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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-27
WILSON WELCOMES
TAFT'S SUGGESTION

Washington, March 27.-The text
Of the proposed amendment to the
league Of nations covenant sug-
gested by former President Taft,
which was considered by President
Wilson and the Allied premiers in
Paris yesterday, was sent from the
White House less than a week ago,
after Mr.. Taft had been assured by
Secretary Tumulfy that any sugges-
ton from him would be welcomed by
the president. This became known
today at the White House.
Several suggestions were made by
Mr.. Taft. the principal n dealing
with the Monroe doctrine. This was
stated officially, but White House Of
ficials declined to give out the text Of
the communication.
The former president talked over
the telephone with Mi. Tumulty last
week and made known his desire to
make some suggestions If they would
be welcome in Paris. When Mr..
Tumulty told him President Wilson
would be glad to receive them, the
proposals were forwarded to the
White House.
Several days ago a message was
received at the White House Extend
Ing the presidents thanks to Mr.
Taft,
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Two Interesting
Relics Donated To
Historical Museum

Bismarck, N. D., March 27.-The
state historical museum has Just re-
ceived from Hon. Robert H. johnson.
of Fullerton. two interesting historical
relics. One Of these is a $1,000. bonds
of h Confederate States loan of
February 20. 1863, bearing 8 per cent
interest. Part of the interest coupons
have been clipped. but several are
still attached. This bond has been
framed n hung in the museum
where it nay be seen by visitors.
The other relic sem by Mr.. johnson
is still more rare in these days. It is
an ox-shoe. 1t is amusing to watch
never seen a shod o. when they ex-
anime this relic and conjecture what
it is. or rather, what they are. For an
OK, having two toes. must have a shoe
in W pieces, instead Of one, as in the
case of a horse, which has only one
toe. This is the first ox-shoe which
has come to the museum. It was
found by Mr.. Johnson on Sec. 26.
Twp. 1872, range 81.
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G"REEN-BENDIXEN
STOCKYARD BILL
FAVORED BY HOUSE

st. Paul. Mimi. March 27.-rhe
Green-Bendfxen bill, placing stock
yards under control of the state rail-
and warehouse commission, was
today favorably reported to the house
by the grain and warehouse commit.
tee. The bill will be up Monday. A
companion bill introduced in the SEN
ate by Senator Gustav Widell of Man
kato was favorably reported.
: Senator F. H. Peterson Of Moor
head announced today that he will
make an effort on Saturday to have
his bill, prohibiting trading in grain
futures, considered next week.
forenoon with legislation affecting st.
Paul and Minneapolis.
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369,465 MEN
ON ARCHANCEL
FRONT, REPORT
The Total Allied Troops on
Eastern Fronts $50, 900,
Says Pichon.

Paris. March THE total strength
Of the Allied forces on the Archangel
and Siberian fronts is 3es,4s5. ac-
Icording to figures given by Stephen
Pichon, the French foreign minister.
to the chamber Of deputies last night.
The figures as to n~ationalities were
given by the foreign minister as fol-
lows:
Archangel front. British. 1900;
United States, 1890; French. 2.345;
Italians, LAO; Serbians. 1890; RUS
SLAMS, 11.770. Total. 34.7S5.
siberian front, British. 1900; Cam
adam, 1000: United States, 1900:
French. 1900: Italians. 1000; Ser
bians, 1000; Russians. 210. 900; Poles,
-, 900; Rumanians, 1000: Japanese.
|27,0O0; C1echo-Slovaks. IS, 900. Total
3S4.7o0.
The total forces OF the Allies on
the various eastern fronts. NJ. Pichon
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Casualty List Will .
Be Stopped April ]

Washington, March 27.-The war
department. April l. will discontinue
the method Of issuing casualty lists,
which has hitherto made them avail
able for simultaneous. publication in
try. This has been decided upon, it
was explained today, because prac-
tically all the casualties incurred in
fighting have been announced.
Under the system about to be aban-
doned the government has been tele-
graphing the lists from Washington
tp Chicago and San Francisco five
days in advance Of publication. Press
associations have been distributing
them. allowing five days to reach ali
points.
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AMERICAN FOOD
E SHIPS ARRIVE
JUST IN TINE;
Germans Said to Have Been
Living OFF Last Of Rem
s nants Of Army Food.

Berlin, Wednesday, March 26-(By
tire Associated Press)-The arrival at
German ports Of the first American
time to meet the crisis in the food.
situation: The potato ration in great
er Berlin was reduced this week to
three pounds and no fresh meat IL
available for issue to- residents Of
cities. These residents are receiving
canned meat from the remnants Of
the army's stores. The Berlin vege.
table markets which the correspond
ri plight. There was little for sale
with the exception Of turnips and
other minor vegetables.
Conditions in the illegitimate food
trade offer one Of the best indications
Of approaching exhaustion Of food
stocks. "A month 6 the average
restauranteur could set before custo-
mers whom he could trust to protect
him n who had plenty Of money, a
meal OF the most satisfactory sort,
consisting Of meat. eggs. butter, etc.
without the use of a food card, and
AL obtained illegitimately through
direct access to the sources Of sup
ply. The governments weakness and
the necessity Of it's devoting all its
efforts to the suppression Of insurrec-
tons so that the new regime might
get a start, made it still less able than
It's predecessors to suppress the ille-
Ultimate food trade.
Now some Of the restaurant propri-
etors are securing the country daily.
Their earlier sources Of supply are
almost exhausted and they are able
~ get little Food at any price simply
because the supply no longer exists.
The same restaurants which previous
" were so liberal now serve a meager
meal and insist on meat cards when
meat Is available at all. In addition
private persons with ample incomes
now report the same trouble in OBJ
tanning food from long cultivated
s~urreptitious sources.
The first feeling Of the average
German when he learned Of the ar
rival Of food ships. as the correspond
.ent found through conversation with
lae.aarge number Of workmen and
members Of the middle class, was one
almost Of astonishment at the ap-
pearance' Of the ships in SO few days
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Increased Freight
Rates Are Attacked

Warrington. March 27.-1ncreased
freight rates put into effect by the
railroad administration last year were
attacked In Z complaint filed today
with the interstate commerce com.
mission by the California Citrus
league, making Director General
Hines and several hundred railroads
defendants.
investigation or examination OF any
kind was made by the director gem
eral or anyone else In authority to de-
termine that the orange industry, UNI
der the rate then existing, had not
paid Its full share Of. the expenses" Of
operation under federal control.
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SWANSON is CONVICTED.

Eau Claire, Wis. March 27.-Emil
Swanson. Of Bayfield,, Wis, was con-
victed in federal court here today of
violating the espionage act. Judge
Sanborn fined him $500. Swanson
said he was q religious objector. The
Jury held that he had made q dis
loyal remark.
K. L. De sombre Of Metford, Wis.
indicted on a charge Of dfsloyalty
pleaded guilty and paid $500.
of the Metford Sun, tried for the pub
LEGATION Of an alleged sedttious ar
ticle. is expected to 30 to the jury to-
morrow.
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TO INVESTIGATE CRIMES.

Berlin. March 26.-(By the Assoc
ciated Press)-The German governs
ment is planning the creation OF !
court of investigation for German
personalities accused of crimes durfnR
the war who have requested the in-
vestigation Of their cases, the vos-
sische Zeitung says.
The national assembly, the nevspa-
per adds, will enact a suitable law Tor
q court to try General Ludendofn.s
former Chancellor Won Bethmann-,
Holweg. Admiral Tirpitx, ex-Foreign5
Minister Won Jagpw and Others
whose activities can, only be Judged
by such . court $3.50
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u IN KRUGER
TRIAL COMPLETED

Neillsville. Wis. March 27.-The
jury in the murder trial OF Mrs. Louise
Kruger and her two sons, Frank and
Leslie, charged with the murder of
Harry Jensen, station agent on the
500 line at Withee last September,
was completed this forenoon.
Jensen was killed as q member of
a posse during a gun fight with the
Kruger boys whose arrest was sought
for draft evasion.
District Attorney Jackson opened
the case this afternoon with an adj
dress to the jury.
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ITALIAN ASKS IF
JUGO SLAVIA HAS
MADE WAR ON ITALY

Paris, Wednesday. March 2s.-{By
the Associated Press)-"Has Jugo
Slavia declared war on Italy?" was
a question asked bv a member of the
Italian delegation to the peace CONFER
ence on learning tonight that the
council Of ministers at Belgrade had
prohibited any commerce with enemy
countries, any importations from
Italy to Jugo-Slavia and the trans
%portation Of Italian goods to any
country across Jugo Slav territory.
The decree issued at Belgrade urges
all Jugo >Slavs to abandon any bust
ness they have in countries with which
commercial relations arc prohibited.
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1,357,294 Enlisted
Men Are DISCHARGED

Washington, March 27.-Enlisted
men discharged from the army from
IL to March IL numbered
.1,357,29 A war department state
ment today said incomplete daily re-
ports tt March 10 brought the total
to 1,381,698. Discharges for the
week ending March Is were 55,497,'.
the largest weekly total within a
month.
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CAN NOT ORGANIZE ARMY.

London. March 27.-rhe British
staff, it is stated authoritatively, cons
siders it impossible for War Minister
Trotxky of the Russian Soviet govern
ment to organize an army of a mills
lion men for a spring offensive on the
Bolshevik western front, as ii has
been reported he proposed to do.
even assemble that many The mili-
tary authorities are of the opinion
that the report is purely Bolshevik
promenade. 9a
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,$l00,o0O,0Oo Credit
Given France Today

Washington. March 27.-France
was given a credit Of 500. 900, 900 by
the treasury today and Greece was
given $3,S5S,000 additional. This
makes total credits to France, $2,617,-
477.ooo; to Greece. $%43,412.ooo, and
q total for all Allies of 5000 $3.50, 900.
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Report OF Masaryk's
Resignation Denied

Washington, March 81. The
Czecho-Slovak mission here received
today an official denial Of the report
Of President Masaryk's resignation.
which was sent from Berlin by way
of Copenhagen early this week.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-27

Marshal Hasegawa, Japanese gov
ernor general of Korea. is> reported
to be using the mailed fist on Kore-
ans who are joining the movement
for Korean freedom. Hundreds have
been killed by Japanese machine guns
and bayonets. Koreans claim that all
schools and churches have been closed
and that 1000 native pastors and
teachers have bee harvested.
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stated, was $4,000. This total was
divided as follows:
French, 100000: Russians. 100. coo;
British, 100000: Italians. 100000:
serbians. 100000; Greeks. 200, 600.

The eastern fronts alluded to by
NJ. Pichon, presumably take in the
Balkans, Asia Minor and probably the
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Peace Is Neare,

Berlin, wednesday,. March 2t.-
(By the Associated Press)-vvith the
arrival OF the first -American food
ship yesterday and the conference
OF German financial experts at Wei
mar today preparatory to going to
Versailles Sunday, Germany seems to
feel that peace is nearer than at any
other time.
The feeling Of depression which had
been growing In every part of the
country at the continued disorders
and the increasing S%partacAn riots,
lifted at least slightly at the news
that concrete results finally we're at
hand after much waiting. Peace has
been long coming, the blockade has
been tight and the food relief has
been slow in arriving so that in many
sections Of Germany there was a
feeling almost akin to- despair. Some
parts Of Germany have relapsed into
a cynical state Of mind. making It al.
most impossible to believe even low
that ON relief is in sight.
German newspapers in the last few
days apparently have reflected public
opinion in their accounts in large
black type of the coming Of food
ships. These announcements con-
tinue, but they share prominence
with the still vague reports OF Ger
man participation in the peace nego-
tiations.
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aftsr the signature OF the provisioning
agreement. Tho Germans throgh hope
long deferred, had come to think Of
American food rather a. q theory
than an actualitys and could scarcely
believe It had really reached here.
Favorable comment was heard on all
sides OF the business ability Of the
Americans In getting such rapid ac-
ton on the food program. ) "A
The sun., 1919-10-12
The Towers Story Retold

HTT requires some hardihood to write
l. afresh the story of the Tower of
London while so many able and complete
accounts are in existence" says Major
Gen. Sir George Younghusband in his
"Apologia" to his narrative of The Toner
of London From Within. "But perhaps"
he continues, and with special reference to
the fact that he is now the Keeper of the
Regalia and on duty in the Tower pre-
cincts, mot often before has the tale been
told by one who lives within these ancient
walls. The literary palate also sometimes
requires change and those who may pass
by a book of two generations back are
perhaps tempted to take up a new pre-
sentiment Of the same subject, though it
lie merely case of old wine in new bot
ties"
The old wine of the Tower story is set
down here with an admirable narrative
art and a well balanced feeling for his
torieal proportion. After giving gen
eral survey of 'the Oldest palace and
fortress in Europe" Gen. Younghusband
devotes two chapters to The Fortress
From Within; describes in detail the sew
eral officers of the Tower, Constable, the
Lieutenant, and that picturesque and an
cient guard, tho Yeoman Warders; gives
a long and detailed description of the
origin of the order of the Knights Of the
Bath and the ancient and modern forms of
investiture; retells the familiar stories of
Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard, OF
the Dukes of Somerset and Northumber-
land, Lady Jane Grey, Sir Walter Ra-
leigh, and James, Duke of Monmouth.
There are chapters on Life and Death in
the Toper, tortures, the four chapels, the
ancient arms and armor, the Jewel House
(where the royal jewels are kept and a
final chapter devoted to the restoration
IF the whole group Of buildings by Queer
Victoria, done at the suggestion of the
Duke of Wellington.
The story of the Tower of London is not
g happy one to read, since it is filled with
deeds of brutal and hideous torture and
death, crimes based on every human de
pravity on the part Of those instigating
them. Gen. Younghusband relates one
ghost story in connection with it, that of
the enlisted man of the Sixtieth Rifles
who bayoneted "white figure" on his
post in 1864 and fell in dead faint when
his weapon met with no resistance, and
personal experience Of his own in his
quarters in st. Thomas's Tower concerned
with the opening and shutting of door,
apparently by no human agency. The
only humorous incidents in the book are
those of Sir William Seymour, who
ordered very expensive furnishings for his
"celr' in st. Thomas's Tower, and then
The sun., 1919-10-12
Love Laughs Last"

q y Ol4D-F AZ HUN Ell English love
n story, touched here and there, but
not spoiled in the least by more
modern sOphistieation, is set down for the
.pleasurable excitement of the reader In
Lore Laughs Last, by S. G. Tallentyre.
1t is old fashioned, since its period is that
Of the first quarter of the last century, its
scene the south of England, its homes the
sort of houses we now call Georgian, its
characters filed with the robustious mas
erline qualities and gracious feminine
ones which we're characteristic of the
English, in fiction at least, before the men
stopped drinking three bottles of wine
after dinner and the women took to faint
ing on all and sundry occasions.
Moreover, it begins in stirring fashion,
since an elopement marks its opening
paragraph, an elOpement that turns out
happily both for the hero of it, one Capt.
King, r. N, and Camilla Forrest.
But these are chiefly the agencies to
bring the real hero on the scene, David
King, their son and captain in the Brit
ish mercantile marine at twenty-four. We
mention Dayids age as well as rank to
indicate that he was young man able to
make his way in the world once he got, as
the English say, "a leg up This assist
ance came to him when still Lad through
his uncle, who admired the boy's courage
IL walking one wintry night TO the home
of his grandfather and boldly asking that
worthy for hundred pounds to pay his
apprenticeship in the merchant service
after his father had died. The grand
father refused, but the uncle saw to it that
David had his hearts desire. And more
his home and his fortune when he died,
so that David ashore in Inglethorpe on the
Kentish bank of the River Thames is q
Young man to be desired in the worldly
sense. 1t is here the dear excitement Of
the tale begins, for David falls In love, or
thinks he does, with the eoolly sehening
Theodore Haywood, loveliest vampire Of
the Kentish fields. But then David had
not seen Nancy Legrand, who lived with
Miss Bureheu, ingratiating spinster if
there eve as one.
Thereafter the current of the tale runs
in moving passages of struggle between
David and Nancy and Thee, with Miss
Burchell to serve as the goddess from the
machine to set matters the right way in
the end. What that end is we leave the
authors charming pages to tell, thinking
it would mar the readers joy to reveal the
outcome here. Together with the sheer
delight of the story as story, and this IS
of the purest, these pages are peopled
with characters one likes to know, with
pictures of old English life that stir happy
memories anew, and with descriptions Of
old Georgian rooms that the eonnoisseur In
such things will take the keenest pleasure
in. Here is a novel that will light the
fame Of quiet happiness in every readers
heart.
LOVE LAUGHS LAST. BY s. G. FALLEN
TYRE. George H. Doran Company.
The sun., 1919-10-12
"The House of Courage"

NOU'D think from the way Mrs. Victor
L Richard writes about war wives
that she had been one, and you'd think
from the way she writes about German
prisoners of war that she had been one,
too She can't very well have been both,
hut she has such fine understanding Of
the values of life that she can be in imagi-
nation just about anything she wants. The
House of Courage is the finest thing that
she has done yet. 1t is marked by the
same charm in picturing Irish life which
distinguished The Light AboUe the Cross
roads, and it gives one of the two best ac-
counts of life in a German prison camp
that we have seen. The other was written
by man who had actually been pris-
oner, but Mrs. Richards mastery of "the
pen" is so great that she can make better
use of second hand information than most
people can of first hand.
This novel opens In Ireland, just before
the beginning of the war, and enough
romanees are developed in the opening
chapters to endure the stress of battle and
shades Of prison through which later
chapters are to lead us. Then Mrs Rick
ard does an unusually telling thing with
her hero. He is captured in reconnoi-
tring expedition before he sees battle,
which is surely the worst fate possible in
a soldiers eyes. From now on we are
subjected to the piecemeal treatment The
chapters alternate between England and
Germany and most Of them end at such a
high pitch of excitement that you feel
tempted to skip what comes next and get
back to where you were. You plunge on,
howevel, and when the end of the chapter
is reached find yourself quite as reluctant
about getting back to the old problem as
you were about leaving it. 1t is good for
e reader to be maddened, as Mrs Richard
and other clever novelists know. He may
rage and tear and wish to heaven that she
would stick to one thing or the other,
knowing ii the time that he wouldn't like
it half so well.
The chapters which deal with prison
life are the best in the book Here the
authors penetration into the large and
small Of human character and conduct is
red hot. The critics may talk and talk
shout the war being played out fctionally.
All that you need to do is to read a book
like The House Of Courage. Then you
will know that If never can be played out
so long as there are artists to handle it.
When Kennedy Gleeson makes his thrill
ing escape from the Husaren Kasernen
our minds have reached such peak of in
terest that it would be unfair perhaps to
expect them to continue so. We remain
faithful SO long as Kennedy is meeting
with people and has a chance to make use
of the well known bravado which renders
his sort SO ingratiating, but when Mrs.
Richard begins to plod with him step by
step, month after month, we begin to grow
weary and wish that we were not of the
party. Neither do we care to freeze to
death with them, or nearly so, having done
that too often. The exhaustion attendant
upon the slowly painful course Of events
gives an effect which life must envy this
author, and although it is hard to endure
at times it is compensated by the wildly
interesting turn that Kennedy's escape
takes toward the end.
THE HOUSE OF COURAGE. BY MIS-.
The sun., 1919-10-12

escaped before paying for them, leaving
The Lieutenant of the Tower to be sued for
their cost; and the very modern tale of
the American officer who was quartered in
the Tower for a week en- route to France
and who on being locked out of the Tower
spent the night in the guard room. As
he said, he had been "locked up like Lady
Jane Grey and all that lot in the old
Tower of London" The narrator adds
that ''it may perhaps be of interest to that
officer to learn that the last previous
American prisoner at the Tower of whom
there is record was Edward Grove, late of
Hampton, New England, who was com
mitted to the Tower on June 6, 1858, fo-
levying war against the King"
W. B. McC.
THE TOWER OF LONDON FROM
WITHIN. By MAJoR-GEN SIR GEoRsE
YoUNGHUsBAND, K. c., n. G. George 81.
Doran Company.