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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-02
FARM CREDITS BILL
PASSED BY.HOUSE
Measure Provides Two New
Banking Systems;
HELP SOIL TILLERS
Document Now Goes To the
Conference Committee For
Its Action
Associated Press Disnatch l

ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.
Washington, y. C.. March The
farm credits bill. proposing to esta
blish two new banking systems. one
government and the other private,
TO meet the financial needs of the
agricultural industry, was passed
today by the house. It now goes TO
conference.
The vote was sos to Sc chief op
position being registered by members
from New York and the New Eng
land states.
Provisions New Bill.
The new federal banking system
proposed would consist of - inter
mediate credit banks. located III
the same cities as the Federal Farm
Loan banks, and with a capital OF
$4,000. 900 each. They would be au-
thOrized to issue tax free debentures
I'D 10 a total OF $500, 600 900, giving
them aggregate resources OF $3.50.
100000. or nearly twice the amount
which the war finance corporation
has been called upon to advance TO
the AGRICULTURAL industry.
Private credit corporations which
will be authorized by the bill would
Lave capital OF not less than $3.50.
600 each and their number would be
unlimited.
II is these organizations that will
make advances TO producers OF
livestock on long term paper. There
also would be private rediscouut
corporations having a capital stock
OF not less than S1,000,00O each.
Under an amendment adopted by
the house. the war finance corpora
ton would continue TO function un-
I'll next January 81. by which time
st is assumed that the new farm
credit system will be in operation.
Party lines disappeared. both dur
ing consideration of the measure and
the vote upon il.
Gloom over House.
News of the death OF Representa-
tive Bourke Cochran cast a shadow
over the house as it reassembled
today to resume its consideration OF
the farm credits measure.
one who expressed poignant re
greet, was Representative Nolstead
Of Minnesota. creator of law that
r representative Cochran had vigor-
ously and repeatedly assailod i
had a real respect for Mr.. Cock
rams ability he said. we did not
agree on some things. but we were
good friends
The foreign affairs committee ad
iourned out Of respect TOR ms me-
mory and resolutions OF regret were
GdOptod.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-02
FORGER SLIPPED
OWN-MADE CHECK
He Tried Drawing Against
Account of D. W.
RadicheI

Working under the name of ID. A.
Paulsen, forger managed yesterday
evening to pass forged check on
Frank j. Mettler drawn against the
account of d. w. Radichel at the
National Citizens bank of this city.
The check was drawn in favor OF u.
A. Paulson for $24.50 and Mr.. Radi-
chefs name was forged to 1t. The
forgery was not discovered until this
morning when the check was pre- :.
sented for payment at the National
Citizens bank.
Miss Edna Hardke, one of the
bookkeepers in the North Star Con-
crete company offices, in a state
ment to The Free Press this after
noon said that when she went to
make out some checks this morning
for Mr.. Radichel's signature she dis.
covered that FIVE blank checks had
been taken from the book of blank
checks. D. W. Radichel is president
of the North Star Concrete company
of this CITY, s .s a
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-02
CARNATIONS WILL BE GIVEN THE
LADIES WHO ATTEND AUTO SHOW

Every lady Mankao Auto Show today win be
beautiful carnaop according the announce
ment of Roph ulsrud of the auto exhibit made today
clever toe dancer In North Mankato VIII
the of entertainment at the show this
has appeared in numerous performances
Mankao during the past AMI Will sure meet with popular
the show who have not yet her In
numbers OF Johnson VIII
accompany her the piano = ... ,.... Il -.
Miss Mayme Schppel, who gave the large hrong at the
pleasing Entertainment with the several
solos she sang the again this evening The
today the show
Committee for Miss Schppel again consenng
sing.
style which lstrumena in drawing the large
audience night will be shown again this after
eight thirty o'clock tonight New creations in aft
and number OF new and the
mode street dress which were expected to arrive today
The radio program will also be given this evening.
today that the show committee
of the Eks legion band
rtainment The
requests made them
to appear during show. They made striking
appea informs last night
Special lighting effects have been secured for tonighs
garments displayed during the style
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-02

FIXED WHEATPRICE
Delegates From Ten North
west States To WorkWith
Members Congress
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch. /

st. Paul. March Selection OF
delegates from the ten states rep
resented at the northwest agricuI
tural price sterilization conference
to go to Washington to work for a
fixed price for wheat as recon
mended by the conference will be
the next move in the step to aid the
farmers, Il was announced here to-
day.
Minnsota's delegation will consist
of Colonel q. VI. March, 'Litchfield;
+. w. Murphy, Wheaton, and, II. E..
eastman, Owatonna. 1t is expected
that other states will name their
representatives as soon as possible
Then arrangements will be made
for the entire body TO go to Wash
ington.
This action follows the two days
agricultural conference concluded
here yesterday at which resolu-
tion was adopted calling upon con
gress to enact the Gooding bill
" hich would provide a basic mini
mum Of $l.75 busher for wheat at
terminals. The resolution also urg-
ed that in the event congress failed
to take any action at its present ses
sion President. Harding should call
a special session to insure relief
for the farmer
Four Wisconsin. Iowa. Hill
nois and Michigan voted against
this resolution. while the six others
represented al the conference Min.
nesota, North Dakota, South Dakota,
Nebraska. Montana and Kansas
voted in favor of IL .@
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-02
Won HINDE SHOWS
BITTER WAR SPIRIT
Former German Field Mar
shall Address Quoted
FIGHT TO A FINISH
Question Collecting Ruhr Coal
Tax Came To The
Fore Today

Berlin. March Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg is quoted by The
Tages Zeitung as having said at a
meeting of the Hanover agriculture
league: I'VE will never forget that
we are all Germans and must do
our duty and that il necessary >we
will fight even until the last flag is
torn to pieces and the last sword
blade shattered. It is better to perish
in honor than to live in disgrace"
Coal Tax To Fore Today
Dusseldorf, March 1.-The ques
ton of collecting the forty per cent
tax on Ruhr coal, came TO the fore
today in view of General Degoutte's
announcement that refusal to meet
this oglibation would make often
ders liable to trial by court martial
and would result in the seizure OF
coal at the mines.
Before the occupation the coal
tax was paid to the German govern
ment but the mine owners have re
fused to>turn it over to. the French
or Belgians.
Under the new degree shipments
TO Holland and Switzerland will not
be subject to the assessment.
InasmuCh as they have complete
records of the production at all the
mines the French expect to be able
to determine what each owner owes
OVertures Must Be Official
Paris, March None but official
overtures will be acceptable in con
neCtion with an arrangement for
settlement of the Ruhr and repara
ton questions, 1t was asserted in
French official circles today. 1t was
pointed out that there had been d
new descent upon Paris of unofficial
Intermediates from financial and
industrial quarters and various in =
ternational centers, including New
York. each with/various complaints
and plans for settlement
When the German government
was ready to make officially anC
through the regular diplomatic
channels offers of payment to the
allies, France. in her capacity as
one of the allies, would listen to
-spch offers. il was affirmed, No meet
would be given to pleas presented
Otherwise.
Meanwhile. 1t was added, II the
Ruhr industrialists wished to droE
the political aspect of the situation
and seek to do business in purely
business way, provision for such 3
contingent had already been made
in the plans for the Ruhr oCcupa
ton.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-02
MANKATo, MINNESOTA
Armed Bandits Took
Wine From Attorney

ST. Paul, March f.-Six armed
bandits broke into the home OF c.
A. Severance, former president OF
the American Bar asscciation, at
Cottage Grove, and ransacked the
basement. They left In two tour
ina cars, according to the report
received by the st. Paul police.
w. A. obriham, the caretaker,
told the police that the bandits
forced him TO lead the way TO the
cellar. Then they ordered him into
one of the cars. he said. At Hud-
SON road and Hastings avenue, he
said, that the bandits made him
jump out.
The Severance home is about q
mile from Cottage Grove and about
fourteen miles from ST. Paul. Mr..
and Mrs. Severance. are IN Cali.
fornia.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-02
BOURKE COCHRAN
PASSED SUDDENLY
New York Congressman
Made Speech Last Night;
Died Today
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch. !

Washington, d. G. March Rep
resentative w. Burke Cochran, dem
ocrat. New York. died suddenly to-
day.
Mr.. Cochran who celebrated his
sixty ninth birthday yesterday, be-
came i'll last night and died early to
day. He was on the floor of the
house last night and made spirited
speech in opposition to the pending
farm credits bill
Mr.. Cockran's death, which occur
red at 7:10 o'clock, came as an i'm
mediate result of a stroke of apo
plexy it was said at his home.
Orator of the Old School.
A native of ireland, educated in
France and the United States, and
active for many years in the legal
professions and in politics, Mr. Cock
ran was one Of the picturesque forces
in American public life. He was an
orator of the old school, endowed
with a remarkable voice and with a
delivery and dictation that long ago
won him place among-the most
eloquent orators of the country. In
politics Mr.. Cochran was a wheel
horse of Tammany Hall. whose bat
ties he fought in New York and else
where on many occasions.
Mr.. Cochran first was shown to
the house of representatives for a
term I'm 1887. He. came back IN
1891 for two more terms but in 1896
he declined to follow the free silver
banner of William Jennings Bryan,
broke with his national party organ
ization and left congress- He re-
turned to the party in 1900, when he
for Bryan, and in 1904
he was elected to the house. This
time he remained there for five years,
at the end of which time he declined
to become candidate for reelection.
In 1920, however, he again yielded
to the lure Of the parliamentary give
and take he loved so well, and was
again elected to seat in the house.
He was reelected last November.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-02
SENATOR CALDER
SAYS FAREWELL
New Yorker Gave ''Swan
Song" Today; Eighteen
Years Service
Associated Press Dispatch. J


Washington, ID. c., March L.
Congress "blocs' and agitation for
government operation of railroads
were deplored by Senator Calder,
republican, New York, in swan
song" address today in the senate,
gTessional service which ends March
4, following his defeat for e-elec-
ton.
Declaring that American political
life had not kept pace with our
great industrial development" Sen
ator Calder declared that govern
ment regulations and demogogic
denunciation here and elsewhere,
are slowly breaking down the rail,
sThis great arm of American in
dustry," said Senator Calder, ''of
the ptmost Importance to all our ma
tional development, is gradually be-
ing paralyZed through governmental
malevolence. 1t has become the sport
of politicians to denounce the rail
roads"
Senator Calder said that 1t was
time to tell the truth If the railroads
were to be kept out OF bankruptc.
and added that senators were "fear-
iul of every move that we make and
every vote that we cast"
Discussing the bloc movement,
Senator Calder said Il should like
to appeal here for the ending of all
,Dlocs or petty sectionalisms; for a
better spirit. a more thorough under
standing and more wholesale re-
card for each other among the leg
islators who represent our United
States!
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-02
TWO DAYS MEETING
Represe ntatives FIFTY Lake Port CT
ties Gather at Manitowoc
tAssociated Press RIspd.CriI'I y,

fAssociated Press plspatch.I
Manitow oc, Wis, March line
preservation of the water levels OF
the Great Lakes in the interests OF
navigation; the administration OF
local harbor affairs with a view TO
improving their physical conditions
and securing great efficiency IN port
service; and advocacy OF the lakes
to- the gulf and Great Lakes 81.
lawrence river waterways are the
main subjects of a two days confer
ence which opened here this after
noon with delegates representing
more than fifty lake port cities:
II wass planned that the different
sessions would be open to general
discussion of subjects touched upon.
plans for a permanent organization
v i'll be left in the hands Of the con
farence itself
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-02
SF)RIES oFt0VE
ARE BEING SIFTED
New York Police Unable To
Fasten Staying Wealthy
Contractor
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.l

New York. March Admittedly
still without evidence sufficient to
warrant charging anyone with the
crime, the Bronx district attorneys
office today was sitting many stories
that have come to it of the love al
fairs of Frederick Schneider IN
search of the motive that caused his
murder last Monday.
While the district attorneys of,
fee was delving into tales of violent
iealously of Mrs. Anna Buzzi,, the
Divorce with whom Schneider lived
seven years, county Judge Gibbs
was preparing to decide whether to
release the woman from Jail on
habeas corpus proceedings.
District Attorney Glennon will
try TO have her kept behind bars as
a material witness, while he investl-
gates the stories Of alleged threats,
largely unverified, that have cropped
out since Schneider's confidential
secretary, Miss DOrothea Helm, was
brought into the case. ,
Other womeii with whom Schnei-
der associated were being investi-
gated by detectives. Fhe district
attorney also is investigating reports
that Mrs. Buzzi believed her life
with Schneider to be near dissolu-
ton because. Schneider, growing in
wealth and Influence, had made IL
known to her that he was handi-
capped commercially and, politically
by his unconventional mode oil lie.
Investigators were canterlnS on
an incident Of last summer, IL con
cerned Miss Helm with whom Schnel-
der went taxi riding at 2:30 o'clock
in the morning SO the district at
torney reported she has said. Schnel-
der, according to Miss Helm, later
learned the taxi driver was Mrs.
Buzzi,s brother in law.
Tryinu To Prove Double Lite
An effort to prove that Mrs. Paul
cite Saludes had led double me-
Was made by Assistant District Al
to~nev Brothers today in his cross
examination OF the woman. who Is
ON trial for the murder OF Oscar
a broker.
MIR. Brothers wrrung from her ad'
missions that she had gone on auto
mobile rides and boat trips UP the
Hudson with men other than Mar
teIliere after her husband James
Saludes. had sailed on a business
rip to France. . a.. IT.,
Mrs, SaIuQ6S uSlChoO 10 hhoS o'iS
shot MarteIliere in fit of temper
ary emotional insanity after Marter-
Iiere had betrayed her, stolen her
and then cast her OF.
Denied Assumed Names
After she had admitted taking
trims with other men Mr.. Brothers
fried to make Mrs. Saludes admit
hat both she and her husband had
gone for several years under assum-
I'd names, but this she denied.
Mrs, Saludes said Martelliere, at
ter he had won her love, induced
her TO write her husband he need
not come back from France,
laugh swept the court room
when n, responsible question wheth
Or Martelliere had not treated her
well after they had taken an apart
nen4 she said, "He took me to the
twice week and to dinner
only on Sundays.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-02
BOTH BRANCHES BUSY
Minnesota House Has Taken No Ac
ton On Wilkinson Bill
LAssociated Press Dispatch.J

IAssoCiated Press DISPATCH
st. Paul, March 1.-The house
committee on labor today recon-
mended for passage a bill requiring
employers advertising for help to
replace strikers to sta,e in their ad
vertisements that a. strike is on.
No action was taken by the com
mittee on markets and marketing
today on the Wilkinson bin requir-
ing publication of all reports on
grain sales by commission, mer-
chants, boards of trade and grain
exchanges. Grain men of the Twin
Cities and. Duluth appeared in OPP
position to the measure.
In the senate G. f. Adams OF Du
luth introduced a bill authorizing
that city to issue $4,000 In bonds
for a municipal garbage plant.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-02
PROBED CHICAGO VICE
Special Grand Jury Completes
Work Without indictments.
IAssociated Press Dispatch.

Associated Press DiSpalcfh n
Chicago. March AFTER two
weeks of interrogation of witnesses,
the special grand jury investigating
vice prepared today
for dissolution without an indictment,
il became known. The jury will
spend the day preparing its report.
The investigation had its fnaugur-
alton several weeks ago with charges
by the Juvenile Protective associa-
ton of rampant vice in Chicago.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-02
@. C. Club In Session.

The q. G. club, composed OF mar
ried ladies. met at the home of Mrs.
John Blackwell, 317 Jackson street,
on Tuesday afternoon. Fancy work
and conversation were the features
of the afternoon. Dainty refresh
ments We're served at the close of
the meeting.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-02
v. r. w. Post MEETING Tonioht

The regular meeting Of Walter H.
Strand Post No. $50, V. F. W., will
be held tonight at eight D. m. On
account of giving up the post room
to the Auto show, the post meeting
will be held in the council chamber
at the city hall. Applicants for
membership who have not been
mustered are asked to be present
promptly.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-02
Bill introduced BY Just

Senator ". A. Just has introduced
a bill providing for the payment OF a
norton of fines collected in mum.
cipal courts, in cities of the third
and fourth class, into the city treas
urv for the use of the mayor in pre-
venting crime. The measure was re-
ferred TO the committee on towns,
counties and municipalities.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-02
Issues Extradition Warrant

ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch
Des Moines. Ia, March 1-Gover
nor Kendall today issued an extradi-
ton warrant for the return Of
George Cooley to Tabor, S. D..
where he is wanted for Staying ?
seventy year old woman during "a
ATTEMPTED robbery OF her home.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-02
Need Eour More Jurors.
Associated Press pispatch

Marion, ILL.,. March additional
veniremen were summoned today
for examination TO complete the
jury in the second Herrin mine
riots trial. Eight of the jurors have
under consideration the final panel
NJ four PROSPECTIVE jurors submit
ted by the defense.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-02
Visitors From Owatonna

The following business men came
over from Owatonna today to attend
the Auto show: f., J. Austin, Ewin
Hartwig, Williams Fox Ben Soren
son and Henry Hartwig.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-11

room in a Montgomery street room
ing house, Mrs Hinckley died an
hour later.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-11
QUALITY STORE
|. PROPR|ETORS
At DINNER
Value of Advertising Stressed
at Get Together Meeting
at Harvey's.

One hundred and thirty pro.
prietors of local Quality Service
Stores discussed the value of or
sanization in business at a get-to-
gether dinner last night in Harveys.
E. G. Powell, sales manager of
the Young & Griffin Coffee Co., of
New York, stressed the value of
advertising and urged grocers to
cooperate in writing their adver.
tisements. The advertising sales
plan of the Quality Service Stores
was praised.
George ClaGett. president of the
Quality Service Stores of Washing.
ton, gave brief address in which
ne urged dealers to display their
advertisements. III. w. Walker, sec.
rotary of the Baltimore Quality
Service Stores told of the success
the stores have established in the
Maryland city.
others who spoke were Norma n
is. Dillingham;, secretary Of the n
q l.. Slade Co., Boston; B. B. Earn
shaw, jr., of Washington. and I'd.
gar 3. Pinto, business manage,.
Salada Tea Company.
Charles w. Rollow. bnsinoss
agent, declared plans are unda,.
way to have get.together dinners
at frequent intervals.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-11
FAST A|RPLANES.
To HUNT RUM .
RUNNERS
End of LawIessness Forecast
by N. Y. Dry Official in
Use of Air Fleet.
By JOHN l.. SPIVAK,
International, News Service.

NEW YORK, May 11.--Mile,a-
minute seaplanes to chase rum
runners off the Atlantic coast is
the next step in the fight to en-
force prohibition.
The use of seaplanes as auxil.
iaries to the Coast Guard Service
will be urged on the Federal Gov
eminent by Palmer Garfield. pro,
hibition director for the State of
New York, in his fight on Rum
Row."
Decision to use fast seaplanes in
warning on rum-runners was
reached by Garfield after flight
over the now notorious smuggling
fleet.
On his return Garfield said:
THE beginning of the end of
rum-running and smuggling along
the coast is in sight. There has
been a decrease in the number of
vessels along the New York and
New Jersey shores, and in a few
months Nassau, st. Pierre and
Miquelon will be forgotten words
in the vocabularies of the local
bootleggers.
las result of my investigation
shall recommend the use of mile.
a-minute seaplanes. There is ann
pie room for them at Miller Field,
Staten Island. With this as a base
we shall be able constantly to
watch incoming vessels.
can attempt to land liquor would
result in the prompt sunlmoning of
Coast Guard steamers, and the law.
lessness would be stopped at once"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-11
Billy's Happy as His
Troubles Turns
Up on Scene

Most folks don't like troubles
brought home to them, but
little Billy Matson, son of
Deputy Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue Francis G. Mat
son, had just had the pleasure
get that, pleasure of pay
ing $50 for Troubles.
There isn't a happier young
ster in Washington than Billy,
for Troubles is his pet dog.
When Troubles vanished sew
eral days ago, Matson offered
a reward of $50 for his return.
The Times did it's bit
through the news columns, and
Billy's letter to the City
Editor is the result:
81 found Troubles. a man
saw about it in the paper and
brought him home and got $50.
II wish one of the Times
boys had got the $50, because
it would have been better.
Thanks for Troubles"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-11
S SAVED TELL OF %
LOST IN SHIPWRECK

HALIFAX. May 11.-Five mem
bers of the crew of the French
schooner France ct Bretagne, VINO
arrived here today on the French
cruiser Rugulus, reported that the
schooner had been sunk in COLLISION
with an iceberg and that twenty
eight others were missing. 1t Is
feared they persisted.
The Rugulus also brought two
members of the crew of the fishing
schooner La Tour du Piu, who got
separated from their vessel in fog,
All are in the hospital suffering
from exposure, frost bite and hunger.