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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-10-17
SPORTING

Smell, left end of the Penn State
team, must be some baby. He is keep
ing Conover, captain of the Is team,
on the side lines, which in itself is a
feat. Higgins, the All-America crack,
is back, and all teams may expect
trouble when trying to skirt the State
ends.
Frank says that if Princeton can get
some big men for the backfield the
team will go along well.
President Allen of the Little Rock
club announced Kid Elberfeld had
signed to manage the team.
Willie Jackson has been signed up
for five four-round bouts in San Fran
cisco next month.
Paddy Mullin, the Brooklyn sport
colored heavyweight, for four bouts
in San Francisco. Wills is to receive
$500 for each bout, with the privi-
lege of percentage.
Another world series record has
been broken in a series fraught with
iiILiS hCW MAI No anu StuSdllUIdI udp
peningS. The Reds and the White SOx
will divide the biggest pot in all the
history of these post-season struggles
for the so-called world championship.
This year the players of the clubs
which finished second, the New York
Giants in the National League and
the Cleveland in the American League,
will divide Is per cent of the grand
world series total, or $39,05246. This
means, each man, counting % eligible
on each team, will get $7S1 each.
The New York Yankees and the Chi
cago Cubs, which finished third in
their respective leagues, will be ell.
riched by the world series about $500
each, 10 per cent of the grand total.
Ed Geers drove the three-year-old
Homefast TO straight heat victory in
the pacing futurity at Lexington, XIV.
Sir Thomas Upton has sent another
challenge to American yachtsmen for
1920.
Lee Stahl, middle-weight champion
of the United States navy, is out of
the service and is. taking up profess
sional boxing.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-10-17
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
The Latest GIeanings From Ali
Over the State
THINGS SEEN AND HEARD

Belair.-Colonel Milton A. Reck-
ord, of Belair, formerly commander
of 115th Infantry, has been further
honored with a handsomely en-
graved citation signed by Marshal
Petain of France. 1t reads as fol-
lows: "To Colonel Milton A. Reck-
ord, 115th United States Infantry,
while in command of his regiment
during a period of active operations
against the enemy displayed indefat-
igable ardor and energy. Although
constantly in danger, he displayed
the finest military qualities" Col
onel Record had previously been
awarded the Croix de Guerre and
Distinguished Service Medal, the lat
ter for conspicuous and gallant serv-
ice while commanding the 115th In
fantry in the Meuse-Argonne often
sive.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-10-17
NEGRO PLOT TO SLAY
ALL WHITES .FOILED
"PduI Revere" Courier System
Was uprising Signal

Helena, Ark-Bands of negroes ID
city is the seat of government, plan.
ned a general slaughter of white peo'
pie in this locality, according to mem
-bers of the committee of seven ap-
pointed by civil authorities with the
sanction OF Governor Charles Brough,
who announced that confessions made
by some of the captured negroes an6
other information indicated wide.
spread plot.
Members of the committee said the
plot of the negroes included an upris-
ing in the event certain demands were
not met. With October set as the
day for the uprising, negro prisoners
are said to have confessed each men,
Der of the organization at specified
places was made to take bale of
cotton by that date to certain promi-
nent land owners, plantation man.
ayers and merchants and demand a
settlement"
The confession as announced made
it appear to the Investigators that
following this demand the negroes
were to shoot down all whites in sight.
A list Of twenty-one names, admitted
to represent the men TO whom the
demand would be presented, is in the
hands of the investigating committee.
Killing of these twenty-one, the
prisoners said, was to be the signal
for all members of the organization
to attack the white population.
An extensive courier system was ex-
planned in the evidence, providing for
messengers known to the negroes as
paul RevereS" These couriers had
Been appointed to ride into all parts
of the territory, according to the tes-
timony, and summon members to
arms. The organization concerned was
declared to be the lodge of Progress
sive Farmers and Household Union of
America, confiscated literature of
which designates Washington as ma
tional headquarters.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-10-17
MARTIAL LAW RULES
IN STEEL CENTRES
EdiCt FOrbidS PdradeS and
Outdoor Meeting Of Strikers.

Gary, Ind.LMajor Leonard Wood,
in command of federal troops here,
issued an order placing the town OF
Gary under martial law.
Gary, site of one of the United
States Steel corporations greatest
plants, affected for more than two
weeks by the strike in the steel indus
try, is by this order placed under
military control of approximately
1900 federal soldiers.
Call for federal troops was made
by James P. Goodrich, governor OF
Indiana, after thousands of strikers
paraded and held mass-meetingS after
being forbidden by the mayor, the
police and the approximately 300 state
militiamen stationed at Gary.
The course of the strike here has
been marked by little violence. With
the reports during the last week that
strikers in increasing numbers were
resuming their old places in the steel
mills the attitude of pickets, whose
members also increased, became a
threatening one and for time it
seemed as if 4 serious clash would
be unavoidable.
With the parade, however, accord
ing to a statement by Governor Good
rich, the situation became so threat
ening that it was deemed advisable to
ask for federal troops. The governor
acted on the advice of Mayor Hodges,
Of Gary, and Harry B. Smith, state
adiutant general. He said: Both Of
ticials expressed alarm at the attitude
of the 10000 strikers in Gary and
said they feared that the small num-
Der of state troops stationed there
was insufficient to cope with the sti-
uation," read the governors state
ment.
Upon the arrival of the federal SOL
diers and the issuance of a prOclama-
ton by General Wood, proclaiming
military control, the state militia
were ordered to Indiana Harbor and
East Chicago, Ind, where Governor
Goodrich declared martial law.
The approximately 1900 men under
Major General Wood are regarded as
sufficient to enforce his direction that
no public meetings or assemblages be
held and forbidding parades and de-
monstrations against the authorities.
CARRYING of weapons of any descrip-
ton by persons other than the police,
military. authorities, troops and MEM
bers of The city government also was
forbidden.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-10-17
ITALY RATIFIES
PEACE TREATY
King Signs German and Aus
trian Treaties, But Parlia-
ment Must Act.
OTHER NATIONS TAKE ACTION
Recognition of League May Be Step
Toward Adriatic SettIement-Con-
flict Between Poet and Radi
Gals as Aid to Crown.

Rome-The king of Italy made use
of his royal prerogative to ratify, by
proclamation, the peace treaties with
Germany and Austria. The ratlhca-
tion is subject to approval by the
parliament, but this approval, more or
less, is a matter of form, and fore
gone conclusion. 1t is expected not
later than the middle of November.
To all intents and purposes, Italy's
ratification of the two treaties is now
an accomplished fact. Italy is the
only nation that so far has ratified
the convention with Austria.
Intense speculation is rife as to the
political effect of the kings action
upon the country, especially the army
and navy Over On the other side of
the Adriatic, in Fiume, Gabrielle dan
nunzio is denouncing Italys allies, the
peace treaties and the league of ma
tions and the Italian government to
the tune of rebellious utterances.
He says he will have nothing to do
with the Nitti government, with the
allies or with the league of nations,
until the annexation of Fiume Is sane
toned by the world. Yet ratification
of the peace treaties by Italy is the
biggest step yet taken toward bring
ing into actual and official existence
the league of nations which is to have
the final word about Fiume, for in
France it requires only the senate's
almost certain approval and President
Poincare's automatic signature, and
in England only King Georges SO K''
is needed to make the treaties effec-
tive, the ratification of but three al
lied powers being necessary to that
end.
On the other hand, the constitutions
al procedure of the Italian king in
single handedly making peace after
the parliament has been sent home
may give, it is feared, considerable
ammunition to the Italian radicals in
their campaign against the present
form of government in Italy. How
ever, these radical forces will have
nothing to do with D'Annunzio, whom
they regard as an imperialist and
militariSt, and in the irreconcilable
conflict between these two forces
the nationalistS and internationalists
may find their most helpful ally in
the crisis that looms On ROme'S po-
litical horizon.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-10-17
Appeal BY w. M. Ry. Co.

The State Tax Commission heard
an appeal by the Western Maryland
Railway Company which directly al
fects the valuation of the company
roadbed in Allegany and Garrett coun-
ties and may ultimately affect the val
uation of the companys rights OF way
throughout the state.
The case was the Western Mary
land Railway Company VS.. the County
Commissioners Of Allegany and Gar
rett counties, the railway company
claiming that assessments made by
those two companies are excessive.
The appeal is to determine the unit
value per mile of the Western Mary
lands roadbed through the two coun-
ties in question.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-10-17
Great Events That Are Chang.
ing the Worlds Destiny Told
In Paragraphs.
ITEMS TO INTEREST ALL
ehort Chronicle Of Past Occurrences
I Throughout the Union and Our
CoIonles-NeWs From Europe
That Will Instruct.
PEACE BULLETINS

The ratification of the treaty with
Germany by the French chamber OF
deputies brings the legal operation OF
that instrument nearer than is under
stood by some. The third nation to
ratify it is now predicted will not be
japan, as same have guessed, but
more likely Italy.
Senator Johnson will finish his anti
league speaking trip in the west. He
denies he has been called back.
Senator Hitchcock notified the
White House that forty Democratic
senators are ready to obey the presi-
dents directions in the peace treaty
fight, even to the rejection of the
convention if the opposition succeeds
in amending.
Brigadier General William Mitchell,
director of military aeronautics, told
ihe house military affairs committee
the country was defenseless against
an aerial attack and urged congress
TO provide for an adequate service.
General Denikine has pushed for
ward to within $50 miles Of Moscow,
the Bolsheviki opposing him surren-
dering in great numbers.
1t is reported from Rome that the
Fiume outlook is. encouraging, and
speedy agreement may be looked
for.
.'It is impossible to say that this or
that man invented the tank" Winston
Spencer Churchill, secretary for war,
testified before the royal commission
on awards to inventors, which is deal
ing with the claims of eleven men who
are seeking the honor and bounties at
fached to the invention of this for
midabie instrument of war;
The German government has an
s1ounced amnesty for 100000 desert
ers, except those under the charge of
trea SON
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-10-17
FOREIGN

First effects of a coal shortage arc
being felt in Europe.
General Seminott has notified WASH
ingtOn that it is time to fade or
fight" urging as a reason that merely
guarding the trans-Siberian line does
not help much to crush the Bolsheviki.
France has established an organiza-
ton to buy supplies, from Germany.
The high value of the dollar serves to
check trade with the United States.
King Victor Emmanuel has signed
the peace treaties with Germany and
Austria. This ratification by royal
decree will be presented to the new
Italian parliament for their approval
The French senate began considera-
ton of the German treaty, and Great
Britain is awaiting action by Austria
liza. When France, the British empire
and Italy have finally acted the treaty
becomes effective
All Lima newspapers suspended
publication because of the strike of
printers.
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, the suffra-
gette, left London for America, &C
cording to the National News.
Reports from Constantinople assert
delay of the peace pact with Turkey
is forcing a crisis in the Ottoman
empire
The European nations are trying TO
make America the goat in the
Near East, writes William T. Ellis.
American soldiers guard through
out the occupied portion of Germany
was doubled under reports that a
general uprising under the Spartacan
wing of the German Socialists is due
shortly.
The partial lifting of the ban on
shipping TO England was ordered by
the shipping board in view of the set
tlement of the British rail strike, j.
Two editors of Finnish newspapers
are placed on trial accused under an
archy law providing penalty for advo-
eating overthrow of government
Holland reported fearing excited
Belgian annexationists will vie with
d'AnnunziO'S possession of Fiume, and
will take Limburg.
Germans began to dismantle twelve
ancient forts near Mayence, under SUI
peryisjon Of French army Of occupa.
ZION.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-10-17

President Gompers, Of the A. T. Of
L., declared before the house inter
state commerce committee tha;;
American labor will not stand for ar
Ditration by force and would not sub
nit to laws declaring strikes illegal.
Secretary Glass declares granting of
arge bonuses to returned service mel
would necessitate floating another
arge government bond Issue which
he country is in no position to stand
It present.
A delegation was sent to the United
States by the Welsh tinplate industry
with instructions to make special in
1uiry into systems used in this coun-
Try for intensive tinplate production.
Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri,
at the conclusion of his speech in
Denver, announced he had cancelled
his engagements and would return
east.
Admiral Grayson, personal physician
to the president, announced he had
received letters in every mail offering
cures for the presidents illness.
Herbert Hoover, former Q. S. food
administrator, will head the nation
wide campaign of the Girl Scouts for
funds and associate members.
Industrial conference called by
President Wilson to consider all the
phases Of the present industrial
problems and seek a solution met at
Washington.
President Wilson's condition show
ed further slight Improvement, his
physicians announce. His appetite is
better and he sleeps well.
The Indiana steel strike zone was
quiet, with Gary controlled by 1900
regulars and state troops in East
and Indiana Harbor. General
Wood is in command of the regulars.
Houston Thompson, Of the federal
trade commission, declared the pub
lie will be swindled out of $5O0,000
a year unless congress erects proper
in the form of controlling
legislation against wildcat" invest
ments.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-10-17
PITH OF THE
VICTORY NEWS

Senator Hitchcock's assertion tha!
opponents of the peace treaty are
BoIsheviki, anarchists and the law
less element brings heated reply
from Senator Poindexter, who re-
calls the pre-war attitude of the
administration leader and declares
it was pro German.
prisoners around VoronezIe, south.
east of the OreI region, where the
latest big push for Moscow took
place. General Won der GoItz was
reported to have Joined the Boshe.
vk.
General Denekne's troops are within
80 miles of OreI, on the road to Mos
cow, and the Rolsheviki who have
been opposing him are surrenderina
in great numbers. orel is 200
miles directly south of Moscow.
The city has d population of 10000.
and is an important railroad and
commercial center.
Captain Gabrielle d'Annunzio's army
holds territory forming an equlat.
eraI triangle, with Fiume in the
base and with the apex at Ciana.
Each side of this triangle is ap-
proximate!y six miles long and one
is formed by t1e seacoast.
In the French chamber of deputies
during recent debate on ratification
of the treaty Senator Mccormick, of
Illinois, said resolution was cham.
pioned for amendment of the treaty
by changing the league voting sys-
tenn, but was not pressed because
the chamber, under the French con.
stitution, is without power to amend
treaties.
AS substitute for the johnson
amendment, Senator Mccumber urg.
ed his proposed reservation to ex-
cIude British colonies from partici-
patine in the league disputes invoIv.
ing the mother country.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-10-17
Hagerstown.-The housing COM

Hagerstown.-The housing COM
mittee of the Chamber Of Commerce
has announced the plans of the Ha-
gerstown Homes Corporation, to be
organized to build houses in Hagers-
town to relieve the shortage.
The capitalization of the corpora
tion will be 100000. It is proposed
to construct about 90 houses at the
start. After the first lot of houses
is completed and sold, or rented. the
corporation intends undertaking ad-
ditional building operations IL the
conditions warrant.
The houses are expected to rent
from SIS to $45 month. Forty-six
persons already have expressed their
intention to buy homes on partial
payments.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-10-17
Caleb c. Magruder Ill.

Caleb C. Magruder, Clerk OF the
Court of Appeals and candidate fo1
reelection on the Democratic ticket
is confined to the Emergency Hospital
in this city, suffering from kidney trou
BILE.
Mr.. Magruder, who is about 81 years
old. was taken ill while on the cam
paign trip through Southern Maryland
with Albert C. Ritchie, candidate fo1
Governor, and the others on the Demo
cratic ticket. DR.. Walton H. Hopkins
his attending physician, said thai
while there is no cause for alarm, Mr.
Magruder is very i'll.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-10-17
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Arundel coul

Annap0llS.-Anne ArunQei county
now stands to reap at least some bene-
At by way Of reimbursement for the
public schools and other public build.
ings in the Fifth district, situated in
the area which was taken into the
limits of Baltimore city under the pro
visions of the Annexation law.
The amount that will be received by
the county is to be arrived at through
a committee of arbitration, and 1t is
expected that definite action will be
taken at an early date. In the An
nexation law 1t was stipulated that
one-tenth of the amount involved
should be turned over to the county
by the authorities of Baltimore by Sep
tember 1, 1919, and that a like Install
ment should be paid every year until
the claims of the county are satisfied.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-10-17
Gillespie 10 State Auditor.

The Board, of Public Works elected
William A. Gillespie state auditor to
succeed J. Enos Ray, Jr., appointed a
member of the State Tax Commission
Since the creation of the Office Ill
1914. Mr.. Gillespie has been assistant
to Mr.. Ray, who was the first auditor
The salary of the position is $4,000
per annum. Mr.. Gillespie has had long
axnerience as an expert accountant.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-10-17
ENGLISH RAIL MEN
AGREE To RETURN
Strike Ends by Compromise Set,
Element Between Premier
and Union Officials.
WAGES STABLE FOR YEAR
Victory Is Claimed BY Both Factions.
Minimum Wage Will Be Lower
Than Demanded-Back
Pay Is Granted.

London.-The strike of British
railwaymen, that has kept 6OO,OoO
employees idle for more than a week
and stopped the work of many thou
sands in other industries, came to an
end with dramatic suddenness. Elm
ployes of all classes returned to work
and the other sympathetic Waikouts'
which were to have begun, are in
definitely postponed
After an eleventh-hOur conference
between Premier Lloyd George and
members of his cabinet, representing
the employer ergovernment on the one
hand, and the executive committee of
the National Union of Railwaymen
and a mediating delegation composed
of representatives of various trade
unions on the other, a compromise
was effected.
The dispute over wages resulted in
an extension of the period in which
present levels would be stabilized and
the establishment of a minimum wage
lower than that asked by the strik-
ers, The question of Standardization
of wages on a scale to apply to all the
railroads in the country, settlement of
which has been urged by the railway
men for the last year, was left open
to negotiation, with the understanding
an agreement would be reached by
Christmas.
The previous government wages Of
fer, described as "defnitive," prOvid-
ed for the stabilization of wages at
their present level until December 81
of this year, as the minister of labor
had insisted the present scale, which,
including war bonuses, averages near
ly $50 per cent above pre-war levels,
could not be maintained beyond that
date. Under the terms Of the settle
ment "wages in the United Kingdom
will be stabilized at their present
level until September 80, 1920
The government forced a reduction
of the railwaymen's demands for a
minimum wage of 60 to 81 Shillings,
which it was agreed would be paid
hereafter to every adult worker.
In addition the government agreed
to pay the arrears of wages Of strik-
ers which early last week were order
ed withheld because the men left their
posts without warning. 1t was agreed
that the return of the strikers would
not affect the workers who operated
the trains during the crises.
The end of the strike came when
the public had almost given up all
hope of peaceful settlement. Now
that the crisis is past, both sides ad-
NIT that England has literally been
pulled back from the verge of civil
war.
Following the breakdown of nego-
tiations, thousands of "citizen guards"
had been enrolled to maintain order
in the crisis. Thirty-five hundred had
enlisted in London, two thousand in
Liverpool, one thousand in Manches-
ter, and it was reported the govern
ment had planned to have $4,000 "un-
der brassards" the day when the call
ing of q general strike was feared.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-10-17

Cumberland. All Cumberland
and Allegany county is up in arms
against the proposed new schedule
of prices for natural gas which the
West Virginia and Maryland Gas
Company seeks to put into effect here
this month, providing they can se-
cure permission from the Public
Service Commission of Maryland, to
which they have submitted their new
schedule of prices, which range all
the way from increases starting at
40 per cent, and running up to as
high as 100 per cent, above present
prices.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-10-17

Cumberland.-Dan w. Snyder.
this city, formerly newspaper man.
has announced himself as. an inde-
pendent candidate for clerk OF the
Allegany County Circuit Court. Mr..
Snyder, who is Democrat, in his
announcement, says; II had intend
ed to run on the Democratic ticket,
but some of the committee seem to
object to my name being placed on
the ticket, knowing, suppose, that
some of my ways Of thinking and act
ing and their way do not gee very
we'll" Mr.. Snyder is 70 years old.