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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-23
ISLANDERS WOULD
JOIN SWEDEN, TO
TAKE PLEBISCITE
Agitation For Union Grows As
Delegation Goes to
Stockholm.

NEW YORK, June 22.-The ma
tlves Of the Aland Islands which
lie between Sweden and Finland. at
the mouth OF the Gulf OF Bothnia.
are engaged in a lively agitation for
rueniOn with Sweden. according to
the advices received by represeta-
tives OF the Swedish government in
this country. The population OF the
islands is about $4,000. Formerly
they were held by Sweden but they
were taken over by Russia 100 years
ago. After the world war a delega-
ton from the Aland Islands pre-
scented 10 the peace conference a
claim for annexation TO Finland. A
commission was appointed by the
conference which recommended that
the archipelago be neutralized under
a guarantee OF the League OF Ma
tons.
Apparently this delegation did not
faithfully represent the attitude of
all the islanders for other Alanders
have been agitating for self-determ-
nation and permission to Join with
Sweden since the beginning Of 1918.
Asks Pleblscite.
The Swedish government has taken
up the subject with the powers and
has asked the government Of Fin
land 10 submit the question by refer
endum to the natives of the Aland
Islands.
According TO a statement drawn
up by a Swedish premier, efforts 10
settle the matter between Finland
and Sweden have failed and the
Swedish government has appealed
L. the peace conference in support of
the demands OF those Alanders who
desire 20 be annexed to Sweden.
on June 1, a delegation of the
CO nty council at Aland, empowered
by % percent OF the population OF
ii 2 islands, visited Stockholm and
was received by King Gustave This
delegation presented the demands of
the islanders for their right of self
determination and their intention 10
reunite with Sweden, declaring that
their failure to receive these rights
were causing Impotence and that If
they were withheld while being
granted TO others would cause great
apprehension with the Aland pop
ulation.
The king assured them that
Sweden was making all possible eff
forts to obtain a decision which
would be based on the vote OF the
islandprS themselves
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-23
THEOCR4TIC PARTY
FORMED ~ ZION CITY

ZION CITY. H., June %
Among the many parties OF presi-
dcutial year one OF the most un-
usual is the Theocauc party OF
Zion City. u has the political plat
form adopted 10y this city
The Theocratic party's platform
was recently read by City Clerk Al
vim Marshall at meeting OF the city
council. The mayor and aldermen
FOR the FIVE wards were present. and
the ceremony was regarded by those
present as very impressive. The plat
form was adopted unanimously.
The party motto Is set forth IN the
third OF the five pllnks.
''N e declare the motto OF our
Iarty 10 be the unalterable and un-
assailable truth that Where God
rules. man DrosDers'
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-23
ADMITS HE WAS. DRUNK:
COSTS HIM ONE NIGHT

DETROIT. June 22.-POssibly
for the FIRST time in the history
OF Wayne county courts a man
insisted in prosecuting himself
when Philip Mcclure. AZ years
old. self-styled globe trotter. as
serted in night court that he
was guilty OF being drung and
case was called il WIS found that
should be fined. When McGuire's
no police officer was present 10
witness against the defendant.
That's all right. judge, eX-
claimed Mcclure. You don't
need an officer. I'm guilty.
was drunk. The officer was q
gentleman and a former soldier
and I wouldn't take advantage
OF his absence You so right
ahead and Judge this case the
same as If the officer was here
He was ordered held over
night
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-23
CRTNfSTOwN

Miss Mahe, Price spent Sunday
With her mother AIRS. william
Price
Miss Harriet Shoue spent Sunday
with her mother Mrs Maggie
Shone
church services viii be held ev-
efv Sandat evening at so % m..
fe' Harris officiating & younr
pe0ples meeting viii also be held
Sundly evening az ZOO o'clock
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-23
STFTBENVTTIF

nowcF Of rai~iU tack f. NOT 10 bc
doubted. The rcCJihcd ruin injected
such a kiCk into Sampson Mummy
that thc toe Of hiS boot penetrated
rho brick walls Of the local tail He
wa still az large today.
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
OUCH! MY BACK! RUB
LUMBAG0 PAIN AWAY
Rub 5ackache Away With Small
Trial Bottle Of Old "St.
Jacobs OIL"

When your back is sore and lame
or lumbago, sciatica or rheumatism
has you stiffened up, don't suffer! Gel
a small trial bottle of old, honest "St
Jacobs Or at any drug store, pour q
little in your hand and rub it right
on your aching back, and by the time
you count fifty, the soreness and lame.
ness is gone.
Don't stay crippled! This soothing,
penetrating oil needs to be used only
once. 1t takes the pain right out and
ends the misery. 1t is magical, yet
absolutely harmless and doesn't burn
the skin.
Nothing else stops lumbago. sciatica,
backache or rheumatism so promptly.
1t never disappoints ADV. .
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
Last U. S. Troops Leave Siberia.

ashingtOn.-Arrival at Vladivostok
for embarkation of the last army de
tachments in Siberia was indicated in
a message from Major General Graves,
commanding, which said the last de.
tachment of the Twenty-seventh infan-
try had reached that port, eli route to
the Philippines. The regiment has been
on duty since the summer of 1918
guarding the transsiberian railway and
assisting in the withdrawal of Czecho
Slovak forces.
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
Banishes Robber With Spoon

Great Falls, Mont.-With the aid
Of a silver spoon which he secured
while dropping quickly behind the
bar of soft-drink saloon, George Ed
monds, the bartender saved his en-
ployers from being robbed by a man
who entered the place from the rear
and covered Edmonds with gun.
The silver spoon so resembled re-
volver projected from the rear of the
bar that the highwayman turned and
fled.
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
eriaand Met His Match.

A certain English financial journal,
which had short life, published in
one of its issues a most scathing but
at the same time nonactionable and
amusing structure On member of the
stock exchange who had somewhat
shady reputation. The subject of the
structure had double-barreled name,
which we will call Jones-Smithson,
and the paragraph about him was as
follows:
I'VE understand that Mr.. Jones'
Smithson has been spending his holi-
days among the italian lakes. Last
week he was attacked by a brigand.
and in the course of the encounter the
brigand lost his watch and chain"
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
FUELADMIN|STRA-
ton CONTINUED
WILSON APPOINTS NEW COMMITS.
SION ON FUEL WITH HINES
AT HEAD.
TO DISTRIBUTE COAL
ACTION NECESSARY ON ACCOUNT
OF INADEQUATE FUEL
SUPPLY.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

| Western Newspaper Union News Service.
| Washington, March 1.-Coincident
with the signing of the railroad bill
President Wilson issued executive or
ders providing for continuation of the
powers of the Fuel Administration
but dividing them between the direc-
| tor general of railroads and a com
mission of four. Director General
| Hines will retain jurisdiction over do
| nestle distribution while the commits
| sion will handle bunker and export
coal matters.
The commission will be composed of
A. w. Howe, Rembrandt Peale, f. NJ.
Whitaker and j. f. Fisher. 1t will
function through the Tidewater Coal
Exchange, which is restored for that
purpose, having been suspended be-
fore the resignation of DR.. Garfield as
fuel administrator
The order creating the commission
is effective until April 80, next.
The order said the action was taken
because of the present emergency
and in order to insure an adequate
supply and equitable distribution, and
to facilitate the movement, and to pre-
vent locally or generally, scarcity of
COAL 1t directs specifically that the
order issued by the United States Fuel
Administration, Nov. 6, 1917, relative
to tidewater transshipment of coal at
Hampton Roads, Baltimore, Philadel-
phia and New York, and for the EN-
plOyment of and cooperation with the
tidewater coal exchange, as common
agency, to facilitate transshipment
and to reduce delays in the use of
coal cars and coal-carrying vessels"
suspended by DR.. Garfield Feb. 20,
1919, be reinstated.
The commissioners named are au-
thOrized to exercise the powers re-
served by the United States fuel ad-
by said order of Nov 9,
1917, and they are further, from and
after II :01 o'clock am. on March l,
1920, vested with the authority now
vested in the director general of rail
roads relative to the export of coal
from the United States"
The second order, investing Mr..
Hines with the powers of fuel admin
istrator, so far as domestic distribu-
ton is concerned, said doubt had |
arisen It's to whether he could con-
tinue to exercise those powers after |
the return of the railroads to private |
control A new order was therefore |
executed, extending Mr.. Hines au-
Ihority beyond the date of the return.
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
72, NOW HAS TWINS
Mrs. Dora Mccants of California, Al
ready the Mother of 25
Children.

San Francisco.-Friends of Mrs
Dora McCants of Shasta, Cal, are
congratulatlng her and saying she is
perhaps the most remarkable woman
in the United States. She Is the
mother Of 81 children, and sends suf-
ficient of her progeny to the district
school to keep 1t open. If it were net
for the McCants family there would
be no school in Shasta.
Mrs. McCants is seventy-two years
old, and gave birth to twins Septem-
ber 26. Jerry McCants, her N'1sband
is thirty-nine years old. A
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
Bandits Kill storekeener.

Nogales, Ari.. Alexander F'rasier
American storekeeper and mining en-.
gineer, is dead, and his brother, ]. A.
Frasier, is in critical condition as a
result of Il battle with two Mexican
bandits who raided general store
owned by the Frasier Brothers at Mon,
tapa Camp, thirty miles from here. J.
A. Frasler, who was shot through the
head, is said to have identified one Of
his assailants as member of band
of outlaws which has terrorized the
border for many years.
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
Another Matter.

With pride in her face, Mrs. Styles
faced her husband.
Don't you think this new hat i'm
proves my looks, dear?"
Il suppose so," grunted the man,
surlily.
"But what makes you look so cross,
dear?" asked the woman, anxiously.
I'm thinking of the bill for that
hat" retOrted Mr.. Styles. "You can't
expect that to improve my looks."-
London Answers.
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
U. S. viii Seek Canadian Paper.

Washington.-The Senate passed
and sent to the House the Underwood
joint resolution creating commission
to treat with Canada for abrogation of
the restrictions on the export of pulp
wood and news print paper. Senator
Underwood told the Senate some ac-
ton was imperative, as the newspaper
publishing industry in the United
States "almost faced extinction" be-
cause of the dwindling newsprint sup
n1V
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
ExiIing Radicals.

Washington.-Th governments de
portation machinery is working at full
speed but quietly Many reds are be
ing eXiled, but with as little advertis
ing as possible, it has been learned
The dispatch of another "soviet ark" is
opposed by Secretary of Labor Wilson
because the notoriety it gives the reds
enables them to pose as martyrs and
results in agitation against deporta-
tions.
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05

ton. They obtained employment in
the woods, where the younger was
killed five years after his departure
from home. u
Since that time the eldest brother
has wandered over the Pacific coast.
He never wrote home and never re-
ceived any word from relatives. Short
ly after his arrival in Clarion county
he located his mother Mrs. Anna
Burrows Keaster, and happy reunion
followed.
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR.

To half pint of water add OF. Bay Rum,
small box of Barbo Compound, and u
OF. of glycerine. Apply to the hair twice a
week until it becomes the desired shade.
ANY druggist can put this up or you can
mix it at home at very little cost. It will
gradually darken streaked, faded gray hair,
and will make harsh hair soft and glossy.
1t will not co'or the scalp, is not sticky or
greasy, and does not rub off.-Ady.
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
Bad Sickness
Caused by
Acid-Stonlach

II people only realized the health destroy
ing power of an acid-stomach-of the many
kinds of sickness and misery it causes-of
the lives 1t literally wrecSs-they would
guard against 1t carefully as they do
gainst deadly plague. You know in an
instant the first symptoms of acid stomach
pains OF indigestion; distressing painful
oloati sour, gassy stomach: beIching; food
repeating; heartburn. etc. Whenever your
stomach feels this way you should lose no
time in putting it to rights II you don't
serious CONSEQUENCES almost sure to fol-
low such as intestinal fermentation auto
lntoxication. impairment of the entire ner-
vous system, headache. biliousness cirrhosis
or the liver; sometimes even catarrh of the
stomach and intestinal ulcers and cancer
II you are not feeling right, see IL II isn't
acid d-stomach that is the cause Of your mi
health. Take EATONIC. the wonderful mod
ern stomach remedy. EATONIC Tablets
quickly and surely relieve the pain, bIoat
belching, and heartburn that Indicate acid
Nomach. Make the stomach strong clean
and sweet. By keeping the stomach in
healthy condition that you can get full
strength from your food. your general health
steadily improves Results are marvelously
quick. Just try EATONIC and you will be
as enthusiastic as the thousands who have
used 1t and who say they never dreamed
anything could bring such marvellous relief
So get big 50-cent box of EATONIC
from your druggist today. II not satisfac-
tory return IL and he will refund your rnonev
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
NEEDFlRE OLD FOLK CUSTOM
Part of the Ritual of Publication That
Has Survived in Scotland Until
Recently.

In folk custom, needfire is fire kin
died by friction of two sticks of wood
or of rope on a wooden stake to
ward off demons of disease. Among the
many customs and beliefs connected
with fire ogte of the most important is
that of ritual publication. The new
fire as supposed to regenerate, as fire
sacrifice is designed to sustain, the
invisible beings. Needfire is a prac-
tice, usually, of shepherd peoples to
ward off disease from the flocks. In
historic times the sparks for kindling
the needfire were obtained by twirling
a wooden peg around wooden post
AS in the case of new fire. the need
fire was almost always accompanied
with the extinguishing of the fires of
the locality, and the neighbors also
rekmdled their fires from it as in the
new fire ceremony. In practice, the
people passed, or the herds were driv-
en- through or between the flames of
the needfire for publication. The need
fire custom survived in the highlands
of Scotland until recent date, and
probably traces of this superstition
still exist in parts of Europe.
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05

Of the germs that cause the dis
ease. S. S. S. has no equal as a
blood cleanser, scores of sufferers
say that it has cleansed their
blood of Rheumatism, and remov-
ed all trace of the disease from
their system.
Get bottle of S. S. S. at your
drug store and get on the right
treatment to-day. If you want
special medical advice, address
Medical Director, 49 Swift Labora-
tory Atlanta. Ga
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
You Can't Cure Rheumatism
With Liniments and .o+:one

If you are afflicted with Rheu-
matism, why waste time with lini-
ments, lotions and other local ap-
plications that never did cure
Rheumatism, and never will?
Do not try to rub the pain away,
for you never will succeed. Try
the sensible plan of finding the
cause of the pain. Remove the
cause, and there can be no pain.
You will never be rid ofRheuma-
tism until you cleanse your blood
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
His PRESTIGE Gone.

"Rattlesnake Bill is strangely al
tered. What's the troubIe?"
"Bill says If he had known what
was before him when he went into the
movies he would have stuck to train
robbing and kept his self-respect. In
the old days no man ever talked to
him the way the director does and
lived to tell the tale."--Birmingham
AgeHerald.
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
v---------------
Aviator Gets Prize Money.

Melbourne.--Capt. Ross Smith, win
ner of the commonwealth prize of f10,
900 for an airplane flight from Eng
land to Australia, has received a
check for that sum at the Parliament
house.
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
How'a ThiSP

We offer $4,000 for any case Of catarrh
that cannot be cured by HALLS
CATARRH MEDICINE
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE is TAX
en- internally and acts through the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces OF the System.
Sold by druggists for over forty years.
Price 75c Testimonials free.
F. ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
All of II.

"Did you have fine time on your
auto trip?
"Oh, yes. We ran into n lot of
country speed traps and it was moth
ing but fine"
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
CLEARS UP AN
old MYSTERY
Pennsylvania, Believed Slain
When a Boy, Returns
Home.
MEETS HIS MOTHER
Stepfather, Made Insane Because of
Accusations of Having Murdered
Boys, Confesses to
the Crime.

Sharon, Pa.-Yielding to a longing
to visit the scenes of his boyhood days,
George Burrows Keaster returned a
few days ago to the rural district of
Clarion county, just over the Mercer
county line, and in so doing cleared up
a mystery Of many years standing.
In the early eighties William Keas-
ter, farmer residing on the highway
between Know and Colensburg, mar
ried a widow with two sons, ten and
twelve. Shortly after the marriage
the boys disappeared and a search
failed to reveal their whereabouts.
The circulation of story that Keas-
ter had murdered the boys resulted in
breaking up the home The accusation
so preyed on his mind that Keaster be-
came insane and was committed to a
state hospital. where he died.
confesses Murder.
On the date of his commitment he
told the warden that he had murdered
the eldest boy and had been forced to
repeat his act to prevent the youngest
from accusing him. He said that the
bodies of the boys were buried in the
garden near his home. A search of
the premises failed to reveal them.
Several days ago there appeared in
the locality of the old Keaster home
a stranger who claimed to be the elder
of the boys.
The wanderlust called the boys to
the West; they crept out of bed, left
the house, boarded a freight train and
finally reached the state of Washing
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
Cripple Almost Made Whole,

man who had both arms cut off
between wrist and elbow is able to
dress, shave, eat. do his work and
shake down his furnace by means Of
artificial arms which have metal wrist
plates. Various implements, such as
brushes, razor, knife fork. spoon and
pen, fit into sockets in the wrist plates
and are held by spring catch
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05

Hapsbnrg, meaning "Owls Castle"
was castle which stood in the canton
of Aargau, Switzerland, the reputed
cradle of the Hapsburg dynasty.
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
Chicago People Living Like plos.,

~sS SSPN G'NH'S Line rigs.
Chicago.-Because housing facilities
are inadequate, 100000 persons In Chi
cago "are living like pigs in the slum
districts" according to statement
by the head Of the Chicago Housing
association,
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
Economy,

"Why are you letting your children
learn those classic dances? Don't you
think it is foolish fadY
mot bit of it. 1t saves shoe
leather"
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05

'Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" marked
with the safety ''Bayer Cross" can be
taken without fear because you are
getting the true, worId-famous Aspirin.
prescribed by physicians for over 1S
years.
Always buy an unbroken package of
"Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" which con-
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05

Burnt sienna is a paint manufac-
tured from the natural earth obtained
near Sienna, Italy.
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05

A married cynic's idea Of d wise guy
is fellow who had chance to marry
his wife but didn't
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
Never Thought of That.

A lover of the cranberry says it is
a fine antiscOrbutic. Now, we had
never thought of that.-Arkansas Ga
Zette.
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05

tains proper directions TO safely relieve
Colds, Headache, Toothache, Earache,
Neuralgia, Lumbago, Rheumatism, Neu-
ritis, Joint Pains, and Pain generally.
Handy tin boxes Of twelve tablets
cost but few cents. Druggists also
sell larger "Bayer" packages. Aspirin
is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture
of Observation-Disclosures of Salicylicacid.
Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05

Use penny for rubbing mud from
clothing. It provides an edge that is
not too sharp.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
LINE OF GREAT i STEEL FREIGHTERS
 FOR CANAL TRADE
Isthmian Steamship Company Pro- i poses to Operate 12 11,000-Ton Ships From Seattle to East

Twelve 11,000 ton steel steamships,
 forming the mightiest fleet ever op-
 operated in the intercoastal trade, will
 be placed in the Seattle-New york
 route, via the Panama Canal, if the
 Interstate Commerce Commission
 grants the application of the 18th
 milan Steamship Company for nermis- sion to use the canal, according to advices today from the East. The Commission began a hearing o7 the application last week, says the Seattle Times
 The Isthmian Steamship Company is subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation. The Steel Corpo- ration owns a small railroad. Under an act of Congress, no steamships owned by railroad interests are al lowed to enter the intercoastal trade via the canal
 The ownership of the Isthmian company contends that it does moi come within the law as it is not engaged in regular railroad operations and the road in question is not com peting with the canal route. The object of the act is to preserve com petition between the railroads and the intercoastal steamship lines which use the canal route.
 To Have Steel And Lumber. While Seattle and New York are to be the terminals of the service, if established, the vessels will include other ports on each coast in their points of call Steel, and steel pro lducts, it is said, would form a heavy proportion of-the cargoes. Canned salmon. lumber and other Pacific Coast products would furnish the ] cargocs for the eastbound voyages | The 11,000 tonners of the Isthmiar line were. built especially for the in tercoastal service via the canal
 Their operation in the route, it is
 said. would bring about a develop l lhent in the intercoastal cargo move
 ment greater even, than the colossa l movement built up by the American
 Hawaiian Steamship Company in 191t 1915 and 1916. In those days it was nothing for three big America1-Ha
 wai.an liners to be in port at tht
 same time, each chuck-a-block witl inward CT outward cargo
 | Wartime conditions eliminated tht
 American~Hawa.ian fleet from tho
 canal route.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-27
CONVICT MEXICAN SAVES
 LIFE OF HIS FOREMAN
 NOTWITHSTANDING GRuDGE

PHOENIX, Ariz., March 26-How d physically powerful Mexican con vict saved the life of the foreman he disliked at the risk of his own,
 is the story P. R. Mines, private Fsecretary to Governor Campbell, has
 brought here on his return from trip to the state penitentiary at
 Florence, Arizona.
 The convict, Pete Salinas, serving
 term for burglary, had a grudge
 against his foreman of the road COL struction gang. Shorty Mcdonald because of the discipline which tic foreman had to impose, according tc secretary Mines. On the other hand Salinas was considered troublesome ! powerful enough to be source ot danger, and spelling under restraint |. His act of heroism came one day just after a premature explosion knocked foreman McDelafd uncon. scious. Salinas, who was out of the danger zone, rushed in ands before all of the rock had stoppeds falling 1 threw his own body upon that of the l foreman.
 | A rock fell on Salinas head and l dazed him. the secretary said, bul
 realizing that another blast was dut l to explode immediately, the convict
 struggled to his feet, picked up th, still unconscious foreman and dragged ] him out cf danger