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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-03-20

John Aggarn, Of Rogers, was in the
city today He was a caller at the
Times Record office and boosted along
his subscription for another year.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-03-20

Mr.. and Mrs. J. j. Farley arrived
home this morning from a three weeks
trip down east. At
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-03-20
From Saturdays Daily

P. Longfellow was down from VIM
bledon yesterday.
P. F. Pickett and family came down
from Leal last night.
w. L. Noltimier came down from
Oriska yesterday and was looking aft
er business in the city.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
STATE IN PROBE
OF HIGH RENTS
New York Assembly Passes
Bill to Punish Rent
Prohteers.

Albany, April ia Statewide probe
into rent profiteering has been author
lied by the passage today in the as
sembly OF Senator Abeles' bill Great
ing a rent Investigating committee.
The bill had already received favorable
action in the senate.
The best way to deal with the
situation would be to adopt the meth
cd practiced not long ago in Ireland
take a pot shot at the profiteering
landlords" said Assemblyman Martin
@. McCue, Democrat. of New York,
during the debate on the measure.
The Adele bill empowers mayors OF
cities to appoint rent profiteering COM
missions to investigate fully conditions
complained of by tenants. In New York
City. where conditions are described
as the worst, Mayor Hylan has al
ready prepared for remedial action by
appointing a mayors committee to in
vestigate conditions.
The Abeles bill will give such a COM
mittee State authority and increased
powers. Landlords are to be given a
hearing as well as complaining ten
ants whose rents have been raised
beyond reason And landlords who
fail to respond to invitations to attend
hearings will be summarily hailed be-
fore the commissions by subpoenas.
Chairman Collins. of the board OF
aldermen's welfare committee. which
is also starting an investigation into
the causes leading to rent profiteering.
said today that legislation will prob
ably be recommended limiting rentals
at 10 or Is per cent on property values.
Or. should that be unconstitutional.
some equally drastic restraining laws
to protect poor tenants.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
DELAY IN PEACE
NO BAR TO HUNS
IS Alien Enemies to Sail
For u. S. Ports in
Three Weeks.

Although the peace treaty has not
yet been signed, sixty-five alien en-
emies-fresh from German soil
will be bound for American ports
within the next three weeks. The
saving feature of their journey.
however, is that none of them will
be allowed to land-unless insane.
In explaining the reported at
tempt of Julius Fischer. an agent of
the Hamburg American Steamship
Line, to set fire to a stateroom OF
tho transport Patricia, carrying
5000 American soldiers to Boston
the Navy Department yesterday
made the above statement.
Acting Secretary of the Navy
Roosevelt said that Fischer was
taken for observation to the naval
hospital at Chelsea. He is believed
to be insane. and the presumption
that he is demented was the only
thing that permitted his leaving the
vessel.
The Patricia is one of the thirteer
German steamships which the United
States has taken over, and Fischer
together with four comrades, made
the journey in order to explain all
details of the vessel to it's strange
crew. The twelve other ships will
likewise carry parties of five Ger.
mans each, but upon reaching Amer
lean ports the men will be confined
strictly to the ships.
Fischer set fire to his stateroom by
manipulating electric wires. The fire
was soon discovered, however. ant
extinguished, and he was placed ir
custody. Germans on the future com.
mandeered liners, though, will b,
kept under strict surveillance at all
! times as a precautionary measure.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
OPPOSE PARDON
FOR PRISONERS
Malone's Political AM
nesty" Meeting Answered
By Officials.

Dudley Field Malone's declaration a;
Thursdays mass meeting that the
government should grant general am
nesty 10 all so-called political prison
ers' was answered at the Department
of Justice by officials yesterday with
the statement that Attorney General
Palmer's utterances concerning the
conviction of Eugene V. Debs held
good as far as the great majority OF
persons convicted under the espionage
act was concerned.
The statement was made during
Thursdays meeting that more than
loo persons, who came within the
category of political prisoners" were
either in Jail or awaiting trial. At tho
department, however. il was said the
number was about 900. and that re-
quests for executive clemcncy had
been made on behalf of more thar
fifty, but that action would not be
forthcoming until the return of the
President
Government authorities. it was as
serted. are in no mood to turn loose
800 men and women. many of whom
were sent to prison for deCrying the
efforts of their government in the
war. for attempting to SOW the seeds
of discomfort and thwart the draft
law. Furthermore, the spectacle OF
more than 800 prisoners. the majority
unrepentant, leaving prisons would
certainly not augur for future obedi-
ence of the law, il was pointed out.
Clemency is being recommended
only in those cases where investiga-
tion has revealed the convicted person
to at least be sorry for his actions,
and likewise where it was deemed mis-
actions were the result of over-zeal-
BUSINESS.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
MARTIAL Law
IN HUN CAPITAL
100000 Workers Out
Scores Wounded in Riots.
Stores Closed.

Copenhagen. April 1S.-Berlin has
been declared in a state of siege as
a result of the general strike there.
dispatches from that city reported
today.
Scores have been wounded in
street fighting there. The strike is
spreading at an alarming rate. Two
hundred thousand workers are out
and $4,000 stores. warehouses. offices
and banks are closed.
In Munich, the Bavarian capital,
the communists are reported to have
regained power.
In the harbor towns a general
strike of dock workers has been
proclaimed. the men refusing to un-
load American food ships. Fifty
persons were killed in a munitions
factory explosion at Kiel.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
YANK To OFFER
PROOF OF VAL0R
Capt. Chamberlain Says He
Landed Behind Hun Lines.
J Captured Prisoner.

Paris. April ls.-The defense in
the trial of Capt. Edmund Chamber
lain. American, charged with OBJ
tanning the Distinguished Service
Cross by fraud. was to call several
witnesses today to prove that during
his alleged aerial exploits on the
British front he brought in a
German prisoner and a wounded
Frenchman after landing behind the
enemy lines
Yesterdays session was favorable
to the defense. Lieut.. Com. Fred.
erick Allen, a special investigator
submitted a report bearing out
Chamberlain's claim to having made
a new Official flight.
While in company with Chamberlain
Allen said he met a British officer
named Maxwell who, confronting
Chamberlain. declared: You are tho
man who stole my machine" 1t de.
veloped, according to Alien, that Brit,
ish officers were unwilling TO max,
.sdnlsssions REGARDING the fiisfs- Far
ing court-plartid
The defense offered to show thai
Chamberlain made unofficial flightt
July q and Is, 1917. and that he did
not know about the time of the al
legged British reports of his exploits
The defense claimed the reports were
substantially correct. and that Cham.
berlain sought no publicity or glory.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
COP APPROVES DEATH
OF SON, MURDERER
Boy Alleged to Have Killed 70-Year
Old Druggist.

Chicago, April 1S.-''The man who
did that job ought to hang" said
Policeman Patrick d. Ryan. vet
eran of the force. when he read of
the shooting early today of Emil
A. zahn. 7o-year-old druggist.
whether it was my own boy or
not. they ought to hang him." he
repeated when. later in the day. he
was told his 19-year-old san. Daniel
Ryan. had confessed to shooting the
man who resisted the young bandit
in an attempted hold-up.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19

. Boston. April 1s.-Twenty thousand
telephone employees OF five New Eng
land States are son strike today.
A week age the public heard of the
impending strike. talked OF its novel
possibilities and thereupon decided
such state Of affairs could not pos
sibly exist for more than twenty-four
hours at the most. The strike is now
in its fourth day. There are no prom
ising, signs OF an early settlement.
The Industrial and social life of five
States has been seriously disrupted
more than 10000 telephones are out of
commission: the loss to business inter-
ests is daily amounting to hundreds
of thousands of dollars and the peo-
pie are facing emergencies in which.
under normal conditions. the telephone
plays the leading part.
Yet despite the tremendous incon-
vcnience to which the public has
been subjected. the financial loss and
the personal anxiety. there is every
indication that the public SYM
rathizes with the striking telephone
workers.
The strike is an effort on the part
of organized labor to gain higher
wages. Several months ago the
Telephone Operators Union SUBJ
mitted to the authorities a wage
schedule providing for a minimum
of $40 a week and a maximum of
s22 at the end of four years serv-
ice. Their present wages start at
Sc a week and reach a maximum of
SIC in seven years.
Result of Months of Effort.
The situation tonight is the re-
suit OF months of effort by the teIe-
phone employees to get considera-
tion of their wage schedules, which
CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19


Berlin, April 1s.-Peace seems to ap-
proach more quickly than was ex-
pected- As a consequence, prepara-
tions for the negotiations are being
intensified. Former Ambassador
Count Won Bernstorff has been charg-
ed with the direction of the internal
preparations for the peace work. The
people have come to the belief that
this is not the time to criticize the
selection of our peace plenipoten-
tiaries. Besides the main question is
not who they are, but what awaits
them at Paris.
Demand Prisoners' Return.
The government might do well to
ascertain this beforehand. For the
people want to know prior to the
departure of these gentlemen
whether they will be invited to the
negotiations or whether the entente
will simply submit to them fixed
and written peace treaty. II the
latter is the case it would be better
not to expose German representa-
tives to such a situation. One mes
senger would suffice to fetch the
document. or better still. the treaty
could be telegraphed.
There is another question which
must be definitely cleared up prior
to any new negotiations with the
entente. 1t is the return of the
German prisoners of war. without
this peace is certainly impossible,
as far as Germany is concerned.
and this fact the entente should be
informed of in good season.
The entente will be unable to escape
the weight of such a demand. 1t may
be open to question whether 1t was
politically wise to allow the German
supreme army command to continue
officially, but in any case even when
all prisoners have been repatriated
the entente has nothing to fear in
military respects.
omcial and semi-officiaI news filter
ing through from Paris and London
has made the Germans reckon with
the possibility that the allies may so
beyohs: E,ne Wilsonian principles. 1t
has been repeatedly stated Of late
that such a procedure would be unac-
ceptable as far as Germany is con-
cerned.
In the face of certain national and
economic annihilation. the decision to
reject the allied terms seems to Ger
man officials not only possible, but Is
considered in some quarters as the
logical course of action.
The entente rulers will not find 1t
easy to continue hostilities in case
they go too far in their demands. 1t is
predicted. And a further cutting off
of the absolutely necessary foodstuffs
would bring about a political situation
in the fatherland which would take
the decision out of our hands as to
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
Want Teeth
IN DRY Law
Urge Congress to Fix
Amount of Alcohol Nee
essary to lntoxicate.

Drys are relying on Congress to
settle at one stroke the question of
who will enforce both wartime and
constitutional prohibition, Z. c. Dun
widdie, head of the Anti-Saloon
League Of America, announced yes
terday.
Dunwiddie said his organization
very early in the coming session
would urge enactment of a bill to put
enforcement of both brands of pro-
hibition in the hands of the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue
Il am confident that Congress will
provide amply for prohibition ell
forcement." said Mr.. Dinwiddie.
Want BarkIey Bill.
The Barkley bill. which Anti-Saloon
League officials helped frame, pro-
vides for prohibition enforcement
through both the Treasury Depart
ment and the Department of Justice.
but the principal burden is put on
law enforcement commissioner"
to be appointed by the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue with consent of
the Secretary of the Treasury.
|. The bill also defines intoxicating
liquor as that containing more than
one-half of l per cent Of alcohol.
The favorable report on the
measure, which Dinwiddie pointed
out would have to be amplified be-
fore it was re-introduced. was
made by Representative Volstead. OF
Minnesota, who will be chairman OF
the next House Judiciary Committee
and will have charge of prohibition
legislation
Dinwiddie also declared that the
Anti-Saloon League plans to ask
Legislation preventing the sale OF
books and pamphlets giving recipes
for intoxicating liquors.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
AMERICAN MURDERED
BY MEXICAN BANDITS
Edward Dufourcq. Copper Com
pany Official, Is Victim.

New York. April 1s.-Edward L.
Dufourcq. a member of the firm Of
Dufourcq and Company. New York,
and assistant general manager OF
the Taziutian Copper Company. was
murdered by Mexican bandits early
this week. according TO telegraph
reports received by the company to-
day.
Dufourcq's body was found be-
tween the town of Teziutlan and
the company's mines. several miles
away from the city. According to
incomplete reports. DufourcQ and
his chief clerk. NJ Gaizman. were
on their way to the mines in an au-
tomobile when attacked. Gaizman
was seriously injured. Dufourco
has been in Mexico the past few
years. His wife. Mrs. Efie Mason
Dufourcq and daughter arrived in
New York last Monday.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
FIGHTING CONTINUES
FOR CITY OF MUNICH
Government Troops Alleged te
Have Joined Socialist Forces.

Berlin, April 1S.-Desperate fight
ing continues for possession Of
Munich, according to dispatches re-
ceived here late today.
Several regiments of government
troops were reported to have join
cd the Socialists forces outside the
city, which are making preparations
for grand assault. The COM
munists defenders, while maintain
ing their artillery fire. are erecting
barricades and barbed wire entan-
clements in the principal streets en-
tering the town Plundering is
said to have got beyond control
of the communist guards.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY

American troops fight with British against Hun armies
regiments from six German divisions make unsuccessful
attack in the Gwenchy-St Venant sector.
French soldiers battle ercey against enemy in the Han
gard district village changing hands several times during
the day. evening finding the streets strewn with dead
Italian troops arrive in France and aid in the allied
tack to hold back the terrible German drive
Rheims nothing but pile of smoking ruins. Ger
still firing shells into the stricken city, ruhlessy de-
moshns what remains of the homes churches and business
places.
Victory Bonds Pay Our War Debt.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
BIG VOTE OFFER
ENDS TONIGHT
Candidates in Close Race
For Home. Make Re-
doubled Effort.

When the clock strikes II o'clock
tonight the best remaining vote
offer in the Salesmanship Club cam
psign will have passed into history
and many OF the candidates will
have benefited by thousands OF extra
votes by taking advantage of this
last Big offer te iscrease their
standing and bring them nearer to
the $1,000 home.
This week has been an unusually
active one for the candidates in the
club who are seeking high honors.
A large number Of subscriptions
have been reported and the pub
lished list shows the result OF much
activity throughout each of the ten
districts.
Can Mall SubscriptIons.
Candidates who live a distance
from the office. who are unable to
call with their subscriptions tonight,
can place them in the mail. but the
envelopes containing these SUBJ
scriptions must bear a postmark be-
fore IL p. m.
Any OF the candidates who are in
the Office at IL o'clock tonight will
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The Washington herald., 1919-04-19

whether, in the last back-to-the-wal
battle, the Germans would have to
unloose the powers of the worlds
most terrible upheaval.
Fourteen Points As Basis.
However. If the entente nations are
still willing to make peace on the
basis of the fourteen points of Presi-
dent Wilson, which were accepted
even in that case the German ennis
saries will have their own interpreta-
ton of those points.
As regards Belgium. Germany is
ready for far-reaching reparation.
They are ready for disarmament also
The bulk of the people Is anxious
to renounce militarism forever. but
the pre-condition for this must be.
of course. an equal conversion to per-
manent peace on the part of the en-
tente.
Among other concessions which the
enemy Is ready to make is the grant
ing of the right of self-determina-
ton in its widest sense to the foreign
language elements In the German EN-
pire.
The German armistice commission
has been frequently accused of weak
ness. But its guiding political idea
had to be, on the one hand, to yield
to the utmost limit, and on the other
hand to refuse to accept the impos-
sibIe I'm the definite fixing of the fu-
ture.
Armisticc Terms Temporary.
The armistice agreements bore in
themselves the character, not of per-
manency. but of something Temporal
ry. The allies, therefore, would
make a mistake IL they deduced from
the German attitude in the armis-
tice negotiations any conclusions as
to the German position toward deti-
mite peace.
There is no one in Germany au-
thorized to burden the people with
duties and penalties for an indefinite
time beyond the basic points OF Pres
ident Wilson. Only The whole nation
as such could take such a decision.
The national assembly was elected
to create the new constitution of the
German realm, and to restore peace.
The assembly, therefore, Is the I'M
mediate authority to conclude peace.
But the assembly has by no
means the mandate from the Ger
man people to conclude any sort of
peace II it wers- to make. peace
in contraventionI with the armistice
basis-which was an international
agreement on the basic principles
of peace-it would act against the
will of the people.
If the delegates are called on
to accept terms going beyond the
Wilsonian principles. then the gov
ernment would have to declare IT.
self incompetent to continue the
negotiations. 1t would have to no.
tify the national assembly to that
effect. and that body could either
reject the entente terms or submit
them to a national German vote.
Then the people themselves must
decide it's fate. 1t might be well
If the entente were Officially in
formed of these facts.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
Put Plaster on Pupils
Mouths; Teacher Fired

Mahonoy City. Pa, April 1s-May
Norton, public school teacher. was
dismissed by the board of education
today for sticking adhesive plaster
over pupils mouths to prevent them
from whispering.
She is said also to have removed
the plasters by wetting them with
saliva from her own mouth.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
Man Electocutes Self.

Parma, Italy. April 1S.-Dante Rae
moi. a cab driver, chose an unique
way to commit suicide. He wound a
steel wire around his legs and threw
the other end over a trolley wire.
TIe was electrocuted.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
10 Killed in Explosion.

Naples April B.-Nineteen persons
were killed and twenty-five injured
when car laden with naptha ex-
ploded in the port freight station
here. Most Of the victims were Aus
trian war prisoners. Many build
ings were damaged.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
B. R. T. Co. Income
Short by $40, 900, 900

New York, April iS-The Brooklyn
Transit Company's present income is
not sufficient by se0.0oo.o 900 TO bring the
service to a state of efficiency. ac-
cording to Idndley NJ. Garrison. re-
ceiver of the bankrupt company In q
statement issued today.
He placed the responsibility for the
deficiency largely at the door OF the
heavy increase in the woriCmen's pay.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
Coal Lack Halls Troops.

Basle, April 1s.-Three thousand
Polish troops, bound from France to
Poland on German railways. are
held up in Frankfort because the
railways lack coal. according to a
dispatch received here today.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
Puts Ban on Passports to u. s.

press has instructed the police to
deliver no passports to emigrants
sailing for the United States by way
of Bordeaux owing to irregular sail
ings, it was announced today.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19

Boston, April IS. - Demo-
cratic Representative James A.
Callivan. speaking at a meet
ing of striking telephone op-
orators here today, bitterly
arraigned Postmaster General
Burleson for his attitude to-
ward the telephone employees.
He declared Burleson is
slipping in Washington, had
slipped in Massachusetts," and
urged the girls not to quit the
strike.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
Capt. Rule Resting Easily.

Knoxville, Tenn, April 1s.-Capt.
William Rule. nestor of Tennessee
journalism. and editor of the Knox
vile Journal and Tribune. is resting
easily today. following an operation.
Capt. Rule is 81 years of age.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
so Million in Rail Deal.

Los Angeles. Cal. April 1s.-William
Gillespie, Toronto, Ont, capitalist, is
in Los Angeles today en- route to
China where he plans to complete
contracts for the construction Of s5o,-
100000 worth of railway lines.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
Germans Will Fight Again
Before They Accept Peace
At Any Price, Baron Says

Former Secretary of Legation Here Declares
Enemy Willing to Indemnify Belgium and
Grant Autonomy to Small Nations-Wil-
sons Fourteen Points Accepted AS Basis
For Peace Pact.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
Peters Thinks Chief Oh
stacle to Early Settle
ment Is Determination of
Strikers to Refuse the
Suggestion to Return to
Work Pending Adjust +
ments of Their Demands
By Officials of the New
England Telephone Co.

After a series of conferences with
retary Tumulty yesterday, Mayor
Peters, of Boston, who was here try
ing to effect a settlement Of the New
England telephone strike, is under
stood to have left Washington OIL the
Federal Express to meet representa-
tives of the strikers at his Office today.
Neither Peters, Burleson or Tumulty
would comment on what took place
during their talk, but Peters said he
hoped that some proposition, accept
able to the striking telephone work
ers, would soon be framed.
Peters said the chief obstacle to an
understanding seemed to be the deter
mination of the strikers to refuse the
suggestion to return to work pend
ing adjustments Of their demands by
officials of the New England TeIe-
phone Company and postofice onit
cisis. y a ~
Takes Message Back. =
II am taking a message to the
strikers from Burleson." said Peters.
The Boston mayor declined toindi-
cate the nature of the message.
Postofficc officials at Burleson's
office had no knowledge of the tele-
gram of Gov. Coolidge asking that
the State be allowed to take over
the telephone systems.
They indicated, however, that
there would be a reply as soon as
the telegram was received.
At the Postofflce Department late
yesterday nothing was known of a
report from Boston that a repre-
sentative of the Wire Control
Board would leave for Boston last
night.
Burleson Message Not Helpful.
Burleson's message to the strikers
has more to do with methods of ad-
justment and with the Postmaster
Generals attitude toward the strikers
demands. Peters indicated.
The strike was officially in the hands
of the Wire Control Board. although
the striking operators still refused
to submit their demands through Cen
eral Manager Driver.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
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