Nebraska Newspapers

    D. H. CRONIN. Publisher._
O'NEILL. NEBRASKA
w - —l:~j—: 1,— - 7S3
Kirk Bruner, who claims to te a
nephew of Count von Bemstorff, and
whose real name Is Allards von Dem
Busch Muench, and Edwin M. Zaccho
were found guilty by a San Francisco
court of conspiring to violate the neu
trality and emigration laws. Zaccho, a
Dane, and reputed agent of the German
foreign office, was plentifully supplied
with money and nent to secure the release
of Muench, who was a prisoner In Russia.
This he succeeded in doing, and then
tried to bring him Into the United States
under a Swiss passport In an assumed
name. Important military papers were
found Inside the linings of their over
costs. which it was Intended to smuggle
Into Germany. Because both men had
been Interned eince 1917 light sentences
wero given, Zaccho being given a year,
and Muench, who Is only U. three
months.
Army hospitals havs been reclassified
ao that similar oases will be grouped
at certain hospitals for treatment. In
accordance with the new plan, cases of
blindness will go to Roland Park, Md.,
deafness and facial Injuries to Cap#
May, N. J., Fort Henry. Md.. and the
Walter Reed Hospital in Washington.
All amputations, except those of flngora
and toes, to Railway (N, J.), Washing
ton, San Francisco, Boston, Dae Moines,
and Fort Snelllng, Minn. Insane officers
Will go to Wllliamsbrtdge, N. Y., and
Insane privates to other institutions. Drug
addicts will be sent to platsburg, N. Y.,
and medical cases, Including gas esses,
are to be divided among <6 hospitals.
Special provision has been made for cases
requiring foot surgery, partLlysls, nerve
Injuries, and tuberculosis.
Through diplomatic sources It Is learned
that the possible capture or death of tho
kaiser was averted only through Gen
eral Ludendorrf. Upon the flight from
Berlin while at the German headquarters
William so revived the discouraged Ger
, mans that they wished him to lead them
Into battle, but Ludendorff vetoed the
scheme because It would result In no
military g&ln, and would endanger the
army’s withdrawal. -
Agents of the department of Justice In
Now York say five groups of bolshevlsts
have established headquarters In that city
to spread boUhevism. Secret agents of
and Trotxky have reached there
with fun an to bo used for propaganda pur
poses In factories and workshops. Their
plans are said to Include weaning away
from the American Federation of Labor
radical members of 66 unions throughout
the country to the ’’Lenlne-TroUky" plan.
At the next meeting of the corporation
of the city of London a resolution will
be proposed for expunging from the rec
ords the presentation of addresses to the
kaiser. A precedent la afforded In a
similar expunging at the time of the
restoration of the resolutions adopted
during the commonwealth period, says
tbs London Times.
War has resulted In a serious depletion
of our supply of the most valuable sub
stance on earth—radium. Radium lias
heen used extensively as a material of
war; not, as might be supposed. In treat
ing sick and wounded soldiers, but In ths
form of luminous paint on gun Rights,
aviators' Instruments, and ths officer's
wrist watch.
There are still a few men on the New
York police force who served under Theo
dore Roosevelt when he was police com
missioner, more than 20 years ago. The
grief of these men over their former
Chiefs death Is reported to be particu
larly deep, and straightforwardly ex
pressed.
The president has not heard that the
police took away red flags from a few
women of foreign appearance In the
crowds In the streets of London. The
president has gone abroad In London un
attended by American secret service
\en. says a dispatch.
The London Times tells us that I)r.
Kezes, president of the College of the
City of New York, who with a staff of
ISO assistants has been gathering data
for the use of the American mission at
the peace conference, it a brotherlnlaw
or Colonel House.
<Jreat Britain "should entirety wel
come" Secretary Daniels plan for Amer
ica to build the largest navy in the world,
the London Morning Post declares. “We
need have no fear that America would
us* her navy aggressively."
The "Mile of Smiles"—the film made
In Minneapolis for the boys In France—
arrived according to schedule and made
Christmas day the happiest the members
of the base hospital at AUery, France,
had experienced overseas.
The London Times recently cautioned
were against clgaret holdem, a large
stock of which has been sold, but which
turn out to be made of celluloid. It
further etates that the holders were im
por ted from America.
Reports from Finland state that Qus
taf and Emil Nobel, nephews of tho
founder of the Nobel peace prize, have
been arrested at Fetvograd and Impris
oned In the fortress of St. Peter and
St. Paul.
Dr. Danjo Eblna, a leading Japanese
Christian pastor at Toklo, predicts that
Buddhism wilt die out when militarism
and Imperialism are abolished, and Chris
tianity will become the religion of the
Japanese.
Sixty thousand persona demonstrated
In Berlin tn support of the Catholic can
didates opposing Karl IJebknecht and
Rosa Luxemburg for election to the na
tional assembly, a dispatch from that
city reports.
A "Women's Industrial League" has
been formed In England to protect wom
en's right* In Industry, which la not a
political organisation, or a trade union,
or “an Instrument of any coterie of pub
licists."
The number of women out of work In
London la estimated now to be 10 times
that of men; but very few of them are
willing to accept employment as domes
tic servant*
Osman merchant ships surrendered to
'he allies under the terms of the arret
stlco soon will be available for trans
porting American troops home.
Ruaala’s war casualties total 9.UO.OOO
men, according to a telegram received
them Petrugrad. Of this number 1,7*0,- i
COO were killed.
Full cittaeakktp was conferred on U&
403 soldiers and sailors up to January 1
tinder the act of congress paired last
May. according to a report by the bureau
of naturalisation.
A dispatch from Wheeling. Pa., eaya
the old British convict ship Success, more
than 100 years old. war wrecked there by
being smashed against a pier tn a flood
In the Ohio river.
Richard Cleveland, son of formar Presi
dent Grover Cleveland, is on his way te 1
Peking, China, wbaro he has been as
signed as a locrabsr of the Americas'
lags lisa
FATAL ACCIDENT
ON SCHOOLGHIUNO
Leslie Henke, of West Point,
Neb., Has Neck Broken In
Fall From Swing—No
One Blamed.
West Point, Neb., Jan. 29.—A fatal
accident occurred at the Maurer school
house when Leslie Henke, 8-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Henke, fell
out of a swing to the ground, breaking
his noek. It was plainly purely acci
dental.
KILLED IN ACCIDENT
WHILE ON HONEYMOON
Deshlor, Na_, Jan. 29.—News was
received here yesterday of the killing
Saturday night near Orange, Cal., In
an automobile accident of John Roden
burg and his wife of this place. Mr.
Rodenburg, who was president of the
Farmers und Merchants Bank, of
Deshlor, was with his bride of a few
weeks making a honeymoon trip on the
Pacific coast.
MISTOOK GASOLINE CAN
FOR THE KEROSENE ONE
Valentine, Neb., Jan. 29.—Elden
Cramer was badly burned about the
legs when he mistook gasoline for
•kerosene and started to build a fire. He
rushed Into the streets with his clothes
afire. Bystanders smothered the flames
and he was taken to a hospital.
POULTRY RAISER HAS
HANDSOME PROFIT
West Point, Neb., Jan. 29.—The
great profit accruing to breeders of
poultry was demonstrated here In the
Max Gerhardt sale during last week.
Twenty dozen pure bred Rhode Island
Reds were sold for $20 per dozen. 46
cockerels were also sold, averaging
$4.50 apiece.
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COMMERCIAL CLUB MEET
WAS LARGELY ATTENDED
Norfolk. Neb., Jan. 29—Over 2*25
men, many from surrounding towns,
attended the annual meeting of the
Commercial Club here Friday night.
R. A. Blake, secretary of the Council
Bluffs Chamber of Commerce, and
Fred Wolz, president of the Nebraska
Good Roads Association, were the
principal speakers.
NEBRASKA INVENTOR
REAPS RICH REWARD
Neligh, Neb., Jan. 29.—Word has been
received here that Lew Allison, for
merly of Neligh, lms sold half Interest
In the American rights In a carburetor
for automobiles which he Invented. His
share of the sale was $360,000. His
brother Is now In Japan expecting to
yell the Japanese rights.
WOMAN PHYSICIAN TO
TAKE BANKRUPTCY COURSE
Norfolk, Neb., Jan. 29.—Edna S.
Morris, formerly Edna S. Heeren, of
Carroll, Neb., has tiled a voluntary
petition In bankruptcy court here.
She gives her profession as a physician
and states that ill health Is the reason
for tiling the petition. Her liabilities
are recorded at $2,840 and assets at
$1,000.
LINCOLN—January 16, the day on
which Nebraska, the 36th state, ratified
the federal prohibition amendment, has
been made a holiday for all public schools
In the state. W. H. Clemmons, state su
perintendent of schools, said the day will
be obsorved hereafter In memory of the
late Francis K. Willard, Internationally
known as an exponent of national prohi
bition.
IOWA STATE NEWS
AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS
NUMEROUS IN IOWA
Ames, la., Jan. 2".—Twenty persons
were killed in automobile accidents in
Iowa highways during November and
December, according to figures Issued
by the lowu state highway commis
sion.
During the same time 363 persons
were Injured In 280 accidents on the
highways In which no fatalities oc
curred.
Eight persons lost their lives by be
ing struck by autos or being knocked
from bicycles. Four deaths resulted
when as many automobiles turned tur
tle. The others resulted when cart
crashed Into trains or were wrecked in
collision with other automobiles.
Fifteen of the fatalities occurred in
November and live in December. The
majority of accidents in which no
deaths resulted also sv- re recorded
during November.
PREVENT VACCINATION
BY INJUNCTION ROUTE
Dos M.oines. 1<\.. Jan. 27.—Parents of
Des Moines school children have se
cured a temporary injunction from
Judge litter hack restraining the school
board from enforcing the vaccination
ruling recently recommended by that
board.
The action was brought b> (Jeorge
AY. Tone*. J. B. Reeve and A. L. Irwin,
prominent Be* Moines men. who have
cht’drcn attending the public schools.
The ruling passed by the hoard was
that all children uyust have be cya suc
cesa fully vaccinated for smallpox with
in five years prior to Noteuiber It,
ISIS or be refused adtn'.unnce to the
public schools after January 2.Y 1»1D.
lTlAEK—If Truor people had or.Iy pur
chased |l(l it worth more s'j.'nps Iri ISIS
than they did the poatofUca would have
reached the second class. A* it ws-.e the
receipts exceeded the revenue of 1917 by
2A.N BOUM- A lire occurred lit the resi
dence of O. C. OaU.ip Saturday afternoon.
The firemen raved the north !>art of the
house. The loss is partly covered by In
surance.
LIES MOIRES- Mayor Tom Fnirwi ather
ear.> this week will cull upon empdojers
of let or over the citi to co-operate tvtih
cltv clhrlals in Hurting employ,»•*[,, p>,
... turning from m .Ion.
OF FREAK ORDER
Nebraska Legislator Would
Have Law Requiring Them to
Pay For Their Fun—Regu
late Tractor Sales.
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 25.—Representa
tive J. Reid Green, of Lancaster coun
ty, has presented a bill to the house
seeking to adopt the English parlia
mentary election method to primaries
In Nebraska. He would require every
candidate for office to pay a filing fee
equal to 5 per cent of the annual sal
ary of the office to which he aspires,
to be forfeited If he does not get 20
per cent of his party vote. This Is
being urged to discourage freak can
didacies. A livery stable keeper at
Lexington has amuBed himself In recent
years by filing for senator and once
for president, actually carrying one
county against Woodrow Wilson in the
1916 primary. There are several others
—notably a preacher in the state
soldiers’ home—who always flies for
congress when he doesn’t run for sen
ator or president on as many party
tickets as he can get on.
Ur. Green la also author of another
bill which prohibits the publication of
any attack on a candidate for office
that is not signed by some person or
association.
Regulats Sals of Tractors.
The house Is asked to pass a bill re
quiring every manufacturer of trac
tors to submit his model to a test of
three engineers of the state university.
If it cannot pass It cannot be sold In
the state. Those companies that are
allowed to sell tractors must maintain
one or more service stations. Any
tractor company that does not live up
to Its written contract with a farmer
Is to be barred from the state.
The senate passed 8. P. 18, which
permits counties and townships, as well
as cities and towns, to vote money to
build soldiers’ monuments. It also
passed S. F. L4, providing for filing
corporation publication notices with
the secretary of state.
Representatives of the federal health
department have entered protests
against the passage of a bill that
makes It unlawful for anyone except
parents and guardians to Impart sex
Information or Information in regard
to social diseases to persons under 16.
The government Is preparing to ask
high schools and colleges to give this
Information so that the harmful infor
mation secured In earlier years can be
he counteracted by correct statements
when they have reached the age where
they can understand it.
SEEKING RELIEF
Plain view, Neb., Farmer Would
\void Payment of Large Sum
to Woman He Is Alleged
to Have Wronged.
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 27.—John M. Ful
ton, a wealthy farmer living in the
neighborhood of Plalnvlew, has ap
pealed to the supreme court from a
verdict and Judgment of $10,000 against
him. obtained in Judge Allen’s court
by Mabel Rich. The woman is 44
years of age, with two children, and
was abandoned by her husband years
ago. She Is described by her attorney
as an ignorant, green woman, who was
victimized by Fulton while employed
by lilm on the farm. She sued for
breach of promise, fraud, deceit,
duress, forcible injury to her character,
debauchery and wanton and wilful in
vasion of her rights.
She was a scrub woman around
town when hired by Fulton. She had
a divorce action pending in court, but
she says Fulton got her to dismiss it,
saying he knew her husband was dead.
Aftorwards, under promise to' marry
her in six months she says she was
induced to yield to him. She says he
told her she was a single woman and
legally competent to wed again. Their
relations continued nearly a year, a
child being horn as a result, It Is said.
She says he forced her to yield to him
repeatedly by threatening he wouldn't
marry her and that he would discharge
her, and she had no other place to go
save with her aged parents.
OPPOSES CANCELLATION
ALLIES' WAR OBLIGATIONS
Lincoln, Neb., Jun. 27—Governor Jlc
Kelvie, answering a telegram from a
New York newspaper asking his opin
ion on the statement of James M. Beck,
noted international lawyer, that the
I'nited States should cancel all debts
owing by allied countries to the I'nited
States, amounting to Jfl.OOO.Ol'O.OOO,
takes emphatic stand in opposition to
the proposition. He says:
"I do not agree with Mr. Beck. J
consider ills plan neither practicable
not desirable. The allied nations, un
less I misjudge them, would resent be
ing placed in the attitude of dependence
on the United States. Furthermore,
it is rurely tviso to let sentiment Inter
fere with business relations either
among Individuals or nations. There
is much that we can and should do for
the fillies. but th* Service thus defined
cannot be measured or rendered in
terms of dollars,''
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HASTINGS — Nebraska superintendent*
and PI tv, dpals are to meet hero in three
•Jays' session.
BKATHICK—Mr*. Anns Kernel vrae
awarded * decree and 117,000 alimony In
her su t mkul tier husband. The de
fendant ■*»■« further ordered by Judge
Fendrerton to pay |50 per month for the
support of the two minor children. Not
Ions than It1 witnesses testified in the di
vorce proceedings, which lasiad about
two weeks.
OMAHA—After having been in eyister.ee
since August, 18J7, the fedora! food ail
a.lnlytration. so far ns Nebraska Is <-on
corued, will so out of business February
1 Th'.* is the order that comes from
Food Admlr.il!tiator Wattles, passed down
the >ln- from Vr. tlcover.
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He EXPECTS
HIS BILL TO PUSS
Measure Provides For Elimi
nating Overlapping Authority
—Railroads May Lose Strips
From Rights of Way.
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 25—Governoi
McKelvie is of the opinion—and it la
backed up by senate and house lead
ers—that the legislature is certain to
adopt his new administrative code.
The bill is a large one, some 400 print
ed pages, and usually the legislators
shirk a job of that character. The
fact, however, that 95 per cent of the
bill is but a re-enactment of existing
laws is expected to make its passage
smooth. The bill merely takes these
out of one part of the statutes and
places them in a new order. Seven
departments, the heads of which will
compose the governor's cabinet, are
created by the bill, and under each
secretary is grouped all of the commis
sions and departments now in exist
ence except where consolidations are
made and overlapping duties elimi
nated.
For Uniform Right of Way.
The house committee on railroads is
holding daily sessions trying to de
cide whether to recommend for pas
sage a bill designed to make the Union
Pacific let loose of strips of land 100
feet wide on each side of its tracks
in a number of Nebraska counties
Tlie railroad was originally given a
400-foot right of way through public
lands by congress. It never used it,
and the owners of adjoining farm
lands, supposing it belonged to them,
used it and never discovered the con
trary until 80 years later the road as
serted a title. The farmers lost in the
court, but got a bill through congress
that permits this land, if they can re
main in possession of it for 10 years
without dispute, to go to them under
the doctrine of adverse possession. In
order to prevent the application of this
doctrine to deny them the title to the
land, the railroad company began
ejectment proceedings and have won
every case. Now the farmers have a
bill that requires all railroads to have
a uniform width of 200 feet right of
way through any county, and if they
refuse to obey the law they lose the
right of eminent domain. The rail
road car',not afford to lose this latter
right, and it is putting up a strong
fight to kill the bill.
Hits Foreign Language Papers.
The house is asked, in a bill just in
troduced by Barton Green of Lancaster
county, to require all foreign language
newspapers to print in alternate col
umns a translation of the adjacent col
umn in the foreign language. If they
don't want to do this they must tile a
translation of the entire issue with the
county clerk before mailing out the
papers.
The house definitely postponed a bill
permitting men who have practiced
dentistry In the army to practice in
Nebraska without following the statu
tory requirements of examination and
license, on the ground that this would
flood the state with dentists of low
degree from other states.
Among the new bills introduced in
the senate were these; Requiring bills
of sale to be issued with all automo
biles sold; requiring buggies to have
front and rear lights after sunset, and
providing for an attorney’s fee where
fraternal beneficiary societies are sued.
AUTO THIEVERY GIVEN
BODY BLOW BY COURT
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 25.—The supremo
court has affltuned the conviction of
Frank St. Clair of Buffalo county,
charged with receiving stolen property.
The decision is regarded as of consid
erable Importance, as It strengthen:;
(he hands of those concerned In try
ing to prevent the operations of gangs
organized for the stealing and disposing
of automobiles. These men run the
machines to some small town garage,
where they are changed and parts in
termingled so that identification is im
possible. St. Clair was found in pos
session of dies and parts'that Indicat
ed he was in this business. He claimed
that the statute did not make guilty
knowledge of the the thief a crime, but
the court says that the words "with
intent to defraud” cover this point.
NEBRASKA FIREMEN TO
MEET AT SCOTTS BLUFF
Fremont, Neb., Jan, 25.—The annual
convention of the Nebraska State Vol
1 unteer Firemen's Association In 1920
| will be held in Scotts Bluff. The con
vention at tile closing session here this
afternoon selected Scotts Bluff over
Alliance. The vote was S9 to ITS. The
following officers were named: Presi
dent, William P. McCune, Norfolk:
first vice president, Robert Lewis,
Humphrey; second vice president, C. R.
Frasier. Lexington; treasurer, F. B.
Tobin, Sidney; secretary. E. A. Miller.
Kearney; chaplain, Rev. Walter C.
Rundln, Mitchell.
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SUGAR INDUSTRY IN
NEBRASKA A BIG ONE
Gorins. Neb., Jan. 25.—The sugar
manufacturing season in Nebraska
is over with the shutting down this
week of the Oerlug factory. The Gor
ing, Hayard and ScottebluH factories
manufactured approximately 120,01)0,0( 0
pounds of .sugar during the season, pay
ing to tiie laborers and raisers of bests
In the North Platte valley practically
*5,000.000.
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fJNCOl.N -Perator Norris has written
from War.Vinjton that his e, jetton cettl
fleate, made out by Governor Neville erd
Cecretary of P'uta Pool, Is defect.! e, and
will not cost him in the Senate and niuet
he amended. Governor Mcltelvle will
send hitn a new certificate at once.
NEBRASKA UNIVERSITY
TRIMS GRINNEl.L TEAM
t'.rlnntH, la., .Inn. 35.—Captain Jack
son. with tl fund goals, made one-half ol
Nebri sku university’* points in the 21
to 1-! defeat of Grinned college in a
Jft.MOur! Vxlle.v confer*!*!* bueketbah
sumo here today. The guarding of
Winters of tl.lnnell also feutued.
Oklahoma has passed a law speeifylm:
that the ICi sV.sh Vl yuapi it tiie only one
that eliail he taught oo used in H» echoed*
via lo .v.ul ln:.udiiifc' the < vlc.l grade
NEW ARMY PLANNED !
TO CHECK OUTLAWS
Germany Would Check Inroads
From East and Train Militia
Each Year For Protection.
London Tim os ''able service [Copyright !9;9. by
Public Ledger Co.] to The flioux City Tribune.
COPENHAGEN, Jan 27.—The Neue
Berliner Zeitung, reports the govern
ment engaged in military preparations
against an expected bolshevist inva
sion in the early spring. It Is ex
pected the national cpnvention will
give increased authorization to mobi
lize two efficient divisions to be -ant
Into east Prussia and Silesia. The
present preparations are limited to or
ganizing a volunteer corps supported
by private means. One of the greatest
difficulties is the officers’ disinclina
tion.
' The Bavarian minister of war, Herr
Ross Hauptef, says the first task s to
create an army for police purposes.
In peace Bavaria would require 12,000
men. in war 44,000, while for the wnale
of Germany in peace 3G.000 would be
required. Besides this there should be
a military which should have three or
five months’ training. This force in
Bavaria should number 970,000, for the
whole of Germany. 1.800,000.
The Berlin chief of police declares
the saffety of the city gives rise to
anxiety because of the policing of the
streets at night. Gangs of robbers
overpower the police and keep guard
in the streets in order that their com
rades may plunder without interrup
tion. Many of the robbers wear uni
forms.
THOUSANDS MOURN
KARL UEBKNECHT
More Than Fifty Thousand Fol
low Remains, as Govern
ment Guns Warn the
Spartacans.
By United Press.
Berlin. Jan. 25 (delayed)—Although
military officials were prepared for
any eventuality, the funerals of Karl
Liebknecht and 31 other Spartacans
passed off quietly. More than 50,000
persons marched in the procession,
which was five miles long. Fully 20
per cent of these bore wreaths. There
was no shouting or cheering.
The government had field guns and
machine guns at frequent intervals
along the route of the processions and
signs were posted warning citizens to
remain orderly.
The inarch was headed by a band.
Liebknecht’s coffin was on a separate
wagon and was followed by eight wag
ons bearing 31 other coffins.
Liebknecht’s casket was first to he
lowered in a monster grave in Luise
zietz cemetery. A brief obituary was
recited and a hymn sung. Liebknecht’s
widow and two sons stood near the
grave until the other coffins were
placed and covered with clods.
Traffic on the subway was stopped
for hours as a tribute by the workers.
FORM SOVIET
French Foreign Minister Ex- !
plains Allies Simply Want to
Head Russian
« Views.
By United Press.
Paris, Jan. 27,--The Russian soviet
government will be advised by its un
official representative here to accept
the proposal Cor a joint conference
with the associated pow< s on the
island of Prfnkipos, it was learned to
day.
Jean Longuet, editor of the radical
newspaper Populaire, whom the sovi
ets asked to investigate the proposal,
declared in an interview that the bol
shevists have more to gain than to
lose by conversations with the asso
ciated powers, which would permit
them to establish their claims and
answer their enemies.
Foreign Minister Pichon, who bitter
ly opposed any form of recognition of
the soviets before the supreme war
council made Us proposal, received
foreign press representatives at the
quai d'orsay yesterday.
Simply Hear Them.
•'We have heard nothing from the
bolshevlsts regarding the proposed
conference.’’ he said.
“The Prinkipos horizon is still very
cloudy. The allies intend no recog
nition of bolshevlsts. They simply de
sire to hear them, the same us any
other faction in Russia.
“I am very sanguine regarding the
league of nations, a common text for
the outline of which probably will be
received by the allies soon.
WOULD FIGHT ITALY.
By United Pre*s.
Fiutno. Jan. 27.—President Pognts
rhrlss. of the .Tugo-Slfiv government,
declined in an interview that “all Jugo
slav territories will . be defended
against the Ital.nnu to the .Ian; man.’’
He raid that relations with Italy are
greatly strained and that live classes
of Jugo-Slav soldiers are now under
arms.
PENSION IS GRANTED.
Washington, Jan. 27.—A bill gran:
lug a pension of $6,OOt> u year lo the
widow of Theodore Roosevelt was sen'
lo the While House for t.io president’s
approval after being passed Bau.vdav
afternoon by the House without a rec
ord vote. The bill had been unani
tnougly passed by the Senate. Lieforc
noting on this bill the House list!
passed a similar measure of iis o»t
granting the pension hv r .01 ■ of 2.r’
i ate inf t:
SIBERIAN FORGES .
NEED ASSISTANCE
Hint That American Troops and
Allies Face Danger In Arch
angel—Further Retire
ment Made.
By Associated Presc.
London, Jan. 28.—Allied forces on
the front south of Archangel, mainly
American and Russian troops, have
evacuated the town of Shekursk, under
bolshevi3t pressrre. and withdrawn to
a shorter line north of the town, ac
cording to an official statement from
the British war office today on opera
tions in northern Russia.
The Americans and Russians had
withdrawn to Shenkursk to avoid be
ing outflanked by the bolshevists who
attacked them on January 22 and 23
after a bombardment of three days.
The official statement reads:
"The bolshevists have continued
their pressure against the Shenkursk
front on January 22 and 23, they
launched considerable forces in an at
tack after having bombarded the po
sitions for three days. Our forces, con
sisting pricipally of American ahd
Russian troops were first withdrawn
approved included Mississippi river
being outflanked by superior numbers.
Later, the twon and its defenses were
evacuated successfully and a sho'.'ter
line taken up further to the north "
The withdrawal from Shenyursk
was carried out successfully. A num
ber of wounded in the American hos
pital were removed on sleds. There
was little or no interference from the
bolshevists. ..
A large number of peasants and
sian partisan troops also moved out
with the American forces.
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BBJECTORS PHD
Signed Army Discharge Papers
as “Child of God”—Many
Had Hundreds of Dol
lars Coming.
Leavenworth, Kan., Ja.n. 2S.—The re
lease of 11 conscientious objectors,
honorably discharged from the service
by war department orders, was begun
at the disciplinary barracks at Fort
Leavenworth this morning. Two, how
ever, refused to leave, saying it was V
against their religious scruples. \
Th two men who refused to accept *
their liberty declared that such "would
not be for the glory of God.”
Instructions have been asked from
Washington on their cases.
The men were discharged in groups
of ten, and were given their mileage
to the point of their induction into the
service. They also received a suit of v
civilian clothes. It was said some of
the men had between $400 and $50C
awaiting them in the form of back pay
and allotments.
The first few men to sign their dis
charge papers scratched out the line
bearing the caption “Signature of the
soldier” and substituted "child of God.”
Officers thereafter insisted the signa
ture of soldier stand.
Some of the men refused the back
pay and allotments, which were ready
in cash.
LAND RECLAMATION
BILL IS SUBMITTED /
Senator Jones Asks Fifty Mil
lion For Work—Follows
Wilson Suggestion.
By United Press.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 28.—A bill
appropriating $50,000,000 for land recla
mation to provide work for unemployed
was introduced today by Senator Jones,
of Washington.
This is the first concrete result of the
suggestion of President Wilson arrtl
Secretary of the Interior Lane that con
gress stimulate reclamation and land
development, as a means of caring for
returning soldiers and others needing
work.
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LIQUOR AMENDMENT
IS NOW RATIFIED
Thirty-Sixth State Sends Rati-'“M“**—
fication to Washington—
Kansas Gets the Honor
By Associated Press.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 27.—Thirty
six states, the necessary throe-fourths,
had certified to the elate department
rheir ratification of the federal pro
hibition amendment today and prep
aration of a proclamation to mako the
amendment effective was ordered.
Certification was received early in the
| day from Wisconsin, North Carolina,
I'tsh and Kansas, the latter being the
Stith state to report.
KILLED IN STRIKE.
Oy Associated Press. \
Guayaquil, (Sunday), Jan. 26.—-See- \
era! persona wei« hilled and wounded A
v her. the police first! upon a inob here
tonight. The disorders v/ere the result
of a strike which has been going i n
hers for a few days. Order hat been,
restored.
LONDON POLICE STRIKE
By United Press.
JLoiidnn, Jan. 27—A general strike of |
police was scheduled for today, as a ,
result of ttie home offices refusal io>
recognise the policemen’s nnin or ri
instate dlocHsf ged Midlr.txl iaiiv ; >
, polittuifcu
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