The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 7, 1923, Page 1

‘ WEATHER FORECASTS Fair tonight and probably Fri- ‘day, sight warmer tonight. ESTABLISHED 1873 ==] THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1923 | FINAL EDITION | PRICE FIVE CENTS NEW REPARATION OFFER MADE ASK GUARANTY FUND PAY OFF DEPOSITORS ‘ | SuN. Begun to Force Payment! To Depositors in First Closed Bank. YO TEST THE LAW Will Determine if Depositors | Must Be Paid in Order of | Bank Closings | | ult Lo} Dickinson, N, D., June 7. determine whether or not the juar-| anty Fund Commission must reim-| burse depositors of closed banks a! the order of the banks’ closing, and when, has been instituted in the Sixth ict court by A. J. Wirtz in be- of himself and other depositors! of the closed Security State Bank of England. Similar suit has been x in behalf o nd other depositors of the ate Bank of Havelock. nty Fund Commission, it | is understood, has taken the position | that with numerous banks closed the; ssion is not obligated to. pa depositors of the first cl but that an equal liab states that when the Secur- Bank of New England clos-| 17, 1920 he had on deposit 0, that the total of unsecured; s about $200,000 and tha the Guaranty Fund Commission has aboi® $400,000 in its fund at present. ‘THe Security State Bank of Eng- land, since a Tolley bank has reopen-} ed, and the Farmers State Bank of! Havelock were the first banks to be! declared jnolvent of the closings which began about three years ago, the petition says. It holds the de- positors are entitled to receive their deposits in full out of the comm: sion funds. The court is asked to: 1. Order the Guaranty Fund Com- mission to pay the receiver of the rity State Bank of New England| ufficient money to pay the claims in full. ty State ed Noy. depos That in event there is not suf- ficient money to pay all unsecured defosits to issue certificates of in- debtedness against the Guaraaty fund in payment in full. 3. Decide that unsecured deposi- tors of the Secutity State Bank of New England are prior and superior to the unsecured deposits of all oth-; er bunks becoming insolvent subse- quent to the insolvency of the Secur- ity State. The petition in the suit instituted by Peter Lux is identical. Attorneys for plaintiffs are Crawford and Bur- nett of Dickinson and Chas. J. Simon ‘and H. J. Miller, New Doxland, WATER C0. ' HEAD HERE Judge Flannery Expected To See Members of City ¥ Commission Judge Geo, P. Flannery, president of the Northwestern Trust company of St. Paul and executor of the Alex- ander McKenzie estate, arrived in Bismarck at noon with Pierce But- ler, Jr. attorney, Judge Flannery was to confer with loca} officers of the Bismarck Water Supply Company. The city commission made an offer. $250,000 for the company’s proper- ise week, the offer to expire next Monday night. It was expected that Judge Flannery would cénfer’ with members of the city commission, NEW FINANCE COMPANY HERE, To Operate Under Recent Agricultural Credits Law ‘Ye Behkers Bond and Mortgage Company with its principal place of business in Bismarck and purpose to engage in a bond and mortgage busi- ness and to control a company form- ed to handle money under the federal 1 credits uct recently enacted by ogress, has filed articles of incpr- poration. Directors are C. M. An- dereck, Minneapolis; Obert A, Olson, Bismarck; C. S. Brown, Valley City; A. Stonehouse, Larimore; Fred Hun- ger, Hankinson; Martin Aspland, Ber- gen; C. F, Jensen, Valley City. Pro- pos¥d capital stock is $330,000. ‘DENTISTS END 143 Hail Loss Claims Reported Hai] is beginning its inroads on growing crops f North Dakota. One hundred and forty-three loss claims have been reported to the state hail insurance department, Martin Hagen, manager, said today. They are from the counties of Richland, Ransom, Dickey, LaMoure, Stutsman, Barne: Cass, ner, Traill, Steele, Burke, Eddy, Foster, ly. Slope,. Bow- man and Divide, * ns HUMAN ROCKET FLARES UP 3 ~*e « Cel Sides of Mt™David “were “scaled with meteoric speed by daredevil riders in the motorcycle hill climb at Cottage Grove, Ore.. Yale Smith of Eugene, Ore., is seen ne hastily from his “rearing NENT “ARRIVED IN N. D. 42 YEARS AGO YESTERDAY G. A. Bardsley, employed at the state capitol, celebrated yesterday. {8TH ANNUAL CONVENTION Clinies and Explanations Con- stitute Program in Morn- ing Session set foot on North Dakota soil. Thomas A, Bardsley, his father, moved from southern Minnesota with his family to a m south of Wah- peton in 1881. Except for five years residence just below the South Da- kota border, Mr. Bardsley has lived in North Dakota since that time. He has been ae resident of Bismarck since 191 he LOCAL DENTISTSPRAISED | - OF SCHNEIDER memory of niembers who have died | gy, PRET 7, during the past year and other busi-| States Attorney Leaves For Rosye-wason the «program for the[ Valley City; Sheriff’ Takes concluding session of the North D: iaciiipementa Here Are Extraordinary in Com- pleteness kota State Dental Association here | Prisoner this afternoon at the Masonic tem-} i ple. ion Ss AN 7 . A i E. S. Allen, states attorney, went The banquet in Patterson's hall % f b tto Valley City last night to appear lsat els a party Vand (Wei for the state in the trial of Kasimir Kote ‘of Panga wan Arct, wrigecon.| Schneider, Bismarck laborer, charg. 4 : con ed with the is wife. 1 This morning several sections of | tomorrow. the convention were occupied in| , Schueider, who bas been iy jail in j default of bond, was taken to Valley clinie work, during which many di ficult /dental operations were per-| city this morning by Sheriff Hen, formed for patieats. Lae Me gye rege ed This included the crown and bridge} *''p'h, Norton ond C. F. Kelsch of Mandan will defend Schn they also ure going to V: section, of which Dr. J, W. Hami ton was chairman, and a table clinic der, and ley City by the Minot study club, Geo. P.| today, while Charles J, Simon will Jorgenson and L. I, Gilbert. In the! he special assistant. attorney-gener- operative dentistry section, Dr. H. at and J. F. Sullivan of Mandna is C. Cooper was chairman. Foil oper-| expected to adsist the prosecution. ation was conducted by Dr. C, W. Schneider's wife died suddenly Putney as operster and Dr. H. H.! more than year ago in their home Ewy as demonstrator, and another} 9, the south side here, A chemists’ clinie by Dr. or and Dr, onstrator. Dr. C.F. W. S. Shaw as operat- . A, Rawlings as dem- examination of the contents of the stomach showed arsenic was pres- ent. The state charged that Schneid- er administered poison, he denying the charge. In his first trial, in dis- trict court here the jury was 11 to 1 for conviction. Sweet of Minot was chair; the oral surgery section. P, C. Verne of Fargo talked and! monstrated taking and interpreta-! man was Bre tion of dental X-rays, and Drs. G.! sSigss P, E. Ralston and L. C.} 2 were on the program. | CASH The Bismarck dentists were high-} ly complimented by the visitors for their excellent arrangement of the} convention, Several rooms at the Masonic temple were fitted up’ as| clinics, complete dental offices be- pie} ing established. Last Day Passed Without 150 at Banquet. A More than 150 dentists ang their Emerson Advancing . guests were entertained last even- Money ing at a banquet served by the Mc- Kenzie hotel in Patterson’s hall. Ta- bles were set about the sides of a great square, an arrangement which made for rapid service of the dinner which was over in: due time for the theater party at the Auditorium. Dr. R. S. Towne presided as toast- master. In his opening address he stressed the point that dental as- sociations such as they ‘are now known were of recent jorigin. He said that the old idea of keeping se- cret methods and processes of the profession had passed away. Now dental surgeons were anxious to help not only the cause of public health but to pass on any ideas that might aid the dentist to make his work more perfect and elevate the standards of the profession. Governor’Nestos was then intro- duced dnd congratulated the dentists upon their interests in general health measures. He declared that the day in successful business had gone when there was only one side to a bargain ang success meant get- ting the best end of that bargain. "There must be two pleased ci tomers to the; transaction,” he said. “Your profession has taken this view the situation. You are more and more paying «attention to general welfare.” Miss Minnie ‘Nielson, state super- intendent of schools, paid a high tri- bute to Dr, Towne for his work in promoting the study of oral hygiene. She, commended his text book en- titled: “Your Teeth.” This book is (Continued on Page 3) Fargo, N. D., June 7.--Yesterday was the final day for settlement by H.’ A. Emerson of the debts of the Equity Co-operative Packing Co., but he did not appear in Fargo nor did he send money to pay up the claims, according to President C. W. Reichert of the packing company. Mr. Reich- ert said yesterday that the matter now is just where it was last March when Emerson’s plan was the first taken up for consideration. Mr. Reichert safd that he has let- ters from Mr. Emerson of New York in which the latter says that he is now undecided what to do. It was understood yesterday that the mat- ter will be held in abeyance until June 20. The packing company owes about $155,000 -on a property that cost about a million and & quarter. Sev- eral judgments and mortgages are on file against the property now, one judgment for about $60,000 having been‘secured by Louis Altenbernd of Sabin, Minn, ) NAMED ON BOARD. Rev. L. R, Johnson of Bismarck, was named to sit on the state board of experts, considering applications of prisoners for paroles, in place of Rev. H. C. Postlethwaite; who is ill. NAMED AID F. F. Wycoff, Stanley, has been named special stant attorney-gen- eral to aid in prosecution of the cases of State v. idy and State v. Gun- derson in: MeKensle county, ; fo} It was 42 years ago yesterday that | NT OTT VISIBLE DENT _ IN RYE CROP IS INDICATED Reports From 21 County Agents of State Show Winter Rye Crop Less O BLACK RUST Will Appear to Some Extent, However, Says Plant Pathologist Fargo, N. D., Jurfe 7.--A visible dent in the 1$ rye crop of the United States is indicated by thin stands, short straw and fields not worth harvesting in many parts of North Dakota, according to reports for the period ending last Saturday received from 21 county agents at the office of the North Dakota Extension division at the Agricultural college. In 1922 North Dakota produced more than one-quarter of the rye crop of the country, the total pro- duction for this state being 24,506,000 bushels, and the average production per acre 15.5 bushels. A considerable reduction in the acreage over the previous year was made last fall, however, and the reports of the pre- sent status of the crop indicate that the yield per acre as well as the to- tal production of the state will fall far below that of last year. Rye is reported to be heading out in most parts of the state, but the county agents say that the straw is very short and the stands are spotted. From MeLean county comes the re- port that many fields will be cut for hay or used for pasture. Damage from cutworms, while not yet as serious as last year, is cover- ing « wider territory, as several re- ports are received of the presence of this worm east of the Missouri river. Grasshopper damage, while not at all general, has resulted in plowing up fields of rye and wheat in northern McHenry county. No rust has yet been reported on , according to Dr. Wanda Weni-; plant pathologist of the North, Dakota Experiment _ station, who! states that the earliest report of black recent years is June 6. lateness of the season, it is impro- bable that any black stem rust of wheat will be found before next! week,” Dr. Weniger declares. “How- ever, specimens of barberry bushes | this year have shown the clustercup stage of the rust to be early as May 2: will surely be present in the crop, but at this early state it is not pos- sible to make any estimate or form any opinion regarding the likelihood , of the disease being generally epi- demic. We have received no reports | of damage from scab, and the cool weather immediately following seed- ing has evidently held this disease in_chee! Individual reports from many coun- ties for the period ending last*Sat- urday follow: McHENRY “Spring wheat and carly oats are up and are in good shape, while some oats is being seeded. Seeding of barley is finished and of flax 15 nearly finished, and some of the ear- ly flax is up. inter rye seeded on good shape where it is summer fallow. The crop is headed out. Spring rye looks fair but the stands are thin. Corn is up and very favorable weather has hastened its progress. Early sown potatoes arc coming along in nice shape and som potatoes are still being planted. As a general rule farmers are treating seed for disease. Alfalfa, sweet clov- cr and native pastures are all in good condition. Grasshoppers arc damaging rye and wheat crops in the northern part of the county, and some fields have been plowed up in the vi- cinity of Willow City. Bantry Upham. Farmers do not believe that insects due to the large amount of vacant land on which the hoppers cun breed.” M. C. Thomas, Towner. WARD “Corn and potato planting is on m full swing and practigally all small grain sceding is finished. A large increase in the corn acreagé and a similar decrease in the potato acre- age are anticipated. Rye is begin- ning to head out. More than half an inch of rain fell during the week. Alfalfa and, sweet clover are in good condition as well as other pasture crops.” John Husby, Minot. MOUNTRAIL “Stubbled in wheat is very weedy, but the balance of the wheat crop is looking good. Seeding of oats and barley is about finished with an in- creased acreage of 10 to 20 percent over lust year. Rain totaling .78 inch which fell Monday night, help- ved the rye crop, but indications are that this crop will be light. - Half of the corn is planted and the acreage of this crop will be increased 25 per- cent. About half of the potato plant- ing is finished and a large amount of the flax. Alfalfa and pastures are in stem rust recorded in the state in! “Due to the, stubble is in_poor condition but is inj planted v1): and | it is advisable to try to poison the} BARNINGS OF RAILROADS OF U.S. INCREASED |Represents About 6% Per, Cent Return, Is the Esti- mate of Experts TRAFFIC IS GREATER Western Earnings Are Lower Than Those of the East- ern Lines Washington, June 7—Karnings of class one railroads during April totalled $83,197,800, according to compilations made public yesterday by the American Railway Associa- tion which estimated they represent- edan annual return of 61-2 percent on capital invested in transportation The rate the highest attained since return of the roads to private own- ership, resulted from freight traffic greater by 65 per cent during the j month than the volume handled a jyear ago, and total operating reve- nues, which, in spite of some reduc: tion railroad rates, were more thar percent greater than during the same period last year. In April, 1922, earnings were $19,979,000, while in March of this year they totalled $83,668,000, Dur- in ing first four months of this year the net operating income of the roads totalled $266,246,000, — repre- senting a 549 percent return on the estimated value of railroad property used in transportation. The class one lines for which the totals are compiled operate more than 90 per- cent of the country’s rail mileage, and include all roads with more than $1,000,000 per year of gross revenue. Western Rate Low Considering the earnings by dis tricts, the eastern and southern were shown to have attained a stan- durd during April far above the In- terstate Commerce Commission's rub ing that 53-4 percent should be con. sidered reasonablb. Lines east of the Mississippi and generally north of the Ohio, showed April earnings of $48,321,000 which is at the annual réurn rate of 7.93 percent on their). tentative value, Lines in the south- ern district earned $12,281,000; or a | | rate of 7.18 perceat. | On the other hand, the western | district, including most of the roads ‘in territory west of the Mississippi reported April earnings of $22,596,- 000 which the railway association estimated to represent 4.52 of their tentative capital value. In spite of the gencrally good showing drawn from the composite carnings statement, 29 railroads dur- [ing April had incurred operating de- ficits, 20 of them being roads in the | western district. GILMAN C0. 70 PUT UP FINE NEW BUILDING Plan to Erect Sales and Service Building This Year- Property at the corner of Broad-4 way and Second streets is being cleared to permit erection of a mod- erg automobile sales and service | building by M. B. Gilman & Co. {Dodge Bros., automobile sales and distributing firm, Two houses on the lots which are {on the southwest corner, are to be moved immediately, having been sold. It is the plan of the Gilman com- | pany to build a modern brick build- jing 50 by 140. Plans are in the | eourse of preparation. They include @ building with a full basement and first floor strong enough ta support a three story building, the structure probably . including the second story this year. The building will be exclusively for Dodge Brothers sales and service ‘There are now about 2,000 Dodge cars in the company’s distributing territory being served. WEATHER FORECASTS For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair tonight and probably Friday, slightly warmer tonight. For North Dakota: Fair tonight and probably Friday, slightly warmer tonight west portion. Corn and Wheat. excellent condition due to the warm weather and rainy’ Cut worms are reported to be working in occasional grain fields but the damage reported thus fas is hot serious nor wide spread.” “A. J. Bredvold, Stanley. 4 BURKE Fain seeding is finished with the exeeption of flax. Rye will be head- ed out soon and is in good condi- tion. Early seeded corn is up. Rail- fall totaling 1% inches during th week benefited the crop; also pas- (Continued: on Page 2) Stations. High. Lem, Preci. Amenia . 460 C Bismarck a 40 0 C Bottineau . 70 35 0 C Bowbells 17 465 0 C Devils Lake 10 42 0 C Dickinson . 67 39 0 C Eltendale 69 44 0 PC Fessenden 1% 44 0 C Grand Forks 70 55 0 C Jamestown 7 48 0 C Langdon 69 41 0 C Larimore 72 41 0 C Lisbon .. m 44 0 C Minot ... 12 33:0 C ‘Napoleon m4 40.0 C Pembina 4 380 C Williston +. 72 é oc MasEReeA prea ba +70 44 0 .C Orria. W. Roberts. FIRST NORTHERN PACIFIC TRAIN PUFFED IN HERE ROTARIANS OBSERVE OCCASION Flowers Presented to Passe Limited of Railroad Today in Commemoration of En- trance of Railroad Here — Mrs. J. P. Dunn, Pioneer, Among PAYMENTLOWER THAN FIXED BY PEACE TREATY | Offers Her National Railways As Security for Annual 50 YEARS ACO; ngers on Fine Pacific Coast Those at Station Payments Fifty years ago today Bismarck's|a short stop and rumbled on to the y first train, a little old fashioned] western coast. Fifty years ago the WILLING, SHE CLAIMS engine with a few flat cars pushed| train crawled slowly up to the site into Bismarek, of the present station and stopped ‘ Seer Todny f modern passenger train] for it was not until September 8 of| AVoids Ruhr Occupation and with a huge high-powered engine,| the same year that the Golden Spike i modern day coaches, dining car,| was driven at G Hlasin Mont. | Other Points on Which sleoping coaches with an observa-| Today the arrival of the long Answer was Asked tion platform was greeted by al string of coaches arcely created group of Rotarians with arms fulll a ripple off excitement except as a "7 of carnations which they presented! mong the small group of Rotarians| Berlin, June 7.—Germany's amend to the pa sengers on the train at the station to celebrate the oc-|#tory reparations note, which wa Cards attached to the flowers} cusion while fifty years ago the cn-| handed to the entente ang the Unite bore the inscription “To celebrate] tire population of jthe little vil-| States government this afternoor Bismarck's first train fifty yeuys| lage of tents and cotton log homes | Proposes a system of annuities est ago todays" Among those at the} were wildly enthusiastic and vocifer-| mated to total 1,299,000,000 marks ar station to meet the train as it ar-] ous as they saw those heavy ladencd| ually if an international loan is nc rived today was Mrs. John P. Dunn,| flat cars being pushed ahead by the| available for immediate capital pay pioneer resident of Bismarck, and] steaming engine. They shouted and| ments. one of the two women now called and patted their neighbors on] ~The annuities would become effer marck, who watched the app: the little old engine pushing its half dozen flat work car, and cook shack as the steel rails were spiked to the heavy wooden ties that were dropped off the cars, fifty years ago. Today the long train of coaches came thundering in at the rate of about sixty miles an hour, made but BUYS CONTRACT 17 FOR REPAIR OF “GOLDEN fos n Francisco, June 7.—To the Chicago postoffice and the San Francisco Ferry building often sold by confidence men to unsus- pecting strangers add the Golden Gate, Joe Welgh, who never has scen the famous entrance to San Fran- o harbor, paid two gentlemen yesterday $200 to obtain a con- tract with a guaranteed profit of $1,000 for rebuilding the gate. BEGIN SEARCH FOR “KING” OF CULT COLONY Benjamin Purnell Charged | With Offenses by Michi- gan Authorities St. Joseph, Mich., June 7.—The search for “King Benjamin Purnell is on in earnest. Armed with a war- rant charging the missing House of David leader with a statutory of- fense against a 15-year-old girl the | Bericn county sheriff's office raided | Shioh, Purnell’s residence at the Ben- | ton Harbor colony and failing to find ; him there extended the search to other places in the state where it is, thought Purnell might have sought refuge. Gladys Stamford Ruel, former member of the colony cult, and in- mate of Shiloh, made the complaint on which the warrant was issued by Circuit Judge Charles E. White of ; Berien county. He charges a series of assaults by Purnell over a period of three years, the first he avers when she was 13 years. The charges were brought within the statute of limitations by an alleged assault in 1918. QM. MEN ON WAY TO CAMP; Leave Bismarck at 6 a..m. For Devils Lake — Then vanguard of the North /Dako- ta National Guard moved toward camp today when the Quartermaster Detachment, commanded by Major Harold Sorenson, left this city in big reconnoisance auto busses. The de- tachment, composed of officers and 18 enlisted men, breakfasted at a downtown cafe at 5 a, m. and moved|* at 6 a. m. x Before the detachment feft several promotions were announced. Roy Kuntz was promoted from sergeant to staff sergeant; Prvt.’ 1st class Leonard Miller to Sergeant; Prvts. 1st class Paul Halloran and Harry Orr to corporal; and Pvt. ist class Joseph S. Eaton to sergeant; G. T. Spear and Clarence Stedman from privates to privates first class. 1908 FORD AT MANDAN TODAY}? The oldest car to appear at Man- dan’s Ford Day celebration today at 10 a. m. was car No. 11,787, manu- factured in 1908. It was driven in by Charles McGoon of Mott. A north line farmer, who was out for the prize for bringing the largest num- ber of girls to,;the city, drove in with nine girls, himself, wife and three cream cans in his car. tive in 1927, and their number an amount would depend wholly on tl degree of Germany's economic re covery. The memoranda declares a inevitable requisite to a practical s« lution of the reparations problem the early convocation of a gener conference to which Germany wou! be admitted on an equal basis. The document is brief and whol devoid of elucidation of the moote points on which the creditor natior had requested amplifying statement It makes no mention of the politic situation, the Ruhr occupation or ti | question of abandoning the pas: resistance und indulges in no recrin inations. Neither does it refer to the cor ditions under which Germany is pr pared to curry out the payment of tl annuities. Reaffirms Willingness, the back, and a few resorted to fire- arms. to add to the nolse on the oc- casion. For weeks previous to the actual arrival of the train the in- habitants of Bismarck had done lit- tle but talk about the coming of the railroad. They had made daily trips to the little old wooden sta- tion to observe the advance of the railroad. ‘T KILLED AND MANY HURT IN GERMAN RIOTS Demonstration Against Ruhr 4 ; many's good will and willingne: Occupation Results Fatal- | mect her reparations obligations ly to M erts the conviction that the ¢ y to Many tiré problem should be submitted an impartial inquiry, the verdict which, it declares, would be accept by the German government. As guarantees for the annuitic the German government pledges tl federal railway system which wou be capitalized at ten mihon: mack yielding an annual bonded intere-' Ge PARADES ARE HELD | |Trade Unionists Fail in Their Attempt to Preserve Order of 500,000,000 marks. A further ten billion marks wou!d : ees be guaranteed by a gold 5 per cei Kerlin, June 7--Seven persons ee ; were killed and more than mortgage yascurliyg tore wii chee S| 100 | wounded in yesterday's disorders Hill Leipzig, it was announced in spe ial dispatches from that city to The dead include one policeman, | the head watchman, while there ure |15 policeman atmong’ the wounded, many of whom are in a serious con- | Sten. | The demonstration was in protest jagainst the Ruhr occupation and the be furnished in physical holdings vi industry, agriculture and «shippir ang the gold obligation assumed } nking and commercial interests ar: private real estate. This levy, it estimated, would also yield 600,000, 000 gold marks, The additional 200 000,000 of the annuity total woul be raised by increased customs dutie on articles of luxury and the crea insufficiency of the unemployment| tion of a government monopoly in to doles. Some 20,000 persons, it is| bacco and spirits. { said, took part. Order had been The reparations commission orig inally decided that Germany, unde» the provision of the Versailles peacc treaty, should be assesed damages for her aggression in the sum of 132,- 000,000,000 golg marks, Amount Too Great. Germany always has asserted tha‘ this amount was far beyond her abil ity to pay. In counter-proposals st has offered various sums, all of the far below the total asked in the ori: inal demands. In addition she |. hedged about her tendered stipu tions which the allies, and partieuls+ ly France, have refused point-ble to consider. Insufficient. guarant: that Germany would make good 1 promises always have been point out by France for that country ¢ clined to give full consideration + her offers. Germany's first official offer wa 30,000,000,000 gold marks, payable the rate of 240,000,000 annually / five years with a new arrangement « liquidation to be worked out after that period. The offer was conditior al on Upper Silesia being awarded Germany and the restoration of Ger many’s. commercial . privilege throughout the world. Her secon tender was almost identical with first as regards the amount, whic in American money is $7,500,000,00\ She also agreed to pay the equival of a 12 per cent tax on exports. In April, 1921, came an offer of 50.- 000,000,000 gold marks, one billion of which was to be paid immediate!y and the remainder to be liquidated in annuities running over a long period of time, ultimately bringin: the total with accrued interest up io 200 billion marks. < Then in January, 1923, came tiie meeting of the allied prime minis. ters in Paris at which the repara- tions differences between this o!- ficials became more accentuated. The British ang French were agreed on a reparations figure of 50 billion gold marks and as on thg question of corn- prehensive financial control. They were in direct opposition on the ques- tion of penalties, France desiring to seize guarantees along the Rhine and in the Ruhr while rGeat Britain did not desire any further occupation of Geri territory except in the case of some future default by Germany. A few days later the French ac- completely | evening. The demonstrators gathered under the auspices of the trade unionists [and the socialists in five huge as isemblies in the central part of the | town. The demonstration was t! jelimax of a number of minor ades and open air meetings whi had occurred during the two days previous. Toward the close of these gather- lings, it is stated, crowds of the jyouthful unruly elements suspected | of including some communists began \stirring up provocative agitation in the neighboring streets against the police and the trade union leaders , who were preserving order, The police claimed that when they jtried to suppress this counter ! demonstration a shot was fired from |the crowd and the police then re- | sorted to the use of blackjacks.| This brought a shower of stones and bits of glass from the disturbers who in turn began using blackjacks and knives After vainly tryiwg to disperse ‘the crowd by shooting into the air | the police shot directly at the riot- ers. Mounted police and other re- inforeements soon after succeeded lin restoring order, res ored at 9 o'clock last 'BLECTION LAW PETITIONS 0. K. Difference in F orm Not Fatal, Attorney-General Holds R. W. Frazier, who filed petitions asking that three major election laws of the last legislature be submitted to voteof the people, will be inform- ed by the Secretgry of State that the petitions are sufficient, Deputy Sec- retary M. W. Duffy said today. The names, as checked by the secrétary of state’s office totalled from 8,800 to 9,400, the required number being * Attorney General Geo. F. Shafer, in reply to request for an opinion on the sufficiency of the petitions since part of them carried a digest of the laws and part but the titles, said “we | companied by the jans and some have examined these petitions in this | Italian forces ‘the Ruhr. The respect and believe they sufficiently | last offer by), Germany was for a toial comply with the requirements of the | indemnity py | et thirty billion constitutional amendment, relating to | gold marks. All the allies cdmamedi- the initiative and referendum.” ately Tejected. ¢ % i 2 ah