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•' ,V;i'- • Vf.. it ';-"«i-.^i.'fe. . Bismarck, N. D.. March. 12.-—Head-

. ad by Arthur Buck of Mlnot, a man-killer and regarded as one of the' mostvdeeperate criminals ever appre-;

. hentged- in North Dakota,-'four con-vlcna who last night made their es­cape from the' penitentiary are at large today. Prison bloodhounds which had been working: since 9

' o'clock last night when the escape , was discovered,, .have yet found, no •• • trace of the fugitives. • ' The missing men are Arthur Buck,

•: M. sentenced from Ward county for " life two years agio for the murder of

Kersey Go^rln, special officer, whom Buck and fellowauto bandits am­bushed on a country road near Mi-

. :not; Ray Burke;' ?6, sentenced, from Ellendale three Jinonths ago for three years for grand larceny; 'John Stu-pard, 24, sentenced from Mountrail county two years ago to -serve • five

. .years, for grand/larceny and Charles' Breyer, 25, sentenced from Cam

/ county nine months ago to serve five years for grand larceny. Two of the

>. men are known to be wbbblea, ••': Acting Warden McDonald states

; the escape was made phortly after : the evening'meal when the men hid

NEW CABINET' OF tel£8| PORTUGAL PROMISES.

TO MAKE CHANGES •V • /--S;;. .!-> - /• '

Madrid; March ll.-^-A telegram re­ceived here f K>m Lisbon states' 'the Portuguese government b&a issued a proclamation to - the'v effect that the new cabinet la assuming power .at' a time of distress for the country and jthe republic, "the existence of which is, shakento its foundations by the confusion reijgnlng in the minds; of people and the spirit of opposition to discipline pervading- Che country."

.The Portuguese government1 ap­peals to civil servants 'to return to work and promises to make conces-siond, but at the same. time asserts it . will never "give in." It promises to decrease the i>ric» of certain com­modities in a few days and reduce exaggerated profits but says it in­tends to "use few wdrds but act vig­orously." • 1 »

ATTACK ON NAVY

Says Disregard for Recom­mendations Was Serious

Mistake,

•Washington, March It-—Disregard by the navy department of his recom­mendations with regard to adoption of

in a small elevator. shafts until the I the convoy systems described by Ad-dining room was cleared when they moved a sink from the WUI, made a vole about fifteen inches square in the wall and squeezed through to a

. room adjoining. A ' detached rope used on a dumb waiter attached a hobk to the end and with it scaled

. the prison wall. The escape was carefully timed so that any noise Made during the operation was cov­ered by the tramp' of feet' of prlson-

; era iparching Into the auditorium for : the mid-week, picture'show. s

Hoover And Americans Thanked For Money

Given The Belgians Brussels, March 12.—-During the de-

: bate in the senate today oh the special law which is-required for acceptance by Belgium of the sum -of money of­fered by Herbert Hoover oni behalf of • ™.i:i'i.

: the American relief commission for Belgium to be used for Educational SL v?riance with the British and purposes. thS president of the senate was asked to transmit the thanks of the department would be a funda-the'senate to Mr. Hoover and the

i American friends of Belgium.

mlral Simsi today as "indefinitely more serious," in its- bearing on the war thkn other causes of alleged ineffi­ciency cited in previous testimony be­fore the senate investigating commit­tee. Admiral Sims said that early in 1917 the allies were compelled by the submarines to adopt the convoy plan for protecting shipping and that on May 1 he "urgently recommended" th'at "vthe",United States give its co­operation, but it was not until . June' 20 that Secretary Daniels Veplied he considered American -vessels having armed guarfls were safer > when sail­ing independently. •'/ '

Not Sufficient Safety. The admiral said he again urged the

immediate adoption of the convoV" sys­tem and stated his belief that arming iherchantment did, not offer sufficient safeguard against' submarine attack. On July l'he received a cable outlin­ing an entirely new plan of protecting merchant, ships, formulated in the de-

M

ITELSOH RE-AKHEST^ED. Alexandria, ! $Qhn., ' March IS.—

Oustaf Nelson, son-in-law of Sena,tor Knute Nelqon, was i'e-arrested today,

ron a charge of mansl)Mighitei*'in;i.he ®ond dame. In ^nac^o%.«rith. the

jMio was Ahot Attrlng 'aA argument i^With Ijffelson on Wednesday . afternoon.

' JNelson wan taken in custody on his ; farm near here and lodged In jail. Ha' ' will be arftjgned for preliminary ex-' amlnatioci -before 'Justice E. W. Nel­son,- probably "tomorrow. Justice Nel-

. son was sfcik today..

. Nelson AjraS: arraigned late yester­day before - - Justice Wright but the Justice decided that the testimony of­fered was' not sufficient tb bind Nel­son. over'to the district court on-a charge ot. second degree murder, or for assault with a dangerous weapon.

Middleton was shot by a charge from Nelson's frua. . Nelson claimed that Middleton had wrested the gun from hlift - before' it ifas discharged. Nelson had gone to the farm of a neighbor,, in coifriectlon with a dispute regarding cattle /uii'd was intercepted by Middj'eton, whd lived on t;he farm.

TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS ; I . Madidon, Wis.—Insurance Com-

missionpr Piatt Whttenian today an­nounced the appointment of Oscar

mental, military ' error" resulting in "directassistance to the enemy."

In answer the navy department sub­mitted another (plan,-he said, and ask­ed that he present it to . th& British admiraltjr. He -did. so and was-told that the proposal had been tried out by the allies early in the. war without succeos and^that tlie admiralty deslr-

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convoy mi^ht^pUL from %w Tor •/" i.'' -' f

;.. About the same time Admltml Jelli-coe wrote hira expressing gi£ve ap­prehension for- the success of the con­voy 'system unless the JJnlted States decided, to participate, the admiral stated. . . X

Han Accepted. Finally, on July 22, the navy de­

partment accepted the convoy plan for troop ships Vnd later accepted it for supply vessels, the admiral testi­fied, but only after great pressure had been brought to bear by the other allies anq after many valuable weeks had been wasted. Even as late as August 10 he said he received mes­sages from the. department asking that the convoy system be explained, although "for four months it had been exhausting my vocabulary to explain the system."

It is very difficult for me to make 2j??r. to

T y°u now the d^aperdtton in i ?un<L myself almost con-

atanUy during the early months, of the war, Admiral Sims said. "I reiterate there was no question that these recommendations were riirht. The

A. Olson, chief Are examiner in the ihey were virtually department, as deputy insurance' commissioner to succed p. w. Ku>-basta. ; Mr. Kubasta leaves the de­partment March 15. Mr, Olson's ap­pointment will take effect on : that date, j Simultaneously Mr.' Whitman, announced the appointment of H. G. Bruniuiuell, the present assistant ac­tuary .as chief actuary, the appoint­ment ifio take effect April 1.. ( • >

Befrut—The Syrian congress at . Damascus declared Syria to be an in­dependent state and it Js reported Prin9e Feisal was drowned king.

Dt^tlln—In disturbances Wednes­day flight, 6$rgeant Naier was shot dead and a constable- wounded at' Rathkeale. near limerick, an Inspec­tor and a civilian were wounded in Cork and In Limerick, an inspector wasf shot and seriously wounded.

ibondon—Plans of the BolsHevlkl for, a <>lg attack on the Poles have becjn forestalled by Polish advances, according to lnformatloh at the war oflHbe.

lot Springs, Ark—Toung Jltssbn-mons won the referee's decision .over Jack Dillon Ui tan rounds. '

1st Ixiuis—^Jack T<awler received the newspaper decision over Prankie Ticker in leight roanda. .

i Albany—A mystarioua nialady has aaused the death^of two prisoners at Dannemore prison |uid caused five to become blind aod' twenty-flve - par­tially blind. ; •*' •

v Cincinnati—K^r. nir: Shelton. missionary, who haa been- ^*ld cap-S-Ld" ISSiJS ®nce here- today to retain sep-Jeased, according to wort received, artltc boards of control for the Mln-,nera. -_r- y v , j hesota college, Minneapolis, and

ton re­

al! adopted in the end."

Wood Speaks Before Republican Leaders

v y V At Indianapolis .Indianapolis, tad., March 12.—The fostering of domesUc business and VorUr commerce was advanced by Majpr General Leonard Wood, cand£ date for the Repliblican nomination

e®tp fits one of the paramount obligations of the American people ?^d,/°VOr£men^„in aa »ddress before Indiana Republican leaders at a £§cheon at the Colum|tia club £ere

, General -Wood advocated careful traiplng of (consular' officers for all foreign countries, to the offices of which would be • attached trained commercial agents, in this connec­tion he mentioned particularly the 8outh and Central Arterlcan and far easternjcountries, i^ which he de­clared the United States has never had such an opportunity to advance its trade relations.

Th® sale or lease of American ship­ping, built during- the war, to Ameri­can ilrms only, In order that'the mer­chant marine built up might, be kept under the Aiperlc&n flagVaao was urged by the speaker. ; •

General Wood reiterated that he favored adoption of the treaty of peace and the League of Nations cove­nant with reservations "which abso­lutely American!*;* it"' and "strong courteous. foreign policy which Voiild Include a trade policy." .

TO KEEP SEPARATE BOARD& - St Paul, Minn., March 12.-—The Lutheran Augustana Synod in confer'

Kip§i Over 18,000 * Schools Closed

because of Inability to M Get Instructors, r • - i V r v v

Washington, March 12.—The coun­try is faced with a serious shortage of school teachers, chtefly through failure to provide adequate salaries, according to reports to the United States bureau of education. • Condi­tions are becojning sligfartly better, however, the report states, in > some sections, compared with those. of last October when the National Edu­cational association conducted, an in­quiry into the 'situation.

Based qn returns from state, school officials,, the reports show that on February IS last there were 11,279 schools closed because of' lack of teachers and 41,000 being taught by teachers characterized as "below standard, but taken on temporarily- in the emergency.".

Greater shortages are shown to ex­ist in southern states.

Responding to -a questionnaire' sent out by the Commissioner of educa­tion, a sgreait majority of the states in which schools are closed report the children are being transferred to other districts while the remainder report pupils losing the grade. In another question as to. what extent taxpayers are Interesting themselves it) paying better salaries for teachers, the response was almost unanimous for an .increase. . „

Salaries paid teachers In .1918 statistics show, were on' an average of $606 for elementary teachers and $1,031 for those teaching in h&h schools. Rural teachers in many states were paid as low as $150 and *Z00 a year. In. 191.0, state, county, city and private normal schools,, rep­resenting 60 per cent of the total nor­mal schools in the country, there were 11,502. fewer stuflents enrolled November 1, 1918,, tha* during the prewar period: A similar falling oft is shown in teacher?tralnlng depart­ments in colleges, while other - depart­ments show great growing Increases

' in enrollment. Ill ere has been an increasing^withdrawal of man teach­ers from, the profession, the percen-. ,tage of fnale teachers In 1918 being only, 17 per cent, or one in every six.

STATETO AID IN BIG "DRY"

POLICEMAN TELLS0F . TAKING BERGDOLL

''' ' • N • , New' York, March 11—Philadel­

phia policemen, testifying for the government today at the court 'mar­tial dn Governor'• Maad of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, charged with de<-sertion in evading the draft, describ­ed the reception they. received when, fourteen strong, they forced an en­trance . into the Bergdoll home and arrested the accused last January. .

Patrolman Charles E.< Macready •aid the officers were met at the door by the defendant's motller, armed with'a revolver. The party pushed past her and began Its search for her son. .

The wealthy young Phlladelphian is fotind huddled in a window

chest, covered with cushions, accord­ing to Patrolman Charles Carroll, an­other witness. Bergdoll, who

FIVfc GENTS.

not fully dressed, refused*to throw tip his han^s until a revolver . barrel was dug into his ribs, carroli said.

OPERATORS FACE ARRESTTODAY

Indictments Are Returned Against Men by Special 1,1 Gfanti Jury. |

Exports of Beef Reported to Have Fallen Off ' 56 ^

Per Cent., •

Washington, March 12.—High re-tall prices Hn 1919 reduced the-per capita consumption of beef in Amer­ica almost 'eight pounds and caused the consumer to* turn more frequent­ly to, veal and mutton, according to a statement today by the department of agriculture.

Less pork was eaten but the total consumption of pork products was much larger than in 1917 and the ex­ports of pork and lard were greater than ever-shown in the records of the department. The total meat con­sumption was less than in 1918, the per capita for 1918 bding 150.08 and that in 1919, 141.98. '

Beef exports were shown to have fallen off 56.8 per cent but the ship­ments of pork and lard to foreign ports Showed a great increase. . The exports were equivalent to 18,000,000 hogB, weighing 200 pounds fipiecei Less pork and lard were consumed in America but the number of hogs slaughtered was a million more than ill 1918, .

Reduction in foreign orders was Indianapolis, Ind., March 1J.—One

hundred and twenty-live coal oper%.t- _ ors or miners of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio heaviest blow received by the

— beef industry. The expQrts declined

PROHIBITION IS « , CAUSING MOM '

. JMWGRATION "New York, Marfch""12.—ProhibiUon

is causing so many foreign born to leave the United Stades that eimgra-tlon is exceeding immigration/ ac­cording to Congressman Isaac Siegel. a member of the house immigration committee.

Ellis Island records today showed ' that immigration alncd January 1, totalled "%l,000. while 81.000 persons left the country.v Moist of the 'latter have gone back to Poland and Ckecho-Slovakia to stay..

While a desire to live in rejuven­ated homelands is a factor in immi­gration, Mr. Siegel believes that pro­hibition isv thie principal reason. In­ability to buy beer or wine,, he says, has created-considerable ill feeling among foreign born residents, par­ticularly in mining districts.

PRESIDENT TO TAKE HAND IN

WAGE PROBLEM Will Make Effort to Settle

Differences Over Min­cers'Wages. '

and western Pennsylvania, today arei facing arrest as the result of an in­dictment returned yesterday after­noon by a special federal grand Jury here charging them with conspiracy in' violation of the' Lever fuel control act and the federal criminal code.

RADICALS LEAD.

! PetK8ln£d°1PhU" college at

the :ati

ISwctow for the two tchoote were over Armenia,.are-1uadentood to] cboMn M fellow* • " b« contained inr tlio. rapoiH V , pf-. '"'tha1; ® Am«rioan commission ^tuMar^ MajwJ t

;uag:::,SS!l lustAvus Adolphus college:

: / Dr. C.

Petri, Minneapolis; Rev. A, -F. Lundqulst, Wlnthrop. Minn;; Victor E. Lawson, Wllmar, Mil

denial Hartjord. •; r .. fsfcif:...v^'^l-ljawaon, Wllmar, IZjlnn^ -and'.Senator

l>aiis—A bill Introduced' In the Henry Benson of St. P«ter.\ • , chamber of1 deputlefl. 1»y: tile govtirn- Mlnneaota' collage: iter. XL 'Ol ment re-establishing relations be- Stone of Minneapolis, Rev. H. P. twe«a .nnit Johiwn and Oarence Magn«ctli;w|>i»-taMfd. % •' • «•" '

Joinist Wi^30 Othor States ~ln 'Hvii ses "

;J-!fI'Brfort'High'Court "\•

Bismarck, N. March 12.—North Dakota's fight for 'prohibition, which began in 1889, when a dry plank waa written; into, the state's .newly framed, constitution,' will be continued in the supreme court of -the United Statea when North, Dakota will Join with-thirty other states in employing Charles Evans Hughes to assist jn the defense of the federal prohibition amendment.

North Dakota went dry at a time when drouth was not popular in-the west generally. The vote on the pro­hibition amendment which was adopt­ed at the same time the state's consti­tution was approved'' was so decisive that any effoVt to ever again resur­rect the Issue was foredoomed to fail­ure. It is true that for some twenty years thereafter open sal.oons flourish­ed in some parts of the state, and that until, within the last three years blind-pigging and bootlegglngs were pre­valent everywhere, but the bulk of thfe people remained firm in their stand againfet alcohol, and their numbers constantly Increased.

When the sixteenth assembly was given an opportunity to ratify the fed­eral prohibition amendment it promptly did so, with only thirteen dissenting votes in the two houses. The thirteen dissenters were repre­sentatives from districts which always had been pro-wet. Now, announces Attorney General Ltfnger,. North Da­kota Intends to back up its Ju'dgment that prohibition is a good thing Jby aiding in the defense of the 18th amendment in the United States su­preme court, where it will join in re-talnlhg Judge Hughes, who will inter­vene an amlscus curL

CR00KST0N DADS f

vj EAT WITH BOYS Crookston, Minn., March 12;—Over

200 attended the Father and Son ban­quet here last night at which both seniors and Juniors had a part on the program. The main addreaB was made by Rev. Thomas W. Graham of Minn­eapolis with C. H. Geiae. principal of the Crookston high achool, acting as toastmaster. Among those- whoi were called on during the. banquet were L. D. Foaskett, F. J. Hibbard, Reverend Olson and & W. Wheeler while-Keith Sanberg and Joseph Ball, Jr., repre­sented the sons on the program. A number of orphans wer« the guests of buslnt— men at the dlnner.

56.8 pir centTfrom the previous year. The department attributed the falling off of exports to the return of Eu­ropean countries 'to' the cheaper sources of supply in South America and Australia. The decrease in for­eign ' orders for beef was so large as to bring down the total meat pro­duction in America four per cent low­er than the previous year when pack-

- - . | era were supplying a great part of Buenos Aires, March 9.—First re- ] the European market due to the lm-

turas from Sunday's elections to the practicability of* obtaining meats congress of Argentlna.1 the counting from ArKentlna and other markets 'of which w'a* begun today, showed patronized before the war. the '"Radicals In the lead. On the j Figures supplied by the department early returns that party appears to 1 show the American people ate more have elected half- again as many of veal and mutton than during the war Its: candidates as Socialists, with* the but the percapita consumption of Progressive Democrats close behind goat meat, never large, was-only 0.09 the Socialists. pounds.

CAUSEDEATHS

High Water.:-Fi>llovrs Torna­do; Eleven ArCRep6rte<l:

Crookston (lliiKjs His New,Man«giiig Editor

Crookston, Minn.; March, 12.--C. H. Zealand of this city brokel into the newspaper game WediiesdWy when h« began his duttes.aa managing editor £f the Crookston Dally Times. Mr. Zealand; who was formerly connected With tha Grant Northern railroad here, was also, former secretary of tha Crookston Association of Public Af­fairs apd secretary of the Red. River Valley Development association. $te la well known throughout the lUd RlyWr valley In connection with his work with. the development associ­ation and his friends predict his suc­cess aa' a newspaper man, -. ,T'.

Bramson, Mo., . March 12.—High water ldomed today as a further menace to life and property in Taney county, where a tornado late yesterday took at least eleven lives, brought, in.-. JuryJo^numerous persons and caused property damage, the extent of-which >cannotJje estimated until complete re­ports-are received from the localities visited .by the storm.

< Iticessant rains,' which preceded and followed the tornado, have sent every stream in the OSkrks bank full, and, if;the precipitation • should con­tinue^-It was disclosed today, the danger "from floods- will become seri­ous.

No reports of further fatalities had beenVfteeived. here early today. The storm'.seems to have- been the one whichi^struck-at Nevada, Mo., early

•yesterday afternoon where three per­sons were killed and property dam­age of $600,000 caused. Then l'fting, it bounded toward the Ozark region, striking Iteney county and Turkey ..Creek valley with full force. At Melva, five mUes south of here, the known death list was heaviest. Ten persons lost their lives there. The victims included the-seven children of "Ran"' and William Box. The. wives of both met also were injured, probr ably fatally. William Manky and Mra Alva Howard and 'ihild were the others killed at Melva. Manky was drowned In Turkey, creek, while Ridgeway Manky, his brother, looked on, powerless to aid him because of exhaustion dtpe to having been blown* a great distance by the storm. Wil­liam Jackson was .killed near here.

, I. ; — Budapest—-Alexander Simonye Se-

medan, a lawyer and ardent cham­pion of the Christian movement, has accepted the task of forming a new ministry.^'.- S: •'

LONDON PAPER MAKES ATTACK

ON PRESIDENT Charges , of Imperialist^

\ approved Of.

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Grand Forka to the home of an institutloh that haa tha

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Grand Forks Her«ld Co.

London, March ' 12;—President Wilson's charge of "irhperialism" against France, contained, in his let-

-,ter to United States Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock early this .week, . has moved the Morning Post to take up the cudgels in favor of France..

The j newspaper cites Mr. .Wilson's present criticisms and . his appeal to Italians oVer the head ' of Premier Orlando last-sumttier as showing that '•under the impulse of his • lofty ideals the American president is al­most as impatient of the constitu­tional' governments of modern'Euro­pean democracies as he is impatient ofi his own senate."

"Mr. Wilson's slight' to. France," the newspaper continues, "is particu­larly disturbing when one remembers the moving passage - in Which he re­corded America's Appreciation of What France suffered in the cause of human freedom. ' Americans and Englishmen will understand the amazement of France that'the same voice which described her as the sen-tinbi of liberty should now accuse her of being saddled with. the same kind 'of chauvinistic government to overthrow which she sacrificed a mil­lion of .her sons." .

Contending there are many indica­tions of the spirit of aggressions and revenge rising. in Germany and dis­missing the League of Nations as be­ing "almost as effective a barrier against German aggression as the iry-ternatlonal postage union," the news­paper says:

"The American nation, a chival­rous comrade in , arms and an' old friend, will realize that France, vrtiich in" Mr. Wilson's • admirable phrase formed the dividing line be­tween democracy and tyranny, cant not, afford to take risks."

WEEK OF MARCH 22 SET AS THE TIME FOR

CUTTING MEAT PRICES _ <

Washington, 'March 12.—The "wtek of March 22 was set by the depart­ment of justice today "as the fifst "save money on meat" week. Fair price commissioner^ in many'-states have been holding conferences with retail meat dealers, as -a result of which the cheaper cuts of .meat' will be stocked to meet the expected^ de­mand. , N

'Howard frigg, assistant attorney general, in charge of the price re­duction campaign, pointed out that the nation consumed an average of 58,000,000, pounds Of meat daily and that in buying the less. expensive cuts the consumer is aiding, in the cam­paign as well aa receiving an Imme­diate benefit " ,

DEAN YANCE TO ® i SPEAK IN MANKATO

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Mankaw, Minn.. March 12.—'The' Reaponslbtllty of Citixenahip" will be the subject of an address by Dean Vance of the Unhrerstty of Mlnneaota at the opening meeting here late thia afternoon of the- Minnesota, league of: women voters of tha second congiee-alobav «at»«ct,'. Child .welfare 'and. phyaioal training will be disfcuased. '

'Washington, March 12.—An effort to . compose the differences between

'the majority and the minority%f the | bituminous ' coal strike settlement

will be made by President Wilson, it wtfs said today ait the White House.

Officials said that neither the ma­jority , nor minority report' would be made public if there'was a probabili­ty of bringing the members of the commission to an agreement on their principal, differences—the amount of the wage advance and the hours of work.

John P.~ White's minority report on the bituminous coal strike settlement was to be submitted today to Presi­dent Wilson. Meantime, the president was studying the majority report, completed yesterday.

Mr. White, the miners'- representa­tive on the commission, refused/to dis­cuss his recommendations, but it was understood he had held for an in­crease in. wages of approximately SS per cent and for a seven hour day. The majority,: Henry M. Robinson, representing' the public, and Rem­brandt Peale, the operators' repre­sentative recommended a wage ad­vance of approximately 25 per'cent an<l no change in hours and condi­tions of work.

John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, who hurried he*e last night from New York, where he ¥•* been attending the anthracite wage . conference; con­ferred today with Mr. White and William Green,, secretary, of the min-

union,.- familiarizing himself with facts* ,Qe still declined.' to make statement, but It waa ejected

tr'thfe full executive comimlttee of the ' miners woU]d be sumintified to. consider the., future -action of the workers.

While the commission failed to reach a unanimous decision, asked for by; the president, 'it was said today that its lat>ors had not been in vain.

FRANCE WORKING CLOSELY WITH

THE VATICAN Paris. March 11.—National inter­

ests' of France justify her in working in closer accord with the Vatican, says the preamble of the bill provid-ing for re-establishment" Of relations with the Holy See presented today in the chamber of deputies.

A number of instances where France needs a diplomatic repre­sentative at the Vatican 'are oited by

i the preamble. It says the-new situa­tion in Syria, Palestine, Constan-• tinople and the Orient generally, I where France has century old tradi­tional sympathies, there are French missionaries' who "ought not to be

.-.sacrificed to foreign competitors." The .application of the concordat to

Alsace-Lorraine, the administration of missionS in the former German oountries of Togoland and Kamerun and the exercise of. the Catholic re­ligion in Morocco are pointed out .as problems in which co-operation be­tween France and the Vatican is

. necessary.

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Boats Shattered into'' p ||;:\ ters as it Rushes I>o^^3

• ^Stream.''-frs6-^ii • i fA- \

Pittsburgh, Pa., March . '12^-—An' ice gorge 20 feet high &bd atretehlW Vf/'•: -eight miles up the rivefn broke lodiB at Freeport early today and with a rush down the Allegheny,. ran into the county bridge, pushing: it ten My menra out of line, tore a number .pf t&gs i flat boats, large barges and house-boats from their -moorings, washing them down the river into the Ohl£ JSi and pounding most of them Joia splinters on the way.

According to report^ ice in the r per Allegheny is level with tha SSJv bridges and the tracks of the Alleg- ftlsi heny Valley railway and much dam- -age is expected when it all begins •-! •niovlng down stream. - •

The gorge which went out today ' i was one of the heaviest In recent 5 • • years and when it broke the aound \ * of the crash could be heard for sev- . eral miles.'

AUTO ORDINANCE IN ' ! \ "s LOS ANGELES STIRS " ^

UP TEAPOT TEMPEST :,f Los Angeles, Cal... March 11.—An^f

anti-parking ordinance, barring auto- '.5' mobiles from a Jarge section of tha > ' ddwntown business district here dur-ing seven and a half hours each week V-day, has created a teapot tempest here®" ' in municipal circles, and has arrayed patrons of the street car coippaniea against those who use automobiles : and thicks. ;

The new ordinance, effective April 10, has been attacked with a referen- • :

dum petition, and it is stated that .-7 nearly all of the 15.000 signatures -j .- ^ necessary to force'a special election on the question have been obtained, 'i V ] The referendum waa started by cer-Sr-w ;

tain towel supply companies,- which said that the limits placed on delly- • eries would put them out of business^

The ordinance was passed at tha.5".*-'-recommendation of the state railroad pS' commission, which advised the «oan<%! cil that if such a sten waa not to relieve congestion down town, where 30,000 a^itos are parked on tha* streets daily, it would have to author-..I:';-..': -ize the local street car companies ta Increase their fares from five to : ably seven-cents. i .

The ordinance provides a time limit < V. of two minutes for passenger antomo- ' biles stopping at stores, theaters, orttj^f elsewhere down town.'It makes, axcap- -"''/iV' tions for ambulances and some other ^ classes of vehicles, and contain lta»f|l:; stringent ' provisions for. commercial " traffic. The Afitomobile club of South- :** prii Catffoniw. has str«hgiy .

ing of scores of old. framie houses and' / -small buildings,. because the omu&ti'f • <• beilCve that- better returns isan be had < ffom utilizing the space for auto parks. '• ' *

TAX EXEMPTION ON lw_ STOCKS AMnmm ft

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RULES COMMISSION WILLMEET TODAY

New York, March 12.—The football rules commission meets here today to consider numferous suggestions of­fered to improve the sport. It will be the first formal meeting of the com­mission since 1917.

It is expected^that a rule-proposing the numbering of player's will be pro­posed.

THE PARTNER'S INCOME TAX

Individuals carrying on business in partnership or as a personal service corporation are taxable personally upon their distributable, shares of the net Income of Much firm, whether ac­tually distributed or not. The firm must file .an annual,, return on Form 1065, showing how the net .profit or loss wast computed, and how distribut­able among the members.

The partnership or personal service corporation will not pay income tax directly. Each partner or, member must determine his personal liability for a return.and a tax.

Any salary .drawn is taxable, but ha is not taxable on.withdrawals of capi­tal: If he-had anyMncupme .from oth«r soarces, aside from the Arm, these Items must be considered in determln-

jrHur. bers must consMer as ltl* income the earnings of the bustnees -year Ending in 1111, and they must each compute tha tax according to instructions oil Form 104 • >•

'Returns and payments must" reach the collector of internal reiranse by

Bismarck, N. D., March 12.—Norttt Dakota banks will avoid the payment of. $400:000 in taxes as a result: of the passage at the special session, last; fall of Chapter 62, which' exempts stocks and bonds . from . taxatioa. State's Assistant Attorney'General F. E. Packard, following an Interview

, with Tax Commissioner George - E. ! Wallace. National banks will reap the greatest profit, inasmuch as these institutions may be taxed only by congressional consent, and such privilege has not been extended to include the taxing of the banks &s corporations. Heretofore the -'states-have reached the national banks by taxing stocks and bonds in the hands of shareholders. Now that this

'source of revenue is but off by,Chap­ter 62, national banks will go so6t free, except for the small amount 6t tax which may be levied on their real estate.

' To a large extent the state banks will also benefit from this act, kiat-

. much as federal securities, in which, a large percentage of the resouroea of these institutions now are -invest* ed, in the form of liberty bonds, <cer-~ tlficates of indebtedness and federal reserve notes, are not taxable. Tha one recourse the state has left in

! reaching- these institutions is the in­come tax, which is not expected to produce very heavy returns. On their present assessment, under the old four per cent tax. North Dakota banks would have paid $500,000. while under the provisions of Chap­ter 62, special session laws of ltl>. they are expected to pay not mora than $160,00. ^ § •

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fftT HDo. Island of Hawaii. T. H., Sun- W? m day. Feb. is.—(By Mail)—Halemau-

mau, the "House of Fire" of 'Kilaaea volcano, presented a siSectacle. which for combined beauty and grandcur ax-celled anything he had seen In Ms • -• years of experience observing the vol- • oano, Professor T. A. Jaxgar, Jr., said * today. • -

The three lakes, formerly, a ffcmiUtt1

sight to visitors to the volcano, be-came merged into, one stupendous body of boiling lava three hundred ' feat below the mouth of the Tofcaqo.

Above tha surface of the reatless lava was a delicate vefl of mUt, «rWck' ' was'absorbed bar the heat every fiw moments, revealing a tumbling B*ass -of living, boiling colors trtnjMth Above the "House of Fire** and haatg- . Ing aver thedead lavm Set da atretetttnir away, from 'tha ilm. of the volcaao was •a light fog as a backicrouad tsr a'Mr-fect. rainbow almost "—-*•--«arth.

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