Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1919 — Page 4

CAPT. JAMES H. KEELING

Capt. James H. keeling. whe hnbeen twice decorated by the King *.f England for bis services ns surgeon with the British forces and who was twice wounded in battle. He was in Europe for 20 months. Captain Keeling went across with the American expeditionary forces and was detailed with the British because they hsd lost many surgeons.

Yesterday’s Games

STANDING OF THE CLUBS. NATIONAL LEAGUE—— Club. Won. Lost. Perct. Brooklyn 11 3 "86 New York 10 4 'H Cincinnati 6 .647 Chicago « I :V -‘O Pittsburgh ' 467 Philadelphia .......5 7 .417 St. Louis ■. 4 13 .235 Boston ....... 2 . 10 .167 AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago . .13 4 • 765 New York 7 4 .630 —Cleveland .....................io ■ 6 625 ~855t3n~~'T...... . -y. 5S3’ Washington 6 7 .46! St. Louis ... 5 10 .333 Detroit I 5 11 318 Philadelphia 3 » .250 Wednesday’s Results. NATION A L LEAGUE. . New Torit. 3; Chicago, a, Pittsburgh. 8; Philadelphia. 3. —Brooklyn, 7rCincinnati; ~ ;**•** Boston, 4; St. Louis, 2. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Chicago. 1; Boston, 0. New York, 1: Detroit, 0. " Cleveland, 11; Washington, 2. St. Louis, 11; Philadelphia, 0. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Indianapolis. 1; Columbus, 0. louisvllle. 2; Toledo. 1. Minneapolis, 8; Kansas City. 2. St. Paul-Milwaukee. no game; rain.

$5 BILL FOR EACH SOLDIER

Michigan Reception Committee Hands Out Cash Presents. Boston. May 15. —The transport F. J. Luckenhach. with 2,300 officers and men of the One Hundred and Twenty.sixth infantry, composed largely of Michigan troops, docked here. The transport Tololoa, which carried 1.129 officers and njen, including the One Hundred and Twenty-first-machine gun battalion, arrived at midnight. . For every man from Michigan aboard the Luckenhach a $5 bill was waiting, the gift of people of that state. The Michigan reception committee went down the harbor to meet the transport,

SAY POLES’ ATTACK FAILS

Leave Hundreds of Dead on Field, the Ukrainians Report. r Vienna,. May 15. —Poligli attacks in the region of Lemberg in the last few days failed completely, according to reports received here from Ukrainian sources. The Poles attempted a strong infantry charge against the Ukrainians, but were mowed down with machine gun fire, leaving hundreds of dead behind them as they retired. The same message indicates heavy fighting near Kiev, occasioned by bolshevik attacks on the army of Simon Petlura.

FEED MILK TO THE HOUSE

Producers Haul Milk Back to Farm When Notified of Strike. Chicago. May 15.—The lockout of the milk' drivers caused a complete shutdown of the big dairy plants Kane county. Daily shipments to Chicago of approximately 350,00 ti pounds of milk were stopped and no more will be shipped until the trouble is adjusted. » me tnllk whicn dairymen have been selling to the distributors for shipment to Chicago Is being fed to thp pigs or made into butter and cheesy. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph O’Riley and son were in Lafayette Wednesday.

Electric wiring and supplies. Phone 113. Babcock Electric Co. Warren Russell, of Gifford, went to Roselawn today. Peter, Nomenson, of Dwight, Hl., if here looking after his Jasper County farms. A, Harry Newnjan, who travels for the International Harvester ComSny, was called to Roberts, 111., toy on account pf the serious illness of his brother, Samuel S. Newman, who has a stroke of paralysis.

U. S. WILL CUT WHEAT PRICE

Reduction Reaching From Producer to Baker Intimated by , Director Barnes. z IMMEDIATE ACTION EXPECTED . I—' . .. A. Statement Follows Prolonged Conference With Representatives of Grain Industry, Including Millers, ~ Jobbers and Bakers. New York, May 15.—Au immediate reduction in the price of wheat, reaching nil down the line from the producer to the baker, is believed asKtiretl, according to a siutemem tssued by Julius Barnes, wheat director, following a prolonged conference between Mr. Barnes representatives of the grain industry, including grain handlers, millers, jobbers and bakers. • Barnes Issues StatementThe statement issued by Mr. Barnes

says: “There was a general agreement (hat in order that all the wheat producers of the country should secure equal benefits, the ’various trades could- be bound by contracts to see that whdttt (Hiding should-be only on the gmtranteed price and, if a lower basis was Justified with the development of world factors as the season 1 advanced, this lower basis, should be j made to reach the consumer by trade i agreements with millers and manufacturing facilities, the wheat director inaking th e readj u& ling basis effect!ve by the payment of the difference as allowed under act of congress. Would Require Contracts. “In return for protection against a ' fall in price, after the guaranteed price had * been made for wheat bought, the wheat director would re* quire from the various trades con-■ tract obligations by which their trade practices and margins of profit would ; he subject to review and control by ; the wheat director.

“It was suggested, for Instance, that the mills agree that their total gross operating profits between wheat bought and the finished products sold should not exceed an agreed basis per barrel of flotfr manufactured, thus assuring immediate reflection to the consumer of any reduced price ot wheat supplied to the mills. “The jobbers expressed a willingness also to contract that their handling margins should not exceed the price fixed on an agreed basis, thus making immediately effective a lower retail price of flour when made by the mills on a readjusted wheat basis. Will Make Bread Cheaper. "The bakers were’ willing To enter into a contract by which they would reflect at once in their products the lower price of flour made effective by the mills. In this way, down to the retail trade there is thought to be an assurance that a reduced price ot wheat should be effective immediately all down the line.

“Some of the western delegates expressed the view that certain sections of the producing wheat country had developed a sentiment that wheat next year might be worth more than the guaranteed price in the open markets, but the geheral view was that the crops promised so well that any withholding from the market under such sentiment would be unappreciable in the total volume and that most growers would be ready; to market at the guaranteed price, thus sharply reducing the present price of wheat and facilitating a lower Hour price, ’with the new crop movement. “New wheat will be moved in Texas In thirty days, and from the present outlook in six weeks more there will commence a very large movement ot new winter wheat. In order that seaports and interior markets should no.t be choked by congestion and blockade, | the general .opinion was that the grain corporation should continue the co-op-erative control with the railroad administration of the movement of cereal and. cereal products into all the markets by the permit system of car shipment.

Success of Permit Control. "It kas developed during the meeting that although vessel movements to,ports last fall were especially erratic, accentuated by the necessity ot diverting foodstuffs for motor trucks and ’munitions to press the fighting on the western front when the German line began to give way. yet the permit control succeeded in preventing any actual blockade, while the really astonishipg total of 3.500,000.000 bushels of grain were moved in nine months from July 1 through elevator and mill facilities of the country. although the amount of grain at one time in these elevators was less than 500,000 bushels. “This means a total turnover of seven times in nine inonths, which is only possible if the most liquid condition of railroad grain transport prevailed.”

FARM HANDS IN BIG DEMAND

Two Thousand Men Wanted in West em and Central States. - j Chicago. May 15. —Demand for .farm* hands in western and central westerr states is greater than can be supplied i At the central office of the United States employment service here it was announced^,ooo farm hands are want ed, with wages as high as ?»5 per month with board. The highest wages f were offered in Dakota and Montana

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7 NOTES FROM HUNS

Peace Conference Receives Three Additional Messages. \ "v < . t t* Communications Contain Suggestions and Objections With Regard to Pact. u , ; / Paris, M av 15.—Tjjree additional notes received by the peace conference from Count von Brockdorff-Rant-zau make g- total of seven .separate Communications containing objections and suggestions with regard to the treaty ofpeace Here are the sub* Jeers of the various notes: 1. Germany vigorously protests again* the peace.terms, saying they are such be borne by no nation.’’ v ■ . . ,

(io this - the allied and associated governments rewlied that they w n mit no discussion of their right to impose the terms substantially as drafted.') 2. Germany, in sending a program of her own for a league of nations, asks whether and in what circutn-. stances she is to be invited to become a member of the league. (The allied reply to this was that the covenant explicitly provides for admission of additional nations to ' membership, under certain coiffllions.)

3. Germany, in a note described by • those who have read it ns a shrewd appeal to the laboring masses all over J the world, suggests a series of sweeping international reforms affecting ■ labor conditions, wages, hygiene, etc. ' *4. Germany in* word* Tinged witl» bitterness demands the immediate repatriation of all German prisoners of war and interned civilians, saying she cannot think of signing peace before this is done. (Repatriation of German prisoners and after the signing of the treaty, is promised in the pact.) 5. Germany protests against the clauses concerning the Saar valley. Schleswig and the transfer of certain districts to Belgium. 6. Germany requests the right of free interchange of views with the Austrian delegates, now at St. Germainr~"

7. Germany protests against the reparational clauses and submits coun-ter-proposals. A counter-proposal regarding the Saar valley, involving a division of the coal fields, is said to be contained in the fifth note, dealing with territorial clauses.

FOCH PREPARES TO STRIKE

Will Resume Military Operations if Germany Refuses to Sign. I *aris, Ma y 15.—Persisten t rumors that have filled the air for some days to the effect that Marshal Foch, dissatisfied with the military securities demanded from Germany in the peace treaty, was about to resign, were exploded when it was learned the marshal was sent to the Rhine by the “big four’’ in order that he be ready to resume military operations in case Germany refuses to sign. The food blockade will be renewed to the fullest extent the moment that Germany announces refusal to sign the treaty—if she does. In case she signs, however, the blockade will be lifted immediately.

PASSPORT BAR PARTLY OFF

Few May Go to Europe, but Officers' Wives Are Favored. Washington, May 15.—Wives and mothers of American soldiers may go to Europe after June 15 provided they will go prepared to stay six months so that their return to the United States will not interfere with returning troop movements. Wives and mothers of soldiers, however, who are on preferential lists for early sailing home, will not be permitted to go abroad. These facts were announced by Secretary of War Baker. 1 Switzerland Is absolutely opposed to tourists entering that country, and has formally asked the state department to discourage it.

EXILE FOR ARCHDUKE MAX

Brother of Former Austrian Emperor Now in Switzerland. Geneva, May 15.—The latest member of the former royal house of Austria to arrive In Switzerland Is the former Archduke Maximilian, the twenty-four-year-old brother of former Emperor Charles. He crossed the Swiss border at Buchs. Four more former Austrian archdukes are expected ta SwitzerTandthismonth. ~~ Many members of former aristocratic Austrian families are coming to Switzerland. They say life has become insecure and intolerable In Austria. -

WESTERN MAN IS ELECTED

Senator Cummins Chosen as President of Senate by Republicans, Washington, May 15. —Senator Cummins of lowa, favored by the progressive group, was chosen unanimously for president pro tempore of the senate at the organization conference of Republican sefiators. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts was re-elected party leader and discussion of the controversy over committee chairmansliips-jfor Senators Penrose ot' Pennsylvania and Warren-of Wyoming was postponed. • . .... -

U.S. FORCES MAY GO TO SCHLESWIG

Council of Foreign Ministers Considering Plan to Maintain Order There. GREET ENVOYS OF AUSTRIA St. Germain Meeting Has Friendly . Tone, but There Is No Hand Shaking—Treaty May Go to Austrians This Week.

Paris, May* 15—The council of foreign ministers fs considering a plan prepared by the allied military and naval authorities to maintain, order in. Schleswig after the evacuation of that territory by the Gerrnansi • It is planned to u£e an allied naval force stationed at .Flemsburg, in which the United States, Great Britain and France would join. Several battalions of Infantry also ! would be employed to police the territory. The selection of an allied com-, ■ rnander for this force is under consideration. The Austrian peace delegation arrived at St. Germain-en-Laye at 5:55 o’clock in the evening. The delegation was me by Prefect Chaliel representatives of the French government and the allied and associated powers. The first meeting with the Austrian delegates presented a sharp contrast tn the fl r st- in ee tin g wi t h the Ger man delegates because of its greater ease and friendliness. The Austrian delegation was headed by Karl Renner, the chancellor. He was the first to letjve the special car. Chancellor Renner appeared in the car doorway with hat in hand and with a contagious smile that put the reception conimittee quickly_at its ease. No Hand Shaking.

Doc; or Renner, a plump, round-faced man with a black beard and bald head and, with his eyes shining behind a pair of gold-rimmrd spectacles, bowed courteously to the reception committee. There was no hand shaking. The head of the Austrian delegation was followed by Dr. Franz Klein, Peter Eichoff and Dr. Richard Schuller. After them came the other members of the party, which numbered about sixty. Belief that the peace treaty with Austria would be handed to the delegates by the end of the present week was expressed. It develops that the allied powers to be represented -in the negotiations with the Austrians will be less numerous than those at Versailles. These powers will comprise the states which declared war upon or broke diplomatic relations with Austria-Hungary. I’he answers of the council of four to the German notes on prisoners of war and labor subjects were delivered. One of the later German notes, dealing with economic clauses of the freaty. says they mean the ruin of Germany if they are enforced. Protest on War Blame.

| A note on territorial questions proi tests against the Saar ; valley arrangexhent and transfer of the i Malmedy, Moresnel and Eupen dis- : tricts to Belgium, as well as the forced l evacuation of a part of Schleswig. A note on reparations does not protest against the payment by Germany for the devastation wrought in Berlin and northern France, Which, it says, Germany is ready to do willingly. It is added, however, that Germany will not pay reparation for this damage on the principle that she was responsible for the war. Huns Have Vast Military Stores. London, May 15. —Warren Dunham Foster, an American motion picture man, sailed on the Olympia after having narrowly escaped being shot by the Germans in Dusseldorf a week ago when his crippled airplane dropped. from the clouds on the fortress parade > ground filled with hostile soldiers. After completing a tom - of inspection of American camps in Germany, Foster planned to fly to Antwerp. ■Lieutenant McKaffecky of the S.econd brigade, Royal British air force, acted as his pilot. As their machine was passink over Dusseldorf the engine balked and a difficult and precarious landing was made on the parade ground. McKeffecky was brutally assaulted by German soldiers, and both he and Foster were locked up in a guardhouse for six hours before the German commander consented to hear their case. The commander raged against what he called a violation of the armistice and threatened to shoot both. Foster, after listening to the threat, promised that if it were carried out the American army on the Rhine would undertake speedy reprisals. Finally a guard of bayonets escorted them to Cologne, where they were released. Foster reported to the British and American commanders that he saw vast military stores at Dusseldorf, In contravention with the armistice. He saw thousands of shells and stacks ol cartridge cases, he says.

The Soviets Confiscate Castle.

Vienna, May 15.—The magnificent castle of Prince Tassilo, which contains art gems valned at many millions, has been confiscated and closed by the Hungarian soviet government. It will be converted into a sanatorium,

Illinois Woman Dies at 106.

Shelbyville, 111., May 15.—Mrs. Perlisse Ann Keller died at her home here, aged 106. A little clay pipe was her constant oom pan! oh.

EARL OF ATHLONE

Tiie earl of Athiorje, son of the duke of Teck, and a genera) staff oißeer, probably will succeed the duke of Dev onshire as governor general of Can ada. He was appointed to that post In 1914, but due to the war he did not accept. He is a brother of. Queen Mary of England.

BIG MILK STRIKE ON

Chicago Drivers Walk Out and Tie Up Huge Supply. Producers in Illinois, Indiana and Southern Wisconsin'Ordered to Stop All Shipments. Chicago, May 15.—Milk distribution in Chicago was paralyzed Wednesday when the associated dealers and wagon drivers ended wage negotiations and a strike was declared at midnight. Strike disorders were reported and Chief Garrity immediately ordered large reserves of police to suppress violence and disperse assembling strikers and others.

Telegrams were sen! to milk producers in Illinois, Indiana and south- ‘ ern Wisconsin to stop shipping milk into Chicago at once. The*order will divert 1,000,000 quarts of milk and cream from the Chicago market. The associated dealers, who have producers under contract, took this action. Chairman Wanzer of the dealers’ strike committee said it was impossible to tell when a resumption of shipping would be ordered. He said the action was taken to save the million quarts from spoiling on the tracks each day. Nearly 1,000,(100 quarts, of milk in milk trains from the surrounding country, the dealers asserted, will remain in the cars and probably will spoil. The strike came without warning to the public. The drivers voted on May 1 to strike if the dealers refused to increase their wages to $5 a day, effective at midnight May 13. According to rhe drivers their men reported for work at midnight and were told that the increase in wages would not go into effect. _| “Our 2,800 drivers were locked out,” • W. A. Neer, secretary of the drivers, declared.

The milk dealers* association named a committee to handle the strike : The number of persons or families served in Chicago normally by the associated dealers is estimated to be just under 450,000. That many customers were left without a milk plyAccording to statements of both drivers and dealers, the men were paid a minimum of $26 a week for distributing on their milk routes. The drivers stated - that their demand is clear —they want $5 a day, and say nothing about bonus or commissions in excess.

THEY ARE NOT NANCY BOATS

What the "NC" Stands for as Applied to U. S. Seaplanes. Trepassey, $. F., May 15.—Don’t call the American seaplanes “Nancy boats” any more if you want to keep In the good graces of navy aviators. • Everybody in the air service, especially the crews of the Atlantic flyers, objects emphatically to such effeminate nomenclature. There is nothing Nancyish about the big machines and the popular title is deemed a lubberly misnomer for these big he-man planes? The official designation NC is derived from the full name Navy-Curtlss seaplanes, but 'if that’s too large a mouthful, you may call them “Ency planes,” as the pilots do, and no service man will object but you might as well call a doughboy a "Sammy” as to call one of the trans-Atlantic flyers , a “Nancy.”

MOB KILLS IRISH POLICEMAN

Two Other Officers Wounded as Result of Attack on Train. Cork, Ireland, May 15.—One policeman is dead, one dying, and another wounded as a result of an attack on a train at Knocklong by armed raiders who rescued John Hogan, a prisoner,. from the hands of policemen conveying him en route to prison. There were ue arrests.

NAVY SEAPLANES READY FOR JUMP

I NC-4 Reaches, and the C-5, or “.Blimp,” Passes Over Halifax. MACHINES MAY START TODAY NC-1 and NC-3 Are Waiting at Trepassey, N. F., the Jumping Off Place of the Flight to the Azores—Weather Is Fine. Halltax, N. S„ May 15—The American naval seaplane NC-4, which was forced on the' first leg of the transAtiantic flight to stop at Chatham, Mass., for repairs, arrived here Wednesday at 2:05 'p. m. The machine started at daylight to join the NC-1 and NC-3 at Trepassey, N. F., the jumping off place of the flight to the Azores. t While the NC-4 was being overhauled tey the aviation crew of the tender Baltimore, the United States dirigible C-5 passed over at 5:50 p. m. on its way to St. Johns, N. F., Whence it may attempt a flight across the Atlantic. The “blimp” was aided by a strong wind and was traveling over 50 miles an hour. The dirigible sailed from Montauk Point, N. Y., at 8 a. m. Wednesday.

99 Miles an Hour. . The seaplane NC-4 shattered the speed marks set by her sister planes on the trip to Halifax, covering the 340 miles at an average speed of a fraction under 99 land miles per hour Lieutenant Commander Read, “skjp per” of the plane, said “minor matters,” principal among them delay in starting from Chatham, had upset the original plan to make a straight flight from the Massachusetts coast to Newfoundland. Lieutenant Commander Read stated he first observed his plane’s high speed when he sighted the first destroyer in the warship patrol much sooner than he expected. With a fresh southwesterly breeze augmenting the driving power of the engines, the flyers passed she southwestern end of Nova Scotia shortly after one o’clock. They maintained a height of 500 to 1,000 feet nearly all the way. Weather Conditions Perfect. The aviation crew aboard the tender Baltimore began overhauling the motors and propellers as soon as the plane was brought alongside. Lieutenant Commander Read said he was uncertain whether new propellers would be installed for the cruise to Tfepassey.

The voyage from Chatham, he stated, was made without engine trouble and under perfect weather conditions, the coast line being in sight all the way. May Start Flight Today. Washington, May 15.—The American naval seaplanes NC-1 and NC-3 probably will be in flight before sundown today in an attempt to cross the Atlantic ocean through the air. Official reports to the navy department from Trepassey bay, N. F., the starting point of the proposed flight, Intimated that the “hop off” would be made within 24 hours, as favorable weather along the route to the Azores was Indicated. The navy dirigible C-5 also may attempt the long cross ocean trip from St Johns Friday. x

ARMY FOOD SOLD BY U. S.

Roumanla, Poland and Czecho-Slovaka Take Large Quantities of Supplies. Washington, May 15. —Sales of surplus subsistence supplies held by the army overseas have totaled $50,000,000, the war department announced, the American relief commission taking goods valued at $10,000,000, the Czecho-Slovak government $16,000,000, Roumanla, $14,000,000, and Poland $10,000,000. Announcement also was made that the department would sell by July 1, all the horses and mules now with the army In France, and hiat negotiations Were under way for the sale of oil and gasoline storage tanks and distributing stations, with the railroad. tank cars and tank trucks.

H. J. HEINZ PASSES AWAY

Man Famous as Proprietor of the "57 Varieties” Dies at Home. • Pittsburgh, Pa., May 15.—-H. J. | Heinz, famous as the proprietor of the . “57 varieties,” died in his home here I at the age of I Mr. Heixxz started the food product I business in a modest way In 1869. packing horseradish in bottles. Illfactory was in the basement of a sxuall * dwelling. He extended his efforts to the packing of pickles and other food products until the business had expanded to Its present tremendous proportions. The Heinz establishment dow has a floor space of 30 acres.

VAST ARMY AWAIT PENSIONS

Wifi Take Twelve Years to Check Up Paris, May 15. —In replying to eoriiplaints of delay in the allocation of military pensions, .Leon Abraml, undersecretary of state for pensions, told the •chamber, of deputies that with his present staff it would take from 12 to 15 years to clear up the work.