The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 20, 1922, Page 1

4 | SENATO DRIVE M y — - - — t ———$$$—$—$———$ nn, * 4 PRY is y 5 j Partly cloudy tonight and Tues- day; hot much change in*temper- 2" . | ature. : y / eo a BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1922 ESTABLISHED .1873 ae ARMY OF 400 OUT TO SMASH OVER THE'TOP Workers Filled with “Pep” as _ They Meet for Beginning Commerce Club me Hl ' “ARMY” ORDERS ISSUED Col. Bob Simpson’s Staff Or-; der Well, Obeyed; “Workers | Photcgraphed Before Start | The “captajns,”, “lieutenants” and | ‘nrivates” in the ‘campaign for the | Commercial club reorganization went | cut this morning filled with “pep”, end during the morning were signing up persons right and left for the new! organization. The drive continues all | week. 6 | Before the 100 men on the teams} left they posed for a photographer! on the postoffice steps. Practically every in thet “army” reported on time on ihe or-| éér of C. R, Simpson, colonéi, and! P. RuFields, lieutenant colonel. The! workers found a telegram on their) desks carly this morning readirg as} follows: “Campaign opens this morn | ing. All teams, workers and execu-j tive committee, an army of over aj hundred, are ordered to report ‘at! Grand Pacific hotel at 9:30 thi morning to begin work. Eyes of/all/ Bismarck and adjacent cities are on| us. #Group photograph taken prompt- ! ly at 9:45, Want all workers iin pic- ture. Remembet luncheon noon at; Grand Pacific hotel for teams’ re-} ports. ‘ man (Signed), C. R. SIMPSON, Colonel. P.-F. FIELDS, 4 Lieutenant Colonel. | qivaley among the various teams) was intense. Each had.a list of pros- | nécts and each team was cut to! clean up before the standings were announced. At the meeting this morn- ing the contract with: the American City Bureau wds explained, showing (Continued on Page Three) WANNER NAMED TO:STATE JOB Will Succeed Liessman on Ad- ministration Board Ernest G, Wanner of Bismarck has| been appointed executive secretary of the state board of administration | to succeed Charles Liessman, whose xesignation was ‘accepted to bscome effective on December 1. Mr...Wan- ner, at present’ assistant secretary of the North Dakota Good Roads as-| cociation,;. was» formerly connected | with the state board of control in| similar capacity, and‘was a leader in the Independent county conmit-: tee in'the last campaign. Mrs. Liess-| man was elected state’s attorney of | Kidder ‘county ‘at the’ recent. election. | He has been in the state house in} various capacities most of the time| since: the Nonpartisan league came | STARS SCRAP FOR MANAGER MME. LUELLA MELIUS, ABOVE, AND GANNA WALSKA. 4 The operatic world is “up in the air” over the controversy which has come to light between: Mme. Luella Melius, soprano’, of “the Chicago pera, and Gann Walska, lonna wife of Harold McCormick. Mme. Melius charges. that Ganna stole her manager, G. Jules Daiber and has had an injunction issued against Daiber, Walska and McCor-! mick which would hale their concert | tour. “Pooh-pooh,”. was all Daiber would say about it. WILL DISCUSS. PEACE PLANS ATLAUSANNE Much Satisfaction Evinced. Over Attitude of United States to Meeting (By the Associated Press) Lousanne, Nov. 20—The Near ‘East peace conference here was formally opened at 3:45 o'clock this afternoon. President Haab af Switzerland, the. presiding officer of the opening session, « entered the hall at the hour and read his welcoming address, to which Lord Curzon, the British foreign secretary, replied. (By the Associated Press) | Lausanné, Nov. 20,—Switzerland, | prima ; ae Ei R_NE pole “RUSSIANS IN SUBSIDY BILL, DIRESTRAIGHTS Seoul, Korea, Nw 20.—With | bitter cold approaching in. northem Korea, the condjtion of the %00) Russian refugees at Gensan is: piti- able, according to arrivals from | there. ‘ ha REFUGEES OF Hl t 1 i i Mrs. Fe'ton. May Have Honor, . Of Sitting in Senate for ( One‘Day Those ashore sleep on the bage | Pe | Ground or under clapboard aed | while the crowding abroad the ships ; WOMEN IN — HOUSE? in the harbor is reminiscent of the ' = loating hells of theold galley ‘slave ! Australian , ‘convit | days and the hits «|hulks. Abroad the, Eldorado, Mrs. Winifred Huck of Chi-| cia 1200 ton vessels,more than dy | 000 men are herded, some on. th cago Among Those, to | gecks, others below. The latter | Fill. Vacancies sleep seven men. to the berth, talk i ing two hours turns at lying down. ; At, Gensan the. severely woundéd MRS. FELTON WAITS. among the Vladivistok exiles \.are Washington, Nov. 20.—Mrs. W. sergregated, but the convalescent 4M, Felton of Georgia, waited in | and ailing are crowded with — the) ) vain for an hour. and a half in | ¥ The sanitary arrangements | the senate chamber tcday to} are wholly inadequate. The provi- learn whether senate leaders | sions of the ships practically are exhausted. Men are offering to work for @ pound of ‘black bread and a cup of tea, but no work, is available. i eéssor. After much serdtching of Chang Tso-Lin, the military di tator of Manchur‘a, still refuses the heads over the problem the sen- e managers decided to let « de- |Tefugees Passage “through, Man: ; churia, sion go over until tomorrow. ‘ MAJOR ORYAN URGES UNION. AGAINST WAR: Proposes Federal Corporation To Make Study of Problem would permit. her to take her seat as the first woman senator in view of the recent election of Walter F, George as her suc- | at ahaa | Washington, Nov. 20.—Congress | | convened at noon today for. the spe-! ieial session’ of two weeks called by | President Harding fr consideration | jof the administration ship subsidy bill, on which he is expected to ad-} {dress a joint session tomorrow. | tm both senate and'house the gavel | beginning the new session~ dropped 2 few minutes after 12 o'clock. and} then in both chambers there followed ithe usual formalities which attend- | cd the turning over of a new ‘page in, congressional. history. The pro-, gram on both sides was so arranged es to permit the adjournment after these ceremonies until tomorrow, as4 ja mark of regpect for the late Sena-! tor Watson of Georgia and the late | Representative Nolan of Galifornia. ; ; ‘The senate was in session only 13/Sayg: League of Nations 4 minutes, adjourning -without giving +3 4 ig ‘an opportunity to’Mis. W. H. Felton Right Step But Lacking” Leadership NOT ACADEMIC ONE) lef Georgia, or any other new sena-j tors, to take the oath of office. Washington, Nov. 20.—With the} I convening of the 67th congress in! specisl session at noon today, one) ;-- 4) international confederation j precedent and probably two om (against war, under which an offend- j American history will be broken | o> would be dealt with ‘like any The extra session, called by Presi-| cthoy rioter, Major General John F. dent Harding. primarily to consider GRyan declared today in an address the administration ship subsidy bill, betore thd southern commercial con- with the regular session to follow | press, | immediately after, insures a record The . th id i | total of four sessions for this con-|, src, Se et aera bat lacks gress, including, the special session leadership. if eae a aint congress bei) “People of Europe, General O'Ryan | fore ever having had more | thet! declared, are looking to America to |three, and it may have the furtler! furnish ‘that disintefested leader- | distinction of including. the first) ship, woman member to ae seated in the | He proposed a federal corporation, United States ‘senate. lereated by congress, to make a |. The senate, after the usual open’! thorough study of the problem of ing day formalities, was prepared | preventing future wars and submit jto adjourn out of respect to the its report and recommendations to | late Senator Watsen of Georgia, and | ¢,, government for action. | the house to adjourn. out. of respect] “wry indicate to you,” he said,! ; to Representative Nolan, Republican,| «pat this problem fe not an} | California; : | academic ‘one merely, having to do * Chicago, Nov, 20—The only solu- tion which will lead to world peace Examiners Busy Checking up | vestigation was started at once. | -FORMALTIES Interest’ in the day's. procedure was \chiefly claimed by the problem jat whose capital and larger cities | presented in the efforts of Mrs. W. |thering of diplomats who come many international conferences have | H. Felton, of Georgia, the first wor been staged, again is host'for a ga-; man senator to obtain a seat in the to! senate for a day. ‘The way appear- discuss one of the most. important, ed to be. cleared for this up to the problems before. the world at the| point of securing unanimous con- present time—the problem: of Tur-j sent to it, vice-president Coolidge key and the Near East. jand Senate leaders as well, it was Since the armistice convention| understood; being disposed to grant ending hostilities between the Greexs | Mrs.. Felton the distinction ‘Wy this and Turks was signed at Mudania| procedure. -At the same: time, they more than a month abo, the Near|Wwere said to agree that since Sen- East peace conference, the plenary,| ator-elect George’s_ election an session of which ‘is set for today, has| November 7, she had no legal right been eagerly awai plex questions among the negot iat-'tion on the floor. probably would | bar her. only with future generations, but| that it is one that virtally concerns | you and all the other families of America, let-me. remind You that} this very day great groups of well educated and industrious officers are working out; in all their details, | how your boys and other boys like} them are to be employed in the next war. This work is going on day in| | day out. Not only as part of the) | routine of the government, abroad | but here in our own country. Calls View Impracticable “Many good but impracticable: people in: our country who have thus; d, as many com-| to be seated and that single objec-| visualized war as it is, and view it) George Holm, are all connected with as a form of insanity, are advocat- ing that the intelligent young men into power. : ling of a final treaty of peace be- itween Turkey and Greece, the free- dom of the straits, and fixing of |the future status of Turkey- are’ 'to be discussed over the conference ' { Although on hand for the extra session, Mr. George said he would; not claim his seat in the senate un-| til tomorrow in order first to give; Mrs. Felton/an opportunity to. claim | the right to take the oath of office. | and women throughout the land} should vow never to take part in} war, directly or indirectly, and for! any cause what so ever, and never to aid in the prosecution of any} war, directly or indirectly. | z | table. i | Much’ satisfaction was evinced on | One Report Is that Effort May) an .sides when it became known that | Be Made to “Get” Frazier Many rumors have followed in the j wake of the formal call for a grand | jury to convene in Bismarck Decem- | ber 5. These have ranged from re- | ports ‘of election matters to rumors that there would bé an attempt to! indict Senator-elect Lynn J. Frazier | and prevent him™from taking _his| seat in Washington next March. | The petitions were signed chiefly | by persons particularly interested in| some of the local fights. The close- ness of two.or three of the county races has been the cause of talk in many and opposing quarters of con- tests and recounts. The petitions, which contained 723 names, were ) verified by a committee of three per- sons, B. 0. Ward, Mrs. J. Kenyon and H. R. Bonny. They swore to their correctness before H. F, O'Hare. The jury will be selected at the same time as the petit jury is select- | ed for the term opening December 5. Under the law a grand jury may sit 10 days in one term of court, and may. be adjourned to further term and further time by the judge. States Attorney McCurdy said he id not expect to ask for any special assistance. He said he would invite the Attorney-General to participate in the matter. ‘the United States had designated its ambassador to Italy, its minister to! Switzerland and Rear Admiral Bris-! tol, to watch the proceedings; even greater became the interest in the | conference when a few hours before) the session was to open it was inti mated that the United States repre- sentatives would raise their voices at the meeting whenever it was in the | interest of the United States and | Americans to do so. | - | MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT IN | RUSH FOR SEATS, London, Nov. 20--The rush of! members:to the house-of commons to cbtain their seats for the opening; session of parliament, was the big-| cated increawe of two per cent in! gest since the war and long before the retail, cost of food to the aver-/| 8 o'clock when the doors-opehed ajage family in the United States! small crowd had gathered to “peg claims” for favored places. When the doors opened the members rush- ed in, snatched cards from the at- tendants and raced up the steps for the. desired ‘positions. ;Among those obtaining the coveted ‘corner seats from which governments have-been enfiladed in the past, were Heed Astor and Lloyd George. On the house side, the presence of Mrs. Winifred Huck, elected representative at large from “Ill nois to succeed her father, the late Representative Wm. E. Mason, to be sworn in made certain an increase to two in the women membership of that body, Seven others elected to | fill vacancies in the house also were | | to take the oath of office, while the; senate was to receive a new mem-j ber today in Thoms F, Bayard, De- mecrat of Delaware. FOOD COSTS UP - TWO PER CENT . (By the Associated Press) Washington, ‘Nov. 20.—An indi- during the month ending’ October 15 Wag reported today by the bu- reau of labor ‘statistics of the de- partment of labor, based on, the prices of 43 articles in 51 cities. San Fraficisco led with an increase of six per cent. No city reported a decrease, but the increase in Mil- waukee was lesg than one-half of one per cent. “An exaple of these _ abortive, moments may be instanced by the, ffort to abolish armies and armar iment as if automatically such aboli- ition would end ‘war. Need it be; ‘ pointed out that the real problem is | to prevent fighting between peoples and not to limit the size of the or-| ganized forces’ and charactef and{ amount of armament they are to use in the fighting at the éutbreak | of war, Limiting or abolishing ar- ;mament will not automatically stop. | fighting. i t Absurd Belief “That we cannot develop an order- ly world is an absurd belief. Man is | in a sense a fighting ‘animal, but it | is for that very reason that he must; bé controlled. It is for that reason | ‘that he is now controlled by police- |men in the cities, by the constable | jin the country, and by the laws of jhis state and government. So must/ people s* and their governments throughout the world conform to! some confederat2d agency which! shall determine in judicial manner by the application of reason and justice to their international rela- tions and obligations. Better to owe some allegiance to“Such an agency than to continue as subjects | of the god of war whose method) of | eetermining human relations is by! resort to homicide or® a wholesale scale.” HORTAGE CHARGED T0 | BANK CHIEF R..R. Clark, of Northwestern National cf Minneapolis, | Und>r Arrest SHORTAGE | $150,000 Affairs of Bank to Fix Responsibility Minneapolis, Nov. 20.—Ross R. Clark, fomer head of the collection department of the Northwestern Na- tional bank, Minneapolis, who re- signed Nov, 7, after 18 years service, was in, jail today while examiners checked, to determine the extent of an alleged shortage in Glark’s ac; counts which. according to . W. Decker, president of the bank, would | be between $100,000 and $150,000, Clark was under bond of $400,000 secording to Mr. Decker and the bank is fully protected. Defaleation was discovered, bank} officials say, shortly after Clark ‘re-| signed, and left for Northern Minne-/ gota on a hunting trip. Upon his return from the hunting trip yesterday Clark was taken into custody. ‘A formal complaint was to be is-| sued today, Mr. Decker said after a conference with county authorities. “An obvious error in Clark’s ac- counts, relating to small country} bank collections, raised a question,’ Mr, Decker’said, “and a thoreugh in- The exact extent of the shortage will not be determined for a day or so, proh- nbly, because of the nature of the operations of the collection depart- ' ment, but the shortage will not exbp T, Best Considering Action;| | ceed $150,000 in my opinion.” é SULTAN LANDS WITHOUT ANY (By the Associated Press) ' Malta, Aov. 20.—The British dreadnaught Melaya with Sultan Mohammed VI on board, arrived this morning. ; Sincé the Sultan is traveling incognito, / the customary honors! and salutes were dispensed with. It is expected Governor Plumer will, board the vessel to extend an official welcome. Mohammed, who is accompanied ‘by his ten year old son and threé Officials, will stay at Fort Tigne, which pas been specially prepared for his reception. : Voye NO NEWS OF MISSIONARIES (By the Associated, Press) Peking, Nov. 20.—The American legation bere is without any, further word from the three, American mis- sionaries kidnaped by Honan bandits j at different times within the past two weeks. The three captives, An- ton Lundeen, Einar Borg-Breen and the Lutheran mission, The bandits are also holding the five-year-old son /of Mr. BergBreen, besides a number of missionaries of other na-| tionalities. a | ‘All bandits prisoners have beea | Permitted to communicate with the families and when last heard from were unharmed. The foreign office today asked the cabinet to send an expedition into Honan province to treat with the bandits for the release of their cap- tives. V. K. Wellington Koo, foreign minister, declared he was confident the. kidnaped foreigners would be freed within a week. SEEKS OIL PROSPECTORS: Beach, N. Dt Nov. 20.—Mrs. Rich- ards made her report to the parties who had sent her to Denver to try. interest oil. men in what: many be-| lieve to be a good oleaginous pros- pect in the region north of Sentinel Butte. Mrs‘ Richards said she had been well received and had secured | a promise from several ‘large com- panies that they would send their geologists here as soon as the weath- er would permit to examine the ter- | ritory, and asked her to be prepared to have, extensive leases secured in case they, desired to enter this field. Mrs. Richards already, has about 35,000 acres leased and hopes | to secure more as an inducement for the companies to put dowr wells, should the reports of their geblogists warrant the large investment neces- sary. “Ved for. (Leased Wire of Associated Press) | REA SANS het NR De cache aA taht Noe BERRY RESI FRANK BACON, “LIGHTNING BILL,” DIES - FROM NERVOUS BREAKDOWN; ‘MEMORIAL SERVICES TO BE HELD Chicago, Nov. 20—Hundreds « of» thousands of America’s theater go-| ing public, rich and poor alike,| actors and actresses today mourned the death of Frank Bacon, “Lighting Bill,” who won wide fame in} the play of “Lightning,” | preparations were being made! for the memorial and funeral | services Wednesday. The actor died Sunday morning, a, little more than a,week after retir-' ie from the role in which he had peared almost two thousand times | —a record.run for any one play. Wednesday morning the body will lie in’ state at the Blackstone Theater, where he appeared daily as DICKINSON TO HAVE COMPANY} Dickinson, N. D., Nov. °20.—Dick- inson will again take its place in the state militia when Company K, to- night, First North Dakota Regiment, will be formally mustered into the state's service, ‘The date for the mustering in of the local company was definitely fixed’ by the adjutant general’s office of Bismarck which. informed Captain L. R. Baird, the recruiting officer that Major Harold Sorenson, assistant adjutant general and Captain G. A. M, Anderson, U. S. A. would come to Dickinson as the mustering officers. Fifty-four. local men the service tonight. MAY REQUEST ARECOUNTIN _ COUNTY VOTE will enter Says Voters’Intent Was Defeated is HEDSTROM LEAD UP R. 0, Best, candidate for the legislature, who, with General E, As Williams, was a total of 108 votes’ behind Victor Anderson, one: of three winners, said today that | he was considering a request for a recount of the votes. There were, | he says, a number of ballots count- ed wrongly in the city, wards. ‘On j some ballots a voter marked his} ballot for all three of the regular, Republican _candidates—Anderson, | Heaton and Harrington—and then | also in another column for Williams | in some instances and Best in others. In some pf the precincts the | entire vote on ysepresentatives, was thrown out,;since the voter could ; vote for but:three, In others a vote | was “cancelled for the regular ‘Re-' publican candidate. and then for the | name in’the individual, column vot- | The real intent,. Mr. Best says, was that the voter should vote! for’ Williams because he crossed to! the individual column to-do so, and in the: cancellation the intent’ of| the voter was defeated. It is pos- sible, he said, from the reports from various: boards that enough mis-! takes, ashe contends, were made! ‘thdt- would change the final result. ‘Thei majority, of Albin Hedstrom for sheriff of Burleigh county was! raised from 32 to 61 in the official! canvassing board figures, it was an- nounced today. The change result- | ed, according to members of the canvassing board, not from the books of the various precincts but from a wrong footing on the unof- ficial. sheet in the auWitor’s office, | posted from unofficial returns, The books showed only a few changes, they said, Kelly gaining one or two and Hedstrom doing the same. URGES CREATION OF FOURGREAT | RAIL SYSTEMS: i Washington, Nov. 20,—Consolida- | tion-of railroads in ‘the west ought! to result in the creation of four great systems, each having termin- | als on the Pacific and Gulf Coasts! and at Chicago or St. Louis, Presi- | dent Hale Holden af the Chicago, | Burlington and Quincy, declared to- | day at the interstate commerce com- | mission’s hearing on suggested | merges. He, opposed tentative plans of the commission for consolidation of the northwest roads into two two systems in such a manner as to} separate his railro#@ and the North- ern Pacific from the Great North: | ern, r i fr ASKED, TO FORM CABINET + { (By the Associated Press) | London, Nov. 20.—Wilhelnt Cuno, | recently asked by President, Ebert; to form a new German cabinet, ‘is | declared, in an Exchange Telegraph | dispatch from Amsterdam, Based on a telephone message from Berlin to have abandoned his effort to’get a ministry together ing to opposi- tion among the political parties. “Lightning Bill” for more than a year. A short eulogy will be deliver- ed by Judge K. M. Landis, commis: sioner of baseball, and following funeral services will be observed in the Christian Science church of which Mr. Bacon was a member. The body, his family announced, will’ rest in a vault! in a Chicago cemetery until next summer when it will be removed to Mountainview, Calivernia, Mr. Bacon’s boyhood home. _ Messages of condolence from pub- lie men and actors and actresses, hundreds in number, have been re- ceivedby “Mother” Bacon and mem- bers of his family. / Wann DECLARE WET | VOTETS 140 - IN CONGRESS Prohibition Forces Claim Con-| trol in Lower House by Safe Margin DRYS ARE CONFIDENT Point to Fact. Titat Illinois Put Legislature in Power Opposed to Liquor Chicago, Nov. 20.—The. wet ‘vote in the national house of representa- tives will be less than 140, while 218 constitute a majority, F. Scott Mc- Bride, superintendent of the Illinois anti-salgon league, said today fn a statement on his return from a meet- ing of the legislative committee of enti-saloon of America held’in Phila- delphia.. In the \senate; Mr. McBride said,‘there will be six, and possibly seven more drys than at present. These figures, he said were obtain- ed from reports of. state leaders all over the country to the national leg- islative committee, { b “Wet gains in the house were made chiefly in districts, where there was a. different political party line up,” he said. “These gains indicate no increase in anti-prohihition’ senti ment.” “It is significant that there will be no decrease in the number of dry congressmen from the large. states of New .York, Pennsylvania and Il- linois.” grew Referring to the November 7 re- sults in California and Ohio where the drys were. victorious, Mr, Mc- Bride said that in only two states with a state-wide voting record ex- tending over a period of years, a tremendous increase in) dry senti ment was indicated in the elections, adding that in California a wet ma- EETS HEARTY RESPONSE MARCK TRIBUNE [e200] PRICE FIVE CENTS, ISBN. TOWSEND’S DEFBAT CAUSES RESIGNATION \“Futile”’ He Writes to “Con- tinue to be Hampered by Political Persecution” EFFECTIVE AT ONCE Famoug Case Issue in Many State Campaigns This Fall (By the’ Assoéiated. Press) Washington, .Nov. 20.—The resignation of Senator Truman H. Newberry of Michigan, the central figure of a long and. bit- ter senate controversy, will be- “come effective tomorrow. | Vice President Coolidge was unable at today’s brief session to pre- sent Senator Newberry’s let- ter of resignation, and the . Michigan senator’s :name_re- mated temporarily. on™ the rolls. 4 Washington, Nov. 20.—Vice Presi- dent Coolidge was expected %o read into the senate) record today after convening of special’ sessnon of con- gress the resignation of Truman H. Newberry as United States’ senator from Michigan. “ Forwatded to, Gov- ernor Groesbeck of that state un- der. date of November 18, Mr. New: berry’s letter of resignation,» re- questing that it~become effective immediately, .was nade public here last ‘night, «‘ter a copy has been - transmitted _ ‘to. Vice © President Coolidge with the request it be read into the senate record as soon as possible. , Although declaring in a review of the long’and bitter controversy over his right to a place in the. senate since his_electton, over Henry Ford, his Democratic opponent, four years ago, that this right had been “fully confirmed,” Mr. Newberry |in ‘his letter said he had been impelled to retire from that bod§ because of the defeat of his. Republican) colleague, | Senator Townsend, in: the November. 7 election.’ At the: same time, in | discussing the controversy in its re- | lation, tothe campaign just closed, during which, it was an issue ia many states, Mr. Newberry expreas- ed the conviction’ that a “fair. an- “alysis of the vote in Michigan and other states where friends and poli- ; tiehl enemies glike have suffered de | feat, will demonstrate. that | general feeling of unrest wag main- ly responsible RED e present situation, h ai rendered, futile” his further 5 ae | viee in the senate since it: meant he | would “continue to be hantpered by | | Partisan — politteak. < prosecution.” | Should future opportunity . present itself, Mr. Newberry addéd; he | ; would not hesitate to offer himself \to his. state and .country, ‘ | Before.the case passed as an issue jority of "65,000 in 1920 ‘had been into therecent campaign the ‘sen: turned into a dry majority of over | had upheld Mr.’ Newberry’s iene 30,000-this year, and in Ohio the dry | seat by a margin of five votes, majority of 40,000 in 1919 had’ been | but. it appeared-that the fight was increased to. 187,000. i “Iinois,? he added “one” of» the ' states chosen by the wets as u dem- onstration of anti-prohibition senti- ment, elected a legislature as ‘dry as ever, and-will send more drys 40 con- gress than ever before. At least 18 Illinois members will stand by the dry program for prohibition enforce» ment.” ‘ ‘SEEK ACTION TO CHANGE again to be resumed early in this session of congress. 4 ‘CABINET CRISIS INGERMANYIS ATDBADLOCK | (By the Associated) Press { Berlin, Nov. 20,—Nearly. ees jhas passed since. the - cabinet of | Chancellor Wirth resigned, and the ministerial crisis is considered to de | still far from settled. When He-: | would be supported by the assogia- | j ing a néw cabinet of work as he des- jeribed it, it was hoped he‘would have jall the port folios, or at least the most of them, filled by today, but St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 20.—Steps to organize the wet forces ‘in every state.of thé country to obtain modi- | ifficulti fication of,’ the <Volstead act were! it ‘ elieved timate Meee pa ven discussed at a meeting of the Na-i abandon the effort altogether tional Association opposed to the} ° prohibition ariendment, which b2- seen Chancellor-designate finds gan here today. | imself balked in his plans to. se- Predictions were made by. deelgates | uty {cabinet made up of the middle that the liquor quadtist: probably and socialist ‘parties as the social- would be the principal issue of the ie copoted to what they term Herr 1924 presidential election as a restlt od theouch ghee fay have vot: of claims, being! made: tHat the wets |C¢,Trouen the socialist party unite won a sweeping victory in the te | joard to abstain from taking any cent general election. « | ministerial portfolios. They base ' . " .,.,{ their attitude to some extent on the Denial that a third major political! party's opposition. to the indust party favoring amendments of the; racic lav whe sanned Ran made | Patt¥s feeling that should the socia!- M a B lists accept cabinet pasts th 1d by delegates, who said that wet can-/ . pasts they would didates of either the’Republican or| req crce,£ Have dealings, with the Democratic partis would be support-| and that where candidates of | both major parties were found not) suitable; and. .independent nomines | SEIZE LIQUOR - (By. the Associated Press) Aberdeen, S,, D., -Nov. 20,—Three hundred and fifty, quarts of illicit an [tae taken in @ Series of raids, = and which has been retained for Re Lape TRIAL. evidence during the present, term of os Angeles, Nov. 20,—After a re-| federaf court, this mornifig was des- cess of several days because. of the: troyed in the heart of the busincss illness of the prosecutor. the vhird district by United States Marshal W. trial of Arthur C, Burch for the H. King, in the- presence of a :huge murder of J. Belton Kennedy, was’ crowd, attracted to the scene by the expected to be resumed today. laroma, : tion.