa mi's request for Thaw's extradi
tion to this state, It was learned here.
Thaw Is 'wanted here on the complaint
of Frederick. Gump, a Kansas City
boy, whom he Is accused of mistreat
ing. .,
National Assembly at Weimar
Adopts Resolution Which ';'..
Approves Pact.
REPORT RECEIVED IN PAR'S
Finance Minister Declares Repubiio
Will Raise Six Billion Taxes a .
Year to Pay Off Debt Econ
omy Must Be Practiced. , .
Paris, July 10. The German nation
al assembly in Weimar lias adopted
the resolution ratifying the pence
treaty, according to advices received
here.
1 he resolution reads:
"The peace treaty signed on June "8,
1919, as well as the protocol annexed
and special agreements on---mllilary oc
cupation of the Rhiuelaud, are hereby
ratified.. This law becomes effective
from the date of its promulgation."
Must Raise Six Billions a Year.-
Berlin, Germany, July 10. Address
ing the, German national assembly at
We'lmar, Mathias Erzberger, vice
chancellor and minister of finance,
said :
"One of the first requirements rel
ative to the restoration of the life of
labor is the establishment of orderly
finances. I will have nothing to do
with suggestions -for the annulment
of war loans or a declaration of gen
eral bankruptcy. My highest aim is
to establish justice In the entire tax
ation system. , '
"The Income from capital must be
taxed much more heavily than the
income from work. An Inheritance
tax and a heavy tax levy on property
will be the initial steps that ' will be
taken. The empire's Income must be
increased 900 per cent and that of .in
dividual states and communes', per
haps 100 per cent. Such enormous
chances, reoulre fresh measures."; '
. Germany is quickly to retujm to a
peace-time financial system, Heir Erz
berger declared. Among other tilings
the paymenjt of grants to men who are
unemployed would be reduced, it was
Indicated during his address.
"The empire's needs must be divided
henceforth between home needs and
indemnities," he said. "The year's
expenditures confronting us ' will
amount to about 17,500,000,000 marks
($4,105,000,000). I am firmly, resolved
to tread the hard path of economy and
therefore have given out the watch
word that from October 1, 1919, .Hi are
shall be no--more Items not detailed
and there shall be no more war funds.
The war, finance system shall cease
and a regular budget system must be
re-established. , A
"The first guiding principle is tliat
I here -must be no more unproductive
expenditures. Therefore, a gradual abo
lition of nonemployment grants must
be faced. How are the full requ're
ments for the empire, new states mid
communes, which may be est'oi't'od
at some 25,000,000,000 marks (!?5.C"i0.
000,000) to be covered?"
After citing the returns to the em
pire from taxation measures prior 'to
and during the war and estimating
the revenue to be derived from new
tax bills, Herr Erzberger said :
"There still remains a sum if ever
10,000,000.000 marks ($2,SSO,000.000) to
be covered." ' '
Two Tax Bills Ready.
"The ministry of finance lias almost
completed the drafting of two Impor
tant bills levying new taxes vhio!i I
Intend to submit to the house before
the parliamentary recess," Herr llrz
berger stated. "These call for a large
single levy on property and a large
tax on lousiness turnover, but, even If
these bills are passed, the money for
the payment of Indemnities must be
obtained In some other way. In the
autumn new bills will be Introduced
In the national assembly with the final
object of covering this deficit.
"The burdens of taxation will reach
an absolutely terrible height. A float
ing debt of 72,000,000,000' marks (?17.
130,000,000) is a constant danger, and
the removal of this debt is one of our
most urgent tasks. There are two
ways in which to do it either its con
version into a funded loan or Its ex
tinction by big levies . and a heavy
property tax. 1
"I do not Indulge the hope that these'
two ways will immVdiately yield the
entire liquid amount of 72,000,000.000
marks. It is a duty1 not only, to bow
to a state of compulsion, but to
achieve an Inward conviction as to the
necessity of giving up all richss and
all that Is superfluous. V';
"Changes In the system of taxation
will be speedily submitted to the na
tional assembly and this reform will
represent the completion of the whole
work." , ; '.'" : "' ';
Herr Erzberger concluded by asl.lng
that taxation bills be disposed of be
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ALIEN ENEMIES '
TOBEiLEASE
V. DEBS DENIED , CLEMENCY
BY ATT O It K E Y -G EN E R A L' 3
- . ORDER. .
Signing the Peace Treaty With Gri--roany
Has Resulted in a Deci'-ao-i
. By the Department of Justice to Ro-:
lease Alien Enemies. , 1
Western Newspaper Union News n f
' Washington, Signing (be
treaty with Germany has resulted; If) ;i
decision by the Department ot Ju,--r '
tlmt the great majority of Uenimii ri -i
Austrian enemy aliens now at lar.ue m,
parole may lie released from ail pnev'r
obligations safely. Attoi mj ( ' i
Palmer, however, has not than ii '
policy, announced at the- time t hi-
conviction of Eugene V. IMi,
sTiect' fo xitizeifs convTcteTniiiider "Si
"t
espionage" law and dangerous alu-irs
ijjill in confinement. Mr. Palmer said
the department was continuing to re
view cases of persons convicted under
the espionage act and that recommen
dations for clemency in a number; ot
them sooit would lie presented to Pres
ident Wilson. These do not include
the cases of Debs or others of "similar
iniportnr.ee," however. Mr. Palmer, is
sued these Instructions to District At
torneys : ;"
"You hereby are instructed to take
the necessary steps to cancel, effective
July 20, all parole restrictions govern
ing persons in your district with the
following exceptions: ,
"1. The paroles of all persons re
leased on parole subsequent to July to
are not to be canceled, but are to- continue-in
full force and effect until fur
ther notice. . , i ;
, "2. Paroles of ail alien enemies, If
iiny In your district whom' you believe
can not be. released from parole with
out detriment to the public safety.
"3. Paroles of alien enemies. tempor
arily paroled from internment camps
on account of sickness, for the pur
pose of repatriation or for any other
special reason, Irrespective of the date
of release.. '
"After July 15 the department's rep
resentatives at the Internment camps
will be Instructed to release uncondi
tionally alien enemies who do not re
ijiiire special surveillance. ,
"All alien enemies, including those
now to be released from pn'ole, wili
continue subject to Internment un'der
Subdivision 12 of the proclamation t
April (5 and those provisions of the
succeeding proclamations providing' in
ternment (if dangerous alien enemies."
It was said the parole Instructions
would, afreet most of -the aliens in
terned . during the war, but no esti
mate of the number to be released was
available. - ,
Ship Sinks After Explosion at Sea.
Havana. The American motor
steamer Santa Orlstina was sunk after
an explosion of oil In theeng!ne.: The
20 members of the crew and live pas
sengers were picked up by the Cuban
schooner Teneriffe ami' brought to this
port, 'The passengers were two wom
en and three children, including Mrs.
Claude E. Guyant, wife of the Ameri
can Consul at P.aranqullla, Columbia.
The explosiou occurred when the San
la Cristlna was 50 miles from Havana
while bound from. Baranquilla for
New Orleans. Wlie crew and passen
gers took to small boats, and later
were picked up by the Cuban schoon
er. The Santa Cristlna, which was
carrying 2,000 tons of lumber and
leather, sank Immediately after the ex-
The war takes our riches. ,The
world has denied as International Jus
tice. All the more passionately and
energetically, however, will we work
for the homeland again and, flourish
ing In justice, concentrate our care
and endeavor upon the poor but Just
German." , ',
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L1G STRIKE RIOT
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Seci es Wounded During Fight Be-
tween U .ards and Workers,
at Argo, III.'
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Trouble Started When Officer Attempt
; cd to Rcsoye Nuroe Who Was on --.
Way to Corn Products Factory,
Qcijyalties Among
Strikers.
h Chicago, Julv 10. Armed guards are
yiatrolling ilie plant of the Corn Prod
ucts Uefinmg company at Argo today,
v, here a strike of more than 2,00(1 eui-
i;d into a 'riot in which two
) 1 -) ir t re kirted" and TiibreTiifffrr
seme were injured. Fighting has ceas
ed alter a buttle. In 'which more than ,
a.jw pih;l wysLU u,;vi, uiii iiivj .-uluui.-m
today Is considered extremely grave.
' $lay Call Out Troops.
..special deputies have been sworn In
to reinforce the police and volunteer
guard at the" plant, and 100 guards
are on dutv. Plans have been made
to. rush additional guards to the plant
should there be a further outbreak.
The possibility of calling out -state
troops also has been considered in the
event of additional trouble.
Casualties Among Strikers.
John YVutark and Mike Marcinik,
strikers, are the two who were killed.
Six persons are known to be severely
wounded and some of them may die.
More than a dozen received injuries
which necessitated medical attention.
The strikers suffered all the casualties,
none of the guards or officers being
injured. " ;
How Riot Started.
., The rioting started, aecu-olm,tjyJ
most authentic reports,' when h'Tir.m of
strikers menaced nn enclosed automo
bile In which Miss Elizabeth Morgan,
a special nurse at the plant, was rid
ing,, Charles Johannes, chief of the
guards at the factory, came to her as
sistance and was felled With a brick.
Other guards rushed to aid him and a
shot was fired.
Guards Open Fire.
The mob -immediately rushed the
guards using stones and sticks - a
weapons, and the guards opened fire
with their rifles. When the fire be
came too hot the strikers retreated,
leaving the victims In the street. The
dead and wounded were removed and
cared for by the Argo police and citi
zens. , '
The strike which led to the riot is
declared to have arisen over refusal
of the officials of the company to grant
the demands of the men for n closed
shop. No question of wages or Im
proved working conditions, it Is said,
is involved. Officials of the company
Charge that bolshevisf agitators are re-,
sponsible for unrest among the plant's
employees.
Four Companies of Militia Roady.
Chlengo, July 10. Four companies
of the Second regiment Illinois re
serve militin, were ordered into uni
form and told to hold tie mselves in
readiness for n call to Argo.
FOURTH DIVISION TO BREST
Part of. Army of Occupation Is, Now
En Route to French Port
Second to Sail Soon.
Washington, Julv 10. The Fourth
division of the array of occupation Is
now en route 1" n- ,? ' and the1 Sec
ond will sail before the first Jf next
month, Record !i;.; to tuvilicinl udvleeu
to the war (1 p:'fir,itnt. . The First and
Third div's!o.i li;V" h oi released for
return, anif the... F"''!'i .wiis repi.rted to
bo embarki!:;: a:; P.V';a!. thus winding
up the unnyor (WiipaiM-n.
Willing to Appear Before Any
Committee of Congress 2nd
, Explain Treaty.
SAYS PEACE PACT IS JUST
Wilson in Address at New York
Declares That if Treaty Is Pre
served Much Bloodshed Will
Be Prevented.
Washington, July 10. President
Wilson was represented as being ready
toplace himself at the disposal of the
senate foreign relations committee or
other committees of congress to an
swer any questions concerning 'the
peace treaty and the league of na
tions, which he will present to tne sen
ate in person.
Wilson Calls Treaty Just.
New York, July 10. President Wilson
In his first speech delivered on Ameri
can soil since the peace treaty was
signed, declared that the peace con
cluded at Paris was "a just peace
which, If It can be preserved, will safe
guard the world from unnecessary
bloodshed."
The only reference the president
made to his political opponents was
when, in referring to the negotiations
at Paris, he said :
"I am afraid some people, some per
sons, do not understand that vision.
They, do not see it. They have looked
too much upon the ground. They have
thought too much of (lie interests tlmt
were near them, and they have not
listened to the voices of their neigh
bors. I have never had a moment's
doubt as to where the heart and pur
pose of this people lay."
The president finished his speech
shortly after six o'clock and Immedi
ately departed for Washington. A train
had been held in waiting for him at
the Pennsylvania station..
'-"The" pfesTdeh'f ";: was; enuslasticalljj
greeted at the hall and his speech was
continuously
interrupted with ap
plause. Pandemonium reigned lor ten
minutes upon his entrance Into the
building, the huge audience waving
everything at hand in the air. Many
small American flags were noticeable.
Wilson's Speech.
The text of President Wilson's
speech at Carnegie hall In part, fol
lows :
. "Fellow countrymen: I am not go
ing' to try tills afternoon to make you
aUl-eal speech. I am a bit alarmed to
find how many speeches I have in my
system undelivered, but they are all
speeches that coine from the mind and
I want to say to you this afternoon
only a few words from the heart.
"You have made me deeply happy
by the generous welcome you have ex
tended to me, but I do not believe that
the welcome you extended to me is
half as great as that which I extend to
you. Why, Jerseyinan though I am,
ti,)s ls tue first time I ever thought
that lloboken ,was beautiful.
"I have really, though I have tried
on the other side of the water to con
ceal it, been the most homesick man in
the American expeditionary force, and
It is with feelings that it would be
vai:i for me to try to express that 1
tind myself In this beloved country
again. I do not say that because T
lack admiration of other countries.
"There have been many things that
softened my homesickness. One of the
chief things iat softened It was the
very generous welcome that they ex
tended to me as your representative on
the other side of the water.
r "And It was still more softened by
the pride that I had in discovering that
America had at last convinced the
world of her true character.
Found U. S. Unselfish..
"I was welcome because they had
seen with their own eyes what Amer
ica 'had done for the world. They had
deemde her selfish. They had deemed
her devoted to material Interests. And
they had seen her boys come across
the water with a vision even more
beautiful than which they conceived
when they had entertained dreams of
liberty and peace.
"And then I had the added pride of
finding out by personal observation the
kind of men we had sent over. I had
crossed the seas with the kind of men
who had taken them over, without
whom they could not have gone to Eu
rope, and then when I got there I saw
that army of men, that army of clean
men, that army of men devoted to the
high Interests of humanity, that army
that one was glad to poltn out and
say : 'These are my fellow country
men.' "It softens the homesickness a good
deal to have so much of honrt along
with you, ; and these boys W con
stantly reminding me of home. They
did not walk the streets like anybody
else. I do not mean that they walked
the streets self -assertively. They did
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' Mrs. - Truman it. .Newberry, wife
of the newly elected senator from
Michigan. As Mr. Newberry was sec
retary of She navy under President
ltoosevelt, she has many old friends in
Washington.
"They walked the streets as if they
knew that they belonged wherever free
men lived, that they were wrlcoiue ir.
the great republic of France and were
comrades with the other armies that
had helped win the great battle and
to show the great sacrifice. Because
it is n wonderful thing for this nation, ,
bitlieito isolated from the large affairs '1
of the world, to win not only the uni-jj
versa confidence of the people of the-j
world but their universal affections. I
Asked for U. S. Soldiers. j
"And that, and nothing less than
that, Is what has happened. Wher
ever it was suggested that iroops
should be sent and it was desired that
troops of occupation should excite no
prejudice, no uneasiness on the part,
of those to whom they were sent, liiel
men wlio represented the other . na-l
American soldiers. , ,
"They not only implied, but te.ey
said that the presence of American
soldiers would be known not to men
anything except friendly protection
and assistance. Do you wonder that
It made our h-nrls. swell with pride
to realize these things.?
"P.ut while these things in some de
gree softened my homesickness, they
made me all the more eager to get
home, where the rest of the folks live;
to get home where the great dynamo
of national energy was situated, to get
home where the great purposes of na
tional action were formed and to lie
allowed to take part in the counsels
and in the actions which were formed,
and to be taken by tins great Nation
which from first fo last has followed
the vision of the men who set it up
and created it
"We have had our eyes very close
upon our task at times, but whenever
Ae lifted them we were accustomed to
lift JJiein to a distant horizon. We
were aware that the peoples of the
earth had turned their faces towaeil us
as those who were friends of freedom
and of rlidit, and whenever we thought
of national policy and of its relation
upon the affairs of the world we knew
we were under bonds to do the large
thing and the right thing.
"It is a privilege, therefore, beyond
all computation for a man, whether in
a great capacity or a small, to take
part in the counsels and In the resolu
tions of a people like this. I am afraid
some people, some persons, do not un
derstand that vision. They do not see
it. They have looked too much upon
the ground. They have thought too
much of their neighbors. I have never
had a moment's doubt as to where the
heart and purpose of this people lay."
I. W. W. Action Begun.
liisliee, Ariz. Sixty-four men, many
of them prominent locally and over
the stale, wen; named as defendants I
in complaints tiled charging kidnaping
and assault in connection with the de
portation of more than 1,100 alleged
members of the I. W. W. and their
sympathizers, July 12, 1017.. The com
plaints were fileu' before Judge Yv. U-f
Jacks, of Douglas, who came here tor f
that purpose. Several hundred more
complaints will .be filed in the next
few days, said Assistant County .Attor-1
uey Roark. . ; ' j
Pittsburg Brewers Arrested. '",
Pittsburg. The government's drive
against the sale of beer containing 2
per cent alcohol was launched here
when United States Attorney R. U
Crawford filed a suit against tfae'Fitts-,.
burg Brewing Company,' one- of thej
city's largest brewers, in the United
States District Court, charging viola
tion of the war-time prohibition law.
Eleven officials of the company were
named. United, States Judge W. II. S.
Thompson, on pleas of the. federal at
torney, Issued a writ upon the com
pany to appear in court.