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TO GUARD AMERICAN
INTERESTS IN CHINA
AFTER DECISIVE VICTORY OVER
OPPONENT, ANNOUNCES SELF
‘'TEMPORARY DICTATOR”
GARRISON TO BE REINFORCED
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Victor Says His Ambition Is To Unify
China He Controls City Os
Pekin Now
Washington. —The American cruiser
“Huron” has landed 150 marines at
Taku, China, the port of TsingUln, to
2 protect American Interests In that sec
ts tlon.
The detachment is armed with ma
• chine guns.
Official reports received here recent
ly, however, did not indicate that any
i, disturbances Involving the detachment, |
l had taken place.
Another detail of marines has been j
sent from Pejiin at the suggestion of j
American Minister Sehurmann, to
Tung Chow, near the Chinese capital j
where there is an American mission-1
an school. That section, too, is re- !
ported quiet, in dispatches received
• here, -
Tien Tsin, China.—This city, already I
panicky In fear of the consequences o!
the death of General ('hang Tso-Lin's |
troops, had a scare during the night j
owing to the arrival of frieglit trains
of Kengtlen troops from FVngtal anti
• rumors that they intended to loot the
• town. The commissioner of foreign
affairs appealed to the British consul
for assistance.
The French consul and commandant J
were communicated with and inime
, dlately reinforced the French military
vposts at Tien Tsin.
The American cruiser Huron reach
ed Taku and disembarked 150 mu
rines, reinforcing the American gar
rison at Tien Tsin, which In addition
to ordinary defense duties, is assum
ing protection of American properties
in the Russian concession.
Pekin. -A temporary dictatorship
: litis been declared by General W'u Pet
'■ Fu following his victories over General
.Chang Tso Lin, the Manchurian com
, rounder. In the fighting around Pekin.
<s. \Vu plans, to call a constitutional
convention and permit the people to
'>select the form of government they
ythink heat. He will interfere as lit
tle ns possible with the present gov
ernment pending the plebiscite.
Wit's rltief desire, he announced. Is
to unify China. But diplomats and
others crtprwtsttd the fear that rilling,
defeated in u linal attack near Tien
Tsin, will withdraw into his strong
holds in Manchuria and there declare
his iiujepeodeny*! cd the Pekin govern
•men*, possibly causing serious inter
rjtntlonal complications.
General W’u expressed a determi
nation to completely, destroy Chang’s
power wthen some Chines* leaders
jfhggested that ho'offer peace to Chang
lilid thus prevent more loss of life.
Tills may t§ean further lighting be-
two armies
■ • General Wu made no triumphal
entry into Pekin after his victory.
t and there is no outward evidence of
this assumption of control. It was ex
plained here that his campaign was
financed by Pekin hankers as a means
of suppressing lawlessness In China !
knd that his domination of the city j
would mean little to hint strategically. |
Ten Are Kitted In Texas Tornado
Austin. Texas. —The list of dead In
'the tornado which struck this city in
sections has grown to ten Five
persons were probably fatally injured
and 40 others were in hospitals with
Injuries. Damage done by the storm
was estimated at more than $600,000.
Wires were down south of here in 1
4he direction in which the tornado
passed. At Pennfteld, a suburb, the
Morin struck the Woodward Manufac
turing Company's wood work estah-J
JtthnuMit. and demolished it. killing
■tfick Mussit. an employee, and injur-
Wht fifteen others, none seriously. At .
AJI Kdward's College, near Pennfield.
&»o students were injured.
Will Make Cement At Powder Plant
A Nashville, Tenn. Location of a mil-!
lion and u half dollar cement iianu
fnetnrluj; phillt at Old Hickory pow
der plgtit V o> jiintionuciMl bv officials,
•of the* industrial organiza- ,
tion.
’Charge An Attempt At Jury Fixing
Waukegan. Ill—Charges of attempt
ed jury fixing and hjas on the part
of jurors already” selected and sworn,
lutlted completion of the jury to try
Gov Lon Small, charged with consptr
nry to embezzle state funds. Affidavits
charging at least two of the eight ju
rors sworn had expressed an opinion |
in the jttrv room threaten, it is re
ported. to disrupt the two panels and 1
leave the case with only six Jurors
£bosen and three tentatively passed.
It is thought several days will elapse
before the .trial begins
Laymen's Missionary Movement Meets
Chicago.—The Laymen's Missionary
Movement of North America was or
ganized after a two-day conference of
laymen, ministers and missionary
board secretaries representing twenty
one Protestant denominations. It is
the purpose of the organization, it is
announced, to enlist the laymen of
America in both home and foreign mis
sionary work in each community, so
that an entire community, instead of
a single denomination will manifest an
active interest in such work all over
the country.
PARLEY COLLAPSE IMMINENT
Allied Ultimatum Makes Assumption
Os Czarist And Kerensky Obliga
tions Condition Os Aid
Genoa, Italy—Soviet Russia must
recognize the Czarist and Kerensky
debts if she expects reconstructive aid
from the alies, according to the terms
of the so-called ultimatum Just finished !
by the political sub-commission of the
conference.
If Russia will agree to this recogni- j
tlon of obligations, the allies will make
no immediate demand for either capital
or interest, and will seek to have their
respective parliaments reduce the
amounts due from the Soviets.
Russia, however, must not only rec
ognize all her old debts in full, but also
renounce all counter-claims against the
allies, if she expects to obtain any ul
timate reduction in her debt.
These are the provisions agreed upon
by the political sub-commission. They
probably will be ratified without much
debate by the allies and forthwith
handed to the Russian delegation. All
! advance indications are that these
j terms will be unacceptable to the Rus
i sians. The Soclets not only must
; abandon all their protestations against
recognizing the old debts, but they
j must sacrifice the vei.v valuable bar
gaining asset of counter claims against
the allies for damages incurred during
I invasions of the White army and for
j other attacks which the Bolshevists
i claim were financed by outside na
tions.
Verdict Says Son Killed His Father
Chattanooga, Tenn. —The coroner’s
jury investigating the killing of Dr.
Gus Shipley, member of the state
board of medical examiners, at Athens,
| returned a verdict that the doctor came
I to his death at the hands of his son,
j Jack Shipley. Miss Mattie Shipley,
daughter of the doctor, testified that
he rfather canie home drunk, and at
tacked her mother, who Is an invalid,
choking and otherwise bruising her.
Then the son shot the father. The
young man will be given a preliminary
hearing soon.
Croker Children May Renew Fight
New York. —The death of Richard
Croker muy result in one of the most
intricate cases ever decided by a Unit
ed States court. Tbo one-time boss of
Tammany Hall married, against his
children's wishes, Beulah Benton Ed
monson, of Florida, who styles herself
an Indian prlnless. Opposition of bis
sons and daughters to the niatlh is
said to have embittered the father so
deeply that ho revoked early wills in
whihh tlie estate, then estimated at
nearly ten million dollars, was to have
been divided between them.
Another Indictment Against Morse
New York. —The hand of the federal
government is once more reaching out
toward C. V. Morse in connection I
with his offensive shipping operations
during the war. Morse, his three sons
and twenty others, some formerly high
in the councils of the democratic party
or formerly nsspeiated with the United
States shipping board, were indicted
by tho federal grand jury here charged
with conspiracy to use the mails to
defraud investors in selling stock of
the United States Steamship company.
Decision Postponed In Red River Case
Washintgon.—The Supreme court
has declined to decide at this time
what constitutes the south bank of
' the Red river—an issue in the contro
versy between Texas and Oklahoma
involving rich oil lands—but in an opin- j
‘ ion delivered by Justice Van Devanter !
declared the claim of Oklahoma to the 1
lied of the river, was not well founded. |
Says Japanese Assist Chinese Invader
Peking, China. —Out of the name of i
conflicting reports from the battles now j
! raging on three fronts around Peking, j
; it is evident that the forces of Gen. j
Wu Pei Fu. fighting to hold off the in
vading army of Gen. Chang Tso Lin.
I are standing their ground. Neither
i army appears to have yet won any stra-!
j tegieal advantage.
Two Aviators Die In Potomac River
Washington.—Two naval aviators, i
Lieutenant Harold F. Seldon and En-j
sign Frank Miller, fell to their death !
in the Potomac river, near here, when \
their assembled "PT" flying boat col
lided with another craft in midair.
The nose of the fix ins boat was ram
med into the muddy bottom of the
■ river. Seldon and Miller, apparently
j stunned by the Impact of the extricate
: themselves and were drowned.
Orders Forfeiture 9.000 Cases Hootch
Washington. —Orders for the forfeit
ure of what was declared to be the
; largest amount of liquor ever affected
by a single prohibition bureau deci
sion was approved by Commissioner
Haynes the other day. The decision
calls for forfeiture proceedings against
, about nine thousand cases, or more
| than one hundred thousand quarts of
Scotch whiskey shipped Into this coun
try, a large quantv of which was said
to have been consigned to the Alps
Drug company, operating in the City
| of New York.
One Death Results From “May Day”
Mexico City.—Clashes between union
laborers and Catholics, resulting in one
person being killed and several wound
ed. characterized the celebration of
May day here. Syndicalists attacked
1 a building occupied by the Association
of Young Catholic men and during the
encounter one boy was killed and nu
merous other persons were so badly
< hurt that they had to be taken to hos
’ pitals The building and its contents
i were wrecked and set on fire. Tlie
■ fire department both put out the fire
land scattered the crowds.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR, MT. VERNON, GEORGIA.
BEVERIDGE WINS
OVER SEN. NEW
INDIANA SENATOR CONCEDESTHE
NOMINATION TO HIS
OPPPONENT
RETURNS SHOW BIG MAJORITY
In 3,010 Os The 3,382 Precincts, Mr, j
Beveridge Has Total Os 172,449
Against 154,029 For New
Indianapolis, Ind. —Senator Harry S.
New has conceded the nomination of
former Senator A. I. Beveridge, in the
primary.
In a statement to the Associated
Press, Senator New says:
“There is no doubt that Mr. Bev. j
eridge has been nominated for the sen
atorship. I do now, as I always have j
j done, take off my hat to the win- i
ner.”
Senator New was virtually certain
when the unoficial compilation of the
vote gave a majority of 18,420 votes
to Beveridge with approximately one
tenth of the total vote mising.
For 3,010 of the 3,382 precincts in
the state Mr. Beveridge had a total
vote of 172,449 against 154,029 for Mr. j
New.
In the Democratic senatorial contest
Samuel M. Ralston, former governor,
was the winner over four opponents
by a moderate landslide within the lim
its of his party vote. For 1,674 pre
cincts his total vote was 96,444, while
his nearest opponent, Dr. Jesse San
ders, running on a platform favoring
beor and wine, had 13,497 votes. Dan
iel W. Simms was pressing Sanders
for the second place, having 13,224
votes, with R. B. Shively runnig
fourth, with 11,481, and Charles F. Re
ward last, with 6,930.
The campaign between New and
Beveridge had brought out no out
standing clean-cut issue, but managers
of the New campaign had urged the
senator’s renomination as an “indorse
ment of the Harding administration,”
his manager, Mr. King, declaring that
Mr. New hud taken a “conspicuous part
in the signal achievements of the Har
ding administration.”
During most of the campaign, Mr.
New remained in Washington, am! in
his few addresses be emphasized what
he termed the “great accomplishments
of congress and of President Harding.
He indorsed the administration poli
cies generally, emphasizing the dis
armament conference and the four
power treaty. #
Mr. Beveridge, who made a state
wide tour, pledged support to the Har
ding administration, but did not re
fer specifically to any of the “accom
plishments” referred to by Mr. New.
Complaint of the present federal sys
tem of taxation and railroad rates
was made by Mr. Beveridge. He also
asked Senator New to make public
periodically the senator’s campaign ex
penditures and his invitation was not
accepted. Mr. Beveridge and his man
ager made weekly announcement*, the
last showing a total expenditure of
slightly less than ten thousand dol
lars.
NEWSPAPER TO PRINT
ALL NEW TESTAMENT
AS DAY-BY-DAY SERIAL
Bluefield, W. Va.—The Bluefield
Daily Telegraph began the printing of
] the New Testament in serial form and
1 will, says Colonel H. I. Shott, the
I editor and owner, continue the prac
j tice until the final chapter of Revela-
I tion has appeared in its columns.
Every morning, under a double-col
| umn heeding, “Read the Bible with
! us," will appear parts of the New’
I Testament, exactly as it appears in
the bound of the Bible.
Leroy O'Kelley Killed By Lightning
Asheville, N. C- —Leroy O’Kelley, a j
forest ranger was killed and his wife
seriously injured by a bolt of light
ning which struck their home near
| this city list night.
Says Big Gold Hoard Is Robbers' Loot
Florence, S. C. —Robbers who wreck
ed the safes of two storesaad the post
office at Scranton near here obtained
$1,200, including SB6O in gold which
J. G. Singletary, owner of one of the
stores, had been accumulating for
years, it was learned here. The sher
i iff's force is investigating .
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Unification Report Before Methodists
Hot Springs. Ark. —The report of the
,; commission on the unification of Amer
ican Methodism has been made to the
general conference in session here.
• This report reaffirms the action of the
, general conference of 1914. and recom
mended the continuance of negotia
. tions on the basis of above action and
' that the commission be continued. Dr.
. Rascom Anthony of Savannah, in order
I to exedite the work of the conference
i during the reading of the report, made
a motion that the report be referred to
the committee without reading.
' Truce Reached Between Irishmen
s Dublin. Ireland.—The peace confer
t once between the rival factions in Ire
. land met and decided upon a truce
( between the rival army forces, xvhich
j will last for several days. The eon
i ferenoe was a most friendly one, and
? the fact that It was prolonged is taken
. here to point to the arrangement of a
• plan for unity which the dall eirann
. can accept. If such agreement is
j reached it is believed to be an itn
’ provement in the positionof Eanion de
> Valera and his followers, who would
t be given cabinet positions
HEAVY GUNS ROAR IN CHINA
U. S. Rear Admiral To Confer With
U. S. Minister Regarding Protec
tion Os Foreigners
Peking, China, —Heavy cannonading
at last accounts was in progress at
various points along the front extend
ing from Mactang, south of Tientsin,
across the country to the vicinity ol
i Peking. Severe fighting occurred at a
point along the Hun Ho river, thirty \
| miles south of this city, where forty j
thousand troops of Gen. Wu Pei-Fu, j
the central Chinese leader, endeavored
to force a crossing in order to gaip con
| trol of the Peking-Tientsin railroad.
Gen. Chang Tso-Lin, governor of I
Manchuria, and head of the opposing
forces, from his headquarters near
Tientsin, ordered trains to convey the
' main body of his one hundred thou
j sand soldiers to the front south of the
1 great wall. Two Manchurian airplanes
I flew over Tientsin and proceeded west
! ward.
Later airplanes dropped bombs near
the station at Hwangtsun, only a shorj
j distance from here.
Advices received by military attaches
| here said that Wu-Pei-Fu was sending i
troops northward at the greatest pos- j
Bible speed.
Fifty thousand eof his troops, con
centrated at Pao Tingfu are being re-
I inforeed from the Yantze provinces,
j Twenty thousand others, recruited from i
! Shantung, are marching afainst Chang j
| T.so-Lin's southeastern stronghold at
j Machang.
Two thousand dead and wounded
! were found on the field after the bat
tle at Chang Sintien, outside of Pe
king. The booming of cannon was
heard in Peking, but the cannonading
ceased in the morning hours. Despite
the continuation of trench warfare,
| many foreigners, including legation
legation guards, went outside the city
J to view the hostilities.
Corporal Mason, an American ma
! rine from Colorado, was shot in the
arm but was not seriously wounded.
French employees at the locomotive
works at Chang Sintien narowly es
when a bomb, dropped from an air
plane, destroyed the works.^
Gen. Wu Pie Fu is continuing to
send troops west of Peking in an en
deavor to envelope General Chang’s
northwestern wing. This precipitated
fighting which lasted an entire nighi
at Fengtai, ten miles from Peking.
STAND TOGETHER, MENI
LET’S KEEP OUR OWN RAZORS
Though Clothiers Report Sartorial ir»
vasion By Women, Men Still
Have Their Rights!
Chicago.—What Julius Caesar really
meant when he uttered that immortal
line “Two can live as cheaply as one,”
was that in 1922 both husband and
wife could wear the same clothes.
And, despite the laughter of his short
visioned auditors of that morning on
the Rubicon, the red-headed emperor
was right, as fashion leaders at the
convention of the United National
Clothiers’ Association convention here
can tell you. The sign on the door,
"Gents’ Furnishings,” doesn’t mean
anything any more, they say.
W'omen, according to W. L. Mohr,
secretary, are buying all kinds of men’s
clothes for themselves.
They are buying knickers, hundreds
of them; they are buying men’s felt
hats; men's shirts and soft collars and
string ties for their own wear.
"The only thing they aren’t buying
so far is men’s trousers,” it was stated.
“It may come to that. Athletic women
are buying all kinds of men’s acces
sories for sport purposes.”
New - Beveridge Race In Indiana
Indianapolis.—Senator Harry S. New j
| and Albert J. Beveridge were running ;
] neck and neck for the Republican j
nomination for the senate on the face
of early returns from the recent pri
| mary. Compilations from 158 widely
scattered precincts throughout the
I state gave New 9,053 and Beveridge
! S,OIO.
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Two Dear, Five Hurt In Gun Battle
Canton. Ohio. —Two men were kill
ed and five wounded, three probably
fatally, in a gun battle recently be
tween a posse and four gunmen about
j five miles north of here. The battle,
1 which lasted more than' an hour, fol
lowed the kidnapping by the gunmen
of John Wise, motorcycle policeman,
j Several hundred shots were fired.
U. S. Treasury Is Scene Os A Fire
; Washington.—Fire was discovered
early the other morning on the roof
of the treasury building. A few min
| utes after the first alarm the flames
| were leaping twenty feet in the air
above a superstructure being con
structed on the roof of the old build
ing. Following an explosion of chemi
cals stored where the fire originated,
the flames appeared to be rapidly gain
ing headway. Four alarms had been
turned in fifteen minutes after the fire
was discovered.
$125,000 Fire Loss At Portsmouth. Va.
Portsmouth. Ya. —Fire or undeter
mined origin which raged for four
hours here early in the morning, de
stroyed the mercantile establishment
of A. H. Goodman & Co. The loss is
estimated at $125,000.
Ocean Takes Toll Os Three Vessels
San Francisco. —The tank steamer
Whittier of the Union Oil company
which went on the rocks at a point ten
niles south nt Point Arena, is & tot»l
loss, the company has been advised by
radio * *.
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Think It Over.
An eminent French doctor declares
that love is a disease of the emotions.
Not being cynics, we should describe
marriage as a long and pleasant con
valescence. —London Opinion.
Isn’t that slightly cynical, though,
cousin? —Boston Transcript.
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“I understand the Laplanders eat j
candles.” “Must be a big to do over J
a birthday cake."
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Keep Vacher-Balm handy for Burns,
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anywhere.
Ask your druggist. Avoid imitations.
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Spoiled Her Evening.
“Maud says she didn’t have a good
time at the reception at all.”
“What was the trouble?”
“She’d heard a choice%it of gossip
about a girl who was there, and the
girl kept within hearing distance all
the time, so that Maud didn’t have a
chance to tell it.” —Boston Transcript
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