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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1920-02-12
Former Kings Property Brings Riches.

Geneva. Austria has received ESQ.
100000 kroner from the sale OF for.
mer Emperor Charles personal prom
erty, according to advices from Pran.
gins, where the erstwhile monarch is
residing, Jewels, works of art and val.
liable object belonging to Charles and
members OF the hapsburg family still
remain to be sold and are said to be
valued at several billion kroner. Pro,
ceeds from them will be also con.
nscated by the Austrian government.
4 il said
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1920-02-12
Parliamentary TangIes Must Be
Removed Before Debate
Can Be Begun.
LONG CONTEST AHEAD
Leaders See Some Hope OF Ratihca
ton But Others Believe Con-
troversary viii Go Into Pres
identiai Campaign.

WashingtOn.-The Treaty of Versail.
les which has lain in a parliamentary
pigeonhole since November while q
basis for its ratification was unsuccess
fully sought in private negotiations
has been brought formally before the
Senate again.
Although prompt agreement is ex-
pected generally on many Of the minor
paints at issue long and better con-
test Is forecast over Article 10 and
perhaps a few other treaty provisions
The leaders on both sides profess to
see some hope OF ratification but some
other senators believe the deadlock
certain to continue until the cOntrO-
versy has been fought out in the presi-
dental campaign. Republican and
Democratic leaders plan to cooperate
in untangling the parliamentary re-
strictions which must be removed from
about the treaty to permit t again to
be considered and to rid 1t of the clo-
ture imposed in November These
parliamentary technicalities are ex-
pected to delay the beginning of &C.
tual debate for "everal days
Wilson Letter Chief Topic.
Aside from the outstanding issues
OF the treaty fight itself the most
prominent subjects of discussion
among senators was the letter of Pres
ident Wilson laid before the Demo-
cratic conference and made public by
Senator Hitchcock. the Democratic
leader. The Presidents renewed de-
claration of opposition to some of the
language of some of the Republican
reservations was interpreted in diff
ferent ways by the various elements
In the Senate situation Some de-
clared the letter an uncompromising
reiteration of the stand taken by the
President on the eve of the November
ratification vote and asserted that pub
LEGATION OF his letter at this time again
bad widened the breach between the
Democratic and Republican senate
forces. Others protesting to see new
evidences of concession i'm the Presi-
dents words predicted an opposite
effect.
Although the Presidents letter was
written before publication OF the state.
ment by Viscount Grey. British ambas-
sador to the United States, regarding
reservations in some quarters it was
suggested that the letter would not
have been permitted to have become
public IL the British statesman's views
had resulted in any change in the Pres.
ident's position.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1920-02-12
LANE QUITS CABINET POST
Resignation OF interior Portfolio Ac.
cepted BY President.

NVos0VWNsOV " tVISVtOr P0eIv0Vo &C
eepted BY President.
Washington. Secretary Lane OF the
Department Of the Interior has placed
his resignation in the hands of Presi-
dent Wilson. who has accepted it, 1t be-
came known some time ago that the
secretary contemplated leaving the
cabinet when II was convenient for the
President to release him.
II is understood that Mr.. Lanes
plans for the immediate future have
not been fully matured He has been
secretary Of the interior since the be-
ginning Of President Wilson's admins
tratjon. Prior to that he was mem.
Der and chairman Of the Interstate
Commerce commission.
Mr.. Lanes resignation terminates a
public service Of more than 20 years in
which he has held many posts. begin.
ming with local offices in his home
state Of California
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1920-02-12
Askov

H. Petersen was a business
caller at Pine City. Tuesday.
Adolf Jensen and family have
moved out onto the former A.
Henriksen farm.
Remember the Parent Teach
ers meeting at the school house
tomorrow friday evening.
Miss Gudrun Norman left to-
day for Milaca, to spend the
week end with her parents.
Louis Jensen of the Askov
Drug and Variety Store was a
business caller at the Twin Cities
Tuesday.
Leo Nielsen, who has been
working in Minneapolis, came
home Tuesday evening to remain
for some time.
N. c. Forum came here Satur-
day to the home of his uncle.
N. G. Bendiks, direct from Den
mark. Mr.. Forum had only one
day of rest Sundays he went
to work for the Askov Lumber
and Supply Co., Monday.
l.. Mosbnks was in Sturgeon
Lake Friday, having been invi-
ted over there by the farmers
in that vicinity for the purpose
of talking over the preliminary.
steps in organizing Potato
Growers Association, and to
eventually build a potato ware
house.
Lincoln programs were held at
local public school Wednesday.
Programs were arranged for the
5th grade and down and from the
9Th grade and up, including the
high school. In the upper grades
A. Gravesen read an interesting
paper; and Leroy Jorgensen and
Clara Petersen also read articles
appropriate for the day. Only a
few parents attended these pro-
grams.
Little Ejvind Henriksen, who
was operated on at Minneapolis
last week came up to Sandstone,
Monday evening. accompanied by
Mrs. A. Henriksen. to stay at the
hospital there for a couple Of
weeks under the care of Dir. Bob
ling. Chris Henriksen and A.
Henriksen had returned from
Minneapolis some time previous.
Mrs. Chris Henriksen is now at
Sandstone taking care of her boy.
Little Ejvind is two years old to-
day and in honor of that event
his father and Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Poulsen are visiting him at
Sandstone. He is improving
nicely
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1920-02-12

School Board meeting Jan. s. 1920
Present were: s. Chr. Dixen. r
Petersen. Chr. Sorensen and Jeppe
Sorensen.
porary president.
Minutes Of last meeting were read
and approved as read.
Moved, seconded and carried to call
a special meeting at the home Of s
Chr. Dixen. Jan. 16. ut s p. M. for
the purpose o: planning next year Of
school. The following bills were
allowed:
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1920-02-12
HOOVER IS NOT A CANDIDATE
Declares He Stands For League With
Necessary Reservations.

New York Herbert Hoover issued
= statement defining his attitude to.
ward the presidency He announced
that he is not candidate for the
nomination and that no one is author.
ised to speak for him politically II
the League Of Nations is made an
issue in the election he says he will
vote for the party that stands for the
league with reservations necessary to
safeguard the Constitution
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1920-02-12
American Want Ads are only
lc a word. They bring results.

If you have something which
you want to dispose of you can
very soon find out if there is sale
for it by using American want
Ads.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1920-02-12
FRENCH SENATE ACCEPTS
Agrees to Y. s. Treaty Reservations,
London PAPER SAYS.

London. The Times prints dis
patch from Paris declaring the French
senate had decided TO accept the re-
servations OF the American senate to
the Versailles treaty. and was consid-
ering how its decisions should be com.
municated to Washington
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1920-02-12

ON motion meeting adjourned.
1eppe Sorcnsen, clerk.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-13
ATTEMPTED H0LD-UP IS BLuFFED AWAY
 FROM $150 BOOTY
Car Checkers Gun Accidently Discharged, Puts Man
 to Flight

E. o. Branch, 1903 West Barraque, a checker for the Pine Bluff com pany, bluffed a hold-up man out of $l5O, last night about 10 o'clock on
 Mulberry, between Barraque ana
 Second, and didn't know it until his
 assailant had disappeared.
 Branch, whose duty it is to check in the motormen-conductors and take over their receipts. was returning from his home to the company's barns carrying a grip continuing SI5O. As he approached the alley on Mulberry between Barraque and Sec ond, short, heavy man, his face swathed in mask stepped out and demanded that he "drop it" at the same time covering Branch with a pistol. Branch set the suitcase down, stepping as he did so. As he arose, he pulled his own gun and with his other hand seized the hold-up' gun arm. he told the police. In the scuf- file that followed his gun was dis charged, Branch said, and the hold up ceased to resist and pleaded to be turned loose. Branch let him go, he said, thinking that the man still was armed.
 After he had left, Branch said. he discovered that it was his own gun that had been fired and that the hold up had dropped his own.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-13
CHEMISTRY EXPECTED TO REDUCE LIVING C COSTS BY MILLIONS
Recent Discoveries Will be Elf
 fective, is Belief of Scientists.

St. Louis, Mo-. April 12.-Living costs will be reduced millions of dollars by recent chemical in- ventions, and discoveries. according to delegates to the convention of
 the American Chemical society in session here.
 1 The recent discovery by Fred G
 Cottrell, chief metallurgist of the United States bureau of mines, of a lead substitute to be used in the manufacture of insecticides is ex- pected to save millions of dollars of farm products annually and assist materially in lowering the cost of these products.
 Successful experiments in tanning hides of sharks. chemists assert, will assist materially in bringing down the cost of leather goods.
 About $1 1000, 100000 in farm prod ucts have been lost each year; be- cause insecticides, made chiefly of lead compounds, were beyond the reach of the poorer farmers" Char. les l.. Parsons of Washington, sec retary of the society explained.
 "By MT. Cottrell's discovery, ar senie is recovered from smoke issu- ing from copper smelters and this has made it possible for chemists to substitute calcium magnesium for lead. greatly reducing the cost of in- secticides.
 Keeps Paints Lower.
 Prohibition in destroying the wine industry also removed the supply of cream of tartar, which was extract ed from deposits in wine casks. However, chemists have discovered a method by which melleic acid is drawn from benzine and used as a substitute for cream of tartar, es- pecially in the manufacture of bak- ing powder.
 "Then, again, sthe chemist has kept down the price of paint. At this time paint would be $15 to $16 gal lon instead of $3 to $4, if the chem st had not made lithopone and til- aneum possible as substitution fori ead and zinc in paint making"
 Delegates say they look upon this as a combination of the chemical independence of the United States from the pre-waf dependence lpon other countries. Before the var, they said, there were only seven i've industries in this country as with seventy-seven at the present. time.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-13
SWITCHMEN ON THE
 COTTON BELT MERE:
 WON'T JOIN STRIKE
Not Union Matter, Says Off
 ciaI of Pine Bluff

Railway trainmen employed by the Cotton Belt in Pine Bluff are not in sympathy with the so-called outlaw" strike of switchmen which had it's beginning in Chicago last week, and no strike among the trainmen in Pine Bluff is expected, according to J. D. Staples, head of Local No. 305 Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen last night.
 The Pine Bluff local is supporting the union, he stated, and no vote has been taken in regard to the strike
 ''lt is not union strike" he said land our local is not concerned with it. The local trainmen are sticking by the union in this matter; all the local trainmen are working, and no strike among them is contemplated There are 250 members of local Mo- 3O5.
 The Missouri Pacific railway train- men employed in Pine Bluff are un- der the jurisdiction of the Little Rock local, which voted against a sympa thetic strike, Sunday in Little Rock
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-13
Memphis Physician Killed by Police
 Called by Wife

Memphis, Tenn, April 12.--The killing of Dr. Buford N. Dunavant Memphis physician, who served over seas as a medical officer with the 11bth field artillery, shot and ia tally wounded last night by two po- licemen at his home in fashion able residence district here, was "justifiable homicide," a jury of in- quest declared in it's verdict today.
 The police were summoned by neighhors who reported a disturb ance at the Dunavant home. Ac- cording to the statement of the of ficers, the y were in conversation with Msr. Dunavant on the front porch of the house when the physician appeared and, they allege, opened fire. They returned the fire inflicting wounds that result ed in his death.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-13
SkS NATION LOST
 f8,531,521 ON IS AMY ENVIRONMENTS
Republicans in Report, Criti. eize Administration;
 Minority Defends

Washington, April 1.-Two oppos. ing reports on the congressional in. vestiSation of the construction of 32 army camps and cantonments were submitted today to the house by a war expenditures committee and de- bated for several hours. The ma jority report presented by republic an committeeman. criticised govern ment agencies and officials in charge of the war buildizng program, while the minority report of the democrats defended the administration.
 The government lost $78,531 ,521 on the 16 national army cantonments, it was estimated by the majority re- port which asserted this was due ito waste inefficiency and graft" result ing from cost plus contracts which were said to be "wide open"
 /No estimate of loss on the nation 4 guard camps was made by the majority.
 Dissenting from the majority findings, the minority declared that the construction work was equivalent to building 32 cities, each with 37,000 to 46,00O population, and added:
 "This tremendous task was prac- tically completed in three months and stands out as one ot the great achievements of the war
 Representative Mckenzie, !lllnols, and Mccullough, Ohio, republicans and Doremus, Michigan, democrat, were the committee who conducted the investigation and their diver gent reports were accepted respect ively by the republicans and five democrats composing the full com mittee on war expenditures.
 Urge Prosecution.
 The majority submitted six rec for legislation by con- gress, including the submission to the states of constitutional amend ment making "profiteering in war time treason. "It also urged that the department of justice be asked to investigate work, as to bringing to book those responsible for losses to the government and frauds thru which they occurred, both by recover es and merited penalties"
 No recommendation were made in the minority report, and it listed two conclusions, one condemning the majority report and the other de- lending Secretary Baker, who the ma ajority declared, "must bear the fi- nal responsibility"
 The majority declared Secretary Baker should not have permitted a departure from the old method of bids.
 In turn, the minority said the sec retary "was.amply justified in abond- ing the usual peace-time method o1 awarding contracts upon competi. tive bidding and in substituting fol it the so-called cost plus system.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-13
ALLEN IS CALLED SKUNK OF GOVERNOR
 BY MINERS' LEADER
Howat, Speaking From Jail Balcony, Also Plays
 Judge

Girard, Kan, April 12.-Alexande l Howat, head of the Kansas Miners union, speaking by permission of tn sheriff of Crawford county, de l nounced Governor Allen as "skunl of a governor" before a crowd O several thousand persons, mostl, miners and their wives, gathered il front of the jail here shortly after noon today.
 Howat spoke for an hour from 6 balcony of the jail. He was repeat. edly cheered by the crowd whict had mobilized two or three miles out of the town and marched in fol lowing band and carrying American flags and banners. After march. ing around the courthouse square the friends of Howat gathered in front of the jail.
 "We won't recognize this court" Howat said, referring to the court of industrial relations before which he refused to appear as witness. "It is composed of the corporation law yers appointed by that skunk of a Governor Allen"
 in the most bitter terms he could ciC 6ONCAHOl anu CilC ICE B lature which enacted the law.
 Howat also paid his respects to Judge Andrew J. Curran of the Craw- ford county district court, who sen fenced him to jail for contempt. Judge Curran had been referred to in a newsaper story as sturdy American. "They talk about sturdy Americans" Howat said Sturdy Americans who send men to jail who have committed no crime. The men and the women are going to attend to those sturdy Americans who they get the opportunity.
 q will act first and do my talk ing afterward," he said.
 "The state will not countenance de- fiance of it's laws and the indus trial court act will be enforced, the same. as any other law would be-"
 Governor Allen held conservation over telephone with members of the court of industrial relations in Pitts burg today in this afternoon had a conference with Adjutant General Charles I. Martin.
 When Howat finished his speech the crowd voted thanks to Sheriff G. c. Webb for the courtesy shown in allowing Howat permission to de- liver his address. Howat retired to the front porch where he held re- ception, shaving hands with large number of pefsons. Robert Miller, a miner, presided at the meeting"
 Following the breaking. up of the gathering in front of the jail, min CTS marched around the square and in a corner of the square another meeting was held, addressed by a socialist orator.
 A banner carried into Girard by the marchers said:
 I've are for the U. s. A."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-13
GOVERNMENT LIKELY
 ID ACT TO-DAY IN
 RAILROAD SITUATION
curse Depends Upon Reports of the U. $. Field
 Agents
WILSON WILL SELECT
 RAILWAY BOARD TOO
Nine Names are to be Sent to the Senate Today - Industrial Workers of World Said to
 Busy
Washington, April 2-Determina

Washington, April 12.-Determina- Eon of the governments course in |he railroad strike crisis tonight |waited further information from FeId agents of the department of Elstice
 Attorney General Palmer, after nu- perous conferences with government f1lclals, said that a decision might Ee reached tomorrow, adding that kte government would not shirk it's Fsponsibility."
 I Meanwhile. official announcement fets made tonight at the white house Dat President Wilson would send to te senate tomorrow the names of tne members of the railway labor bard, created by the transportation ht. The nominations had been de- Iyed, it was said by the time taken
 selecting representative of the bblic OF the board to insure get
 ig the right men for the place
 men selected for the public tpup had not signified tonight their Flingness to act. it was said. Eramers of the transportation act,
 Eluding Chairman Cummins of the
 Bate interstate commerce com- tttee, were firm in the opinion
 ht labor would prove an effective &ncy to deal with the present rail N crisis for that reason, Senator Qmmins' committee deferred action fproposal for a congressional in- tEy into the strike.
 lhdependent of either the investi- cktoo hv tha GaDa ,,f mont of iuStica a 1.-the creation of the labor board government entered the strike $ Rtion directly today through or d sent by the postoffice depart n !t to it's inspectors and railway n officials throughout the coun- II flor prompt reports on any ob- s 4etion or delay of the mails.
 Ne department of justice would
 N
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-13
HUNGER STRIKE WEAK.

London, April 12.-The attorney general for Ireland, in reply to a question in the house of commons today, said that according to the lat est information the hunger strik- CTS in Mount Joy prison at Dublin were all weak; some were nearing the danger point. The attorney general added that they had all been forewarned of the consequence of their conduct
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-13
Denies He Sold Seine Bridge
 to a Frenchman

Washington, April 12.-Continuing his defense of the administration of Paris district, Brig. Gen. Harts told a house investigation committee to- day that charges of cruelty at the military prisons might have been ex- aggerated by men "endeavoring tc exculpate themselves" "Prisoners were never satisfied and always dis torted the truth" he said.
 Questioned by Chairman Johnson of South Dakota concerning the re- ported sale of "rights in the Paris subway" to Frenchmen by Sergeant Bender, General Harts said he per sonally investigated the report. Ben der, he said, denied sale of ono of the bridges over the Seine river but frankly admitted that "certaiy rights to the subway had been sot because it was necessary to rase money" Thirty cases of assertion inGace of the enemy took place in tH I1th (New York; national guard Tlsion, the general said. in explaiyn1g that many men in Paris werefsKuiKers who didn't want to remaig"ith their divisions at the front.
 Toys as whole hay yielded iarc 1 inventions.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-13
RAILWAY CRISIS IS
 NOW CENTRED IN
 EASTERN SECTION
Material Improvement is Now Noted in the Chicago Territory
|cuARGES UNIONTOOk SECRET STRIKE VOTE
r;obt Between Bump Leader and Regular Officials Grows Warm- er-Many Points in West Re- port Improvement

New York, April 12.--The strike of railroad workers here tonight presented the most me- nacing situation the city has faced since the unauthorized walkout began. Freight service on the railroads, over which come the bulk of the city's food and fuel virtually, was paralyz- ed and passenger service already seriously crippled, was s;iii fur ther impaired.
 Chicago, April 12.-While the un- |uthorized strike of railroad em. |loyes which started in Chicago two keeks age with the walkout of FOG mitchmen on the Chicago, Milwau lee and St. Paul railroad today ap- Ieared gradually to be waning in the hiddlewest and the far west. the (ituation in the territory east o1 Cleveland took on a more serious |spect.
 The center of development in the kalkout of insurgents had definitely |hifted to the east, where additions } the ranks of the rebel railroad torkers had caused serious stop 'ege of freight and passenger traf 5c and the closing of several in 'ustries dependent on the railroads pr supplies.
 l The situation in the Chicago ards showed marked improvement nd reports from other large rail bad centers in the middlewest indi hted that the crisis of the strik' as passed and that strikers were Burning to work in considerable hmbers. Officers of railroad broth Bhoods who have been fighting the rike since it's inception, were con dent that the breaking up of the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-13
75 Men Are Laid
 Off at the Shops

Forty-six car workers and 29 la- borers in the rip track department of the Cotton Belt shops will be laid off Saturday. according to authori- tative information last night, which stated that orders to that effect had been received at the shops yester- day. It was stated that the suspen- sion is part of a plan to reduce ex- penses durinn the next six months.
 The lay off is indefinite, it WI. stated.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-13
HEARING. ON BANK CASE.

Kansas City, Mo, April 12.--Hear- ing on the petition of the Fidelity Bank and Trust company to have Frank Hagerman, his son, B. Hay wood Hagerman and Alexander New removed as trustees for the Kan sas, Oklahoma and Gulf railroad, be- gan late today before Judge w. c Hook in the federal court here. Judse Hook denied requests from attorney for both sides for pcstponement.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-13
VIsCOUNTEss DIES.

London, April 12.-Dowager Wis countess Wolseley, widow of Wis. count Wolseley, the famous field marshal and former commander in chief of the British army, died here today.
 In her day, the Viscountess was a brilliant society leader and was de- voted to everything artistic. She had long maintained the reputation in England and on the continent of be- ing one of the best dressed women of Europe. Viscount Wolselev died at Mentone, France in 1913. The Wis count and Viscountess were married in 1867.