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TTTE NORTTI PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRTBUNE CONGRESS END BUSJfSESSION Look for Special Call to be Made in November. FOR FIRE PREVENTION DAY President Issues Proclamation Dcslg. natlng October 0 as Fire Prevention Day. Washington. Congress adjourned sine die Krldiiy. with lenders general ly expecting call from President Harding Tor a special session Novem ber 15, preceding the regular Decem ber session. The president was In nttcndiinco for a few minutes before tlie lltial gavels dropped, to sign tlie usual shenf of eleventh-hour hills. The only Impor lant inuasuro to Ret through on the last day .was (he deficiency appropria tion hill, the admlulstrallou Llborlan loan hill and the Dyer niitl-lynclilng measure going over until the next nession. Leaders and rani: and file now "go to the country" on tho record, enter lug the fall campaign. Trains and autoiuohlles leaving Washington car ried scores of congressmen released for the campaign. During the session aliout 800 laws were said to have been enacted out of .'t,ll)8 hills and .'l.r3 resolutions In troduced In the house, and 1,21!) hills and about 280 resolutions In the sen ate. Appropriations of the session itggregated over $,250,000,000, and, with authorizations, ?:i,7rl.017,000 was niadu available for the govern ment's fiscal year needs. About 0,000 nominations were sent to the senate by President Harding, which were confirmed with but few exceptions. National Fire Prevention Day. WitHhlngton. President Ilurdlng has issued a proclamation designating Holiday, October 0, as National Fire Prevention day. The fire 'waste in the United States year after year, tho president said reaches appalling fig ures which are not approached in any other country. There ought to ho especial effort, lie added, to minimize such losses. He suggests the special desirability of Impressing upon the teachers and pupils In (lie schools und nil workers In Industrial estab lishments, tho Importance of precau tionary measures for avoidance of 1)1 CM. Tho Chamber of Commerce of the United States, at the same time an nounced that local coinnlereiHl bodies throughout the' United .States "will tul;o (ho lead," In observance of Flro Prevention Week, from October 2 to 0. Soon to Begin Reconstruction Work. lJoriln. Rerlln nowspaperH an nounce that a contract was concluded in Paris, September 11, botween a French construction syndicate com 'prising eighty-eight building firms ami iu Uerlln firm on the lines of the Stln-ncs-Luhersuc agreement, for recon struction work In the devastated areas of Franco. It Is expected 1B0, 000 workers, of whom 40,000 will ho Germans, will ho employed. The con tract, It Is stated, already Involves ;i30,000,000 fruncs. I Ford Motor Plant Reopens. ' Detroit. Mich. Tho plants of the Ford Motor company in tlie Detroit district, closed last week because of thu coal situation, thereby throwing 300,000 Ford workers out of work In different parts 6t tho country, has re opened. I i ) Will Not Permit Any Action. 1 ltomo. Italy has olllelully Inform ed Itoumunln that she will not permit nny action by Hulgurla which would change tho present status quo In tho lialkans and Is ready, if necessary, to take recourse to military nieasurse. j Great Britain's War Debt. Washington. Oreut Britain's pay ,uent of Interest of her war debt to 'tho United States, duo October 15, 'will amount to approximately $50,000, 000, according to the belief expressed by treasury olllclals. Defied Prohibition Officers. Nuw York. Tlie United States coast guard cutter Seneca lias been sent to sea to determine tho exact location of tlie Onward, a vessel fly ing the lirltlsh flag, which dolled pro lilbttton ofllcers aboard the Halm, Jlngshlp of tlie dry navy. Tho Seneca, It was said, had orders to selzo the Onward if she was within tho twelve mile limit, The vessel Is believed to 1)0 carrying a cargo of liquor and awaiting tin opportunity to transfer it to a smaller boat for smuggling into tlie United Stales. I Want to Legalize Wine and Beer, Columbus, O. Ohtouns have been authorized by tlie state supremo court to vote on a proposed auimeiidmcnt to the state constitution legalizing thu nalo and uianufacture of tight wine nnd beer. , Twenty-two Children Fatherless Jackson. Cal. Twenty-two children ore fatherless today because of the Argonaut mine disaster. More than lialf of them' nro under 112 years of ngu. SOLDIER BONUS IS VETOED Possession of Standard Metal by Principal Powers is tho Largest In History. Washington. Kxorcislng his veto power in emphatic manner, President Harding dealt the soldiers' bonus bill what appears to be a death blow. Ho not only rejected the bill, but In his message explaining his act, question ed tlie policy of awarding patriotic service with cash. Nothing short of a political miracle can save the bill. Its supporters, en thusiastic in their optimism for two years, have now practically given up iiope of miracles. The house of representatives un doubtedly will override the veto by a'wlde majority, but in tlie senate the anti-bonus forces appear to have con trol by n slender majority of two or three votes. Only :i.l votes, counting pairs, nro needed to sustain the veto, and a careful canvass Indicated that there would be !15 or .'10 votes to support tho president. President Harding vetoed the bill nnd sent It back to congress for two main reasons which he set forth at the outset of Ills message. First, because It failed to provide tlie revenue to defray its expense. Second, because, ho said, "It estab lishes tho very dangerous precedent of creating a treasury covenant to pay which nuts a burden, variously estimated botween $1,000,000,000 and Sfi.000,000,000, upon the American people, not (o discharge an obligation, which the government always must pay, hut to bestow a bonus which the soldiers themselves, while serving in the world war did not expect." Gold Supply Sets New Record. Washington. Gold held by the cen tral banks of nil principal world pow ers now amounts to $7,851,000,000 a new record. This sum Is an In crease of $1,2:18,000,000 In two years. The increase Is due to tlie fact that governments by restrictive gold poli cies liavo brought gold out of hiding. Then there hns been a steady flow from the mines. Of the world's total tho United NtiitoH hns .10 tier cent or S3.170. 000. 000. Most of tills gold Is In the pos session of tlie 12 federal reserve banks of tho federal reserve system, or In tho vnults of the United States trciiNiirv mill Its brunch detiosltorlcs. Tho grand total of all available gold noes not include gold in uussia. See End of Labor Troubles. New York. Tho beginning of tho end of tho labor troubles that have from time to tlmo beset the transpor tntton lines of the nation (or the past several yenrs, was believed by many railway heads and union chiefs to have como when tho New York Cen tral lines made peaceful settlement with two of tho operntlng brother hoods, nnd the Pennsylvania system; began negotiations toward a similar end, Arrangements for like confer ences here between brotherhood lend- ers and six other big eastern carriers are-under way. ; Makes Ruling for Defendants. Chicago. More than ono third Ini volume of tho government's evidence In its injunction suit against the striking rnllwny Shopcrnfts was ruledl out when Judge James II. Wllkerson' upheld the contention of tlie defense that 283 affidavits recounting violenco at tho hands of, supposed strikers failed to show tho persons making them knew they were to be used In court. Bonus Supporters Abandon Hope. Washington. Soldier bonus sup porters have virtually ahundoned hope that an adjusted compensation bill enn he made Into law at this ses sion of congress. Constantinople. All the allies hnvo notllled the Angora government that an attack by the Turkish nationalists ugalnst tho neutral zones of Ismiil nnd tho Dardanelles will mean war with the allies and that they are determined to defend Constantinople against tho Keniallsts with as njuch resolution ns they mobilized their troops against (Ireece when the Greeks threatened an Invasion of Constantinople. A squadron of Urltlsh hussars and a company of Itnllan Infantiy has left tho Dardanelles for Iamtd. Postal Savings Take Upward Swing. Washington. Postal savings de posits took an upward swing during August, despite heavy withdrawals In mining and railroad centers, ac cording to the announcement by tlie postoillce department. Worst of its Kind on Record. Swatow The typhoon which struck Swatow and tho surrounding region on August n, resulting In tho loss of more than 00,000 livos, without doubt Is tho worst of Its kind on record In China. Pinch Will Be More Acute. London. The government looks forward to tho coming winter with anxiety. It will bo the third winter of wldosprend unemployment. Dr. T. J, McNamura. minister of labor, linn predicted that, despite tho efforts of local and national authorities to create employment, "the pinch will bo more acute. Genevn. Tho political commltteo of tho league of nations nssonibly has voted unanimously to admit Hungary to the membership in the leasuo. Mm Electric Welding In Essen. (Prepared by the National CleoKraphlc So ciety, WanhlnKion. D. C.) Once more the Ruhr valley, Ger many's beehive of industry, lias come to the fore In world interest, with tlie suggestion that France may seize tills region to force the payment of repara tions. Merely ns a river, this Ituhr, barely 150 miles long, Is not important. Down tlie Rhine, below where Caesar bridged it at Andcrnach, below where Yankee doughboys now wash their shirts In its green Hood and British Tommies play at soccer above the bones of bish ops, the small crooked stream flows in from tlie cast. Hut it flows through and lends its name to n tiny region not equaled anywhere for intensity of industry and potential political Impor tance. Viewed in tho light of events since the war, it seems safe to predict that the course of life In Europe for the next generation may depend on what is happening now along this short, crooked, but busy stream. The Ituhr, ns this famous region is commonly called, Is not a political sub division of Germany; it is merely an industrial district, smaller in area than Rhode Island, but crowded with mines and factories from end to end and settled, In spots, with 1,800 people to tlie square mile. Tiny ns It is, a mere speck on the map, it produces in normnl times over 100,000,000 tons of coal a year; It mines much of the Iron ore Its many mills consume, nnd tho steel wnres of Sollngcn havo been famous since tho Middle ages. From Essen there Is trundled out, month after month, n parade of fin ished engines, cars, nnd farm Imple ments, to say nothing of tools, shaft ing, ship-frames, bridge steel, nnd plates, that compete in the markets of the world from Jnvn to Jerusalem. One Germnn writer, with character istic racial precision, figures out that the volumo of rnw nnd finished prod ucts handled In the Ruhr every work ing dny would load a train of cars !!0 miles long I What the Ruhr Is Like. To grnsp quickly just what the Ruhr would look like if painted in on n map, tnke your pencil nnd drnw a horseshoe-shaped figure, starting north cast from Dulsburg, on the Rhine ; then curve east nnd southenst, so that Dort mund stands at the toe of tlie shoo; thence south at Ilngen, southwest to Barmen, and thence straight on to strike the Rhine again at a point north of Cologne. Then think of tlie Pennsylvania coal fields packed Into this tiny area ; pour In tho combined populations of Phil adelphia, Baltimore, Clovelnnd nnd St. Louis. Then tako a flock of the big gest American steel mills nnd railroad shops you con think of nnd set them down nlong tho Ruhr. Fill In tho re maining smaller gaps with paper, silk nnd cotton mills, glass factories, tan neries, dye, chemical and salt works. Now put every man, woman and child from the cities named hard nt work digging conl, firing boilers, running Inthes or rolling steel rails, and you will get n graphic, accurate mentnl picture of what this roaring, rushing Ruhr ronlly Is. Geographically, tho Ruhr district lies chiefly in tho province of West phalia, bounded pn tho west by the Rhine. A small section of its nren, however, including tho city of Essen. flows over Into tho Rhino province. Physically, It forms a part of tho great sandy plain of nbrthwest Germany, merging with what geologists call tho "Gulf of Cologne." Its cllmnte Is mild ly oceanic, with the heaviest rainfall In July. Plunging suddenly Into this teeming Industrial field on tho train ride from Cologne to Berlin, nnd passing tliroucl Dusseldorf, whoro 150 trnlns a day puff In nnd out, you aro amazed at tho solid procession of busy towns, nt tho almost endless forest of chimneys, and the pall of somber smoke thnt hangs over tno Hat, unnttrnctivu country. In tills small but highly mineralized region, where men hnvo dug coal for COO years, over -100 concerns now op erate mines or hold concessions for their exploitation. And tlie Ruhr in dustrlnl region is even larger than the mining area, for It overflows to the southwest and Includes the famous factory towns of Barmen, Elberfeld and Sollngcn. Essen's Sudden Rise. "Boom" towns of mushroom growth nre not peculiar to America, lis the startling rise of Essen proves. Though founded away back In the Ninth cen tury, it slumbered along for hundreds of years, an obscure, unimportant ham let. Even ns late ns 1850 it hud hard ly more than 10,000 people. Then tho Krupp boom tlie rise of tlie greatest machine shop the world has ever seen struck it, and today tlie city houses half a million. Set in the lienrt of the coal fields, crowded with endless industrial plants whose tall chimneys belch eternal smoke and fumes, tho great workshop fairly throbs with power and energy. The roar and rattle of ceaseless wheels and the din of giant hammers pound ing on metal seem to keep the whole town atreuiblc. Here every form of iron nnd steel nrticle is made, from boys' skates to giant marine engine shafts. Curious ly enough, even some of the smoke, or the fumes from the smokestacks, Is caught and converted Into a gas that furnishes more power to run tho mills! More than n hundred years ago the first Krupp set up his small, crude shop nnd began to mnke by hand the tools, the drills and chisels, used by tanners, blacksmiths and carpenters nlong tho Ruhr nnd tlie Rhine. He al so made dies for use in the mint of tho government. Within 30 years, duo to the) old ambition for expansion, Krupp tools were known nnd used ns far away as Greece nnd India. Then came the great era of mass production in steam engines, hnmmers, steel tires for railway cars, cast-steel shafts for river and ocean steamers, nnd finally that astonishing output of guns and nrmor pinto which brought tho militaristic nntions of tho world to buy at Essen. Tlie dally ronr of artillery at the proving grounds, where each new gun was tested, added to the din of whistles, rushing trains, and rattling gears, mndo pre-war Ruhr probably the noisiest place on earth. It is noisy enough now, but tho grcnt guns nre silent; Krupp makes them no more. The big lathes that once made guns for every nntlon, from Chile to China, now turn out shafting for marine and other engines. Box cars for Belgium, car wheels for South America, and wholo tram-lino systems for the Dutch Ens't Indies were somo of the orders being filled n few months ngo. Everybody Is a Worker. This Ruhr is pre-eminently the habi tat of labor. Everybody works, nnd nenrly everybody works with his hands. An nrmy of chemists, engineers nnd technical men is employed, of course; but they form merely n small element of the grimy, dusty, swenty popula tion that keeps tho coal moving, tho furnaces roaring, and tho big lathes turning. The population, variously estimated at from three and one-half to four mil lions, is not easy to determine, be cause thousands come nnd go as tho tide of trade rises nnd falls; nnd no where Is the world-wide house short ngo more keenly felt thnn in this densely populated area. About many of- tho mines the government has set up temporary barracks where thou sands of miners aro housed. In tho more picturesque and less crowded spots of tho Ruhr the ovej lords of industry have reared their, villas nnd spacious homes; but a dis tinctive leisure clnss, an kilo rich, like the groups conspicuous In Chnrlottcn berg, Dresden or Wlcsbnden, Is not found, Hundreds nro hero who have retired, but they are the nged ond pensioned workmen, dozing enmfort nbly In tho clenn, cozy colonies built for them In cities like Essen. A tiny speck on tho map Is this heated, smoking, Ruhr, but big, like n cinder, In the world's eye a spot that Caesar knew, n high spot In a region old In history. SENATE HAS NEW BONUSMEASURE Provides for Payment of $20 for Each Month of Service. BRITISH ARE MOBILIZING British Mobilizing Every Resource While Ottomans Intimate Action Decided. Washington Scnntor Bursum, New Mexico, lias introduced in tlie senuto another soldiers' bonus measure, de lined in its title ns the "Veterans' re fund und adjusted compensation act." The measure would provide fot payments of twenty dollars for each month of service, together with the return of all compulsory allotments made by tho service men and pay. ments on account of government in surance between April 5, 1917 and July 1, 1010. No provision is made for financing tlie" bonus. Where the amount due a veteran did not exceed $50 It would be paid in full on October 1, 1023. In nil other cases 50 per cent would be paid October 1, 1023, nnd the remain der October 1. 1020, together with Interest nt 1 per cent. Tlie obligation given by the gov ernment on unpaid sums could not be used ns security for loans except under regulations prescribed by tlie secretnries of wur and navy. Mobilizing Every Resource. Constantlm pie. The British nro man. horse, automobile, cannon, and rifle within reach of the troubled zone. They are. preparing to deal a tre mendous blow by land, sea and nlr If provoked by tho Kemnllst army, which, according to tlie latest reports. Is concentrating feverishly uround Ismld und Chumik. Hamid Bey, the Turkish nationalist representative here, informed corres pondents that it was certain the Turkish army would declare war on tho British if the British attempted to Interfere with tlie movement of tho Turkish troops across tlie straits to Thrace. Refuses to Withdraw Troops. . Paris. Great Britain has refused categorically to withdraw her troops from Clinnak, and has so Informed tho French government. This was definitely stnted in olllclnl British Cir cles in reply to a persistent report in French quarters that British forces would probably be retired on tho other side of the straits. The French premier received notification of this decision to hold the troops nt Clmnnk. The British government lias been ad vised that the troops 'are In no dan ger of attack by the Kemnlists. To Negotiate Funding of British Debt. Washington. Announcement from London that Sir Robert Home, chan cellor of the exchequer of Englnnd, will leave for this country October 18 to conduct negotiations for tlie fund ing of the British war debt to the United States hns given rise to tho belief at the treasury that separate arrangement may bo necessary to cover the Installment' of interest duo October 15 and that due November 15. Typhoon In Philippines. Manila. Serious damngo is believ ed to have resulted from a typhoon which lias swept over tho Philippines for thirty-six hours. It is reported that tho typhoon was severest in northern Luzon. Small Drop in Foodstuffs. j Lincoln, Neb. Beans, rice nnd flour hnvo dropped the last three months, along with bncon, beef and ham, while codfish nnd cheeso nnd sugar have advanced, according to bids now being opened by tho state boaru of control for tho quarterly supply of foodstuffs for tho 0,000 Inmates of state institutions. Washington. Hearing of the Keller Impeachment- charges against At torney General Daugherty has been postponed by tlie house Judiciary committee until December. Deadlock In Conference. Chang Chun. Manchuria. The con ference here between Japan, the sov iet government of Moscow nnd the fnr eastern republic of Siberia ap peared to have reached a deadlock with the Russian demand that Japan evacuate the northern half of the is land of Saknallen immediately. Belfast. Figures In the fatalities In disturbances here slnco July, 1920. show u total of 430 persons killed, of whom It is stated 189 nre Protestants nnd 217 Catholics. To Prevrit Enhanced Prices. Washington. Decision to organize voluntnry cnmpalgns to assure com plete supplies of bituminous conl to householder. and to Industry, nnd to prevent enhanced prices as a result of the strike, was readied nt n con ference of rcpresentntlves of Indus tries nnd rnllroads with federal fuel olllclals. Detroit, Mich. Judge Luclen J. Enstln of St. Joseph, Mo., was elected grand she of the Sovereign Grnnd lodge, I. O O. F., In convention here. Rheumatism and Dyspepsia Are SobnEnded Victims of stomach troublo nnd rheumatism often find that when their stomach Is set in order, the rheuma tism disappears. Thousands of peoplo everywhere have testified that Tnnlnc hns freed them of both troubles simul taneously. Mr. Robert Trotter, 148 State St., St. Paul, Minn., says: "About a year ago I began to go down hill. Sour stomnch and rheuma tism In my arms and shoulders kept mo in misery nil tho tlmo. Since tak ing Tnnlnc all my nehes nnd pains have gone, nnd my stomnch Is in flno shape. I'm glad to endorse such a fine medicine." Bndly digested food fills tho wholo system with poisons. Rheumatism nnd many other complaints not gen erally recognized ns having their ori gin in tho stomnch quickly respond to tho right trentment. Get n bottle to day nt nny good druggist Advertise ment A Hard Luck Record. Richard Luze, driving his car to town, skidded into n telephone pole. Coming buck with. the garage man to clear up the wreck he found thieves had stripped it of tires and fixtures. Walking homo in tlie rnin two high waymen with howitzers took all his cash, a watch and his package of plug cut away from him. Finally reaching home Luzo discovered lightning had struck the ham killing n $250 Missouri mule nnd that the hired man had lit out with the family savings amounting to'$l'i0. This made Luze n loser five times in one day. Capper's Weekly. MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS . Read This Letter from Mrs. W. S. Hughes Greenville, Del. "I was under tho impression that my eldest daughter had some internal troublo as ever since the first time her sickness ap peared she had to go to bed and even had to quit school once for a week. I always take Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetablo Compound myself so I gave it to her and she has received great benefit from it You can use this let ter for a testimonial if you wish, as I cannot say too much about what your medicine has done for me and for my daughter." MrB. Wm. S. Hughes, Greenville, Delaware. Mothers and oftentimes grandmothers have taken and have learned tho value of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound. So they recommend tho medi cine to others. The best test of any medicine is what it has done for others. For nearly fifty years we have published letters from mothers, daughters, and women, young ani old, recommending tho Vegetablo Compound. They know what it did for them and are glad to tell others. In your own neighborhood aro women who know of its great value. Mothers daughters, why not try it ? New Hair to replace old, abonld be (trow ing all tbe time. . w uie Q-Ban Hair Tonic Don't gtl fold, get Q-Ban today It'a much more pleaannt. At all rood drug-glut, 7ic, or direct from IIEUIG-EUU, CWlrfs. MtmtUt, Tu. it will M you FREEDOM FROM LAXATIVES Discovery by Scientists Has Replaced Them. Pills and salts give temporary re lief from constipation only at the ex pense of permanent Injury, says an eminent medical authority. Science has found a newer, better wqy a means as simple as Nature Itself. In perfect health a natural lubricant keeps the food wnste soft and moving. But when constipation exists this nat ural lubricant is not sufficient. Medi cal authorities have found that tho gentle lubricating action.of Nujol most closely resembles that of Nature's own lubricant. As Nujol is riot a laxative It cannot gripe. It is in no senso a medicine. And like pure water It is harmless and pleasant. Nujol Is prescribed by physicians; used In lending hospltnls. Get a bottle from your druggist today. Advertise ment. English Dally for Jerusalem. Jerusalem soon Is to have a dally newspaper published In English. It will be owned and edited by an Amer ican woman, Mrs. Gntllng of New York, who has spent several months In Palestine studying local conditions. Mrs. Gutllng has paid .?2f0,000 for a building to be used for her venture. The presses nnd other mechanical equipment for tho paper are now on their wny out from the United States. They'll Leavo Together. Jud Tunklns says lending a friend nn umbrella Is n sign you don't enro much If you lose both. If there Is nnythlng better than to be loved It Is loving. mm MM 7mo, RiVi lormn n KeepYbur Eyes Viirt far ! C' Care Book liwina Co.ChUcUA IIIIIIIUHUIIIIIIII 1 f SM b