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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23
President Standing Pat on His
Ultimatum That it is Yer
sailles Treaty or
Nothing.
PEACE WITH GERMANY
Congress Attempting to Pass End OF
War Resolution May Bring Out
Third Term Announce
nent.
LBy Hugh Baillie, United Press STAFF
CORRESPONDENT

LBy Hugh Baillie, United Press Staff
Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 23.-Presi-
dent Wilson will veto the Knox reso-
luton declaring state of peace with
Germany, or any other measure con-
gress may pass in an effort to bring
about peace without ratification OF
the Versailles treaty, it was learned
today. so
The president is standing pat" for
the Versailles treaty or nothing. His
only concession will be, as previously
announced, negotiation of "modus
vivendi" agreements with the allies
and Germany to preserve American
rights under the, Versailles pact until
THE voters express their wishes II
| the presidential election.
Mo move is expected to come from
the white house until congress has
acted on the Knox resolution. The
president, it is believed, desires first
to veto this measure and then 10
announce that the treaty fight is IN
the campaign. Whether this will be
followed by announcement Of his own
candidacy for third term is still
prcblematical, depending largely upon
the advice OF his physician, DR.. Gray
son.
There may be some delay in the
resumption of the fight over peace,
because congress is prone to wait
until Wilson shows his hand before
acting on the Knox resolution.
Meanwhile, however, the president
is steadily taking more and more OF
hand in the preparations for the
democratic national campaign.
The present situation leaves Attor
ney General Palmer in a predics.
ment. He announced his candidacy
when the "a1l clear" signal was given
from the white house. Now that the
possibility of Wilson himself being
the democratic nominee is again
being discussed, Palmer finds himself
obliged to go a bit lightly with his
campaign plans, until the situation is
clarified If Wilson becomes a can
didate, Palmer will be expected to
withdraw from the race at once and
to announce that he will support the
president.
Steps toward framing resolution
of peace that would be acceptable 20
both houses will be considered today
at a meeting of Senator Lodge, re-
publican leader in the senate, and
Representative Porter, chairman Of
the house foreign affairs committee.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23
COMMONS IN
AN UPROAR
Open Charge is Made That Staying
of Lord Mayor MaeCurtam
of Cork Was Police
Murder.

TUnited Press Leased Wire Service. i
LONDON, March 23.--The murder
of Thomas" MacCurtain, lord mayor
of Cork, ireland, will have pro
found effect upon the entire Irish
situation, political observers here be-
lieved today.
In the opinion of many observers,
the governments position has been
weakened. A widespread impression
prevails, these observers said. that
MacCurtain was killed by the police.
Irish sympathizers said yesterdays
tilt in the house of commons is only
the beginning of new and more bitter
debate on the governments attitude
toward Ireland.
Open charges that MacCurtain was
killed by the police were made by
jeremiah MacVeagh who character
lied the lord mayors ASSASSINATION
as police murder
MacVeagh's charges threw COM
mons into an uproar.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23
ROBBERS STEAL
BANKS MONEY
Get Away With $1o4,aoo in Cash and
Registered Bonds from Ma.
tional Bank in Ne
- braska.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
LINCOLN, Neb., Mar. 23.-Robbers
last night blew the vault of the Green
wood, Nebraska First National bank
and escaped with s104,300 in register
ed bonds and cash. according to word
received here. Two attempts were
made to open the safe, which proved
unsuccessful, the robbers contenting
themselves with the contents of the
boxes and vault Bank officials esti
mate the loss at 100000 in bonds
and $500 in cash.
The yeggs worked quietly, residents
of Greenwood being unaware Of the
robbery until this morning. All telo
phone wires entering fne town were
cut. A section house was robbed OF
tools and a hand car. 1t is believed
the robbers escaped on the handcar.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23
WOMEN DELEGATES
TO CO NT|0N
They May Hol = lance Of
Power in Seld e Repub-
ican Cand for
Presi
FOURTEEN NAMED
FOURTEEN - NAMED
One Hundred are Expected to Attend
National Party Gathering in
Chicago Next
June.

IUnited Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, March 23-Women dele
gates to the republican national con-
vention here in June may hold the
balance Of power in selecting the re-
publican presidential nominee, repup.
lican women leaders here predicted
today.
One hundred women are expected
to be elected to- the convention, ac
cording to Mrs. G. w. Reinecke, Chr
cago, secretary of the women's SEQ
ton of the G. o. P. national conven
ton, and these women, she said. will
be prepared to fight all the way for
equal rights with men and VIII de-
mand "fifty-fifty" representation on
the national committee.
Delegates already elected to the
convention total 257. or these, four
teen are women.
States which have elected women
delegates are: Minnesota one, mis-
souri, twelve, and Kentucky one.
Women delegates from the follow
ing states are claimed as certain:
New York three, South Dakota one
New Mexico one, California five, ane
illinois one, @ .
Republican women leaders expect
that their delegates will compose the
most influential group in the con-
vention. They point out that any
action they take in supporting can
didate is bound to have moral Ell
feet on the men.
That women delegates may be Sc
lected to place the names OF some
candidates in nomination, was pre-
dicted by Mrs Reinecke.
Women are expected to flgure
prominently in writing the party plat'
form. according to Mrs. G. A. Soden'
one of the women members of the
committee drawing up the platform
Particular attention will be given
to the educational plank. Efforts to
include a plank providing for the ap'
pointment of at least two women to
the cabinet are expected to be made.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23
President Wilson Issues Order That Laws
Covering Cost be Knocked Out, But Not
Control and Distribution.
JOINT CONFERENCE HAS BEEN CALLED
Miners and Operators to Meet N Effort to
Agree on Basic Recommendations of
Coal Commission.

/, Wilson said he had carefully con-
sidered the desirability of continuing
coal price regulations after April i,
but had decided against 1t until
some grave emergency shall arrive a
He indicated he had not intended to
confer price fixing powers on the
coal commission.
Both majority and minority reports
accept as basis an increase in
wages to tonnage workers OF "a cents
over the wages in effect on March
81, 1915, with the provision thst the
IA per cent wage increase fiAesi by
former Fuel Administrators Garfield
be eliminated on April ] next, when
the new wage scale is to become CT;
fective and continue until March 81
1922. or for two years. 4
AS to day labor and monty mer,
except trappers and other boys. the
ajority report provides fo- IN adr
ivanc3 OF one dollar day. Trapprrs
and boys receiving less than mems
wages are to be advanced SO cents a.
day. The minority report differed
on this point with the majority res
port. White proposed that day labor
ers and men be advanced $1.35 a
day and that trappers and Other bcys
be advanced Is cents a day. For
yardage and deadwork both reports
| agreed on an advance of 90 per cent.
The minority report recommends
/ that the increased wages be absorbed
by the operators without advances in
prices of coal. The majority report
does not touch on the question OF
! prices, a position endorsed by PresI
dent Wilson in his letter calling con-
ference on wages.
The majority report retains the
eight-hour day. The minority agrees
to retain the eight-hour day for one
wear. but declares for reduction In
hours thereafter.
The miners in their original de-
mands asked for a six-hour day and
five-day week, but later modified
this to a seven-hour day.
Both reports agree that contracts
between miners and operators should
terminate in the spring. 1t was point
ed out at the time of the soft coal
strike that when contracts ternli-
mated in the fall, the miners, by
threatening to strike, had great adj
vantage because cessation OF work
would leave the country without fuel
as winter came on. Is.
Both reports provide tribunal
for the settlement Of future disputes
in the mining industry.
The majority report proposes
commission to be selected Jointly BY
miners and operators. ON various
technical questions. such as wages
for car pushing, coal to miners fami-
lies, camps and housing and black
smithing, White differs with the ma
jority report. These differences were
classed by President Wilson as not
highly important.
In addition to wage recommends
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23
RENT SLAVES BATTLE ..
AGAINST HIGH PRICES
CONTINUED on page ID

decision was reached that twenty
percent net profit on apartments is
mot enough
The landlords also planned to have.
at least five hundred representatives
in Albany to oppose the anti-protiteer-
ing bills.
The tenants formed the van of the
largest army of lobbyists ever to go
to Albany at one time. A number OF
teachers were bound for the capital
to urge enactment of legislation pro-
yiding wage increases for them. Sew
eral labor groups were to- oppose
bill designed to establish q repilca or
the industrial court instituted by
Governor Allen, of Kansas. Fifty
women who said they will speak for
Ave thousand other members OF the
women's league for equal oppor-
tunity. intended to oppose the
women's welfare bills. particularly
taat limiting women to eight hours
work day.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
| WASHINGTON, March 23.-Presi-
dent Wilson today called miners and
| operators to joint conference to
revise wage schedules on the basis
recommended in the majority report
Of the coal commission.
/ At the same time the president is
sued an executive order, to take ef-
feet April /, abolishing all orders
| relative to coal prices issued prior to
March 1, when the railroads were re-
| turned to their owners. The effect
Of this order is to leave coal disribu-
ton and control Of exports under
! government supervision. but to knock
out all price regulations issued un-
4 der authority OF the Lever act.
I The white house also made public
! both tire ma ajority and minority re-
ports Of the coal commission, which
adjourned recently after long hear
| ings of the bituminous coal wage con-
4, troyersy.
The majority report was signed by
Henry Robinson and Rembrandt
Peale. public and, operators repre-
sentatives on the commission. The
minority report is signed by John p.
! White, miners representative.
In his letter calling the miners
and operators to conference, Wilson
urged they meet at the earliest date
possible and agree on settlement,
so coal consumers might have infor7
nation to enable them to make con-
tracts for the coming year.
He forwarded to the miners and
operators both the majority and NIL
nority reports of the coal commits
sion. but said "the report of the ma
iority is none the less the report Of
the commission and binding as such.
81 take it that neither party will
raise any question, and I am sure
that no question can properly be
raised as to the binding character of
the award, Notwithstanding the fact
that it is not unanimous
Wilson stated that the miners, at
the time they called off their strike
last December, agreed to accept the
report Of the coal commission. The
operators also agreed to this, he
said .....
"This condition was in no way
changed by my subsequent action, on
December 10, in expressing belief as
to the desirability and Importance of
unanimous action Wilson continued,
referring to his request for unani-
NOUS report at the time of the ap-
pointment of the coal commission.
He expressed regret that unani-
nous report was not forthcoming,
but pointed out that the majority and
minority reports Of the commission
concurred in many important par
ticulars.
"This minority report concurs with
the report of the commission as to
the wage for miners, though dissent.
ing as to the wage for day workers,
and in part concurs and in part dis
gents in other points" the president
said.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23
Exhaustive Inquiry.

TTTnited Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON, Mar. 23.-An ex
haustive inquiry into the treatment OF
wounded soldiers by the federal board
for vocational education in the car
rving out of the vocational rehabilita
tion program will be started by the
house education committee Monday
Chairrnan Fess today stated.
list of thirty-nine witnesses were
called today by the committee. the
list having been submitted by the New
yorl, evening Post, which printed a
series of articles making twenty-six
charges of mistreatment of the wound,
ed men.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23
TWO KILLED
IN DUBLIN
Clash Between Soldiers and CIVILIANS
on Streets When Soldiers
Fired Into the
Crowd. ...

I1Tnited Press Leased Wire Serv1cel
DUBLIN, March 23.-A man and
,voman were killed and several other
persons injured in clash oetWeen
soldiers and civilians here iast hlsat.
A band Of 300 soldiers was para"-
ing through the streets Josthns
crowds and pushing civilians from
the sidewalks, it was said. When
civilians resented their actions. a
general fight followed during which
fine some of the soldiers fired INTO
tbe crowd. .-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23
Hioh Price of Gasoline.

r1rnited Press Leased Wire Service ]
WASHINGTON. March 23.--An in.
yestigation of the high price OF
Gasoline was demanded in a resosu'
t;on introduced in the house today by
Representative Dyer, Missouri.
The probe would be conducted by
the attorney general and would also
60 into oil prices.
Four increases in the. price 81
.. .soline have been made during the
last thirty days and huge profits are
being made by the oil interests, Dyer
charged.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23
Continued on page %
GET DOWN AND DIG
TO REDUCE LIVING

. . y " IL
IN vour garden, but get, down wlth
,,o,r hands and dig-it's simple, &C
cord;ng TO Mrs. Francis King. Alma
Mich, president of the assoc'a'ion'
The end of the war hasn't endoa
thrift gardens. Americans neea - -
Ne m tanght thrift and thrift gardens
nre good lessons" Mrs. King sala.
Che declared thrift gardens now
would do much TO lower living COSTS
The conference today planned "a a
General educational campaign .ol
Rome gardening during the comios
season. IL, n-
The midwest conference i'as re rep :
resentatives from limos .,,a - Mew
Michigan and Wisconsin and the NeW
England division.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23
Five Hundred Scared Vic
tins to Plead Before
Legislature.

TIJnited Press Leased Wire service J
NEW YORK, March, Z3'-,he1l
serfs advanced on albany IN oaItie
formation today.
Five hundred men and women
bearing the figurative scars OF con
tinued "gouging" by their Landlords,
entrained today at Grand Central
station for the capital to urge pass
age of numerous bills designed %
curb profiteering.
Determination of tenants to insure
massage of the rent bills crystalliizso g
as the result of mass meeung ol
landlords here Sunday at which a
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23
Information Wanted.

rTnited Press Leased Wire Service J
PARIS, March 23.-The senate
foreign affairs committee late yester-
day adopted resolution asking the
government for official information
as to the relation of the United
states to the German peace treaty
and the American attitude toward
Russia and Turkey.
The committee also asked Tor IN
formation on the proposed reesfap-
lishment of relations between France
and the vatican.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23
|URTHER CONCESSIONS ARE DEMANDED.
Ereatest Danger Now is in Dwindling Food
Supply on Account of General Strike
Called by Socialists.
u Ed Il. Keen, United Press STAFF
CORRESPONDENT

By Ed Il. Keen, United Press Stah
Correspondent
LONDON, Mar. 23.-Reports of new
dcal successes continued to come
pm Germany today.
Gustav Noske, President Ebert's
mister OF defense, has been forced
resign, a Berlin dispatch said
kher designations of cabinet mem
RS may be expected, the dispatch
i'd. Ebert has promised complete
Organization with the labor unions
lrticipating.
The situation throughout Germany
still chaotic according to semi OH
al advices here. Encouraged by re-
brts Of the successful communist up
sing in the Westphalian industrial
strict the extreme independent SO
alfsts we're said to have delivered a
ev ultimatum to the Ebert group
ter their first demands had been
fanted.
The ultimatum demanded still fur.
Der concessions to the radicals.
Advices, said to come from h1gn
lied officials in Germany, who quoted
embers of the Ebert government, ad'
lifted that the government was
armed at the rapid spread of com
unists in the Ruhr industrial dis.
ict 1t was pointed out that the gov
nment is hampered in Its operations
Eainst the radicals who hold several
bwns here, By the fact that the peace
eaty forbjds President Ebert TO
End armed forces into this district.
Warning From Allies.
BY Carl D. .Groat, United Press Stair
Correspondent
BERLIN, March % (night) Allied
representatives. here tonight warned
be independent socialist leaders thar
hey cannot hope for support IN
redits and foods II they persist In a
rike tending to Germany's ruin.
Food is becoming scarcer daily.
|he meat supply, according to gov.
|rnment officials, is sufficient to last
Pnly until mid-April.
It was understood the radicals also
pave been informed that no aid may
be expected from America unless
|hey offer assistance instead of OBJ
(trnction to the Ebert government.
1t was believed the allied sugges'
|ions will have considerable weight
p forcing the radicals to abandon
|heir most extreme demands. The
|itnation in Berlin seemed to be
Hearing tonight.
A German leader saw in the return
n the fat war, profiteers to the big
|oobies of Berlin hotels q most hope
|ul sign He pointed OUT that they
disappeared during the fighting, and
Eould not be back II there were any
Danger now.
The general strike, which radicals
persist in continuing, cannot last
pore than few days longer, the
Fovernment confidently predicted.
The radicals, however, declared the
E,orkers will remain out until all the
Polectionable members of the Ebert
have resigned.
Ellis l.. Dresel, head Of the Ameri-
Fan mission here, called on the gov.
Fnment late yesterday and expressed
Fausfaction at the defeat Of the Won
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23
Brideuroom Burglar.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-. March 2S.-J ohn
Edward Jackson, alleged bridegroom
hmrelar." and declared by police to
~ IN narole from the Nebraska peni-
tertiary. went to trial in circuit court
here today.
Jackson, it was charged store an
automobile and used it IN englnesI-
ING four robberies the night OF tne
day he was married TO Mildred court
new. a st. Louis girl
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23
md Of War Has Not Ended
Thrift Gardens is
Advice.

United Press Leased Wire Service.]
GhlCAGO, March 23.-"Get down
~ dig and you can knock the II
~ OF the H c L." women delegates
The conference of the midwest
ranch Of the Woman's National
Ira and Garden association de-
(arld today.
'.s lot cheaper to buy your food
me stores than to pay for labor
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23

kapp insurrection and re-establish.
ment of the constitutional regime.
Dresel said he was sure the United
States government would view with
disapproval all attempts to revOlu-
tionize. the government unconstitu-
tiona1ly. This might imperil the
restoration Of good relations between
Germany and America, Dresel said,
and seriously interfere with the pro-
yisiouing of Germany
Plans for the amelioration OF Ger
many's present unfayorable economic
situation could not be carried out II
the government of President Ebert
Striking workmen and militia
sclashed at Gohannastil, Berlin
suburb, late yesterday. The work
men disarmed the militiamen and
beat them. Regular troops came to
the militia IS aid and violent fighting
followed. Several were killed. Regu-
lar troops were said to have captured
one group Of workmen. lined them
UP and shot them.
All members of the Ebert cabinet
reached the city last night. 1t was
planned to have the reichstag meet
Wednesday.
Dispatches from Leipsig said the
situation there was quiet following
bloody fighting for several days.
Ebert troops controlled the city and
xhe general strike was ended.
His Arrest Ordered.
PARIS, March 23.-Berlin dis
patches here today bore out an ES-
change Telegraph dispatch received
in London which said the Ebert gov
eminent has ordered the arrest of
General Erich Ludendorff for alleged
implication in the Won Kapp insur-
rection.
Warrant For Ludendcrff.
LONDON, March "a warrant
has been issued in Berlin for the ar
rest OF General Erich Ludendorff, an
Exchange Telegraph dispatch said to.
day.
Ludendorff, the dispatch said, has
disappeared.
Demand Cabinet Resign.
BERLIN, March % 90 p. m.) II
Karl Legien, head of the Berlin laborj
unions late tonight demanded resis
nation of the entire cabinet OF Prest-
dent Ebert 81
Radical workers have decided TO
continue the general strike unless
INC government complies with the
demands.
Forty Are Killed.
LONDON. March 23-Forty per
CONS have been killed and sixty-five
wounded in fighting between Sparta
cans and Ebert troops at Henn:ss-
darf an Exchange Telegraph dis
natch from Berlin said today.
Fifty Killed. ....
RERLTN, March 23.-Fifty persons
were killed and seventy-fve wounded
IN fghting at Henningsdorf between
Spartacans and soldiers. me en-
gagement developed into resui'i
d. Il
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23
ThirtyLfve States.

OLYMPIA, Wash, Mar. 23.-Thirty-
five states now have ratified the fed
eral suffrage amendment. Only one
more is needed to put the, amendment
into effect and give the vote to women
of every state. Washington became
the thirty-fifth raifying state late
Yesterday when the senate followed
the lead of the house and voted
to ratify the amendment.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23
DELAWARE SURE
TO RATIFY
Only One More State Needed Now to
put Amendment Into Effect and
Give Votes to All
Women, ....

United Press Leased Wire Service ]
DOVER, Del, Mar, 23.-Ratification
OF the suffrage amendment by the
Delaware legislature was practically
assured today as leaders of the oppo-
sition decided they did not care to be
held res sponsible for defeat Of ma
tional measure A caucus of the re-
p,lblicans was to be held today. Gov
ernor Townsend drafted a message to
the Joint session urging immediate
ratification OF suffrage.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23
Eiffv Killed,

prpITN March 23.-Fifty persons
..ara Li,led and seventy-fve wounded
in fighting at Hennlngsdori De'"eeH
Snartacans and soldiers. Ihe en-
ga cement developed into a regular
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23
Warrant For Ludendcrff.

LONDON, March 23.-A warrant
has been issued in Berlin for the ar
rest OF General Erich Ludendorff, an
Exchange Telegraph dispatch said to.
day.
Ludendorff, the dispatch said, has
disappeared. ID
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-23
His Arrest Ordered.

PARIS, March 23.-Berlin dis
patches here today bore out an ES-
change Telegraph dispatch received
in London which said the Ebert gov
eminent has ordered the arrest of
General Erich Ludendorff for alleged
implication in the Won Kapp insur-
rection.