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Eighth Infantry and Artillery Battalions Among Units Chosen to Represent U. S. in Germany.

OTHERS OUT SEPT. 30 (By Associated Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 23. American forces which will remain in Germany after September 30 are the eighth infantry, seventh machine gun battalion, second battalion of the sixth field artillery, 36th field signal battalion, first supply train, first mobile ordnance repair shop, company A of the first engineers, field hospital No. 13, and ambulance company No. 26. This was announced today by the war department. ' The aggregate strength of these units will be nearly 7,000 officers and men. The infantry regiment comprises 3,800, the machine gun battalion 775, the artillery 750, and engineers, 250, giving a total combatant strength of 5,500. PLEAD FOR MEN IN RUSSIA. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. Representetives of mothers, wives, sweethearts, sisters and other relatives of 4,000 of the American boys now serving in Siberia called on President Wilson and urged that the boys be brought home. A committee composed of men and women had come from Chicago, home of most of the boys, and had little difficulty in seeing the President. They left with him a petition bearing 100,000 signatures. KENNY CO., ORDERED TO REFUND; ACTION ON FOOD DROPPED With an order from state and feder al authorities to drop prosecution of the C. D. Kenny company, if the latter refunds over-charges to hia customers, Prosecutlpg Attorney Gath Freeman is about finished with his investigation of food profiteering in Wayne county. 1 Evidence uncovered by. the prosecuting attorney showed that the Kenny company was the only company in the county that had violated any law regarding the sale of foodstuffs, with 1 he exception of E. R. Berhelde, a local grocer, whose case Is still in the hands of the federal authorities. Freeman said. It is believed that the same action will be taken in the Berheide case as was taken by the authorities against the Kenny company. The refund is on the basis of 10 cents a pound for sugar. Kenny had charged 12 cents, and must refund 2 cents a pound to each customer. Berheide, a retailer, must retund the difference between his prices and 12 cents a pound. SOVIET FORCE FALLS RACK BEFORE POLES (By Associated Press? COPENHAGEN. Aug. 22. Polish troops have administered a crushing defeat on the Bolshevik! and the Sovle forces are being pursued everywhere, the Polish general staff at Warsaw announces. The fortress of Rovno In Volhynia, has been captured by the Poles after hard fighting. East of Minsk the Poles have reached the line of Ihumen-Dort-yn. INDIANA PRIEST HONORED DY POPE fBy Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 22. The Very Rev. Francis Gavisk, chancellor of the Indianapolis diocese has been made a prothonotary apostolic, th8 highest grade of Catholic prelates, aocording to official announcements made here today. The appointment carries with it the title of Monslgnor and came directly from Pope Benedict at Rome. The date for the investiture of the rank has not been fixed. Father Gavisk was ordained June 30, 1885. Weather Forecast For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau Fair and slightly warmer tonight. Saturday fair. Today's Temperature. Noon 8 Yesterday Maximum 79 Minimum 60 Fop Wavne County, by W. E. Moore Fair tonight and Saturday, except possibly local thunder showers. Aina temperature. General Conditions The storm .which caused the rain Thursday morning has passed to the New England i states and generally fair weather prevails over the Mississippi valley. An!nthr storm has made its appearance lover British Columbia and is moving Southeastward. An Intense heat wave jcovers central California, 104 at Red i Bluffs and 108 at Fresno. Mild temI perature still continues over Alaska.

This beautiful structure was designed by Perkins, Fellows, and Hamilton, Chicago firm of architects, for the proposed Richmond Junior high schools, the first of which is Is to be constructed on the west side at Peacock Ave. and West 8eventh street, as soon as possible. The new buildings will be of the most modern and approved construction. The low, two-story height Is to save pupils undue exhaustion In climbing stairs, found to be Injurious. The left wing, facing the reader. Is the auditorium, the right wing the boys' gymnasium, behind which will be a swimming pool. The central portion will be devoted to class-room a, behind which will be the shops, and the girls' gymnasium. The building will be planned eventually to accommodate 1,000 pupils. Only the portions Including the auditorium, the class-rooms and the boys' gymnasium will probably be built at this time, according to tentative plans. The other portions will be added later. It is Impossible to estimate the cost of the completed building, high school authorities said this morning.

RESIGNATION OF ARCHDUKE HOPED BY PEACE HEADS No Drastic Steps Necessary, Conference Believes Dealings Are Refused. (By Associated Press) PARIS, Aug. 22. The supreme council of the peace conference expects to hear of the resignation of Archduke Joseph as head of the Hungarian government within a few days. Apparently the council is of the opinion that it is not necessary to take any more drastic steps than those outlined In the Instructions sent to the lnter-allled military mission in Budapest on Tuesday or Wednesday for delivery to the Hungarian government In the Instructions the council set forth that it did not regard the government of Archduke Joseph as In any sense a popular one and declared it would not deal with it. - , Herbert Hoover, head of the International relief organization, who has returned from a trip to central Europe knew of these instructions when he appeared before the council yesterday and believed them to be too mild to bring results. His frank statement was interpreted by the American delegation as being in general accord with the attitude of the council, although it is attempting to accomplish the downfall of Archduke Joseph by methods less heroic than he advocates. 'bela kun moved VIENNA, Aug. 22. The Austrian government, because of the protests of the peasantry, has removed Bela Kun, Dr. Landler and Herr Pohr, Hungarian communists, from the old mill In the Thaya valley where they have been imprisoned, to a new prison, the whereabouts of which is not disclosed. Five persons have been killed by Magyar troops in the frontier village of Wolfan in the district of Eisenberg. according to reports reaching here A festival was in progress when the Magyars rode in and ordered the band to play the Hungarian national anthem. When the band refused the Magyars fired through the windows into a crowd in a dance hall. Paul Garaml, Hungarian social democratic leader, who has been here conferring with allied representatives, was summoned to Budapest yesterday to discuss probable representation of his party in the cabinet. BOYS ARE GIVEN SUSPENDED TERM FOR LAVALL THEFT Ralph Oakley and Harry Klingman, both 16 years old, were sentenced to six months in the state penal farm and fined $100 and costs by Judge Bond, In Wayne circuit court Friday, on a charge of grand larceny. On account of their age, and the fact that they had both been honorably discharged from the United States army, the sentence was suspended with the exception of the costs. Oakley and Klingman had entered a plea of guilty to breaking the plate glass window in the front of Lawall's jewelry store on North Eighth street nd stealing the contents of the window, valued at about $500. They promised that they would not only live up to the terms laid down by the court on their suspended sentence, but that they intended to reimburse Lawall for the jewelry that was not recovered. National Conference of Labor Party Set Nov. 22 CLEVELAND. O., Aug. 22. The national convention of the newly formed National Labor party will be held in Chicago on Saturday, November 22, with approximately 1,500 to 2,000 delegates representing several thousand labor organizations from all parts of the country in attendance. Max Hayes, chairman of the executive com mittee, of the new party made this announcement here today.

4 4 r Wages Up 82 Per Cent; Food 92 Per Cent More, Industry Report Shows (By Associated Press) ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 22. Although the average weekly earnings of factory workers in the state increased 82 per cent from June, 1914, to July, 1919, food prices were 92 per cent higher during the same period, according to an announcement by the state industrial commission today. GERMANS CLAIM COAL SHORTAGE PRESAGES RUIN Appeal Made to Miners to Drop Demands for Shorter Working Day. (By Associated Press) ' i' ESSEX, Thursday, Aug. 21. A commission of experts appointed by ; the German bureau of labor to investigate economic conditions and working hours in the coal fields has completed its examination of the Rhenish district having visited six mines and twelve working men's colonies, cross-examining owners, directors and workers. Peter Kloeckner, one of the leading Rhenish industrialists, Informed the commission at the hearing held in this city, that the nation was facing an economic catastrophe. He said that even if the entente's levy of forty million tons of coal was reduced onehalf Germany was heading toward ruin as the country cannot dispense twenty million tons annually. "If the entente powers enforce this provision," he said, "we must extinguish our blast furnaces, that is tantamount to cessation of all production. What little coal there would be barely suffice to operate railroads and lighting plants." Oppose Hour Reduction. Herr Kloeckner opposes a further reduction in working hours and disputes the assertion that a miner can produce as much coal in five and onehalf hours as in seven. He believes the reduction In working time in all industrial lines has proven disastrous to the nation's economic revival and with the abolition of peace work has greatly curtailed output in all branches of industry. In discussing living conditions among miners, Herr Kloeckner told the commission that a working man's home which cost 5,000 marks when built In peace time would now cost 25,000 marks. Nevertheless mine owners are building homes for their men but if they build all that are needed the cost ; will be three million marks. He pointed out the mines cannot stand such a drain and that the government cannot be expected to grant a subsidy in favor of present demands upon the national exchequer. He therefore proposed that the government approve a price increase of ten marks per ton, the proceeds to be devoted to the building of working men's homes. Appeals To Miners. An appeal to miners was made by Herr Kloeckner, who asked that the men drop their demand for a six hour day for the present and contribute the maximum production which the domestic and foreign situation demanded. One of the miners who attended the meeting to refute Herr Kloeckner's conclusions declaring the miners had not yet recovered from the physical privations of the war sufficiently to permit them working more than seven hours. Herr Kloeckner suggested that he miners take a patriotic view of the situation and work over-time for the next three months. He asked that the commission try to enlist able-bodied studentB in an effort to divert 100,000 men to the mines to help overcome the present crisis. He believes workmen are . gradually overcoming the hysteria born of revolutionary conditions and are showing a more reasonable interpretation of their duties to the nation. EVACUATE LITHUANIA (By Associated Press) BERLIN, Aug. 22. Announcement that the evacuation of Lithuania has begun was contained in a note to the entente allies, sent by the German government.

DANGER IS SEEN IN LABOR TERMS OF PEACE PACT Conditions Fail to Cope With Existing Evils Declares Senator Thomas. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 The labor provisions of the peace treaty fail to cope with threatening labor evils and point toward a program which may disturb the domestic peace of the United States, Senator Thomas, Democrat, Colorado, declared in a speech today in the senate. He expressed grave doubt whether that section of the treaty could be accepted under the constitution. The International labor conference to be Bet up, Senator Thomas declared, "would be an Important Integral part of the league of nations, though the provisions creating it are not in cluded in t.e league- covenant. 7 . tr 'Inasmuch as organized ?!abor correctly speaks of itself as a class," said the Colorado Senator, "it is entirely appropriate to say that by including this program in the treaty, distinct recognition and separate organization are given to a class. To enthrone a class, whether by revolution or by treaty, is but to estrange other classes. Objects to Uniformity "It may be possible to reach the goal of uniformity in the conditions of labor and I question whether it can be done otherwise than by making the standard the lowest and levelling down to it. Strict uniformity in world labor conditions can be attained only at the expense of the American wage earner. I cannot avoid the conclusion that these articles designed for his physical and spiritual improvement may make him the equivalent of the continental wage earner." Referring to the provision that the credentials of delegates to the international conference may be passed on by the conference itself, Senator Thomas continued: "Personally I do not like a covenant which subjects the selection of high officials by the government of the United States for the discharge of important international functions to review and possible rejection by an external authority. The treaty thus makes the conference a substitute for a supplement to the president and the senate. Hits Rights of Court "For some time I entertained a doubt whether article 405 did not invest this conference with a species of legislative or treaty making power. And proposals for the extension of this power will probably Boon follow the establishment of the permanent organization if I correctly apprehend the purport of the official introduction. "I do not look for the early advent of the stupendous upheaval which must come to the - structure of the American government before it can constitutionally assent to such a dele-1 gation of power, but I can well imagine how efforts to secure it would proroundly disturb our domestic peace; for the labor program points that way." The senator also said he could not avoid the conclusion that certain judicial rights vested by the constitution in American courts would be delegated to the tribunals set up by the labor section. Painting a gloomy picture of labor conditions in this country and declaring that organized labor was employing methods which threatens the nation's political and social existence, Mr. Thomas declared these were tb.9 real matters that should concern legislators. "Yet here are conditions," he continued, "which the labor section of the treaty neither provides against nor catalogues among those requiring correction by international covenant." England in Effort to Reach Russian Market COPENHAGEN, Aug. 22. According to the National Tidende England Is , seeking a railway concession through Esthonia to reach the Russian market. Negotiations are proceeding, the paper adds, with a view to leasing the islands of Dagoe and Oesel. . In the Baltic sea to England for the construction of a commercial port.

Every Means To Be Used to Avert Steel Strike, Union Leaders Declare (By Associated Press) YOUNGSTOWN, O., Aug. 22. The Labor Record today publishes statement by W. Z. Foster, member of the conference committee of steel unions which is to try to arrange a meeting with representatives of the United States steel corporation. Baying that all means will be used to prevent a strike but If necessary the steel workers "will bring every mill In the country to a standstill." U. S. CONTROL OF PRICE OF SUGAR PUT IN EFFECT Licenses wrt to be Tv 1 Revoked Profiteerwnere ueaier is ing 1 1c Held Fair Price. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. Active control of sugar prices was resumed Thursday by the government, through an agreement reached between the department of justice and the food administration that licenses will be revoked by the latter when It is shown dealers have been profiteering. Sugar should reach the consumer at approximately 11 cents a pound, it was announced, based on the ownership of the entire domestic and Cuban crop by the United States sugar equilization board, which is. selling to refiners at 7.82 cents a pound. Refiners are under contract with the board to sell at 9c, less 2 per cent discount for cash; wholesalers and jobbers are allowed a maximum of 68 cents per 100 pounds for handling, and retailers are permitted a profit of 1 and iyg cents a pound, making a fair price 11 cents, except in cases where dealers have purchased at an "unreasonable price" due to misunderstanding in the trade. When this is a fact, a reasonable advance over the actual cost will be permitted. RAILROAD PROBLEM IS ONE OF CREDIT, LOVETT DECLARES (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. The railroad problem is solely a question of railroad credit, Robert S. Lovett, president of the Union Pacific railroad told the house interstate commerce committee today. The question before congress he added is simply to find how to get the capital . necessary to provide transportation facilities, the country dej mands "and legislation that does not accomplish that object is futile." "New capital cannot be driven into railroads,; but must be Induced to enter, Mr. Lovett declared. The Investpr must depend upon the net earnings under the regulations which this congress is going to prescribe and decide whether he will risk his money i in railroads and put it in some other business. "If you have decided against government ownership then it inevitably follows that system of regulation must be such as to attract investors to railroads, or you won't get the necessary road facilities." Austria Curtails Rail Traffic to Save Coal (By Associated Press) VIENNA, August 22 In addition to the cancellation of all express trains, a further curtailment of railway traffic Is expected unless the coal situation improves, according to statements made by government officials. Czecho-Slovakia, it is said, has thus far supplied less than 25 per cent of the coal which was promised recently. At the same time it is reported the Prague government has entered a protest to the peace congress in Paris against the cancellation of express train schedules, demanding that economic pressure be brought to bear on Austria to compel a resumption of service. j

PROTECTION OF FOREIGN TRADE URGED WILSON Extension of Credit to Cover European Purchases is Asked by Owen. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. President Wilson has been urged in a letter from Senator Owen, Oklahoma, ranking Democratic member of the Senate banking committee to take steps to protect the foreign commerce of the United States and bring about an extension of credits to cover European purchases. The letter as inserted in the record also proposed that means be provided to pass upon the validity of European securities offered for sale in the United States. "Unless Immediate steps are taken," Senator Owen said, "to accomplish these results, I fear a serious business reaction will take place in the United States by cutting off a large part of our foreign market for our surplus products, throwing these products back on the United States and causing a very serious recession of prices due to over production. I agree that prices should come down but the reduction should be by the elimination of excess profits artificially placed upon goods, and they should not come down by cutting down the wages paid to labor. There is a natural increase in prices in the United States due to the expansion of our currency, by excess gold imports and by trie development of federal reserve notes against commodities which have taken the place of gold as a basis of note issue." Opposes Bank Activity Senator Owen in his letter declared that New York banks have opposed bills pending in congress which they claimed would deprive them of the opportunity to speculate in foreign -exchange and added: "I am opposed to their speculation to the injury of our industries and commerce and I allege that they have made millions out of speculation in foreign exchange in the disadvantage of American commerce and to the disadvantage of the American producers and the American consumers alike. I allege their interest is a private interest and that they are not concerned to deal with the matter from the public standpoint." Senator Owen asked the President to request the secretaries of the treasury, and commerce and the federal reserve board to submit "recommendations as to what shall be done to protect the foreign commerce of the United States and stabilize international exchange with a view to submitting such reports and recommendations to congress." Shoe Profiteers Next in French H. C. L. War (By Associated Press) PARIS, August 22. Successive outbreaks of indignation against the maneuvers of profiteers have provoked increased diligence on the part of the authorities charged with the repression of frauds and illicit speculation. Searches and seizures have been made in a number of instances of extortion in the leather and shoe trade. In the provinces, as well as in Paris, great activity is being shown. Pending enactment of proposed drastic measures, maximum penalties are being applied while leniency was formerly the general rule. The prefecture of police turned over to the criminal court of Paris between January 1 and June 30 documents in 1903 cases of illicit speculation as against 1,121 for the entire year of 1918. Convictions for such infractions in Paris were 927 as against 800 for all last year. Page Formally Resigns As Ambassador to Italy (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. Thomas Nelson Page of .Virginia, has formally resigned as ambassador to Italy, it was said today at the state department. After his return from Italy several months ago, Mr. Page announced that he would resign but so far as could be learned today his successor has not been selected.

Denial Made to Reports of Withdrawal Five Bandits Are Killed in Progress of Troops. ARE HOT ON THE TRAIL (By Associated Press) MARFA, Tex., Aug. 22.- As long as the American's punitive expeditions continue to follow a hot trail, it will remain in Mexico unless orders to the contrary are received from the war department. Major General Joseph T. Dickman. commander of the southern department announced here today. PROGRESS REPORTED. MARFA, Texas, August 22. The punitive expedition against Mexican bandits who held Lieutenants Harold G. Peterson and Paul H. Davis, army aviators, for ransom, was making progress today, according to advices from the field, and reports that the United States forces would be withdrawn at once were denied officially. No definite time has been xed for the withdrawal, but it la understood that the plan of campaign includes at least another week's search through the mountains for the Renterla band. The American troops camped last night at a place where there was plenty of water. The soldiers scouted the surrounding country throughout the day in separate detachments, but concentrated at he camp at dark. The trails are so rocky and steep that pack mules carrying .supplies fell over cliffs and several were lost. A number of horses of Major C. C. Smith's command also fell off the trail, but none of the riders were injured. Carranza Cooperates. The storm soaked blankets and uniforms of the men caused many to sleep in wet clothes last night. Five bandits are known to have been killed by the Americans bo far with a possibility of a sixth one, a bandit having been, .seen to fall from- his horse when aviators returned their fire. It developed that the two prisoners reported captured by Captain Maltlack were men killed at tha tirwir.

house fight on Wednesday. The American Red Cross sent an auto load of cigarettes, chewing gum and tobacco to the river for loading on pack mules enroute to the punitive expedition. Aviators loaded planes with the same articles to take to the cavalry today. While no official announcement was made it is expected that co-operation will be given Americans by Carranza troops. Action of Mexican federal troops yesterday in permitting Ameri can troops to pass m tne pursuit of the bandits is being considered as evidence of a friendly attitude. Matlack Wires Daughter. Before starting on his return by airplane today to join the punitive expedition in Mexico Captain Leonard Matlack of the Sth cavalrv. whn rcued Lieuts. Peterson and Davis, held Dy Mexican handlts, sent a telegram to his little daughter Rnnltn whn Mva at 1203 South First street, Louisville, K.y., temng ner tnat ne was saie. The girl s mother is dead and she lives with Captain Matlack's brother. Captain Matlack shared honors with General Joseph T. Dickman at a rerPDtion and band concert Inst nle'ht Cattlemen, their wives, his fellow offi cers ana tneir wives, congratulated Captain Matlack on his rescue of the two aviators and his escape with part of the money. Bandits Identified. Rifles and automatic pistols belonging to the four bandits killed in Mexico Wednesdav were recovered hv cavalry troops together with a quantity of American made ammunition which was found on the bodies of the aeaa men. jesus jamr, who was killed in an assault on the blockhouse was arrested at the Brite ranch last year, taken to Candelaria, Tex and placed In Jail. His son, Francisco, alart killed Wednefidnv hmlro l-utr liberated his father and both escaped to Mexico. Juan Jose Fuentes, the third dead bandit Identified, is charged with killing a man at Barrancas, Chihuahua. He crossed to the American side following the killing and was pursued back into Mexico by United States troops recently. According to .Captain Matlack, Jesus Renterla cut the throat of Mike Welch stage driver between Valentine and Candelaria, Tex., December 25. 1917, when the Brite ranch was raided. He feaid he had evidence that Renteria sat on the aged stage driver's body and cut his throat with a pocket knife while another member of the band held his head by the hair. Renteria is known as "the fiend" on both sides of the -river Matlack said. MISSING AVIATORS REPORTED FOUND (By Associated Press) SANTIEGO, Cal., Aug. 22. Lieut. Waterhouse and Connelly, who have been missing since Wednesday afternoon and for whom the war department has initiated a vigorous search, have been found. The aviators are Bafe on the east side of lower California, according to word received today by Miss Georgia Waterhouse, sister of one of the aviators. Rockwell field cannot confirm the report.