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INTENSE IN PARIS IS STORM SWEPT IN DEADLOCK BECAUSE'OP hi6h RENTAL CHARGES. SHIPPING IN THE VICINITY SAFE LY WEATHERED STORM WITH BUT LITTLE LOSS. UNABLE TO HND NEW HOMES SEA WALL STANDS PRESSURE Fifty Thousand Notices to Move Out Have Boon Served on Tenants for End of Second Quarter of Year. City Residents Apparently Regarded Approach of Storm With Equanim ity, As « Matter of Course. Paris.-—The struggle between Paris ian landlords, who seek to double or treble the income from their proper ties, and tenants, who are unable to find vacant apartments at any reas onable price, has reached a deadlock. House owners refuse to extend leases or to advertise for rent apart ments that have been vacated. Ten- aots unable to find new quarters, re fuse to move at the behest~of "the“ landlords, while the courts* have ceas ed to entertain applications for writs of expulsion, there not being enough process servers to handle them. Fifty thousand notices to vacate were served on tenants for the end of the second quarter of this year. Galveston, Tex.—With a 66-mile wind, high tide and heavy seas, the tropical storm struck Galveston, tide water from the bay flooding the bus iness section of the city and the north side of the island, with three feet of water. Huge waves broke harmlessly on the seawall and there was no ma terial damage from the wind. Ship ping in the vicinity weathered the storm. The wagon bridge across the bay was not damaged. ACCEPTANCE OF THE TRFATY SHOULD NOT BE QUALIFIED. Spokane, Wash.—America’s accept ance of the peace treaty must be un qualified, President Wilson declared here, if it is to end promptly the spirit of unrest throughout the . world. Any change which would make the ratifi cation conditional, he said, would re open the negotiations and prolong doubt and uncertainty. Mr. Wilson said he saw no moral objections to Interpretations which would not change the meaning of the document, but added that such a step would be merely to say that the United States understands the treaty to mean what it says. Two thousand feet of track on the causeway and railroad bridge Connect*. Ing Galveston with the mainland was washed out, destroying rail commu nication. Galveston residents apparently re garded the approach of the storm with equanimity and took it as a matter of course when it struck. At midnight there was a light wind* and no rain but the streets were practically de serted. STRIKING BOSTON POLICEMEN LISTEN TO SAMUEL qOMPERS. Boston.—Frank "McCarthy, New England organizer of the America^ Federation of Labor, announced that the policemen’s union had accepted tbe suggestion of Samuel Gompers that they return to work and await the outcome of the labor conference at the white house on October 6. -When Police-Commissioner- Curtls-f- was informed of the action of the an ion, he said that he had issued or ders dint do strikers applying for re instatement should be taken back. He •aid that he could not change this or der before hearing frour the attorney general. RELICS ARE ON DISPLAY OF THREE WISE MEN OF COLOGNE Cologne.—A British army chap lain celebrated mass recently In the great'Cologne cathedral at the al tar of the'relics of the hW*l. the skulls of the three wise men who came from the East to visit the newly born Savior of Bethlehem. A number $t American officers and men from the Coblens area attended the services, and were permitted to view UuljobIIcs. STATEMENT THAT SECRETARY —_ LANSING OPPOSED TREATY. Washington.—The assertion that lecretary Lansing opposed rstlflca- lon of the peace treaty and league of Lations covenant, although he was a sember of the American peace conT slssion that drafted it,,was made be- ;ore the senate forelgp relations com- utttee by William C. Bullitt, of Phll- dolphla, formerly employed by the •ission at Paris In a confidential ea- eeity. The testimony, purporting to give Ir. Lansing*! private opinion express- d tn a conversation with the witness he day the latter resigned from the aission because he was not in sym- lathy with the treaty or the league, topped out suddenly and seusatlonai- COMPENSATION PROVIDED BY WAR RISK ACT IS DOUBLED. | Washington.—Increases practically doubling the monthly compensation originally provided by the war risk’in surance act to disabled soldiers and sailors and members of the families, .was passed unanimously by the house, with other amendments to the act, liberalizing Its provisions and to elim inate red tape in administering the law. Among tbe changes In compensa tion payments provided for total tem porary disability are that a single man shall receive $80 a month instead of $30; a man with a wife, or a child $90 Instead of $45; one with a wife and one child $95, instead of $55; and the man with a wife and two children or more $100 instead of $657 7 FOOD CONTROL ACT PASSED CONTAINING PENALTY CLAUSE I Washington.—The house bill ex tending the food control act to penal ise profiteering, as requested by pres ident Wilson and Attorney General Palmer as a means of reducing the cost of living, was passed by the sen ate and sent to conference. In addition to penalties—$6,000 fine and two years’ imprisonment—for profiteering, hoarding, destroying or monopolising or food and other neces saries of "making an unjust or un reasonable rate or chat ge," the bill extends the law to include wearing ap parel . aqd containers of food, feeds and fertilizers as well as food. fuel, fertilizers and agricultural macihnery, WOMEN OF SOUTH LED IN RED CROSS WORK Washington.—Women of' the south produced in the workrooms of the American Red Cross nearly 100,000 sweaters, rolls of bandages and other articles that were used for the com fort and relief of soldiers, sailors and Jj^fugees during the war. National headquarters of the society estimates the value of the articles Southern wo men contributed at approximately 26 per oent of the total value produced in the entire country. INDIAN GIVES TWQ HUNDRED THOUSAND TO BAPTIST FUND Nashville.—Dr. Wiley of Oklahoma I wires Baptist headquarters here that Jackson Barnett of Henrietta, Okla., blood Creek Indian, subscribes $200,000 to the $75,000,000 fundr . MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR IS OPPOSED TO ANY COMPROMISE >ston.—The government and laws he commonwealth of Massachu- i can not be arbitrated. This dec- ion from the state house was iu onse to an incessant public de- d to know the attitude ef the ► toward the striking policemen suggestions of compromise. 'he men are deserters,” said Gov- r Coolidge. "This is not a strike. ie men were pubic officials. We not think of arbitrating. RUSSIAN SOUTHERN ARMY CAPTURED BY BOLSHEVIKI on —The remainder of A4»i- Ichak’s southern army in the of Aktiubinsk and Orik, haa lered -to the bolsheviki. it is I in 'ia' boiuhevlk wireless A dle- rom Moscow. This ralsea the f bolshevik oaptures within ft f 46,000 men It Is declared, ttolsheviki wireless Message [ tie capture of nearly 12,006 pi frees the Kolchak wmtkefls STRIKE HELD UP UNTIL WASHINGTON CONFERENCE New York.—The strike of United States Steel Corporation set f6r Sep tember 22 will be deferred until after the industrial conference In Washing ton called for October 6 by President Wilson it was learned from a reliable source. This information was obtained at the headquarters in this city of Safn- uel Gompdrs, president of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, from a member of the labor leader's party. STEAMER BARNSTABLE SINKS; TWELyE OF CREW MISSING. A Savannah. Ga.—The steamer Barn stable, sailing from Savannah for Ha vana went down at sea in a northeast gale off the coast of Georgia. Twelve of the crew, including Captain Moon are missing . Fifteen of the crew, after an all nitht battle in*the rough gnat succeeded in reaching St. Cath erine inland. 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