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The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-04-01
TRAGIC ACCIDENT DURING
LAUNCHING OF FREICHTER
SCORE INJURED WHEN
BRIDGE COLLAPSES. :
Number of Drowned is Esti
mated at From Five
to Twenty.

Bristol, Penn, April 1.-Estimates
early today of the number of per-
sons drowned Or killed in the col
lapse Of a lightly eopstructed patrol
bridge fronting the shipways of the
Merchant Shipbuilding corporation at
Hartman, near here, during the
launching of a freighter yesterday
ranged between five and twenty.
About a score were injured, none Of
them seriously.
After working throughout the night
divers had recovered only tour
bodies and some officials expressed
the belief not more than one or two
others had lost their lives. While
between fifteen and twenty persons
were known to be missing, these Of
flcials said they felt confident most
of them would be located later in
the day. Others, however, fear many,
II not all of the missing, were
drowned and their bodies washed
down stream. 1t is believed most OF
those drowned were employees at the
yard.
The bridge fell into the Delaware
river under the weight of between
fifty and Seventy-tVe men flNe MIN
utes before the launching of the $500
cargo carrier Waukau. Members of
the launching party could not see
the accident from their position on
the land side of the shipways, and
the vessel was launched on schedule
time. After the Waukau slid into
the Delaware men on the vessel and
workmen heard the cries Of those who
had been pitched into the water and
rescue work was started Immediately.
Suction from the launching of the
cargo carrier, it is feared, may have
carried some of the bodies out into
the channel.
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INDUSTRY AT sTANpsTILL

Rockford, H., April 1.-Rockford' s
entire furniture industry is today at a
standstill as the result of a strike vote
decided upon at mass meetings held
last night. OF the $500 wood finishers.
wood carvers and cabinet makers con-
stituting the bulwark of the industry.
only one man reported for work in the
twenty-seven furniture factories when
the whistle blew this morning.
Both sides are obdurate and no set
tlement seems in prospect.
recognition OF the union. The workers
claim that in view of their strength
and 100 per cent. organization. they
cannot lose. while the manufacturers
are equally confident.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-04-01
RAILWAY FRONT
UNDER HOT FIRE
Bolshevik Artillery Subjects
Allies to Heaviest Bombard-
nent in Weeks.
PLANES BO NIB VILLAGE
American. French, British and
New Russ Troops En-
trenched.

Archangel. April la. P.)-Bol-
shevik artillery subjected the allied
railway front and positions south Of
Odozerskaia to the heaviest bonn
bardment in many weeks yesterday.
In the meantime the enemy was NOV
ing many forces through the woods,
indicating an attack may soon follow.
A little garrison of four French
soldiers in an outlying blockhouse
guarding one of the allied flanks near
the front line yesterday repeatedly
repulsed attacks by eighty bolshevili
infantrymen who had slipped through
the woods and attempted a surprise.
The weather was mild and sun
shiny and many enemy observation
balloons were up almost all day,
showing the effects OF shells. Enemy
airpianes dropped a bomb on a viii
lage north of OdoZerslaia but no
damage resulted. Allied positions
along the front lire eare strong with
blockhouses guarding the fianks and
snow trenches built up with log bar :
ricades while there are ample dug
outs to shelter all the allied forces.
The troops holding this front include
considerable numbers of American,
itllIllf Di anu new iNuooiitl
troops. The allied artillery here
probably is equal % that Of the
enemy.
West Of Odozerskaia the artillery
is still shelling Bolsheoia Ozera and
a number of explosions occurred in
that village on Sunday.
Cossacks Lost Heavily.
Paris, April la. pm. Duca-
witch, former premier of the 'kuban
republic. formed Immediately after
the first revolution and consisting Of
seven states in the Circaussian re-
gion, is in Paris with a delegation
and has presented memorandum 10
the peace conference asking allied
support to preven: the republic "be-
ing deprived of independence by boil
shevism."
NJ. Ducavitch stated the losses Of
the Kuban Cosslcks in the fighting
against the bolsheviki during the
past year had been four times as
heavy as during the three years Of
war against Germany. He said one
third of the population of military
age had been killed end not enough
men were left to cultivate the soil.
The memorandum appears espec-
tally for the assistance of the ire
public's great sister, the United
States"
Russ Reds Lose Ground.
London, April 1.-The Russian bol-
shevik army is losing ground all the
way along the eastern front, it was
admitted in a wireless dispatch from
Moscow today. The red army was
forced to retire in tl>a Pskov and
Marienburg districts, while the anti
bolshevik troops captured several
villages north of the DonetZ.
(Pskov is 162 miles southeast oi
Petrograd. and Marienburg is fifty
seven miles north of Pskov.)
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HAYS TO CONFER
WITH G. 0. P. LEADERS
GILLETT TAKES DINNET
WITH CHAIRMAN. y
Mann and Martin Not Averse
to Talking With
the Boss,
lBy ]. Bart Campbell.l

Washington, April Ia. n. S.)s-
| Republican National Chairman VIII
| II. Hays was scheduled to hold n
series of conferences here today with
| republican leaders of the next con
I gress.
There was widespread Speculation
at the capitol as to the subject 1
Hays unheralded visit. He siipr(
| into Washington unannounced q
without some of the principal suy
| porters of Representative James II
/ Mann, of Illinois, knowing he waf
| here until after they had been in
formed that he had dined last nieht
with Representative Nicholas Long
worth. of Ohio, at the Longwofii
residence.
1t was reported that Speaker Elect.
! Gillett and other republican repre-
sentatives who have joined Long
worth in his opposition to Mann
control of the steering committee
the next house were present at Il
dinner.
Gillett was averse to discussing til
situation created by the Issuance ~
Longworth of a long statement or
Sunday in which the Ohio represents
ative declared that Mann-controlied
| the steering committee was "abso-
iultlN AlOl uOt OllI1 ~.
the spirit of the republican party OF
today, but of It's hopes and aspira !
tions of the future" nor "represent 6
ative, too. Of all sections of the coiin
try and Of all classes of our citize,i
ship"
Gillett permitted il to be knoxn
however, that he intended to supper
Longworth's threatened fight to have
the membership of the steering eou<
mittee increased in the final cauct
the republican representatives ~i'[
hold just before the next house meei !
Longworth would have four repI1
sentatives opposed to Mann added !
the committee and thereby sha'
Mann's control of the committee.
Mann and Representative Mart
3. Madden. also of Illinois. who n;
charge of Mann's unsuccessful caf
| dtiacy for the speAkership. were bo' =
| con the job at the capitol tod
They expressed themselves as n,
at all unwilling" that Hays shof
call on them.
Representative Mondell. of W..
ming. chosen by the Mann forces
the floor leader of the next hous
was one who said he expected to 81
HAYS.
Other republican, leaders said fhe
Were puzzled as to what would d
the outcome OF Hays visit. es1<1
cially as Longworth insisted that Oh
intended 10 pursue his avowed effof=*
to overthrow Mann's leadership. Er<1
| Hays' most sanguiue friends ad1i[
ted that the situation was an -<</
tremely dificultf one
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-04-01
SOVIET SETS UP REIGN
OF TERROR In BUDAPEST
Stocks of Food in Hungarian Capital Sufficient
for Ten Days People Hope for Allied In
tervention- Report of Hungary's Dec
laratiOn Of, War Not Confirmed.

ship established.
Riots Monday Serious.
London, April 1.---Serious rioting
occurred Monday at Frankfort on
the Main, according to Central
News dispatch from Amsterdam.
Crowds attacked the police station,
released the prisoners and set fire
to the tuilding, but order was even
tually restored.
Two Fronts Linked Up.
London. April 1.-The Omsk and
Archangel fronts have been linked up
by the allied forces, said a dispatch
to the Chronicle from Omsk today.
Siberian troops on skis travelled for
miles over the snow to join the Rus
sian and allied troops in the north.
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-FOUR ENTENTE NATIONS In
DRIVE AGAINST HUNGARY
Bolsheviks Are to Be Opposed On Large Scale
by the Allied Forces.
Troops Already Massing in the Capital Of Rumanis
British and Italians Hold Railways - Ukrainians
Defeat Russian Extremists Move On Kiev.

Berlin, via Copenhagen and London, April Alied troops
begin campaign against the Hungarian bolsevks have
arrived Consanza Rumana according to adves from Buca
rest today, quoting Rumanian newspapers.
troops arrived at Pressburg thirty
four miles southeast of Vienna and have occupied all the railway
lines in that vicinity preliminary to joint military action against
the reds The Serbans preparing to intervene Also
German representatives Budapest have warned all Ger
subjects to leave the city,
The dispatch indicates that the entente is
for military action against the Hungarian bolshevis big
The country be invaded all along the southern from
tier four nations participating in the campaign
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PARADE FACTS.

One thousand six hundred
and fifty men will be in line in
Thursdays procession, compos-
ing the Hath field artillery and
the Hath machine gun battal-
ion. The 18th field artillery,
though originally expected to
be in the parade, will not be
here.
Col. Lea will turn over COM
mand Of the procession to Col.
Gleason upon reaching the re-
viewing stand. where he will
join Gen. Scott and the review
ing officers.
The parade will form on
Rossville avenue at Main and
will move at II o'clock.
The speakers stand will be
erected on Broad street in
front of the James building.
Manufacturers are requested
to blow factory whistles from
II o'clock until 11:45 o'clock
and then cease on account of
the speaking which will begin
at that time.
Music will be furnished by
the artillery regiments own
band and by the band Of the
18th infantry.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-04-01
CUBAN SHIP FOUNDERS
OF North Carolina Coast, Says Wire
less Message.

Norfolk, Va. April 1.-The Cuban
schooner Lucia, with cargo of
10000 gallons OF rum for Monteviedo.
Uruguay. foundered 400 miles off the
North Carolina coast March so with the
loss of all hands except one seaman,
according to a wireless message re-
ceived here today from the American
steamer Lake Larga, which picked up
the lone survivor.
No details were contained in the
message except that the Lucia drifted
helpless four days before laundering.
The vessel was reported a menace to
navigation and a coast guard cutter
will be ordered to sea Immediately to
destroy he'.
The Lucia left Hampton Roads March
- after spending month here repair
ing damage caused by a storm which
had driven her far north of her course
from Cuba to Monteviedo.
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Prague, April 1.-The communists
have set up q reign OF terror in Buda-
pest, according to M. Kun. a member
OF the Czecho- -Slovak mission to
Budapest who returned here today.
The stocks Of food in the Hungarian
capital are sufficient for only ten
days. and only 300 head Of cattle are
coming into the city daily instead OF
the normal $500. Famine is feared,
while the coal situation is grave.
The population OF Budapest, M.
Kun adds, hopes for intervention by
,N,allies.
: 10 word has We. come confirming
ie report that Hungary has declared
war on Servia, nor that the Servian
border has been closed and censor
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-04-01
LLOYD GEORGE TO STAY

In Paris Until Questions Are Adjusted.
Paris. April 1.-tHavas.)-Notwith-
standing the delay in reaching an
agreement on the preliminary peace
treaty. Premier Lloyd George, the Paris
edition of the London Daily Mail says.
does not intend to return to England
before the questions are adjusted in
spite of his desire TO attend the closing
meeting of the British labor conference.
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Due to Plot With Germany.

Paris. April 1.--(Havas.)
ments in possession of the French
and RumaniaV governments, the
newspapers say, prove the advent OF
the communist regime In Hungary
was due in great part to a maneuveI
Count Karolyi in conjunction with
the German government. The move
ment was aimed directly at the al
lied powers, 1t Is said. ss
Ukrainians Victorious. 1T
Copenhagen, April 1.-The ukraiii-
ians have defeated the Russian b0i-s
sheviks at Borodianka and are n10y-s
ing on Kiev, (the Ukrainian capt.
tall, according to an official Ukrain-<
ian statement received here today.
It has been rumored that a truce
, between the Ukrainians and the Rus.
sian bloshe viks was pending.
Hungary s.iii Under sloekad..
London, April 1.-The blockade OF
all enemy countries and Russia. with
the exception of Hungary, has been
generally" raised, IL was learned
| by the Daily Express today from IN
authoritative source. This will be
announced in the house of commons
tonight, it is understood. However.
there will be the strictest control Over
supplies going into enemy countries.
German Miners Call Striks.
Berlin, March Silvia l.ondoas
April 1.-THE coal miners Of tn
Ruhr district have formed new or
eanization and one Of their demands
is the immediate amalgamation witt
the Russian government A general
strike has been declared for tomor-
row morning. M
Three hundred and seventy -fiys
delegates representing all of tht
Rhennish -Wcstphalian miners, met
to formulate the demands. These a.
practically the same as the demand
made by the strikers at Berlin re-
teently saetsEstsA 81
Uneasy Over New War Unrest.
(6y Sidney Dark.)
4 Paris, April t.--(ExcIusivs cahIe By
l.N.S: and London Daily Exprsss. ~
Allied troops will be sent into Ru.
mania at once to meet the threat oil
Russo Hungarian bcishevism, II waS
reported here today.
"A previous dispatch said that al
lied troops had already arrived II
Constanza, Rumania.)
The threat of a now war is causiii
great uneasiness in French social cir
! cles.
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SOME ONE STAKTEp
RUMOR THAT PEACE
-" WAS SIGNED

Paris, April la. p.)-
Somebody started a story this
morning that Col. e. NJ. House
mad annoupced that the peace
treaty had been signed. The
report rapidly spread over all
Paris and the telephone wires
to the American headquarters
in the Hotel de Crillon became
hot with inquiries as to the
truth of the rumor.
1t did not take long, how
ever, for inquirers to realize
the character of the report
when they were reminded that
today was April /.
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LIVELY TRADE IN HORSES
Horses Going in Large Numbers From
Germany to Holland.

Washington. April i.--During the war
thousands c. horses were exported
from Holland to Germany. partly as a
business transaction and partly to get
rid of the animals for which there was
insufficient fodder. says a consular re-
port made public today. The tide has
now turned. the report says. and adds
that according TO reports from the
trade in horses imported from Germany
is being carried on there
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-04-01
VOTED AGAINST STRIKE
Seattle shlpyard Unions Decide Issue
at Polls.

OedttIc SnlpydTo UNIONS OcCioe Issue
at Polls.
Seattle. Wash, April 1.-The vote
polled last week by Seattle shipyard
unions. was against coastwide strike TO
enforce their original demands for 81
an hour for mechanics and Sc per day
for helpers, it was announced here
today.
Fourteen local metal trades unions
voted against a strike. one voted in
favor Of it, and three did not vote.
OF a total of 1880 votes cast, II, ,961
were against the strike.
Whether the strike is favored by "a
majority of Pacific coast shipyard
unions has not yet been officially de-
termined. This result will be known
in the next few days when the aggre-
gate ballots are canvassed by a COM
mittee of the Pacific coast district
metal trades council in Portland.
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WINDS SPREADING FIRE

Shenandoah. Pa, April 1.-Min1ng
men were alarmed today by the spread
of fire in the Glrard mine at Raven
Run. Pa. A culm bank near the mine
has been burning and high winds car
ried the fire down an old working
where it ignited the coal vein. Several
men have been overcome. The coliiery
is one OF the largest in the region.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-04-01
B0ERS IN NEW YORK
Their Ship Stops Enroute TO Peace
Conference.

Conference.
New York. April 1.-The Dutch
steamer Bawaean arrived here today
from Cape Town, South Africa. with
a delegation of Beers en- route TO Lon
don and the peace conference for the
purpose, il was said. OF laying before
the British government and the Paris
conferees their right TO self determina-
tion in setting up a republic.
The envoys had planned TO leave
South Africa on the steamship Durham
Castle. but were obliged. it was said.
to postpone their departure owing to
the refusal of the British crew to sail
with them. Later the commander OF
the British cruiser Minerva offered TO
take them. but the Beers decided TO
use the Dutch vessel
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-04-01
POLES CABLE WILSON
Urge Opening Of Credit for Purchase
of War Materials.


New York, April Immediate
opening of credit TO Poland for the
purchase OF American war materials
in France to equip and send Polish
army of 5000 men to Danzig 70
avert disaster was urged in a cable
message sent to President Wilson in
Paris and made public here today by
the Polish national defense commit
tee.
Construed as Warning.
Paris. April la. PO-What Is
construed as a warning that the
world could not long countenance
further delay in the adjustment of
peace was delivered to the allied pre-
miers and military representatives OF
the associated powers by President
Wilson yesterday.
1t is learned that at late hour
on Monday he arose. during the con-
ference taking place in Premier Glenn
enceau's room at the French war Of
flee, and solemnly assured the con
ferees of his belief that they should
do all in their power to bring to-
gether the loose ends in the debate in
an effort to unite on peace terms
upon which a treaty might be pre-
sented to Germany.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-04-01
GERMANS MASSING FORCES UNDER
HINDENBURG TO DEFEND RAILWAY
Danzig- Posen Line to Be Protected by Force - Ant
So: Jewish Outbreaks

Paris April l.-( (Havas. )The Germans concentrat-
large forces under of Field Marshal
Hndenburg according the Paris edition of the New York
Herald The being assembled in Garudenz
defend the railway line from Danzg
Posen. H ts@r
Many Jews Wounded .f
London April New Jewish outbreaks have occurred
Ka the border between Poland and Germany
and Wielum according information received by the
organization here large number of Jews said to
wounded while Jewish shops and homes plum
deed and damaged Militia and soldiers the information
the Jews.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-04-01
JACKSON CARS STOPPED
City offcials Seek to Succeed Bank
rupt Company.

rupt Company.
Jackson. Miss. April 1.-Jackson con-
tinued without car servicetodsy. ef-
forts of city officials to have Referee
in Bankruptcy F. NJ. West order the
receiver for the bankrupt corporation
operate the cars failing. Referee West
ruled that the city's petition asking
operation OF the cars was not accom-
panied by evidence. while the receiver
in answering the petition had shown il
10 be impossible TO operate the cars
without q loss.
Gass and power service continues un-
interrupted
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FOUR MILLION CAPITAL
L Arrest Leather Concern in South Or
qanlzed at kingsport.

Bristol. April !. Especially - The
Lang Grant leather corporation has
been organized at Kingsport. near here.
with a capital stock of $4,000. GOO. The
enterprise win be the largest of its
kind in the south. The erection OF
buildings for the plant has started and
will occupy a site Of twelve acres.
r. Y. Grant, OF Iingsport. and ]. Har-
~ Lang. general manager Of large
system Of tanneries in the United
states. will have charge OF this new
KingspOrt industry.
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115TH PARADES FRIDAY

In Knoxville and 1t7th saturday-coI.
Spence.
Knoxville. April 1.-(Special) 1.-The
1l5th field artillery will parade here
Friday and the 1l7th infantry Satur-
day. according to the latest telegram
received this afternoon by Mayor John
f. Mcmillan from Col. Cary F. Spence.
Col. Spence explained six companies
of the 1l7th have not yet arrived.
Plans for both units to come here to-
gether Friday were altered.
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SUPREME COURT RECESSED

Washington. April 1.-The supreme
court recessed Monday until April "a.
when arguments In pending cases vii
be resumed
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E NAY APPEAL FOR
JUSTICE BEHALF FRANCE
Broken Down by Wilson's Hint of Stating
Stand of the United States.
Officials Insist On Guarantees in Addition to the
lgue Of Nations Want Germans So Punished
as to Make Wars Impossible.

SOhA 4sr1St ROtoS
kpril L-.I N. IS. 1-The in
&hat Pres,dont Wilson may
Gic the. views of the United
legation On the question Of
Is unless ~. agreement, is
eacheG has broken down
land 'tsday II was rumored
bier oemenceau might APP
korld justice in behalf of
aims according to the
), Of the pkcmier the public
1taiy him.
nct official circles, it is
Xltfthat France is ready to
reasonable sacrifice for
with whom she has fought,
eists upon having guaran-
dhition to the league of ma
h this connection French
feel that the best guaran.
be a changed mentality
1t of the Germans them
= far there has been little
~ this result. Indeed, from
ed reports reaching Paris,
solyi, former head OF the
government, before the
rot control. and DIR. Ram
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,xIo present German foreign
.umister, plotted the Hungarian revo-
luton with an object of testing the
entente's strength. There is further
evidence In the fact that Ludendorff
wasfecsntly given an ovation in Ber-
: fin.
German liberal newspapers have
openly charged that the ovation to
Ludendorff was carefully stately
The French believe that the Ger
mans should not be permitted to es-
cape without punishment which
would preclude the possibility of a
future war. Again the French point
4 out that 1871, Germany burdened
France with a huge indemnity and
the other powers did not see fit to
object, and. during the present war
Germany imposed taxes on the peo-
.ples of invaded Territory without re-
ygard to the peoples ability to pay.
Premier Clemenceau conferred with
Gen. Mangin this morning regarding
the situation on the eastern front.
Paris, April 1.-'Tf French claims
had been given as much publicity as
those of the English and Italians,
Clemenceaus position would be mucn
stronger" the Figaro declared to-
cay. '.Why should Germany be more
exasperated over losing the Saar
basin than her colonies and her
ueSts g..asts5s. =. . -,