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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-05-20
AMERICANS MUST
BE RELEASED

Washington, May 20.-Hungarian
scommunists held by thessAustrian au-
thorities must not be transferred to
ssRRlussia without h esgeciprocalx release
1of all Americans now D d~etafn5des in
Soviet Russia, the department OF
state today informed the American
commissioners in Vienna.
Detroit-Johnny Dundee Of New
York and Mel Coogan. Of Brooklyn
Fought ten rounds; newspaper men
calling 1t a draw.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-05-20
Disabled Men I
Eligible For \: !.
CiUil Service

J. 81 Wineman, chairman of 4tl1He..
Home Service bureau o the RED
f Gsess :el eas Neutrality-suspicious. a''Isafpsssatioa sr skS%:
OF the general staff, u. s.. AK that:
there are several thousand civil posi-
tons under the war department oW
open for discharged soldiers. partially,
disabled from wounds or diseases In
Cured in the war. ~ s-
Applicants will notebe exempt from
the usual examinations under the
civil service.sAbut they will. be re-.
quiredsto attainsaA aVerage@peraefit.,
age of only sixty-1ve in~order toy be-:
come eligible for appointment, white
Others must at least mako seventy
Age limitations are also waived { tor.
veterans. They will be released from
all height and weight requirements
except for the positions OF gnard and
Watchmen.. They will be certified for
appointment in the war department
at Washington without regard to the
appoEtionment of appointments among
states and territories, and after pass
ing the necessary examination they
register ahead of those not entitled to-
preference. 60.
Some of the positions under theEwar
department in which partially IIdts-
abld soldiers may be employed are
those of stenographerS typist, clerk;
ME clerk, messenger, Waterman, null
tigraph operator, mimeoeraph oper-
ator, blue printer, skilled laboreE.
electrician, carpenter, painter, packet,
etc.
Information as to the positions and
their locations may be obtained nom
any office of the war department, the
civil service commission or the federal
board for vocational education. Full
particulars ana blanks for application
may be had by applying to the United
States civil service commission, Wash
,ingtop.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-05-20

ai ,ass.i IS!,1,sS M Ssssss,r Of t 1i,, s sasa,
q s sSSstmssa afternoon U:
The sme-tidgs HMMaaislISa kS#held in the
church parlorssats n goselock and re-
freshments will, be served. Members
and friends of the Organization are
cordially invited.
Misses. Helen House and Irene Bos-
trom, pianists, will be presented in a
joint recital this evening in Corwin
hall. Both young women are pupils
of Miss Adelaide Okell. Miss Odina
0ason. soprano, will assist on the pro-
gram, and all friends Of the young
women t%appeaEing and. s9f Wesley COL
lege 'arescordially INVITED.
! s. NJ: $. e,, ts:.,:3 and +. !.
from Park River. wheresthey visited
over the day with relatives. Both
young women are students at the uni
versity n make their home at Lar
imore hall. Miss Hazel Halvorsen,
also Of Larimore hall. Is visiting her
parents at Hatton, and is expected to
return to the campus tonight, =.
X 4 x!
Mr.. end Mrs. A. I. Larson. 1902
University avenue, are the parents Of
a baby son; born Tuesday, May 18.
r 4
Miss Leona ". Smith, head of the
expression de1Artment Of the Grand
Forks high shkool, with her sister,
Miss Louise $hith, who is ATTENDING
the high school here. were called to
their nome in GLASGOW, Mont, We'd
.nesday evening by the sudden death
Of their father. y
X X x
The Luther league of the Swedish
Lutheran church will meet this eve
ming in he parlors Of the church at
8 O'Clock. Following the program
refreshments will be served by Elmer
Dahl and Ole Nordlund. These num-
bers constitute the program:\ .
Vocal Duet-Mrs. J. M. Persenius
and Mrs. A. Hanson. -
Reading-Anna Brundin. ..
solo-Margaret sorlie. ..
Reading-Oscar Norlien. -
The Seniors of Alpha Phi sorority
are entertaining informally on Satur-
day afternoon from 3 to S o'clock in
their home, 1924 University
Guests will include the young women
rim tho Ypi,arcf<1v Co-;or ,In,. -
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-05-20

Philadelphia-Mike O'Dowd, St.
Paul m~iddleweight, knocked out
George Knockout Brown of Chicago
in the sixth round of a. scheduled
seight round bout with a, right upper
SNS IAAS Jaw ioasa
Gn .FEsE
New-York tribune., 1920-09-15

guilty of receiving money under false
pretenses.
Il do this because I must have the
money now. If I went to work at a
nominal salary to-day at the present
cost of living, the going would be rough
II attempted to save $500 year, and
at that rate I wouldn't have my $4,000
tor six years. I'm doing this with my
eyes open. and am ready to back up
every word of my statements with work
of any kind"
:. Hardy is Southerner, and came to
New York eight weeks ago. His only
living relative is his father, from whom
he has been separated since his
mothers death. When he was a child
he was taken in charge BY the woman
he now desires to aid. He refuses at
this time to dvulge her name.
Biologists say that human body
is worth chemically from $50 to
1885. Darlington estimated that the
economic value of a human being to
his state is only $1,5O0. Still Hardy
is confident that any one happening
to need the services which he is ready
and willing to offer will gladly pay his
price,
New-York tribune., 1920-09-15
Clhaplin's Wife
Changes Mind
On So SO Split
Announces That She Will
Seek Only Half Interest
i'm His Latest Picture
as Marital Settlement
She Suffers Breakdown
Ordered to Bed for 10 Days:
Actress Alleges Financial
Straits. Which He Denies

The third reel in the Chaplin martial
scenario was run off yesterday, with
Mrs Mildred Harris Chaplin once
again occupying the center of the
screen.
This time. however, the comedians 5
diminutive wife is discovered in bed at
her home in Mamaronech, where, ac-
cording to her mother. she is suffering
from a nervous breakdown. Again she
has exercised the time-honored privi-
lege of her sex to change her mind,
and announces through her attorneys,
Henry J. and Frederick E. Goldsmith,
that, instead of $3.50 division of
Charles reputed S3.00O,00O, she will
only seek q half interest in his latest
flm.
Mr.. Chaplin is reported to have been
offered $500.000 in advance royalties
for this picture. but is said to be hold
ing out for $1.00O.oO0.
No Fifty-Fifty Split
Legal papers wherein Mrs. Chaplin
asks for an equity receivership of her
husbands property were being drawn
up by her attorneys yesterday, who an
agreed to settlement in the mean
time in accordance with his wife's
latest proposals they would be filed
in q day or two.
Mr. Chaplin refuses to be worried.
Nathan Burkan, his attorney, declared
that his client wouldn't give her so
per cent of anything" Mr.. Burkan
''pooh- -poohed" Mrs. Chaplin's fifty
fifty proposition generally, asserting
that the community laws of California
under which she makes the claims, are
not recognized in New YORK.
A detailed statement of the circum-
stances that led up to the present con-
troversy was obtained from the
actress through her mother, Mrs. Cen
evieve Harris.
Mildred is in bed with a nervous
breakdown" said Mrs. Harris, under
the care of DR.. Ralph Mcpherson. He
has ordered her to remain in bed for
at least ten days.
"Mr. Chaplin has been away from
Mildred since last Jaunary, during
which time she has been shouldered
with the upkeep of the large home
which her husband had leased in Los
Angeles. On July y, her Los Angeles
physicians informed her that unless
she stopped work she would injure
her health permanently. She sought
the aid of Mr.. Chaplin. He offered
ner S-o,uup as SeCClement NildTeQ
refused because of the conditions
under which the offer was made.
Later she was willing to agree to a
separation, and her husband offered her
$4,000. At first demurring, she finally
accepted his proposal, being in financial
straits at the time and having the up
keep Of her home on her hands
Mildred Takes Up Story
At this point the story was -Aken up
by Mildred herself, who went on: II
was working for Louis B. Mi.:er, of
Boston, of the firm of the Louis E.
Mayer Harris Chaplin Picture
Corporation. The doctors told me to
quit work and consult specialists in the
East. l didn't have the money at the
time, and asked Charlie for $4,000
against his s45,0o0 offer. He said
Nothing doing l offered a car | had
as pledge for the loan Of the money.
He refused.
Il had TO borrow the money to come
East from Mr.. Mayer. but il isn't
enough to keep me going and I won't
New-York tribune., 1920-09-15
Staying of Robbers Public
Service, Says Prosecutor
Aid Exonerates Patrol.
man Who Killed Bandit i'm
Restaurant HOld.Up

Assistant District Attorney John R.
Hennis, of District Attorney Swann's
staff, yesterday said that the ''elimna-
tion of stick-up men from the COM
munity by killing them is really a
service to the community" The state
ment was made in reporting to the
district attorney his investigation into
Thirty-ninth Street, who was shot to
death early Sunday by Patrolman Wal
ter Hunt of the East Thirty-ffth Street
Station.
In generating the patrolman Mr.
Hennis said: THE homicide was justi-
fable. The officer did it in the per-
formance of his duty We will keep
on backing up the police. No mercy
will be shown to stlck-up men. While
it is hard to realize that young men,
not much more than boys, have to be
shot down, at times | repeat that the
elimination of stick-up men by shoot
ing them is really service to the
community"
According to Mr.. Hennis, Kane. with
William Curran, twenty-four years old,
of 152 East Fiftieth Street, went into
lunchroom at 1872 Third Avenue Sun
day morning and held up the cashier,
John Gerakares, thirty-two, of o30
East Thirty-third Street, and ordered
the patrons of the place not to move.
Hunt saw the hold-up and attempted to
place Curran under arrest, Mr.. Hennis
says. fight followed. Curran was
knocked unconscious by a blow from
the. policeman's nightstick Kane
rushed at Hunt with an oyster knife,
according to the assistant district at
torney, and another fight followed dur
ms which Kane was killed. Another
man also was shot but will recover.
Curran is held in $4,000 bail on a
charge of robbery.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-15
Court Decides for Murphy
Motion for Dismissal of Tndict.
menf Will Be Heard

Justice Wagner, of the Supreme
Court, yesterday overruled the objec-
tion of Colonel William Rand, Special
Deputy Attorney General, that the court
had no jurisdiction to hear the motion
of Charles F. Murphy, Tammany leader,
and others indicted with him, for a
dismissal Of the indictments. Mr.. Muir
ply was indicted on charge of con-
spiracy to defraud the government out
Of an excess profit tax of the North
Kensington Refining Company.
The motion of the Tammany leader
and his codcfendants came before Jus
tice Wagner Monday, when Colonel
Rand raised the question of jurisdic-
ton. The matter was adjourned until
the justice could decide that point.
He decided yesterday that the Supreme
Court has jurisdiction to pass on the
motion to dismiss the indictments and
Will hear arguments on Friday,
New-York tribune., 1920-09-15
$4,000 Jewels Stolen
BY Daylight Burglars
Intruder i'm Watch Hill Resi-.
dence Seen Leaving House and
Fleeing i'm Automobile

WATCH HILL, R. l., Sept. 14.-Day-
light burglars entered the summer
home Of Mrs. George McLanahan here
today and robbed her of $4,000 worth
OF jewels while the family were at
luncheon. The thieves were evidently
familiar with the house, for the jewel
box was taken from closet where it
had been hidden away and where it
was likely TO escape attention of ordin-
AIRY robbers
A man was seen leaving the house
by maid in the basement, but before
her cries Of help could be needed ne
disappeared in waiting automobil
Chief among the jewels was neck
lace of diamonds and pearls valued at
10000. The rest were a iscelaneous
assortment.
A description of the man was i'm
med'ately sent out by the police 70
every nearby city and town. and de-
tect!ves were soon on the trail.
Robbers entered the Brainard &
Armstrong Silk Company's clubhouse
to-day. attacked Mrs. Frank Silva. the
caretaker, with a knife, and robbei
the place Of $500. A bag packed with
sllverware was left by them in their
Il ight
New-York tribune., 1920-09-15
At 22 He Offers to Sell
Rest Of Life for $4,000
FORMER Sailor Wants Money at Once to Give to
Woman Who Has Been Foster Mother Since
His Childhood and Settle Debt of Gratitude

Jack Hardy, former sailor, now
living in hall bedroom at % West
Ihlrty-seventh Street, has offered to
sell the remainder Of his natural life
to the highest bidder; and he has yet
to celebrate his twenty-third birthday
Three thousand dollars cash is the
lowest offer which he will consider for
ire servltude-and this for a reason:
People reading of my offer will
probably think me crazy, Hardy sAd
yesterday, but I'm not" | consider
myself right smart sane, and l am do
ing this for perfectly sane reason.
| want to turn over this $4,000 to the
woman who has been all that a mother
has ever been 10 9.2y son. | ain in no
way legally obligated to her and at
the present moment she is in no great
need of the money, but my conscience
points duty. This is a business prop
ositon from start to finish and / am
willing to live up to my end of it if
some one who is interested can use
the services which l offer"
Hardy is young, physically fit, in
telligent and of good character and
willing to obey every command of the
person who will pay the price which
h2 stipulates, even ready, so he saws,
to sacrifice his life if necessary. He
is five feet six inches tall, weighs 40
pounds and is Of pleasing manner.
II have made only superficial study
Of the legal part of the proposition" he
said. "Of course, 7 would sign a con-
tract. If that contract will guarantee
that the person signing it will pay my
benefactress the sum of $4,000 | will
be ready for any kind of work Such
inI
l ever attempted to exercise my will
against the instruction of my purchaser
l would automatically break that con-
tract and under the law would be held
New-York tribune., 1920-09-15

be able to 60 to work for some time.
have reconsidered my demand for a
half share Of his $3,000.000, which
nevertheless I am entitled to under
the community laws of California.
will be satisfied to settle for so per
cent of the proceeds Of my husbands
last picture. which I am told is worth
from S5co,0oo to $l,000,oo0.
Earned S13,500 q Week
"If Charlie were willing to work he
could earn $4,000 week. Under a
previous contract with certain firm
he made Sl3,500 a week. My attorneys
have served notice on the First Ma
tional Exhibitors Of my claim on my
husbands last picture and have also
notified Marcus Locw, who, we are IN
formed. attempted to buy the picture
to the same effect"
Mr.. Rurkan refused to believe that
Mrs: Chaplin was at any time in
Strengthened circumstances, pointing
out that during most of the time she
complains of she was receiving $500
week for working in pictures
The community law Of California,
under which Mrs. Chaplin claims half
share in her husbands property, reads.
according to Mr. Goldsmith. as follows:
All property acquired after marriage.
real or personal, in the state or wher-
ever situated, is community property.
The husband has the management and
control of community personal prop
crty, but cannot make gifts of same or
dispose of it without valuable consider
alton and the consent of his wife.
The husband has management of
community real property. but the wife
must join with him in conveyance in
lease OR more than lease. Upon death
of husband. one-half of the community
property goes to the wife, the other
half is subject to testamentary dispo-
sition. The prima facia presumption is
that property owned by husband or
wife is community property"
New-York tribune., 1920-09-15

All kinds of Domestic Help. not the rest
less kind--hsst reached through 1ha
T-ibunas Domestic Help Wanted column.
Phone Becltr.an cnon.-Advt
New-York tribune., 1920-09-15
Teacher Shortage Keeps
100 Jersey Schools Shut

TRENTON, n. j., Sept. H. Nearly
one hundred public schools in New Jer-
sey failed to reopen for the fal, term
because Of a shortage of teachers, ac-
cording to an announcement to-day bv
Commissioner of Education Calvin
Kendall.
The Commissioner declares that the
number would have been much larger
had teachers salaries not been in
creased.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-15
Robert MOOrhead Is Freed

Magistrate Mancuson. in the Tombs
Court. yesterday dismissed the case
against Robert Moorhead, of 255 West
Nlnety-fifth Street. who was charged
with suspicion Of having criminallv re-
celved stolen $4,000 Liberty bond.
Moorhead formerly was secretary to the
Carnegie Trust Company. He was arrest
ed by Detectives Mayer and brown
last Thursday. The bond was part of
100000 taken from the safe of Deer.
ing & Deering, Of 135 Broadway last
February
Detective Mayer told the magistrate
that the man charged with the thef.
OF the bond had been arrested in Phi!a-
delphia. Magistrate Mancuso held that
there was not sufficient evidence
against Moorhead to warrant his be-
ing held
New-York tribune., 1920-09-15
Bank of Athens Calls
PteriOtsis BANKRUPT
Petition Filed Alleged Fraudu.
lent Sugar Speculator to Pro.
tect Claim of $4,000

George D. Pteriotsis, who was ar
rested last Friday night by agents of
the Department of Justice and who is
held in 100000 bail on q Federal in
dictment charging conspiracy to de-
fraud, was named yesterday in peti-
tion in bankruptcy filed against him
by the Bank of Athens, Greece.
The bank claims $4,000. 1t is said
that Ptcriotsis's assets. amounting to
$4,000, have been found in banks here.
The petition names Pteriotsis and the
American Company of Commerce,
through which he is said to have con-
Quoted his schemes.
PteriotSis and the American Com
pany of Commerce are said to have
tricked Greek firms into establishing
credits here, amounting to $1,000 900,
by offering for sale sugar at price
below current quotations. 1t is alleged
that they then shipped two or three
bags to different firms in Greece and
altered the bills of lading to read
thousands of bags and thus collected
some s250,000.
Federal Judge Martin Manton ap-
pointed George G.. V. Williams as re-
ceiver in bankruptcy for Pteriotsis
under bond of s2,500
All kinds Of Domestic Help. not the rest =
less knd--best reached through 1'ha
TS,:h :h,,r, notio IJalx>
New-York tribune., 1920-09-15
Slayer of Father Freed

Louis Gross, twenty-one years old, of
Fairview, N. j., who shot and killed his
father the night of August to prever.
him from choking his mother to death,
was released yesterday from the Hack
ensack jail, the grand jury having
failed to indict him. Gross's mother
was at the Jail TO receive him as he
walked out
New-York tribune., 1920-09-15
Natures pal,
THOMAS A. EDISON

In a recently published newspaper arsieies
Thomas a. Edison spoke of the difficulties he
had encountered in trying to purchase pair
Of "broad toe" shoes. A pair of shoes, built
upon the principle, that still recognized thae
great mosher-of.all, Nature.
1t was just like this great 'wizard', who had
~chumned" around so much with Nature. and
had taken from her so many principles that
have given US our greatest inventions, to come
back to her, even for his footwear. To him
shoes, like science should closely adhere to
her laws. His judgment is correct.
Fifty years ago, the Coward Good Sense" shoe
was created. In it's construction Nature had
her own way. From the Last upon which the
shoe was built unto its very completion, Nature
had dictated. 1t has just enough roominess to
be comfortable, enough Of nature to permit the
natural growth of the foot, and enough ofeverv.
thing good in feathers and Workmanship, to
make it the desirable shoe, for thousands Of
Men, Women and Children of ali America.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-17
BRITISH PAPERS
 FAVOR OF PROPOSED
 LAND SALE TO U. s

LONDON, March 17.-Many British paprs favor the proposal that Great Britain sell to the United States all her South Atlantic Islands and Central American possessions, includ- ing British Guiana, as a part payment of the debt that country owes Am. erica and in the interest of the stab lization of the worlds currency
 The proposal is that the sale in clude Jamaica, the Barbados, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Nassau and other islands and British Honduras and British Guiana.
 The papers which advocate the sale say the commerce of these islands and other territory is becoming Am erican anyhow, and that they are of far more use to the United States than they are to Europe.
 All the British papers think the United States should pay large price for the islands because of the American interest in the stabilization of exchange, and as means of promoting American trade. The price the United States paid for the Danish West Indies causes the Brit ish to be hopeful that good deal could be made.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-17
BABY'S CRIES
 SAVED TENANTS OF
 BURNING BUILDING

SEATTLE, March 17.-Awakened by the crying of her child last night, Mrs. Percy Babbington, ten- ant in the Homer Apartments at Georgetown, found that sparks had set fire to the baby's basket. She carried the baby outside and then reused the other tenants in the building. The building was partly destroyed and the tenants spent the balance of the night in nearby church.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-17
BOLIVIA ASKED
 BY AMERICA TO
 AVOID A BREACH

WASHINGTON, March 17.-The Department of State of the American government has sent an urgent note to the government of Bolivia re- questing that there be no breach of peace in South America pending steps to settle the controversy by arbitration.
 The note was sent at the request of the Peruvian government as a result of Bolivia's attack on the Peruvian legation at Lapaz.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-17
COLORADO REFUSES
 COMPENSATION FOR
 MEN SHOT IN STRIPE

DENVER, Colo, March 17,-Re- jection in entirety of the claims of the Italian government for $5 .000 arising from loss of life in the Lud- low strike in this State in 1914 was recommended to Governor Oli- yer H. Shoup in report submitted by the Colorado Legislatures board of inquiry.
 A copy of the report was sent to tke State Department at once. Sev- eral Italians were killed by troops
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-17
GATHERING NEWS
 BY WIRELESS FROM
 ALL PARTS OF U. s,

CLEVELAND. Ohio, March '7.-The first actual attempt to gather news by wireless from all parts of the United States is being made here during the Cleveland Electrical show which began on March 10 and closes on March 20.
 A huge wireless station, capable of receiving news from across the ocean brought here by the United States marines from Philadelphia, has been set up
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-17
GOVERNOR OF INDIANA
 WANTS HOOVER TO RUN

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 17Gov. Goodrich is anxious that Herbert Hoover's name should be placed on the Republican primary ballot in this state. He regards Hoover as the only man who stands chance to defeat Gen. Leonard Wood in the primary contest
 H. E. Barnard, who recently wis ited Washington, says Hoover would accept the Republican nomination il the platform was satisfactory to him
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-17
JOHNSON SAYS WOOD VICTORY
 WAS BIG FARCE
(Continueu from rage One)

tContinueu from rage One)
 convention, Chairman Will H. Hays of the Republican National Commit tee, declared that the Republican party stands first of all for an hon. est, efficient, economical, business administration of the country's af- fairs. He pleaded for patriotism in peace. He said the party stands for reduction of taxes. He wants the war debt extended over years of time instead of being paid off quick ly through heavy taxation. He said further that the Republican party wants better relations between cap- ital and labor, and it wants law and order throughout the country.