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•H-, fear*" ~ . •* ' THE McHENRT FLAINDEALER, McHENRY, ILL. V£ ••> -* r *, ?•*-- "i **. -.. ,.;r' ,V£" ? 8<V. URGES GERMANY -10 SIGNJREATY Erzberger, Head of Foe Armistice v ^mmission, Will Make Suggestion in Berlin. 14 POINTS STAND-WILSON President Declares, "I Am Convinced Our Peace Project Violates None v Of My Principles"--Copy of Treaty to U. S. Lawmaker*. Copenhagen, iune 9.--Mathlos T5r»» Verger, head of the German armistice commission, according to the Deutches Tages Zeitung of Berlin, is preparing a memorandum which, after discussing the peace terms in all their aspects, rdvocates the signing of the treaty. Paris, June 9.--It is understood here that the Berlin government is sending photographically reproduced copies of the peace terms to every United States senatpr and representative. "tarn convinced that our treaty proJect .violates none of m# principles," President Wilson is quoted by the Matin as having said when he was made acquainted with the German counter-proposals Ao the peace treaty. "If I held a contrary opinion I would nut hesitate to confess it and would endeavor to correct the error. The treaty as drawn up, however, entirely conforms with my 14 points." When the council of four met Premier- Orlando of Italy was absent. This led to the belief that,the Adriatic question was again under consideration. It is understood that no further progress has been made by the various elements working on the solution of this problem. It is probable that the allied and associated powers will comply with the German demand to state approximately the maximum sura which Germany must pay in reparation under the peace treaty, according to the Matin. This sum it states, will be from 200,- 000,000,000 to 250,000,000,000 francs. (The larger sum named, on a gold valuation would be not far from $50,- 000,000,000.) An answer from Admiral Kolchab, head of the all-Russian government at Omsk, to the allied proposals has been received by the French foreign office. It is understood, in the main, to be a satisfactory acceptance of the proposals. Kolchak's reply, however, irnkes reservations concerning a constituent assembly and also in respect . to dealings with new states formed from old Russia. The South Slav delegation here handed to President Wilson a memorandum regarding the Fipme affair, according to the Petit Parisien. When the Germans are handed the nllied reply they will be informed, according to French circles, that the discussion has been finally closed and will be given no less than three or more than five days in which to accept or reject the conditions. NATIONAL ARMY i MEN ARE ON WAY Homeward Movement of Former Guards From France Is Complete, Says March. WIRE STRIKE IS SPREADING Union Headquarters at Atlanta Says 3,000 Telegraph Operators Are Out --Men Warned by Carlton. Atlanta, Ga., June 9.--Union lieadqi; art(fs announced on Friday that information received indicated that 3,- 000 employees of the Western Union In the South either had gone on strike or would do so during the day. New York, June 9.--Employees of the Western Unijon Telegraph company, who joined the Telegraphers' union on the assurance of the postmaster general that there would be no discrimination in regard to employees joining unions, will not be taken back if they strike, Newcomb Carlton, president of the company announced Friday. Mr. Carlton said that out of 40,000 employees only 710 belonged to the union and that the call for a strike in the southern division was meeting with practically no response." REGULARS TO LEAVE SOON Chief of Staff Declares 333,30$ Troops Sailed During May--Five Battalions Leave U. S. to Replace Emergency Fighters. • Washington, June 10.--Homeward movement of National Guard and National Army combat units from France Is complete, Chief of Staff March announced on Saturday, all units having embarked for this country. The movement of regulars has begun, General March stated. The Sixth division began its sailing this week. - The army. General March said, was 65 per cent demobilized June'5. In France there remain 694,745 Officers and men. All embarkation records were broken in May, he said. Sailings from France totaled 333,803. Enlistments iti the regular army to date total 48,023 men. These figures do not Include enlistments at army camps this week. Since the recruiting campaign started five battalions of troops, totaling 4,929, have sailed for France to replace emergency men In regular army units. Replacements for the emergency men in Siberia will be made from men who have not asked for service in any special place. General March said he expected no difficulty In solving the problem of obtaining the 10,000 men necessary for replacements In the Siberian expedition. 'The Siberian problem Is a problem by itself," General March said, "and the war department will be In a position to solve it. In the general list of figures you will note the places to which the men wish to be sent: "France, 10.219; Siberia, 40; Philippines, 2,046; Panama, 154; Honolulu, 1,336; Alaska, 24. "Those whp have specified their plate of service aggregate about 14,- 000 out of the 50,000. We have, therefore, 36.000 men who enlisted without saying to what place they wish to be sent, and of course, they will go where they are sent. In the meantime, the option continues for those who wish to enlist to specify their place of service." General March gave figures which showed that in the recent A. E. F. rifle matches the lowest score made by a man using the Springfield rifle was higher than the highest score made „by substitute Enfields. EXAMINING IT WITH BOTH EYES OPEN 'M%«| 2? CHICAGO TRIBUNE. WIRES TURNED BACK, SUFFRAGE WINS OUT OWNERS TO TAKE OVER OPERAui; ; TlON OF LINES. TERMS TOO SEVERE--AUSTRIA Fresident Seitz Tells Assembly Peace Conditions Are Impossible and Country Will Starve. Vienna, June 10.--The peace terms presented to Austria are impossible anc mean the death of the country by srnrvation, President Seitz said in his address opening the extraordinary session of the national assembly. Foreign Mhustflr Bauer made a report on his confeience at Feldkirch with Doctor Renner, head of the Austrian pence delegation. After declaring that the treaty was a peace of hate, the foreign minister released his personal vials of wrtth against the Czechs, who, he sa'd, had taken all of Austria's sugar and other Industries. The loss of German Bohemia* he added, menflt not merely the subjection of 3,500,000 Germpns to foreign rule, but the loss of the most valuable parts of German Austria, Industrially and culturally. Doctor Bauer said the people of the Tyrol, who love freedom above life, would never submit to the peace terms nnri that they, as well as the Germans of Bohemia, had the sympathy of all Germans. Central,, However, is Still to Be Exercised by Government, Say* ":v '. Burleson. Washington. June 7.--Postmaster General Burleson issued an ordef on Thursday returning the telephone and telegraph systems of the country to the owners for operating purposes. Control of the companies is not relinquished by the government. In a statement accompanying tfie formal order the postmaster general stated that the existing rotes would remain In effect, and that orders forbidding discharge of employees because of linion affiliation also would stand, Mr. Burleson's order turning back the wire properties read: "The president having recommended the return of the wire systems find the control of the owning companies with certain legislation designed to stabilize their operation, and the senate committee having taken action looking tp their immediate return, and the house committee in its hearings on the proposed legislation having indicated concurrence in the suggested immediate return with or without legislation so recommended, I feel It my duty to now return the actual control of operations to the companies. "Some days ago I directed the necessary orders to be prepared to accomplish this and have today issued same. These orders do not affect questions of rates arid finance with" which the congress may determine to deal. "The rates now in force and the financial relations between the government and the companies, and the order of October 2, 1918, prohibiting discrimination because of union arffiliatlon will continue unless congress may decide to change them or the 'emergency' is terminated by the proclamation of peace. "By the action now taken, however, the wire companies resume actual control of operations of their respective properties, and are free to formulate and put into effect their own policies unrestricted by government control, which is to continue in any case but a few weeks, and thus will be able to prepare themselves for a complete resumption of the management of their property. "It will be necessary for each company to so keep its accounts during the continuance of government control that Its books may be closed on the day government control ends in order that a full and accurate statement may be promptly made when it Is called on for same." ' >. • SENATE PASSES HOUSE RESOLUTION BY VOTE OF 66 TO 25. FIRST YANKS QUIT RUSSIA SIX Companies of 339th Infantry, Aggregating 1,600 Men, Constitute Force to Leave Archangel. Archangel, Russia, June 6.--A contingent of American infantry which has been serving in northern Russia boarded a transport for the journey to the United States. These are the first American troops detailed to sail for home. The detachment will go to Brest. Six companies of the Three Hundred and Thirty-ninth Infantry, aggregating 1,600 men, or approximately one-third of the American force on the Archangel front, constitute _lhe first detachment to leave. WOMAN KILLED BY GUNMEN Assailants of Family of Mount Vernon, III., Fire Volley Through Window of Home and Escape. Mount Vernon. lit, June 10.--Mrs. I,ftura Neaville died at the Egyptian hospital from wounds Inflicted by a group-of gunmen who surrounded tKe Jseaville home and fired through the windows. John W. Neaville, her- husfctnd, who was seriously wounded by the mysterious assailants, is in serious condition, while John Mabry, the seven- yea'r-old grandson of the Neavilles, who was shot on both legs, Is also critically injured. The mysterious shooting has stirred the entire countrys'de. Theodore Bolen, a near neighbor of the Neavilles, is held ID jail as a suspect. . J Shells Explode in Mulhefm. Coblenz, June 10.--Mulheim was shelled when fire started in the Third army ammunition dump near by. The population of German prisoners and Cnlted States soldiers took to the cellars until the bombardment stopped. 8ergt. Alvin C. York Weds. • Nashville, Tenn., June 10.--On a green hillside in Fentress county, Tennessee, Sergt. Alvin C. York, hero of the Argonne drive, wedded Miss Gracie Williams of Pall Mall, Tenn. Governor Roberts performed the ceremony. More Troops Landed. New York, June 9.--The troopship Santa Cecelia, bringing 2,004 soldiers, ••teamed into the harbor at noon. The t)uea d'Aosta, from Marseilles, arrived o few minutes after with 2,767 troops aboard. Proposed Constitutional Amendment ; Now Goes to States far ; . ' '; ' Acation. - ,• VV Washington, , June 6.--The house woman suffrage resolution was adopted on Wednesday by the senate and the proposed constitutional amendment now goes to the states t for ratification. The vote was 56 for adoption, and 25 against, or two more than twothirds majority required. The amendment was supported by 36 Republicans and 20 Democrats and opposed by 17 Democrats and 8 Republicans. It received two more votes than were needed to make the requisite two-thirds. The suffrage amendment* text follows : « , i. "Article 1, Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Sec. 2. Congress shall have' power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce the provisions of this article." It* was exactly 5:25 p. m. when President Pro-tem Cummins, from the chair, made the announcement to tho expectant crowds in the galleries who had sat through a tense all-day debate waiting for the final vote to be taken. He said: This resolution has received the affirmative voteft of more than twothirds of the senate, a quorum being present, and Is declared to have passed the senate In accordance with the Constitution of the United States." PLAN TO CUT WAR BILL Wpr Department Estimates to Be Reduced by House Body--Bills Prohibit Immigration for 5 Years. Washington, June 9.--War department estimates for the coming year will be reduced at least $400,000,000 by the house military committee. Provision will he included in the bill for an army of 400,000, instead of 500,000, requested by the department. This reduction, members declared, would reduce the total estimate of $1,263,000,- 000 by 20 per cent. Bills prohibiting Immigration for five years arid placing more rigid restrictions upon aliens entering this country were Introduced In the senate. One measure by Senator King (Deiq.) of Utah would exclude alien anarchists and others who believe in the overthrow of governments through force. 85 DEAD; 48 HURT IN BLAST Car Loaded With Powder, Attached to Train Carrying Miners in Penn> sylvania, Blows Up. Wilkesbarre, Pa., .Tune 7.--Eightyfive miners were killed and fortyeight were injured on Thursday at the Baltimore No. 2 tunnel of the Delaware & Hudson Coal company, near here. The accident happened shortly before seven o'clock, while the men were being taken to their places of employment. A train of empty cars was provided' to carry them down by nr. electric motor, with John McGoarty driving. Into these cars the 100 workmen were crowded and near the rear of the train was a car of black powder. When 200 feet In the tunnel the electric trolley wire fell. Sparks from it [ignited the powder and the exploshn that followed blew the men In all / directions. More men died from/flair/es and suffocation than fromN4iKfxploslon. \Yi|W"\nn hour and a half afterward/ fiiosK.of the Injured had been remo\ed. The injured were brought to the surface and placed In tiers along the-green. Berlin Strike Ends. Copenhagen, June 10.--Berlin re-, ports say the 24-hour strike in protest against the execution ofLevine Nissen, the Spartacan leader in Munich, resulted in little disorder. The capital was quiet. • < '. Robbed of $65,000 in Bonds. Port Townsend, Wash., June 10.-- Lawrence Smith, aged reclyse, reported to the police that some one entered his cabin on the beach here and took $65,000 worth of Liberty bonds from his clothes. Yanks Refuse to Aid Foe. Paris, June 9.--American officers °af Coblenz,'it became known here, have refused to display posters advertising the Rhenish republic sent them by French oflicers. The Americans received the posters from the French. :p&r. Help From Allies. Parts, June 9.--M. Poska. " foreign minister of Esthonla, arrived In Paris to ask the great powers to aid the small Esthonian army which 1s fighting the bolshevlkl southwest of Petrofrad. Explorers Believed Lost. San Diego, Cal„ June 9.--Los Angeles, and northern California scientists, members of an exploring party, are believed to have lost their lives In a big storm off the Lower California coast on May-. 15. To Repeal Daylight Act. Washington, June 9.--Favorable report on the bill to repeal the daylightsaving law on the last Sunday In October was voted by the house interstate commerce committee. The vote <{ the committee was 10 to & $32.400 for Ocean Flight. Lisbon, June 9.--The Portuguese government Issued a decree establishing a prize of 30 contos (at normal exchange approximately $32,400) for the Portuguese or Brazilian aviator who flies from Portugal to Brazil. Airplane Is Wrecked. Omaha,'"Nebi, June 7.--An airplane, piloted by C., P. Mueller, which stopped here on its way from Chicago to Denver, was wrecked when. It struck an automobile while attempt lng a landing. Mueller was not injured Want the Luxury Tax Cut. Chicago, June 7.-- Thirty-one Chlca go department stores and merchants In other Illinois cities have Joined In a petition to all Illinois legislators in congress to eliminate the "luxury tax" law from the revenue measures. SENATE FOR IRISH HEARING Votes Request by 60 to 1 to Peace Conference in Paris to Receive Delegates. Washington, June 9.--Senator Borah's resolution asking the American peace delegates at Paris to secure a hearing before the peace conference for the Irish delegates headed by Edward De V-alera, provisional president >f the Irish republic, was adopted on Friday by the senate, 60 to 1. Senator Williams, Democrat, of Mississippi, cast the negative vote. The resolution expressed the sympathy of the senate In the aspirations of the Irish people for "a government of Its own choice." HUNGARIANS DEFEAT CZECHS Communist Troops Capture Town of Kaschau After Two Days of Fighting. Copenhagen, June 10:---Hungarla n communist troops have captured the town of Kaschau In northern Hungary, northeast of Budapest, from the Cztchr after two days of fighting. A oirpatch from Budapest, announcing ine victory, says the Czechs were defeated decisively. Ex-Captain Kills Wife. St. Paul, Minn., June 10.--Dr. J. M.. A. Gravelle, St. Paul physician, recently, discharged from the army, in which he held a commission as captain, is held by the police, charged with shooting and killing his wife. U. S. to Release More Sailors. Chicago, June 10.:--Once more there are smiles on^he faces of Great Lakes gobs. It" was announced that orders have been received from Secretary Daniels to cut the personnel of the station 10 per cent by July 1. Yank Freed by Reds Home. New York, June 7.--Merle B. Arnold, a Y. M. C. A. secretary of Polk, Neb., Arrived here from Siberia, where he was held a prisoner by the bolshevlkl. He was captured outside the American lines. U. S. WHEAT CROP OVER BILLION BU. Production This Year Will Total 1*236,000,000 Bustu^. _ "" Says Report 2 - VALUED AT $2,793,000,000 ChuS V the Greatest en Record, In* creating 319,000,000 Bushels OVM1 Last Year--Means Prosperity for Country. Washington, June 10.--A /Wheat production of 1,236,000,000 bushels this year, combining the winter wheat and spring wheat crops, was forecast by the department of agriculture from the condition of the crop June 1. The wheat crop alone is by far the greatest on record, increasing 319,000,- 000 bushels, or 34 per cent over last year, and 210,000,000 bushels, or 24 per cent above the record in 1915, and 445,000,000 bushels orver the five-year average of 1912-1917. Based on $2.26 per bushel at Chicago, the wheat crop Is worth $2,793,000,000, and on $2 the valuation is $2,472,000,000. This mean's prosperity for the farmers and business interests and railroads. Winter wheat production Is forecast at 893,000,000 bushels, compared with 899,915,000 bushels forecast last month, making It the largest ever grown. The condition of winter wlieat was 94.9 per cent of a normal, compared with 100.5 last month and 83.8 last year. Spring wheat production is forecast at 343,000,000 bushels, compared with last year's production of 359,000,- 000 bushels, which was a record crop. The acreage this year Is 22,593,000, and the condition of the crop June 1 was 91.2 per cent of a normal* compared with 95.2 a year ago. Details of other, crops follow: Oats--Production forecast, 1,446,- 000.000; acreage, 42,305,000; condition, 93.2. Barley -- Production, 232,000,000 bushels; acreage, 8,899,000; condition, 01.7. •' Rye--Production, 107,000,000 bushels; condition, 93.5. f Hay--Production, 116.000,000 tons; condition, 94.1. Apples -- Production, 166,000,000 bushels; condition. 67.8. Peaches •-- Production, 50.300,000 bushels; condition, 73.1. Pastures--Condition, 97.4. Condition and production la-btisliels, by important producing states, follows : a Winter wheat: Pennsylvania, 103, and 34,713,000; Ohio, 106, and 56- 331,600; Indiana, 98, and 56,656,000; Illinois, 96, and 67,985,000; Missouri, 93, and 71,786.000; Nebraska, 95, and 69,825,000; Kansas, 93, and 191,647,- 000; Texas, 101, and 35,337,000; Oklahoma, 96, and 57,835,000; Washington, 01, and 27,061,000; Oregon, 96, and 18,432.000. , TYRANNY OVER LABOR ENDED Samuel Gompers Says Workers Determined to Have Voice in Set* tling Reconstruction Problems. Atlantic City, N. J., June 11.--Tyranny, whether It be in the political or Industrial light of the nation, will not b^ tolerated by organized labor, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, told delegates at the opening of the thirtyninth session of the organization here on Monday. "Let me tell you this," he s&id: "If any employer believes that industrial autocracy is going to prevail in America, he is counting without his host. We are making no unjust demands. "Men and women shed their blood and made great sacrifices during the war because they were fighting for principles and Ideals. Now that the war has been won the workers--the bone and flesh of the nation--do not intend those principles and ideals shall be lost sight of." Pay High Honor to Flyer*. London, June 7.--Royalty paid honors to America's airmen when the prince of Wales attended a luncheon given In honor of Lieutenant Commander Read, skipper of the seaplane NC-4, and his fellow flyers. TRAIN HITS AUTO; SIX DEAD Mother and Three Children and Two Men Crushed to Death on Crossing at Berwyn, III. Chicago, June 11.--Six persons were killed instantly on Monday when a Burlington passenger train and n loaded automobile crashed at the Hiawatha avenue crossing in Berwyn. The dead: Mrs. William C. Wigan. Berwyn; Mildred Wlgand, her threemontlis- old daughter; Wlllard Wigan, her son,, slx« years 6ld; Raymond Wlgand, her son, three years old; William Frederick Steinberg, Gary, Ind., Mrs. Wigand's brother-in-law; William A. Kick, Hadley, Mich* Steinberg's brother-in-law. Mexican Envoys Withdraw. Mexico City, June 11.--The government has ordered the withdrawal of the Mexican delegates from the Pan- American commercial congress as a protest against the speech made before the congress by Speaker Glllett. 8aulsbury for Ambassador. Washington, June 11,;--Former Senator Saulsbury of Delaware was mentioned by senators as being under consideration by President Wilson for appointment as ambassador to Italy, succeeding Thomas Nelson Page. Slash Made in Rail Fund. Washington, June 11.--Reduction of $450,000,000 in the $1,200,000,000 revolving fund asked for by the railroad administration for the remainder *of the calendar year was made by the house appropriations committee. felayer Dear Must Hang. Chicago, June ll.--Earl Dear, who murdered Rudolph Wolfe, chauffeur, must pay the penalty with his life. This was decided by the Supremo court at Washington when It upheld $be decrees of the Illinois court. c a package before the war 5 c a package during tbe war gca NOW THE FLAVOR LASTS SO DOES THE PRICE! % fi Cuticura Heals itching Burning Skin Troubles All drustriata; Soap 26, Ointmrat 2E and 60, Talcum 26 Sample each fra* of "Ontlewa, Dapt. Z, Barton " WHERE NO MONEY IS USED People of Ascension Island Would Seem to Live in State of Ideal Communism. The Island of Ascension, In the Atlantic, belonging to Great Britain, Is of volcanic formation, eight miles by six in size, and has a population of about 450. It was uninhabited until the confinement of .Napoleon at St. Helena, when it was occupied by a small British force. It is 280 miles northwest of St. Helena. Vast numbers of turtles are found on its shores, and It serves as a depot and a watering place for ships. Ascension is governed by a captain appointed by the British admiralty. There Is no private property in land, no rents, no taxes, and no use for money. The flocks and herds are public property, and the meat Is Issued as rations. So are the vegetables grown on the farms. When an island fisherman makes a catch he brings it to the guardroom, where It 1s issued by the sergeant major. Practically the entire population ore snilors, and they work at most of the common trades. The muleteer Is a Jack tar; so Is the gardener; so are the shepherds, the stockmen, the grooms, masons, carpenters and plumbers. Even the Island trapper who gets rewards for the tails of rats Is a sailor. The climate is almost perfect, and anything, can be grown. Mismanaged.' "Ton say you are laboring for the uplift of society?" "Yes," answered the socialist "But what we have gotten so far Is an upset," •••••••••I USE OF PENNtNT ON WARSHIfL Writer "Traces Its Origin to Day When Vessels' Were Generally Commanded by Soldiers. A contributor to Chambers' Journal Is authority for the statement that the naval pennant, or pendant, came Into use long before the days of Admiral Blake, who commanded the English navy in the war with the Dutch in the seventeenth century, we are told, when seamen were mere nobodies. At that time there were no such things as regular men-df-war, and ordinary merchant ships were hired or comman* deered for, use as fighting vessels whenever the necessity arose, The requisitioned ships were commanded by military officers, gentlemen In ai> mor, who transferred the single-trail pennons borne on their lances to the mastheads of their ships. In larger vessels or squadrons the commanders might be knights or knights banneret, who flew their swallowtalled and square banners when they risked themselves afloat. Going to sea In those days was something of an adventure, especially if a man fell overboard In armor; but these emblems of command have been handed down to posterity in the commodores* broad pendants and the admirals' rectangular flags of the present day. Those Naughty Men. . Mr. Styles--Don't you believe women fib about their ages? Mrs. Styles--I suppose they do, bof so do men. "You never heard a man say he wal twenty-eight when he was at least forty." "Perhaps not, but when such a woman has said she was only twenty-eight I've heard men say: 'Oh, you don't look that old 1*"--Yonkers Statesman. The world may love a lover, bat It hates a quitter. "~~ Revenge is the doubtful pleasure Of a weak and narrow mind. 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