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appeal for ratification Of the treaty
apparently caused some resentment.
The President is taking an unfair
advantage by using the high cost of
living issue as a club to force ratifi-
cation Of the League Of Nations" said
Senator Brandegee. "He can have
peace in two days II he will agree to
a reservation excluding the United
States from the League Of Nations"
MondelFs Willingness to Te-enact the
Lever food control law as a peace.
time measure is not shared by all
members Of the House A number Of
Senators also expressed opposition to
this proposal.
Il am against further extension Of
autOcTacy," said Senator Gronna.
North Dakota, chairman Of the Agri-
culture Committee, before which a
DILL TO re-enact the Lever measure
would go. The President has all au-
lhority he needs, and / think he has
all he'll get so far as the Agriculture
Committee is concerned"
Recommendation for Federal Ii
censing OF all corporations in inter
state bushes did not appear to be
generally approved. There is pending
in the Senate, however, a bill which
would create such a licensing system.
Senator Capper, Kansas. was one of
those who supported this feature of
the Presidents message.
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FOR ATTEMPT
To STEAL HER
7RADEDBABY'

OTTAWA, Ontario, Aug g.
Fooled in an attempt to secure DOS
session of four-year-old Kathleen
Ryan. better known as Baby Irene,
the child for whose possession a SEN
sational trial took place in the Chi
csgo Federal courts three years ago,
Mrs. Dolly Ledgerwood Matters, of
that city, was arrested by the Ottawa
police, charged with attempted alb
ductoD. With Mrs. Matters we've
also arrested two Ottawa men, ].
Oates and Michael ]. Jenniasg
Pleads Not Guilty.
In court Mrs. matters pleaded not
guilty to a kidnapping charge, and
the case, at the request of the coun-
ty crown attorney. was postponed for
a week. He asked that $4,000 bail
be demanded.
The grandmother and mother of
the child gave sensational interviews
regarding the KIDNAPPING attempt.
Four years ago both women were
patient in the Misericordia Hospital,
Ottawa, at the same time. Margaret
Ryan's child was reported to have
died, but some time later she was in
formed that the little girl. alleged to
have been born to Mrs. Matters, was
in reality hers. She won her case in
the Chicago courts and brought the
child to Ottawa.
Mrs. Matters later took the case to
the United States Supreme Court
where the decision of the lower court
was reversed in her favor.
DR.. c. L Bervard, who attended the
two women in the hospital. declared
at the preliminary hearing that Miss
Ryan's child was given to Mrs. Mat
tiers with his consent by hospital au-
thorities.
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CHICAGO SHOPMEN
QUITTING STRIKE

CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-Ranks OF strik-
ing railway shopmen were consider
ably thinned today as a result Of
President Wilson's request that the
men go back to work until their wage
question could be taken up. More
than $4,000 in the Chicago district to-
day had voted to return to work
pending settlement OF their claims,
reports from union headquarters
showed.
The passenger train situation here
and throughout the central West.
however, continued acute. Twenty
trains on the Chicago and Northwest
ern. Chicago and Alton and Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroads were sus-
pended 1t was believed suburban
service will be kept intact
Freight shipments were refused in
several directions early today an !
last night out of Chicago.
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LOCAL SHOPMEN
STAY ON STRIKE

Despite orders from the American
Federation Of Labor to return to their
jobs and await action, striking rail-
road men Of the local yards declare
they will stand by yesterdays vote to
say out until the S5-cent-an-hour
wage Is granted them, or a written as
surance that IL will come is given.
Leaders of the strikers at the North
east Temple this morning declared
they understood the speech of Bert
NJ Jewell, acting president OF the
railway department Of the federation,
to mean q request to return to work
Mr.. Jewell emphatically declared his
words were an order to return
AFTER they havt a chance to sleep
over II. believe they will take that
advice" he said this morning. II be-
lieve the strikers in the Washington
Terminal yards will return Monday
DistFustfuI Of Hines.
Strike leaders were expressive OF
their distrust in Director General
Hines. He has had since last Janu-
airy Is to act on this request of ours
for the S5-cent wage" they said; "and
we are tired Of waiting on him. II It
took hicm that long to do nothing,
how long viii it take him to do some
InlnS.
They expressed satisfaction with
their railroad officials, declaring at
heart they are with them. Their de-
mand Is for a raise to conform with
that paid in other mechanical plants
They declare that men who left the
railroad shops to go to the navy yard
here, although they are only helpers.
are receiving more salary than a ma
chinist does with the railroads.
81 More At Navy Yard.
The average at the navy yard, they
say, is $40 a day, at the railroad
shops it is only $40.
NJ. B. Clagette. assistant to Hines,
said no action would be taken by that
office in the local situation, and that
it is now up to the American Fedora
ton to get the strikers back.
He reiterated the statement that
the Railroad Administration would do
nothing until the men had returned to
work
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GENIUSES TALK OF
H.C.L. BY CAMPFIRE
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to bring it down." Mr.. Ford went on
''If for the next four or five years
would devote all my time to develop
ing the farm tractor and put it on
every farm in the United States 1t
will bring down the cost Of living.
And I'm going to do it. 1 will cut
down the work on a farm to twenty
days a year. Twenty days is all
farmer needs to work, anyway. He
will some day. Now he works all the
time and doesn't make any more
money than he could by working
twenty days. His cost Of production
is too high"
And then the talk turned into the
next days plans. The Edison-Ford-
Burroughs-Firestone vacation Is a no
madic trip. For a week now they have
roamed through the Adirondacks.
They have no place in particular to
go, and no set time to get there They
never know when the morning start
is made where they will camp that
night. They will keep on going until
they get tired, and no one knows
when that will be.
Travel In Lazy Fashion
They agree upon a meeting place
for late in the afternoon. Then they
start. Mr.. Edison usually leads. But
if he sees an enticing road along the
route he takes it. Ford and Bur
roughs may or may not follow, just
as they choose. They gather at some
agreed place and then look for like
ly camping spot. And there Is no
dearth of such spots IN these noun
tains.
Their caravan consists Of five cars,
two heavy touring cars. two others
especially designed to carry their gen
eraI equipment and one general carry
all On one of the cars is a storage
battery which each night gives them
electric light. 1t also carries a ma
chine shop, compact and built into the
door of the car.
Two chauffeurs serve as general
handy men. They set up, camp in an
lights and everything.
Two ordinary gasolene stoves are set
up. Sato, the efficient Jap, turns out
meals that meet with wild approba-
ton. Last night a raspberry short
cake was baked. Mr.. burroughs found
the berries along the roadside ana
Sato did the rest. Everyone takes
hand at the work.
Yesterday visitors to the camp
found the Detroit manufacturer in
sleeves rolled up immersed in wash
ing tin things" SOapsuds streamed
down his shirt front. over against
one Of the cars Mr. Edison had set up
n mirror and was shaving himself.
burroughs was wandering around IN
the woods looking at the trees and
shrubs.
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SLAYER SAVEDBY
HIS WIFE'S STORY
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she heard the verdict which gave
Stanton back to her.
And It was to that cot that stanton
first turned after the jury had an
nounced its verdict.
Stanton practically based hts life
appeal on the testimony OF his wife.
and his own. The wife told how she
had met Rolph, foreman OF the angle
roem Of the Virginia Shipbulldine
Corporation. only a few months ago;
how he gave her an automobile: show
cred her with money, and finally came
to dominate her so completely that
she deserted her home and children
and eloped with him to a hotel IN
Washington. They had planned, she
said. to go to the Pacific coast. But
at the last minute she weakened. went
back to her husband, confessed. and
was forgiven.
Yields ThrOugh Fear.
Even then, she declared. Rolph
would not let her alone. And again
she yielded, not through love. this
time. but through fear. Rolpb told
her. she said, that unless she did as
she wished he would kill both her and
Stanton.
And 50. finally, came the inevitable
meeting OF the two men-a brief
struggie-and then death for Rolph.
Stanton himself told OF this struE-
gle yesterday. He was the last wilt
ness Of any Importance in the trial.
and for four hours through a hot az
ternoon. until after dark, he sat on
the stand before a packed courtroom.
answering questions dully-With his
eyes directed toward the ante room
wherein lay his WIFE
II did not intend to kin hln-even
after the wrong he had done me-" he
declared. IT only wanted him to let
me-and Martha-aloue. He had done
us wrong enough wanted him to
go away.
But he sneered at me. And then
he attacked me. He had q club. He
struck me with it-over the head"
Stanton paused. then concluded
simply:
And 50 I shot him"
What were your feelings-your
impulsesT' asked Prosecuting Attor-
ney Howard Smith almost gently.
Had Ne FeeIfngA
'Feelings-Impulses? Stanton re-
peated 81 don't think had any.
felt as q Martha were dead-had been
killed. I felt as II were dead, too
Nothing seemed very much worth
while"
There was little doubt in the minds
of the soft-voiced Southerners who
TANNED the courtroom as spectators
as to what the verdict would be afte-
they had heard the stories OF Stanton
and his wife.
Even the prosecution seemed 20 be
affected by the tragedy OF the pretty
child-wife-she Is one Of the most
beautiful women in Yirginia-and the
necessary questions the StatO asked
were kindly.
The case was submitted to the jury
at $50 o'clock last night. without
argument, and Stanton hurried to the
ante-room to sit beside his wife. and
held her hand
A few minutes after D the jury filed
back and told him he was free.
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REVEAL PLOT TO RESTORE
MONARCHY IN RUSSIA

STOCKHOLM Aug. 9.-Police here
declared today they had discovered an
international league for re-estab-
fishing the Russian monarchy"
The disclosures followed investiga-
lions of the recent murdsr OF a Boil
shevik emissary. The secretary of
the league selected the victims. the po-
lice said. They said an American
named Lehrs was among the persons
executed. charged with thc murder OF
four royalists.
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All Prices Soaring
In Chicago, Latest
Food Figures Show

CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-H6re are
some of the increases in food
prices in Chicago during the past
week:
Sugar, 1 to 5 cents.
Coffee, Il to 20 cents a pound.
Potatoes, 81 per 100 pounds.
Fresh milk, / cent a quart.
Condensed milk, cent a can.
Cheese, 3 cents a pound.
Bacon, 1 to 2 cents a pound.
Pork chops, 1 cent a pound.
Berries, 2 to 10 cents a quart.
The one decrease was in the
price Of a popular brand of pack
age biscuits, reduced from 10
cents a package to ~ cents.
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new ENGLAND FOOD
TIED UP BY STRIKE

NEW YORK, Aug. Possibility
that the food situation in New Eng
land may become serious was admitted
here today by officials Of the New
Haven Railway.
They stated it has become necessary
to accept only perishable foods for
delivery because OF the strike of shop
men. Freight is piling rapidly at the
terminal. One hundred and forty
passenger trains, most OF them ex-
presses, have been withdrawn No
parlor cars are being operated and
only a few sleeping cars.
Possibility OF a settlement rested in
the agreement of the strikers to con-
slider President Wilson's appeal to re-
turn to work.
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UCHIDA FAILS TO
PLACATE CHINESE

PARIS. Aug. 9.-Members Of the
Chinese peace delegation declared to-
day they were highly dissatisfied with
the statement of Viscount Uchida,
japanese foreign minister, with re-
gard to the proposed return of Shan
tung to China
The statement does not oeffr the
slightest Improvement in the situa-
tton, the peace delegates said. They
declared they would continue their
night for the freedom Of Shantung I'M
I'll specific dates Of withdrawal and
specific guarantee were given by
japan.
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U. S. WOOL BUYERS TO
ATTEND LONDON AUCTION

American wool buyers will be ad-
mitted to the wool auction in London
next Monday for the first time in h -
tory. Long fiber wool is needed in
this country to improve he quality
of the woolens woven here
This wool is produc ID only in Aus
tralia, and England has the first .ail
on the product. About Al DE bales
will be disposed Of AmsIirans will
be allowed to bid on limited amount.
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RUSH BILLS TO CUT
HIGHPRICES IND. c.
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ing the flies alone for awhile il
there is not sufficient time to deal
with them also.
This feeling is so strong among
members of the Senate subcommittee
investigating District prices that
members OF the committee. except for
an intention to go to the bottom OF
everything, are practically prepared
to vote for laws in the District that
will directly control the profiteer, in
whatever business he may be engaged,
who fills his pockets with huge profits
out of the poor salaries paid so many
local people.
These profteers abound all along the
line in the minds of members of the
committee, who expect to turn their
attention to ascertaining something
of what profits have been among re-
tail dealers Of Washington. The books
of many of these dealers may be sent
for and examined. One case reported
to members Of the committee Is that
of a dealer in a Washington market
who pays rent Of about $12 a year
whose profits out OF a small invest
ment were last year more than $4,000.
Need Jail Sentence.
One of these Senators today ex-
pressed his belief that to reach the
profiteers in the District it will be
necessary to limit their profits to
reasonable returns and to provide jail
sentences for evasion Of the law by
piling up expenses that should not be
attached to the business.
Senator Dial said today that the in
Vestigation Of his committee will not
be confined alone to foods but will go
into rents and other lines Of business
ami that his personal feeling was
that prohteering should be stopped in
any and every field OF business and
industry Il think a middleman is
entitled to reasonable profits but no
man has a license to commit actua!
robbery" is the way he put it.
Suggestions have been made that
the proposed price control laws for
the District should adopt a cost-pIus
proposition, thereby holding down
profits to reasonable returns.
Congressman Johnson is still salts
fed that his rent BILL which caused
such great rUction with the Senate.
is yet the only remedy as to rents in
the District, and he will again make
ehorts 10 push that 1t was his
vicious criticisms of Senator Pome-
rene's rent bills that brought about
i'll feeling between the House and the
Senate, and that feeling has by no
means died away. =
Substitute For Salisbury Law
Every Congressional and District
authority interviewed today declared
that price control legislation for the
District must also include a perma-
nent substitute for the Salisbury law
It was declared by members of the
Senate investigating committee that
many complaints are reaching them
that tenants who will not sign agree
ments or leases to increase rents are
being boldly threatened with election
from their places Of business, homes
or apartments when the salisbury
law expires, regardless of what rents
they are then willing to pay.
Members of the committee, includ-
ing Senator Dial, said that Congress
will have to consider the rent situa-
ton here along with all other things
that go toward increasing the cost of
living.
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They came directly from Coblenz TO
the United States.
In the reviewing stand with Presi-
dent Wilson Tuesday will be General
March, chief of staff: Major General
Barnett. commanding the marine
corps; Admiral Benson, and Assistant
Secretary Of the Navy Roosevelt
Welfare Bodies to Aid.
Members of both Houses OF con-
greSS' the diplomats from the allied
embassies here probably will be
among those who will review the ma
rines from the stand in front of the
White House
The Y. NJ c. a. Red Cross War
Camp Community Service, with other
welfare organization officials. will
hold a conference today or tomor-
row to determine their part OF the
city's entertainment of the sailor
soldiers" during their brief stay here.
Plans are under way for serving the
marines with refreshments before
and after the parade
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I'd DIV. TO PARADE
I'M c. ON TUESDAY
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of June, 1917, among the first troops
TO set foot in France.
The brigade suffered the heaviest
casualties of any American unit in
France, and participated in nearly
every engagement of the American
Expeditionary Forces. There are few
of those who will march here Tues
day who sailed to France with the
original unit of marines, but the men
who compose the brigade now have
all seen action, the majority of them
in the ArgOnne, and many are the men
who helped turn the tide at Chateau
Thierry.
In Many Battles.
Occupying the trenches in front Of
Verdun when they had completed
their preliminary training in France
during the summer of 1917. the ma
rines took part in practically every
other engagement of the American
army. They achieved fame at Cha
teau Thierry, Bots de BelIeau, SOis-
sons, st. Mihiel, Cantigny, and the
Argonne.
After the armis.ice the Second di-
vision moved into Germany i'm the
lead OF the American army of occuPa-
ton, and were stationed at COblenz.
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ONE DAY CoURTsHIP EyoUcu

McGREGOR- La, Aug. 9.-Madge's
cheeks colored so prettiIy at the thrill
OF being lost in the clouds that Cliff
ton 2. G. oleson, youthful aviator.
proposed. They were married next
day.
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RAIL CHIEFSASK
SUPPORT OF PUBLIC
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womanhood. We all are voters. and
unless our democracy in Government
is a failure our democracy in indus
try need not DE. We believe in the
native ability of American labor.
What we ask is the AmericanizatIon
of the railroads"
signed BY Chiefs.
This was signed by Warren ,.
Stone. grand chief, Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers; w. G. Lee
president Brotherhood OF Railway
Trainmen; L. L. Sheppard, president
Order of Railway Conductors: limo
thy Shea, acting chief Brotherhood or
Locomotive Firenen and Enginemen;
B. NJ. Jewell, acting president Rail-
way Employees Department. A. +. L.
Z. J. Manion, general president. Order
Of Railway TeIegraphers, and by the
heads of all other railroad unions IN
Guiding blacksmiths, machinists, boil
ermakers, sheet metal workers, cleo
trical workers, carmen, switckmen'
freight handlers, railway and steam
ship clerks, station and express en-
ployes, shop laborers and maintenance
of way workers.
labor leaders said they expected to
begin negotiations with Rail Director
Hines by next Tuesday. The shop
men want a % per cent wage increase.
Wage demands of other railroad en-
pIoyes may be submitted with theirs
It is expected that Hines will ap-
point a board to sit with him and to
consider whether the increases are
justified on the basis OF the high cost
Of living, and how railroad pay COM
pares with that OF other big industries.
Takes Flat Stand.
President wilson's flat stand
against strikes, enunciated first in his
open letter to Hines, and reiterated
yesterday in his address to Congress,
was expected to clarity the situation
with regard to the demands of the
railroad brotherhoods.
The President stated the manner in
which a hearing may be had on the
pay requests by means of conferences
between union representatives and
the director general, and the Govern
ment looks for the entire question to
be disposed Of in this way, according
to Hines.
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81 INDICTEDFOR
RIOTS IN CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-TWenty-shnss
more Representations IN an-Stood
indicted today for alleged rtot1ng'
assault and murder during the four
days Of race trouble here last Weak.
Eight OF the negroes will face mnf-
der charges
Further findings were announced
late yesterday after the August grand
jury had struck because, it said, no
evidence against white participants
had been presented. Sessions were
resumed. however, after State Of
hcials said evidence against whites
will be offered as soon as the negro
cases had been disposed Of.
Fourteen Of those indicted were
arraigned yesterday before Judge
Grove. All pleaded not guilty. The
first trials were set for September 8.
HEARSE DRIVERS STRIKE.
SHEFFIELD, England, Aug g.
Hearse drivers went on strike here
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NEW YORK, Aug. s.-"Capitar'
walked the boards of Broadway $
shows last night to convince the pub
lie that art is bunk" and that an
actor isn't much more than a hire1
man after all.
George NJ. Cohan, who served his
apprenticeship knocking 'em out OF
their chairs in every kind OF show
from Painted Post to Forty-second
street, romped back to the stage n
an effort to restore THE Royal Vaga-
bond" a Cohan & Harris production,
which was strike-bound last night.
Sam Forrest, general stage director
of the Conan & Harris productions.
tried his ability as Jenko, opposite
Cohan, who appeared as Marcel, the
barber.
For all his drudgery as a slave Of
the system" COhan's sympathies are
all with the Producing Managers As
ISOLATION and against the downtrod
den stars that used TO shine.
Five shows Resume.
The Actors Equity Association,
which Thursday night treated blase
Broadway to a brand-new thrill by
henlUB l"tlNG lltdlGISB gtSNtEudg
waived objection to five productions.
They are "a Lonely Romeo" John
Ferguson" The Greenwich Village
Follies," "39 East" and THE Red
Dawn"
II was decided that the stage stars
have no grudge against those Show,
because their management is not af
1liated with the producers trust.
Nine shows, however, were still dark
last night.
Thomas Dixon, famous author of
Southern dramas. is the -author-prO-
Queer of 1.-The Red Dawn" and John
Ferguson" is produced by the Theater
Guild, Incorporated
Eugene Walter, who wrote paid In
Full" "Fine Feathers" and THE
Easiest Way" made his bow to the
public as an actor when he took a
star part in bis latest show, The
Challenge" In the cast with him
was Edgar Selwyn. whose stage duties
heretofore h1ve been purely mana
gerial
Al JO4sOn Goes On.
The Shubert Company last night
PACED and secured Al Jolson as a sub
stitute for Ed Wynn. the star come
dian OF the "Gayetics of 1919"
In the alley back of the New Am