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a suspicious manner with a loaded
revolver during the Prince’s visit in
October.
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PROFITEERING IN
BURIAL OF FRENCH
WAR DEAD CLAIMED
PARIS, Jan. 14.—Charges that pri
v..A contractors who have had final
disposition of French war dead have
shamefully engaged in profiteering
have been made to the government by
special commissions after careful in
vestgations. Widespread prosecu
tions have been recommended. It
is alleged that the treatment of these
honored dead amounts to a desecra
tion.
After the war France adopted the
same system as the United States,
and secured ground at various cen
; tral points for military cemeteries.
I This was done to group the graves
j of men who fell in the war and
were buried wherever convenient
during the fighting. It entailed the
transfer of many thousands of bod
ies and this work was turned over
I to private contractors, who were re
sponsible for identification as well
as regroupment.
The newspaper La Liberte now
charges that many of these contrac
tors have been scheming to cheat
the government, without reverence
for the men, who gave their lives for
their country.
“Bodies have been transferred as
many as seven times,” the newspa
per says, “notably at Clery-sur
Somme. Rosieres-en-Santerre and
Rambervillers, and often buried close
to the surface to facilitate exhuma
tion. At Fleury, bodies were laid
only forty centimeters from the sur
face.
The commission appointed to reg
ulate war speculation ruled that 20
francs was a fair price for exhuming,
transporting and burying a body.
But in the Soissons sector as much
as 100 francs has been charged.
These prices netted huge profits,
especially in “busy sectors,” where
it was possible to move four or five
hundred bodies a day. The most
inconsiderate haste was used in or
der to increase the returns, and this
naturally was disastrous for identi
fication.
Many contractors, the Liberte
charges, paid little attention to iden
tification, and the fast work result
I ed, with repeated removals, in the
; loss of identification of a great many
bodies that were definitely known.
The newspaper further charges that
private belongings of much value,
such as jewels worn by the soldiers
i when they fell, were stripped from
j the bodies by the contractors and
I not turned over to the authorities.
Another method of alleged graft
| has been the purchase of more than
' one coffin for a body by the con
tractors.
The Liberte estimates that some
of these contractors realized a profit
j of 400 per cent.
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RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
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| Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Fred Martineides,
IN. G.; Chas. Lechner, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION, SEWARD
POST NO. FIVE
Meets the second and Fourth
Tuesdays of each month,
at Fisher’s Cafe. Visiting
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W. Olson, Adjutant.
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Mrs. Viola T. Swetmann, Secretary.
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The work of regrouping the bod
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ly expensive task for the state.
CLAIM METHOD
TO BREAK ATOM
LONDON, Jan. 15.—“I don’t want
to imagine what will happer to the
world if we succeed in splitting the
atom—I will just wait to see,” Dr
T. F. Wall, president of Atshefield
university, told students at the im
perial college in a lecture on his ex
periments toward efforts to break
up the atom.
Dr. Wall has been working for
nearly a year on the deep problem
of splitting the atom, and he re
cently claimed that success was at
hand, although he failed to dernon
sliate this to a body of skeptical
savants.
The scientist says that if the atom
is split and its energy released the
whole world will blow up like a
firecracker. Dr. Wall used slides
and a blackboard recently in his lec
ture to illustrate his methods, but
the students seemed skeptical. Af
ter the lectuf » Dr. Wall requested
questions, whereupon one of the
students asked:
“What would your eye observe if
an atom was actually split?”
“I don’t know what I would actu
ally see and I don’t want to imag
ine,” parried Dr. Wall.
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Most of the English and American
reporters present flunked the two
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technical.
Tax On Spinsters,
Bachelors, Is Urged
By Noted Clergyman
NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—There’s a
new way to check race suicide—tax
spinsters and bachelors.
That’s the idea of Dr. S. Parkes
Cadman, one of New Yrork’s most
celebrated clergyman. He thinks un
married men and women should be
made to pay for their freedom.
“The reincarnation of the birth
of Jesus Christ takes place every
three minutes in New York—every
time a child is born.” Doctor Cad
r nil declared ia an address to tiie
young men.
“Radiant hopefulness and a new
conception of life at the birth of
every baby spell out a truer mes
sage of Christmas than anything
the wisest of men can say.
“Domestic bliss is the most per
manent blessing known. It is the
coronation of human experience. Men
and women of middle age, who pre
fer the false happiness of single
blessedness to the sweet responsi
bility of a family, ought to be made
to pay.
“That procedure would keep Amer
ica away from the looming bled:
gulf of race suicide.”
Roger Babson says what the coun
try needs now is honesty, self-con
trol and faith. That’s about all it
ever needed.
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JUDGE NETERER REVERSES
RULING KEEP OUT CHINESE
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Jan. 14.—Federal Judge
Neterer reversed his ruling of Wed
nesday and refused admission into
the United States of Paulo Palo,
whose father was a Chinese and
whose mother a Filipino, holding
that Palo erred, and saying “I am
not differentiating between a Chi
nese born on the mainland oi the
United States to 1 Hie petitioner.” The
judge’s first decision held that Palo
was in a class by himself”
New York specialist says a worn- *
an’s refusal to talk is a sign of in
sanity. Fortunately, such cases are
rare.
More than lu per cent of the
world’s population uses English as
their only language.
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