THURSDAY
(TELEGRAPHIC)
BANDITS RK1JCASK
M»(KI<;\ CA PTIVKS
Shanghai. Way 10—AM foretan
captives held by the Shantung ban
dlfs have been released except Che
v*aher Mu«o, an Italian attormflr.
according to a mmsage to the Asia
Development Company received
CHINKS fOMK OFF HKiH HOIWK
Peking. May 0 —Surrounded on
all sides by .government troops the
Chinese bandilts. who wrecked and
robbed the Shanghai-Poking express
carry ing: oft foreign men and women
its homages. are ordered to make
the berft of their bargain and take
what ransom they are offered.
From the bombastic demand for
one million, as fin* asked for. the
handifcs are now willing to accept
fifty thousand, according to advices
from Lin Cheng.
Washington. May 9—Schurman,
Minister at Peking, advised Hughes
last evening that the Chinese gov
ernment Iras promised to pay the
ransom demanded by the bandits.
Tiemsin. May 9—Government
troops are believed to have com
pldtelly surounded all the hill
fftrongholds. where fifteen foreign
ers are being held by Snchow ban
Peking. May 9—Advices from I.in
Ch*>ng last noght placed the number
of captive foreigners still held at
19. Eight are Americans, four are
British. Two Americans are believ
ed to be Mrs. L. A. Seaton of Manila
and Linism Auld of Eugene. Ore.
London. May 9—British and Am
erican garrisons at Tient Sin have
been mobolized, according to a dis
patch from Peking.
OHINKSK CAPTIVES ESCAPE
Peking. May 10—Major Roland
Pinger, Major Robert Alien and
Major Finger’s son Behind Jr.,
have escaped from the Suchow ba-n
Shmnghai. May 1 n/jk-Referring to
the f- r.^cners still hfeld bv Suchow
bandit, a telegram received by the
Afttei Development Co. said the eap
tlives are a’most dead from exposure
and lone forced marches. As they
were taken from the tmin In their
■night clothes they were forced to
make the marches without clothing
and their brutal captors provided
thorn with no food.
JUDGE REFUSES GOVT
INJUNCTION AGAINST
SUGAR PROFITEERS
New York. MJay 10—Federal Judge
Mayer announced yesterday after
noon that the government’s appli
cation for ah .injunction, to restrain
the New York Coffee and Sugar Ex
change and the New York Coffee
and Sugar Association from dealings
in sugar futures, has been denied.
DAUGHERTY TO APPEAL
FROM COURT RULING
Washington. May 10—Appeal to
the Supreme Count in the shortest
possible time. Atty. Gen. Daugherty
has announced, will be taken by the
government from the New York
dourt derision, denying the injunc
tion' to prevent speculation on the
New York sugar market.
WIFE MUST STAY AT
HOME OR FIND HERSELF
Washington, May 10—A husband
cannot be compelled to support his
wife anywhere except in his own
house, provided he has given her no
just cause to leave him. If a wife
leaves her husband without just
cause and takes the children with
her, the duty and reaponsibllLty of
snj porting 'them telongs to her and
no: to him, according to a decision
lednered by the United States Court
of Appeals yesteiday afternoon.
CONVICTED OF SABOTAGE
—SENTENCED TO DEATH
Parte, May 10—Herr Schtogert&er
was convicted of sabotage by the
French court mtertfal, Sitting at Due
seMorf. and een,teneed to death, ac
cording to a Havre dispatch from
Dueseldlorf.
Schlogeftter anas charged with
having been the leader of m band of
Nationalists who committed acts of
sabotage against the railway bri
gades dn the Ruhr district.
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IIRIT1SH WARSHIP TO |
PRKVBNT INTKttFRRKX K I
!*ondon. May 10—The British |
warship Harebell was order**! to j
the Murmansk coast to prevent fur- j
ther Sorlot interference with British :
vessels, outside the three mile limit,
and use force if necessary on this
mission, the House of Commons
was informed by Under Secretary
I for Foreign Affairs. Ronald McNeil.
I WEEKS SAYS AGAINST WAR,
HITT SAFETY' FIRST
San Francisco. May 9—Secretary I
of War Weeks was called a “tush” |
by Boston Unitarians for saying 1
tl«ait h»* had thought in tern*? of War
Ip a ler.er of response he replied
“■my business is to see that the gov- J
ernment is .protected against war.
For 1 have no more fondness than
any other Boston pacificist citizen. I
hate it as I do any Other pestilence."
AMERICAN AND BRITISH
TROOPS AVAIEAIMJ-:
FOR PURSUIT
Washington. May 9—About 20.000
troops, including 10.000 American
Boldfers now in the Philippines and
.1.000 British alt Hong Kong. aTe
immodiaitely available for the in
international bandit hunt in China,
should concerted action be recom
mended by the conference of the
foreign departments now in progress
BRITISH WAR.VKD
TO USAVK RUSSIA
Moscow. May 9—The British gov
ernment several days ago warned
all British in Russia to be prepared
to leave the country at short notice.
BORAH ( ALLED UPON FOR
PROGRRSSIVK CANDIDATE
New York. May 9—Resolutions,
calling upon Borah to be a progres
sive candidate for President, were
passed by vt*e of the executive
committee.
VOI.STKAD APT LIMITATIONS^
REMOVKD
New York. May 10th—Federal
Judge Knox 1 eel a red void that por
tion of the Volstead Aot whlrch lim
its the amount of liquor a physician
may pn&scrtfbe.
FRKK STATE REFUSES TO .
msa'ss de valerA peace
Dublin. May 10—President Oos
grove announced .that the Free State
government has declined W> discuss
the peace terms proposed by De
Valera.
BRITISH SKIP
SEIZED BY RUSSIANS
Hull. England. May 9—It is re
ported that the Brftish trawler Lord
Aieon. has been seized off the Mur
mansk coast by a Russian gunboat.
FRIDAY
(TELEGRAPHIC'
LIEUT. HINTON TO
FLY UP AMAZON RIVER
Washington. May 11—Lieut. Wal
ter Hinton, former naval aviator,
explorer, will fly 1000 miles up the
Amazon river, starting from Rito De
Janiero. Hlis purpose Is to (search
for an Inca Indian village. Thte
flight w?ll ©aip the climax of the
flight from Now York to Rio de Jan
A MERIC AN FEDERATION l*ABOR
!AYS DOWN LAW
Washington, May 10—Demand
was made by the Executive Council
of the American Federation of La
bor thalt the Seattle Central Labor
Counctil rescind its endorsement of
the Soviet government in Russia;
that it cease to refer Us communica
tions from the American Federation
of Labor to the subordinate com
mittee on political action, and, that
It conform with the policies and
principles of the American Federa
tion of Labor.
These conditions are fixed as the
price of continued affiliation with
the American Federation of Lelbor.
RELEASED BUT DID
NOT KNOW REASON
Tient Sin, May 10—Mies Lucy
Aldrich arrived here tote la«t night
from Taints Faw en route to Peking.
She was accompanied by Mian Sch
oendberg. Miss Aldrich waa separ
ated from the other foreign prison
er* a«d led off into the hills wtth
a band of Chinese captures, on* of
them she said unis unable to keep
ap with the remainder and was shot
by one of the brigands, and the body j
left beside the traM.
On robchdng the robbers' hill j
stronghold Mtas Aldrich saw some j
other foreign prisoners for a mo-j
ment across the valley. At night
fall She was taken to a village where '
she was treated kindly by Chinese
women. Neon, morning some Chin
ese escorted her towards the rail
way and thence to TAints Pau. She
dud.not know whether he was a ban
dit or not. but she noticed that he
wore a soldier’s coat. Mias Aldrich
eaid she did not know why she had
been released.
JAMKS D.tliY APPOIXTK1I
AIjANKA STKAMSHH* AGKNT
Seattlb. Mh.y 11—James P. Daly,
jan Alaskan pioneer, has been ap
j -pointed Nome agent for the Alaska
j Steamship Company.
iONCERT STAR SKKKS DIVORCE
Seattle. May 11—Fern Lougfie,
concert star and choir director, has
bmun a divorce suit against her
husband Thomas W. Louglie, the X
Ray expert <and head of the City’s
Raduflogy Department.
CHINENE GOVERNMENT
WHJi CONSIDER POLICY
Washington. May 1—The Chinese
government .promised American
Minister Schurman that it will “con
sid)er’> a general ij*>ficy for exter
mination of bandits in China as soon
as the present situation, growing oift
of the capture of American and for
eign ditizens by brigands in Shan
tung. has been adjusted.
FARLEY APPOINTED TO
SUCCEED LASKER
Washington, May 11—EdwaTd P.
Parley of Chicago hate been appoint
ed Chairman of the Slipping Board,
to succeed Lasker upon the hatter’s
| retirement.
AMERICAN WARSHIPS TO
SHANTUNG PROVINCE
Washington, May 11—Seven Am
erican destroyers have been, ordered
from Shanghai and Kobe to Tsing
Tsa, one of the .principal ports of
tfto Shantung Province. However,
the United State** does ont con-tem
plate armed aation in China while
Americans, now in -the hands of
Chinese bandits, are still held cap
RAX PIT'S THREATEN
PKATH TO PRISONERS
Tient Sin. May 11—“For God’s
sake take away the troops, they
threaten to till us all,” is a message
received from J. B. Powell, an
American newspaper man. captured
with other foreftgnere and now In
the camp of the Shantung bandits.
ALASKA LBGI8I ^ATORS
ARRIVE IN SEATTLE
Seattle, May 10—Senator Ayer
and representatives Raetaon, Morse,
Frank H. Foster of Cordova and E.
N. Keys of Fairbanks arrived from
the Alaska Territorial Legislature
session.
FRAUD ORDER ISSUES
AGAINST DR. CXIOK
Washington, May 11—In an in
deavor tk> curtail the Cf\ 1 Stock pro
motion octivltie's of Dr. Cook, of
North Pole fame, the Postofllce 'De
partment has issued a Fraud Order,
covering the use of the U. S. matte.
Cook is reported as having obtained
large sums of money thru tfis pro
motion schearies.
RACK AND RELIGION NO BAR
TO HARVARD ENTRANCE
Boston, May 11—Racial and re
ligious discrimination in admission
of students to Harvard University
is barred by a formal acton of the
Board of Overseers In their meeting
ht%l yesterday.
7. R-l TO FLY OVER BOTH
NORTH AND SOUTH POLES
St. Loutis, May 11—The Rear
Admiral of the Bureau of Aeronau
tics of the Navy, now here, predicted
that the dirigible Z R-l, now being
assembled by the Navy, eentually
wilvl fly oven- both the North and
South Pole*.
ROBBING RESIDENTS
San Francisco. May 10—Earl D.
Wilton, a bank teller wbo said bis
conscience would ont permit Mm to
rob Ms employer, confessed that he
bad committed burglary of twenty
houses in San Fnandltoo, obtaining
$10,0M.
PRESIDENT HARDI.\(J'S
SPEAKING ITINERARY
Washington, May 10—In arrang
ing Harding’s speak i-ng itinerary the
following cities were selected for
the speeches:
St. Louis. Kansas CFty. Hutchison.
Denver. Salt Lake. Bofee. Helena.
Seattle, San Francisco. Los Angeles.
San Diego.
OIL WELL EXPLOSION
KILLS EIGHTEEN
Corsicana. Tehxs. May 10th—18
persons were killed in an explosion
of one of the huge oil we?ls ten
miles south of the city.
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