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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-01-26
Navy the Victim

(c) AS to that part of the contract
providing for the exchange of the
royalty oil for gasoline, kerosene,
lubricating oil, or other petroleum,
products, there is no fixed price of
these products, or no provision for
fixing the price thereof at the rea-
sonable market value or otherwise;
and it appears to be scheme to give
the Mammoth Oil Company monop-
oily on supplying these products to our
navy at its own price, at least as
far as the Teapot royalties will go in
purchasing them.
Standard Fixes Price
cd The provisions in the contract
for payment in cash are not clear;
but it is absolutely certain that if
cash is demanded the price of the oil
will be fixed by the Standard oil in
terests. Great care was used to make
this part of the agreement clear. 1t
is provided that the value of the roy
atty oil shall be the same as the high
est posted market price offered or
paid either, in the Salt Creek field,
or in the Mid-continent field by the
Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Com
pany or the Prairie Oil and Gas Com
pany. This sounds splendid to the
unwary Note that the provision is
not the highest posted market price, !"
but that it is the highest price offer
or paid by certain companies, all
Standard oil companies. In desig
mating the Salt Greek field no COM
pany is mentioned; but it was not
necessary, because the Midwest Re
fning Company has complete mo-
nopoly in that field, and has never
paid more than one-half the value of
the OIL In designating the MidCon-
tinent field two Standard oil compan-
les were selected to fix the price.
The purposes of the secretary's
program" as set out in the preamble
to the agreement of last April were:
(a) to store oil for naval purposes,
(b) to prevent drainage of the reserve
by wells located outside thereof, (c)
to create a competitive market for
oils from the public domain in Wyo-
ming, and (d) to enable the govern
ment to exchange crude oil derived
from royalties for fuel oil.
Robbing the Future
(a) Does it not seem ridiculous
to open a great reservoir of oil, take
it from it's natural storage and place
it. or the fuel oil received in eX-
change therefor, in artificial storage,
to deteriorate, and to throw millions
of barrels on an already glutted mar
ket; especially when, according to sci
entists, the oil resources of our coun-
try will be exhausted in few dec
AIDES? Are we not robbing the fu-
ture by a profiigate waste of a pro-
duct not needed at the present? Re-
gardless of who is responsible for this
policy, it is difficult to find any justi-
fcation for it.
Excuse Proven GrOundless
(b) The only excuse, with a sem
blance of plausibility, that has been
offered by the Secretary to justify
the leasing of the reserve is that the
structure was being drained by out
side wells, and this positively is not
true. Some of the best geologists in
the country are authority for this as
sertion, and recent developments con-
firm it. In the last several weeks
wells have been drilled that have q
tremendous gas pressure, and produce
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Army Airmen's Own
Story of Record Trip

San Diego, CaAfter Kelly and MacReady had refreshed
themselves with quick food they told their story
1t composite story first putting in sentence two,
and then the other breaking in Kelly started sisA
when left New York could the full
horsepower Of the Liberty engine We hew than 20 miles
a altitude OF
"over New Jersey the voltage regulator This
heartbreing unless could flight would be
MacFeady
desperately work taking of the switch and installing
succeeded a lifted when the
regulator again began to function properly
MOTOR BEHAVES
MacReady took up story;
From flight pleasant prospect
further mechanical trouble The Liberty
operating its full
Jersey
Reaching Ohio, $50
Louis
flying altitude 1000 feet when darkness caught
Indianapolis sfsH
approximately BelevIle Ill., we thrilled
projecting
clouds veritabe beacon
otherwise
trusting solely to to keep straight
CATCH MOONLIGHT
by light knew came from Belle
yie continued straight
fall when
tion prepared account of
Illinois, Missouri-Kansas
sighted moonlight altering through cloud holes feeling
Of security
These faint sighted of
the until daybreak Tucumcari
Kelly when on look
of the cockpit cemetery
of a we know
aviaters ghtes difficulty
daylight WE'LL and the
plane eaty did all that
climbing ranges They com
sdered that part Of the trip they barely
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GERMAN TERMS
TURNED DOWN
France Rejects Preparations
Proposed BY Berlin
SURRENDER DEMANDED
Declares Resistance viii Continue
Until French Quit on Rhine
Would Adopt Bryan
Plan.

Berlin sGermany's new repara-
tions proposals just delivered to
the United States, England,
France, Italy, Belgium and
Japan, demand that all German
territory occupied in excess Of
the Versailles treaty stipulations
shall be evacuated"
This is an effort to get the French
and Belgians out of the RuLr.
German officials said that passive re-
sistance against French occupation Of
the Ruhr would continue until the
areas occupied in excess of the Yer
sailles treaty are restored to Germany
under a Rhineland agreement" They
declared that former conditions must
be restored In the Rhineland to aid
Germany back to prosperity.
The document emphasized the nee
essity Of siabilizing currency as re,
quisite before Germany can meet her
obligations. II continued:
Germany proposes that the Presi-
dent of the United States name an i'm
partial arbitrator in the event the
parties fail to agree. The German
Government is convinced that the pro.
posals represent the utmost limit of
Germany to pay After further weak
ening Of German economic organiza-
ton by occupation Of the Ruhr. Ger
many has grave doubts that the offer
may even exceed her ability to gay
The note continued: 'a'
I'm spite of the events Of the past
few months Germany is still willing to
do everything in her power to meet
the Allied demand for reparations,
especially 10 do all she can to recon
struct war-devastated areas.
Practical proposals are difficult,
however, from the fact that the pres
ent financial and economic conditions
in Germany do not permit an accurate,
final estimate"
Theenote said that a large internal
loan in Germany Is impossible.
{ The German Government proposed
an agreement pledging France and
Germany to arbitrate all future dis
putes according to arbitration treaties
proposed and drawn. up by William
Jennings Bryan while he was Ameri-
can Secretary Of State.
In addition to requesting evacua-
ton OF the Ruhr the German offer de-
mands that all arrested Germans be
freed and that Germans who were
exiied by the French be returned to
their homes.
After proposing payment Of 10000
0o0,000 gold marks by Germany, 90
0O0,000,90O to be paid at once under
an International loan. the note went
on
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The starting point Of the negotia-
tons must be the restoration Of the
status quo in the shortest possible
period, II the other side thinks that
so,O0O,Ooo,OOo,ooo gold marks Is too
low, It IS proposed that the repara-
tiens problem particularly the
amountl be left to the decision Of an
international commission, as was pro.
posed by Secretary Of State Charles
Evans Hughes IN speech last year.
international arbitration Is suggested
in the event that the last 10000 ,0O0,.
900 gold marks. are not subscribed
The note announced Germany's will.
ingness TO provide special guarantees
for the payments offered. Bonds would
be issued 10 cover the fntefnational
loan. The 10000, 600. 900 gold marks
would be payable in cash and goods.
Two7thirds Of II would be paid by
July l, 1927; 5000, 100000 would be
paid in 1929 and the balance in 1881.
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The States legal department
through Assistant Attorney General
Allan H, Fisher, viii bring at least
1900 suits against the County Cora.
missioners Of Montgomery county. the
county clerk of the Police Court in that
county and the various magistrates
who have levied automobile fines in
the county in order to recover those
fines which have been paid to the
county authorities and have not been
remitted to the State Treasury. The
suits will, be brought before Justice
of the peace in Montgomery county
Mfr. Fisher stated. % ask
The last session Of the Legislature
passed 4 bill providing that automo.
bile fines collected In Montgomery
county should be used by that county
for the maintenance of police force
and should not belturned over to the
State Commissioner Of Motor We
hicles. A'is- 5aAls e.
In an opinion rendered some time
ago Attorney General Armstrong held
that the law in question was uneonsti-
tutional, hut the county authorities
preferred not to- abide by that deei.
sion. subsequently the State brought
suit as a test case to recover one fine
and won its case, the Circuit Court Of
Montgomery county holding the law
under which the fines were collected
toabe unconstitutional ,i
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Rural Nurse vital Necessity.


That a general healthnurse is need.
ed in rural Maryland for every 5000 in
population in order to give women on
isolated farms assistance in maternity
cases as strongly advocated by DR..
). H. Mason Knox, Jr., in his lecture
on "The State Child Hygiene Bureau
before the Maryland League Of wom-
en- Voters at the Southern Hotel.
Maryland loses by death before the
first year of age more than eighteen
hundred children" DIR. Knox said. 'Ip
one year about one hundKed and twen.
ty wnmensdie from some complication
associated with the birth of their chil.
dren. In the same age period from
20 to 40 years. 200 women die from
tuberculosis, but 81 from heart trou.
Bile and "a from pneumonia" e
How Shall We Increase The Regis.
tration of the Women2'' will he the
subject of discussion by Mrs. S. John:
son Poe, president Of the Democratic
Women's Club and Miss Grace Spot.
ford, chairman Of the Baltimore Fed
GRAFTON Of Republican Women,
Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, vice, chair.
man of the Nstiopai Democratic Com,
mittee. and Miss Gertrude Ely Of Bryh
.Mawr. Pa, will speak on swomen'si
Work in Electionss'9 s'9igs 9te a.
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4, STATE
CAPITAL +. I.

f Sb~te HHllculkuFat koWWttecs
..-nI W Annapolis
RecosnIzing the need for definite
and Comprehensive program for the
advancement and development of sgri-
culture and all allied interests in the
State. Governor Ritchies has appoint
ed State Agricultural Committee to
give Immediate and thorough study to
the farmers problems and to work
out. plan for the State to adopt, by
legislation or otherwise, 70 help solve
the problems which confront Mary
lands rural communities today.
The appointment Of the Committee
Is In pursuance of the resolution
adopted BY the conference on agrieuls
ture which the Governor called in An
napolis January 26 lasta Since then,
the Governor has held a number Of
conferences with the heads OF existing
agricultural organizations Of the
State relative to the personnel of the
Committee. II was decided. as re.
snlt Of these conferences, to select
the Committee almost exclusively
from the list Of officiais of the State
and county Agricultural. associations.
The first meeting Of the Committee
will be called to order by the Cow
ernor at 501E Union Trust Building
Baltimore. at 1890 A. NJ May is, The
Governor viii outline the purpose. OF
the Cpmn1ittee and n Is exnerted Chat
it will then organize and Immediately
set. to work on an agricultural pro
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Governor Ritehie officially declared
Statewide rebellion against high
sugar prices shortly after similar dec.
larations by the Governor Of Ohio ana
of Kansas. .7n
In an official proclamation he called
upon the householders OF Maryland
and all other users Of sugar in the
State to restrict sugar purchases to
the smallest possible quantities. s7s
The recent price increase roperates
with the greatest injustice upon every
householder and user Of sugar in this
State and In the country. the proc
lamation declares .Curtailed buying
is urged as the only Immediately eff
5feetive means of restoring normal
market.
Goyerner Ritchie previously had
taken cognizance Of the sugar sitda-
tion IN telegram to President Hard
ing. in which he urged that state
ment from the President would have
material effect in relieving the high
price situation. iisss
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TO FIGHT BUM RuLINe.
Conferences WIN sc Held Soon 70
Discuss Protection.

Liverpoof.-An international confer
ence of shipping men is expected to
be held rwithinsa short time to deter
mine upon a concerted program for
protection Of European interests in
yolved in the liquor ruling Of the
United States Supreme Court.
The conference will be held either
in London or Paris.
British and continental operators
then win decide how best to fight the
action Of the United States in prohlb-
fling their liners from carrying liquor
within the three-mile territorial wa,
ters OF the United States.
The British resentment is heated in
view of the continued American pleas
for assistance in curhing rum-run7ing.
Newspapers discuss the matter fully
and use such descriptive terms as an
"intolerable interference with inter
national commerce"
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PERMIT LIQUOR ON
II FOREIGN VESSELS
Department to Make Liberal
Medicinal Allowances
COUNT ON COOPERATION


Washington. Foreign ships
will be allowed to enter American
ports after June 10 partly wet,
despite the Supreme Courts de
eision.
Treasury regulations now being
drafted for the enforcement Of the
courts decision will allow foreign
vessels to have abundant medicinal
liqnnr stocks Ship surgeons will be
permitted to determine how much
liau,r will be required to meet nor
NAL needs during the voyage.
Greet care is being exercised by
experts Of the Treasury to accord for
rign ships the widest latitude concern
Ing medicinal whisky and wine sup
plies. Before the regulations are fin
lshed ii Is probable that-the foreign
ship lines may be allowed to suggest
their ewn maximum OF liquor stocks
tor this purpose, gauged by the num-
be, of passengers and the size of the
crew.
After Secretary of State Hughes re-
ceiyed notice from Secretary Mellon
that the regulations will become eff
sfective on June 10, The State Depart
ment communicated that fact to all
Of its diplomatic. and consular Offices,
with instructions to acquaint the for
eign governments where they are as
signed. concerning the liquor decision
American envoys abroad are direct
cd to provide for widest publicity
especially among the foreign shipping
companies. of the provisions Of the
Supreme Courts ruling. Emphasis
was placed upon Secretary MELONS
notice that 1t win be unlawful for a
foreign ship to enter an American
port after June 10 with beverage
liquors.
officials arranged for very close
INSPECTION Of foreign ships as soon as
the Regulations become effective.
Treasury officials admitted that the
customs force is small and inadequate
ht its present strength to permit min
ute search Of all ships arriviHg from
foreign ports The Treasury Depart
ment Is relying upon voluntary com
pliance by foreign shipping lines. Off
ciais believed most Of the companies
will comply until Congress has had a
chance to amend the law. exempting
foreign ships from the provisions Of
the yolstead law
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'BERL|N'S TERMS
LEAN ON AMERICA
Germany Wants U. S. To Name
Arbitrator
RESISTANCE WILL CONTINUE
5erIin's Offer Fails Both As To
Money And safety-pe-
nouneed BY Premier
Poincare.

Paris. - The French Cabinet
voted unanimously to reject The
German offer for settlement ol
reparations made in a note to all
the Allies. The Cabinet objected
to the offer on the following
grounds:
/. The amount OF thirty billion
gold marks is primarily insult
cient to meet war damages.
g. The guarantees offered do
not fully safeguard France.
3. The conditions attached are
unsatisfactory to the French, who
wish to complete surrender.
Premier Poincare will confer with
the Belgianss regarding the exact
phraseology Of the reply to be dis
patched. A copy of the dual reply viii
be communicated to all the Allies.
The action Of France is considered
here to place the situation in exactly
the status maintained since The
French Army went into the Ruhl
Valley to collect its reparations.
The possibility Of negotiating for 9
settlement on the basis of the note Il
considered remote.
Premier Poineare denounced this
German proposal as unacceptable aft
er the Cabinet was called into ex
traordinary session. President Mil
lerand presIdedk
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FOREST FIREs aIe MONTH.
McNary To ASK Protection Fund AS
Result OF 10000 siazes.

Washington. Twenty thousand
forest fires, which ragged across a
score Of States, destroyed s10,0Oo,000
worth OF standing timber in the past
month, IT was announced by Senator
McNary, Of Oregon, chairman of the
Senate Reforestration Committee.
McNary declared government re
ports showed all the fires we're caused
by human carelessness. IN many com
munities. he said, the destruction Of
forest would have serious effect on
water supplies during the coming
summer
As a result Of the widespread fire
rayages this spring, McNary an
nounced he would ask the next Con
eress to appropriate s1,5Oo.oOO as a.
special fund to provide federal forest
patrols. The present appropriation is
only 100000.
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Russian Newspaper Would Celebrate
Holidays On Other Days.

Moscow "A -four days labor week"
is the latest war cry Of the Communist
a communistic sheet Of Moscow, This
not only for Russia but "All-oyesthe-
World"
All the State holidays and special
revolutionary holidays should be eele-
brated during the remaining three
free" days Of the week. As far as
Russia is concerned the number of
holidays dncluding church holidays)
Is not very far from the above figure.
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DECADE MINUS AUTO TAGS.
Driver Praises Vigilance OF Policeman
Who Arrests Him.

Worcester, Mass.After driving an
automobile all over the country for
the last ten years without a license.
Albert Rrhast IS years old was finally
arrested by police of this city. When
arraigned in court he was told he was
guilty of driving without alicense and
fined So Erhart praised the arrest
ing ofIlcer for being on the job. 81
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MERCHANDISE IMPORTS eAIN.
January Total sss2,so2,77s Against
S21z. .fa5. .aa6 In 1929.

Washington.--Merchandis imports
during January, announced by the De
partment Of Commerce were: Europe,
S10s,642,554; North America, s72, 2,i04,.
624; South America. s41.412.5s5: Asia,
s92,20S,447; 0ceana. s2,SO4,520; /;
Africa, s17.7s0Osa The total was
ss2s.s02 ;77s, compared with s217.is5,-
sss for January. 1922. at
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cambridge.-John Furbey Fcoiored),
27 years old, indicted here for tie
murder Of Capt Ishmsel Wiley. who
was killed by shotgun while sitting
in the cabin Of his boat at the foot OF
Commerce street.. this city. on the
night OF March IS. was found guilty
Of firstdegree murder. without capital
punishment, Sentence was stayed.
Dennis Furbey, also colorsd, indlcted
at the same time, was exoneratsd.
Both negroes were members. Oh Cap
tain Willey's crew aimee March /, and
during the time they were in tt1 Cap
sAin's szpley tAsy we're aala Il Asys
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ruRNlp HAS POTATO BROOD.
70 Small Tubers Cling To Roots o.
Mismased Vegetable.

Abbeville. s. Cit happens every
year some strange mismating of veg
etables. The result is quite in con
trast 10 the bright and optimistic carl
catures in the seed catalogues.
This time Mrs. Alma G. Gibbons
county home denomination agent, has
found large-sized purple rutabaga
turnip with 7e small Irish potatoes
growing from It's roots The count Is
of4ictnl
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NEW rosacco wAR FEARED.
Kentucky Night Raiders Active And
serowers Ask Protection.

1toWcfo ftsrs ptctttoHs
Munfordville. Ky-Governor Nor
row was asked by Hart county Off
cials and nearly so tobacco growers
Tor protection against increasing out
RACES by night raiders
A renewal Of the tobacco war seems
imminent; Rands Of raiders have
swept over considerable part of the
county and torn the canvas covering
from several thousand acres of to-
bacco plantsr thereby running them
and striking blow at production,
Reports showed that IN the last raids
1900 yards Of plant beds were
stripped.
@Rhe situation '8s'sso serious that a
bloody outbreak is feared. =
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SACRIFICE TO SCIENCE

vienna-Dr Hermann Koelner III,
eeulated himself With deadly germl
to study their effect. An antltoxsl
which he had perfected failed d wess
Eand he died IN shres days.
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TAoaas 70 sTop SUICIDE.

New York state Plans To Plant Them
Along Lakes.
Geneva. N. The New York Park
Commission has put in a big order
with Geneva nursery for thousands
Of thorny shrubs and bushes to plant
along thezedges Of lakes in parks as
preventive of suicide. Rope manufac.
.turers favor the project,
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CANAL MAKES MONEY

Balboa Heights, C. z.--The Panama
canal continues to make money. Tolls
for April amounted to,$i.s7S. .ss7, which
rs new record, s51,O0O above the
record of March.
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constantly quarreled with him. Feel.
Ing became So intense that Captain
Wiley came here on March 20 Tor
the purpose Of discharging them and
shipping new crew.
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INJURED SEE TRIALS

Detroit Thirteen child victims OF
recent auto accidents were in court as
spectators and examples when Judge
Bartlett imposed sentences on auto
speeders.
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) eoMpERs FOR COURT.

Washington.-Urging non-partisan
support Of President Harding's world
court plan, Samuel Gompers, president
of the A, F. L., said the nation should
be a unit hehlaa this efsefl 70 prevent
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lrwo NAvY FLYERS XII ed.

Their Plane Crashes During cross
Country Trip.
San Diego. Cal.--Two United States
Naval airmen OF the Air Squadron,
battle fleet. based at North Island,
were instantly killed when vought
observation plane in which they were
making a practice flight through the
back country crashed in the vicinity
of Sweet Water.
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WOODEN snfes AeAlN AFlae.

=. sshisss ston.--Fire in a shipyard at
Alexandria. Va, threatened half
dozen wooden ships, recently sold by
Y IA shipping board TO salvage com.
sSpy The Are was the second in a
| IN weeks among the Tsslvas' asss's
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ASK FouR-pAy WORK WEEK.