Olean Evening Herald (Newspaper) - January 24, 1919, Olean, New York Member of ASSOCIATED PRESS VOLUME XL PRICE TWO CLEAN NEW YORK FRIDAY EVENING JANUARY 24 1019 TEN PAGES NUMBER 199 f bud legislation on Labor will be Taken up by FS i M i O J O Peace Delegates at- second session to Leaders Think that Bolshevism w Victory THE Cloudy tonight and Saturday Colder tonight Cold wave in ex- treme east Moderate to fresh northwest to west winds be- coming variable Saturday Believe Decision to Invite Bolshevik Re- to Paris Constitutes tory for That Former Minister Says Bolsheviki do Not sia The Associated Press Paris Jan Russian leaders Here think the decision of the supreme council of the peace Congress to invite the Bolshevist leaders to a con- ference constitutes the greatest victory that could eVer hope to attain It would not be surprising however if the Bolshevists would refuse to participate in the meeting they say using the same impertinent language which they have ready adopted in communications with dent Wilson Sergius f former Russian foreign ister and Prince former premier are united in their opposition to the plan insisting that the non-Bolshevist element of Russia which is the will be adversely influenced by the decision Milukoff Surprised London Jan N Milukoff former foreign ter of Russia who London was surprised when told today that the Allies had invited the Bolsheviki of Russia to a He ence The Bolsheviki are in no wise representative of the sian people They are robbers and cut throats mad dogs who wish to bite others all may be- mad He said the only way to settle the Russian problem was to overthrow the Bolshevik rule there which he declared was and to the majority of the He stated that if the Allies would supply guns and Russians would overthrow Bolshevism Twin Sisters Committed Suicide a Ship Left Bordeau for lew York Bordeaux Jan Misses Gladys and Dorothy Cromwell sisters of New York leaped from the rail of the French steamer La Lorraine as the steamer was leaving for New York today Both were drowned Both belonged to the American Red Cross A letter found in their state room addressed to the commanding officer of the Red Cross informed him of their intention to end it all Lived in New York New York Jan Misses Park Avenue a fashionable district They had spent much time at the front They were twin daughters late Frederic Cromwell treasurer of the Mutual Life Insurance Company DIVISION WHEN IT REACHES N Y TO DISBAND AT UPTON Associated Press Washington D C Jan the announcement yesterday that tually the complete strength of the New York national guard dif vision had been assigned for early convoy by General be- gan to take shape here for an quate reception to this first combat division to return If it is found practical to do York city will be given an opportunity to see the organization on parade at full war strength with fighting its recovered wounded and its battle trophies before it is Secretary Baker reiterated today his desire that wherever possible either the full strength or tial portion of returning combat di- visions parade in large cities in the section from which they For said the secretary the black Hawk division comes largely from Chicago I am hoping to be able to work put a plan by which a substantial part of that division can parade in Chicago This division will go to Camp Grant which is a considerable distance from Chir cago and the arrangements for getting the whole division to cago will very Complicated and perhaps impossible One plan may be to have the troops sent the city first allowed to detrain parade and Uien entrain again for camp thus breaking the railroad Journey Mr Baker again expressed a strong wish that the Rainbow ion now with the army on the Rhine parade in Washington as representative of try and the whole fighting army Whether it will be possible to ar- range for a complete divisional rade of the depends factors it was said at the war de- In any case however a substantial portion of the division will be paraded before it disbands Camp Upton having been selected as the demobilization point for the di- vision with that end in view Mr Baker announced that men of the who have already returned even those who have been mustered out would be given an opportunity to march with their comrades The sick and wounded will be carried in ambulances or other motor transport The units of assigned for return include both Infantry and the artillery brigades as well as the di- visional trains machine gun ions have an aggregate strength of more than 900 officers and men out of a full divisional strength of about The men will return with their side arms but as yet no artillery has been shipped home from France and presumably none of the motor transport equipment of the trains will accompany the troops homeward t is possible however that guns and other ment to the command a full ade complement will be assembled at Camp Upton for its use If the return of the units of the is spread over a considerable period of time It may be found im- possible to hold the first arrivals at Camp Upton until the strength is In that event however the large units such as the infantry gades will be paraded The units of the assigned for convoy Division headquarters and headquarters troop 104th machine gun battalion in- fantry brigade headquarters and infantry machine gun battalions infantry gade and infantry machine gun battalion field artillery brigade headquarters 104th and field lery engineers field talion signal corps train quarters company military police corps ammunition train supply train engineer supply train ammunition train train sanitary train bile veterinary section cement mill company No 1 and the dore company The list shows that not only are the infantry brigades which aided in the breaking of the Hindenburg line under their Major General John F O'Ryan soon to be on their way home but that the tary brigade of the division which served with the American army has been concentrated again with the di- In accordance wit an- plans of the war ment the division will go to Camp Upton for demobilization and will be paraded in full strength in New York city before it is demobilised Since many casualties were ed in the fighting with the British army with which it started it has been necessary to fill the division up with replacement troops and it is assumed that the great majority of these men are from New York in der to retain state character be Offered Presidency of Body to Conduct posed Leap By the Associated Press Paris Jan Wilson is likely to be offered the presidency of the sion of the league nations the Echo de Paris says today By the commission of the league of nations is probably meant the permanent executive body for the conduct of the posed affairs Madrid Jan monarchy has been proclaimed in Lisbon the Portuguese capital to a telegram received here from Valencia on the Portuguese border Representative of Shippers Asks That President be of Rate Fixing Power By the Associated Press Washington Jan immediately by congress of the arbitrary powers possessed by were a popular vote taken today if was asked today toy Clifford Thome representing various shippers before the senate interstate commerce com- He said incalculable In- juries would be suffered by the pers unless this was done Mr Thome told the committee that operation of roads was so distasteful among the shippers of the were a vote taken today it would he defeated overwhelmingly The railroad administration he however had accomplished some good things that must be saved out of the wreckage and to that end he recommended remedial legislation the interval before the mate disposition of the railroads was decided upon The director he said has exercised and is now proposing to exercise arbitrary despotic ers in defiance to the common law and statutory laws of the country He has decided and is now proposing to decide controverted issues be- tween the shippers and the railroads involving millions of dollars without a semblance of a hearing before a disinterested party Jan The Swedish government has sent an ultimatum to the Bolshevik legation here demanding its departure from Sweden by January at the est according to the Politiken El IS Written Statements on Subject will be Pre- to Formulate Plan to be Approved by Simultaneous Movement on Foot Among Workers By the Associated Paris Jan second session of the peace congress to be held tomorrow like the first will be open to the press The first subject on the order of business international legislation on labor Under the instructions given at the first sion the various national delegates have been pre- paring written statements of their views on the labor subject and it is understood that under a cial order these will be received by the congress and referred to a committee which will give careful study of the various reports and endeavor to them into a general project to be recom- mended to the congress for approval America's views are believed to harmonize in many respects with those held by the British delegates There is reason to be- to the practice of withholding such reports from publication til formerly presented congress it is believed that the propositions of the United States are based on full of the principles of the international protection of labor by agencies thus offsetting what is regarded as a otis tendency toward class control of governments Data Is being prepared to Leeds England in 1916 These m Vi rt f d strate a simultaneous movement in this direction by the labor look to the relief of labor from international con- this direction oy LUC tions in the United States England j trol and freedom to choose and France culminating in the ment and places of guarantees Hamburg Thursday Jan 23 The government troops are making short work of putting down the i Spartacan outbreak here When the troops the pied the railroad stations and other government buildings but since have been driven out They attempted to attack the city hall yesterday but were met with a heavy machine gun fire and retreated Ordinary business was resumed day The troops continue to clear up Spartacan nests throughout the city The government are on the way to Hamburg and it Is believed that a repetition here of Berlin's Spartacan week has been Report Bolshevist Leader was Suffer Losses Basel Switzerland Jan Trotzky Bolshevik minister war and marine failed to escape from Narva after the defeat of the by the Esthonians and was taken prisoner according to patches from Libau Advices from the same source state that owing to the intervention of Finnish troops in northern Esthonian and Livonia tlw country has boon completely cleared of the Bolshevist forces Badly Defeated Paris Jan troops have inflicted a defeat on the near about mid- way between Kovno and Vilna cording to a report from Kovno day The casualties oC the viki were heavy and they are ed to have lost men in ers The Lithuanians are said to advancing toward Milna tion by the French chamber of de- the reports of the Berne con- ference held before the war and by the congress held at of employment social insurance the right of organization and the ment ol hygienic conditions at of employment llll HE Central Life Insurance He was of the dist church The funeral which will be private will be held from his late home Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock the Rev Gr Williamson officiation In- terment wHl be lu Mount View tery SOMETHING WHICH YOU OUGHT TO BUY la probably offered for sale In today's classified colums It may be property or an auto or used ar- ticle of value Develop enough of curiosity to kwp posted ROSA LIBOK BODY DISCOVERED IS REPORT By the Associated Amsterdam Jan lated body of Rosa Luxembourg ed by a mob recently has been found STIE IS OH Paris Jan general trans- strike was declared in Paris in the Landwehr canal according Subway lines surface cars a Berlin busses affected Passed at O'clock at His Home oo Rock City The death of Caleb D Pierce aged 61 years occurred at his home on the Rock City road this morning at o'clock His death comes as a great shock to his relatives and friends a she was about the streets yesterday and was feeling as well as usual when he was taken suddenly ill this morning at 3 o'clock and ed away a few hours later The causa of death is given as pulmonary congestion Pie is survived by his wife two sons Otto Pierce of Olean Earl Pierce of Chicago 111 one brother D W Pierce of Sandusky N Y three sisters Mrs Patience B F Hardy and Mrs Eunice Kellogg all of Olean Mr Pierce was one of the best known and most highly respected residents of Olean Ke had been for many years agent for the Union By the Associated Press Montreal has no secret prison camps and never has maintained any her authorities have assured the Dutch minister ia Berlin according to an announcement by the British committees on prisoners of war en out through the press The Dutch minister the ment adds declares there is no dence of the existence of such camps Searching parties however are still in Germany seeking Allied whose whereabouts has not been reported
