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New-York tribune., 1919-10-21

report the Red Cross was able to help
lo4,'o4 Italian children, 5O,554 of whom
were cared for in institutions.
me other activities of the Red Cross
IN italy included such important work
as the distribution Of cash to 326, 6,035
neeoy families Of Italian soldiers and
me operation during the Spanish in
nuenza epidemic of forty-eight relief
s:;a.lohs from which special foods were
oii, n VI soutea ana medical aid was given.
Oesplte the difficulties resulting
from the revolution, the Red Cross
continued its work in Russia until the
herman advance on Petrograd in 1918
forced an abandonment of its program
Prlor to that it furnished milk and
other supplies which saved the lives of
$4,000 babies
Activities in Siberia
Concerning Red Cross activities in
Siberia, the report saws: ''
AN appeal for help came from the
leaders Of the Szecho-Slovak troops
hghtlng in that district. Wounded
soldiers were pouring into Vladivostok,
with inadequate facilities available In
response the Red Cross sent repre-
sentatives to Siberia in June, 1918, and
rushed men and supplies from the
United States.
From this start the Red Cross work
In Siberia has rapidly expanded to
cover many phases of military and
civilian relief, wi.h a personnel of
nearly $50 Red Cross workers.
The huge area to be covered. ex-
tending for ALPS miles along the Trans
siberian Railway, the extreme cold and
the multiplicity of tongues and cur
rencles are factors making Red Cross
work in Siberia difficult.
Medical Service for Troops
"The medical service for the benefit
of American and Allied troops and
numerous refugees was probably the
most important work carried on bv the
Red Cross. 1t involved equipping and
operating hospitals and dispensaries.
the distribution Of drugs and other
medical supplies, the establishment
and operation of baths and disinfectinc
plants and the equipping and main
tenance of an anti-typhus sanitary
train.
THE Red Cross in Siberia has played
an important part in the fight against
typhus, equpping and operating along
the Trans-Siberian Railway complete
sanitary train made up of bath, boiler,
tank, sterilizing, dressing, hair-clip-
ping and other cars. This train,
manned by Red Cross workers, went
into infected districts applying modern
sanitary methods.
Other anti-typhus work included the
establishment Of an isolation hospital
in Vladivostok and the operation at
Ekaterinburg Of bathing and delous-
ing station, which up to February %,
1919, had given 10000 treatments"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-21
p Cities Put in Bids
For Man Held as Forger
Philadelphia Detectives Arrest
Thurber Packer, Who Saws
He's Descendant of Governor

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 20.-Thurber
A. Packer. said to be wanted in a num-
ber of states on charges of passing
worthless checks for thousands of dol
lars, was arrested here today, after a
search of nearly two years. by detec-
tives of the American Bankers Asso-
citation. He was taken into custody
aboard an incoming Pittsburgh train.
Packer said he came here to visit his
wife and children.
Wilkes-B Barre. Pa. is said to have the
first claim against the prisoner.
Packer, who is thirty-seven years
old, says he Is a descendent of William
+ Packer, Governor of Pennsy ylvania
from 1858 to 1861. Requests for his
apprehension have been received by the
local authorities from twentyseven
cities in this and other states.
Since that time the detectives say he
had led them a long chase through
several states.
Other cities where the prisoner is
said to oe wanted include Pittsburgh,
Scranton. Easton, Johnstown and Oil
City, Pa; Buffalo, Cortland, Ithaca
Geneva, Oswego, Syracuse and Auburn
N. Y; Memphis, Tenn; Kansas City
Mo-; Oakdale and Morgan City, Va;
Granada and Charleston, Miss; st. Al
bans, W Va, and Edenton, N. C.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-21
Defense at Anarchy
Trial Opens Its Case
Lawyer for Indicted Firms Says
He Will Show Brutality of
Police Third Degree

The defense in the case of Gus
Olenen and Carl Pavion, Firms, being
tried for criminal anarchy, opened its
case before Justice Weeks IN the Grim
inal Courts Building yesterday An
attempt to prove an alibi for Alonen
was the first move of Captain Swim
burne Hale, of counsel for the defend
ants. He put Armas Johnson, Finn,
on the stand. Johnson testified through
an interpreter. that he had met Alonen
in Philadelphia, off and on. during the
three weeks between March and rs
last. His testimony differs with that
Of Emil Kaama and Sven Kemp, Fin
nish printers, who told the jury that
both defendants during that period
had been calling frequently at their
Brooklyn shop for proofs and copies
of "Class Struggle" alleged anarchist
magazine, on which the indictments
were based.
Captain Hale told the court the de-
fence would show that certain admis-
sions had been "wrung from Alonen
by police brutality and by means of
what is commonly known as the third
degree"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-21

courses and wages for work. True re-
form can never be brought about until
people realize that the prisoner is the
logical outcome of wrong thinking and
must be looked upon as a patient, not
as a victim for punishment.
Men come out of prison and are
bounded and blacklisted They cannot
get jobs. l firmly believe the attitude
OF the public to the prisoner is Great
ing a class much more dangerous than
the Bolsheviki. Thousands of the
reds" are men with prison records,
who have been unable to get jobs Half
3 million men come out of jail every
wear In the last five years more than g
100000 have come out and the great
maj jority have been Disseminated
against in the matter of employment"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-21
And prices

below to-day's market
prices! But ) e g for
yourself
Blanket robes from
$3.50 to $23.17. includ-
ing tax.
House robes and dress
ing gowns from S14.37
to $49.03, including
tax.
N@gyI-Main Floor, s5th Street
New-York tribune., 1919-10-21
the robe

for short. We have a
complete line of men'a
blanket cloth robes,
house robes and dress
ing gowns of good
wear-giving fabrics in
good-looking designs
and desirable colors.
They are made accord
ing to our rigid speci-
fications-sufficient.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-21
Var Department Defends
Secret Serrice at Gar,
NetO 7 ork Tribune
Wnah.ir atom Burer7f

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2O-Replying to
the charge that military intelligence
officers in the Gary Ind) strike area
partmenr to-day made public the fol-
lowing report from Gary:
"The activities Of intelligence officers
have been entirely confined to the mill
tary area. All Of the activities had
been under the immediate direction of
General Wood. The department intel
ligence Office at Chicago had nothing to
do with the operations at Gary. Also,
there is no truth in the newspaper re-
ports in regard to intelligence activi-
ties
New-York tribune., 1919-10-21
Slip off
your boots

and slip on your slip
pers and comfort is
yours There are the
stylish kind of slippers
the kind you like to
be caught t wearing
when some one drops
IN unannounced, and
there, are the good old
comfy slippers.
Leather slippers in
black or tan, are s3.49
and $4.49.
Gray slippers are
S1.49. Not all sizes.
E@Cy3-Main Floor. Balcony.
35th Street.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-21
Relief In Belgium and Italy

Relief In Belgium and Italy
Belgian territory was almost entirely
in German hands until the end of the
war Yet the Red Cross managed to
reach the families of thousands of Bel
gian soldiers through various relief or
CARNATIONS. Eighty-two canteens were
conducted for the Belgian army, where
25 900 soldiers were served daily Colo
nies for refugee Belgian children were
In Italy Red Cross work began in
November, 1917, when the need of
American assistance, material and
moral was urgent. AS a result Of the
1917 offensive, the Italian army lost
100 hospitals and two main field maga-
zines Of medical supplies. Although
at this time the Red Cross had barely
commenced operations in Italy, the
seriousness of the situation was at
once appreciated, and large quantities
of gauze, cotton, drugs and other med
ical supplies and equipment were given
the Italian authorities. Within sixty
days 951 900 articles were distributed
including ten complete field hospitals
Thirty three canteens were operated
by the Red Cross in Italy for the bene-
fit Of Italian and Allied troops. The
extensive nature of this work is indi-
Gated by the fact that an average of
| l,400 900 men were served each month
| in the thirty-three canteens.
With the signing of the armstce the
service of the front-line canteens was
extended to thousands of Italian pris-
oners returning from Austria and Ger
many. To February 28, 1919, the Red
Cross had served 1,132,300 rations to
returning Italian prisoners.
| During the period covered by this
New-York tribune., 1919-10-21

MADRID, Oct. 2O.-Queen Victoria.
who did not accompany King Alfonso
on his journey to Paris last evening
because she was suffering from slight
cold, was improved in condition to-day.
It was stated she probably would leave
Madrid on Thursday to join the King
in London.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-21

vism could be joined with Senator
Shermans resolution charging the
commission with conspiracy and trea-
son, and that both resolutions could
be made the subject of an immediate
and complete examination by the SEN
ate Interstate Commerce Committee. :"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-21
1896 Children Cared For

In connection with the children's re-
lief work, the Red Cross operated
twenty-five hospitals, which cared for
16,346 little patients. In addition, it
established canteens to remedy condi-
tions of undernourishment among the
young, and fed in these institutions
more than $4,000 children. Further
more, it's clinics and dispensaries pro-
vided medicine and treatment for
1911, and at seven child welfare ex-
positions it demonstrated methods of
work along that line for the benefit Of
625, 900 visitors.
The s623,746 spent in aiding disabled
French war veterans provided instruc-
tion in farming and employment at
making artificial faces and limbs for
several thousand. Nearly $1,000 re-
ceived financial assistance, in addition
to the 1852 families which were found
to be in desperate need and helped in
a similar manner.
The Red Cross, the report also shows,
expended s63 3,84O6 elsewhere in Eu-
ropo nc fo11OUc.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-21
Millions Spent
By Red Cross
TO Aid Europe
Relief in FrSnce Alone for
u. S. Forces sd Refu-
gees $685. ,729, Re-
port of Council Reveals
$63,84O,655 Elsewhere
Activities Extended From
Italy to Siberia in Twenty
Months Ended Feb. %

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2o.--For welfare
and relief work in France the Amer
lean Red Cross expended S56,595, ,72e
during the twenty months which ended
February %, 1919. This fund was ex-
pended not alone for the benefit of the
men of the American expeditionary
forces, but for French soldiers, French
refugees and the care of orphaned or
otherwise dependent children.
According to the third chapter of the
general report Of the Red Cross war
council. which was made public to-
day by authority of the chairman.
Henry P. Dawson, the total is ac-
counted for as follows:
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Former WaShburn
Man Meets Death
In Montana
Alvin N. Aiberg Suffocated in Well
at Medicine Lake,
Montana

Alvin N. Alberg was suffocated in a
we'll at Medicine Lake, Sheridan Co.,
Montana, July 25th. A telegram to
this effect came to Mrs. John Samuel
son, Of Underwood, Saturday. Mrs.
Sanluelson is sister of the de-
ceased.
Mr.. Alberg was born at Henning,
Minnesota, July 21, 1884 and came
with his parents to Washburn in 1901.
They purchased a farm four miles
north of town, which was long known
as he Nels Alberg place, but is now
owned by Fred Mettler. The Alberg
family lived there for number of
years. Eddie Alberg died in Colorado
few years ago, from tuberculosis.
November %, 1905, Alvin Alberg
was married to Emily Nelson daughter
of Nels Nelson Of Coleharbor :, They
moved to Fargo where Mr.. Alberg
went into the contracting business.
Later they moved to- Sheridan Co.,
Mont, three Children came to the home
Ruby, Ernest and Kermit, and they
with their Mother must experience the
loss of the father and husband. 's|.i
1GTh body was brought back to Cole
;harbor and inferred in the cemetery
near the Dave, Carlson farm. The
funeral service was cond1ctsd by Z.
n. Rureum and emusic Mas rendered
by the mixed alartette from colehar.
Dor Presbyterian Church: The sym
pathy otall the old acquaintancss.and
friends *is extended 70 the family and
relatives IN 81 !! their hear pf beresys J,
mont .3's. t', .$.. 4: e All 1:S
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WRITES FROM CHICAGO
The Palmer House, Chicago, ILL.,,
July 28th, 1919.

The Palmer House, Chicago, Ill.,,
July 28th, 1919.
Editor, Washburn Leader.
Your readers will be interested in
hearing a word from the meeting of
the RETAILERS COMMERCIAL UN-
ION, which is now in session here.
Many floors in this hotel are occupied
by exhibits of the manufacturers
and the showing of the fall and winter
apparel, as we'll as many other items
for immediate use, prompts me to say
to you that I feel we'll repaid in COM
ing to Chicago and viewing, as well
as purchasing, our fall and winter
merchandise.
This convention is largely attended
in fact I consider it the largest ever
held The majority of our now near
ly7OO members and a great majority
of their department buyers are here
selecting the garments that will: be
shown III thsif pggtivg K6fiis
this fall and winter.
Quantity buying and buying direct
from the manufacturer is the only log
ical means Of buying right and selling
right. Being a member of the R. c. U
organization, our store is favored with
the privilege of meeting with the
manufacturer, examining the new
styles before they are really offered
to the average local dealer. For it
takes from three to six weeks for the
manufacturer to get his samples styles
ETC., through the joDber or whole
saler and then to the dealer. Our
quantity buying means this: that we
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Lucy Anderson
Passed Away
Last Saturday
After Lingering Illness, Succumbs
Hemorrhage Of the Lungs
Cause Of Death

Lucy Anderson passed away Satur-
day July 26th, 1919 at her home in
this city, death resulting from hemor-
rage Of the lungs.
The deceased was born June 11th,
1888. on a farm 4 miles east of Wash
burn. where she lived with her parents
until the age of sixteen, her parents
then having sold the farm and moving
to Wasburn where they have since
made their home.
About seven years ago she was af-
flicted with tuberculosis of the hip an
was confined to her bed for over a
gained her strength. The disease then
went to her lungs and she was sent
to the sanitarium at Dunseth, N. Dak.,
and remained at that institution for
several months with but little i'm
provement and later returning home
where she gradually failed until her
death which occurred last Saturday.
She leaves to mourn her death her
Mother, three brothers and one sister
! Magnus who lives in Cuba, John of
| Elbowoods, N. D.. Oscar, who is in the
| navy and Annie who is working at
Anamoose. n d., her father having
| preceded her in death March 26, 1919.
Funeral services were held from the
home Sunday afternoon at 4 O'Clock,
Rev. Pengelly OF Of Anamoose officiat-
ing, interment being made in the Riv-
crview cemetery
During her long illness she was ever
patient and accomplishing and had
many friends who regret to hear OF
her sudden death. The heartfelt sym
pathy of the community goes out to
the family in their hour of sorrow.
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Ignite Mines
Claim Burdens
To Be RuinouS
Compensation Fund Assessments
Out Of Reason, AiIege VIII
iiston Producers

Lignite producers are threatening
to shove the retail price of coal up a
dollar because of the burden placed
on them by the workmen's compen-
sation act, the excess profits tax, cor
poration excise law and other revenue
measurers passed by the sixteenth as
sembly.
The Williston Coal & Ice Co., en-
ploying 20 to Is miners, has been as
sessed $1,S69 by the workmen,s COM
pensation fund This tax is declared
excessive and more than mine oper'
ators can bear by J. A. Hussbye, Pres
ldent of the company. N. B. Ludlow
ese, President of, the Back Diamond
Coal Co. at Williston, has declared
the tax exorbitant and has asserted
that he will refuse to pay. 1t is said
that the Washburn Ignite Co. of
Wilton, the largest coal mining COM
pany in the state has been asked to
contribute $4,000 per annum to the
workmen's compensation fund.
In addition to the various other
items of expense, ignite mines claim
+b,+ tho now mino incnection hill
framed after similar statutes In ef
feet in Illinois and other coal produ
cling states, imposes a heavy burden
on them.
"Lignite now is selling at five dol
lars in Bismarck. l don't see how
we're going to get out from under
for less than six this winter" said
one central North Dakota producer
today. "It's bad enough to have tc
boost the retail price tweny per cent
tssa the feature
were getting lignite coal up to q
price where we can't compete with the
Wyoming and Montana product. wy
oming soon will be in a position tc
ship coal to the mouth of our mine
cheaper than we can produce it. Thai
will mean the end of the Ignite in
dustry in North Dakota, and our big
gest natural resource, which we have
lust began to make something OF
will relapse. .''-Bismarck Tribune.
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employment but the act itself refers
and it gives to the word hazardous a
meaning which is new, novel and un-
known to the English language. Ac-
cording to Webster, hazardous means
filled with hazard, full of risk; hazard
Gus employment is one Of which is un-
usually dangerous; but as these words
are used and defined by the act "haz.
ardOus employment means any en-
ployment in which one or more en-
ployees are regularly employed in the
same business or establishment, ex-
cept in agriculture, domestic service
and steam railroads." 1t seams agri
culture, domestic service and steam
railroads are not hazardous, and so
they are excepted from the operation
of this act. Under the statute the
employment of chambermaids, wait.
resses in hotel or restaurant or that
a girl in store is hazardous, while
there is no hazard in domestic service
or in agriculture. Thus by giving to
the word hazardous an outlandish
ridiculous and absurd meaning. farm
ing and every agricultural pursuit is
exempt from the operation of this act
and it is made an act for towns and
city folks only. Such a meanig Is
not indicated by the title and so the
title does not express the object OF
the act. Indeed, the title is actually
misleading and deceptive.
OF course these are matters on
which it is possible for the judges tc
differ, but they seem to indicate that
the bureau should go slow in trying
; to put the act into operation or tC
make any expenses under it until the
supreme court has passed on the con
stitutional validity Of the act and the
big, unpublished cumbersome ant
drastic rate schedule.
JAMES z. ROBINSON.
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The following is taken from the Red
Cross Bulletin published at Washin:
ton, d. G.. the Dr. Cain spoken of is
Our own" DR.. Cain of Underwood.
Y. D.. who left early this spring t
take up Red Cross work in Siberia.
Colonel R. B. Teustler. head Of the
Red Cross Commission for Siberia, is
at present in this country, at Nj
Headquarters, in consultation regard
ing the future policy Of the Red Cross
in Siberia. Colonel Teusle! calls at.
tcntion to the almost fatalist!c role
played by the tr"ns-Sibe:ian railway
in American activities in Russia. in
that tho taking over OF tais .nu"r
talkeG-of bit of track for American
engineers made it possible for Ameri
can troops to remain
cision upon which, in turn. hin""'
country, as the possible withdrawal OF
American troops meant the virtual
end of Red Cross work.
Immediately upon this Important de-
cision in the government policy, In
tensive Red Cross organization went
forward Additional personnel was
requested by cable and the needed in
stallation and service were established
The head office Of the Commission is
in Vladivostok and two large Red
Cross hospitals are maintained in the
port city, necessitaung the maintcn-
ance of personnel of at least one
hundred doctors, nurses, aides. etc, in
connection with the hospitals alone, as
vel as a large warehouse. and garage
staff to handle the great amount of
freight constantly received and dis
tributed along the 1000 miles of the
great inland railway.
A new hospital is in operation at
Irkutsk, while early last May LOO
bed hospital was established at
Tchelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains
which has become one of the impOr-
tant military base hospitals support
ing the All-Rusian Government forces.
In addition to these, there is a 1000
bed hospital at Omsk. the capital of
the Kolchak government. and good
sized hospital atTumen and at Petro-
pavlovsk, the last typhus hospital.
turned over to the Russian authorities
when the epidemic subsided in the
early summer. The commission also
took over, in April last, the University
Clinic at Tomsk, now being run as a
2Oo.bed hospital under the Red Cross.
Last February. at the special ore'
quest Of tho mayor Of Novonikolaevsh
hospital was established in the
headquarters Of the. Commercial Club,
theh best building in the city; TO take
care Of the severe epidemic rofaty typhus
in that region. The matter. Of equip
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ment and installation was placed IN
the hands of three Red Cross women
assisted By the American
consul volunteer worker.
In Tokyo. the Siberian Commission
maintains a base hospital service at
st. Luke's International Hospital an
institution maintained by the Board or
Foreign Missions Of the Episcopal
Church, of which Colonel Teusler is
also director.
In combating the ever present men
ace Of typhus. the installing OF bath
ing facilities and disinfecting stations
at many points along the railway, not
ably the one at Ekaterinburg. one or
the western termini, just across the
Asia site frontier, was one of the most
important undertakings. During the
month Of April last, 5000 people were
bathed and their cothing disinfected
New undergarments were supplied
wherever necessary.
specially equipped "typhus train
which has travelled the length OF the
trans Siberian as far as the Urals, max
ing several side trips to touch affected
localities, was sent out last January.
This train was financed by funds sup
piled by the Inter-allied Sanitary
Commission and managed by the Red
Cross. At the present moment it is
completely under the direction OF the
Red Cross and is operating on the
Perm front. In February, special
mission consisting 'of Maj. Geo. w.
Simmons and Maj Kendall Emerson,
u. S. A., accompanied Colonel Teusler
on complete survey of the work now
carried on in Siberia
In addition to the medical work,
extensive relief work has been done
among the refugees and war victims
all along the route of the rail road,
and special work has been done a
mong the civilian population through
ont Siberia and Eastern Russia, with
particular attention to the employees
of the Siberian railroad and their fam
lilies. The mission went as far as
Perm, a city of $4,000 inhabitants in
Eastern European Russia, and from
there drove one hundred miles further
west to the fighting line. From this
vantage point it was possible to wit
ness the recent evidences Of Bolshevik
misrule in those parts of European
Russia from which the Bolsheviki had
Just been driven, and to study the Or
ganization and methods Of the Siber-
ian forces there encamped. Through
out this trip. the members Of the Red
Cross Mission were deeply impressed
by the desperate needs OF tho Russian
soldiers as well as by the desolattons
lett in the wake Of the retreatine Boil
sheviki: s~':.' " : =. %as.. ..% ...%
Last summer, in response to, an ap--s
peal from the Czecho- -Sloyak National
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