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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-03-12

Torrential rAins accompanied the
storm at Melvn- The storm area
seemed TO center there and extended
for n radius Of Is miles on all
sides
Water and wind claimed victims
there. Some OF the victims were
school children In tho families Of
william and Rand Box. brothers
Dismissed from school they were
playing on the banks Of Turkey
creek when cngulfed suddenly In the
rush Of storm waters
Ridgcway Mankey was hurled
about 1000 feet thru the air. When
he opened his eyes no saw his
brother william struggling in the
flood waters, but was too weak TO
save him.
Other dead Mt Mefva, which wns
almost wiped out, were: Mrs. Ava
Howard and a sman child. Nearby
on a farm at Branson. William Jack
son lost his life.
John Gross and his wife were
Of Branson and no trace has been
found of man. woman or house.
Reported killed In the Nevada tor
nado were; Rex Piersall. Harry
Brewer and William Rothwell- Prop
erty damage there was heavy.
Much property also was damaged
In these fancy county towns:
Forsythe. Taneyville. Kirbyville
and Mildred. all tourist camping
grounds In the White River country.
made famous by Harold Bell
Wright's story. THE Shepherd of
the Hills"
Rising watew in Lake fancy Como
threatened the power dam which do
velops electric current for Southwest
Missouri
A special train took the Mefva
dead and injured TO Branson.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-03-12

According 10 IN Indian custom,
ms first thing an Indian mother
sses or sRys after her child u born
may b chosen ~ ths infants ANNA.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-03-12

Among $4,000 soldiers, sailors
and marines during the World War.
there developed in one year approx
mately 10000 cases Of tuberculosis.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-03-12

70 aaGs. l,sss artificial Dess and
70l artificial arms have been sup
piled 70 wounded aDldssfp Of the
4 nited 0tAanA
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-03-12
French Will Ask
u. S. Explanation

PARIS. March 12.-The French
government probably will ask fur
Their explanation OF charges made By
President Wilson in his letter to San-
ator Hitchcock that the militaristic
party in France In In tho ascendancy.
It was reported here today. Any pro
test that France may make, tho
Newspaper L'Intransigeant said. win
be unofficial
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-03-12

Mrs. Marie Chm Wore Oosoer riohp e being held for
to Davd Wong Chinese restaurant keeper of Bin0haton
NJ Y, for $780, Wong upper IfD and tho girl we're mar
7ied some time ago. Annals maiden MichdeLson,
and she Is spposed to hove been adopted from the ~
Foundnos Home, rust after her birth The mother claims
she forced to sell the girl by Chinese secret oroanisa
ton
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-03-12

II . man doesn't wind up hin bad
habits his health win soon run down.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-03-12

For Colds, Grip az InfluesA
And as a preventtve: take LAxA-
TIVE BROMo QUININE Tabists.
on tho box ace.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-03-12
TORNADOES KILL !.
SEVEN PERSONS
-Four Zones In Missouri Are
Swept by Storms

SPRINGFIELD, Mo, March
1f.--Tornadoes In the past ~
hours have taken . toll Of seven
lives In Southwest kllssourk
Many persons were injured A
few are missing.
The deash-deaIine wind seruek
four dlffcrsnt places With this
result:
A. Meivs-As least ffvc dead,
several injured.
Al Ncvads--0ne aes4
AZ BrAnson-One dad
Al naSs-R~> rmlnsfm~
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29

at all times have power Of removal
and substitution. The term employees
means any person who on Deccmber
90 1920, or on the 30th day of De-
cember in any year during the exis
ence Of the plan, has been il the
regular and ontinuous employ Of tae
company or any Of its subsidiaries or
who has been actively engaged in the
conduct of its or their business for
the term OF one year or more, and in
cludes officers and directors.
ANY employee may become a par
ticipant in the fund by making de-
posits therein in the following man
ner: He shall authorize the company
or the subsidiary by whom he is en-
ployed to deduct from the amount due
him as current compensation for SER
vices on each pay day, whether month
ly or otherwise, a sum not in excess
of 20 per cent thereof, and to pay the
same over TO the trustees, to be placed
in the fund to his credit; which de-
duction and payment over shall there
upon be made. Concurrently with the
making of any such deposit by or
on behalf of an employee, the com
pany, or the subsidiary by which he
is employed, shall. out Of its own
moneys, pay into the fund to the fur
ther credit of such employee, q sum
equal to so per cent of his deposit
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
Drought Checks Work in
German Industrial Zone
Low Water Interrupts Shipments
of Coal; Many Plants Forced
to Run ON Short Shifts
special Gable to The Tribune

Copyright 1920, New York Tribune Inc.
BERLIN, Nov. 2S.-Germany has
been practically without rain for the
last two months and the effects of the
drought have been registered in the
almost unparalleled low water level in
the Rhine
At Mayence the river is more than
two meters (612 feet) below normal
and lower than it has been in more
than century. AS consequence all
traffic in propellerdriven steamships
has become impossible and barge com
merce between the Ruhr and Mannheim
has met with increasing difficulties.
This has involved an interruption Of
the distribution of coal supplies from
the Ruhr fields to the South German
districts. 1t is expected that the ship
ments of American coal up the Rhine
10 Mannheim factories that began sew
eral months ago will cease soon
Under these circumstances the whole
industrial region of Germany is hard
hit Many of the plants derive their
power from hydro-electric stations on
tae Rhine and these have been COM
PEELED by the low water level to run
only on short shifts In South Ger
many the mountain brooks have stopped
flowing and many springs have run dry.
causing great Inconvenience TO the
population.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
Opera Premiere Becomes
Rehearsal: Blues Feared

The first sign of real activity in the
speeded UP campaign of the Lords
Day Alliance came last night, when
what had been announced as the pre-
mere of French opera comique at the
Belmont Theater was turned into a
final rehearsal"
A big audience of men and women
found the front of the house dark
when they arrived. An attache stood
on the sidewalk announcing that it
was the Belmont Theater and directing
at the side. They entered by an exit
door.
Attendance was limited to persons
who had subscribed in advance, so that
no risk was run of admitting any one
who might have started something in
the interest Of Sunday law enforce
ment The performance was under the
auspices Of the French Art Circle
The management admitted that it
had been notified by some organization
devoted to strict Sabbath observance
that Sunday, opera would not be toler-
ated- and that the provisions of the
existing state law would be invoked if
an attempt were made to produce it.
1t was insisted, however, by the
spokesman for the French Art Circle,
. that last nights performance had never
been intended as anything else except
a rehearsal, and that none save mem
bers of the circle were in the audience.
Notwithstanding this explanation,
the French Art Circle announced
through the newspapers about two
weeks ago that the initial performance
Of opera comique would be staged at
the Belmont last night. It is under
stood it was this announcement that
led the strict Sabbath advocates to
serve notice that they would move to
prevent "
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
Plan to Regulate
Standard Oil Stock
Price for Workers
Directors Propose to Fix
Value for Purchases ON
January / Each Yeaf;
L limits Are MAJ e

The price at which the proposed
new issue of s10,0oo,00o common stock
of the Standard Oil Company is to be
offered under the proht-sharing plan,
announced last week, is to be fixed
on January l each year. In the call
for a special meeting Of stockh olders
on December 20 to approve the plan
c. T. White, secretary Of the COM
pany, states, however, that "such
price shall not be above nor more than
10 per cent below the average market
price of the stock for the previous
three months. The price so fixed shall
govern as to all such purchases dur
ing the year. Provided, however, that
in no case shall the price be fixed
below the par value of the stock"
In the plan OF the directors for in
creasing the authorized amount OF
common stock from s100,oOo,Ooo to
$110,0000 900 TO enable employees to
subscribe to the stock it was provided
that the par value Of the shares would
be reduced from 800 to $25 a share
BY this means it was felt by the Stand
ard Oil management that the price OF
the shares would be cut TO a level
Whlcn WOuld make IL pracllcdDle 1OI
the companys workers to subscribe.
The purposes Of the plan" says
the company, shall be effected
through the establishment and opera
ton of fund. to be constituted by
joint deposits by the employees, the
company and its subsidiaries. To such
deposits shall be added whatever in
terest is earned by the fund and what
ever dividends are received from
stocks held therein.
"The fund shall be administered by
three trustees, to be appointed by the
beard of directors. which board shall
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
Women Voters Plan to
Clean House i'm Cities
Mrs. Upton Declares Municipal
Governments Are in
Need of Reform

From The Tribuue's vushfnotor Bureau
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.-The woman
vote in the last election was the con-
servative vote, in the opinion of Mrs.
Harriet Taylor Upton, vlce-chairman
of the executive committee of the Re-
publican National Committee. The
women will have steadying influence
in politics, Mrs. Upton declared. and
she predicted the next step to be taken
by the women voters would be in clean
ing house in municipal elections
throughout the country next year.
"The interest of American women in
political matters is now nation wide"
SAID Mrs. Upton. "Women's activities
during the recent campaign accentuated
their interest in political work and
Rave given them new zeal for that
sort of thing that is growing rapidly.
"Lots Of folks were apprehensive
about the woman vote. Of course. we
knew such people were foolish, but
there were lots Of them.
Looking back we now see that the
women played not only a conspicuous
part in the recent campaign but con-
t.lDuteu more lnan sJnclr snare TO the
final great victory. The truth is,
women surprised the men folks by yot-
ING with fine and conservative judg-
mcnt. In fact, the woman vote was
q conservative vote The vote of
woman in this election was more CON
servative on the whole than that of
the men.
"The next step taken by women gen
orally will be in the municipal elec-
tcns soon to occur. Some of these oc-
Gu. in the spring, others not until the
following fall. 1t is generally conceded
that the worst governments and the
worst institutions of government in
the United States are in our cities.
up proceedings than in the cities.
"Women are going to take leading
part and start this job with enthusiasm
and determinations
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
Britain Ends Coal Agreement
45 Per Cent of Export Output
No Longer Goes to France

LONDON, Nov. 2s.-The agreement
whereby England supplied France with
As per cent of England's output of ex-
port coal has been cancelled. This
action resulted from a conference 6
the British and French ministers al
London Friday.
With the lapse Of this agreemens
ALLEGATIONS of coal for South American
establishments are also withdrawn, but
the obligations to supply certain
quantity Of coal to Italy remains un-
altered.
BY virtue of the cancellation of this
agreement British exporters will be
free to accept or refuse the prices
offered by French coal importers. The
German press has recently been CON-
planning that France is now sufficiently
stocked with coal to be able to Offer
to sell the coal delivered by Germany
under the treaty back to Germany at
sn exorbitant price
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
Says 4 Million Gals. Rum
Is Withdrawn Each Month
League Plans Fight
for Strict Enforcement of
the Permit system
From The Tribune's Washington Bureo

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S.-The Anti
Saloon League announced to-day that
it proposed to abolish so-called
medicinal preparations that are being
sold as proprietary medicines, but are
being consumed as alcoholic bever-
ages by persons who have felt the
pinch of the Eighteenth Amendment
Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel
of the league, has filed protests with
e Gommissioner Williams of the Bureau
of Internal Revenue against tie re-
issuance Of permits for making these
preparations.
Formerly there were about 100000
gallons a month of liquors withdrawn
Tor nOn-beverage purposes; to-day it
has reached the alarming amount Of
100000 gallons month" said Mr.
Wheeler. 1T is time to call halt
IN this by most stringent administra-
ton and enforcement of the permit
SYSTEM
The bureau has been urged to
change its standard in determining
fit for beverage use" as the bureau
has in the past adopted the standard
that one dose of a medicament added
to one fluid ounce of the preparation
makes the liquid unfit for beverage
use. There are many medicines which
in that proportion would not be unfit
eor beverage use, the Anti-Saloon
League contends.
The liquid might be little less
pleasant but still a perfectly good
substitute for alcoholic liquor, M
Wheeler said to-day 1t is contenled
that the experience from the sale of
the liquids in question should be taken
into cons liberation and given even moro
weight than any theory presented by
a chemical formula. 1t is expected by
the Anti-Saloon League that many Of
these proprietary medicines will be
driven from the market. Many have
changed their formulas in the last few
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
Rail Men to Plead for Boards

CHICAGO, Nov. 2S.-Representative
of the sixteen recognized railway labor
unions are expected here tomorrow to
make a final plea to the Railway Labor
Board to reestablish national boards
Of adinstment.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29

WINDSOR, Ontario, Nov. 2S.-Jack
Doughty, formerly private secretary to
Ambrose Small, was brought to Wind
sor from Chicago to-day by Sergeant
Detective Austin Mitchell, of the To
ronto police force, and formally place.
under arrest, charged with the theft
of SiO0 900 worth of bonds from Small.
Doughty was detained throughout the
afternoon and evening at local hotel
and was to be taken to Toronto early
tomorrow morning.
Doughty tonight denied any com
plicity in the kidnapping of Small or
in the theft of the bonds. lie ex-
pressed confidence that he would prove
his innocence in Toronto. Doughty was
arrested as the train crossed the bor-
der
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29

found a week ago in lumber camp
near Seattle, will be followed by the
arrest of a woman In connection with
Small's disappearance. From these
persons, and possibly others, the po-
lice expect to get the full details of
how Small died and of what became of
100000 in Dominion Victory bonds
that disappeared with the two men.
The Toronto World says:
"The most plausible theory of some
who have been working on the case in
dependent of the police. but at times
in touch with the Crown and it's agents,
is that Mr.. Small was deliberately muir
dered IN Toronto on the evening of his
disappearance (Tuesday, December q,
either in the theater or it's neighbor-
hood or elsewhere in the city, by men
brought to Toronto for the purpose,
probably having their own car, and
they then disposed of the body"
Doughty, who was smuggIed through
Chicago last night and is now on his
way to Toronto, originally told the
police that he had taken the missing
bonds and had them in safe deposit
box in Chicago, where he would re-
cover them as he and his captors
passed through that city on their way
to Toronto. Later Doughty changed
his story and told the police he had
given the bonds TO Mrs. Small.
The Toronto Star to-day says the
missing bonds are in Toronto and not
in Chicago. Its account from special
correspondent accompanying Doughty
continues:
"Small's fate is near solution. Jack
Doughty is the key that viii unlock
the door. There will be three or pos
sibly four more arrests, if they have
not already been made. One of them
a woman the others well-known under
world characters on this side. Enough
is known to acquit Doughty Of actual
part in the murder"
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
Farmers Will Urge
Credit to Germany
To Buy U. S. Goods
Federation to Take Up Issue
at indianapolis Conven-
lion; Opening of Foreign
Markets Solution toSlump

From, The Tribunc's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.-Extenson
of credit to Germany and associated
European countries for the purchase of
the surplus supplies of food and raw
products in the United States will be
strongly advocated by organized agri
culture at the American Farm Bureau
Federation convention in Indianapolis
next week. Coincidently, the conven-
ton will discuss the plans broached for
making this credit available.
We must open up our usual and
natural outlets for cotton, wool, grain
and meats if we are to relieve the
present disastrous economic situation
which has already cut the farmers in
come far below the cost of production
and is rapidly reacting to close the
shops and factories and throw millions
out Of employment" said Gray Silver,
Washington representative of the fed
Grafton, in statement issued to-day.
No Surplus Crop Production 3
"There is no real surplus crop pro-
duction i'll this country to-day" Mr..
Silver asserted. with the exception
of corn, potatoes and apples the total
production of most of the important
farm crops is under the five-year aver
age. Domestic and European demands
have, of course, taken a decided slump
recently, but one Of our big troubles
IS that some of our normal outlets are
closed. OF the 5000 900 bales of cot
ton normally exported before the war
3,0O0,0OO bales went to Germany. Now
that the afterthe-war boom has sub
sided the absence of this pre-war mar
ket is making itself keeniy felt.
Wool is another commodity which
strikingly illustrates the need Of the
German market. The large accumula-
ton Of coarse wool stocks appears to
be direct result of the inability of the
central European countries to buy their
former quotas. Fine woods which never
depended upon Germany and Aus
trla for market have no considerable
surplus, although the present price is
rulnously low, due to the pressing eff
feet of the large surplus of coarse
wools
Must Open Foreign Market
Abundant evidence is accumulating
to prove that the opening Of foreign
markets is the real key to the solution
of our present economic ills and obiec-
ton to an extension of credit to for
elgn countries to permit them to buy
such OF our products as they badly
need is becoming less each day. Peo-
pie are beginning to ask whether it
might not be better to take q chance
on losing a billion or so in Central
Europe rather than to go through a
period of inaction and non-production
in this country. while every one is
waiting for prices to touch bottom"
No mere banking arrangement to
facilitate the transmission of goods
would suffice, Mr.. Silver said. What
must be provided, he said, was real
money or credit. In this connection.
he added, not only would the gov
ernment be able to make the loan
quicker than a banking syndicate but
it would be better able to protect it's
interests abroad than a private enter
prise. Moreover, he asserted, the gov
ernment might be justified in taking
the risk involved in the transaction
which private concern would hesitate
to accept.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
Cheaner Bread in PHILADELPHIA

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 28.-Thc price
of bread in Philadelphia viii be re-
duced one cent a loaf December /, ac-
cording to an announcement tonight
by Frank B. McClain, Fair Price Com
missioner for Pennsylvania. The pres
ent retail price is II cents for one
pound loaf and IS cents for 24-ounce
loaf
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
California Service Restored

The Pacific Limitsds again in service via the Chicago,
Milwaukee & ST Paul Railway to California.
Leave Chicago fUnon station) 1o:4s am.
Arrive San Francisco 500 (hird morning)
Daylight departure from Chicago and daylight
arrival in San Francisco.
Complete equipment - observation sleeping car,
standard seepers, tourist sleepers, coaches and
dining
You travel over the doubls tracked block protected
Chicago Milwaukee & ST. Paul-Unon Pacific and
Southern Pacific Lines.
For sleeping reservations and full information
apply to
c. Cobb. Gen Ast. .PassD c. N. pRy
Il Broadway
B..
Stewar Rroadwa New York. \
A. Post Ger acifc Lines
sew n
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
RESORTS
ATLANTIC CITY. y. j.

.unas,ador Hotels in Atlantic City, New
yark. santa Barbara and Los Angeles.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
Small Mystery
Near Solutions:
Woman Sought
Police Expect to Get the Full
Facts Through Doughty
and Others Whom They
Hope to Capture Soon
Think Theater Man Dead
Nurder Believed to Have
Been Committed ON the
Night He Disappeared
ssec.o. Dispatcn TO The Trsbuns

eptcsol DlSpatcN 70 TIE ITzbuns
MONTREAL, Nov. 2s.-The police of
a.rtreal are convinced that Ambrose
1 Small. millionaire theatrical mag
..+s who disappeared mysteriously
-, december, is dead They predict
~. the arrest OF Jack Doughty, for
- ambrose's secretary, who also
,assnneared last December, only to be
RESORTS
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1920-08-26
NURSING SERVICE IS
RAPIDLY EXPANDING
This American Red Cross Work
Flourishing in Small Towns
Throughout Country.

More than $1,000 graduate nurses
have been enrolled In the American
Red Cress 10 date and It's department
or nursing Is daily increa sing this en-
rollment
The department OF nursing has been
authorised to maintain an adsquats
reserve OF nurses for the army and
navy. II will continue 10 supply the
needs Of the United States Public
Health Service to which IL has as
signed more than 1000 nurses In the
last year.
1t VIII assist In establishing proper
nursing service In foreign countries
where the American Red Cross has o.
ganized hospitals. dlspensaItes and
schools for nurses. Courses In homo
hygiene and care OF the sick have been
started for thousands OF women who
have never received any education In
this direction. Rural nursing which
was In It's infancy a short while ago
has been put ahead at least a decade
through the work OF the department
OF nursing and local Red Gross
chapters.
Public health nursing has been en-
tended TO many rural communities and
now fiourishes actively In hundreds Of
small towns and counties. Nearly a
thousand efficient nurses have already
been assigned to this kind OF work.
The department OF nursing is unit
Ing with other organizations in years
campaign In recruiting nurses for
training schools. in educating the gen.
eral public as to standards OF nursing
education and In showing communities
their responsibility toward schools OF
nursing. Ii Will endeavor to meet all
these needs as well as to continue the
enrolment OF dietitians who will be
utilized as instructors In home detet-
les, in developing nutritional clinics.
and In supplying dietitians for the
United States Public Health Service
AMI the civilian hospitals.
The Nursing Service Will continue TO
offer to women and young girls the
home|hyglene and care OF the sick in
every community In the country. THIS
instruction has not only laid the foun-
dalton for public health but In some
places has given impetus to the estab-
lishment OF hospitals and community
school houses.
AS community profits by the work
OF the nurse" says Miss Clara d.
Neyes, director OF the department of
nursing, at Is logical that the cors-
munity should be aroused to Its respon-
slbility. The American Red Cross
stands ready to help in a general CAM
psign OF recruiting and must have the
support. sympathy and understanding
OF the medical profession as well al
the Intelligent cooperation of the
people at large"