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THE NOItTIT PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, WILL SANCTION IAIL BOARD Rail Employes Strike Likely to Bring About a Clash with Government. WILL USE HIS PREROGATIVE President Takes Reins of Government in Own Hands and Demands Tariff and Subsidy Dills. Washington. If the rnllroail unions should curry out tliolr thrcut to Htrlkg In jiroiust UBiiiiiHt the reduction of wag es decreed by the railway lahor hoard they will heroine Involved In n houd-on collision with tlio federal Kovernnient. I'roHldent IInrdliiK, it Is mild, Intend? to hack up the lahor hoard to the full extent of Ills power In tlio event til unions resort to force to defeat the processes for the adjustment of wngoH provided by tlio CutuinliiB-ICscli act. Thin law conferred upon the hoard no means of enforcing its decisions Provisions to clothe the hoards and the courts with such nuthorlty were defeated through the efforts of organ: Ized lahor. Defenders of the leglsla tlon have held that tlU force of nubile opinion would lie siilllclent to compol respect for the decisions of the hoard eventually by rendering abortive any strike In detlance thceof. ' President Harding Aoserta Himself. Washington, President Ilnrdlng'fl leadership, asserted aggressively for the first time since he entered tin) White House, faces an acid test In both houses as a result of the situation which Iiiih developed over the tarllT, the soldier bonus, the ship subsidy, and the liquor question. t Impatient at the delays nnd Increas ing complications In congress, Mr Harding virtually threw overboard his, policy of non-interference with the af fairs of the legislative branch of thq government, sending word to the sen? nto through Senator Lodge, Munsu, chusetls, republican leader, with whom he conferred at the White House, that be wants both the tariff and subsidy bill passed ahead of the bonus. Urges Housewives to Buy Dread. Onmlia, Neb. IJdward A. Smith, father of the standard weight bread bill, commenting on the action of thq Rtnto supreme court ,says: "The peo plo of the stato should celebrate the passage of tlio standard loaf bread bill by suspending homo baking during the wimuior of 1022, declaring a kitchen holiday, as It were, and show their uppreclatlon of tlio standard loaf law by buying nothing but the standard loaves manufactured by bakers during Hint time." Will Keep Down Coal Prices. Washington. Assurances of co-operation In keeping down coal prices wero given Secretary of Commerce. Hoover at a conference of coal pro tlucers and retailers. Mr. Hoover pre- Rented some further suggestions for meeting the price situation at the initio and obtained a promise that the re tailers will sell all coal at cost plus n reasonable soiling charge. It was stated that the dlfllcultles between Mr. Hoover anil the retailers have been Btnonthcd out. Lincoln, Neb. In an Intensive stnto drive conducted by the federal and Htate bureau of animal husbandry, 11,- 000 cattle were given the tuberculin test In twenty Nebraska counties (lur ing March and April, according to Leo Stuhr, secretary of the slate deprat- tnent of agriculture. This beats the testing record of any stute In the sanio period, he said. New York. Flro swept through the iwu shore bungalow colony at Arverne, between Itockaway and Fnr Uockaway nnd destroyed hetwoon 000 nnd 700 buildings. More than a score of col onists, overcome by smoko, while light ing to save their effects, were rescued by firemen nnd policemen. Washington. Ovcr-Hiibscrlptlon of the new series of .$ per cent treas ury certltlcates and exchange of more than $'200,000,000 of the ney per cent treasury notes for -aA per cent victory notes was announced by Sec- retury .Meiion, Will Deal Only With Own Men. Chicago, HI. Illinois coal operators have announced definitely that they would deal only with their own men In any future wage conferences, de claring the time has passed when n Joint . conference with operators In other states Is desirable. Lincoln, Neb. The htate capltol commission has rejected all bids, on the first section of the superstructure of the new $r,000,000 capltol, ranging from $2,40.7hT on a total rf twenty- five Items, to a $2,850,000 geneml bid. Street Car Fare Reduced. Chicago, 111. A seven cent cash faro with three tickets for twenty cents has gone Into effect on the Chicago surface Hues. The reduction from tlio present olght cent faro hnd been or dered Homo time ago by tho United States district court. London. The draft of the Irish constitution ban now been completed in a manner generally regarded as sat isfactory to all the parties concerned In tho London negotiations. OPERATORS WOULD SETTLE Cannot Use Distraint Proceedings to Collect the Liquor Revenue From Penalties. Cleveland, O. An effort to And a Imsls for the settlement of the coal Btrlke Is being made by coal operators. ,T. K. Manor, president of the Maher Colliers Co., stated that he under stood conferences of operators were going on throughout the country In nn effort to get together on a peuce offer to the unions. Reports from the Pittsburg conl fields thnt a new Pennsylvania coal operators' association had been formed, brought forth predictions from local oporatorn that the first brenk In the nation-wide bituminous ,coaI strike limy not he fur distant. i Ofllclals of the Ilttsburg vein op erators' association, nn organization of local mine operators, admitted a 'change In the Pennsylvania orgai.lza tlon might afford a wedge with which to open the way for negotiations on 'the old four-Btnto agi cement buslB with the miners. Dig Blow at Volstead Law. Omaha, Nebr. The supremo court has decided that taxes ami penalties assessed under the prohibition act are not collectable by distraint proceed ings, A. 11. Allen, collector of interim! revenue, has been advised In an ofllclal tolegram from Washington. The finding Is accounted by prohibi tion workers a substantial disarma ment step, as the ponnlties and taxes levjed upon Illegal manufacturers or doalors In liquor, under the Volstead law, were very heavy. Under the section of the law Just decided against, violators of the pro hibition law were not only subjoct to criminal action, Including penalties of Jail sentences or lues, but also to taxes and penalties exacted by the rovenue department. In ench lnstnnce, with but few ex ceptions, when liquor offenders have been served with notice of tax lions, counsel for such persons have sturtc 1 Injunction proceedings ngalust the col lector of Internal rovenue. More than 300 such Injunction cases are now pending In federal court In Nebraska, and about lf0 of them In the Omaha district. Hundreds of thousands of dollars nre thus Involved In Nebraska alone, and over the whole country the total Is said to he enormous. .Upholds Smith Bread Law. Lincoln, Nebr. The Smith standnrd lonf bread law, passod by the last ses sion of the state legislature, Is declared constitutional In an opinion handed down by the Nebraska supremo court. The law provided that bread shall bo baked in one pound, pound and a half and two pound loaves. It was claimed by supporters of the law that It would force bakers to give full value at nil times. linkers In opposing the law contended It was Impossible to adhere to strict weight requirements because of the large amount of moisture In bread. Camoina at Government Exnense. Washington. Thirty thousand young men will go camping this summer at government expense., They will come from olllces, factories, schools nnd farms. They will lenm to handle rifles, to wear Unltod States army uni forms and to carry themselves as soldiers. They will llvo for a month In the open, drilling and exercising, absorbing Ideals of physical fitness and gaining a broader outlook on life. Favors Elimination of Strikes. Cincinnati, O. National agencies to eliminate strikes and solve oU er troubles of the building Industry Is favored by John Dentin, president of the American Fedorutlon of Labor, who told the department annual meet ing here that the "whole nation Is tired of strikes and lockouts, and dis gusted with such Institutions that makes them possible." Money In Vegetable Crop. Washington. Vegetables grown In the United States In 10121 bad an esti mated value of $1,10-1,000,000, accord ing to the department of agriculture. This was lfi.7 per cent of the total value of all crops. Debtors Submit Statements. Washington. Foreign nations, world war debtors of this country, have sub mitted to tlie allied debt funding com mission, stntomeutii of their financial conditions In the light of their obliga tions to the United States. Kansca Needs 30,000 Harvest Hands. Topeka, Ivans. Otllclals of the stato fife employment bureau here estlmnto thnt Kansas will need approximately 110,000 harvest workers from outside tlio state to holp garner the annual yield of wheat. Upholds Hog Cholera Serum Sale. Lincoln, Nob. Legislative authority granted to the board oC the University jf Nebraska by the 11)11) legislature to tmy, sell and manufacture hog cholera minim am) sell to farmers at cost Is jpheld by the supreme court. Chicago, 111. Increased bituminous production, which, according to figures of the United States geological survoy reached approximately the n.000,000 ton mark, will have little effect on wholesale prices In the Immedlnto future. Lincoln, Nebr. Twenty-eight men from the University of Nebraska, who have been trained In botany, will make n farin-to-farm survey In Nebraska, bo ginning July 1 ns n part of a campaign to be waged In behalf of barberry View of Santiago, Chile. (Prepared by the National Geographic i Hocieiy, wasningion, u. j.j Chile, whose diplomats are In con ference In Washington with those of Peru In nn effort to solve the Tacna Arlca problem, might be called "the South American California." It Is long and narrow, and its region of greatest development and population is a great, rich valley with low moun tains separating It from the coast, and with a steep, snow-capped range tow ering above it to the east. Chile Is the longest and narrowest of all the countries of the world. It strcteheB 2,700 miles, from Cape Horn to the deserts of Tarapaca and Tncna, within the tropics. Its width Is rare ly more than 125 miles from tho ocean to the Andean crest. If we were to plncc It upon n similar stretch of coast In North America, It would cover Low er California, California, Oregon, Washington, and IJrltlsh Columbia to tho St. Kilns district of Alaska. Chile Is divided Into three sections by tho nntural features of the Paclllc slope of the Andes. Tho northern Is that of tho seml-arld and desert re gion, which reaches from Peru south ward to Valparaiso. It Is an utter des ert In the north nnd becomes less In hospitable toward the south. It is traversed from the Andes to the coast by short, deep valleys, separated by high spurs of the mountains, nnd com munication from north to south has alwuys been exceedingly difficult. Nev ertheless, the Chllenn engineers found n routo by which to extend the state railway which links Puerto Montt, In n latitude comparable to that of Now York, with Plsagua In the territories conquered from Peru, which hns a lat itude comparable to that of Mexico City. Heart of the Country. Tho central section of Chile extends through nine degrees of latitude for n dlstanco of nbout 000 miles from Val paraiso ,to tho Island of Chlloo, south of Puerto Montt. This Is tho heart of Chile, tho only portion of the couii' try which cun support a sufllclent pop ulation to constitute a nation. Tho nrea is not large, about 100,000 squaro miles, and much of It is occupied by mountain ranges of great height and ruggedness. But between the Andes and tho coast range there extends In this section a vnlley slmllnr to that of California, which Is the seat of tho Chilean peo ple. Many rivers rising In tho Andes descend to It and meander more or less directly westward through the coast range of the Pacific; but the In tervcnlng divides aro nowhere of such altitude as to Interrupt the continuity of tho great valley that extends from north to south. Santiago Is situated at its northern end, und flourishing cities aro located at each favorable point on tho railway that connects the capital with Puerto Montt. Tho climate as wo go from north to south becomes ever more humid, nnd wo pass from the Irrigated lands about Santiago to tho dense forest swamps of the southern portion of the district. While much of tho land has been cleared or Is In the process of clearing, In n stnto which reminds ono of our own Pacific coast 30 years ago, other areas remain lmpenetrnblo forests, still unexplored alter nearly 400 years of occupation of tho country. The third section of Chile, extending southward from Puerto Montt through 14 degrees of latitude to Cape Horn Is llko our southern Alaskan coast u stretch of Islands and peninsulas brok cn by Intricate channels and profound (lords thnt penetrate far Into the land Tumultuous rivers descend from tho Andes and debouch Into the fiords In Bwampy deltas which aro covered with dense forests. Tho lurge Island of Chlloo, which was conquered by Valdlvla before tho middle of the Sixteenth century, Is well populated and occupies a position with refcrenco to tho more frequented northern coast similar to that which Vancouver island holds to San Fran Cisco. Farthor south the population becomes very scanty, glaciers de scend from tho Andean heights, and tho savago but majestic sceuery of Binythe channel nnd tho Straits of Magellan suggests that of the Inland passage and Lynn cnnnl of the Alas kan const. When Chile Expanded. It is the extreme northern portion of Chile ns shown by the maps that Is now the center of Interest. Chile did not nlwnys have a length of 2,700 miles. Until the last quarter of the past century, tho northern boundary of the country fell more than 500 miles short of Its present position. North of It Pollvln owned a coastnl strip 200 miles or more In length, and Peru's southern border extended some !00 miles farther south than It docs to- dujf. All of this region, which now forms the northernmost 500 miles of Chile, was considered of little worth, and much of It had not been explored. When extensive nltrnte deposits were discovered In the Bolivian por tion of the constat strip In the sixties, there was a rush like that to Califor nia's gold fields In 1849. A large pro portion of the newcomers were Chil eans. Friction nroso between Chilean mining companies nnd Bolivian tax collectors, and finally In 1879 war broke out between Chile and Bolivia. Pent was drawn In as an ally of Bo livia, and the three-cornered war ran on for severnl years. At Its con clusion Chllo was completely victor ious and extended her boundaries at the expense of tho two vanquished countries. Bolivia became "the Swit zerland of America" In a double sense; It Is not only perched high among mountains, but by the loss of Its Pa cific provinces It becamo completely landlocked. This mountain country has attempted In recent years to buy .from Chile a "corridor" to tho sea Since the war of the Pacific, as it was called, Pern has had toward Chile the relations which Italy held toward Austria In tho late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries. Tacna and Arlca have constituted Its "Peru Irre denta," nnd all Its leaders have dreamed of restoring tho lost prov inces. Economically, Chile has profited greatly by tho war of the Pacific. Out of tho former Peruvian province of Trirapaca and tho former Bolivian pro vince of Atacama (now the Chilean Antofngasta) have been taken since the war nitrates worth many millions of dollars, nnd much remains to be extracted. Valuable deposits of ni trate have come to light, too, in Tacna since tho wnr. Tho export tax on ni trates supplies nearly three-fourths of tho Income of tho government. Incl dentally, In Tacna Is one of the few areas along this desert portion of the coast capablo of producing crops, and the section is therefore of great strate gic value. These aro some of the com plex factors which make tho Tacnn Arlca problem much more than a mere question whether a plebiscite shall bo held to assign the region permanently to either Peru or Chile. Santiago the Capital. Santiago Is the chief city of Chile, but not In the same degree as Buenos Aires Is of the Argentine republic. Buenos Aires has become almost the republic Itself, In the sense that Paris Is Franco; but Santiago Is but the cap ital of the country, which hns other cities that may compnro with It In lo cul Importance. Santlngo contrasts with Buenos Aires us the conservative capital of a smnll country with the me tropolls of the continent. You feel In tho Chilean cnpltnl the conservative character of the people; In Buenos Aires tho liberal spirit of the world city. Valdlvla and his successors, the In vaders of Chile In tho Sixteenth cen tury, were soldiers bent solely on con quest, such ns they had taken part In In Peru, for Immediate gain; whereas, tho colonists who in successive expo dltlons founded Bueuos Aires came with wives and children, with horses, mares, and Implement? of husbandry, to settle In tho Innd. Thus thcro was a marked difference between Chile and Argentina from the beginning. The warring Invaders of Chile mot and mingled with a wnrllko Indian race, the Araucnnians, nnd their issue is without question the most Inde pendent, the boldest, tho most nggres- slvo of South American peoples. BIO WAGE CUT IS ANNOUNCED lerks, Stationary Firemen and Signalmen are Included in Reduction. LOOK FOR BIG FALLBUSINESS Many Thousands of "In Dad Order" are Ordered to be Repaired Immediately. Chlentro. HI. Tnklntr nearly S27.000,- .100 from the annual nayroll of :525,000 riillwnv eiiinloves. by cutting clerks. nlgnalmen and .stationary firemen from 2 to 0 cents an hour, the Unlteu hiiucj ltnllrnnd Labor board has announced unother wage slash, bringing total re ductions under the board's orders, up to $135,000,000 beginning July 1. The clerks were cut 3 and 4 cents nn hour, the signalmen 5 cents und the firemen 2 cents. AmimxlniMtelv 1.200.000 railway em ployes will share the total reduction, which has brought vigorous protest from every union organization Involved nnd will result In a strike vote of 10 railway labor bodies. The voting Is nlready under way In seven unions and the other three affected by the late order are expected to mall their bnllow immediately. The bulk of those hit bv the new cut will he 200,000 clerks und 100,000 stntlon nintilnves. The maloritv of clerks, those with two years' experi ence or more, are cut 3 cents un nour. Othnr rlerlcs are -nt4 cents nnd be ginners, instead of the former mini mum month's pny of $07, will get .$00. Anticipate Heavy Fall Business. Washington. Word hns been Issued by the chief railroad systems of tho United States to prepare for a verit able avalanche of business during the next few months. Although there aro 305,000 Idle freight cars In the country today, orders have been Issued by car- lors from the Atlantic to the Pacific to get all possible bad order cars Into serviceable condition, nnd do tho job at once. These orders are still flowing out of the executive olllces of the In dividual carriers and wP'iIn the com ing week virtually every railroad of Importance In the country will be repairing Its equipment at high speed to move the goods when the move ment starts. Early Action on Legislation. Washington. Prospects for early action by the house on proposed legis lation for development of the govern ment's project at Muscle Shoals, Ala., have been brightened by nuthorltles announcement from the White house that administration ofllclals were will ing und anxious for house leaders to act on the mutter with a free hand. President Harding, has taken no posi tion In opposition or support of Henry Ford's proposal, believing that Its ac ceptance or rejection Ly congress was u question for legislative decision only. To Declare 10 Per Cent Dividend. Omaha, Neb. The Federal Land Bank of Omaha will declare a 10 per ceut dividend to Its borrowing stock holders on July 1, accord.ng to a stat ment by Chris Gruenther, secretary of the bank. Tho total dividend will nmount to .$155,000. Under the Farm loan act, as explained by Mr. Gruen ther, all the stock In the federal land bank is owned by the borrowers and every borrower takes 5 pej cont of his loan In stock. Washington. Assertion that many of the rates proposed In the tariff bill would prohibit Imports of affected commodities from every country ex cept Germany were made and 'reiter ated In the senate by opponents of the measure during debate on duties on razors, gold leaf and other articles. Bates on razors ranging up to an equivalent Of approximately 400 per cont ad valorem, were approved. San Salvador, Republic of Salvador. Three hundred persons aro known to have been drowned and many per sons are missing following an abnor mal rise In the AcHhunte and Arenal rivers, which overtlowed their hanks and Joined together In one stream, Inundating the Cuidelarla district of this city. Plot to Kidnap Mexican Leaders. San Antonio, Tex. A plot to kldnnp nnd murder all exiled jrnier Mexican leaders In thl.i country was bared hero by United States border agents follow ing kidnapping and murder of General Lulz Blanco and Colonel Aurello Mart inez at Laredo. United States to Intervene, navana. The United States will In etrveno In Cuba July 1 If local admin lstrntive affairs are not straightened out by that time, political observers believe. Increased Enrollment at University, Lincoln. A graduate college In crease of 30 per cent, nn Increase of 3.8 per cent In the agricultural col lege, 17.0 per cent In the college of arts nnd sciences, and 14.7 per cent in the college of business admlnlstra tlon, entorlng Into a general Increnso of 1,075 In enrollment, in all colleges of the University of Nebraska over that in 1021, is shown In a report Available since commencement exer cises for the graduating class of 1022. uniMiiujuuiiauuumi T Ynur Skin is SO Fragrant and Smooth Rain water and pure soap U a sensible combination for a lovely complexion. Because of Its rare purity and fragrance,beautlful women for three genera tions have selected COLGATE'S ' Caahmoro Bouquet Soap Large size Medium size 35c 10c Luxurious Lasting Refined ouquefp ToA Pi St Documents Ironed Out. Out In Phoenix, Ariz., where they have flood rnlns at times, a violent storm caused water to enter the base ment of the ptuto capltol and soak: nil tho vuluable records stored there. An electrical salesman's Inspiration enabled the state to dry out the papers- with virtually no loss. An electric Ironing machine was called Into play and did the trick satisfactorily, al though It took several weeks to restore tho great mass of water-damaged documents. Detroit Free Press. Red Cross Ball Blue is the finest product of its kind in the world. Ev ery woman who has used It knowa this statement to be true. Advertise ment Soap Ought to Help. The discovery of a lake, rich la car bonate of soda, In the neighborhood of Kulumda, Siberia, has been announced. The lake is located in a very fertile re gion, and active steps are being taken to exploit the discovery, says, the Sci entific American, nnd erect a soap fac tory in the Immediate vicinity of the lake. The Simpler Life. 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