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GERMANY CANNOT, WILL NOT PAY
FORMER DIRECTOR WAR VETS. CHARGED GRAFT
FORD FOR COOLIDRE
IF UTTER WILL
ENFORCE PRO.
DETROIT, Oct. 27—"I'm for Coolidge if he wifll enforce prohibi
tion laws.” Henry Ford was quoted as saying yesterday when a corre
spondent of a Dearborn newspaper asked him what he thought -*f the
Third Party which was organized in Detroit. "You can also sa\ Ford
continued, "that I think the President is going about matters to enforce
the law in the right way."
POWKR COMMISSION ACTS FAVORABLY ON AMSKA PROJECT
WASHINGTON. Oct. 27—The Federal Power Commission acted favor
ably yesterday on the application of Sutton, McNear and. Daugherty of
New YoTk for a license to construct, a 29,000 horsepower electrical project
on Cascade Creek twenty miles from Petersburg. Alaska. The power is
to be used for the manifar-ture of pulp and paper.
GERMANY CANNOT
PAY REPARATIONS
SAYS STRESEMANN
HAG-EN. Germany, Oct. .7—Germany cannot pay reparations when
she cannot dispose of her own property said Chancellor Street*-m an n in
a speech last evening, “so long as the Ruhr is cut off from Germany we
don't want to. and shall not pay reparations.”
PROMOTERS RHIN1SH REPUBLIC AGREE PAY 50'. REPARATIONS
PARIS, Oct. 26—Promoters of the Hhinish Republic, in exchange
tor French support, have agreed t<> pay fifty percent of the reparations
due from Germany and to force Germany to pay the remainder under a
threat of imposing an impossible tax on coal and Ruhr industries destined
for Germany interior, in order to accomplish a Ruhr union with the
French Iron interest.
4000 SEPARATISTS MARCH OX IH SSKLIMiRF
BRUSSELS. Oct. 27—Four thousand Separatists fir<»m Crefeld are
marching on Puseeldorff. Crefeld. fell into the hands nf the Separatists
yesterday afternoon, the Separatists competed the newspapers to stop
publishing.
LARQK RANDS COMMI'MSTS MARCH ON GERMAN CAPITOL
LONDON. Oct. 27—A Central News dispatch from Berlin at 3 P. M.
yesterday said that large bands of Communists were march.,ny on the
German Capitol and that Police hat been rushen out to intercept them.
GERMAN PALATINATE DECLARE AUTONOMUS STATE
LONDON. Oct. 27—The German Palatinate have declared aa
aotoaonua stage, says a Central News riisfpatch from Berlin and according
• patmlamataast the Palathiate bids itself to hold tecnis the safety of
Praaoe and agrees to assume it's share of German reparatinte.
TROWS TO PUT DOWN ATTEMPT AT BOLSHEVIK REBELLION
BERLIN. Oct. 27—Eighty railway trains loaded with approximately
SO,002 troops hare amend In Saxotla to put down any attempt at Botshe
rebellion In tJha ao called Red citadel of Oermaar.
™°M ,«W»lr TO HUH TE BECOME BRIDE
SBATTLE, Oat )/ - -K»le Locke Junta uyed front London to Seat
tle t. tmmtete the bridaol Praah Hcgne, eadlo e^eator e« the Ala.lta
ateanpr Starr, Wytng between Seward and Bnalaega.
CHARGES FORBES
WITH ATTENDING
LIQUOR PARTIES
WASHINGTON, Ort.. 27—Former Direltor Forbes of the World
War Veterans Bureau yesterday wa-- charged before the Senate Investi
gation Committee with entering in*<» a conspiracy with contractors from
whom he was to receive $50,000 per hospital for awarding contracts to
favored groups while on trips of inspection of hospital sites from coast
to coast. It was read into the records that Forbes was a figure in a
series of parties where liquor flowed for tpen and women alike. The
revelation of the parties were testified to by Kills H. Mortimer, vie*- presi
dent of the Philadelphia Coal Company.
Washington. Oct. 27—Mortimer was questioned by the Senate
Committee of Investigation of the Veterans Bureau concerning the story
of narcotics held at the Bureau depot a4 Perrysville. Md.. and said that
Forbes had told him that he could clean up a nice pile of money. Sena
tor Oddie asked whether there was to tie any trafflc.ing in narcotics and
t.he answer was. “yes sir.”
Further testimony revealed that principals of the Thompson
Black Company loaned $152,000 to Forbes while he was Director of the
Veterans Bureau, and at a time when the company was seeking a con
tract for the construction of government hospitals.
SEATTLE. Oct. 27— Ii was disclosed last night that Forbes, who
was former Director of the World War Veterans Bureau and who is now
under tire at Washington in connection with graft charges in awarding
contracts for hospitals, was secretly divorced from aKte Forbes in a King
County Superior Court ten days ago on the grounds of cruelty and per
sona:! indignities to the plaintiff.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 -It is said that the Investigation of the
Veterans Bureau as administered by Forbes now gives promise of develop
ing into one of the greatest government scandals of a decade. The im
mediate criminal prosecution of F..rbes is demanded by Committeeman
Reed of Pennsylvania, the Committee Chaiirman said that the committee
looks to the Department of Justice to do its dutiv and that duty is obvi
ous, the committee will be specialized if the Attorney General has not
acted before it reports and will rccomiaend that it go to Congress.
TRAPP DECLARED
ACTING GOVERNOR
OF OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA CITY. Oct. 27 laeut. Governor E. Trapp was de- i
dared acting: Governor of Oklahoma in a decision of the Supreme Court ;
late yesterday, making a writ of prohibition against Governor Walton j
from interfering with the acting Governor’s assumption of office. |
KEIAiOGG 'WILL 8U(X'RR1) HARVEY AS A MB ASS AIK) It
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27—Frank B. Kellogg, farmer Senator from
Minnesota has been selected for the American Ambassadorship to the
Court of St. James recently vaiated by Harvey.
IJiOYU GEORGE WILL MEET WOODROW WILSON
WASHINGTON. Oat. 27—Lloyd George* arrived in Washington j
Thursday and called upon Secretary Hughes and dined with President
Coolitge and made arrangements whereby he will meet the former Presi- ]
dent Woodrow Wilson at the latter's home. j
FORMER ENGINEER STEFANSSON KXPIDETION KILLED j
UM ANGELES, Oct. 27—4* a tfeult of a row ovdr parking an j
a u tame MM. J. Hoff of Seattle, a marine eagtneor who was with the first j
Stinfsnimaa expedition Into. the Arctic, was killed by Harry Winters, a i
Hollywood Code owner. Winters drown a hntoher kttffe Into Hoffs side, j
Hoff leaves a widow and two children In 8eettie.
FLIES FROM CANADA
TO MEXICAN OORDER
WITHOOT A STOP
SAN DIEGO. Oct. 27 From the Canadian to the Mexican borders
in twelve hours with 1250 miles being clipped off at a rate of more than
105 miles per hour and taking on of gasoline, oil and food in mid air
ft two points while on route with never a pause in the southward flight
was the achievement of Captain Smith and Lieut. Richter when they
flashed past Kan Diego at 0:25 F\ .VI. Thursday and continued on to the
Interantional Boundary where they circled above Tia Juana and returned
to Rockwell field.
SILVIAS. W.'-sbingt/m. Oct. 27 Captain Lowell H. Smith and Lieut.
: John P. Richter both U. S. Army aviators intending to make a non stop
I flight from the Canadian to the Mexican boundary line hopped off from
I here at 6:36 this morning and wend north over the Canadian line and
; turned south in a clear sky. they expect to refuel in mid air at Eugene,
' Ore., and Sacramento. Calif.
GREAT BRITAIN
ACCEPTS U. S.
12 MILE LIMIT
LONDON, Oci.. 27 The British Government hus accepted in prin
cipal the proposals of the American government t<> search vessels in Aei
erican waters for contraband liquor withim twelve miles of the American
1.1.0VI) GEORGE VISITS
TOMI1 OF hakihng
arrived in .Marion Wednesday and
visited Mrs. Harding and also paid
a visit to iht tomb of the late presi
dent. Warren G. Harding.
MILITA R \ REVOLT
BROKEN IN ATHENS
Athens. Oct. 25—According to a
dispatch received today the military
revolt has been broken in Athens
and other provincial Garrisons thru
out Greece.
PRESIDENT EBERT
BUYS CHATEAU
Stockholm. Oct. 25—Svenska Mor
gn&blad states that President Ebert
of Germany has bought a Chateau in
Switzerland and that he Intends to
retire from the Presidency.
DEFEATED LEGION AIRE
ARRIVES IX HKATTI.K
Seattle, Oct. 25—James A. Drain
the noted one armed veteran who
was defeated as a candidate to the
Commandership of the American
Legion arrived in Seattle yesterday,
which was his former home.
MAKER FLEA FOR lT. 8.
TO NOT FORSAKE EUROPE
Cleveland, Orf. 25—Pleading for
American aid in rehabilitating Eur
ope, Lloyd George said "don’t turn
your hacks on the Enroye yen have
saved once,, don't forsake ft now."
(•FILMAX MARKS T.\KK
,\ X'OTHFIl SI.I in; HinvWVARR
terday afternoon.
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| PLEADS FOR NO MORE WAR
| Indianapolis Oct. 25— -Citing tie
I horrors of the late war and the part
|N had in it Lloyd George Hi a
t<» do it again, and as long as I live”
added "that shall be my plea,
and that there shall be no *n* ie war,
but that your nation and ou- intion
should unite to clear away for the
Angel of Peace with it’s message of
Peace on earth and good will to
LLOYD GEORGE KKPLYS TO
ATTACK OF FRENCH GENERAL
St. Louis. Oct. 25—Lloyd George
in a speech replying to the attack
made upon him by General Dumont
an attache of the Preach Embassy
in Washinctor in which the General
uttered a fervent prayer that France
might ba protected against some of
its friends, specifying Lloyd George
as one. Loyd George aaid: “France
forgets what England did for her
between 1914 and 1918 such pray
ers was read from France in those
days, nine handred thousand British
dead on the battlefields of France
tails the stovy of Britain’s friend
?lly“ it was a rebuke m a raeaatfred
hat bitter tooch, every .word was
carefully planned cad spoken
MME MUSSET SEIT TO TSUI OUTSIDE ADDRESS SLDS PER MONTri