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Show HRET EVENING lake citv utaii awul hi Wednesday DEA TOR ifla dn (03 (03 c3b (03 idjohalt (03 (93 Irt (S3 (03 YOU SEVENTIETH . IDA (03 TV IV tv Gf Itlal WMr I 1U (93 ' hew rv3 (Ob dLJh db tD (0) (C3 Urgent Reliet Needed For Region Visited By One of Most Widespread Disasters in South STRIKERS REFUSE TO RESUME, WORK p Gilbert M. Hitchcock Contends at Nebraska Presidential Primary LABOR BOARD GERMANS SEEK Cktrleg R. Crane Dcfincg Comparative Poiilion of China PERMISSION TO DELAYS ACTION ON WAGE ISSUE ME If DOUBLE ARMY f Storm Struck Parti of Three States Wide Cutting Swatb of Damage; Food Shortage Is Threatened, Saj Latest Reports. BIRMINGHAM. Ala, April 21. Th loti of yesterday's terrlfto storm hlch swept portion of Mississippi Tlabsra and Tsnneas wx placed at III persons kllltd. aooro Injured and proport duDMi of approximately IMol.OOI. Communication with tho trlckon r was being gradually restored to. BRYANRUNNING SIXTH IN FIELD OF 8 ASPIRANTS ' r . , Appeal for aid were received from Many email town and settlement and Tied Cron rolltf parti were being or ganlsed at many points to carry food and tanu lntqth storm-swedispt trict. , Johnson Leads on Republi can Side in Contest For Delegates to Convention- Pershing Is ThircL , f Th OMAHA. Neb, April 2 1. With regreatest havoc wrought by th storm apparently was in 'tho thro turns from III out of 1,141 precincts from early today Senator Hiram Alabama counties north of Th heard W. Johnson led th field of candidates tornado apparently struck first at for Republican presidential preference (luln. Alabama and nlgxngged through In yesterday's primary, th vote being; Johnson, 11.001; Wood, 1.741; Pernorthwestaren Alabama, eastern Misshing, I.Sfl and Ross, 411. sissippi and southern Tennessee, where In th Douglas County (Omahs) its force was spent. Senator Johnson obtaining n plurality of 127 over General Wood In th first 111 out of. 144 precincts to report, Relief It Needed while in th state outside of Douglaa over Wood of 1,014 be had a BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 11. A, in th firstplurality 121 precincts. re- br. Severs! Months May Elapse j of Before Settlement Claims Made by Railroad Men Are Agreed Upon. Send Note to InterAUie! Conference at San Remo And Aik Increate to 200, WASHINGTON. April 21. Tbs pumtbihty of several months delay Is th oettUmenl of lb t.ttl.H wag demands of lb railroad worker developed today during dissuasions of the federal labor board. C. T. Whiter, chairman of tho wago (ommUeles of lb ' Aocl-lio- n of Halloa? Liecullvee, Bald considerable time would bo reto gather quired for tb road neceaaary data to place before lb board and lhal answer lo a quo-- I lonnalr eent out by hi aoeo nation oould not bo obtained under throe month , of L. C. Sheppard, president tbo Conduct ore" brotherhood, dehad clared that el bco tho dleput been pending II month, lb road had bad time in which to gather all neceaaary Information. Doclarlng that tb ronda could delay oettlement of tb dispute by 12 month a W. N. Ioah, vice president of th Brotherhood of . said every Hallway Trelaree month' delay moan tb aaring of million of dollars by tb road 11 warned, however, that further delay la Battling the wag question would add to the nnreet"" among" the Vwtlroad worker. ' Chairman Barton declared that th board would expedite matters' as quickly as poenibis sad that the bearings would continue for th prseent uninterruptedly. h Germany conference at Ban Item lo Iscrvus from 149.994 I 294.644 men tbo standing army provided for Germany by lbs terms of lb treaty of Versatile The request was contained In a a handed to the French foreign office test evening with Ih demead that II be eent t tb supreme council at Ran Remo. Tb not eel forth that aa lnrrsei force was necessary for Ih malxten-ne- e of order la tb interior and that furl herro ore, th army would not aa order for Its dissolution. Retain bwweel (Half. , Tb not further requeeta that Germany be allowed to retain th onllr general staff and corpe f officers' which me ha tho onllr framework of tha set ire army. Twq other Oerman note were headed to th foreign office at th oam time. Th first referred lo th disband meat of th civic guard aa demanded by th Aillo Germany, on April. 1L. prssanied thin wot announcing the decision (o disband the guard t Genera! Noilst. bead of the Allied commission y control in Berlin, and It already baa been mad pub-1- 1 Pratt Says Sims Criticism Made on False Assumption WASHINGTON, April 11. Rear Admiral 81ms criticism of th navy a conduct of th war were baaed on th false assumption that alstaneo is urgently needed for tho With th smnll number of precombatting German submarine lief of' tornado survivors in a dosen cincts heard from William Jenntnga campaign was th main object of sixth in n field of counties of Mississippi, Alabama and Bryan. Is running th United Hates navy. Captain to th for delegate-at-larg- e eight Pratt, former aaaietant chief pf Tennessee, reports today from th Democratic national convention, but eenat investigating commute gtorm-stredistrict aaid. With a he has displayed his most notsd Th chief mission of th Amerdeath list of 111 already reported and strength in the . country outside of ican navy, Pratt declared, waa to mathe where large county aervlco of oupply a property loss which will run into Douglas organise th to b heard jority of the. votes s still transportation in conjunction with many millions, th tornado has tak-- . from. th army and to got American en rank as on of the most disastrous With 221 precinct out of 1141 tabutroops overseas safsly and swiftly. votes lated the wide-spregives;, as well most in as th Th British got th submarina , , Hitchcock delegates, Neville, 7,151; ' situation undsr control in 1917 annals of the south. 7.700; Nebls, 1,171; befors th United State could Hundreds require medical attention Bhallenberger, MsNeny, 1,247; Bryan delegates, Stehave assisted, the witness declarand the forces of physicians and nurses phana, 5, III; Bryan, 1.147, 'Bergs, ed. and held it to the end. Thomas, 4.712. Th United States navy was a available are Inadequate. Tents and 4.065, anddslegatss-at-larlead.-- ' contributing factor, but never the other temporary structures must be ' Wood In th Vacs for delegats-at-lar- g deciding one in defeating th sub-- Jerected and a shortage of food is to the Republican convention the early Pratt told th cotn-marine, mi ties. "The department had to foreseen as' a result of the destruc- returns show ths Wood delegate leadtotal naval efforts so as by a fairly good margin, although adjust th tion of barns and warehouses, coupled ing returns are so meagre that nothin! to us our efforts to greatest adwith ths complete obstruction of com- like a forecast is possible. vantage against th enemy as a Democratic whole. In reviewing the general Foe th preference. municating road a The storm apparconduct of the war It is difficult to 8tates Senator Hitchcock had ently struck in th rich farming belt United see wherein the plan of campaign little trouble in overwhelming his op? lythg around Bay Spring, Jasper could be changed if we had It all ' ponent, Robert Ross, of Lexington, the to do over again." county, Mississippi, and moved north- senators vot running as high as four east aoross the remainder of th state to one for Rosa in both Douglas county to vent its fury upon th extreme and in th other parts of the state. Th early returns today also showed northwestern tier of counties in Ala- Governor Samuel R. McKelvie to be bama before moving Into Tennessee.' leading hla field with Adam McMullen pre. Jn and near Meridian, Miss., 21 in second place. The vote in 129 cinct gave McKelvie, 1,111; McMulpersons lost their lives, while II m- -. len, 6,117; Pollard, 2,271; and the othployees at a lumber camp in Neshoba er three candidates with much smaller ' " vote. . county were killed. In the 221 precincts out of 1.141 In The deaths. In Mississippi-alreadyth state reported John H. Moorhead reported totalled III. Of these Aber- - holds, clear majority over hie four deen and Meridian had 11 each; Bose, opponents with the following vote;. ..BUTTE, Mont, April 21. Op--' Moorhead, 6,127; Ralph A. Clark. Hill,. I; Bay Spring, 7; Glen, 10; Igo-- i of mines in this district, orators' 2,44 1,124 1.221; Jackson, Taylor,' msr, ; Btarkvllle, I; Keshoba county, fend lr Shumway, 101. which have suspended operations and E, others 14;"Winston county, Republican National Committeeman because of a strike called by thi.. scattered.' Alabama re ported s4 S' dead R. B. Howell la leading C. A. McCloud meUlmlnTWorkerLjuilotu.wsrei- MartoriZ bounty, for natlonat corrtmUleemm12.40LlQ were-l- n gf yhern-IS 06 1,741 with ' ln formed today that no formal i heard from, precinct and IS In Kllllngworth Cove. The while Arthur F. Mullen, Democratic ' demands would be presented to others were scattered. Only three committeeman, is ahead of W. H. union. the them by known dead wire reported In Ten- Thompson. 7,112 to 1,471. Thompson, An announcement appearing in however, led .Mullen In the 110 prenessee. the official newspaper of tho orcincts heard from outside of Douglas ganisation signed "Strike Commcounty, while .Mullen polled a heavy the operator must Leaves IS Dead ittee,"-said vote In Omaha. t k take published demand as ofdown to our of"com ficial or inTNTSVILLE, Ala., April 21. The Palmer Lead s in t we want" Georgia fice and find tornado today swept . into Madison ATLANTA. Oa,; April 21. latest Published demands Include a southwest south of unofficial returns from county from the yesterdays Vwage of 1 7 for a stands day. the state Democratic presidential and pool Hotels, cigar preferUliy Flagg and- - crashed over ' halls were visited last night by a mountain Into Kllllngworth Cove, ence 'primary gave Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer 41 counties with group of 200 men describing leaving, as far as known here,' 11 140 votes In ths stats convention; themselves as a "Dry squad." Atdead ndmpr than a score of Injured Thom 50tendants were. Informed.-ther- e in its wake. Extensive property dam- 720 votes and Senator Hoke Smithwith 42 should be no selling of liquor or age .was reported. , card playing during' the strike. counties with 100 votes. There "are s total of 114 convention votes in ths Th leader of the group said he Five Pertons Killed Its counties of th state, leavtng IS was appointed by the metal mine counties with 24 votes yet to be reworkers union. William Tysk. a hoisting engiMASOV. Ml- -, April 21. At least ported. The Democratic stats convention at neer, was reported seriously infive persons were killed by the tornado which the county delegates will jured while attempting to pass ' ' vote will be held here May IS. Through a tine of (tickets. (Continued on page three.) . pt ad , gi Butte Miners . Assume Stand - , Of Dictators " - out-wha- six-ho- ur ' - 000 Men. PARId. ukd Speaker, Waving American Flag, la Greeted With Hiaaea and Cat Calla New York Outlawa Secure Agreement to End Strike. CHICAGO, April 21 John Gnus, president of the OAwgo Yard BMW's nasoriaUta' has govern aw 1 aathnritioe that he win sovjit his tibrsny m bund mralahnd by Patrick t. Uac We-pinn- ed Ttaiih) cowtlUuas Is lbs cago oikhiti dietrirg Chi- oontlnM In acbonBhg WtoIayi' SUiaasel, by the Railroad Osh oral Ms nngcr' a wdath) ",Ihpn4, the mu POSSIBLE April II. Inter-Allie- d Leaders Learn That Army of 4,000 Federal Troop a la on Verge of Upriao Against Carranza; May Join Rev olutioniiU. WASHINGTON. Aped Gearral Hrajtada pt SL OtergosT HIO, Manager, k la a Muk at la which the rebel fame Caatpaiga ewsM ' Itsud. snurUnf to ea Meat today by the MnKsa CusUwts la a saall VlUsga a Om aa uhirts of Mexico C ity i eas-baaa- y. had ibis Is tha flrsS iBinrasallrM g rrtari acUvtUn as rinae to the cap-- I tat. There Is a federal pHTina at M am as Ooauwra Unml Hill was prevtaauty i ported to bar Ord with (kanal Ofcrfos to (Its Itaadq Barters of Wear! Fortanalo JOayc ot . WASHINGTON. April 1L Official gnd unofficial reports received her today from Mexico told of further defections from tb rsaka of Carrs naa 41 WASHINGTON, April, Advices to th slat deadherents. agreement with ths railroad brotherTh second cot embodied request partment said that General Fortunate hood union under which tho striking Maypot had joined th Obregonistas that th rsichlag fore In th neurailroad worker in th metropolitan tral wtlh hla entire command, which has aoa should bo fixed aooordlng to district of Now York will return to th number of men Instead of th been operating in the border coin try between th states of Moralo Micbos-ca- n waa announced number of unit and tnat work immediately be Germany and Guererro, a abort distance of arlll-ler- y here today by ' Edward McHugh, allowed to hav 11 batten CHICAGO, April 2 1. China stand west of Mexico city. instead two of. in th neutral th striker spokesman for son In tb position of th United State Obregon, General Benjamin Hill and Mr. McHugh said he had abandoned In French official circles tha Gor- 16 year ago, entering an or of de- a number of friendly officials who recently Bed from Mexico City, are efforts to hav th case of th New man requeeta are considered aa merely aaid Chari one more in th aystomatlo defense velopment and pfogr with Maycot's command, which eon-la- ta York msn taken up separatoly by ths of three regiments of cavalry and against the treaty f Versatile It R. Crao, nwly appointed mlniatar railroad labor board and that hla com- waa pointed out that if Germany's re- to China, 'who left today to tak hla two of artillery. to-d. Private mittee would return to New York queeta were granted, the German army post at Ptklng. advice from th border differ from the army of 1914 said that General Arnulfo Gomes with leaving their case in th hand would In nothing but facility with which tb 1.699 men had occupied Tux pan and of th leaders of th regular brother- rank and fit eould bo mobilised. Factions to Merge adwaa threatening Tampico. Tbo hood waa it France, Indicated will stoutly vices also declared that Colonel Roresist any concession 21. men Dominant dolfo Gallegos and 404 in Lina re , SHANGHAI, April lamenta of th northern and south- Nnevo Loon, had declared in favorOo-m-of Chicago Strikers Obstinate es Albundlo as had Generals Propose Troop Withdrawal ern Chinee governments will merge Sonora, Amaro Durango In Chihuaand CHICAGO, April 21. (Striking railand organise a united parliament. hua. roadmen in th Chicago district rePARIS, April 1. Withdrawal of Advices from th same sources alas probably In this city, in a short time, Rhino-lanallied d from of th troop part fused today to vot on th question In consideration of Immediate said Wu Ting Fang, administrative said that Governors Nicolas Flora of of returning to work. Ail efforts of a execution by Maximo Kojss of Tlax- Germany of certain fin- leader and jntnlstor of foreign affairs HUdago and by th ii,iatura and committee of strik Isadora to obtain ancial obligation of tb treaty of of the southern government, on arriv- e,0,back,j stats troop also had declared In fin- th treaty of Vorsaille la proposed by action fafted. here. A constitution and peace vor of Sonora. M. J. Kenney, R. 8. Murphy, and Italy and Great Britain at the Ban ing Remo conference of th supremo al- program will bo drafted at tha mootReport at th state department said Shannon Jon three of tb .atrlk lied council, aaya a dispatch to the a group of 16 deputies has left Mexloa the ho ;ald,"thu terminating for Sonora by way of Laredo. Th leaders arrested last week, made th Petit Parlslen. Premier Millerand ing, aty names of th members were not given has refused to agree to this plan, it Canton government. appeal for return to work at a m is said. Bun Tat Sen, first' president of th nl th advice hut it waa supposed meeting of striking yardmen. The Anglo-Italla- n program would Chinese republio and leader of the they were among the tl who reoenuy cries were of with They greeted Include dlaarmment of Germany unissued a manifesto charging Carranaa der throat of blockade and th sim- Constitutionalist and Tang Shao Tol, wjtb having precipitated th present "Bold," "Outside" and "Where's the of f ultaneous Inauguration of a policy of former premier Peking govern- situation by hie arbitrary civil rtd mil-me. . th reconciliation, 90 says which of th 200 mem-- 1 Itary act against the various state Matin, and are her obJones explained that efforts to which adds that in view of M. Mllier-an- d of Canton ber th parliament have o&cMMher hav noted that th tain th release of John Granxu, refusal to Join them, Premier ' I arrived. and Nittl are not Lloyd is being rigidly enforced In George of the president likely Chicago Tardmene to censorship out tb propo-a- l persist In carrying Wu Ting Fang favor th coneor- -, Mexico City., Copies of Mexico City association, . from Joliet jail on bail . Uum in which Jepan. th United newspaper received yeeterday and tehad not succeeded. Great Franc and Britain day contained many blank columns states, Murphy, , waving an American Gag, Arrives oar domlnint role in th pecially on th editorial page a would play took the floor to declare he "would financing of Chinese undertaking but not fight th American government" BAN REMO, April 21. Arthur J. opposes loans now pending. Sonorans Are Cheered He waa greeted with cat calls and Balfour, British member of the league , hisses. AQUA PRIETA- - Bonora,' Mexico of nations' executive council, who ha Students Gratefal definite Union leaders declared after th been acting aa th presiding officer April 21. Although lacking Information through their own chanmeeting they were 'helpless to ord at th council's eeasions, arrived In 17. Sonora' in Refusal of leaders fight the men back to work. SHANGHAI, April against nel Ban Remo today to represent the A pollc and French banka to the Carranx government of Mexloa lieutenant declared th league of nations In discussions with America. British drew loan a encouragement of state rights for 126, strike through proposed after meeting adjourned the th supreme council regarding the carry leaders had been refused a hearing. mandat 000,090 to the Peking government, has today from news dispatches repeating for Armenia the led He announced that no "rump meet-- n league had been asked to pvhlch the National Students union and the statement of a Carranaa. official assum to tha would b permitted, and th Erxerum. which has been selected toe Shanghai Students union to ad - , and recounting report mad hall was cleared under pollc super- as the capital of Armenia, Is the home dress to th leading American, French 'American army intelligence some, The first was a statement vision. China city .of Mustapha Kemal. the Turkish and British banking houses infor Gen r 1 th at Laredo-b- y Bedlam Is Aroused. nationalist leader. He is reported to messages expressing gratitude b qulera, of th Message PPf,nt?f la Bedlam followed the attempt of the hav 14.000 troop there, which the decision reached. eraede unlen leaders to address the men. league of nations, under the mandat samo tenor wera also forwarded to nor of Bonor Th general pronounced ministries of tho three countries Bhouts were Interspersed with cries would have tb task of turning out. the of Michoacan wherw the whole state in Peking. ee toot Sunday aaidMexico b Falsehood striker filed out and resumed a local rising waa in progreaa. as Car-Charges New British Envoy session at .their headquarter f ing in a Mato of revolt against ranza. Senor Robolo, governor of Many .of the men declared Kenney, 21. Premier BAN REMO, April over Received to th bad gone Murphy and John had no authority by Colby Mlchoacan speaking today wlth to advise them to return to work. Only Nittl oftoItaly Bonora movement. General Paaquaria. that countrys policy toward as President ' Orunau could do that, they Germany. Austria waa Juro-Slasaying, and taking with v 2L Sir and quoted and WASHINGTON, April declared. Grunau, at whoso request also upon ths finance situation of Auckland Geddea, th new British am- him all federal troop in,Tis JurisdiO- the mass meeting had been called, ex- Italy, charged with a campaign of bassador, was received today by Secy.. tlon. , Th army Intelligence report pected to arrange for his release from falsehood Is being conducted by un- Colby at th state department and waa General Alvar Obre-- 1 jail to attend. Falluro of hla plans to known persons against his country. accorded the prirllege of taking up the effect that Nogales ana. furnish the $10,000 bond prevented "The disemlnstion fit false news embassy matters with the department, gon, whose home i atfrom his appearance. detrimental to luly Is an abominable In advance of the presentation of hls who recently escapedassumed dtntie r , had Citv persona Mexico at "It is a credential to President Wilson. thing" Premier Nittlof said. libelous falsecharge tn Mlchoacan. .campaign New York Situation Better veritable Lacking definite advice from thaif hood. By whom is It promoted? Coot own source the Sonorans declined t which claim to have Figbt High Living telegrams Many NEW YORK, April 21. Freight 'come from Italy prove to-- hav bee comment on reports emanating free Store Carransa , With source that General AanV traffic, almost completely throttled sent from neighboring couhtrL" by Sonora ire , last week by th unauthorised strikes persona who hav not llrrd in Italy Flore commanding 21. CITY. Kan., April in Sinaloa bad been surof railroad worker had reached 40 to andq, who are acting in the interests A JUNCTION operating as an store aid grocery 60 per cent of normal today on lines of unknown rounded in Culiacan, capital af.&anW . parties. in fighting the high cost of living will lo which he captured recently, entering New Tork and Jersey City, antt was be her shortly, opened Amorieane reaching tho border from according to a statement issued by J. nounced today by representative of Lower Sinaloa, reported that retreat-- 1 J. Mantell. spokesman for the line Johnson Will Attend Four-fifth tho Union Pacific shop worker ing Carranaa troops war destroy Passenger service is virtually normal. of ths stores capital stock of bridges 'and othonrtoe Imfsiaf Ue Mr. Mantell denied claims of strike WASHINGTON. April 21. Ambas- 150.000, is owqed by shohp worker leaders that seventy per cent of the t Continued si Creak It is declared. strike's still were biA (Continued a peg three.) ' . , . - . ay Qrii-nau- ?" nt, - 3all , t ""rvnjut - City-adric- Nittl -- - ref-ere- nc vl . Co-operati- ve t -- t f |