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The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-09
BOSTON POLICE
STRIKE LIKELY
Hub City. Makes Fevered
Plans for Keeping
Peace.
POLICEMEN VOTE STRIKE

Boston, Sept. 9.-While conciliatory
efforts were in progress, state and
city officials and private interests
completed plans today for the pro-
| lection of life and property in the
event the policemen's strike, planned
here for tonight, could not be averted.
The policemen voted for the strike
| at meetings held last night after the
suspension of nineteen officers by
Commissioner Edwin u. Curtis, who
found them guilty of violating rules
] In joining the union. Union officers
announced that more than 1,4OO of the
| 1900 patrolmen in the city were
| members of the union.
Credentials giving the power Of ar
| rest have been issued to several hun
| dred citizens and q volunteer force
| also has been organized.
Delegates to the Central Labor
union, representing about $4,000 or
ganized workers, have pledged sup
port to the extent of a sympathetic
strike in the event the policemen go
| out.
Unless some entirely unforeseen
development intervenes at the elev-
enth hour nightfall will see the city
| dependent upon makeshift force of
volunteers and retired veterans for
police protection.
Exact figures We're not announced,
but it was stated that an overwhelm-
ing majority of the 1,400 members of
the union had favored a strike.
| Meanwhile Commissioner Curtis
ana >Supt. Crowley were completing
plans for the protection of the city.
| Supt. Crowley and the captains of
all the stations spent the night at
their posts in order to make an early
start on their work. Patrolmen at all
the station houses removed all their
personal effects from their lockers
and prepared to turn in their shields
the moment evening rof1call Is fin
ished.
The volunteer force recruited by
x-Superintendent of Police Pierce TO
do police duty in the event of q strike
Of the force prepared today to take
up their posts the moment the strike
| becomes reality. Instructions to re-
port to the various station houses to
which they have been assigned win
be sent out this afternoon unless
! some unexpected development stays
the strike call. The volunteers who
attended the meeting ranged in age
from young college athletes to elderly
business men. Among them ywere
Prof. Edwin II. Hail. of Harvard, who
was the first to volunteer; Percy d.
Haughton, former Harvard football
coach, and Bernard j. Rothwell, for
mer president of the chamber of com
! merCe.
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SLEPT LIKE A
TOP,' SAYS HERO
Gen. Pershing Ready for An
other Strenuous Day of
Receptions.
CROWDS SURROUND HOTEL

New York, Sept. 81. N. S.)-Re-
freshed by his first night of rest on
American soil, Gen. John j. Pershing,
Americas foremost war hero, was
ready today for another strenuous
twelve hours jammed full OF recep-
tions and entertainments.
Gen. Pershing was up early and
had breakfast at his suite at the
Waldorf Astoria.
Il slept like a top" he said when
asked how he had enjoyed his first
American bed in two years.
At 2:30 o'clock this afternoon Gen.
Pershing win go to Central park,
where $4,000 New York school chill
dren will welcome him home, Elab-
crate preparations have been made
for handling the huge crowd which
will surround the field during the
ceremonies and many persons, anx-
ious to obtain the best points of van
tage, began to gather early this
morning. taking their luncheons
along. An army of $4,000 Boy Scouts
will be reviewed.
The mayors reception committee
will esooxt Pershing to the park. At
the gates several troops of Boy
Scouts will surround his machine and
act as guard of honor to the field.
Upon arriving at the field Gen. Per-
shing will receive a salute to himself
and will address the children. To-
night he will attend n reception at
the Elks' club and a show at one of
the Broadway theaters.
A dull, misty day. which was
threatened with rain at any moment
failed to dampen the enthusiasm of
the people here today. Crowds as
sembled in front of the Waldorf AS
toria hoping to get closeup view OF
the distinguished soldier, but they
were disappointed because he was
kept busy all morning answering the
kilograms of conRratulation, receiv-
ing personal friends and preparing
for the weeks of testimonials and re-
ceptions,
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did HE INDORSE /
| PLUMB PLAN
Some Thought So Who Hear
Wilson's Declarations for !
Equal Partnership. 4
CLOSE ADVISERS SAY MOI
Comping Conference at Wash
ington Aims at Labor
Capital Co -Operation.

st. Paul. Mimi, Sept. I'D. N. 81
The suggestion was advanced b
some Of those who heard the presi}
dents address that when he declared
labor should be an equal partns}
with capital that he was indorsind
the theory of the Plumb railway pIanI
Officials closest to the president saiS
that he had nothing Of the sort ID
his mind, but that what he actually
did intend to have understood wal
that the chief object Of tho coming
conference at Washington betwsss
representatives of capital, labor
farmers and economic experts would
be to see whether there could not b
worked out some method of cooper.
alton to be applied in all industrie>
that would meet labors views. which
dominate control of production and
safeguard all the rights Of capital.
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HARTH'S SLAYER
now SUICIDE?
Police Working on New The
ory in Kingston Pike
Murder.

Knoxville, Sept. 9.-(Special.)-
That the woman who killed Leroy
D. Hart, prominent business man oi
this city, last night, has committed
suicide is theory on which officers
are now working.
The name of a wel-known woman
has been mentioned in connection
with the crime, but no information
as to her whereabouts has been
found. She left her home last night
about O'Clock with all her belong
ings, according to the woman's
mother
Tf~ tragedy occurred on the King
ston pike below Bcarden about
O'Clock. Harth fell on the porch OF
J. M. Jett, farmer I'm shot. HelL
me- was Harth's first statement tc
the farmer. He gave the name OF
woman who shot him. and a few
minutes later died, Sensational de-
yelopments are expected.
Knoxville, Sept. 9.--Leroy d. Harth
prominent young real estate dealer
died within few moments after
having been shot by an unknown
woman near Bearden, a suburb. be
tween 10 and IL o'clock last night
The young man, in his dying state
ment. is said to have given the name
OF his assailant and to have declared
that robbery was the motive for the
crime.
The shooting occurred near the
home Of j. NJ. Jett, prominent farmer
residing on Kingston pike, heavily
| Travelled road.
Mr.. Jett and his family had re.
tired for the evening, but were awak.
enea bythe voice of Harth, who bat
staggered from the roadside to the
house. Harth managed to crawl to
the porch of the Jett home, where
he died, though not until he had
made a dying statement to Mr.. Jett
An automobile said to belong tC
Harth was found on the roadside
near the Jett home and authorities
are of the opinion that the men and
his assaiiant had driven from Knox
vile to the place of the shooting in
this car. The shooting, however, APP
parently had not taken place in the
car, for no bloodstains We're found
there.
City and county authorities. with
what they believe to be IL good de-
scription of the woman, have placed
a dragnet and express the belief that
her arrest will be effected within the
next few hours.
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Not Yet Too Late to
Court-Martial Gen. HartS
Judge Advocate So Rules in
Alleged Neglect of Overseas
Prisoners.

Paris, Sept. 9.-It is not yet too late
to bring Brig. Gen. William w. Harts
to trial by n court martial if 1t appears
that as commander of the American
forces in Paris district he neglected
his duty in connection with the admin
istration OF the military guard. houses
and prisons in the district. according
to Col Blanton Winship. judge advo-
cate. Col, Winship made this state
ment today to the congressional inves-
tigatng commission here in reply to
a question by Representative Oscar e.
Bland of Indiana.
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GOTHAM SHAKEN
BY EXPLOSIONS

New York, Sept. "a series Of ex-
plosions shattered hundreds of win
dows in the vicinity of Forty second
street and Third avenue today. The
explosions extended for a distance of
half a mile but their cause was un-
known. Police reserves were rushed
to the scene.
From Accumulated Gases.
Several persons were injured by
broken glass and hundreds of win
dows were shattered when gases
which had accumulated under the
pavement at Third avenue and For
ty-second street caused a series OF
explosions today. The iron coverings
of manholes were hurled high into
the air. but no one was hit.
The explosions caused a panic in
the neigbborhood.
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Police Rescue Negro
Speedster From Mob
Angry Memphis Mob Had
+. Moose About Negro's
Neck.

Memphis, Sept. 9,--Jack c. Stewart,
white, and Henry johnson, negro, were
rescued by police last night from a
crowd OF angry white men who were
threatening to lynch them, after the
negro had run down four white children
with his automobile.
The mob had moose around the ne
gros neck, according to the police,
when Stewart interfrred, pleading that
Justice be allowed to take it's course.
The crowds anger turned against the
white man. and when police arrived
they say the rope was being transferred
to his neck.
Both Stewart and Johnson were
taken in custody, and the negro was
transferred to the county Jail. where he
Is held on a warrant charging criminal
carclcssness. Stewart, according to the
police, is held in the city all in con-
nection with another alleged offense.
None OF the children was seriously
hurt. 1t is said.
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n an address here today before tn
Minnesota legislature. spoke as fol
ows:
II esteem 1t an unusual privi-
lege to stand in this place today
and address the members of this
great body because the environ
ment which l. have left at WASH
ingtonN is too intimate a matter
of the life of our own nation, as
well as the life Of the world, and
yet l am conscious, standing in
this presence, that perhaps the
most appropriate thing / could al
lude to Is caused by the fact
that l know that you have been
called together in special session
for special purposes and one of
those purposes you have already
achieved, and / rejoice with you
in the adoption of the suffrage
amendment.
Until the industrial world is
put on its feet you cannot finally
handle the question of the cost
of living, because the cost of liv-
ing in the last analysis depends
upon the thing VIC are always
talking about, but do not know
how to manage, the law of supply
and demand.
1--WE have got to see that our
own production and our own
methods Of finance and our own
commerce are quickened in every
possible way, and then we sitting
in legislatures like this, and in
the congress of the United States,
have to see to it, if you will per-
NIT a vulgar expression, that no
one monkeys with the machinery.
Others Beside Cold Storage.
Il understand that one Of the
excellent suggestions that was
mentioned by your Governor is
that you look into the cold stor-
age. There are other kinds of
storages besides cold storages.
There are other ways Of cover
ing the reserve stock of goods.
You can manage by a contract
that isn't put on paper to see that
the goods are doled out so as to
bring the highest prices.
I'VE might as we'll sit up
straight and look facts in the
face, gentlemen. The laboring
men of the world are not salts
fled with their relations with
their employers. OF course. l do
not mean to say that dissatisfac-
ton is universal, dissatisfaction
because there are situations in
many instances of satisfaction,
but / an-now speaking of the
general relations between capital
and labor Everywhere there is
dissatisfaction, much more on
the other side of the water than
on this side.
"One point 1 wish to make Is
that the world is looking to Amer
lea to set the standards with re-
gard to the conditions of labor or
the relations between capital and
labor, and it is looking to us be-
cause we have been more pro-
gressive in those matters. We
have got to have a constructive
program with regard to labor, and
a method by which we will relieve
the strain of what you call the
cost of living.
Il am not dogmatic about this
matter. | can't presume that |
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-09
Benton McMillin Sails
For United States on Leave
Tennessee Diplomat Who Was
Transferred From Peru to
Guatemala.

Washington. Sept 9.-(Special For
mer Gov. Benton McMcMillin, who has
served as minister to Peru for the past
six years, sailed from Peru for the
United States on Sept on the steamer
Victoria. it was announced at the state
department today. Gov McMilin is
coming home on a leave Of absence He
was recently transferred to the post OF
minister to Guatemala and at the same
time the Peruvian post was raised to an
embassy. Mr. MCMilin has the sup
port of the Tennessee delegation for
the ambassa dorship at Lima, and il is
understood he will protest vigorously
against the transfer when he reaches
Washington.
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Bill to Authorize U. 5.
Army to Go to Armenia
Williams Wants President to
Have Legal Au-
thority.

Washington Sept. s-President Wal.
son is given authority to send Anerf-
can troops and naval forces TO Arme-
MIA to preserve peace and order in
resolution introduced in the senate
TINS afternoon by Senator Williams. OF
Mississippi.
The resolution provides such forces
would be withdrawn after the conclusion
OF the allies peace treaty with Turkey
and in the preamble set forth thai
with the withdrawal of British troops
from Armenia. the Armenians viii Ia
~ tho ~ - 49,
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-09
Babe Ruth's Home-Run
Record Made Off y Pitchers
Red Sox Slugger Hits Right
and Left Handlers
Alike.

New York. Sept. 9-The new record
OF twenty-six home runs, held today by
Babe Ruth, was made at the ex-
pense Of twenty-five American league
pitchers.
The great slugger of the Red Sox
hits left and right-handers alike, and
on only four occa sions had he made
two homers off the same pitcher. These
pitchers are "Jing' johnson. George
Dauss, Bob Shawkey, Urban Shocker.
The other pitchers who have felt the
vengeance Of Ruth's murderous bat are
Mogridge, Davenport, Perry. Morton,
Robertson, Danfroth, Jasper. Myers,
Ehmke, Leonard, Kerr. Mayer, Ayers,
Love, Cunningham, Shaw. Noyes and
Thormahlen.
Ruth made eight of the home runs at
Boston and eighteen on the road.
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HARVARD MEN
AS POLICEMEN
725 University Students VOL
unteer Services in Event
of Boston Strike.

Boston, Mass, Sept 9.--In re-
sponse to an appeal by President a.
Lawrence Lowell and a committee of
former Harvard men, 725 students
have been enrolled in volunteer
police organization to help protect
Boston in case the patrolmen carry
out their intention of striking a. 5:i5
o'clock this afternoon. These men,
including most of the football play
ers, will be armed by Police Commits
sioner Curtis and will travel in pails ).
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World Unsettled
Till America a. is
on Peace Ques. ion
TEXT OF SPEECH IN ST. PAUL

know how it should be done.
know the principle uIon which
it should be done. The principle
is that the interest of capital and
the interest of labor are not diff
ferent, but are the same.
you can't any LONGER regard
labor as a commodity. You have
got to regard it as a means of as
sociation, and when that is done
the production of the world is GO
ing forward by leaps and bounds.
Driving Hard Bargains.
"Why is it that labor organiza-
tions seriously limit the amount
of work they have in hand to do?
1t is because they are driving
hard bargains. They don't feel
that they are your partners at
all. And so long as labor and
capital are antagonistic, produc-
tion is going to be at it's mini
mum. Just so soon as they are
sympathetic and cooperative, it
is going to rebound, and that will
be one of the means Of bringing
down the cost of living.
Must Be World Bankers.
America, though we don't like
to admit it, has been very pro-
vincial in regard to the worlds
business. When we had to en-
gage in banking transactions out
side of the United States. we
generally did it through English
banks or more often through
German bankers, and here, all of
sudden, we are called upon to
handle the bulk of international
exchange. We have to learn it
and we have to learn it fast.
I'VE have got to have American
instrumentalities in every part of
the world. If you want to trade
you have to have somebody to
trade with.
"All the world is problem;
the great difficulty just now is
gettingsour minds adjusted to the
world. Some of the difficulties
that are being encountered about
the treaty and the league of ma
tons are not so much prejudice,
but the thing which is so COM
mon ard inconYenient. just
downright ignorance. Ignorance,
[ mean, of the state of the world,
and Americas relation to the
state of the world. We have got
to play our parts and we have got
o play it either as boards of di-
rectors or as outside spectators.
We can play it inside or on the
curb ana You know how incon-
venient it is to play it on the
curb.
God Is Marching With Them"
THE facts are marching on and
God is marching with them. You
cannot resist them and you must
either welcome them or else sub
sequently and regretfully surren-
der. Everywhere I have been on
this trip the majority Of the COM
mittce that has received me has
consisted cf republicans, and
nothing has pleased me SO much.
If | were a scheming politician
and anyone wished to present NE
with the peace of the world as a
campaign issue it would be very
welcome. But everybody knows
that we are all Americans. The
democrat and the republican un-
1erneath are of the same stuff.
Labels rub off with the slightest
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Villa Builds New Army
Of Two thousand Men
Bandit Force Reported to Be
Well Armed and
Clothed,

San Antonio, Tex. Sept. 9.-pancho
Villa. who n few days ago was re-
ported beaten and pursued into the
mountains. has succeeded in recruiting
new force numbering 1000 followers
according to reports reaching American
army headquarters today. The report
stated that the bandits new force is
well clothed and armed
The new force attacked the garrison
town of Freshnilla. south OF Durango,
and captured -four machine guns and a
quantity of ammunition.
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Two Alabama Trustees
Hand in designations
Morrow and Bankhead With
draw From State School
Board.

Birmingham. Ala. Sept 9-Dissatis-
faction with the present order of things
and conduct of the University of Ala
hama has broken out in the ranks of
the board Of trustees. with the result
that two Of its members, Hugh Nor
Bankhead Jr.. of Jasper, have hansad
in their designations. it was learned
today. Other changes also are said to
he imminent
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PACKERS CASE TO JURY
Evidence Against Big Five Presented
In TWO Weeks.

Chicago. Sept 9.-Evidence against
the five big packers and independent
concerns throughout the country for al
legged violations of the sherman anu
trust law and the food control act will
be presented to the federal grand jury
in Chicago within two weeks, according
to statement made mere today by
Isadore j. Kresel, of New York. ana
John H. Atwood, of Kansas City, spe,
cial assistants to the attorney general
of the United States.
Chicago will he the scene OF the first
attack by the federal government on
the packers, Attorney Kresel said. and
this Will be followed by prosecutions in
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Edgar Pulls Up TO Within
One Stroke Of Jim Barnes
Ogg and French Have Total
of 113 and 119,
Respectively.

Atlanta, Ga, Sept. 81. Douglas
Edgar, of Druid Hills. was only one
stroke behind Jim Barnes, Sunset
Hill. at the end of the first nine holes
of the second days play in the south
ern open golf championship tourna-
ment being held here. The western
open champion took n SO for the nine
holes, while Edgar made il in &c.
Total scores of the leaders for the
q holes as they stood at noon were:
Barnes. 10; Edgar. III; Willie Ogg,
East Lake. 113; Emmett French,
York, 1l9.
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PRESIDENT REGRETS HE
CAN'T GREET pERSHING.

On Board President Wilson'S
Special Train. En Route to st.
Paul, Sept. 9.--When Gen. Per-
shing returns to Washington on
Sept. l6, he will be officially re-
ceived by Vice President Mar
shall. acting for President Will
son. From the special train on
which he is touring the west the
president has telegraphed Mr..
Marshall expressing regret he
would be absent when Gen. Per-
shing arrives and asking that the
vice president extend the nations
welcome. The ceremony will in
clude a review of the First di-
vision.
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ACCEPT WILSON OFFER

Fifty Thousand Workers VIII Urge
Profit Sharing Plan.
Washington, Sept. 9.-After a four
days conference here the American
Federation of Railroad Workers, COM
prising $4,000 men not in the brother
hoods and crafts. formally voted to ac-
cept President Wilson's proposition in
wages as presented to the shopmen.
and urging on congress an employees
profit sharing plan. urged all railway
employees to elect representatives to
speak for them in II.
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other cities where packers have large
interests.
The federal trade commissions report
on the packing industry will be used
by the government as basis for the
prosecutions, according to Attorney
Kresel although Investigators from the
department OF justice will have addi-
tional evidence to submit to the grand
ilIrV
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Senate Passes Edges
Export Finance Measure
New Jersey Senator's Bill
Amended to Provide Double
Liability for Shareh olders.

Washington, Set 9.-After amend
ing it TO provide double liability for
shareholders in corporations organ
lied under the act, the senate to-
day passed the export finance bill of
Senator Edge. of New Jersey. 1t now
goes to the house
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noble people of his native mountain
land. Here's to York, our hero great
and grand. whose monument in our
hearts will forever stand.
The weather? Fair and warmer
and not much change in temperature
tonight and Wednesday.
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STRIKE IN NEW ORLEANS

500 Employees Walk Out at Cotton
Warehouse.
New Orleans, Sept 9-The 500 em-
nloyes of the public cotton warehouse
who went on strike for higher wages
and shorter working hours Sept. 6. re-
turned to their duties today Wage in
creases from 40 to As cents were granted
but the working day remained at nine
hours.
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FAIR AND WARMER,
SAYS BILLY 'P0SSUM

York could
coin millions out
of his fame, but,
like Lee immor-
tai, who wouldn't
lend his name to
commercial or
mercenary ends,
himself denies,
protects and de-
fends and with
educational fa-
cilities supplies
thp heIn1n.a h,,N
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NO LIQUOR LICENSES

Druggists Against Taking Them Out
During Prohibition Period.
Rochester. n. Y. Sept 9.-At todays
session Of the National Association of
Retail Druggists, the executive commit
tee reported against the taking out of
liquor licenses by druggists during the
prohibit on period