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Evening star., 1919-10-17
RA1|F|ES
TREATY OF PEACE

VIENNA, October 1.-THE
Austrian national assembly to-
day ratified the peace treaty of
St. German.
The ratification was voted
without debate. The German
party alone opposed favorable
action, that party being unit
in opposition.
BASEL. Switzerland. october IT,
The Austrian government, says a vi
emma dispatch, has introduced in the
national assembly a bill stipulating
that the territory assigned Austria by
the treaty of ST. German shall be q
democratic republic under the name of
the republic of Austria.
Another provision in the bill abro-
gates the law of November, 1913, de-
claring Austria to be an organic part
or the German empire. -
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|SHANTUNG VOTE FORECASTS
RATIFICATION AT EARLY DATE
Senate Comment Indicates Belief That Adop-
tion Of Adequate Reservations Will Ex-
pedite Treatys Acceptance.

ment is seductive in purpose by in
sisting that the United States shall
be declared to have equal voting
strength with Great Britain and her
possessions. II is recognized as never
thless constituting a textual amend
ment and as such it is claimed would
necessarily subject the treaty to re-
submission.
Reservations Inevitable.
Even supporters of the administra-
tfon now concede unoficialIy and in
private that reservations to the treaty
are inevitable. There is recognized to
be an admitted majority in the Sem
ate in favor OF reservations. Once
they are attached. 1t would, indeed, be
a bold upholder of the President. 1t is
said. who would vote against final
ratification because of their inclusion
in the treaty. Few senator's honestly
believe that defeat Of the treaty is
possible, because of the addition of
reservations.
AS to the character of reservations
to be finally agreed upon, there is a
wide range of speculation today.
There are many different sets" of
reservations already introduced and
under study and analysis. Each one
will have its day in court and be
voted upon. If Its author insists.
There is also report of a set Of res
ervations in camera. which is ex-
pected to unite the republicans and
attract many democrats. This report
ed dark horse" group Of reserva-
tions includes, it is said, the ideas
of the mild reservationists, but also
SATISFIES. the demands of senators who
feel deeply on the johnson amend
ment and on ShantunR
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BILL REGULATING A. EFF.
MARRIAGES INTRODUCED

At the request Of the State, War and
Navy departments Chairman Wads-
worth of the Senate military affairs
committee today introduced bill de-
signed to regulate marriage of Amer
lean soldiers or civilians attached to
the Army while on foreign service. 1t
would require the filing OF afiidaviti
before marriage, with the naval OF
military authorities. showing that
both the man and the woman were OF
legal age and unmarried. with heavy
sentences for convicted violators.
The French government is In accord
with the provisions of the bill and
anxious that it be expedited, accord
War Department
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RESOLUTIONS CAUSING
CRISIS IN CONFERENCE

Following the ttuo resolutions on collective
bargaining no.O before the Presidents industrial
conference:
BACKED BY PUBLIC AND LABOR GROUPS.
The right of Dage-earners to organize in trade
and labor unions, to bargain collectively, to be rep
resented by representatives of their choosing
in negotiations with employers, and in respect to
Wages, hours of labor and rules and conditions of
employment, is recognized.
This must not be understood as limiting the right
OF any uUageearner to refrain from Joining any or
ganization to deal directly .uih his employer if
he so chooses.
PROPOSED BY EMPLOYERS GROUP.
Resolued, That, without in any vay limiting the
right of .Odge-earner to refrain from Joining any
association to deal directly with his employer
he chooses, the right of wageeayners in priuate
distinguished from, government employment to
ganize in trade and labor unions, in shop industrial
councils, other lauufu form of association, to bar
gain collectively, to be represented by representa-
tues of their choosing in negotiations and ad
justnents .Oith employers in respect to ages hours
of labor and other conditions of employment, is
recognized; and the right of the employer to deal
or not to deal with men groups of men vho are
not his employees and chosen by and from among
then, is recognized; no denial is intended of the
right of an employer and his vorkers voluntarily to
agree upon the form of their representative reI-
tions
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q. S. ENVOY DIMES BoGRAN.
Banquet to President Attended by
Prominent Persons in Honduras.

SAN SALVADOR, Republic of Sal
rador, Thursday. October 16.-T. Sam
bola Jones. United States minister to
Honduras. gave banquet in honor of
President Bogran last evening, ac-
cording to dispatch received here.
The function was attended by many
persons prominent in. Honduras
Commander Douglas W. Fuller OF
the United States cruiser Baltimore
has paid visit to President Bogran,
and 1t is said Honduran political cir
cles comment variously on his action.
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MUT1NY, MURDER, CHARGED.
Four Survivors of British Schooner
Arrested in Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, October IL
er onato. rescued 800 miles east of
Newfoundland on October by the
American steamship Zirkel, were un-
der arrest here today charged with
mutiny on the high seas and with
having killed the captain of their
ship. James Brussie. and his brother,
Ernest, the first mate. The charges
were made by Capt. Daniel A. Sulli-
van, master of the Zirkel, which ar
rived at this port yesterday from Rot
terdam.
The men were locked up at the i'm
migration station to await the action
of the British consul They denied
there was mutiny and declared the
officers of the Onato were accidentally
killed by the shifting of the cargo
during a terrific gale.
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BRIT0N HEADS WORLD
COTTON CONFERENCE

NEW ORLEANS. La. October H.
The world cotton conference came into
permanent organization late yesterday
v hen a report submitted by the commit
tee on organization was adopted. Sir A
Herbert Dixon of Manchester England,
chairman of the British delegation to
the conference, was elected president,
and the Recommendation was made that
the next conference be held in England
in 1921.
The recommendation that Congress
Corporation sufficient funds to permit
the corporation to finance the exporta-
ton of at least one million bales of cot
ton was adopted.
Evening star., 1919-10-17
URGE DATE TO RETURN ROADS
Association of Commissioners Want
Turn Back by December 81.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. October IL
Return of the railroads to private
ownership not later than December
81, 1919. was urged, in a resolution
adopted by the National Association
of Railway and Utilities Commits
sioners at the closing session of its
annual convention here yesterday.
A resolution offered by Paul p
Haynes of the Indiana public service
commission, seeking to obligate the
commissioners Of the various states
to base all utility valuations on a
prudent investment" instead Of tho
cost-of-reproductior theory, was made
a special order of business for the
next session. which will be held IA
Washington. D. c.. November .. 1920.
Evening star., 1919-10-17
EXTRA POSTAL BUDGET
OF $500, 900 SOUGHT

A supplemental appropriation of ST.
100000. to provide 1000 additional
postal clerks. was asked of Congress
today by the Post ONCE Department.
Acting Postmaster General Koons,
in a letter transmitting the request
said this money would be used for the
immediate employment of 1000 addi-
tional postal clerks. adding. that he
deemed this imperative to the proper
handling OF the mail during the re-
mainder of the current fiscal year"
The appropriation is designed to be
added as an amendment to the irst
deficiency appropriation bill, which Is
now pending In the Senate.
Evening star., 1919-10-17
METH0DlSTS TO ATTACK
THE CIGARETTE NEXT

CINCINNATI. Ohio. October IL
DR.. Clarence T. Wilson of wasb,ns
ton, d. C., secretary of the temper
today at the international convantinn
OF the Disciples of Christ declared in
an ADDRESS that the elimination of the
cigarette would be the next crusade
undertaken by his church.
The cigarette impaired the health
1l % 1,.oo.ooo soldiers in our Army"
ne declared: We have been sold ont
by the White House band to tha ~
bacco trust" ~ '"e eo-
DR.. Wilson also took occasion to
declare that the forces of reforr.o
are lined up for Sabbath obseryance"
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R00sEvELT'S VIEW OF PACT.
Mr.. Mccormick Says Covenant
Failed to Meet His Objections.

BALTIMORE, October 17.-Theodore
Roosevelt, less than a week before
his death, advised against the United
States entering a league of nations
which did not safeguard the rights of
this country to control immigration
and which failed to protect explicitly
the principles of the Monroe doctrine.
Senator Mccormick of Illinois last
night told. the members of the Baiti-
more Press Club.
The Illinois senator explained the
stand taken by the former President
in a conversation he had with him
shortly before his death, and declared
that the pending covenant for a
league of nations did not meet the OBJ
jections raised by MIR. Roosevelt.
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Poulet Flies Over Alps to Rome

octoper II tHavas).-Lieut.
rouiet' the French aviator, who start
ed from Issy-les-Moulineaux Tuesday
nornns n on a flight to Melbourne,
at Rome. landing at the aviation
neld OF centocelle. He had left the
French military airdrome at Freius
ednesday and succeeded in crossinT
Evening star., 1919-10-17
BLAMEs IRRESPONSIBLE MEN.
All-Russian Government Deplores
Flogpinp of us. Soldiers.

OMsK. Thursday. October 8 (by the
Associated Press).-The an-Russian
government has expressed to the
United States it's regret and indigna-
tion over the fogging of an Ameri-
can soldier, Corp. Benjamin Speriing,
by Gen. Kalmikon's Cossacks, word
of which reached here recently. The
government in its communication de-
plored the act as that of irresponsi-
BILE officers who were taking advan-
tage of the unrest in the far east to
ayenge their personal grievance.
Evening star., 1919-10-17
Fire Destroys Seventy Cottages.

MINNEAPOLIS. MIMI. October H.
Fire starting in a summer home de-
stroyed seventy cottages at the Metho-
dist Assembly grounds, Groveland. Lake
Minnetonka, yesterday. Four persons,
two of them children. seriously burned
in escaping from their homes. were
brought to Minneapolis hospitals.
Evening star., 1919-10-17

Jof1N Ls LIE WIS.,
President OF the United Mine Work.
ers, who signed order calling q
strike Of bituminous coal miners Oc-
tober 81. He is in waahington to-
day.
John L. Lewis, acting president of
the United Mine Workers of America.
and Thomas ]. Brewster. president of
the Coal Operators Association. at IL
o'clock today began a conference with
Secretary Wilson of the Department
of Labor in an effort to avert the
strike Of about 100000 miners in the
bituminous coal fields of the middle
west, called for midnight. October 81.
Demands of Miners.
Demands of the miners are for wage
increase of about so per cent. a six
hour working day, five days a week.
with time and a half for overtime and
double time for work on Sundays and
holidays. This is a decrease of
eighteen working hours a week. Pro-
ducers and operators declare the
business cannot stand such an in
crease without increases in the price
of coal that would make fuel an un-
obtainable luxury. The miners or
ganization declares that unless the
demands are granted all bituminous
coal mining will cease November
next. es.ss
At-the time OF going into conference
neither Mr.. Lewis nor Mr.. Brewster
would make any statement, declining
to discuss the situation in any way.
No Plan Formulated.
Up to the hour Of the conferences
Secretary Wilson had formulated no
plan for presentation to the coal
miners officials and others. and 1t was
stated at the Department Of Labor
that he probably would not present
any plan.
1t is understood Secretary Wilson.
and an official of the United Mine
Workers, strongly opposes the pro-
posed abrogation by the soft-coal
miners organizat ton of the Washing
ton wage agreement" which has un-
til March 81 next to run, but which
may be terminated sooner in event
peace is declared. The miners or
ganization. it is declared. took upon
itself to declare peace before any of
the allied powers or the Ur tied States
had ratified the peace treaty The
union, it is stated, simply declared
that the war was ended and the ma
tions were at peace, and upon that
assertion based their reputation of
the Washington wage agreement
The conferees separated for luncheon
without making any statement an. to
progress of their deliberations. They
expected to continue the discussion
after short recess.
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Again Today

The Star is obliged to omit
over II columns of advert;s.
ing, as 81 pages is the largest
daily paper it can issue.
Advertisers are requested
whenever possible not to
schedule General Publ;c;tv
matter for the lst or 18th ~
the month or for Thursdays
and Fridays, as on those days
the pressure for space is
usually so great that 4 Is NOT
possible to use all of the ad-
vertising that is offered.
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WORRY LEADS TO SUICIDE.
Poison Taken by Wife of DR.. Will
liam A. Webb.

LYNCHBURG. Va, October 17.-Mrs.
Mary Clary Webb, wife of DR.. William
A. Webb, president Of Randolph Macon
Womans College, committed suicide
is in California, suffering with nervous
breakdown, and worry incident to his
condition is thought to have caused her
act.
Evening star., 1919-10-17
Escort for Mexican Envoy's Bodv

HAVANA, october 1s.--Orders have
been issued by the Cuban naval gen.
eral staff that the cruiser Cuba he
held in readiness to form part of the
guard of honor escorting the bodv of
Armada Nervo. late Mexican ambas-
sador to Uruguay and Argentina.
which is being conveyed to Vera
Cruz aboard the cruiser Uruguay Tha
Uruguay is expected to reach here
soon.
Evening star., 1919-10-17
Next Sunday's S Star

Photographs of big news
events are special features Of
this wonderful pictorial section.
You will find pictures of the in
dustrial conference, D'Annunzio
in Fiume, the King and Queen
of Belgium in America and 9TH
ers too numerous to mention.
Evening star., 1919-10-17
Meat Workers Out in Baltimore.

BALTIMORE, October 17.-Eight
hundred men and women, employed in
the meat packing industry in this
city, went on strike today for an
eight-hour day and increase in wages.
This number. the strike leaders de-
clared. is enough to tie up the indus
try here.
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president FEELING
WELL, DOCTORS SAY
But Prostate Condition
Checks General Improve
ment, They Announce.

While President Wilson was feeling
well today his physicians said the
prostate condition from which he had
checking the general improvement of the
past two weeks.
The doctors issued the following bull
letin:
"12:25 pm, White House,
October II. 1919.
1.-The President passed conforta Bile
night and is feeling well this morning.
His temperature. pulse and respiration
rates are normal. The prostate condi-
tion is not as satisfactory as yesterday
and is checking general Improvement Of
the past two weeks.
(Signed) "GRAYSON,
"RUFFIN,
"STITT."
DR.. Grayson announced that he had
called in DIR. Hugh Young Of Johns
Hopkins University Hospital. BaIti-
more. one of the foremost specialists
in the country on prostate troubles.
and that he was expected at the White
House some time today. During the
morning the President was trea ted
by DR.. Fowler. a Washington special
list, who was called in when the Pres
ident first suffered this !compIicati tion
several days ago.
Dr. Young Will make a thorough ex
animation of the swelling Of the pros
tate gland to determine whether an
operation is necessary, DIR. Grayson
said.
President Told of Vote on Shantunr
Early yesterday afternoon DR.. Gray
son, informed the President that a
vote on the Shantung amendment was
imminent in the Senate, and as the
news did not seem to worry the pa
tient the physicians gave permission
for him to be notified of the result
of the ballot as soon as the news was
received at the White House.
Secretary Tumulty accordingly sent
the result of the vote to the Presi-
dents room, when it was telephoned
from the Capitol late in the after
noon. Mrs. Wilson happened to be out
at the time, and the message of the
defeat of the amendment. IS to 55,
was given the President by a nurse.
Evening star., 1919-10-17
Kolchak Pursues soviets.

In the meantime Admiral Kolchak,
head of the all-Russian government
at Omsk. and commander of the anti
bolshevik elements on the east Rus
sian front. is advancing rapidly in
pursuit of the soviet armies, which
have been ordered to retire The
location of the line of battle in this
region has not been reported recent
ly, but 1t Is known to be west of the
Tobol river. which flows northward
through the eastern foothills of the
Crals.
STOCKHOLM, October 1 tby the As
sociated Press) Prof. Guido Schnider
of Riga, in lecture here. stated
that the bolsheviki shot 23.632 men,
women and children in Riga. The
executioners. intoxicated and unable
to aim straight, wounded their VIC
Tins time and again. laughing at
their agonies. which sometimes last
ed a whole day and night. he said.
Young girls, elegantly dressed, vol
unteered as executioners and. prone
nading up and down with rifles, fired
at the prisoners.
Evening star., 1919-10-17
The Flying Parson
Wins!"

Remarkable photographs of
Lieut. Belyin w. Maynard,
preacher-aviator and winner of
the first lap of the ocean-to-
ocean air race, in the Rotograv-
ure section of
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H. c. |. COMMITTEE
Of CABINET MEETS
Release of Additional U. S.
Food, Particularly Sugar,
Is Discussed.
W0MEN'S AID SUGGESTED

Release of additional supplies of
food held by the government, partic-
ularly sugar. was discussed today al
a meeting of the Official cabinet COM
mittee on the high cost of living, but
no decision was reached Other steps
in the governments campaign to
combat high prices were discussed
and it was announced that progress"
had been made
Mr.. Daniels Says Navy Has Sugar.
Secretary Daniels,-who was present
for the first time. said he and the At
torney General and Secretary Baker
would meet soon to discuss whether
ernment had any surplus food which
could be released to the public. Mr..
Daniels said he had sufficient sugar
for the Navy for six months. but
wanted to know before he released
any whether he would be able to OBJ
tain supplies when he went into the
market again.
Director Clarkson Of the Council of
National Defense presented compre-
hensive production figures affecting
in the course of the councils war
work.
May Appeal to Women.
Mr.. Clarkson and the Attorney Cen
eral will confer in a day or two re-
garding an appeal to the women Of
the country to increase saving and
decrease extravaganza as one means
of reducing living costs.
Mr.. Clarkson declared the councils
recent statement on the economic sit
uation, advocating greater produc-
ton, among other things, had met
with a splendid response. Governors
of twenty-five states have requested
thousands Of the statements for dis
tribution and the railroad adf:linistra-
tion and Post Ofice Department are
arranging to post them in every rail-
road station and post Office.
Evening star., 1919-10-17
BY n. 0. MESSENGER.

Commenting upon the significance
of yesterdays vote in the Senate on
the Shantung amendment. senator's
who favor ratification of the treaty.
with reservations, entertained the
opinion today that the action fore
casts the adoption of adequate reser-
vations and the reasonably early ratifi-
cation Of the treaty
They argued that the casting Of
thirty-five votes for the Shantung
amendment disclosed the existence of
a vote, constituting more than one
third of the Senate, sufficient to pre-
vent ratification unless reservations
are adopted. And, as these thirty-hve
were willing to go to the extent Of
amending the treaty textually and
materially, 1t is assumed they will in
sist upon reservations which are
reservations in effect and not merely
in theory.
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ANT|-REDS WINNING
|NPETROCRADDR|VE
Report That British Naval
Forces Have Taken Kron-
stadt Discredited.
SUCCESS OF YUDENITCH

BY the Associated Press.
| LONDON October 1.-THE march of
Gen. Yudenitch at the head of the
northwestern Russian army on the
city of Petrograd was still progress
INF favorably at the latest advices.
Some reports of his advance, how
ever. have apparently outrun his ac-
tual progress. There appeared, for in
| stance, some doubt today whether the
fortress of Kronstadt, outpost at the
| water approach to Petrograd, had
capitulated to British naval forces. as
indicated in reports during the night.
Ihe British admiralty had received no
connrmatory advices and the accu-
racy or the news was questioned In
| admiralty circles.
Dispatches from Scandinavia have
announced the capture of Gatchina
twenty-five miles south of Petrograd,
by the Yudenitch forces and stated
that Yudenitch was advancing on
Isarkoe Selo, former summer resi-
dence of the late Emperor Nicholas,
| and Krasnoye Selo, nearby.
Reports of the capture of these
places. by the anti-bolshevik army
| however, seemed of doubtful accu-
| racy. A bolshevik wireless station Is
located at Tsarkoe Selo. and an
nouncement was made by the wire
less Press here this morning that the
bolsheviki were apparently still in
possession of it, as soviet propaganda
was yet being sent out from the sta
ton during this forenoon.
Soviets Leaving Petrograd.
Soviet troops are reported to be
leaving Petrograd, mutiny among
the men having broken out. In any
event advices indicate that the Yude-
mitch forces are encountering feeble
resistance.
Bolshevik troops are said to have
captured Kiev. but in this region the
situation Is obscure. 1t was reported
last week that Kiev was in the hands
of Gen. Petlura's Ukrainian army.
which advanced against Gen. Deni-
kine's left flank following Petlura's
declaration of war on the Cossack
chieftain.
Further details of the situation
south of Moscow have not been re-
ceived, but it appears the bolshevfk
armies in that region are launching
counter attacks against Gen. Deni-
kine's lines. With the exception of
the capture of Kiev. the bolsheviki
seem to have been repulsed along the
new front.
There is also some uncertainty as to
the exact situation in Lithuania,
where Russian and Lithuanian forces
are mobilized. Lithuanian troops
have been ordered to advance against
Shawl, in the government of Kovno.
II this movement should be carried
out the Lithuanians would be In the
rear of the Germano- Russian forces
which advanced against Riga last
week and have since last Friday been
fighting Lettish and Esthonian troops
in that city.
Evening star., 1919-10-17

BY the same token. the vote was in
terpreted to mean that the Senate
Is opposed to defeating or seriously
Shantung amendment was the weak
est of all the purposes of the group
which would like to defeat the treaty
outright The Johnson amendment
promises to command more strength.
but in the light of statements made
in debate yesterday and in view OF
the vote expressed, serious doubt is
entertained by many observers in
johnson amendment, though the vote
will be close.
While admitting that this amend
Evening star., 1919-10-17
WEATHER.

Fair tonight and tomorrow; much
cooler tonight.
Temperature Tor twenty -four hours
ended . pm. today: Highest, So, at AIS
pm. yesterday: lowest, 5S. at pm.
today. ts
Full report on page II.
Evening star., 1919-10-17
DR.. Eliot inquiries.

Dr. Charles w. Eliot. president emer-
titus of Harvard. public delegate. rose to
ask the meaning of that part of the en-
pioyers' substitute resolution ex-
pressing the right of the employer
ITO deal or not to deal with men or
groups of men who are not his en-
ployes and chosen by and from
among them"
Frederick p. Fish, chairman of the
national industrial board, explained
the phrase to mean that employers
should not be condemned for refusing
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