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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1923)
T THE FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN, PUBLISHER. ' W, C. TEMPLETON, IMItor and Business Manager. tiffiEJUU NEBRASKA Teaching gymnastics to the royal children of Rumania Is a troublesom* task, report Miss Willis Haynes anf Miss Lillian Jackson, Nebraska young women who have returned from two years’ work In Bucharest. The king and queen Invariably entered when the charges were doing mat exercises, and court etiquette demanded tho children should courtesy. They leaped up arid did It, then returned to their work. The Carnegie Gold Medal has heen awarded to Professor Bergonle of Bor deaux University, a recent victim of X-ray research, whose right arm and three fingers of the left hand have been amputated. Dr. Charles Vaillant of La illholslere hosjfltal, who recently under went Ills 13th operation of nmputotlon made necessary by the withering effects of X-ray, and Professor Leray, another sufferer from the rays, will receive mon ay grants from the Carnegie Foundation. A method of avoiding the new Portu guese Income tax has been found. The tax varies from 1 to 10 per cent, on all Incomes exceeding 3,600 escudos, that Is to sav about $200. .Journalists and men of let tors ore exempted from the tax. The number of Portuguese Journals and of books of verse and prose Issued yearly Is already formidable, but In the future It Is expected that even the busiest mer chants and richest proprietors will take tlipe to publish a little book of poems and so establish a claim to be considered men of letters. Chllllcothe, Mo., has split over the authorship of the old song, "Ben Bolt." The commercial club Is sponsoring a nationwide movement to erect a memor ial to Nelson Kneas. with whom lb credits authorship. Those opposed de clare the ballad was written by Thomas D. English, and the music Is taken from a German song. Kneas was a strolling actor who died ana was hurled In Chilll cothe. Alarmed over the frequency .with which French juries, after delivering a verdl. t, have been expressing the belief that they made a mistake, a group of lawyers no longer meml>ers of the French bar have decided to form schools for jurors. They have Invited all per sons who have served on juries or are likely to he called for duty at the forth coming assises to attend. Two dozen cars were stopped, two dozen horns were sounded, and drivers t spiced the autumnal atmosphere of Central park. New York,'with their re marks. It was all because of a squirrel and a pebble. The squirrel mistook the pebble for a nut. and stopped to crack it. He was In the middle of the road. An automobile came along and refused to run over him. Other cars could not pass. A group of 60 families will found- a Utopian settlement near Fort Williams, Ont. It will be an experiment in com munism. Crops will be pooled and the return divided on the basis of each fam ily’s size. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania was among the group of officers and form er officers of the army decorated with the distinguished service medal by Sec retary Weeks for exceptional service In war time. The rapid cure of Mme. Sarah Barn hai-dt, restoring her to health within a few days after an attack of syncope, was effected by adapting Coue's theory of auto-suggestion, an Intimate friend of the actress says. Martha Blattner, a sophomore in the University of California, went to jail one day as an alternative to paying a $15 fine for speeding, so she would have money enough to buy all her Christmas presents, she said. A plan to make the Ahasaka detached palace In Toklo, where the Prince of Wales resided, a permanent dwelling for the prince regent of Japan, Is proposed. It Is suggested to remodel the palace aJong the lines of Buckingham palace. Christmas has been made cheerful for Frank Haggerty, 52, a leper at Port land, Ore., confined In an Isolation buildtng. A radio set, a phonograph, flowers, fruit, candy and clothing were showered upon him in response to an Appeal. • ’’“Two more movie makers have been Insured for $1,000,000 each. The C.oldwyn company has taken out policies for Eric von Stroheim, star and. director, and for Miss June Mathis, scenario chief. They are at work on preliminary for •‘Ben Hur.” A bear hunting party, which had failed to raise any game, was returning to Milton, Pa. One of tho number slipped away and made a noise like a hear behind a clump of bushes,. He Is recovering In a hospital from a shot In bis shoulder. Because Goethe’s famous animal poem “Relneke Fuchs”, was held likely to breed disrespect'for the church and state, the clericals and their friends In the Danzig legislature recently forced though a resolution barring the work f /t the public schools. Instead of an attendant calling “Clos ing time!” In the library attached to the Paris Opera, the curfew air from Meyerbeer's “Hugcnots,” Is played on a phonograph. A modified text is subsl tuted inviting the good people to enter their homes as ”4 o’clock has sounded.” Elephants sounded an alarm and pre vented a fire at the quarters of Barn urn and Balle.v-Ringllng Brothers cir cus In Bridgeport, Conn. Study of the biblo for high school credit Is increasing In North Dakota. There arc 572 students who secured credit du.-lng the last school year. The first club house opened for ex clusive use of working women Is In operation In New York under auspices of the Women's Trade Union League. Seven tons of assorted loads were served at & Hawaiian feast In Honolulu, celebrating Uie recent election of Will iam P. Jarrett as delegate to congress. . On the night recently when John Bar rymore, In New York, appeared for tho first time In “Hamlet" his brother Lionel we.it to "Merton of the Movies." A Belfast woman has given birth to five children, triplets being followed at 1 •41 Interval of two days by twins. All Were stillborn, says the London Times. Fear that his mother would have him arrested if he attended movies, kept a 22-year-old son out of the picture shows at Muskegon. Mich. He inquired of po lice it it could be done. Christmas day In Bethlehem will be marked by an unusual pilgrimage of children to the little church of the na tivity. Five hundred Armenian boys and girts from the Near East Relief or phanages In Jerusalem will march with gifts made by them in their industrial school. They will be placed In the grotto where tradition says Christ was born. Several thousand acres rich In coal and ores in Kentucky and Tennessee are to he developed by a corporation headed by former Secretary of Ijtbor Wilson. Newark, N. J.. police fouial a coat with a note in It by the Morris canal. After dragging the canal all dag; they discov ered they were praaCdiiv movie public ity. I TJX REDUCTIONS Taxpayer’s League of Nebras ka Would Slash $8,000,000 From Proposed Ap propriations. Hastings, Neb., Dec. 29 (Special).— Sweeping reduction of 25 per cent. In all state and school appropriations, together wllh other reduction which make an estimated total of $8,000,000 for the bicnnian were recommended by the Nebraska Taxpayers’ league at its second meeting here. The plat form contains drastic recommenda tions, though some of a radical na ture, such as the abolishing of county agents, were squelched in committee. The platform asserts that while the population of the state has in creased 10 per cent, taxes have in creased 500 per cent. . W. I. Farley, of Aurora was elected president. O. A. Williams, of Neligh, heads the executive committee. _A_ GOVERNOR M’KELVIE NAMES NEW JUDGE Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 29 (Special.)— L. S. Hastings, of David City has been named by Governor McKelvle to be the new Judge of the Fifth district. Mr. Hustings takes the place to be vacated January 1, by E. E. Good, of Wahoo, who has been elected a supreme Judge. The dis trict comprises Hamilton, York, Folk, Butler, Seward and Saunders counties, and has two Judges. Mr. Hastings was selected by a refer endum vote of the lawyers, the third time that the governor has used this method of filling Judgeships. Mr. Hastings is 67 year of age, and has been county attorney and a mem ber of the state senate. He has been practicing law at David City for 34 years. KLAN DONATES TO ORPHAN’S HOME Nebraska City, Neb., Dec. 29.—Four men in full regalia of the Ku Klux Klan, carrying a letter bearing the seal of the Nebraska City chapter of the klan, marched into a Julian, Neb., church Sunday night and handed the minister a letter bearing the following message: "Rev. R. M. Wetzel, Julian, Neb. The enclosed is to be given to the Christian home at Council Bluffs, la., by the two Julian churches, coming from the Julian members of the Ne braska City knights of the Ku Klux Klan. "May God’s blessing go with this donation." —i— ACCIDENTALLY DISCOVER BAD ELECTRIC LEAK Wnyne, Neb., Dec. 29 (Special.)— Telephone officials have been tracing a leakage of high voltage current the past few days. At times the toll lines over northeast Nebraska were put out of commission. Their In vestigations of high voltage plants lead as far west as Niobrara. The leak was accidentally discovered at the local light plant on the 2,300 volt motor that supplies power for the city water works. Radio fans were disappointed us they heard nothing over their receiving sets except a constant roar. TAKES HEADLONG PLUNGE THROUGH PLATE GLASS Gordon, Neb., Dec. 29 (Special).— Plunging headlong down a stairway of 22 steps and driving his head through a heavy plate glass in the door at the foot of the stairs, Dr. Montgomery, government veterinarian here, was seriously Injured. RARE OLD COINS ARE PLACED ON EXHIBIT ..Pittston, Pa.—Coins dating as far back as GOO B. C. and having an es timated value of $50,000,000 If they were put on the'open market were ex hibited here In what was declared to be one of the world's greatest collec tions of mediums of barter and ex change. The exhibits numbered 30, 000 pieces, which ranged In size and weight from a eolpator of Southern India, coined in 1800 and weighing one gram, to a Swedish $4 piece mint ed in 1730, of copper, being 10 inches square and weighing six and a half pounds. The collection was the property of Farren SSerbe, of Tyrone, Pa., and was brought here for historical education al purposes. Among the interesting exhibits were personal cheeks of George Washing ton and Abraham Lincoln and the government warrant for $40,000,000 given to J. Piedpont Morgan for set tlement with the French government for the Panama canal. The rise rnd decline of the art of coining was shown in a tray of coins which began with the early Greek tokens and town through the middle ages, when uglier coins were made than those of 500 B. C. But in the year 1100 they b*gan to again show more artistry. Different Motives. From Answers, London. He—At last we are alone. I’ve been hoping for this chance.” Hhe—So have I. He (pleased)—Ah! You knew, then, that I wanted to ask you to be my wife? She—Yes, and 1 wanted to say “No!" emphatically and get it over. All Illiterates In tlie red army are to be formed Into separate sections for a three months’ course In reading and writing. A recent order issued by Trotsky says illiteracy must be elim inated. Sheba, pet cheetah owned by a London woman, has been trained to guard her mistress’ automobile against theft. Sheeba takes her meals sitting in a din ing room chair, and is said to have ex cellent table manners. A party of Christmas carol singers, Nfomposed largely of titled persons, is one of the novelties of the holiday sea son In London. The singers expect their friends to contribute generously to a settlement house fund. f - , SET' RECOVER FOR JR UM Money Deposited With Omaha Bank Wrongfully Used Ac cording to Appeal Made. Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 28 (Special).— Division No. 1 of the Hallway Em- j ployes’ department of the American Federation of Labor has appealed to the supreme court from a Douglas county decision denying it recovery of $65,000 from the American State bank and Guy Liggett. The division had that amount on deposit when three of ficers of the bank, since put out of office, through what the petition calls subterfuge and bribery, got hold of it and used it for their own private busi ness. The,three former officers named are Marion F. Shafer, Ward E. Shafer and Roy E. Karls, and judgment has been given against them. The division says the bank’s officers were able to do this by inducing S. H. Gmce, division treasurer, to let them handle tTie money. They promised to pay him 6 per cent, 2 per cent, of which he could keep himself. It is claimed they acted as agents of the bank, and that $30,000 of the amount was used to pay off debts to the bank owing by the Shafers. Liggett acted as a friend, he says, in the chain of transfers that changed the title of tho money from the division to the three bank officials. WOMAN ASSERTS SHE WAS THE BOOZE PEDDLER Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 28 (Special.)— A touch of the dramatic was given the trial of Harm Shank, alleged bootlegger, in federal court, when his i sisterlnlaw, Opal Woodward, testified that she and not Harm was the per son who sold the booze that he was accused of dispensing. Miss Wood ward was formerly of York, but lives at Silver Creek. Shank has been a prominent character In that vicinity. He is defending this time because it is the second offense charged against him, and conviction means imprison ment. Miss Woodward said that she sold the liquor to Ralph DeBoer, a tele phone lineman of York. She said Shank was not with her in the car at the time, but that his wife and a young man friend were. DeBoer had previously testified that he got it from Shank, and two officers testi fied to having witnessed the sale from the shadow of a hedge. They had suspected Shank when they saw him in York, and had followed him in the moonlight. JUMPS FROM BRIDGE INTO MISSOURI RIVER Omaha, Neb., Dec. 28.—Somewhere under the thin ice that coats the Mis souri river here, the river currents are whirling about the body of a young, ^ unidentified woman, who Wednesday night leaped from the Douglas street bridge and crashed through the Ice to her death shortly after 7 o’clock. The young woman entered the cab at Tenth and Farnam streets and asked to be driven to Council Bluffs. On the bridge she ordered the driver to stop. She got out, and before the driver could Interfere, perched on the rail ing and leaped. Police aided by powerful search lights are searching the river tonight, in the hopes that the strong current may wash the body to the surface here or there, where the Ice is broken. GOVERNOR’S MESSAGES TO BE BROADCASTED Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 28.—The fare well message of Governor McKelvie and the inaugural of Governor Bry an, which are to be delivered on the afternoon of Thursday, January 4, before a joint session of the state legislature in representative hall, are to be broadcasting by radlc. Men are at work stringing the necessary wires by which the state bureau of markets radio apparatus may be utilized that afternoon. The two governors will take their turns before a big trumpet, and this will pick up their words and shoot them in all directions. —"4— OMAHA TO GET FINE ART MUSEUM Omaha, Neb., Dec. 28.—Mrs. Sarah Joslyn, widow of Geo. A. Josiyn, former head of the Western News paper Union, announces that she will erect a $5,000,000 art museum in Om aha. as a memorial to her husband. With the execeptlon of the new state oapitul building, now under construc tion, this is to be the finest building in Nebraska. — 4 FIRE DEPARTMENT TO GIVE ANNUAL BALL Wayne, Neb., Dec. 28 (Special.)— Wayne's volunteer fire department will hold its annual New Years dance, Monday night, January 1. in the Wo men's Community building. The pro ceeds will be used in Improving the equipment of the department. A New York woman Is trying to re cover $460 from a Cleveland salesman. She purchased, "stock certificates”. When she opened the envelope at home sbe discovered a comic section of a newspaper, the main feature of which was a laughing donkey. WOMAN LEGGER IS GIVEN JAIL SENTENCE Watertown, S. D„ Dee. 29.—Mrs. Nellie Pollock was one of 12 persons . sentenced to Jail Thursday in court for violation of the prohibition laws. Mrs. Pollock was given 6fi days in the county jail with a 14 months’ sus pended sentence contingent on her good behavior. She aiso was fined $1,750 and costs, all on eight charges. Judge Skimver told Mrs. Pollock she could take her 2-year old child to jail with her. i Stanley Pollock, her husband, was sentenced to the state prison at Sioux Ful’s for a year and three months. ASSESSMENT COSE TO HIGH COURT ' 1 * Contractor Resists Payment of Taxes on Materials on Hand For Completion of Work. __ Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 27 (Special).— What the lawyers say Is the first case of its kind has been filed in supreme court. It is from Kearney cougty, and is to determine whether a county may assess and collect taxes on the material that a public contractor has on hand and unused on the first of April. Dunnegan & Briggs, of Shen andoah, la., were held for $245 taxes hy the district court, on the theory that as they had $7,600 worth of tiling piled up in Minden to put into a sewer system as soon as the weather per rnitte.1, they should pay taxes the same as any other person with that amount of property. They claim that the tiling became city property as soon as it reached town, and as such was exempt, and that before it was accepted by the city it was exempt because still in inter state commerce. —— GOVERNOR ELECT BOWS TO CUSTOM IN DRESS Lincoln, Neb., Dee. 27 (Special.)— Bowing to the decrees of convention ality Governor-elect Bryan has agreed to wear a tuxedo at the in augural reception to be held at the executive mansion on the evening of January 4, when the reins of govern ment change hands. Mr. Bryan, as a thorough-going democrat, refused to wear full dress, and finally compro mised on the tuxedo. Mrs. Bryan will appear in evening dress, without hat or gloves. All of the newly elected state offi cers, including all of the supreme Judges, will be In line, and they are to wear just whatever they please. Thq reception will not be "on” the taxpayers, but each official will put up $10 as his share of the expenses. —+— UNMASKED BANDITS ROB STATION AGENT Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 27.—Two un masked bandits held up and robbed the station agent of the Rock Island i* ilroad depot of $215, all that was in the cash drawer of the ticket window at an eurly hour this morning and escaped with their booty. John J. Knoblauch, the agent, although threatened by the bandits, refused to open the office safe, claiming that he did not know the combination. —— OMAHA HAS $75,000 BLAZE TUESDAY EVENING Omaha, Neb., Dec. 27.—Fire of un known origin which broke out Op the second floor of the Courtney build ing, Seventeenth and Dongle.* street*, shortly after 7:30 o'clock Tuesday night threatened to sweep neighbor in buildings, including Hayderr Brothers store when the flames were fanned by a high wind. The Are re sulted in an estimated damage of $75,000 before it was brought under control. —4— Put Them to Work! From the Fall River News. The gospel of work is being neglected today. Mother and father are working about as hard ever, but the young people are loafing as never before. Rut them to work! The mother w|jo allows her daughter to dawdle her time away, to think of nothing but dress and fashion, to play the piano and use the family automobile when she should be washing dishes and helping to make the beds and perform ing other useful tasks about the house Is neglecting her duty. The girl who grows to womanhood without a know ledge of household management is not a credit to her mother. Her mother has been remiss. Put her to work. Ttie father who allows his son to grow up a loafer is not a good citize'n. He should take enough Interest In his fam ily to see that the boy is brought up familiar with work. Not dainty jobs alone, but good old fashioned Jobs like cleaning out the cellar, handling the ashes and bringing up the coal. It won’t hurt him. He*iin wear gloves if he Is afraid of ruining hts banjo hands. He I can wear a skull cap so as not to ruffle his patent leather hair. And the work will build up his physique just as effi ciently as the gym and the baseball dia mond. Put them to work! And working will fit them for life. Many of the young folks growing up to day have fiever looked a job of real work in the eyes. They look upon work as something to dread, something to look forward to with fear and trembling, something to be avoided and skulked as long as possible. Put them to work now! Put them to work earlf. Honest work never hurt anyone. Give them plenty of playtime, hut familiarize them with some form of work from the time they are able to walk. Then, when they come to shift for themselves they won’t be astonished and hurt because they are expected <o toll. Pul them to work! Some of the finest grindstones in the world come from the bottom of the Bay of Fundy. Workmen quarry the stones from the solid rock, when the tide is out end fasten them to a large flat-bottomed boat. The tides in the Bay of Fundy are the highest in the world. They rise from 50 to 70 feet and rush In with great swiftness. The tide lifts the fiatboat with the stones attached. The workmen bring the boat ashore and remove the stones at their leisure when the tide is out. Cars entered in the 1923 French Grand V'rix may not weigh over 1410 pounds and must have a maximum piston dis placement of 122 Inches. German and Austrian cars are restrained from en tering. - There are more policemen in the United States tTlnn there are soldiers in the regular army. Civilian peace offi cers number 229.887. while the enlistkd personnel in military departmens totals 125.000. For furtherance of a school to teach nrti'-tlc printing, type founders and em ploying printers of Chicago have given the Chicago Art Institute a hand press and outfit of type. It has been installed In the printing arts deportment of the Institute. FRONTIER OF MOSUL BEING REINFORCED Turks Preparing to Hold Oil Region Against Attack, Lon don Hears—Greece Prepares for War—Outlook Gloomy. Universal Service. Special Cable Dispatch. London, Doc. 29.—An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Athens says that there is reliable infor mation to the effect that the Turks are reinforcing the Mosul frontier preparing to meet the ultimatum of the allies at the j Lausanne conference. A Caucasian division of 6,000 ! effectives from Van is proceeding in the direction of Mosul, says I the dispatch. L -- L Universal Service. Special Cable Dispatch. Constantinople, Dec. 29.—A courtmartial at Ismid has sen tenced 38 Christians from Pontus to death. BY JOHN T. BURKE, Universal Service Correspondent. Special Cable Dispatch. London, Dec. 29.—GloomTegarding the situation In Europe settled down over Downing street Friday as Pre mier Bonar Law and the cabinet met In extraordinary session to consider Britain’s attitude on German repara tions at the fateful conference of premiers at Paris next Tuesday. The cabinet ministurs are facing a tragic turn in the negotiations at Lausanne where the Turks, enraged over Britain’s refusal to surrender the rich oil lands of Mosul, are threatening hostilities, and are wor ried by the bitter enmity of France becau&e the British refused to sup port the seizure of the Ruhr. They refused, however, after the adjourn ment of the momentous session to re veal the result of their deliberations. Premier Gets Figurfes. There is no doubt in the minds of the leading diplomatic correspon dents of London that Premier Bonar Law will be empowered to insist on cutting down the reparations to be made by Germany, and that he will go to Paris armed with facts and figures supplied by a group of finan cial and industrial experts who held a sessiop before the meeting of the cabinet and reported their findings to the prime minister. If France refuses to scale down her demands at the meeting of the pre miers next week It Is the general opinion here that Turkey, facing a disrupted entente, will insist on the return of Mosul, and fight if neces sary. Mosul Big Factor. It Is believed here that Mosul is likely to be an Important factor in Bhaplng the outcome of the coming conference of premiers. This is evidenced by the fact that Lord Cur zon is expected in Paris to report on the grave situation in the Near East, which in the end may force Britain to act again with France, Italy and Belgium in dealing with Germany. The outlook at its best Is consider ed black by close observers In London. The Lausanne conference was sus pended while Ismet Pasha, chief of the Turkish delegation, prepared a reply to the allied demand that the Turks permit international courts at which cases Involving for eigners would be tried. There was an obvious effort on the part of the allies to make it appear that Turkish obstinacy on this point Is responsible for the impending dis ruption of the conference, while Ismet desires the world to believe that British greed for the rich Mosul oil basin in Mesopotamia is the real rea son. Ismet's reply will probably try to throw the blame on Britain. Resumption of war between Greece and Turkey is considered inevitable in the former country, according to a cable from Athens to the Dally Ex press today. Former Premier Venizelos, vision ing a breakdown of the Lausanne conference, has telegraphed the Greek revolutionary government urging that reinforcements be rushed to the Greek army in Thrace and that the 1920 and 1922 military classes be called to the colors, the Express correspondent cabled. —f— RUSSSIA APPEALS TO U. S. Lausanne, Dec. 29 (U. P.)—Russia, through her foreign minister, Tchlt cherin, Friday appealed to the United States for support in the soviet fight at the conference against freedom of the straits. DEMPSEY GET8 OFFER. New York, Dec. 29.—Jack Demp sey has received an offer of $200,000 and 37% per cent, of the gate re ceipts to fight the winner of the Joe Beckett-Dick Smith bout to be held soon in London, according to Dah’iol McKetrick, representative of the champion in this city. McKetrick said he believed Dempsey would ac cept the offer which was made by Charles Cochran, famous London pro moter. If he does, the bout will be held in micVMay-Derby week in Eng land. REPORT STRIKE SETTLED. London,, Dec. 29.—It la reported that tjje Irish Free State government has averted the threatened railway strike by taking over the companies which planned to reduce wages. The companies claimed they could not continue the present wage scale and still pay dividends. The free state, it is understood, will not guarantee div idends, at least for the present. PARDON8 FOR DOZEN. Washington, Dec. 29 (U. P.)—A dozen “political prisoners” will be pardoned Saturday, It was stated attf • the White House FYtday. MEETING OF FINANCIERS HIS SCHEME Would Absolve Delegates From Political Responsibility —Indicates U. S. Would Participate in Parley. Universal Service. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 29.—Secre tary of State Hughes here Friday night suggested that the first step* toward a settlement of the reparation*, question *>e taken by the highest au thorities in finance of the countries concerned, who could act unpreju diced by political considerations. The solution offered by these au thorities, he said, would, of course* have to receive the approval of tha governments involved The secretary's suggestions were regarded as setting forth authoritat ively the views and purposes of Pres ident Harding's administration. Dis patches from Washington received during the day mentioned an official’ White House reference to Mr. Hughes’ address and the president's letter to Senator Lodge as containing all*that might be said on the EuA pean situation at present. Why Not Ask Financiersf "If statesmen cannot agree and exigencies of public opinion mak» their course difficult,” Mr. Hughes said Friday night, “then there should ibe called to their aid those who can point the way to a solution. "\Vhy should they not Invite men - of the highest authority In finance in their respectivve countries, men of such prestige,''experience and honor that their agreement upon the amount to be paid, -and upon a financial plan, for working out the payments, would be accepted throughout the world as the most authoritative expression ob tainable? "Governments need not bind them selves in advance to accept the re commendations, but they can at least make possible such an inquiry with their approval and free the men who may represent their country In such a_. commission from any responsibility to foreign offices and from any duty to obey political instructions.” U, S. “Deeply Interested.” In his address, which was delivered; before the American Historical as sociation of New Haven, the secretary said in part: "The economic conditions in Eu rope give us the greatest concern.. They have long received the earnest consideration of the administration. We are deeply interested from an. economic standpoint, as our credit*, and markets are involved, and from, a humanitarian standpoint. We can not dispose of these problems by calling them European, for they ar*> world problems, and we cannot es cape th? injurious consequences of a. failure to settle them. “The crux of the European situa tion lies in the settlement of repara tions. There will be no adjustment o[ other needs, however pressing* until a definite and accepted basis for the discharge of reparations claims has been fixed. It Is futile to attempt to erect an economic struc ture in Europe until the foundation is laid. “We are not seeking reparations.. We are bearing our own burden, and through our loans a large part of Eu rope's burden in addition. No de mands of ours stand in the way of a proper settlement of the reparation* question. "The matter is plain enough from our standpoint. The capacity of Ger many to pay is not affected at all. by any indebtedness of any of the al lies to us. That Indebtedness doe*, not diminish Germany's capacity, and its removal would not increase her capacity. "We have no desire to see Germany relieved of her just obligations to make reparations for the injuries dufr to her aggression. There is not the? slightest desire that France shall lose any part of her just claims. “On the other hand, we dio not wish* to see a prostrate Germany. There* can be no economic recuperation in. Europe unless Germany recuperates. There will be no permanent peace* unless economic satisfactions are en joyed. There must be hope, and in dustry must have a promise of re* ward If there is to be prosperity.” TWO MEN KILLED IN TEXAS STREET BATTLE San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 29 (A. P).— A. D. Halliburton, 67 years old, of Somerset, was remanded to jail with out bail by Justice of the Peace Bern Fisk, after the killing of J. G. Har wood, 22 years old, and W. A. Chap man, 48, at Somerset, Thursday. An attempt to obtain bail will be made through habeas corpus hearings to day. Harwood and Chapman were killed. In a street battle. According to re ports made to deputy sheriffs who hastened to the scene, Harwood was shot by Chapman and Chapman later killed by Halliburton, who was fath srinlaw of Harwood. The trouble i*. said to have resulted from a feuil. rrowing out of the discharge of Mrs. Maryan Harwood, wife of the slain man, as a school teacher, by Chap man, who was superintendent of" schools. £4-44444444444-4-4 + 44 + 4 CIGARET 1,000,000 RUBLE8. 4 4 -•— 4* 4 Moscow, Dec. 29 (A. P.).— 4 4 American made clgarets now 4“ 4 are on sale In the streets of 4 4 Moscow for about 1,000,000 + 4 soviet rubles each. 4 4 The bolshevtst ruble has 4r 4 been fluctuating to such an 4 4 extent lately that It has been -4 4 a common occurrence for deal- 4 4 ers to boost many articles bil- 4 4 Hons of rubles over night. 4 4 4 4-4 4^4^ 44444444444444
