The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 16, 1923, Page 1

> ) WEATHER FORECAST. Mostly cloudy tonight and Wed- nesday. Not so cold. ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 19238 NO COMPROMISE. E FRENCH UL’ EQUITY CAPITAL HEAVILY IMPAIRED GRAIN INCOME FROM POOL IS DIVERTED Guarding the Rhine Bridgehead ma — gGUARANTYBODE IN CONFERENCE INSTATEHOUSE DR.S.B. TONEY PASSES AWAY © AT HOME HERE FOR BISMARCK THE BISMARCK. TRIBUNE | LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS TIMATUM [BIG TRADE MARDI GRAS FEBRUARY 18; UNIQUE EVENT OF SEASON “Bismarck Night” is scheduled for February 18th, when of 1923. jall other affairs will make way for the grand Carnival ;wherein business will come out to play in a Mardi Gras The Business and Professional Women’s Club are at work Capital Stock Is Impaired by Management to Extent of $750,000 $101,916.98 DUE FARMERS Many Elevators Conducted at Loss Should be Closed Says Committee Report GRAIN GROWERS TO MEET \ Fargo, Jan. 16.—Farmers from all parts of the Northwest are expected in Fargo tomorrow to attend the annual convention of the Tri-State and Grain Growers meeting and other agricultural associations holding mettings here, Many important questions per- taining to agriculture will be discussed during the convention by men who can discuss them from 2 national and a world wide view point. Included among these men is H. C. Taylor, chief of the department of the agricultural cconomics department at the University of Wisconsin and Dean Wilson, a former director of the extension department at the Minnesota farm school, it was announced today by officials. The railroads have granted a special fare of one and one-half to all points in Minnesota and } North and South Dakotas. Fargo, Jan. 14.—Girectors of the Rusch Resolution Asking sel: Succumbs to i abieiicn Which, | Information Concerning | | Banks Before Senate REPORT, ! i TO | Guaranty, Fund Body Under | | stood to be Prepared to | Give Information Asked { | | With the Rusch resolution calling } ;.for_a complete report of the Work of ; the Guaranty Fund commission on the senate calendar for passage to-| ‘day, members of the commission | were assembling in Bismarck for a, j meeting. Members of the commis+ | sion are M. R. Porter, Minot; C. B, | McMillan, Hannah; S.' G. Severtson, | Bismarck, and the Governor and i State Examiner ex-officio members, | The commission is expected to be! jready to lay its work before the I state senate within a°féw days. The’ | Rusch resolution recited the com-; | mission was ready to do su, but had 'no authorgy for acting, The matter of closed banks may be the subject of important discus- Hes Lingered on For Many Months FORMERLY OF MANDAN Deceased One of Best Known Professional Men in Twin Cities of Slope Dr. S. B. Toney, one of the best known professional men of Mandan and Bismarck, passed away at his home, 16 Avenue |B West, at 3 o'clock this morning after a linger- ing illness, His death was due to tumors of the stomach, which had kept him at home for many months. Dr. Toney was a member of the dental clinic of Rawlings, Towne and Toney of Bismarck. He stood high in his profession and aad a host of friends in Bismarck, and in Man- dan, where he lived and practiced for several years. Funeral services will be held at the Masonie temple at half past two o'clock next Thursday afternoon un- der the auspices bf Bismarck lodge |STATE EXAMS shaping preliminaries to get the gala day under way, and within a few days the program of events, consisting of bril- liant scenic productions representing the business houses of town in living pictures, will be interspered with stunts put on by the organizations of the city. Something is going to be doing on February 18th, and everybody will be in it. The City Auditorium has been ‘SUBMIT HIGH BIDS HERE ON TO BE HELD State examination will be held in Bismarck, Dickinson, Grand Forks, | Minot and Valley City tomorrow for rural teachers who desire to obtain professional certificates. The exami-' nations are in charge of Miss Minnie J. Nielson, state superintendent of| public instruction, and will extend | over a period of four days. | The examination is to be given inj two sections, one for professional | certificates of the first grade and! the other for professional aa biel ekatsa GE SNES CD ALB taueritl| cates of the second grade. Four of Bids Range Around $108 and $109 for a Hun- dred Dollar Bond Miss Nielson announced today that| Sel! $1,650,000 in bonds of the real on January 22 other examinations, estate scries this afternoon. Yester- would be held in all parts of the) day had /been sct as the date of the state for pupils of the high, con- STATE BONDS caused French officers to post heavy guards in evel {area. Hero is a group of French ldzehead ate soldiers at the bridgehead at Equity Co-operative Exchange of St. WANT PAVING C. “ TOWNLEY ision and action by the-legislature. | x [It has been estimated that the ita: | Nery eae ee Lene ihe Siarcaihcaaiecertet Dr. Toney was the son of Eloise ape than SoC ne” hand Mot Breese and Charles ‘Toney and was | income permitted under the law from | 0°t™ Nov. 16, 1876, Trenton, It, assessments of banke va nboat $2600 | He received his education in the 000. The assets of closed banks, the | Public schools in Burlington, Iowa, [amount of which cannot be estimat- | ‘nd at the University of ;owa, where jed, will also go into the fond to {Re Received the degree of Doctor of iipay dapositers: Dental Surgery in 1897. He after- |. The, commission makes one regu-|WAtds studied in Minneapolis ‘and { lar assessment of member banks each Chicago. Immediately after gradu- solidated and the graded schools of the rural districts covering a wide; range of subjects. The last named } examinations are held twice a year) and comprise the gradings on {which | Promotions are made from grade to: grade, Thg papers are corrected, by a4 state board of public school exami-j ners, | sale but because of an apparent mis- understanding among the bond house representatives, of the terms, on which bids were to have been put in, all were rejected and new bids cailed for today, Four of the bids ranged betwen $108 and $109 for a hund- red dollar bond. The bids submitted yesterday were not all on the 5 1-2 percent intefest | basis required by the state some Paul in their annual report stock- holders in annual meeting here shpw capital stock impairment of three quarters of a million dollars. The report is signed by all members of the board except Frank Bs Wood. The directors charge that money derived from the sale of. grain that was pooled by farmers in the so- called “Equity pool” in 1921 was di- verted to the business of the Equity Co-operative Exchange. Even today, the directors said o1 the $503,295.47 worth of grain that the corporation are declared by the board to be located in territory that is not essentially grain producing} and they are operated at a loss and should be sold or leased, the boara advises in explaining the fact that losses aggregating $388,167.47 were incurred by local elevators. KILLED WHEN | ALONG ROUTE eAiN ars AUTO OF CAR LINE Commission pr, Commit-' tee to Confer with State Authorities on Subject 16. Fargo, , Jan. S.. Townley, brother of A. :Towatey, former president and at present ngtional or- | |ganiezr of the Nonpartisan League, | was almost instantly killed and Miss | | Viola Grasse, former Fargo girl,| leranta daughter of Mrs. E. S. Grasse, {matron of the Woman's Boarding! The city commission, in mecting home, 120 Eighth St. S., was serious- last night, authorized appointment of ly injured in an automobile accident ja committee to conferiwith the Bur-| at 2 grade crossing near Lincoln, | leigh county delegation in the legis- Neb. Saturday night. according to jlature and the state board of xd-: dispatches from Lincoln, ministration relative to paving be-| Rifse maven iteeAcehes, tween the car tracks on Fourth, ae . street. It was said that it was agreed| The victim of the accident was fyear of 1-20 of one percent of av- {erage daily deposits, and is permit- ted to make four special assessments ef the same amount each year. It is now making the maximum of assess- { | ments permitted. 1 There are, it is understood, 49 jelesea banks under the jurisdiction’ [of thé banking board and commis- ; | sion. Twenty-three banks which had | | closed since Nov. 15, 1920, had re- j opened. i | A bill designed to facilitate efforts | of farmers to recover for grain plac- | ed in warehouses on storage tickets and then Sold by the. company was Placed before the house of repre- sentatives by Rep. L; L, Twichell, Cass county. The bill carried an emergency clause because of the, large number of | such instances | which have occurred in the state in{ the last year, Mr. Twichell said. ation from the University of Iowa he began the practice of his pro. fession at Preston, Iowa, where he met and married “Miss Charlotte Schmidt. He also practiced in Chi- cago, Ill., before coming to Mandan in 1907. In 1915 he, became a mem- ‘Wer of the firm’ of: Doctora Rawlings, Towne and Toney and since then has resided in Bismarck, Dr. Toney was a member of the Masonic lodge of Mandan and of the Rotary club of Bismarck. Mrs. Toney and three sons survive him, 60 PER CENT OF BUDDIES WED CITY COLDEST STATE'S POINT Bismarck Only Place Weather Map Showing Below Zero on! | being on a 4 1-2 percent interest ba- is, Money realized from the sale of the bonds willbe used in financing | farm loans made by the state bank, | $650,000 of the bonds maturing in 1945 and $1,000,000 in 1948, About 14 to 16 bonds houses were | represented at yesterday's bidding aecérding to Governor HA; Nestos. Some good bids were obtained, state officials said, and better ones were expected today. Some of the | bids made today would bring the in- | (GERMANY IN GRIP OF VAST , WAR MACHINE: French Ready: for Any Even- tualities in Rhur Basin— To Hold Conference TO ENFORCE DECISIONS Obstructionists Toward Eco- nomic Control will be Given Extreme Penalty (By the Associated Press) Essen, Germany, Jan. 16.— Whatever the outcome of the conference set for today at Duesseldorf between the Ger- man industrial magnates and the French economic commis- sion, the Ruhr valley appears this morning to be in line for an uncompromising military occupation. “We have tried soft meth- |ods and the Germans have re fused to cooperate, the French correspondent was told at th French military headquarters “If they don’t come to terms | now they will get a taste of jwhat they gave Belgium and ‘northern France. We_ will give, them something to whinc for.” | Today’s meeting to |the German industrial iol. jhad been invited under th. threat that if they failed to appear they would be sent for was to be presided over b) General Degouette. From the windows of the confer ence room in the Duesseldor: city hall, French tanks, arm ! ored cars and infantry wer \discerniable as they move forward to strengthen th hold on Germany’s rich coz! fields. | There was great interest as t | where the Stinnes holdings woul comply with the summons to send « representative to the conferenc An area of high pressure, which terest the state must pay on the: Herr Stinnes himself was reporte developed suddenly over the Plains money realized, down to about 4 3-4 to have jeft his villa between Boch:11 states, sent the thermometer down again in Bismarck last night, the low point being 3 below zero. Two other points on the weather map noly showed temperatures below zero. They were Canadian pvints, it being 20 below at Winnipeg and 12 below at Prince Albert. The thermo- percent. Bond house representatives expressed the opinion that the de- cision to call off bids and start over was a good one in view of the ap-} parent misunderstanding of the | teens required. Bond houses were represented | from many parts of the territory Charge Off $600,000. | originally by the city and state that | first identified as George Griffith of Declaring that financial statement submitted to the directors a year; ago disclosed a surplus and reserve of $124,4444.30 the directors say that a changed system of book-keeping and accounting has been responsible for charging off approximately $600,- 000 of items that were carried as as- sets, Included in this sum the direc- tors declare was the loss* sustained in. the local elevators. It*'was de- clared as an asset on the theory that the parent corporation at some fu- ture time might be able to recoup its losses through profits by such ; local units.. While insisting that the venture in establishing a 2arge stock selling agency at South St. Paul and Chi- cago was effective in disclosing that. livestock could be sold on a co-oper- ative basis the directors declared the | management of such selling agency at South St. Paul was extravagant. The annual meeting of the stock- holders of the Equity Cooperative Packing Plant will be held here to-! night. The financial condition of the company will be aired at this time, it| was said. According to stories from; the two sides the conditions are said to be as follows: The company lost nearly $1,500,000 ; under the old board of directors which was in power when the plant opened in 1918 until Jan. 1922. The company owed nearly $153,000 in Jan. 18, 1922, The current debt of the company is said to be over $150,000, rub bilis continually bobbing up, tending to show that the-report of a year ago did not contain all of the obliga- tions. At least $120,000 of the $700,- 000 in notes receivable listed as as- sets, are valueless accoring to Usher L. Burdick, one of the directors and counsel for the company. when the city gave use of tHe street for the car line the state would, as; | Minneapolis, brother of L. L. Griff- ith, 413 Third Ave. N., Fargo. George | | ‘It is a matter of common knowl- private street car lines do, keep up, Griffith also was employed by the! ithe paving ‘between the tracks. jleague. The mistake occurred be- Assessment rolls for paving onjcause Mr, Townley was carrying a Eighth street, from Main street 130; check book and other papers bearing north, and the alley in the rear of} Griffith’s name. Corwin’s garage, were approved. The; The error in identity became former was $3,349.54 and the latter) known Sunday. when Jess Johnson; $2,825.42. ‘of Lincoln, a, league worker, said he The commission drew 31 jurors at) was satisfied that the body was not the request of the clerk ‘of court.' that of Griffith, whom he knew to Those drawn are: W. E. Lahr, J. J.! be as Des Moines, Iowa. Later Miss Loberg, John Hoffman, B. E. Sores, | Grasse had recovered sufficiently to Dan McPhee, G. M. Langum, T, E.! inake the identification complete. hue, H. S. Lobagh, FE. W. Leonard, | Miss Grasse Recovering. A. A. Jones, R. Drown;'L. Van Hook,; Mrs. E. S, Grasse of Fargo was; E. H. Pierce, E. J. Gobel, Geo. W. | notified today that Miss Grasse. was | Little, Thos. Hall, A. L. Hendrick-| not as seriously injured, as at first son, B.’F. Burbage, J. 0. Lyngstad, reported and will recgver, Miss. G. W. Wingreene, R. M. Bergeson, | Grasse, who was 23 yéars of age Thos. D. Cayou. Wm. Dohn, J. L.’ was born in Fargo. ‘She is th Vachon, H.-O. Wray, A. R. Hoffman.) daughter of W. L. Grasse, traveling! A. R. Aslakson, Frank McCormick. | salésman, now living in Minneapolis, Bills were allowed as follows: | wno made Fargo his “headquarters Police pay roll ........ seeee.$ 59,50! |for several years. R. H. Thistlethwaite (member? ; Special:assessment commis- |.. +. Hit by Passenger Train, j * sion) 5.00; The car in which Mr, Townley ana; F, L. Conklin (member special | Miss Grasse were riding, a closed assessment commission 5.00; conveyance, was struck by any R, D. Hoskins (member special |Omaha-Denver Burlington railroad] assessment commission) 5.00! prssenger train near the town of Farmer-Labor Records .. 4.20/ Havelock. The victims were re-| Farmer-Labor Records - _ 4.05) turning to Lincoln from the north. | Street-sewer payroll 107.00) ern part of the state where they had/| Richholt Grocery . 10.00; been engaged in league work, i Soo Line Telegraph 6.96; Mr. Townley was not only an or- Richholt Grocery . 8.00; gunizer of the Teague, but particular- Paul: Dyorsky: -. oe 0 ay in charge of many automobiles Lomas Hardware, Yo, used in organization work. His! N. D. Ind. Tel. Co. aan home was at Minneapolis and his| Grether Fire Equipment Co... 87.88) vite, it was said, is in the employ of NEW TURKISH CALIPH the league, with headquarters in the GETS $3,000 A WEF Star building of that 5 Constantinople, Jan. 16.—The a]- lowance of the new Caliph, Abdul SEEK SUNKEN GOLD. Cape Town, Jan. 16.—A vast gold Mr, Burdick continues that the as- sets of the company have shrunk al- most $200,000, With the present situation, the board of directors met last night and this morning in executive session te discuss plans to rehabilitate the company and open’the plant. None treadure, thought to be in the hull of the sunken steamer Gfosvenor, off Pondolandy is being sought by a syndicate which is digging a sub- marine tunnel in an effort to reach Medjid Effendi, has been fixed at the rate of $12,000 a month. Allow- ances will be psid also to other members of the imperial family, but not to thoge who are related only oy Flaherty, C. W. McGray, Pat Dona-j| | ledge,’ the bill recites, “that during jthe past year large amounts of grain j belonging to farmers and represent- ed by storage tickets have been ap- |Propriated by buyers of ,grain and! {commission men at terminal markets, and same is being held agains, |claims ‘of the iowners thereof, and “a large amount of litigation is pend-! ing and being contemplated, and there is-great uncertainty as to the} admissability of ordinary and gcon- venient evidence to prove the value thereof.” Without statutory rules of dence, such cases must revert to, ‘common law rules, Mr, Twichell said. This necessitates every farmer hav-| ing Any grain stores joining in an action, and it has heen found almost farmer, to sue, and would provide! definitely that prices of grain at the} impossible to establish the valu The ill would permit an individual al and local markets ‘should! prima facie evidence of value. Aside from receiving 12 bills, the house in its afternoon session com- pleted the passage of the first bill of the session—senaté bill No. 12 introduced by Sen. Rusch, Cass coun-| ty, providing an appropriation of $8,250 to install a mechanical stoker! in the Agricultural College. The} | vote was 97 for, 2 against. Cut Coal Bill. Rep. Wat& sponsoring the bill, de- clared the coal bill of the state i» between $300,000 and $400,000 annu- ally, and that if, as hoped, it can be shown through this stoking meth- od that greater efficiency can be ob- tained from lignite coai, that state will save much money. Rep. Twich- ell, favoring the bill, ‘said that ri ports showed boilers in state insti- tutions now are but from 40 to 60 per cent efficient, and that the pro- posed apparatus has, been guaranteed to provide 200 per cent of normal. efficieney rating. Should this be proved ttue it wonld be the greatest thing done fox the lignite coal indus- marriage. PUBLIC INVITED. TO: HEAR MESSAGE the ship. of the directors wuld say what the plans were. “" BOMBS IN COAL. P Jan. 16.—French authorities are keeping-a keen lookout for bombs’ introduced into coal shipped he: from abroad. Several bombs, cart: ¥iges and shells have Been found. MEDJID: GROWS BEARD, Constantinople, Jan, 16,—Tradition : requires the Moslem caliph to have ‘a beard, so-Abdul-Medjid, new caliph, has ete to Ete one. The An- gore mbly offered weblle nrayer for its x wth, OF DR. ANDERSON ON CHILD WELFARE The publi¢ ane at which Dr. Alexander Anderson, rep ing the Brotherhood of American Yoemen, will speak on the subject id. welfate, and eapecially upon the plan of the Yoemen for an ultimate $10,000,000 children’s home which ‘may be located in some city in North Dakota, willbe held in the Rialto Wheater at 8 o’elock Ws y night. It had been announced for Tuesday nicht. we ‘Anderson is’ expected to-arrive in Bismarck laden or tomorrow isi ‘The sublect on at oF poeeree i spa ene as rely importa: es) # possll Bismarck coming the, ‘alte of the reat children’s home planned. Use of the theater’ was arranged for the Association of The patie Me raleomed te the meeting, which te etialy witent be ole or contribution, try in the state, he said. . The bill of Rep. Hempel, prohibit- ing the making-of crop mortgages ars in certain cases, came before e house agaitf, and after debate was referred to the judiciary committee. Rep. Ellingson had introduced a bill which, in the opinion of some, would éliminate the conditon at, which the originab bill |w: 8. aimed, by provid- ing. that crop imortgages, must) be made entirely ‘separate "trom any | chattel “mortgage., It had been al- leged by the prea ae Many crop mortgages had ted in other mortgages without’ the kpowledge bi the farmer,» «The com GERMAN GIRLS New York, Jan. 16.—Mote than 50 per cent of the American forces in Germany have eigher married Ger- man girls or are contemplating mar- riage, according to Major Charles an Leusen, of the Salvation Army, who has just returned from Coblenz. A cable’ message from Coblenz last night stated that’ the govern- ment had requested information re- garding the American provost corps in Coblenz and that it was thought an investigation of che ralations of the American soldiers with German women was under way with possible attempts to prove cases of desertion of wives and children. ‘150 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEET IN MANDAN Mandan, Jan. 16.—About 150 coun- ty commissioners, of the state gath- ered in Mandan this afternoon for the annual session of the county commissioners’ association. Old- timers among the members declared there were more changes in boards of county commissioners in the re- cent election than in the last decade. Consequently, there were many new faces among the commissioners in Mandan. Release of Suspect Predicted in. Mint Robbery » Chicago, Jan, 16,—R 16.—Relefse of Dan Culhane, who said he is a St. Louis gambler, and who was arrested by Chicago police as a suspect in tlic robbery of fed reserve banl trock’in front “ihe Denver min‘ Dec. 18, apport probable today. saiainn CATS, London, Jaf. i6—Among entrie: it a cat show) were several fat Siam- e.caté whieh had to be smuggli t of Siamiwhere cats are consi THIEF SWALLOWS KEYS, Paris, Jan, 16,—Seized by police, a thief swallowed several skeleton keys, expecting wi their aid to fect his escape, He got a stomach doctor was .called, joved with ‘stumach pump. fail, 4 meter fell to 2 above at Williston and to zero at Moorhead, The weather bureau adds, how- east of North Dakota, including! New York. Among the bidders was the Spitzer-Rorick Co. of Toledo ever, that an area of low pressure, accompanied by rising temperature, is moving in from the Northwest. See | THE WEATHER ER |) For twenty-four hours ending at noon today: Temperature at 7 a. m. . Temperature at noon . Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest last night . Precipitation Highest wind velocity WEATHER FORECAST ' For Bismarck and vicinity: Mostly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Not so_ cold. For, North. Dakota: Mostly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Not so cold. Weather Conditions Temperatures are low over the Plains States and upper Mississippi children, Valley due to high pressure over these areas. An area of low press- ure, accompanied by rising tempera- ture, it moving in from the North- west. The weather is generally’ fair from .the Mississippi Valley to the Pacific Coast. ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meterologist. which had previously demonstrated its faith in the state py buying bonds issued under the Nonpartisan | administration. ‘WHITE PLAGUE’ MEETING HERE Reports Show Steady Prog- ress Made by Association Reports showing steady progress | and inerease in public support for | work of fighting the “white plague” were made this afternoon at the an- nual meeting of the North Dakota Tuberculosis Association. Work of the association for the past year and plans for the future were on the program for discussion. | Among those here for the meeting were Dr, J. Grassick, Grand Forks, president; Olaf Hagen, Lawton, treasurer; Mrs. J. E. Stevens, Law- ton, field worker; Dr. H. E, French, secretary state board of health; Dr. Robert Oleson, U, S. Public Health Service, Dr. Louise Boutelie, U. S. Public Health Service. FRENCH BIRTH RATE SHOWS STEADY DECREASE; LEADERS ARE BLAMED Paris, Jan. 16.—The high cost of living, lack of apartments and homes for newly married couples, selfish- ness, too many women employed in indugtry, and too much pleagure, are the general causes assigned for the alarming decrease of the birth rate in France, now the lowest in Europe. This is a condition that’ has beak) accentuated by the war, which took many men to the front, whence many never returned. The war also created new conditions of living for women, gave them work, made them inde- pendent, and disinclined to marry readily, and less inclined to have This situation is set forth at length by the National Alliance for Increas- ing French population. In comparison with a hiindred years ago, each French ¢marriage brings less than two childgen, in~ stead of four children, wherers England’s marriages bring nearly ‘three children instead of nearly five @ hundred years ago. In Germany in 1841, the average marriage brought 4.44 children as compared to 2.2 in 1921. The birth decrease does not re- sult from high mortality, or relative- ly fewer marriages. France’s popula- tion of 39,000,000 in 1922 is practi- cally that of 1990. The number of marriages for that year was 299,000, or about the average since then, with the years following the war showing a larger number, which is now re- turning the average. For 1921 the number of marriages was 456,000, and for 1922 it was a little higher. Until 1914, the number of births averaged 800,000 yearly. During sev- eral of the war years the number dropped to fewer than 400,000. The first six months of 1922 showed 386,726, as compared to 421,180 for the first six months of 1921, It is argued that if France is to hold her place in the world and weno a bane emigrants to/her colonies, ahe mi pass laws, as already ‘ Proposed in Parliament, to give the voting. ma- jority to married men, reduce family taxes, and give bonuses for ‘each child ‘born. Already, families enjoy. lower hain fares. - and Dortmund last evening boun for Berlin. French Sanguine’ Fregch economic experts appear: somewhat less sanguine than - tl military leaders over the prospec’ of obtaining practical results fro ithe occupation. They came here, is admitted, unprepared for an 0} eration of this magnitude and. th: turn of events has caused M. Cost head of the mission, to look rathe | depressed although he voiced th opinion that today's conferenc {would straighten out the situation The about face position of tt |German industralists took th | French by surprise. They were qui: | convinced Sunday night that tl Germans had agreed in principle the coal deliveries; hence yesterday break-down in the economic negoti.- tions came as a bombshell. General Degoutte has issued | proclamation in which he declarc that if the local authorities eithe; | by their action or by passve resist | ance cause any impediment whatsc ever to the normal progress of busi ness all the penalties deemed neces. sary will be enforced. Await Action The Ruhr valley mine operator> forbidden by the German coal com | missioner to make deliveries to thc entente have decided to wait and se what France will do, their spokesmer | said today. | As one director put it the owners | did not expect the occupation in the first place and now that it has come about it only remains for them te await further action by the economic commission. In these quarters passive resisi ance is summed up by the expressivi “you can lead a horse to water: 1 you can’t make it drink.” If con: cation is actually effected it \ still remain for the allies to produ:: engineers capable of properly oper -ating the mi: the operators po':+ out, and they are highly confid that a technical personnel of sut‘i ciently high calibre cannot be pru duced. Even should the requisite capa: ty ‘in the directive machinery supplied there will be the quest: of manual labor to deal with the c lers point out the pre bility that if the miners balk working under a French administy- tion and French and Belgian soldi¢ have to stand over the mi bayonets fixed the new adminiat’:- tion still may not be able. to ir:t desired results. CONTROL OUTLET. Dusseldorf, Jan. 16.—The French now control every outlet from. the. Ruhr into Germany whether by rai! or water. The lines her an cd today th: forn= ed as on the Lippe ai woot Witten etal many. int a