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AM ERICA FIRST' I Jl EAMONN de VALERA the Irish President, will hare another article la NEXT SUNDAY'S EXAMINER iftoriarctj of REO. U.S. PAT, OFF. VOL. CXI.

NO. 85. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 23. 1 9 1 9 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES.

CC DAILY 5 CENTS. SUNDAY 10 CENTS: PVE J7JT. 3) u. ARTIST CONFESSES GREENWOOD BOMB MURDER; SENA TE ASSAILS LEAGUE AMID WILD DIN IN IT Riots Follow Clashes In Steel Strike Zone 269,000 IN QUIT POSTS AT LAYS CRIME TO RED GROUP Mysterious "Inner Circle" Forced Deed, Says Cartoonist Who Claims He Slew Banker's Wife George Edwards, Held in Oakland for Police Quiz, Recognizes Scene of Bomb Explosion1 A HUME ITALY URGES ALLIES Rome Appeals for Troops to Dwve D'Annunzio Out of Adriatic, According to London Report No American Soldiers Will Be Ordered to Adriatic; Wilson Is Standing Firm on Decision FIUME (Sunday), Sept 21. Four companies of Italian infantry guarding the armistice line went over to Captain d'Annunzio's forces during the last twenty-four hours.

The conservative figures place the number of troops in Fiume at 8,000. LONDON, Sept 22. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The Italian government has appealed to the allied pow ers to send" an 'allied force, exclusive of Italians, to drive D'Annunzio Out of Flume, according to a report hero tonight which is considered reliable. It is understood that the American naval authorities here, who control the operations in the Adriatic, have declined any assistance whatsoever, pending final decision from Washington. The Italian government, It is reported, has pointed out in Its appeal that it would be difficult for Italy to handle the situation, in view of D'Annunzio's popularity with the Italian people, and also because of the fact that the Fiume decision has been a thorn in the side of the Italians.

It is understood the Italian government declared that it deplored the situation, but pointedly inferred that if D'Annunzio's hold on Fiume was to be weakened, it must be done by other thajj Italian troops. The Associated Press learns that, even should the appeal be favorably-received, no United States troops are available, and, pending instructions, United States naval vessels would stay outside the three-mile limit. WILSON STANDS FIRM. I By Unhrmal Srvl.J PARIS, Sept. 22.

President Wilson has cabled instructions to the American peace delegation here which gives them a greater lattl-tude In the negotiations concerning the disposition of Fiume. This announcement was accompanied by the reservation, however, that Wilson insists upon the internationalization of the port of Fiume. The way to placing the city of Fimue under Italian sovereignty now appears open provided Italy agrees to the Internationalization of the port Premier Lloyd George and Clem-enceau also, it was added, are determined not to yield to any plan that does not internationalize the port D'Annunzio, still complete master of Fiume, is quoted as threatening that he would rather blow up the city and port than abandon them to a "foreign yoke." American peace officials ae emphatic In asserting that D'Annunzio's coup will not be permitted to affect final settlement of the Flume question in the slightest degree. Admiral Andrews, American naval commander In the Adriatic, reported this afternoon disquieting demonstrations at Zira and elsewhere by the Italian populations. His message indicated fear that clashes between the Italians and Jugo-Slavs might break out any moment No advices have been received regarding the reported landing of marines at Buccare, near Fiume.

Fire in France Costs Army $1,000,000 PARIS, Sept 22. The loss from the fire at the American camps at Mtra-mas yesterday was estimated today at $1,000,000. SEND ARMY TO Royal Gifts To President Total Million WASHINGTON, Sept 22. Senator Penrose, Republican, of Pennsylvania, declared in the Senate today that President Wilson and his party brought back from the Paris Peace Conference jewels and other gifts from "crowned heads" which he had been told by customs authorities were worth more than $1,000,000. Interrupting a speech -by Senator Ashurst, Democrat Arizona, who said that in 1810 it had been proposed to prohibit acceptance of gifts from foreign rulers by the President Senator Penrose asked if the Arizona Senator had in mind gifts made, to Wilson while in Europe.

"I know nothing of that," Ashurst replied, "but if any Democrat, accepted such gifts he would receive my condemnation as quickly as if he were a Republican." S.P. Paul Scharrenberg Appointed by Goropers to Attend Industrial Conference. WASHINGTON, Sept -22. President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, today announced the names of the fifteen representatives of labor who are to take part in the industrial conference called by President Wilson to meet here October 6. 1 Besides Mr.

Gompers they are: Joseph F. Valentine, president Moulders' International Union; Frank! Duffy, president of the Carpenters Brotherhood; W. D. Mahon, president the Amalgamated. Association of Street Railway Employes; T.

A. Rickert Jacob Fischer, Mathew Wool, Frank Morrison, Daniel J. Tobln, John L. Lewis, Sara A. Conboy, William H.

Johnston, Paul Scharrenberg, John Donlin and M. F. Tighe, Paul Scharrenberg is secretary of the California State Federation of Labor. He has been a prominent figure in the ranks of organized labor in San Francisco and California for many years. German Colors Fly For 'Spite' in Tyrol VIENNA, Sept 22.

(By Universal Service.) From the summits of several of the highest Tyrolean hills still flutter' the German colors, planted there "for spite" by some German steeplejack. Despite offers of high rewards Italian mountaineers have been unable to reach these dangerous pinnacles. Now Italian battle fliers have been ordered to remove the German flags by means of machine gun bullets or mine throwers. Tides Cast Stranded Ship on Beach ABERDEEN Sept 22. Heavy' swells have slowly moved the stranded schooner James Carruthers back upon the beach again, which will render more difficult efforts to float her this fall.

At one time she was two-thirds off the beach and then cable attached to her in efforts to move her broke. Efforts to float the ship will be resumed on the high tides next month. 'ill Leave U.S. to Dodge Prohibition FOUGHKEEPSIE (N. Sept 22.

(By Universal Service.) Will-lam II. Frank, millionaire brewer and former mayor here, today announced his intention of going to Switzerland, to escape pronlbltion. MAN PU LABOR BOARD CROWD YELLS OF Great Demonstration Ends Democratic Senator's Four-Hour Address Condemning. League AIIAppeals for Order in Senate Ignored; Ashurst Hooted When He Criticises Cheering WASHINGTON, Sept 22. At the end of a four-hour attack on the League of Nations by Senator Reed of Missouri, a Democrat, who has refused to stand with his party for unreserved ratification of the peace treaty, of which the League covenant Is a part the Senate galleries late today started a demonstration that had to wear itself out and then hissed violent disapproval when the cheering was condemned from the floor." There has been no outburst like it since the treaty fight Was put sharply, before the Senate by the Foreign Relations; Committee.

Reed declared that while Washington fought to establish this nation's right as a sovereign to control its own affairs, "Woodrow Wilson counsels with the representatives of kings to transfer the sovereignty Washington gained to a league which they will dominate." WILL BE "NOSEY." "Dropping its common phraseology," Senator Reed added, "when America acquires the right to 'stick her nose into the business' thirty-one alien states, she gives the right to thirty-one alien states to stick their thirty-one alien noses Into the business of America. 'The man who Is willing to give any nation or assemblage of nations the right to mind the business of the American people ought to disclaim American citizenship and emigrate to the country he Is willing to have mind America's business for her." Because members of the Senate had not immediately approved the treaty, the President Senator Reed said, had "In substance charged them with treasonable practices by intimating that they arc now conspiring with Germany, a' country with whom we are technically at war," and added: "the statement Is as false as It is Infamous." U. S. OUTVOTED. Senator Reed discussed various provisions of the league covenant and said the membership would be composed of approximately "three dark-skinned men for each white man," and that from the first "a majority of the league will always vote for race equality." In a controversy between the United States and Great Britain, where neither would be permitted to sit in judgment the Senator declared the latter would have a tremendous advantage through the votes cast as independent states by its five colonies and dominions.

"There would also be tho votes of Hedjaz, "whose king is In the pay of the British empire," he said; and Siam and Persia, while in all other controversies coming before the assembly Great Britain would command six times the power of the United States. There were indications today, soon after Senator Reed began his speech, that the crowds swarming for admittance at all doors, were in sympathy with his argument Mindful of the evidences of feeling in the galleries. Senator Cummins, president pro tern, gave warning that while applause might be tolerated, despite Senate rules, at the end of the address, it would not be permitted at other times. Threats to clear the galleries if repeated had no effect and no attempt was made to enforce the long standing rule. When Senator Reed, with arms lifted high, closed his speech and sat (Continue on Page 2, Column 7) a 11 Marooned 12 Days Without Food, Water MIAMI Sept days without food or water, twelve survivors of the recent hurricane huddled in a lighthouse on North Elbow cay, a small island in the Florida straits, which was swept clean of every vestige of human habitation during the storm, were located yesterday by a submarine chaser.

Huge waves sweeping over the island carried away sepul-chers containing the bodies of former inhabitants, it was reported; swept all livestock into the sea and destroyed other food supplies. The inhabitants, whose only hope of survival lay in the impregnability of the lighthouse in which, they gathered, were left absolutely destitute. 2AIR TO GROSS U.S. Army to Send Squadrons of Fifty Planes From the Presidio1 Mineola. Two fleets of army planes, fifty machines to the squadron, each plane having a speed rating of 100 miles per hour, will start on a transcontinental test flight October 8, a wire announced yesterday to the Air Office of the Western Department in the Santa Fe building.

The, director of the air service at Washington stated that one fleet will start from the Presidio of San Francisco, the other from Mineola Field, at Long Island, New, York. Planes and pilots will be from the Western, Eastern and Central departments of the army. Three records may be established, the first being the actual shortest time from star.t to finish, regardless of flying time. Second will be tho actual flying time; and, third, the shortest time within handicaps applied equalize planes according to type and speed. French Senator Free Of Charge of Graft PARIS, Sept 22.

The case against Senator Charles Humbert growing out of alleged "American contracts," has been dismissed by the court. Late In July there was an examination before the court of evidence tending to show that Senator Humbert who was acquitted In May of a charge of having dealings with the enemy, had tried lo corrupt officials in the matter of contracts in the United States. At the hearing a letter was read from former Deputy Attorney General Becker of New York, who said no trace had been found in banks or factories of any negotiations with which Senator Humbert be reproached. Treaty With France Held Constitutional WASHINGTON. Sept.

22 By unanimous vote of the six members present the Senate Judiciary Committee decided today that "the' proposed treaty guaranteeing immediate assistance of this country to France In the event of an unprovoked attack by Germany was constitutional. Twelve members were absent Under the working rules' of the committee six members constituted a quorum. The vote was on -a resolution by Senator Walsh, Democrat Montana, calling for the committee's opinion. were in a clash, in which fourteen persons were arrested for alleged rioting. MORE HURT AT FARRELL.

Two men were slightly injured In an outbreak which occurred at the entrance to the Farrel, Pa plant of the American Steel and Wire Company this evening during the change of shifts. The twp men were attacked by a crowd of about 2,000 persons while entering the plant. The trouble wa soon quelled by mill guards. Although there were no serious outbreaks In McKeesport during the day, state troopers dispersed crowds that congregated on Btreet corners. Seven were arrested.

Among them were John Patterson, vice president of the brotherhood of railway carmen, Chicago, and J. L. Reaghcn, vice president of tho FlUsburg Cen tral Labor Union. They were charged with disorderly conduct. Chief of Police Reddington said lie ordered the arrest of these men, for he believed it was their Intention to hold a mass meeting near the city line.

MEN GIVEN POWER. The city council of McKeesport to night adopted a resolution giving Mayor George H. Lysle full authority to "use his own Judgment" In handling the situation. A crowd of men attempted to In timidate workers at the entrance of the Duquesne plant of the Carnegie Steel Company tonight during the change of day and night shifts. They were dispersed by Duquesne police.

Eight men were arrested. The East Liberty post of the American Legion tonight adopted a resolution declaring that if the necessity arises, it will offer its Bervlces to the proper authorities to aid in maintaining law and order during the present emergency. More than 300 persons were under arrest In Pittsburgh and vicinity last night on various charges and there are many more suffering from more or less serious injuries. A man's ear was torn half off in Braddock and virtually every one of tho 100 communities in the district reported one or more persons hurt in clashes between laborers and officers. COLUSA, Sept 22.

As a result of poisoning which followed the drinking of home-brewed liquor, Frank Carney, 59. Stony Ford, Is dead here and Andrew Jackson Triplett 35, Is dead at Maxwell, while three others are reported in a serious condition. Cash Martin and J. O'Leary are two of those seriously 111. It is said the men placed various preserves and fruits in a barrel of water.

After fermentation had taken place they drank the liquor, the contents of which, howover, were of such a nature that both men were poisoned. All drank heavily of the concoction which quickly sent the powerful poison coursing through their system. Carney, Triplett and Martin wero rushed to hospitals here. Triplett was later to the home of relatives at Maxwell, where he succumbed. Triplett Is a member of one of the well known families of Colusa county.

Martin has written extensively for Colusa county newspapers from the little foothill town of Stony Ford. King and Queen of Belgians Off for U. S. BRUSSELS, Sept. 22.

(Havas.) King Albert Queen Elizabeth and Crown Prince Leopold left Brussels this morning for Ostend. where they will go on board the steamer George Washington for their voyage to the United Statca, 10 0 FROM 11 IDEM STEEL PLANTS Both Factions Claim Advantage on First Day Labor Measures Strength With Capital Strike Effective in 13 Centers, Claim Leaders of Unions; Police and State Guard Kept Busy PITTSBURG, Sept. 22. (By Unl-versal Service.) The steel strike cast its shadow over the country today, but the density of tho shadow was In dispute tonight leudcrs of both sides claiming the advantage In the opening bout of what is frankly regarded by all as destined to be the greatest contest in the history ol American industrialism. Regardless of alt claims by Interested parties, In this home center of the steel industry, the strike was but partly effective the majority of the plants remaining In operation.

Their forces were reduced by defections estimated at from 15 to 65 per cent A very small percentage of the men who quit work wero native born. Officials of the' United States Steel Corporation declared fully 95 per cent of employes who walked out were foreigners. They also claimed that not more than from 10 to 20 per cent of their workers had struck. This statement waa contradicted by William Z. Foster, secretary of the national committee for organizing Iron and steel workers of American Federation of Labor.

Foster declared that in the Pittsburg district 71,000 men had struck and that men had walked out from the US plants scattered through twenty States of the country. Reports regarding the extent of the-strike's effectiveness, even from sources entirely disinterested, differ widely. One summary made late to-, day declared the Btrlko was effective In thirteen centers, each having its own group of plants; partially effective In ten and non-effective In ten. In the ten placed in the partially effective list were Pittsburg, Clairton, Homestead, Braddock, Duquesne, Mercler and Vandtrgrlft and Chicago, Cleveland and Milwaukee. In the non-effective list were McKeesport, CoatesvDI and Lancaster Sheffield and Annlston, and Canton, Elyrla, Loralne, Alliance and Zanesvilje, Ohio.

Those centers In which the strike was effective were given as Sharon, Monessen and Johnstown, Gary and South Chicago. Jollet Pueblo, Martins Ferry and Youngstown, Ohio; Buffalo, N. Fairfield, and Wheeling. W. Va.

Ohio Steel Production Faces Complete Tie-Up YOUNGSTOWN Sept 22. With plants of three large steel companies In the Youngstown district employing 16,500 already closed as a result of the strike and others running only part capacity, according to officials, the steel producing industry In the Mahoning Valley was fast approaching general paralysis tonight At strike headquarters this afternoon, Secretary S. Hammersmark said reports showed a total of 30,600 men out In the Youngstown district proper and 55,000 out In the entire district wh'ch Includes Sharon and Newcastle, Pa. He declared that more men are already out than they wanted and expected considerable difficulty in getting them to work. This, he said, was especially true iti some of the fabricating plants which are not supposed to be affected by the strike.

BULLETS FLY IN CLASH, CLAIRTON Sept 22. (By Universal Service.) There was a clash today between the State constabulary, aided by local police and some 200 strikers who, the poEaV PITTSBURG, Sept. 22. At least- two are dead and the injured list will run over a score at the end of the first day's strike against the steel corporation. One man was killed, two State troopers were Bhot and many other persons less seriously injured tonight in a second outbreak at Farrell.

The fight occurred near the American Steel and Wire Plant when, it is said, members of a crowd threw bricks and other missiles at the State police and local officers. Paul Prouse died as the result of a bullet wound received dur ing the melee. Private Frank Mllli-gan and Sergt. Smith, State troopers, were struck by bullets and the former is in a serious condition. Also at Farrel, Alexander Russ was killed by a fellow boarder because he had not Joined the strike.

At Newcastle seven persons were shot and about twenty were hurt, one probably fatally, In rioting at the Carnegie plant when a crowd of about 400 attempted to prevent mlllworkers entering the plant It Is claimed that the guards fearing the situation was getting beyond their control opened ire. women were among those shot. MANY HURT. During a melee In front of the zinc plant of the American Steel and Wire Company at Donora early. this evening one man was shot and slightly wounded.

Several other persons suffered minor bruises. Riding 'into a crowd at the Fourth street entrance of the Carnegie Company's plant at Homestead, after It had refused to disperse, State troopers tonight arrested eleven men and turned them over to the Homestead police. Another outbreak occurred shortly afterward at Dickson street and Fourth avenue, Homestead, where a large crowd assembled. The state police charged and, it is alleged, used their sticks freely. Several men suffered bruises, but none was seriously hurt At Clairton tonight state troopers were called to break up a gathering of steel workers near a steel plant.

Two arrests were made and the crowd was dispersed. Earlier In the day the troopers and a crowd DF CITY BY MOB DRUMRIGHT Sept 22. A mob took control of Drumrlght late tonight following a demonstration In connection with a strike of telephone operators. Members of the police force were driven from town and the police chief disarmed and threatened with death unless he resigned his office. Three young women operators who refused to Join the strike are held prisoners at the telephone plant by the mob.

The trouble is said to be the out- rowth of the clubbing of a picket by the police this morning. Emmy Destinn Is Back Out of Internment NEW YORK, Sept 22. (By Uni versal Service.) Emmy Destinn, the Bohemian opera star, who was interned by the Austrian Government for three years because she had taken out her first papers as an American citizen, returned to America today on the French liner Lorraine. "I will not say that I will never sing the German opera," she said, "but I never' wish to sing In the German tongue." She was very bitter about her Internment $100,000,000 Credit BUENOS AIRES (Argentina), Sept 22. The government has been asked to grant a credit of $100,000,000 gold to Germany in order to facilitate the purchase of raw materials in Ar gentina.

POLICE RUN Declaring: positively that he was the man who planted the bomb which on March 18 last killed Mrs. George B. Greenwood In her Oakland home, 199 Jackson st, and stating that he was ordered to place the bomb by members of a mystic "Inner Circle" Who planned an organized system of terrorism, George Edwards, 29-year-old Oakland cartoonist, was brought to Oakland last night by Captain of Inspectors Walter Petersen, and Tut through a severe third degree. Edwards' wife, Mrs. Zoe Edwards, 116 South Hope street, Los Angeles, branded her husband's story a myth, Baying hat he had suffered from delusions concerning the Greenwood murder and had been confined in the Norwalk State hospital on account of Captain Petersen said he believes Edwards Is telling the truth.

ADMITS CRIME. Edwards first placed the responsibility for the Greenwood outrage upon himself during a quiz by Chief of Tollce Whltsitt of Watsonville, who arrested him yesterday afternoon for vagrancy. Whttsltt was told such intimate details of the crime by Edwards that the fflcer wired to Captain Petersen. When Peterson arrived Edwards repeated his story in detalL He was Immediately brought to Oakland. As Edwards passed the Greenwood dwelling at 1899 Jackson st, he stood up and pointed, a finger toward the house.

"There's the house where I placed the bomb," he told Petersen. Edwards was taken to the front of the house and asked to show where he placed the bomb. "I put it against the door of the front porch," he said. When Petersen told him the bomb was placed against the rear door Edwards flew. Into a rage and cried: tell you It was the front door.

I know where I put it. KNEW THE SCENE. "That door has been planted in my memory ever since the day of the explosion." Petersen, while admitting that the bomb went off against the rear door declares that It is his theory that Mrs. Greenwood left the house to post some letters, saw the bomb wrapped In brown paper and thinking It a parcel left by a tradesman, picked the bomb up and placed It against the rear door for the servants to take Into the house. Edwards then proceeded to unfold his story of the bomb placing in detail: I put the bomb against the front door at i T.

M. on March 18. The door was slightly ajar. The bomb contained a one ounze phial of nl-tro-glycerlne, a small alarm clock aet to go off at 6 P. two batteries, with wires leading to some black' powder.

When the clock went off at 6 P. M. it would make a spark which would ingnite the black powder- and cause the machine to explode. I worked very carefully and painstakingly on the bomb lor an entire month. It was about 18 Inches to two feet In length and was wrapped In brown wrapping paper and a paper napkin.

I understand the bomb did not ignite until 6:36 p. m. It Is possible that I accidentally slipped the hands of the clock to that hour. I do not remember. I was excited.

But I Intended to set the hands for the hour of five. When I set the bomb down 1 ran (Continued on Page Column 2.J.

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