v BARMAT REVELATIONS
THREATEN UPHEAVAL
IN GERMAN POLITICS
BERLIN, Mar. 9.—Germany is pay
ing considerable attention just now
to a financial scandal. It is called
the Barmat affair, and is casting its
shadow over the political life of the
country. Some high officials already
are involved, and nobody knows who
next will be dragged into the lime
light. Public hearings are being
held in an endeavor to ascertain
facts, and the trails evidently lead
into more than one political camp.
Four brothers of Russian birth,
^ Julius, Solomon. Herschel and Isaac
Barmat, came into Germany a few
years ago by way of JTolland, vouch
ed for, it is alleged, by the German
foreign office and certain prominent
politicians. They formed a company
to import fats, but gradually branch
ed out into banking, the buying up of
paper and artificial silk factories,
iron and steel mills, sawmills and
pottery works, and various other ac
tivities. They prospered exceeding
ly.
t- Then some one started an investi
gation of the Prussian State Bank,
one of the oldest financial institu
tions of Germany, as a result of
which it was revealed that the bank
had liabilities in excess of its capi
tal and reserve, and that it had loan
ed large sums without proper collet
eral. A man named Kutisker was a
party to these transactions.
Then almost over night the whole
affair was given a new aspect. While
Kutisker confessed to his irregu
larities, it soon developed that there
was a concern which had apparently
gone in for even wilder financing,
the Barmat corporation. Kutisker
was presented with an order for his
arrest on Christmas Day, and the
Barmat brothers rece'vtd similar
warrants as a New Year’s greeting,
their rarest taking place on the af
ternoon of Dec. 31.
The alfiliations and friendships
the Barmat brothers are coming to
light. The trail leads to the doors
of prominent Socialists; a Commun
ist deputy and a Clerical deputy ap
pear to have been involved, and a
cabinet minister resigned under the
fire of charges in which the Barinats
figured.
Several different investigations al
ready are under way, and the Bar
mar affair is being made the football
of German politics. Charge^ that
the St.cu/hsis were on close terms
l with the Barmats are matched by
| counter charges that Nationalist of
j ficials were so lax in their credit
i policy that millions of marks were
j loaned to them even after the
Reichsbank had rigidly shut down
on credits, and after rumors were
current in exchange circles that not
all was well with the Barmats
The investigations include probing
into the deals in fats by the Bar
mats as quasi-official agents of the
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tion of the terms under which cred
its were obtained, and an examina
tion of the multifarious undertakings
of the four brothers from Russia.
BULGARIA GETS GLIMPSE
OF BEAUTIFUL SULTANA
PHIL1PPOLIS, Bulgaria, Mar. 9.—
Nedig Evzad Hannum, the fifth and
favorite wife of the deposed Khal
if, passed through the railroad sta
tion here on the Simplon express
the other day to join her husband
the old Turk who is spending his de
clining days in Switzerland.
Nedig, who took no pains to keep
her face veiled as she leaAed out of
the window of her compartment at
the station, is strikingly beautiful,
with blue eyes at variance with the
American idea of Orientals. She is
just twenty years old. When the
Sultan was deposed and banished
last year, Mustapha Kemal refused to
let Nedig join him in his exile. Ne
dig Evzad Hanum, however, would
not be permanently parted from the
ex-Khalif, and she made so many
personal applications to Mustapha
Kemal for permission to join her
husband in his banishment that he
finallv relented.
Nedig owes her blue eyes to her
Circassian origin.
Labor shortage; A condition that
leaves only a dozen men 11 watch
the window genius flip hot cakes.
Conscience is the secret voice that
persuades a woman to think it was
the man’s fault.
It may be better to marry a wid
ow. She realizes how much baby
ing a man really needs.
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FAROE ISLANDERS BUILDING
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COPENHAGEN, Mar. 9.—No fewer
than seven new harbors of varying
sizes 'and importance are now in
course of construction in the Faroe
Islands. At Thorshavn, the capital
of the islands, work on a new har
bor comprising two quays protected
by a breakwater 600 feet long is
well advanced, and is expected to be
completed at the end of next year.
A more modest harbor nearing
completion is a Skopen, the north
west point of the island of Sandoe,
and consists of an outer and inner
mole which will afford shelter for
fishing craft of small tonnage. The
harbor will also serve as a lifeboat
station and emergency anchorage for
vessels in danger at a particularly
treacherous part of the coast.
Other harbors in course of erection
are at Midvaag, Soervaag on the isl
and of Vaagoe, and at Tveraa, Kvig
! ig and Hov.
BRITONS ASKED TO RAISE PIGS
LONDON, Mar. 9.—There is money
in pig-breeding, and the ministry of
| agriculture wants more British peo
I pie to go in for it. It is pointed
i out that $250,000,000 worth of bacon,
j ham and pork was imported into the
country last year, and most every
body with a fair-sized garden could
participate in the profitable industry
of pig-raising.
TWO HOURS’ SLEEP COSTLY
FOR BRITISH HOTELKEEPER
WINDERMERE, Eng., Mar. 9.—
The proprietor of a leading hotel in
this district will sleep with one eye
open for the future, since he was
fined $250 and costs by the county
court judge for failing to let a trav
eler in the hotel for several hours
one morning.
The traveler told the court he was
stranded through his baggage being
| lost and tried to obtain admission tc
I the hotel at 5 o’clock in the morn
■ ing. It. was after 7 when he got ir
land during the wait was exposed tc
| rain and cold. The traveler said tha 1
j he did not bring the action in t
| vindictive spirit, but wished to reg
! ister his protest against the proprie
tors’ refusal to extentain travelers
and to show him that innkeepers hac
| a duty to the traveling public whicl
| they were bound to carry out.
j The court upheld his views and
i fined the proprietor.
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OF ITALIAN TEXTILE MILLS
MILAN, Italy, Mar. 9.—Germany,
which exercised a decisive economic
influence in northern Italy before
the war, is rapidly regaining its
ground in at least the textile indu.s
try. It: is understood that the nu
merous spinning mills in the neigh
borhood of Milan are again mostly
in the hands of German capital and
that a system of cheap Itailian and
skilled German labor on the product
has been worked out by which cot
ton and imitation silk goods yield
handsome profits.
The firms about Milan import their
cotton from America and the yarn
is spun by cheap Itailian labor. The
partly-finished product is then sen1
to the textile concerns of middle
Germany, chiefly in the neighbor
hood of Chemnitz, where certain
processes requiring skilled labor,
such as dyeing, are applied. Then
the almost-finished product wanders
back once more to Italy, from where
it is sold. The combination of cheap
Itailian and skilled German labor
enables the manufacturers to set up
prices that can compete successfully
with those of other countries.
A large part of the product goes
to Jugoslavia. The fact that the ex
porting country is Italy is an espe
cially favorable circumstance for the
German owners, since Italy has a
treaty with Jugoslavia by which her
textiles enjoy advantages which ar>
not extended to Germany.
UMBRELLAS TO MATCH HAT
AND STOCKINGS LONDON FAD
LONDON, Mar. 9—One of the lat
est fads among fashionable youne
women is to choose an umbrella to
match stockings and hat. In this
i connection it may be said that tjie
[umbrella departments of the London
shops are among the most colorful
branches of the business.
Scarlet and emerald have proved
thus far to be the most popular sol
ors of all, but these shades are often
| overlooked by buyers who insist up
on matching their hosiery and milli
nery even if ihe protectors from the
sun or rain have to be made to or
! der.
J As to colors generally, especially
for women, modistes says that Lon
don has never been as gay in this
respect as it is today. Longer sticks
are coming back into popular usage
for umbrellas but on account of its
i convenience dealers say the short
umbrella has come to stay. Some
of the handles of Lie longer sticks
are encrusted with colorful china
beads, and are considered very ef
fective, so far as the eye is concern
ed, but from a practical standpoint
the beaded handled umbrellas are
considered merely one of the early
spring fads, which will soon pass,
because the beads themselves fairly
"eat” away very quickly the palm of
the wearer's kid gloves.
Hal Donahey, 18 year old son of the
j governor of Ohio recently served three
! days in the Columbus jail for violat
ing the traffic laws.
Many Canadian girls applied when
a young farmer of Kennedy, Saskatch
ewan, advertised for a wife, making
it hard for him to choose.