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THE O’NEILL FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN. Publisher. O’NEILL. NEBRASKA At Lloyd’s, the marine Insurance ex change in London, a b< 11 is tolled when a ship Is reported lost, or when a ship long overdue and considered lost un expectedly reaches port. The bell used at Lloyd's belonged to the ship Lutine, which was wrecked near the Zuyder Zee In 1799, while taking specie from English merchants to Hamburg. When a ship Is posted as lost tho old bell is tolled once, and on that day the In surance money Is payable and all who were<on the ship are considered legally dead. In the usual event of a vessel arriving in port after being posted an lost, the bell is tolled twice, and ths announcement Is cried aloud by an official jn uniform. Nearly $300 a soldier, or a total of $187,000,000 was the cost of the 16 army cantonments built last summer and fall to'fcouse 650,000 men. The original es timate of the cost was $134,000,000. This huge construction Job was carried forward with a speed that is considered remarkable. By the end of last May, when congress was still debating tha project, the engineering corps was fully organized for work. Within three months from that time cantonments capable of housing 300,000 men were completed, while by December 5 there were accommodations for tho entire 869,000 men. Philippine officials are Investigating the suggestion which has been made that the Islands supply lubricating oil for airplanes from tho tangan-tangan waed, or vine, which grows wild in abundance throughout the archipelago, which produces an extremely good oil, •ultable not only for the lubrication oj delicate machinery, but which is alsC used by the natives medicinally. The plant creeps and has blossoms like tbs flower of the honeysuckle. It Is thought that at least 1,000,000 gallons of oil a year can be obtained from the wild weed supply, and that this can be greatly Increased by cultivation. There Is sentiment In the fact that California Is to supply northern Prance with 1,500,000 prune trees. These trees are expected to convert 15,000 acres In to shearing orchards In two years. It was Prance which, in 1856, gave to Cal ifornia her first prune trees. Tho prune, which since then has filled many a gap on the table of tho American boarding house, and has borne the brunt of many a Jost, keeps right on proving Its worth. It costs the government $5 a head to draft men for military service. Of this eum $4.93 represents the expense of tho draft boards and the state's adjutant general, and 7 cents represents the overhead expense at Washington. Tho expense of Inducting a volunteer into the service reached an average of $29.86 during this war. In the civil war it cost the government $9.48 for every man called to the service. A woman to whom space Is allotted 1n a western public market uses her automobile In making fresh peanut but ter for her customers. The peanuts are treated In a grinder mounted on a trailer, set Just back of the car in the market. The car Is Jacked up and power transmitted from its rear axle to the grinder by a belt. The top of the trailer serves as a display stand. At a "frugality dance" In Montclair, N. J„ recently, those wearing patent leather shoes, silk stockings or high collars were fined 6 cents each for each offense, those wearing marcel waves, 10 cents, while wearers of evening dress or “costumes," had to pay 25 cents to the management. A considerable amount was raised for war relief. Anna Eva l'ay, a seeress, Is said to have fortold tho war In a statement published in the Manchester Guardian In England, March 17, 1913, when she named eight of the now warring na tions. She now comes forward with another statement that the war will end in the spring of 1918. “It will all be over before June 15,” she says. Although some packers of caviar In New York report that spoonbill caviar Is being marketed in bulk as low as 75 cents a pound, the market generally re mains at $1.25 for prime quality. There has been a scarcity of lake caviar in bulk, and packers report that tho pre vailing price for this glade has been usually $1.60 a pound. The term “pocket handkerchief is one of the queerest in our language. At first It meant kerchief (vourvrechef), a covering for the head; then it became handkerchief, a covering for the head carried in the hand, and at length pock et handkerchief, a covering for the head held in tho hand and kept in the pocket. A service flag measuring 31x38 feet, bearing 215 stars, indicative of the fact that us many employes of the western division of the Southern rail way system now uro in active military service of tho country, has been un furled in front of the Southern railway building in Louisville. When J. R, Liskey, of Rockingham county, la., butchered a hog, he found It had an apparently carefully tilled tooth. It is thought the hog had eaten something containing a piece of lead which lodged in a hollow tooth and was squeezed down into the cavity, lin ing it. A report upon tho government use of tractors in England was given at a re cent session of parliament. In order to increase the supply of food, tractors and plows are being purchased bv the food production department anil let out to farmers. The total amount the government provides the president for clerk hire and White House expenses, including his salary. Is $260,000 annually. Of this, $75,000 is salary, $25,000 traveling expenses and $160,000 for the other ex penses. Four tons of shipping capacity are required to transport a soldier, and another ton is necessary for his equip ment. In addition it takes 50 pounds of ship capacity a day to keep him sup plied with food, clothing and ammuni tion. Mess officers at the base hospital at Camp Custer. Mich., have made an ap peal for dish towels, and some local people are trying to have a statewide towel shower for the hospital. The convicts In the New Jersey state penitentiary seem to be patriotic. They bought liberally of Red Cross member ships, and notified the fuel administra tor of their willingness to spend light less nights in their cells to save fuel. The phonograph and telephone are employed in a South Carolina inven tor's automatic fire alarm that calls up a central operator and tells her just where the blaze is starting. Following suggestions made by farm ers willing to employ high school boys, the schools of Illinois have arranged to give the boys an extensive farm course, from February 1 to May 1. NEBRASKANS IN GRAVE CHARGES IN CONGRESS Assert Government Food Offi cials Are in Sympathy With the Packers. Washington. P. C'., March 16.—In the hearing before the Senate committee on agriculture on livestock matters to day, Senator Norris, of Nebraska, said the evidence before the committee showed the food administration had men in charge of the packing establish ments who were in sympathy with the packers and, as between the packers and producers, leaned to the packers. E. I*. Burke, of Omaha, a feeder, was on the stand. Mr. Burke advocated more rigid government control of the packers and said the livestock industry would never get ahead until this was brought about. "The testimony before this commit tee,” said Senator Norris, "indicates the men whom the food administration now has in charge of packing matters ere In sympathy witli the packers. Po you think if we provide more strict control and the same men are still kept in charge we can expect any relief.” Burke said he wouldn’t say the men in the food administration were In sympathy with the packers. "But speaking from the evidence before this committee," said Senator Norris, "l say It.” Packers Lose on Hides. Omaha* Neb., March 15.—Omaha' packers stand to lose $1,250,000 on the prices of hides they are carrying in storage. Approximately 250,000 hides air said to be in storage in South Om aha and tho loss on each is now fig ured at $5. Swift & Co., are said to be the hardest hit and to have on hand 100,000 unsold hides. Branded cow hides which were held at 28 and 30 cents a pound some months ago, are now selling at 16 to 18 cents. The decline averages anywhere from 20 to 40 per cent. NEBRASKA TO SUPPLY BUT 458 MEN NOW Lincoln, Neb., March 16.—Nebraska is required to induct 458 men as its quota of a total of 95,000 men to be sent to soldiers’ training camps. Governor Neville hits notified local exemption boards of the number of men each is called upon to furnish on this special call. The Nebraska men are to be sent to Camp Funston (luring tho five days beginning March 29. No credits are allowed by the war department for men previously sent. The quota of each county and the cities of Lincoln and Omaha, according to an announcement from the governor’s office is as follows: “Instructions call No. 82 has been an nounced by the provost marshal general as follows: Boyd, 2; Burt, 5; Cedar, 6; Cuming, 6; Dakota, 3; Dixon, 4; Knox, 7; Madison, 7; Bierce, 4; Wayne, 4: city of Lincoln, 18; city of Omaha, 73; total, , 458. “During the five days beginning March 29 Nebraska will entrain for Camp Funston a quota equal to 3.3 per cent of the original gross quota of the first draft. The original gross quota should not bo confused with the original net quota. The total number of men sent from Nebraska under this call will be 458. No credits are to be deducted at this time. "The quota of each county will be de termined by making a level draft of 3.3 per cent of the gross quota origi nally allotted to each county. Only white men and men physically quali fied for general military service are to be entrained under this call.” —— MAY SHIP SEED CORN OUT OF NEBRASKA Lincoln, Neb., March 15.—The state council of defense today lifted the em bargo on shipments of seed corn out of the state. The embargo has been In force for some time because of a threatened shortage in Nebraska. WILSON URGES BOYS TO JOIN WORKING RESERVE Washington, D. C., March 15.—-Presi dent Wilson today c ailed on all Ameri can boys of 16 years and over not per manently employed to enroll in the United States boys' working reserve. A national enrollment week, beginning March 18, has been sot asids by the department of labor. CHURCHES UNABLE TO UNITE ON MERGER PLAN Atlantic City, N. J„ March 15.-—Tho commission on union of tho Presbyter ian church north and the Presbyterian church south failed to agree upon a plan for tho proposed, merger of tho two great church bodies at the final session of their joint conference hero last night. MORE CONCRETE SHIPS WILL BE CONSTRUCTED A Pacific Port, March 15.—So com pletely successful was the launching here of the world's largest reinforced concrete ship that the builders an nounced they immediately would begirt construction of 54 similar ships of large size and expected that all would be completed within 18 months. FOUR FIRES IN ARSENAL ENDANGER ARMY STORES St. Louis. Mo., March 15.—Four fired Df unknown origin within two months have threatened the buildings of the United States arsenal here in which are stored army supplies valued at more than $7,000,000 according to Fire Chief Panzer, who visited the arsenal at each alarm. The arsenal buildings are now guarded. GERMAN IS DOWNED BY AN AMERICAN FLYER "With the Lafayette Flying Squadron, Monday. March 11.—Paul K. Baer, of Fort Wayne, Ind., this afternoon downed a German airplane. Mr. Baer came to France in February of last year as a member of the Franco American flying corps. COURT ROOM CLEARED WHEN WOMAN TESTIFIES Atlanta. Ga., March 15.- Mrs. Mar garet Hirsch charged with attempted blackmail of Mayor Asa G, Chandler today teok the witness stand in her own behalf. Before starting her statement, the court room was cleared of spectators at her request. The bill pounch of the pelican will hold fromjjnce to right pounds of fish. MISS LYDIA M’MAHON TO HAVE HEARING Former Head of Girls’ Reform, atory Will Have Chance to Vindicate Herself. Lincoln, Ncb„ March 10.—After hav ing marched up the hill on its own orders, the state board of control has inarched dow.n the hill again on in structions from Governor Neville. When Miss Lydia McMahon, deposed Superintendent of tho state industrial school for girls, naked the board a ' few days ago for an investigation, Judge Holcomb, tho lawyer member, re plied that ns she has resigned upon in vitation without then asking for an investigation, the board could not see that she hnd any right or that any necessity existed for holding one. Then Miss McMahon secured the aid of men who conferred with the gov ernor. Now tho board announces that it will grant the application. No date for the hearing has been announced. MANY DISLOYAL ONES FOUND IN NEBRASKA Omaha, Neb., March 16.—"It is not true that there is no sedition in Ne braska; that tho state is without a widely spread element that is, if not openly in favor of Germany, at least adverse to the sentiment of the na tion,” said Richard X,. Metcalfe, chair man of the state council of defense, at a meeting of the Douglas County Har association at tho Chamber of Com merce. "It is true that the loyal Americans oi. Nebraska have carried every war ac tivity ahead of the state’s quota, but this makes all the Idacker the record of those who have passively, if not indeed actively, opposed their work. “Nebraska is to be congratulated that, except for a few cases of silly men painting buildings, yellow, the Am erican element in the state has re frained from mob law, but there have been cases of mob violence in the state, perpetrated by pro-Germans. "The time has come when we have got to inculcate a new spirit—a new idea into the hearts of our foreign born population, by education, if possible;' by the iron hand if it is necessary. Ne braska has sent too many of her young men to the war to sit by and see them stabbed in tho back by traitors.” Mr. Metcalfe said there have been found many men of German extraction who are loyal, and the discussion of tho other kind need tie taken as no reflection on those whose loyalty is proved, but the fact that some Germans are loyal to the country of their adop tion does not lessen the danger from those who are not. “It is a case,” he said, “where every individual must be measured by his own performances.” THREE FORT OMAHA OFFICERS REPRIMANDED Omaha, Neb., March 16.—-Three Fort Omaha commissioner! officers, court martialed on charges of accepting gratuities in connection with the pur chase of $890,000 worth of afmy horses and mules at Superior, Neb., have been found guilty. Oapt. Henry L. Casey, quartermas ter’s reserve corps, has been sentenced to an official reprimand, and Second Lieutenants S. L. Ragsdale and O. C. Alexander to be admonished. The officials are of the quartermas ter's corps. It Was alleged they ac cepted free board and Christmas pres ents of a character frowned upon by military authorities from ranchers where nearly a $1,000,000 worth of horses and mules were being purchased by the government. —♦— FINED FOR KILLING PRAIRIE CHICKENS North Platte, Neb., March 16.—By fining two men $45 and costs for the killing of prairie chickens out of sea son, the chief game warden of Ne braska thinks he has broken up a traffic whereby dining cars of the Un ion Pacific were supplied with the chickens out of season. John Mcllvain, local passenger di rector for the railroad, is one of the men who plead guilty and paid his fine. He is said to have acted as a go between buying the birds from hunters and delivering them to .thq roads. He said ho bought the birds from hunters for $1 each and sold them to the rail roads for $1.25 and "tips.’’ Chief Game Warden Roster says his men saw Mc llvain take four chickens from a box and hand them to the conductor of the train, His arrest followed. SPECIAL SESSION WITHOUT EXPENSE? Lincoln, Neb., March 14.—To make possible the holding of the extra legis lative session without passing any ap propriation bills for salaries or ex penses, Governor Neville and , other state officers have had under discus sion a proposal that all services neces sary to perform the work of the session bo contributed without additional cost to the state by people employed in the different departments at the capital. The idea was talked over at a meet ing in the governor's office, attended by Governor Neville, Treasurer Hall, Auditor Smith, Secretary of State Pool, Land Commissioner Shumway and At torney General Reed. Everyone pres ent agreed that it is desirable from a patriotic standpoint to avoid making new drains on the treasury in connec tion with the special session, if this is possible. Governor Neville was urged by his associates to word his call for the con vening of tlie legislature so as to omit therefrom any provision for appropria tions. His own sentiments were in harmony with that suggestion, and In stated Wednesday morning that the call would be so drawn. The governor pointed out, however, that if the legis lature were not minded to cut out the appropriations it could go ahead and make them. STRUCK BY AUTOMOBILE; DIES FROM INJURIES Osmond, Neb., March 14.—August Wllle died at his home, southeast of here, Tuesday from injuries received the day before by being run over by a car. A neighbor was going by and Mr. Wille ran out in front of the car and threw his hands up for him to stop, and jumped to one side and the car turned the same way, and ran over him. He was a man about 10 years of age and leaves a wife and family. PINTO BEANS NOT IN GREAT DEMAND Lincoln, Neb., March -6.-—To date the food alminlstration has received con tracts from growers for less than 15, 000,000 pounds of pinto beans. This is far below the response that was antici pated when it was announced that the food administration would find a mar ket for the beans and take the entire output, at 8 cents a pound. Unless signed contracts from growers are re ceived for several times this amount of beans within the next few days the plan will r.ot be successful. FIGURE IT OUT. WUBBkHSBKB ~V. — -- —-■ iVT.'r,"L ■:r.,"n MrTS.gTiirTi..inilM i"n'. '"'=' jC'J -rr-rW*' .—r.— —Knott In the Dallas News. 444 4 4 4 444444 444444 44444444 444444444444444444444444444 | Must Strike, Hindenhurq Says; ! t Prepared to Lose 300,000 Men | 4 Amsterdam March 15.—According to news received here. Field t 4 Marshal von Hindenburg has stated in an interview in Berlin that the ^ 4 entente had shown an unresponsive attitude toward Germany’s peace in- 4 4 tentions and that the great German offensive therefore must go on. 4 4 In well informed neutral quarters recently the Associated Press ^ 4 correspondent was told that the Germans were prepared to lose 300,000 4 4 men in an offensive operation. 4 4 The Verdun offensive of the Germans, in which they failed utterly 4 4 to break the French lines, has been estimated in conservative quarters 4 4 as having cost them something like 500,000 men. 4 4 “If the enemy does not want peace, he must fight the most tre- 4 4 mendous battle of the war on the west front," Quartermaster General T 4 Ludendorff declared in an interview with the Cologne Gazette, copies I 4 of which were^ received here tod ay. 4 44444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 -- ! All Liberty Purchasers Expected To Fly Flags to Show Up j Slackers—New Pub licity Features. Washington, D. C„ March 16.—Every j preparation is being made by Liberty loan campaigners to get 15.000,000 sub scribers to the third loan. Subscriptions to the second loan now are estimated at 11,000,000 and to the first loan about 4,000,000. Sixteen million buttons for subscrib ers have been ordered for the third loan. The system of honor rolls in each municipality community or business organization bearing the names of sub scribers and of honor flags to be given to cities exceeding its Quota of sub scriptions is expected to stimilate the number of subscriptions. This method will disclose exactly who subscribes and who refuses. _ SERBIA REFUSES TO ENTER PEACE PARLEY: Every Effort of Austro-Ger mans to Force Her Into Line Meets With Rebuffs. Berne, Switzerland, (Wednesday,) March 13.—The peace treaties that have been signed by Russia and Ru mania have not caused any change in Serbia’s attitude, M. Gruitsch, Serbia’s diplomatic representative here, has in- . formed a Swiss interviewer. Although Serbia had lost in the war nnd during the occupation about 1,000, 000 of her inhabitants, added M. Gru itsch, there were still the men and will to persevere In Serbia’s former course. Geneva, Switzerland, March 15.—Ac cording to unofficial information reach ing here Austria-Hungary and Rulgaria in the period since the Russian revolu tion have brough great pressure to bear upon Serbia to conclude a separate peace. Two means are said to have been employed, one involving oppres sive measures and deportation in the occupied territories, while another means to the end 30 Serbian deputies of the national party who were Austro phile and remained in Serbia after the retreat of the army invited to Vienna ami lavishly entertained. Roth plans, the advices declare, proved a complete failure, the Serbian people, despite their sufferings remain ing loyal to their allies and their king. 35 MEMBERS OF I. W. W. INDICTED AT WICHITA k __ Wichita, Ivan., March 16.—Indict ments were returned here this morning by a federal grand jury against 35 al leged members of the I. W. W. With only one exception the indicted men are now under arrest and some of them already has been interned for the dura tion of the war. RUMANIANS EVACUATE HUNGARIAN TERRITORY London. March 15.—An official state ment from the Austrian Hungarian war office received here says: "The last narrow stretch of Austro Hungarian territory occupied by the Rumanians has been evacuated. The eastern boundry of the monarchy after two and a half years of the heaviest war burdens again is cdmp'.etely free.” RAIL STRIKE IN AUSTRIA I - 1 Copenhagen, March 16.—The men in the workshops of the Austrian railways ' have struck and refused to qbey the orders of the military to return to work, the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger states. The strike it Is added, is spreading to ; other factories. _ FIRST HAND TRUTHS TO CONVINCE BAKER Believed He Will Push War With Greater Vigor After He Visits Front. Washington, D. C., March 16.—What recommendations Secretary of War Baker will bring back from France With respect to the conduct of war prepar ations and the war is something which is much talked about today at the Capi 1 tal and elsewhere in Washington, now | that it is officially announced the secre tary has gone abroad. In fact, it has been discussed here a great deal for days, as it has been known for some time that Mr. Baker was on his way. The official statement Indicates that Mr. Baker’s mission is military and not diplomatic. It is supposed tills was made emphatic in order to silence any speculation as to whether his visit was for diplomatic reasons. It is believed here in many quarters that Secretary Baker will return to this I country strongly impressed with the ; need of making war preparations on a ■ scale still greater than the present scale. LENINE GOVERNMENT SET UP IN MOSCOW Capital Transferred to Ancient Seat of Power After More Than 200 Years. Moscow. (Tuesday), March 12.—Mos cow has again become the official capi tal of Russia. Peter, the Great, moved j the seat of government from Moscow to I Petrograd, which he founded, and af ter 200 years the government has been ' transferred by its present head, Nikolai i I-enine, back to the historic capital in the heart of Russia. Lenine and virtually all the govern mental commissioners except 1-eon Trotzky, arrived here tonight and offi cially opened the various ministries to day. Many of the buildings in the an . otent Kremlin, the leading hotels and other structures, were requisitioned to ' accommodate the government officials. The subordinate employes have been in i process of transfer for weeks, but to day. the first anniversary of the Rus sian revolution, marks the actual transfer of the new government and is : being celebrated as a national holiday. KANSAS CITY FACES SYMPATHETIC STRIKE Kansas City, Mo. March 15.—Six hundred delegates, representing more than half of the unions in Kansas City. . voted early today to call a general strike of all labor unions in (lie city Monday, March 25, in sympathy with the strike of union laundry workers | which has been in effect several weeks, j Only 16 votes were cast against the | resolution. ANOTHER HOARDER OF GRAIN IS IN LIMBO Wealthy Farmer at Axtel, Neb.r Has Sold None Since Be ginning of War. Kearney, Neb., March 15.-—Nathan Merryman. a wealthy farmer of this county, has been summoned to appear before the state council of defense'and explain why lie has stored all the grain raised on his farms since the European war began In 1914 and refused to sell it. It is understood that the council proposes to place the matter in the hands of the federal authorities. Fed eral District Attorney Allen recently filed a charge of hoarding against Louis Fellwock, a Lancaster county farmer who had done exactly as Merryman did. Merryman has no excuse to offer for his conduct. In his bins are in excess of 20,000 bushels of wheat, 12,000 being of the crops of 1914 and 1915. The farms are located near Axtell. Samples of the grain, a part of which rotted, have been sent to the state council by the sheriff. Merryman admits that he has not subscribed a dollar to any bond issues, although a man of wealth. —»— RAILWAY COMMISSION RETAINS ITS POWER Lincoln, Neb., March 15.—The state railway commission’s fear that it had ■ been practically legislated out of a Job is dissipated in a letter just received from its Washington representatives. As the bill to compensate the railroads passed the house and went into con ference it took from state commissions all power to regulate rates, to super vise Issues of stocks and bonds, dis position of revenues and control over additions and betterments. This would have shorn them of the only power worth possessing. The latest information is that these limitations on their power have been t stricken out, and all that remains of the obnoxious section is a proviso that they have no jurisdiction over movement of trains carrying troops, war munitions or government supplies. The commis sions have not sought to exercise such powers. DIFFICULT TO GET MAN INTO ASYLUM Hastings, Neb., March 15.—It re quired the intervention of Attorney General Heed in order that Ernest H. Gerdes might be allowed to enter tho state hospital for the insane at Ingle side. Gerdes is a 17-year-old youth arrested a few days ago at Gothenburg on the charge of having criminally as saulted a 7-year-old daughter of Ar thur Evans. He was immediately tried, and tiie jury found him to be insane. Sheriff Benton appeared here today with an order from the court commit ting him to the asylum. Superintendent Fast refused on the ground that under the law he could accept only those who were committed by a county board of insanity. Thq sheriff telephoned the county attorney and the county attorney tele phoned the attorney general and tho attorney general telephoned the super intendent, and the final result was that Gerdes was admitted, a section of the statutes permitting incarceration by a court where a defendant has been ad judged insane in a trial being quoted to the superintendent. —^— ASSASSINS ABROAD NEAR LEIGH, NEB. Leigh. Neb., March 15.—Two myster ious attempts to assassinate Nebraska farmers were made at farm homes in the central part of Colfax county Mon day morning. An urgent call came to Leigh for fcelp. The first shooting took place at the John Vavra farm just after midnight. F. C. Oltman and family had passed the evening with the Vavras and when he and one of the Vavra boys went to •start Oltman’s car. Oltman was fired at from ambush and one load of shot struck him in tho abdomen. Numerous shots were fired, but it could not be ascertained how many men did the shooting. About 2 o’clock the farm place of Louis Asche was invaded and when the hired man went out to see what the trouble was, he was greeted by volleys of shots. When Asche attempted to call help by phone, he was shot at through the window, but the load struck the win dow casing and he was uninjured. A squad of tho home guard were rushed to both places and Sheriff Bnr tunck went out with several deputies. Members of tho homo guard stated that the buildings at both farms were riddled with bullets. Shotguns were used at the Vavra place and revolvers at tho Asche place. 801 ASKS HOW MMimi AID ,<5peaking for American Labor, He Sends Message of Sym pathy to Soviets. Washington, D. C„ March 13.—Sam uel Gomperp, president ol’ the Aincr- <, lean Federation of Labor, on behalf of the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy, today forwarded to the Russian soviet congress at Moscow a message of sympathy to the Russian people "in their struggle to safeguard freedom.” Mr. Gompers' message said: "We address you in the name of world liberty. We assure you that the people of the United States are pained by every blow at Russian freedom, as they would by a blow at their own. The American people desire to be of service to the Russian people in their struggle to safeguard freedom and realize its opportunities. We desire to be informed as to how we may help. “We speak for a great organized movement of working people, vdio are devoted to the cause of freedom and the ideals of democracy. We assure you also that the whole American na tion ardently desires to ^jje helpful to Russia and await* with eagerness an indication from Russia as to how help may most effectively be extended. “To all those who strive for free dom we say courage and justice must triumph if all free people stand united against autocracy. We await your sug gestions.” _ _ STRIKE IS SETTLED. Fall River, Mass., March 13.—All the cotton mills in Fall River opened to day under normal conditions, firemen who had been on strike for two days returning under an agreement by which the differences with the owners wen adjusted last night.