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THE TgTROTT FREE PRBSS MONDAY. MAY 14. 198 TRIES FOR HIGH JUMP RECORD POLISH AMNESTY TERMS REYEALED BERLIN GROUPS FIGHT; 60 HELD birth rate Is In danger of dwindling almost to the point of stagnation by 1980, If the foreign barriers against emigration are lifted, according to the director of statistics. The 1927 birth rate was but 85 per cent of the 1900 figure, the director announced Sunday. Edam was back in Havana harbor Sunday, although she had started for Spanish and German porta Saturday.

Fire was discovered la a cargo of cotton In the forward hold just as the ship was clearing Havana tip. The Edam was obliged to turn back. COPENHAGEN. Denmark's a bumper rice crop In Burma. SEVILLE (A.

The Spanish aviators. Jimenez and Igleatas, who reluctantly abandoned their plane for a trans-Atlantic flight to Cub following pressure from the Spanish government, intend to take off Monday afternoon for India in aa effort to establish a non-stop distance record. RANGOON. The monsoon began a week ahead of normal, presaging By Wirt from a Hudson Fashion Observer in New York Cutis cr Suva SICKS Ukrainians Benefit Most by Pardons to Politicians. Warsaw, May 13.

(A. The terms of the general amnesty, which the cabinet has proclaimed In celebration of the tenth anniversary of Poland's freedom, were published today by the government. Ukrainians, in particular, benefit by the complete pardon given those convicted of political offense in the early years of the republic of Poland. All Communists sentenced before May, 1926. and those under 17 years of age who have been sentenced since that date will have one-third of their punishment remitted.

Offenses against the administration, Including all newspaper affairs, are WESTERN UNION TKlt tl TtUfftm or CM yt.m iinUM to 4 litMil fcf MNtbto fw bo, or pfMr4 tag (to oddrA LCO Mel Chle CLT CsUtw TIT ta-t4 tm Taw (tea. Usm laM Oa est (aU-fwea eLfreu si 4y tett oawl it ttM e4 ma as memwrnti em sJt BULGAR KINU PROVES ABLE AS MECHANIC Stops on Highway, Repairs Stalled Auto of American Professors. Sofia. May 13. (A.

Two professors at the American college at Samokov, 30 miles from here, discovered during the past week the "king of mechanics." They were returning from the earthquake zone by automobile when their engine broke down 20 miles from Sofia. They had reconciled themselves to sleeping in the fields overnight when another automobile approached. "Can I help you?" the chauffeur of the second car said in Bulgarian as he drew up beside the stranded Americans. "Yes, but we are afraid you cannot do much. We have monkeyed with the engine for three hours without success." The friendly young chauffeur, whom the Americans noticed had a strikingly studious and refined face, proceeded to raise the hood covering their engine and to examine the carburetor, magneto and spark plugs.

Within 10 minutes he had put his finger on the seat of the trouble, and the Americans proceeded. Ten miles farther on the second car caught up with them and the Americans were amazed to see the whole countryside saluting and bowing In homage to the young man who had extricated them. They were stupified later when they found that he was King of Bulgaria. NOBILESEEKS KEY TO POLE completely paraonea. For other criminals, capital punishment is changed to life imprisonment while life Imprisonment is reduced to fifteen years.

Foreign News Notes LUNCHING AT PIERRE'S STOP ONE OF THE SMARTEST WOKEN PRESENT WORE NAVY BLUE DRESS WITH LINGERIE TOUCHES FLESH-COLOR AND NAVY HAT CUT UP OYER ONE EYE LIKE LADY ABDY MODEL WITH PINK JERSEY STRAW CAP UNDERNEATH STOP ALSO NOTED MANY CHIC NAVY ENSEMBLES OF TYPES IN OUR COLLECTION STOP ALL FIFTH AVENUE ECHOES TO THE TAPPING OF MANY LIZARD SHOES IN BLACK AND BEIGE ALSO WATERSNAKE mi mil II Jfuurr onu tt js a a --ww v. He renresented Wilson school In the annual elementary decathlon contest. BALKAN SITUATION RIO DE JANEIRO. Several persons were reported killed and many Injured when a violent cyclone I 1A ana of PlMillK RPPnrH. IUCU AV ing to a dispatch from Palma Sun STILL UNSETTLED Several Wounded in Pre-EIec-tion Clash; Rest of Germany Quiet.

bp Cable to Frw Prei nd Chleajro Tribune Berlin, May 13. Excitement over the approaching German election was manifested for the first time today in Berlin when the Steel Helmet men scoured the streets of the capital's West End, which is reputed to be domlnantly republican. Only after a long time police appeared and dispersed the nationalist rowdies after severe scuffles, notably at the Charlottenberg and Friedman stations. Sixty were arrested and a number were wounded. On the whole, however, the preelection situation throughout the country has been unusually quiet.

The absence of clear cut issues has contributed to the peacefulnesa The republican regime now is so (Irmly in the saddle that the nationalists do not dare bring up a monarchists plank, but compromise by demanding greater powers for the president after the American model. The consensus is that the nationalists are fighting a losing battle, though the intricate German electoral system leads to the belief that no party will emerge a definite victor. Only Petty Party Squabbles. The foreign policy is playing, for the first time since the war, a minor role. Only the extremists on both sides attack Or.

Gustav Strese-mann's" policy openly, while the nationalists who would like to attack it cannot, as they are represented in a cabinet Indorsing the foreign minister. The election resolves itself into a confused whirl of petty party squabbles, each trying to elbow the other from the next government coalition by allegedly sensational disclosures of each other's wickedness and duplicity, which leave everyone cold outside of professional politicians. So far the campaign has been rich In numerous incidents. The nationalists, by a poster showing the Bremen flying over the Atlantic, carrying the monarchlstic flag, succeeded in making themselves temporarily ridiculous, but the posters now have been withdrawn, also another bearing President von Hindenburg's portrait, against which the veteran chief executive sharply protested. Socialist Give Out Soap.

The socialists raised a laugh by dishing out to voters cakes of soap on which true Marxist axioms were printed, while the extreme nationalists were unconsciously sarcastic at their own expense by circulating posters showing themselves as Don Quixote tilting at the windmills. (CopyrlKht, 1928.) Italo-Serb Row Over Albania Is Hanging Fire. Paris. May 13. fU.

Certain phases of the Balkan situation still are considered acute, needing the domination nor proclaim a protectorate over Albania, which would be contrary to treaties. Premier Marlnkovltch's speech In the Serbian parliament, in which he replied to critics that the Albanian problem should not be placed before the league court until all attempts at friendly settlement had failed, was received here with some relief as an indication that Serbia still is hopeful of achieving an understanding with Italy. CAROL HELD TOO ILL TO LEAVE ENGLAND London, May 13. (U. Although Prince Carol, exiled prince of Rumania, has been ordered to leave England by Monday, his physician announced today that Carol is too ill to travel for at least five days.

Carol has been confined to liis bed with chills for the past three days. Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks has not yet announced the course he will follow in the event Carol is still in England Tuesday. lingerie touches' day. PARIS (A. Judge Max Huber, of Zurich, has been appointed president of the international committee of the Red Cross to succeed the late Gustave Ador, who died on March 30.

Judge Huber is a former president of the permanent court for international Justice at The Hague. RIGA. An adjutant of the soviet military attache and two Latvian officers were arrested here Sunday charged with espionage in behalf of soviet Russia. Search of their personal belongings revealed much incriminating evidence against the trio and also against the wife of a high Latvian official, whom police allege acted as an intermediary. HAVANA.

The German steamer most delicate diplomatic negotiations to reach a definite settlement, It was understood today. The Italo-Serbian difficulties regarding Albania still are hanging fire, whereas official conversations between Rome and Angora and Athens and Angora (rive rise to speculation as to whether Premier Mussolini is seeKlng to create a Balkan combination including Turkey and thus Isolate Serbia. It is not believed, however, that new Italy would risk the loss of We are constantly verifying the authenticity of Hudson fashions by sending observers to the fashion centers. Such vigilance makes it possible for the lady who lunches at any of the smart places in Detroit to dress with the same chic as the lady who lunches at Pierre's. From the Misses' Better Dress Shop we have selected this navy ground print with flesh color spots and flesh color lingerie touches $49.50.

SIXTH FLOOR her European prestige for a Balkan HUDSON'S Leninland Believed to Be Good for Air Base in Arctic Oslo, Norway, May 13. (A. General Umberto Nobila was reported preparing to start another flight in the dirigible Italia, early tomorrow morning in dispatches received here from Kings Bay, Spltzbergen. These said that the snowstorm which had been raging for three days was abating and weather conditions improving. Washington, May 13.

(A. Northern Land, also known as Leninland, and formerly Nicholas II Land, which General Umberto Noblle plans to explore in the dirigible Italia, was discovered by a Russian government expedition in 1913. On the map prepared by the explorer, Fridtjof Nansen, it occupies space on the Siberian shelf unexplored toward the west. It extends from 78 degrees north latitude at Its southern border an unknown distance towards the pole, at least beyond 81 degrees north. Base Is Bed Rock.

Little Is known of the geology of the island. Nansen, writing in a recent publication of the National UNEMPLOYED SEEKING TO JOIN ABYSSINIA ARMY Vienna, May 13. (U. An army of 2,000 German and Austrian unemployed of Tyrol is reported to have reached the Italian frontier, en route to Abyssinia, under the leadership of an Herr Wodosch, who claims he has been commissioned by the regent of the African kingdom to recruit troops. Kaz Tafarl, regent of Abyssinia, has promised three acres of land, a cow and uniform to each man, according to Wodosch.

It is anticipated here that Italian authorities will refuse the band permission to proceed to Abyssinia through Italy. Geographic society, noted that It was built up of glacial drift, probably deposited around a nucleus of bed rocK. Most of the polar explorers, including Commander Richard E. Byrd, nave visualized the spot as a base for aerial expeditions to discover new land near the pole. "Among the natives of northern Siberia there are rumors of unknown land in the ocean," Nansen said, "and of passage birds going and coming in a direction where nothing is yet known but sea.

These rumors are presumably not groundless and should be verified." 1,300 Miles by Air. Commander Byrd, also writing for the society, observed that Northern Land was only Incompletely surveyed. With this land as a base, a flight to the pole and return would be approximately 1,300 miles by air line. Nothing Is known of the facilities, if any are available, for aircraft. Byrd wrote that a heavler-than-air plane should be amphibious or should be constructed for the interchanageable use of wheels or skis.

'y lla ill WELL KNOWN AMERICAN ACTOR DIES IN LONDON London, May 13 (A. The actor, Paul Arthur, who for more than 30 years played In theaters on both sides of the Atlantic, died In a nursing home yesterday. Paul Ar-thus, an American, was born in 1859, and mads his first appearance on the stage with the late Edwin Booth. He had parts in many successful New York productions from 1R83 to 1896, when he made his first appearance on the London stage as Theo In "My Girl." From that time most of his work was in England and he continued to take Important parts until as late as 1923. 3w Festive Party Frocks for Girls In the Children's Floor Shops Special! Steel Filing Cabinets and '41 Ice By Gas! Now Electrolux Refrigerators For as Little as 225 Safe-Simple-Silent Here is dependable refrigeration ABSOLUTELY SILENT! The Electrolux Servel System is entirely different from all other automatic refrigeration because It is absolutely noiseless there arc no moving parts whatsoever in the system.

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