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, Wide
World
—By Herbert Kaufman—
HERE are the outstanding
factors in America’s 1923
•core: Half the gold on
earth in our pockets, a billion
_ and a half increase in the value
of farm crops, a billion more on
savings bank deposit, three bil
lions worth of fresh enterprise,
a million carloads of freight in
weekly transit, 25 per cent
fewer business failures, living
costs 4 per cent up, but wage
averages per cent higher and
M per cent above 1914 earnings.
Happy New Year!
Hands Across the Rio
t Grande.
RAINBOWS to the south, too.
*** The Mexican government
announces that the revolution is
all but squelched.
Any how, that desirable situ
ation was destined the instant
President Coolidge wisely aban
doned Harding’s arms embargo
and furnished Obregon with the
means to preserve constitu
tionality.
A bold move that assures re
sponsible and constructive lead
ership throughout the Western
Hemisphere. No more dog-in
the-manger insurrections and
Winchester elections.
As de la Huerta and com
pany retire from the scene.
Chaos exits and Prosperity pre
pares to settle in another neck
of the woods.
If the allies will do as much
for China, war will temporarily
be out of a job everywhere.
JoAn Ball Takes a Stitch
in Time.
John Bull
cocks a weather eye at the
future and subsidizes a big
commercial air transport cor
poration, stipulating that all
stockholders and planes must
be British and pilots and equip
ment available for national de
fense. That’s the way aviation
problems should be dealt with
in this country.
Such fleets can not only be
made self-supporting, but may
also eventually educate neces
sary numbers of trained flyers (
at private expense.
Congressmen, fearing prece
dents for paternalism, will
please recall that Uncle Sam
lent a helping hand and hun
dreds of millions to our first
transcontinental railroads. It
won’t cost tffcpayers an annual
Sta ”
News from Wizard ville.
Hp H E wireless incandescent
X lamp appears. Dr. Willis
R. Whitney, of the General
Electric Company, lights a
110-volt bulb by radio. A
decade hence, locomotives,
washing machines, drills, lathes
and heating plants will run on
atmospheric energy.
Edison needn’t proceed any
► further in his attempts to de
vise a high-power storage bat
tery. Nature provided a cheap
er and better one than man’s
ingenuity shall ever hope to
contrive.
Montana has a smelter chim
ney overtopping the Washing
ton Monument; and the Ord
nance Department designs six
teen-inch rifles that shoot three
quarter-ton shells twenty-three
miles.
These monster weapons, built
•n railroad tracks, may be car
ried from trench to trench, de
-- mounted at any given point in
a few minutes, and depressed
to enter tunnels very much as
river steamers drop their
hinged smokestacks on ap
proaching low bridges.
Sir Charles Sets Forth to
Conquer.
QIR CHARLES HIGHAM, who
O got his advertising experi
ence in Brooklyn before he se
cured his seat in Parliament,
will shortly sail from London
in the interests of the “Cup
that cheers.” India tea plant
ers are sending him over to
stimulate the consumption of
their product. Paraphrasing
Congreve: “To the dominion
> ©f the tea label we submit,
with the proviso that you ex
' ceed not your province.”
Bontekoe, a Dutch physician
of the seventeenth century,
Il prescribed the drinking of 100
to 200 cups of tea a day, “and
the constant employment of the
pipe.”
Sir Charles and the Ameri
can Tobacco Company will be
delighted to read the quotation.
They should adopt the doctor
as a mutual patron saint.
“De Mortuis Nihil Nisi
Bonum.”
MRS. BRIDGER HAHEN
sues the Famous Players-
Lasky Company for a million
dollars for misrepresenting
the character of her father
in the film version of Emerson
L Hough’s “Covered Wagon.”
• Tully Marshall, who depicts the
old scout as a drunken squaw
. man, thinks he should be
I thanked for immortalizing the
family name.
A jury, however, will judge
*1 whether the lady owes a debt
of gratitude or the producers
a lump of damages.
' Those who have seen the pic
ture would be inclined to say
that there’s considerable excuse
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SNOW STORM SWEEPING TOWARDCAPITAL
THE WEATHER
Rain tonight. Tuesday
rain, probably changing to
snow. Mild temperature to
night, becoming much cold
er Tuesday afternoon and
night; moderate shifting
winds, becoming fresh to
strong northwest.
U. S. MISSIONARIES SLAIN
U. S. Offers Obregon Arms Worth $1,000,000
FRENCH BEGIN DRAWING
TROOPS OUT OF RUHR
INVISIBLE
RULE IS
policy
Paris Begins Evacuation Year;
After Entry Into
Area,
B» Internutional News Her* Ice.
PARIS, Dec. 31.—France has
begun to withdraw troops from the
Ruhr, (the coal" and iron area ofj
western Germany), it was offi-j
cially announced today, but the |
district will not evacuated until 1
France is satisfied on the repara-;
tions issue.
“Invisible Occupation.”
A foreign office statement said
that during the present month
three French regiments had been
recalled from the Ruhr.
It Is assumed that this is the ■
first step in France’s new policy
of “invisible occupation.”
France had previously promised
“invisible occupation” under cer
tain conditions and the question was
again brought up when direct nego
tiations were opened between Ber
lin and Paris.
By “invisible occupation” it is
likely that the German police may
be brought back—at least part of
them—to maintain order.
French and Belgian troops oc
cupied the Ruhr just one year ago,
lacking sixteen days. Since that
time the two armies have been re
inforced from time to time.
DEATHS BY FIRE ARE
RESULT OF COLD WAVE
DENVER, Col., Dec. 31.—One
person was known to be dead, an-[
other was reported burned to death,
and several are suffering from in
juries and exposure following a
series of fires in Denver caused by
overheated fdrnaces and stoves,
necessitated by the severest cold
wave that the city has known sor 1
years.
N. Y. Gets City Morgue
Ready for New Year
By JACK CARBERRY,
International New* Service.
NEW YORK. Dec. 31. —New York today prepared for one
of its most riotous New Year eves.
A liquor flood has deluged the city. Twenty-four steamers
had deposited their cargos and departed. Four more ex
pected to be sold out before night. Hundreds of automobile
loads of whiskey have been run in from lhe Canadian broder.
As a result hosnitata
no a. leauu iiuspnats made reauy
for unprecedented numbers of vic
tims of “holiday hooch.” AH morgue
employes were ordered on duty to
night.
Prohibition agents announced they
would struggle, as bf-st they could
with the limited force at their com
mand. to dam the booze flood. E. C.
Yellowley, chief prohibition agent,
arrived from Washington to take
personal command. One hundred
aides were brought from other dis
tricts.
“We will do all in our power to
save New Yorkers from themselves,”
Yellowley said today.
Has Hard Task.
His task promised to be a difficult
one. Already all existing records of
deaths from poison holiday liquor
had been broken. Eleven persons
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MRS. M. E. WVNECOOP,
Pretty twenty-three- year-old
mother of two children, who has
preferred cliarges against W. G.
Strine, prominent business man
of Hagerstown, Md., alleging that
he drugged and married her.
Strine was today held under a
$6,000 bond for violation of the
Mann white slave act.
! WOMEN ASK SIOO,OOO
FOR LOSS OF BEAUTY
NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—Alleging
i loss of beauty, two women filed
damage suits totaling SIOO,OOO
j against a dentist and a beauty
; doctor.
Miss Frieda Rubin alleged that
when site went to Dr. .James F.
Haabrouck and asked him to ex
tract two lower molars, he pulled
! two upper ones, changed the contour
iof her face and damaged her ap
pearance to the extent of $50,000.
• Mrs. Francis Simon charged that
.lDr. Walter J. Highman in removing
!; blemishes from her face left worse
j ones in the form of pits. She also
I demands $50,000.
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IN CHINA,
REPORT
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U. S. Women Missionaries
First Kidnaped by Bandits,
Advices Add* 3
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By Internal tonal News Serrlee.
• PEKIN, China, Dec. 31.—Mr.
and Mrs. Bernard Hoff, American
missionaries, were wounded and
, captured and two other mission
aries, both women, were captured
! near Tsao Yang by bandits, ac
' cording to reports here. • The
I Hoffs were reported seriously
j wounded while resisting capture
at the hands of the bandits. One
of the captured women was re-
1 ported to be Mrs. J. Kilen.
Action By Eegation.
The American legation at once dis
! patched a note to the foreign office,
' lequesting the release of the captives
and urging strong measures be taken
, against the bandits.
' Killed, Report Says.
I SHANGHAI, China. Dec. 31.—Mr.
and Mrs. Bernard Hoff and Mrs. J.
i Kilen, captured American mis
. sionaries, have been killed by the
J bandits who took them prisoners,
| according to a report here from
Tsao Yang.
I The notorious bandit, Laoyangren
is reported to have made the attack
on the American missionaries. Re
' j>ort of the deaths of Mr. and Mrs.
Hoff has not been confirmed.
Bandit’s Victims Just
Back from Honeymoon
Noted in Northwest
By International News Service.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn , Dec. 31.
Prof. Bernhard Hoff, Mrs. Hoff and
Mrs. Julina Kilen. American mission
aries reported today as killed by
bandits in China, are well known in
the Northwest, their former home,
where they have numerous relatives.
Mrs. Hoff formerly lived at Grand
Forks, N. D.. and her husband at
Aberdeen, S. D. Mrs. Kilen was a
Minnesota girl. Her mother, Mrs.
A. C. Olson, and a daughter. Miss
Martha Kilen, now live at Northfield,
Minn. An uncle of Mrs. Kilen, Sven
Gjesdahl, lives in south Minneapolis.
Mrs. Hoff formerly was Elizabeth
Broen, and has been in China doing
missionary work for three years,
much of the time with Mrs. Kilen.
Hoff went to China two years ago
and was married to Miss Broen last
August.
According to information at the
Lutheran headquarters here, the
couple went to the mountains some
distance from Tsao Yang for their
honeymoon, returning only about
three weeks ago to their mission.
Without Advices Here.
The State Departmeni today was
without official information concern
ing the capture of Mr. and Mrs.
Bernard Hoff, by Chinese bandits.
It was said, however, that Jacob
Gould Schurman, the American
minister at Peking had authority to
deal with the situation as the
events warranted without special
instructions from Washington.
Disturbing reports of anti Amer
ican demonstrations have been re
ceived here during the past few
days, but if there should be any
outbreak of a serious nature, it is
Islleved that the situation could bo
adequately handled in v j e7V of the
presence of a half dozen American
warships in Chinese waters under
the command of Rear Admiral
Thomas Washington,
COLD WAVE
DUE FOR
my
Mercury Drops to 62 Below
Zero in Blizzard That
Grips West.
CHICAGO. Dec. 31 Winter s
long expected caravan arrived to
day with a blast calculated to make
the old year well willing to die and
leave behind sub-zero temperature,
whistling blizzards and high piled
snow drifts.
Thirteen degrees below zero, a
drop of 25 degrees, was registered
at Denver early today with the
prediction of continued cold and
snow.
In the mountains near Rock
springs, Wyo., temperatures of
forty and forty-five degrees below
zero were recorded while terrific
gales accompanied by snow threat
ened to wipe out thousands of cattle
and sheep.
Intense suffering was reported at
Anaconda, Mont., where a tempera
ture of 62 below zero was registered.
Helena Hard Hit.
Helena was hard hit with the mer
cury dropping to 32 below, while
Mile City had 8 degrees below.
Telegraph and telephone wires
were reported down east of Palmer
Lake near Colorado Springs. Line
men sent to repair the break in
the wires reported back that a ter
rific blizzard was in progress and it
was impossible to see more than
twenty-five feet ahead.
Nebraska was in the clutches of
the blizzard with the thermometer
six below at Lincoln, eight below
at Kearney. Fargo, N. D., had
twenty below.
Below in Texas.
Drifts were piled four *?et deep
at Fon du Lac, Wis. A fingex- of
the same storm reached down m
the southwest to Texas an 1 Okla
homa, where the mercury dropped
as low as five above. Tulsa had
ten above.
Des Moines, lowa, had a similar
mark and three inches of snow.
The severe temperatures in the
Northwest, with 22 lielow at Winni
peg, had not reached the lower
Great Lakes territory today. Chi
cago was around the freezing
mark, but a. northwest gale was ex
pected to bring long drops in tern
perature tonight and New Year
Day.
Cold Wave Owning East.
Cold wave warnings were issued
today by the United States Weather
Bureau for Western Pennsylvania,
Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi,
South Carolina, northwest Florida,
Western North Carolina. and
extreme western Virginia.
Rain or snow is predicted for all
States east of the Mississippi liver
during the next twenty-four hours.
Winter Weather Dll'*, N. ¥.
NEW YORK. Dec. 31.—01 d Man
Winter has made a new year’s reso
lution, the Weather Bureau an
nounced today. Beginning tomor
row he will quit masquerading and
be himself, bringing icy blasts and
snow.
Rains which began last night and
continued today will turn to snow
tomorrow, according to the Weather
Bureau. The freezing gules from
he West are headed toward the At
lantic coast.
Today s raw weather, it was ex
plained, came from the Maine rnotAn
tains on a blast from the north
east. The wind is due to ahift be
, fora tomorrow.
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS REEL
His pathological books ca|l it “Atavism” and the Boston police
call it something again, but it wait'the call of his ancestral blood
that made “Prince” Mohatjmed Khpn, Tuft’s medical student, force
Miss Jeanette Gilman (afiove), pretty typist, to sign a marriage
application while he menaced her with a gun. The police are hunt
ing for him. Miss Gilman said that Khan had five other girls on
his list. i /
Mayr Gusbs 1924 Rules
For Modern Judas
By GUIDO MAYR.
(Who played the role of Judas in the Passion Play at
Oberammergau).
! j iCopyright, 1913, by Cosmopolitan New* Service.)
’ NKW YORK, Dee. 31.—Every man has in him something
of the Judas. Oscar Wilde wrote, “For each man kills the
thing he loves’’ in his “Ballad of Reading Gaol.” He might
just as well have written: “For each man betrays the thing
he loves.” As we go through life we are untrue, we betray,
in large things, some times, as well as in small matters.
But with the Judas that may almost be said to be inherent
• in human nature we may be lenient. It is the evil Judas of
: the modern world, the Julas who betrays mankind for the
proverbial thirty piece of silver, who should take warning.
The Modern Judas, who
lates in food, land, human lives,
probably does not stop to realize
the human side of what he calls
‘‘Business.” Today, just before the !
New Year, when all good men re-i
view their past and resolve to be |
better in the year to come, these
Judases should resolve:
To do no unkind thing to man,
woman or child. Nothing is more
bitter than unkindness.
To place no higher price on the
necessities of life than the itoorest j
of persons can afford to pity. I
To help make it possible for all
mankind to live and enjoy at least
a mite of pleasant things.
To live, and let live. Landlords
should not try to squeeze more
rents from tenants than these can
afford to pay. When poor tenants
must pay high rents, their children
go without necessities.
Coal profiteers should remember ,
that fuel is nature’s gift to all i
mankind and resolve not to place it
beyond the reach of even the i
humblest of these. .
Food speculators should not lose
themselves In cold figures but re- |
alize they are bartering with the ,
very life blood of their fellows. |
When they betray humanity to
squeeze a little more profit for I
home!
themselves they place a cross on
j the backs of the poor.
No better New Year command has
ever been written, I believe, than
i Shakespeare’s words: “To thine own
• self be true. Thou canst not then
;be false to any man.”
PASSING LIKE OLD YEAR,
SAYS DYING VETERAN
SYRACUSE, N. Y„ Dec. 31,—"Likt
the old year I'm passing into the
j great unkown.”
These were the last words of Rex
Wolfe, world war veteran, today
'as death claimed him. At his bed
side was his Mrs. Kathleen
McGovern Wolfe, nurse, whom
Wolfe had wooed as he lay dying.
NORFOLK POLICE SEEK
MAN WHO FIRED GARAGE
NORFOLK, Va„ Dec. 31
: Police today are searching for a
negro who Is said to have fled with
. a jug in his arms as flames burst
from a garage in the Atlantic City
i section early this morning. Two
; expensive automobilea were de*
I atroyed. ' (
EDITION
ARMY WILL
FURNISH
THEM IT
ONCE
Orders Sent to Eighth and
Ninth Corps Areas to Sell
From Surplus.
Orders went forward from the
War Department today that will
permit the Obregon governmeit
tc secure war materials—rifles,
ammunition „ and airplanes—to
sl,ooo,ooo, from surplus stocks
held in army posts in the eighth
and ninth army corps areas.
Details Kept Secret.
Details of the movement of
supplies are being suppressed, in
compliance with th ewishes of the
Obregon administration, such in
formation being classed as “mili
tary secrets.”
It is understood, however, that
movement of supplies will begin in
a few days from San Antonio, Tex.,
and San Francisco, as the chief re
serve stocks of the army are held
at those points. Both water and
rail transportation will be used.
Arms Sale Explained.
In defending the decision of the
Administration to aid Obregon in
crushing the de la Huerta revolt,
State Department officials asserted
today that the sale of war materials
to Obregon is not considered as a
reversal of the’ policy of the late
President Harding against selling
implements of warfare to foreign
powers.
President Harding, it was said,
predicated his policy on the belief
that the United States should not
encourage the growth of militarism
or contribute to the war making
of any country. The case of Obre
gon, however, was considered in an
other light, officials taking the view
that here was a case of revolution
against the ’ constitutional govern
ment of a friendly power, and as a
friend and adherent of constitu
tional government, the United
States had no other recourse than
to grant the request of Obregon.
Refusal “Unfriendly.”
To have denied President Obre
gon’s request would have been In
the nature of an "unfriendly act,”
according to the State Department's
viewpoint.
Obregon is understood to have
been particularly anxious to obtain
the airplanes that are to be included
In the sale. The distances in Mex
ico are so great and the warfare so
open that aircraft can be used to
particular advantage.
Army officers said today that a
dozen airplanes, such as Obregon
has requested, properly loaded with
bombs and machine guns, could do
more damage to the rebel forces in
a few hours than columns of troops
could accomplish in weeks.
The bombing of Vera Cruz, which
is headquarters of the de la Huerta
movement, is considered a possibil
ity, in the light of Obregon’s request
that the airplanes be furnished with
all possible speed.
Mexican Senate Plans
New Session to Take Up
Second U.S. Convention
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 31.—Another
session of the Mexican senate will
be called immediately, it was
learned today, to consider the
general claims convention with the
United States, which was rejected
Saturday night owing to the failure
of the minority senators to put in
appearance.
A special convention already had
been approved, but the general
convention was left over for further
consideration.
Big Majority Favors.
Government leaders, who favor
ratification, predicted an 1 over
whelming majority in favor of ai>
proval when the Issue Is again
brought up.
> The minority Senators who 00*