The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 23, 1925, Page 1

‘ | i } WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinit: Most ly’ fair tonight and Saturday. ESTABLISHED 1873 te THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [aiainm BISMARCK, NORTH DAKO'A, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1925 PRICE FIVE CENTS LEAGUE WILL TRY TO PREVENT WAR ROBINSON AND KIDDER CO. HAS GONE OIL MAD Land Prices Jumping By Leaps and Bounds—No Sales Have Been Reported INVESTORS ARE WARNED Townley Is Only Borrowing Mcney and State Has No Power to Stop Him The village of Robinson and most of Kidder county is oil mad. Pros- pects of fabulous riches are being en- visioned by residents of the territory and each citizen who owns a piece of land is hoping that the end of the rainbow will be found in his ard, a survey by the » ties commission showed. For three months the only really interesting topic of conversation in the village gnd vicinity has been o} and the prospect of finding it—all because the town well is giving off a violatile oil which in form and sub- stance is almost like gasoline. To date Tom Nervy, on whose prop- erty the seepage well was discovered, the only citizen of Robinson to realize a profit on the discovery. He has sold the well to a local develop- ment company which is planning to drill for oil, reserving the right to the customary one-eighth royalty in case real production is obtained. Hesitate to Invest Despite visions of great wealth most of the townsfolk themselves are reluctant to invest money in any de- velopnient project. They are waiting for the outside world to supply the cash which they hope will make their dreams come true, Meanwhile they holding their land for at fabulous prices. ‘The local hotel keeper is demanding $12,000 for a 12-acre plot near the well which started the disturbance and declares that “land prices are jumping every day,” although no sales at any figure are reported. Investors Warned A note of warning to investors is being sounded by E. 0. Bailey, exec- ecurities pany has been formed to drill, for oil tn Barnes county, another near Velv: a4 third in the southwestern part of the state and a fourth near Minot. All of them are hopeful that they may strike oil. It is true that they may, but all of it is purely wild-cat- | ting’ and enterprises of that kind ai no place for anyone to put money which he needs. All of these compan- ies are purely speculative and there is more than a possibility. that people investing in them will lose the money so invested.” All of the companies now drilling for oil or planning to do so are un- der the direct supervision of the state securities commission. Mem- bers of the commission have made the requirements, which development companies ‘are required to meet, as strict as possible but hesitate to take definite action against them because of the possibility that some of the enterprises may turn out to be justi- fied. Townley’s Scheme Outside the Law The only oil promotion enterprise} not coming under the jurisdiction of the commission—and the biggest—is that being financed by A. C. Townley, former Nonpartisan league chieftain, who is declared to be borrowing mon- ey from his friends, on notes signed by himself, with which to finance his operations, Because Townley has not formed a corporation and is not sell- ing stock he has not been called be- fore the securities commission and his operations are not open to ques- tion. In an unofficial opinion Attorney General George Shafer, who makes no pretense of being _ politically friendly to the former Nonpartisan leader, says there is nothing the state can do to bring Townley under its supervision as long as he pursues his present plan of operation. Railway Must Install Automatic Control Device Washington, Oct. 23.—)—The In- terstate Commerce commission today ordered the Great Northern Railway Company to install an automatic Nrain control device on the 106 miles of its line between Williston, N. D., and Wolf Point, in Montana. In spite of a petition by the railroad asking to be relieved of the expenditure. ——— A Weather Report | Temperature at 7 a. m. 35 igh 49 owe: Precipitation to 7 a.m. .... Highest wind velocity ... WEATHER FORECAST + For Bismarck and vicinity: Mostl fair tonight and Saturday, but witl some cloudiness. Not much change in temperature. For North Dakota: Mostly fair to- night and Saturday, but with some cloudiness. Not much change in tem- perature. Weather Conditions The pressure is low and temper- atures have risen over the Mi i Valley, southern Plains Sta southern Rocky Mountain while high pre: region acconipanied by slightly colder weather, prevails from the northern Rocky Mountain region té the north Pacific coast. Precipita- tion occurred in the Great Lakes re- gion, upper Mississippi Valley and along the northeastern Rocky Moun- tain slope. Elsewhere the weather is generally fair. ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Oficial in Charge. 1,075 Taxpayers Delinquent in 1925 There are 1,075 residents of Bur- leigh county who are delinquent in the payment of their 1925 personal property taxes, according to G. Spear, county treasurer, who has just turned the list of delinquents over to Sheriff Albin Hedstrom for pur- poses of enforcing collection. The taxes became delinquent on March 1, after which penalty was added which at the present time amounts to 10 1-4| of | per cent. An additional penalty three-quarters of one per cent added each month. is ed penalty are now payable to Sheriff Hedstrom, in addition to the sheriff's fee of $1. According to the law the sheriff is now supposed to make col- lection of the amounts or levy on the property taxed. The total amount of delinquent personal property taxes for 1925 is $18,296.35, Treasurer Spear states. Mcdern Heat and Power Plant and Laundry For Bis- | marck Institution 000 b ing project is now ich, when completed, will give th institution a modern and thorough: complete heatin; laundry, An entire being constructed east of the south wing of the hospital which will in-| clude a full basement and one story The basement will house the four n boilers to be installed, together with | the other machinery connected with} the heating and power plant, and the | laundry will contain all the latest | machinery for a department of that| kind. The work was started tb tember and the contract calls for completion by January fhe present laund and heating plant, in the basement of the Proper, will be taken out and disposed ation. The space now used for that! purpose will rooms for store room. be devoted patients and The main purpose of th to more s to get away from all noise and vibration in the hospital itself by structure. ‘The new plant will be con- nected to the main building at the east ig with an elevator between. This give the institution two ele- vators instead of one as at present. In addition to heating the | the new plant will heat the five res- ‘idences which are on the hospital grounds. Heating mains have been laid to all of these buildings. | A huge smokestack for. the plant is now in process of tion and is attracting considerable attention. It will, when completed, ibe from 65 to 70 feet high and is of an immense size. Another feature of the plant will be an automatic hop- ‘per arrangement for unloading coal jWhereby an entire truck load of fuel can be dumped into the huge coal bin , in one operation. The institution uses about 7 1-2 tons of coal daily except new nstruc- during the summer months and then} jthe daily consumption is about five tons. With the new heating plant it will be possible to use a much cheap- er grade of fuel than heretofore and it is expected, therefore, that the jheating costs will be materially re- duced. The construction work is being done by C. H, Johnson & Son of Fargo. WILL MOVE TO DETERMINE IF LAW IS VALID Insurance Agents’ Protection Law to Be Tested in North Dakota Court Action to determine the validity of the insurance agents’ protection law, passed at the last session of the legislature, will be filed in the near futuré, Insurance Commissioner S. Olsness was notified today by Fred- erick Silber, Chicago atotrney, who is representing Olsness in a’ case which has been carried to the United States circuit: court of appeals. Trial of the case in the federal ap- peals court will be held up pending an action to determine the validity of the new North Dakota law, Silber said. : The case originated, Olsness_said, because of a fight between the West- ern Union of Insurance companies, representing one group of fire insur- The delinquent taxes with the add. | oapital | of after the new plant is in oper-| |new building, in addition to providing! more modern and larger equipment, | i | said, jwere led ‘into this by some of the moving all machinery to a separate | Will Heat Residences a: 1 | i junder way at the Bismarck hospital} Mi ti d power plant and! members of the crew, as other p y new building is; engers charged. central! for passengers to go to the boat de t |from the moment the f ee eee CREW TELLS OF SCENES ON THE COMANCHE Stori Concerning Negro Members of Crew Denied By Second Steward JAZZ AND PRAYERS MIX Denie: That Women Passen- gers 1d Becn Pulled From () - Dramatic voard the steamship che when fire broke out Sunday, off j the Florida coast, werelescribed to- jday by 6 members of the crew re- turning to this port. Women praying in the salon as rchastra keep up morale, men ngers “meddling with the officers’ work and playing ca s instead of men of help, invasion of the boat deck by men and women passen before the lifeboats were ready these were some of the episodes de- s y the returning crew mem- @ only passenger from the riviag on the Cherokee, ine B. Roberts of Bloom- said she did not witness rdice on the part of n Denies Charges James C, Wilkie, second steward on the Comanche, told of happenings was covered amidship. Wilkie emph: cally denied that any women pas gers had been pulled from lifeb: by negro members of the cre lating to the incident of women praying in the salon while puiting on their lifebelts Wilkie said he gave orders to the orchest to “play something jazzy. seemed to help, he asserted, until the lights went out from a burned fuse, and the musicians could not longer read their m He denied that any order was given nstead of remaining on the main deck to board the life boats, “They followed the crew,” Wilkie and, if I am not mistaken, they men passengers, who always try to run things when they ought to be minding their own business. “If they had given more time to being men of help instead of being cavaliers, it would have gene a long- er way in doing something.” FRENCH MONEY CRISIS STILL 1S UNSETTLED Caillaux Lays Financial Posi- tion of Country Before the Cabinet Paris, Oct. 23—()—The French cabinet’ meeting today broke up without Finance Minister Caillaux fully detailing his fiscal measures or submitting his resignation, which had been anticipated in some quarters. The cabinet is to meet again Monday. While not giving the details of his plans, M. Caillaux laid the financial position of the country before his colleagues in general terms. The impression prevails that the cabinet will meet the chamber of dep- uties next Thursday without any change in its membership, although full agreement on the financial ques- tions has not yet been reached among the ministers. 3 Debt Question Secondary The question of France's debt to the United States temporarily is in the background, it being realized that it cannot usefully be taken up again until the existing financial crisis is settled. : Meanwhile, the whole problem is being carefully studied by M. Cail- laux’s assistants, and hope is express- ed that some announcement as _ to what will be done will be made with- in two or three weeks. 4. Shafer, Burke, to Speak at Chiefs of Police Meeting Attorney General George Shafer and Judge John Burke of the state supreme court are scheduled for ad- dresses on the program being planned py Chief of Police Barnes of Mandan for October 29 when he will entertain the heads of the police departments of 150 cities in Montana and the two ance companies, and The Western| Dakotas. The meeting has been call- Bureau of Insurance companies, rep- resenting another group. When the Western Union of insur- ance companies issued an order, two years ago prohibiting its agents from also representing members ‘of the ‘Western Bureau companies, Olsness ruled that the order was illegal but) was defeated when the case was tried; in the federal court here. Affects Other States Olsness appealed the case to the federal cotet of appeals and last winter the legislature passed a law covering the subject. If the statute is declared valid the case in federal court will be dropped. Olsness the North Dakota .case is of far- reaching importance as several other midwestern states are facing the same problem. i The state’s interest, Olsness said,. is to protect insurance agents who have been representing members of both groups and whose businesses} United States, ed in order to unite the police de- partments of the three states into a fast working unit in the drive against crime in the Northwe: Much better cooperation can be secured if the various police chiefs are acquainted with.each other, Chief Barnes con- tends in inviting the chiefs of other cities to the conference. Luther Burbank Elected to Receive High Masonic Degree Washington, Oct. 23.—(#)—Luther Burbank of Santa~Rosa, California, naturalist of international note, was awarded the honor of being elected to receive the 33rd Masonic degree by the Supreme Council, Scottish Rite southern jursdiction of in recognition of his would be damaged by a forced se-|general beneficient labors in ‘behalf paration, of humanity. Burleigh County Wheat Ranks Burleigh county wheat this year wed an average protein content of 1, which was higher than the av-| erage for the state as a whole, ac- | cording to tests made by C. E. M gels, cereal chemist of the N kota Agricultural college, of three | samples representing the wheat crop | of the county. Samples were taken | from the farms of Joseph McCluskey and Melvin Grant, Menoken, and Alex} Toronto, Oct. 23.—Canada, on the Stenquist, Wilton. eve of a federal election contest Tests of 507 samples gathered from! avowedly fought to determine wheth- | 48 counties of the state showed an er the dominion will erect a “pro- average protein content of 12 hibitive tariff” wall against the year the protein United States, goes to the polls on BT per cent, Thur: Oct. 29, in uncertainty, states being used for the} There is no other real issue facing test. The wheat samples richest in the electorate than that involv protein were produced in the western | the alleged depopulation of the Do- part of the state this year, it was minion through migration across the found. international boundary. Information regarding the samples} | Conservatives charge the exodus is prepared by county agents and to Premier Mackenzie ent in with the wheat, and the mill-' Ki w tariff policy. This, t ing department will use this data in| de has resulted in the who attempting to determine whether the! closing of Canadian factories and the use of legume crops, such as alfalfa,’ exodus southward of hundreds of sweet clover and red clover increases thousands of the Dominion’s citizens the chance of producing high protein: because of inability to obtain a live- wheat when climatic conditions are lihood in their own land. nies Canada Divided--United States is to Blame For Dominion’s New Issue unfavorable Meighen Leads Opposition Se night of Oct. 29 will yield up ja government out of the political |vortex, But whether it will be the fold one of Premier King or a new jone headed by Rt. Hon. Arthur {Meichen, who was premier in the ; coalitionist war administration, none i will predict tariff wall “as high as Ham | gallows.” so high that “Uncle § will wear out his goatee trying john over it,” is the den dof the | Meighen conservatives. The prime -—— ini while contending that other . . ues also are before the electorate Minot Homecoming May Be ;—such as the Canadian National a sae 3 | Railways, immigration, and th in Nature of a Senatorial {| Senate es j th: is Preliminary ! question. pThis means that the election PETER cca lini characterized gene sone of the | the » last. Parlinment, is! Politicians are speculatin to} most important country since | going shouting it, whether the homecoming to be given) Confederation— be fought out The liberals claim) that } R. A. Nestos is not in the nature of aj on traditional libe tinst tra | ecl le to the Uni | senatorial preliminary. That he is a} ditional .conservative prine on'|is simply: the moveii tentative candidate goes without say- | °0,ff a udhatiestion:of protection; or) Border thit/h peor He is fresh from a European It is nothing unusual that relations it is erensly. . h peuleds Somme, Otte with the United States constitute the ) purposes in the pre ir and is doubtless ready | focus of a Canadian tion fight. Further there fo announce himselt’ as soon se His Ga though an integral part of | strong current fro In this connection will be remem- | nite commonwealth; is geo-/ United: State country bered the return of L. B. Hanna from | mae omn Smerice,|, Hon. Marler, iniitiiter uhatoihe aeentlon official i politico-economic destinies} without portfolio in the Kins eabi SN earner Beare bly bound up with those} net, says the migration southward a litBle iniprom pluie. oF tne seer ae ee oI ssiiweceht dur ne 24 was ithe result net of c Lon a e election of ILL, a liberal] Canada’s tariff policy but of the ex contlon et. the. owns. lrews redtadministration under Sir Wilfred | traordinary boom conditions im the ights, band and all the f of [Laurier went down to defeat on the| United States. husinant that goesawithithe-tetuls i eyciproci¢y isaue. The vcry of Canadians took advantage of these red in European centers. eo ™ |nexation” was raised then. The cry| conditions by going across to eurn “lt was not so long after this that /°%; f¢otomic annexation” is being) the high wages, and are now return Gov. Hanna became an active candi) party which had but 50 seats out of | In Canada’s. next inment, ‘the toured the state with ith Ae ee i ee sania ianintadind Nor and gave a most interesting se ge jntline apon hie impenssions. of dhe Evangelistic Old World, . Tt was after this trip that he faced Campaign to Be Nestos in a three cornered fight for : : the United States senatorship in Held in Bismarck which MgCumber won and Nestos was | runner up and Hanna third. i Acctibeige ; A series of evangelistic meetings Will History Repeat? | will be held at the Evangelical That history may repeat itself and} church, corner of Seventh a these three men contest for the same | b ning next Sunday e | honors again is not beyond the realm! ee Evangelist Harry James of Columbus, of | possibiliti HELE ares ietcone | Ohio, in charge. Rev. James will ar- rumors that Porter J. McCumber will) Woodrow Wilson Not a Very five in Bismarck Sunday noon and! enter the lise Ike MhOWa. oat | the campaign will be launched the Hanna is receptive but hopes for a} Great Man, Lodge Writes | same evening. The length of the cam- clear field. i : i jDaign is uncertain and will be de-j There is some demand among the! in His Last Book termined by later developments. It Republicans of the state for a state-| is probable that the meetings will} wide convention to limit the number continue for at least three weeks, Washington, Oct, 23.—(A)—H ow publican leaders in the League of Nations fight escaped what they con-| sidered a trap to commit them before- | of candidates. That the Nonpartisan League will have a candidate goes | without saying. Just who it will be | is still a matter of speculation. Gov. ; Sorlie keeps his own counsel on that | hand to support of the covenant is/ matter. Some of his friends have incident of the historic struggle | urged him to seek the Republican | ‘lisclosed for the first time by the nomination. He has made many new» late Henry Cabot Lodge, one of its! friends while in office and they are | dominant figures, in a book written in many of the factions of the Re-|# month before his death and given publican party. That he would be a/to the public today. | strong contender for the place is un-j, Entitled “The Senate und the disputed. His public appearances. in | League of Nations,” the volume is, in the state have made friends for him ithe main, a record for posterity of} the] M, and those who have observed his ad.|the already known history of the bit- ministration know that he has none |ter-end struggle between Woodrow! of the radical tendencies that char-| Wilson and the senate opposition. But acterized former league regimes. \the opposition leader is outspoken! With Nestos returning and the sen- |i" his personal characterizations of | timent crystallizing on the senatorial |the war president, upon whom he situation some interesting develop- | lays full responsibility, in his un-| ments will come in the course of the bending attitude, for the league's de-} next few months. | feat ; i meer Le be a | Disavowing any personal animos- *408 lity, he vows Mr. Wilson had been Great Britain’s |netuated throughout, by ‘an “over. iwhelming thought of self,” again as Mystery Plane Is (“aevourea by the desire for power, ‘and, in another passage, “thinkin A Total Wreck (iii cf nimself in dealing with every | i great question:” He could not, Mr. Baltimore, Oct. 23—()—Great Bri-| Lodge thought, rightly be called “a tain’s “mystery plane,” the super-/very great man.” marine Napier, S-4, crashed th morning during the navigability trial | Leaders Es and is a total wreck. Captain Henry | ,In setting down his record of the C. Baird, the pilot, is suffering from {Stormy pexiod of league debate, much immersion and shock, but escaped in- jury. Captain Baird had just taken off for the navigability and seaworth- iness trials and was at an elevation of about 200 feet when a wing-flutter apparently developed in both wings of the monoplane. Capt. Baird at- tempted at once to land. As he struck the water the super-marine nosed down and somersaulted on her back, pressing the pilot under the surface. Captain Baird was wearing a life- belt and managed to clear himself and reached the surface as the Na- pier S-4 sank, The super-marine’s mishap will throw into the Schneider cup race tomorrow both of Great Britain's Gloster-Napier II's, one of which had been held in reserve. Bert Hinkler of Melbourne, Australia, the British reserve pilot, will take the second Gloster into the ‘race tomor- row. Scottish Rite r4 Masons Pick Omaha For 1926 Meeting Omaha, Neb., was selected by the supreme council of the Scottish Rite ons of the southern jurisdiction today as their 1926 meeting place. ‘The date for next year’s meeting was set at October 25, lof it traced in speeches, statements | land other data taken from the con- | gressional record, Mr. Lodge discloses ‘how the Republican leaders in March, 11919, escaped what they thought was ja trap to commit themselves before- hand to support the league by de- ‘clining an invitation to advise the| | Wilson peace commission in Paris ‘what changes in the covenant would ‘satisfy the senate. On the advice of ‘Elihu Root, Philander C. Knox, and | others, Mr. Lodge replied instead that | the only practicable means by which ; the president could obtain the sen- { ate’s views would be by calling it into | session. : He quotes this from the advice he | received from Mr. Root, | “The net is spread in plain sight bf | the bird, and you are the bird.” | League Has Failed, Lodge Says |. Although he had worked and voted ‘for ratification of the league with reservations, in the end, Mr. Lodge! \says, he was thankful that it had j been defeated. He views the league | as having in practice thus far proved {futile for the ostensible purpose of | its creation. i REDUCING PROBLEM | New. York.—A diet-determining de- however. Rev. James comes to Bismarck as | one of the outstanding evangelists of | the country. He has been in the work | 13 years, and has been universally | successful in his mission, ‘The | vices here are not to be c | as denominatio Fy F. Strutz, pastor of the Evangelical church, has announced. The people of Bismarck generally are invited to take an interest in the series of meetings and to attend whenever possible. Rev. James will be 1 ° E. E. Matteson, now of Whi but until this fall pastor N. D. Rev. Matteson is well known in Bismarck and his friends will be pleased to learn that he will be here during the campai Magnus Johnson | PreparesaNew | Minneapoli 0¢ 3.-(#)—Form- | er Senator Magnus Johnson will have | a new set of charges before the Un e e committee investi-| ast Minnesota senatorial | which gave the seat to! Schall, he said here today. | These charges have been drawn } to meet the criticism that the first | set was not specific enough and will | be in the hands of the committee at Chicago Saturday morning, Mr Johnson explained. “We have drawn the charges they are right to the point,” M Johnson said. “Senator Schall will | have two weeks in which to file an | answer, after which the investiga- | tion is scheduled to get under way.” | Mr, Johnson is visiting in Minnea- polis after a 16-weeks’ lecture trip | on a chautauqua platform. | so Livestock Sale _ | $50, Raises Half of | Mortgage Fund! 23, (BP) | Crookston, Minn., Oc | Donated livestock on sale at auction | here Thursday brought half of the! $12,000 mortgage on the buildings | and equipment of the Red River! Valley Livestock association. The stock was donated by farmers of the valley to raise the mortgage. The sum of $6,000 was realized from the sale. Snow and slush cut down} the attendance materially, ofticlale)) said. vice has caused co-eds at Columbia University to bring the reducing problem again foremost in their mind. This device, by means of re- | gistering the heat units, indicates the number of calories eich person | needs to sustain Kfe. Steel brackets ure rapidly replac- ing wooden scaffolds in construction work. Experts predict that 10. million ra-| dio sete will be in operation by 1930. with qj PoRvER ent, ARTHUR ME oi will be the eats, 1 nth \ provides | fifteenth, ther mor than in fou nial redist net Vactor i fairly impeadiner to the tien: that whether the the conservative en te nseendaney and themselves to being Styled the party in power they will need the votes of the thir party) or progress ive vberst initiate any leistation | J they may be deven deat on! votes for the very life of the | wernment The — progressives —the wrian the west actually won nominally to the But the were the in power opposition theless. STATE HEADS GIVE VIEWS IN TAX HEARINGS Many Governors Favor Repeal of Federal Inheritance Tax Provisio Washington, Oct. 23.—(P)—State governors brought their case for re- peal of the federal inheritance tax before the ways and mi committee in its hearing house s today on | cupied and that | Bulgaria party | tax reduction and reform. The state of North Dakota is nted ittee hed Ae! . Thoresen, sti mmissioner, who is the personal G. representative of Governor A Sorlie, Governor Sorlie was able to attend the hearing sent Mr. Thoresen because of the latter's familiarity with the ques to the ¢: e ‘ to the committee their views in sup- port of Secret s s be es left entirely asa revenue for state govern- ments. In addition, state officials representing the governors of 11 other states were on hand to present their support of the movement for repeal of the federal levy, which last year was increased. Many Execu' Go of the es Support Plan nor Walker of Georgia, one ulf dozen state executives allotted time for hearing today and ; who initiated the canvass of senti- ment among them on the question, stated that in addition to the 17 governors here or reported, he has received indication of support in the movement from 15 others. Others allotted time by the com- mittee included Lieutenant Governor Nolan of Minnesota. The p nt federal estate tax al- lows an exemption of $50,000. Upon the amount of net estate in excess of q e Applying on imum of 40 per cent. the amount of an estate in excess of $1,000,000 the law also permits a credit up to 25 per cent of the total amount of any levy paid on an estate to a state government. Chairman Green has indicated he favors amendment of the law to per- mit full credit to estate taxpayers if the state government levies a rate equal to the federal tax. Such an amendment alse is favor- ed by Representative Garner of Tex- as, ranking Democrat on the commit- tee. WHOPPER FOR HIS AGE Smithsgrove, _ Ky.—The Ewing Brothers here have the champion pig for age and size in the state, The hog is but one year old. and weighs 800 pounds, MEETING SET FOR MONDAY T0 PROBE CLAIMS Charges Fail to Establish Whether Greece or Bul- garia Is to Blame GOI FIGHTING eighboring Capitals Alarm- ed—Situation Considered Most Delicate Paris, chinery was set ma- ions in an ef- Oct. 23.—)—The the League of N. motion today of in fort to prevent another M Balkan war. presiding offi- the league coun next Briand, as the has summoned t here Mond, and pute between this up early and Greece week, The the but semi-official emanated since fighting frontier the started on Monday region of Demirhis- of official and which — have and Ath- which in sar ens has ft side was r The | fact are fi of t river, southward across the inter- boundary a into the that villages and towns bombarded, and that heen spilled: remains that ach other in the hostile fore valley flows which “n has py rich trustworthy sources the town of Petrich, from that in Bulgarian territ Advices indicate ve num ruma menaced owns yen troops A Greek offi mits the entry in at the least ad- troops into communique of the says necessity" incursions of vil prevent Bulgarians on Greek Airplanes Used mes the word that e advancing on a fronc on both banks of the Struma and that in addition to the use of artiller rplanes have bombed the bridges, barracks, roads und stations. Advices r Vienna declare Petrich, a Bulgarian village crowd- ed with Macedonian refugees, has been abandoned in flames other towns, including Marescostinove and Marinople, are under bombardment. coun- over meeting J ng display outcome called. in Slavian capital, sion the most delicate and — calculated caus terrible conflagration” the Greek advance continued. tries the gravest cab Belgrade, and at its situation was describ ef teh this morni n Athens disp said the Greek governinent had or dered its forces to halt theig ad- and to make no further move vance against the Bulgarians unless there fresh attempt to attack them. Bulgarians were said to have ated the positions they held on ek territory. HOSTILITIES E ‘DED FOR THE TIME BEING Athens, Oct. 23.—(#)—Hostilities between the Greeks and Bulgarians near the Macedonian frontier appar- ently have ended, for the time be- ing at : The Bulgarians are said to have ev ed the positions they held on Greek territory, and the Greek government has issued orders to its forces to stop their advance und to make no further move against the Bulgarians unless there is a fresh [attempt to attack them. The Greek troops will not retreat from the positions to which they have advanced until Bulgaria has given a definite and favorable an- swer to Greece’s demand for repar- ation and an for having ted the A_semi official statement says: “The government wishes it under- stood that its note to Bulgaria was not an ultimatum, and that the gov- ernment always has been ready for a peaceful solution of the situation, provided its demands for just rep: ation from Bulgaria were conceded. The Bulgarian representative has been informed that all di ion is useless until the terms of the Greek note are accepted and the Bulgarian troops have evacuated Greek frontier posts.” The commander of the Greek troops in edonia has sent a tele- gram to the war office saying that as the Bulgarians yesterday contin- ued to occupy territory in the neigh- borhood of Demirhissar, it was ne- cessary, in order to avoid a frontal attack in the mountainous country and also on_strategical ground, to advance as far as Petrich. — This movement, the telegram adds, forced the Bulgarians to withdraw from Greek territory. In the fighting around Petrich the Bulgarians of- fered stubborn resistance with fresh reinforcements they had re- ceived from Demir-kapu. The Greek losses were said to have been slight. GREEKS HAVE FOUR KILLED, 8 WOUNDED - London, Oct. 23.—(#)--A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company from Athens says that the Greeks had four killed and eight wounded. one of the latter a captain, during the fighting yesterday which ended in the Greeks we-occupying Post 69 and Demir-kapu. GREEKS INVADE BULGARIAN SOIL ; Sveti-Vratch, on the Bulgarian frontier, Oct. 23.—(4)—(Delayed)— Greek troops, without a declaration of war, this morning invaded Bul- garian soil, bombarding the frontier (Continued on page 6)