The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1923, Page 1

; WEATHER FORECAST. Fair tonight and Thursday. Colder tonight. ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK’S FIRST TRADE MARDI [2xrune werrer GRAS PROVES SUCCESS OF SEASON, MANY UNIQUE STUNTS PRESENTED FIRST PRIZETO [MARRIED WOMAN MANY COMPETE today refused to take seriously the bill to prohibit married women be- ing employed in state offices. A committee of the senate also took the bill lightly when it was up there, but when the bill got to the Inter-Stunts of High Quality | floor’ it received enough votes to " pass. and Judges Find it Hard The house state affairs commit- i tee planned to report the bill®in Lo ecre for indefiinte postponement, but three members desiring some fun with the bill report for passage BIG COMMUNITY AFFAIR with an amendment to “include mar- ried women’ holding the office of member of the state legislature.” Business, Professional Wo- men Back Project to Ad- vertise Trade Center BANK MERGER BILL PASSED IN THE HOUSE Will Now Go to Governor for Signature; Permits Con- solidations Bismarck’s first Mardi Gras of Trade was presented last night be- fore a capacity house at the city auditorium, Never before in the history of e city has there been such a get- gether of business men in the advertising of their products and city, and probably never before has a community had such a panoramic portrayal of the products and E vements of their local busi- ness men and organizations. Words of Corimendation The words of commendation and] CHANGE pppro which swept over the large audience indicated that the, members of the B ess & Pro- nal Women’s “club under auspices, the —advertis- | i scheme was: put on would be requested by the business men to make the Mardi Gras of Trade nual affair. i awarded for the! tunt” and for the best! representation by a business firm. S. E. Bergeson & Son were award-| ed the bouquet of flowers offered by Hoskin-Meyers for the business , t whose display was the best in; general appearance, and the busi-| ness most thoroughly represented | by their display. Lieut Gov. Frank | Hyland who made the _ presenta- | tion speech in behalf +of the mem-/| “bers of the house of representa- tives who acted as judges stated,! however, that it was difficult to/ come to a decision because 4 num- | ber of firms, the Provident Life} Insurance Company, Butler’s stu-| dio, the Northern . Produce, com;j. — pany, Gussner’s and otherg were; clese competitors for the prize. | George Childs who is directing | the Elks Minstrel anda show for{ the Town Criers of Mandan and! Miss Olive McCadam of Mandan} his partner, were awarded the} basket of flowers offered by the Osear H. Will’s Seed Company for the best inter stunt. A group of “BLU SKY” c Measure Strengthening De- partment Also Goes on to the Governor e RECOMMEND INCOME TAX The: house committee on t: es and tax laws today decided to report in senate bill No. 21. the income tax bill, for amend meg, and passage. The amend- mes would raise the exemp- tion allowed for each child from $200 to $300; exempting build- ing and loa i original bill and raising the ex- emption on information at a source from $300 to $600 so that an employer paying out less than $600 to an individual need not report it. Governor Nestos appeared be- fore the. semate state affairs committee to ask some amend- ments: in the house bill for the recall of “baby bonds” issued by the state to permit issuance of larger denominations. Some objection has arisen to the senate proposal for a 75 per- cent valuation on property with no exemptions except upon farm improvdments, some believing the shift to residence property would be, too great. ° senators acted as judges of the in-} ter-stunts. ' i There was cizeumion today as Show Ingenuity | to the status of senate bill The ingenuity of the business| No. 45, passed by the state sen- ate late yesterday by a 25 to 24 vote, with Lt. Gov, Hyland casting the deciding vote. This bill, a good roads bill affecting motor vehicle license fees had been amended and then another amendment was included declar- ing a ““moratorium!’ -on road work during 1923 and 1924 ex- cept on contracts effective February 1, which was virtually house bill No. 233 again. It was men of Bismarck was illustrated very effectively by the variety and originality shown in the manner they chose to advertise their firm. Nothing was lacking in original- ity of advertising of laundries, styles, butcher shops, clothing shops, grocery stores, and special- ty shops of all descriptions. Poul- | try appeared on the stage alive: ; canned fruit and vegetables walked and danced over the stage; a pig went through the sausage grinder| contended on the one hand that “while you waited”; new creations! the vote of the Lieutenant-Gov- in hats, elaborate flower figured; ernor was without effect be- gowns, and the newest coiffures in| cause the constitution requires dressing wel shown by} 4 majority of the elected sena- dels gracefyMy trailed across| ators to pass a bill and on the stage,And not a small part of| other hand it was contended a great deal of the advertising con-| that since the Lieutenant-Gov- ted in the singing of appropri-| ernor is permitted to vote in ate songs td illustrate the pro-; case of tie it was effective. duets. | Tableau Effective The tableau’ was used in several instances with real effect. Most of the stunts were put on hy individuals as a part of various ‘lodges and organizations. Act 1 of the program opened with a rural skit entitled, “ Adver- tise Bismarck” with the following cast: Mrs. Peter Green, Mrs. Sel- vig; Mr. Peter Green, E. W. Peter- son; The Green Family. Mrs. E. M. Stanton and Dorothy Huber; Two Bismarck Products, Jessner Beck and C. Stedman; Light in the dark, Advertise. . Unique Setting : The old farmer, his typical wife, and two charming daughters formed a setting for the entire production. The | effect on ne Epemey aad bier pond, family | unanimous vote the joint committes the city of Bismarck was so pre- | ° finance and the assembly com- sented as to show the way in which mitteg’on finance determined last people were shown what Bismarck | night to recommend for passage the was. The song of advertising [Dah! general income tax ‘bill esti- struck the Keynote of the entire| mated to raise neayly $16,000,000 program, a prograin intended to| from incomes of corp$rations of the advertise Bismarck and its pro-| state while at the same time reduc- duets. ing real property taxes. Miss Madge panes as Het is Banborn’s coffee ane, Wre-eeel Grend worke ND) Fah, 22/-To parade of Bismarck products when | Satisfy judgments held against it, they tripped across the stage in the property of the defunct Grand appropriate “coffee garbs” and|Forks American, former league symbols. ' daily here, including one lot and Scott’s grocery was represented ret of Suotner aut ms ullaing with a dance of “peaches” done b ereon, were sold at sheriff's sale Dorother Landers. J. B, ‘Smiths yesterday. The property was bid ‘oduct: t into music, PiThe Bismarck Tribune was rep, | for Ole Knutson and T, O. Harald- resented. by Eleanor Mann, dress-| son, trudtees for the creditors, for ed in newspaper frock to repre- | $25,827.17, which included a'mort- State Banks in “North Dakota will be \permitted to consolidate and merge in the future if Gover- nor Nestos signs senate bill No. 152. The bill passed the house, unamended, by a vote of 62 to 49, with two absent, and now will g¢ (Continued on Page Three) WILL RAISE BIG STATEREVENUE Madison, Wis.. Feb. 22.—By a sent the paperyside of the business.) gage for $20,000 ‘held by trustees She emerged from a set piece rep-| for collection ‘in the interests of resenting. the newspaper which| creditors, plué interest for the last three years and coste of sale. A. G. Sorlie offered'the only other bid, which wag. $5,000, when, thrown back displayed the EXPECTED TAX © AMERICAN BUILDING, LOTS ; fi by George A. Robbins, attorney | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | LAST EDITION | BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1923 Rockefelle HERE YOU HAV E THE WORL OUT FOR HIS DAILY ROUN SHINE, AND BESIDE HIM GED K TO DEFEAT HIM TOO WHO IS THE DAILY RECIPIENT ond Beach, Fel T have been et from the world’s richest wm living wy Places With World’s SPENDS WEEK WITH ROCKEFELLER ON VACATION r and His Pals at Ormond Beach ‘ IJENSON FACES SUSPENSION MAN, ALL TOG! GOLF IN THE FLORIDA SUN- ADELE Ss, WHO RE HIS CADD*, OF A NEW Would You Change ! { \ | Mill City Police Head Cen- | sored by Hennepin Richest Man? Is being “the world’s richest man” walking with him brief s Vane aunt bid cos NDAs Grand Jury they were; talking with him, though’ joo and the Bismarck Tribune as- not officially interviewing = him watching him as ae played gol ‘ing to church and musicales, wake; getting a picture, intimately jof his playtimy life. So I found out many things abou {John D, Rockefeller, Jr. Here | two of them that stand out: He isn’t exactly the guarded cod- | dled Croesus you ma: imag He is being treated here in Or- mond as an ordinary ne There is no fence aro: jat the corner of Ri Beach Road; I can se hhor. is house it fro: e j window in the Ormond hotel. here {are no guards, either. And one morning I met him at the half-ligh of Halifax Road, unattended. | It is the stranger in Ormond who 'fogles him,.gollowing, pointing. I fell into step with Rockefeller on | the toll bridge, after he had dug his pocket for the nicke | d’Grom, toll-gate keeper, exacts from rich men and reporters alike. Looking at me keenly Reckfe said: him many things I wanted to know. | “Well,” he smiled, ‘walking along jwith me (there werg about, yous must remember!), don’t think I have anything to sa; about those things. Instead won't {you accept this?” (And he game me Ja shining dime—and another for my mother, when I assured him 1 wasn't married.) “We can be friends can't we?” he | said, “Without talking about all those things.” | Those dime: He gives them to j caddies, millionaires, reporters, su ciety ladies, photographers, garden- ers, the mayor chauffeurs, and chil- dren. Formerly he dealt in smaller ‘coin. Youngsters here told me he {used to give them each a nickel and| la penny, saying: “Now the five-cent | piece is for the bank and the penny \is for the chureh.” Is this an indirect expression from John D, Rockefeller that one-sixth | is the proper portion of one’s wéalti jhe believes should go to ‘religion and ;charity ? |. John D. hasn't got a leathery, mum- imy-like face. His eye is clear, and jhis skin on ‘close view lookk healthy. 1Yet he undeniably looks much older in. his eighty-fourth year than | Chauncey’ Depew in his eighty-ninth. | Older, too, than General Adelbert |Ames, his golf-partner here, who is | Yat he doesn’t take » nap in the afternoon as Depew, and many youny- ler men do. Often he is up’ before |6, taking a solitary walk if the weath- er is good. Breakfast is at, 7:30. ; bacon and eggs, but’ sometimes a chop. and a discussion with Head Garden- er George Whitlinger about the shrubbery and the prospects for the spring flower-beds. ‘At,10 sharp he appears on: the Oz- mond golf course for eight holes, which he usually does in. 50 strokes. He rides to the course and later meets the chauffeur at. the ei hole, > or | | uncheon is at 1. A long autome- bile wide, then, and talks with guests. (Always there are guests.) At 7 is dinner, to which a few con- genial friends are invited. Bed at | ae .* John. Yordi is:the most important man around the Rockefeller menage,’ | (Continued on Page 6)° . ¢ hour of 6 strolling along the bank| he | I which Adolf Her| host and getting up musicales at no guards h next election. signed Josephine Van de Grift to xo | to. Florid a week witsiTO BE ARRESTED Sr wis forced to give up social | John D. She moved!) _ “Earl had a terrible quarre] over +) among his vacation pranks and pas- | the telepaone th somebody—I times: - “Wilful Neglect” of Duty; suppose a man—two nights before | He likes to wander alone in the : : ligne craaeayn ene eet, carly morning. ’ 9 Charged in an Indictment | ge Boa | He gives away new dimes to rich i . ! and poor alike Returned H He takes a daily pummeling from | a masseur. ak Ped. 22. y, Jen- He wears brown glasses to pro-| Minneapolis, Feb, 22.—A. C. Jen tendent of the Minne- . % son, sup ect his rom sun. ne i Fl SEGA TICE GC TESE atte aa play 4Polis police department, today : */ faced suspension from the fore aymns on tae organ. \ "He listens to tie hotel orchestra | of pending outcome “wilful neglect of duty” contained ot charges »! recital every Sunday evening. : neg 1 ile refers to talk, with anyone {it an indictment returned late bout public questions yesterday by the Hennepin county His after-dinner diversion is pla |&tand ju Jenson probably wil escape ar- rest today because of the holiday. Floyd Olson, county attorney, i “Numeriea.” | He plays golf daily and tips his pickaninny caddy a dime. |people of Ormond accept him casu-| Honestly, now, if that's having a | Said, however, that he auld grag jaly as their winter neighbor, and h>| 00d time you don’t have to be a/a warrant based on the indictment | seems to get a lot of fun out of sach! Millionaire to enjoy it, do you?! tomorrow. | : laeceeletion Waat do you say? The indictment alleges neglect | lin failing to close up gambling :and disorderly houses and wag re- Hostess of tae Rockefeller house- ; hold is Mrs. Jennie Evans, a rela- | OM! tive of the late Mrs. Rockefeller. A| turned after investigation by the nO favorite guest Betty White,| sand jury and charges by a law daughter of John White of New|/enforcement league. ; York; she as been here wita her; Jenson, who was a major in the | mother, playing golf with her aged|army during the world war, has been chief of police here since “Are you a reporter?” | nome. ) July, 1921, and a member of the | (And foolish people say age has} General Ames has played golf | force since 1906. He formerly was dimmed the eye, blunted the wits:, wita Rockefeller for 20 years. !a deputy sheriff in Ottertail coun- {and dulled the human intuition of|' Another favorite partner is E. M./ty and chief of police at Fergus this man! Johnson, steel manufacturer of New | Wills, Minn. { [admitted my identity and told| York. Mrs, A] B, Wallace generally ! walks home with Rockefeller from chureh, And Dr, John Richmond, pastor of the Community caureh, has a standing invitation for a visit j every Monday afternoon. eerie Sak GOOD FUTURE. FOR ENGINEER IN NO. DAKOTA No guards I said, surround this {old man’ during his evening play- | time of life ‘te courts Ptorida’s ! sunny wintertime. | So| | | But there is this protection: averse is Mr. Rockefeller to being quoted, even directly, on public! spy; ” We 1 duestions that he does not discuss} HIS Boys” Have Task in subjects even with friends, and! Development $s an unwritten. rule that guests | ontent themselves with anecdotes nd small talk; best of all ae likes | of State, Prof. Chandler Says talk of books. And after dinner | sean join with him in playing] CONVENTION CLOS: eri a mathematical wame | : oF ovale she 16 sory tong. | The conyention of the North Da- kota Society of Enigneers came to a {close last night with a banquet and j dance at the McKenzie hotel night and _ instruc and enter- taining moving pictures today J. E, Kaulfuss was toastmaster at the banquet: Talks were given by Prof. E, F. Chandler, dean of the school of engineering, University of North Dakota; Dean E. S. Keene of | the Agricultural CoHege retary | Allyne Bradley of the Bismarck As- | sociation of Commerce and Mr, Hawi | of Leeds. Prof, Chandler's talk ‘enphasized the fact that North Dakota holds a good future for engineers in her | developmtnt problems and that “his NO RECALL, SAYS LEAGUER Election Laws Will be Re-! ferred, However These will be nd recall election started by Nonpartisans, according to several leading - leaguers. who| have answered rumors to this effect | circulated here. with league polities, while refusing| ceeded just as well as those who to permit “ase of his name, said: “Ij have turned their backs on North am, I believe, well informed as %o| Dakota and sought other fields. Mr. sentiment of the Nonpartisans. There| Bradley emphasized the need of co- Usually will be nod’ recall of Governor Nes-} operation between the engineéys and | tos attempted, at least under pres-| organizations such as the Associa- Then a walk in the grounds|€Mt conditions. I am quite sure no/ tion of Commerce, for, he said, the! members have discussed this seri- ously, and I do not thinktHey shall, especially in view of present econo- mie conditions.” The same member predicted, how- ever, that the election laws being passed at this session, would be re- ferred to a vote of the people at the engineer must be looked to in build- ing up w# city in the right manner an@ in correcting defects. At the business session yesterday afternoon reports showed the society to be in excellent financial condition and an increase of five in member- ship during the last year. Today being a holiday the program concluded with a moving picture APPOINTS, COMMISSION i : show at the Capitol theater at which! F ‘AIR ‘Appointment of the commission | were shown six reels of engineer-| authorized by recently enacted leg-| ing pictures, including good roads islation to have charge of the White] pictures “Threads of Communica- Stone Battlefield’ state park in Dic-| tion” showing the building and de. key county was made ‘today. Gov. R. velopment of the telephone, and A, Nestos announced the members| comedy program. : as Lee Northrup of Merricourt, W.| The banquet. was the largest the E. Dickinson, Fullerton, and Mrs.j society has given and alt reports Mary Flemington Strand of Ellen-| showed it to be in a flourishing dale, , condition, : . f FROM FORCE last | | i] i One representative close in touch} boys” who have stayed /at have suc-! ‘SLAIN MAN WAS ~ BOOTLEGGING FOR SOCIETY ew Angle Disclosed Shooting of Earl. Reming- ton at Los Angeles | as { | OPERATED OWN STILLS |House Smelt so Strongly of Alcohol That Wife Gave | Up Social Life ‘al. Feb. 22.—Federal today joined police in the search for the slayers of Earl Rem j ington, electrical engineer, shot {down in his own dooryard a weck | ago tonight, Their en y came after a declara tion by police that the widow, Mrs Virginia Lola Stone Remington, had j told them the dead man was a “so- ety bootlegger” and r tae po- lice had temporarily released a man ! who admitted he operated three stills for the engineer. Police also said they located a large quantity of liquor said to have | been in Remington’s premise but id to rest in tae police state- ment that one of Remington's note- | books containing 200 names and ree- !ord of sales had come into ssion. pos Sold to the Four Hundred. It was said that although tae li chief interest of the federal ¢ amateur it was sold to a select cli- entele, including persons high business and society Angel Mrs Remington was said to have told of frequent visits to their home | jo fstrange men who made bargains wita her husband for whisky, and aow his whisky-making made the k BANQUET PLAN Every Member of Association of Commerce Urged to Attend Meeting | | | | SEE GOOD SPEAKERS Final arrangements have been} made for the big banquet to be| held at the Grand Pacific Hotel |Tuesday, the 27th, at 7:30 in the| evening, by the Association of {Commerce Cooperating with the} Bismarck Immigration Associa- tion, Every member of the Asso-| ciation of Commerce, together with jhis wife and friends, is cordially jurged to be present. Besides this the Immigration Association, which is composed of } the leading real estate men of the} city, has received acceptances of | its invitation to H. W. Byerly, Gen- eral Immigration Agent for the| |Northern Pacific and H. S. Funs-; jton,-Immigration Agent for the} |Soo, to be present and these men} {will discuss with the members as; to the best methods of settling and| developing this part of the State. They are probably the best posted imen in the Northwest on these sub- | jects and as the problem of getting jin new settlers and looking after | them after they are here, to see| that they get started right under| their new surroundings and condi- tions, is one of vital importance to; every member of the community, | farmer, business. man or _profes- | sional man, it is hoped that every-| one will come to this meeting. | | | “Now that the agricultural com- | munities are on the up grade and| conditions growing better all over the Northwest, now is the time} that we should start to really! jboost for Bismarck and North Da- kota”, said a local man. “Real es- tate men in South Dakota, Minne- sota, Iowa and other states report} ito our local dealers that by fall! jthere will be a new tide of immi-! gration starting towards North! Dakota; that the farmers in those | states are tired of high rents and ‘ean’t buy the high priced lands; there and are looking this way to} ‘better themselves. Despite the fact! |that our own farmers are so hard |up they are far worse off down; \there and it is up to us to take ad- | vantage of this condition and to, see that wé-get our share of these new settlers. With the general feeling and movement. these days to get out of wheat raising, to |raise more corn, hogs, cattle, and | |do more milking, this part of the! state will very soon forget the past | few troublous years and there will; be a steady improvement in condi- tions | 'BJORNSON HEADS | isicuTON Mandan, N. D.,. Feb. 22.—Dr, B. K. Bjornson has been elected secre- tary of the Missouri Slope Fair As- sociation in the place of J. I. Oovig. resigned, Directors today announced the date of the 1923 fair as the last four days in August—August 27 io their quor in question was distilled by an | circles in Los | smell so strongly of alcohol | PRICE FIVE CENTS GERMANY DEMANDS RELEASE OF POLICE OFFICERS HELD BY FRENCH ARMY IN Donen ence acemoeet y PRINCE GEORGE HAS OPERATION UPON HIS TOES London, Feb. Prince George “underwent an operation in the Buck- ingham Palace today for the remov- al of the small toe from each foot. He had suffered from the persistent flexion of the toes, known as ham- mer toes, which caused him consid ‘erable inconvenience in his naval | duties and also in dancing of which he is a devotee. Recently he underwent an opera: | tidn for appendicitis. He is the ungest son of King George and is sold. MOVIE STARS. WILLOPPOSE | |Issue Declaration of Inde-| pendence Against Pro- | ducers Also RUHR ZONE SEND SHARP NOTESTATING THEIR VIEWS Gen. Degouette Won't Allow Cabinet Members to Enter Occupied Area HREATEN REPRISALS Berlin Government Indicates it Will Demand Reparations For All Damage Done Berlin, Feb. 22—The German gov ernment demands the release at thi: time of all police officers still un der arrest in the area of occupa tion, in a note presented to th« French government by the Germas charge de azaires, it was announce: aere today The German government reserve the right to demand full satisfac tion for alleged acts of violence in AIRBAN DEAL Pickford, Talmadge, Chaplin and Others in Group of Protestants Los Angeles, Feb. 22.—Informal j organization of a group of motion | picture actors to combat “commer- tialism” and the “resultant dwarf | ing of artistic growth” in film pro- duction was completed at a con- ference whicn ended here early to- ;day with Mary Pickford, Norman ! ! Talmadge, Constance Talmadge, | Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chap- lin, Harold Lloyd and David Wark | tepresentative | iffith signers of a pendece” from prodiqcers and ex: | their “declaration of inde- or ‘according to a story published by | \ the Los Angeles Times today. | The text of the declaration fol- ws: “Certain | | lo j combinations and ‘ groups of persons and corporations are being formed in the motion | picture ‘business which will dwarf | the artistic growth of the motion picture and we, who are directly responsible to the public for the} merit of our productions and hav- ing a profound regard for this re- sponsibility, deem it necessary at this time to form an organization | which will protect the independent producers and independent exhibi- tors aganist these commercial combinations and enable us to} keep faith with the public.” | FINISH GRIND IS BEGUN BY LEGISLATORS About 400 Bills to be Disposed of in Both Houses in Ten Days FIGHTS IMPENDING Members of the state legislature will settle today to the final grind of the session. | Both houses complete passage of | their “own bil yesterday after- noon on scheduled time; today there were committee meetings and session in committees of the whole but no bills were passed because of this begin Washington’s birthday, and tomorrow the final clean-up grind will be on in earn The house has 265 senate bills to dispose of this session, some of which already have been passed. The house sent 165 bills to the senate. One hundred and forty-three bills had been killed and eight were not permitted to be introduced. On the whole the house has the heavier program before it not only as to the number of bills but also in relation to their importance. It must act on the tax program bills most of which originated in the sen- ate, on the bills dealing with the state banking situation, and on three important highway commission mea- sures On most of these a fight must be expected. There will certainly be a battle on the senate measures io liquidate The Home Builders. , In the senate there’ will be three election bills passed by the house hich there will presumably be a fight made by thegleague mem- bers, although the most important of the election program bills is al- ready disposed of. There wi be’ battles in connection with m ures passed in the house.to defray expenses in connection with the house audit of the state owned in- dustries during the 1921 session. There is little doubt now that the leaguers intend to put up a referen- dum fight on a number of measures {30, inclusive. which have. passed, especially the election, bills, i pies | police sergeant were wounded. the Ruhr and vigorously protests against such acts. ; In the note Berlin gives version of the occurrences ut Ge kenkirenen ons Feb. 12 when two French gendarmes and a German The sergeant later died. The note calls attention to sub- sequent measures taken by French occupation authorities, referring to a fine of one hundred million marks und refers to arrest of members of the police force. Bars Cabinet Officers. A dispatch from Essen says that General Degoutte aas issued an or- der forbidding the entry of German |cabinet ministers into the occupied area. The general has instructed the police and other authorities to arrest any minister disobeying th | order and to rbing the offender br fore tae miltary court. Failure to comply with this d: cree, the dispatch says, will resu infliction of punishment on tl cities and towns concerned. TO INFLUENCE NEUTRALS Essen, Germa 2.—Ster to make the effect of the occup: tion of the Ruhy felt by neutr: ountries have been taken by Ger man mine officials as part of th passive resistance program, accor ing to information in the hands « the French. At a meeting in Bochu attended by officials of the co. mine district it was decided to ca: all coal contracts with Hollan witzerland und other neutral cou tries. The mining officials agreed the would supply only local nee the Ruhr district hereafter. Th means much less/coal‘will be min« and the unemployment will be i creased. The activity of the security poli against the French and Belgians a» | increasing. The Germans are det« | mined the French are trying to » | them out of business! The securi police officials are former office of the German imperial army. I | Gruetzner, the president of the d trict, who was expelled last week a) | who has established new headqua: ers at Elberfeld, just on the edge the occupied area, has ordered t members of the force to stick their posts and regard the Fren officers. FILIBUSTER ON SHIP MEASURE TS KEPT UP Washington, Feb. —Senate o ponents of the administration bi were prepared to carry on today { their fourth successive day of fi buster against the measure. Although before the senate rece: ed at 9 o'clock the filibuster whic had attained its height througho.: the day was relaxed to permit ado} tion of conference reports on tt army and district of Columbia a; proptiation bills marked the on! lull in the proceedings. : Before laying aside the ship bi for the conference report late las: night, the senate had heard length speeches from half a dozen member on both sides of senate on subject remote from fsubject of the bill whicl lasted all day, including a 22-hou address by Senator Borah on Reco nition of Russia, which drew a reply from Sen. Lodge of Massachusetts. Majority leaders in the house were also confronted by a filibuster move- ment developed yesterday directe!! against the bill proposing gover» ment purchases of Cape Cod cap: and consumed much time to reco- sidering their legislative progrim for the remainder of the séSsiov They were confident of stopping th: movement today, however by plans to bring the Cape Cod bill up under a special rule by ‘which it would ie disposed of in a single day . ACCEPT. CHANGES, Washington, Feb. 22.—The last i.- proval of Britiah debt stttioment proval of settlement was taken today by the house which will. accepted «1 out a roll senate: changes to the bill aménding: lied debt funding act, © oe : ie