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VOL. XXII. NUMBER 12.
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FOB COMMWSTS;
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! Plans to Overthrow Ameri-
can Government and Its
Institutions Disclosed in
Records Seized by Officials
NEW YORK, ' Nov. 10.—Govern
ment agents, assisted by state and
city authorities, today continued to
spread nets about all corners In the
hope of trapping 7,500 members of
the Communist party, who face
charges of criminal anarchy and se
dition. Arrests are expected to con
tinue for weeks, and many of those
who have been released after being
questioned may be rearrestel.
' State and police officials began a
systematic reading of the twenty-five
tons of “red” literature seized in
! raids or seventy-one branch head
' quarters of the Communist organiza
tion. Thirty-se*ven dt the 1.000 per
sons arrested Saturday night and
early Sunday hu-d. me.iuersmp cards
! of the Communist party in their pos
session, the polled said. Search is
' being made for the complete mem
bership rolls.
PLANS TO OVERTHROW
GOVERNMENT ARE FORMED
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Plans ot
the Union of Russian Workers to
bring about an overthrow of the
American government through a gen
eral strike are revealed in document's
seized in the nation-wide raids of
federal authorities Friday and Satur
day nights and made public by As
sistant Attorney General Garvan.
With the government overthrown
and everything “wiped from the
earth that is a reminder of the right
to private ownership of property,”
the Russian workers, according to
their manifesto, look forward to
“the magnificent beautiful form of
man without a God, without a mas
i ■<—.
ter and free of authority.
The documents and publications
obtained in the raids, officials said,
are of the most inflammatory nature
and make no effort to conceal the
union's program of destruction and
death to achieve its ends. Much of
the material made public is of such a
nature as to cause ordinarily any
newspaper reprinting it to be barred
from the mails.
Included among the documents
seied, all of which are printed in
Russian, is “Novomirsky—Manifesto
of Anarchists-Communists.” This
publication, the most recent put out
by the union, was said by Mr. Gar
van- to be the most dangerous piece
of propaganda ever disseminated by
any' radical organization in the Unit
ed States.
The manifesto outlines the pur
pose of the movement inaugurated
by the union as “complete destruc
tion of private controf of natural re
sources and capital and complete de
struction of power of rule and the
institutions invested with powers to
enforce rule of one man over an
other.”
Under the caption of “What Should
Be Our Means of Carrying on the
Fight?” the manifesto says: “What
must we do, the vanguard of the
proletariat? We must consciously
hasten the elementary movement of
the struggle of the working classes,
, we must convert small strikes into
general ones and convert the latter
into armies of revolt of the laboring
masses against capital and state.
“At the time of this revolt we
must at the first favorable opportu
nity proceed to an immediate seizure
of all means of production and all
articles of consumption and make me
working classes the master in fact
of all general wealth. At the same
time we must mercilessly destroy all
remains of governmental authority
and class domination, liberating the
prisoners, demolish prisons and po
lice offices, destroy all legal papers
pertaining to private ownership of
property, all fleld fences and bound
aries ar.d burn all certificates of in
debtedness—in a word, we must take
care that everything is wiped from
the earth that is a reminder of the
right of private ownership of prop
-4 erty; to blow up barracks, gendarme
and police administration and to
shoot the most prominent military
and police officers, must be the im
portant concern of the revolting
working people. In the work of de
struction we must be merciless, for
» the slightest weakness upon our part
may afterward cost the working
classes a whole sea of needless
blood.”
After “capital and state” are de
stroyed, the manifesto says the first
duty of the Union is to start produc
tion on a new foundation. Existing
labor organizations should be ex
tended and production should be
given over entirely to them, ft ar
gues. Then each "village commune”
should unify with all other com
munes ar.d the “one great federation”
follow, the manifesto advocates as
its program.
Recognizing no religion, no author
ity, no power other than its own, the
manifesto says, alternately, its mem
bers are atheists, communists, an
archists.
Flu Victim Sleeps
24 Days in Boston
BOSTON.—Mrs. Dora Mintz, twen
ty-nine, slept twenty-four days after
Rn attack of flu. t
Brakeman Earns
$137.00 a Week
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brakeman on the Z. & M. V. R. R.,
made $137 in one week just, in his
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URBANA, HI. —Jack, the coon
ace, acclaimed as the only flying
coon, is now mascot at the Alpha
Gamma Rlio fraternity house at
the University of Illinois. Jack
was mascot to such birdmen as
Eddie Stinson and Joe Leveree,
and is credited with ten hours in
the air. Once in the cock pit he
clung like a leech.
ANNUAL MEETING
OF METHODISTS
OPENS THIS WEEK
Many unique features will charac
trize the fifty-third annual session of
the north Georgia conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, south,
which opens Wednesday at Wesley
Memorial church in Atlanta and
which extends through the follow
ing Monday afternoon, when the 1920
ministerial appoitments will be an
nounced.
For the first time in the history
of the conference women wi attend
as lay delegates and will have a
voice in the conference.
For the first time in the history of
the body, the conference will hold
two consecutive meetings in the same
city, at the same church, and will be
presided over by the same bishop—
Bishop Warren A. Candler.
Marking as it does the most stren
uous and busy year ever known in
the north Georgia conference, due to
the great centenary campaign so
successfully completed by the south
ern Methodists in the early part of
the year and in which the north Geor
gia conference played so conspicuous
a part, the 1919 north Georgia con
ference brings to a close what is un
doubtedly the most fruitful year in
the history'of Georgia Methodism.
No announced program has been
drawn but it seemed to be a well
defined opinion that one of the ab
sorbing topics at the conference will
be the question of unification. This
will be only in the form of an ex
pression of as the north
Georgia conference has no legal
power to decide the question one way
or the other. Any sentiment ex
pressed will be for the information
add guidance of the unification com
missioners.
The southern branch of Methodism
has contended all along for local
self-government in conferences, the
protection of minority rights and for
an independent and separate church
for negro membership. Resolutions
have been passed in large numbers
urging that the members of the
southern Methodist churr" ref”"' 1 to
conside and agree to any kind of
unification that does not specifically
stipulate and agree to the foregoing
principles.
COMMONS MUST
PASS ON RUSSIAN
PEACE, SAYS LAW
LONDON, Nov. 10.—Great Britain
has no intention of opening peace
negotiations with Lenine and Trot
zky until the house of commons
has had an opportunity to discuss
the subject, Mr. Bonar Law, the gov
ernment leader, declared in the house
of commons today.
Premier Lloyd George’s hint in his
Guild hall speech Saturday night ot
an attempt to negotiate peace with
the Bolsheviki in Russia has created
a stir. The anti-Bolshevik press is
indignant over the suggestion.
The Daily Mail scouts the idea as
i "shaking hands with a murderer,”
I and generally denounces the sugges
l tion which, it says, great amaze
ment in political circles. The Tele
graph and the Morning Post are also
hostile to the proposal.
School Warrants for
$ 159,424 Drawn by
Comptroller General
I Discount school warrants aggregat
ing $159,424 were being drawn Mon
■day by Comptroller General Wright
Ito pay the salaries of school teach
iers for the month of October.
Os this amount, $19,476 went to
; public school systems in cities and
i towns, and the balance of $139,948
I went to county school systems.
I The warrants will go to the local
school boards and be discounted by
them under the state’s arrangement
with a banking concern. On Febru
ary 1, 1920, the bank will present
them to the state for payment.
I
Lloyd George Hints
Russian Peace Effort
LONDON, Nov. B.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.) Premier Loyd
George, speaking at the 'ord mayors’
banquet tonight and referring to ‘■’•e
supreme council’s effort Russian
peace ear this - skid:
“I hope the time is rof- t
when s he powers will b*> .“5-
new that attempt with better pros
pects of success.”
SENATE DEBATES
ARTICLE TER OF
LEAGUEMONDAY
Republicans May Propose
Cloture to Eliminate Long
Debate and Hurry Action
on the Treaty
■WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—With
apparently little change in the pro
gram of procedure developed over
the week end despite increasing pres
sure from members w r ho desire early
final action so they might have a
recess before the regular session of
congress begins in three weeks, op
posing factions in the peace treaty rat
ification fight lined up today for a
continuation of the struggle over
reservations relating to Article 10,
of the League of Nations covenant,
which was recommended by the for
eign relations committee and the ad
ministration senators desired most
of all to defeat.
The only step discussed today that
might hasten the consideration of the
treaty, was the possibility that Re
publican leaders migii propose cloture
to curtail the protracted debate. In
this plan they were said to be sup
ported by a number of Democrats.
Except for the transition of one
phrase, the resolution to Article ten
is the same as that which President
Wilson declared during his western
trip he will regard as a rejection of
the treaty.
Its text follows:
“The United States assumes no
obligation to preserve the territorial
integrity or political independence of
any other country or to interfere in
controversies between nations—
whether members of the league* or
not—under the provisions of Article
ten, or to employ the military or
naval forces of the United States
under any article of the treaty for
any purpose, unless in any particu
lar case the congress, which, under
the constitution, has the sole power
to declare war or authorize the em
ployment of the military or naval
forces of the United States, shall by
act or joint resolution so provide.”
LEAGUE PROVISIONALLY
ADOPTED BY COLOMBIA
BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 10. —Ad-
vices received by the Colombian lega
tion here report ratification by the
Colombian congress of provisional
adhesion to -the League of Nations
covenant. The action taken under
special law, has been approved by
the president.
COUNCIL DISCUSSES
SENATE SITUATION
PARIS, Nov. 10.—The ' supreme
council this morning considered tne
situation likely to arise from discus
sion of ratification of the peace
treaty wth Germany bv the American
senate. t
HOLLANDREGARDS
EX-KAISER IMMUNE
FROMEXTRADITION
THE HAGUE, Nov. 10.—Former
Emperor William came to Holland a
year ago today. Since that ime there
has been no demand, officially or un
officially, for his extradition or de
livery up to the allies, nor has Hol-,
land at all changed its viewpoint to
ward him. I
The Associated Press has learned
this from sources that are unques
tionable. Holland’s viewpoint as re
gards William Hohenzollern may be
stated frankly as follows;
The Netherlands, which for cen
turies has accorded political refuge
to all, considers the former emperor
and crown prince as refugees—not
as royalty, but as persons entitled to
the same rights as any plain Johann
Schmidt who fled to Holland during
the war. This principle is so strongly
held by the government and also by
the press of Holland that nothing is
likely to change it, it is asserted.
The Dutch government has reach
ed a determination as to its conduct
in the event the surrender of Wil
liam Hohenzollern is asked for. No
official statement has been made in
this connection, but the Associated
Press learns that Holland considers
the former emperor beyond extradi
tion, as there is no possible way le
gally to hold him as a criminal. If
they desired to insist on the privi
lege. both the Hohenzollerns would
be free to go where they liked, as
they are in no sense prisoners. How
ever, because they feel that they
would embarrass Holland even fur
ther they apparently have agreed to
remain where they now are—the fa
ther at Amerongen and his son at
Wieringen.
If the one-time emperor and crown
prince desired to return to Germany,
they would be permitted to go. While
it is possible that Frederick William
some day may return to Germany,
official circles in The Hague are In
clined to th belief that William
Hohenzollern is content to settle
down to the life of a country gen
tleman Doorn, where he has been
permitted to buy a small estate be
cause his long stay at Amerongen
seemed unfair to Count von Ben
tinck, whose castle he occupies.
Plans Dissolution of
Berlin “Red” Committee
BERLIN, Friday, Nov. 7.—(By the
Associated Press.) —Gustav Npske,
secretary for military affairs, has
ordered the d.ssolution of the “red
committee,” which attempted to engi
neer a general strike. The police
are actively suppressing incipient
demonstrations of Sparticists in con
nection with the celebration of the
I anniversary of the revolution in Ger
■ many.
Falls Five Stories,
Jokes With Doctor
Although suffering from a broken
leg, broken nose and severe internal
injuries, Conrad Dietz, 35-years-old.
a window cleaner, of New York city
made no complaint and even joked
wfith the doctor as he was being tak
en in an ambulance to Bellevue hos
pital after having falle from a
•meight of five floors.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1919.
RAILROAD MEN
CALLED TO MEET
HINES_TUESDAY
Director Will Answer De
mands of Workers for
Wage Increases, Prob
ably Granting 3 Per Cent
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Rail Di
rector Hines today summoned heads
of the four great railroad brother
hoods to meet him tomorrow to dis
cuss general industrial conditions.
In the morning heads of all the
brotherhoods will confer with Hines.
In the afternoon he will give his
answer to two of the brotherhood
chiefs on demands for immediate
wage increases. •
The answer will be an offer of a
general wage increase of not more
than three per cent, it is understood.
The demand of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen was for an
increase averaging forty per cent and
that ®f the Order of Railway Con
ductors for thirty-five per cent.
Anticipati: - that Mr. Hines’ offer
will fall short of their
leaders of the two brotherhoods are
preparing for a referendum strike.
The four big brotherhoods whose
officials will meet Mr. Hines tomor
row, although not affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor, are
.ng in co-operation with ten other
failroad unions which are conn ‘>d
with the federation. Os these ten,
the chief organization is the shop
men’s, including 500,000 workers, who
took a strike vote in August, but
postponed a walkout at request of
President Wilson in order to give t.ie
government oportunity to reduce the
cos. of living.
An adverse answer to demands of
the trainmen and conductors now;
would bring keen anxiety to the
other railroad unions, according to
union officials. .
In such a situation, it is considered
likely that the fourteen v.-ganiza
tlons would join and present an ulti
matum.
The railroad workers are deter
mined, their officials say, to gain
wage increase before Januar; 1, when
the roads go back to private rnanage
r nt.
COTTON MEETING
TO BE HELD IN
MACON NOV. 19
A great state-wide meeting over
which Governor Dorsey has been
asked to preside will be held in, the
auditorium in the city of Macon on
Wednesday, November 19, at 10
o’clock a. m., by the Georgia division
of the American Cotton association,
for the purpose of launching an in
tensive campaign to enroll individual
members.
Invitations will include farmers,
merchants, bankers, warehousemen
and others who are directly or in
directly interested in the prosperity
of the agricultural interests of the
state, and it is expected that the
attendance will run to 1,000 or more.
J. S. Wannamaker, president of
the American Cotton association,
probably will be one of the speak
ers. For the past several months he
has been devoting his entire time to
a study of world conditions affecting
cotton. He was the spokesman foi
the growers at the recent World
Cotton Conference held in New Or
leans. He is one of the largest grow
ers in the south, is thoroughly fa
miliar with conditions in the domes
tic and foreign markets, and will
have a message of vital interest to
every farmer in Georgia.
Another prominent speaker will be
A. F. Lever, former South Carolina
congressman, who recently resigned
from the national house of repre
sentatives to go into the administra
tive branch of the federal farm loan
system. Mr. Lever has been a leader
in agricultural legislation in congress
for years. He is the author of the
Lever food and fuel control bill, and
one of the authors of the Smith-
Lever act for farm extension work.
Other speakers will be J. B. Can
non, South Carolina banker, who has
done remarkable work in the organi
zation of the South Carolina division
of the American Cotton association,
Thomas J. Shackleford, Athens law
yer :and cotton grower, who is on
the board of the American Cotton as
sociation and has devoted the past
two months to organization work; J.
J. Brown, commissioner of agricul
ture of Georgia; Harvie Jordan, who
is in charge of national headquar
ters in Atlanta; T. S. Johnson/, who
operates at Jefferson in Jackson
county one of the largest farmers’
warehouses in the south.
Judge Newnan Orders
$50,000 Paid Creditors
Os Bank at Dawson
Following an agreement reached
by attorneys in the case of J. R.
Mercer, of the First State Bank, of
Dawson, in bankruptcy. Judge W. T.
Newman, of the federal court, Mon
day signed a degree ordering the
trustee in bankruptcy to pay to cer
tain creditors of the bank sums ap
proximating $50,000.
C. M. Harris, as trustee, was di
reced to make payments to creditors
as follows: Waxlebaum Co.. $1,022.-
38; American Agricultural Chemical
company. $14,977.03; Royster Guano
company, $1,482.62; Pottle and Hoff
mayer, $135; Alexander Hudgins and
Jesse Hudgins, $4,602.94. The de
cree directed the payment to Pottle
and Hoffmayer, M. C. Edwards, R.
R. Jones and J. W. Harris, attorneys
for the plaintiff, the sum of $15,000;
and to the Bank of Dawson, the
sum of $10,848, one-half of the in
debtedness to this bank.
Several claims of creditors own
ed by the defendants were ordered
withdrawn without payment of divi
dends or allowances.
The consent decree signed Monday
takes the place of the decree of the
court in October granting injunctions
against Mrs. Mercer and co-defend
ants for the retention of money
charged to have been transferred
from the bank with the purnose of
withholding it from the creditors.
Told to Stay Single
READING, Pa. Dr. S. C. Enock,
of Philadelphia, conference superin
tendent of the United Brethren
church, told licensees to preach at
the 120th annual conference here
that they would do well not to bur
den themselves with families.
GREETINGS SENT TO
AMERICAN LEGION
BY MARSHAL FOCH |
Georgia Delegation Headed
by Basil Stockbridge, State
Chairman, Present at
Minneapolis Convention
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 10.—
To give the American legion per
manent shape and declare its poli
cies as a force in the social and
governmental life of the nation, two
thousand delegates representing all |
sections and classes of service men
and women started their first con
vention here today.
Governor Burnquist, President
Emeritus Northrup, of the University
of Minnesota, and Mayor Meyers de
livered brief speeches at the opening
session, which was called to order by
Henry D. Lindsley, of Texas, na
tional chairman.
Discussion of candidates for na
tional officers with at least a dozen
prominently mentioned for first na
tional head of the legion has brought
an emphatic refusal from at least
one delegate.
“When I say no, I mean no,” de
clared Theodore Roosevelt, one of
the delegates from New York, when
his candidacy was mentioned. Oth
ers receiving support from their
state delegations and other include
Thomas S. Wolms.ey, of Louisiana;
Milton J. Foreman, of Chicago; Hen
ry D. Lindsley, of Texas, ,and Ben
son W. Hough, of Ohio.
Prepare Program
Wjth a mass of decisions affect
ing organization to be settled, first
consideration today was given to se
lection of committees and a tenta
tive program prepared by an advance
committee of state officers for sub
mission to the first session.
Increase in dues, said to be neces
sary to continue punlication of the
American Legion Weekly, will be
recommended, it is announced to
night.
> The proposed increase was one of
four recommendations adopted pre
viously by advance committees and
discussed last by the delegates
already assembled as representatives
of 1,000,000 former soldiers, sailors,
marines and women war veterans.
The other three proposals to be
presented are:
Selection of nineteen convention
committees by state delegations.
Adoption of a brief tentative pro
gram for the organization business
of the convention.
Greetings From Foch
Greetings frorft Marshal Foch, al
lied Commander-in-chief, were trans
mitted by J. J. Jasserand, French
ambassador to the United States.
Marshal Foch’s message follows:
The 11th of November, , 1918,
saw the capitulation of the en
emy; vanquished Germany was
craving for mercy and she de
livered over to us such trophies
/■ as history never has known.
This was indeed the victory ot
the allied armies, who ardently
fighting, who had united in a
supreme, continuous and violent
effort all their energies as they
had united, all their hopes.
With head erect, the valiant
American fighters of the Ar
gonne, of the Meuse, of the
Somme, of Flanders, after hard
days, resumed once more, by the
side of the allies, the march to
ward the Rhine.
In thjs day, when for the first
time we celebrate the anniver
sary of the armistice, I want to
be with you to commemorate the
past and to tell you that with
our eyes ever raised toward the
same ideal of justice and liberty,
we must remain united as we
have been in the days of trial
and the days of triumph.
Sends Cordial Greetings
Proud to have been at your
head, I send my most Cordial
greetings to the veterans of the
great war, illustrious by their
immortal deeds, and to those
who, in the camps of America,
were preparing with ardor to
come and take their part in the
battle.
Lastly, I wish to salute, as
ever living in a memory of the
past and on the threshhold of
a future common to us, the
tombs of those who lie in the
soil of France, resting there as
a symbol of our indissoluble
union.
The accompanying letter from Mr.
Jusserand said:
“You may be assured that the
marshal has very truly expressed the
feelings of every French citizen.”
He wrote that Marshal Foch was
prevented from coming to the con
vention of those who “took part or
were drilling to take part, in the
world conflict,” by circumstances
“which will be understood by every
veteran of the great war.”
Bull-Moose Blocks Track
And Wrecks Maine Train
Again the bull moose, rugged, but
stupid, has begun to dispute the
right of way with locomotives on
railroads oi northern Maine, always
with disastrous results to the moose,
sometimes to the train. The other
day a passenger train was delayed
six hours, and partly wrecked by
collision with a moore that was
trotting along the track near Schoo
dic lake and refused to heed the
whistle.
“The engine and two cars were
thrown off the track, and after
ploughing along for some distance
against the embankment the engine
toppled over on its side and was al
most completely wrecked.
20,000 Insects Gathered
For American Museum
Twenty thousand insects and a
fossil of “the little pair-horned
rhinoceros” stand high on the proud
list of the new acquisitions of the
American Museum of Natural His
tory in New York.
The chairman of the museum’s
publicity committee has announced
today that the rhinoceros was
found by Albert Thomson and
George Olsen, working at Agate,
Neb. But it took three collectors,
Frank E. Lutz. Pearce Bailey, Jr.,
and H. F. Schwartz, to get all those
insects.
Theodore Beard, Sapulpa, Okla.,
was credited vith finding “a good
example of a very rare specimen
of snake hitherto known only by
two type speciments.”
Want Shells With Gun
DUBLIN, Ireland. —Nenagh coun
cil has accented the war office offer
of two German field guns on condi
tion that they are in good order, and
that a supply of shells is included.
wmiira is
yeroict rewfd
IN IRWIN TRIAL
——
Sentence of One Year Im-'
posed by Judge De
fendant to Move for New'
Trial
Refusing to admit Rush Irwin, slay
er of George J. Moody, to bond pend
ing the hearing of his motion for a
new trial, Judge John D. Humphries
on Monday morning delivered from
the bench a scathing denunciation
of the action of W. H. Irwin, broth
er of the defendant, in issuing
through a local newspaper a card of
thanks to nine jurors who he
thought urged the acquittal of the
defendant. Irwin was found guilty
of voluntary manslaughter and sen
tenced to serve one year in the state
penitentiary, the penalty being fixed
bv the jury under the indeterminate
sentence law. The verdict was re
turned at 11 o’clock Sunday morn
ing.
On Monday morning there appeared
in the press a formal statement from
W. H* Irwin, of Birmingham, Ala.
brother of the defendant, thankin,',
nine of the twelve jurors and criti
cizing in some degree another news
paper. The author of the statement
had the impression that the nine
jurors had stood out for acquittal,
but had compromised on a one-year
sentence. The same newspaper car
ried an alleged statement from So
licitor Geenral John A. Boykin de
claring that three jurors started the
case with the firm determination to
acquit the defendant regardless of
the evidence.
When Judge Humphries opened
court Monday morning Attorney Reu
ben R. Arnold, counsel for the de
fense, moved for a new trial and the
cour then took occasion to voice his
extreme disapproval of the action of
W. H. Irwin and of the statement
attributed to Solicitor General Boy
kin.
“I have thought seriously on the
matter, and I must leave this case
just where it was before the start
of the trla," said Judge Humphries.
“My opinion to this effect also has
been strengthened by the deplorable
situation that has arisen since the
verdict was-rendered. Respect for
the purity of jury trials demands
that I leave the case just where it
is without any change.
Judge Humphries fixed November
29 as the date of the hearing on the
motion for a new trial, but refused
to admit Irwin to bond ir. view of
the situation which has developed
since the verdict was returned. It is
entirely within the discretion of the
court to admit a defendant to bond
pending a motion for a new trial, ac
cording to the law.
D’ANNUNZIO WILL
LEAVE FIUME IF
U.S. ADOPTS PLAN
WASHINGTON, Nov. B.—-That Ga
briele d’Annunzio, the Italian poet
soldfer, is ready to evacuate Fiume
if the United States accepts Italian
Foreign Minister Tittoni’s compro
mise offer for the solution of the
Fiume question, was the statement
here today at the Italian embassy.
“The national city council of
Fiume, which supports d’Annunzio.
gave its word to the Italian govern
ment that if President- Wilson would
accept Tittoni’s solution the council
lors would go to d’Annunzio and ask
him to leave the city,” it was said
by an official of the embassy.
“This practically meant assurance
that d’Annunzio would accept Tit
toni’s solution and leave, as the
council and d’Annunzio are in ac
cord.”
The Tittoni solution, it was stated,
provided for the acceptance of a
buffer as proposed by Pres
ident Wilson with modifications. The
modifications assigned to Italy a
strip of territory on the eastern
shore of Istria, which would give
Italy possession of Volosca. Fiume
would be created a free city in the
buffer state, which would be con
trolled by the League of Nations.
Control of the harbor would be by a
joint commission appointed by the
league.
“Unless the United States agrees
to this latest solution, Italy will
keep Fiume.” was stated.
Toledo, Without Cars,
Fights Rail Company’s
Effort to Beat Ouster
TOLEDO, 0., Nov. 10.—Toledo to
day entered its second day of non
street cars, determined to fight to
a finish the avowed effort of the
Toledo Railways and Light company
to effect repeal ot the ouster ordi
nance passed by a vote of the people
at the election last Tuesday.
City officials also reiterated their
stand of yesterday that the ordi
nance would not be repealed, neither
will the company be given a fran
chise. They are angry because Henry
L. Doherty, of New York, head of
the concern which controls the lo
cal traction company, spirited the
cars into Michigan before daylight
Sunday morning without —'notice to
the public.
Mayor Cornell Schreiber, who in
troduced the ouster ordinance in
council last June 30, will meet with
the common council tonight, when a
resolution will be introduced looking
to the repeal of the ouster. It is un
derstood the councilmen will vote
against repeal. It is pointed out
should it be repealed it would have
to be submitted to the voters and
law authorities have not yet found
away in which a special election
could be held, under the terms of
the city charter.
Frank R. resident pres
ident of the tract.on company, de
clared today the cars will be re
turned only when the ouster ordi
nance is repealed and the company
is given a franchise. In this he
only repeated the statement made
by Mr. Doherty yesterday.
Meantime, the car riders who voted
to drive the cars off the streets
are paying all the way from 10 cents
to 50 cents, getting to their work
this morning in prD--ite motor cars.
Under the rate of carfare they were
riding for 6 cents with a 2-cent
charge for transfers.
MR. LI. T. LAMB, federal
manager of five large railroad
lines in the southeast, who died
Sunday at Birmingham as the
result of a stroke of apoplexy.
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Drys Lead by Only
*45 • Votes in Ohio
Amendment Election
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 10.—Fate
of the federal prohibition amend
ment was made more uncertain to
day as additional official returns
were tabulated at the office of the
secretary of state. The ofjicial re
turns from 86 of the 88 counties
tabulated at noon gave the drys a
lead of only 45 votes in favor of the
amendment.
SEEK EARLY OPINION
ON WAR PROHIBITION
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Steps to
secure an early opinion upon the
validity of trie war-time prohibition
act were taken today by the gov
ernment which asked the supreme
court to. hear arguments on Novem
ber 20, next, in government appeals
from federal court decrees in Ken
tucky holding the act unconstitu
tional.
Turks Propose Alliance
With Bolshevik Force
LONDON, Nov. I^o. —Mustapha Ke
mal Pasha, head of the Nationalist
Turkish government set up in Asia
Minor, has proposed an alliance, with
Nikolai Lenine. Russian Bolshevik
premier, according to an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen.
An army of 3,000 Turks to attack
the Nationalist forces, the report
says, has been organized by General
• Ahmed Bey, at Belu Kessenu.
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CALLING OFF STRIKE
OT 6 P. MJESG.W
Court Orders Strike Lead-
ers to Cancel Order to
Miners Union Leaders
Are Silent
Union Leader Doesn’t
Think Men Will Obey
CUMBERLAND, Md., Nov. B.
If acting President Lewis, of the
United Mine Workers, should re
scind the strike order, the men
would not have to obey in the
belief of William J. Trickett, sec
retary-treasurer of District Union
No 16, “and I don’t think they
would,” he said tonight.
Cancellation of the strike order
which since midnight of October 31
has kept 400,000 union bituminous
miners out of the coal pits of the
country, was ordered by Judge An
derson m the federal court at In
dianapolis Saturday.
Violation of the war-time federal
food and fuel control act, as alleged
by the attorney general’s department,
was affirmed by the court, who said
the strike not only was illegal, but
that under the circumstances it ap
proached rebellion.
If left to pursue its normal course,
the injunction proceedings probably
will rest until November 20. The
defendants have until that date to
file (i formal answer and when that
time expires it is within the prov
ince of the government attor •**rs to
ask that the temporary Injunction
issued today be made permanent.
It was pointed out by governmens
officials that this was expected to
result, inasmuch as Judge Ander
son decided the issv-'- in the case
today.
Attorneys for the miners indicat
ed they will take the case to th«
United States circuit court of ap
peals at Chicago at th,e ?"’'”<’st pos
sible date. Such action, however*
will not affect the injunction pro
ceedings nor the gover- ent’s plart
to ask that the tempor-’-v injunction
be made permanent on November 20.
In the meantime, it is pnfvt*'’
the court’s order to call off the strike
.must be Carried out.
INDIANAPOLIS? Ind., Nov. 10.—«
Leaders of the United Mine Workers
of America went into session at
11:25 this morning to decide fh4
fate of the strike of 400,000 bitumi
nous coal miners. One hundred and
one men were present at the meet
ing in the Lincoln hotel when Act
ing President John L. Lewis rapped
for order. They were members of
the scale committee, district presi
dents and members of the executive
council.
They met to consider whethe<
they would abide by the mandatory
order issued by Judge A. B. Ander
son, in United States district cour£
on Saturday, demanding the union
order for the strike be recalled be
fore 6 p. m. tomorrow*
The recall order must be submit
ted to Judge Anderson by 10 o’clock
tomorrow.
There was no indication before
the meeting that the court’s Order
would not be complied with. A
strong sentiment was manifested
among the few who would talk on
the probable action of the meeting
that the strike would be called off.
U. S. Flans Secret
Reports from various fields since
the strike was called indicate many
union men contend the general com
mittee of the miners has no authority
to rescind the order for the strike,
which, they assert, was decided upon
by the regular convention of the
United Mines Woikers’ meeting in
Cleveland in September.
In case the recall order should be
issued by the miners’ general com
mittee ar.d some of the Individual
members of the union refused to rec
ognize the authority of the order and
remain idle, any action contemolated
by the government co. id not be
learned this morning. A hint, how
ever, was given during the proceed
ings in the United States district
court Saturday, when Judge Ander
son said: “The Lever act makes tt
an unlawful conspiracy for two or
more persons to arrange to lijmt the
production of coal. That is perfect
ly apparent to me. Everybody
knows that.”
No action, It was said, Is planned
by the government until aft. r the
time limit set by Judge Anderson
for the Issuance of the strike recalt
order. Meanwhile attorneys for trie
union were said to be busy preparing
their case for an appeal to the Unit
ed States circuit court of appeals in
Chicago.
LABOR LEADERS PREDICT
STRIKE ORDER WILL STAND
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Labor
leaders predicted today that interna
tional officers of the United Mine
Workers of America, meeting at In
dianpolis would not call off the
coal strike as directed by Federal
Judge Anderson, whatever the legal
consequences might be.
One of the spokesmen for the
miners’ organization said he doubted
if Acting President Lewis and his
associates had the power, even if
they had the inclination, to Comply
with the mandate.
“The strike was ordered by a dele
gate convention in the event the
operators refused to grant our de
mands,” the spokesmen said, “and
Lewis merely carried out instruc
tions in ordering the strike. The
convention must call it off.”
A. F. X*. Backs Miners
The American Federation of Labor
stood today before the country as an
unqualified indorser of the strike of
soft coal miners and as bitterly op
posed to the action of the govern
ment in attempting to end the strips
through injunction proceedings wh'ch
it characterized as “so autocratic as
to stagger the human mind.”
Indorsement of the strike was
nounced last night in a statement is
sued by the executive council of the
federation which pledged to the
strikers the full support of o.’ganj<?d
labor and appealed to the citizensnip
of the country tc give like “indorse
ment and aid to the men engaged in
this momentous strure-ie ’