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VOL. 32.
LATEST NEWS IN
ABRIDGED FORM
Events That Concern the Two
Hemispheres Recorded So as
to Be Read at a Glance.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS EPITOMIZED
Paragraphs Which Picture Executive
and Legislative Activities at the
National and State
Capitals.
| PEACE BULLETINS i!
Marquis Saionji, head of the Jap
anese peace delegation, declares Japan
should seek to promote the league and
strive to overcome misunderstanding
of tlie country that exists among other
nations.
Premier Nittl of Italy reeived news
of the entry of D’Annunzio and the
Italian volunteers into Fiume, while
the Chamber of Deputies was engaged
in debate. He was extremely astound
ed, and the majority deputies ex
pressed their regret that such an in
cident had occurred.
A Bolshevik wireless dispatch from
Moscow claims the capture of nearly
12,000 prisoners from Admiral Kol
chak’s all Russian forces in the region
of Aktubin and Orsk. It is declared
the surrender of the remainder of Kol
chak's southern army is expected.
The minority report of six mem
bers of the Senate Foreign Relations
• Committee, prepared by Senator
Hitchcock, was {(resented to the upper
chamber. Senator Hitchcock and his
conferees declare that rejection of the
peace treaty with its League of Na
tions covenant, or adoption of amend
ments would mean sacrifice by the
United States of all concessions ob
tained from Germany under a dictated
peace.
Serbian delegation at Paris advised
the Peace Conference that because of
the fall of the government in Belgrade
It was unable to obtain instructions to
sign the treaty with Austria.
President Wilson agreed to meet a
delegation of the Northwest organized
labor at Seattle for a conference
which will deal with the release of
“political prisoners.”
| WASHINGTON
Pre-war methods of diplomacy are
being resumed in Washington, and
foreign governments are exercising the
greatest care in selecting heads for
their missions to the United States.
Lack of funds has greatly impaired
the Pacific fleet. Ships are in need of
repairs, the morale of the crews is
low and officers wish to resign to make
a living. Secretary Daniels admits
the gravity of conditions.
President Wilson’s speeches in the
Northwest are construed in some con
servative quarters as an attempt to
bring the radical elements into the
Democratic party.
So little interest has been shown in
Washington in sales by parcel post of
army foodstuffs that post office offi
cials announced that the sale would be
discontinued unless there was a public
response.
The issue of a steel strike now rests
upon the action of Judge Elbert H.
Gary. By ignoring the request of the
President that strike plans be held off
until after the industrial conference in
Washington in October, the steel work
ers' committee has left it directly up to
the United States Steel Corporation to
decide whether a test of strength is de
aired.
Edward L. Doheny, president of the
Mexican Petroleum Company, testi
fied before a senate committee that
the United States government acqui
esced in the payment of blackmail by
American oil companies to Mexican
outlaws and factionists.
An amendment to the Cummins Rail
road Bill providing that the govern
ment guarantee a substantial return
to the railroads after they are re
leased was considered by the Senate
Interstate Commerce Commision.
! GENERAL |
Col. James D. Bell of Brooklyn was
unanimously elected commander in
chief of the Grand Army of the Re
public, at its annual encampment in
Columbus, Ohio. D. M. Hall of Co
lumbus was elected senior vice com
mander.
The Zionist convention at Chicago
Is told that its hopes of Jewish nation
alism have not yet been realized; that
the peace congress has not yet issued
the promised mandate over Palestine.
Submarine Board Corporation’s plan
to construct four fabricated ships for
an Italian shiping company was ap
proved by the Shipping Board.
A small American naval force was
landed from the cruiser Cleveland at
Puerto Cortez, Honduras, to preserve
order and protect the lives and proper
ty of foreigners ’here.
With the Boston police strike as his
text and speaking as the representa
tive of Samuel Gompers, Matthew
Woll, vice president of the American
Federation of Labor, placed the feder
ation on record as opposing strikes of
national, state or city employees. The
federation, he said, gave charters to
unions of policemen and firemen with
the understanding that they would not
resort to strikes.
Major General Leonard Wood rec
ommended an army of 350,000 officers
and men at the most, as against 500,-
000 limit proposed in the War Depart
ment bill.
Commander-In-Chief Adams of the
G. A. R. declared at the annual con
vention at Cleveland “if anyone at
tempts to raise the red flag of anarchy
in this country, shoot him on the spot.”
Democrats and Republicans in the
house joined in laying the foundation
for an investigation of Postmaster
General Burleson’s interference with
civil service rules in the appointment
of postmasters.
Governor Coolidge wired to Samuel
Gompers, head of the American Fed
eration of Labor that he is determined
to denfed the sovereignty of Massachu
setts. Boston was quiet as twenty
union locals voted on the question of
calling a sympathetic strike.
The damage by the fire at the Stand
ard Oil plant in Brooklyn, N. Y., is
estimated at $5,000,000. Fifty men
were injured, but no lives were lost.
There were several narrow escapes
and spectacular rescues.
Estelle James the sixteen-year-old
granddaughter of Jesse James, the
outlaw, won the medal in a church
speaking contest at Kansas City.
Missouri Public Service Commission
granted railways right to charge an 8
cent fare.
Iron, steel and blast furnace work
ers of the United States, not working
under union agreements, are requested
not to go to work September 22 in an
appeal issued at Pittsburgh by Wil
liam Z. Foster, secretary-treasurer of
the American Federation of Labor Na
tional Committee for Organization and
Steel Workers.
General Pershing visited the Roose
velt family at Sagamore Hill. He did
not go to the grave of Col. Roosevelt.
Edward L. Doheny, head of the Mex
ican Petroleum Co., told the Senate
Committee investigating Mexican af
fairs that Bolshevistic influences were
felt in Mexico as early as 1912.
After a seven wcaks’ tie-up by a
strike of carpenters and a lock-out of
allied trades, Chicago’s industry was
resumed.
Cost of meat was shown to have
been reduced more than a dollar a hun
dredweight in the last two weeks at
Chicago.
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!| SPORTING |i
South Bend Girl now carries a new
record of 2.02 1-4.
The Hudson River Rowing Associa
tion, New York, held its first open
regatta since the United States enter
ed the war. The Woodcliffe barge
crew defeated the Unions.
Frederick G. Anderson, tennis vet
eran, was eliminated by his son, Fred
erick C., after a long extra set match
in the Hoboken Tennis Club tourna
ment.
The elaborate Sargent tests that have
been used for a quarter of a century
at Harvard College to determine the
fitness of athletes who desire to com
pete in intercollegiate sports have been
abandoned, it was announced, for a
simple physical examination.
Darvester, by The Harvester, that
earlier in the season took a pacing
record of 2.04 1-4, took a breeders’ rec
ord at trot at Indianapolis of 2.06 1-4.
This gives him the honor of hold
ing the fastest average record at both
gaits, an honor previously held by Ana
conda, record 2.01 3-4 at the pace and
2,09 3-4 at the trot.
Under tentative plans announced at
Indianapolis by President Thomas J.
Hickey of the American Association,
the winner of the association pennant
will play the champion of the Pacific
Coast League, and the association
team which finishes second will play
the Baltimore team.
The Binghamton (N. Y.) franchise
in the International League will not be
held after this season closes. The
owners will endeavor to promote ama
teur baseball, which will be more de
sirable than professional bail. This de
cision is made after three years of hon
est effort to provide good sport, with’
scant encouragement to continue.
The American Seniors’ Golf Associa
tion team won the Duke of Devon
shire’s gold cup in the annual interna
tional match with the veterans of
Canada, winning on the links of the
Apawamls Club by 21 points to 7
scored by the Nassau system.
Heine Zimmerman, third baseman,
was indefinitely suspended by Man
ager McGraw of the Giants. He is
said to have persistently violated the
rules of the club.
Billy McCarney has signed Benny
Leonard to box the best man who can
be secured for the opening show of
the Detroit Boxing Club, on the night
of October 1. Leonard’s opponent will
be Charley Nietrie.
\ FOREIGN
Mexican bandits who seized an
American on a train in Mexico were
paid $6,000 ramsom in gold to release
him and his companion.
Truman H. Talley finds the recrea
tion pens in Mouritjoy Prison for Irish
political prisoners humane and sensi
ble.
The Chinese students arrested in
connection with the anti-Japanese
demonstration at Peking were released
against the President’s wish following
demands of the Japanese press. One
Japanese paper declared the American
Legation was connected with the
affair.
It is believed a satisfactory plan for
Canada to take over the Grand
Trunk and the Grand Trunk Pacific
railroads will be reached shortly as the
result of a conference now under way
between Grand Trunk railroad officials
and the cabinet subcommittee.
A bill was introduced in the provi
sional assembly of Jamaica prohibiting
any former alien from landing in the
country without special permit.
Eight strike leaders. Imprisoned at
Winnipeg for the last 26 days pending
charges of seditious conspiracy, were
each released on $4,000 bail.
Statements in the press that Persia
has become a protectorate of England
were officially denied by the Persian
minister to Switzerland.
Looting of embassies in Petrograd
was confirmed by an investigation
made for the state department.
Commander Vuillemin, an aviator,
arrived at Paris from Ci-iro, Egypt,
having flown 2,500 miles in three
flights.
Supreme Council adopted a plan for
the settlement of the question of the
Teschen mining district in dispute be
tween Poland and Czecho-Slovak gov
ernment.
Quentin Roosevelt’s grave in France
has been desecrated by some vandal
who carefully chipped from the head
stone the words “Son of Theodore
Roosevelt.” An investigation has been
started to discover the culprit.
UPPER MARLBOROUGH. MI)., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 26.1919.
TRY TO SAVE
JOBS OF POLICE
Governor Coolidge Wires to La-
I bor Leader Boston Case Is
Not Like Washington’s.
GENERAL STRIKE SITUATION.
Plan to Adjust Trouble Reported—
Statement of Gompers Construed
as Admission Labor Heads
Blundered—City is Now Quiet.
Boston.—The fate of the locked-out
policemen of Boston was definitely de
cided when Governor Coolidge, in a
telegram to Samuel Compere, sent in
reply to the latter’s message to the
governor begging him to arrange the
police controversy amicably and to re
instate the striking policemen, de
clares that the authorities of Boston
and Massachusetts will not debate or
arbitrate their control over the officers
of state and city and that any kind of
union on the part of policemen is
henceforth prohibited.
The governor said lie was de
termined to uphold at all costs the au
thority of the state, its constitution
and its laws and denied Mr. Gompers’
analogy between the situation here and
that in Washington, where the police
men did not leave their posts while
those here did.
Governor Coolidge’s telegram reads:
“Replying to your telegram, I have
already refused to remove the police
commissioner of Boston. I did not ap
point him. He can assume no position
which the courts would uphold except
what the people have, by the authority
of the law, vested in him. He speaks
only with their voice. The right of the
police of Boston to affiliate has always
been questioned, never granted and is
now prohibited.
“The suggestion of President Wilson
to Washington does not apply to Bost
ton. There the police have remained
on duty. Here the policemen's union
left their duty, an action which Pres
ident Wilson characterized as a crime
against civilization. Your assertion
that the police commissioner was
wrong cannot justify the wrong of
leaving the city unguarded. That
furnished the opportunity; the criminal
lement furnished the action. There
is no right to strike against the public
safety by anybody, anywhere, any
time.
“You ask that the public safety
again be placed in the hands of these
same policemen while they continue
in disobedience to the laws of Massa
chusetts and in their refusal to obey
the orders of the police department.
Nineteen men have been tried and re
moved. Others having abandoned their
duty and their places have, under the
law, been declared vacant on the
opinion of the attorney general.
“I can suggest no authority outside
the courts to take further action. I
wish to join and assist in taking a
broad view of every situation. A grave
responsibility rests on all of us. You
can decide on me to support you in
every legal action and policy. I am
equally determined to defend the sov
ereignty of Massachusetts and main
tain her authority and jurisdiction
over her public officers where it has
been placed by the constitution and
laws of her people.”
Great significance was attached to
that reference in Samuel Gompers’
statement in which he pointed out that
“when policemen accept charters from
the American Federation of Labor it
is with the distinct understanding that
strike action will not be resorted to,
as no obligation is assumed which in
anyway conflicts with their oaths of
duty.”
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4- 4*
4- THE LABOR SITUATION. 4-
.r.
4- Average number of strikes go- 4*
4- ing on eacli day in the country: 4-
4* January 105 4*
4* February 110 4*
4* March 102 4*
4* April 134 4*
4- May 219 4-
4* June 245 4*
4* July 364 4*
h August 308 4*
4- The number for July and Au- 4*
4* gust is twice as great as for the 4*
4* corresponding months of 1918. 4*
4* Average number of strikers 4-
4* going on each day of 1918 was 4*
4* 104. 4*
4* These figures are made by a 4-
4* well-known private statistical >4-
4* bureau. 4*
4* Officials of the American Fed- 4-
4- eration of Labor estimate that 4*
4* there are now in the country 4*
4- 2,000 strike situations, meaning 4-
4* strikes going on or imminent. 4*
4* 4*
4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4-
FARMERS FOR U. S. OWNERSHIP.
National Council Advocates Sale of
Natural Product at Cost.
Washington. Government owner
ship is essential to permanent reduc
tion of the high cost of living, accord
ing to the contention of the Farmers’
National Council.
Unless the government retains con
trol of its natural resources, the coun
cil says, the cost of raw materials will
constantly increase, with result that
production will be lessened and cost
of all finished products enhanced.
ARMY FOOD! NOT POPULAR.
Washington People Not Taking Parcel
Post Stocks Fast.
Washington.—So little interest has
been shown here in parcel post sales
of army foodstuffs that post office offi
cials announced that the sale would be
discontinued unless there was a public
response. Less than 10 per cent of the
supplies allotted to the capital have
been taken. “Everybody has clamored
for cheap fond,” says an official an
nouncement, “but when it is offered
only a few people want to buy it.”
AND SOUTHERN MARYLAND ADVERTISER.
I WALTER E. EDGE. ||
Fathers Bill To Finance \
American Export Trade. 2
Senator Walter E. Edge is Hie j
author of the measure which is do- j
signed to aid in the upbuilding of the i
nation's foreign trade.
EXCEEDS $5,009,000
Standard Oil Plant Laid Waste
by Great Blaze in Greenpoint
Section of Brooklyn.
New York. —The great fire that
started at 2 o'clock Saturday after
noon in the Stone and Fleming Oil
Works, Standard Oil subsidiary, in tlie
Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, was
placed under control at 3 o’clock Sun
day afternoon after tlie blaze had
given the fire department the worst
twenty-five hours’ tight in its history.
Police and fire authorities estimate
the total damage as being between
$3,000,000 and $5,000,000. The great
est loss was suffered by the oil works,
fronting on Kingsland avenue, be
tween Greenpoint and Normand ave
nues.
More than 150 persons were injured.
Most of them were treated for minor
burns.
When the spread of the flames was
no longer feared a number of fire com
panies and their weary personnel were
withdrawn.
A mass of twisted sheet iron and
pipes is all that is left of tlie immense
oil, gasoline and naptha tanks and
their valuable contents.
Several big plants which lino New
town Creek were a total loss. The
Columbus Distilling Company was
razed, only a few smokestacks being
left standing.
North of the creek the poultry food
department of the Van Iderstine Com
pany was a complete loss. The main
buildings of this concern were un
touched, a fireproof building of tlie
American Agricultural Company hav
ing cut off the spread.
A portion of the plant of the Chris
topher Cunningham Company, boiler
makers. adjoining tlie oil works was
demolished. Across Greenpoint avenue
a large building owned by the Perfect
Window Regulator Company was
slightly damaged.
Panic-stricken residents of tene
ments near the fire carried their house
hold furnishings into the streets. Many
spent tlie night there, while others
were cared for by neighbors.
Tlie twenty acres of fireswept ter
ritory looked like a scene in war dev
asted France or Belgium. Tanks
were crumpled up; huge steel girders
lay in a tangled mass; few walls were
left standing, and burning oil flowed
along the surface of Newtown Creek.
1 WORLD NEWS IN \
CONDENSED FORM \
GALVESTON.—Texas was swept by
the tropical storm which flooded Gal
veston with three feet of water and
cut off railway communication with
the outside world.
BALTIMORE. Cardinal Mercier
took part in an imposing pontifical
mass in tlie historic Baltimore Ca
thedral and made his first public ad
dress in America before a brilliant as
semblage of churchmen and laymen.
WASHINGTON.—Members of the
house are seeking to have tlie rules
so changed as to prevent possibility
of one-man filibusters, and thus save
both time and money.
BOSTON.—The striking Boston j
policemen, acting as a union, vote to !
accept the recommendation of Samuel j
Gompers, president of tlie American ■
Federation of Labor, that they return |
to their posts. Police Commissioner j
Curtis said, “I will not take hack any I
man who struck.”
WASHINGTON.—GeneraI Pershing
j returns to Washington and is acclaim- j
I ed by cheering crowds. Vice President ;
j Marshall, in the absence of President j
I Wilson, wecomed him to the Capital. ;
NEW YORK.—Automobile bandits
hold up four hotels. Mayor urges a \
motor squad to end robberies.
I NEW YORK.—General Pershing at
a great mass meeting of tlie American |
Legion in Madison Square Garden ad- i
j vised tlie veterans to stay out of poii- !
i tics. His speech marked his last pub
i lie appearance here.
BALTIMORE. Cardinal Mercier
| tells local reporters that Belgium’s
I direct need is machinery and raw ma
-1 terials, so tlie people may get back to |
i work and become self-sustaining.
HELENA, MONT.—President Wil
] son speaks in Billings and Helena. At
! tlie former {dace he announced he
j would not ask men to stop agitating I
so long as wrongs exist.
i ORiVE TO WIPE
DOT SINN FEIN
Troops and Police Search for
Arms and “Literature” in
Cities All Over Ireland.
i TWO M. P.’S ARE ARRESTED.
Other Sinn Feiners Seized and Taken
Into Dublin in Military Lorries.
Crimes Act Put Into Force
Against Revolutionists.
Dublin—ln the raids carried out
j against tlie Sinn Fein organizations
i throughout Ireland some arms and ex
! plosives were found. Large quantities
of documents and Sinn Fein literature
were seized, notably in Dublin, where
every copy of the report of Frank P.
Walsh and Edward F. Dunne, who in
vestigated conditions in Ireland on be
half of American Irish societies, anil |
correspondence relating to arranging i
trade relations between Ireland and
! the United States and other foreign
| countries, fell into the hands of the
i authorities. The belief was expressed
1 in Sinn Fein quarters here that noth
ing of an Incriminating nature was
found.
The Gazette prints tlie proclamation,
signed by Viscount French, the lord
lieutenant of Ireland, prohibiting and
suppressing the Sinn Fein parliament
known as the Dail Eireann. It refers
to the proclamation of July 3 suppress
ing the Sinn Fein organizations as un
lawful associations. It describes the
Daii Eireann as a dangerous associa
tion and says that since July it has
been employed for all tlie purposes of
the , then suppressed organizations.
The proclamation applies to tlie 32 |
counties and six ebunty boroughs of
Ireland.
The Dail Eireann is placed under the
crimes act, and its meetings are pro
hibited. Any member of parliament
belonging to the Sinn Fein who dis- |
obeys the proclamation of the lord
lieutenant will be liable to prosecu- |
tion under this act.
The proclamation indicates an inten
tion on the part of the government to
return to jail most of tlie men impris
oned in May, 1918, under suspicion of
connection with German plots, who
were released by Viscount French aft
er the signing of the armistice.
The view held here is that the Brit
ish government now intends to treat
the entire Irish republican movement
as seditious, as being aimed at the
overthrow of the king's authority and
illegal under the treason and felony
act.
Irish Constitutionalists expressed the
belief that the repressive action of tlie
government will strengthen the Sinn
Fein. Prominent Sinn Feiners assert
ed that it was their intention to main
tain their policy of republicanism.
Detective Hoey, killed in Dublin,
was shot dead outside the detective of
fice in Townshend street. Six shots
were fired at him. Hoey hau given tes
timony at several recent courts mar
tial and also had acted as one of the
bodyguard of the lord lieutenant of
Ireland.
Arthur Griffith, one of the founders
of the Sinn Fein organization, speak
ing at central branch of the Sinn Fein,
said that tlie raids and the suppression
of the Irish parliament were concert
ed in Belfast in consultation with the
leaders of the Ulster Unionist Coun
cil. Mr. Grillilli declared that the Sinn
Fein would carry on exactly as before.
Raids in South and North.
Cork. —From all parts of South Ire
land reports are being received of ex
tensive raids by military and police on
clubs and homes of Sinn I'einers.
In Cork the headquarters of the
Sinn Feiners were entered by a strong
detachment of soldiers and searched.
Nothing incriminating was found. All
other clubs In tlie city were raided, but
the searches proved fruitless.
Military Force in Belfast.
Belfast. —Military and police activi
ty was everywhere in evidence against
the Sinn Fein organization. Raids
were carried out in Belfast, at Lisburn,
Derry, Dundalk, Louth and Ennis
killen.
EUROPE FACES COAL FAMINE.
Mines in Silesia Now at Work, but
Not Enough, Says American.
Paris. —AH but six of the 65 coal
mines in Upper Silesia are now work
ing on two shifts of seven and one
half hours each daily, according to ;
Colonel C. Goodyear, of Buffalo, a
member of the interallied commission
which intervened between the Poles 1
and the Germans to quiet the warfare '
occasioned by alleged oppression of |
the miners by Germans Yet, he says, ;
the supply will not equal the demands. !
OBREGON READY TO FIGHT.
Mexican Presidential Candidate to
Take Field if U. S. Intervenes.
Nogales, Ariz. —General Alvaro Ob- '
| regon, former minister of war in the
j Carranza cabinet, and a candidate for
j President in 1920, announced that iie 1
i would take the field against the United
i
I States in the event ol armed imerven- !
| lion by the United States. General
i Obregon denied statements be claimed
had been made in the United States
| that lie is anti-American, which, he
savs, is tlie work of propagandists.
j ’ ' :
LABOR IS TO BE OWN JUDGE.
Conference to Vote on Admittance of
Teuton Delegates.
Paris. —The supreme council has de
cided to !et the international labor con
ference, which meets at Washington in
October, decide whether German and
| Austrian delegates be admitted,
j The Italian delegation was anxious
■ to have the council authorize The ad- i
mission of these delegates, hut the oth
er delegations preferred to have the
Washington conference decide the mat
ter.
j \ BERNARD BARUCH. j
J Mentioned as Likely J
| Successor to Redfield, |
The New York financier, Bernard
Baruch, is being persistently named
as the probable choice of President
Wilson for secretary of commerce in
his cabinet.
URGED BY MINORITY
Six Democrats of Foreign Rela
tions Committee Unite in
Approval of Treaty.
Washington.—Early ratification of
the treaty with Germany without
amendment or reservation, was urged
| in a report submitted without comment
| to the Senate by Senator Hitchcock.
| ranking Democratic member of the
Foreign Relations Committee, in be
i half of the committee minority. It was
| signed by all the Democrats except
j Senator Shields, who voted for three
i of the majority reservations in com
j mittee.
, Delay in handling the treaty in the
j committee is criticised in the report,
! which asserts that the majority
“locked” the treaty up and engaged
in unnesessary considerations of mat
ters the decision of which was a “fore
gone conclusion.”
The suggestion of Senator Lodge, in
the majority report, that whatever
! changes were made in the treaty could
Ibe considered immediately by the
| Peace Conference, which, Mr. Lodge
said, would he in session six months
more, is challenged by the minority.
Senator Hitchcock, who wrote the re
port, asserts that the conference has
acted finally on the treaty and has
no tnejns of compelling Germany to
send delegates to Paris to reconsider
it.
The report asserts that for the
United States to amend or reject the
treaty will mean that it will sacrifice
all the concessions obtained from Ger
many by a dictated peace. Twelve
concessions are cited, including mat
ters of industrial and economic im
portance.
The reservations proposed by the
majority, the report says, are designed
to defeat the treaty.
“While masquerading in the guise of
reservations," it is added, “they are In
fact alterations of the treaty.”
As to the amendments, the minority
argues that, if adopted, they will have
the effect of recommitting the treaty
to Paris, thus undoing the work of the
Peace Conference.
The minority asserts that as a result
of the delay as to the treaty ferment
has been caused in the Industrial
world, doubt has arisen in tiie finan
cial world, and trade, especially ex
port trade, is being halted. All this,
it is stated, has been done “by a ma
jority of the committee known to lie
out of harmony with the majority of
the senate and the majority of the
people.” This is declared to he gov
ernment by obstruction as well as by
minority.
| PITH OF THE |
\ VICTORY NEWS {
Poland's food problem again is growing
j serious as winter approaches, but it
is believed supplies will be sufficient
provided limitations are put on con
i sumption.
The Germans seize 200 Polish leaders
at Kovna and apparently have adopt
ed same policy of provocation in
Lithuania as in Upper Silesia,
Premier Venizelos, of Greece, says un.
less Armenia is occupied soon by a
mandatary state there will be no
Armenians left and declares the
Greeks will give Bulgaria access to
the Aegean Sea, but have a better
| right to Thrace than Turkey has,
Wi'liam C. Bullitt, one of the Amer
ican experts at the Peace Confer
ence, testifying before the Senate
1 Foreign Relations Committee, de
clared Robert Lansing, secretary of
state, told him in Paris he regard
ed the peace treaty as “bad,” the
League of Nations as “entirely use
less," and believed that the Amer
ican senate and people would defeat
the treaty if they understood it.
President Wilson appeals to Republic
ans to eliminate antagonism in
viewing the League of Nations. He
expresses willingness for the sen
j ate to adopt a separate resolution.
Frank H. Sisson, interviewed in Paris,
declares that great opportunities are
opening for American business
abroad, but it will be necessary to
help by extending credits, and busi
ness is now marking time, awaiting
approval of the treaty of peace.
The Bratiano cabinet in Rumania has
fallen, indicating a change of policy
toward Hungary.
Senate fight on treaty 15 hailed as
“new dawn” for them .by Germans.
Former Minister Steinwartz sees in
it a possibility that the American
people may be persdaded to demand
a separate peace with his country.
I STATE I
I CAPITAL I
Maryland Has Game Propagation Farm
Annapolis.—
With the opening of the Gwynnbrook
Game Propagation farm, Maryland
takes its place with 44 sister states in
a nation-wide movement to restock
with desirable game. With probably
a net revenue of $50,090 annually from
the State-wide Gunners’ License law,
it is possible, not only to take vigorous
steps to preserve existing game but
to increase it.
The game farm recently acquired by
State Game Warden E. Lee le Compte
for the state is ideally located and,
with 290 acres of woodland, meadow
and farmland, gives ample scope for
the plans contemplated. In spite of
being probably not over 15 miles from
the city, it is already well stocked with
game naturally. There are many
coveys of partridges and rabbits there
while the vicinity has always been
popular for other varieties of game.
The first step constructively is to
post the land so that, from now on,
there will be no shooting there and
the next step will be to provide a 1 dog
and cat-prbof fence 12 feet high to
keep out both two-footed and four
footed maurauders and to keep the
game inside. The place is being culti
vated by the Mosner Brothers who
bear a splendid reputation in that
neighborhood and should be retained
in that capacity and to co-operate
with those in charge of the game
propagation. Feed for the birds may
be raised there and in the vicinity in
quantities. The buldings on the prop
erty will have to be renovated and
habitations provided for the game
keepers as well as farmers and suit
able pens provided for the scheme of
breeding. Gwyns Falls runs through
the property not only providing water
tor the wild things but inviting to
fish culture which will be tried along
the most modern lines.
A good start will be gotten through
no-operation with similar game farms
in other states. New Jersey has two.
it Forked River, Ocean county, N.
1., 10,000 ring-neck pheasants are be
ing raised- A vigorous effort will be
made to propagate these pheasants
at Gwynnbrook. The Forked Rivet
farm has become so famous that from
all parts of the country men interested
in game conservation are now visiting
the farm along the shore road north of
Barnegat and Atlantic City.
All of , the pheasants were hatched
from the eggs of birds that live in a
semi-wild state in the parks on the
farm. For several weeks these pheas
ants will roam at liberty and have
as much freedom as if they were
hatched in the wild, but they will be
ted with far more regularity.
“Flu” Expected Back.
Voluminous instructions for the
guidance of health officers in all sec
tions of the United States have been
issued by the United States Health
Service, which is of the opinion that
there will be a return visit of the
influenza in epidemic form this year.
Copies of the instructions were re
ceived in Baltimore from Surgeon Gen
eral Rupert Blue. In part, the state
ment reads:
“City officials, state and city boards
of health should be prepared in the
event of a recurrence. It is not yet
certain that the germ has been iso
lated or discovered, and as a conse
quence there is yet no positive pre
ventive, except the enforcement of
rigid rules of sanitation and the avoid
ance of personal contact.
“Influenza is spread by direct and
indirect contact.
“Evidence collected during the last
winter’s epidemic points strongly to
infected eating and drinking utensils,
especially in places where food and
drink are sold to the public, as being
one of the mddes of transmission of
this disease. In some municipalities
this matter has already been made
the subject of regulation, but the en
forcement of the regulations often
leaves much to be desired.”
One of the most urgent steps sug
gested by the local officials is the
cleaning up of the streets and alleys
in Baltimore. In the opinion of Dr.
Warren H. Hoak, influenza could be
spread easily at present, as many of
the streets and alleys are dusty and
dirty. On some of the waterfront
streets there is a constant dusty at
mosphere, where horses and wagons
churn up dirt that apparently has not
been swept away for weeks.
Fight For Rejected Votes.
Mahlon S. Disney, candidate for
Democratic renomination as county
commissioner to represent the Third
district of Anne Arundel, petitioned
the election supervisors for a count of
between 52 and 55 ballots cast in the
First precinct of the Third district,
which were rejected by the election
officials on the ground that they were
illegal because more names were voted
in one or another of the groups of
candidates than the law requires.
Disney was returned defeated for
nomination by Joseph M. Wilkerson,
of the Filth district. The vote stood:
Wilkerson, 876; Disney. 874. Mr. Dis
ney claims the count of the rejected
ballots wiil show he was nominated.
On the same grounds, H. T. W.
Foreman, candidate for delegate to
the state convention, has petitioned
for a count of the rejected ballots.
Mr. Ray For Tax Board.
Annapolis.—J. Enos Ray, Jr., state
auditor, is being urged for appoint
ment as chairman of the State Tax
Commission to succeed the late A. P.
Gorman. The commissioner to be
appointed must, under the law, be
a resident of the Western, Southern
or Central counties. Judge Oscar Resel
ls Baltimore’s representative on the
commission, while the Eastern Shore
is repreesnted by W. W. Beck, of Kent
tounty.
NO. 38.
SHORT CUTS IN
IMD NEWS
Latest Doings in Various Parts
of the State
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
Pastor May Go To Syria, i -
Belair.—The Rev. Harold F. Pelle
grin, pastor of Churchville Presbyte
rian Church, this' county, has tendered
his resignation to become a secretary
of the American Committee for Relief
in the Near East. His headquarters
will be in Baltimore.
Mr. Pellegrin was formerly assistant
pastor of Brown Memorial Church,
Baltimore, and accepted the pastorate
at Churchville five years ago. He is
one of the most popular as well as one
of the ablest minister in the county
and his leaving has caused general
regret.
During the world war Mr. Pellegrin
took an active part in war work of
every description with much success.
He has been engaged in the Near East
relief work for some time and prob
ably will go to Syria next spring in
connection with his duties.
May Erect Memorial Church.
Cumberland. Henry Percival
Bridges, attorney, of Baltimore, a na
tive of Hancock, contemplates the
erection of a church building at Han
cock as a memorial to hts father, the
late Robert Bridges, who was an elder
In the Hancock Presbyterian Church
and superintendent of the Sunday
School for many years. He •will pres
ent the church to the congregation.
Mr. Bridges has purchased the long
three-story brick building next to the
old Bridges homestead, w r hich will be
razed, and the church will be erected
on the terraced site. The old home
will also be razed and the combined
sites will be used for the new church
and manse.
Frostburg Pays Homage.
Cumberland.—The proudest day in
Frostburg’s history was Monday when
the city shut down to celebrate the re
turn of soldiers, sailors and marines
from the war. There was something
doing from dawn, when, at 6 o’clock,
all the bells in the city were pealed,
while six heralds on horseback, by a
blast of trumpets, announced that the
great day had begun, until midnight,
when the dance to ex-service men
ended. All business houses, mines
and factories were closed and the city
was decorated gorgeously.
A display of fireworks at night add
ed to the picture.
Maryland Checks At Par.
Washington.—Washington banks re
ceived information from the Federal
Reserve Bank at Richmond that all
checks on banks in Maryland, includ
ing State and national, would be here
after collected at par.
Collections on a number of institu
tions in Maryland have been made at
par for some time. The completion
of arrangements fof Stale-wide collec
tion at par will caiise satisfaction, as
it is the first State in the country to
come wholly under the Government
collection system.
Bank Cashier Resigns.
Belair. —Mrs. Robert C. Stephenson,
who was before her marriage Miss
Sarah O. Wright, has resigned her po
sition as cashier of the Savings Bank
in Belair, to take effect as soon as her
successor is appointed. Her husband
for the past several years has been a
druggist, and his decision for himself
and wife to locate elsewhere necessi
tates the latter giving up her position
in the bank.
Action On Food Costs.
Governor Harrington’s committee on
living costs will issue a fair price list
which will include groceries, meat,
fish and farm produce, according to
William H. Killian, the chairman. The
list will be compiled with the assist
ance and advice of retailers and whole
salers, in order that the committee
may have the benefit of experienced
advice upon such subjects as the de
termination of a fair allowance for
overhead and other expenses. It was
also announced that Dr. Clyde L. King
had consented to serve as permanent
milk arbitrator.
Mr. Killian issued the following
statement:
“The committee has decided to in-
I augurate a plan for the announcement
of a fair price list, 't'he details of the
plan are under consideration and not
yet completed. It is purposed to create
an advisory committee of trustworthy
retail and wholesale dealers represent
ing groceries, fish, meat and farm
products to sit with the committee on
living costs in the working out of a
plan for the regular issuance of a fair
price list.
“It must be remembered that this
committee lacks the power of enforce
ment of the Food Administration and
that we must rely almost entirely on
the public’s co-operation. Any cases
that are brought to our attention, and
which, upon investigation, give evi
dence of profiteering, will be promptly
presented to the grand jury.”
New Bank For Mt. Rainier.
Annapolis-State Bank Commis
sioner George W. Page gave approval
to the opening of a new bank at Mount
Rainiqr, Prince George's county. The
capital stock is $lO,-000, with a paid in
surplus of 12.500. The directors are
Robert B. Whitehurst. James H. Hau
back, Homer Stanforth, Winfield S
Brown and -Tames T. Clancy.