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18 AAON R FOR BENG DISARME Reichswehr Confiscates Ma- chine Guns and Rifles of | Troops Ready for Revolt. BY WILLIAM E. NASH. Dy Cable to The Star and Ohieago Dally News. Copyright, 1923. DRESDEN, October 26.—Proceed- ings for dissolution of the so-called “red battalions of the Hundertschaf- ten” have been begun throughout Saxony. = Hundreds of rifies and a goodly number of machine guns already have been rooted out and confiscated by the reichswehr and leaders of the troops will be arrested as fast as they are caught. Just how strong the red-battalions are cannot be ascertained,-but it is known with certainty that they are equal in number or superior to the reichswehr. Thelr formation and armament form the cardinal princi- ple of socialist and communist poli- tics here. “We have proof that the gulding principle behind the formation -of these irregulars is ultimate establish- ment of a sovi vernment in Sax- ony,” sald a reichswehr officer to the writer today. “The same game was -|ham and to elect Col. E. W. Gibson v will in ngero; fledged revolutionary army.” Strong in Dresden Area. It is in the industrial region of southwe and in the region a I he red battalions strongest. To in- the situation the writer Pirna, on the Elbe, slovak frontier, where ce Wednesday and in history as the us Adolphus, the £ Sweden, once in- defeat on Catho- 3 the pay of the| 1 emplre. town looked like a Belgian d he world war. Reichs- . Camou- rmored cars guarded the Hotel med overdrawn, be- calm had reigned in arrival of the troops obody, not even the pected trouble ‘s shooting. POLICE CORRAL PASTORS AND PUT THEM TO WORK “Stunt” Makes Tools Fly on Tab- ernacle and Rouses Interest in Revival. By the Associated Press. JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., October 26. ~—A unique “stunt” to arouse interest sction of a temporary tabernacle | for union revival services now being | built here by voluntary labor, was of all the min- who were “fined” ive of three ce head- the patrol gon, in officers, and charged gra or refusing to work. After enteri were marched to the building opera- tions in charge of the chief of police and put to work with hammer and Baw. D Marriage statistics in England show | | that there is a_marked decrease in cere- mon! where widows figure as brid | blea of gullty lhey‘ f | Plants Lulled To Sleep, Then Roused in Tests By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 26.—Seclen- tists have announced the success- ful completion of experiments, conducted by the Westinghouse Eléctric Manufacturing Company in collaboration with Columbia University, which demonstrated that with artificlal light _they could put flowers and vegetables to sleep and awaken them at will, releasing them from the domi- nance of the sun, COOLIDGE RECORD | LAUDED BY LODGE Senator Says President Most Able Man to Succeed Self in Either Major Party. By the Associated Press. MONTPELIER, Vt, October 26.— “I can see no man on the political horizon of either party who com- pares in fitness with the man now sit- ting in the President’s chair,” Senator Lodge of Massachusetts.declared in an address last night. The speech | was the first in the campalgn to elect Porter H. Dale to the national Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator William P. Dilling- to the seat formerly held by Mr. Dale in the House of Representatives. A speclal election has been called for November 6. John Coolldge, father of the Presi- | dent, was introduced and received an ovation. Senator Lodge, after appealing to Vermont to vote “largely and over- whelmingly right” reviewed the achlevements of the admi Good fo the Jast drop @n state octasions- either festive or grave —the atten- tion is often equally divided between the guest of honor and Maxwell House Coffee. MAXWELL HOUSE Twenty Million sound\ reas ons_for buying them have found ance makes i never find a the barrel. magazine of copied, ink, It will up. IMPORTANT. Pobeter use poor your Eversharp. T i . the hands of over twenty million people. carry two Eversharps—one with the new colored lead. Eversharp’s perfect bal- fortable pencil to hold. You Eversharp—the exclusive rifled tip grips it tightly. The automatic index tells al- ways the length of lead in under the cap. 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The com- pany complained to the court that Commissioner Blair has directed the plant to be shut down, the machinery to be locked, thereby preventing the company from supplying its ous- tomers with a monthly output of 892 barrels of “denatured alcohol drawn out on permit, Justice Hitz also issued a rule on Secretary of Labor Davis and W. W. Husband, commissioner of immigra- tion, to show cause November 20 why they should not be enjoined from de- porting Francesco Leonnici, Severio Deslerio, Giovanni Gundifoti -and Nicola Finaro. The petitioners say they have lived more than seven years in the United States before their return to visit Italy and never intended to give up their residence in this country. They were prevented by labor conditions and the world war from, returning to America in the -allotted time. They recently came into the United States through Mexico,” and the department claimed they were smuggled into the country. 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