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MONDAY. APRIL 7. 1919. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FIVE. ACGEPTS RE PORT ON LAN GUAGE BILL TO INCREASE FORCES NOW IN RUSSIA GERMANY IS FACING NEW DISORDERS i8 i :?! FRESH f. ia! " u-i Clean Threshing Takes Lots cf Power '"Grin in the barn not on the straw pile takes lots of steady, dependable power that only correct engine lubri cation ccr. give your tractor. And tractors need a special lubricant because of their high operating heat especially when kerosene is the fuel. S7ANOLIND Tractor Oil i3 manufactured for this particular service and is endorsed by the lading tractor manufacturers. It stands the high cylinder heat and protects every moving part, bearing and va'vc with a cushioning oil film that prevents de structive friction and Leaps the engine at par the year round Keeps overhauling and repair bills small. Ask your dealer for this oii or write us for information. C7 OTr. COMPAQ-XT t t.Viri rr mm mi mm i LIFE OF BEL Glui HANGS IN THE BALANCE INDEMNITY URGENTLY DE MANDED BY KIEG ALBERT. NATION HAS SUFFERED MUCH If Ei'pum Is to Live the Council Must Act." Gist of King's Kcs srge tc Allied Leaders. Piris. April 4. Mart-hal Koch h cxi.ci'tii! to arrive from Spa tomor rmv. No tt tTil lias y t be. n re-ei ve 1 ie Paris rc::! ruing the negotiation with the .;. rii.riiis mcr the proposal to 1:"id l'o'i'.-ii tro( j at Danzig. ' !l-;uih's cae lias bct-n laid h1 fere tti.' p-;ice coiifv re nee by th n;i.-t dir-t ingui-h-d ad vi"a' e Bel gium could have chosen. Kir.-; Al-b.-rt lias ! en: in Paris for t lie pat Ihree days and in nui.ieror.s con r.M.c. s v. irh the representatives of the ere;.? powers he has outlined th-? reeds of liis coiitnry and to!J of the steps that must he tnken Irnn.ediate y if F.el ium is I1' b re.-torei. Urges Quick Action. Kinir Albert has had long con versations v it b President Wi'.-on. Tol. lMward M. House, ' Premier Clein nr-au and David I.loyd-George. Th'se conversations h-d up to his -.ppe irance bt fore the council of four today. " A infi-ih-r of th Belgian peace delegation told the press today tliat. shorn of ;:11 its diplomatic niceties, what Kirg Albert told the council uiiiih be summarized thus: "The -time of promises has passed. If Belgium is to live the council must act." The press is able to state that thre questions of vital immediate importance to the re-e a bl i-hmeu t f Belgium, financially, economical ly ard o'it ieally. wcr" discussed. The first c.nef ion was the immed iate advance in Belgium of about 1 'i.octo.oiti'.ooo francs. the second the ' xportatioii to Belgium from Knland and th FnPcd States of ra v.- material-, and the third the c ssioti 'o Belgium of the left bank fif th--; I, l'';i(it river and the Lem- Avalanche of JTarks. Th" first item represents the vain" of ; nr-ati marks left in circu li! fun ie P. liiim. After the de parture 'f tfif (Jcrmans the ministry of firanre ti-ut out an urgent call to rudders T the marks to deposit them in th" batiks. The amount was e-.i;i ated to be about ?2. 000. 000. 000 arid it h'i le-en the government's intention t.- red' em them at the par value of one franc 2." centime1;. l!el i m t i was not prepared for the avalanche of m;irks that resulted. ':!. t bi'.'ion r.iurk.s passed tlirouh th- banks windows into t lie vaults. The banks were unable to- redeem this amount of paper and depositors v i re merely ?iven receipt?, statin? tli't a certain amount of marks tvpre h'-Id to their credit. The p.-!yraent of an immediate in demnity by Germany was relied on Hi il Hi to cover payment for these deposits. The indemnity thus far has failed to materialize. Much Money Idle. Depoi.it.ors cannot draw against these credits, with th result that some lo.titHfOOii.oOo francs are idle, as the brinks are paying no in terest on such deposits. The importation of raw materials is said to be indispensable to the retrieving of iJelj-'iiim from the economic standpoint. The correspondent has just re turned from an extended trip in I'rlirium. Everywhere lie found in vestors complaining of the situation arising from the fact that while the Americans and I'ritish permit ex portation into Heleium of manufac tured articles they thus far have failed to export into lblpium raw materials which would permit of in dustries resuming work. UMCMJ CAUP.DC IfSLOUii I Hf UNO FREEDOM OF THE FILIPINOS SOON COMMISSION FROM ISLANDS EX TENDS GEATITUDE FOR STAND TAKEN. President to Urge Release of Islands from U. S. Sovereignty, It is Declared. Washington. April j.- Members of the special mission of the Philip pine legislature here . seeking im mediate independence for the is lands, were told today by Secretary IJakT that he Fpcke President Wil son's mind when he said lie believ ed the time had come to grant the. complete independence desired by the Filipino people. He read a letter left by President Wilson when he went to Kurope, expressing the hope that the mis sion would result in "bringing alwmt the desirable ends set forth in the joint resolution of the legislature." Obstacles Cleaned Away. Francis Hurton Harrison, gover nor general of the Philippines, fol lowed Mr. Maker with the state ment, that his experience in the islands had convinced him that the obttatc-les to Independence that ap peared to exist a few years ago had been cleared away. The mission, including 40 prom inent Filipinos and headed by Manuel Quezon, president of the senate, upon being received in Sec retary IJakcr's office today, present ed a formal memorial askinc inde pendence and pointing particularly to the record of the Philippines in the great war. RETURNS TO HOME IN NORTH. From Thursday's Iily. Mrs. Ij. ( Cowlos, of Brainard. Minn., who has been visiting in this city for some time past, coming to attend the funeral of her si;ter-in-law, Mrs. John Lewis, who tlied at her home in Colorado, and remaining for an extended visit at the home of her parents, Charles II. Lewis and wife of this city, departed yesterday for her home in the north. Newspaper advertising is declared the -most valuable consistent with Its cost. Give it a trial. ill - -"II t . -:t litt V mm 3 77 MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE FAVOR THE STAMPING OF FOREIGN TONGUE. WANT 100 PER CENT CITIZENS Proposal to Permit the Teaching of Religion in Other Than the English After School Has Small Following. Seventy-seven members of the house went on record Friday as favoring the majority report of the conference committee on S. F. 24, the language bill. Fifteen voted against the report. Of those absent and not voting, all were accounted for but Trace-well. The house wait ed under call while the sergeant-at-arms and three deputized assistants searched the capitol without result. After the call had been raised, the member from Cherry returned. The report as adopted is substantially in the language of the amended bill as it left the house. The house com mittee on education ft ruck out the words "church" and "denomination al" from the senate bill. In the ma jority report, denominational reap pears. The bill as accepted by the house does not permit the use of any lan guage other than t tie English in grades below the eighth. It provides that above the eighth grade, other than the English lan guage may he taught as a language cnly. The majority report sub: niitted by Kepresentat ive Reynolds contained in addition to the report by the majority, a clause providing that; "No provisions of this act tball be construed to forbid the use of a foreign language in any Sun day school or in any private, paro chial or denominational school on Saturdays or after the usual school hours for the religious instruction of pupils able to speak and under stand such foreign language." The main objections raised to the minority report were that since it presented matter entirely foreign to the bill a it passed the senate and as amended in the house, the report if adopted, might defeat the entire measure; that since no time is fixed in the parochial school bill as the hour for dismissal of school, the pro vision as embraced in this renort might be construed as giving per mission for the introduction of for eign language at any time during the afternoon and finally: that since the senate is to pass the majority report, should the house reject such report in favor of the minority, such action would require that another conference be held. GERMANS RE CEIVE DECISION OF THE ALLIES ERZBERGER. HEAD OF ARMIS TICE COMMISSION. DEEPLY MOVED AFTER CONFERENCE WITH F0CH AT SPA. Spa, April o. Marshal Foch ar rived in Spa at &:'2 o'clock this morning and immediately informed Mat.hias Erzberger, head of the Ger man armistice commission, that he would confer with him in his pri vate car at U:30 o'clock. The conference took place at the appointed time in the presence of .Major General Weygand. assistant to Marshal Foch, and a French in terpreter and lasted 40 minutes. Marshal Foch laid before Herr Erzberger the decisions of the en tente. Erzberger, after the confer ence, hurriedly returned to his train. He appeared deeply moved. Alter a conference of one hour with (Jen. l'aron Von Hammerstein, a member of the German armistice commission, and hU technical ad-vis-ers. Erzberger returned no the ho tel where the German members of the armistice commission are lodged. The populace acclaimed Marshal Foch on his arrival in Spa. During the day the marshal visited General Nudant, his representative in Spa. Before leaving Uerlin Erzberger j had a final consultation with repre sentatives of all partial, at which an ! agreement was reached as to the at titude to he adoptcdin the negotia tions with allied " representatives there. It seems that the sentiment j of the Germans is favorable to a set i tleinent of the Danzig controversy. ALLIES ARE IN DANGER ON FRONTS IN FAR NORTH. THE SITUATION IS PRECARIOUS British Reinforcements Will Follow American Troops Already on Way to Murmansk. Loudon. April 3. The situation in the Murmansk region of northern Russia is giving the British mili tary authorities considerable anx iety. Announcement was made to day that British reinforcements will follow immediately the American troops now on the way to north Russia. It is pointed out that while the allied troops are isolated by the ice, the bolsheviki are likely to attempt to drive them into the sea. The bolsheviki have superior forces and r,s their section of the Dvina river thaws sooner than the part occupied by the allies, they have an impor tant advantage. Reinforcements Necessary. The allies, therefore, believe it is essential that the troops be rein forced or relieved the earliest pos sible moment. The curtain was raised for the British public on the position of the allied armies in north Russia for the lirst time this afternoon. when l.'.uidoii afternoon papers circulated posters through the streets with ftartling phrases of which "the Brit ish army imperiled" was typical. The public bought the papers ea gerly, having no idea which army was referred to. Some of the papers declared that another Kut surrender or Khartum tragedy threatened. Both Fronts in Danger. Sir Ernest Shackleton, the explor er, who has just returned from Rus sia, where he superintended the winter outfitting and feeding of the expedition, confirmed the danger to the allied position and armies. He is credited with stirring British of ficials into a keener realization of the serousness of - the position in Russia. He declared in an interview that both fronts are in danger, and that the bolshevist peril is a very real one because- the entente forces are outnumbered by disciplined and well armed and well equ:pped troops in close touch with the allies' extended but by no means strong, front. "We must avoid the possibility f another Khartum." says Sir Er nest. He urges the need of sending reinforcements immediately. These he asserts can reach Murmansk from England in less than a week. Bolsheviki in Retreat. Dispatches from Omsk report that during the last few days the bol sheviki have been retiring on the Orenburg front so rapidly that the Siberian armies in pursuit are un ahle to keep in touch. Bolsheviki de sertions continue. As ap example T.o miles south of Ufa. a whole reg iment of bolsheviki cavalry joined Kolchak's forces and turned their weapons on their former comrades. The bolsheviki had accumulated at Orenburg over three million hun dred weight of grain, which they had seized in the Cossack villages. They are trying, under the greatest difficulties, to transport this- grain to Samara,, and are evacuating Oren burg. RETURNED FROM FALLS CITY. From Thursday's Daily. A. K. Eddie who has been at Falls City for the past four weeks, re turned this morning, and says things at our neighbor town are moving along in excellent condi tion. There are being constructed some new buildings, the farmers are busy and a number of business changes have been effected just late ly. Some old firms being superced ed by new ones. ANTI-NEPOTISM MEASURE NOW GOES TO GOVERNOR Lincoln, Neb., April 4. The anti nepotism bill introduced in the house by Representative Foster, pro hibiting the appointment by office holders of any person related by ties of blood or kin to airy subordinate position or office where the yearly compensation is greater than $800, passed the senate today. The measure had the emergency clause attached and now- only re quires the signature of the governor to be the law of the state. It prac tically passes in the same form as it came from the house and by a unanimous vote. SPIRIT OF UNREST STILL RAM PANT IN THAT COUNTRY. RECENT LULL BUT TEMPORARY Lack of Food and High Prices Sup plying a Fertile Field lor bparta can Propaganda, and Having Effect. Paris, April 3. The latest ad vices concerning the fighting at Frankfort and the renewal of the strike in Berlin confirm the impres sion prevailing in Germany when the former Berlin correspondent of the press left there a week ago that the then comparative lull in the manifestations of the industrial dis order and revolutionary violence and pillage by the rabble was only temporary. Germany was at that time fairly quiet, the only import ant exception being a strike in the surrounding region. The March in surrection in Berlin and the disturb ances in central Germany and in East Prussia had been suppressed; the flame of disorder was only flick ering in the Silesia coal fields, while order was being maintained in Bremen, Essen and other cities, formerly scenes of Spartacan upris ings and the socialist proletariat of Bavaria, altho running affairs in that state without regard to the central government, were not seek ing any occasion of conflict with the central authorities. Spartacan Emissaries Active. Beneath the surface there were abundant possibilities of trouble. The majority of the German work ing men. particularly the married men. wish to work, altho higher wages are being constantly demand ed, to meet the rising cost of food. An energetic Spartacan minority and the younger irrepressibles, how ever, are constantly causing trouble and preaching bolshevist doctrines of political strikes to disposess fac tory owners and overthrow the pres ent government. On earlier occa sions, as at Berlin and in the Ruhr region, these minorities had been able to inveigle or persuade others into joining the strike movement, promising high wages in cases of success and holding out the bait of abundant food shipments from Rus sia if the government were over thrown and an alliance concluded with bolshevist Russia. The factory-owners feared that the radical minority might again dominate their fellows if a new strike was called under propitious circumstances, particularly as there were a number of big establish ments, known colloquilly as "Lieb knecht plants," where the workmen were largely Spartacan, who could he counted on to give a most satis factory impetus to a general strike by going out in a body at a given signal. Food Will Help Situation. Factory owners and others in close touch with industrial condi tions regard the distribution of American food supplies at reason able prices as the only possibility of mastering the strike movement, re establishing industrial order and stimulating production. With the. workmen able to buy with their wages the necessary food they may be able to shake off the influence of the radicals. Without this pos sibility all must inevitably drift completely into the domination of the extremists. The industrial situation is com plicated by a shortage of coal and raw materials. Factories are run ning only five days a week on a short schedule of hours. Should the coal production be increased and transportation improved there would be a far better outlook for industry. Leading German manufacturers, particularly in the electrical and machinery lines, assured the corre spondent that they would have no difficulty in doing a profitable busi nes seven under the present wage scale if the food and fuel difficulties were solved. The situation was rapidly becom ing critical when the food shipping agreement was signed. But the speedy arrival of American food ships with food on board had al rady had an imposing effect on gen eral sentiment, the distribution had not begun a week ago. Advertising is the heart of trade. Everybody uses it in some form or other to advance their business. But newspaper advertising is the cheap est and best. Try it. - Flags at the Jour&al Office. ORDER YOUR ALFALFA SEED NOW! SULK GARDEN SEED IS OUR SPECIALTY! iestor WHAT ABOUT THAT BAND. We all enjoyed the city band last year and all the years we had one, the concerts were splendid and were a source of much enjoyment to all the citizens. We had gotten to think that this music came like that of the birds, without any cost or any effort. True the birds have to make a living, and support their families, but you cannot expect, be cause a person is a member of the band to go practice night after night and then prepare the program for your enjoyedment for the sake of pleasing you. They would like to do it, but they have to pay out their good money for music, for instru ments and other things necessary. Nor we do not want them to do that and are and should be willing to pay for what we get. We should be pleased to bear our part of those things that are for the good of the community. Now this band is not for the purpose of making money for its members, but they should not be expected to do the work and bear the expense as well. FORMER MEMBER OF LEGISLATURE IS SUED By His Wife for Divorce Alleges Husband Cruel to Her Lives in Omaha at Present. Omaha. April 4. -Treniuore Cone, prominent in the sand business at several points in Nebraska, was sued for a divorce yesterday in district court, by his wife, Ora M. Cone. She charges cruelty. Mrs. Cone was Mrs. Ora M. Cald well, a widow, before their marriage, November 1, 1917. Mr. Cone had also been married before. He was a member of the legislature for several terms, having been elected from Saunders county. Mrs. Cone says he has property worth $25,000, and she asks ali mony. Mr. Cone is engaged in the business of dredging and marketing sand, with his principal headquart ers at Central City, Neb. Their Omaha home is at 4 656 Douglas street. Strawberry Plants for Sale Progressive Everbearing Straw berry plants, $1.00 per 100. Postage extra. K. L. Kniss, Murray, Nebr. "IMiTBlMKATAUTIES OK TIII3 f.MTEH STATICS ;o VAW MKST" 5 FARM LOAN BONDS ISSUED UNDER THE FEDERAL FARM LOAN ACT Dated November 1, 1918 DUE November 1, 1938 Redeemable at par and accrued interest on any inter est date after five years from date of issue. Coupon bonds fully registerable and interchangeable. Denomi nation, $1,000. Interest payable semi-annually, May 1st and November 1st. Principal and interest payable at the bank of issue in exchange Approved by the Fed eral Farm Loan Board of the United States government. Exempt from All Federal, State, Municipal and Local Taxation! This exemption includes the Federal Income Tax and income from these bonds need not be included in returns PRICE ON APPLICATION Chas. C. Parmele, .Bank of Plattsmouth !to hold left BANK OF RHINE FOR A WHILE LONG OCCUPATION OF GERMAN TERRITORY REPORTED DECID ED ON AS GUARANTEE. FRENCH AND BELGIANS' JOB Pichon Thinks the Peace Preliminary May Be Ready by Easter Day. Paris, April o. The council of four has virtually decided, accord ing to information from French sources, that the left bank of the Rhine will be neutralized until Germany has paid the indemnities fixed by the peace conference. It is understood that French and Belgi.in troops will hold this territory. "I have always thought and think more than ever today, that the peace preliminaries to be imposed upon Germany will '.ie ready before Fast er unless something unexpected arises." said Stephen Pichon, for eign minister, yesterday, in reply to questioners at a banquet given bv French republican journalists, ac cording to the Matin. An appeal for the independence of Korea will be submitted to the peace conference before the end of the present week by a dclgation headed by Kinsic Kimo, represent ing the new Korean young men's society. The appeal is declared to represeut the vehement desire of al most the entire Korean nation, as manifested by the present wide spread passive resistance- nioemcnt. The document is accompanied by a long memorandum reciting the Al leged injustice and unpopularity of Japanese rule and the harshness of the measures with which Jap;in i declared to be endeavoring to sup press the national movement for lib eration. Farming Implements For Sale. Having. just quit farming. I have a number of implements for sale, that the price will be made right on. if taken soon. See me for par- Cass County Nebraska