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M I I TODAY'S METAL PRICES ft W A gW iV V J V Wl Vl'llf VT V lV WEATHER FORECAST (I NEW YORK Copper 232c; iron $28; fead 3.10 bid; ml I I F 1 I f I W I 11 I 111 Weather Indications for Oflden and vicinity: I I mf y I if fl. . IS L EL, HL jt JB- UL A 8lV LP F,1'r tonight and Friday; somewhat warmer In south I Speiter ,.30. JS 1 JX l V T V portion. Satu, day genera(ly fair. I O FEARLESS INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER 1 . I rorty-ninth Year-No. 247. Price Five Cents OGDENCHX UT iTHURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1919. " LAST EDITION 3:30 P. M. i Bolshevik Armies Expected to Fall 1 State of Siege Throughout Lithuania ( Forced Back by Onslaughts of Enemies on Four Sides, Bolsheviki Armies Now Between Upper and Nether Millstones Part of the Ukraines I Join Denikine With Promise of Galicia and I Chelm Being Restored Lettish Forces Fig$ I Way Across the Duna. i LONDON, Oct. 16. A general retreat by the bolsheviki before t the armies of Admiral Kolchak in western Siberia is announced in a I .vireless message from the Kolchak. goernment at Omsk dated Oc lobei 13. ; LONDON. Oct. 16. Forced bark by m the onslaughts of enemies on four I fronts, the armies of the soxiet gov 1 1' erniuent of Russia appear to be fac ins a period pregnant with disaster. I ' General Denikim s Cossacks trom the if south, Polish forces from the west; i northwestern Russian legions on the northwest and northern Russian I troops from the north have during the last lev. days lorged ahead un'.il U L-oeais the itolehvlk-Hm-te- r he- ' Ureen the upper and nether mill--I stones. ' Petrograd is doomed to capture, in I the opinion of observers, General Yu I denich being at Gatchina, only 25 I miles south of the former Russian I capital. In the extreme north the r nortlu-rn RusFian army has broken lie f resistance of the Bolsheviki. according f to reports and are pursuing the enomj toward Onega, a village aobut I 11 I miles west of Archangel. Further to the south it has forced its way f ir c down along the Dvina river. Polish t forces have captured Kovno on the t extreme northern end of their Line . beniklne's m n have driven a giant I- wadge into central Russia as far as I Orel and are thought to be on their I way toward Tula, an important rail I way center that is considered the key I' to Moscow. Reports have been re I ceived, however, that pan of the e Ukrainian army have joined Denikine, having been assured that he will re I' Btore eastern Galicla and the province I of Chelm from Toland. Advices from Russia that Colonel I Avaloff-Bermondt, whose sudden at I tack on Riga last week caused a sen- featlon, has declared h begun t ho i Campaign only for the purpose of se- I purine iho finna river front aeainst Moscow. The front is between the sectors a held by General Yudeniteh and the I Polish army. So far as Is known figi;' Ping is still in progress in Riga, but i the exact situation there is not known. Germ a no- Russian troops under com- mand of Colonel Avaloff-LVrmomli. I however, seem to have gained ground T north of Riga, haing captured the bwn of Dunamunde, according to re- i port. This morning's newspapers con&plc-l Bously feature reports of successes by ) Generals Yudeniteh and Denncme and the presumed impending collapse of the soviet government of Russia. Ed - I i itorial comment, while recalling Cre r quent past predictions of the fall of! Bolshevism which did not materialize,! think the present push ion i- mure Bbenating for the soviet government) Khan It has been at any previous time. Confidence In financial cirri' I the coming defeat of Bolshevism , Bhown by the strength of seem ho on the stock exchange yesterday, many advancing fharply with an n - I tive demand. Letts Cros8 the Duna. COPENHAGEN. ct. 16 Lettish forces have fought their wa) B the Duna river at Riga and opi rations R there are now developing favorably, I according to a dispatch from Lib.'iU I last night by the Lettish Press bureau A state of 6iege has been declared Ihroughout all Lithuania aud the mob ilization of threo classes of soldiers has been ordered, it is annoum d In a telegram received here from Kovno. Russian troops under command of Colonel Vierkolltch have been conccn- trated In Lithuania and with the con- verted schools into barracks The Lithuanian flat' In -vi n .vln re replaccd the Russian colors. ( ' . . I . . i 1 Vierkolltch has issued a proclamation j- saying if the Lithuanians, voluntarily re-unlte with old Russia self-govern- inent will be given Lithuania under W Russian sovereignty. The pror; lion sa-s that on the olhr hand if the Lithuanians resist the Russians. they ( will be "regarded as traitors." LONDON, Wednesday, Oct. ' n official communication from Archan-I gel on the northern Russian frons claims that the Russians are pursuing,1 , the Bolsheviki in the direction of One ga. It says they have occupied the enemy's fortified positions along the railroad, captured guns and prisoners. .. irovtfi -nrt RTmrtrrrr trrtirr and re-' .pulsed the enemy in the direction of : Kotohmas. The Russians. It is declared, con tinue to advance. oo FIRE DESTROYS 70 METHODIST SUMMER HOMES MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.. Oct 16. Fire starting a summer home de stroyed seventy cottages at the Meth odist assembly grounds. Croveland Lake. Minnetoka, earl today. Four persons, two of them children wer seriously burnr-d in escaping from their homes. One hundred persons, many only part ly clad, were brought hrr and housed in hotels. Few of thr- houses at the Methodist assembly grounds were occupied. oo Plans for Coal Miners' Strike ' In Preparation INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 16 Plans for a strike of bituminous coal miners of the country on November 1 were continued today at international headquarters of thr- United Minr porkers of America here, the offi cials proceeding on the assumption that nothing would come of the con ference in Washington railed by Sec letrtry of Labor illiam B Wilson In an effort to avert the threatened walkout. Officials of the mine workers were averse to commenting on the possible outcome of the Washington mee'inc. but it was stated that It might result in another effort on the pari of op erators and miners to get together. EIGHT RESUME FLIGHT. - SALT LAKE CITY, Utah Oct 16. The westward tllght of 4- eight airplanes In the transcon- 4 Linen'tal derb) was resumed from hero and nearby control stations - today, all having left their sta- t nui'. by 9 30 "' lot k From Sal- duro, 1Q0 miles west, Lieutenanl t S. W. Torney. No. 3S. departed f at 7 01 and Lieutenant Fred -f t- N Ison. No G. departed at 7:5f Lieutenant J H Roulette f -f f Ihis city for Salduro at 8:33, while f five machines which spent the night at Green River and Raw- lins were reported to have left thoso points for Buena Vista field here between 7 30 and 9.30 this morning. Throe were seen pass- ing over the city shortly before 10 o'clock SERVICE OFARMY Final Report Shows They Bore Their Part of War Suffering. 10,245 OVERSEAS American Amount of 1 Work Done Too Great to Be Calculated. WASHINGTON. Oct. 16 That armv nurses who served overseas with the American forces during the war had! their share of service and suffering I8 Bhown int the final report on the ac- I tivlties' corps, made by Miss JuLa C. j Stlmson, acting director, who headed the army nursing service abroad. Be- tween May 8, 1917, and May 31. 1919. 1 10,215 nurses out of a total of 2l.48uj enlisted for the war saw service ove? -seas. Three were wounded in action and J; 4. luo; uuulm-- - The first six detachments of nUrse-v sent to France replaced nurses in British hospitals. German torpedo at - tacks on hospital ships had forced the 1. 1.. aiui uj cure iur us wounaeri, as far as possible behind the ba'tlej fronts Following up service in ihej base hospitals, American nursing de tachments also began to go forward and in December. 1917. General Haig mentioned a number of them in dis patches for gallant service in the cas ualty clearing stations. But the real work of the American women commenced July 18. 1918, with their own artnv when the final man attack was stemmed and 'he great victorious alUpd offensive start ed. "From July 18 to November 11, the American amount of work done rafl such that no praise would b great enough," Miss Stlmson says. "It was not at all uncommon for nurses t. work 14 to 18 hours a day for three weeks at a time and some hospitals with only seventy or eighty nurses cared for patients to the number of 2100. One hospital had 5000 patients at one time with seventy nurses to take care of them. Officers, nursea and men worked themselves to !'ne. limit of physical endurance and that limit was beyond any which might be expected of human beings." On armistice day. 181,421 American soldiers sick and wounded, were in hospitals, and there was a shortage of 6925 nurses. The records showed that the "peak" of wounded was ac tually reached at Mesves center on November 16, where 20.186 patient were taken into ten hospitals, .vith 394 nurses assigned The shortage of nurses was due entirely to the fict the report says. I hat transportation had not been available to get more into France, .so great was the rjr.h Of combat troops to the lront. Nurses were dropping from fatigue around the operating tables at the fin ish, but complaints from them were almost nei r heard, MiSfl Stlmson says. Conditions under which the lived were bad in the extreme, crowd ed in dormitories or tents, usuallv without heat and adequate light, of ten without floors, except such as was furnished b) canvass sheeting. Nurses in many instances were required to wash and iron their own uniforms and little recreation could be furnish ed for their few hours off duty. The homeward exodus began In January, and aboin L'.'.o a week se cured passage during the first four months of the year oo , TRIBUTE TO WASHINGTON. 1 L'ARIS, Wednesday, Oct. 15 In -- the "American independence room" in the Versailles palace, v- two marble plates were affixed f today, Betting forth In English 4" and French, George Washington's everlasting glory as a patriotic 4- citizen and leader. AFTER THE PAYROLL HOCK FOR . ill . Oct. 15. A plot to Mow tho safe In the li.sfurjn quarter master' office nt Camp Grant tonlKhl and steal the million dollar payroll, by threi alleged Chle.apo safe blowers, wen frustrated today b "aptnin Robert Howie, camp intelligence officer s Lieut. Maynard Half Way Across Country on Return Trip. BREAKS ALL RECORDS Death Toll in Race Is Seven; Thirty-nine Left in Contest. MINEOLA, N. Y-, Oct. 16. Throe more entrants in the air race across' the continent and back were ready to' take off here early today In the way of Major Cftrl Spatz. leader on the' westobund second lap. With his nearest competitor, Gap tain Harry Smith, put out of the run ning by burning of his plane at Buf falo, last night. Major Spatz. who spent the night at Rochester, held a 270-mile lead on the westward trip. Xhe tkctiM4ia o i '"! I. guinr. ! off today to overtake him were Men tenant E. C. Kiel. Lieutenant 1 1 E Queens and Lieutenant R Worthing ton. Major J. C. Bartholf. the onK other San Francisco entrant to i. h Roosevelt field, has obtained pernii slon to fly to Boston Saturday to wit ness a football game. He will not not start back to San Francisco until, Monday. Half Way Across CHICAGO, rt. 16 Almost half way across the country on his re-1 turn journey in the great army air- piano reliability and endurance race. Lieutenant B. W Maynard. the "flying I parson," today was well in the lead' of the four other homeward bound fliers who had doubled back after; soaring from coast to coast The "sky I i pilot" was almost a day's flight in lh"l Ivan of his nearest pursuer from Sanj i Francisco and his closest opponent in this point of actual flying time For the transcontinental tliht, Captain Lowell H. Smith, temporarily was out of ihe contest ac his ship was burt- , I last night shortly after he landed at i the Buffalo control sration. Lieutenant Maynard apparently was intent on being returned undisputed w inner as he was In the Mlneola-To- I ronto race, for y.-stcrday be broke all records for flights from San Francisco ; to Sidney, Neb., his overnight stop. announced he expected to spend to night at Chicago. Through 3I10W-I storms yesterday the "flying parson" made 136 miles in fifty-six minutes and then dashed an additional 93 miles through the skies in thirty-.hr-i mlnui e - The death total In 'he rare today 'stood at seven, leaving thirty-nine pilots in the contest. Lieutenants. iKIrby, pilot, and Lieutenant Stanley C. Miller, observer, yesterday "went west" when their airplanes crashed at Castle Rock, Utah. Of those remaining in the race, six have completed half their trip bv landing at the Mlnecla field and nine westbound fliers have reached San! Frnclsco. Twenty-four others still are I on the first lep of their flight scattered j at various control stations across the, country. The weather for today over much of the course probably will not be' what the fliers regard as the most fa I I yorable, according to th weather top -J cast- Over the eastern section cloudy; and cooler weather will prevail with unsettled weather from Chicago on I 'westward, the weather report adds. Leaves Sidney, Nebraska. SIDNEY, Neb., Oct 16. fLieu tenant I B. W. Maynard, Ihe "flying parson.", leader In the aun transcontinental airderb. resumed Ins eastward ilighti toward Uineola, N . trom th con trol station here at 7:15 a. m. (Moun-1 turn lime) today. Lieutenant Maynard arrived here at .r:4.ri p. m. yesterday I and spent the night here. SIDNEY. Neb., Oct. 16. Snow v. a - ' failing w i). n i I ou tenant Mas oai d "hopped off" Before leaving be re ported he had encountered Cour storms yesterday between Battle! Mountain, Ne , and Sidney, but thai he managed to Qj .round each of, them His time from Cheyenne, Wyo., to Sidney reported as minute to day was placed at (0 minutes by the official starter at the Sidney air sta-t SENATE DEBATES Leaders Hope to Obtain Final Vote Before Ad journment Today. KELLOGG OPPOSES United States Is Incon sistent in Presuming to Dictate. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. Debate on the Shantung amendment to the peace treaty as resumed in the senate to day wltb leaders hopeful that a final vole on if would be had before ad journment Although contending that the vote would be close, supporters of 'ho proposal generally conceded 'hat it woud be defeated. At the outset of die debate Senator Kellogg, Republican, Minnesota, an- meed his oipoilUuftU the amend ment, declaring it would be inconsist eni for the United States to presume to dictate in the Far East now. after remaining silent while Germany and Other nations had seized territory there in years past. Senator Hale. Republican, Maine, al so announced he would vote against ;he Shantung amendment and adt. d that he expected to vote against the Tnhncnn nirnil m r.n , fn'ft r.nnn Iito ( inn of voting power in the league of na lions. He said he favored a reserva tion dealing with Shantung and would vote against the treaty unless such a reservation were adopted. WASHINGTON. Oc 16. Officials In Washington professed today to hae no information as to the reasons lor postponing the exchange at Paris of the ratifying of the treaty of Ver sailles, by (ireat Britain, France ami Italy which would bring the treaty Int.) immediate force. There was a suggestion that ratifi cation had been postponed because the league of nations would have to assemble within fifteen days after the treaty wen' into effect, hut state de partment officials would not express an opinion on this point. Th league covenant provides that the leagui council shall consist of rep resentatives of the five great powers, the United Slates, Great Britain. Praace, Italj and Japan and Belgium. Brazil, t'.reece and Spain. Only thro of these nations have ratified the treat . While professing to have no official Information on the subject, officials said they assumed that if the treaty were put into force with only three ol the ullied and associated powers completing ratification, those powers would proceed with the organisation Of the league. tion. The distance from Cheyenne to Sidney is 93 miles. SALT LAKE. Utah. Oct. 16 - Lieu tenant William Brow n, westbound, No. J 5 In the air derby, arrived in Salt! Lake at 9.13 1-2 and left for Salduro. , 100 miles west, at 9.17. Lieutenant! T. S. Haynes, No. 45, also westbound, arrived here from Geren River at 9:1" and departed for Salduro at 9:51. I WASHINGTON, ()el 16. Captain Lowell H. Smith, leader of the west bound return iiishi in the transcon tinental airplane races, Is definitely out of the contest and will return to his post by rail, n was stated today at the air service headquarters here. His machine was destroyed accidentally by fire last nit-'ht a tier he had made a safe landing at the Buffalo control! station, but the ruling made was that I Inasmuch as the flight was to test re liability of planes primarily. Captain Smith could noi be permitted lo con tinue his flight to San Francisco in an other ship Ram Delays Fliers. M in kola. N. v.. Oct. 16. Flying in ihe transcontinental air derby over this section of the course was held up hy unfavorable weather Rain was falling heavily at Curtlss field and telephone advices from Rochester wore that Major Carl Spatz. prasi nt leader on the return flight from Vm BOla to San Francisco, would be mi able io leave until flying conditions imnroved. t PACKERS RULING TRADE jBig Five Bid Fair to I Dominate the Whole ! Grocery Trade, SECRET METHODS Exact Statistics Hard to Obtain and Country in the Dark. i I ' WASHING-TON, Oct. 16. Reitera tion of the claim that the five big packing companies of Chicago bid fair to dominate the wholesale grocery trade and already handle more than 200 foods unrelated to the meat park ing industry, many of them directly competitive a meat substitutes i made in part IV of the federal trade commission's report on the industry, ! published today. "The extent to which 'he packer J should be permitted to enter unrelat ed food lines." the report said, "is n matter whleh the public interest alon' should determine. "Two question, primarily economic are in vol veil: "Does this widening of activity re suii In additional economics of produc tion and distribution? I i Mies li reuii aim "in ll (.ninone to result to ihe public in lower prices and better quality of product an I service0" Included in the list of commodities , said to be falling under control of the big fle are poultry and game, dairy products, lard and butter substitute-, canned and dried vecetabls and fruit, canned, cured and frozen fish, cocoa, coffee, molasses and cane, corn snd maple bq nip In addition Armour and company isJ said to be handling extensively soda fountain preparations and utensils. 'Owing to the maze and secrecv of the packer's methods of conducting; much of his business," It adds, "exact ; statistics on many of these commo dities are not available for the coun try as a whole. "Many companies manufacturing or handling these commodities are con-' trolled by packer Interests, no hint of which is disclosed by the names un der which they operate and even a thorough-going examination may fail i io uncover the packer connection In ever) case." Four of the packers. Swift. Wilson. Armour and Cudahy, the report states, j through subsidiaries and not includ ing family controlled companies,, handled in 1918. 19.5 per cent of the es- j timated toial of shipped dressed poul- j try and 33 per cent of shipped eggs. The same four handled 49 per cenf j of all factory made cheese in 1918, the' report says, and adds: That the hie fixe are in a position I to control 75 to so per cent of the' r-heese of the state (Wisconsin) La generally eonceded." Lihby, McNeill and Llbby. a Swifl oneern. alone handled 10.9 per cent Of all evaporated and condensed milk in 191S, according io the report. "The Armour Grain compan, a fai tor In the cereal and breakfast food I business, reported surplus undivided I profits for the year 1918 of $5,426,83". jafter deducting- a 78 per cent dividend on capital stock, the report Bays, add ing: "The year's net earnings amounted to 290 per rent on the capital stock and 67 per cent on ihe net worth of the company, including capital, surplus and undivided profits as reported at the close ot the tlscal year 191(i ' Production of lard compound- and substitutes bj the five packers during the lirst six months of 1917 was placed at 49 4 per cent of the total 'and oleomargcrine at 61.0 P r Cent Complete fi-ures to show the pack er interest in canned foods, such as j fruits and fish were not available, h' i report says, but the business of the; 'big thr ' was shown to be large and growing Thi Llbby company's canhi I i food sales alone showed a 225 per cent Increase In 1918 over 1915. Lib sales of canned salmon increased from t j per cent of the world pack in 1915, to 9 7 per cent in 191R. "So complete has become the con- j trol. especially by Llbby. McNeill and LJbby, oer the p neapple supply," the! report reads, "that one of the large ; wholesale grocers In the country wk-- j MESSAGE 1 SENT TO I PREMIER I AnnunzioAsks Clemen- l!l ceau to Act Promptly H in Fhime Matter. PARIS, Oct 16 Captain Gabriel d1 nnun7.io has sent a message to Premier Clemenceau asking him to take the Initiative in obtaining a dec laration from the allied governments making Flume a free port. iHH Captain d'Annunzlo says he ha drafted a manifesto inviting Serbians T'nd Italians to recognize mutual na tional rights. t'lBfl i VIENNA. Wednesday. Oct. 15 (By The Associated Press.) Austria's na- llu : ional assembly met today for conslu- Ym ration of ihe peace treaty framed by ihe peace conference at Paris and signed at St Germaine, September VU fW last. The treaty was referred to a I JL special committee, the government U program being carried out in an un eventful fashion. ill "PARIS. Oct. 16. During a demon- "II Btratl.on at Kalserslautern in the Sarro jM region yesterday a French officer com- llfl manding a detachment of men. was seriously wounded, accordinc to a dis Hlj pitch from Zurich to the Echo de HH Paris. The dispatch says the French M soldiers opened fire and killed one per lH on in the mob. seeral others belnr 113 v ounded. iltt III linablt In !n mi miner of 19 1 s to - cure any supply whatever." iM There is sufficient evidence, the rj port continues, that the "big five" are nm dividing the field among themselves. Iljl "If Armour and company's special- IHl ties are largely concentrated along uW such lines as rice, cereals, certain jt kinds of canned foods and cheese and t IU each of the other fixe great packer. 111 concentrates his specialties along a rE f few well chosen lines, the profitable fl fields become pretty well covered and iif pretty well ruled by the five." II j The report declares the meat pack- jftl ers "are larne speculators" and thai St their control of capital and credit en- t'l ables them to buy in such a way as to 'I, 1 1 -sell "upon a market in which their i! purchases have forced up the price." jV It also asserts tho packers have ex- .ft traordinary buying and marketing il' power, due to certain advantages, per- V haps not always unlawful, but cer- ll talnly often unjusiifiablc. Elj Among these advantages are enum 1 : crated packer control of 44.8 per cent ; of all cold storage facilities, their re- ii J frigerator car service, the "highly fax - I H orable rules" obtained by the packers 1 for mixed carloads of fresh meats and ! If packing house products, permittlnc them to iuclude a great variety ot goods "foreign to their slaughtering business," with resulting discrlmina- A lions not alono in service, but also in Mg ime.s. mmM "Fntil the packers are shorn of the 111 transportation advantages." the n Si port says, "there is no way of iiieas- 1 uring their true industrial cttlcienc.x ." CHICAGO, Oct. 16 Louis F. Sv. nt, j president of Swift and company, tods issued a statement denying the J i charges that the fiev big packers by enlarging trade of the country which are contained in the latest repoit uf the federal trade commission. Mr, j Swift's statement reads in part fill 'In the first place the packers do cl not control anything. Swift and com pan) Is in active competition with aii othpr packers in the purchase and sale of ever product bought and sold. "The charge that the fixe packers bave divided the field, each specialis ing on certain lines, is absurd sv iL lljH and company handles only such prod ucts as logically result from belnv k r Ufl the packinc business and such othp jfl products as can be handled efficient Ix through ii- sab-s organization ind refrigerating equipment Swift ini company's sale of grocery product;; f J amount to only a Utile over on-. p r cent of the total wholesale grocery business The five large packers i v gether handle not to exceed three pci cent. 'MH "The trade commission's figure.-! Vim Showing the percentage of OOUttl butter and eggs handled by the laro ti'll packers are greatly exaggerated 'Svl "Wc have issued figures base . I 'i department of agriculture rep showing that Swift and company bai dies only about six per cent of tho total quantity of these products sold fA In the United States. "There Is no combination or agre menl With other packers in the hs dling of these products or to divld 1(9 territory in their purchase or sale.' 'iH