davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-10
SIX BANDITS ROB BANK
Obtain $4,000 in Cash and
Bonds at Minneapolis.
Good Description of HoIdup Men Has
Been Secured by Police and
Dragnet is Out.

Minneapolis, April 10. - Fortified
With good descriptions, the Minneapo-
lis police are directing a search
throughout the Northwest for the six
bandits who held up Silver Kolstad
cashier in the Peoples State bank, and
made their escape with more than $l0,-
900 in cash and Liberty Bonds.
Mr. Kolstad looked through the po-
lice rogues gallery and identified pho
tographs as resembling two of the
bandits, according to the police. Their
records show they were implicated in
several bank robberies throughout the
country.
The police have telegraphed serial
numbers of most of the Liberty Bonds
to every bank in Minnesota and to
the police and sheriffs in counties and
cities throughout this section of the
country. Descriptions of the six men
also were sent broadcast.
j. p. Ernster, president of the bank,
completed a check on the loss. He
said the robbers obtained $3.50 worth
of Liberty Bonds owned by the bank,
and about 50 400 cash. The envelopes
which they took containing Liberty
Bonds owned by bank patrons, prob
ably were valued at $4,000 Mr.. Ernster
said. The bandits left $4,000 in cash
or the street, when the satchel they
were carrying to waiting automobile
broke. The bank carries $4,000 theft
insurance
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-10
U. S. GOT IL FOE SUBMARINES
United States Naval Filters Given
Credit by French

Boston, April 10.-French records
credit United States naval fliers with
having damaged and possibly de-
stroyed IL German submarines, ac-
cording to Captain Thomas C. Craven,
q. s. NJ, commander of United States
naval aviation forces in France, who
returned on the u. S. s. Agamemnon
His department, he said, took a more
conservative view and conceded the
sinking of two and the damaging Of
eight of the enemy craft. Captain
Craven described the rapid growth of
the United States air forces in France
from nine small seaplanes to a great
feet operating from port near Brest
with more than 200 battle seaplanes Of
the best type.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-10
DRAWING UP REPORT
Iowa House Committee Com
pIetes Pardon Inquiry.
Chief Counsel Claims That Governor
Harding Is Guilty of Malfeas-
ance in Office.

Des Moines, Iowa, April 10.-Hear-
Ing of evidence in the Rathbun pardon
probe has been completed by the ju-
dietary committee of the Iowa House
and the committee is now preparing
it's report.
Chief Counsel II. w. Byers has sub
mitted a brief to the committee sum.
ming up the evidence. Members of
the committee say that Byers states
that testimony shows that Governor
Harding is guilty of malfeasance in
office as a result of failure to observe
proper precautions in granting pardon
and that Attorney General Havner
violated statutes in his procedure in
setting 1t aside.
The committee is expected to make
its report Friday.
Should impeachment of either Hard
ing or Havner be recommended a fight
on the floor of the House is certain.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-10
ENEMY WANTS TROOPS
Austria Asks Britain to Send
10000 Soldiers.
Earl of Curzon, Defending Military
Bill, Says War Clouds May
Burst at Any Time.

Paris, April 1o.-The evacua-
ton of the Black sea port of odes-
sa by the Allied forces is con-
firmed officially.
Paris, April 10.-At the latest
session of the German cabinet
council the government considered
the eventuaity of making an ap-
peal to the Allied armies to main
tain order in Germany in the in
terest of the whole of Europe, the
Zurich correspondent of lie Jour-
nal reports.
London, April 10.-Defending the
military bill in the House of Lords,
Earl Curzon of Kedleston, president
of the council and government leader
in the House of Lords, declared that
Vienna being in a serious position
and apprehensive lest it should share
the fate of Budapest, had turned to
Great Britain and said: If you will
send 10000 British troops we can guar.
antee the situation"
Earl Curzon was not sure that war
MOulu uUl IeNlNe. he SdlQs
Il see clouds on the horizon which
may burst at any moment in a more
sinister form than anything yet seen.
If the critics of this bill can show
the government how to rule Ireland
without maintaining 10000 troops
there, they will confer a great favor
on the government"
Revolt in Austria Expected.
Paris, April 10.-A soviet revolution
In Austria may occur within a few
days, according to semi-official infor.
nation received from Vienna. Any
threat to cut off the food supply II
the country embraces Bolshevism is
not regarded as convincing, in view
of the fact the Allies are known to
be ready to feed Hungary, which al
ready has set up Bolshevistic gov
ernment
The Austrian authorities grip on the
situation is said to be weakening
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-10
Believed President Has No Inten-
ton of Leaving Before Peace
Is Assured.
PADEREWSKI IS HEARD
Polish Premier Urges That Danzig
Must Be Given to Poland, Also
Coal Fields of Teschu-France
and England Agree.

Paris, April 10.-The peace confer
ence, it was declared in certain OFF,
cial quarters, has reached a stage
where there are just two alternatives
early agreement or a wreck.
The period in which continued pro.
tracted discussions is possible has
passed, according to authoritative in
formation. Everyone is showing the
effect of the strain. There is a nerv-
Gus tension in the very air Every
delegate carries an implied ultima
tum" on his lips. 1t is becoming not
only q matter of political and diplo,
matte effort reaching the end of the
string, but as it is human beings do,
ing the work the limit of physical en-.
durance is beginning to manifest it.
self.
A portion of the press apparently is
preparing to place the responsibility
for delay upon President Wilson, fol-
lowing the lead suggested in the Brit
ish and French newspapers, saying an
agreement would be reached by East
er. La Liberte openly declares the
and that ii only remains for Wilson to
approve the decisions reached by the
Big Four during his illness. Ameri
can delegates have been totally unable
to find any of the decisions said to
have been reached.
The general movement toward an
nouncing complete understanding is
regarded as having all the aspects Of
a drive against the Americans.
The League of Nations committee
meeting scheduled was postponed for
two days.
Paris Paper Says BIackmail.
Paris, April 1O.-"We do not accuse
our allies of forgetting what France
has done" says the Matin, but new
ertheless we witnessed a curious thing
yesterday. American propagandists
or newspapermen, knowing that Presi-
dent Wilson had summoned to Brest
the ship which is to take him back to
America, saw in this an opportunity
for blackmail If you are not more
accommodating, they said, our presi-
dent will return home and you can
extricate yourself"
"Denunciation of the American dele
cation by the French press has not
affected the American delegates who
apparently are not surprised at the
newspaper criticism"
Ignace Jan Paderewski, the Polish
premier, was summoned before the
nf
urge that .Danzig must be given to
Poland and that Poland must have the
coal fields of Teschen, Silesia
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-10
N. p. Surplus S2.769,334.

New York, April 10-After payi az
dividends of $17,360,O00 the Northt rn
Pacific Railway company earned sur
plus of $2,769,334 in 1918, according to
the annual report. approved at a meet
ing of stockholders. The report con-
tanned both corporate and federal in
come accounts. The former showed
that out of its standard return of $780,
089,692 from the railroad administra-
tion and income from miscellaneous
sources amounting together to $685..
222,307, balance of $20,129,334, ap
plicable to dividends, remained.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-10
ARE PREPARED TO COMPETE
American Shipyards Have Advantage
Over Other Nations.

Washington, April Reconstruction
of the latest type oil burning cargo
steamers at price which will enable
American shipyards to compete with
the foreign nations was declared to be
highly probable" by Chairman Hur-
ley of the shipping board in state
ment announcing that the Submarine
Boat corporation of Newark, N. j., had
made an offer to build eight 12,000-ton
freighters at $l49 a deadweight ton
without any guarantee from the gov
ernment on either labor or material.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-10
TO CALL JOINT CONFERENCE
Wilson to Act to Formulate Nations
Industrial Plan.

Washington, April 10.-Official ad.
vices received by the department of
labor indicate two important steps to
alleviate industrial unrest will be TAX
en- by President Wilson Immediately
on his return to this country. These
steps are:
Issuance of call for an immediate
industrial conference, or parliament
TO devise a constructive program
which shall govern American indus
trial life.
Continuation of the war labor board
with full war authority, as a final
court of industrial justice during the
readjustment period, or until such
time as the industrial conference
reaches final conclusions and has them
adopted by industry at large.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-10
2,055,718 ARE STILL IN ARMY
Figures Show v. S. Force Cut a. Per
Cent Nov. H..

Washington, April 11.-On April l.,
the war department announces, the ag.
was 2,055,718, excluding the 1878 ma
rines with the expeditionary forces.
This total shows a net decrease of A
per cent from November IL last. The
army is now divided as follows:
In Europe, 1,366,610; in Siberia,
1898; in the United States, 562,064;
insular possessions, 35,412; at sea
(April -, 82,739.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-10
TRAIN BLOWN FROM TRACK
Six Killed and Score Injured In Severe
Texas Windstorm

Sherman, Texas, April 10.-Six peo-
pie are reported killed and a score
injured in a severe windstorm which
approached cyclonic proportions at
Trenton, Texas. Reports received in
Sherman by way of Denison said a
train of 80 cars was blown from the
M, X. & T. railway tracks near White
wright Wires were down and COM
munication with the stricken area cut
off.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-10
NAVAL PARADE is PLANNED
President Wilson May Review Turn
out at New York.

New York, April 10.-It is under
stood by the city authorities that a
great naval parade. to be reviewed by
President Wilson, will be held here
before midsummer and after the feet
now assembling in the harbor has com.
pleted maneuvers at sea. Virtually
every branch of the service will be
represented in the demonstration
here.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-10
FRENCHMAN BEGINS FLIGHT
Makes Second Attempt to Reach
Brazil bv Air.

Paris, April 10.-Lieutenant Fontan,
French aviator, started from Villa
Coublay on the first leg of a trans
Atlantic flight to Brazil He will make
his first stop at Casablanca.
Fontans flight would be made in
five legs, totaling 4,500 miles.
Fontan made a previous attempt to
follow this route March 16.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-10
WOMAN SENTENCED FOR LIFE
"Gipsy Queen" Found Guilty of XIII
ina Mother-in-LaW.

Baltimore, April 10.-The trial OF
Mrs. Annie M. Smith, known as "the
Gipsy Queen" for the killing Of her
mother-in-law, Mrs. Lena Smith, 70
years old, on May Z, 1917, ended in a
verdict of murder in the first degree
without capital punishment. She was
sentenced to life Imprisonment. The
woman also was indicted for the mur-
der of her husband, Albert Smith, so.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-10
56,979 HOSPITAL PATIENTS
War Department Reports Soldiers
Undergoing Treatment.

Washington, April 10.-There were
56,979 military patients under treat
ment of army hospitals in this country
on March 81, according to statistics
published by the War department OF
the total 1924 were men from over
seas
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-10
HUN MOBS LOOT RED CROSS
Storage Sheds of Americans Robbed
of Food Supplies.

Basle, April 10.-Storage sheds OF
the American Red Cross were among
the food depots pillaged by armed
crowds in Nuremberg, according to dis
patches received here Goods to the
value of 100000 are said to have been
taken from various food depots.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-10
FIGHTERS USE MACHINE GUNS
Albanians and Italians in Battle Near
Betcha.

Belgrade, April 10.-Machine gun
battles have occurred between Alban-
ians and Italians near Betcha, the
Serbian press bureau announces. A
dispatch from Ormsche reported that
Albanians attacked and killed an Ital-
Ian general and two aides near Vau-
ragne last week.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-10
AMERICAN ARMY SHRINKING
Force Has Decreased a. Per Cent
Since Nov. II, 1918.

Washington, April 10.-On April /
the War department announced the
aggregate strength of the American
army was BOOSTS, excluding 1873
marines with the expeditionary forces.
This total shows a net decrease OF A
per cent from Nov. ii last.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-10
THREE TOTS DIE IN FIRE
Left Alone at Home While Mother
Visited Sick Neqhbor.

Fergus Falls, Mimi, April 10-Three
children of Mr.. and Mrs Thomas
Schiesser were burned to death in a
fire which destroyed their home here.
The dead are: Leslie, year old;
Ralph 2, and Donald /.
Mrs. Schiesser, the mother, had left
the children alone in the house while
she went to aid a sick neighbor.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-10
SIDNEY DREW, ACTOR, DEAD
Noted Comedian Passes Away at New
York Home

New York, April 10.-Sidney Drew
actor on the stage and for the moving
picture screen, is dead at his home
here He was noted comedian and
came from prominent and old family
of actors.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-10
CONVlCTS "RAlSING" BILLS

COUnteTIeIteTs FOUND WORKING IN
State Penitentary.
Philadelphia, April 10-A counter
feiters den in full operation, has been
discovered in the Eastern penitentiary
here. Three convicts were doing the
work in their cell at night, and had
been operating three days. United
States secret service men found Is one
dollar bills and one two dollar note
in the process of becoming "fives''
and "tens"
Evening star., 1919-04-10
MRS. GERARD PICKS OUT SPY.
Henry Bode, Serving Ten Years,
Was Visitor at American Embassy

NEW YORK. April ,1O.-Because Mrs
James W. Gerard. wife of the former
ambassador to Germany has an excel
lent memory for faces. Henry Bode,
the only American soldier convicted
of serving Germany as a SPY, is now
serving ten-year sentence in the
disciplinary barracks at Governors
Island.
Bode. according to his confession
after Mrs. Gerard had identified him
as man who in German uniform had
appeared one day at the American
embassy in Berlin. wearing the iron
cross, deserted from the American
Army at Fort Bliss. Tex. in July
1914. and made his way to Germany,
where he entered the German army.
After winning his iron cross in ac-
tion against the allies. Bode entered
the German intelligence service, was
sent to New York and eventually to
Mexico. where he was ordered to
work toward embroiling Mexico and
the United States in war and ITO blow
up the Tampico oil fields.
Fearing for his life in Mexico. Bode
crossed the American border into
Calexico. Cal. and surrendered to i'm
authorities. At his court
martial at Governors Island Mrs
Gerard identified him as the man in
German uniform she had seen in Ber-
lin. and Frank Hill. Mr. Gerards valet,
corroborated her statement.
Evening star., 1919-04-10
MUST TREAT ALLIES
AS FAVORED NATIONS
Tariff Provisions for Germany
Will Be incorporated in the
Peace Treaty.
Ry the Associated Press

Bv the Associated Press
PARIS. April 9.-Provision for the
most favored nation treatment in the
German customs system for the allied
and associated countries: single
tariff. and no tariff determinations
based on the flag of the vessels in
which goods are transported, or the
route of Importation or eXportation
viii be incorporated in the peace
treaty with Germany. according to the
present provisional agreement. The
restriction is to be enforced for five
years after the conclusion of peace
and it will probably include the pro-
viso that the tariffs in force upon
imports from the associated countries
during that period shall be based on
the most favored nations schedules
of 1914.
The obligation to maintain under
a single tariff the 1914 schedules will
be specified only for limited period,
since there is fairly general reali-
cation that Germany will be able
financially to raise the maximum of
reparation payments and limit or ex-
clude unnecessary imports only by
the imposition of higher customs
rates. And the proposal is under con-
sideration to give Germany, after the
period which will be required for the
study and revision of existing tariffs.
absolute freedom to increase all her
duties
Evening star., 1919-04-10
Just Folks
By EDGAR A. GUEST
THE HARBoR OF LIFE.

Some t,l dream of a land that is fairer
And picture a realm in the sky.
But the beauty surrounding them
down here they miss
AS they search for the splendors
Leave death for the dead. There are
songs to be sung,
There are joys to be born out of
strife:
The world is the place where all
hearts should be young.
The earth is the harbor of life.
There are goals to be reached. there
are deeds to be done.
There are joys for our children to
There are battles with evil and hate
That the world with contentment
may glow.
And the mission of man from the time
of his birth
To the day that his spirit shall soar.
Is to make for the living a happier
earth
Than ever it has been before.
promised for all,
Nor comfort the souls of the dead
But here we can Tighten the burdens
that fall.
And level the pathways we tread.
We can make of this earth a more
beautiful place.
To lie many charms we can give;
We can fill it with laughter and music
and grace:
We can make it pleasure to live.
Let us toll while we may for the
splendor of earth,
Let us brighten the days with our
song;
Let US fill the GS"k corners with sun
shine and mirth
And Danish oppression and wrong.
Let us dream not SO much of the
heaven afar
That the beauty about us we miss:
Our duty lies here. where at present
We are.
Let us make a good world out of
this.
Copyright. 1919 by Edgar A. Guest.)
Evening star., 1919-04-10
MEXICO MAY Be UTOPIA
FOR AMERICAN DRINKERS
Cities Below the Border May Be-
come Mecca for U. S. Citizens
With Nation Dry in July.

LAREDO. Tex, April 10.-Whether
Mexican cities along the border will
become bases for international
drinkers" when America adopts pro-
hibition in July has not been deter
mined. despite some leanings in this
direction.
A movement recently was started
to have passport restrictions removed.
throw open the international bridge
and run week end excursion trains
into Mexico. 1t was proposed to es-
tablish big gambling houses, cock
pits, bull-rings and pretentious drink
ing emporiums. American business
men vigorously protested on the
ground that the trains passing
through American towns would bring
only reputation for lawlessness.
The Mexican government has not
indicated its attitude in the matter
and seems disposed to let the liquor
problem solve itself. Local officials
are represented as not wishing to
deny their citizens profits that Amer
lean prohibition might bring.
Evening star., 1919-04-10

In Spain woman's mantilla is held
sacred by law, and it cannot be sold
for debt.
Evening star., 1919-04-10
COMMANDS SHIFTED.
Four Generals of American Army
of Occupation Changed.

COBLENZ. Wednesday, April 9 (by
the Associated Press).-The COM
mands of four generals in the Ameri-
can army of occupation have been
shifted, according to announcement
made today at Sd Army headquarters.
Maj. Gen. William Lassiter, who has
the 32d Division since it
entered Germany. is designated chief
artillery officer of the Sd Army. Brig.
Gen William G. Haan. who COM
manded the 32d Division during the
war. will have command of tlat di
vision when it leaves the Rhine for
home. Since the American Army has
occupied this section of Germany Gen.
Ham has been a corps commander.
Brig. Gems Ade1bert Cronkhite and
Charles II. Muir, also Sd Army Corps
nders. were assigned to their
old divisions, the S0th and 2Sth, re-
spectively.
Evening star., 1919-04-10
Complicated Problem.

The problem of the experts in formu-
lating the conditions under which
Germany will be permitted to re-es
tablish commercial relations with the
rest of the world has been most COM
plicated and intricate since. in addi-
tion to providing for equality of
trade relations and prevention of dis
examinations against the present op-
ponentS of Germany, it has been nee
essary to consider that Germanys
ability to pay reparations is largely
contingent on the absence of ham
pering restrictions on the development
of home industries and an outlet for
foreign trade.
1t has been the endeavor in con-
sidering the problem to cause as lit
tie loss as possible to the trade re-
lations created before the war by
virtue of special arrangements and
allow Germany freedom of tariff reg
ulatlon so far as is compatible with
the nece ssities of reparation
Evening star., 1919-04-10
Cantineros Have Thrived.

Mexican cantineros have thrived
in the year that Texas cities have been
dry under the Texas military zone
law. Passport. regulations permit
persons living within ten miles of tn
border to pass from one country
the other on a local permit. Mar
American residents visit Mexic:
towns daily to obtain drink Amer
can authorities have prevented smu
Cling of liquor into the United State
Medical authorities predict that ur
restricted border traffic would haN
serious affect on the Army's can
paign against disease
All suspicious visitors from Mexic
are searched by customs officers f
this strict supervision. mezcal
highly intoxicating Mexican drin
that formerly sold for so cents
quart. now brings $40 a Quart her,
Evening star., 1919-04-10
BRITAIN MEETS SPAIN.
England Will Receive Spanish
Oranges and Shin Coal.

MADRID. Wednesday. April 9.-Pre-
mier Romanones had conference
today with the British ambassador
the convention between
Great Britain and Spain. which will
be signed tomorrow. England by this
treaty will permit the importation of
Spanish oranges and will ship to
spain 10000 tons of coal per month.
Spain will loan Great Britain 75,-
100000 pesetas. the rate of interest
being 5 per cent
Evening star., 1919-04-10
oVER-0CEAN FLIGHT HALTED
Lieut.. Fontan Compelled to Land
lilo Miles From Starting Point.

PARIS, April 9.-Lieut. j. P Fontan.
who started yesterday on the first leg
of flight which he intended should
take him across the Atlantic from the
Cape Verde Islands, was compelled to
land near Bourges, 10 miles from
his starting place, near Versailles
On March Is the lieutenant also start
ed. but was compelled to come down
southeast of Blois, because of a
cracked cylinder.
Evening star., 1919-04-10
U. S. Mail Burns in South America

Fire in a mail car passing from
Chile to Argentina on December 30
destroyed 276 sacks of mail from New
York containing mail matter for
Buenos Aires and Rosario. Argentina.
and Montevideo, Uruguay. This mail
had accumulated in New York post
office between November 10 and No
vember %. 1918. The announcement is
made officially by the Post Once De-
partment.
Evening star., 1919-04-10
FOR SALE

AS A.. suitable for grain, stock,
fruit. poultry; 2 houses; other build
ings; prunes and other fruit; water;
timber; good climate; ~ miles
from market. Will take as part
payment country residence. Mary
land or New Jersey preferred.
Box rs. Oakland, Oregon.