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VOL. LXI—NO. SENATOR TREATY METHODS OF PRES Daclares Consideration of the Treaty of Versailles Should Not Be Undertaken Until the Franco-American Treaty Has Been Submitted to the Senate—Contends That the Two Treaties Have Been Linked Together — Claims That President Wilson Has Violated Article Four of the Treaty —Chief Executive Plans Immediately, Probably Today. Washington, July 28.—iepublican members of the Koreign Relations Committee today discussed in private conferences witholding of the French treaty by President Wilson. Senator Brandegee, repyblican, of Connecticut, again criticifed Presi- for withholding the French treaty. == president said: it to_ihis (German) treaty. said Mz Brandegee, recalling the presi- dent’s address submitting the = Ver- sailles treaty. “It (the French treaty) provides by Article Four,” sald Mr. Brandegee, “the president of the United States, the head of our peace commission, the man who negotiated this treaty, agreed in the treaty to lay it before the senc#e at the same time. He did not do it. The president has violated Article four of the treaty, which he himself adopted. “The sin cannot be atoned for. It is violated beyond redemption—even if he submits it later “He also stated that the two trea- ties were linked together. What he has linked together we ought to be allowed to consider together. “If 1 had my way, 1 would not pro- ceed a day further with the consider- ation of the .treaty of Versailles until the president had submitted the Franco-American treaty. TO SUBMIT DEFENSIVE TREATY WITH FRANCE Washington, July 38.—The speciall defensive treaty with France, which Tepublican _ senato have declared President Wilson is withholding from the senate in violation of its own terms, probably will be submitted for ratification within a few days. To a group of democratic senators with ‘whom he talked at the capitol late today the president indicated that the treaty, which promises American aid to France in case of an unpro- voked attack from Germany, would be laid before the senate possibly to- morrow and certainly before Mr. Wil- sen begins his countrywide speaking teur. It was said he probably would not .present it in person but would nd with it a writien message urging ts_ratification. The development followed a renewal of senate criticlsm of the president's delay and headed off a plan discussed ong republican leaders to drop con- tion of the treaty of Versailles he French treaty had been sub- A provision of the latter as public stipulates that it must be ald before the senate “at the same time” as the Versailles treaty, which was submitted more than t ‘weeks ago. Senators who talked with the presi- dent today said he volunteered no ex- planation of his course in the matter. When he presented the Versailles treaty, July 10. he made only a brief erence to the special treaty. sayin, that “its terms link with this treaty” and that it would be reserved “for pecial explication on another occa- sion. In renewing In the senate today his charge that the president had violated the treaty's express- provisions by withholding it, Senator Brandegee. Connecticut, a republican member of ‘Its terms link il to Submit the French Treaty the foreign relations committee, sald Mr. Wilson also had treated the sen- ate unfairly if the treaties really were inked” together. “I do not care to take one link,” said Senator Brandegee. “and let ~some other gentleman keep the other link in his pocket, if I am expected to judge how _the two are to fit together.” Mr. Wilson also discussed other fea- tures of the treaty situation during his visit to the capitol and intimated that his speaking trip might not begin as soon as had been expected. Although it had been indicated he would start from Washington about Aug. 5. he is said to have told senators today that his pians were in abeyance, particu- larly in view of the intense heat and various important matters calling for his attention here. It was said, however, that Mr. Wil- son apparently had no intention of abandoning his trip entirely. The question of reservations in the peace treaty is said to have been touched on at the president’s confer- ence, and he was quoted as express- ing aversion to any qualification in senate acceptance of tne treaty be- cause he believed it would be awk- ward to ask Germany now to accept modifications of any sort. Just before the president's arrival at the capitol the foreign relations committee had finished its preliminary reading of the Versailles treaty and had laid it temporarily aside for con- sideration tomorrow of the long de- layed treaty with Coiombia. Some members thought this could be dis- posed of at tomorrow’s session. After that the committee will hear several of the experts who advised the American delegation at Versailles. In the senate today Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, delivered a pre- pared address in support of Article 10 and in reply to arguments that ft would handicap the movement for Irish freedom. Senator Williams, democrat, Mississippi, charged that the republicans had attempted to make a political issue of the presi- dent's course resarding the special French treat onsiderable interest was aroused by publication of a set of reservations proposed by Charles Evans Hughes in a letter to Senator Hale, republican, Maine, following in the main those ;Kum:asted some time ago by Elihu oot. CHARGES PARTISAN PLAN BY REPUBLICAN SENATORS Washington, July 28.—A charge that republican senators in _ criticizing President Wilson for not sending the treaty with France to the senate, followed a carefully laid partisan plan. was made in the senate today by Senator Williams. democrat, Mis- sissippl. Senator Willlams deciared that a letter sent out on July 22 by Will H Hays, chairman of the republican na- tional committee, “as a campaign doc- ument,” called particular attention to a magazine article giving prominence to the treaty’s provision that it must be presented to the senate at the same time as the Versailles treaty. The Mississippi senator also quoted a published account of a conference on the rubject between Senators Lodge, Brandegee, Knox and Borah. BERGER SAYS GOMPERS IS TOOL OF CAPITALISTS Washington, July 28.—Victor Ber- ger. testifying today before the spe- cial committee investigating his right 0 a seat in the house, said he prefer- red the Industrial Workers of the World to the American Federation of Labor, because. he added. “Samuel Gompers for some time past has been | the tool of capitalists. Asked to explain this statement more fully, Mr. Berger said that of the two labor organizations, “the I. W. W. was the better, for it at least had the class instinct. Mr. Berger said he was in favor of intervention in Mexico in 1916 but greatly opposed to the draft and its effect in forming an army in 191 Asked by Representative Welty, democrat. Ohio, his probable attitude if permitted to take his seat in the house, Mr. Berger replied that he al- ways would vote against war appro- priations but would support tax leg- isiation, provided there was an equal distribution of the taxes among all classes. STREET CAR MEN IN CHICAGO VOTE TO STRIKE Chicago, July 28.—Strest car em- ployes voted tonight to strike at 4 a. m. tomorrow after refusing to ratiy an agreement reached earlier in the day between representatives of the employes and employers. The agree- ment, representatives of both parties had thought, would avert a walkout of the men. The walkout, which will affect both the surface and elevated employes, will tie up the transportation system of the city except suburban trains. The agreement, which was refused at 2 _meeting tonight of the employes. would have given the men a wage of 65 cents an hour. their present wage being 48 cents they would have had an eight hour day and were to be paid | time and a half overtime. PROPOSES CREATION OF A DEP'T OF AERONAUTICS Washington, July 28.—A bill pro- posing creation of a department of aeronautics, which would co-ordinate the army, navy. marine corps and postoffice air services was introduced today by Representative Curry, re- pubiican, California. The measure al- =0 would provide government assist- ance in the development of airplanes for commercial purposes. STRIKE OF DOCK WORKERS IN LIVERPOOL SETTEED Li 31, July 29.—(By The A. P.) The strike of dock workers has been settled. Work will be resumed to- the settlement aay (Tuesday). The strikers regard ns:being greatly In their favor. © HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR WRECK AT MONTOWESE New Haven, Conn., July 28.—En- gineer Thomas M. Darigan of New Haven and Conductor Daniel Sullivan of Westfield. Mass., are held criminal- 1y responsible in a finding announced tonight by Coroner Mix for the wreck of a New York, New Haven and Hartford rallroad work train at Mon- towese, near here, on July 14, which caused the deaths of two men and the serious injury of six others. Darisan and Sullivan have been held in $2,500 bonds since the accident. The coroner finds that Darigan and Sullivan did not use proper precau- tions in entering a siding with their work train, carrying 48 employes of the railroad: that the air brake of the train was only 40 per cent .operative, while the railroad’s rules call for 100 per cent., and that a main track switch was set contrary to the rules of the system. STRAUSS ORGANIZING TOUR OF THE UNITED STATES Vienna, Sunday. July 27.—(By The A. P.) Oscar Strauss, the Viennese light opera composer, who has been in Vienna for some fime, is organiz- ing a tour of the United States for himself and .a number of Austrian composers, among them Franz Lehar and Emmerich Kallan and singers. It is the purpose of Strauss to begin the tour next spring, if passports are ob- tainable. “We want to conduct our own op- eras and show the people of the Unit- ed States that we have culture here worth preserving. despite the war's ravages,” said Strauss today. TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS FOR PURCHASE OF COWS Hartford, Conn. July 28—Cattle Commissioner James = M. Whittlesey sald today that representatives of the French government would be at a lo- cal hotel this evening and Tuesday to meet Connecticut cattlemen and make arrange for the purchase of cows. Mr. Whittlesev said the agents wanted $25,000 worth. It is understood to be the intention of agents to purchase 50.000 cows in the United States to re- stock the devastated farms of France. Mr. Whittlesey says it may revolu- tionize the cattle trade in this coun- try. GERMAN GOVERNMENT TO PUBLISH PEACE PROPOSAL Paris, July 28.—(Havas). The Ger- man government will publish imme- ‘djately, according to the Frankfort Gazette, the British telegram men- tioned in the note of Monsignor Pa- chelli, papal nuncio at Munich, which Vice Premier Erzberger on Iriday told the German national assembly con- tained a peace proposal. | American reeling. Asks Inquiry Into Mexican Affairs Carranza’s Rule of Mexico Said to Control Only a Band of Outlaws, Not a Govern- ment. ‘Washington, July 28.—Carranza’s rule of Mexico “is not a_ government but a band of outlaws, both technically and practically,” and “today it is ut- terly impossible, an enemy of its own people first and America second,” Wil- liam Gates of Baltimore, an arch- aeologist, told the house rules com- mittee today in its hearing on the Gould resolution proposing a congres- ional inquiry into Mexican affairs. Although ~asserting that Pres.dent Wilson was misled in making his de- cision to recognize Carranza, believ. ing the Mexican to be a “people’ champion,” Gates declared in favor of leaving the solution of the Mexican problem with the president. The presi- dent, he said. had not been fully in- formed of conditions in the southern republic. Gates said his opinions were based on a first hand study of Mexican con- ditions for about a year. Carranza’s control includes ports and the railroads, wi ing territory for a mile on the transportdtion lines. Gates @ ed. This control, he said, was that “of a body of soldiers who are ready to shoot at a moment's notice in a coun- try where nobobdy else has any guns.” Maintaining that a_genuine political revolution 1s on in Mexico, Gates de- clared the so-calied bandits are the “country people, who when the Car- ranzistas come in to make a raid, take up their guns and become bandits in the eves of the government.” General Obregon, who has been mentioned as a presidential candidate to succeed Carranza, was declared by Gates to be most bitter in his anti- Gates also asserted that he saw “a letter written from the secretary of the socialist paity in this country to Obregon, asking' him what he thought—this was about last April—what he thought would be a propitious time to take unifizd action between the radical element of Mexico, Canada, Cuba and the Unit>d States.” Gates told the committee that dur- ing the war, the Germans aperatei a Wu“igi station near Mexico Ciiy con- nect Svith a station in Spain. which reliyed messages to Nauen. lic also asserted a second station was main- taned by the Germans in one of the stales south of Mexico Ciry. Secroi- ary Baker was infcrmed by Gates of tLese stations in ° ne middia of war,” in 1918, Gates said. DR. PESSOA INAUGURATED PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL Rio Janeiro, July 28.—Dr. E. Pitacro Pessoa wa: dent of Brazil in the senate chamber at one o'clock this afternoon. The ceremony was simple, but impres- sive. Vice President Moreira admin- istered the oath. The chamber was filled with sen- ators and members of the chamber of deputies. The entire diplomatic corps, including special ambassadors rep- resenting the L'nited States and sev- eral South American countrie: were seated on the tribunals. After the inaugural ceremony Dr. Pessoa proceeded to the presidential palace, where he held a reception for the diplomatic corps, members of the government and other high person- ages. STATEMENT BY CROSBY ON WARTIME PROHIBITION Hartford, Conn, July 28.—United States District Attorney John F. Cros- by in a statement tonight on the sen- tencing of Stephen A. Minery, a sa- loon keeper of Meriden, by Judsge Chatfield today, said that “the term of one day in jail was imposed in this test case to establish a precedent whereby other violators of the war- time prohibition act may be giver jail sentences if they deliberately violate the law." Asked if he had obtained any opin- | ion in Washington as to when the wartime ban would be lifted, he said he had not, but expressed the opinion that any military movement on the Mexican border or in Mexico might prevent such action. VERY FEW SALOONS OPEN IN CONNECTICUT New Haven, Conn.. July 23.—Liquor saloons throughout Connecticut for the most part were closed today to remain with doors shut until the war time prohibition law is revoked. or permanentiy, according to reports from every cection-today. What few are said to be open for business are selling only such liquids will not lend to federal prosecution. In this city it was thought every saloon which did not have restaurant privi- leges is closed, and this applies to all the cities. It is the opinion of authorities that Connecticput is “dry” as it has never been before. BULGARIAN PEACE DELEGATES PRESENT THEIR CREDENTIALS Paris, July 27—(Havas). The Bul- garian peace delegation presented its credentials this afternoon to the eace conference secretariat at the Chateau Madrid in Neuilly. where the delegation is quartered. As had been the case in the reception of the other peace delegations. the credentials of the allied delegates were handed to the Bulgarian representatives in ex- change for the credentials of the lat- ter. FOR GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF RADIO COMMUNICATION ‘Washington, Jul¥ 28.—Secretary of the Navy Daniels, in a message to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house today, asked that congress enact legislation at once making shi pto shore, trans-ocean and international radio communication from the United States a government monopoly. ' The message also request- ed authorization for the navy depart- ment to use immediately all govern- ment radio facilities for commercial and press messages. the ! inaugurated tenth presi-| 1919 G mN PAGES—70 COLUMNS FRICE TWD CENTS Bulgarian peace d ar- rived in Paris. el Torpedo boat destroyer *‘r was launchea at Quincy, Mags: The Finnish has' glected Prof. K. J. Stahlberg president of the Re- public. ttaly is reported to have appealed to Amer.can_baniers for financial aid to the extent of $1,000,000,000. Allied relief organizations in Serbla are preparing Tor united combat against_intluenza and tuberculosis. War Department announces that 3,- 028,457, omcers and men have been dis- charged since the armistice was signed. Archduke Joseph, of Hungary, 15 r duced to besging food from some of the proletar.an housewives in buda- past. Frederick Sargent, an elderly asso- ciate of Thomas A. Edison, and an en- gineer of international ‘reputation, js cpartment of Labor estimates that 1,200,000 aliens will shortly leave the United States and return to their own country. Representative Joseph L. Fordney, Republican, of Michigan, _declared & high tariff was necessary to protect American labor. United States and England have re- ceived from Germany within two months more than $150,000,000 in pay- ment for foodstuifs. Major General Crowder, who went to Cuba to draft new election laws, has finished his work and is about to return to Washington. Speaker Gillette has appointed a spe- cial House committee to investigate operations and expenses of the United States Shipping Board. The Navy Department has completed plans for the erection at Lakehurst, N. J, of one of the largest dirigible hangers in the world. Navy enlistments have taken a tre- mendous jump, due to the reduction of the enlisiment period to two years and the increase of pay. Count Taisuhe ltagahi, founder of the Japanese Liberal Party, and one of the last survivors of the veteran statesmen of Japan, is dead. Theodore P. Shonts, president of the Interborough, who has been ill for sev- eral week: was reported yesterday as being ih a critical- condition. The Commercial Cable Company has been advised by the British Adminis- tration of an interruption of the Anglo- Belgian and Anglo-German cables. Gold bars to the extent of $330,000 have been withdrawn from the Sub- Treasuary for shipment to Paris. to- day, on the steamship La Tourraine. Letter mailed at the village of Bey- shac, France, on Junme 15, 1857, ad- dressed to Clermont-Ferrand. seventy miles away, has just been delivered. Los Angeles police have been re- strained by an order of the Superior Court from interfering with the sale of beer containing .75 per cent. al- cohol. Mortimer N. Buchner, president of the New York Transit Co., was elected treasurer of the New York Chapter of the American Red Cross to succeed Jacob H. Schiff. Pending action by Congress toward a permanent policy on dyestuff im- portations, the War Trade Board will ot issue. licenses ‘permitting trafiic in German products. Strikers at Devoe plant of the Stand- ard Oil Compan: long Island City, have accepted the company’'s invita tion to resume work at the old wages; the plant reopens today. One-half of the foreign trade of Yo- | kohama, Japan, last year was in_ bu: ing from or selling to the United States. Exports to America were twice the value of the imports. E. L. Krause, an amateur a jwas killed yesterday, and E. L. Wil- meth, a passenger, seriously when the plane in which they were riding fell from a_height of 300 feet. Jack Wilson, fattest man in the world, died of paralysis in the Holy amily Hospital, Brooklyn. Wilson weighed 650 pounds. He was only five {fest five inches in height and 23 years oid. A Frenchma named Richard has been sentenced to death for betraving to the Germans a schoo! teacher who was co-operating with Edith Cavell in the work of smuggling soldiers to Hol- land. _The International Research Conven- tion at Brussels has invited the scien- tists of Allied and neutral countries to ittend meetings of the International Research Council. German scientists will be included. The sale of toilet waters containing a big percentage of alcohol is forbid- 1:1011 in Huntington, W. Va. A prisoner in police court said he became intoxi- c‘.\lefl flffl‘ drinking toilet water con- taining per cent alcohol. GRAVES OF OUR HEROES New York, July 28.—Less than one- half of one per cent. of the American soldiers who died on the battlefields of France were buried unidentified, according to Colonel Joseph S. Herron ot Cincinnati, commander of the 15, €00 troops who interred the fallen Americans and who returned here to |day. The men under Colonel Herron's command removed the dead from the temporary graves dug for them under fire or at night on the field where they fell and laid them to rest in large concentration cemeteries. Each cemetery is surrounded by a painted fence and the grass on the graves is kept green and card for by a detachment of soldiers left on duty as caretakers. The largest sraveyvard |is at Romagne. where 27.000 Ameri- cans who died in the Argonne and | Meuse sectors rest and the next larg- est is at Thiaucourt. where lie 4,300 soldiers who fought at St. Mihiel and Toul. “We did our work,” said Colonel Herron, “in accordance with the ex- pressed wishes of the men of the A. E. F. The remark most frequently heard when the business of getting killed was spoken of was the hope that if the fellow talking ‘sot it’ he would be buried with the others of his regiment or division who also fell and close to the battlefield' or on it BANK CASHIER REPULSED BANDITS AT BOLIVA, PA. Johnstown, Pa., July in a touring car attempted a_holdup with guns in the Bolivar National Bank. west of here, at 1.30 o’clock this afternoon but were driven off after an exchange of ten or twelve shots with the cashier, Edgar Sutton. President W. B. Hammond, and Vice President Frank Hammond were also. in the bank at the time. Frank Hammond and Ruth McHale, a clerk, were forced into a vault by bullets. No one was ini'gmms in the firing. Police of West- morciind, Indiana and Cambria counties are searching for the bandits, who got away in their touring car. PREMIER PADEREWSK! HAS ARRIVED AT WARSAW Warsaw, Tuesday. July 22.—PRremier Paderewski arrived here from Paris today. He was given an enthusiastic reception by the populace. injured | IN FRANCE WELL CARED FOR | 28 —Four men | i inChicago Race Riot Five Are Negroes Are Whites — Four Regi- ments of Guardsmen Are Chicago, July 28.—Seven persons were killed and more than two score weunded, many of them seriously. in a renewal of race riots in the Chi- cago “black belt” tonight. ¥or more than five hours the five mile area on the South Side was a battle ground of scattered fights be- tween whites and blacks and between policemen and negroes who fired from house tops, from dark alleys and oth- er points of vantage. The call for troops to quell the out- breaks resulted in four regiments of national ardsmen being mobilized, but at a Tate hour tonight ther had not been dispatched to the disturbed expressed the belief that the worst of the disorder had passed. Five of the dead are negroes’ and two are whites. There was no concerted battle by the blac the outbreaks dotting a large area. Chief of Police Garrity. at a late hour, said that it was impossible to make an exact estimate of the cas- ‘ualties because of the contradictory reports. . The riots which started vesterday on the South Side beaches. were re- newed when negro laborers began leaving the big industrial plants and by dusk more than a score of sepa rate outbreaks had occurred. began cars, the negroes: retaliated with stones and knives. Street cars in the heart of the “black belt” were tied up and the windows smashed. A “flying squadron” of blacks mounted a touring car and riding at full speed through the section sent a volley of shots at a group of whites. One white woman was injured but not fatally. The negroes were overtaken after a long chase and placed under arrest. ' . Shortly afterward a mob of several hundred blacks formed at Thirty- Fifth street and began stoning a po- liceman. Gunfire was opened and four of -the negroes fell all mortally ‘wounded. A white man in the same neighbor- hood was dragged from a truck and stabbed to death. A negro chauffeur was whites a few minutes later same block, Scores of arrests were made where the rioters were found to unarmed, they were released. Negroes began looting stores of whites in one district shortly after the firing or revolvers by a squad of policemen in an effort to break up a fight over a small purchase of grocer- ies. The police soen emptied their gups. ~ The 1ooting col ed until a special squad of police, armed with rifles, arrived. They fired low, felling half a dozen blacks. A white woman was pulled from a street car by a ne- gro. He was soon lving unconscious against the curb. The angry whites left him fony dead. Groups of blacks formed in foot- ball fashion ‘and charged against the whites with razors and clubs. On one corner the scene was like a miniature battlegrouhd. - Unconscious negroes and whites dotted the street. As they regaihed monsciousness they were ar- rested -or permitted to leave the neighborhood. While the main battles were in pro- gress, women, blacks and whites, bat- tled away in front yards with brooms and missiles. In one of these fights a white woman was knocked uncon- scious and taken to a hospital. In one fracas on Thirty-Fourth street, negroes knocked two policemen unconscious and were drawing pis- tols when a group of discharged ne- gro soldiers came to the the whites. In another after, three policemen were shot. One may die. killed by in the but be patch of rifie bearing policemen from one section to another, the negroes began cutting telephone and telegraph wires. The blacks began firing on street car conductors and motormen when they refused to allow ' negro passen- gers to board their cars becaun:e of threats made by white -senger: One conductor was reported shot in the leg. A number of wounded negroes crept into alleys and other dark places. When they were found they were hur- ried to the Provident Ho: for Colored, which, for several hours, re- ceived a virtual procession of in- and Five; ! district and Chief of Police Garrity | Whites | d-ugging negroes from street | rescue of | battle soon | In an effort to prevent quick dis- | Were Refloated. Mineola, N. ) Y. Juiy 28-—Three hombing planes, including the Martin machine in which Captain Roy N.| Franeis pianned to leave next Friday on a transcontinental flight, were wrecked « 7 terrific clectrical storm,| which, :w. N 'z over Long Isiand this afternow... struck a steel hangar at Hazlehurst Field and hurled frag- ments of steel for a distance of half a mile Sweeping along from the northwest, the storm wrecked virtually every-! thing in its path. Forty temporary wooden buildings {and 300 tents at Mitchel Aviation Field were blown flat, and the stable of the Meadowbrook Hunt Club and two semi-permanent officers’ barrac! near there were levelled. The storm, as intense as brief, struck a seven ton Page bLombing plane while twenty men were trying to hold it down. It was blown half a mile across llazel- hurst Field and literally reduced to splinters. At Mitchel Field a 10,000 gallon gasoline drum was rolled for a distance of a mile. it wa Handle; At Roosevelt Field! th hangars. The Camp Mills was gar at Hazlehurst struck by down between two stored there and when the roof fell. escaped injury. In this hangar els, a Caproni Havilands. The were virtually ! smaller planes, of the structure, injury. triy Newport, R. I, troyers dragsed a in tempe: s afternoon. ed authorities caused. Only two men were in lightning. bomber commanded Martin demolisned, tored in the other end escaped with the storm aid little damage had been | BOMBING PLANES WRECKED BY LIGHTNING Terrific Electrical Storm Swept Over Long Island Yesterday Afternoon—Struck a Steel Hangar at Hazlehurst Field and Hurled Fragments of Steel For a Distance of Half a Mile — Forty Temporary Wooden Buildings and 300 Tents Were Blown Flat — Six Destroyers Dragged Anchors and Went Ashore In Narragansett Bay — All the si Field whes Thes of the thus Eoth mir w the and d plarne, SIX DESTROYERS ASHORE IN NARRAGANSETT BAY Ju nchors in Nar All were passed 28.. St found by Captain and roofs were blown off two frame norther truck by lightning. edge of teel han- n it was crouched machine: shelter aculously Martin Fran- two Do Caproni but 143 sligh( Six d went ragansett re-float- nd” nava “BIG FIVE” PACKERS MAKE PRICES FOR LIVESTOCK ‘Washington, July 28.—Ability of the “big fiv packers—Swift, Armour, Morris, Cudahy and Wilson—to deter- mine from day to day the general level of livestock prices was declared in- controvertible in the third section of the federal trade coinmission’s report on the industry made public tonight. Information obtained in the commis- sion’s investigation was cited to show that the “big five” have an interest in 28 of the 50 principal market yards of the country and a majority of voting stock in 22 others. “They discriminate against and put at great disadvantage independent buyers who are their competitors,” the report said. “They manipulate on oc- casions the livestock market In such a way as to cause extreme and unwar- ranted fluctuations in the' daily prices paid for livestock. They have elim- inated many competitors and prevent- ed new ones from .coming in. They have restricted the meat supply of the nation by manipulating the daily live- stock prices and’ thus discodraging the producers of livestock. p “Of the meat trade tn the hands of interstate slaughterers In the United States. the five big packing companies have tnore than 73 per cent. of the to- fal. They have the prices of dressed meat and packing house products so well in hand that, within certain lim- itations, meat prices are made to re- spond 1o their wishes. In tracing the ownership of the va- rious stock yards, the commission, in its report, devoted much attention to the “remarkable financial devices known as the bearer warrant, which it was said might be used not only to hide completely true ownership, but also was equally effective in making possible the evasion of income, cor- poration and surtaxes If it came into more general use Such a warrant is receipt for a stock certificate, the latter being made out to the treasurer of the corporation, who delivers the warrant to the person who actually owns the stock. In this way it would ke possible for a stockholder to re- ceive dividends and vote without his being known. STATEMENTS BY PRESIDENTS Chicago, July 28.—Declaring that the commission regarding the packing in- dustry were cunning prepaganda, and that they were as a whole unfair and erroneous, presidents of the big pack- ing companies issued statements to- night in answer to the federal trade commission’s latest statements issued | tonight. Edward Morris, & Co., eal “The present agitation packing industry is 99 per cent. pre- megditated, cold blooded. cunning pro- paganda engineered by men of social- istlc tendencles, who are seeking president of Morris sured. The more seriously woun‘d':d groes received at the horpital ha participated in_a battle with whites near Thirty-Fifth and State street Several thousand of the ‘bln_t ks con- grezated at. this point within a pe- riod of ten minutes. It was an or- derly gathering for a time. Sudden- ly four maddencd negroes raced up the street and surrounded the home of a white man. In a_twinkling shots began to fly in all directions. Per- haps more than a score of negroes fell. Some were carried off by com- panions. For more than two blocks along one street negro snipers fired from house- tops and windows. Not a single death resulied from this method of warfar however. After threats had been whites to “rlean up” the stock vards district, a small army of negroes form- ed ready to meet the challenge. An automobile load of negroes siarted over the district to estimate the num- ber of whites npresent. They were stoned. Then they drew revolvers and (Continued on Page Eight, Col. Five) FIRST CLAIM FOR WAR TAX ON AERIAL TRANSPORTATION New York, July 28.—The govern- ment presented its first claim for war tax ~on aerial transportation toda when George A. Schaefer, deputy in- ternal revenue collector, afier confe ring with Washington by descended upon the originators of the flying boat service just established between New York and Atlantic Cit and demanded that the two women who Saturday made the first round trip pay eight per cent. additional on their ticket cost: ARKANSAS LEGISLATURE RATIFIES WOMAN SUFFRAGE Little Rock. Ark, July 28—Both houses of ‘the Arkansas legislature to- day ratified the federal woman suf- frage amendment. In the senate the vote was 29 to 2 and in the house it was 76 to 19. Arkansas is the twelfth state to ratify the proposed amend- ment. made by | telephone, | bolster up unjust and iniquitous con- | clustons. | "In nis statement Ogden Armour of the infer- con- declared that “thls latest repor ! commission is both a re-hash of | ences and unfounded deductions | tained in_ simi! nort The com- | mission, he sald, 1s avowedly behind | the legislation now pending in Wash- | ington “whicl ct, will the packing indus “The whole contention of the com- | mission that we control and manipu- jlate vrices’” declared Louis I". Swift {of Swift & Co. “is & not based on facts. In the ownership of stock { yards wa are proud of the fact that we have improved marketing methods and | thereby encouraged greater livesto. production.” TO SELL AMERICAN ARMY SUPPLIES TO FRANCE Paris, Jul (By The A. P.) C. W. Hare, chairman of the American Stocks « Liquidation (ommission, und his staff, arrived at Brest today and | was expected to reach Paris late to- night. with the expectation of soon ciosing u contract with the IFrench government for the purchase of American army supplies in Europe. The purchase agreement, which h been drafied tentai it approved promptly, would e all American |troops except the few thousand maining on the Rhine, to return {the United States by September I, was sai ! Irench opposition to { purchazes, accordinz to officials icentered on the acquisition of man !ufactured articles, particularly aut mobiles, and it was said this opposi- tion would be voiced in the chamber of deputies on Thursday. The quisition of foodstuffls and raw ma terials, it was said, is zenerally ap- proved. Both American and French head- quarters demurred at naming the e act figure which was offered. A well informed deputy. who is a member of the budget commission, told the co respondent in the chamber this morning that $300,000,000 would prove as accurate an estimate as hed been made. to it has against the| to | cripple | the proposed | New York, which for about ti Sulf seab night when an was reached with neers. William S. pres! mediately ships wisout The agreement sent o ficials of the Units Board, tioy and engineers’ tled- are wireless ference owners, creases asked, week. Under is mand _ for from wage than masters. gineers and _masi increase of 10 per The engineers for overtime pay. ney, chairman of the American tion, Hartford, pared of the state how a notice; birth rate of compared with month in 1918 and 2,316 births in th This represented thousand of popula there were 2,931, thousand, and in births gave a birt There has been July he th {the state as {ana 221 The number ‘.’l“ ages was 1,201, 1915, The in ot 29 n nd de: the | June 917 of June st BEREFT w York, German cantors In hild dead a= and neglec July up shipping along ard. was finally agreement ent of the engineers’ ing te-the elass of ships. them not léss than $25 a month Assistant gain from $35 a month for first as- sistant engineer to $10 for junior en- of the James P. department ble falling off throughout or seventy-iwo 1 rates for OF WIF iree the the mari . Brown, ut orders delay was reac ed States ' union. and heduled night Chief Engineers win increases ters are cent. waived th Franklin wage Steamship announced tonight. 28. Balfe, s of state for e rate ! 1917, " T state la rate_of ation. In which on union, was GENERAL STRIKE OF MARINE WORKERS HAS BEEN SETTLED 25.—The weeks has tied Atlantic and strike ettled to wages ne eng nation im- to move hed after a six-hour meeting here today of of- Shipping American Steamship Associa- The only other class of ship work- ers whose demands have not been set- operators. have not gone on strike and a con- between them for consideration of w. They the ge for ship in- this the agreement reached to- their de- s ranging $92.50 to $100 a month, accord- Which gives less Engineers granted without any demand on their part, ar eir claim D. Moo committee Assoct FALLING OFF IN BIRTH RATE OF THE STATE FOR JUNE Statistics pre- tatistician health, in the June ‘as he sama here were st month. 18.9 per June 1813, 4.9 per £ June rate of h n statements issued by the federal trade|June of this year 180 nfants dled compared the corresponding month of last ye for the month in of stat 1 deaths the lesz th ate for 28.—Rc @ Belglum, a result t. Oscar | paced. York, el a_ho: addic Tuly am | New use the jeamp as drug New York Navy Danie ranted on th Copeland, tran M | missioner. Iton throu w ew York, June Line sued a st which It declared tention of constri terminal at Montau enter Into competi foot steam:hips viously reported. smi 191 a gratifying de- OF BIG PACKING COMPANIES crease in the death rate among chil- dren of one vear and younger. During with 2,962 28.2, in for 214 917, people of e in June ss than in n in June the month the past three years was: 1919, 6.8; 1918, 10. and 1917, 14.1. There were seventy nine deaths from accident, sixteen less than in June 1918. There were xteen sufcides while- In June 1918 there w 12. There were five homi- cides. or three less than there were in the same month a yar ago. E, CHILD AND FORTUNE BY THE WAR July ht , noted professional bicycle ra- who returned to his native coun- before the war with what would been enough money o0 last him the rest of his life had he . not been trapped in Antwerp when that city was captured, came back toda aboard the French liner l.a lLorraine to recoup his fortunes. Vanderstuyft's wife was a Brookiyn zirl. He was a rich man as byeycle | Fiders go, 'he sald, when made w pris- oner by the Germnns. who deprived him of all hi: weaith by mcans of war “assessments’’ during his enforced istay in Antwerp. The bicyclist, was accompan- jted Dby Oscar Igg worid champion one mile unpaced rider, s1'd he had come to America to atiem: | ‘o break his own world's record for miles, Hylan. ‘ment thas it icting u tioh “with projected 2 h Point in order HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT OF DRUG ADDICT3 28— Permission to Ray na training 1 for the treatment was given the city Sceretary of, e permission he request of Dr. . city health com- ted to Washing- NO STEAMSHIP TERMINAL AT MCONTAUK POINT Cunard onight in 1 - steam-h 1,000 the the by United States shipping board, as pre-