The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 26, 1923, Page 1

=ottaas WEATHER FORECAST. Generally fair tonight and Sat- urday. Warmer tonight ESTABLISHED 1873 STREET FIGHTING IN RUHR SECTION MAY CONSIDER BANK REPORTS Discusses This Proposal Made by Member NOTHING TO HIDE Cass County Senator Says Guaranty Fund Commission Has Nothing to Conceal Repérts by the state guaranty fund commission on details connect- ed with the collection and dispos tion of the state guaranty fund will probably be received by the senate committee on banks and banking in executive session, it was indicated today. At a meeting of the committee late -yqsterday Senator Atkins This body of armed men in f#wnt of the courthouse at Ha tee” which rushed into Harrison from surrounding communities and performed in its own way the func- vith the expressed purpose of ending alieged sabotage on the part of strik- committee” broke into the home of strikers, searched them, flogged scores | of men, ordered others from town and hanged one striker. | tions of constituted authority | ing railway employes. ‘The | members of the “committee.” i OD | BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1923 |THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [xno ar a SR RI | ARMED MEN DEPOSE AUTHORITIES IN ARKANSAS IN SECRECY Senate Banking Committee son, Ark., is part of the “citizens’ commit- A fund now is being raised to prosecute 'ANTI-MASK BILL TO BE REPORTED , builllings on right of way sites, et Towner,e moved that the action of| the committee in calling for the re-/ port be reconsidered, He pointed out for: that, the publication of this in mation might seriously affect the safety of some of the banks iff the state. Senator Rusch of Cass, objected to this saying that the guaranty fund commission had nothing to cofceal and that the committes needed the information to clean up the mess caused by the depositors guaranty law. the worst situation in the state has ever been Ss ever we do we can’t please every- ene. If such a situation arose in my own business I'd say simply write off the loss, and I think that’s what the state should do and get rid of the law, if we can.” ** Senator Ingerson, who introduced the resolution calling for the report said that it might be received in exe- cutive session, and not be given publicity unless the committee thought proper. After some further debate Senator Atkins withdrew his motion for re-consideration. — | The committee then continued analyzing the original report made by the guaranty fund commission with the ass sion members who were present. The resolution calling for the de- tailed report on the guaranty fund is regarded by some of the Inde- pendent. leaders as the first gun in an attack by the Nonpartisan League on the state administration in con- nection with its conduct of the af- fairs of closed banks. ° The facts called for in the sup- plementary report are the follow- ing: \ A detailed report of all assess- ments made for the state guaranty fund up to Dec. 31, 1922, A statement of the deposits of the fund made by the guaranty fund commission showing the amounts placed in each bank up to Dee. 31,/ water users, of the problems of fgrm;do not agree with him when he sai. 1922, A statement of all payments made from the fund up to December 31, 1922, | A statement of the balance of the, fund, and where it was kept on! December 31, 1922. Many Bills Put In Introduction ofa total of 33 bills! seyeral of them of conM(derable im-j portance marked the only’ feature of the senate session yesterday aft- ernoon, x The bills introduced included two: Brought in by Senator Ettestad of| McHenry county which would elimi-! nate tax exemptions on city property and farm implements, and would set up new rules for assessment, and a} bjll_ introduced by Senator Walter | Bond of: Cass county to make possi- ble the consolidation of banks: The last name measure ig the one put before the senate committee some| 10 days ago by A. G. Divet, attor- arey for the North Dakota Bankers’| Association, and described fully at/ that time. ? | The two measures introduced, py Senator Ettestad will probably ‘un- dergo considerable change before they are reported out by the senatd committee on taxes and /tax laws. They ‘eliminate the tax exemptions on practically all classes of prop- ‘erty except farm buildings, church property, fraternal orders’ property and property of the government. They also ‘list for 100 percent as- sessment railroads and public utili- ties, lands fincluding farm lands, | { Other taxable property is to be as- sessed at 50 percent of its actual valuation, ; * Would Limit Levies Somewhat allied to these two is Senate Bill 148 introduced by Sena- tor Martin of Morton county, which | if passed would limit all tax levies to 60 percent of the levy made, by the same taxing body, for the pre- vious biennial period. Of the bills introduced today 21 were. portions of the biennial . bud- get, and were referred back to the committee on appropriations which had introduced them. A somewhat different policy is being followed in regard to appropriations from that of two years gao, the appropriation for each state institution and de- partment being made in a separate Slope Condition: A peculiar condition on: the Mis- Souri Slope was brought out in two bills ,introduced by Senator Peter ’ said the senator. “What- | stance of the commis-| ; mer who had no experience with to-span North Dakota so _ AT WILLISTON _ BE CONTINUED Only One Equipped For Irri- gation Work, Says Tax The Williston agricultural sub-ex- periment station is the only one in the state equipped to carry out i rigation experimental work and it would be unwise to discontinue this station, according to C. C, Converse, state tax commissioner, His comment is in answer to sug- gestions which have been made that in the interest of economy. | “If the agitation for the censtruc tion of irrigation projects in the Slope country cantinues to gain fn strength as it has in recent months, it is to be expected that .a way will | be found in the not distant future to construct and put into actual | Operation several irrigation projects. | {When this shall have been accom- | plished, land owners under the ditch} ‘will fact problems of a character ' very different from those with which; {they have been accustomed to deal. | “The test of a successful irrigation | project lies not chiefly in the deliv-| lery of an adequate supply of water at a reasonable rate, but lies in the! | successful solution, by individual) | management which arise in connec- | tion with irrigation. When irriga-! ; tion projects fail it is because water | j users fail to deal successfully with such problems. The experienced fi rigation has as much to learn abou to learn about farming in general “In order to farm successfully un- This is true because the amount of labor required per acre is so large that theré must be an ade- quate return to justify tHe labor ex- penditure 2nd also because the large return per acre is necessary to jus- tify the charge per acre for the con- struction of the* plant and the an- nual charges for operation an main- tenance. For similar reasons the (Continued on Page Three) MIDLAND ROAD SUED BY U. 8. Ask $30,000 be Paid to the Government Fargo, Jan. 26.—James Cox Davis, agent for President W. G. Harding under the transportation act in ad- justing all claims and matters pend- ing when/the United States railroad administration was discharged, has brought suit against the Midland Continental railroad of North Da- kota, with headquarters at James- town, The suit, which is for the re- covery of $30,000 said to be due the administration for payment of earn- ings in the interchange of freight, equipment, ete., and division of tar- isff, is listed for trial during the present term/of the federal district court. It is charged in the suit brought by the president’s agent that the Midland Continental company failed to make a division of earnings with the Northern Pacific, Soo and Mil- waukee lines, and it is to recover the amount of these earnings and al- locate’ them to the companies that the present action is brought. The Midland-Continental railroad, organized some years ago, planned as to con- Garberg of Hettinger county./ In this ‘region there are a large num- ber of lag suits pending against a Pittsburgh insurance company for (Continued on Page Thres) nect the southern half with the northern and finally tap the trade territory contributory to Winnipeg. Thus far its line extends Edgeley to Wimbledon, fos | Commissioner | ECONOMY QUESTION, the sub stations should be abolished | In a statement Mr. Converse said: | __ FOR PASSAGE BY MAJORITY OF STATE | Because of delay necessitated in obtaining signatures of mem- bers of the state’s affairs com- anittee absent from this morn- y on, the report on the -mask bill was not given to the senate with other committee reporta- !t appeared the commit- tee would divide 9 to 7 for the bill. The state aaffirs committee of tic {state senate divided on the anti- | mask bill before it this mornin;. but | the majority will report to the scn- jate in faver of passage of the bill. | Opposition of several senators to the | measure forecast a divided vote, cr jattempts co amend. Passage of the | bill, however, appeared likely in ihe jface of the division. Senator Murphy, Independent,, | moved that the state affairs commit tee favor passage of the bill, when it came before the committee, and ;Senator Parter, Independént, second- ed the motion, before debate beyan. Senator, Miklethun, Nonpartisan, said that he couldn’t see any ne sity of such a law. Senator Gross, Nonpurtisan, said it was aimed at a secret society net yet convicted, and that he believed it would be futile in an effort to prevent ‘crime by masked’ n He held it was restrictive legislation of the kind which should not bh» passed Senator Ingerson, Nonpartisan, said that “I haven’t any brief fr the or ganiaztion mentioned by a gentlemen at the hearing the other mht ard ! the organization was thorougn!y American, but I do not believe the law will cure the evil aimed at. Per- __ SENATE'COMMITTEE; SOME OPPOSE sons who would commit would not hesitate at breaking one more law by wearing a mask.” for an effort to prevent crime, and he thought it was good in this re- spect. He said he were a lot more foolish laws on the masks the law would give an oppo before they were committed. are passing the more we are linking thing we have been trying to g away from. lam sorry that the bill was introduced, because the opinion will go out that there a religious sue here when there is not.” He said he was not afraid of the Ku Klux Klan or any organization so long as he had a gun when the masked bands came around. Senator Bond, Independent, refer- red to the suggestion made that ex- “|ceptions be permitted for organiza- tions having ceremonies or at fun- id he believed it was up to the organizations to make their rit- uals conform to laws, and pot to pas: laws to conform to rituals. The majority of the committee voted for indefinite postponement of. the bill making “it unlawful for any dance hall proprietor to permit any- one under 18 in a dance hall, and putting the burden of detecting the age of the person on the proprietor. There will be a minority report. The committee without dissent recom- mended the uniform flying bill to crimes Senator Peterson said the bill calls thought. there der irrigation, it is necessary to ob-| tain a ‘large gross revenue return | per acre. | only from | curred in ‘MARTIN HAGEN (irrigation as the city bred man has} pass, ‘ DR. RENSCH DIES IN CHINA (By the Associate’ Press.) Shanghi, Jan. 26.—Dr. Paul Samuel Rensch, formerly Amer- REAPPOINTED, Named Hail Insurance De- partment Manager Again {counsellor to the Chinese govern- ment, died here today after a pro- tracted illness. In December, Dr. Martin S. Hagen of Fort Ransom, Rengsch, then at Hankow suffered Ransom county, has been reappointed manager of the state hair insurance department for a period of two years, or until January, 1925, it was an- nounced by Commissioner of Insur- ance S. A. Olsness, who made the ap- pointment subject to the approvat of the governor. Mr. Hagen has been manager of the! department for ‘the last three years. | Previously he was with the United | ister in 1919 he was given a re- States Department of Agriculture,; markable demonstration of ad- plant survey work, in Wisconsin,! mation by prominent Chinese. Shanghai, idiagnosed. Recently ‘bronchial pneumonia set in and this compli- this morning, Until his death Dr. Rensih was host of friends in China and when he resigned as United States Min- and with the North Dakota experi- mental station in crop inspection work. He is a graduate of the North Dakota Agricultural College, class of 1917. : | Mr. Olsness, in announcing the ap- pointment, declared that the manage- ment of the department under Mr. Hagen had been raised to. # high plane of efficiency, through his, inti- mate sequaintance with agriculture | in the state and business ability. tees Ke WEATHER REPORT For twenty-four hours ending at noon today. ‘ Temperature at 7 a. m. . ‘Temperature at noon:. Highest senate Mercury Sinks to 8 Below During the Night The weather overlords gave Bis- jmark the distinction today of be- ing the coldest place on the weath- er map. It was 10 below here last night, while ‘the lowest reported at any other northwest point was 8 below at Winnipeg. Other sub-zero sta- i +9 | tions were Havre, Montana, -! it night . +10 Moorhead, Minn. -2; Williston -2. Precipitation <i... +rse++ O1It was 8 above at St. Paul. Highest wind velocity ; “ Weather Foretast For Bismarck and vicinity: Gen- erally fair tonight and Saturday. Warmer tonigat; colder Saturday night. ‘ Weather Conditfons High pressure and fair, cold weather prevails over the northern Plains States. The pressure is low over the Rocky Mountan region and precipitation has occurred from the Warmer weather over Idaho, it being 26 above at Boise. Helena, Montana, reported 12 above, while Huron, South Dakota, reported 6 ebove. Warnier weather here was predicted for tonight. PROCLAIM STATE OF SEIZE. Berlin, Jan. 26.—A state of seige has been proclaimed in’ the Aix La Chappelle and Kreusenacht districts by French occupational authori- Pacifice coast to the Rocky Moun- | ties as the result of yesterday’s dem. tain reel. Precipitation also oc- onstrations, aecoring to the corre- he upper Mississippi Val- spondent of the Berlin Tageblatt'at ley and in the Great Lakes region. | the, former’ place, ‘ ican minister to China and later} a collapse and was brought to} where his illness was, cation resulted fatally at 11 v’clock } counsellor at Peking. He had aj COLDEST SPOT, PROHIBITION ‘ALIVE ISSUE BEFORE HOUSE Enforcement Matters Thought Settled Two Years Ago Break Out Anew | ‘ jCOMPANY A_ BILL IN: 3 if Measure Would Put $500 in Hands of Adjutant-General To Help Company Prohibition again stalked the house of representatives as a live issue yesterday afternoon. Although two yeurs ago the house enacted house bill No. 5—called an air-tight prohibition measure—it again de- ‘FAIRBANKS T0 ACCUSED OPPOSE BIG CORPORATIONS Declares Hays Is “Fixer” For Movies Not an Uplifter Of Art PROPOSES BIG ;COMBINE| Would Unite Leading Artists In Establishing Contact With Exhibitors Deacon “Newt” Gray, shown here, paeee named by his brother-in-law, Los Angéles, Jan. 26.—Will IT 8, at the open hearing head of the motion picture in stron, La, as one of the mem- is the “official fixer” of the; bers of the hooded mob charged with s end draws his yearly salary of| responsible for the s $150,000 in that capaci and is not} FL Wott Daniel and Thomas the “unlifter of the movies.” Douglas j ied t Mer Rouge, La. bated on house bill No. 50, which rbanks, motion picture star de-! AREER ASE would amend existing laws. The bill clired, ‘he Los Angeles Times states| came before the house on a dividend today. | report of the temperance commit- Mr Pairbonks made the dec { tee, tion The Times said, in an interview! Opponents of the bill declared in which he commented on his hoy -{ 7 that as drawn it would prevent any of binding together the motion p RY druggist, proprietor of a soda foun- tase actors and actresses under | - tun or grocers irom usins: a’ gentlemen's agreement which wouid preparations common in his busi- «give photo play patrons art” ine a ness, and make possible the hailing . of what “the parasites of in-| into courts of hundreds of innocent * persons. of the temperance committee, e: plained that the bill sought to re- |‘ move a provision in the present law | which provided federal statutes | should regulate the liquor use in, ; the state, and provide for the dis-. posal of confiscated automobiles. | Rep. Twichell took exception +o statute books than the one proposed. the statement, and stating that the; Said to be engaged to marry; Harold Senator Atkins, Independent, spid house ought to be told what it was | Lloyd, Fairbanks and his wife, Mary that in forbiding the wearing of Voting on before it voted, said *# ¢; Pickford. the proposed law would prohibit Vay | tunity for officers to prevent crimes | druggist, soda fountain proprietor | duction or distribution of its films |or other business man from having Senator Hamilton, Nonpartisan,|in his possession any extract con-j rectly with the exhibitors througi- said “the more of these bills we|t#ining more than one-half of one/ out the country. | percent of alcohol, things, he said, | z s oe | Which were a party of the everyday |of Mr. Hays and the motion picture | church and state, and that is © gex | business, and would put the burden! producers was said by The Times to! jbe Mr. Fairbanks plan, jof proof on the person to show he jhad a federal permit. | | Rep. Halcrow, Mrs, Minnie Craig | and Rep. Miller in supporting the} bill as it came from committee held | that the statement was overdrawn, | and that it was satisfactory to deal- ers in soft drinks. Rep, Starke of Stark county as- serted the bill would make impos- sible the handling of sweet cider shipped in from Minnesota in kegs. Need Officers, He Says “It is a foolish bill,” said Rep. Rabe, Stark. “Our law is strict enough now as it is—there is every chance to grab law violators. If we pass this bill we'll make criminalsj of everyone who happens to have aj little liquor from years ago or has an extract on hand with alcohol in i “What we need,” he asserted, “is some men with courage to get thesej| violators and not such foolish laws as this.” The house in committee amended house bill No. 13 to provide lighter! penalties on tax delinquencies. The’ amended bill provides that all real estate taxes shall become due De- cember 1; the full hail tax and. one- half the remaining real estate be- come delinquent on March 1; that a 5 percent penalty shall attach, 2 Percent on June 1, 3 percent penalty ; on the first one-half on November, 1; that the last-half of taxes shall! be delinquent November 1 and a! penalty of 5 percent shall attach, | Pass Ellingson Bill H The house passed Rep, Ellingson’s bill, No. 42, requiring crop and chattel mortgages to be separate in- struments, by a vote of 97 to 7, and revived house bill No. 1, the anti- crop mortgage bili, and sent it to} third reading with amendments pro: | viding that no mortgage shall attach | to one-third “of the crop, provided that.no exemption may be for more than $1,000. The vote was 60 to 43 to approve this amendment in com- ; mittee of the whole. tify the cancellations H The house amended Rep. Harring- | ton’s bill, to reduce the itme of no- | tice of cancellation of a land con- | tract from one year to 90 days, by; j Providing that the time shall. be reduced to 90 days only until 25! percent of the purchase price is paid, in; ufter that time a year’s notice; shall be required, MAY SEEK TO if Removal actions may possibly be, brought against certain county treasurers of the state for neglect | ef duty in failing to report pay-| ments on school and university land contracts interest or taxes, made ‘to them, according to Carl Kostizky, land commissioner, The law is that county officials may be removed for negligence. As they are required to report all in- terest, tax or other payments for the state on the 15th of each month for the foregoing calendar month, and as some of them haven't been doing this, they are liable for re- moval, according to Mr. Kositzky. The matter came in\ connection with the inquiry i: the detinquen- cies in. interest afd tax payments on school lands brought from the state, ' Takes Position Ben Hall, formerly with the L. E. Wheeler Co, a Fargo concern, has left Bismarck for Grand Forks, having accepted a position with | North Dakota” Mill and» Eleva- tor’ association, brokerage Rep. Halcrow, Pembina, chairman." weeks thus giving that time for re- the land commissioner. other counties were less. Ward had ‘PANDOLFO LOSES | Pandolfo of St, Cloud, Minn., who is under a five year sentence to prison for conspiracy to defraud in the sale of stock in the Pan Motor company wag denied a re- hearing today. ed the findings of the lower court. Implement Dealers Told That " as he termed them, “think! is art.” Other Fellow Must Be He made public several weeks ago z Considered © his plans for grouping the lead ing actors and actresses on the screen in a combination designed’ nsure them a free hand in making and distributing their products. The group includes Charlie Chap lin, Pola Negri, to whom Chaplin is Fargo, N. Dak., Jan. 26.—The future demands real team work be- tween the manufacturer, the deal- er and ultimate consumer of farm| implements if the trade is to) emerge from the reconstructibn | {period successfully, R. A. Lathrop! {of Hope _told delegates to the an. nual convention of the North Da- kota Implement Dealers Associa- | tion, assembled here today. These} three entities are all in the same boat, he said, and the boat would not stand much rocking. Mr. Lathrop, who is secretary of | the association pointed out that a} shorted-sighted policy on the part) of any one of these three factors | would handicap the whole recon-! struction program for the several interests were so closely inter-! twined that they must either stand; or fall together. { “We feel,” said the Speaker, | “that year by year, business grad- | ually develops more and more of | a consideration for the ‘other fel-| low’, and we are coming to realize that we are as links in a chain,! and a chain is only as strong as} its weakest link.” Qomparing business conditions in the implement trade with the| business of a year ago, Mr. Lath-! rop declared there was some cause for encouragement, although the| ho no pro- It plans to dea, huge cinema corporation in but to transact’ its affairs more di- A direct and flat-footed defiance} | CONTRACTS MAY | BE REDEEMED Board of University and School Lands Makes Rule Persons whose contracts for pur- chase of school and university lands have been cancelled because of de- linquency in tax and interest pay- ments still have a chance to redeem without payment of the 12 percent penalty on the interest. This is true as the result of action of the board of university and school lands, according to Carl Kositzky, land commissioner. It was decided that any one who remits such sum as to leave them only two years de- linquent in interest and two yea delinquent on taxes shall not for- feit their lands, provided they make these remittances before the land commissioner has certified cancella- tion of their lands to the auditor and treasurer of their respective county. The cancellations of contracts were made in cases where interest on the purchase contracts were 6 years or more over due and taxes were three years over due as well. By paying before the cancellation is certified to the county officials the persons involved will save not only the 12 percent on the interest due which they would otherwise have to pay to redeem, but would have the use of the land this year as well, according to Mr. Kositzky. Other- wise the lands will, be leased later in the spring and will not be avail- able for a year. He added that he would not cer- for 2 or 3 trade was still far from a proper | balance in regard to the farmer’s buying and his selling power. The! state as a whole, he said, harvest- ed a good crop, and despite high freight rates and grain grading | regulations that are unfair, con- siderable liquidation took place. Prices, also, he stated were are slightly better than a year “ago and freight rates a trifle less. After several years of curtailed buying of machinery, it was the opinion of the speaker that farm- ers would soon have to come into the market for new equipment. Waiting for lower prices, he said, would avail the farmer nothin; since it was the consensus of opin- ion of dealers that the bottom in} implement prices had been reach-| HILLROADS IN AGREEMENT Dispute Over Big Interest Payment Is Settled demption without penalty. Each per- son whole contract is to be can- celled, will be notified. A number of contracts have al- ready been redeemed, according to St. Paul, Jan. 26 — Settlement of the disagreement between the Great Northern and Northern Pa- cifie railways over the division of interest charges resulting from the $230.0000,000 joint Burlington bond issue of 1921, has been made, according to word received here The disagreement was settled by arbitration, the Northern Pacific paying the Great Northern $1,500,- 000. The arbitrators were J. P. Morgan, George F. Baker and Ar- thur C. James of New York. Each of th two Northerns, which own equal shares of 97 per cent of Burlington stock, was obligated for $115.000,000 of the joint bond issue. These bonds were made convertible into securities of the two Northerns, the Great North- ern refunding through 7 per cent bonds and the Northern Pacific through 6 per cent bonds. This threw the heavier burden of interest on the Great Northern and that company held. that since it There were 240 contracts cancel- led. Forty-eight of these were in Bottineau county, 29 in Cavalier and 27 in Renville. Cancellations in 2; Burleigh 8; Cass, and Morton none at all. Grand Forks APPEAL OF CASE Chicago, Ill, Jan. 26. — Samuel The court aftirm- It is sald that steps. will be taken, to eal the case to the/was a joint financing move - that ‘supreme court. each Northern should pay. half the interest charge. The Northern Pa- Valley City, N. D., Jan. 26.—The|cifie opposed such walization, case of the City of Valley City holding, that it was entitled oy reap against the North Dakota Independ- the bene! fit of its ability to convert ent Telephone company brought by! into bonds bearin; lower rate the city to,determine the right of 4 pe 2 jinterest than was available to the the telephone company to increase|Great Northern at that time. its rates above those specified by| The settlement was in effect a the utility’s charter from the . city, compromise. 4 is to be tried here the latter partiasked bythe Great Northern’ ex- of this week-in chambers here be-|ceeded that allowed by the arbitra- fore Judge M. J. Englert, tors, beets oh ‘his arrival was the signal at mobil | young men in the Rhineland and th | quiet but PRICE FIVE CENTS | FRENCH GUNS TRAINED UPON RUAR CITIES Martial Law May Be Declared Over Section — French Workmen Mobilized MAY FIRE ON _ ESSEN Germans Threatened With Siege if Force Is Used by 100,000 Strikers Duesseldorf, Jan. 26,—Desultory rifle firing which was in progres: in various parts of the city through out the evening ceased at a lat hour when French cavalry and in fantry patrols cleared the street. At midnight Duesseldorf was outward ly calm. Two Germans were report ed wounded during the disturbane which started early in the evenin ; when a mob celebrated simultane ously the return of Fritz Thysse ; and a two-hour protest strike. That more persons were not hur was due to the fact that the sentric: and patrols were under orders i fire into the air and only shoot t kill should the crowd refuse to breai up. Whenever and wherever th , French rifle spoke the populac scampered to cover, A heavy rai which began to fall at 10 o’cloc also dampened the bellicose ardo of the Germans. Under No Illusion The French are under no illusior as to the seriousness of the situa- tion and two more army are being rushed from Alsaci ie. Martial law may be declare - diately should there be any atte to repeat the manifestations of last evening. The telegraph service was resum- ed at 8 o'clock last night but the railroad strike is still effective. Re- ports from other Ruhr cities show that Duesseldorf and Essen are’the main hot beds of trouble. A serious outbreak at Essen was averted only when Gen. Fouranier sent for Bu: gomaster Lutheran and showed him a military map of the city on which were four red circles designating the location of the French and Bel- gian forces. Must Refrain From Attacks “Tell your people they mvet re. frain from any attacks upon our troops or we shall open fire on thy rest of the city,” the general sa to the burgomaster. The French admitted the cour martial at Mayence made a mistal: in permitting Fritz Thyssen to r- turn to the Ruhr as it is believe zation of secret organizations ! Ruhr. : 100,000 On Strike One hundred thousand Rul workers are said to be on strike * day, or slightly less than 20 perce of the total, Meanwhile the economic life the region is practically at a stan still. The French thus far, after tv weeks of occupation, have not be able to get enough out of the Ru to pay expenses of the military e pedition. “We are seftling down for a lon: occupation and are bringing railro men from southern France ari miners from Pas De Calais,” it w officially said at headquarte: “Something must give or crack. G« many or France must yield a France must not.” The Ruhr valley ‘was report sullen today followir the disturbance last night in Du: seldorf and Essen, quelled by t! French with only minor casualt the wounding of two Germans the former city, Strong military precautions h: been taken by the French to preve recurrence of the demonstration Artillery has been posted all arov: Essen and two additional ar: corps are said to have been orde up in haste from Alsace Lorrai Nineteen arrests were made in Duc seldorf. The Ruhr continues almost co pletely tied up by the railre strike and navigation from ‘ Rhine valley is similarly at\a sta: still. Dispatches from the Ruhr decl:: 150,000 miners are idle, the mo ment out of the pit gradually creasing unemployment. Paris dispatches reflect a m favorable opinion of the situati The strikes, it is stated, are o partial and government reports sh but 10,000 miners out in the Rut: district, Germany was formally declared i default to France and Belgium her reparations obligatigns und les treaty. No defau': declared in delivery to Gre.i Britain and Italy as Germany iii not include them in her recent az- nouncement suspending deliveries. The British cabi ped the recall ode ee troops ers are ‘oppose: and the cabinet i divided. Forecasts were that the . cabinet: would probably ae ide. to. await -dc- ty op ter 8