St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 30, 1923

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Ce ‘i 5 i * = Dispatch Sunday Circulati | n PAGE for December, 1922 ee 'Y 29, 1923 — | 426,387 Pred 4 om Penge’ sain of 92,169 Over December, 1921 : ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH {i fomm = . = Associated Press News Service. ee =e eee ee ee PRICE 2 CENTS FRANCE 10 PUT CUSTOMS RING © AROUND THE RUHR VALLEY ————— oe 3, ty HC F . FI 5. Patent Office, — — ee — en _—_— at ee = —_— M75. NO. 144. a : ST. LOUIS, TU ANUARY 30, 1923—30 PAGES. Saeeenepeee 2, te _- VALUED AT rmx a ai=e,,,-_ " _—_ ++ —— cee ne oe aE ~ ee a MOSUL OIL DISPUTE. ane eS AE” DISCUSSED BY THE Army Aviator Regains Facul- By the de s00 Feet Above Ears. | FAPUIF PONG Action in Matter Awaits In- dication From Turks as to eT Sera —_— ——- Sl FRENCH GLIDER STAYS IN AIR FOR EIGHT HOURS. 7 PHONE OPERATOR Seren resin) OTS WARRANT FOR SSS) FOREMAN. WIFE. 4 Maneyrol, has beaten all | | world glider records by remain- x | ; L ing in the air for eight hours one 72 ie minute and 26 seconds. He took She Says Other Accused Her * omaha (Oe thao os of Lying About Husband’s °* 1°.°°° want, Whereabouts When She : : ~ ee woke bi etiiced aime alicia in ‘*The costs in the month of November amounted to 9,500,000, in Agents T tol en 3 as off at 1:13:34 yesterday after- r T Attracted by Jew- | noon and landed at 9:15 last lated here. 7 : December to 14,000,000 gold marks.’’ ' Area and Coal Shipments : oniy half e« Tl tors reached hin Into Germany Are Expect- Atpy vorD salrour BORAH RENEWS HIS URGES THAT HELP GD ott Be suum Fe. CONFERENCE PROPOSAL WITH ADVICE TO EUROPE favorable southwe sterly breeze. the Robbery. Reparations Payment. | ‘EXPULSION OF GERMAN |Clause Added to Include Naval! A. C. Bedford Says U. S. Should | _ OFFICIALS CONTINUES Armament and Aircraft Take Responsibility for Ex- Limitations. ecuting Suggestions. FALLS 19,000 FEET, RIGHTS HIS PLANE, AND LANDS SAFELY a te ie oe mow Cost to Germany of Armies of Occupation $1,125,000,000 Assoctate4 Presa. ee oo eee + ere . ¢ Re “ ane wr eee weg rer WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. HE Berlin Foreign Office forwarded to the embassy today a sum- mary showing the separate financial burden imposed by the treaty agreement compelling Germany to pay for maintenance of the allied armies of occupation. ‘*Entire cost of occupation of the left bank of the Rhine from Now. 11, 1918, date of signing of the armistice, up to Dec. 31 last,’’ said the cablegram, ‘‘amounted to 4,500,000,000 gold marks ($1,125,000,- 000). Of this sum Germany so far paid 900,000,000 gold marks, Oe te Om we tea Associa MOUNT CLEMENS, thea Mich., ause of the s¢ Summers oe o ne tagpie Me KT naga ee 5 ® Aw i “ Lieut. Thorst of army, on Jan. Glider record at Biskra hours three minutes. Acceptance of League’s the Fet a French world’s sid ietniin saf Jurisdiction. Sa MOND RINGS _ N “RANG UP EVEN WHEN HE WAS HOME” tee Article XVII of Covenant Cited as Enabling Contro- Between Member and Nonmember. Employe of Roundhouse in East St. Louis Charges Mrs. Dora Connor With: = Throwing. Pepper in Eyes. ' Copyright, 1923.) aA A RO Ae etme ae ver —, e sy ‘Few Trains Run by the French; Mi ing: ments that America must come | . Miners Working; grips with the economic problem of | Gen. Weygand’s Train ity the Associated Press NEW YORK, Jan. vy the Ags ated Pres« WASHINGTON, Jan. il- Borah re ws | his proposal for an international eco- called by The dispute be-|, urkey 30.—Senator 30.—State- the newed the Senate today to | was to be nomic day afternoon. . attention of the policeman Srecia! attracted by jeweiry on the side- LANGLEY we front of the stage. The door, |+,., . been secured by a bolt) " y lock, had been pried open. : TT to the Post-Dispatch FIELD, Va., Jan held up a automohite lashed pepper in her eyes and beat bat. - ' ; , ives »F> > I Wenanody? AS ee Lor hs Fourteenth street. Koke — rita@in and J containing diamond rings and Escape Into Woods a “fits ‘ oi i" pit Si | ie. ei 4 r nt ois wit a Ame m= . mete , vi , J before t3 ouncii of the conference iting | of one | Julius H. Barnes, president of the) man of the board of the Standard §« 7 |Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch which at his own immediately dve Trays of Jewelry ! S trays of set rings were $43,000 PAYROLL eS iast night from a safe in the , | i ahs 4 ) A Warrant charging : iul th ; ing | an tO get Naz} stat ar ieD Two Men Tie Captain and “ mone, The ditched car f mre ths. woods and s] the und ratty afternoon Field, from soldiers were clock this of Langley of citizens, soldiers four after the posses field “est |} wife were awakened by noise land policemen had searched for them | for several hours. The automobile was in charge of | 'Capt. Norman D. Cota, chief finance | .officer at the field, and contained a Sergeant and two privates. None of them was seriously injured in to trees. The automobile ional Bank with boarded the arm: left the First Hampton Roeds this $42.000 meet the payroll at the field rohbher ~ ns if to month!: into the country. it was said. draw their an opportunity to weapons. LEW DOCKSTADER, MINSTREL. VIRTUALLY PARALYZED BY FALL Tle Is in Seriovs Condijion in New Brunswick. N. J.. as Result of Injury Last Night. - the A “] Preas 30 » Was rejected by the first |__yew Dockstader, veteran minstrel, | is in a local hotel virtually paralyzed Wourt held that, as both young | by an accident last night. court today. f of age and as the Amer'i- Go not require they can be married in iby complying with the usual Col. Littauer's attorney ; | Dockstader. who is 62 years old parentaliand weighs 200 pounds, slipped on the ice and fell when returning to his hotel, after a performance at a local theater. He made his way to that, while in France, the hotel and went to bed. was subject to the | Physicians said that his spine was } laws requiring her parents’ | injured and his condition serious. W YORK, Jan. 30.—The Paris ntly the second chapter ©. as dispatches just be- from Paris said of Miss Littauer to Doeller of “California” had postponed indefinitely,’ due to ons. is the only child of , president of the Johns- | le & Kingsboro Raitl- mB and ai director in the Fastener Co., and of Knitting Co. He served © President Roosevelt when 'was Governor, and to Ben- _- “ . 7 v 4 * ee UTIONS TO WILSON FUNO DEC, 26 TAX EXEMPT sed by Commissioner of Internal Revenue Department. ! Preas ENGTON, Jan. 30.—-Com- Blair of the Internal Rev- a — —_ ‘opyright, 1923.) _ » subsequent to Dec. 26, na! \legaliy exempt from appli- Pet the income tax laws. | ; ' ’ : | | ; has ruled that contrib- | the Woodrow Wilson Foun-. son, F. ® fuling represents a reversal | incorporation Dec. 26 tion. E GETTING BETTER | Prees. MeaINGTON, Jan. 30.—Agricul- @ financial standpoint is ler, althouch the farmers’ the new year with a power equal to €8 cents the war. Ac last year the average (nn lex tr of the purchas.ng power of eeeaucts in terms of otner thet farmers buy Wa5 of 2 points over 1921, of 17 points from the according to an esti- ure index figures just Sof the - - a ° ‘Vg. ght Si PORT rk Perea arr ee a e . 3 4 a ie . ed ee bs * C& be aed Saeed errr 2 ne . — “ oni Se A ett ltt eRe atin BS os AB One SI po RAK» a a RE Lave a SS ae ees Ss Bx Fe Se ee iM cat eee ag Wee ee es (Sekai aaa eee Dureau’s previous stand be-. - ~~~ oe + ee oS ghipbuilders af | controll LLOYD GEORGE SEES BULL FIGHT —_———— Young Bull Escapes and Charges at , needed Spectators. iv the Assoctate? Press GIBRALTAR, Jan. Llovd George and his family, gether other notables, witnessed yesterday a 30.—David to- display of fighting bulls at the Al- | Gallardo | ‘ing him there, left word for him to 'eall up the office. ‘nor telephoned, I told him what the ‘man wanted, and then Mrs. Connor the ring, was turned | bulls, bred for g ‘took the telephone and accused me geciras ranch of the brothers. The entertainment was not an ac- tual bullfight. A herd of young loose on a broad plain. The ani- mounted and afoot and , one bull escaped. He charged the spectators and a general stampede followed Everyone succeeded in reaching the line of automobiles bordering the field and the bull was made captive. [FATHER AND SON GO TO PRISON FP. M. Perkins, 54, and F. H. Per- threw kins. 33. of Lawrence, Kan., to Serve Five Years. the Associated Prese LAWRENCE, Kan., Perkins, 54 years old. and his HW. Perkins, 33, left here to- day by motor car for the state pent- tentiary at Lansing, to begin serv- ing sentence of five years each. The elder Perkins was convicted of embezzlement. He former'y Was head of the now defunct Perkins & Company, investment house | with a national clientelle. Liabili- ties of the company are estimated at $400,000. ed of stealin but was not @ member of the -~ Jan. 30.—F M. A aan —— Workers Buy Shiprard at Tokio. Ry the Asso tated Press ee i “. Ja? 20> 1¢ worktcin hart this city have decid- to have a shipyar - ed and managed by institution of the kind They have purchased the shipyard of the Kaiji-Shokal, or Vessels Re- r Co., which went into liquidation gome time ago. men. the first ‘ irating Miss Shadwell, threw the Alit ‘ i \a- The | i been with Lord Birkenhead and | ' mals were baited with caps by men of -which the leysed me of anything except that I ‘conduct. here | . The son was convict- POSTMEN T0 FEED HUNGRY BIRDS 4 mortgaged property. | firm. | . she a of their own, work- | 'gued orders to rural route mail car-| is foren Miss Shadwell stated § that onnor entered the office vesterda’ her 12-year-old son, who car- ried the baseball bat, and after be- pep- ner and then took the bat and struck with ' her on the head several! times, before | adjoining from his an her Connor, W ho was in room, could rescue (wife's attack. Capt. Cota and his men were tied | rs. Connor drove away in her immediately after the at- suffering usions mobile tack, and Miss Shadwell, from smarting eyes and f the head, was phv- sician and taken to her home, where she received a Post-Dispatch report- er today. Miss Shadwell’s Statement. “Mrs. Connor for some time accusing me oO to her concerning the whereabouts of her husband during business hours, when she would cont freated bv a has ¢ Vari f lying | sometimes when her husband was at home, she would telephone the office and ask for him, and when I would say that he probably was gut in the yards, she would shriek back that I lied and that he was at home. “On Aug. 2 Mr. Connor discharged ime on the ground that I had report- ed late for work four times in the ‘previous month, and I took the mat- ter up with the union, which had me reinstated four days later. This made Mrs. Connor more furious than ever. and on that day she came to the office and soundly berated me, telling me that my parents evidently the money badly oor “I wouldn’t have the gall to work where I was not wanted. Incident Leading to Assault. “The incident directly leading to the assault occurred last Saturday. A man from the roundhouse called a+ Mr. Connor’s home and, not find- When Mr. Con- man there for She bheran to I disconnected having sent the reasons. length personal seccild me at her “Yesterday afternoon she came to the office with her son. She was livid with anger and at once began a tongue lashing, accusing me of having repeatedly lied to her. I re- her to the superintendent her complaint, and she then the pepper and snatched a bat from her son, with ferred with baseball head. Mrs. Connor never ac- had lied to her \frs. Connor today gave a bond of $500 on the assault charge, and a $200 bond on a charge of disorderly The case was set for hearing Feb. 6. She declined to make a statement on advice of an at- torney. Rural Mall Carriers Ordered to Dis- | tribute Seed. Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. ing eountry birds soon 30.—Starv- may be i watching as Vigilantly for the mail- do. is- letter-hungery humans Work has man as Postmaster-General riers to distribute grains along their routes for starving birds when sup- plies of such bird seed are furnished to them. ehe struck me four times on wild if ss aa iif the Fed- Louls 1 of its pro- further > LO z ithout fauthorization. McFadden said that the bill prob- | ably would be called up in the House Thursday, and predicted Its passage As ined by Fadden, the bill removes far main Federal re- buildings are ‘erned the , +r) . . ‘ >on } - : ; ' Kai La Pia xead y . ef expla avi‘ SO as con) ei- gz iaw, Making th anp- plicable braneh bulldinmes Officers of the Federal Reserve Bank planned a $3,900,000, on Lo- | Fourth | ff) cost iStil on lv to : ‘ } have struc- about between Broadway and street. AUGUST THYSSEN AND FRENCH GENERAL IN COURTEOUS MEETING Latter Both Glad and Pained and Former Would Have Been Proud Under Other Conditions. ia & i *patcn of St. Louis ture to cost cust, ae i \eé BERLIN, Jan ; ort this incident from the Among the othe the French when | they occupied Essen wag that of Au- | gust Thyssen, 81 years o8d, industrial | leader, who next to Hugo Stinnes and | Frau Krupp is the wealthiest man in Germany. The French General whet was given Thyssen’s home, sent a ‘ecard to him asking when he could call. Thyssen said a certain hour and day and at the given time the French General appeared. “IT am giad,” he said, “to make the acquaintance of such a great busi- ness man as you, but at the same time it pains me to meet you under these circumstances.” | Herr Thyssen referred to the fact that France had sent so many troops | into a country that was completely disarmed. “Under other circumstances 7 i papers rep . Pus , ‘ . . . Ruhr distri -* I houses seized by would have been proud to make your acquaintance, Mon General,” Herr Thyssen added and left the room. DEATH RECORD AT PHILADELPHIA | More Than 100 of 659 Violent Deaths Attributed to Alcoholism. By Assoctated Press PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 30 the first 29 days of this month sudden or violent deaths were rec- ported to the Coroner’s office, the greatest number ever reported for a single month, Assistant Coroner | Frank Paul esaid today. Of this number about 100 were attributed to acute alcoholism. UNCLE SAM'S DEBTORS BITTER London Cartoon Depicts Him Stand- ing in Door of Pawnshop. Special to the Post-Dispatch. LONDON, Jan 30.—The bitter- | ness aroused over the debt question was exemplified by a cartoon In the |'Pall Mall Gazette today, depicting Uncle Sam standing in the door ofa pawn shop. Over the picture was the caption: “Uncle by name and uncle by na- ‘ture.” Pictures of the American flag were hissed in moving picture thea- | ters last night. the — 659 ee Illinois Cotton Crop Assured. Pry the Asrociated Press CAIRO, IL, Jan in Illinois this year is practically assured. D. S. Lansden, a banker, | has ordered seed in car lots to be re- sold to farmers at cost. Farmers pledged approximately 1000 acres sto the crop. “ff —-_otton crop : . _ ss | 'f i'met Pasha to do his utmost at ‘gsanne to avert war by asking for an ‘adjournment of the conference until |operations. ito sign — _ prevent | nouncement from savoring of an ul- | 'timatum. | Peace.” ‘that the document is not necessarily » «Ah ‘ij e said at ‘ aijse a | . 4 . i= of the mer » that nvolved in the disp he thought Article AVI} the league light give the Turks apprehension that they would not be admitted to an equal footing by the council Article XVII provides that in * said eovenant 1 the event of a dispute between a leacue/! member and a state not a member the latter “‘shall be invited to accept ithe obligations of membership in the such dis- the of conditions ‘* Just the such league for purpose pute, upon as councilanay deem Lord. Batfour said he had informa. indicating the Turks feared that the tion under this article council might ‘ niace them tv in an arbitrat sured the council it was the the British Turks be invited council in the Britain have the league arbitrate, on an equal footing with the other members M. Viviani. for nN Lord Ralfo ion dispute desire of that the sit with the case, To Mosul desires (,reat to concurred irs expressions. France to Ask for An at Lausanne. Post -Dispat Chicago Datlv News ’ , ° ah? Ismet Instructed Adjournment Copyrtel 1923 CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. After 24 of stormy debates and secret sittings, the Nationalist Assembly voted against war. According to information from Angora the Assembly instructed Is- Lau- hours all the Turks as well as the allies have had time to reconsider the sit- ‘uation and to give.formal assurance that the Turks would not in the meantime undertake any military He was not authorized any treaty the Nationalist pact and was to give the allies to un- derstand that an adjournment was necessary in order to have certain clauses in the pact revised. not within instructed MAIN POINTS IN TREATY READY FOR TURKS TOMORROW | Associated Press. LAUSANNE, Jan. might result from an the $0.—Fear what termination of the Near East con- | when the their treaty tomorrow, present ference here allies formally to the Turkish delegation, 1s appar- | ently having a temporizing influence | at this critical stage of the negotia- | ‘tions. and influences are at work to, pro- Wednesday's allied The treaty clauses to which the Turks have ex- pressed their unalterable opposition Whether they will take a stand which will enable a continuance of the conference among the experts after a temporary adjournment mains to be seen. Captain of Treaty Draft. draft treaty bears the “Project of the Treaty thereby bearing evidence The cap- tion, contracting parties on the one part, France, Italy, Japan, Jugo-Siavia on the definite The are Turkey, Great Britain. Rumania. and other The of tees for foreigners is which guaran- in a outlines judicial covered question special declaration the system which the Turks refused | It provides that for at to accept. ‘least five vears Turkey will organize a corps of legal advisers. The Turk- ish Government will appoint a com- oe a Centinucd on Page 2, Columa in a condition of infertor- | He as- / which | 30.— | absolutely | of | abrupt draft contains several re- | of | and | credits legislation is out of the way. In order to prevent any undue de- lay. however, Borah ‘indicated that the proper time came he prob- ably would to add the resolu- Ui THnOoOVe to some bill already under dis- tion fUuUSSiON). The resolution was almost identi- cal with the Borah naval bill amend- ment, which Borah withdrew recent- ly after administration said it would embarrass State De- partment negotiations then in prog- ress, The President, tion, would be requested under the resolu- to desirable to a conference “charged with the duty of considering the economic problems obtaining throughout the world. with a view of ‘arriving at such adjustments or set- 'tlements aS may seem essential to the restoration of trade and to the establishment of sound financial and now ‘business conditions.” would provide for a further confer- ence for limitations of naval arma- ment and aircraft. NEW BERLIN SUBWAY OPENED tailroad, Kaltser’s Last Accomplish- | ment. Was Started in 1913. [By Wi! the Post-Dispatch and the Dailv News (Copvright,. 19°25.) BERLIN, Jan. 30.—Though half of Berlin’s population no longer can to ride on the street cars subway trains and emnibuses—it ‘costs 150 marks a ride now-—the German capital today opened up its “North and South” subway. This underground railroad was the Kal- 'ser’s last accomplishment and was \started in 1913. Throughout the war ‘Wilhelm insisted that the construc- jtion of this subway continue and ‘women and children worked day and nirht underneath Friedrichstrasse, ‘where Berlin's gay and glittering life rulsated all the time. | Following the revolution there wis an intermission when no work was done. but now more than three- ‘fourths of the work is completed. reless to “ i¢ ag” ‘afford — $$ _—_—_— ll RAIN TONIGHT; FAIR TOMORROW, AND COLDER THE TEMPERATURES. } } 1 COO 42 4% ..45 PPP PPPPP D~Is>- Highest yester- day, 41, at 4 p. m.: lowest, 33, at 7:30 a. m. Official forecast for St. Loeis and vicinity: Rain to- night; tomorrow fair; colder to- night and tomor- row, the lowest temperature to- night will be about 26. Missouri: Fair in northwest por- tion, rain turning to enow in east and south por- tions tonight; to- morrow. probably fair; much colder tonight and to- morrow. llinols: Snow or rain in aprth portion and rain in south portion to- night: mueh colder tonight; tomor- row generally fair and colder. | Stage of the river at 7 a. m., 1.3 i feet, no change. Snowless January So Far. If anow does not fall today or to- morrow, January will be recorded in the 47-year histery of the Weather Bureau as the first Jag- vary in St. Louls without snow, —£ CORK BLEW ea e fk : > a: leaders had | invite | such Governments as he might deem | Another clause | restrained by political differences from heeding the advice of her business men who, for years, had called for co-operative heipful inter- est in Europe. “We know that weare entitled to look to our Government in Wash- ington for lgadership and guidance in this great crisis,” said Bedford. “Until peace is established in the ‘world there can be no reasonable expectation of an immediate return to prosperity in this country or in ‘any country. “Involved in Affairs of World.” ‘‘Have we not allowed partisan po- litical controversies to drive us as a people into a position with refer- ence to the rest of the world which ‘is fundamentally contrary to the sentiments and traditions ‘country? “We are involved in the affairs of Europe and the whole world. “It is all: very well for a nation to |give advice, but is it an unreasona- ible position for this country to as- (sume that when our advice is taken | we will accept full measure of re- ‘sponsibility for assisting the other nations to carry that advice into ‘ effect ?” “The ’" Barnes de- day will come, tives with a solemn sense of ard telegraph wires and subterra- nean cables in the Ruhr district are cvt and most of the locomotives have left the Ruhr centers for unoccupied Germany.” This report is carried in all the +newspapers this morning. Attempts ‘Oo get Essen, Duesseldorf, or Cologne on the telephone from Berlin today were unsuccessful. The German sabotage policy fs tn effect and may be followed by a gen- eral strike on Thursday when France wil! establish the new customs line running along the border of the Ruhr basin. By the Associated Press. of our) Weygand, Gen. Foch's chief of staff, and M. Le Trocquer, Minister of Pub- lic Works {n the French Cabinet, who arrived in Duesseldorf from Paris last evening, held a long con- ference with Gen. Degoutte, M. Coste and other occupation officials, and later they went to Brussels to ask the Belgian Government's approval of the decision reached in the con- | ference. clared, “when American representa- | the | The greatest secrecy waa main- great good which would flow from | ‘tained as to the result of the con- the elimination in government |fallacies that destroy human im- pulse and the very processes of in- | dustry will enter a conference with 'other nations, prepared by disaster in their trial, to sympathetically at- tempt the elimination of these de- structive practices. “In Europe the already dangerous economic problem has been given a political complexion by the Ruhr in- vasion. Effect of Ruhr Invasion. “Armed-ftoops cannot march into productive territory, seize the direc- tion of industry,, convict and fine the directors of large industries, inenins racial hatred based on af- fronted racial pride and, having done these things, hope in any manner to extricate that venture, leaving the igituation exactly as before. | “Whether it be the unforeseen consequences of this independent action, or whether it be the deliber- ately planned, but unadmitted pur- pose inspiring the action, the world must face the fact that one of the imminent possibilities developing | from the occupation of the Ruhr is | the disintegration of the German national federation.” RUHR REFLECTION ON EXCHANGE Tension tn Occupted District Caus- ing Uneasiness on Forcign Market. Pry the Associated Prees. LONDON, Jan. 230—The tension in the Ruhr has caused increased uneasiness in the foreign exchange market where continental curren- cies are daily depreciating. This morning the mark was quoted at 195.000 to the pound sterling. The French franc sold at 76.05 and the Italian lira at 98%. The dollar | rate was comparatively steady, hov- ering around 4.63%. Py the Associated Press. i NEW YORK, Jan: 30.—New low records were established by eight active French bonds in yesterday's trading in reflection of lower ex- change rates, the franc dropping to 6.13 cents, the lowest price in two years. New York By the Asesoctated Press. Senate by a vote of 27 to 17 last night adopted the Walker resolution to memorialize Congress to modify the Volstead act so as to fic in beer and wine. Two 7 hee es ete Sia“ aT SS PUPA T eek ALBANY, WN. ¥.. Jan. 30.—The/ _ + wits - . 'ders to proceed of |ference, but the indications point to the establishment of a customs ring | around the occupied Ruhr Valley and ithe complete stoppage of coal ship- ments into the interior of Germany which thus far have been permitted by the French. It is believed that these measures will be put into ef- fect Feb. 1 coincident with Ger- many’s failure to meet the repara- tion payment falling due tomorrow. Customs officers who have been stationed at Duesseldorf and Essen for several days have received or- to the frontier of the occupied territory at points where the railroads enter Germany. They have also heen ordered to the locks and canals on the Rivers Lippe and Rhine. Obstruction on the Track. An attempt to wreck the train on which Gen. Weygand and Minister Le Trocquer were traveling to Duea- seldorf is reported to have occurred at Dueren last evening. Other inei- dents of sabotage, such as the wreck- ing of signal boxes on the Ruhr rafl- roads, have come to the attention of the occupation officials. The train on which «he General and the Minister were passengers was halted in time to avert striking an obstruction placed on the tracks. Gen. Weygand and M. Le Trocquer completed their journey by autome- bile. German trainmen at Dueren assert that the incident was uninten- tional and that the obstruction was part of a wrecked car smashed in a rear-end collision yesterday. Arrests and Expulsions. The arrests and expulsions of Ger- many officials have not yet been ported officers are Dr. Sweitzer, who of the State Finance Department, and the d SF a ‘ completed, but atready number 138- for this city alone. Among the de- replaced Dr. Schiutius as president. : a rs ee oF: 2 er me SO Ry GE ee ee -—~* & nS lg ty ah J ee « : - oS ey ERR oe meee err ee oe - . — : . * " 1 eh on