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MAD TRAPPER IS SHOT DOWN BYMOUNTIES Slaying in Blizzard Ends Relentless Arctic Hunt Lasting 49 Days. SERGEANT IS WOUNDED Maniac Battles to Last, Crazed by 50-Below Temperature. By United Press AKLAVIK, Northwest Territory, Feb. 18—The sharp crack of bullets in the unearthly cold and dusk of the arctic winter has ended the superhuman flight of Albert Johnson, trapper whom the desolate north country drove to madness. He ended his fight against capture by the Royal Canadian mounted police as he began—pumping bullets at his pursuers until his body lay lifeless in the snow, cut to ribbons by rifle fire. Johnson’s last bitter stand for freedom added Staff Sergeant E. F. Hersey, seriously wounded, to the list of caualties that already included Constable E. Newt Millen, slain, officer A. W. King, wounded, and half a dozen troopers crippled y exposure since the one-man war l gan Dec. 31. The end was dramatic, overhead droned Captain W. R. (Wop) May, war ace, in his scouting plane. Below hurried Hersey and Noel Vervile, trapper. They shouted encouragement to their hardy team of huskies. Behind at a little distance 'were Indians and trappers making up the rest of the posse which had tracked Johnson 160 miles from the Rat river barrens sixty miles south of here. Dared 50-Below Mercury The trail had led west into the mountainous divide that separates the waterflow of the Mackenzie river into the Arctic ocean and the Yukon into the Bering sea. Across the border from northwest territory into Yukon—graveyard of the north—the pursuers had mushed in 60-below zero weather. A bitter wind swept off the rim of the world as they entered the Eagle river trail well into the Yukon. Snow half-covered Johnson’s footsteps, but peering in the gloom, pursuers could see them waver. He was weakening. His flight was toward Alaska. It was an incredible journey in midwinter. They guessed that cold and blizzards would claim their quarry, if they did not soon overtake him. Suddenly, Hersey’s dogs uttered a frantic cry. Ahead in the lonely trail that wound about the frozen Eagle river, the officer saw a man. It was Johnson, the maniac who had resisted eight men in a fifteenhour battle, who had laughed at dynamite bombs hurled at his cabin, who had slain Millen by a madman’s trick of feigning death. Doubles on Tracks Apparently realizing he could not fight his way 170 miles farther across the Alaskan boundary, he had doubled back on his tracks. When he saw his pursuers, he plunged from the trail, concealing himself behind a hummock of earth and hard-frozen snow. Hersey and Verville with coldnumbed fingers grasped their rifles from the loaded toboggans and dashed toward the maniac across a frozen creek. As Hersey kneeled to aim, Johnson fired. The bullet struck the sergeant in the knee, creased up his body and lodged in the chest. Another hit his elbow. Meanwhile the main party of the posse came up. Deploying cautiously, they surrounded Johnson. As his last shots echoed from bis rifle, they poured a fusillade into his body and he collapsed, lifeless. Watches, Helpless in Air From the air, May watched the battle. His plane load of dynamite and tear gas bombs were useless. He could not drop them for fear of injuring the possemcn. When he saw Johnson had been killed, he landed swiftly on an open ice field. In a few minutes he took off and raced here with the injured Hersey and news of Johnson's death. Then he stood by today while physicians examined the sergeant’s wounds to see if it was advisable to fly Hersey 1,700 miles to an Edmonton hospital. Never in the long history of the red-coated mounted force had a man resisted arrest as Johnson had. The trapper entered the wilderness last fall with little equipment and announced he was going to prospect for gold. He was known then as a jolly companion and friends nicknamed him “A1 Jolson” for his merry sense of humor. When Indians complained he was robbing their trap lines, officers went to question him. He replied with bullets, one of which wounded Officer King seriously. That was Dec. 31. Since that time the trapper has been at bay, resisting successfully each effort at capture. NAB 19 IN STRIKE RIOT Attacks on Models and Clothing Workers Are Charged. By United Press NEW YORK. Feb. 18.—Eleven women and eight men were arrested today as a result of a series of attacks on models and other young women in the mid-town garment district where 25,000 clothing workers are striking against wage cuts. Asa result of the increasing disorders, the police force in the strike area was augmented by 200 policemen.

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JACK PICKFORD AND WIFE TALK DIVORCE

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Separation Is Admitted by Former Follies Girl, Third for Actor. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 18.—Jack Pickford, film actor, and his wife, the former Mary Mulherne, New York beauty, have separated and contemplate divorce, it wase revealed today. “It is true that Jack and I have parted,” Mrs. Pickford said, but referred other questions to her attorney. She is staying at a Hollywood hotel, where sne registered under the name of Dorothy Kelly a week ago on her return from a visit to New York. Pickford, a brother of Mary Pickford, left his Beverly Hills home and is living in a Hollywood apartment. They were married at Del Monte, Cal., in August, 1930. Pickford had been married twice before. Olive Thomas, actress, who died in Paris after taking a dose of medicine from a wrong bottle by mistake, was his first wife, and Marilyn Miller, who divorced him, was his second. The present Mrs. Pickford formerly played in the Ziegfeld follies. WIFE-BEATER LUCKY 90-Day Sentence Is Cut to 30 on Appeal. Abraham Aziz, 3701 Massachusetts avenue, said to have been arrested eight times on wife-beating charges, won a partial victory in superior court one today when Judge John W. Kern sentenced him to thirty days in jail with a fine of sl, the latter suspended. He had appealed from Municipal Judge William Sheaffer, who, on Feb. 4, imposed a ninety-day penal farm term with a fine of SIOO. Officers who arrested Aziz testified he said: “It won’t do any good. I’ve been arrested seven times already for beating my wife and I got off every time.” Van Orman Dempsey Party Head J. Harold Van Orman, former Indiana Lieutenant-Governor, will be master of ceremonies at a party tonight in Chicago in honor of Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight champion.

WOMAN, 72, SCOLDED BY COURT AS MATE NO. 7 IS DIVORCED, MAY WED AGAIN

Defiant of a court’s scolding, Mrs. Mae Surface, 72, of 2019 South East street, “free again” after her fifth divorce in superior court one, Wednesday, is ready today to marry her eighth husband “whenever I want to.” “It doesn’t make any difference to me what that judge said about getting married again. And if the man I marry ooesn’t treat me right, I’ll leave him in twenty minutes,” she said. Judge John W. Kern had told her Wednesday afternoon that he would prevent her marrying again, “If I could do it.” After relegating to the past her seventh husband, Mrs. Surface indicated her views on taking anew “companion.” In addition to the five husbands lost by divorce, Mrs. Surface has been widowed twice. At her divorce hearing before Kern, only ten minutes was required for granting the decree. She was divorced Wednesday from Samuel J. Surface, 55, of near Glen’s Valley, charging him with drunkenness and nonsupport. They were married Oct. 6. 1931, and parted Oct. 9. 1931. Evidence was obtained with difficulty by the judge. Three of five gray-haired witnesses were deaf. Later, Mrs. Surface took the witness stand to narrate dramatic details of her three-day marriage. The trouble, she testified, hinged on money. She was well dressed. Her testimony required three min-

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21 YEARS IN PEN FOR EX-SHERIFF Ira Barton Sentenced for Aiding Bank Bandits. By Times Special PORTLAND, Ind., Feb. 18.—Ira Barton, who confessed that as sheriff of Blackford county he aided bandits in robbery of the First State bank of Dunkirk last Dec. 24, was sentenced to twenty-one years’ imprisonment by Judge Frank Gillespie today. , Immediately after the sentencing, Barton was returned to his home in Hartfrod City for a few minutes and then started to the Indiana state prison at Michigan City. Tandy Ferguson, the guard whom Barton slugged in his escape attempt, walked into the courtroom as sentence was being passed. His head was bandaged. He shook hands with Barton and .talked with him briefly. Barton apologized for striking Ferguson, saying, “I don’t know why I did it. I’m sorry.” After Barton had been taken from the courtroom, the court heard the case of Linden Barton. The youth was fined SSO and given a suspended sentence of six months’ imprisonment. He was paroled to Sheriff Ira Mannix. Following a vain dash for freedom and a confession to implication in bank robberies in Hartford City and Montpelier, Barton late Wednesday admitted that he aided bandits in the Dunkirk holdup. In court with the former sheriff were his elderly father and his wife. The father was near collapse. Barton had no comment to make when sentence was pronounced, but pleaded “not to do anything to Linden” COLD SNAP IS DUE FOR BREAK TONIGHT Unsettled, But Warmer, Weather Forecast for City. The cold snap Wednesday night will give way to unsettled weather and rising temperatures tonight and Friday, J. H. Armington, weather forecaster, said today. Thermometers sank to 21 in the city Wednesday night, registering a 31-degree drop over Tuesday. Ls v temperatures in the state ranged from 20 in the north portion to 28 in Evansville.

utes, and then her maiden name, Mae Wittenberger, was restored. “There’s no such thing as love later in life,” Miss Wittenberger said today. “Her earlier marriages were for love, but later were for companionship. It’s circumstances that come up that cause old folks to get married. “For instance, I used to get lonely having no one to talk to but the neighbors. “But when you marry, you can talk and have companionship if you want it. If you don’t you can just tell your husband to shut up, and read the newspaper. “Get married again? ’ That’s all nonsense,” “But I’ll tell you this. If I want to get married again I will, and no judge will stop me.”

Germany Urges Drastic Arms Slash at Geneva

By United Prtea GENEVA, Feb. 18. —Germany, practically disarmed under world war treaty terms, submitted far-reaching disarmament proposals to the world disarmament conference today. They included abolition of all air armaments, destruction of all air reserves or stocks, abolition of conscription, prohibition of heavy artillery and tanks, limitation of the size of warships, and prohibition of aircraft carriers and submarines. Germany asked that warships be limited to 10,000 tons and guns to 280 millimeters caliber, about eleven inches. She urged the prohibition of gasses and germ warfare and a ban on the export of warlike armaments. Other recommendations were; * -ft ~ ft*

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RELIEF SENT COLD-STARVED FARM REGION Northern Nebraska District Is Drought, Grasshopper and Blizzard Victim. LIVESTOCK IS DYING Fields in Seven Counties Littered With Spent Stock; Families Being Fed. By United Press BRISTOW, Neb., Feb. 18.—Creaking wagons lurched today along icerutted, snow-choked roads toward the relief depots of northern Nebraska. Driving the bony teams which tediously pulled the wagons were stern-faced, gaunt men, heads of families that suffered a summer of drought and grasshopper invasion, and now a bitter cold winter. The teams were headed for improvised supply stores distribution centers for food and livestock feed more fortunate citizens have contributed. Today was the first day in several many farmers were able to visit the relief centers. Blizzards had choked the highways with snow. Icy winds kept the ill-clad farmers indoors. In each store the scene was the same. Volunteer clerks doled out flour, side pork, rice and beans. Those who needed clothing were supplied. • Each man, as he stood before the counters in the stores asked livestock feed. Already, the farmers said, fields in seven counties most severely stricken are littered with carcasses of cattle and horses. Those animals remaining must be kept to furnish milk for hungry families, or to pull plows if a spring crop is to oo planted. Hundreds of cars of hay and grain have been shipped from other parts of the state, and hundreds more must come if livestock is to be saved. Three months remain before farmers can hope to put their animals on pasture. During those months, too, the bony, half-starved horses must be worked in the fields. Provide Wisconsin Aid By United Press LAKE WILSON, Minn., Feb. 18. —Governor Floyd B. Olson’s personal guarantee today made available relief to families stricken by the double disaster of a grasshopper plague last fall and heavy blizzards this winter. Though no funds have been approved for the purpose, three carloads of feed were purchased on the personal gurantee of Governor Olson that he would make the sum good if the state failed to appropriate the money. Food was supplied by local agencies to fifty families near starvation. Secretary W. H. Lamson of the Minnesota executive council reported a mother and three children existing on half a loaf of bread a day. Snowbound; Fight Famine By United Press SILVERTON, Colo., Feb. 18.— This mining town of 1,300, isolated by blizzards and snowslides, today drafted emergency plans to fight famine. Fresh foods have been exhausted, threatening sickness. Canned food sufficient for thirty days remains, but the blockade peril gives no signs of abating. Even the giant rotary snow plows of the Denver & Rio Granie Western, silverton’s only outlet, are stalled in drifts. The snowslides, thundering down the granite walls of the Rockies, sealed Silverton against the world ten days ago. SCORES ASK PASSAGE ON ROCKET TO MOON Model of New-Type Transportation Carrier Is Displayed. By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—“ Scores of people” want reservations for a trip to the moon aboard the rocket planned by G. Edward Pendray, vice-president of the American Interplanetary Society, he said. A model of the rocket was shown today at Museum of Natural History here. Pendray expects the rocket to make possible mail transportation across the Atlantic in two hours. Passenger rockets between New York and Chicago will make the trip in twenty minutes, he said. U. S. to Snub Manchuria State By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. The United States, it was predicted today in an informed quarter, will not recognize the new Manchurian state proclaimed at Mukden as an aftermath of the Japanese military campaign in China’s "three eastern provinces.”

An Alger Hero By United Press COLLINSVILLE, Tex., Feb. 18.—Tom Sawyer’s dream of running away and coming back to the old home town while the band played and bugles blared, came to life today in the triumphal march of Governor William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray of Oklahoma. As many a 12-year-old, Governor Murray sneaked away from home one night Today his homecoming was one Horatio Alger’s heroes might envy More than 30,000 people honored the gallused Governor made famous by his 5-cent cigars, his martial law threats, his ancient horse pistol, and his slogan of “Bread, Buttter, Bacon and Beans” The crowd came largely to add impetus to his boom for the Democratic presidential nomination. Speeches about Collinsville’s most famous citizen and a speech by the Governor himself filled the program. Then came the storybook climax. A 16-foot statue of Governor Murray was dedicated.

ANTI-HOARDING DRIVEDATE SET Slacker Dollar Campaign to Open Feb. 22. By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 18.—The Citizens Reconstruction Organization’s campaign to draft slacker dollars for the war on depression will open Feb. 22, with a nation-wide broadside of advertising. It will be followed, perhaps Sunday, Feb. 29, by the signal for a house-to-house drive to sell “prosperity” bonds. Colonel Frank Knox, chairman, in Washington to confer with the President, intimated that these reconstruction bonds would be in small denominations, but refused to go into the details of the issue or to give the total amount in mind until He has talked with Secretary of Treasury Mills. James Keeley, gray-haired, short, stocky and energetic vice-chairman of the campaign, sent telegrams today enlisting the co-operation of 328 daily newspapers. Advertising materials for release beginning Monday went forward to the same publications. DIVORCE 1$ SOUGHT Former Wife of Tarkington Asks Third Decree. Mrs. Louisa Fletcher Koefen, former Indianapolis woman and former wife of Booth Tarkington, famous novelist, is in Reno, Nev., today, preparing to obtain a divorce from her third husband, according to wire dispatches from the western city. The sister of Stoughton Fletcher, former Indianapolis banker, who now lives in California, Mrs. Koefen has not resided in Indianapolis for years. Friends of Mrs. Koefen, informed of the contemplated divorce, said she had not visited here recently and has had her residence at Jamaica Plain, Mass. Local friends of Mrs. Koefen said after her divorce from Tarkington she later married an eastern newspaper man. Several years following her divorce from the newspaper man, friends said Mrs. Koefen married her third husband. She has spent much time in recent years traveling throughout the country, they said.

LINK ANDERSON OFFICIALS TO LIQUOR RUNNERS IN FEDERAL GRAND JURY QUIZ

Testimony charging two city officials of Anderson went to Marion and asked law enforcement officials there to “go easy” on two men arrested for running thirty-six cases of alleged Capone beer, today was presented the federal grand jury, which is reported probing liquor conspiracies in Anderson and Muncie. Mayor Jack Edwards of Marion is one of the 100 witnesses appearing before the jury. He will testify in connection with the load of beer, it was learned. Implicated in the beer-running episode is said to be Joseph Melcher, Anderson garbage master, now in jail. He is reported to have provided the surety bond for the appearance of the two runners, and, it is declared, attempted to exert pressure for leniency. Each of the booze runners was fined slof, S3O costs and sentenced to ninety days in jail at Marion. The jail sentences were suspended. Edwards’ testimony is expected to confirm the accounts of influence exerted on city officials.

Fixation of the percentage of army officers to the lowest possible level; prohibition of use of police forces, gendarmes and similar organizations for military purposes The proposals were presented by Rudolph Nadolny, German ambassador to Turkey. “There can only be one system of disarmament—equality applicable to all governments,” he said. “Germany demands the prohibition of fortresses in cases where they constitute a direct menace to neighboring countries owing to the proximity of frontiers.” This was taken to be a reference to the vast scheme of frontier fortification erected by France.

CHINA REJECTS DEMANDS OF JAPANESE, PREPARES TO FIGHT FOR SHANGHAI

BRITAIN HOLDS lAPAN LIABLE FORJEATHS Blame Laid on Nipponese in Killing of Seamen at Shanghai. By United Press TOKIO, Feb. 18.—The British naval command at Shanghai holds Jar'n sponsible for Chinese shciing in which two British sailors were killed. The shells fell in the international settlement at v*.anghai. A government spokesman revealed today that Vice Admiral Sir William Kelly had protested to Japanese Admiral Nomura at Shanghai that Japanese landings in the international settlement were responsible -or the Chinese fire in which the sailors were wounded fatally. The B-itish position was m ule public twenty-foUr hours after Ambassador Debuchi at Washington had informed the foreign office that the United States intended to hold Japan responsible for danger to Americans in the settlement if the Chinese attacked in retaliation Japanese use of the area as a base for operations. (This report was denied later at Washington, which did, however, admit such plan was under consideration with many others). The spokesman said revelation of Secretary of State Stimson’s “possible note” was in error, because the note never was received. The information given out by the foreign office Wednesday night caused the Chinese to shell the settlement in the hope of causing the United Stats to intervene, the spokesman said. Diplomats here were interested in Ambassador Debuchi’s reaction to the spokesman’s statement. The original statement on the United States attitude was credited to Debuchi. He was quoted as saying that Stimson was preparing a note which would hold Japan responsible for danger to Americans. Stimson was “adamant and excited,” the foreign office spokesman had said. American Warning Given By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—ConsulGeneral Edwin S. Cunningham at Shanghai has notified both Chinese and Japanese officials that their governments will be held responsible for all damage to American lives and property resulting from fighting in Shanghai. This warning was delivered about two weeks ago. It became public today when the state department revealed it in response to questions from the press. THIEVES LOOT CHURCH Interior of Edwin Ray M. E. Edifice Is Damaged; Nothing Stolen. Considerable damage was done to the interior of the Edwin Ray M. E. church, Laurel street and Woodlawn avenue, as a result of a burglary attempt Wednesday night, but nothing was stolen, according to the Rev. W. T. Jones, pastor.

Majority of the witnesses will testify to activities of two alleged big shot rum and slot machine concessionaries, Bert and Jack Stinson of Anderson, who, it is charged, owned and operated barbecue-liquor stands in Madison, Delaware and Henry counties. Their most notorious place was the Black Bear at Marklesville, federal agents said. The brothers were arrested in January and Bert Stinson is held in jail while Jack is at liberty under $25,000 bond. They, together with John Bronneberg, are alleged to have been operators of the 1,500-gallon still on the latter’s farm in Madison county, which, agents say, was the largest in the state. Thirteen hundred gallons of alcohol were seized in the raid staged in October. Sheriff Bernard Bradley of Madison county, who was one of the raiders, is expected to testify today. It is reported agents expect to connect activities of the alleged booze gang with officials in the three counties.

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Withdrawal of Armies From City Will Be Refused and Offensive Along Whole Front Will Follow. CONFLICT OF ARTILLERY RENEWED Both Sides Rush Reinforcements to War Zone; Foreigners Fear Danger to Their Settlement. By United Press SHANGHAI, Friday, Feb. 19.—The Chinese army, ignoring a Japanese ultimatum that it retire from Shanghai by Saturday, began a heavy bombardment of the Japanese fleet, and the Japanese quarter of the international settlement early today. The batteries of the Nineteenth Chinese army opened up the most severe bombardment in forty hours, at 12:20 a. m., aiming at the Japanese flagship, the cruiser Idzumo, and Japanese marine headquarters in Hongkew. byTi. r. EKINS United Press Staff Correspondent • (Copvrieht. 1932. bv United Pressl SHANGHAI, Feb. 18.—The Japanese delivered an ultimatum to the Chinese in Shanghai tonight, demanding that they withdraw their armies from the city by Saturday. The Chinese were expected to refuse to comply, and the result would be a final battle between the Chinese, who were estimated to have about 50,000 men in position, and the Japanese, with a force of from 20,000 to 30,000 fighting men.

One of the most prominent of the Chinese government leaders said: “The Japanese demands are so impossible that they render counter proposals out of the question.” The demands were delivered in Japanese. The Chinese began preparing a reply to be delivered at the earliest possible moment, rejecting the demands in every detail. Fresh Troops Arrive While artillery thundered through the night on the borders of the international settlement in a renewal of the long - continued bombardment, both armies threw fresh troops into their lines. Silent, khaki-clad Japanese soldiers, fully accoutered, marched toward the trenches in long lines, while olive-drab lorries rumbled through the Hongkew district of the settlement, controlled by the Japanese, carrying munitions to the front. The Japanese ultimatum was delivered to Mayor Wu Teh-Chen of Shanghai and General Tsai TingKai, commander of the Chinese nineteenth army, by representatives of the Japanese military and diplomatic leaders. The renewed artillery battle was in progress when the demands were delivered. They were left at the home of Mayor Wu, who was absent. Orders Evacuation Saturday The ultimatum demanded that the Chinese first lines be evacuated by 5 a. m. Saturday (3 p. m. Friday, Indianapolis time) and the second lines by 5 p. m. Saturday (3 a. m. Indianapolis time). It provided for immediate and complete withdrawal of the Chinese troops to a point twenty kilometers (12.4 miles) from Shanghai. They further demanded permanent demilitarization of the Shanghai delta between the internaitonal settlement and the sea, which would have the same effect as removing the Shanghai area from Chinese control, other than nominal. The demilitarization would include the razing of the Woosung forts, at the intersection of the Whangpoo and Yangtze rivers, Shanghai’s only defense works. The Japanese also demanded razing of the Lion Forest forts, northwest of Woosung. Fighting must cease before Saturday night, the Japanese insisted, promising that they neither would shell, bomb nor otherwise shoot the withdrawing Chinese troops. Further, in event of complete withdrawal, the Japanese would not advance from their present positions. (This, presumably, would not entail withdrawal of the Japanese within the settlement.) Would End Boycott Previous verbal mention had been made of a demand for the razing of the Lion Hill forts defending Nanking, but Kuramatsu Mural, Japanese consul-general, explained it had not been included in the written demands because the Japanese desire to localize the Shanghai affair. The ultimatum demanded abolition of a.' anti-Japanese movements. It wou.l include cesstation of the boycott which crippled Japanese trade in Shanghai and led to the present situation. It also would include anti-Japanese propaganda and insulting press comment. To assure the Chinese evacuation is complete, the ultimatum provided that a commission shall be sent to investigate the area within a radius of twenty kilometers of the settlement after the evacuation is finished. The demands insisted that Japanese lives and property in the avacuated area must be protected and that snipers must be controlled. The Japanese demands were stem, complete and business-like. They were backed by picked fighting men of the Japanese army and a formidable fleet of warships in the river. They were delivered tonight. Just

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three weeks from the time the Japanese marines began their advance into the Chapei district, only to be held by the unexpected and stubborn resistance of the Chinese. The ultimatum left foreign authorities increasingly apprehensive over the outcome. Peace efforts were continued to the last minute, but the Chinese gave every indication of intending to refuse such terms. The nineteenth army, which has held Shanghai for three weeks, continued to be the main Chinese arm of defense, despite the troops of General Chiang Kai-Shek, which have been sent into the area. The Chinese military leader, who so far has taken on part in the resistance, was believed by some observers to have brought up his troops to await developments. They believed he would watch to see if the Nineteenth army would be smashed, not risking the defeat of his own troops. However, if the Nineteenth held firm he might incorporate units of the other armies with the Nineteenth. The artillery duel continued all during the evening and was still in progress at 11 p. m. BENEFIT CONCERT BY SCOUT BAND SLATED Tonight’s Performance to Be for “Made Work” Cause. The Boy Scout band, directed by Raymond G. Oster, assistant director of the Technical high school band, will give a benefit concert at 8 tonight in Tomlinson hall. Proceeds from the concert will go to the emergency work committee for use in the “Made Work” program. On the program also will be George Storck’s accordion band, with Miss Mabella Brown as a special entertainer. Sam Sims, baritone, and an eagle scout, will sing a group of songs. “Pilgrim’s Chorus” will be played by a saxophone octet. GOLDEN RULE PLEA IS ADVANCED BY BISHOP Wealth, Poverty, Side by Side Is Anomalous, Says Pastor. Present day economic conditions call for the application of the Golden Rule to business, the Rt. Rev. James Wise, Episcopal bishop of Kansas, declared in today’s noon Lenten service at Christ church. “Swollen fortunes on one hand,” the bishop said, “side by side with millions of hungry unemployed, whose labor has made such wealth possible, is an anomalous condition that has no place in an enlightened and Christian civilization.” RAPIDAN QUIET DOOMED President Asks 150 Jumbo Frogs to Stock Pool at Camp. By United Press NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 18. The Louisiana Iris Society has received a request from President Hoover for 150 native Louiisiana Iris and 100 Louisiana jumbo frogs. The frogs, according to the society, are to be used in stocking a pool at the President’s Rapidan camp. SCHWAB IS OPTIMISTIC “Grand Old Man of Steel,” 70 Today, Predicts Prosperity. By United Press NEW YORK. Feb. 18.—On the occasion of his 70th birthday, Charles M. Schwab, “the grand old man of steel,” today declared that he could see nothing “but ultimate prosperity and success in this country.” Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 21 10 a. m 29 7a. m 21 11 a. m 30 Ba. m 23 12 (noon).. 31 9a. m 26 Ip. m..... 33

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