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No need to exert yourself to
meet the H. C. L.—it will over-
take you.
Oklahoma Leader
Full Leased Wire United PretM Report—Member Federated I'rest.
NOON EDITION
Vol. 1—No. 56
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19,1920
PRICE, THREE CENTS
MINERS WILL STICK BY THEIR CONTRACTS
Fa rmers ScareBankers
NEW AIR MAIL ROUTES TO BE OPENED.
Steel, Lumber,
Barons Unite
Copper
in Battle
J.S.
Against Non-Partisans
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Wall street is becoming fright-
ened at the revolt now sweeping the West and South, since
the federal reserve board has called upon the farmers to pay
Wall street's foreign gambling debts.
"You are going to see a dangerously high wave of radi-
calism in this election," said a big New York banker to a friend
on Saturday. "This assumption that Harding is going to have
everything his own way is not safe. The Farmer-Labor party!
is going to be a serious factor, and may even win, in six or
seven states, if prices continue to go down. Already they are
raising the cry that Wall street is responsible; that Wall street owners ami the Hritish government
controlled the republican and democratic conventions and ab!e to lioiii out for any length
United Mine Workers Will Not
Break Strike of English
Confreres.
IIY LAURENCE TODD,
Federated Press Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.--American
. . , , miners will dig no "scab" coal for
Already tney are j England, in case the British mine
nominees; that the two old parties are going to ruin the farmers
and then close down the big industries, to smash labor."
Special to Leader.
Big business operations are
hastily throwing up defenses
against the on-coming political
storm which the artificial panic
in farm prices has created.
Steel Men May Spend Million.
There are well defined re-
ports that the steel corporations,
for example, have provided a
complete organization through-
out Minnesota and will spend
$1,000,000 in the final ten days
of the campaign to stop the rush
of the Nonpartisan' League and
the Working People's Nonparti-
san Political League.
In North Dakota and South
Dakota, it is reported, the
banking and wheat gambling
and milling interests of St Paul
and Minneapolis are to have ex-
clusive management of the
Wall street funds; in Montana
the flood of gold will be turned
loose by the Anaconda Copper
Mining Company organization;
in Colorado, the Colorado Fuel
& Iron Company will have
charge of the battle against the
farmer-labor rebels, while in the
s: !ti < f Washita mo
hautf«r timber Interests aro to be
the o^nter of reaction. Will
Hays, republican national chair-
man, is charged with Deing in
close touch with these sinister
plans.
Old Party Structure Swept Aside
by Mr. Anderson, economist of the
Chase National bank, in the "Anna-
list," is this: American gods to the
amount of $3,500,000,000 have been
sold in Europe since the armistice
for "trade acceptances," promises to
pay, which have not been made good.
Banks in this country have carried
the debt, passing it along as far as
possible. Armour, Swift and Cuda-
hy of the packers' group, for exam-
ple, have just borrowed $120,000,000
at 8 per cent to relievo their own
banks of some of this unpaid Euro-
pean paper.
Money and credit must be called
In to save the big fellows who
gambled on the high profits of for-
eign trade, and who have been left
holding the bag. The federal re-
serve board decides that credit must
be withheld from farmers. Prices
fall below cost of production, and
keep on tumbling. Bankruptcy for
the food-producing industry; safe-
ty for the banks tjiat gambled on
profits abroad.
Cotton Goods Affected.
cotton grods feet c ':ton fabrl*.
Gray goods sell today at less than
the raw material cost four months
ago. The American Woolen Com-
pany failed to cut Its prices soon
enough, and is in a bad way. Auto
mobile manufacturers, not financial-
ly strong, whose market depended
But the panic in agriculture is'on farm prosperity, face a business
sweeping away the very foundations , collapse. General Motors sudden-
of republican and democratic stand-1 ly cuts off all development plans
pat politics.. Farmers by the mil- and orders its plants to use up their
lions suddenly face ruin, as cotton stocks of supplies before buying
falls from 40 eents a pound to 20 more. The same feeling of impend-
cents, and wheat slips toward a dol- ing calamity spreads along all the
lar a busheL Protest conferences j lines of metal and fabric manufac-
and emergency meetings and indig- ture.
nation rallies are in vain—the mid- : Sixty days will see— what?
dlemen and bankers must first be Some bankers declare the federal
saved, and the federal reserve bank. 1 reserve board will demonstrate full
using the magic word "deflation.'' control, by releasing credit once
moves on toward the final tragic,more. Others feel It is too late,
climax. , Both agree that the panic has
What has happened, as disclosed 'generated a political tornado.
AMONG THE
DIZZIES"
of time against the British miners.
One reason why the United
Mine Workers will not lift a
pick to break the British strike
is tlmt nine-tenths of them are in
full sympathy with the British
miners' demands for nationaliza-
tion of the mines.
Another reason is that the
United Mine Workers belong to
the international conference of
national unions of mine workers,
which met last summer in Switz-
erland and agreed upon mutual
support between all countries.
A third reason is that the
United States is nearer to an
actual coal famine today than
ever before In time of produc- I
tion, and she cannot spare any
considerable amount from her
available stock to help out the
British.
A fourth reason is that "un-
fair" coal could not, in all prob-
ability, find longshoremen in our
ports to handle it; and it would
not be handled by British dock-
ers if it reached the other side.
Finally, there is no available
shipping, nor railroad transpor-
tation, to carry from our mines
to Britain a sufficient supply to
have any effect on the outcome
of what may prove the biggest
coal tie-up in the world's history.
10,600,000 Tons Weekly.
At the bureau of mines here It is
stated that wo have today less than
a two weeks' supply of bituminous
coal above ground—a supply which
is only one-third what we had on
hand two years ago. We are pro-
ducing for American use about 10,-
600,000 tons a week. We are export-
ing 20,000,000 tons a year. If we
took 200,000 tons a week from the
I M I'OHIA, Kan,—"Cord, non-
skid" half soles have made their
appearance here.
.1. . Taylor, workman, says
old auto tires make good, com-
fortable soles.
BI'TTK, Montr—It is not like-
ly that friends back home of a
certain Butch engineer, a mem-
ber of Holland's recent royal
coommission to stud) water
power In the northwest, will
flock to Butte to make their
homes.
During the trip the party
luissed a "measles'* sign. IVhen
the Dutchman asked what It was
the host explained there was a
ease of contagious measles In
that house. At other times dur-
ing I lie tour other placards were
pointed out.
"What do you think of
Butte r asked one of the party
on return to the hotel.
"Terribly unhealtliful,** he
ejaculated in equivalent Dutch.
**1 never saw so much of disease.
Seems us if the whole town was
Infested with measles and For
Kent."
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CORES
LL
Head of Ala. Diggers Tells of
Privately Imposed Military
Rule.
By Federated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—Efforts to
relieve the tension in the coal min-
ing district around Birmingham,
Ala., due to the denial of civil rights
by the federal military authorities
in charge of the strike district have
been undertaken by the American
Civil Liberties union at the request
of the Alabama State Federation of
Labor through its president, William
L. Harrison.
In a telegram to Roger N. Bald-
win, director of the unions, the state
federation president says:
"The military of this state has
been placed in charge of the coal
mining district to preserve peace and
order. The commanding officer, Gen.
amount available for home use, Steiner, has issued an order whereby
Harding's Election Assured,
Republicans Using Millions
To Save Menaced Senators
Cummins, Lenroot and Brandegee Are Special Objects of G.
0. P. Committee's Attention—Cummins Being Crushed
By Railroad Law Which Tripped Esch Into Defeat.
all public or mass meetings in the
raining district must be discontinued
and freedom of speech has been de-
nied the mine workers and the pub-
lic by this order.
"No martial law has been declared.
General Steiner claims that federal
British government was contracting j military law gives him tho authority
to buy, in case of a strike at home, i to issue such orders. The mine
from 5,000,000 to 15,000,000 tons of! workers and the laboring people
American coal for quick shipment generally throughout this state are
abroad. She could not get it. If! opposed to this order and are pro- an army of 150,000 men while France
England did buy 5,000,000 tons of] testing in every way they can |is responsible for its munitions and
there would be a coal famine,
wo added 200,000 tons, the market
would be overstocked and prices
would break.
That is why the bureau does not
credit the report which has been
current here for weeks, that the
GH
FREN
SPLI
OF REVOLUT
Minority Group Wants Com-
munist Spirit to Animate
Federation.
Postmaster-General Durleaon has accepted a bid from Alfred W. Law-
son to carry mall by airplane on new routes connecting New York with
St. I/iuls and Atlant-i. and making deliveries at Pittsburgh. Harrisburg.
Port Wayne. Raleigh, Columbia, S. C., and Washington. This will make
possible regular passenger as well as mail service between the cities
mentioned. The map shows the new route and is contracted to start on
November 15.
Horthy Submits
To French; Hate '
Of Russ Is Iiond
By Federated Press.
BERLIN, Oct. 19—A mazing
stipulations of the treaty concluded
between Horthy, of Hungary, and tho
French government, which practical-
ly sign the wealth and man-power
of Hungary over to the capitalists of
France, are revealed by Az Ember,
an organ of officialdom.
Tho real intent of the whole trans-
action is made clear In a provision
which states outright that "in the
campaign against soviet Russia" the
French shall have complete control
of the Hungarian army.
Some of the economic terms of the
follow:
The Hungarian railroad are leased
for fifty years to a French company
formed by the stockholders of
Mai son Schneider'and the company
of Cruesot, on a basis of 30 percent
of the shares, participation in the
profits of at least 40.000,000 francs
each year. The Hungarian govern-
ment is obliged before January to
raise the passehger rates 500 percent
and the freight rates 800 perfont.
the Hungarian parliament does not
ratify the treaty, the national as-
sembly will be dissolved and the
treaty will be put into effect by
decree.
The political provisions grant the
Hungarian government permission to
maintain universal military service
and to call out the classes from
1910 to 1920. The French govern
ment Is authorized to control the
Hungarian military force.
The French government is pledged
Is intervene with the league of na-
tions for tli* revision of the frontiers
of Hungary assigned to it. by the
peace treaty.
The third portion of the document
concerns military conditions. Hun-
gary Is obliged to keep in readiness
JAP LOVERS DIE
IN SUICIDE PACT;
ASHES "MARRIED"
TOKTO.—(By Mall.)—(By V.
ti.)—The rather unusual cere-
mony of milting in niarriuge the
allies of two lover* took place a
few days ago in the province of
Iy.ii. The joung man and woman
lit question had been attached to
each other for sonic time, hut cir-
cumstances prevented them from
marrying.
In despair they committed
•Nhlnju,** or double suicide, as is
quite common under Mich circum-
stances in Japan, by leaping Into
the sea from a cliff at A turn 1, a
well-known bathing resort. Their
remains were cremated and the
Buddhist redding ceremony then
performed over the ashes, as, ac-
cording to Buddhist belief, thin
marriage will carry over into the
next world.
El I ill
Delegates Are Told That Vio-
; lation Now Might Set Pre-
cedent for Operators.
i MUSKOGEE, Oct, 19.-The 10.000
coal miners in District 21, of th.
United Mine Workers of America,
comprising the states of Oklahoma,
I Arkansas and Texas, will not strike,
but will abide by their agreement
jwith the operators signed April 1,
and let the district officers fight for
I Increased wages for tonnage work-
ers In conference with operators.
This was decided here yesterday aft-
ernoon at the special convention
called by President John Wilkinson
to consider the problem.
Wilkinson pointed out the fact
■ that to strike would be in direct vio-
lation of contract and would liable
j every official to prosecution under
the Lever act.
Wilkinson stated that if the con-
vention thought a strike should be
called that he would call it regard,,-
less of consequences.
Operators May Break Word.
But remembering that if the min-
ers broke the contract and struck
now the operators would be liable
to break it by lowering wages in the
slack season next summer, the dele-
LiONDON, Oct. 19—The first strike
disturbances in the coal region were
reported today from Tondu and
Pandy, mining centers in Wales.
Large bodies of miners gathered
In both cities near midnight, sing-
ing "The Red Song" as they
marched about the dim streets.
Shop windows were stoned but no
serious damage resulted. The gatea voted almost unanimously to
BY MAX WORTH,
European Staff Writer, Federated Press.
ORLEANS, France, Sept. 30.—(By
Mall.)—The special congress of tho
the general federation of labor
opened here on Monday, September
27—exactly three weeks after the
opening of the British trades union
congress at Portsmouth,. * The
French congress begat! with a sharp
attack by the revolutionary minor-
ity, on the federation and its offi-
cers.
Since the general strike of last
May, there has been great discon-
tent with the direction of the feder-
ation. This discontent was finally
focused in a "minority movement" the (lf,y representatives of the
.. . . ... . . Transport union will meet the board
that began with a regional congress. ^ Jn Downlnt? Btreet. A c!ear
in Lyons, and that was continued at 18tatement of the attitude of that
similar conferences In Paris, Mar- wing of the triple alliance may re-
settles, and finally in Orleans. The i suit from the session.
final session of the minoritarlans at The government's attitude was
Orleans closed on the day before the said to be unchanged. The attitude
congress opened. was that the way was open for re-
At the Lyons meeting there were sumption of negotiations but that it
crowds dispersed of their own ac-
cord.
LONDON. Oct. 19.—The struggle
between British miners and the gov-
ernment developed Into a propagan-
da battle today.
The government began using pub-
licity bureaus developed for the pur-
pose. Miners Issued statements
through their own publicity depart-
ment and that of the tabor Party.
Unofficially a report was spread
that at the end of a fortnight a prop-
osition may be put forth that will be
essentially a compromise.
The riot yesterday in whioh twen-
ty-four persons were injured In
Downing street and Whitehall, was
forgotten today except for the hos-
pital list and the damaged front of
the foreign office.
The* coal situation was tho first
thing to be considered when parlia-
ment reconvened today. Later
BY PAUL HANNA
Federated Press Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. With
Hrrdlng well "over the top," the re-
publican campaign committee is con-
centrating upon efforts to save Cum-
mins," Lenroot. Brandegee ar J othet
senators who are menaced by defeat
in November.
For this purpose the republicans
have In hand all the millior 3 that
were subscribed to elect Harding.
Woodrow Wilson's unparalleled un-
popularity and the sins of his ad-
ministraion have elected Harding
without any help from tho repub-
licans. whose "barrel" is still intact.
A careful scout just back from
two weeks in the upper Mississippi
valley declares it is a lucky thing
for Senators Cummins and I ^enroot
that the G. O. P. has still many mil-
lions to spend on them. And despite
the lavish squandering of cash in
Iowa and Wisconsin it is this man's
judgment that Lenroot is beaten and
Cummins almost beaten.
Lenroot is opposed in Wisconsin
by Thompson (ta Follotte's/ selec-
tion) and by the democratic nominee
Dr. Reinsch, former minister to
China. Reinsch destroyed his last
chance when he came out for the
league of nations as Wilson is not
yet accepted in Wisconsin. That
means all the anti-administration
democrats In Wisconsin will vote
for Thompson, leaving Lenroot with
nothing but tory republican support.
Ills Law Crashes Cummins, I
Senator Cummins is being crushed i close states,
in the final week of the campaign
which enabled Cummins to win in
the primaries. Just how the rail-
roaders work was shown in Wiscon-
sin when they terminated the career
of Congressman Esch, joint-author
with Cummins of the law to restore
private operation of the railroads.
In Esch's district the railroad men
were not content when they had
lined up the town wage earners
against Esch. They made systematic
excursions into the country, carry-
ing their message to the farmers.
It is recited that tl\e railroaders'
campaign committee would drive up
to a group of farmers engaged in
threshing and say:
"Just give us ten minutes of
your time, and if we don't make
you agree with us that John J.
Esch is a rotten representative
we will apologize for taking up
your time."
It is declared that veixfew apolo-
gies were asked for.
(J. O. P. States May Turn.
In addition to Iowa and Wisconsin,
it. is known that the otherwise re-
publican states of Illinois. Idaho,
California. Connecticut and New
Hampshire are likely to return dem-
ocrats to the senate. That Harding
will be faced by a democratic-inde-
pendent bloc in the senate when he
becomes president is regarded as
certain.
To prevent this, if possible, the re-
American coal, the operators would
Immediately try to boost domestic
prices, and the president would soon
be compelled by an aroused public
to declare an embargo on coal, anc
again appoint a fuel administrator.
But the primary reason why no
American miner will "scab" on the j
British miners is the knowledge in
America that European labor stands
in solid formation behind these Brit-
corkers, and will not permit
any "unfair" coal to be handled,
either in British of continental ports.
British dealers might try to supply j
American coal to their Italian, Dan- j
Norwegian, Swedish and Portu-
guese customers—but American min-
ers know that there would be a gen-
eral strike in every port where this
coal was delivered, and the United
Mine Workers of America would go I
on the unfair list of European labor, j
Goed Market In Kurope.
On the other hand, American coal
is findinfi a profitable market in Eu-!
rope when labor does not have rea- j
son to object. Denmark has bought
over 650,000 tons of pur coal this
year at about $33 a ton, delivered in
Copenhagen. Swedish railways burn
American coal. Italy is getting
American coal. And recently the
Italian government has even bought
a coal mine and terminal in this
country.
American miners are assured of
employment in export mining, when
there is a constant threat of unem-
ployment in mines supplying; the
home market—always provided they
play fair with the gpeat world la-
bor movement Into whose hands the
ultimate fate of every industry is
day by day passing.
In diplomatic and commercial cir-
cles here the British coal strike sit-
uation is described as "grave."
Among American coal miners now
in the city it is spoken of as a great
demonstration of working class pow
against it. The order is wholly un- armament. This army is to be under
justified, unwarranted and unneces- j French command in the campaign
sary." against soviet Russia.
Noted Pianist Sued for MORE KANSAS
Divorce Denies
Charges.
about one hundred minoritarian del-
egates. At the Orleans session there
were delegates from 331 local
unions; six departmental unions
(like our state federations), and
three industrial federations (like our
internationals.)
Mliioritarinns Not Strong.
The total number of local unions
having delegates at the congress of
the federation Is 2,178; with sixty-
eight departmental unions and thir-
ty-five industrial federations. As
yet, therefore, the minoritarian
! movement is not numerically very
I strong. It is its existence rather
itlian its strength that makes the slt-
I uatlon significant.
The final session of the minorita-
rian movement, on Sunday, the 26th
of September, passed a resolution
severely censuring the federation
for its failure to adhere to the prin-
ciples of revolutionary syndicalism
laid down at the congress of Amiens.
According to the Amiens decision,
the motion insists, "the union must
organize and absorb the technicians,
and not be absorbed by them, for fa-
General belief in | tally. In that case, it is no longer
the spirit of the worker and the
^ .communist that remains predomi-
of the followers of Alexander llow- nan^ |)U^ the bourgeois and hlerar-
att, president of the district 14 of chical spirit of the technicians."
the United Mine Workers, would be! The decisions at Lyons <l!il:>)
were clear-cut, asserts the motion,
will not take the initiative.
Robert Sinillie, head of the Mil}
ers" union, will resign when the
strike ends, it was reported author-
itatively today.
British Ultimatum Sent
to Soviet Russia, Is
Report.
COAL MINERS
MAY GO OUT
By United Press.
PITTSBURG, Kan., Oct. 19.—With
five hundred miners from two south-
east Kansas mines exercising tho
"vacation" plan of strike yesterday,
others were expected to join the
movement today.
mining circles here was that most 1
out on "vacation" by the end of the
week.
Mrs. Violet T. Lyon, pianist, whose
husband, William H. Lyon, seeks to
but, in the year that followed the
congress at Lyons, "tho c. G. T„
Mine diggers are reported to f which should have moved toward the
that it is an injustice to leave their )left, has navigated the waters to the
pay at the old rate, while day men right, wholly abandoning direct
enjoy a recent increase by opera- j action, in principle as well as in
tors of $1.50. Howatt said that sen- method."
timent throughout the district Js j ({evolutionary Action Asked,
strong to refuse to work until there jt j8 action that the minoritarlans
-n want. They have had enough of res-
olutions. It is revolutionary action, i
the resolution contends, and not in !
affiliated with the international of j
Amsterdam that the hope of the C.
G. T. really lies. There are. in this
resolution, more than two thousand
words, some of constructive sugges-
Ma- tion. but for the most part of criti-
adjustment of tonnag
rates.
MASON CITY, IA., FIRE
FIGHTERS SCABBING
publicans are said to be disbursing _JII
ready cash with a lavish hand in the I er, which will probably hasten the
,close states- R®Hable men are radi- day of nationalization of the coal
Ln r ,wJl frnm rh,ca*° ""T day with Industry in tho United States.
he fathered. Iowa farmers are not fat purse„ an(j genial manner Who 1
champions of government ownership describe their purpose to be that "of i
just yet, but they are everlastinglj' sweetening and softening" the situa-
opposed to the vastly increased 11on ln doubtful states
freight rate on wheat which means j Tt ,s reCorded that countless men
they have to pay out of the steadily an(j women whose only known politi-
shrinklng ( hicago quotation for cal ahility is thpir prJvllege of votinc
their product. on November 2 aro beincr added to
The railroad workers are making ; republican state committee payrolls
_/.x — -
Buying Public is waiting to
see your WANT AD in the LEAD-
ER'S Classified Columns.
One worker that never tires.
LEADER WANT ADS.
a fierce campaign against Cummins
undismayed by the political accident
(Continued on Page Six.)
| LEADER CLASSIFIED
ADS" get results quickly.
By Federated Press.
MASON CITY, Iowa, Oct. 18.
obtain a divorce, alleging his wife, son City's fire department is nowlcism, and insistence that the < (1
through her pre-war friendship with manned by a corps of strikebreakers. T. has been faithless to its tradl-
the Hohenzollern family, was openly The city's former employes, with th- tions.
pro-German during the war. Mrs. exception of the chief, are standing But what to do The minoritarian
Lyon denied the charges, saying she by their resignations, having indi- finds himself in this predicament.
was never in favor of Germany. She cated unanimously that rather than His group is not strong enough to
is a pupil of Leschtitsky, the teacher i'bo back to work under the old wage, control the federation. Therefore
of PaderewskI j which was insufficient for decent he has two courses one, to remain
! living conditions, they would seek in the federation and carry on pron-
RIITTFR MEN AQK TIMF other employment. aganda there; the other to form a
DU I I un IVICIM Hoi\ IIIVIu Strikebreakers who are filling in. new organization. Moscow has in-
TO GET RID OF STOCK 'did not get the easy berths they ha l slsted that the communists remain kolstieff, on the Black Sea, has
I figured on. Before the strike, Mason in the federation; La Vie Ouviere, handed to Leonid Krassln, the B<>1- A. e erso
Dairv and nacker reDresentatlves rity'8 "re-fighting force was organ- organ of the communists, has taken
Dairy and pacKer representatives,^ Qn th(j lwo_platoon syfitem, pr- this attitude consistently.
were to appear before the state riods of twelve hours each. Th • On tho other hand, there is a
board of agriculture Monday to ask "scabs" have been placed on a con- strong movement, particularly In the
modification of the order of that tinuous shift, using the dormitory south, for a new organization The,
.body requiring butter to be ptit up above the station for sleeping quar- capitalist papers are hailing this .
"WANT | in sixteen-ounce packs instead of ters, as under the old one-platoon sign of division with glee. The ia- ( looked upon In manv
* fifteen ounces. iarrangement. ibor press is opposing it vigorously.' declaration of wai
stick by the contract
Immediately after President Wil-
kinson finished reading his report
outlining the situation that con-
fronts the officials of the district,
S. A. Connaughton, vice president
of the Arkansas State Federation of
Labor, and a delegate from Paris,
Ark., introduced the resolution de-
claring for submission to the con*
tract. The text of the resolution
follows:
"To the Delegates of District 21,
U. M. W. of A., Assembled: Inas-
much us the question of a tonnaso
advance is before this body and
whereas our district officials havo
done their very utmost to brln^
about a future advance for the ton-
nage workers;
Therefore, Be It Resolved, that we
commend the district officials in
their earnest efforts for the ad-
vancement of the men they repre-
sent. And Be It Further Resolved,
that we live up religiously to the
contract which had been signed by
our district officials."
FIRE CAUSES
HEAVY LOSS
Chicago Building Destroyed
—Blaze Discovered Two
Hours After.
CHICAGO, Oct. 19.—Fire destroyed
a six-story business building with a
loss of $100,000 here early today.
The blaze was not under control at
7:30, nearly two hours after the fire
was discovered. Firemen, however,
believed there was no danger of it
spreading.
The building destroyed was in the
heart of the business section. Ele-
vated and street car lines on the
south side were paralyzed. The
blaze broke out on the fourth floor
of the building in rooms occupied by
the Williams, Barker and Servins
Furniture Auction company. The fire
spread rapidly to the fifth and sixth
floors and then ate its way toward
the lower floors.
Thousands of people watchinp the
fire were endangered when the roof
crashed down, throwing glass and
burning timbers into the Btreets.
Hundreds of passengers on a trnfn
from the South Side were forced to
pick their way over the ties on the
high elevated structure for blocks
when quo train found It impossible
to pass through the smoke and
flames and was unable to back up.
One fireman was overcome by
smoke.
HOUSTON JAP GOES TO
CORNELL VIA AUTO TRUCK
ITHACA. N Y., Oct. 19. -Moral
Asai, 45. a Japanese student, brought
his family all the way from Houston,
Texas, in motor trucks that he
might enter Cornell as a freshman.
The Japanese family made a
stranne picture as the two trucks
loaded with household goods. Asal's
wife and nine children, entered
Tthaca It was the end of a two
months' overland trip.
Asai's oldest son said today he
would enter high school here as a
freshman.
U. S. ADMITS ERROR IN
ESPIONAGE LAW CASE
A British ultimatum to Soviet i ^ „
Russia, threatening to sink Russian WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.- The Kov-
warships and submarines on sight if ernment today confessed error and
th« y are seen in the vicinity of Nl- ;isked the dismissal of its case un-
been der the espionage act against James
Minnesota. The
.oy in London, according j court dismissed the case, ending
lies from London. The prosecution of Peterson.
message, according to Krassin, was Peterson, at one time an opponent
from Earl Curzon British Secretary of Senator Knute Nelson in the last
of Foreign Affairs, and has been for- senatorial primary, wrote articles for
warded to Warsaw. The note Is newspapers which the government
as a claimed disloyal. The government
i won in lower courts .
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