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TWO AMERICANS DIE IN PERUVIAN RIOTS| Foreigners Flee From Big Cop-| per Mine; Martial Law | Is Ordered ed Lima, Peru, Nov. 13.—UP)—Martial | 1aw was established by the govern- | ment in the departments of Junin | and Lima today in an effort to put} down wicespread disorders of a dis-j tinct anti-foreign complexion. { A force of 200 infantry was sent to the Cerro de Pasco copper mining re- gion where 15 men were killed and 25 wounded in riots yesterday growing | out of dissension between the Amer- | icen and Br‘tish’ mine operators and native employes. Two Americans were among those | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1930 SENATE COMMITTEE BUYING POWER OF DOLLAR ; ‘ SHOWS 20 PER CENT GAIN BUYING POWER OF DOLLAR IN BASIC COMMODITIES By ALLARD SMITH Executive Vice President, The Union Trust Company, Cleveland, Ohio {office leases, today ceive further Postmaster general under the admin- istration of President Harding. Kulp gave the committee. which Is | headed by Senator John J. Blaine of EKAMINNG LEASE Ss a that R. D. Brown, an Indianapolis, cago After Detroit and Boston Inquiries | Ind., contractor, got the lease for the | Detroit postoffice in 1923 despite the | fact that he (Kulp) submitted a tower - {Investigating Situation at Chi-| bia. xulp read into the record from! |B, N. Munro, his Detroit agent, in which Munro quoted Brown as having said he had attended school with New | and that he would “get any lease” he | wanted. Brown, at Indianapolis, char- Chicago, Nov. 13.—(#)—The senats| acterized the statement as “ridiculous’ | commtitee on the trail of alieged ir-| adding he had never heard of Munro. regulerities in the awarding of post-| Kulp alao quoted Munro as having to re-| written that he had seen a picture of » having al-) Brown with New and Work (Dr. Hu- ready learned details of contracts’ bert Work. former postmaster gen- awarded at Detroit and Boston. The Roosevelt postoffice in Detroit; the inside track.” and the Back Bay station at Boston were the subjects of the committee's) Kulp told the committee that origi- hearing yesterday at which Jacob nally the contract was awarded to | eral) and that Brown“seemed to have Taking up the Boston contract, !prices of commodities enable the; Kulp, a Chicago contractor and head him, but that New rejected all bids. It is always interesting to see how Wage earners’ dollars to go further’ of a La Salle Street Investment house, Later, on new bids, he said, the con-; killed. One of these, John W. Chap-jmatedjustments of the economic ®"d have the same effect as wage in-| mentioned the name of Harry S. New,’ tract was awarded to Brown. man, was from Chicago, the home ads | structure are gradualy remedied by | cTcases. They also encourage pur- dress of the other. E. L. Trtpary. was | not disclosed. An Austrian also was among those killed. All foreigners in the neighborhood, including about 350 Americans and British subjects, evac- uated in special trains for Lima, 125 miles distant. Meanwhile, another serious threat | liquidated and the extra caution on developed at Lima and Callao, the the part of many people is being capital's port, where a general strike was ordered by the General Federa- tion of Workmen as a consequence of | chasing power. ; a dispute between the British cotton! mill firm, Dun‘an, Fox & Co, and{ Moreover, to the extent by which|creased so much in buying power. yprice declines are offsetting reduced’ But it is usual for retail prices to lag The government decree establishing ;incomes, we are working our way out behind wholesale values, and their employes. martial law stated that all workmem desiring protection would be assured full guarantees of safety while re- maining at their posts. The dec:ee outlaws the General Federation of Workmen and states that all those, including foreigners, who incite the workmen to strike will be arrested and expelled from the country. The General Federation of Work- men threatened to extend the general strike to other Peruvian cities of its de- mands on the British concern were not fulfilled. The Cerro de Pasco riots occurred, after a small body of police at- temoted, unsuccessfully, to turn back 1,500 Peruvian workmen who were on their way from Oroya to Mal Paso, where one of the American mines 1s located, for a demonstration. Twenty men wer? injured in the clash with the police. The workers, infuriated, looted business houses and some pri- vate residences when they reached Mal Paso. Chapman, an electrician, and ‘Tri inavders. Communist agitators were blamed by the authorities for the disorders yesterday in the Cerro de Pasco re- gion. Reports reaching the capital today from the departments of Junin and Lima, indicated fifteen hundred min- ers, aroused by radical organizers, participated in an attack upon dwell- ings and shops at Malpaso. When the police attempted to dis- perse the rioters 12 workers were gunfire. of the Cerro de Pasco ration in a statement they had warned the au- ities repeatedly against permit- ting the mine workers to convene what they called “A Miners’ Con- gress” at La Oroya, the principal mining center in the Andes region. But the congress opened last Fri- day, the statement said, and its mem- hers, instead of disctissing miners’ problems, disseminated communist prepazanda inciting the miners to revolt against their employers. This was the first serious outbreak of the kind in 11 years, since the mine strike in May, 1919, when the con- stabulary made free use of machine guns to put down a riot of major pro- | portions. Several hundred were kilied in that clash. SAYS AMERICAN LIVES WILL BE PROTECTED 'y, & storekceper, were killed in| Anyox is an observatory inlet. about a futile attempt to drive away the| 59 miles north of Prince Rupert, B. C. pharmacy here. the operation of basic economic laws. “basing. i In his’ Fauna our present business’, Apparently basic commodity prices have reached bottom. They have de- of ita OAL coneedna. Neelt the seeds ctined 17 Per cent since 1929, Thus the buying power of" the dollar has This ts apparent in more then one expanded by a substantial margin. way. For one thing. debts are being On the basis of the Bureau of Labor statistics index, the dollar today will buy as much at wholesale as $1.20 translated into larger savings. That end buy in 1926. ‘4 means a piling up of potential pur- Retail prices have not declined so rapidly nor has the retail dollar in- rotected during the current troubles | i me [meee Churchman asked such assurance on learning of | ies Birth Control the outbreaks. He reported one | Chicago—and ibly other foreign- Of the recent Lambeth conference in ers were killed "uring violence at Mal |passing the much-discussed resolution a tain circumstances was warmly de- . * fended by the Archbishop of Canter- Rock Slide Kills | - Five in Vancouver; dressing the lower house of the ! which he presides, he said it was a Vancouver, B. C., Nov. 13.—()—At | subject impossible to ignore and that one injured as the result of a rock | “ fe and dirt slide which demolished a ee Seen Granby Consolidated Mining. Smelt- Fargo. D., Nov. 13.--()—Paut ing and Power company. Wyatt O'Harra. Marmarth, N. D.. was not known how many men were in 4 the building or how the slide started. Sealine, Se Utcainwat Gator: of the depression. Reductions in|trend is now down. Ambassador Dearing, at Lima, American—John W. Chapman of | London, Nov. 13.—()—The action Paso yesterday. favorable to birth control under cer- |bury today. ecnvocation of Canterbury, over least five men were dead today and /the bishops were right in not at- bunk house at the Anyox mine of the| GET PHARMACY LICENSES Reparts were meager and it was| granted a registered pharmacist’s cluding meeting of the state board of (A URTIS [OTEL MINNEAPOLIS “WHEeRe THE Guest Is KING” — Largest Hotel im the Northwest, with Radio in Every Room and every other modern convenience. “Best Beos IN THE WorLoD” Moderate Rates - Excellent Cajes Entertainment Daily. Garage acccmmedations The Curtis Hotel Minneapolis One block (diagonally) south of Foshay Tower CHEVROLET MEN ARE BACK FROM MEETING! ppg gee Five Bismarck men have returned! 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