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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-25
Seek New Agreement Be-
fore Replacement Program
Will Be Effective
PLANS
Proposal Same in Regard to
Capital Ships as That
Refused by U. S.

GENEVA, Switzerland, March "a az
A new British effort toward the
further limitation OF the tonnage OF
capital ships mad their armament
marked the closing hours OF the pre-
paratory disarmament committee to-
day.
Lord Cushendun announced that a
note had been addressed to the Amerl-
can, French and Japanese delegations
at the conference explaining con-
crete British proposals which Great
Britain would like to see IN effect
before the beginning OF the capital
ship replacement program provided
for by the Washington convention.
The British proposals, which are the
same with regard to capital ships as
were presented by Great Britain at
the tripartite naval Conference last
year, were cs follows:
l. Reduce in size any battleShipe
to be built in the future from 3 u0]
tons to something under 10000 tons
2 Reduce in size the guns OF Dal-
t'eships from the present limit OF IL
lTcIleS TO l5.0 1ncneS.
g. Extend the accepted life ct eX-
isting capital ships t1om 20 to 26
years.
The note in which the British pro-
posals were announced said that they
would mark a great step toward dis
armament and would involve great
economy.
Resisting q final combined effort OF
the Russian and German delegates to
keep the committee IN Gession through
ncxt week, the delegates Gil the Ete-
paratory committee voted TO adjourn
today subject to the call - the CHAIR
man, Jonkheer Loudon OF Holland
The net result of the days work
was adoption OF the security commit
tees report with its draft pact OF
nom aggression and mutual assistance
which the committee referred to the
government.
The committee also referred to the
government without consideration IN
committee the two Russian dlsarma-
ment projects and German pro-
posal for full publication OF the en-
tire list OF ornaments in the League
annual each year as well as German
proposal that the council be asked to
fix an early date for a disarmament
conference.
The first Of the Russian proposals
was the total disarmament" project
first suggested by Russia Severa!
months ago, and new partial dis
armament scheme which was offered
yesterday when the earlier proposal
had met with severe criticism from a
majority Of the delegates.
Maxim LitviTloff, the Russian dele
gate, fought to the last Tor the soviet
project and when he failed in having
the plan considered by the COMMITTEES
declared that that body was closing
| its sessions without fulfilling the mis-
81 as confined to 1t.
| Count Won Bernstorff, the German
delegate, also failed in his demand
| that the disarmament conference bl
called at an early date. He reviewed
efforts to get start toward diSarma'
rnent and said that every time II
came to definite action the work
was postponed. The German govern
ment, he declared, insists that dis
armament be no longer deferred sys-
tematically.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-25
CAST OF THE CAPTIVE, ARRESTED
FOR OUTRAGING PUBLIC DECENCY

ing. The latter, he explained, was
the fact the presiding Judge of the
superior court previously had de-
clined to issue any such injunction.
Those in the cast, and who were
arrested, were Marian Sutherland,
Madame Real Mureal, HI. Hay,
Charlie Miller Ann Davis, Ken
meth Thomson, Fred Wallace, Olive
Tell and Lawrence Grant.
LickIey ordered the arrests in an
effort to stop production of the
play after one of his deputies and
two police investigators had de-
scribed the play as Suggestive, in
decent, and Outraging public
decency."
Ed Rowland and A. L. Pearce,
the producers, were arrested two
days ago and are scheduled to be
tried March 80.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-25

LOS ANGELES, March "a R-
The cast of nine of the prOduc-
ton, "The Captive" playing at the
Mayan theatre, were arrested by
the police between the second and
final acts at the matinee perform
ance today. The players, who are
accused of staging an indecent"
public performance, were taken to
police headquarters and finger
printed.
The arrests were made possible
by the dissolution of a restraining
order which had been obtained by
the producers against interference.
The restraining order, issued yes
terday, was rescinded today by an
other superior court judge after
City Prosecutor E. j. Lickley pre-
sented the claim that it had been
issued through a miSunderstand-
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-25
Treasury Officials
viii Ask Reduction
5000, 100000 Tax

WASHINGTON March % P-A
100000 tax reduction cannot be
had at this session of congress if a
balanced budget is to be maintained,
i'll the opinion Of administration tax
experts who have studied the March
Is tax receipts.
Appropriations already made by
congress, they contend. would make
such reduction unsafe and sappro-
priations for flood relief, estimated
at $4o,0OO,OOO, will force substantial
shaving down of the original figure
recommended by the treasury
In view Of these disclosures
treasury officials plan to go back
before congress with revised figures
that probably will call for reduction
of between $3.50 100000 and $500, ,0O0,-
900. Receipts have come in virtually
as estimated by the treasury, these
! experts say, but the congressional
/ appropriations have exceeded the
estimates.
"But there will be tax reduction
at this session." a spokesman said
''just what it viii be depends OF
what congress does" These opinions
were expressed despite the belief o
President Coolidge and members o
congress that a 1925 100000 reduction
still is possible if congress cuts dowl
on future appropriations.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-25

MEXICO CITY, March "a P)-
Bandits of the Cole Younger type
this afternoon held up Is autOmO-
biIes, lined up more than 100
travellers and methOdicaIIy strip
ped them of their vaIuableS at
point on the Mexico City-Puebla
highway only rs miles from the
capital.
Fifteen automobiles, including
some big passenger buses, were
stopped by the highwaymen.
After the travellers were released
the robbers stopped an autOmO-
bile which was carrying a $4,000
payroll for the national highway
commission. The pay car, how
ever, also carried armed guards,
who drove the robbers into the
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-25
But 1875 Delegates of the
1,OS9 at Kansas City
Convention, Chosen
SMITH GAINING
Democrats Have Selected
But 1853 of Delegates to
Houston Meeting

WASHINGTON, March "a R-In-
tenSive maneuvering for delegates to
the two national conventions is ap-
preaching showdown on many po-
litical battle front with contradictory
claims coming from the camps of rival
presidential candidates as to who will
be entrenched most strongly at Kan
saS City and Houston.
Only two presidential primaries have
been held. In only handful of states
has the delegate selecting convention
stage been passed. The spring season
hardly is under way and the presi-
Dental cortenders realize that April
and May will furnish the bulk of the
delegate crop.
They are Straining to make the most
OF it, apparently not alarmed that
Lowden of Illinois and Smith of New
York, from the standpoint of instruct
ed delegates, have forged to the front
in the scramble for convention votes at
the early state of the campaign
Generally it is conceded by his rivals
that the New York governor will go
into the Houston convention well in
the lead. Whether he will be able dur
ing the balloting to command the nee
esSary two-thirds majority is debat-
able question, around which revolveS
much of talk about other avowed can
didates and dark horses.
AS for Lowden, his early lead is
challenged particularly by the Hoover
forces, who confidently predict the
commerce secretary will shortly shoot
to the front, never to be headed off.
Hoover'S adversaries, however, refuse
to concede that he can be nominated
regardless of his actual and potential
strength at the outset of the Kansas
City convention For the most part
the campaigns of other republican
presidential possibilities are being di-
rected accordingly
Of the 1,O89 delegates who will go tc
Kansas City, 1876 have been selected
Seven states have named their entire
delegations. Five others have designat-
ed them in part, among Them Louis
lana, where a factional fight. center
ing around Hoover's candidacy, makes
that states stand in the convention
doubtful
Only 158 of the 1,100 votes in the
democratic cOIlVenClon at houston 1IdVe
been parcelled out, eight states ano
the Philippines having shaped up then
entire delegations
The republican lineup, on the basis
of delegates chosen thus far, follows
Lowden:
(Instructed) Iowa II, Missouri 6
North Dakota 13, North Carolina l
Minnesota II (this does not include
the seven Minnesota delegates at large
selected oday)-total 40.
Uninstructed but claimed by Low
den managers): Iowa 10, South Caro-
Continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-25
EMBARGO TAKEN
OFF PLANES FOR
MEX. SHIPME
State Department M axe 5
Move in Interest of Avia-
tiOn Development

WASHINGTON March "a (R-
Amplifying a change in policy that
began with the flight of Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh to Mexico City, the
state department announced today
that commercial airplanes had been
taken off the list of articles forbidden
for expectation to Mexico under the
embargo against shipments of war
materials and munitions
Since 1926 it has been necessary
for any person desiring to ship air.
planes of purely commercial character
into Mexico to obtain an export
license from the state department..
Even in cases where flights into
Mexico were contemplated, licenses
we're required
The first of these licenses for
transportation by air to Mexico Of
commercial aircraft was that granted
Col. Lindbargh. 1t was followed by
others and since last December all
applications from manufacturers OF
from any other source for permission
to export commercial planes to
Mexico have been granted as matter
of policy.
partment today that because of the
desire of the Washington government
to promote development OF COM
mercial aviation, this policy with
respect to the. embargo had beer
/ evolved and that today,s action was
merely a routine removal OF COM
mercial airplanes from the list o.
articles or commodities forpldden fol
export under the arms embargo since
it was intended to continue to gran
license for export OF commercial
planes in any case.
Military airpianes as well as v1r
tually all other war materials o.
munitions remain under close EN-
barge and may be exported int
Mexico only on their export license
which this far has been granted onl,
in cases where the Mexican govern
ment itself has desired to purchas
such materials in the United States
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-25
MEXICAN BANDITS EMULATE COLE
YOUNGER IN HIGHWAY ROBBE.RlE4S

mountains after a brief but spir-
tied fight. Two of the guards were
wounded, Gne seriously.
Victims of the bandits said that
the men operated as cody and
methOdicaIIy as did the followers
of Cole Younger and Jesse James
in the days when those survivors
of Civil war guerrilla bands prey
ed upon the communities of west
ern Missouri and eastern Kansas.
There were about SO highwaymen
commanded by two notorious out
laws.
One of the leaders is known as
"Tne One Eyed" The other is
IaIIed simply "The Negro"
The outlaws selected point in
rugged country where the highway
begins to climb the mountains.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-25
MESH TIGHTENS AROUND H. F. SINCLAIR
Presidential Campaign Nearing Showdowr
Il Il T. y q y q = y u y q
Senate Issues Warrant
For Penns y[Uanian'S
Arrest In Slush Probe

+ WASHINGTON, March "a P)-
+ The senate today issued its war
4 rant for the arrest of another
+ witness before one of it's COM
Y mittees Thomas W. Cunningham,
+ of Philadelphia, long prominent
X in the political organization built
+ up by Senator Elect William S.
y Ware, Of Pennsylvania.
X Immediately after the senate
4 acted-and there was no opposi-
\ ton to the adoption of the reso-
X luton OF arrest-John McGrain,
y a deputy sergeant-at-arms, left
+ for Philadelphia to serve the
+ warrant on Cunningham, who is
y. sheriff of Philadelphia county
\. and treasurer of the Pennsylvania
Y. state republican committee.
+
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-25

WASHINGTON March "a tP-
Corporation and automobile taxes
entered the spotlight today as vet
eran senate revenue legislators began
assembling forces for the opening OF
the tax reduction battle early next
month.
a word OF caution from the White
House accompanied glowing reports
from the treasury sent to the capital
today on the apparent increase in
revenue this year over last as shown
in the first tax returns of the year.
But democrats were equally confident
that q good sized slash was permitted
by the large returns.
Administration leaders We're cauY
toned that the 1925, 100000 limit on
the total reduction which was first
set by Secretary Mellon is still the
limit in the eyes of President Coolidge
and that the pruning knife must be
applied on the pending $290,000 o0C
measure passed by the house.
Chairman Smoot OF the finance
committee, who will lead the tax fight
for the administration was doubtful
where the pruning would commence
but there were indications in the
republican ranks that restoration Of
part OF the automobile levy to the
house bill might be one way o1
holding down the total reduction tt
be allowed
Secretary Mellon conferred will
President Coolidge today and latel
said he thought tax reduction would
be possible this year but he declined
to indicate the extent. Neither WculC
! Continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-25

Copper quiet; electrolytic.
spot and futures, lao lsc;
lead quiet; spot, 6.O0c.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-25
SEEK LOPEZ EXTRADITION

TUCSON, Ariz., March q. W1-
Tucson police assisted by Detective
Sereeant Murchison of Douglas, are
making efforts to obtain extradition
of Tito Lopez, for whom warrant
charging burglary in Tucson has
been issued Lopez is now in Auga
Prieta and the authorities there are
said to be holding him but refuse
to turn the prisoner over to Doug
las police.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-25
OF
ORDERED
TAKEN BY COURT
Sinclair Secures Court Or
der for Taking Testimony
In Oil Case

WASHINGTON, March % tB-De-
prived of the testimony OF Albert B.
Fall, because of his illness, Harry F.
Sinclair today obtained an order from
Justice Jennings Bailey in District OF
Columbia supreme court permitting
him to take the oral deposition OF
tContlnued or Fage Ten1
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-25
4 y y y y II y y y y y * =
Douglas Weather
Hints OF Spring;
Frost On The Run

The warmest weather of the
spring to date was in evidence
during the past week. high mark
being reached on Wednesday with
noon temperature of 70. There
were a few cool mornings in the
first half of the week, but there
has been no frost since Tuesday.
GAM. 12M, 6P.M,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-02-23

PINE CITY LOSES IN
B. B. WITH RUSH CITY
Score Was 26 to 16.-FOrest Lake
Plays Pine City Friday.-Le-
giOn Post Entertains Well With
Home Talent Play.

The Pine City high school basket
ball team lost in their return game
with Rush City Friday evening by a
score of 26 to 16. In the first game
Pine City defeated Rush City, so that
the two teams are even for the sea-
son. The Pine City team played at
Braham Wednesday afternoon, going
over to fill in for one team that had
dropped out of the district tournament
being staged at Braham. Next Fri
day evening the Forest Lake team
will come to Pine City for the final
game of the season.
The Leon Heath Post No. 81, Amer
lean Legion, gave the people of Pine
City some real entertainment when
they presented on two successive ev-
enings of last week a musical comedy
entitled Circus Solly'. Eleven char
acters composed the cast, supported
by twenty-four chorus girls. Those
who composed the main cast were
Mrs. Ell Huber, LOrena Wilcox, Ted
Johnson, Jess Ingram, w. S. McEach-
ern, Lorille Boyle, Herbert Johnson
Mrs. Ben Boo, Mary Mack, Win Ellen
McEachern and Genevieve Rath.
Some real acting was done by all OF
the characters, but the characters
which seemed to take the house by
storm were Simon Rotosky, the bal
loon pedler," played by w. S. Nc,
Eachern and annie, a town charac-
ter played by Mrs. Ben Boo.
The Boy Scouts Washington birth
day banquet was held Wednesday ev-
ening in the basement of the Metho-
dist church, there being about fifty
scouts and their fathers present. The
room was appropriately decorated for
the occasion and the usual splendid
feast was served. A program was
given, following the banquet, consist
ing of toasts and songs. A talk on
Washington, the Scout" was given
by Ilof Miller. Superintendent Brown
of Hinckley, was present and spoke
on scouting and education. Following
the program the scouts staged theil
ceremony of 'Investiture of First
Glass Scouts.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-02-23
COUNTYDEBATE
AT SANDSTONE
Askov Defeated Finlayson
and Sandstone Won Over
Hinckley.- Winners Meet
in Quarry City Wednes-
day Evening, Feb. %.

Askov high school debaters won the
second round of the county debate
tournament over the FinlaysOn high
school in the d. B. S. hall, Askov,
last Thursday evening getting two
to one decision from the judges. A
large crowd was present to hear the
arguments and the debaters managed
to keep their attention throughout
the evening.
The local debaters, Florence Keller,
Frieda Hansen and Astrid Gravesen
upheld the affirmative side of the
question, Resolved, that the United
States should construct an All-Amer-
lean Great Lakes-Atlantic Waterway
rather than cooperate with Canada
in the construction of the Great
Lakes-St. Lawrence project.
The Finlayson team was composed
of Milton Wallio, Janice Carroll, and
Fern Johnson.
The judges for the occasion were l.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-02-23
CONVENTION
CALL ISSUED.
Republicans of Pine County
Will Have Precinct Pri-
marieS March IA, and
County Convention at
Hinckley March II.

VIM. H. Lamson of Hinckley, chair
man of the Pine county Republican
Committee, has issued a call e for
Republican primaries to be held in
the various voting precincts in the
county on Wednesday evening. March
18th, and county convention at
Hinckley on Saturday, March 18th,
the county convention to elect dele
gates to the district and state Repub-
iican conventions.
The call reads as follows:
Pursuant to the call of the State
Central Committee of the Republican
party of the state of Minnesota, No
tice is hereby given, that Repub-
lican county convention for Pine
county, Minnesota, will be held at the
village hall, in the village of Hinck-
ey in said county and state, on Satur-
Continued on Page 81
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-02-23

The Madison Hotel is now equipped
with a new Victor monograph. 1t
was purchased through A. E. Edstrom
and costs over twelve hundred dollars
There will be food sale in the
Congressional church basement dining
hall ON Saturday, March 3, beginning
at 2:30, p. m. Luncheon will be
served after the sale
Miss Sarah T. O'Meara entertained
thirty guests at bridge last Friday
evening at the Madison Hotel. Mrs.
Boiling and Mrs. Tyre were awarded
the prizes.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. Lynes visited friends
here Monday and Tuesday.
Senator A. S. Larson was a business
visitor in Minneapolis, Monday.
Miss Margaret Tyre and Helen Lar
son were up from Minneapolis and
spent the weekend at their homes
here.
Mrs. Harry Halvorson and daughter
of Superior, arrived Tuesday to attend
the annual Washington dinner at the
Masonic Temple.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-02-23
ALLOTMENT IS MADE
OF STATE ROAD AID
Secondary Highways of Pine
County Get S19,57O From One
Mill Fund.-Is Twice as Much
as County Pays i'm.

Pine county was granted S19,57O.OO
for use on it's state aid road system,
at meeting of the State Board of
Allotment last week. The members
of the board are Julius Schmahl,
state treasurer; r. P. Chase, state
auditor. and c. M. Babcock, commits
siCner of highways.
Special allotments of state aid were
made to several counties for specific
purposes. Pine county got 100000,
to aid in the repair of the bridge over
Kettle river at Sandstone, and re-
shaping of State Aid Road No. 2.
The total amount available for the
year, based upon the one mill tax
levy provided by law, is $1,957.OOO.
All counties except Hennepin, Ram
sey and St. Louis receive either an
amount larger than the tax levy in
the county amounts to, or the same
amount. Hennepin, Ramsey, and st.
Louis counties were allotted $4,000
each, or a total of S135, 900, while the
tax levy is $335,439 in Hennepin,
$1S3,011 in Ramsey and S355,SOO in
ST. Louis. The one mill tax levy in
Pine county amounts to $9,44S.
There are, according to reports
made to the State Highway depart
ment, a total of 1850 miles in the
state aid system, of which 10000
miles are surfaced with gravel or
higher types, and about half of the
remainder more or less improved
There has been rapid development
in the state aid system since the
state took over the trunk highways,
There were 1868 miles of road in
the state aid system at the beginning
of 1921, but nearly all of the 1000
miles taken into the trunk highway
system came out of the old state aid
roads. This means that about $500
miles of county or town roads, or an
average of 100 miles per county have
been added to the state aid system
since 1921. Many of the state aid
roads, due to lighter traffic, are in
better condition than the unpaved
trunk routes.
Out of the $3.50 miles of state aid
roads, 13,43S miles had regular main
tenance in 1927. The total eXpen-
ditures on state aid roads in 1927
were S2,673,297 for maintenance, and
$4,25O,1 for new construction. This
means that nearly $5,000,OO0 was
spent by the counties in addition to
the aid furnished by the state.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-02-23

has for years been prominent in the
missionary work of the Norwegian
church in this country.
"Elverhsy' i'm Chicago.
The recently organized Danish
theater in Chicago will present Hell
berg's national Danish opera, 'Elver-
hoj' ("Elfin Hill') at a performance
to be given some time during the
spring in connection with the TWEEN
tieth anniversary of the Danish Nat
ional Committee of Chicago. 'Elver-
hoj' is one of the most pretentious
plays that have ever been attempted
by amateurs in this country. 1t was
given in Chicago for the first time 35
years ago under the direction of
Thorvald Kofoed who also arranged
for performances in Racine, Wis, and
other cities.
Singers to Gather.
The Swedish Singers League on
the Pacific coast will hold it's annual
"saangerfest" in Los Angeles some
time in June, according to announce
ment made few days ago. In the
city of Los Angeles itself are found
many Swedish singing societies, glee
clubs, and the number of such organ
izations throughout the Pacific coast
states is very large. A group of
prominent soloists will be invited to
take part in the festivities which bid
fair to set new record, from the
viewpoint of attendance as we'll as
from the viewpoint of art, it is said
in letters sent out from convention
headquarters.
To Join Byrd.
Capt. Oscar Visiting of Oslo, Nor
way, and Capt. Isaksen, also of that
city, have received an offer to &C
company Capt. Richard E. Byrd on
his south polar expedition The Of
fer was made through Bernt Balchen
one of Byrd's trusted men who also
is Norwegian. Capt. Visiting &C
companied Roald Amundsen to both
the South Pole and the North Pole
and has spent many of his years in
Arctic and antarctic regions, thus
becoming intimately familiar with
conditions such as those which the
Byrd expedition will face.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-02-23
MAY EXTEND TIME
ON VET BONUS PLEAS

The Associated Press reports from
Washington, D. c., that the Green
bill to extend for two years the time
in which World War veterans may ap-
ply for bonus certificates passed in
the House Monday and was sent to
the Senate.
The measure, sponsored by Chair
man Green of the Ways and Means
Committee, extends the time limit for
filing applications to January 2, 1890
1t is estimated approximately $780,
600 veterans whose applications were
not received before January 1 or have
been defective would benefit under
the extension.