Walkerton Independent, Volume 45, Number 46, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 April 1920 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT Published Every Thursday by THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS UKEVILLB STANDARD THE ST. JOSEPH CO. WEEKLIES Clem DeCoudres. BuNinenn Manager W. A. Endley, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year |1.60 Btx Months K' Three Months 60 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton, Ind., as second-class matter. INDIANA NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD Miss Harriet Oakley, who has been engaged in social welfare work at Gary, has been chose® as matron at the Gant County Orphans’ home at Marion. In order to prevent infestation of •crops by damaging and destructive cinch bugs this summer, the division of entomology of the state conservation commission at Indianapolis will co-operate with county agricultural agents all over the state. There is considerably less egg breakage since the farmers started to use automobiles, according to a poultryman at Vincennes. The jolting of farm wagons and other horse-drawn vehicles caused many of the eggs to break while enroute to the city and resulted in a great loss to the farmers, he says. Dubois. Crawford, Orange and Washington counties had no jail populations when the census was taken recently at Jasper, English. Paoli and Salem, the county seats. This fact became known when the census bureau at Washington sent an inquiry to the census director in the Third district, as to the omission of the figures from the returns. Death claimed a centenarian at the Indiana State Soldiers’ home at Lafayette when Mrs. Elizabeth Caldwell, aged one hundred years and six months, died of infirmities at the hospital. Two husbands and nine children preceded Mrs. Caldwell in death. A son, W. W. Thrasher of Swayzee, is the only surviving relative. Mrs. Caldwell was born in Ohio. Early preparations are being made for two large camp meetings of religious organizations in Madison county. It has been announced that the annual international camp meeting of the Church of God will convene at the permanent meeting place at Anderson. June IS. and will close June 27. and the Indiana Association of Spiritualists will hold its annual camp at Chesterfield in July. “The Vernon municipal water work plant has been in operation for 25 years and never was self-supporting.’’ reads a petition for higher rates filed with the public service commission at Indianapolis by the town clerk. He adds, however, that the deficits always are made up by the tax payers. He wishes the commission to authorlzi rates for the town so ft can operat< its plant at least without loss. “Good soil and good people go hand in hand. This combination has kept Shelby county to the front. One need only look into the history of the county to know that this is true.” says the county agricultural agent, in outlining Shelby county agricultural accomplishments. “We are an agricultural people, and I hope to prove that Shelby county is really first In this line of work.” he says. “We have 1,480 members in our Farmers’ association, the largest county membership in the state.” Based on the present prices of Intoxicating liquors, confiscated liquor worth $40,000 Is at the South Bend police station awaiting destruction. Just as fast as the cases in which the liquor Is used as evidence are heard, the whisky and wines are sealed and set aside with other liquor doomed for the sewer. An inventory of the stock showed that whisky and wines valued at $22,000 have been condemned. The stock will probably be poured in the sewer. The Indiana Federation of Business and Professional Women, formerly the Women’s Assocaition of Commerce of Indiana, at its third annual meeting at Indianapolis, adopted resolutions favoring adequate pay for men and women, but denouncing the extravagant demands of extremists and calling on all women to take a safe and sane attitude toward labor and nroductto’i problems, and to Insist at aH times not'only on adequate pay for a day's work but adequate work for a day's pay. . The public service commission at Indianapolis ordered a change in its ruling establishing rates for freight carried on passenger Interurban cars. Tho order directs that the rat°s shall • be L‘>o per cent of the Central Freight association first class scale instead of 150 per cent of Central Frolcht association first-class rates applicable to tho articles shipped. The Union 'fraction Company of Indiana, the Torre H ute. Indianapolis & Eastern, and tho Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction company petitioned for tho chaego and also for ci rtain increases in the minimum charge. The commission declined to increase the minimums. Roland Wells, age twenty one nf the first Wayne county men to < idis* in tlip wnr Ovrmnny. flip first to bo wounded in Imttle, is dead The Indiana ceneral assembly will be asked to Imrcise the Indiana tax rate for school pm-p needed build;m.s ai d • pk ,-a max he s'Hip'io'l to the M ■ • I b ot the Indiana State Nti. i ol t» put it <>n a par with the Stale Norma' j at Torre Haute.

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LIFT SIEGE AT WESEL Regulars Drive Workers From German City. American Correspondents Fired Upon by Rods While Returning From Belgian Outposts, i Wesel, March 2!).—Government troops male a sortie southeast of this city, drove besieging workers’ forces from their posts, shelled their retreating columns and raised the siege of Wesel on both the cast and southeast. Artillery operated by workers' forces dropped two shells into the city and then withdrew. While tlie counterattack against the beleaguering forces was going on, re-enforcements arrived here. Among them were the Death’s Head hussars and Uhlans. Snipers are still active in territory evacuated by the workers’ forces. Seven shots wire fired at American newspaper men while they were returning from advanced Belgian outposts on the Wesel side of the Rhine. London. March 29. —One hundred Russian officers sent to Germany by Nicolai Lenine. Russian bolshevik premier. are assisting in tho operations of the German workers’ army. before Wesel. says a Copenhagen dispatch to the London Times, quoting an interview with an Ebert government officer at Muenster by the correspondent of the Politiken. Berlin, March 29.—Maj. Gen. von Seecht, commander of the government forces, declared the situation In the Ruhr region to be very serious, in the course of on interview with the correspondent of tho Tageblatt. Negotiations at Bielefeld between government emissaries and yvorkers had been to no purpose, he said, ami there had been no negotiations whatever with the Communists. “There exists in the Ruhr region a red army, as in Russia.” Maj. Gen. von Seecht continued, “and these wellequipped and well-led men will make use of all the experience gained during the war.” SHIPS READY IN 1917: MAYO Commander in Chief of Fleet Replies to Many Charges Made by Admiral Sims. Washington, March 31. —The Atlantic fleet never was better prepared for war than when it came from Cuban waters late in March. 1917. after its winter battle practice in Cuban waters, Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo, former commander in chief of the fleet, told the senate committee Investigating the navy’s conduct of the war. He replied to many of the charges made against the navy by Vice Admiral Sims. Answering Sims’ complaint that some of the dreadnaughts had to be docked before they went abroad to join the British grand fleet. Mayo said “plain, ordinary common sense required that a vessel about to sail for an indefinite time on foreign service should be sent to a yard for a few days.” C. F. Browne, Artist, iDes. Waltham, Mass., March 31. —Charles Francis Browne, landscape painte** and instructor in tho Art institute of Chicago, and one of tho host known artists in the country, died at his mother’s home here, where he was born in 1859. Reds Accept Pole Peace. London. April 1. —George Tchitcherin. tho Russian soviet foreign ■ minister, has notified Poland of his : willingness to open peace negotiations • on April 10, as Poland has suggested, according to a wireless message. Coal Advances 65 Cents. New York, April 1. —The action of President Wilson’s coal commission in granting bituminous mine workers a wago is Tease of 27 per cent means ; the price of coal at the mines will adi ' anco <55 c fits to $1.23 a ton. Storm Hits Dakota. Sioux Fills, s. D., March 31. — High Wilson to Be - Crane’s Guest. March 31. President Wilson y\ ill pass tho summer at tho summer 1 onio ■ Charl - 11. Crane, former Chi! igom at Wood's Hole, a village on the southern coast of Masn sachusetts.

RAIL MEN IN A. F. OF L Gompers Will Head Greatest Union in World More Than 5,000.000 Members Wjll Be Enrolled With American Federation of Labor. New York. March 31. —Following years of friction between the “Big Four” of Ihe railroad unions and the American Federation of Labor, it was announced hire that the two bodies yvill join forces. Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor, yy ho is tit tho Hotel Continental, said the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the order of Railway Conductors would be admit ted to the federation “very shortly.” The other two organizations <>f tho “Big Four” probably would join later, he said. The merger Is considered by union leaders as the most important In the history of labor movements. More than s.(MM>.oo<i members will then be enrolled with the American Federation <»f Labor, and when tlx 1 remaining tyvo branches of the "Big Four” are taken in the number will lie near d,OOO,(MM». The decision of the railroad unions to bury tin hah het and combine with tho federation is expected to put an end to futuro “useless strikes." It Is also state I that the joining of those labor forces will force out all extrem ism in the ranks of organized labor. The news came ns a gredt surprise to labor leaders, although the move started nearly a year ago. The consensus of opinion was that it was a triumph for Gompers. who heads the most powerful labor organization In the world. ARRAIGN COAL MEN MAY 4 One Hundred and Twenty-five Operators and Miners to Be Arrested This Week. Indianapolis. March 31.—Arrest of coal operators am! miners under Indictment in federal court here charged yvith violation of the Lsnr act probably yvill begin yvithin a week, it was stated by federal officers. Seventy of 125 men indicted reside In Illinois. Ohio and western Pennsylvania, and capiases for their nrrest yvill be served by officers in those states. When arrested the defendants will be required to give bond, fixed at $5,000 or SIO,OOO. by United States District Judge Anderson. They yvill be arraigned here on May 4. MARY AND DOUG GET MARRIED Two Moving Picture Stars Secretly Wed at Home of Los Angeles Minister. Los Angeles, Cal., March 31. —Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, moving picture stars, were married secretly at the home of Rev. J. Whitcomb Brougher, here, Sunday night. The marriage license was Issued Friday by License Clerk “Cupid” Sparks, who kept the matter a secret until news of the wedding of the popular film actors leaked out. Bowman, Dairyman. Dead. Chicago. March 3o.—News of the death of Johnston 11. Bowman, president of the dairy company bearing his name, at his yvinter home In San Antonio, was received in Chicago. Bergdoll Gets Five Years. New York, April 1. —Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, wealthy young Philadelphian, recently court-martialed for desertion because of his alleged failure to report' for military service, was sentenced to five years in prison. General to Face Charges. New York, April I.—Brig. Gen. William H. I larts. yy ho was c< mmander of American troops in the Paris area ' after the ai" listice. arrived from Paris. . He is expected to : nswer charges that । he was responsible for cruelties. Snowstorm in Kansas. Concordia., Kan . March 31. A snovvnccoripmic ! by a wind, swept aero-- central and western Kansas, covering the yvheat belt. From several point: a 45-mile yvind wi'< reported which razt*d silos and outbuildings. Chicago Garbage Men Out. Chicago, March 31. —By a walkout * of all employees of the municipal red'e:i >n plant, (ollection of city gar--1 ige wa tied up. The strikers inctuded the drivers of tin* wagons, iv iiMtmii at the plant and clerks.

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WILSON FIGHTS TURKEY PLANS Warns Britain, France and Italy They Must Respect U. S. Rights. ASKS INDEPENDENT ARMENIA Language of Note Indicates President Believes Three Great Powers Decided to Allot to Themselves Cream of Territory. Washington, April I.—The United I States will not sanction any Turk- : ish settlement which does not grant ■ American citizens equal rights with ; those of the nations now party to the treaty. This is the outstanding point in the president’s reply to the allied invita- ! tion that tho United States participate in the Turkish peace negotiations. The president’s note was made public by Secretary of State Colby. The reply reveals that thus far the Turkish negotiations have been conducted almost solely for territorial and coinmerclal aggrandizement on the part of Great Britain, France and Italy to the detriment of American, | Russian and neutral interests. The president’s note closes as follows: “Let me say in conclusion that it is the understanding of the government of the United States that whatever territorial changes or arrangement* may be niad<> in the former Ottoman empire, such changes or arrangements will in no way place American citizens or corporations of any other country, in a less favorable situation than the citizens or corporations of any power party to this treaty.” ' Information which has lately come to the si tte d> partnn nt shows that one of the allied nations already has taken stf ps to exclude Anna’can interests fi in the Ottoman empire. The president still stands for tho i exclusion of th*' Turk from Europe, and chiifes the allies for their “turnnbout" on this phase. Tile British belief that the exclusion of the Turk might -t irt a holy war by the Moslem worl I Is not tenable, in tlie opinion of tli«> president, who says the Mohanitne hm people not only witnessed without protest the defeat of j the Turk, but aided substantially I in It. The president agrees heartily with i the plan for future Russian representation on the International council proposed for the control ami government of Constantinople and the straits. An Imh'pendi nt Armenia, with an outlet to tlie <ea at Trebizond, is suggested by the president. lb* waiits northern Thrace given to Bulgaria and the eastern part to I <Jreece. Perhaps the most significant por- i ti<>n of the president’s reply is the ' i following paiu.;,,; “In connection with the proposed i prefeH’iitinl right of the three great Medlt«Trnm‘an powers to furnish advisers and instructors in certain zones, this government feels that it Is necessary for it to have more information i as to the reason ami purpose ot such a plan.” This language Indicates that the president belie M-s tlie three great powers have (lecideil to allot to themselves the cream of the territory under “spheres of influence.” He suggests that the disposal of Turkish territory he held in abeyance and that the methods resorted to in the case of Austria be adopted —that is to say. ultimate disposition l by tlie great powers, and this means I that the United States would have a voice in the fnal disposal. COAL WAGE SCALE ACCEPTED Committee of Bituminous Operators and Miners Reach Agreement— Mining to Go On. New York. March 31.—The scale committee of the Idtuminous operators and mini* workers, in a joint eonferference here, agreed to make tlie monetary provisions contained in tlie award of the bituminous coal commission as affirmed by the president become effective on April 1 and that the mines continue in operation pending the working out of a new agreemtn. KENTUCKIANS LYNCH A NEGRO Grant Smith, Charged With Attack on Fourteen-Year-Old White Girl, Is Hanged. Lexington, Ky„ March 31.—Grant i Smith, a negro, was lyn< ln <l on a rall--1 , road bridge near ^Tillersburg. ITe was 1 charged with having attacked Ruby Anderson, a fourteen-year-old white 1 : girl. — Will Nat Resume His Seat. Washington. March 31. —Senator Nowlierry of Michigan, who returned here, will not resume his seat in tlie senate until questions as to his status in tlie Michigan election conspiracy , cases have been disposed of. Women in Minority. Washington, March 31. Ballots cast by women in the coi sing prcsideni :a! election will fall short of the potential men’s vote by over 2.5Wi.<*00. provided the suffrage amendment is ratified and laws enacted. “Corrupt Practices” Bill in Sena.te. Washington. March 29. —A “corrupt I practices” bill imposing >evero penalties for the lax ish use of mo; . bv candidates for pul lie of e and tin ir • supporters was introduced in tlie -enate by S< nator Borah (Rep.) of Idaho. Serbian Army Demobilizes. Constantinople, March 29.- The Serbian government at Belgi^de has order d general demobilization. This Interpreted as proof of confidence tlie United States and in a peacefc settlement of tlie Adriatic qm'siion.

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WIND CAVE NATURAL MARVEL South Dakota Able to Boast of Ona of the Greatest Curiosities in the World. Wind Cave National park. South Dakota, containing 10,899 acres, consists of a series of long, narrow passageways having variations in height and width, and opening into irregular chambers at intervals. There are three principal divisions, the first, into which the entrance descends, being a long, nan v tunnel leading southeast. I It extends 360 feet lower than the entrance and 3ao feet below the surface of the ground above. The trail then ascends by stairway to the upper level of the cave, and thence through other chambers to the Garden of Eden, the end of this route. From the crossroads on this division there is a branch passage leading to the northeast. Here it joins the third division, northwesterly to the Pearly Gates, parallel to the entrance passage. | There are several branches, the i largest leading upward into the Fair Grounds, 100 feet higher than adjoin- ; ing portions of the cave. It is reached i through a hole in the roof of a passagei way. In the game reserve are buffalo, elk and deer. — Bible Quotations. Two brothers, Francis, four years J old. and Fred, Jr., two years old, have been taught Bible sayings by their aunt. The other day while both babies were playing their mother heard Francis say: “Jesus said. ‘I am the way, the truth and the life.’ ” Fred, Jr., said: “And Jesus said. ‘All little children come to supper.” “No, Fred,” Francis said: “‘Suffer little children to come unto me.’ ’’ Fred. Jr., declared: “No. come to . supper,” ami insisted he was right. When ingratitude comes to us it Is usually a lesson that we may not j shoulder other people’s problems.