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JOHNSON AND MCADOO FOR PRES.
GERMANY TO LET GO OF RUHR AND RHINELAND
GERMANY TO SET
ROHR AND RHINELAND
SECTIONS ADRIFT
BERLIN, Nov. 16—Complete cessation of every kind ui reparation
payment by Germany was announced last night. This action was taken
on the ground that the Treaty of Versailles had been violated by France
and that therefore Jt could not be observed by Germany.
BERLIN, Nov. 17—After November 25th Germany will no longer
be able to meet the drain upon her exchequer for palyment of unemploy
ment in the Ruhr and Rhineland and will then set. both these regions
adrift permitting them to shift for themselves, this statement was made
in official quarters last night.
COOIJINiK LAIRS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
WASHINGTON. Nov. 17 Delegations to the annual convention |
here of the Southern Medical Association were told yesterday by Presi- |
dent Coolidge that the members of their profession were rendering *
service that tenches beyond any t'rade or occupation.
IIAM4TS FRIGHTENED FROM RANK OF I'RINCTON
SAN FRANClSCOr-Qk^v. -Bandits who were attempting tu^fo’>
the Bank of Prlncton were frightened away after penetrating four inches
of the steel doors with an acetylene outfit which was stolen earlier in
San Francisco.
JOHNSON AND
NTAOOO CANDIDATES
FOR PRESIDENT
CHICAGO, Nov. 17—Hiram Johnson. United States Senate! from
California formally announced last night that he is a candidate for Presi
dent. He will seek the nomination on a Progressive Republican Platform.
Johnson made his decision known in a statement issued after a
conference with his political friends at the Drake Hotel Johnson’s
statement, in which he announced himself a candidate for the -nomination
as President was in part as follows:
“There is threatened the disintegration of tlie Republican Party.
Discontent and Party difficulties arise not because of popular Govern
ment but from the lack of It. Reaction and Progress must fight it out
again in the Republican Party in the coming election of the President
It is not the men now but their philosophy of Government which obtains
at Washington, but does not fit the present day needs.'
McADOO THROWS HAT IN RING FOR PRKSMUVI
OMAHA, Nov. 16—Commenting on the statement made in Chi
cago yesterdaly by David L. Rockwell of Ravenna, Ohio, to the effect that
friends of McAdoo intended to nominate the latter as a candidate for
the tfemocration party, McAdoo said yesterday that Mr. Rockwell has
stated the situation accurately.
FOUR CITIES ENTER LIST FOR REPUBLICAN NAT. CONVENTION
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17—Chicago. Cleveland, Des Monies and
San Francisco have entered the lists up to date for the Republican Na
tional Convention. The invitations were submitted to substituted Com
mittees from the Republican National Committee.
CHARGES M MEMBERS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ARE K.K.K.
OKLAHOMA, Nov. 17—The names of 55 members of the Oklaho
ma House of Representatives who he charges are members of the Ku Klux
Klan were made public today in a signed statement by Walton, the re
moved Governor of Oklahoma.
SAYS FORBES RECORD
IR ACCORD WITH
RECENT EVENTS
WASHINGTON. Nov. 17—Stirred by Forbes charges against the
Committee, Counsel Major General John F. O'Ryan told the Senate Vet
erans Committee yesterday that he expected to prove "the convincing
whole truth of Mortimer’s charge that Colonel Forbes was one of the
conspirators who were tied together cheek and jowl to defraud the Gov
ernment. 1 expect further to show that this criminal conduct was in con
sonance with his previous life record.”
KOItAH t'.UKS I* PON COVGRKSS KK1JKVK T.W IWYKKS OF lit ItOUV
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 Senator Borah In a statement calling
upon Congress to relieve the Tax Payers of some of their burden said,
we are just now witnessing in Washington the uncovering of a shame
ful. saturnalia of incompetency, and waste of grave money which was
appropriated for the benefit of wounded and diseased soldiers of the late
This money has been thrown here .mil there as if the dollars were
waste paper. • 1 doubt very much when everything is considered, the
I .-acredness of the fund and the pathetic needs of the disabled, if a more
| L-roveling exhibition of unconscionable indecency of dishonesty has ever
j been disclosed before."
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BANDITS BEAT MAN
AND MISTREAT
HIS FIANCEE
SEATTLE. Nov 17.Auto bandits operating on the Botliel high
way during early hours Thursday morning, held up Julius Shain, beating
him uusconscious and drove away wiih his fiancee, Miss Ruth Scronsbur- ;
ger, after shamefully abusing the girl tin* bandits threw her out of the j
auto having held her captive for two hours. Much of the same treaf- J
meni was meted out to E. E. Chandler and Florence Cruzey, his sweet- j
heart later in the morning.
MAKES RICH HALL UPON RELEASE FROM PRISON
|* LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17—Albert Sixhofsky upon arrival in Los |
Angeles from Seattle following his release from McNeil Island Peniteni- i
j tiary was taken into custody by Federal Agents and it was revealed that J
| he had thirty five on<* hundred dollnr bdls In his possession and Alaska J
furs valued at ninety thousand dollars.
BOMB SENT RV EXPRESS KILLS FATHER AND SON
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Nov. 17—A bomb, which was sent by
express from Sun Antonio, Texas to Corpus Christi, killed J. A. Barnes,
u prominent real estate dealer and mangled his son Jessie so that he died
twenty minutes later. The father was killed instantly.
LI.OYO GEORGE AGREES TO WORK UNDER ASQUITH
LONDON. Nov. 17—Llo&'d George ^as agreed to work with and
under Lord Asquith in view of the latter’s position as an elder statessman
and a'leader of the third strongest party in the House of Commons.
Should the Liberalists be successful in the election. Asquith will be asked
to form a Cabinet in which Lloyd George will be second In command.
SAYS FRANCE PREPARED TO TAKE MEASURES ALONE
PARIS. Nov. 17—Poincare yesterday afternoon said to the Lon
don Council of Ambassadors that France is prepared to take measures
alone if the other Allies refuse. The British Ambassador stated that
htB Government is in favor of dropping the matter and returning th«
former Crown Prince to Germany.
COOLIDGE ADOPTS
POLICY WATCHFUL
NEUTRALITY
WASHINGTON. Nov. IT—President Coolidge tor the time being
! has adopted a policy of "Watchful Neutrality” in the open warfare tha_
' ha> again broken out between Secretary Mellon and the American Legion
over the Soldiers Bonus. The President has not placed his O K on
! Mellon's program for th.- wholesale slushing of income taxes and a re
jection of tie- bonus, neither has he indicated that he would approve a
j Bonus Bill B is probable that the President’s attitude will not be
) known until ihe delivery of his tirst message to Congress December
j Fourth nr Fifth.
I IHiOli ALASKA WFFIvlA < ALLS ON t'OOLIIMJK
WASHINGTON. Nov. 1*5— (’has. K. Herron, editor of the Alaska
Weekly, published at Seattle, called on President Coolidge yesterday af
ternoon and congratulated him on the appointment of Lee II. Landis as
Director General of the Alaska Railroad. Herron said that the appoint
ment was pleasing to Alaskans and to rho Pacific Coast people generally.
SAYS Imh)|{ STILL OPEN FOR AMERICAN HELPFULNESS
WASHINGTON. Nov 17 — Altho rhe doe; is still open tor American
helpfulness in the reparations problem. President Coolidge regards the
latest move in that direction as having come definitely to an end. The
United States could not participate in the reparations inquiry which w^j
proposed by Premier Poincare, the reason is that the American Govern
ment considers it useless and futile to make an inquiry which is hedged
about by restrictions as to its scope. Great Britain, it is pointed out, haa
presented no invitation for participation by the United States Into a
reparations inquiry in which France would ot be a party, consequently
that question is not up for a decision n Washington.
YOUNG DIVORCEE
FOUND GUILTY
MANSLAUGHTER
SEATTLE, Nov. 17 - Winnifred Gibbons, the 19 year old divorcee
was found gusit> of manslaughter against Harry T. Lucelle, a bridegroom,
and advertising director, by a jury yesterday morning.
On October 8th. this year Harry Lucelle was sitting in a road
house near Seattle, and his brid*' of a few weeks was ia another part
of the house, when W-truifred Gibbons, a pretty 19 rear old divorcee
entered the establishment and shot the former down. Just after the
shooting Luce!!-- said that h<- did out know the woman and knew of n«
reason why she should shoot him. but the slayer stated later that she
had known Lucelle several years ago wl.en he claimed his name was
Hill Williams.
Miss Gibbons is a niece of County Treasurer Shit-Ids, an attempt
was made to prove her insane, but Alienists pronounced the young woman
sane and on the 10th day of October, two days after the shooti-ng, a
charge of Manslaughter was placed against the young divorcee The
trial was a sensational affair and canto to an end much quicker than was
expected by spectators.
SON KII.I.S FATHER WHILE SLEEP WALKING
LAKE LAND, Florida. Nov. 17—C. S. Whipple a Music Store
dealer was shot and Instantly killed early yesterday as he lay sleeping in
his home. The police say that Whipple was shot by his sixteen year old
son who was walking in his sleep.
TACOMA. Nov. 17—Michael Silk, discharged Camp Lewis soldier,
police say confessed that be and E. C. Hartley and Lillian Buckley, pois
oned Clarence E. Woodward, also a discharged soldier. In order to obtain
his money amounting to $240. Woodward was found dead in a rooming
house it will be remembered.
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