Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1920 — DECLINES TO BE CHANCELLOR [ARTICLE]

DECLINES TO BE CHANCELLOR

Dr. Mayer Kaufbeuren Refuses Place In New German Ministry at Berlin. Paris, June 18.—Dr. Mayer Kaufbeuren, German charge d’affaires here, has refused the offer of the German chancellorship tendered him by Kari Trlmborn, leader of the German center party, who Is trying to form the new German ministry to be organized as a result of the recent election. Dr. Mayer explained his refusal by declaring he considered the mission he has to fulfill in Paris as too important for him to give up at this juncture.