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windows of his house the neighbors inferred that the lone occupant of the place had probably, inadvertant- ly, set fire to his bedding. An alarm was immediately turned in, and there was great excitement in the neighborhood.
 Out dashed the fire engine; out dashed the hose wagon; out dashed everybody concerned and unconcern- ed. Great black clouds of smoke continued rolling out of the win Hdows of the Dutton domicile. The fire fighters paused in front of the house. Was the owner inside Then it was that Edward P. Ford and F. w. 'Trimble, old Seattle firemen, with record of gallant service in the United States navy, dashed into the smoke -thickened recesses of the building.
 Straight to the bedroom they fought their way. The feather bed, prized relic of an era passed, was emitting clouds, bursts. streams of smoke. But there was no one in the bed.
 At this moment the eyes of each of the rescuers fell upon a mans legs, the shoes of which were visi- ble under the bed. Each seizing a leg they hauled away with right good will, with heave and ho, and a chorus all, not paying any especial attention to what the result of their efforts had been until they were outside the house and free from the smoke. Then they took inventory Each of them had wooden leg Dutton was not at home.
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Dust Americans
 as Managers of
 China Companies

Shanghai, Feb. 21.-An order in council issued here by the British government in London, of which no
 tice has been received here, requires
 that British subjects shall take the
 place of Americans as managing di- |rectors of "China Companie@" oper-
 ating in the Orient under British register.
 This affects a large number of business concerns conducted in the Far East by Americans, especially lin Shanghai, which is center of American commercial activiay. To them the order comes with stunning effect. Its essential part reads:
 "No person other than British subject resident within the limits of this order, shall act as managing di- rector or in any position similar to that of managing director, or shall otherwise exercise general or sub stantial control of China Com Ipany." A fine of $50 day is imposed upon the company andsASsTyAdirector and manager who violates the order
 Failure to comply with it will be
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considered as ground upon which a

considered as ground upon which ar order for winding up the compan, may be made in court.
 Meetings of the American Cham Der of Commerce and the American Association of China were called tc discuss the ne worder. At these letters were drafted and addressed to the British Chamber of Com. merce and the British China Asso. citation. The texts of these letters were not disclosed but it was stat ed that British commercial interests were told that if an attempt is made to enforce the provisions of the or. der, the future relationship o, Americans and British in the Orient will be imperilled.
 It was planned also at-.the meet ings of the American interests te send cablegram of protest to the American State Department al Washington.
 Some of the largest business con cerns in the Orient are affected by the, new order and several of the largest have been operating in the Orient many years, having wide spread connections and vast obliga- tions. It is held that when these foun dthat American incorporation laws had not been drawn in a man. ner to foster commercial operations abroad while existing British laws had been designed to encourage for eign trade. This is given ord:nari- ly as the reason why many of these China companies owned and operat- ed by Americans saw fit to put them selves under British registration under the ordinances of the Grown Colony of Hongkong.
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Women Failures
 as Musical Tal

London, Feb. 21.-Women ,n| turally mechanical, therefon| woman is really musical, con,1 J. Swinburne in an address
 the Musical Association in LS the other day.
 "It is commonly believed woman's brains are just like | and that they can do everythias| men can do just as well," hi "The assumption is quite uni1 ed. Women are nowhere in sci although scientific training hasl open to them for more than ( eration. The cultivation of by. women flinders the develop of the art. One effect of the
 posed musical gifts of woms that girls are taught music boys are neglected in this trail
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Press Association
 Plans Excur

Little Rock, February g
 the plans have not been co,. tentative suggestions b.r. made for a unique excurs;o, Arkansas Press Association
 will hold it's annual meeting i. ena beginning Wednesdav r.1 The selection of Helena w., ]; imous on the part of the m;a. meeting responding to the invitation extended by the ,,' cial and other civic orraniy..,I Arkansas historic city.
 The date of the conyent,. fixed for the third week % ;N which will follow the meetins National Editorial AssocaSs,. Boston. A splendid program ing arranged for the oceasia, an invitation is to be eu, among others, to John Sham Hams, just over the river in s| sippi, one of the greatest st,,1 of the South, or of the whole try, to deliver an address.
 The good people of Helen assured the people that ths, | provide one of the finest ent, ments the Association ever M that the days. of the conventiN| be one round of pleasure. <
 It has been suggested that N trip be made to Vicksburv
 the day might be most enia spent in visiting the Shiloh
 field, and in reception featpIs be provided by the commercial ies and local newspaper men. details are all to be worked ovt
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STANCES MANY OF EFFECTIVENESS OF
 FIRST AID COURSE
Teachings of Red Cross Bring Help to Numerous
 People

A young woman graduate of a class in Red Cross first aid, living in St. Louis apartment house, was lsawakened one night not long ago by the odor of gas. She arose at once and traced the odor to the room from which it was escaping She called for help and then herself smashed open the door and crawled in on her hands and knees. She found a woman unconscious from gas poisoning, dragged her from the room and began performing artifi- cial respiration as she had been taught, directing others who had gathered to assist. When the physi- elan arrived the woman found in the room was out of danger. First aid knowledge had saved her life.
 A worker in Missouri stone quarry had part of one leg below the knee blown off. The tibial ar tery was torn and arterial hemor- rhage ensued. Other workmen tied rope around the leg above the in- jury and below the knee, but this at $ tempt to stop the hemorrhage failed because the shin bone prevented pressure on the artery. The injured mans fellow workers had not stud jed first aid and did not know how [ oapply the tourniquet to control the hemorrhage. Had they known wrist aid they could have saved that man,s life.
 Last summer Texas boy, in swimming, got beyond his depth When pulled from the water he was unconscious. His rescuers carefully laid the boy on his back and ran for doctor. When they left him he was alive. When they returned with | doctor, he was dead. Ignorance of water first aid lost this boy his life. Laying the boy on his back kept the water in his lungs and pre- vented respiration. If his rescuers had emptied the lungs of water and performed artificial respiration they would have completed their he roism in pulling the boy from the water, and would have saved his life.
 These instances, related bs pr +. c. Pernoud, Director of First Aid of the Southwestern Division Of the Red Cross, St. Louis, drive home em. phatically the lesson that First Ais Knowledge often saves human life ignorance of first aid may mean : shpmag ii1e lost. First aid knowl edee is fi.st-class insurance against death by accident.
 The Red Cross is working steadily to decrease accidents and save live: through First Aid instruction. Dur. ing the past year more than 20,00t persons attended the 965 classes 1T First Aid to the Injured conducted throughout the United States under the auspices of the organization anl more than 5000 completed the, course and were awarded Red Cross frs aid certificates, according to figures 5 compiled at national Headquarters.
 The promotion of First Aid in
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there was the liveliest interest here in Kentucky studs, and many of our best horses went to America. As . matter of fact, there is quite a ship load of fine horses on the way across the Atlantic at this time.
 You know, of course, of the pre- war activity of MT. Belmont, MT Whitney, Mr. Vanderbilt and MT Keene at our race meetings; and MT Croker, too. Their horses frequent ly won our best races, including the Derby. Your jockeys were quite sue cessful at our meetings, and ne doubt many of your bookmakerse set tied over here when betting began to be made illegal in the United States"
 MT. Tattersall spoke of Mir. Gro ker's Orby that won the Derby in 1907. It was a son of Orby, Grand Parade, that won the 1919 Derby Grand Parade was sold when a colt by MT. Croker to Lord Glaneiy.
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One notable instance of neighbor- hood variation was found in the two Boisnot apothecary stores in Man. haitian. The one in the Hotel An sonia building charges g for g half pint, while the one at Broadway only few blocks away, charges S1.5O Ia half pint.
 The fixing of retail prices IS gov erned solely by the conscience of the druggist or what he thinks the trade will bear. Neither the col lector of internal revenue, from whom the druggists obtain their li- cense, nor the supervising commits sioners of prohibition enforcement have any Jurisdiction over either wholesale or retail prices.
 William H. Edwards, collector of trict, said: "The druggist can charge ernment is concerned"
 Federal Food Administrator Will Hams was in doubt whether he or jurisdiction. He said he thad as yet profiteering, but if he did. he would
 
 termined whether whisky is food or drug. If food profiteering can be punished under the Lever act. If a drug. it is outside the operation of that act.
 Various reasons were assigned by the druggists for their prices, the principle one being that the dis pensing of whisky by prescription is "a whole lot of bother and red tape" At the Horvath Pharmacy. where the price was also s5 pint the manager explained by saying that whisky had to be medicated.'
 Inquiry among wholesalers and representatives of distillers showed that good whisky can be had by druggists for $5.50 gallon in bulk and from s20 to $50 case (twelve quart bottles). One representative of a Kentucky distilling company said: "The prices that druggists are getting for whisky construe profit eering in it's worst form. We have heard of instances where they charge as high as $6 for half pint. There lis no excuse for any one charging more than $3 a pint for the best grade of whisky"
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struction is one of the important and the work has been extended rap idly in the Southwestern Division Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
 "At the present time," says pr. Pernoud, we are about to send first aid posters to every Red Cross chapter and branch in the division,
 requesting them to ascertain how many they can use in churches, schools, railroad stations, industrial plants and other places where they will deliver their message. l am get ting in touch with every chapter and branch by correspondence to stir anew their interest in First Aid, trying to impress upon them it's vast importance in the conservation of human life and it's relation to the general humanitarian work of the Red Cross in every community.
 "The chairmen of chapter educa- ton committees should endeavor to impress upon the school authorities in their territories the importance of teaching the boys and girls how to render assistance understandingly in any emergency. Heads of stores, of industries of all classes of work, should be interested in first aid in- struction for their employees. First ai dis as valuable in the home as in the factory, as valuable in the de partment store as in the lumber camp, quarry or mine. It is one of our big tasks to educate the people to the value of First Aid, and then instruct them in the methods of First Aid. A First Aid graduate is great asset in any community"
 First Aid classes may be organ ized by any interested person in communities, social and other organ izations, police and fire departments. stores, clubs, etc., with the co-opera- ton of chapters in the Southwest ern division of the Red Cross. Through the Red Cross all necessa- ry information as to the instructor, the proper size of the class. text books, charts and requirements for receiving the first aid certificate may be obtained. The Red Cross courses, both primary and advanced, are thorough and complete, and the cost is nominal.
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Gallant FirebOys
 Save Wooden Legs
 From Burning Bed

Seattle, Wash, Feb. 21.-Hark to tale of gallant fire fighters, re- cital of the stirring rescue of what should have been an aged man m distress, an account of the intrepid actions of two of Seattle.s bravest smoke eaters; a chronicle that smacks of the sea and the men that sail to the uttermost reaches; a sto- " filled with smoke, fire alarms hallooing, cries for assistance and burning feather bed.
 Out at 6525 Twentieth avenue lives Thomas Dutton. Sometime Tn the course of his long life, Dutton was forced to dispense with leg He. however, took on wooden one and has been doing very well.
 Now, the said Thomas Dutton, ru- nor has it, was accustomed to 'smok- ing in bed. Consequently, when smoke was seen pouring out of the
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Britain Will Not Give Up Breeding
 of Fine Horses

London, Feb. 21.-That the breed- ing of fine horses will never be dis in Great Britain by the in creasing use of motor cars is the opinion of Samuel Tattersall, pres ent head of Messrs. Tattersall, horse dealers, a fashionable London institution that has gone on with out break in the line of Tattersalls since 1766.
 Little is known before 1745 of my great-great-great grandfather, who tersall. "He seems to have dabbled one day he saw the head of one of fold as an example to all Stuard partisans.
 "It seems he had change of opin- ion," smiled MT; Tattersall. "He be- came really close friend of George " in his youth. before he was prince regent. When the Morning Post wrote some depreciative articles about the prince, it seems he man aged deal whereby my ancestor bought the paper, changed it's policy and sold it.
 "That they were warm friends ever after Is shown by the bust of George W which had conscipuous place in the horse market when my ancestor established it in 1766. This appears in some of the old prints of Tattersall's, and as you will notice the bust has stood the effects of time and has since been mounted on top the fox-hunting fountain which also was moved here when we had to shift the old market in 1865. We also have preserved and still use the original old auctioneer's box"
 MT. Tattersall believes fine horse raising will never die out in Eng land, no matter how much the auto mobile pushes horses off the road. The motor car is not yet so popular as it is in America, he said, only a small percentage of the population owning cars.
 thoroughbred horses command much higher prices than ever be- fore, even though they grow more and more numerous. I believe that hundreds of years hence you will find Englishmen with horses whose ancestry they can trace back to the blooded stock of today. This should be true in America, too, even though America has not the stimulation of our many race meetings. The fas- tidious man who lives in the coun- try will always have a fancy for stock bred for ideal beauty as well as speed.
 eve have for years and years bought and sold horses in transac- tions with America. Before the war
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Whiskey for Use
 as Medicine is Scarce in New York

New York, Feb. 21.-Whisky is an expensive medicine in this city and not easy to obtain. Out of 17O0 druggists in Manhattan and the Bronx, only about 300 have applied for federal licenses, and not more than half of these have been grant ed. In Brooklyn and Long Island about 2200 druggists, wholesale li- quor dealers and other persons in- tending to sell whisky for "noHbev- craze purposes" have applied for li- censes. It is estimated that only 200 of these are from druggists.
 Reporters who canvassed several districts in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx found on the average that only three out of every ten drug gists were prepared to. fill whisky prescriptions. The others either had not received their licenses or had no intention of taking them out. "Too much red tape" was the gener- al reason given by the no-license pharmacies.
 Whisky $1.5O to $500 a Pint.
 The prices in the district canvass ed showed an amazing variety, rang ing from $1.75 to s5 pint. The low mark is that of the Liggett chain drug stores, which are selling tat cost" according to the manage ment, but only five of the compa- ny's eighty stores in Manhattan are selling. The prices in other stores seemed to vary according to the neighborhood. On Columbus avenue, between Seventy and Sixty sixth streets, the favorite price was $3 pint. In Brooklyn the general price was $3, but at Reid & Snider's, the largest drug store in the. resi- .dential section of Flatbush, it was $5 2 pint.
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British Peace Centenary Committee in celebration of the hundred years peace between the United States and Britain; but an endowment is need ed for repairs and furniture. To ward this the Sulgrave Institute of America contributes 10000 pounds Five thousand pounds have been raised in London, and Manchester hopes to furnish the balance of 10000 pounds.
 Among the subscriptions is a sum of 500 pounds from the Stars and Stripes Women's Club in Ranches ter, collected as a memorial to the American soldiers who died in the city.
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Protest Alleged
 Injustice in the Panama Canal Case


 Buenos Aires, Feb. 21.-La Epocha organ of the government party in Argentina, has just published com munication from the Colombian le- gation giving the text of resolu- tions adopted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Colom- bia on November 3 last protesting against the alleged infringement by the United States of Colombia $ rights over the Isthmus of Panama The resolution of the Colombian Senate reads:
 "This day being the sixteenth an lniversary of the rebellion of Pana- ma, fomented and supported by the government of the United States ot America with manifest infraction o1 Ia public treaty, the Senate of the republic interprets public opinion in declaring, once more, that the rights of Colombia over the Isthmus of Panama are imprescribable, and in protesting, as it does protest, be- fore the civilized world, against the causes which have impeded the use and defense of it's rights. Columbia reaffirms solemnly to- day it's rights to all and each one of the portions of territory bestow- ed upon it by it's liberators, and whatever be the answer which time shall bring to the hopes of revin- dication, that it's cause is the cause of justice and civilization, that o1 the sovereignty and integrity of nations.
 "The Senate, in making this pro test and these declarations, ex- presses the wish to see substituted by the action of equity and justice the proceedings which have limited and made nugatory the rights oi weak nations"
 The resolution of the House, ex. pressing similar sentiments, com.
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Canadian Ace is
 Head of Pliers

Calgary, Alberta, Feb. 21.-The Canadian Air Service Association uniting the air service associations of British Columbia. Alberta, Sas- katchewan and Manitoba, was or ganized at meeting of aviators held recently in Calgary.
 Capt. Fred Mccall, one of Cana da's premier aces, was elected pres ident of the organization. The pro vincial associations will remain in- tact as subsidiaries of the Dominion association.
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Plan Restoration
 of WashingtOn's
 Home in England

Manchester, Eng, Feb. 21.-Mem- bers of the Sulgrave Society met here recently to inaugurate fund for the restoration and maintenance of. Sulgrave Manor, George Washing toms English ancestral home.
 The mansion was bought in 19f4' as memorial to Washington by the
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plains against the failure
 United States Senate to a.
 treaty of April $, 1914 .a appAl against the proposed ee1aS aaa \ a new pact quite fore;sOO,Sa April $ convention. 1
 By the treaty of April 6 ,,, United States would bav. O' lsl regret" and paid Colomb;. e1ll 9,I 900 for its action in pansa,l ,,s Y treaty has not been aunrs., ars the United States Senatap tppr0'a
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BONUSES FOR SHIPS.

Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 21.-Boa ed to ships constructed in Bnl of $25 to $S7.50 a ton will be n ports under new law enactdl congress.
Evening star., 1920-02-29

program Of her own songs, some Of
them still Unpublished. and Miss Jes-
sic MacBride gave a talk on Music
in Washington" Mrs. Bond also was
the guest Of honor at a meeting of
the Rho Beta Chapter, Mu Phi Epsi-
lon. Monday evening. when an at
tractive program was given by Mrs.
William T. Reed, guest artist; Mar
gerry Snuder. Chorellis Dixon, Char
lotte Klein and Mary Thompson. Mrs.
Reed sang 20 Mic Fernando" from
ia Favorfta" (DonizettD. and. for
encore, "Smilin' Through" (Penn).
George Wilson accompanying. and
Mrs. Bond added much to the pleas
ure of the occasion by giving some of
her unpublished songs.
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GERMANS WILL DELIVER
12O SHIPS TO ALLIES

BERLIN. February 17.-One hun
eight battleships and a number Of
cruisers, will be handed over to the
entente next week by the German
government under the terms Of the
treaty Of Versailles. according to an
announcement made at a meeting or
the Association OF German Fishermen
at Hamburg today.
| LONDON. February 27.-The trans
fer OF the remaining German war
ships to the allies has been Fixed for
March 10. On that day eight battle
ships. eleven cruisers and forty-two
destroyers will he formally surrend-
cred. Seventy per cent of them viii
go to Great Britain. IL per cent 20
Italy and per cent to Japan.
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ise Brill. Frances Evans. Genevieve
Beardsley. Olive Carpenter. Lillian
Cratgen. Derwyn Cooper. Dorothy
Gravatte. Louise Dodge, Lillian Sey-
mour. Helen Walter. Elizabeth Wine,
Helen Staples, Aleine Mcbride, Edith
Norris, Augusta Silverman, Myrtle
Crouch, Mildred Buckingham, Agnes
/ Lynch. Marguerite Shellenberger.
Florence Welch. Wilma Hill, Delois
Crown, Helen HUM. Naomi De Groot,
Eola Benzler. Alva Brayton. Ger
trude Duryee and Barbara Staples
Meta Craig. soprano. will be the
soloist with the double quartet CIV
ing the program at this afternoons
service at the Church of the Cow
| enant, beginning at $3.50 o'clock: At
this evenings service Oliver Mellum
will be the soloist with the chorus
choir. both services being under di-
rection of Sydney Lloyd Wrightson.
with Harvey Murray at the organ
and. in the evening. with Claude
Robeson at the piano. The programs
follow: Afternoon. organ prelude.
"Angelus" (Gounod). anthem. Lead
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SENATOR MYERS REPl IS
TOA.F. OF L. TELF ;RAM
States Position on Afil.. On of
Federal Employees With Or
gauized Labor.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, February as.-
President Samuel Gompers Of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor yesterday re-
ceived a telegram from Senator H. l..
Myers in reply to the telegram sent pre-
viously to him by the executive council
of the American Federation of Labor,
and Immediately filed another telegram
to Senator Myers.
Senator Myers wired that he had
offered only one amendment to the civil
service retirement bill. the intention of
which is to prevent members Of federal
employees unions from affiliating with
higher bodies of organized labor: that