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IS Tin CITT OP EXLZU and elsewhere in UirioB ui Polk Count: The Oregon Statesman THE HOitX KETrsrjLrrr. t' r . 'w iniit - . 5 ;': i r : : . .. BEOOriHTiflO iipiiwii IIELB ISS1IBE0 Thos3 Believing There 'Will CsBiDfjgrii, Due for Dis appointment, -Says ,r.!r. Daugherty. , . PLATFORM TO BE ONE . OF PAST ACHIEVEUEflT : : : 1 Flan for Membership in ; Wzzuz Conference to Be Factor of Importance. I.1IAMI, Fla., Marclv 2 0 At torney General Daugherty com menting today on his announce '; "dent Saturday ' that President ; Kardias would be.aj candidate In 1924, declared 'that his ' renom ; lnation without " a contest was 'assured. , . '.',. "There will be no contest and those seeking to show .that there wfll be & great fight will he forcibly 4isappolnted,M the attorney general declared. "J took, the responsibility - of mak Ing the -announcement that the president would run again with out any special authority from him because' I bellere .the coun try will - demand re-election. 1 have no doubt but that under the circumstances' he 'would not i refuse the responsibility. llasne S;emlershlp Factor1 'The party's platform will be practically' that - of - the adminis tration achieTements," - Mr. Txusherty declared. "It ' will la based upon the record of tie i untangling of complicated -war; problems, the ' reducing of eiyen&itures, vthe . putting down ct the burden of taxation, the trrlltation- of business principles . governmental ffairs and the e::3rccment- ot;;;4ii-2aws,"".th,8 The president's plan for men tershlp in The Hague court wilt 1 " : be a factor, , he stated, and he said the question would be in t swered whether tbe Interests of 1 America wonld continue -to be secure ' and;' , whethr she could 1 continue to gire help to the less fortunate countries. A - Politics. Held Tiresome 1 !- t ; : Until the Republican national committee ' meets in . December, Mr. Daugherty said, the? presl I dent's campaign', will not be ac- ; tWely launched. ; . "The country Is tired of the political talk of i the last few months, l andi; too busy S to listen i 'to It now; No politics will be " In Deration J until the national committee meets at which time k the campaign will 7 be outlined and launched. . mm r.iUST !. . ES FOnCCE Supreme Court Upholds Con viction of Criminal , in Lower Court. - Dan Casey.' convicted slayer of. James ; Harry (Buck) Phillips, special: police officer for the Cre- Kon-washington Railroad & Navl f gttion company, Jn Portland on the night- of June 14, 1921. must Py the ' death penalty tor his t crime. The supreme court yester i day. In an opinion - by - Justice - Drown, affirmed the action of the lower court in Its rerdlct of first !erree murder and sentenca ..to i hang.'.- v - Phillips wr. a former guard at v the state penitentiary under War dens'Stevens and Stelner. j John Burnn was also aecused erately, and after two trials was . tcauitted. . 1 v x Other opinions handed down by i s the court yesterday were: Yi ;w In - the matter of the estate of ' James F. Denser;-- appeal from ' lultnomah county , Opinion by TH E VEATH ER OIIEGON-- Wednesday, fair. : LOCATi. WEATHER (Tuesdar.) . . Maximum temperature, 52. ( ntslmum temperature. 35. v Irtr. 6.0 feet; falling.: 7 r : -faJU- none.- -:;-: A : . - sphere,' partly cloudy.""'" I," west.,' : i - ... BONDSMEN ' WOULD TAKE NO CHANCES Topper Gairis Freedom When Friend Goes on Bond Ac lion Later Regretted. W; A.1j I A, '.WALLA, Wash March " ; 20. rJohn Caranaugh gamed his freedom ' for but' 'a short .time' yesterday after be had beep fined $100 In police court on a- charge ' of intoxica tion.- ' :- .; ' ' . A friend . offered to' pay ; the fine and secure his, freedom pro viding be would go . to work. The fine was caid and Cava naugh was gjyen' his chance. worK evidently T didn't agree with him. for I his bondsman pre sented him at! the station within an hour and claimed his $100 E CDOTflDL CilSE IS HilZY Witnesses Remember Little When Government Inquires - Into Monopoly. , ' SEATTLE. March 2 OFallure to ! recollect' anything on topics about which the government was inquisitive - was -again today feature of a hearing of. the de fense in progress tere on charges by, the federal-trade commission that the Douglas Fir" Exploitation & Export company controlled lum ber prices so far as to riolaierlaw. Cross examination of J, IL Bloe. del of jthls city, vice .president of the company, was completed. Af ter questioning Mr. Bloedel n bit Henry Ward eerj counsel for the commission exclaimed to examiner W. W. SheppardV . n " " -4iue wiineas -cn t vfre re member things on which he brush ed up hl recollection last night." ' ' " . Record Wanted ; ; " Mr. Beer then, obtained a sub poena instructing Mr. Bloedel to produce ; records of the , West Coast Lumbermen's association of which the witness - was.; president in 1918 when the Douglas. Fir Ex ploitation & Export company was' organized. The books having been fetched by R. B. Brown, assistant secretary of the association, the attorneys tor the commission and for the company wrangled as to who should look at them f irn Mr. Beer obtained possession of thom and h,e kept them when Mr." Brown started to take them back with them. : - R. M. Hunt, sales manaeer o the Weyerhaneser Timber; com pany; declared that he w never a member of a price-fixing" 5om mlttee. Mi. Beer then read to the witness purported minutes .of . a meeting at Tacoma May 28. 1918. stating that Mr. I Hunt spoke, and that he was appointed on a com mittee and that this committee Increased prices; of ' lumber by from $1 to $3 a' thousand -' I do not recan being at that meeting," testined Mr. Hnnt. "1 don t know that any such meetlnn was held.' ':.vri-- - r- 'V-;V " A. A. Scott declared that dis solution of the i company ; would seriously Injure general business 1" Port Angeles. Wash., and Mu- kiiteo, Wash., where he has saw mills., r; v ? 11 - - - HOME, March 20. (By G 570 TO ' BE-.PR0 'mm 1 . t -. callinsr'of a: world economic conference to settle the world economic difficulties and the pronouncement of the interna- uonai vnamoer 01 LOmmerce on repaxauons, mier-aniea debt3, international debts, budgets, and exchange are con- tained in a resolution tirafted by ; the American delegation tonight to be presented to the finance section of the confer- ence tomorrow morning. The resolution agrees that must admit her just obligations jand that an adjustment ng is to be lighted through nbe should"be made that would not ruin: the German nation. The rai skylight service, and win have resolution points out ; that ; any' settlement f would be futile a modern pressed brick and - glass without guarantees and declares that security against attack front, also must be assured. "'.., - ' ; : " , On inter-allied debts the integrity of obligations must be recognized. The resolution states that while the inter-aUied debts were contracted ,ln - i .cause a proper factor in any adjustment should e the AbjJUy.ol nations to.pay, tHinn" into cnnSidGration their future earning canacitv. re- takin ducti ca CI excessive miatary C1TIIS1 DEGLARED TO T ei Attack . Made in House of its master, solved a suit. to de- x. v r' .lj.1 i.i.t iuiiiiuuii iu Pc ulvepI',, wu.uf juwi;Huou Special Consideration, Says Premier Law. GRAVE CHARGES ARE Made against system Masses Declared in Poverty i 4 sm 1 mm mm- vvnue Kicn Are unanie to Spend All. , LONDON, March 20. (By. the Associated Press) -The extraord inary interest aroused by Philip Snowden's attack on capitalism In 1 the house of commons was shown today when Premier Ronar Law . . . . . a .at . n I Laming Worthington-Evans . that another day should be given after the Easter recess, for farther du-1 cussion'of Mr, Snowden's motion.. In presenting his motion, which denounced the "capitalist system" as a failure and proposed that leg- islation be directed . "toward Its gradual supersession, by. an in- flnAtHal Wnd jiorial ordr hasAd nnon nHblic itwndnfiln and demo- cratlc control of the instrument of m ' -sr- production nd distribution," . Mr. Snowden -deelared. It w& caoital- cm Tin nMallcm rhlih waa Ad I trUl r!nlfHn hH lint nnlv I faUed to give the- people good world to live in but had failed t.m.n, -..tnMi source, and productive power, he W1 - Increase Slowly SfvVjBk afmilflAntiAA T If-, " p " den', challenge Is that ; he; with J. Ramsey McDonald and 'other .amsey wciaimw ana omeri,m n-.Krtni.i- i ;rrr, " S" " V: I ' A - a " tftl. . i " -"r 1 I auv . iuuvjicuucu a uvt pai I wnica is wie socuuwi wing orine paniameniary laoor party ana numbers 80 out of a total ,142 Labor members of; the house. nia wing represents, nowever, 1 not revoluUonary: socialism -i but wnai s generally termeo intei-i lectual socIaUsm, aiming at grad-i ual socialism. ; -I In the course of his speech troduclng his motion,; Mr. Snow-1 den said that between 1 8 74 and I 1908 wages had increased by on-f ly 10 per cent, while incomes re-1 celred by those who - made : no I contribution but their, labor had I ncreased J 2 fold. Conditions Unhealthy Under the - present capitalist system, niasses of people - were working under r unhealthy condi tions at low wages, while at the other end of the social scale were people so. rich that even Imag ination 'was , unable to devise a means of spending their super abundance of wealth. Capitalism, he continued, " has not always ex isted; it was only one stage In the erolution of 'social economy and was rapidly passing away. Mr. Snowden argued that the whole business of parliament was dealing with, failures of private enterprise. He declared : that 88 per; cent of toe wealth J of r the, country was '. owned by two and one-half per cent of the popula tion. ' fmw.w The Associated Press). -The - i ,-. v . - i I Germany must pay, that she MIES KDDT expcnaiturca anaane repara-ls " " M m ' - - ' . I SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY ftlORNING; lARCH 21; 1923. v : : DOG SOLVES: SUWAT;LAVl:: WITHOUT AID Each 1 Man Calls Animal De- i. ' nrniinii TniirskAy1ititpr Solves Ownership. ; MILWAUKEE,' Wls.i March 4n rii.'.il.irnMii a ' 4x fnr don.i "rUe - was ..the object of a suit between Joseplr . Franak and ; Otto , Bie- nano. . 1 Judge August Braun had each man call the. dog' and Bob's etv I thusiastic answer to iBermann's summons allowed him tna 001 by court"; order. Lehgthy Legaf Fjcht'Won by Defendants ih Hemn Mine I , . 1. . Riot Case. MARION, 111., March 2 !0.-l-(By the ''Associated Press.) The :de- I fense in the Herrln' riots trial won a ,ength : legai batile today whe J r . "j - . . ., U succeeded In having the teeti. upy.o. mree, o. iu,eigni ,wit- nesses caiiea oj xam prosecuupi excludeii while; that, of a' fourth, 1 lea ulM1r uv,8.eu,eni -V? 1 a 1 J ..a a 1 r f- "anweii, wao saia be, wou d . render his opinion tor A"rruir. , , 4wuiuwij !; uuuo vu iub roun .tha ,n, ff6"0' f I"1 ftny of the etendants had .been shown and that it .was too remote iame,any direct beM,!'t8 on he XfVX ..CTniIti: WU.U J S1A UCLT;UU04.VQ AiC EgSSjT : f trZ til te 1-?1" the southern ; Illinois Coal com- nonw Opinion IUrvel Three farmers. George "Adams, 1 George Drew and John Rulner, Iwaro faiiot tn m (fn,r'n that the truck had been rd upon land three of its oennanta injured the morning of June 21. The state contended that this act was part of a-eeneral consnlrav B.1TTI.EJ0I I D' 0EFEL1 in-(and that it was followed a few hours later by an attack upon the mine Itself, in the course of which three union miners- were slain.. , After succeedlntr !ni Its ffort to exclude the testimony relating to the attack on the truck the defense objected to the testimony of Lillian Mitcheu. a. stenograph er, and almost ,; the entire after noon session - was devoted to a legal ba.ttle oyer Its admissabillty, Judge' Hartwell finally reserving ! his opinion at adjournment. L'El'J BUILDIFIG IS IIP Service ; Depot on South Commercial to Join: Bone- Steele Establishment, , , S.. C. Parker, late of Portland, has bought the 50-foot lot ad joining the new Bonesteele build ing on South Commercial street. and on Tuesday began the con struction of a large garage build ing. The property which extends from ? Commercial . to? Liberty street, is 50 by 346 feet, and has a fine cottage' on the east oi Lib erty street end." This will not be disturbed, the new garaee. build ing fronting on Commercial street and measuring. 50 by 136 feet in sue. ; It Is to be of reinforced concrete construction, one story and basement, and Is to have a mill itype, laminated four-Inch Kloor v Property sold some time o? Parkrrhran.. made through the v Grabenhorst agency, and the fine new garage building' is beings designed .by F. T fr; der- VnrA U,,T (,itu 1 f X.i8 ,lESTPUIj- ui.mo March 0.--- Sira by phyBln9 as having restful h m- m- .- GO 6 unchanged "in the past S4lsaid they stUl had no trace of the If ... ... VVUWIIIUJI VM ICyVlWU OLLETS. fiOT f r- ' f I . ; ' T . . - - .MOTS. SM ISJUIJISTS ;!l nterS Urge "Armed ACtlOn liOt " Armed PnraseS Uarrin liha Dinte Prima nemn wine niois wme in for. Praise. EVIDENCE' IS FOUGHT BY FOSTER COUNSEL Thesis- and Resolutions of Moscow Internationale to Be Read-Jury. -. ST. JOSEPH. Mich., March 20. i By The Associated Press J Flamboyant appeals by Com munist writers for "armed ac tion not armed phrases" praise for . the miners who . are alleged to have participated ' fn the Her rln liliiois riots and a call for bullets ;-uot ballots" featured today's- session .. of the ' trial of William Z. Foster: chareed with criminal , synlcallsm The state, with the assistance of . - its star . witness, Francis Morrow, who as "K-97" a de partment of justice ' agent, at tended . the . Communist: cbnven tlon in the hills near here last August , as a delegate, . put into the record .a mass - of speeches and writing nf communist in auv m vvra va . . ,as . iubob ws oywvi this , country . and : the entire " " - . m ..j ,..(.inii.lliw third : world congress of the Communist international, held at Moscow' In 1921 ' KvidrarA Vtynirht . ir.ol, T Hr.l.K Al.l M. U. - - t e " r - -It '' ..--' " u. t- SWS . iui . , 7 volUlj . UUbUb -aU7 lli oli M bV" Jnd7e Charles ttwt, ; - ; ; -t' n.- -i v Morrow testimony delved in-1 tt. lnn.,rw.1i i....i.r tho convention -last summer. He testified Foster .served on the , presidum, the governing body of the Communist gather ings; that he was present when Arnold Lokovsky -Of Moscow, re- . . , - - 1 . m m ' speejhes, and that -Foster' at lenaea oiner sessions. . O.V L. ; Smith, assistant ; attor ney general of ; Michigan, read SiJir K TK " ivtlle by RObf ? Minor, a New, i York cartoonist who is a member of the Central Executive' committee of the Com muulst party, praising the Her rin moV and advising commun- ists to come out of , our base of dream clouds, and -get on a working basis with the work ers who don't talk about "arm ed mass action- but take their guns ana ciose aown scan mines and paralyse the state machin ery by military action." Arrester Many crimes i Another state exhibit" identi- filed by Morrow and read to the jurors, was the questlonaire fill- rA nn a thai" nAnn,fn I witness ' said was an alias used by Foster, t The . questlonaire showed . "Borden" had by: his own statement, been active in the ; "revolutionary . movement' for 1 2 1 years, . that he partici pated In "scores of strikes"; had been ?a member of the IWW, Socialist party and several labor, unions and for a : year prior ' to i ne . convention or me conmnn- 1st party he was a paid emplye pf tbe : , Communist party with the title of : industrial organizer. and : that . he had been arrested "many times." ', . The "theses and resolutions'. of. : the : Moscow , Internationale, which was submitted in evidence by: the ceurt late today will be read to the Jury tomorrow: by the: state.'--; i ' -1: Bin Brennan, Recovered: : AblD tO LaVe HOSpital . "V . NEW YORK, March 20 Bill Brennan. Chicago heavyweight, I who suffered a slight concussion presenung . me ussian , leaaen. Krabbed ihe 8herIff and the other presented reports anddeUveredlj Thea a forced of the brain as result of his to collect the insurance, " both knockout by Luis Angel FIrpo, pleaded guilty" yesterday when South American pugilist. In a arraigned In court -and Imposi bout at .Madison Square Garden tlon of sentence ?was placed at a week ago, has so far recovered 1 as to be able to leave the bos- pitaL ,It. waa announced today. Brennan will remain out of the! ring competition Indefinitely. ,TO CHECK UP ROBBERY ' . OLMPIA, Wash., March 20 Inspector W. F. Case left for Ta coma today to check up detajls In connection with a postofflce rob bery occurring : here oarly yester-i aay, it was understood. He wasjwas . arraigned yesterday morn-J FINE. PAID' - -. IN PENNIES : BY OFFENDER FIf leen Dollars Paid in Cop pers Minus Twenty-i-Gets . borne isack Again. WALLA WALLA, Wash.,'March 20. Chief of Police Roecker and his force, turned bankers yeater- Iday afternoon, when JJaek Gotwig Paid a $15.00 fine for speeding in : f .T . . Hero they are you count 'era," Jack told the chief.' . "Sit down and count em your self," retorted the police head "They are American money and 1 1 know how many are there." "But Chief Roecker wasn't sat isfied, t; AH hands were, put -at counting the coppers. "Short 20 ; cents,"!; announced1 Mr. Roecker, 1 when the tabulation was complete, Gotwig handed over a half a dol lar anl ireceived 30 pennies - in change Piute Redskins Go on Ramp age One Reported Killed, and Two wounded. : SALT LAKE CITY, March .20. -Another miniature Indian war a 18 m PgreM in can Juan couniy, I I. , V. M a.ntliM.I.,11 na rT llfflh I " Y J:r" "y, " wnere me .riuin - muiauo ..ua.oi c""ru "A, V .V r?Uk "" ' -7; always figured fn the outbreaks is sm w iavo. - . I ltcofc iviv n.a '"" I fTvv A T fnnl Atirhtt 1r fk a hqhoai I by the arrest and detention of two I -. . . - crfc vK xituiau ;wuiub uu vuibV Va a ww- band of renege. In AUecn, i yon ana - prejmrawujia , were at, 1 once miae iu losvuo ma Iutfnr tv .n,.-- in I '-y-- . When Sheriff W, E. Oliver took dinner to the-two jailed Indians,! they refused to eat and be is said to have attempted to strike one of them J over the head with his rinn nt ria . Tn A i n a S V V US V , . .W . V V aUtWU0 the sheriff Into the corner and af-1 ter locking him in the jail escaped Wires Are Cut ,Blandlng, Utah, is fsolated, the men having cut telephone wlrM and Qe lagt wprd from the Indian! beleaguered village was taken to Montlcello at 4 a. m. to- f ormatIon of an armed bod of men to aid the inhabitants of he town. Whenth'e courier left last night fown ftad wounded a:tbougU uwuc ui i tic nunc ucicuucio ui a horse .had been shot from under John Sogers : and a bullet went through the trouser leg: of the rider. . ; . The townspeople have . placed m:n.n al1 antanna rtntn ,bA nui.Vtrt of villas nA " " '(Continued on Page 8) si ADMIT ROBBERIES rlim pu r.,J -t:n ' n I WO tX-OOnVICIS Will be Sentenced by Judke Kelly Next baturday. ' Aimougn mey ioox one aay i In which to enter their plea 1 Bobbie . Burns and Ed Smith. I ooniessed rooDers or the bank I atf St. Paul, when arraigned be-1 fofe Circuit v Judge Percy R. 1 KIly "t yesterday both entered I pleao of guilty. Imposition of I sentence - was placed for next Saturday, afternoon at 1 o'clock. Al J, Kronberg and Frank .J Walker accused of burning their accusea oi Durnmg tneir i at Mt. Angel In order sa rage 10 a. m., next Saturday. lilJifl lil PROGRESS Mil mm Arraigneo on a torgery cnargiway. It was announced today, to ed. guilty. His sentence will bo yesterday David Llljablad plead- imposed next Saturday. I Gilbert Lyons arraigned on a. simuari cnarge astteo time in I which to plead. He :wlll enter! his final plea next Saturday aj 3 a. m. I Husseii ij. Mndsay charged with larceny of an automobile.! lnal plea this morning. ':Jing Held.- There will -be 21.000 A Tm TP AF1MTO 1. mwi A3 SUA PARIS, March 20 (By I m' 1 a 1 W T. ? a. 1 OF' trauon Dy me umieu oiawa Buyeiimwii, w Xk"iiJ- t" v, nnHra eifuafirtn Trniv. r rpfrrrrri t ? the leaeue of nations, was I f j ennfftrpnee of Relcrian. British. Italian and French later - socialist parliamentarians of the committee rooms of the I Government to Sue Individ uals and Corporations for $1,790,842.41. NEW ' YORK, March 2 0.A casual 'conversation between pas sengers in a western Pullman car a year ago, which was overheard by a federal revenue agent, led to an investigation which result ed today in the filing in the fed eral district " court of equity in come and excess profits .tax suit for $1,790,842.44, with Interest from 4 50 fndlvidnals and cornor 1 - atIons in the United States and 1 . : anaQa The ') I ers ln e. warren iteaity ana ie- reiopment company 01 Arizona, I which. Assistant Attorney Houee isaid loaay was som in April I aim " r ssaaaaaaa :- sm I 1 J 1 r . IOr Ji.iUi.VWU.' 1HB EOV' I ernment claimed the properties I a.i at - I largeix iu.; Ariiuaa supper Aiiae more than $50 0,000 '.and that ihe i company s lax lax return tauea I prujjeriy 10 snow .ine prviti re ,,ni rr J w i ' , , ; i " - I fraud, the government attorney declared, was made by a field ag ent of the Internal .revenue ser I vice, who during the course of a I conversation in a western Pnll t man ear ovemearfl net ai 1st nr the hale of the Arisona company and made a report which. formed the oasis or tne snosequent inquiry, ER XIIT U Y: MURDER Pro DM etOf of TWO Bmadwav o-7 Uo In rr ' I o inrnAW by Police, , NEW YORK, March 20.-The arm of the law, seeking the mur derer ofDorothy King . Keenan, who called . herself . a model. reached out tonight to Chicago for Jack. Lannlgan, another of her close friends and erstwhile pro prietor of two Broadway jazz palaces. . The police do not want to ar rest Lannlgan but to sk him. said Inspector Cpugblin, about a report that he , left for Chicago three weeks ago after a. quarrel with .her. If Lannlgan doesn't care to appear, in New York he wijiu i-row ivi. wUl be asked to. tell his story to Chicago police, said the inspector. Mr. Marshall" was so infatu ated with the1 woman to whom he had. given about $10,000 in cash and more ln jewelry within the year . of their acquaintance, that he desired to divorce his wife and take Miss Keenan to Paris and marry ; her.. Mrs. ! Keenan. the mother, told ; the district attor ney's office today. Mrs. Keenan today refuted tales of wealth bestowed upon her by her daughter. , A f i nn nnn . CrOWd ; Of 100,000 tO Be Handled at stadium NEW YORK, March 20. Pre- Umlnarr arranzemeikbt ara nnder handle a crowd of' 100,000 at the Yankee sUdium May 12,. when three of the leadlnir contendera for Jack Dempsey's heawweieht title Jess Willard. Flovd John son and Luis FIrpo will box for the benefit of the milk fund The Yankees Ktaflliim rranil. stand and bleachers, now rapidly nearing com Dletfon. will seat 75. 000 and It Is planned, to accoro- liiCOlEFiUD IS DISCOVERED price five ci::;ts AisWsli n -r sJi Aua w The Associated Press. Art! WA.n-MM 4V Tii inv r- vr the unanimous decision rescr.c . which was held today in c French chamber of deputies. ; J. Ramsy Macuonaia, Ariz. Henderson, C. R. Buxton, Ten Shaw and General Thompsc", the British' delegates; M. Vr -dervelde and CatsiUe Huysmar tivo" of the most pror-2r.r : Belgian socialists and Deputin Modigliani run& Treves of ltaj met Leon Blum, Vincent - Aurcl, Jan Longuet 'and Paul -Ecncour of French socialist 'party f" ' discussed the llahr. sittia" i and unanimously agreed . t ' the 'question should bd refer, to a higher tribunal. - All the delegates -were of t": oplnion that the present sit tion created throUgli Frenc'a cupation of the Ruhr, if cm tinued until "a fatal cri.: ," would prove detrimental to tr:.3 pacific reconstruction of Cure; . The deliberations of - tte con ference 'were not -secret for V..2 most part, but it Is understoc i that M.' Vandervalde insisted la behalf of Belgium - that tefcra the Belgian and Frenh trocr? evacuated the Ruhr, - tangibia guarantees must be forthconir. Germans Said Weakening ESSEN, March 20. (By -.Tha Associated- Press.)- The pas-iva resistance inaugurated by V.i Germans when the Tre :.. -marched into the Ruhr Is L: glnnlngt to show modification various parts of the occur I; I area . according to French an nouncements, This- Is accerl- in Frenh ' circles as an ir. -tipn: of weakening by the Ger man officials .-af , a cocsci":r.-3 of .' continued ,report3 that T-" Ifn , is planning to make diffor ent : proposals soon designs t a bring about ' negotiations fc peace. " '-'.:,: - : The , ober : president - of "Wes t phalia, part of. which is in oc cupied territory, has autLorii; 1 German j.1 officials at Boch an, Dortmun2 tfnd other town3 i " the . French: area to confer v ti . the French commanding officers concerning requisitions anJ other details pertaining to tha occupation. Heretofore the lo cal government officials by or de ofBerlin through the obcr president have refused to con sult with th French in any way whatever. - A meeting of miners at Will- traut, acordlng to " French re ports decided not to strike at mines where coal was requisi tioned: for army purposes only. Many of the 24 hour Etrire3 have been due to the determin ation of the s miners- not to .d!s;- coal for "the French, ; even : wbpi It'- was explained that ; the coal was not- for shipment to Franco or- Belgium, but: for local army requirements dn the-' occupied FLAG POLES IE nriTiiniiTDfir-Tni ..IIIIUUI .U LiaLIU Tourists Steal Ropes From School Yards, and boys : Pull Down Shafts. Although county school child ren, are tilXt pledging allegiance to their, flag and. to tha country for" which -it stands,, nevertheless the majority of:. flag poles, in the yards .of country .schools are de void of any ': ' semblance of Oil Glory, according .to .Mrs. ,Iary Fulkerson, : county superintendent of schools. , : i : There is a school law, she sayr, which provides that the flag shall be' displayed on the flagpole dar ing school hours and at such othf -.r times as the board may decu prbper, but because there is no penalty attached to its viola tic i, school board ' members have al lowed '.the poles to stand sake : and: bare. Tourists and Hallowe'en i an blamed, along with the cho ' board members, fcr tiie Kentr I appearance ; ot school nous . Tourists often J'bdrrow" the rr; on the poles, Mrs. Fulkerson Kay7, while: small boys on irallorvo'c-i try "their best to pull the po! down.; As a result members the boards are never qutte aT ' ; to-get Old ' Glory up. The school law prcvl.!-1 tl . cciii'r 4 .