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THE DES MOINES REOISTER-Monday Morning, July 91923-LAMGEST DAILY CIRCULATION IX IOWA. EXPLORER PICKS At the Theaters This Week MINERS NEED A RAISE TO LIVE DECENTLY-LEVIS OFFICERS OF IOWA RETAIL CLOTHIERS PLAN CONVENTION Officers-and directors of the Iowa Retail Clothiers' association held their midyear meeting Friday in Hotel Fort Des Moines and laid plans for the convention to be held here next February. A campaign will be launched Aug. 1 for an Increase in membership to bring 75 per cent of eligible clothiers into the association. They were photographed by a Register camera man.

From left to right: Front row A. M. Hawkins, Red Oak; Ray Prusla, Mason City; Elmer Loeb, 'Albla; W. P. Kerwln, Waterloo, national director; Bert L.

Butler, Atlantic, president; H. N. Israel, Cedar Falls; 11. Stuhler, Montlcello; W. J.

Goldman, Des Moines, vice president of Men's Apparel club. Back row C. H. Crowe, Clarion, secretary; Herman Hansen Moines; H. J.

Smith, Webster City; Joe Smith, Council Bluffs, vice president; J. A. Wellbank, Mount Pleasant, vice president. U.S. COMMISSION PUTS FOOT DOWN ON MINERS' PLEA 7 Declares Men Haye Good Living Standard.

Washington, July -Tne Cnited States coal commission has virtually put its foot down on the demands of anthracite miners for a 20 per" cent Increase In wages, which is -holding up the operator-miner conference now going on at Atlantic In Its report on the io diiBtry. made after months vf-, Investigation, the commission1 'declares that the present earn i kr ings of full time workers In the anthracite fields, "permit the sen rials of a reasonable stands rd.V oi living. "Those who take full advant age of their opportunities to earn in tne various occupations connected with the industry and not handicapped by serious fortune, tfeed not suffer for shelter, food, clothing or other I aecenciea ana coinioris oi uie even without supplementary 1 I it earnings oi wue or cnnaren, ine report, states. Higher Wages for Helpers. The commission recommends.

J. Rosemond Johnson and his five high spirited, colored musicians head the Orpheum bill this week with a rapid-fire musical x-y view in "Syncopation." A dash of Negro spiritual singing and acrobatic, contortions by the orrhes-tra are thrown Into the act which has all Ihe musical qualities for which the Negro Is noted. Late compositions hy Mr. Johnson are featured in both the vocal selections and the orchestra numbers. It Is an act that makes you want to get on your feet and take full advantage ot the music, Harry Breen, extemporaneous singer, found plenty of people In the crowd to weave Into his song and picked them out so the audience could verify that he was not pulling a fake.

Breen, who has few If any parallels on the vaudeville stage, sccompllshes him ambition to be the "craziest" man on the stage. In real life a man in love Is the best comedy, and on the stage he Is hard to overshadow. Such a person furnishes the fun in the playlet "A Friend in Need," which bubbles with comedy under the capable presentation of Mann Ho-liner, Nicholas Joy, Linda Carlon and Elaine Temple. Martha Pryor. "The Kentucky Girl," brings a refreshing collection of late popular songs to the Ornheum crowds, and puts her body and soul Into her act to get the most out of It.

and Dupree open the bill with a fascinating dancing and acrobatic number. The picture this week is Ben Turpin In "The Shriek of Arahy." Notice of Births Three births were reported at Mercy hospital Saturday night: To Mr. and Mrs. J. J.

Kann, 1806 Arlington avenue, a boy. To Mr. and Mrs. L. J.

Huss, 101 5 First Street place, a girl. To Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cunningham, 614 Ovid avenue, a girl. HAFU KIDDIES IN SEVEN YEARS All of Quadruplets Are Still Living.

Chicago, July 8. (United News) In a little bungalow on a two-acre farm, spending her higher wages for miners helpers, who sre paid out of the salaries-, of Individual miners. Many of laborers have "a very un- certain ajia inadequate income. It states, and are frequently In "economic distress." For the future of the Industry' the commission makes a srore of recommendations, principal which from the public's stand Civic Club Programs point are: 1. Creation bf a government agency, like the interstate com- merce commission to regulate HARDING FLAYED BY SENATOR KING Calls Disarm Conference a Delusion.

GERMANY SAYS ANNEXATION IS AIM OF FRANCE Charge Nation Is Plotting tne industry ana to receive annual reports. 2. -Arbltratlon of wage din-'." putes, If no agreement Is reached sixty days before expiration or(. contract, by a body appointed by the president. 3.

Authorisation by congress for the president to declare a na-' tional emergency when a lookout ocrurs and to take charge of the mines. -ivp-pjamiimi ion oi antnra- cite freight rates by the Inter- state commerce commission. Atlantic uny, Juiy (United Newg) An "inside" story, alleging that the coal commission's report was held up and rewritten by Attorney General Daugherty to-' save the renuhllran oartv from unuieniiwij alarmed, ac- a Plot Is Charged i time caring for a row, chickens bad tactical error In Its labor' and seversl goats, lives Mrs. policy, overshadowed today's de-Josephine K. Ormshy, whose me- velopments here at the anthracite'1 tfiorfc career as the mother of operator-miner conference, fourteen children in seven years George H.

Cussing, in the Jaly brought her nationwide note. 5 Issue of his Washington public- Of the seven children to sur- tlon called "Cushlng's Survey and' vive, four are of the only set of Service," one of the organs of the quadruplets In the country ever coal -Industry, copies of known to have grown to man and reached delegates' here today," womanhood. charged that Daughertv wss iett This family burst from obscur- behind when President Harding deity Into national prominence in parted for Alaska to guard against" 1901 when the 'quads" were just such slips. born. Ormsby.

then 26 The slip, which might have years old, was msrrled to proved embarrassing in 1924, Cush- '1 Charles Ormshy In 1894. A year ing declares, was discovered bv the later a boy was Joseph and attorney, general when he accP Josephine, twins, came A read--advance copies of" year later rama-a gin. Yine coat" -commission report five Daisy Elizabeth and Mary Alice, day afteHaNffll's departure. BOWDOIfl'S CREVi WITH MUCH CARE Men Have Careers Packed With Adventure. (Cnm-rlg-hl, 1H23, In Unll.il KtRj.nnil Ort Britain by Nnrlh Amirlriin Nawn-1 ipr Alllnr.

All rlfhta raaarvail.) New York, July 8, Few bands I of men comparable In size to the small crew of the Arctic ship Bowdoin have had an aggregate of thrilling adventures or possess surn a comDinea variety or at talnments as those who are now sailing north off Labrador with Dr. Ronald B. MacMlllan, Bpeclal Arctlo radio correspondent of The Register. Ralph Robinson, Thomas Mcuue ana uicaru God dardwere with Dr. MacMlllan on his Baffin land expedition; from whlcn ne returned last September That was his seventh Arctic voy age.

McCue was with MacMlllan on two voyages before that to Baffin land. Chosen with special rare, all fare" fifteen months In polar re gtons and perhaps the time will be lengthened to years by untor seen circumstances with an aa vantage never given to men In their position It is the advantage of keeping In touch with clvllUa tlon through radio, hearing news from home and knowing that their progress Is watched by the whole worm HI la reyunru in me unm gages to be ent by Dr. Mac.Mil Ian and picked up througho.it North America by radio amateur The 16,000 radio stations of members of the American Radio Re lay league will be on watch ror regular dispatches and also for the urgent messages that have been arranaea ror In case ot.ims- han or disaster. Sketches of the six of the crew who sailed with Dr. MacMlllan from Wiscasset, follow.

Before deDartlne. MacMlllan ar- ranted to Dick ud on the Labra dor coast a skilled Interpreter and dog driver, probably to be Abraiu Brookfleld. RALPH V. ROMXSOX. Mi Iff Assistant.

Ralph P. Robinson, who Is with Dr. MacMlllan as chief assistant, was born In Nova Hco tla. in 1878. A man of varied at tamments, he Is a graduate of Worcester academy snd of Spring fiolrf M.

C. A. rolleae. From 1910 to 1917 he was 'physical rtl- ertor of the Y. M.

A. and the nuhlle schools In Haverhill. Mass He served as' a lieutenant of Infantry in the world war and had ten months or overseas service. On his return he became dlrec tor of physical education In the Haverhill schools and In 1921 sailed with MacMlllan on his Baf fin land expedition. doSald h.

mix. Radio Operator. Donald H. Mix of Brlsto radio operator aboard the Bowdoln. is the "baby of the MacMlllan party as regards age and is one or the youngest men ever to go north on an Arctic ex pedltion.

He Is 21 years old He is a "baby" only in years for he six feet, three ana a cou Die of yards wide across the shoulders when extended. Mix has won lot of popular It the other members of the expedition because of his modesty and aulet demeanor. He was selected out of several thousand members of the American Radio Relay league as te representa make th historic voyago. His record as a radio amateur shows that he has been among the "heat In copying distant stations, Bitting up all night pound. Ing the key ana tuning In is his idea of pleasure.

While the ship was being prepared In several Maine ports ho demonstrated his ability aloft and he will stand his watch with thH other members 'of the crew it neoessary. Captain MacMlllan, however, will only call on him in an because he feels that it is of primary importance for him to stay In his radio station WNP- Wireless North Pole, Mix is unmarried and his home Is With his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. H.

Mix at 40 Stearns street. Bristol, Cfnn. i RICH A Kl) OI)IA HO. Carnegie Observer. Richard Goddard of W'lnthrop, is the official observer on the MacMillan expedition.

He represents the Carnegie Institution at Washington and will make a special study of atmospheric electricity Rnd terrestrial which he has followed in the Arctic before this. Although he Is now only 28 years old, the trip to the top of the earth will bo no new experience for him as ho was with MacMlllan on his Baffin land expedition. The experience gained on that trip, it Is believed, will make his work on this -expedition even more valuable for he has had the opportunity, to familiarize himself with conditions and be prepared for all emergencies. He left Dartmouth college to enlist in the navy at the start of the W'ar and served as an ensign. His predilection for sea life is natural as he comes of a long line of seafaring people.

He was born in New London, where his grandfathers -were famous old whaling captains. His father Is Ralph H. God-dard, a marine engineer, for thirty years the United States lighthouse service. THOMAS I. M'fTK.

Mate oti Howdoin, The' life story of Thomas j. McCue, mate of the Bowdoln, who Is accompanying Captain May MUlan for the third time on au Arctic voyage, reads like, thrilling fiction. porn in Maryvale, Newfoundland, thirty-two years ago, he ran away to sea when he was iO years old. For nine seasons he wan fishing on the Labrador and Grand Banks and was two winters out of Gloucester. At an age when most boys are reading of adventure, McCue was living it as an accepted part of his struggle for survival.

sailed all over the world in all manner of ships and managed to livs through the experiences of the toughest, forecastles. When he was seventeen be fell from a yard arm to a wharf 55 feet below, a drop which would have finished most men, but apparently a cat's lives are a mere handful compared to those po-sessed bv McCue. It, put him in the hospital for a year but he was not disabled permanently. Such a man couldn't very well stay out of a world war so he went across with the First Royal Newfoundland regiment and served four ypars and 144 days. He wasin the trenches three years and 255 days and was wounded four times.

'During part of his service he was with the British fipedltionaiy Xarce in. the Mediler- cording to "at the llberaltr Says Organization Working for Peace. Is John L. LryrU, intrrnnlional prrnidrnt of the L'nifrd Mine nked to rt forth the, rea son why Am men are, demanding a 20 per vent incre.ane in xcnoe in the anthracite industry and hi view of the outlook for another anthracite, famine, due. to the strike this winter.

Hi response is em bodied in the, following statement: BY JOHN L. LKWIS. (f'riwliltnt of llif I'nMnd Mtii Worker of (Hy The 'unlifrt Nw.) No one can, at tbls time, predict the outcome of the negotiations for a new wage agreement in the anthracite industry. The joint conference of miners and opera tors is lust now starting. Let me assure the American public, how-ever that the United Mine work ers shall work lor peace in tne anthracite field peace based upon the principle of Justice to the miner, the operator and the public.

Our people are entitled io a better income, and that means a (Wage They are entitled to the uniform eight-hour day. Sled Finns for LIglit-Hoiir Even the great eel companies now admit that eight hours is long enough for men to work in their mills. If eight hours is enough for a steel worker it is enough for a man laboring hundreds ot feet underground amid alt the hazards ot such' employment. We shall be able to prove by unquestionable figures that anthracite workers earn an average of not more than 1100 to 126 a month by working steadily throughout the year at the present rate of We shall show that to earn a decent living for his family on his present wage the anthracite mine worker must work more days of eight hours each than there are da-ys in the calendar year. Some of these men work as much as 450 eight-hour shift in a year.

Such labor la unjust. It. Is sheer cruelty. It must be and, I believe, the American public will sustain the miner in ahollsh-Ingsdch a condition. 'Urges Checkoff System.

And in line with our third principal demand at this conference, It Is time for the anthracite coal companies to give full recognition to the union and establish the checkoff In the anthracite region. Such action would be a wonderful help to the United Mine Workers In preventing the numerous Illegal, deplorable local strikes which affect the industry. Complete unionization would enable the union to enforce proper discipline among the workers and proper regard for the contractual relation. BLOOMF1ELD MAN' HAS TWO RAZpRS 100 YEARS OLD v-v r-t Bloomfleld, July 8 fSpe- cian Harry kosv. ocai Barber.

has In his possession two razors that are 100 years old. They formerly belonged to his grandfather, Singleton Roby, then passed into tne hands of his father Henry Roby, and have been handed down from one generation to another. Mr. Roby has had the blades seven years. 1 One of the razors Is of the Wade and Butcher make and the other Is the old pipe razor.

The metal in both razors Is very thin and the blade of one is narrow as compared with the razors in use today. i Both are in good condition. Oldest Journalist Still Writes at 103 Paris, July (Special) Meille Saint Prix, who is bellevea to be the oldest living journalist in the world, celebrated lately nis 103d anniversary. Mr. Saint Prix is still in harness and writes under the? non filume of "Jean1 Damably" a week-y article in a daily newspaper lu the department of Seine et Oise.

He lives at Corbeil, near Paris. His only companion Is his old valet, who has been with hfm for the last thirty-seven years. Tupll of Troyon he was painter first he chose journalism as a profession only In his ninety-fifth year. He was an intimate of Dumas, was the confident and crony of Alfred de Musset and was pften a companion of Corot In quest of "material" for his paintings, in the Fontalnbleau Forest. Eighteen years of his life were spent beneath tents In Libya, Syria, Egypt and Asia Minor.

hunted tigers and panthers. He has lived through three revolutions, many wars, the reign of two kings and the Third empire. Four Are Injured in Auto Mishaps Here Mrs. J. W.

Freestone, 2533 Maury street, and her daughter Anna, 3 years old, were Injured early last night wheu an automobile in which they were riding collided with- another machine at West Twentieth street and Washington avenue. Both' were given emergency treatment by pbllce surgeons, who said that Mrs. Freestone sustained a fractured finger and se. vere lacerations to the right arm. Tie baby was bruised about the face and body.

When an automobile In which iney were rmmg went into a ditch on the Merle Hay road near Johnson station Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Young, Doon, Ia, were seriously Injured yesterday arter-nonn They were taken to Iowa Methodist hospital, where it was said that Mr. Young sustained a fractured left shoulder and possible internal injuries.

Mrs. Young was bruised about the head and body. Excursionists Held Up by Train Wreck Decorah. July (Special) One hundred and four tickets were sold at the Milwaukee depot for the excursion on the steamer from Marquette fto Gut-tenberg. The morning tram had a car derailed at Haugendale and the train did not get.

here until almost noon. As excursion trains on the main line cannot wslt'the excursion had to be abandoned and the money refunded to disgruntled citizens. ranean and at the Dardanelles. After the armistice he went to Cologne wltn the famous Ninth British division. Returning to America, he went back to the sea and it was in 1920 that he met Dr.

MacMlllan when they were shipmates on the furring ship Thetis in the waters of Hudson bay. Dr. MacMlllan' proposed-trip to Baffin land fl'ived appealing and McCue shipped as cook, but because of his unusual training, spent most of his time Dr. MacMlllan pays him a glow-; ing tribute and believes be is one of the finest seamen he has ever seen. That Is why he Is sailing as mate of the Bowdoin.

Incidentally, McCue' alertness and courage on the last trip prevented the loss by drowning of severs! membes of the crew when tner nory was caught In a bad Ice Jam. Like so many deen se sailors. McCue cannot swim, Yet he has been overboard several times In mldocean and as recently as last Christmas he missed the wharf one night when he Jumped irom an Incoming ice-covered beam trawler, and narrowly escaped drowning. He fished all last winter, the worst in recent years, aboard trawlers which do most of their work In the worst storms when the liners are riding it The tact that he wore out nineteen suits of oilskins gives an indica tion or the severity of conditions. McCue is married and his wife snd two children live In Scotland.

He expects that this will be his last voyage, combining business with adventure, after which he will settle down to some less riskV Occupation. His frlpnria nv he has said that before. M. JAVXKK. Howcloin's Engineer.

It is a1" far cry from the class room of a city high school to the hazardous wastes -of the nortn hut that, is the Jumo that John M. Jaynes, engineer on the Bowi dotn. Is taking. i Jaynes, bespectacled, small and wiry, looks more the part of the high school teacher than the Arctic explorer. For twenty-one years he has been an instructor in the Somervllle High school.

Just outside bf Boston. His value to the expedition lies in the fact that he is a specialist, an expert engineer. He is 44 years old. He attend ed the Massachusetts'lnstltute ot Technology and the Lawrence Scientific Bchool, taking special courses, i during the war worked for the government. In specting and testing semi-Diesel heavy oil engines.

He is married. Dunne his ab sence his wife will live with her sitVr. Besides his engineering- expe rience, Jaynes has had considerable sea life during the summers and Is a member of several yacht clubs. WILLIAM A. LKWIS.

When William A. Lewis agreed to sail as MacMlllan's cook, after three others had backed out. he had one hour to deride whether he would ship for the polar regions or accept a berth on a mil lionaire's yacht. Why did he choose the former? Most persons would answer Im-J mediately, "adventure. Not for ewis.

He has been a sea cook thirty-five years and If you com prehend all that signifies von will realize that the pursuit of adventure plays a smal part in his life. He has had all he needs of that. The deciding factor was the duration of the Job. On thu yacht, the berth would last about two or three months: this one will be good for at least a year and a hair. Of course, it mav also last forever, but.

although he Is 55 years bid, is. still ready to take a chance. Lewis was born In Nova Scotia and like many of his countrymen he has sailed on about everything tnat tioats. me fact that, the galley of the Bowdoin Is so small you could almost put It in your pocKet ana you turn around you bump the rook stove doesn't, worry Lewis. The crew also Is small eventually eleht in all and that means comparatively ie momns to reea.

The hair on his head is a bit thin but the flesh and muscle on his body is pretty thick. He hSn the sea squint and though he's a quiet individual he looks as If ne could handle himself in almost any company. He doesn't look much like French pastry but they The Lions club will have golf for desert at its weekly luncheon Thursday. Members will meet at the Calf and Country club and following the meeting will play the qualifying rounds In the annual club tournament. "Human Interest in Seirtng" will be the topic of the address by Charles Pulliam before the Ad club at Hotel Savery Tuesday.

Mr. Pulliam is sales manager of the Rollins Hosiery Mills. Results of the International Rotary club convention at St. Loul will be reported on at the club's luncheon Thursday at Hotel Fort Des Moines. Among the speakers will be J.

S. Root, Milton Goldman, Clifford DePuy, Emory English, Ira Thomas and Leo -Stevens, who were in the Des Moines delegation. Harry C. Evans, editor of the Yeoman Shield, wll speak on "Tha Welfare of the Child'' before the Klwanls club Wednesday at Hotel Fort Des Moines. against Germany in retaliation for the bombing of Dulsburg will not be affected by the papal representations at Paris and Brussels, it was said today in official circles.

The French foreign office has replied to the representations from the papal nuncio that the bombing occurred in the Belgian zone and therefore the Belgians would determine the penalties. I Both France and Belgium, however, reserved to themselves the right to take any and all measures necessary to prevent a recurrence of such violence. RAILROADSEARNED 6.33 PER CENT IN MAY, U. S. REPORTS Washington, July 8.

(Associated Press) Net earnings of class 1 railroads which operate 90 per cent of the country rail mileage, amounted to $89,999,600 during May, according to estimates made public today by the bureau of railway economics. The total indicated an earning rate of 6.33 per cent on the value of capital Invested in railroads and was the second consecutive monthly return rate above 6 per the five months of 1923, including May, net incomes of class 1 roads was J365.96G.POO, which the bureau said, equalled a 5.69 per cent return rate on the value of railroad property as tentative ly estimated by the interstate com merce commission. Railroad rate levels under present policies of the commission are aimed at producing 5.75 per cent ror operating lines. There was a marked disparity between railroad earning power In different jections of the country during May. In the east the In come of carriers amounted to 7.72 per cent on the value of railroad property, while in 'the west the return was 4.43 per cent, and in the south 6.72 per cent.

Big Picnic Is Planned by Nevada Industry Nevada, July 8. (Special) Managers, department heads and employes of the Reuben Donnelley corporation offices in this city to the number of probably 300 will be the guests of Manager A. L. Dayton at Dayton park Tuesdday. afternoon.

The M. rs. win leave nere about 1:30 in the afternoon in sutos provided by Nevada citizens and they will spend the afternoon and evening playing ball, boatlne. bathing, skating, dancing and in the other amusements af forded by the park. A feature will.be a Dig picnic dinner.

Crops Damaged by Hail Storm at Osage Osage, July 8. (Sppclai) ah rrnm within a radius of ten miles were destroped by a hail 'storm here last night. The storm lasted for a full hour and. not a farm within tae raaius es caped. Corn w-hirn stoon snouiaer nign before the storm was cut.

vitn-In a foot of the ground and wheat crops were so naairrmaipa m-n. thob- vield will he wined out. No "live stock was killed, however, and no seroious damage to buildings was reported. Kamrar State Bank Bought by Nebraskan "Webster City, July 8. (Special) Controlling interest in the State at.

Kamrar, seven miles southwest of this city, will be In the hands of George Bruse, formerly Blair, after July 14, It has just been announced hy Howard Alexander, present holder of the controlling stocit. The Kamrar State bank Is capitalized at 1 2 5.000 snd was established In 1901. Mr. Alexander will remain with the nw owner until Sept. 1, hut hss nit announced his plans lor the future.

(By The AaandatM irf. I Salt Lake CUy, July 8. Declaring that President Harding "is insincere" in advocating adhesion of the United States to the world court and classing the disarmament conference called by the president as a "delusion and' a snare," United States Senator William H. King, (dem) of Utah last night launched an attack upon the republican administration. Senator King, speaking before the Young Men's Democratic club of Utah, also declared "the rards are stacked so far as the republican nomination for president In 1924 Is concerned and no power on earth can defeat Harding for the nomination." Says Nomination Is Settled.

He asserted President Harding's nomination is already set-fled in the same manner that it was settled prior to the 1920 convention. "The policy of the republican admlsistration was one determined by the plutocratic forces of that party and not by the masses of the party," he continued. "President Harding has deceived the pepple by honeyed words and shriveled nationalism," the senator said. "He came to the spnate and told us we must Join the world court. I nidn believe him sincere, but called his bluff and introduced a resolution call Ing for a vote on the treaties as they were presented by the Mentions Senator Lodge.

Continuing, Senator King de clared: "Senator Lodge, the sin ister and intriguing loree which has so often been manifested against the American people, got to work, subsidized the republican press and brought pressure to bear upon President Harding which frightened him. Harding, being always an opportunist, who seeks a policy of expediency, yielded, but when ha got to St. Louis he thbught he found, a good opportunity to put himself straight with Senator Reed of that state and others, so he changed his front Again. "The disarmament conference, which has been pointed to as the greatest achievement of the republican administration, was a delusion and a snare ana a means of deceiving the American people. Republicans point out that the conference was the means of disarming the great nations of world to a great extent, yet wo find the big army and navy officials of the country advocating a big army and navy." FARMER OPENS UP RECREATION RESORT AND A GOLF COURSE Pnrnlnc Ta Tulv fi Q.

nanlal Thn Frank RWIor form thr. and one-half miles northwest of Corning Is gaining considerable fame as a recreation farm, since the Bixler park has been opened to the public. This park is not on the federal road or main highway, but accessible as a tourist and recreation park. Four young business men of Corning, Dr. Millard Homan, Millard Arrhie.

Frsnris anri Andrews rented twenty-two acres ror a six-noie gon course, hoping to.aan iuteen acres to tnls and making a nine-hole opurse next year. Oskaloosa Opens Its First Playground Oukalnnsa Is I9ni. clal) fh first public playground ror children In this city will he opened next Monday at. Jefferson srhool under the supervision of Miss Ada Chalmers, playground specialist. At 7:30 every eve ning tne story nour win he open to all the children In the city.

The playground is the result of efforts of the parent-teachers' assocja-llon of second ward school. Among the features will be kite tournaments, spelling bees, Jack-stonei and mumble peg contests, roller skate racing, rope skipping, horseshoe pitching, checkers, croquet, track meets for all ages and community singing. A wading pool is to be built for the kiddles on this playground also. Award Big Bridge Contract. Oskaloosa, July 8.

(Special.) From ten bids submitted for the bridge over North Skunk river on th Great White way near Rose Hill, the contrart was struction company of Waterloo for awarded to Miller-Field 44.000 by Mahaska county board of supervisors. This bridge with HO foot span and 40 foot banis Is a rart of the state highway improvement. Work will begin at once. 1 Military Campaign. Berlin, July 8.

(United News) An official statistical statement of the finance ministry charges that France Is wasting the repara tions gold already paid for occupa tlon purposes, in building up a "military campaign" behind which "French Imperialism seeks to hide evil annexation plans and attempts to create a situation Justifying her procedure." 1 The document, which is enti tled, "Insanity of the Occupation Costs," disagrees with the reparation commission' estlbmte of "about 8,000,000,000 gold marks paid" to the end of last year and claims instead that Germany's total deliveries were 46,000,000, 000 gold marks, or about 000,000,000. That portion of reparations which the reparations commls slon charges to France's account is chiefly consumed in the enormous costs of the occupation of the Ruhr," the document states. "Little of this sum remained for actual reconstruction purposes. When will the world take a stand against such Insanity and root it out?" It charges that France ha. violated the agreement made between Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson and Lloyd George for 240,000,000 gold marks for annual occupation costs and also for subsequent agreements by devoting huge sums to the building up of military establishments.

Italian Participation. Rome, July 8. (United News) -i-New Italian participation In the reparations muddle is seen In today' conference between German Ambassador Neurath and Senator Contrarinl, general secretary of the foreign office. The semi-official newspaper Messagero point out that the Anglo-Jtalian press is under the wrong impression in believing that Italy is leaning toward thb British viewpoint on the Ruhr, and that the French press errs similarly In thinking that Italv Is favorable to France and Belgium. It declares that the Italian policy disagrees markedly with hnth England and France in regard to the proper treatment of Germany.

Italy, It declares, adheres to Mussolini's original memorandum, declaring that Germany should have a reasonable moratorium and linking the reparations question with the problem of the settlement of interallied debts. If Italy and England' agree re garding the necessity of diplomatic action for the restoration of normalcy to the Ruhr it does not mean that they have reached on identity of opinion regarding debt settlement, which Mussolini holds is the heart of the matter. Germans Condemn Sabotage. Coblens, Germany, July 8. (Associated Press.) The German government general of the Rhine province today posted a proclama tion strongly condemning sabotage and a number of the German officials In the occupied territory according to the French, likewise have expressed their disapproval of the violence against the occupation forces.

The French au thorities assert that this change In attitude is due to instructions from Berlin. French Reir-e Strike Fund. Puesseldorf. Germany. July 8.

(Associated Press. )- The Ger man railroad" men strike fund, amounting to 17,000.000 marks, has been seiied by the French at Maxlmilienau, near Ludwighasfen. Won't Change- MUlerand. Clermont-Ferrand, France, July 8. (Associated Press) France will not change her coercive policy toward Germany, was the declaration made today by President Mill-' erand at the celebration of the centennary of the birth of Pascal, the French geometrician, philosopher and writer.

The president said the country must remain behind the government. But he added, "let us not hide the truth from ourselves that this policy is one of a long, hard pull." Just. as the army held out against the Germans tothe end. M. Millerand continued, so rnnst i France "now be resolved to hold out to the end, that Is to ssv a quarter, of sn hour longer than our adversary." Unaffected by Top.

Paris, July 8. (Associated PressJ Franco-Belgian fcctloa nexc appearen inn iuiiuiiik jrm to add to the number Qf hungry mouths. Triplets came in 1899, and father Ormsby, who was only a plumber at a small ealary In those days, was very much worried, so much so that he deserted his home a few months later, and then the quadruplets appeared. Dime show magnates, hearing of the case, flocked to tha cottage and in a few short months lewels adprtied the fingers of the deserted mother, who In a few short weeks became an object ot na tional attention. Four years later, the money snent and the museum heads de riding "not to show the quads this vaar thn rhllHren were senarat- year, tne cnuoren were separai-, ed, and taken to juvenile homes.

In 1915 Mrs. Omsby recovered part of her lost fortune and lm mediately brought her little flock to the farm upon which she now lives with Edith Viola, the girl In rest, she says, are "out to make their fortunes. CORNELL COLLEGE ANNOUNCES ADDED FACULTY iMEMBERS Mount X'ernon, July 8. Spe )ln nolntments are announced at Cor nell, one in English and one in home economics. Trof.

Howard Clinton Lane, A. and A. of Harvard university, and now at work on his thesis for the Ph. D. degree.

Is the new professor of English following Mr. Lindsay who has gone to Europe. Professor Lsne is about 30 years of age and spent Rart of his childhood in Des loines. Besides his training at Harvard, he studied at the University of Bordeaux in France following the military aervlce in the world war. Part of nfs teaching experience was in Princeton university.

Miss Gertrude Dodd, A. Cornell college, 1913, with post graduate work at the University of Iowa and Columbia university, Is to be the new instructor in home economics on the domestic arts side. Miss Dodd has been a successful teacher since her graduation from college and has the highest recommendation. Turkish Women Never i Lose Nationality' (Th Reflatar-FuhtlR Luiftr Srlf.) Reflxtar-FuhtlR I.M(tr (CTVlfht.) Constantinople, July -V tl .7" i V- I 0 I workers outlined in the document. Rays natiftherry Edited It.

"How can you possibly recommend such a labor policy in the an- thraclte fields?" Gushing quotes the Harding lieutenant as saving-. "Don't you understand that If voi would propose such a thing in "one division, every other body of workers in the country- would be com- Ing to Washinarton to land thn same things for themselves?" From that moment, according to Cushlng's account, Daughertv rolled up his sleeves and edited every paragraph of the coal.com- missioners laboriously compiled. report. It Is the understanding here that Cushlng's story was intended1 only for the Information of operators, but fell accidentally lnto the hands of the miners. Xot Worthy of Denial.

Washington. July x. n'nited News) The charees of Georre Cushing. the editor of a mine news that the United States coal commission's report on the anthracite Industry was held up and rewritten by Attorney Gen--eral Daugherty was described as-' "not worthy of a denial" bv George Otis Smith, member of the commission, who had charge of the mechanical preparation of th report. "Only one edition of the report was made." Smith no one outside of the commission saw' that." ALLEGES HE WAS 2 MARRIED AGAINST HIS WILL.

AND Nevada, July 8. (Special)" Seeking to secure an ment of his marriage. Lloyd EU. Stoops, 19 years old, of Ames, has" brought an action In whlca be' charges that when he married his wife. Mae, Oct.

14, 1922. he was a minor and that the ceremony was encouraged by the bride, who was a woman of mature years. He says that not only was he' a minor, but the ceremony entered into without the of his parents, the license being procured hy his wife through fraud and misrepresnntation. Been an Odd Fellow for Sixty-six Years "Milton, July S-(Speclal) Proatlkw 1U at. wHM L.

a-JJ vrrn uaci uow sixty-six. her of three I. o. 0. F.

lodges. ivansaKee, Troy and Milton, Iowa. When Mr. Marsant came to Mil- ton the inhabitants cumbered' fifty-two people. He seeing buffaloes walking the streets of Kankakee.

He is 88 years of age and was, born in Canada of French parents. Livermere Jail Razed. V. Humboldt, July 8. The "Inside Inn" or, "Cooler" as the Livermore G- sette designates the one time lock- up there, has been torn down.

has stood as an old landmark for over forty yara. This isil was built of 2x4 laid flatwise. A steel race inside the -town hall replaces the old structure. The tin sign "Enter Inn" that the tinner erected when ret rairloa the roof wilt hae a with other relici of by gone day lurn mrin tu pnj0VS the distinction endeavor to preserve the n.pf hgvinR -th chart Flnnalilv ftf a nm 6n rhn tonality of women who marry foreigners not only remains Turkish, hut her husband is considered a Turk. foreigner must, of course, be a Moslem, for Moslem women are not allowed lo marry out of their religion.

The infidel has to embrace Islam before marrying or he must flee the country with his bride, which has been done in few cases. But many Persian Moslems have Turkish wives and the Turkish govern- tment's attempts to consider them as Turkish subjects Is causing considerable diplomatic friction now between Angora and Teheran. The Turkish nun. however, who marries a foreigner keeps his nationality and nis wife beccmes Turkish. She Is not required to be.

come a Moslem, nor to wear Turkish dress. A surprising number of Turks have Christian wives, most of whom were German, Russian or French, although there are a few say he's a bear when it comes to corn beef and bear steak. Lewis has sailed almost all over the world but this is his first trip into the Arctic. His wife died last year. He has five married daughters and one son.

Labor Cheap in New Mexico. Mexico City, July 8. Twenty centavos, or ten rents In American money. Is what the Indian workers of the Cnlxtlahuaca district, state of Oaxaca. earn in a twelve-hour day, according to a report submitted to the department of industry and commerce.

These laborers make palm leaf halt, i.