Van Wert Daily Bulletin, The (Newspaper) - January 17, 1920, Van Wert, Ohio A D 1873 VAN WEKT OHIO SATURDAY 17 TWO CENTS EYES RESENT NEGLECT that need glasses need good bargains in other things ii you must but don't treat your eyes like poor relations you abuse or neglect them they will exact a heavy penalty loss of working aches and a multitude of nervous disorders will re- sult Assisted by Correct Glasses your eyes will prove faithful capable servants enable you to do more and better work with less effort and evening made X OHIO In accord the national fuel saving measures we re- quest that our patrons who desire family washings dried to call by Wednesday of each week The Empire Laundry W Jackson St Phone 1061 A RUDY FURNACE With a Honeywell Heat Regulator is an Ideal Heating Plant I install Regulators on every Furnace C L EPPS N Washington tit Phone 1187 VAN O W W Chiropractor Office 2nd Floor rays te Hughes Block -phone e1 phone T he science of Iry Inis it possible for nearly everyone to en- joy Good Eyesight By our examination wo detect the true tion then wo the Lens to correct the defect and you have the comfort knd pleasure of Good sion again If you would HIMES SPECIALIST I We Grind BAKER APPROVES WATERWAY PLAN Canal Project Agitated for More Than 20 Years Now Assured ROBERT BEYER OPENS ROUTES TO BIG CITIES Uncle Sam Puts O K on Gulf den of Illinois Gets Permit to Start Work Chicago Inn waterway soon will he u reality Governor received from Secretary of War Baker a permit for construction of a navigable waterway including the necessary structure and improvement of and Illinois rivers from the termination of the sanitary dis- channel at to head of navigation in Illinois river at Utica The now in tho hands of Governor contrary to ex- is practically free from re- strictions except as to development of water power regarding which it vides that state obtain permission from the power commission created his week by act of congress and con- form to the new power development statute Silent on Diversion The permit leaves the question of diversion of water from Lake which the federal ment and sanitary district have been in for status quo Tt It is to be this al docs not authorize diversion of wa- ter from Lake Michigan through approval federal government of the plans so far as concerns public Hah Is navigation Tbe permit it developed sued in Washington some time ago was delayed in the mails It came to Governor a IVw days airo aud was passed on by him to Frank 1 Bennett director oC public works ami to Air Sackett who Governor Lowden as his waterway ex- pert These went over the document with the was finding restriction or joker which would further delay the ment of the project We to make said Mr Sackett that here are no re- strictions which might make the mit useless Work to Start Soon The was made that all was satisfactory and that work would begin about as soon as weather permit We already have disposed of a preliminary we eventually would get the necessary are ready to con- struction some point along the route Mr Sackett explained Some preliminary surveys have been made said Mr Bennett and designs for are well ad- We can get out the bond sue already authorized by a dum vote and start work The cost will be about and Illinois will gel in return water power worth roughly a year This power will save half a million tons of coal annually The waterway will make navigable miles of rivers and will link cago ami the Great Lakes to some miles of navigable inland wa- There will be a channel depth of eight feet with a width of -OO feet There will be live locks feet long by 110 wide These Mr Sacked de- clared would permit operation of Heels with a total capacity of between Mil i ions Beyer German chemist and inventor was the first adult German to enter Boston since the war Ky his own admission lie Is inventor of one of the ingredients of the German poisonous gases used in the war Ue left Boston Chicago BOLSHEVIKI IN ODESSA Chief Port of Russia on Black Sea Captured British People Warned of Red Peril in Army Routed INDIANA RATIFIES SUFFRAGE Gives Overwhelming Majority in Both Mouses of State Indianapolis Ind Jan eral amendment for woman's suffrage was by bulb nt ibe In- diana legislature special session here In Hie tile was id anil in Hie bouse to 0 is the state tn ratify be amendment BOLSHEVIKI OCCUPY ODESSA Chief Port of Russia on Black Sea is Captured by the Reds Ian Ibe chief of on sea has been occupied by Ibe cording in newspaper re- hero Basel Jan the chief port of on Hie sea lias been occupied by the cording to newspaper dispatches re- here London Tan of British people is fixed on ilir near easl recent bolshevik successes have carried the red Russian armies almost up to the threshold of India Persia Mesopotamia and Asiatic Cabinet members ami chiefs ol the navy in Paris whither they wore hastily summoned and ure conferring wish Premier David George on military inn! naval matters in connection it is be- with conditions Ijj ern Asia Apprehension was a rousted by the issuance of a pointing out the situation thai hao arisen through of army in southern and bolshevik penetration of trans- Caspia only was admitted the menace from a Russian bolshevik in- vasion of Hie near east very real but ir was pointed that internal conditions in Persia Turkey ami In too thy are forced to contend with ing from racial dissension It is said that a soviet advance Hiat captures the Crimea would make sea virtually u bolshevik lake am il was further indicated that Great Britain could Impe for little help from new republics of tan and Azerbaijan which are ly in the path of soviet advance The situation which now Great Britain and more or less Japan and China is not of sudden growth however For Hie last 01 more the bolsheviki have had an unbroken series of have swept them forward on all fronts where their forces are be- In be Admiral Kolchak's army in seems io have boon completely do foaled if not dispersed reds an far east of Krasnoyarsk are ing nearer Irkutsk While reports fron Siberia have dealt almost entirely wit Ii operations along the Siberian railroad occasional advices have indicated have moved far south ol that line and have established selves near the Mongolian southwest of Irkutsk Thinly veiled threats resort tfi methods of terrorism should Sheviki be opposed by this entente an contained in a wireless re- here from Moscow It is said capital punishment will upon enemies eof the soviet ment only when sentences proved by the all nary commission but return tc wholesale was should the entente nations take to Winnipeg Dailies Suspend Winnipeg an Jan of the shortage of newsprint the three daily papers in this city announced that I hey would suspend publication The three editorial staffs will unite in issuing a paper DEFEAT TIGER Senate and Chamber Caucus Dis- cards Clemenceau for Paul Deschanel RADICALS SHOW STRENGTH President of the Chamber of Deputies Leads the Premier by 19 Declines to Run for Re-Election Paris Tun Georges Clemenceau went down to defeat at hands of his countrymen in a cus of the senate and chamber of to choose a candidate for the presidency of the republic M thereupon an- his withdrawal from the con- test and asked his supporters to cast their votes for the re-election of ident Poincare The vote resulted as Paul Deschanel president of the ch of deputies Premier C A recently elected senator Leon Bourgeois French representative in the League of Nations 3 1 dent Poincare lii Senators and deputies after In which Paul Deschanel led the premier by 1.9 votes expressed the opinion hat the vote means the elimination from lic life of the of victory Pre- mier being neither a ator nor L deputy Declines to Run M are already searching for another candidate as President reported to have refused to accede to the demand of a deputation that u candidate for re-election He is said to have re- emphatically the expression of his determination to lie n date I Never before in of has a ary caucus been attended by such a large number of deputies and senators out of being present it has been the custom to call a caucus only of he parties of the left but today Paul noseband stands as the chosen candidate both of he ber and the parties Radicals Support Deschanel Neither Premier nor M Deschanel were present the cus former Premier An- dre Lefevre and the bitter the new president of the cal parly were conspicuous in shaling the Deschanel forces while Georges Mandel formerly Premier confidential secretary and Ignace were canvassing on behalf of M The voting commenced sluggishly at two o'clock three o'clock an avalanche of senators and deputies descended upon voting place and flic polling became brisk and excited Those presiding the voling were fairly swamped by the venerable senators and young deputies anxious to cast voles before tin polling closed at four A few bets were recorded with M Clemenceau the pronounced favorite Views Differ on Defeat There were naturally two views of the of the premier who for more than two years by his forceful personality and courage had ruled both houses of the parliament an Iron hand One of the senators who was opposed to this premier M has been victorious against many attacks in the ber ami senate in the last two years was because he was fighting for Franco When he seeks personal ors however he goes down to defeat in other hand many of tin and senators who had supported the premier lingered in the courtyard of after the close of I ho ha Mot ing sadly commenting upon the outcome will said one of Ibis group while others of the participants in the balloting were ing their way homeward manifesting exultation by singing and ins MALCOLM KERLIN STRIKERS SLAIN IN GERMANY Rioting Takes Place in Essen Region Where Miners Are 15 Berlin Plotters Held Malcolm Kerlin assistant ter of the Washington post lias resigned to become a member of the States bureau of as an examiner Mis first duly will he in connection with of postal employees throughout the country 4 DIE IN EXPLOSION Score of Others Are Seared by Flaming Oil East Chicago Ind Refining Plant Blast Probably Fatally Injures Many Workmen Kast Chicago Ind Tan were burned o death by boiling oil and about twenty others were in- jured when a coke still exploded at the plant of Sinclair Oil Helming company here The blast which shook he entire plant he heard a miiT resellers to reach the scene found the injured in agony staggering about blindly in their steaming The four victims were burned beyond recognition ing to the fact that explosion curred just as workmen were changing shifts identification of the bodies could IK accomplished only by a process of elimination in checking over tjie lists Those killed Andrew Whiting U son Chicago John cago Albert Hammond Kloven men burned by oil were taken to St Margaret's hospital in Hammond Four of them were able In return to homes in Whiting after receiving medical The more seriously injured still in I lie hospita I are rohn Chicago Nate Taylor Whit ing Oliver Lowell Cook C H Miller Whiting L W Wolfe ing Fred lavish Whiting LEAGUE HOLDS FIRST SESSION World Union Formally Started in French Foreign Office at Paris PROTEST FROM THE IRISH Document Signed by Duffy Registers Objections to League of Nations and Calls It an En- gine of Empire RUSS BALK AT U S REDS Soviet Official Declares That His Country Is No Dumping Ground for Agitators Finland Jan cal deported from will lie examined they arc to enter to made a hy Of soviet delegation Dorpat on the subject u time AT and liis col- INT wore asked will do witli the radicals sent to on board soviet ark They professed lo be uninformed on the subject said Russia will not allow itself to be used as a dumping ground for from America TO RAISE RUSSIAN BLOCKADE Supreme Council at Paris to Permit Soviet Government to Trade With Neutrals Essen Tan 17- Several persons have been killed nnd ed in disturbances at radn and other towns in the industrial district where miners are ing The region has declared under a strict stale of siege Troops have intervened at Frankfort to enforce orders prohibiting an pendent socialist demonstration testing against the assassins of Paris Jan blockade of soviet is about to be lifted io this effect was reached by tho supreme council here It was an- conferences had agreed lo to import from neutral countries agricultural Implements food supplies and cines The emphasized however that the allies political at- inward the is cha lined Tbe political altitude hitherto pursued is that the allies will die government of unless and until a assembly lias been convoked and has expressed the will of majority of the Russian people Paris of France Italy Greece Spain Japan and members of life council of Ibe League of Nations met in the of tho foreign for the first meeting in history of the league Tin council at clock by elect ing Bourgeois chairman and confirming the choice of Sir Kric of Great as general secretary Tbe first act of the council was Die appointment of a commission to trace upon the spot the frontiers of the territory of the basin council received first formal protest to be presented o it almost before came into being with today's session Tbe protest was from envoys of the elected government of the Irish republic against the un- real English of an inter- national league of Bourgeois in Address tive who presided Tbe task of presiding at this ing and inaugurating this great inter- national institution should have fallen to President Wilson We the reasons which still delay final decision by our friends in Washington but ex- press the hope that their soon will overcome and that a of the great American re- public will occupy the place awaiting him among us Tho work of the cil will then assume definite ter and will have that particular force which should be associated with our work Jan HG 1020 will go down -in tory as the date of the birth of a new world Decisions to lie reached will lie in the name of all nations ing to the first covenant of the league It will be the first decree of all free nations leaguing themselves together for the first time in the world to sub- right for might But the of the of Nations will be complete until the bly of all the states meets Gives British Views Earl Curzon British secretary of state for foreign affairs and that representative on the council of league said On behalf of the British empire desire to express the loyalty of my government and the external ions of the British crown to the spirit the of the League of Nations is our intention by every means in onr power to insure its practical Tt is our firm belief that through its Instrumentality alone we can hope to insure that such miseries that the world has during the five years shall not be repeated and that a era of International relationship shall dawn The of Nations is an ex- pression of Hie universal desire for saner methods of regulating affairs of mankind and provides machinery by which practical effect: may be given the principles of international ship and good understanding The cess of the labors of the peace con- ference is a good augury for the ture of the league of Nations For the first time an was to bring together under the auspices of the league representatives of ments and labor and an advance exceeding the results of entire work of the previous quarter of a century has been made in the field of international action on industrial Next Meeting in London All the members of tho council ed for by the covenant of the league with ho exception of the fives of the United States ent when M Bourgeois called the meeting lo order After tho appointment of the com- missioners M Bourgeois proposed as the place for tho next ing of the council and this was proved suggested ing the date and the order of business open to be decided by ibe chairman and the secretary since said It will be necessary to consult the United States on a great many questions ly io arise Fe Is n wise man who can on casion put up or shut lie is a wiser man who can put up and shut Morning News U S MARINES IN FIGHT Americans and Gendarmerie Re- pel Attack in Hayti Yanks Pursue Outlaws Rebels Are Killed or Tan States aud gendarmerie re MII on Port an Prince tho capital by i force of 300 bandits more than liulf of whom were killed wounded or after be- ing pursued outside city the department was The casualties of Hie marines were two privates wounded according to Hit report of the engagement re- at tlie navy department today from Col II Kussell commanding Hie marine forces aud gendarmerie In Haiti The Col Russell said approached an in three columns which immediately were met and driven back Certain revolutionary elements o the city attempted to join the bandits in the assault he said milling that believed the fate of the attacking forces should be suflicient to prevent an curly repetition of the Honolulu T II Tan anese foreign has announced thai a note will lie sent to China asking the appointment of n commission to negotiate with the restoration ot lung according tn a Tokyo cubic patch to the Ulii a Japanese language newspaper here WALTER TABOR DENIES TALE Brother of Woman Whose Body Waa Found in Trunk Repudiates Alleged Confession Mich Tan ond sensation to stir and Paw within twelve hours was sprung when Walter Tabor brother of the Law ton trunk mystery victim Maud Tabor repudiated an alleged confession which charged his old mother with the murder He de- appointed by the Van Euren county supervisors to handle the case for evidence under false pre- GREAT LAKES CHECKS FLU Sailors Who May Be Affected Are Given Hospital Treatment Without Delay Chicago Tan hospital treatment for every sailor whose showed the least rise has checked the spread of influenza at the Lakes training station Com- mander Hit W Tr tive officer believes he said Many of the cases appearing in the vicinity of Chicago were at the naval Which under THE MARKETS Grain Provisions Etc Chicago Jan 16 itiK est ins 3.37 Feb May July 1.31 Jan May lots per brl Ib sack ba- Rye white In Jute dark rye spring wheat special brands to retail trade bard spring first second clears hard ter soft winter and Xo 1 timothy standard and No 1 mixed 31.00 Xo 1 and 2 No 3 othy clover extras 92 score Vic higher a um firsts score score seconds score ladles renovated packing stock Prices to re- tail tubs prints GSc firsts fresh long and short held miscellaneous lots cases included cases returned extra in whitewood dirties re- firsts extras fowls roosters chickens ducks neese Turkeys HOo fowls and roosters POTATOES 100 Ibs northern round heavy steers Rood to choice steers to steers fait tn steers fair In stockers ana forders seed to prime cows fair to lino heifers fair to good cows 10.50 canners cutters bulls hulls veal I butchers 15.10 medium wt butchers wl butchers 270-350 Ibs fair to fancy heavy yearlings western native IS
