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VOLUME XXII. Sucentor to lola Dally Regliter, lola Dally Record and tola Dally Index. lOLA, JUNE 14, EVENING. The Weekly Regleter, Eatabllahed 1867 The Dally RegUter, Eatabllthed 1K7 telGHT PAGES I WIRE TIE-UP IS STRIKE XANAGEILS CLAIM MESS AGES ABE PILED HIGH. W.

I) OFFICIALS DENY IT SEEMS to BE A QCESTIOX OF FOB THE PRESENT. Eitker Hundreds ot Towns Are oBt Serrke or They are Ton TInk? (By the Associated Press) Chicago, June of the nation wide strike of commercial teie- graphers declared today that reports have been received ehowing that lieavy flleaof Western Union Telegrams were piled up at relay points tecause of the refusal of telegraphers to handle commercial busl- -De JRailway operators were instructed by the Order of Railway Telegraphers to diecontinue handling commercial buslnees after a. m. today as a oT aiding the commercial telegraphers in the fight for tke right of collective bargaining and increased wages. After officials of the Western Un-, ion Telegraph Company bad declared the railroad operators were not following the order and business was nor roal J.

Konenkamp, International President olf the Telegraphers eaid not a Icommercial message moved on Missouri Pacific linee. that definite reports showed hundreds of towns in Missouri; Iowa and Illinois were with out telegraph service and all outlying districts would be likewise afTect- ed by.nifeht. -KA XSAJI LEfilSLATrRE MONDAY. THJS IS A T.SAT SHOULP BE HAPPY AS WEMr A5 THE WEATHER. FORECAST FOB KANSAS: Unsettled weather tonight, Sundayi ly fair; not much change In temperature.

yesterday 87 2 p. lowest last night, G7, at 10 p. normal for today, 73; excess yesterday, excess since January 1st. 463. Precipitation for the 24 hours ending at 7 a.

ra. today, 60; total for this year to date, 13 deficiency since January 1st, inches. Relative humidity at 2 p. m. yester- ANSWER OR FIGHT IN JUST FWE DAYS GERMANY FACES CRISIS IN THE PEACE NEGOTIATION.S.

TO SUSPEND ARMISTICE IP HUNS DO NOT SIGN HOSTILITIES WILL BE RESUMED. Smaller Powers Want ReTlsed Treaty Submitted to Plenary Session- Treaty Ready Monday. (By the Associated Press) Paris, June council of five continued the work of editing the revised peace treaty this morning at the same time enabling Baron Makino, Japanese representative, to acquaint himself with the document. The work is nearly completed and it ia believed the treaty will go to the revision committee late tonight. It said that it will printed and for delivery to the Germans Monday or Tuesday.

It is the present plan of the council to renew consideration of Austrian terms Monday. Must Answer In Fire Days. Confidence was expressed tbnight by British, French and American delegates to the peace conference that Ki-rx First Ses.slon to be Called In i Twenty-one Years. Topeka, June first i special session of the Kansas legislat- lure to be called in 21 years will con' vene at the state capitol Monday June 16 the purpose of ratifying the national woman suffrage amendment to the U. S.

Constitution. Of the 125 members of the house, 85 must vote for the measure to "ijatify it; inpib senate than its 40 ipembersl must on hand and favor the treaty or no action can be taken. While other matters besides ratify-" Ing the amendment, may be taken up by the legislature, it is practically assured that the law makers attention will be directed to but the one issue, -it win be ratified quickly and this action folidwed at once by adlournment. In his call for the special session, 'Governor Allen pointed out that the session is desired because, otherwi.se the ratification of the ameudmrint cpiiJd.not be made by this state until the legislature, again convenes in reg- ular would be after the next presidential election, and. therefore, the women ered to the Germans Monday with provi.sions that Germany be given two days to answer with three days of grace before the armistice is suspended.

There will be resumption of hos- rtlllties June 21 if the Germans refuse to sign. The indisposition of the coun- A Bedraggled Plug Day. Old Probabilltes Wright, who usually walks right in the front way every morning about 9:30 with his weather report for the past 24 hours and his guess on the weather of the! cil oC four to submit the. revised Ger- next 24 jiours, sneaked in at the back man treaty to a plenary session of the door this morning, and sent the re-1 conference before pndiug it to the port up to the front desk by the is, however, causing another devil. Which was all right, for it was protest from the smaller powers Dthat kind of a day.

And only yester- 1 which resent "steam roller" methods, he said it was going to be "brite I This may force the calling of another and fare" last night and today! No i)lenary session which will cause a'n- wopder the little wooly dog has told i other delay. The smaller imwers are him plainly she wont walk up town i dissatisfied with the assurance that; with him any more until he redeems changes in the treaty are slight and his it out of soak was what she really said, and she usually hits on about the right word. So iv that fewer than. people were at the high audi- many of the delegates are insisting on an opportunity to consider the treaty fully before it Is presented to the enemy peace mission. Representatives of Turkey will be JUNE DAY There goes the Flag! Its starry field of blue, Its crim.son stripes, 'neath which a nation grew.

Unstained by wrong, unsharr.ed by ci-aven fear; There the F'lag! And battling millions greet it with a cheer! There goes the Flag, ar, it went long ago. When Freedom called to face a tyrant foe; Its new-born colors floated bravely then! There goes the Flag! In Freedom's cau.se it is unfurled again! There goes the Flag into the battle smoke. And it shall break another tyrant's It keeps the faith for which our fathers died. There goes the Flhg! Beneath its folds the nation's heroes "stride! There goes the Flag! It waved for Washington; It waved for Grant and Dewey, and the sun That kissed its stars smiled up'on men made free! There goe's the Flag! For all the world the hope of liberty! J. Duncan-Clark.

VICKERS-Vilify ON OCEAN HOP STARTErf FROM, ST. THIS AFTERNOON AT 4:18. A BRITISH-YANK CREW PILOT l.S A BRITAIN AND NAYI4 GAtOR AN AMERICAN, The Vfmy, Bomber Has Wing Spread 67 and Carries 865 of OasoUne. i. LABOR MEN FOR BEER torium this morning to hear a man received today.

If no other represen- who is acknowledged to be one of the i tatives arrive. President Wilson prob- dozen greatest orators in Kansas. ably will take his trip to Brussels a dozen old soldiers, a dozen Wednesday, and the expiration of the members of the W. R. a couple of German-time limit, dozen school children who were on the program, and two or three citi- 1 Paris.

June proposal of 1 1 zens.on foot, constituted the 1 flve great powers- undertakes to-guar- 1 But the speech was worthy of the antee the territorial limits of liberated i AT Tilt (API. day and of the speaker, for all that, atato.s in Europe as estab-: TAL TODAY. For nearly an hour Dr. Kulp spoke, lished by the peace treaty In return and what he said was so interesting, for the acceptance by the latter of and appealing that even the ifttle protecting the right of Gompers Heads the Workers In De children who had come to sing and to racial languapa and minorities, hae, ninnd for of War on the Flag Drill listened with It ie understood, been submitted to in- Time Prohihlllon. the closest attention, while the old terested by the council of four.

soldiers and others warmly ajiplaud-I The guarantee would be independent 'ould be prevented the many eloquent sentences and of the Keneral provi.so for tho main- the strong i.atriotic sentiment of the tenance of the territorial quo; speaker American oglze for war in which his coun i today in a demonstration participated CAB CRASH IN KAN.SAS CJTV. ULTIMATUM TO'HUNS states where general suffrage already has not been the -1920 election. In replying to Governor Allen, practically, all the membere stated their willingness to come to the special see' sJon for expenses only, that ie, without per. diem pay of J3. It Is estimat- ed thai the special session will cost than the two houses meet.

Speaker W. P. Lambertson will be in the chair in the House -and Lieut, bhv. C. S.

Huffman in the Senate, the organizations remaining as ibey the session. WANT HARVEST WOBKI Any Sailor or Marine Assured of a Job. Emporia, June sol- skilor or marine, who wants work ib-lhe harvest fields can get a Job by applying to the employment of- "ficer of tllte American Legion at the stale office in Emporia. ment office, recently established, has data on the opening of the harvest In various countiea, wages and length of season. Arrangements have been made with E.

E. Frizell, sUte labor to find work for all World War Veterans. A letter tbahe office will receive immediate attention, and soldiers, whether legion members or not, are urged to make use of the new employment depart- iJuiitd The County Engineer, C. E. Stebbins, and his assistant, yf.

A. Young, returned last night from Topeka, whefefthcy have been consulting with the State Highway Commission. The matter of federal aid for the Carlyle section I of the K-T Highway Is not yet settled, but they, were able to obtain aid fof tbie last quarter mile of the State street, road, which it had (ny tho Pri-s Washington, June pro- KulD is article ten of the covenant of thr, June pro- an lie does not belie ek is of and provides Drohlbiiion Insofar It irv for anv to a European apples to light wnes and beer was iry lOr American 10 apoi 1,, l.u lirmiflil rnncrrnaa Info try ever was engaged, and while he Uague. against a great standing.army he is for universal military training, to the end If our country does get Into war it will be able quickly to put a trained army into the field. He rapped the "Conscientious Objectors" without mercy, declaring that the man who was not willing to fight for The proposal contemplates the nc- FOCH WARN.S THAT THE POLISH TKOOPS MUST PASS.

Held I'p On Orders from Berlin, Pol. Ish Soldiers Are Detained at Several in by a throng estimated Iby leaders gotiatlons "of a merles of independent to number from lOO.OOO to 150.000 conventions containing giiarantees representativcR and mt -mlMrs of llie each of tile umal states with treat-' union organizations from thiii anil, les cnverlflR protection -of score.s of other cities throughout In the case of Poland this matter Is country. by Samuel Gonipers, provided for in article of the Ger-' pre of the federation of labor, man treatv and nlnillar artlcle.s are) who with hundreds of others of dele, V. .1 in Auritrian Hun- gates from the annual convention tho- Flag ought not to be given the treatle.s on behalf of the east- to reach here from Atlantic protection of the Flag. He paid high grn European states.

The Polish pro-; citv on a special train, the delegates tribute to the soldiers of all our wars viso slipped ihroiigi. without are to as.semble on the union station and told many stories of the heroism the outline of Uie German treaty and march to capitol steps, of the lioys in the World War. All In was read and approved and wa.s un- yjrst the Flajr all it was a splendid speech and the changed at the sfecret plenary fic.sion The meeting was to with a small audience deeply grateful to of the peace conferenro on the eve ol to the flag as a mark, it is an- ElKht Person.s Severely Injured in a Collision. (By the A Press) Kansas City. June per.

I eons were severely injured, two hav- I ing legs severed when an easibound cor ran into rear of a Ijjwrence car near the ea.st end of the InlorcJty, viaduct here today. Harry Ix)wUerdalc. motorman of the street car had hl.s right severed and Zoa Faulk, a boy passenger lost bofli pa.srtcngers suffered tlio Assix Pross)- internal injiirieK and bruises (iiid it Coblenz, ultimatum -said in liospitairi where they were demanding the immediate coDtinua- takun tliat several inore may not ro- tlou of the movement of 1 I cover. The accident came wlien an Germaiiy has been sent to thC' east bound car stopped on the viaduti (ierman government by Marshal Foch, to adju.st a The Interurban according to dispatches received here car stopped also, a soionil str(tet car from Spa. Orders were issued at followed interurlmn car.

several days ago to hold up Inio it and n.mming In the front of.j,,^ One was Washlntrton's d'orernor held at another at -Treves, two at ICnis and eight in iiiterior Seattle. June lOnicst 1 of Germany. The transfer of Polish .1 ViVnroi iroops from France to Poland began --n- pitted June 1(. A Heriin dispatch received Friday Governor Lister was his "'Khl stated that Mathias Erzberger, second term, been tli only chairman of the German armistice llie purpose of the demon-: of the diincultics the popu- 1 abandoned her purjiose Ger- lliree years ajjo. He was head of the orator for speaking to them pre.sentation: of the treaty.

Hep-; 'oTthTarti Voisiieli'su'i" "hirh If all the seats had been filled. re.sentatives of intereste.l states, how-; his name and :an.e .0 Thanks to the activity of Mr. J. E. ever, were prepared when the Haliia.v.

IS.Si. Henderson the stage was appropriate- trian treatv came before the plenary' r. ly decorated with large pictures of and objected "renuously' Hesfens. Washington, Lincoln, Grant. Pershing i flag raising.

Union officials an- Peking. June conroq and others, all draped with flags. It was upon his invitation also that Roy Foster gave the "Toast to the Flag." thai Miss Marjorie Smith recited "Your Flag and My Flag," and that, under the direction of Miss Elizabeth Morrow the high school chorus sang some patriotic songs and a number of young girls a beautiful flag drill. In a word there was nothing matter with Flag the day! Democrat on (he ficki't commission at Spa, had written Gen. Oiipont: chief of the Frencfh mission in Hrrlin.

declaring that Poland intended to distribute two divisions of Gen. llallar's troops along'the frontier. It was said that Erzberger had protested this was to'the terms of the armistice aijd oaless WAGES GET THE HANDS. ed from" the first" installment of demand for the repeal of war intention to quit office. It antlcl- pact Some states are as yet unwill- prohibition as it relates to beer pated that parliament wpl decline to ins "to accept the clauses even when and wine.

accept the president's Mohler Fears No SHortafre of La- coupled with guarantees of territor-; Tlils would amount virtually to a vote I in This State; iai integrity. DLSMISS GAS INJCNCTION.S. i of confidence in the cluef executive; (Which is needed to his I Pre.s.s) LABOR PLEADS FOR BEER. Blockade Council Hearing Now to Be Before the Stale 1 hand in his agAin.si militarists ParLs, June supreme block- Commission. Strikes throughout the country con- ade council met today according to an i tinue and the situation in China Is official statement, for final consldera- fBv the i awkward, tiou of measures that might be rend- Kansai? City.

June injunc- Topeka. Ka.s.. June pro-! for sufficient labor forces to handl? the wheat crop is very favorable at prcrient. J. C.

Mohler, sec-! rotary of the board of agricul- Samuel Gompers Fears DlMurbances, 1 ered necejsarv by certain eventuali- t'ons against the Wichita Gas I Sniiih of the firm of Perham today re.erence to the appeal He Sa.TS. tiPS I company oMained by cities of Kansas I Wiener of the Hub yesterday by Clarence Ou.sley,, (By the AMocuited 1 which received their gas supply from from Kansas Citv where of agriculture Washington, June VXWEL FIGHT EXCl'RSION. the company were dls.solved today by the State Cloth- that Kansas needs 100.0001 not adjust itself to war time Judge John C. Pollock of the federal They report a good harvest hands. thebountv was Eolne to Samuel Gompers.

president of the in Wlthhtilds 70 Speelal Coaches in i The injunctions by TOe of told New York. in slate courts when the iia to Duua oy the Senate committee today durliiS' As nounced this siiring ar. In this case had arfaren frpm legislation to enforce pro- Washington, June as not to approximately cents to 4 which exists to the effect that tederai ,,,3 Interfere with the tran.sportaiion of On application of the gas company the i J'p The injuiictjons were brought I treatment from the from over the stales who attended Die convention. The nianu- tors predict that prices will be an advance of I "it Is too early yet to make any pre- liictiond. but I believe that, the wages l.einK offered will a.ssure all the bar-! ve wo need." Secrietary uniesis mail 18 over at least i pj Increasing Director court.

will he wheat belt. but declared he was apprehensive of HInes today ordered railroad DismiSiSal of the Injunction do3s not "The Feileral and State aijencies are results should Congress fait to per- equipment for excursions be limited mean Increased rate will be effect-; foi'per about a distribution of harvest- mlt manufacture of beer containing to absolute the ive, attorneys in charge of the cases wido forty or fifty feet long which is the main nroUlem There per cent alcohol. i permits cancelled was one for 70 iaay, btU the probable course will be siol.n iiiKlit before last from the agencies in nearly every city (Sjr the As.soclated Pre St. N. June Vick- ers-Vtniy iiipiane started on its trans-.

Atlantic Ijight at 4:13 this afternoon. Greenwiclt time. The Vii -Vimy machine carried two Captain Jack Alcock. a Britisher.tas pilot, and Lieut. Arthur W.

Browni an American, as navigatcr. The whlcb started on-the trans-Atlantic flight today has as wing spread of only 67 feet and i.s equipped with two 350-borse- power motors, said to be capable developing a speed of more than 100 Allies an hour. The capacity of the gaiioline tank was recently larged gallons and luBrlcatine oil 50 gallons, believed sur- ficient toicarry the plane 2,440 miles under nomal weather conditions. wireless set capable of sending messages over Ions distances is a part of the equipment, i Captain-Jack Alcock. the pilot, waS among the Brftish pioneers in aviation.

He; obtained a flying certificate in 1912 aad joined the air service im- nicdiatelyiOn the outbreak of the war. He acted as instructor at first but was later senf to the Turkish front where he held ftje record for long distance bombing: raids. He was later captured by the Tflrks and held prisoner until the was signed. Lieut. Arthur W.

Brown navigator of the Vickers-Vimy plane also is a veteran Ut the war having served first as an infantry officer and later ia the British aviation service until all accident the machine in which Iw waA an late in 1915 German tewttftity was PLEA WILSOX. Ex-SenatSr Lewis In Flflif Day i at Kansas City. (Sy the A.ssoclated Pres -s) June spec- I (arle ot United States support of the President while he is fighting his country on foreign fsoil every enemy in all parts of the world to oppose our policies and insist on its to the hu- i niiliationj of the United States," dei ciarcd eS-Senator James Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois, flag day address here. "The President of the United I States," continued, "while repre- scnting (iur abroad as a nation- is not serving as a politician. He serves as spokesman for all Europe for all Americans.

What our natloii needs then is more national patrlot- I.sm and less partisanship." Mr. cited hlHlory in support of his contention fliat the peril of every peplple comes tTpt during conflict, but after war and he continued: "Germany will charge lis with re- sponsibipty tor burdening its nation with debt; some Russians will charge us with falling her and others will that we prevented the de- velopmeJit of liberty there." "Japati conlrolling the Orient will possible against our polity exclhding her people and wilP'sit with oriental patience quietly awaitins the hour when she may Ru.ssiaand revengeful Germany Iis to the United States America." TO J. M. CAVANESS. Illness Claused bv Injury Brought Cbanute Editor's Death.

Chaniite, June M. Cavaness. pioneer Kansas newspaper man anil well known author, died at his horns here last night from an illness wWch begam with a slight Injury two months ago. The fuiieral will be i held Mtftiday afternoon and the ser- I mon wilj be by President S. A.

Lough of Bakgr L'ni versify from which Mr. in its first class in Cftvaness was 77 years old. He came state in 1856 with his par eiits. lie began newapeper career with the Advance in Chetopa, selling It in 1899 coming to Chanute, where he purchased the Daily Tribune. He retired from the editorial management in 1903 since then had issued four of verse.

Besides his widow, two Wilfred and Herbert of the Chanute" Tribune, and one daughter. Taylor of Pittsburg, sii-vlve. 80 cent of it. In order to meet this requirement the petitioners included the resurfacing of a little over a mile M- tlie present hard road, where it Joins onto the new one, but at that they found it necessary to leave off the last quarter of a mile, to the cjounty line. lAura E.

lacey has been granted a from ber husband, coaches and Pullmans to be oiieratcd hearing before the Kansas I'llllties Haaged a Negro Assallaat. iby the York Central trom Commission to determine a rale ac- Star City, June El- 1 York to accommodate persons who ceptable to gas companies and con- lison, negro, was hanged to a I bridge wished to see the Willard-Dempsey 1 suniers. yesterday at a point three miles July 4. Star City following an alleged attempt premi.se:; of Ilrownfield Sifers Candy lere It was to be used 1 on the n'-w front The theft occasions even more annoyance than It does monetary loss, though the value of In bills. Kinder please 1 the ropper was nearly fifteen dollars.

also." by the to aasault the daughter of! 2 -inch Pipe, 1200 test; a tarmer of ttiat Tlclaity. I Junk Company. lola I leave at Register office and receive reward. 61414 many times what the thief could ever get for It as junk. Mr.

Leigh Bowlus and his family have started on a two weeks' trip in their car that will carry them to Itlchmond, and other points in the east. was well known la, lola, papicularly to readers who adBilred the verses from his pen which vfere often mrlnted in these and the above announcement will beJ with genuine regret. Wilhelm Back to Germany. Associated Press) Londcjn. June former German eirtperor and former crown prince "Will return to Germany as soon as-the peace treaty la signed to a well informed German source.