The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 3, 1927, Page 1

‘WEATHER. FO! Mostly fair bees afd Friday, Much Colder . a4 y ESTABLISHED 1873 AMERICAN MARINES ORDERED TO. SHANGHA ‘BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1927 BILL TO DROP FLAT HAILTAX | » IS’ APPROVED Measure Brings | Forth Sharp ~ Debate in Hcuse Before Vote Is Taken VOTE ON PARTY LINES | Chicago's Next _| 's Next Nonpartisans Claim Independ-| ents Are Trying to Cripple Hail Department Approval of = bill to remove the one-cent flat hail tex from North Da- kota land was voted in the house \ Bf eet after a hot contest. “& The banking situation and the ap- [ost eye of money in the state ridge fund also occasioned dis- putes. The actions are considered as evi- dence of a tendency on the part of both factions to draw party lines closer and closer as the Sens ion ad- vances and consideration is had of — partisan measures which are cted to bring on bitter fi, ‘he contest on the- propos: insurance law amendment wi reached calling for a request today ed on Party lines, Nonpartisan |for a unanimous consent agreement’ aguers opposing the bill on the jto take up immediatly the McNary-| ground that it is designed to cripple Haugen frem equalization fee bill bel ees hail Pcs pen <I artment and to 4 on it not later than 4 p. and interfere w operation. Edwin Traynor, Ramsey county, | Hurold J. Croarkin (above) is tol banking senees Meee eyueenee sponsor of the measure, led the fight | be tried in Chicago soon for the brought up under’ a plan calling for for it. scnratth a eee abt a vote by p.m. Wednesday. Schmi le is charged wit! jur- ‘Majority Recommends Passage | ing the boy to a hayloft and killing| por etna me A majority of the insurance com- pittec recommended the bill (H. B. 3) for passage but a minority report opposed it. Opening the debate Tray- nor said it is “one of the few bills introduced at this session which acutally will reduce the taxes,” It yill cut $270,000 a year from the tax Is, he said and gave as the reas him “for no reason at all.” Below is Judge William Lindsay, who will preside at the trial, Croarkin, an adept at mathematics in college, is almost_wholly undeveloped emotion- ally, sane | to examining experts. n for ‘its introduction that the hail fynd reach the $4,000,000 niark not later than December 1, 1928. A law now on the statute books rovides that the one-cent flat tax ¢ abolished when the hail fund reaches the $4,000,000 mark. Traynor estimated the surplus on December 1, 1927, at $3,820,000 and suid the present balance is $3,600,000 not counting a reserve of over $500,- 000 to effect possible failure to col- lect items due the department. C. N. Lee, Dunn county, charged that the bill is an attempt to ripple the state and said that one-third of the land-owners paying the flat hail tax are non-residents of the state who have speculated in North Dako- ta land. North Dakota farmers would not be saved that one-third of the, sum Traynor mentioned, he con- tended. Traynor insisted that the $4,000,- 000 mark will be reached by 1928 and demanded to know what good it would do the hail department to have more money than it needs. The one ques- tion involved, he said, is whether the hail fund will reach the $4,000,000 TAKING BRIBE Are Claimtd to Have Taker Monéy in Interests of Op- etometrists’ Measure Aastin, Texas, Sentafivesetoday were at liberty on resident as well’ as itinerant optome- triggs. « mark by December 1, 1928. He said| ham and. H, Moore of Cooper were his figures, taken from statistics con-| arrested’by state rangers, who swore tained in the hail department’s re-| that\the legislators accepted $1,000 in marked ‘pills from Dr. Willis W. Chamberlain, manager of a Houston, Texas, optical company. A number of bank motes were taken from Dalq as he entered a hotel where Moore “lived. Dale declared there was nothing sass rpeath that it will. Continu ale, denied ntinued on page three.) ACTIVITY IN to the charges, but refused further o comment. RAIL STOCKS lee pee pa by. : Monte. would tax resident optometrists $50, the same as now charged fora license for intineragts. This bill also was scheduled for discussion by the re- venue and: taxation committee last night, but final action was postponed until Moore could be present. Chamberlain has appeared here as ‘a lobbyist for the measure. KANSAS CITY MAN SEEKS T0 CLAIM MONEY " IS RENEWED Rumors. of Impending Rail- * road Mergers Hold Atten- tion of Wall Street : ret ey xerks rife fs Barners ‘44 impen railroad maxgers he e attention: of Wall today as senaead activity was, tied in rail Reports shan the Paltimore & Ohio} had contracted itchase all or part of the Rocketdier | holdings in the Bade mazene \ ob te — ny e vive Mason Wail stroct sought —, Janstion for| Currency Mailed to the advances in stocks of the last two City .Man of Same Name Belongs to Him, He Says Kansas City, Mo, +Feb. 3—(#)— ewe Arthur, 66-year-old Kansas City laborer, today sought a bandit who, be says, robbed him of his life savings,-in an effort to prove his claim t to * 400 received through the mail by Thomas Arthur, Mason City Sisatey pee 3 City Arthur said he had i+ val at amount during years as a laborer and that, he. was robbed here January 16, A sifort time Jater some one telephoned im and said he could not keep money téken from an aged worker and would re. turn ie On January 24, dispatches told of th rb gplrery. of the money to pine heson ity man. roads. Reports from St. Paul that the Min- neapolis & St. Louis railroad would be included in a new merger, provid- ing a first direct one line rail con- nection between St. Paul and the east, ulso attracted attention, ¥ The reported reement between the B, & O. and the Rockefeller iat terests is said to sare Bia ay i the Rockefeller office and Get the efeller office and Geo: Schriver, vice Siscuss)t of org i é 0., refused 2 ae the rumors. nown oder interes} own practical], of \the outstanding $17,742, of sevel ir ‘cent first referred stock in the Western M find although, it is reported, th: s stock does not constitute ve votit con trol of the road. ae. aeeeuare land, howey fthe sald he wrote the postmas- years an a “Bockefellot road fer seigesn cho. cr ae ke coe ding in Wheeli not describe the package he hoped to Prie and Western Mai locate the bandit through a promise heavy lately, with ing. up.| of immunity tro from m_posecution, Shorts in heeling le. were canene last week, estimates of their s running as hi wing vefteports, from Bt. ibsked the aie ina ree House "Members Are in Favor of Deep Waterway Project); North ier gue Hinneapolis & St, Lo ective merger with the Delawa: Hudson, the Wabash and the W ri brotiers of, Lotisylile are ing pro: of abou! f, 0 ho oe they! have wot yet woe of Wheel ‘ A ators Bika lay went on reco: as favo: con- struction of the Seat Lakes St, ia nant ‘that eonavens tak take im nai | ing that sa take imm sition tained the house by unanimous fou and similar action is Steed, in The resolution tecites that the fu ture prosperty: and Sovaliossent ¢ of pbortee at as| the state se dope “tien upon ‘cl yep teens of ‘Wheel. portation whiel a3 can best had sad by but no definite ex: So lopeeea: “the proposed water- Feb. 3.—-)—Two ( members efsthe Texas house of repre- bond of $2,000 each following their arrest last pight on charges of ac- cepting @ bribe-in the interest of a propésedimeasure for the licensing of fepregentative F, A. Dale of Bon- 40| stitution, includi [heros Next] VOTE ON FARI ~ RELIEF IS SET FOR MONDAY jenate Today Moves Closer to | Showdown on Two Long | Pending Questions | i 1 DAWES HOLDS PARLEY |Plan Calls For Vote on Mc- Fadden Branch Banking Bill Next Wednesday Washington, Feb. 3.—()-—Spurred on by the achievements of u three- | hour night session and conferences | that saw efforts crystallizing for more | action and less talk about major leg- | islation and passage of 83 minor bills on the glutted calendar, the sen- ate moved closer to a showdown today on two long pending controversial questions—ferm relief and branch banking. Vice President Dawes held a con- ference of Republicans and Democrats in his office last night in an effort to break the deadlock on a legislative Program, and an agreement was ae appears to been cleared for an early tést in the senate on two-of the half a dozen im- portant proposals before it, other than annual appropriation bills for the government departments. Other Agreements Agreements also have been reached to vote Friday on the Harrison reso- | lution, which would place the senate jon record as favoring tax reduction | at this session, and the bill to regu- | late thé importation of milk and | cream from Canada, Evidence of the impatience of some senators with the manner in which | certain measures have been jockey tier position was given yesterday Senator Walsh, Democrat, Massachu- setts, who, replying to a proposal to defer action on the milk bill, warned that the senate would niake a laugh- ing stock of itself if it continued to stmply talk, talk, talk without ac- tion.” He said he was opposed to the bill, but that its sponsors had a right to expect action. Prospects for senate consideration of: the house approved conference re- port on the compromise radio control bill was doubtful today, since Sena- tor Borah, Republican, Idaho, had served notice that some senators de-, sired more time to consider some of its provisions. Senator Dill, Demo- crat, Washington, its sponsor, was. determined, however, to move for; prompt action on the report in the belief that the present condition of the air “is growing worse every day.” MOVE TO STOP DEBATE 18 BEING MADE TODAY Washington, Feb. 3—()-——-A move to shut off debate on both the Me- (Continued on page two.) MARX CABINET PLEDGES FAITH INCONSTITUTION Chancellor Assures Reichstag That Foreign Policy Will Remain Unchanged iy Berlin, Feb. 3—(A)—An unequiv- by the state and all remedy, |* E. Bi ocal pledge of faith to the constitu- tion of the German republic and as- surances that the foreign policy of international conciliation will remain unchanged marked the governmental declaration read to the Reichstag by Chancellor Marx today on behalf of his new bourgeois coalition cabinet. The declaration also promised im- portant reforms in the Reichwerhg or defense force and advanced an ex- tensive program of financial business and school legislation. “The cabinet unanimously agrees that the basis of its policies must be recognition of the legajity of the ublican state form, as laid, d in the Weimar constitution,” chancellor. “This is in’ harmony with a letter addressed to me by Present. Von Hindenburg. “It is the unanimous will of the federal government to guarantee pro- tection, respect and honor to our con- its colors. Every empt, by forcible or other illegal means, to change it will be avenged as treason.” Support Is Guaranteed As exldence that the policy will re- main unchanged, Chancellor Marx Hogped aernticn to the fact that both he d Foreign Minister Streseman sained in the respective positions they held before, oe. would not have done, he they had been a: eared by the "othe Fr cabinet peer of their unanimous personal well as the apport of the Pies: itanding back of the coalitior PeWhile expressing satisfaction that the Ruhr and Northern ipaineland zone had been evacuated, the inter- lied military control ‘comm sion disarmanent ue tion satisfactorily disposed of, government believed “never- theless we will need josie work to achieve the moral Political equal- ity among nations dye our log a ion of the second (a thine Hhineland zones, without.which | | economic relations ry ey nations, it palieres }, could not The Seriaiation te many's determinatio ‘wiaintain amicable relations with those countries not members of the League of Nations. yj statutory rates, "Mien Working to’ SLAVERY STILL IS PRACTICED seareen actions | IN LOUISIANA while crews of w » aided | by. national suardame their fight to rein! levees which hold the waters of | the White, St. Francis and Little | Red rivers. ’ Men Working to Repair Levees in Flood Area ! Memphis, Tenn. Feb. 3—(AP)— Department of Justice Agents | >Plan Extended Investiga- A Red Cross relief station in. Cotton Plant gave rellef to scores tion of Reports | of persons driven from their | eS homes. | Three new communities were |TWO MEN ARE INDICTED threatened with danger from | | ania water flowing through two breaks Poinsett "ei, The cake \Charged With Abduction, Sale) nities were Tulot, Weona and 'Court Rules Counties Cannot Take Tax Title to Prop- erty Held By State Counties may not take tax title to property to which the state has ac- quired title by mortgage forclosure,| ¥ the supreme court held in denying an application for rehearing of the case of the state vs. Burleigh county late Wednesday. The order denying the application stated that ‘in view of the fact that the action is one to quiet title, we deem it proper to fully define the rights of the county as @ lien hold- er. We are of the opinion that the lien of the county is unenforcible during the time the property is owned including he acquisition of title by tax deed, is suspended. We are further of the opinion that the certificate of tax Supports Governor’ Claim Governor Sorlie today expressed satisfaction at the court’s action and pointed out that the statement sup- ports his contention that the state and Enslavement of Negro dated ind the property loss wai y | heavy. aes Family of Five | anthers ae danger of breaks in \ Raia | e LL le iver levees from Hornersville, Mo., south. Thou- | Nc". Orleans, | Feb. 3--GP)—Black “sands of sandbags were piled ; very, comparable to that which =| gainst the levees sted in ante-bellum times, was the dav by department of justice agents. | The indictment yesterday of Webb | Bellue and John D. Alford, of Amite | county, Mississippi, on charges of abduction, sale and enslavement ot! five negroes, is to be followed -by , disclosure of peonage in St. Hetena | . ana, if evidence now in the hands o the United States district attor \ here proves substantial, officials : said. Alford and Bellug were indicted on testimony that they had gone to the | home of Crawford Allen, 50-year-old | Amite county, Mississippi, last Aug- ust, seeking his grown’ daughter When they failed to find the woman, according to the indictment, they forced Allen to get out of a sick bed and accompany them to a farm at Fluker, La. | They, also forced his yor of age, to accompany them. he negroes were taken at night and hurried from their home half clad. | ‘The family was sold for $20, de-| partment of justice agents charge, and was foreed to work several weeks without pay and with little food. An Investigation of the case has re-| vealed the existence of peonage con- ditions under which other negroes are held in a state ment, officials said, sale, in the absence of any subsequent SHIPMENTS ( OF | legislation affecting it, continues to draw interest at the existing statu- tory rates. The rights of the county as thus defined may be asserted against a purchaser of the property ing these conclusions having already been suf! ntly stated in the ori, inal opinion, repetition is unneces- m | sary. # Government Witnesses in Ek- er Trial Tell of Plans For need not make provision for paying Booze Smuggling immediately overdue taxes on land on — which it has foreclosed incident tof New York, Feb. 3--(®)—Testimony the farm loan business. }as to the construction of tank Shafer contended at a recent meeting} trom Chicago to New York and t of the industrial commission, addi-| sctual shipment of liquor from k tional legislative action is desirable,’ fax to Chicago by inkand waters he has no objection to it, the gover-! wag before u federal court jury toda nor said, but expressed the opinion| Dewitt T, Turner and Cecil Kinder that it would be only an additional) overnment witnesses, who admitted safeguard and that the court's inter-| they were two of three principals of | protects the state’s interest. in the| under cross examination in the so-; land. ‘called Eker trial here yesterday the The governor said that the court's plans adopted in international liquor statement makes it clear that provi-| smuggling. \ sion must be made for paying $186,- Turner said Kinder had told him 000 in delinquent taxes in cases where cars had been built to resemble Stan- the tax certificates are held dy in-| dard Oil company tank cars to carry | need be made to pay some $380,000 of Kinder said he had been aboard the Pellnaens: anes. bid in by the coun- steamer ima when that ship carried tles a , liquor ‘from Halifax to Chicago| The Court’s Decision through the inland waterways, and -The supreme court’s decision of that the vessel had been the proper- | Wednosday, written by Chief Justice! ty of a company, owned by himsclf, zell, reads as follows: his brother, Charles Clifford Kinder A large area wa: object of an extended invesigation to- GOVERNOR'S and Tangipahoa parishes in Louisi- negro, near the Louisiana border, in and three children, all under 12 armed guard watched the nagroes. from the state. The reasons “aleete| IN TANK CARS If, as Attorney General George) for the shipment of liquor by pretation of its own decision fully! an international rum ring, explained dividuals, but that no ‘appropriation liquor from New York to Chicago. “In a petition for rehearing coun- and Turner. sel call uttention to those portions of the opinion wherein. it is stated. of police of Edgewater, N. J. are in- in substance, that the power to en-' cluded in 19 defendants in the Eker force the lien represented by the tux trial. Turner testified yesterday that be suspended during the period that and had given him 505 cases of liquor the property is owned by the state’ for permitting the steamer Eker to realize upon it against a subsequent purchaser of the property. It is sug- of Louisville Dies should be more definitely determined ‘and stated. In view of the fact that Louisville," Feb. 3.—(#)—Lewis rights of the county as a lien ho: today at his home here. er. We are of the opinion that t Mr, Humphrey had been prominent by the state and all remedy, includ-| the old Evening Post, where he rose ing the acquisition of title by tax’ from reporter to editor. tax in the absence of any sub- hy 3 made jate edit f sequent ‘legislation affecting ic, con-| the’ new paper. aici without affecting the validity of the: tand a cargo of liquor at Edgewater. gested that tie rights of the county the action is one 6 quiet title, we Craig Humphrey, 51, associate editor lien of the county is unenforcible dur-' in Louisville journalism for 31 years, deed, is suspended.’ We are further’ When the Post was merged with tinues to draw interest at the existing gs rer | weather Rapest | certificate owned by the county may he hud paid $22,500 to Mayor Wissell lien or the right: of the county to = Prominent Editor as the holder of the tax certificate deem it properto fully define tha of the Louisville Herald-Post, died ing the time the property is owned) all but three of which were spent on of the opinion that the certificate of the Herald less than three years The rights of the county as thus defined may be as- serter ainst a purchaser of — the property from the state. The reasons iupporting these conclusions having | Weather conditions at North Da- ady been sufficiently stated in: Sie stigma epiniont wepetitive. 's bate. points ter tha, 34 “hours ending unnecessary. hearing denied.” | Temperature at 7 a, m. . 30 iterday . + 26 | Highest | Lowest last night + | Precipitation to T a. ma Highest wind velocity . davene | WEATHER FORECAST |. For Bismarck and vicinity: Mostly | fair ryt and Friday. Much colder Rising temperature Friday. forth Dakota: Mostly fair Gelert td Peay: Moss Cel aad to- it south portion. Risi ing mper- Columbia supply bill, s preg ery hearing con- || *ture Friday. tinués before tax appeals board. ||° WEATHER conorrions ; | Senate leaders plan to ask.right | The pressure is low over the Great of way for farm relief legislation. || Lakes re; and over the extreme House ways ‘means commit. || Northwest and precipitation occurred tee meets to draft new medicinal || in the northern border states and in liquor py the Canadian Provinces. General ‘Fran k L. Smith's request for || fair weether prevails in the central se) oy seat ling inquiry is }| and southern states. Temperatures again before elections committee. ef low in the central Canadian beommittee considering brib- ee but uhusually mild weather Today’s Doings in Basten Conti before senate. House considers District of 18 el against nator this time of year prevails i it the United States. ac recommendation roughout ae, Uited. Farm : | of virtual enslave: ts Mayor Henry Wissell and the chief i Wealth? Yes; Her husband’s millions failed to bring marital happiness to Mrs. Horace E. Dodge, Jr., wife of the son of the late automobile ma rs. Dodge, who Knowlson, has brought suit for divorce at Detroit. She is pictured above with the two Dodge children at the Grosse Pcint, Mich., palace, built for her by young Dodge (below), who is said to be in Paris. The Dodges were ma: ried in 1921. “It’s a bad thing to father, A fi . Knowlson, was quoted Happiness? No have too much money,” Mrs. Dodge’s s commenting when the suit was led. SENATE KILLS WEEK-DAY RELIGIOUS EDUCATION BILL Death Penalty Bill Passed By S. D. Lower House Pierre, 8. D., 3.) Re- turn of the death penalty in South Dakota for murder rested with the state senate fo lowing passage by the house ye of the capital, punishment he bill provides elec life imprisonment for etion of the bi cution or murder at the dis house passed a — similar bill in 1925 but it’ was rejected by the senate. Leadership in the upper house is virtually the same as that which rejeeted the house bill two years ago. CLOSED BANK BILL BEFORE HOUSE GROUP Committee Hears Cathro Pro-| pose Measure to Regulate Affairs of Institutions inistration of closed banks committee on banks ing last night. and banking, mn Fred Cathro of the Bank of North! Dakota appeared before the commit- tee to offer a bill drawn up by him which would cover in detail the pro- cedure to be gone through in ope ing receiverships, liquidating or organizing closed banks. House bill 57, introduced by resentative H. Swett, county, and W. A. Thatcher, Botti-| neau coun similar lin Rep- cussed in detail by the house! “| One of the Kidder) statements tha BY VOTE OF 33 T0 16 (Gepments of Measure Claim | It isan Attempt to Confuse ; Church and State—‘People Should Be Ashamed to Ask Schools to Do What They Ought to Do at Home,’ Says Senator Ritchie The k-da religious education bill was kille to 16, by the state senate Wednesday, after a dozen sen- ators had debated for more than an hour, Se we ator Hamilton opened the fight against the measure. He criticized the bill as an attempt to confuse [church and state, declared that it was | unconstitutio: id that chil- ‘dren now have opportunities of being jtaught religious education. He later said that it was nothing more than church he a request by for a policeman’s {tended that as the ducted by public schools are con- funds, it would be wrong in principle to use the schools for religious matter. Senator Sathre, who introduced the bill with tor C. Norman. Bruns- dale, Traill county, strongly advocated its passage. He denied that it would confuse church and state questions and that it is unconstitutional, He jsaid that it would involve no addi- | tional expense. “Schools are now monopolizing the time of the students,” Sathre said. v merely asking that, on the of parents, children may be struction.” He said nted the majority of reques | given religious that he repres | from some consideration. Steele Makes Able Attack most able attacks on the bill was made by Senator Alfred Steele Stutsman county. Opening with he in no way min- | imized the value of religious instruc- » which is drawn along: tion, he asserted that “if the churches was ulso up for con-| haye fallen down, as this bill indi- sideration fore the committee. cates, surely there is some method of Cathro’s bill, it was suggested, might correcting this without adding to the be incorporated with this bill’ in the heavy load of the schools.” form of an amendment. | He averred that the bill, which Its Major Items | would give each school district the The major purposes of Cathro’s: right to determine whether or not it prenosed bill, as he outlined it, are The supreme court is given’ or would permit such instruction, would result in local bitterness and dis- inal jurisdiction of the insolvency, putes. proceedings of state banks. “It jwould establish a ‘pres A list of all closed state banks’ that might, result in the destru would be certified to the attorney | of schools,” Steele declared. “It is a general by the state bank examiner and the attorney’ general would in- dangerous thing to let religious dis- putes enter into the schools.” He stitute proceedings to declare them Raid’ that religious disputes would insolvent. Fifteen days would the action. A court commissioner would be aj jointed by the supreme court to over see the actions. He would have the; same power as a district court judee' in such cases, subject to review(by the supreme court. A receiver would be appointed by the court to take charge of the closed bank’s affairs. If the supreme court decided its origina] jurisdiction did not extend |to these banking matters, cases would be transferred to the Burleigh county rict court. ne ss depositors of » closed bank wish to reopen the bank and obtain signatures of 80 per cent of the de- positors approving their proposed plan, they would be allowed time in wich to follow out their plan. a reorg nization plan were de- cided upon the same procedure would be followed. ‘ Liquidation Procedure a If depositors thes to liquidate a bank they would be requi to Be- cure 80 per cent pf the signatures of those concerned. A ‘liquidating com- mittee of three, who might or might not be depositors, would be elected by a two-thirds vote of depositors. ued op page ) be enter into school board elections. given the defendant bank to reply to: i That the bill begins at the wrong | end in correcting lack of religious in- ‘struetion was the contention of Sen- ator C. G. Ritchie, Sheridan county. jHe agreed with Steele that it would result in bitter fights over elections of school boards, but centered his at- |tack on the statement that the home should be responsible for religious education. “Shame on fathers and mothers who ask schools to do what they ought to do at home,” he said. He also argued that the bill would be impractical in rural districts where there was a lack of persons who would be able to give proper religious education. He interrupted his talk with « jab at preachers who fail to live. up ‘to their. duties. Plenty of Time Outside School Hours Senator Eastgate opposed the bill with the argument that time for such teaching céuld be taken from bas- ketball games, glee clubs and parties. He said there are now 185 days free from school each year that could be used for this barre: 5 Senator Ole Ettestad, McHenry county, suid that he believed in reli- Flops education, but the bill was Pre conti “You can’t patch up two inved on page,three.) |260 MEN WILL PRICE FIVE CENTS LEAVE CAVITE, Pl SATURDAY | Admizal Williams Says Ar- | rangements Are Complete to Move Men on Pecos |15 OFFICERS, 251 MEN | Some of the Men Now at Ca- | vite, Others Are Coming | Aboard the Goldstar i Washington, Feb. 3.—()—-A force 250 American marines will leave ili Island, tomorrow for Shangha Admiral Williams, who as com- ander of the Asiatic fleet has been igiven discretion in the movement of the American naval forees in the orient, informed the navy department jtoday that arrangements had been 4 ‘completed for sending the force to jShanghai on the naval auxiliary | Pecos. | The detachment will be made up partly from marines now at Cavite, jand partly from the marine command now aboard the naval auxiliary |Goldstar, due to arrive at Cavite to- | morrow from Guam, |. Twelve officers and 160 men will | be taken by the Pecos from the Gold- |star and three officers and 91 men will be taken from the Cavite shore station, making a total force of 15 0! s find 251 men, navy department | The ment said that that the Pecos will depart for Shang- hai as soon as the transfer of, per- announce- “it may be assumed sonng} can be star to the effec! ‘ted from the Gold- cos.” Seat DEERNSE FORCE WITHDRAWS TO YENCHOW hanghai, Feb. 3.-)—Pressure of the Cantonese forces, which shortly are expected to launch a drive on Shanghai, one of the richest prizes in China from a military standpoint, has forced Marshal Sun Chuan-Fang, | defender of the city, to withdraw the center of his army to Yenchow, 75 miles inland on the Tsientang river, to strengthen his position. Although the readjustment in his line was denied at Sun’s headquarters here, the move was confirmed by trustworthy foreign sources. Sun, however, has suffered nothing like « major defeat. Other reports concerning Cantonese operations suy they have received re- cent reinforcements in the Chuchow region, the new troops probably being Hunanese, rated as the best in the southern armies. It is generally believed that the line along the Tsientang river will short- ly be the scene of a major engage- ment wherein the Cantonese will at- tempt to break through for.a further advance toward Shanghi \ Foreign experts still express conviction that the southerners will make the most strenuous attempt to reach Shanghai before the British concentration of troops here is completed. Those well informed on matters believe that the Canto will find it most difficult to sweep Sun aside. SHANGHAI SHAKEN BY 2 EARTHQUAKES Shanghai, Feb. 3.—(@)—Two earth- quakes shook Shanghai today. Both of them were fairly severe and, be ‘ause such occurrences are unusual here, the shocks rather alarmed the Kecords of the local observatory indicated the earth shocks continued (Continued on page two.) COFFEY’S WIFE PROMISES SHE *) WILL HELP HIM Woman Who Reared His Chil- dren Will Befriend Him After World Forgets Feb. 3.—(#)—The in who was William N, Coffey's wife for 23 years, who reared his three children and to whom he re- turned when his conscience was weighed with a burden of horror and guilt, will help him after the world has forgotten him in his prison of granite and steel at Waupun, to which the state expects to send him. . M. Orchard, district attorney of Grant county, who on Friday will ask ( Judge Sherman E, Smalley in circuit court at Lancaster to sentence Coffey to life imprisonment for slaying Mrs. Hattie ales, last night came to Madison to visit Mrs. Coffey. in response to a request from Cof- fey, Mrs. Coffey readily consented to mail to Coffey, after he has been sent to prison, the books of the short story writing course he been studying, Mrs, Hales, the women Coffey mar- ried bigamously at Winona, Minn., and then killed, will be buried Friday at Elroy, with’ services in the Con- gregational church. m few hours after the burial ser-, vice for Mrs, Hi Coffey will dees Judge Smailey mS Grant cor court house caster, where imprisonmet ‘wilt "Se asked for him.