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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1916)
WORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News From All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. Efforts to amend the army reorgan ization bill in the senate was quickly defeated. The first ten-pound box of cherries shipped from California sells in Chica go for f 100. Premier Ryah, of Queensland, Aus tralia, arrived at San Francisco on his way to London on a mission "arising indirectly out of the war." Gasoline in St. Louis Wednesday sold at 19 cents a gallon, a drop of 1 cent. The decline was attributed to the importation of oil from Borneo. "The French have captured the sub marine which torpedoed the Sussex and have made prisoners the captain and crew," says the London Daily Mail. A second protest against detention of mails by the British authorities, with a demand for indemnities, is said by the Overseas News agency to have been made by the Dutch government. Neutral shipowners are warned by the British foreign office that all car goes or bunkers of coal of German origin in neutral Bhips would be liable to seizure under the order in council of March 11. The Turkish government has intro duced the gold standard, with the gold piaster as the monetary unit. Long standing debts will be paid in accord ance with the former standard, a dispatch says. The foreign office of Chang Chow Fu, Fukien, reports that 32 soldiers of the northern army, and upward of 40 civilians not belonging in that locality, have been killed by a mob. Disturb ances also are reported in Haicheng. In a speech before the convention of the Daughters of the American Revo lution, President Wilson says: "And the only excuse that America can ever have for the assertion of her physical force is that she asserts it in behalf of the interest of humanity." The Overseas News agency made public the following: "Russian sol diers at Nikolayevsk, government of Samara, mutinied and set Are to the barracks. Twenty-seven soldiers per ished in the flames. The men com plained of ill-treatment by their offi cers." An injunction temporarily restrain ing the enforcement of negro segrega tion ordinances of St. Louis is granted by the Federal District court. The ordinance prohibits whites or blacks from living in a block in which 75 per cent of the houses are occupied by per sons of the opposite race. The other makes similar restrictions on a basis of 100 instead of 75 per cent. The German crown prince, accom panied by his staff and a number of correspondents, approached to within range of a heavy French gun on the Verdun front, when one of the shells exploded near the party. It is said that Beveral persons were wounded slightly and that others, including Colonel Mueller, correspodnent of the Berne Bund, were knocked down. A rabbit drive at Lorella, Or, netted about 28B0 dead bunnies. Bits of the skeleton of a prehistoric animal were dug up in gravel beds near Baker, Or. The sugar ratio in Germany has been fixed at one kilogram 2.2 pounds per person per month, according to the Overseas agency. The Danish steamer Frederick VIII arrived in New York without 697 sacks of mail with which she started from Copenhagen, Christiania and Chris tiansand. The mail was removed by the British authorities. Official announcement that Bailors of the Pacific Coast will strike on May 1 if shipping interests fail to comply with certain demands relative to wages and conditions was made at a meeting of the Portland Labor Council. Evidence relating to the rise in gasoline is being considered by the department of Justice with a view, it is understood, to determine if prose cutions can be brought under the law as it stands or whether additional leg islation will be required. The Overseas News Agency says that according to wireless report from Badajos, Spain, several Portuguese provinces are in open revolt The revolution in China is causing some disquietude in Japan, where the opinion is that it will be difficult for Yuan Shi Kai to retain the presidency. Chinese newspapers express alarm concerning the reported Russo-Japanese treaty, which 1b said to grant Japan control in Far Eastern affairs. The journals say that Russia's need of war materials doubtless brought about the reported agreement Loss of the British steamers Angus, 8619 tons, and Robert Adamson, 2978 tons, by being torpedoed, was reported by Lloyd'a. Both were unarmed. The crews were saved. Margaret Harper, aged 5, only daughter of Mrs. Vivian Harper, of Salem, Or., died from burns suffered when she was attempting to light a fire in the kitchen stove. The governor of Kiangsi province, China, officially declares his independ ence of the administration of Presi dent Yuan Shi Kai. The province has , population of about 20,000,000. j PRESIDENT WILSON FRAMES VIRTUAL ULTIMATUM 10 BERLIN GOVERNMENT Washington, D. C President Wil son completed his indictment of Ger many Tuesday for her submarine oper ations and it will go forward at once to Berlin, The communication, according to those who have seen it, will leave nothing to the imagination. It is vir tually an ultimatum without a time limit for response. As the alternative of refusal to make thorough reparation and give complete guarantees that submarine operations hereafter Bhall be conducted in accordance with the principles of humanity and interna tional law, Ambassador Gerard will be withdrawn from Berlin. It develops that the President has been considering three courses to pur sue with reference to Germany. They are: 1. To present all the facts in pos session of this government to Germany and to demand an explanation of how that nation can square its deeds with its promises. 2. To send a note reciting that Germany has violated the solemn as surances made to the United States, and notifying her that unless prompt reparation be made Ambassador Ger ard will be withdrawn. 8. To break off relations without discussion. It is not understood the President is prepared at this moment to adopt the third proposal. It is the second which appeals to him and which probably will meet with his approval. Thirty Burn to Death in New Haven Train Wreck Bradford, R. I. Thirty or more per sons were reported to have been crush ed or burned to death in a collision of trains on the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad here Tuesday night. The accident occurred at 7:30 o'clock and four hours later wrecking and hospital crews were said to have recovered 30 bodies. ' The dead were in the rear car of a four-coach local train, bound from Boston to New London, and which had stopped at the local station when it was run down by the Gilt Edge ex press, bound from Boston for New York. This coach was telescoped, set afire and burned. The car ahead also took fire, and the flames, communicating to the pas senger station and freight house, de stroyed both buildings. It was stated that there were known to have been 87 persons in the de stroyed car and that only six of these had been accounted for several hours later. Among those reported to have been burned to death were Miss Janet Clark, daughter of William Clark, president of the Westerly mill of the American Thread company, and W. M. Barber, also of Westerly. Von Papen and Tour Others Are Indicted for Plot to Destroy Canal New York Captain Franz von Pa pen, recalled military attache to the German embassy at Washington, was indicted Tuesday by the Federal grand jury here" as the organizer and finan cier of an alleged conspiracy to blow up the Welland Canal in Canada. With him also were indicted Captain Hans Tauscher, alleged agent of the Krupps in the United States and husband of Mme. Johanna Gadski, the prima donna; Constantino Govani, Alfred J. Fritzen and another man whose name has not been revealed. It was learned from a reliable source that the last named is a prominet German whose name has been mentioned frequently in connection with German propganda. Federal officials do not expect to bring Von Papen to trial. While he is no longer immune from prosecution by the United States civil authorities, since he ceased to be a member of the German embassy staff, the oll'enae with which he is charged is not ex traditable under any treaty with a for eign government The indictment, it is understood, was returned with the sanction of the Department of Justice, and is believed to establish a precedent. No effort will be made to have Von Papen brought here, but the indictment will be held in abeyance in case he should ever return to the United States. West Point Bill Passed. Washintgon, D. C. A bill doubling the number of cadets at the West Point military academy, the second of the preparedness measures to go through both branches of congress, was passed by the house after it had been amend ed to eliminate a section which would have authorized the President to fill vacancies at the beginning of a scho lastic year from the alternates whose principles had entered. A similar bill, doubling the personnel at the naval academy, was signed by the President several weeks ago. Pirate Gets Life Term, Wilmington, Del. ErneBt Schiller, alias Clarence R. Hudson, who forcibly took possession of the British steamer Matoppo, off Sandy Hook on March 29, terrorized the crew and compelled the captain to change the ship's course, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the United States District court here Wednesday. Schiller pleaded guilty to the charge of piracy. In a statement he denied that his motive was robbery. He declared he had seized the Matoppo "for the cause of Germany." believing she carried munitions for the allies. $205 Gold Nugget Found. Grants Pass, Ore. One of the larg est gold nuggets ever found in the Southern Oregon placer fields was brought to Grants Pass Tuesday by Ben S. Watts of Williams, It meas ured three and a half Inches in length and like distance In width with a thickness of about half an inch. It weighed 11 ounces, 11 pennyweights and 16 grams when placed in the scales, iU value being $2Uu. It was found 26 miles from hero. Made Record Flight in Mexico in This Aeroplane 1Q.mvmmiHWm''jfcs. "'"W"'?ry "."v""".8" ''""'""'""'""g V: 11 J) ' K . YV. tvv trv- i ? ? -" i-' 1 y ': Lieutenant Edgar S. Gorrell. Lieutenants Edgar S. Gorrell and Herbert A. Dargue, now with General Pershing's troops in Mexico, made a record flight the other day when they went from San Antonio, in Chihuahua, to Columbus, N. M., a distance of more than 350 miles in less than four hours. They made a single stop, that at Casas Grandes, where they heard reports that Villa had died of his VOTES ARMY Makes Total, With lion Volunteer Washington, D. C. An Army re organization bill that would produce regular army and reserve military forces in the United States aggregat ing 1,000,000 men was passed by the senate Wednesday night without a rec ord vote. It is a substitute for the Hay bill, passed by the house and the differences will be worked out in con. ference. On the eve of a joint seession of the houses of congress to hear a message from the President on grave interna tional issues, the senate hastened com pletion of the bill amid scenes of ex citement, repeatedly rejecting all amendments pending to reduce the proposed strengthening of the army. The argeement to vote Wednesday was reached two weeks ago, and Vice President Marshall, enforcing the de termination of the administration lead ers, ruled that a vote was required by midnight. The amendment making the army's peace strength 250,000 instead of 180,000, as provided in the bill as framed by the military committee, was adopted, 43 to 37, 21 Republicans and 22 Democrats voting for it. A proposal to make the figure 150,000 previously had been rejected, GG to 13. A peace strength of only 140,000 is provided for the army bill passed by the house, and a sharp contest over Ten-Hour Law Argued. Washington, D. C. The Supreme court Wednesday took under advise ment at the conclusion of oral argu ments the constitutionality of the Ore gon ten-hour workday law for men in mills and manufacturing establish ments. The statute, the first of the kind ever brought before the court, is being tested in the case of Frank Bun ting, a mill employe convicted of vio lating it. His counsel, W. Lair Thompson, attacked the law chiefly on the ground that it was an increased wage rather than a health measure. Author Leaves $250,000. White Plains, N. Y. The will was filed here Wednesday of the late Rich ard Harding Davis, novelist, and war correspondent, who died in his country home at Mount Kisco on April 11 last. The main portion of his estate, esti mated to be worth about $250,000, is placed in the hands of a trustee for the benefit of his widow, Elizabeth Gene vieve McEvoy Davis, and his daugh ter, Hope. The will directs that tes tator's body be cremated and orders that his personal property be divided among designated relatives. Hatters to Ask Pay Rise. Danbury, Conn. Demands for a wage increase approximating 10 per cent are to be made by union hatters throughout the country on May 1, or as soon after that date as present wage agreements expire, it was learned here Wednesday. This ac tion, it was said, was authorized by the National board of directors of the United Hatters of North America, at a mutiny held last week ill New York. : ' V , f I V.. U . It Lieutenant Herbert A. Dargue. wounds. Lieutenant Dargue said: "There seems to be no doubt that Villa was wounded; conversations with natives and with physicians having convinced me that he was shot through both legs and one of them being broken by a bullet, while another shot lodged in his stomach. A man in that condition without medical attention could scarce ly live long." OF 250,000 Reserves, One Provision Kept. that feature is looked for in confer ence. . Another amendment adopted would create a reserve regular army force in time of war, to be composed of school and college youths, and to provide a means of recruiting the proposed vol unteer army force. This is expected to provide a trained reserve of from 200,000 to 400,000 young men. The proposal submitted by Senator Hard wick was agreed to 56 to 24, the result coming as a surprise to senators on both Bides of the chamber, since pre dictions openly had been made that the volunteer army feature, already in cluded in the bill, would be rejected in conference. Senator Hardwick's amendment pro vides for military instruction by com missioned army officers under direction of the secretary of war in every school and college in the United States hav ing 100 or more male students over 15 years old, when authorities of such school apply for such instruction and the requisite number of students agree to accept the training and become a part of the reserve force of the army of the nation. Application for the training would be purely voluntary, but all students over 18 years old re ceiving training would be subject to a call to the colors by the President in time of war, actual or threatened, dur ing their training term. Blue Overalls at Premium. Chicago Blue will be the excep tional color for overalls this year, and only the aristocrats in the trades will wear them. The lack of proper indigo dyes is sending up the prices on this article of apparel. Brown and white will be the prevailing shades. Un bleached khaki is becoming popular, and white is setting a vogue.. Logwood vegeable dyes from Jamaica is being extended to goods of this character, with varying results. The best dyes, that come from Germany, produce in digo blue that has long been popular. High Liquor Tax Likely. Washington, D. C. Estimating that the government will have to provide for $225,000,000 additional revenue in the coming general revenue revision bill, the house ways and means com mittee Democrats are seriously con templating increasing the tax on beer to $2 a barrel and on whisky to $1.50 a gallon. This would produce about $33, 000,000 more from beer and $50,000, 000 more from whisky, and the com mitteemen are considering raising the remainder of the $225,000,000 by a franchise tax on war munitions. New York May Aid Widows. New York A municipal movement to provide pensions for widowed moth ers with children was begun Wednes day with the adoption by the board of aldermen of a resolution under which would be appropriated $300,000 to be placed at the disposal of the Child Welfare board. If the resolution is acted on favor ably next week by the board of esti mate, tiie proposed allowances will be granted. BANDIT VILLA DEAD; BODY IS EXHUMED Persistent Mexican Reports Say Carranzaistas Have Corpse. VERACITY OF RUMOR STILL DOUBTED Incidents Confirm Story of Blood Poisoning Supposed to Have Ended Outlaw's Career. Mexico City Villa's dead body has been dug up out of a two weeks' old grave by Carlos Carranza, newphew of General Carranza, the first chief of the constitutionalists, and is now being brought by him and an escort of sol diers to the city of Chihuahua. This information was contained in a tele gram received by the War department late Sunday. El Paso Francisco Villa is dead and his body, disinterred some days after his burial, is in posssesion of the Car ranza troops, according to a series of telegraphic messages received in Juar ez Sunday by the Mexican officials. For more than a week reports that Villa had died from wounds have been current both here and in Juarez. Sun day's accounts were the most circum stantial and apparently reliable yet re ceived. They were accepted with re serve by American officials, including General Bell, but the Mexican officials expressed confidence in their relia bility. The dispatcher of the Mexican West ern railroad at Juarez reported to Gen eral Gabriel Gavira, Carranza com mander at Juarez, that he had heard a conversation over the telegraph wires to the effect that Villa's body was in the hands of Carranza troops. Gen eral Gavira notified Consul Andres Garica here, who rushed messages to the telegraph operators at Madero and Cusihuiriachic operators answered con firmed the report and said the body was being taken to Chihuahua. The telegraph operator at San An tonio, Mexico, 50 miles west Chihua hua, telegraphed Consul Garcia that Villa's body was in posssesion of Colo nel Carlos Carranza, nephew of Gen eral Carranza, who was taking it in a specail train to Chihuahua. In reply to these messages, tele grams were sent to the Carranza gen erals in the field and to officers in Mexico City, Chihuahua and other points, asking confirmation, but no an swers have yet been received. Apart from the telegrams sent here there are some known facts which have been pointed out by Mexican officials as lending strong support to the truth of the report that the bandit chief's career has been closed by death. Villa has been suffering for more than a year from a virulent form of blood poisoning. He was treated for this disease while in Juarez by Dr. W. L Brown. Dr. Brown says that the condition of the bandit was such that even a minor wound would be fatal in ten days unless treated promptly and with the best medical skill and care. Even under the most favorable conditions such a wound would be of the gravest character. Austria-Hungary Will Avoid Break With United States Buda Pest The probability of war between America and the Central Em pires is a grave concern to Austria and Hungary alike, for millions of Hun garians and Austrians in America would suffer considerably in case re lations were broken off and everything is being done in the Vienna foreign office to persuade Germany to evade a rupture if possible. Austria-Hungary insists on being consulted in the mat ter and negotiations are going on be tween Berlin and Veinna. Should a break occur, the Austro Hungarian government will not take official notice of it and even if it should come to war between Germany and the United States the monarchy will disregard the alliance as a con sideration, as in the case with Ger many and Italy. The press is devot ing marked attention to the situation. Author "Peck's Bad Boy" Dies. Milwaukee George W. Peck, 75 years old, former governor of Wiscon sin for two terms, and at one time mayor of Milwaukee, died here Sunday after a short illness. Mr. Peck was one of three Democrats who, since the admission of Wisconsin to the Union, in 1848, held the position of governor. In 1892 his opponent on the Republican ticket was ex-United States Senator Spooner, whom he defeated. Mr. Peck achieved national fame as a writer of humorous tales, his best-known book being "Peck's Bad Boy." Deaf Boy Equals Record. Vancouver, Wash. Louis Kotula, the Polish pitcher for the State School for the Deaf, is thought to have equal, ed the world's record for striking out batsmen in a nine-inning game, whiff ing 21 of the players of the Benson Polytechnic School nine of Portland, Saturday. A week previously he struck out 18 batters in a game with Lincoln High School, of Portland. Kotula will try to catch on with the Tacoma team in the Northwestern League this summer. Mary Phagan Suit Ends. Atlanta, Ga. The suit brought by Mrs. J. W. Coleman to recover $10,000 from the National Pencil company on account of the death of her daughter Mary Phagan, for whose murder Leo M. Frank was convicted, was dismissed in Superior court here Saturday after attorneys announced that a settlement out of court had been scrreed upon. Mary Phagan's body was found in the pencil factory. NEW CASES COME UP TO CLINCH SUSSEX CASE; NEUTRALS WATCHING Washington, D, C While President Wilson and Secretary Lansing Monday were engaged in marshalling the ac cumulation of evidence that Germany in her submarine warfare had violated solemn pledges given to the United States, official word of two more ship ping disasters apparently due to illegal acts by German submarine command ers was received at the State depart ment. Consular dispatches that the steam ship Margam Abbey was attacked without warning on April 8, and that the Aberdeen bark Inverlyon, with a cargo from Portland, Or., was sunk by shell fire after the crew had been forced to the Bmall boats more than 100 miles from shore. Americans were aboard both ships, and were endan gered. These two cases are being investi gated and may be included in the American indictment of German meth ods of conducting submarine warfare which it was understood probably would be ready for transmission to Berlin early next week. . The President and Sercetary Lan sing devoted a large part of the day to consideration of the submarine situa tion. They had before them several affidavits secured from American sur vivors of the Sussex and other vessels recently attacked and documents con taining information forwarded by the British government. ' It became known here that the con templated action of the United States, which is expected to bring the sub marine controversy to a clear-cut issue, is being watched closely by the diplo matic representatives of other neutral nations. Engineers to Aid in Inventory of Nation's Industrial Preparedness New York The names of 250 prom inent engineers who are to organize state boards throughout the country to make a complete survey of American manufacturing and producing re sources, as a first step toward indus trial preparedness, were announced Monday by the committee on industrial preparedness of the Naval consulting board. The engineers, who will serve with out pay, become associated members of the Naval consulting board, of which Thomas Edison is chairman. Following are the names of some of the directors: Idaho M. S. Parker, St. Maries; Stanley A. Easton, Kellogg; George F. Waddell, Squirrel; O. G. F. Mark hus, Boise; J. Shirley Jones, Moscow. Oregon George C. Mason, Bert C. Ball, O. B. Coldwell, Portland; A. M. Swatley, Corvallis; O. F. Stafford, Eugene. Robbers in Autos Capture Six. Spokane, Wash. Two masked high waymen, traveling in an automobile which they captured at the point of guns, ran over a large part of the South Side between Canno Hill and Union Park for nearly four hours Sat urday night and Sunday morning. They held up, robbed, assailed or muti lated citizens, chased automobiles, defied pursuit and concluded the night's work with a profit of $44 and six passengers in their possession, among them a woman. Shortly before 3 o'clock the high waymen reached the eastern outskirts of the city in a futile search for more "live ones" and disappeared. "Don't you want a souvenir?" called back the younger of the robbers to the woman. A coin waB refused, but a cartridge was accepted. Body of Lost Lad found Near Trail. Eugene, Ore. Lost in a snowstorm after wandering for many miles in the wilderness of Saddle mountain, the wildest region of Western Lane coun ty, Lyman Maddaris, aged 19, perished from exhaustion and cold when within sixteen feet of the trail. His body was found Monday by a searching party, which started out to investigate a report that fresh tracks of shoes without nails, such as worn by the boy and very uncommon in that section, had been found near the trail, giving hope that the lad might yet be alive, Maddaris left the home of Thomas Cullen, at the south end of Saddle mountain, in an effort to reach the home of his father on Big creek, Jan uary 15.m 165-Foot Pole Shipped. Chehalis, Wash. From the piling camp of Henry Hall at Onalaska will be shipped one of the tallest flag poles ever set East from the Pacific North west. The pole is 165 feet long and measures 30 inches at the base and eight inches at the top. It is con signed to a concern in New York City, where it will be located. It is under stood the shipment will go East via the Great Northern and that four flat cars will be required to transport it. In addition to the flag pole the cars will be loaded with other poles. Motor Train Is Attacked. San Antonio General Pershing re ported to headquarters Monday that a motor truck train carrying aeroplanes was attacked by 40 bandits Friday night 15 miles north of Satevo. The Mexicans were driven off and one of their number was killed. General Pershing was with the motor truck train at the time of the attack. There were no American losses. General Pershing also gave the first report of a series of skirmishes with Villa out laws near San Francisco Rorja and Balleza. Coffee Consumption Big. Washington, D. C The Ameri can people consumed last year more than a billion pounds of coffee, or 40 per cent of all sold in the markets of the world. Germany is normally sec ond, but ownig to the war, her im ports have been cut off. France is now second, but consumed only one fourth the amount used in the United States. The American per capita con sumption is 10 pounds a year of coffee and seven pounds of tea. CARRANZA LIMITS PURSUERS T0 1000 Mexican Government Welcomes None But Cavalrymen. GENERAL'S INSISTENCE IS "INELEXIBLt" United States Meanwhile Makes No Change in Policy of Pursuit Funston's Orders Stand. Mexico City The Mexican govern ment will insist with inflexible deter mination that an armed expedition of the United States which enters Mexi can territory in the guise of a punitive expedition must be limited to 1000 men of one service alone cavalry, ac cording to a statement made public Saturday by Juan Neftali Amador, sub-secretary of foreign relations. . Washington, D. C. The United States States is prepared to treat with General Carranza, as proposed in his note of Friday, for the withdrawal of American troops from Mexico. Pend ing the outcome of the diplomatic ne gotiations, however, the status of the expedition will remain unchanged and the pursuit of Villa continues. This was the situation as officially described after President Wilson and his cabinet had considered the new phases of the Mexican problem raised by General Carranza's communication. Secretary Lansing said he was pre pared to take up the subject with the de facto government, but would not in dicate when a reply might be sent. Secretary Baker said no orders had been sent to General Funston and that none were under contemplation. Both secretaries said there had been no change in the policy of the adminis tration which prompted the pursuit of Villa. From other sources it was learned that the success of the Carranza gov ernment in demonstrating its intention and ability to continue the pursuit and extermination of the bandits, should American forces be recalled, would weigh heavily with President Wilson in reaching a final decision. In that connection an official report from the commander of the American forces at tacked at Parral, Mexico, last Tues day, by civilians is anxiously awaited. General Carranza's information, trans mitted, was that his soldiers had done everything in their power to stop the firing at the American troops. Unoffi cial versions of the incident, however, have asserted that Carranza soldiers were among the attackers. Seattle Dumps 1000 Cases Contraband Beer Inti Bay Seattle, Wash. Mayor Gill was on the job with his coat off Saturday with. Chief Beckingham and Port Warden Paysse, when eight trusties of the city jail and several volunteers from the fire department began the work of transferring 1000 cases of contraband beer from the Bell-street dock to the fire boat Duwamish. Later the Duwamish went up the bay where the water is plentiful and deep. There the whole cargo of booze was unceremoniously dumped. All three officials worked side by side with their assistants in doing the "heavy work" of moving the cargo onto the ship. Despite the protests of Prosecuting Attorney Laudin said that the court was "taking the teeth out of the dry law, " Judge Ronald in the Superior court refused to permit the sheriff to remove the expensive bar and fixtures of the combination drug store and soft drink establishmet at 115 James 3treet, which was raided Wednesday on Mr. Lundin's orders. "We have proof that the law has been violated, " said the prosecutor. "Under the law we have the right to seize and remove the fixtures of & place, as well as liquor, on the author ity of a search warrant. It is pre sumed that some discretion rests with officers of the law." ' Germans Enforce Public Modesty. Berlin What is characterized as a recrudescence of the spirit of the blue laws is observed in some German cities. In Munich the police have been author ized to act as censors of women's dress and have been ordered to arrest all wo men who are dressed too conspicuously. The first victim of these instructions was a young woman who was on her way to meet an officer. She was taken to a police station and compelled, ac cording to the newspaper reports, to wipe the powder and rouge from her face. Packers Paid for Seized Cargoes. London Chandler P. Anderson, rep resentative of the Chicago Meat Pack ers in the prize court cases involving cargoes valued at between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000, stated that a settle ment with the British government had been agreed upon and the money would be paid. "I wish," said Mr. Anderson, "to express my appreciation of the fairness with which the negotiations with the representatives of the Brtish government have been conducted and the friendly consideration with which I and my clients have been treated." No Progress Made at Verdun. London Before Verdun the infantry has remained inactive and only in the sectors to the northwest, embracing Hill 304 and the front from Le Mort Homme to Cumieres, has there been heavy work by the artillery. Berlin reports that unfavorable weather is hindering artillery operations. The Germans in the Lake Narocz and Iks kull bridgehead positions on the Rus sian front have made attempts to ad vance against the Russians.