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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-23
TROOPERS ARREST
TWO UNION OFFICERS
Foster Complains That Or
ganizers Are Locked Up.

McKEEsPoRT, Pa. Sept. 22.-Although
there were no serious outbreaks in Nc
Keesport during the day, State troop
ers dispersed crowds of men that con-
gregated on street corners. Seven were
arrested. Among them were John Pat
terson, vice-president of the Brother
hood of Railway Car Men, Chicago, and
]. l.. Beoghen, vice-president Of the
Pittsburg Central Labor Union
They were charged with disorderly
conduct
Chief Of Police Reddington said he
ordered the arrests of these men for he
believed 1t was their intention to hold
mass meeting near the city line.
The City Council of McKeesport
adopted tonight a resolution giving
Mayor George H. Lysle full authority
to "use his own Judgment" In handling
the situation.
A crowd of men attempted to intimi-
date steel workers at the entrance to
the Duquesne plant of the Carnegie
Steel Company tonight during the
change of day and night shifts. They
were dispersed by Duquesne police.
Eighteen men were arrested.
PIrTsBURG, Sept. 22.-Secretary Foster
of the union declared tonight that police
authorities in the Pittsburg district
were arresting union organizers. He
said that two were arrested at Nc
Keesport and held until 500 bond was
furnished for their release. Two others,
he said. had been arrested and were
being held in Jail. These men were ar
rested without "any just cause" Mr.
Foster declared.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-23

employees Of Nine. Howard are re-
membered with requests ranging from
$500 to $1,000, while score OF other
charitable institutions. mostly Catholic.
receive $500 requests each.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-23

substance of the speech he made in
Reno tonight
There are signs that the President is
anxious 10 return to Washington as soon
as possible, though his anxiety will not
1t is stated, shorten the tour. The be-
ginning of the steel strike and the signs
that the Senate may act speedily on the
treaty have apparently increased his
anxiety to return eastward. Moreover,
he probably has ascertained by this time
what he came out here to find out.
The Presidential train left this city at
10 p. M. and will arrive at Salt Lake
City tomorrow at 4: 40 p. M. The Pres
ident will speak before the Mormons to-
morrow night
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-23
SIERRA FOREST FIRE
IMPEDES PRESIDENT
Continued from First Page.

than the southern part of the State.
and the most uncomfortable. for north
west OF Sacramento the train entered a
series of unnels that were a trial to
Mr.. Wilson's breathing apparatus. In
nifty miles of running in one section
there wero twenty three tunnels, some of
them n mile long.
The evening world., 1919-10-01
GEN. PATRICK EGAN,
HOME RULE LEADER,
DIES IN NEW YORK
"Political Godfather" of Par
neil, Was Once u. S. Min
lister to Chill.

Gen. Patrick Tgan. seventy-eight'
one OF the founders OF the Home Rule
movement in Ireland, and United
States Minister TO Chill under Pres
ident Harrison, died at the home ot
his daughter here last night, after
nm illness OF several weeks.
He was born in Ireland. AZ the
age Of twenty. he began to take
nm active interest in the Irish Ma
tionalist movement Charles Stewart
Parnen referred TO Gen. Egan as
my political godfather" Egan was
responsible for the formation Of the
Irish Land League. lie was the
Treasurer Of the league for many
years.
In the spring OF 1888, he came TO
America and settled in Lincoln, Neb..
where he became prosperous in the
mlling business.
On March "a. 1889. Patrick Egan
was appointed Minister to Chill
When an attempt was made TO over
throw President Balmaceda Of Peru,
In 1891, Egan sheltered In the lega-
tlon leaders Of the civil war from a
mob, telling It that the FIRST man who
tried to enter the legation would bS
shot.
Egan demanded, in behalf OF Presi-
dent Harrison, and received within
three days, an apology and t76,0OC
damages for the killing of one and
the injury OF many American sailors
who landed on Chili's shores from the
cruiser baltimore.
He was one OF the most active In
| the last few years In denouncinG
German Irish activities"
The evening world., 1919-10-01

signed by Mrs Stewart French OF the
Pasadena Committee Of the italian War
Relief Fund. whose campaign IL for
si25. 900 Five thousand copies Of the
medal have been made.
The evening world., 1919-10-01
I'm D. distributed a, III. columbn. pay

celebration in the Metropolitan Opera
House, at which Mime. Amelita GALL.
Curci will sing to raise funds for relief
work In Italy. Tho medallion was de-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-05-15
A REGRETTABLE INCIDENT.

The dissertation of the Wirz monument at Anderson
Fle Tuesday night was most regrettable and unfor-
unate incident and which it is feared may go far
toward tanning back flame and all but dead embers
Of the past
News of the incident not published yesterday by
The Times Recorder for two reasons First as matter
If what appeared a that time to be public
pocy and second because of the request of several
good and clear thinking citizens that more harm would
be done by the spread of the incident than by ig
loring it
However, the news has gotten out elsewhere in the
state and no longer any good be shed by ig
norng it and permitting it to die.
Suspicion has been directed in the public mind,
whether with good reason not Souher Field
Certainly the field and its administration should not be
charged with an oense repugnant good citizenship
without the facts to sustain such charge being as
eertaned. The ofense undoubtedly was the work of a
very limited number of Individuals who may or NAV not
have been identified with the army camp
Our government does not countenance malicious van
dalism and Colonel RAIDER, commanding officer of the
camp, who denounces the act in strongest TERMS may
be depended upon he has promised to expose the
guilty parties if they known clear the hitherto
good name of Souther Field if the camp not con-
neced with the offense, to let the public know it.
The public is entitled to know who the guilty men
are, be they officers pryaes civilians and this much
is owing to the men who are innocent of the ofense
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-05-15
No "Sir JOSephus."

1t is reported that Secretary of the Navy Daniels has
declined a title at the hands of King George. On the
theory that titles in this age tend create class snc
ton, Mr.. Daniels quite within the popular concep
ton of his counrymen. For any country confer
honor great explorer, such Peary, would not dis
turb American but to extend the granting of titles
our government officials is another thing.
In Canada feeling against the acceptance titles
is keen it here. special committee of the Cana
dian House Of Commons recently recommended the dis
continuance Of knghthood of Canadians living Canada
and favored the abolition of hereditary titles Even in
Great Britain there is feeling that the honor business
is being overdone
ANY system that does extend titles to the wage
earners, who give their best to their country hui
manity generally freely do the wealthy, is wrong"
says the Toronto Globe.
Canada has in its citizenship many, who like Mr..
Daniels, declined the honor" notably Alexander Mac
Kenzie, Premier, who said 81 prefer to die as
have lived Alexander Mackenzie After all Burns
right
THE rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The mans the gowd for that"
I Chicago Herald Examiner.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-05-15
BUILDING MATERIAL PRICES.

The u S. Department of Labor through the infor-
nation and education service issuing the results of
study of prices during the war and readusment period
made by the division of public works and construction
development. Discussing building materials prices the
report says:
There this difference in the conditions that de-
termtned prices steel basic building materials:
In the of materials regarded essential
most of the building materials other than STEEL wheh
the price fixed by the government or in the open
market this price not sufficiently high keep all
producers in the market simply because the maximum of
production required by the war time needs OF
the country In fact construction ITSELF as well as pro-
ducon of various building materials was specifically
curtailed by governmental order.
Figures of the u Geological survey show that &C
tua production of lime in 1918 was 20 per cent
less than in 1917 Portland cement produced in 1918
% per cent under the 1917 figure Lumber
Is cent in output Common brick 1917 was 81 per
cent under 1916 1t estimated that in 1918 the
production of brick was less than half the 1917
figure. ...
AS a consequence the markets are understocked
rather than oversocked in these commodities If any one
o ese coIIno teS had been considered essential
Steel the government would have been obliged to fix
the prices on them figures high enough to encourage
every producer in the country to run his plant at maxi
mum capacity with guarantee Of a reasonable profit
from his output In that prices on these comod-
tiles would have reached much higher levels than they
actually did.
Lumber as a group during the last quarter of 1918
was 10 per cent higher in price than in the pre-war
period July l. 1918, June 80 1914 The building mate
rails group, including lumber but not including metal
products was 81 per above the pre-war figure This
seems large but compared with 113 per cent increase
on commodities other than building materials the increase
seerns ustifabe The farm products group showed an in
crease of 116 per cent at the same time
ut is interesting compare the farm products group
with the lumber group The induces show that at the be-
ginning of the year farmer could exchange certain
of his for % per more lumber than
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-05-15

the amount produce would have bought him in
the year preceding the
Roughly speaking, by the end of 1918 the war
dollar expressed in farm products had snrunk to 46
CENTS expressed in terms of lumber had fallen to SO
cents in of building materials mot including see
it fell to 54 cents in all commodities other
than building materials it fell to At cents
"a composite index for all building materials ncud-
ing steel we'll lumber and the rest would show an
increase of SO per prewar period for the
period for the last quarter of 1916 At the present
time the index would be 1S9.
Building material prices increased somewhat more
in the east than in the middle west and west.
Since the opening of the year lumber has increased some
what in price Common brick also increased in New
market the whole group basic materials not
including lumber or steel has remained practically sta
tionary declines items being offset by advances
others all indications the prices of building
terals the whole do not to be subject to de-
cIines of consequence in the future
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-05-15
4 VERSE 4 DAY.
CONDENSATION.

IT'S no use-the Frenchman simply cannot lear
basebalL"-News Item.
W OF held back the enemy, wicked and bold,
You got feet one could designate cold
No matter how and how fiercely they swept
Your heart and your courage France you still kept
We honored you greatly-and that is just why
This item brings tears to the well wisher's eye
You can't catch a fly
You never gave up when the struggle seemed lost
You never were feazed by the terrible cost;
You offered your treasure your blood without stint
Nor ever of doubt despair gave hint;
You served example-and, that's why we all
Are grieved by this message that's bitter as gall:
you can't hit the ball.
We know in the war you were quick to discern
The enemy's tricks and eager to learn
To checkmate each ruse by ruse deeper still
OF and receptions to give him his fill
You stole many march-and such being the case,
We read with deep anguish this awful disgrace:
You can't steal base"
William Wallace Whitlock in New York Sun
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-05-15
WHAT'S THE ANSWER? WE'LL BITE.

An exchange wants to know what will become of
these popular words after July |:
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-01-23
ten DELEGATES
}. AT PEACE meet
Two From Each Of Five Great
Powers Attend Session
in Paris.
MAKE PROGRESS on LEAGUE
Rules to Protect Labor Will Pc
Worked Out by Envcys-Presi-
dent Wilson Has o1l'
4 as spaxs4.s7ss.

Paris, Jan. 21.-Wlth Vittorio Or
lahdo, the Italian PREMIER the only
ubsentee, the supreme council of the
peace conference reassembled at 10 30
this morning. Premier Orlando had
arrived here from Rome, however, and
was expected to attend the councils
session later in the day. The council
as it met today comprised ten men,
bers-two from each of the five great
powers-President Wilson and Secre-
tary Lansing representing the United
States.
Debate Russian Situation.
The situation in Russia was taken
up by the supreme council. Joseph
Noulens. the French ambassador to
Russia: was present at the meeting
and addressed 1t on the Russian ques-
ton. This announcement was made in
the official statement given out regard
ing the proceedings of the plenipoten-
tiaries.
Marked Progress on League.
AS the supreme council of the peace
congress resumed sittings today prog
ress was being made in the business
OF comparing various plans for the for
nation of a league of nations and har-
monizing them into unity of ideas
which can be taken up as concrete
proposition. Much headway in this di-
rection was made last night at the
conference at the Murat residence,
which was attended by President Will
son, Lord Robert Cecil, the British
representative charged with working
out plan for league Of nations
Lean Bourgeois, the French proponent
OF plan for such an Organization,
and Gen. Jan Christian SHUTS, who
has formulated a plan for league.
Wilson to Speed Up League Work.
With definite plan formed for
erecting structure upon which all ma
tions can agree, there are about TWEEN.
ty.tive working days remaining of the
time that President Wilson has allotted
to himself for work in France before
going home. The question being ask
ed is whether he can in this compara-
lively short time bring the nations to-
| gether in An agreement for society
of nations
World Labor Rules Planned.
The possibility that the demand for
labor in debt-crushed European coun.
tries may cause Il slackening of the
laws for the protection of workers will
be the starting point of the consider
alton of the subject of International la.
Dor. which has been placed on the CON
ference program after responsibility
for the war and punishment of the
crimes committed during hostilities.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-01-23

partacans Attempt to Destroy
Ballot Boxes Usfd in Sun
days EIecisP Pn.
|btAIEN BY EBER1's TROOPS
! Flahtins Takes Place in Wilhelm
strassc and Hedemannstrasse-
m Details Of Proposeds New
Constitution AHn ounced. si:s.s .ss

y .4'
London, Jan. 21.-Rioting occurred
I'm Berlin after the Sparta cans had lat-
I tempted to destroy tile ballot boxes
used in the election, according TO an
! Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Copenhagen. ~
IA The Spartacans were repulsed every
where. Fighting, took place, 1T is ne
ported. in Wilhelmstrass and Heles
mannstrasse and at the Hallesche Tor.
The Spartacans also made an attempt
\ to storm the Office Of the Vorwaets.
s Details Of New Constitution.
M Details of the proposed new consti-
] tuition for Germany. drawn up recent
" at a conference of widely known au.
sthOfities on const titutienal law include
1 Hugo Preuss, state secretary of the
interior in the Ebert government, are
given In an official wireless dispatch
sent out from Berlin and picked up
here.
It states that the empire is to consist
Of it's former component states, besides.
any territories which by virtue of the
right Of self-determination desire to be
received into the empire.
Plan New Free States.
The dispatch declares that the peo-
pie have the right, regardless Of for
mer frontiers, to erect new German
free states within the empire; provid-
ing any such free state has a popula-
|. ton sof 100000. If the people of a
border country wislh to join the Ger
man empire the assent of the German
Z people shall be required.
The imperial president, who is to be
elected by the people, must be thirty
five years old and. must have been a
citizen Of Germany for ten years be-
fore his election. He will be elected
4 by an absolute Lhiority of all the
votes of the empire. The president will
represent the empire, but declarations
/ of war or conclusions Of peace rest
with the reichstag,
Treaties with foreign states require
] the assentIof the reichstag As soon
i as league of nations, the. object Of
4 which is the exclusion of secret trea-
II ties, has been formed, all treaties with
the league shall require the assent of
the reichstag. t5r
Term Of. Seven Years.
The imperial presidents tenure Of
office will be for seven years and. his
reelection will be permissible. The
4 imperial government will be composed
4 Of a chancellor and ministers who will
he chosen by the lpresident of the
reichstag.: The government must have
the confidence Of the house Of deputies
and shah be responsible to the reichs-
tag.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-01-23
OFFICERS !: : TO GET QUICK TRIAL
Captain and Lieute(,ant Face Court.
Martial in Connection With Riot
At Des Moines, la.

Des Moines, Ia, Jan. 21.-Capt. F. E.
Gregory and Lieut.. j. B. Herring, un-
der arrest at Camp Dodge in connec-
tion with the near-riot here Sunday,
when soldiers and civilians clashed
with the police, will be given an early
trial by court-mai.tiai, it was said.
Three enlisted men; Corp, John Wal
and Priyates Mike Rothatz and S. I.
{ sAndreze returned overseas patients
at Fort Des Moines, awaited sentence
following conviction on charges of re-
sistfng arrest, while two .ciyilians,
Frank Jackson and William Brewer,
were arraigned in the municipal court
on similar charges.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-01-23
KAISER FOUND GUILTY
French ,urists Want Ex-RuIer
Tried by Special Court.
HohenzoIlern, in Letter to Emperor OF
Austria, Said 1t Was Necessary
to Cut Threats of French.

Paris, Jan. 21.-Leon Bourgeois, for
mer premier and French authority 'on
the league of nations, in statement
to the Matin cites as a precedent for
the punishment of Germans of all de
grees. convicted of violation Of the
laws of war the case of Henry Wirz,
who was tried by court-martial and
executed after the Civil war for cruel
ties suffered by northern prisoners in
the camp he commanded at Anderson
Vile, Ga.
Paris, Jan. 21.-Some points in the
report to which Premier Clemenceau
referred Saturday when he said he
had consulted two eminent iurists on
the penal responsibility of the former
German emperor were, made public,
The report was drawn up by Ferdi-
nand Larnaude, dean of the Paris law
faculty, and Dr. A. G.. de Lapradelle,
professor of rights of nations in the
same faculty.
The object of the inquiry was to in
vestigate from a purely juridical point
of view If the crimes committed by the
German government and army in
v0lved the penal responsibility of. the
former German emperor, what tribunal
should Judge him, and whether his ex-
tradition could be demanded.
The two French iurists prove that
the eXtradition of the former German
ruler cannot be refused, as he is not
political refugee. The report says:
sit is anti-juridical to assimilate
war with conspiracy. Crimes of war
are crimes of public law and interna-
tional law. not political crimes"
The authors argue against bringing
the ex-emperor before a tribunal of
common law, because his will com
manded but his hand did not execute.
They say that he was not the principal
offender and could only be punished
as an accomplice. An international
tribunal consequently must be found.
The report quotes Il letter from the
former emperor TO the emperor, of
Austria in the early days of the war,
in which the German emperor wrote ::
My soul is torn asunder. but ev-
erything must be put TO fire and blood.
The throats of men and women, chill
dren, and the aged, must be cut. and
not tree nor a house left standing.
with such methods of terror. which
alone can strike SO degenerate a peo-
Ele as the French, the war will finish
before two months. While if use hui
manitarian methods, it may prolong
for years. Despite all my repugnance.
l have had to choose the first system"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-01-23
%. KS Z xCHANGE or UTILITIES
Us: 2aeupref1s Court Euies il Favor
~ Of compasf fies5 sustains
!. .s@s Lower cblrts.

Washington. Jan. Pin dtsposing
of test cases the Supreme court de-
cided that the commerce act as amend.
ed in 1910 did not prohibit the free
exchange Of utility service between
telegraph and telephone companies
md railroad companies, even where
service from one line to points on an
s,tl,er was involved. The decision sus.
iained action Of the lower court IN
setting aside Interstate commerce
commission rulings of March 2S, 1916.
(which held that such service must be
paid for By each party on the basis OF
sthe, published tariff rates to which the
general public also was entitled.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-01-23
U. S. MISSION TO GERMANY
Unofficial American Embassy" May
Be Established in Berlin-Func.
tlons Would Be Limited.

Paris, Jan. 21.-The project of es-
tablishing an unofficial American "em-
bassy" in Germany is under considera-
tion by the American delegation to the
peace conference. The proposed mis-
sion would, of course, have no rela-
tions with the German authorities
nor be accredited to any German gov
ernment. its functions would be lin
ited to gathering direct and reliable
information on conditions and events
in Berlin and the provinces, without
which. it is pointed out any satisfac-
tory discussion of German problems is
difficult
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-01-23
KINGS YOUNGEST SON DIES
Prince John Of England, 10, Passes
Away-WiII Not Delay Wed.
ding of Princess.

London, Jan. 81. Prince John.
youngest son of King George, died
here. He was only thirteen years old.
The death of Prince John. Youngest
son of King George and Queen Mary.
will not alter the plans for the we'd
ding of Princess Patricia of Connaught.
ii was learned.
President Wilson has sent a tele
gram of sympathy to King George on
the death of his son, Prince John.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-01-23
OPPOSED TO .. 5. CONTROL
Head Of ST. Paul Stock Yards Denies
Packers conspired to Con Z:
troll Prices.

Washington, Jan. 81. William
Magiyiny, president of the ST, Paul
Union Stock yards, festifying before
the senate interstate commerce com
mittee at hearing on bill for GOV.
ernment control of pafking houses, de
MED that packers hid conspired to
control prices and declared that COY
ernment intervention would cause
more harm than good. Mr.. Magiviny
said only disgrlntled employees of tire
packers had been permitted to testify
at the federal trade Commissions in.
vestigation conducted by Francis j;
Heney and that such evidence was
worthless. Z. Il