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The Mankato free press., 1923-04-27
STATUS OF IzFN
CASE IS STATED
Dismissed Before United
States Commissioner
Frank Morse

L. W. Scott, assistant United States
attorney, who is in attendance at the
April term of the United States
court in this city, in speaking Of the
J. B. lien case, reiterated TO the Free
Press that the case is being held in
abeyance as far as the United States
government is concerned, but the
proceedings before United States
Commissioner Frank E. Morse in this
city have been disposed of or in other
words dismissed. The records OF Mr..
Morse's Office state the, case is dis
missed.
When asked as to what further
steps would be taken by the United
States government in the case, Mr.
Scott said it had not yet been pre-
sented to the federal grand jury. He
was not in a position, however, to
state at this time whether it would
be taken before that body or not, but
the case is being held in allegiance,
according to Mr.! Scott. '
The Mankato free press., 1923-04-27
MANKATO SCHOOL
TEACHERS PICKED
List Selected By the Direc.
tors Last Night
CHANGES ARE FEW
Several Instructors Resigned
To Accept Positions In
Other Towns

The board OF education at its
special meeting held last night re.
elected the entire force OF teachers
and instructors now holding posi-
tions at the school with the excep-
uon OF those teachers or instructors
who have already resigned from
their positions contemplating chang
es, and where certain departments
have been discontinued or 1t IS
probable that the department will
be discontinued.
The board did not elect any per-
sons to those positions that are left
vacant by the i've designations
which were received by the board.
= is probable that the places will
be filed a. LAe AeAC SPECIAL meeting
OF the board which IS set for May IL.
Those that have resigned from
the local teaching force are as fol:
lows, George J. Conklin, physical
education; Mrs. George ]. Conklin.
physical education; Miss Monica
McElroy, mathematics and news
writing; Mrs. Amy Mantor, first and
second grades; Mrs. Beatrice 7.
Mark.
George ]. Conklin, has been coach
OF athletics AT the Mankato high
school during the past year. One OF
the big features OF his work here
was the defeat of the st. Peter foot
ball team by the local aggregation
on last Thanksgiving Day. Several
applicants have applied for the DO.
sition as physical director at the
local school but the board will make
no decision on the position until the
next meeting.
The positions now held by Miss
Nellia n Gray in the sunArintand-
ent's office and by Miss Loretta
Veigel in the principals office at
the high school were not decided up
on at the meeting last night and
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The Mankato free press., 1923-04-27
ANXIETY FELT FOR
THOSE ON VESSEL
S. O. S. Call Is Sent Out;
Ship Makes Response
NOT SOUL In SIGHT
Mystery Surrounds Grounding
Of Portuguese Mail
Craft
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.

ASSOCIATED Press DlSpatcn.J
London, April 26-A Reuters dis
patch from Capetown says that the
Portuguese mail steamer Mossa-
medes, which grounded, several days
ago, at Cape Frio, Southwest Africa,
has been found abandoned with no
sign of the 327 passengers she car
ried. Thus far, the dispatch adds,
there is no indication of the fate of
the passengers and crew. Owing to
the tact that there are no landing
places in the neighbor of Cap Frio
and that heavy sea is running to-
day, grave anxiety is felt for the
safety of the boats The Mossa
medes passengers included twenty
nine women and twenty five child
rem. Two of them were British and
the rest Portuguese.
The Mossamedes, a vessel of 4.6lo
tons, left Capetown last Friday for
the west coast Just when she went
ashore is unknown. But she sent out
an S. o.. S. call for help. The Brit
ish steamer Port Victor, which was
290 miles away. raced to her assis-
tance, arriving about midnight on
Tuesday. The Port Victor found the
MOSSdIuGuGS u.
The. British steamer, the dispatch
says, still is searching for the boat.
If necessary, the German steamer
Urandi, which is coaling at Waivis,
will assist in the search
Another Ship In Distress
San Francisco, April 26.--Wireless
stations here picked UP early today
S. o. S. calls from the steamer
Brush, shipping board cargo ship.
saying she was in distress of Cape
Arago, on the coast Of Oregon near
the entrance to Coos bay. At day
light no vessels-near her had been
located. The Brush, believed to car
ry crew of forty cwo, left Aber
deem, Wash, for San Francisco, last
night
Later in the morning the Radio
corporation of America received
wireless message that the steamer
Brush hard aground was breaking
steamer Admiral Fiske had gone TO
her aid, but was not expected to ar
rive before p. m.
. Crew Is Safe
Portland. Ore, April rs. = The
crew of the steamer Brush, aground
off Cape Arago, near Coos bay, Ore
gon, was being removed in life
boats, according to wireless mes
sage picked UP at the navy radio
station at North Bend, Washington,
shortly before s a. m. today.
Crew Abandons Ship
San Francisco, Cal, April 26.-The
crew of the steamer Brush has
abandoned the ship, according to the
message of the ships radio opera
tor, relayed to the Federal Telegraph
company here. The operator said
that it was his final message.
The Mankato free press., 1923-04-27
CLARA PHILLIPS IS
Hf[DINHONDURAS
Woman Believed 10 Be Ham
mer Murderess Cings To
Hope Of Freedom
Associated Press Dispatch.

.Tegucigalpa, Honduras, April 26.--
Clara Phillips, the escaped Califor-
MIA hammer murderess, with a wo-
man companion, arrested here on
Saturday, are still held in the local
Jail waiting full Identification and
extradition papers, while the man
who accompanied her, under the
name of Carson, is separately held
in the penitentiary.
When seen at thes Jail the woman
known as Clara Phillips refused to
admit her identify, but discussed
the crime attributed to her, and the
escape, in such way as to leave no
doubt OF her identity among those
who saw her. She shows no evi-
dence of being downhea- ted, and
clings to the Hope of freedom. not so
much on the merits of the case, but
mainly because of the technical diff
culties attending extradition and re-
turn to another country.
The Mankato free press., 1923-04-27
JACKSON is FINED
Fle was Former Postmaster at Ruth
ton, Mimi; Before Booth

ton,, Mimi; Before Booth
J. Jackson, postmaster at Ruth.
ton, Mimi, was fined $112 in federal
court shortly before noon today by
Judge Wilbur F. Booth, upon his
plea of guilty TO an indictment
charging him with the mis- appro-
priation of C.: o. D. funds. The fine
imposed covers the amount alleged
to have. been used illegally by Jack :
son.
The jury hearing the case of the
Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis and
Omaha Railway company against
the Fairmont Storage company was
still out at two o'clock this after
noon. The plaintiff is seeking de-
murrage charges from the defend
ant. A jury was drawn at eleven
o'clock this morning to hear the
second case on the calendar, that of
Lena Weast against the Chicago and
Northwestern company. The defend
ant is suing for $1,000 damages for
alleged personal injuries received at
Darfur, Mimi, in boarding a train
of the defendant.
The Mankato free press., 1923-04-27
Sale of Baseball Booster Books

One hundred and fifty books had
been sold by the various ticket COM
mittee to "Mankato Boosters" when
partial reports were received at noon
today The committees are working
hard and by this evening expect to
go over the top on the minimum OBJ
jective OF $500 and we'll on their
way o.the figure Of $4,000. Everyone
accosted by the ticket committees
fought books, some not as many as
others, but all with the proper
3ririt A list of those who became
''''%ato Boosters" today will b.
y b,ished in tie Fee Frp.s tonor
.US. ..
The Mankato free press., 1923-04-27
Won't NEGOTIATE Contracts

INssUCtdItI i T ItsS IIIsI q INF 2 y .
New Ycrf. April 26-MembeTs OF
the American Newspapers Publish
ars' association voted, today not to
negotiate cort~2 cts with union print
ars or males in compliance with a
new amen 1ment 10 the constitution
of the Internatinal Typographical
Union, which provides that such
contracts be made jointly and ex
pire ccncurrently.
The Mankato free press., 1923-04-27
American Golfers Entered.

TAseoclatsT = I!ls"atch.T
London, April 25.-An the mem
which will defend the Walker cup at
ST Andrews have been entered for
the ST. Georges cup competition to
be played over the Royal st. Georg-
es course at Sandwich. May aud 5,
ft was announced tonight.
The Mankato free press., 1923-04-27
Forest Fires Controlled

ASSUCIdCGU TI6S5 DISPdIOLL.I
Harrisburg. Pa, April 26.-Forest
fires burning in many sections lof
PENNSYLVANIA were today reported
generally under control in the vi d.
cinity of Communities which last
night were threatened by the spread
of flames. The situation, however.
still was described by state forestry
department officials as extremely
dangerous"
The Mankato free press., 1923-04-27
New Work | iberty Bcnds.

New York. April 20 Z. 5. Cow
eminent bonds closing Liberty 21as,
S1G1 II; first 4s. $97I bid second As.
COG so bid; first 1 As. s97: second
As. S96. 81; third 4 u 4s. 1881 (:
fCurtb A As. S97 5: uncalled 4As,
S1c0: new 4 l. As s9S.23. ~
The Mankato free press., 1923-04-27
TRADE ACTIVITY HEALTHY
Julius II. Barnes Sees Greatest En-
couragement For the Future
ASSOCIATED Press DlSpatch.I

ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch. @
Boston, April 26-Julius H. Barnes
Of Duluth. minnesota, president Of
the United States Chamber of Com
morce, told the Boston Chamber Of
Commerce today that it was proper
that notices of warning should be L.
sued against major mistakes Of in
fiation and over expansion In the
present time of prosperity.
But" he added, there - nothing
in survey of trade indexes by prod
per comparison which Yields 2ny<
thing but the greatest ennnufases
ment for the futures and compe1 q
confidence that the present hR11inesd
activity and expansion II eRstha
main, healthy and natural n
Another Joy kUlaH n
Tailors tell us cont tAif0a WI ~
shorter, perhaps becasSka Aoma .ok>n6
wear patchedt trousspa ~
The Mankato free press., 1923-04-27

London, April 26.-Albert, Duke Of
York, was united In marriage With
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon in so4
lemn old Westminster abbey at
noon today with pomp and panolly
reminiscent of the spacious days of
the mid victorian era and amid the
tumultuous demonstrations OF tae
vast throngs that gathered under
threatening skies to witness the
wedding pageant.
AS the cortege entered the abbey
a slight drizzle of rain fell but soon
aiterward the sun broke through the
clouds and as the royal pair made
their exit they were greeted with
brilliant sunshine, recalling the old
saying: Happy is the bride the sun
shines on
1t was the second time in a little
more than year that the king and
queen of England gave one of theii
children in wed)ock to a person
outside the realm of royalty. While
| the marriage of the soyereign's sec
ond son did not stir the popular i'm
agination of the British empire as
did Princess Mary's wedding, the
romance which turned a simple cir
into a royal princes bride and ele
waited her from position of relative
obscurity to the place of the fourth
lady of the nd,,captured thes,1ea' s.
of stiie English peipfe. Tne fat tlial
Lady ElizabetRs marriage to the
Duke of York makes her eligible tC
wear the crown ow the empire il
the event anything untoward befalls
the Prince of Wales, impaired ar
additiona lnote of interest and sig
| nltlPanna m tho
Ceremony Great Event
Today's ceremony was both 9
great religious and social event, anC
was marked by a glittering exhibi
ton Of fashion and sumptuous
jewels. Eight hundred of England.
greatest luminaries in state court
diplomacy and society, as well as al
impressive assamblage OF foreign
princes, dukes, duchesses and other:
Of rank and title, were there, at
tired in finery and jewelled embel
lishments that represented the pro
verbal kings ransom.
The archbishop of Canterbury, as
sisted by Englands most distin
guished prelates, solemnized the
union. The Prince Of Wales tool
a prominent part in the proceedings
Wales and his brother, Prince Hen
ry, acted as best men, but il wa!
Wales who produced the ring at thu
critical moment.
The eight bridesmaids were chos
en- mainly from among the persona
friends of the bride. They were
dressed in immaculate ivory white
crepe chiffon trimmed with Noting.
ham Lace and presented a fairy like
picture.
Lady Elizabeth was attired in al
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The Mankato free press., 1923-04-27
SUN BURSTS OUT 4
ON ROYAL COUPLE
Old Westminster Abbey Is
Scene Wedding Today
LONDON ALL ASTR
Lady Elizabeth BoWes-Lyon
Became Bride Albert
Duke of York =

Copenhagen, April 26. The
silver wedding anniversary o.
King Christian and Queen Alex
andrine was celebrated TO-DAY
at the Frendensborg castle
where thirty and forty years agr
nearly all the crowned heads OF
Europe were accustomed to ga
ther around the picturesque fig
ure of "Europe's father in law"
Here for the festivities were
King Haakon, Queen Maud anG
Crown Prince Olaf of Norway,
Prince WaIdemar, King Chris
tian's brother, who has been
spending some time in London,
Queen AIexandrine's sister, the
former crown princess of Ger-
many, and her children the
Duke and Duchess of Cumber-
land, and many other person..
ages.
The Mankato free press., 1923-04-27

TContinued On Page 81
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-11

From a field of nine candidates, Min
nesota Republicans nominated Cover
nor j. A. O. Preus to represent the
Party at the polls on Monday, July
16 When elected, he will, on qualify
ing, fill the unexpired term OF his best
friend, the late Senator Knute Nelson.
Governor Preus brings the voters
for their consideration an ability, an
education, a training and an expert
ence far beyond those possessed by any
other man now in Minnesota's public
life. After graduating from the Uni
versity, Mr.. Preus served as clerk
in the United States Senate. While
there he learned thoroughly the duties
and responsibilities of senator, the
senate's method of procedure, the vari-
Gus departments at Washington, their
functions and their methods. Mime
sofa has no other senatorial candidate
who possesses this actual, personal
knowledge of the duties of United
States Senator.
AS Insurance Commissioner of Min
nesota, State Auditor and Governor,
Mr.. Preus has been in every section of
the state, talked with people in every
section, gained an intimate, personal,
practical knowledge of their work,
their problems, their needs, and the
resources of the state, it's industries
and its requirements. No other candi-
date for the senate has had this ex-
perience or now has this knowledge.
His Record.
Governor Preus has made good in
every position of trust to which the
people have elected him. He served
the state expertly as Commissioner of
Insurance and was then and is now
recognized throughout the United
States as an insurance authority.
AS State Auditor he mastered the
duties and details of the office and
thereby secured expert knowledge of
the states public domain and fiscal
affairs.
AS Governor he has advocated CO
operative marketing, secured legis.
lation and approved laws tending to
improve the condition of the farmer
and achieve once again normal bust.
ness conditions. During his admins.
tration for the first times in the states
history, the general revenue fund tax
levy was twice eliminated. AS Gov.
cIuOT he hcpt LID plOuloS duu LIE
partv's pledge to sign the tonnage
tax BIN. This one Official act VIII
bring ssoo,20O;;O0G annually into the
Treasury of Minnesota. He has spon
sored the st. Lawrence waterway and
is it's best known and ablest exponent
Our Opportunity.
With such job open and such a
man available, we voters of Minnesota
can now send to the United States
Senate, a man who from the first will
be recognized there as the ablest mar
from the northwest. To secure him
we must go to the polls on July 16tt
and vote for j. A. o. Preus for senator
We must ask our friends by telephone
and by letter to do likewise, and thu
work must be done now, today. Tht
special election date is July 16- Aftel
that it will be too late.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-11
Why Fear
'Pure Democracy?

Warnings are being sounded by
American newspapers and politicians
against what they call drift" to-
ward "pure democracy" The perils
threatened are not clearly defined.
Vague intimations are dropped that
something terrible is likely to happen
and that the people must choose pref
ty soon between American ideals"
and institutions" and this dreaded
menace. 1t is not likely that many
who know the history of the Ameri-
can people and of the growth of their
institutions will be unduly alarmed by
these warnings. 1t is quite possible
that sensible Americans will realize
that the parading of the supposed
dangers limited at bears a close rela-
ton to the approach of the presiden-
tial election of 1924, and that the
peril most feared by those who issue
the warnings is loss of public office.
Why should an American have any
fear of pure democracy or drift to-
ward it? When the American sys-
TEN of government was founded on
the idea that all just powers Of pub
lie authority are derived from the
consent of the governed" pure DEM
ocracy was established then and there
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-11
GOODYEAR
Kenneth Byram
Goodyear Service Station
Redwood Falls. Minnesota

20 be sure, obstacles remaining from
old habits of political thought and
procedure had to be overcome grad
ually, but that process and the drift
toward the realization of the pure
democracy denoted by the consent Of
the governed began at the very start
of the United States. The evolution
of the American system has been
steadily toward the removal OF those
obstacles, toward the simplification
Of methods by which the consent G.
e., the willy Of the people is ascer-
tanned and executed. Manhood suf-
frsge gradually took the place of that
limited by property qualifications. Lat
er there has come woman suffrage
great stride toward pure democracy.
Direct election of senators succeeded
the old method of choosing them. The
primary system has largely taken the
place of party conventions.
So the drift" goes on. 1t has NOV
ed with the resistless power of gla-
cier through the country's whole his
tory. Efforts to stop it have always
proved utterly futile. Do perils and
calamities follow in the path of this
movement? So far it is only those
who have got in the way of the drift"
that have suffered.
Doubtless mistakes are made in
adopting new methods of finding the
will of the people and putting it in
force. If, for example, there are fea-
lures of the primary laws that are
subject to abuse or that fail to register
the popular will, the thing to do is to
discover what is wrong and remedy
it. Vague hints of dangers that Turk
behind "pure democracy" however,
will not brighten a people whose ul-
innate political philosophy was express
sed by Abraham Lincoln in his ap-
neal for government of the people,
for the people, and by the people"
Christian Science Monitor.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-11
Will Our Children Have
Lumber?

Reforestation is one of the most
pressing needs of the present gener-
alton. With our available timber sup
ply being used up more than four
times as fast as it is restored by the
growth of our forests, it can readily be
seen that the country faces crisis:
The situation is further aggravated
so far as the eastern three-fourths
of the United States is concerned by
the fact that four-fifths of the stand
ing timber of the country is west OF
the Rocky Mountains.
A system of taxation that would
permit lands definitely set aside as
unsuitable for agriculture and planted
tn trees to be taxed on stumpage
basis when the lumber is marketed,
would make it profitable to reforest
what are now the waste areas OF nor
thern Minnesota and would restore
to the next generation what was one
of the most valuable resources OF
the last generation-yast forests Of
white and Norway pine.
Nobody can afford to plant trees
ON land that pays forty or fifty cents
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-11
SOLD BY
Bee BOtsfOrd Lumber Roof
supplies Company RANT
Roof
Paint

an acre taxes and hold it for forty
years for crop of lumber. But if
those same acres could be exempted
from all but nominal tax, and the
tax burden placed on the lumber at
the time of its removal from the land,
it would be neither necessary nor pro-
fitable to sell it as agricultural land
to unsophisticated land-seekers from
southern Minnesota and Iowa.
A great wrong has been done to
the vast numbers of hardworking, hon.
est men and women who have been
placed on soil that will never produce
crops enough to pay for the effort of
clearing it. That wrong should not
be continued. There are valuable ag-
ricultural lands in northern Mime
sofa, lands that will produce as much
as any land anywhere. But there is
much land up there that will produce
nothing but trees, and that land should
be reforested.
Minnesota should adopt the only
practicable method that has been pro-
posed to encourage reforestation; she
should apply a sensible and construc-
tive principle of taxation to lands on
which there is an adequate stand of
growing timber. Theodore Christ
hanson. -
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-11
Reed Is Dead Wrong.

81. F. Reed, president of the Min
called for affront to the newspapers
in his address at the Waseca County
Farm Bureau Picnic last Saturday.
When he advised the farmers to buy
only necessities he said his advice
would not be appreciated by the poll
ticians or the newspapers. In other
words, he intimated that newspapers
were not interested in the welfare of
the farmers.
"In the language of the street, we
wonder where he gets that stuff. His
statement displays a woeful ignor-
ance of the status of the country
papers of Minnesota. In the case of
the Herald, the publisher has paid his
dues to the Farm Bureau since it was
first organized and has set aside page
in the paper for the publication of
Farm Bureau news and news of farm
activities. If the space donated TO.
this purpose was charged for at reg
ular advertising rates, it would am
cunt to at least $50 a week or more
than $1,000 year. Is Mr.. Reed do
mating as much to the cause?
"Not only that, but part of the
money we contribute to the Farm
Bureau is used to print another paper
in which the farmer is urged to ad.
vertise in competition with the Herald
Furthermore, we are contributing tx
pay our share Of Mr.. Reeds big yearly
salary and expense account.
I'm this respect the Herald is do
ing no more than the greater part Of
the papers of Minnesota. Mr.. Reef
may not know it, but. if it wasn'
for the assistance Of the country
papers, there wouldn't be any Farm
Bureau and he would not be drawing
salary to go around the country ant
gratuitously insult them. If the coun
ty agent and other Farm Bureau of
ficials have the same opinion of news
papers that Mr.. Reed has, we ar
through with the organization. =
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