INTERNATIONAL FALLS PKESS PAGE TWO near Houlton, about five m... 'from 8 TOWNS IN DARKNESS Stillwater. ROOSEVELT AWARDED D. S. C. President Bestows Decoration For Dragging Balloon Anchor Catches Extraordinary Heroism. In Electric Wire. Washington.—The award by President Wilson of the D. S. C. to Lieut. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., for extraordinary heroism near Cantigny, Short Circuit Formed As Air Craft France, May 28, 1918, is announced by Causes Accident—Electrician the War department Do You Know Is Overcome. DENIKIN ASKS Hudson, Wis.—Because four army officers in an army balloon started out AID OF BRITISH from Fort Sill, Okla., to break the balloon distance flight record, Hudson and seven other neighboring Wisconsin towns are without electric lights and power, and perhaps will continue THAT WE HAVE MOVED TO 501 THIRD STREET where we without them for several days, while Beleagured Commander In South one man, an electrician, is recovering will be gald to meet our old friends and make new ones. from gas fumes poisoning. All because Russia Calls For Help the balloon anchor tore electric of Ships. If you expect to have your Ford car for spring driving, you must transmission wires. place your order now, today The four army officers are: Capt. B. H. Palmer, Lieuts. J. D. Goodrich and All cars are equipped with self starters and electric lights C. B. Bond, and Sergt. B. M. Shaller. SOVIETS IN ADVANCE The towns, besides Hudson, are Roberts, Baldwin, Hammond, Hersey, Wilson, We are agents for the Goodyear, Kelly Springfield and U. S. Tires. Woodville, Knapp and Burkhardt. The electrician is C. H. Cook, employed We sell Mobiloils, the best oil on the market for any make of car. Are Reported Within Thirty Miles of by the Burkhardt power plant, Let us show you a chart showing the oil you should use for your car. Novorossisk—American Red Cross which supplies the towns. He was overcome by fumes from the electric Evacuates Under Guard generators which burned out as the result of Warboat. COME IN AND SEE US of the short circuit caused by the anchor entangling itself with the transmission Novorossisk, Russia.—General Denekin, wires. Valve trouble was commander of the anti-Bolshevik given by the army men as the reason forces in South Russia, declared that for the balloon's being forced to fly so he will 'remain with ills troops until low. the last." He has asked the British The balloon passed near Burkhardt to furnish boats to transport 40,000 and the anchor caught in the wires, soldiers. The Bolshevik are reported causing a short circuit. Ordinarily an 501 Third Street Telephone 15 within 30 miles of Novorossisk. automatic circuit breaker would have The British have 2,000 troops which cut off the generators in the Burkhardt are being evacuated. Warships of power plant. But the circuit breaker Britain, France, Italy, the United didn't work and Cook sought to throw States and Greece are standing by, the hand switch. He was overcome and when the British are out of the by fumes as the generator burned and city it will easily fall into the hands might have succumbed, but was found of the Bolsheviki, as the warships are by two boys. merely in the harbor to protect the The ballooon continued on its way, evacuation. propelled by the wind. It landed with The American _Red Cross mission a thud on the farm of B. A. nholz. GRAY SILVER recorded in the church survey now left for Theodosia, on the southeast being made in Minnesota. You need coast of the Crimea. It evacuated the most urgent cases under its care on not hesitate in giving the information How would YOU board United States torpedo boat destroyers for it will not be made public. to the Crimea and other This work is incidental to the Interchurch World Movement now under points on the Black sea. like a raise, way. The work of obtaining this religious Occupy Town in Ciscaucasia. information in Minnesota is in .London.—The Bolsheviki have occupied like this? charge of A. Z. Mann, survey leader, Maikop, a town in the territory with headquarters at 211 Lumber Exchange, of Kuban, Ciscaucasia, according Minneapolis. to a wireless message sent out by the "The object of obtaining these facts Russian soviet government at Moscow. is to assist us in learning the definite needs and desires along religious Typhus Hampers Advance. lines," said Mr. Mann. "In obtaining Constantinople. General Baron this information we have adopted a Wrangel, commander of the volunteer program of thorough preparation and army in South Russia, has come accuracy rather than speed." 'and for across the Black Sea from the Novorossisk County chairmen for carrying on region and is now on Prinkipo this work have been selected in 82 of island, in the Sea of Marmora. He 34 "Years Work, the 86 Minnesota counties. County visited Constantinople before proceeding councils have been organized in 56 to Prinkipo. The Russian volunteer counties. There are 317 volunteer army has virtually disappeared. surveyors at work. The extremely slow bolshevik advance Reports to Mr. Mann show the following toward Yekaterinodar is attributed is the kind of increase in salary HAT progress by percentages: here chiefly to the typhus, which THE INSTRUMENT OF QUALITY the minister has received. His living County leaderships elected, 95 is said to be worse among the Bolsheviki per cent. expenses have risen just as fast and as far than among the Cossacks. Organization completed, 66 per The Daghestan government in the as yours. CLEAR AS A BELL cent. Caucasus is dominated by Mohammedans, Individual counties in progress, But he is paid on the average just 52 cents who are so outarged at the seizure 87 per cent. by the Cossacks of their lands PEERLESS TONE more per church member than he was paid 34 Survey work reported complete, that they are reported to have made years ago. 29 per cent. SONORA has many remarkable an agreement not to oppose the bolshevik Range of survey progress in counties advances toward the Caspian and important The Minister Never Fails You as indicated by county leaders' sea. featufles of construction, reports: but it is the wonderful tone Every officer of the Government with a war Complete or being tabulated, 5. that will fascinate you. Counties over 75 per cent complete, message to deliver appealed to the ministers first MINNESOTA'S LEADER 6. If you want extraordinary of all. Gray Silver, Washington representative FOR CHURCH SURVEY ^Counties 50 per cent to 75 per accuracy, truthful expression, of the American Farm Bureau cent complete, 7. But 80% of the ministers receive less income delightful sweetnes federation, an organization which Counties 25 per cent to 50 per and superb beauty of than government economists figure as a minimum claims more than a million membership, cent complete, 13. declares that the chief concern tone reproduction, you for the support of an average family. Counties under 25 per cent complete, of the farmers in the battle between want the Sonora. 55. When hospitals need money they enlist the labor and the railroads is that transportation The Sonora plays all All denominations and creeds of lines be kept open. support of the ministers—and receive it. whatever belief benefit by the survey, makes of disc records perfectly as information of value is given to the without extra attachments. But when sickness visits the minister or the interested organization whether or not members of his family they must be treated in a it is associated with the Interchurch COAL PAY SCALE ACCEPTED A complete line of magnificent World Movement. charity ward. His pay is less than a day laborer's. models now available. Wage Award, Affirmed By Wilson Accepted 8 out of every 10 ministers receive less than CENTRAL SOUTH AMERICA By Miners and Operators. $20 a week—about half the pay of a mechanic. IS MOST NEGLECTED SPOT $50 to $1000 New York.—The scale CQmmittees The greatest stretch of unevangelIzed Df the bituminous operators and mine We Pay Him Half the Wages of a Mechanic Terms to Suit Your territory in the world lies in the workers, in a joint conference here center of South America, including the agreed to make the monetary provisions Convenience And of these pitifully inadequate salaries, how much do interior of Brazil, Venezuela, Columbia, contained in the award of the you contribute? Nothing if you are outside the church Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Paraguay. The Highest Class Talking bituminous coal commission as affirmed an average of less than 3c a day if you are a church An irregular territory some two by the President, become effective member. Machine in the World thousand miles long and from five on April 1 and that the miners hundred to fifteen hundred miles in continue in operation pending the All of us share in the benefits of Christian ministers to width, would only include two or three working out of a new agreement. The the community. They marry us bury us baptize our SHAPIRA'S missionaries. In northern Brazil there award provided for a wage increase children visit us when we are sick. In their hands is the are seven states, with populations of 27 per cent. spiritual training of the youth. ranging from that of Maine to that of A. Z. MANN New Jersey, with no foreign missionary. Complete Home Outfitters We Are All Profiteers at Their Expense UNSEAT FIVE SOCIALISTS CHURCH SURVEY In spite of the awful needs, as great Ove*on Block. 4th Ave .2nd St. Part of the Interchnrch World program is this—a living Result of Committee Vote In New In the interior of South America as in wage for every minister of Jesus Christ an efficient plant, York Legislature. WE TRUST THE PEOPLE China or Africa, American mission and a chance to do a big man's job. Albany, N. Y.—Unseating pf the boards do not support one hospital in AIDS ALL CREEDS If you want better preachers, help to pay the preachers suspended Socialist members of the all that continent. assembly will be recommended In a better. It's the best investment for your community—and There are about 200 missionaries, report to be submitted to the assembly including wives, and 1,860 native for your children—that you can ever make. by the judiciary committee which Investigated workers, conscientiously but inadequately the charges of disloyalty covering the field. The general Religious Data Sought From Jew, against the Socialists. This decision average has been one evangelistic was reached at an executive session missionary for every 50,000 people. Gentile, Catholic and of the committee. The majority report will be signed by seven of the 13 Protestant. The island world of Malaysia equals members. in total expanse the area of the United States. It is the largest and the most iNTERCHURjOH fertile undeveloped Asiatic territory, NEGRO SUSPECT IS HANGED RAPID PROGRESS REPORTED. containing 873,000 square miles, with a population of 50,497,042. There are WORLD MOVEMENT Kentucky Mob Kilts Man Taken From about 45,000,000 Moslems. To win Sheriff. these multitudes to Christ is the stupendous Weil Under Way in Most Counties and Cincinnati, O.—Grant Smith, negro* task which confronts the Completed in Nearly a Third taken from the sheriff and chief of police Christian Church in Malaysia. of Minnesota. at Paris, Ky., by a mob, was 45 WEST 18th STREET, NEW YORK CITY hanged to a telegraph pole six ^miles The problem for Christianity in the from Maysville, according to a report The publication of this advertisement is made possible Japanese Empire is to enlist the vision Are you Jew or Gentile, Catholic or received here from Maysville. and energy of 78,723,500 progressive through the co-operation of 30 denominations. Protestant? Asiatics in the cause of Christian democracy. Whatever the answer, you are to be