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VOLUME XIV, NUMBER 150. SEWARD, .^JNESDAY, JANUARY 19,1921. - j / TEN CENTS PER COP!
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BRITAIN TO
TRADE WITH
OMANY
BERLIN, Jan. 18— (Special radio
dispatch)— From authoritive sources
I have learned that England has made
concrete proposals to Germany foj
British and German co-operation in
opening and building up trade with
Russia.
It is understood here that the
British hope that their line up with
Germany in Russia will give them ai.
advantage over America in the trade
with Russia.
Emphasis is laid of the fact tha.
as yet the United States has no
official representative here and that
only unofficial and informal convei
sations can be held with Commission
or Dressel and Consul- General Coffin
ENGINEER LANGDON’S FUNERAL
SERVICES'HELD YESTERDA *
MANILA, Jan. 19—Impressive mi.
itary religious services were perform
ed yesterday in Vladivostok in hono
of Engineer Langdon who was recent
ly shot by a Japanese .soldier.; Th ,
general officer commanding the Jap
anese, the Siberian foreign minister
9 and the Russian foreign minister ol
ficially atended.
BOUT BETWEEN OExtiPSEY AND
CARPENTIER CALLED 0F1
NEW YORK, Jan. 19—Tex Rickarc
one of the promoters of the Dempse:
Carpentier fight decided yesterday t<
call off the bout as announced in th,
New York Times.
WILL USE WIRELESS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1$— Specia
wireless telephnoe apparatus wil
transmit President-elect Harding’s in
augural address to every army post
every battleship and halls in various
cities where ‘‘inaugural parties” wi.
be held, E. B. McLean chairman oi
the inaugural committee, announcec
today.
A^committee on inaugural radic
news hgs obtained the co-operatioi.
of the army radio services to cany
out the plans, it was stated.
TEXAS— Road building, reorgan
ization of state departments, schools,
health, sanitation and conservation oi
natural resources are legislative sub
jects which, in addition to taxation re
form, will be discussed at the session
opening on January 11.
TENNESSEE— Extension of the
Dortsch election law to the entire
stats, “a sane Sabbath” observance
law and the application of a poll tax
tg^women will be considered. The
* state Police Law, by which the gov
ernor can call out the militia without
red tape procedure and which was an
issue in the recent campaign, is ex
pected to remain.
WEST VIRGINIA,— Biennial ses
sion which convenes January 15 will
flay laws to make use of $50,000,000
road building bond issue voted at last
election. Largely increased apprapria
tfeos for public schools as well as the
establishment of vocational schools for
boys and girls and a system of moth-1
am9 pensions are otter important top
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SENATOR JOHNSON WANTS
PROBE SIBERIAN AFFAIRS
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 19
Senator Johnson offered a resolution
today for probing and investigating
the American expedition into Siberia.
He proposed'that the Foreign affairs
committee investigate the acomplish
ments of the American troops also the
present condition of the Americans in
Russia at the present time and the
business interests they are suposed to
be interested in.
CALIFORNIA RIVERS ARE
REACHING A FLOOD STATE
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19—The riv
e's throughout the state of California
are rising rapidly as the result of tor
rential rains which have been falling
uring the past two days.
IHERICA AND BRITISH
REDUCE FLEETS FIRST
TOKIO, Jan. 19—Slarquis Okuma,
,‘ormer Japanese premier in an inter
iew yesterday declared that the U. S.
nust forst complete her disarmament
greemlnt with Great Britain before
apan’s position could be made plain,
.’he Japanese are ready to consider
* .ily proposition made by the two gov
mments regarding Japan’s naval pro
gram of defense.
GOVERNMENT WILL START
INJUNCTION PROCEEDINGS
NEW YORK, Jan. 10—The govern
nent today instituted injunction pro
ceedings against the Western Union
Jable and Telegraph company to pre
sent them from landing the Balbodoes
cable at Miami.
GOVERNOR OUTLINES PLANS
SACREMENTO, Jan. 19—Governor
•t evens of California in a social mes
sage to the legislature today outlined
.ome sweeping changes which he has
..anned and which are intended to
simplify and make more economical
Jie i tate government. They are also
provided to consolidate many of the
jommission boards.
NAVAL SEAPLANE DESTROYED
BY GUNFIRE SAYS RADIO
SAN FRFANCISCO, Jan. 19—The
javal seaplane N.C. 5, which was forc
ed down daring the recent flight at
Balboa was sunk by gunfire. No ex
planation has been received for the
destruction.
JONES BILL DEFEATED IN
HOUSE BY LARGE VOTE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 19—
The House yesterday refused to post
pone for consideration the Reappoint
ment Bill defeating the motion to
strike out the enacting clause. Later
an amendment suggested by Senatoi
Jones, Democrat of New Mexico, to re
duce the membership of the House to
307 was voted down overwhelmingly.
D’ANNUNZIO TO LEAVE FIUJtfE
TRIESTE, Jan. 19—Gabriele D’An
nunzio, the insurgent Italian leader,
who recently was defeated by the reg
ular Italian troops plans to leave the
city of Hume this week, having ob
' tained vises for passports for Switz
erland, Greece, Spain and France.
• FfrSr hundred of his legionalres .will
remain in Ftano.
LONDON, Jan. 19— A report reach
in this place yesterday stated that four
civilians were killed and 7 members Oi
tbe Crown forces known as the “Blacic
and Tan” patrol were ambushed at a
place in Galway county, Ireland near
the city of Galway. The situation
rbiougbout Ireland remains in a cha
otic st'ite. Reprisals are the order of
(be day. Irish suspects are shot by the
Crown forces indiscriminately.
LONDON, Jan. 19— Eamonn de
V .lera is in Ireland there is no trace of
him,.though inquiries in authoritative
quarters here have shown that it has
never been doubted at any time that
he could get back to Ireland without
de tectooh if he wished to do so. There
are so many small Irish ports and so
large a coasting trade that it has
always been considered impossible to
prevent any one who was determined
to take the ordinary risks from being
smugg.ed in as a stowaway or memb
er of the crew on small vessels.
The authorities are reticent as to
their action toward de Viler* should
i\a make his appearance in Dublin. It
is bu no means certain that be would
be arrested immediately or that he
v/ould not be permitted the same free
dom as Arthur Griffith so long en
joyed. The state of negotiations now
proceeding between the Government
and the Sinn Fein would have an im
FIRST YEAR PROHIBITION
SETS RECORD ARRESTS
NEW YORK, Jan. 19—The number
of persons arrested on the charge of
intoxication in New Kork during the
nrst year of prohibition was 166 more
jons than last year. It became
kn^wn that the monthly record of ar
rests are greater than was ever sup
osed ossible after prohibition was cre
ated.
PENNSYLVANIA PASSENGER
TRAIN KILLS MANY PEOPLE
GREENVILLE, Jan. 19—Approxi
mately twenty persons were injured
four of them seriously when a day
coach attached to the Pennsylvania
passenger train jumped a switch and
crashed into an eastbound freight
RICHMOND, Jan. 19—A relief
train carrying doctors and nurses was
sent to .Greenville,' Ohio following the
report that the west bound passenger
t
train was wrecked.
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CRIME WAVE IN CHICAGO
STILL AT FLOOD STAGE
CHICAGO, Jan. 19—Three men yes
terday while being pursued by the po
lice stopped Mrs. Sigmund Livingston
who was driving her automobile and
robbed her of jewelry worth thirty
thousand dollars.
About one hour later five youthful
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bandits held up the mail truck at the
(Jnion station and escaped^* an auto
mobile with twelve sacks of registered
mail. Ten of the sacks contained mail
with a vast amount of Federal Reserve
| money which was being shipped to St
| Paul. The amount of the loot second
has not yet been estimated.
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BRITISH F/
TAKE
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portent effect in deciding the position
which Dublin Castle would assume,
out there is considerable skepticism
iere as to the amount of real power
dt Valera could exercise now in Ire
land, and especially whether he could
do anything to control the extremist
gunmen.
DUBLIN, Jan 19— Dublin Castle an
nor*M,e8 the shooting of a republican
who i.ttempted to escape from arrest.
Ti o Victim was William Slattery, a
young faimer who had been arrested
at Emly. According to the official ver
sion he attempted to escape while on
the way to Tipperary with his captors
and was then shot dead.
- Timothy Madigan of Limrick was
also shot dead for failing to obey an
order to halt
The premises of James Warren and
Trick Burke, near Bandon, were burn-'
ed last night
The papers of Dr. Miller, late Vicar
Apostolic of the Transval, who now
is living in retirement, were closely ex
amined and two students were Arrest
ed, but were later released.
London, Jan. 19— Earn on de Valera
is in Ireland, where “he enjoyed his
! share of the Christmas goose,” was a
statement made today at a meeting of
the Irish Vigilance Society by Tim Mc
Nulty, who presided.
EXPLOSION KILLS HANK
01 FUJI FACTORY
BAYONNE, N. J., Jan. 19—Two
people were killed and more than ten
injured by an explosion in a fire plant
of the Bellows Film Company. The
fire was caused by the ignition of the
films which flared and created a blast
that shattered windows in the vicinity.
The charred bodies of the victims were
found some distance from the build
ing. One of them aparently is a woman
PRESIDENT WILSON SENDS
NOMINATIONS TO 2000 P. M,
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 19
President WiUbn yesterday sent the
nominations of approximately two
thousand postmasters to the Senate.
| This swells the already enormous list
of nominations which Republican lead
ers are determined not to confirm ex
cept where emergency exists.
FIRE CAUSES $1,000.00 LOSS
WORCHESTER, Jan. 19-Fir® yes
terday destroyed the Knowles build
ing and rapidly spread 'to nineteen
others within a radios of one mile. A
lumber yard in another part of the
city was also burned. The total loss
is estimated at more than one million
^lars.
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PROFIT SHARING PLAN REJECT!)
MEXICO CITY Jan. 19—Resolutions
jailing for the inauguration - of a
profit sharing plan for Industrial
plants was reject® yesterday at the
final meeting ^df the Pan American
Federation of Labor. It was decided
to first secure legislation fining the
I minimum seals of salaries*
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BURGLAR SAWS THROUGH
PARTITION AND ESCAPES
VANCOUVER, Jan. 19—While hun
dreds of people were passing a bril -
liantly lighted jewelry store in the
heart of this city last night, the store
>vas burglaHzed. The thieves gained en
trance to the store by cutting a parti
tion in the wall which adjoined the
next store. They secured thousands of
dollars worth of diamonds and pre
cious stones and escaped. The store is
owned by H. Maxwell.
SPANISH CABINET RESIGNS
PARIS, Jan. 19—The Spanish cabi
net has decided to resign according to
a dispatched received here this morn
ing.
DUST WRECKS TRAIN
ADD NARY ARE KILLED
PETROGRAD January 19—Twenty
eight passengers who were riding on
.he Russian R. R. running from Luga
co the guilf of Finland and Novogord
were burned to death yesterday when
a quantity of benzine which was be
ing carried as freight, exploded and
wrecked the train.
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! NEW YORK, Jan. 19—Fed. judge
Hand this P. M. issued a temporary
injunction restraining the Western
Union from landing the British-Brazii
Barbadoes cable at Miami. There will
be a Raring Friday.
UTAH JOINS OTHER WESTERN
STATES IN STRONG PROTEST
SALT LAKE, Jan. 19—A memorial
was drawn up yesterday and introduc
ed to the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives asking congress to prohibit
migration of Orientals and aliens in
to the United States.
HARDING TO LEAVE FOR SOUTH
MARION, Jan. 19—Personal busi
ness has been engaging President-elect
Harding during the past week. He will
leave Marion for an unknown point in
the south in a few days. G. Shaffei
-he Chicago publisher was a recent
visitor at his home in Marion.
SCHOOL TEACHES DISCHARGED
FOR COMMUNIST AFFILIATION
ALBANY, Jan. 19—Frank Gilbert,
acting commissioner of education yes
erday decided that a school teachei
who was a member of the Communiist
?arty and participated with them it*
spreading propaganda was unfit to
.each American children and that her
Affiliations with the party was suf
ficient grounds for her dismissal. Mis*
Julia Pratt, the teacher involved in
-he scandal was recently dismissed
m these charges. She apealed the case
jut was over-ruled by the decision of
commissioner Gilbert
O’CALLAGHAN ORDERED BE
DELIVERED TO INSPECTOR
WASHINGTON D. C„ Jan. 19—
Secretary Wilson toda yordered con
sol /or Lord Mayor O’Callaghan to de
iver him promptly to the immigration
inspector at Norfolk.
VIGILANCE COMBOTEE DISBAND
CHICAGiO, Jan. 19—The vigflence
committee of Hyde Park the exclusive
burb of Chicago was disbanded to
day after four youths confessed to
committing more than one hundred
rebbet.es recently*
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PEACE WITH
IRELAND IS
NOW IN VIEW
LONDON, Jan. 19— Sir Hamar
Greenwood, Chief Secretary for re
land, today reiterated and amplified
his optimistic statement of the Irish
si;nation made last night at a dinner
given in honor of the Cornell cross
country team. In his speech on that oc
casion he declared that the two Irish
Parliaments provided for by the re
cently enacted Home Rule bill would
be working within six* months.
“So far as Ulster is concerned,” the
Chief Secretary told newspaper cor
espondents today,” candidates are al
ready being selected, and it is possible
chat the Ministers of the first Ulster
Cabinet are being talked about. I hope
.t will be possible to have both Parlia
ments elected on the same day, so they
may be able to start together, and that
■he Irish Council, which is a central
body composed of both Parliaments,
:an get on with its all-Ireland work
as soon as possible.”
General Sir Edward Strickland's re
port relative to the distinctive fires at
Jork was received at the Irish Office
here yesterday and was presented to
.he Cabinet, say The Daily Mail, which
adds that it will be made public early
next week. Well informed people in
Dublin are d^lared to assert that the
Jabinet has known the tenor of the .,
report for some days.
KISSING BARRED
PARIS, Jan. 19— Official kissing,
Hitherto a regular feature of Presi
dential functions in France is being
discontinued by President Millerrand.
Recipients of the Legion of Honor
lecorated personally by the President,
women students at universities who
a ad won prizes, little girls present
ing bouquets and small boys reciting
verses of welcome, have all in the past
been invariably embraced by the Pre
sident, who it was estimated, kissed a
thousand French faces, bearded and
ynbearded, every year.
TRADE CONFERENCE
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 19— A trade
conference, similar to the one held last
year, will be held in Mexico City under
Jxe auspices of the American Chamb
er of Commerce on April 11th. The
conference last year which was the
urst of its kind attracted more than
.50 representatives of American busi
ness houses and was generally consid
ered a success.
THEFT OF MACHINE TO Bt
PUNISHED BY DEATH
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JEFFERSON CITY, Jan. IS—A bill
making the theft of an automobile a
capital offense punishable by death
was introduced yesterday in the legisla
tuns now convening. ,
BUDAPEST, Jan.* IP— Count Al
bert Apponyi, former Premier, who
signed the peace treaty, has suffered
with others hr the* misfortune? of his
country and to relieve file narrow in
come upon which his family must Uve,
he has taken employment as an editor
ial writer on a Magyar fewsgajfrr. He
is said to receive a sah*j ii 1,000,000
crowns yearly for tprb|e<tferials a,
week. At the present rife of exchange
1,000,000 crowns are equivalent to
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