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Show TIIE BEAVKR COUNTY VEEKLT PRESSi BEAVER. UTAIT MB IHE sua WILSON APPEALS TO ' LQYAL AFilERIGANS y - -- , .... J -- ..J J J II a' J f icom on TREASURE VOW YET UNFILLED, WILSON 8AY3, URGING SUP- -' PORT OF VICTORY LOAN. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TAKE STEPS TO PUT BUSINESS BACK WHERE ttVBELONGS, Cables From Paris an Earnest Apptal Fo'r Ready Response to Fifth and Conference Called as Result of liu structfons from president Wilson Decides First Step Will be En- -' ' eouragement of Coal Exports. ' Final Issus'te Fret World From Militarism. THE VICTORY OT7 A- - j UZtRXY LCAH Her Engagement Ring Is the sweetest .thing a girl can own. It may be either large - l, but should be pure white-- set right Those we are showing will suit you, and our modest prices ease he way. , b6yd.park MAKERS OF JEWILRJ SM WHY IAK1 COT STRUT SALT HE" QUIT "THE MAIN , ROAD ' New evidence of Washington. America's purpose to redeem 'In full the pledge made on entering the war was asked of the notion on April 19, by Prenldent Wilson,, who ' urged full the H500,0OO,OOO' Vic subscription tory Liberty loan Issue. . Sixty thousand men who gave their Uvea In France have redeemed the covenant of blood made two yean ago, the president said, but the pledge of treasure remains yet to be fulfilled. ' . ':';" ' ' President Wilson's message la full -- V ' follow: v .."For two anxious yearn the Ameri- can peoyle have striven to fulfill the task of saving our civilization, By the m.m'V i w h v. inn nv u.i n. .v ... i .. have quickly won the victory, without which' they would "have remained In the field until the last resource had been exhausted. Bringing to the contest a strength of spirit mads doubly strong by the righteousness of their cause, they . devoted themselves unswervingly to the prosecution' of their undertaking with the full knowledge. , that no conquest lay in their path ex) p, cepting the conquest of right "Today fhejworld stands freed from the threat "or militarism which has so long weighed upon the spirit and the labor of peaceful nation. "But as yet we stand only at the' threshhold of happier times. To enter we must fulfill w the utmost the engagements wo have made. The Vie-toLiberty loair Is the indispensable means. Two years ago we pledged our 'lives and fortunes to the cause for which we have fought Sixty f thousand of our strongest sons have redeemed for us that pledge of blood. To redeem sacr-rifle-s . In full faith the promise of this wt now must give this bow vl denes)' 'of our purpose,'' -' With the formal opening of the cam palgn still nearly two days away, sub scrlptlon pledges began to pour into the treasury on Saturday, along with predictions of success perhaps even more optimistic than, those accompany lng the four previous bond Issues, - t ry 1 1 : ANARCHISTS CONTROL , VIENNA. Austrian' Capital Takan f)ver, by the Soldiers Council ' Vienna. Control of Vienna has been taken over by the soldiers' council. Quiet prevails, but communtzlng of the property of those unable to resist has been begun.' It Is possible there wilt be no change In the name of the government, but It will be Bolshevistic In , ; , i ,',;,' The situation la much the same as It was at. Budapest a few hours after the radicals had taken control. The policing of the city has been taken over by the Volkswehr. The parliament build- . "purpose. - ing was occupled.Saturday two battalions of soldier morning by after repre- - placed 5000 men at the government's disposal upon the understanding' that the police would be dispersed. - UPRISING IN BAVARIA. , ...!. Aniiw ....., Mllltarw Rapraelra j and Former Royal Residence. Berlin, Bamberg, which has , been the seat of the Bavarian government of Iremler' Hoffman, was the scene Saturday of a Strong communist uprising 'according to the Yosslsche Zeltung. The communists- occupied the central . MlVal tAu II .I.Hak f.mn. iwwci ; " ruuwaj muvu, racks in Bamberg. .' Serious fighting between Bavarian communists' and government troops occurred Friday near Frelslng, resulting In fairly considerable losses for both sides, s. Munich dispatch to the VViimmnivw , - ll. ' Tage-blattxaj- s. ,;. , ' , ., , Americans Tk Englioh Wives. , London. "American soldiers have married British women at a great rote, but not as fast as the Canadians," sold Colonel J Obed Smith, European, for Canadian emigration. "At, present Canadian soldiers are marrying English girls at the rate, of aw a 'week. Twenty thousand are already married to our men. er "' ' ' , t Rads Incite Riot In Vienna!' Copenhagen Five policemen" were and forty wounded and twenty , killed demonstrators and bystanders were during the disturbances In Vienna, when a crowd of Bolshevik symAuspathiser sttempted to storm the trian parliament building, , ' ' Change Government at SebaatopoL I on don. Sevastopol has been evac uated by the , Crimean ioTernnient, which, Is proceeding to Constantinople. The government of Sevastopol Is'now in the hands of the revolutionary com' ' '" ' mittee. -- Mall Aaroplase Falls. ; Pari". An , airship carrying mall from Strasshnrg ro. Paris fell Sunday ,v ; near ft. IMfller, .Two. of .the won Mirhcd to dealh and a third ciir!. ' - "j.jll HEWS REVIEW GURREIIT EVEIITS more-positio- ns, . er Voices Regret for tha Dissppearance of Oldtlme 'Bonl face and Clerk. Oh for' the hotel clerk, smiling, accommodating, always friendly, who never forgot a face, obliging and always .making a fellow feel like he was at home," said Frank Whltiell of Portland, Ore, according to the El Paso Herald. "What a difference between the old professional hotel clerks of 25 years ago, even up to 15 years ago, and the automatic mechanical7 clerks who never try to oblige I might call them automatic grouches of the present day If yon behind the hotel registers. ask one of them a question he or she, nowadays, Intimates that you get your room and meals, just exactly what you pay for, and not a thing more, please understand that I was a commercial traveler for a quarter century up to six years ago, and I know. Why, we old drummers, as they used to call us, felt st home In those old hostelrles of the western states, Just on account of the clerks. Say, they were God's noblemen, those They seemed to anticipate a fellow's wants and would go to all sorts of trouble to accommodate one. Tha milk of human kindness flowed In thetr hearts. And It made business, too. I have stopped at an inferior house, many a time, because I hsd been treated so well by the clerk. And I can say, too, the proprietors were much the same way in those days. Hotels were made .homelike, not a big box with compartments, where you are to be tucked away at so much per. That was one of the reasons I quit the road, the chilly, purely mechanical hotels of the present day." Cha-vaxtl- a, BE CANNOT TAKEN AUYE Gorillas Will Fight te the Death, and Are to Be Feared, Even Whan Mortally Wounded. v. Fe-lae- gun-runni- - - - , . pre-electi- d was Injured, The mall matter !y t!i slrsulp was destroyed. e sr'nii Iv Washington, A conference particiby high officials representing nine branches of the government lu Washington has decided that the first step q be taken lo restore normal conditions In the country and to give assurance to other industries Is for the government to get back of the coal industry and boost coal exports, The untii nnuar saa thn auii1 f f (fiatriis. V tlos from President Wilson. The Instructions directed that steps be taken 1 View of tho harbor of SebaBtopolH which to Increase the export trade of the cjty may be evacuated soon by the allies.' 2 Harbor of Geneva, Switserland, the city chosen as the seat of the league of nations.1 3 Secretary Glass and aid's showing the indusUnited States and to take advantage " trial honor flag designed for the Victory loan campaign. s of conditions' as they sow exist; the procedure to be adopted to aim at immediate results and also permanent any attempt of the bolshevik to rover-ru-n a "new bourgeoisie" and added that ones. OF Europe by force. The premier as- the situation In Petrograd Is growing At a meeting held Saturday it was serted that there is complete accord' worse and that there have been nu' decided ' to start a boom in formally among the allied commissioners, and merous . outbreaks. coal exports. A cablegram was sent then he launched Into a bitter attack However, the Russians claimed Thursto Vance McCormick at Paris, asking of Lord Northcllffe, Whose newspapers, day that the soviet forces were gainhim to get In touch with the Italian disbe sow had been to said, striving t ing continued successes along the SSSMasaaavaMaMt at Once and ascertain the government cord among the allies, to make France whole front from the Baltic to the coal It needs, and later to of amount Germans Are Summoned to Ver distrust Britain and hate America, and Black sea, and In southern Russia the from other Information similar obtain America dislike .France, and Italy situation was such that ; the allied sailles to Receive Peace . countries. V quarrel with everybody. He called at- troops were constrained to abandon European ' Fuel Administrator Garfield Is taktention to theJfact that the Northcllffe reaty on April 25.! following the evacuaIn the matter, and, a ' papers, which formerly ardently sup tion of Odessa, and It was predicted ing deep Interest ; Is Is responsible for it largely stated, now President are Wilson,' ported h;j- that they would soon get out of ; the first coal being ' commodity being terlcalty attacking all his great Ideals, i conferconsideration the TERMS t:0T TOLD TO FU3LIC and alluded to the "diseased vanity" taken for by Reports frofn Llbau said the bolsheof their proprietor and his disappoint- vik! were .systematically and swiftly ence and he convinced the conferees by data, information and reports that ment because he had not been called annihilating the bourgeoisie of flga, action along Uoyd Qeorgts Spirited Defense of on to save the world. With the having shipped 70,000 of them to the he laid before them that His Policy No Military Intorven. of course,, of the Northcllffe Island of Haens In the Dvlna river and this line should be taken at once. tlon In Russia,' but Food If Bolstie-- , papers, the London press gave consid- forbidden the taking of food to them. Cenv' erable praise to the premier's speech, That, it may be recalled, was the HUNS AIDED MEXICAN REBEL8. vlkl Cease Hestllities and his rejection of any idea of mill, method adopted by Constantinople to. imunlst dovarnment of Bava. ' tary action in Russia was especially get rid of Its horde of pariah dogs. : '. ' v rla Flohtlna Hard. , . Explosives Secured From German 1 well received. ' On Wednesday strong German forces Firm at Mexico CltyC ' surprised and overpowered, the Lettish Mexico City. Manuel Cortes, aide to By EDWARD W. PICKARO, The' pea ca 'treaty with Germany Is If Lloyd George's assertion of full troops In Llbau, overthrew he Lettish Pedro. Gavay,. chief lieutenant of Felix and" arrested Diaz, following his capture in the fight completed and the German delegates agreement among the allied powers, Is provisional government v have been summoned to Versailles .to Incorrect In any particular, the dls several officials, Premier gllraah took which resulted in the death of General with the British mission there Aurellano Blanquet, last week at , ' receive U on April 25. crepancy Involves Italy.1 At the close refuge The associated powers have agreed of the week the problem of Flume had snd insisted that his government would state of .Vera, Cruz, made a that there shall be no military Inter- not been solved and the Italians had resist the German demands. statement Saturday. In the city of Vera vention In Russia, but that they will repeated their Informal threats to reCrux In which he revealed the means send food to that country, under neuIn both Japan and the United States employed by the followers of Dlas to fuse to sign the treaty with Germany tral control, If the bolshevik! will stop unless that city were given to them In-- a considerable number of newspapers secure explosives for blowing up trains .' hostilities. .? " ' 'v i Presi- - are busy trying to stir up trouble be- between the capital and the gulf coast. Stead of to the Juko-BIb( ' as ' L . l t Those) were the outstanding features dent Wuson Wishes, The threats wersf tween the wo countries, or professing - Accenting to a dispatch from a speof the news of last week, and they bore not taken seriously, however, and It to find signs of discord In current cial correspondent sent to Vera Crus out the optimistic assertions that all was believed that after the British pre events. .The latest matter to arouse by El Universal, Cortes declares, that waa progressing well In the great task mler returned to Parts that difficulty them Is the return of Ambassador IsblL the explosives had been sent In a of settling the, affairs of the world. would be adjusted. The treaties with though this may be fairly attributed to roundabout way to the rebel headThe delegation of Germans named Austria-Hungarthe fact that the administration that Turkey and Bulgaby a German firm In, Mexico to go to Versailles Includes the most ria may not be , ready for several sent htm to Washington has gone out quarters which deals In hardware and minCity, prominent ' of the German statesmen weeks after that with, Germany Is of power. Another possible reason Is ing machinery. , Cortes also asserted, now active In the government except signed. thst Japan's appointment of Baron says the correspondent, that Diaz Count von Bernstorff, and though .they An Interesting, report printed Jn the Toshlto Sakatanl as financial, adviser had obtained more than will be given time to submit the treaty Frankfort ,Gaxette says the .German to Cjhlna was. not approved by the infernal machines and much twenty to the national assembly at Weimar, it peace delegates are prepared to ask Cnlted States. A few days ago the ammunition from General Manuel z, Is hoped they will have the authority from the allies payment for damages story was published that the American rebel leader In the Tamplco oil and the disposition to accept It with sustained from aerial attacks, from troops In Siberia' refused to help a region, who previously had received out that formality, thus obviating de the occupation of German territory by Japanese contingent at Habarovsk befilibusters them from lay. It was asserted In Paris that the allied troops snd for the delsy In con- cause the letter had shot down Rus- which landed the machines along the beallied governments would not wait cluding peace, which caused a prolong- sian women and children ; the Japancoast of the oil region. yond May 15 for a definite answer as ation of the bolshevik and Spartacan ese detachment was practically anni- gulf to whether or not Germany w,ould sign troubles. ; It Is easy to guess how far hilated Now it appears the murders GUARD HUN REPRESENTATIVES. the pact Of course the press and they will, get with such a demand. were committed by Cossacks snd that rewith public of Germany are walling , The peace commissioners, or at least the Japanese suffered while trying to newed agony si ltia made more evi- the - correspondents In Parts, -- wars defend them from another faction of Liberty of German Envoys to Ver. sallies to be Curtailed. dent that the Huns wilt be required to somewhat worried by the setting up Russians. General Graves would not Paris. When the German represenpay to the uttermost limit of their re- of the communist government In Mu- Interfere because American operations sources, and repeatedly the assertion nich, fearing lest this might make nec- there are limited to the protection of tatives come to Versailles to attend the Is made that Germany will not submit peace parley, they will be lodged In essary a separate treaty with Bavaria, property and of the railroad. alto the terms laid down In what Is the second state la the German confedThe campaign In the splendid quarters, but will not be called there a' "treaty, of violence-.- " the with to the Is public. lowed and mingle eration. But It may be that before Japanese press especially lively, Even Prince Lichnowsky Joined the treaty Is presented the regime of the Uncle Sam Is accused of being aggresOnce they have reached the quart-er- a chorus of protests, saying an unjustly communists will have come to an end. sive, hypocritical and selfish, presumreserved for them they will not extorted peace can only bring forth They have been having a very stormy ably because the Monroe doctrine pass the barriers until the day of the fresh armaments, and Implying that as time so far and the troops of the so- clause was Included In the league of final signature of the treaty In the a last resort Germany will "go bolshe cialist government hav? been pressing nations convention and the equality of Gallery of Mirrors at Versailles paluce. vik- .them hard, though some of the soldiers nationals left out. Japan Is not cutting According to the latest arrangeThat quite such sn Important figure In the ments, the Germans will not be as have Joined the communists. All discussion of the treaty, outside the food boycott of the peasants Parts negotiations ss she had expected numerous as at first thought and the or so forming the delegathe peace congress. Is based on unoffi against Munich Is effective Is shown to and the people are rather sore ss seventy-fiv- e cial reports, for the allied delegates by the fact that the communist gov- a result But there Is no fear In offi- tion and suite will all be housed In the decided that It would be foolish. If not ernment has asked for a loan of a mil- cial circles that friendly relations will annex of the Hotel De Reservoir, which was formerly the residence of dangerous, to reveal the terms of 'the lion marks from Italy for the purpose be ruptured. treaty before It was submitted to the of buying food.' It Is said that chaos ' the Marquis de Pompadour. Germans. The public) or considerable rules In Munich; all work has ceased, Affairs are not going smoothly In Huns Will be st Versailles. parts of It, la England, France and. no tralna are running and the banks, Poland, and for this some blame may to a less extent, America, (Objected shops and houses are being looted. be attached to the policy of the peace Foreign Minister Copenhagen. strenuously to this policy by which The decrees Issued by the communists delegates in yielding to Germany In Count von Brockdorff-Rantxa- u of Gerthe German national assembly would are many and radical, one ordering the matter of Danzig. Though Gen- many, has announced that three enget the treaty before the rest of the the communication of all women. In- eral vllaller's divisions already have voys will be sent to Versailles, April . world; but It was sustained by the cluding wives;,begun their .movement through Ger- 25, authorized to receive the tekt of the In other parts of Germany there many to Poland, the Paderewskl govFrench chamber of deputies by a vote of 834 to 106, snd It waa vigorously de was continuous disorder snd strikes ernment has lost prestige, for the peo- peace preliminaries," fended by Premier Lloyd George In Were started In many places. After ple fear that the seaport they so much - Have Bolshevikl on the Run. his speech In the bouse of commons. further severe' fighting In Magdeburg desire v.111 not be awarded them by Russian nnd British Archangel. The British leader argued that If the the Ebert troops gained entire posses- the treaty, and even may not be Interforces occupied the vilSaturday early terms were made publle now there sion of. the city. In Berlin the em- nationalized There- Is almost continuwould of .necessity be much spoken ployees la various Industries struck be- ous fighting on. the borders of the lage of Bolshie Oxerkl and are pursuand written criticism of them, since cause they were not given a voice In Posen district snd It has spread to the ing the Bolshevik! as they flee south, ward over roads knee deep in Icy slush It was hopeless to satisfy everyone, the management, and the soldiers and East Prussian frontier. Mailer's troops toward the enemy base. and that those criticisms, reprinted In noncommissioned officers of the snuy are passing through Germany at the Germany, .would give the enemy the there also declared they would strike rate of three tralnloads a day, and Soviet Troops Retreating false Idea that the terms were object- If the order reducing their pay to each train is accompanied by allied ed to by the British public ss too a peace-tim- e basis wss not rescinded. officers and guards. The utmost pre- .'London. A retirement along virtuharsh, which would encourage the Troubles with the workmen In Bremen cautions are taken to prevent conflicts ally the entire front In eastern RusGermans to refute to sign the treaty. stopped the unloading of American with the German populace. sia is admitted by the soviet government In a wireless message dated food ships there. In the Cologne disthe British, General After having successfully subdued April 10 and received here Saturday. Lloyd George's speech was declared trict, occupied by ordered the Plumer to return strikers the uprisings In Egypt. Great Britain to be one of the most eloquent and sensational ever heard la tae bouse of to work at once and threatened the se- now Is confronted with a yet more ' Drastic School Law In California. Sacramento. The assembly of the comntons.'-Primarily- , be arose to de- vere punishment of all persons fo- serious revolt lu the PunJaub, India. fend htrasclf against the attacks of his menting or countenancing strikes la Martial law was decIs red In some dis- legislature has adopted an amendment ' tricts where the governor general said to the senate school bill, which would critics, nnd he not. only did that, but the tone of British occupation, hurled .defiance at those critics. lie open rebellion exists, and mobs In one prohibit Japanese from attending regdeclared that his the stste of affairs. In city were bomtvd .aud subjected to ular elementary schools where special pledges Apparently schools for Mongolians are established of rinctlng full payment frois' Ger- Ituiwls Just now may be summarised machine gun fire from airplanes, . Inthe former in and statement the bolshevlsra kslser Is that many rmihlg Daniels Talks, to Doughboys. nnd othor guilty Huns were to be creasing In force hut lowing prestige. Down ' In Mexico a new 'revolt Coblens. Secretary1 of - the Navy ' Moscow the cominhvdohers of The the that director Red Croas peace kept; aj:n lost the government was nipped in Josephus Daniels, speaking tq the" men wnnted a roaee thut was Just, and arrived In Copenhagen with confirma- Ihe bud when Carrnna troop the Second division of the American severe hut hot 'vindictive; that tion of the predictions that Leiilne ami a body of rebels hear Chnvaxtla. of of Saturday, told his army tnlllinry Intervention In Ituxula would Trotrky would mxm seek an under 0n. Aorellnno Blanqurt, "who, with audience occupation he hoped the army would that 1 tisso-l!at- -' . iniMlerafe" that the the with but blunder, Hiuudlng Felix lMwt, headed the nioveim-iitpent, uas be taken borne as soon ss ' posl'ihv" ' nu!tins would be ready to stop lie sulil IkiIsIicUxiii wss giving ny to killed pated in iti-ml- The most perilous Job that any on ean undertake In the Jungle Is tha capn ture of a gorilla. It Is said thst no gorilla has ever been captured Ha alive after he was full grown. would be a' bold man who would attempt such a feat Gorillas fear nothing. Even when mortally wounded they show sn agility, strength and ferocity which lu astonishing. A famous traveler once stated that It would tako 150 men to hold down a gorilla with any degree of safety. On the other hand, all other apee are said to 'be pathetically easy to capture. The usual method Is for a trapper to seat himself where he Is certain to be observed by these creatures and pretend to drink from a bottle of crude spirits. When he Is sure that he has been observed, he leaves tha bottle snd goes away. The moment his back Is turned the monkeys rush to appease their curiosity concerning the contents of the bottle. They like the teste of the spirits, and quarrel among themselves for It till the bottle has been emptied. They are soon overcome by the intoxicant, and the trapper returns and gathers them In. full-grow- Length of Arms and Legs. According to many measurements made at the Anthropological laboratory In London, the right arm In human beings Is In a majority of case longer than the left arm, while, on the contrary, the left leg Is longer than the right leg. Sometimes, however, the relative proportions sre exactly reversed but seldom does perfect equality exist between the two sides. The tendency of the right arm to exceed the left arm tn 'strength Is sometimes greater In men than In women, while equality of strength In the two arms occurs almost twice ss frequently with women as with men. Time to Reform. The sailor, returning a trifle fuddled from a peace celebration, found his hitherto respected snd respectable ship newly camouflaged In the most modern cubist stylo. Running his eye over tha whole mess of conflicting squares, triangles, lines, circles and sundry other nam less blobs of paint which graced the sides of his "home," and blinking stupidly at the hideous screaming coloi scheme, be slowly raised his hand while the tears coursed down hh cheeks snd murmured, wearily "Never again T - ' tea LeveL Sea level In the scientific tens meens theoretical - mean or average from which elevations or uepresslona on the earth are calculated. The coast and geodetic survey, which la government authority on such subjects, says: "Mean sea level may be defined as tha urrsce which would be sssumed by the wster of the oceans at rest If there were no action by the wind or by the tides due to the attraction of the moon and sun.. The sea level surface Is at all points at right angles to 4 free-swingi- plummet" 1 . |