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- - witn Bun - POLAND WILL INSIST UPON DANZIG PORT, SAYS COUNCIL Agreement Reached Between Communists and Central Council, Says Report From Bavarian Capital ANTI-GERMAN ACTION (By Associated Press) BERLIN, April 12 The ire of the Poles "because of the allied decision not to land General Haller's army at Danzig" has arisen to a high pitch, says the correspondent of the Tageblatt, at Thorn. It has been marked, he declares, by an Increasing number of anti-German acts, including the smashing of busts of former Emperor William and Frederick the Great. The. Polish people's council, adds the correspondent, has issued a proclamation saying that the entente knows that the Poles will not let Danzig be snatched from them, as otherwise resistance to German and Bolshevik assaults will be impossible. RIOT IN DANZIG COPENHAGEN, April 12 A sanguinary collision occurred last even ing at Danzig between a crowd and the troops guarding the square in front of the railway station. Three persons were killed and several wounded when the troops fired on tho people. The Danzig message reporting the clash says the troops fired after having been "subjected during the entire day to abusive molestation." BOARD TO CONSIDER . PLANS FOR MISSION

A number of important decisions including plans for the future of the North End Mission are to be made St a meeting of the Mission Administrative Board at the Y. M. C. A. Monday evening. It is probable that some Mtensive remodeling will be done to the present Mission house, although nothing definite has yet been considered, tho entire board having to take " up the matter. , y The administrative board is 'composed of the executive board of the mission, the pastor from each of the affiliating churches, and one or not more than two lay members from each church co-operating. Members of the executive board are: Miss Lily Drifmeyer, of St. Paul's Lutheran church, president: Rutherford Jones. Reid Memorial church, secretary; Arthur L. Smith, First Presbyterian church, treasurer; Amasa Jenkins, Allen Jay Memorial; S. E. Mills, First Christian, and L. H. Bunyan, First Methodist Episcopal, members of the finance committee; Mrs. Arthur L. Smith, superintendent of the social service department of the mission, and the Rev. J. R. Propst, ' The lay and ministerial members of the board are: Baptist church, Shelby Lee, pastor; M. E. Rowe, lay memDer; First Christian church, L. E. Murray, pastor; S. E. Mills and Charles Muegel, lay members; South Eighth Street Friends. Andrew F. Mitchell, pastor; Dr. N. S. Cox and Mrs. Fred Wickett, lay members; East Main Street Friends, John R. Webb, pastor; Folger Wilson and Mildred Edwards, lay members; the Allen Jay Memorial, Charles M. Woodman, pastor; W. A. Macy, lay member; St. Paul's Lutheran church, F. W. Rohlfln. pastor; G. H. Hoelscher, lay member; First English Lutheran church, F. A. Dressel, pastor; Everett Knollenberg, lay member; Second English Lutheran church, Raymond Isley, pastor; Mrs. C. Welbaum, lay member; First Methodist church, R. L. Semans, pastor; L. H. Bunyan, lay member; First Presbyterian church, J. J. Rae, pastor; Mrs. Arthur L. Smith, lay member; Reid Memorial church, J. S. Hill, pastor; Rutherford Jones and George C. Ball, lay members. The finance, religious work and publicity committees will make formal reports at the meeting Monday night. The Rev. and Mrs. J. F. Propst will talk on their recent trip to Gary and Chicago where they ivsited various mission houses, and studied mission work as it is done in those two cities.

Hero of Argonne Enters Race for Kentucky Governor (By Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 12. The soldier element came to the front in Kentucky politics today when II. II. Denhardt, of Bowling Green, announced his candidacy for governor of Kentucky on the Democratic ticket. Colonel Denhardt commanded the 319 field 'artillery during the world war and saw service in the St. Mihiel and Argonne drives. After the Argonne battle he was promoted to a Lieutenant Colonel and mentioned for bravery. Yeoman Wants To Be Naturalized Citizen (By Associated. PreM) WASHINGTON, April 12. Miss Lillian Helen Harper has applied for naturalization here, the first yeowomen in the navy to take advantage of the opportunity created by the war tnf a Manx tn become ritlzenrt without

w.the long wait necessary for those not r'in the military service. She is a na- ' tlve of Canada.

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Teiei relegram 1907. Farms for Soldiers Coloradoan's Scheme E. T. TAYLOR Representative E. T. Taylor of Colorado, author of a measure providing forms for soldiers, urges that applicants for farms write their congressman asking that the bill be passed Mr. Taylor was chairman of the house committee on arid lands and irrigation in the Democratic congress. BRITON ANXIOUS OVER GROWTH OF AMERICAN TRADE U. S. Business Men Are Es tablishing Themselves All Over .World, Claim English. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 12. British residents abroad have bombarded the home government with complaints of the activity of American business men throughout the world, advices to an official of the state department say. Notes of complaint also have appeared. Official advices report that the necessity for action is particularly realized in the Lancanshire cotton district in regard to the trade with the orient. A deputation from the Manchester chamber of commerce has proposed to Sir Arthur Steel-Maltland, the parliamentary secretary to the department of overseas trade, that a commercial mission be sent at once to China. It was proposed that the mission be made up of representatives of the cotton manufacturers, cotton trade union leaders, shippers and officials of the department of overseas trade. It is asked that the government pay the expenses of the mission. Fear for Commerce Lead. One London paper voices the general apprehension that tbe United States will take from Great Britain her lead in the commerce of the world as follows: "The activity of manufacturers in the United States of America and the keen commercial instinct with which they are seeking old and secure new markets for their goods have led to many complaints that British manufacturers are being left far behind in the struggle for the markets of the world. "To British residents abroad it is peculiarly exasperating to see American houses taking up premises, in, say, Scandanavia, for the purpose of trading direct with large firms in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland, and with an eye to the future, establishing a jumping off place from which they will be able to establish themselves in Russia when that country is once more in a sufficiently settled state to permit of trading relations being re-established. Complaint is made by Britons in all parts of the world that the American manufacturer is very much to the fore, while nothing is seen of his British competitor." H, C. L. BLAMED FOR TELEGRAPH INCREASE (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 12. In making public today a statement in which it gives figures upon which is based the increase of telegraph rates, the wire control board directs attention to the fact that while the increase In price of products and service of various industrial and mercantile corporations have increased 100 per cent, telegraph service has been rendered at pre-war prices throughout a period when industrial and business profits were unprecedented. "The increase of 20 per cent in telegraph rates," says the statement, "should be considered in comparison with the 100 per cent increase in other prices, and it is less than- that found necessary to add to the railroad freight rates and is no greater than has been made generally in other public utility rates in order to obviate utter financial collapse." British Steel Convoy Sold to United States (By Associated Press) SEATTLE, Wash., Apr. 12. Sale of 8,000 ton steel steam War Convoy, by the Canadian Muntions board to George T. Williams formerly of Seattle, and associates of New York which was announced here today is believed to have been the first instance of a British vessel built in war times to be sold to Americans. The purchase of the vessel was reported to have been $1,500,000. The new owners will place the steamer on a route between Seattle and Europe.

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MODERATES IN MUNICH AGAIN TAKE CONTROL FROftrijEDS" Anger of People Raised to High Pitch by Allied Decision Concerning Landing of Polish Troops. tjl. NO FOOD FOR BAVARIA

(By Associated Press BASEL, April 12. The Soviet re public in Munich was overthrown Friday by force of arms, a newspaper of Berlin says. BERLIN, April 12. Reports received from Munich state that the agreement has been reached between the central council and the communists. Thi3 is held to indicate that the moderate elements in the Bavarian capitol have gained the upper hand. A special dispatch from Hamberg to The Vosslsche Zeitung says that the German government has announced that the entente powers have informed it that Bavaria is not to be included in the conclusion of peace, and that measures will be taken to prevent any entente foodstuffs from reaching Bavaria. Syndicate Nitrogen Plants A syndicate of all the German nitrogen plants has been tentatively organized under the direction of the ministry of finance. The government, which invested heavily in this warborn industry having secured a controlling influence and the right to fix prices, now proposes to validate the syndicate by legislation and to submit a contract with the consumers to the national assembly for ratification. The contemplated consolidation takes the place of the proposed plan to create a monopoly in the industry, which is strongly opposed by the national assembly. Get U. S. Flour Housewives of Berlin have been supplied with the first installments of the flour which recently arrived from the United States, the allotment be ing at the rate of one-half pound for; each person. The price fixed by the authorities is two marks, twenty pfennings the pound, which is seven times the amount that was , paid in peace times. , ' v The food - card, declares thehigh price set is necessary, as the native supplies are rapidly diminishing and conservation of the imported flour is sought to prevent a later rise in the price of bread for the production of which the new supplies will be needed. CHECK IN EXODUS OF ALIENS URGED (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, April 12. All the savings banks in the United States are asked In letters sent out today by the savings bank section of the American Bankers' association to aid in checking the exodus from this country of thousands of aliens, who are sailing for their native lands with millions of American dollars. Due to Bolshevik propaganda, the association says, an "alarming" proportion of the fourteen million foreign born population in the United States are selling their liberty bonds and withdrawing their money from the banks. "It is estimated that about 1,300,000 cannot be stopped from going and that they will carry with them nearly $4,000,000,000 or four-fifths of the total currency in circulation and in reserve in the United States before the war" said the letters. "It is estimated that unless vigor action is taken over six millions of these aliens may be lured abroad by this vicious propaganda, taking with them cash equal to the total present currency resources of the United States. This is certainly serious.' An accompanying letter says that "it is for the purpose of bringing these people and their collective wealth within reach upon their native soil that the most Insidious of all bolshevik propaganda is being practiced to entice them to return to their mother countries in Europe with the allurement: 'Sell your liberty bonds and real estate, draw your savings and bank accounts, return to your native country and enjoy free and unrestricted personal liberty.' " Serious Typhus Epidemic Spreading in East Europe (By Associated Press! CANNES, France, April 12. Grave reports relative to the progress of typhus fever in eastern Poland, Russia, Serbia and Macedonia were received at the Red Cross conference here today from Red Cross agents in those countries. During the session experts on typhus fever who were present formed a committee to advise the organization as to means for combating the disease, forecasting a new organibation within the Red Cross. Reports from agents gave experts the impression that the situation was even more serious than was stated In messages received but that proper measures would probably prevent the disease from spreading to Italy, France, England and America. SHIP CONTRACTS REINSTATED (By Associated Press) " SEATTLE, Wash., April 12 Contracts for twenty-five steel ships to be constructed by the Skinner and Eddy Corporation here for the emergency fleet corporation, recently suspended are to be . reinstated, according to Washington advices, received today.

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Hillquit is Counsel for Soviet Mission MORRIS HILLQUIT Announcement has been made by Santeri Nuorteva, secretary to the soviet mission established in this country by L. A. Martens, that legal steps would be taken at once to obtain approximately $150,000,000 in money and property now held in New York under the name of the old Russian government. Morris Hillquit, former Socialist candidate for mayor, has been retained by the mission as its counsel. EXTERMINATION OF BOLSHEVISM TO SAVE WORLD Russian Points Out Menace in Social Unrest Country's Future Difficult. (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, April 12. Baron Rosen, formerly Russian ambassador to the United States and one of the peace plenipotentiaries who settled the war between Russia and Japan, in an address today before the Brooklyn chamber of commerce, his first public utterance since arriving , in America an exile from his native land, declared that It was the "deadly poison of Bolshevism which brought on the defeat of Russia and next of Germany," and that its "sudden rise and stupendous growth" should be a solemn warning to the ruling classes in all belligerent countries. "Russia as a political entity has temporily ceased to exist," said Baron Rosen. "There is at present no political party or body of men which could be held to be entitled to enter upon international engagements in the name of Russia and the Russian nation least of all that small group of dpmented fanatics with their following of murderous bandits who have usurped power by violence, who maintain their tyrannical power by a regime of terrorism such as the world has never seen; who have completely ruined and destroyed the social fabric of the state and who have turned what was once the empire of Russia into wilderness of primitive barbarism, a prison, a lunatic asylum and a slaughter house." Nurtured by Unrest. ' "The germs of this deadly disease, Bolshevism, although lying dormant, were present and are still present everywhere," said the speaker, "bred and nurtured by the atmosphere of social unrest, an inevitable accompaniment of the wonderful achievements of modern civilization which are doing so much to emphasize and render more glaring the contrast between the luxury and ease of the tew and the want and limitations of the many, condemned to a life of incessant toil, joyless monotony and anxious insecurity." Discussing the problems of the immediate future of Russia, the former ambassador said it is "one of unexampled difficulty." Its solution is required in the interest of all mankind, he declared, adding that "if Bolshevism be not now extirpated root and branch and if it is suffered to spread any further it might ultimately come to mean the doom of our race and civilization." "The task of seeking such a solution," said he, "should be approached in a spirit entirely free from partisanship and from the passions cf international hatred bred by the war." Death Rate in Army Camps Shows Decreasedn U. S. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 12. Continued decline in the prevalence of serious diseases among troops at home and abroad is announced by the Surgeon general for the week ending April 4. The death rate from disease in the United States dropped from 7.9 per thousand per year to 7.5, and in overseas forces, from 7 to 5. The majority of the deaths resulted from pneumonia and tuberculosis. SEARCH DEFAULTING CASHIER. ft?v Associated Press CHICAGO, April 12. The police of Chicago were asked today to look out for, John H. Kendall, who is believed by officials of a bank at Amboy, Ind., of which he was cashier, to be in hiding here. According to the information given the police, Kendall disappeared last October and soOn thereafter the . bank went into the hands of a receiver through an alleged shortage of nearly $100,000 which was attributed to the cashier.

BOtSHEVIKI PROPAGANDA BLAMED FOR U.SJSUTIMY First Instance Where American Soldiers Protested Against Order to Get Into a Fight, Says Commander. LENIENCY IS ASKED

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 12 Company I of the 339th Infantry was identified today by General March as the unit which recently refused to return to the front line trenches in the Archangel section when ordered to do so by its officers. A supplementary report to the department on the incident said it was worthy of note that the question put by the men of Company I to their officers were "identical with the questions which Bolshevik! propaganda advised that they put to them." The department has not received copies of the Bolsheviki leaflets containing these questions and General March said he was extremely anxious to secure one. "In my long service," General March said, "I don't, recall another instance where American soldiers did not want to go into a fight. They always have said, 'Lead us to It.' " . Communication Reopened. General March did not indicate what the latest reports showed as to the present state of discipline among the American force. A report from Murmansk dated March 28, said the Onda bridge on the railroad south of Murmansk had been rebuilt restoring communication with the southernmost post of the allies. While the actual situation of the small command of the expedition in north Russia is not known, General March said the reopening of communication to the south over the Onda bridge solved any military question, since it afforded a direct line for supply and reinforcements. Communications between Murmansk and .Archangel is being kept open with the assistnace of ice breakers. ASK EARLY WITHDRAWAL DETROIT, Mich., April 12. The Detroit's Own Welfare association, composed rrelatives of men fa the 339th Infantry, a part of the" allied force in Russia, has appealed to the War Department for leniency in dealing with American soldiers who mutinied on March 30, when ordered to the front lines. " The message refers to "the odds against which the troops are fighting," and renews the request that they be withdrawn at an early date. The 229th, known at "Detroit's Own," comprises the greater part of the American forces in Russia. U. 5 ARMY STRENGTH UNDER TWO MILLION (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 12. Demobillzation has reduced the total strength of the American army below two million. Complete reports to April 8 announced today by General March, showed the aggregate strength on that date to be 1,980,506. Half Teachers in U. S. Are Not Fit to Teach, Declares Educator By Associated Tress) CLEVELAND, April 12 "At least! half the teachers in the United States ! are not fit to teach. We ought to get' rid of 350,000 of them," declared D. B. Waldo, president of the Western State Normal School, Kalamazoo, Mich., last night, before more than 4,000 dele gates to the Northwestern Ohio! Teachers' association, in convention! here. ! "Democracy won on paper," Mr. 1 Waldo continued, "but there will bo: no democracy until every child gets a fair chance for education." William M. Davidson, superintendent of schoold in Pittsburgh, also spoke. CHOSE ARCHITECT FOR NEW SCHOOLS MONDAY The architect for the two new Junior high schools for Richmond will be chosen at a meeting of the Board of Education Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock, Charles W. Jordan, member of the board said Saturday. Mr. Jordan, Superintendent J. H. Bentley of the Richmond schools and Willard Z. Carr, also a member of the board, returned Saturday from Chicago and Cleveland where they interviewed architects and saw several Junior high schools. Mr. Jordan said that the decision will be made at the board meeting Monday afternoon. Dr. M. F. Johnston, president of the board, was not able to take the trip. Bentley will also report on the success he had in obtaining teachers for vacancies in the grades. It is probable that some teachers will be decided upon at the board meeting. APPEAL RATE CASE f By Associated Press) , WASHINGTON, April 12. Appeals were filed yesterday with the United States supreme court from the North Dakota supreme court, which when heard will test the authority of the director general of railroads to fix freight and passenger rates.

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Haverford President Will Speak Tonight W. W. COMFORT Dr. W. W. Comfort, president of Haverford college, will speak Saturday evening in the South Eighth Street Friends church on the Friends' Reconstruction work in France. The lecture will be illustrated. FRIENDS' RELIEF WORK TO BE LAID BEFORE CHURCHES Speakers in all Society Pulpits in City Sunday Will Describe Movement. Important because of its international significance is the series of meetings to be held in the various Friends' churches of the city tomorrow in the interests of the American Friends Service Committee, which has done intensive and important relief work in devastated France and Russia, and which is about to begin work in Serbia. The program for the day, previously announced, will be carried out, it was said today. The biggest event of the day will be the mass meeting of Friends and all other persons interested in this work, to be held in the East Main Street Friends church at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Rufus K. Jones will be one of the important speakers. Mr. Jones will speak on "Friends Reconstruction Work and Impressions Gained Among the Workers in France". Fresh from the field of active service with theAmerican men and women, who are helping France in her rehabilitation problems, Mr. Jones brings first-hand information which many people, including those of other religious denominations have been desirous to hear. A large audience is expected to attend this meeting. Visiting Friends in Pulpits The Friends church pulpits will be filled with visiting Friends tomorrow. These men will touch on the work of the American Friends Service Committee, what has been done, and what is yet to be done. The illustrated address of President W. W. Comfort, of Haverford College, in the South Eighth Street Friends church tonight will bring out a large audience, it Is expected. President Comfort will also speak on the work of the American Friends in reconstruction centers. JAPANESE MASSACRE OF KOREANS CLAIMED 'By Associated ?ressl SAN FRANCISCO, April 12. Japanese began what was described as a "massacre" in Korea at Seoul, the capital, during a demonstration on March 28, according to a cablegram received here today by the Korean national association from a native Christian pastor. Italian Loses Plea to Become U. 5. Citizen Magro Cologeral, formerly of Italy, has been a loyal resident of the United States for several years, but he could not become a citizen when his application was heard in circuit court Saturday morning, because his wife and child are still in Italy. Under the law, an alien's wife automatically becomes a citizen when he does, and his children when they become 21 years old. But the United States cannot make citizens of people born in, or liv.'ng In foreign lands, so that Cologeral must send for his family before he can become a citizen. Dominick Sulpuzio, Willie Coblne, William Charles McGirr, George Salas, Harry Cohn and Antonio Sonsino were more fortunate, each becoming fullfledged citizens as a result of the hearing. Will A Church, of the immigration department in Chicago, was the examiner, and Judge Bond presided. 1,683 Courtmartial Sentences Reduced by Clemency Board WASHINGTON, April 12. Army courtmartial sentences aggregating 12,263 years in 1,683 cases have ben reduced to 2,929 years an average sentence of one year and nine months by the War Department's special clemency board, : it was announced today. The board has considered 1,683 cases out of 5,027. LLOYD GEORGE. TO REMAIN . PARIS, April 12. Indications last night were that Premier Lloyd George would not leave for London until tho date on which the Germans will be asked to come , to Versailles has been determined. An American delegate intimated that this will be between April 26 and May 1.

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LEAGUE TEXT IS READY FOR PRESENTATION TO CONFERENCE Exclusion of Monroe Doctrine Only Marked Change in Plan for World Society French Lose Amendments. PLAN PLENARY SESSION (By Associated Press) PARIS, Aprill2. The text of the league of nations covenant will be made public in a few days, says the official announcement of the league of nations commission regarding last night's session. Except for the technical task of bringing the French and English texts In to accord the covenant, the announcement states, is ready for a plenary session of peace conference. With the single exception of the amendment specifically exempting the Monroe doctrine from being affected by the covenant, no vital change was made by the league of nations commission in that document in Its meetings on Thursday and Friday nights. Last night's meeting marked the conclusion of the consideration of the covenant. Last night's discussion lasted four hours. President Wilson attending the session and remaining until It closed, after midnight No date was set for a plenary session of the peace conference to consider the covenant. Excluded Jap Amendment. The covenant as the commission left it did not include any section granting Japan's request for the recognition of racial equality, and neither was a section introduced covering the request of France for an International military general staff. Both Japan and France announced that they reserved the right to bring up the amendments they desired before a plenary session of the conference. As it now Btands, the covenant contains 26 sections. The French delegation on the league of nations commission voted for the adoption of the text of the covenant when the commission endorsed it last night, but made reservations "s to two, points, first, the organization and effective control of " the manufacture of war material, and second, the institution of the permanent military control. The commission decided to submit the agreement to a plenary session of the peace conference shortly but set no defenite date. CANADA IS TO SIGN TREATY FOR PEACE (By Associated Press) OTTAWA, April 12. N. W. Rowell, president of the Privy Council in the House of Commons today announced that Sir Robert Borden, Sir George Foster, C. J. Doherty and Arthur Sifton have been appointed plenipotentiaries to sign the peace treaty at tho conclusion of the pence conference on behalf of Canada. This marks a new step in the development of the status of Canada and the other overseas dominions. The chief party to the signing of the peace agreement. It is explained, is King George, representing the United Kingdom and Ireland, the overseas dominions and India. The order in council cabled by the minister is a request to King George to issue a commission to each of the four Canadians as representatives of Canada to sign the peace treaty. Compulsory School Bill Is Passed in Toronto (By Associated Press) TORONTO, Apr. 12 Premier Hearst has introduced in the legislature the adolescent school attendance bill, which makes compulsory part time school attendance of boys and girls between the ages of fourteen and eighteen. It provides tnat adolescents between 14 and 16 must have four hundred hours education each year, and between sixten and eighteen, 320 hours and that they cannot obtain employment unless they obtain certificates of compliance with the law of exemption. The legislation does not apply to those who have passed university matriculation. Urban Centers of Ave thousand population or over must provide for adolescent school courses. THE WEATHER

For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Sunday. Little change in temperature. Today's Temperature Noon 50 Yesterday. Maximum 43 , Minimum .' 23 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Fair tonight and Sunday. Conditions favorable for frost tonighL General Conditions Two storms are moving eastward across southern Canada and have caused unsettled weather to continue over the north and central states. Rain on the lakes and snow on Canadian border. Weather is clearing west of the Mississippi and temperatures are normal over most of the plain states. Frost is in scattered places. It is quite warm in Alaska and spring temperatures are reported at Eagle and Valdez where it has been below zero previously. '