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.. * - ■ \ - * *. .mm . ■ * -- > * VOL 52-NO. 217. oVXM" ^ST.;.*' ' OMAHA. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26. 1923. .X"» TW9 CENTS m — -- -______.________— ' ~~ ' "Die-Hards” Suspicious i o I C o u r l I ir-l Senatorial Lineup on He* «|nr*.| of Harding to Join I cague Trilmnal to t ionic Tue»da\. Democrats Endorse Plan W.i'lct.£!••»». I'l it. ari.-t/W—The at MUdc of senators mi the administra i<nns stable n request Saturday for ■•aithority for the United States to join the international court of justice, or ganized under the league* of nations, failed to develop much more clearly today except foi increased Indications Mi.it action would gu over until the December session of congress. The first senaloiinl lineup on the I fiuesiion will come on Tuesday nt the 1 meeting of the foreign relations com Iniilfee, called by ^enator Lodge of ichupetts, republican leader, for *V"*ial consideration of the plan pre bjli'ted by President Harding, ^"rending tile committee Tnecting ie nlcrs of the "irreconcilable'’ and "rcservatlonisl" groups of republicans reirrally withheld expressions of .lodgment. Dcniorratie lenders, how •vrr. especially of the so called "WII 'on group" were In harmony with the l reposal. Irreconcilable* Suspicious. The attitude of the "Irreconcilable** faction which played a powerful part r preventing ratification of the treaty of Versailles, sppcarrd to be one of suspicion and. in some in stances hostility augured for ns bitter opposition to the new proposal as the league of nations. Significance was seen in the fail ure of administration leaders, largely belonging to the “reservationisi" group in the league fight, to come for ward with immediate expressions of approval sueh as are given custom arily to administration moves. League proponents on the demo • rattc side are coming forward with • nr d endorsement of the aim sought 1 ;• the. administration, but even they are making reservations as to the de mils. To Develop Positions. The p itlon of Senators Borah of Idaho. Johnson of l alifornla. Brando. ■ o of Connecticut, Moses of New ., itnpshire ami McCormick of llli aus, republican ‘irreconeilables.'' is jpeeted to he developed openly by Tuesday All are members of the foreign relations committee. Although SenstA- Borah recently i ■ fie red a resolution proposing an In iruationnl court with a definite In i p-1 national code of law s and jurls ^V|i«>n. he emphasis d at that time , thtc • tch a court should be distinct | pom any connection with the league: of nations. Senator Johnson and Senator Reed i f Missouri, a democrat in "Irrecon cilable.” have licen noted for their hostility to any dealings or ronnec- . tuns, however remote, with the lea gut. Harvey Pledges \id to Britain \mliH'»arInr K\prrsM> Desire to Help I mpire (irl “Out of Mew.’’ Is dm Feb. 2.. —— Anitiasadoj Ororge Harvey, speaking n» the guest ,,f honor at the <1 nner of the London Press ettib, r'feiwl to a statement be is reported to have made on hm recent vis to Washing ton that "America la welt out of the Hurnpean mess," and said: "I was glad that we were out of the mess, aa Ting-land would bo glad if »he were out of the mrb It isn't i quesiion of the polirv of a nation; it ;s a question of the necessity of a nation, 1 have a real, plain, simple desire lo do everything I can, and every- i thing my country can. to help this ! empire In the terrible distress she is In—to help her out of tho tn»ss that she has B"t to get out of. and there, is no limit I would not go and my would not g", now that the hed debt business is out of the way, to help this country," Believe Flyers Crashed Near Growler Mountains San rtiego, i'al, Feb. 25. - IJellef that Col. Francis Marshall and Lieut, i'hsrlea Webber, missing since Tie • ember 7. crashed In their arlplaiic in the desert wastes southeast of the Orowler mountain# In Arizona and Ihat the'r bodh s and th< plane were hurled by Hie shifting sands, was ex press'd by Ihe searching parly head ed bv Mai Theodore MaeAuley. Doctor Hold for Murder to Go on Trial in March Han Diego. fa!., Feb. 25. Dr. I.oula I. Jacobs, t‘am[i Kearney hoepltal phyalcian, li'dd at the county Jail nn a grand Jury Indictment charging hint with t h< murder <t Filial Man a, cancer, about a month ago. will be put on trial 1" tween March 21 and March 2d. according to announce ment marie bv the dlatrlct attorney'* office. Dr. .Jamb* anti hia attorney caked an early trial. Man W ho Ural \\ iff* to Death Held in Jail Without Hail Santa Cruz. Cal.. Ceb. 25 A corn i er a Jury returned a verdict that I.i/.z1 i Maetera, who died aa result of the beating abe received l Thumday night, came to her 1 • th nn account of a fractuied ahull mfilcted by John ft Master*." Mas t--, , |B held without bull, I First Liuly Receives it roup of HO II ritcrs nt Ten in While House Washington. Kelt. — Mrs. Har ding, the wife of the president, haa made such progress In her revtiiK-iH lion front the sever* Illness of last year that she received Inform ally at tea. a group of more than SO women In Iter private drawing room ut the White House. The gues's, with one or two exception*, were newspaper or magazine writers. Entering the room with the guests it I* said that Mrs. Harding walked unassisted, even briskly, but soon sealed herself. In speaking of her ill ness. she especially mentioned her ap preciation of the thoughtfulness for her of the people of the l.’niled Stat’3 and of foreign countries. She also mentioned the coming trip to Florid t and her hopefulness In its ltenetlel.il ret tills. It was hpparent to her guests, how ever. that Mrs. Harding could not le expected for some time to enter upon any round of formal social duties as mistress of the -White House. Grant Questions Biblical Version of Garden of Eden _A— New York Pastor Supports Theory of Evolution as Nfjainst Creation Set Forth in Genesis. New York. Keb. 25.—The ltev. Dr. Percy Stiekncy Grunt, In further pub licly stating his liberal religious be liefs, which he characterizes as rip resenting the •'modernist" wing of the church, in ills morning sermon today classified the biblical version of the Garden of Eden us a fable and ranged himself definitely as a sup porter of the theory of evolution as against the version of the creation of man as given In the Book of Genesis. Di'fl Grant emphatically stated that he "would rather he on the upgrade with the descendants of the Javanese ape than on the downgrade with Ailam as representing the degenerate son of God." Continuing his comparisons he said: "I would rathe* be a son of a peas ant than the degenerate son of n duke." The clergyman held that the people of today, in the light of scientific knowledge on the one hand and dog matic adherence to fundamentals laid down by ccceleslastical authorities on the other, must choose their belief between adhering to the theory that man descended from a Javanese ape or accepting the story in the Bible which he said "calls Adam the ilcgen crate son of God." "The story of Adam, the apple and inor Eve." he continued, "Is only an other way of accounting for sin." i Dr. Grant said that the value of adhering to scientific authority of-fol lew ing religious beliefs was that It could be checked up. w hlle ecrlesias Pen I authority could not bn so, checked. "We should tie governed by scien tific authority," the clergyman said, "because it Is susceptible of proof, while If you study your head off you can't prove what they say on ecclesi astical authority. For instance nobody • an prove the Infallibility of the pope." American Consul General at City of Muktlrn Dies Pekin, Fel. 25.—(/P).—Albert \V. Pontius. American consul general at Mukden, capital of the province of l'Vngh-Tien. died there today after a protracted Illness. » Pontius was horn In St. Paul, Minn., in 1879. lie entered the con sular service in China In 1993, as n student Interpreter, and two years later, became deputy consul general at Tlen-Tsln. In 1908, he was at I ached to the division of far eastern affairs in Washington. Returning to China in 1909. he has since held various posts Including those of consul at Swntow, Nanking, Paltry, Wuchang. Foochow and Mukden, I U. S. Gets Near East OiJ Rights ,—'—\ rf.' American Success in Ub«vv*' inw Concessions l« Mo'^ ,%*•' jjinn to Result ir .v*^ provement Pro'^’ T. R. s Theory Borne Out K.v GEORGE F. A1TIIIER \U«lilnKlim Correspondent Tile tlmalm lire, : Washington, Feb. 25. (Special.F News dispatches reaching here from Europe disclose tlmt regardless of the bitter fight which has been made at the Lausanne conference to read Into the agreements reached recognition of British rights to the development of the Mesopotamian oil fields, Ameri can interests have succeeded in ac oulrlng tills richest of modern prizes. Not only have the Americans sue- i (ceded in securing the concession for the Mosul oil region, potentially the 1 richest in the world, hut have con- i traded with the Turkish government I to rebuild its railways, complete the Turkish portion of the famous Con- ; stantinople to Bagdad line which was tlie dream of the Prussian war lords, and plan to construct an interior i capitol for Turkey, on the plans of: that at Washington. The story reads like a tale out of the Arabian Knights entertainments and back of it is the vivid and farsec Ing imagination of former President Roosevelt, who initiated the scheme j which is now bearing fruit. Gen. i George W. Goethals Is to be the en gineer in charge of the huge Turk ish reconstruction program and asso ciated with him will be Hermit Roose velt, son of the former president. j Roosevelt Vision Responsible. The concessions which makes these developments possible have been ob- : tained by Admiral Colby M\ Chester of Washington. Admiral Chester, now ; retired, was sent Gy former President Roosevelt to Turkey for this vary pur po»c. remaining there for some time, not even the Navy department having knowi'-dge of wlmt lie was doing. The concession upon which ins claims am based was granted in 1909, antedating the British concession wlileh has fur nished the basis of the English con tention to exclusive privilege in Meao- , potamia by five years. The present Turkish government has carefully re written th'- Chester concession, dating it back to the time of the original ! concession. Development of the American con cession explains tile effort which the British made immediately after the war to bar American participation in j Mesopotamian development. The Chester concession is being ! bandl"^ under the name of the Otlo man-Americ-an Development company, a holding concern for Mie Ottoman In dustrial company ami the Ottonian Americaii Petroleum company. Plana are on foot now to reorganize these concerns. Connect Turkey and Persia. it is proposed that this company shall connect the principal cities of Turkey by rail, building almut 1,200 mils of track, extending the line di rectly to the Persian border. It is j expected the Persian government, If it ean make the necessary arrangements which Involve another chapter of ori ental Intrigue and world politics, will compute tlm line to Bagdad and across to Persia. The British claims to (he Mosul region are based on a concession granted the Turkish Petroleum coni- 1 pany June 29. 1914. This was granted by the Turkish minister of finance, > hacked by Enver I'linhn, Talaat Pasha, Djavid Bey and others The Turkish constitution provides that parliament shall ratify any con cessions granted The cry raised nbout i the mutter resulted in the departure of most of the men interested for foreign parts. Enver !• stil! a fusi tlve. In addition to this fault it was granted In ths face of the American j (Turn In Pass Two, Column A Story of Nebraska by a Native Nebraskan ONE OF OURS By WILL*. CATHER will appear serially in The Omaha Morning Bee Beginning Friday, March 2 “More and more have we come to recognize in Willa Cather our great est living woman novel ist,” says Alfred A. Knopf. “As rugged and real a picture of a farm hoy who grew to full man hood as ever has been painted by an Ameri can,” writes William Allen White of “One of Ours.” Miss (lather wns Worn near Knl Cloud, Neh., whe-e she spent her girl hood. She wa* graduated from the University of Nebraska in J89fi. wiu carter } Marv Says League Is ' Mess Miss Garden Going “Home to Monte Carlo” Where Pet Dog Is Yelping for Her—Says Hamlet Most Immoral Play of Season. v- -k, Keb. 25.—Declaring the ; V' ..i .atlons a" mess," “Ham >gO' . most Immoral piny of the ami expressing her destre 2; get "home to Monte Carlo," where lie said her pet dog was yelping for her, Mary Garden sailed Haturday on the Adriatic. She had plenty of com pany, for tho ship was off for a Mediterranean cruise with every cabin filled. Miss Garden, who has been resting at the. Ititz Carlton here for three weeks and taking in various the utrrs. was In rare good hutnor. "1 have had an Intense season," she said, "and a most sueessful one. I'm going over earlier than usual, but the Adriatic goes tight to my back door this trip and t couldn't resist the chance. I can look up at my kitchen window and see my dog yelping Ills head off to welcome me." “What’s his name?" Principles of Ku Klux Klan Arc Upheld in Speech Zacli - Harris, National Or ganizer, Tells Lincoln Au dience Protestants Are Lntill^d to Belong. Lincoln. Feb. 25.—(Special.)—n» fore members of tho legislature and citizen* of Lincoln who filled the Municipal auditorium until standing room wa* at a premium. Zach Harris, national lecturer for tho Ku Klux Klan, talked here this afternoon to an audience that punctuated his two hour address with frequent applause. No members of the klan present wore regalia. Harris stood on tho platform of tho auditorium alone, with several American flags draped near him. Harris paid little attention to Jews or negroes In his address and devted { a major portion of hi* time to de- ! scribing growth of alleg'd Catholic Influence in America. Harris, charged the following: That since 1880, SO per cent of the immigrants to America have been non Anglo Saxon and non l’rotestant. That prior to that time 90 per cent of tho Immigrants were Protestants. That American-born citizen are guil ty. In a majority of instances, of race suicide while the immigrant* are not. That every American citizen is pledged to uphold the constitution relative to equality and freeittn of thought In religion and Isdlti'* and that Americans had made no visible protest against an alleged order tAr a recent poi>e against intermarriage of Catholic* and Protestants. Such a rule, obeyed, he declared, by a majority of Catholic*, was in vio lation of the equality and freedom provisions of tile constitution. That during the civil war when Americas future was in jeopardy an attempt wa* made to establish a Catholic monarchy in Mexico "at (he foot of tile Unit'd States." In defense of th'- kjan. lie asserted. Catholics had secret organizations eli gible to Catholics only, Jews had simi lar organizations open to Jew's only, and negroes bud organizations open only to hegroe*. "AThy can’t native Isirri white Amer icans of the Protestant faith have a secret organization?" he asked. “In all of our year* of aciivlt> there has only been one conviction." he said. Harris emphasized the alleged need 't shutting ont immigration from Oils country. "AVe have 2,nan,ono mem- - h'-rs now," he said, "and there arc j 1 .'.find.quo more eligible." World News Briefs French Scire Mark*. Merlin—French police in civilian clothe* have taken 6,'i.Ooa non mark* from Herman railway official* in a restaurant at Moselwei* near Coblen*. ai cording to special dispatches. The railway official* were paying off rail way worker*. F.artliquake Kcported. Hamburg — A heavy earthquake shock lasting nearly three, hours, the center believed to he some S 00(1 kilo meteis distant, was registered Sutur day morning by the seismograph sta tion In Hamburg. Mrs. (att in l.ima. J.lma—Mr*. Carrie Chapman t >11 arrived In t*^na today front < hlle. bh* wall remain for a week to pro mote the suffrage nmxenirnt among Peruvian women. ( laslt In Kswcn. Kondon —A Reutei dispatch fr.ini Ksaen say* a patrol of troops which was attacked In the street* of Ksaen Saturday night arrested all their ng Ktrssor*. A French sfntry who wow molested at Oberhattsen hy a number ..f Herntana wounded on. of hi* as sallnnt*. t nrmployinent Riot*. I air don—Serious disturbances ate repotted among the unemployed In l'etrograd, sax* a dispatch to the Kx■ cliange Telegraph from Copenhagen lied troops xxho wets trying to quell disorder*, wero received w lilt shout* of "xxo had rather he shot down than starve to death.” (Inc Killed in Wreck. Chicago—<tno man wu* killed and a score of pa-.o'ngi r* Injur, d xxhen the 'Hsdger Kindled.” an axpios* ttnln of the Chliago, North Shore A Mdwaukee ehclrlo road, croshed In to the tear end of no elevated train. * I,nv, profit. Now York—TU<* minimi report of Sh« Fink Rubber nunput > f”i the year emling I)« • ember XI, %vn* made public today It nhowntl .» not profit of $ J .•*».%.t»7 » nftM nil rhar«'n, Imilmllug iuUie.it and tk t piccmtum. j "'/A7.i. lie's little better than a chow and no worse than a poodle. Any way. 1 don't tug him around. I never could ace why women lug dc^gs around. I leave mine at hlme with the cook.” "What's the most moral show in New York?" she was asked. "The God of Vengeance," she re plied. “The characters are so simple and sweet.” "And tjie most Immoral?" “Hamlet. Nothing chii be more im moral than killing a man, especially dripping poison In hia ear.” Miss aGrden was asked about poli tics. “What of the league of nations?" “Isn t that a mees,” was her re flection. It's quite a joke.” Mias Garden said she would return to America for seven months next year, five weeks with the Chicago Opera company, nnd the rest In con cert tour. Women Pay Large Part of Agjrrejrate vCi V-' Income Tax in U. S. Sex Paid More Than Billion in 1920—No Estimate for 1922—Pointers Given by Collector. Statistics of the income for 1P20, Just Issued, show that approximately 503,000 women filed returns for that year claiming the $1,000 exemption allowed a single person. The amount of net income reported by these women was $1,204,053,727, according to A. B. Allen, collector of Internal revenue fur Nebraskw. He said that 132.181 returns were filed by women claiming an exemption of $2,000 as head of a family. Mr. Allen was unable to give an estimate of the nunibr A women who will be required ft file returns and pay a tax on their n*‘. income for 1922. The number of wives making sep arate rrturns from husband* for the year T920 was 77,358, reporting net In corns of $531840 403. These figures show the Income reported In returns filed by women forms an important part of the aggregate income <-f the people of the Gulled States. A woman who was widowed during the year 1922. unless the head of a family, or remarried on or before lx comber 31, 1922, may claim a je-p. aortal exemption of only $1 ooo, A divorcee, n- wife who continuously and without necessity makey her horns apart from her hu -band I* classed «* a single person, and en titled only to the $1,000 personal ex emption. Whether a tnan and wife are “liv ing apart." for the puri-ose* of the income tax law. depends u|ton indi vi'iaal circumstance* A wife who supports an invalid husband in a sani tarium may claim the exemption al lowed a married couple. The separa tion is one o fnectssitj-. The revenue act does not prescribe the amount of the exemption allowed a married woman living with her bus band. Married couples living together are granted an exemption of $2,500 or $2,000 depending upon whether their combined net Income Is $5,000 or less, or more than $3,000. Husband and wife may make separate returns, or they may m»k» a joint return In the event separate returns are made, either husband or wife may claim the exemption allowed married persons, or thev may divide It^ between them til such proportion as they choose. The period for filing Income mx rcturi.* ends at midnight March 15 Summary of Proposed Pacts Made Public Washington, Feb 25 - A summary of three international agreement* proposed by the international confer enen on niarlilme live, which met at T’ruwel* last Oct' '-or, was made pub He by the Hutu department. The Knifed State* was among the 21 countries represented at the confer •nee. The proposed conventions, all highly technical In form, would ™ttt the I nitiation of the liability of ship i wtiers, maritime mortgage* and II* r», and i ales for the carriagt of good* by sea. 'The conference proposed." said the department’s announcement. "that the exact ti rm* of the suggested eon ventlonr be agreed upon through the usual diplomatic channels ijr at a fntare meeting of the conference " Secret Mehttle oil Treaty Begins in l urk \**cnil>|y C*oni*t«ntinopl*. Ft»l» if*' A *rvr*'i debate on the treaty/began In tho national nr.»*mbly at Angora. and It will- 1ik«*l> fontlnue fur two or threr «luy*. The TinkNi reply will be nub tnltf d to tho nIItcH after an oprn re* »lon of tho AMM'mbly. If i* tmnepiMy rxpooled that tho teply Hill lontalp tountoi mi««ohtioni* on tho dlupulod points, opening; tho Way for fuithir parley!*. The faot that exchange oontinue* favorable to * Turkish money la rfglblH na I mil* <at|VA of a poealble aottlrmunt. The Htnyrtin controvert*/ ha* appar rntly been quietly droppod, trirqior arlly nt legal. ItearM I rases Theater. New York. Feb 25 William Ran (Jolph lleai*t, publisher ami president of the Cosmopolitan Klim < orpora lion, has leased the Park theater In this city for 20 year*. It was an nouni-cd .VS tlte fl| st mine In tic establishment of s < hain of "long-run" motion plctin theaters in principal eltles of |tv rounliv The haul the a'er will bo teuamed III* Connm I'OlHan Munitions Seized in Tenement Arms. Ammunition, Machine Guns and Hand Grenades Found Near New York Steamship Pier. | Several Men Arrested New York. Feb. 20.—The seizure of 75 cases of hand grenades and high explosives being unloaded from a 'truck Into a basement in the Chelsea pier district last night led to the dis covery nf 100 more cases, which had been secreted In a river front lodg ing house. A few minutes later city and fed eral authorities uncovered. In the same building. 200 rifles. 20 machine guns and large quant tits of steel jacketed machine gun ammunition in belts. The explosives, in li^ge packing cases, were addressed to ",S < \ c. New York," and to "Arthur Leibinger, 203 West Thirty-Fourth street." All were labelled "precaution, high explosives —handle with care." Four Men Arrested. Four men who were transferring the explosives, were taken in custody and quizzed ns to the source and destination of their cargo. They pro fessed Ignorance. While a cordon of special police was thrown about the truck and the building where part of its contents had been *'osr"d, chiefs nf the secret service, police authorities, fire de partment officials, heads of the bomb squad and of the bureau of combus tibles were summoned to break open and examine the strong boxes seized. Edward and Patrick iiowey, broth ers. who claimed to own the moving van from whence the explosives in huge packing cases were being skidded along a plank Into the base ment, were taken into custody, as w as Joseph O Buryne, proprietor of the lodging house. Two others epgaged in unloading the munitions when a water front pa trol became suspicious and sum moned taiiice and secret service agents, escaped A half dozen ten ants of the. hedging house also vert taken to headquarters to be ques tioned. Authorities of ev-y division of the local and federal ptdice system sur rounded the property where the seiz ure occurred and immediately began ripping often the package cases in the lodging house "arsenal " They found hand grenade*, loaded and set, rifle grenades. smokeless gunpowder, safety cartridges. machine guns, lines ammunition, iron bond.* and quantifies of non rod-, the purpose of which was not known. Itiscovcry Accidental. ihscovery of the explosives was quite accidental. A ftoheeman was patroling his lonely he.,t along the North river gear w here it is lined by pieiM Of the 1-unaid. White Stai anil French hue steamships, w hen he sided four men, working In the d.tik. hc.,v ing and skidding a van loud of crates down planks into a basement. "hut is it?" asked a patrolman, as he inserted his n.glit stick under" the cover of a ease "Booze?" "No canned goods," th» workers told him. i v e heat d lh.it ore before," said 'lie patrolman, and he pried up the lid In the light of hi* pocket tlasa hgiit tie saw hand i.it'nades and can ridges Just then a window three «*"rie* up v as raised and o’Buryne pok*d out his head to shout down. "It's am munition. if anybody wants to know." Near 1'aiiie \mong lodgers. Pandemonium ensued at the lodging house when the police and federal agents swarmed around and began breaking open the packing oratrs, re ' vesting their contents, and tansack lug the place for more. The investigators were frank tn ex pressing surplus* at the recklessness with which ttie explosives had been handled and sloped. Tenants of the lodging house -1;,1 Ihev had seen she same truck deposit a load in the basement Friday night and at other times as long ago as last September. Tons of explosives were boused in the building the authorities learned— enough to blow up a fair sized city,” as they put tt. I Quartet and Soloists on Bee Radio Program Uatlio ent hrudiuM*. deairing to hear a collect Inn of quartet find mdo nuhi bora of high merit, will do well to tun*' up to at at ion \VA \\V. Omaha Drain Kxoh«tng«\ Tueaday night at * and listen in on a concert of The Omaha Bee The B. B. 1C I’, quartet, under the h mlerahlj) of I.ee t». Knit*, \«u*al in *ii victor. will preaent moat of the program. Thla group oompt is* s N ate Mnttasha, first tenor. Victoi Button, •oond tenor; Herman lsrelle. hari tone, and Bernard Poinh*. baa* Honor* for tire solo work will go to Mina Urnoe .ln» k*« it. dramatic soprano. who ha a won a place on the concert atagv a* Mile. Lucille. She i«* a pupil nf Mr Krai* Wunrtet number* will Include "Over t he P. Autiful S* « " by White. "It* a Pine DM World.*’ hv Kratc. and "Watch Her. Kindly Staia," by Dud !« y Buck. Police Fcjflnuign JScu Clue in Remington Murder Cjcc Lo* Angelo*. Kelt. 25 The police *al*t tonight they had received ad«li tional information which supported their theorj that Lnrle Brmipgton. alilln in hta ow n doorway Ft'btNmry 1 wn* the victim of a bootlegger* w »r They tmtd they were searching for a former employe of the electric*! en glnerr, reportrd nbeent from hi* home And htttiiiie&M since three da>* hefot# itcmington was killed. Men U ho Serve Dinner In Women do on Strike; Difference Settled i ..■ 1 Waiters strike! Hut don't he alarmed. It was only part of the fun at the North Hide Christian church when men of the, church serv'd a dinner to mother* and daughters. The men had agreed to furnish, rook and *■ rye the dinner. Then sud denly in the midst of the meal the waiters went out on strike. Media- ! tors got Into action and shortly a truce was declared and the rest of the dinner was served. It was one of the most successful dinners ever served at the church. The waIters and kitchen crews were drdssed in uniforms and carefully^ drilled and the dinner, the women and girls agreed, was delectable, more than JjO women and girls at tended. "Big Tim” Murphy on Wav to Board With Unde Sam Chicago Labor "Czar’ and Chief Lieutenant Speeding Toward Leavenworth Un der Heavy Guard. Chicago. Feb. 23 —At 6 this eve ning. “Big Tim'' Murphy, labor izar, and Vincenzo Cosmano, his chief lieu- j tenant in the 13S3.000 Dcarijorn sta tion mail robbery, departed for the, federal prison at Leavenworth, es corted by United Ft ate* deputy mar- i shale. Big Tim ' lias been accused of many misdemcarnrs and crimes, from spitting on the sidewalks to murder and arson, but the mail robbery was the first case where the law was able to hang anything on him and make it stick The original sentence, imposed by Judge lvindis, was for six years in i the penitentiary and a fine of *30, 000, but the United States court of appeals, several months later, eut two years and 110,000 off this Sentence, liven now lie ran still further reduce his term by almost a year and nine months by 'good behavior'' and can ; dodge payment of the 120,000 by serv ire an additional 30 days and plead ing “poverty.'' However it is thought lie has abun dant money. Only *112,000 of the stolen money was ever recovered. It was found in a trunk under a bed in the hone of Murphy's father-in law. Murphy was al.-o indicted for the theft of 1100.000 in the Pullman mail robbery, at which time he announ ed It was a “bum rap'' and that be in tended to fight the government ' with ! Its own dourb.'’ so it is not behoved he will attempt to prove he is a pauper. For the first time in his life he ap pears crestfallen, sour and caustic. Indians Swindled by "Labor Agent” I wo F’a\ <6 l- co to liitc Man ^ ho Directs Them to \ acant Lot. • *>«' searching for a man who mv.mllfl two Indians out of l« by posing as an employmen* agent sr.il sending them to an address that turned out to l* a vacant lot in South Omaha, after collecting a fee - The Indians, »ho gate their names ■<s V a. Moore and Ben Knight, told police they came fiotn Winner, S D.. in search of work- They had trumped the streets since Thursday morning and were ihout to go to another city when yesterday they met an affable mart standing in front of an employ ment agency mar Fourteenth and Karnam streets. The stranger told them that lie was i labor agent and could send them on title feeding job near the stockyard.' Tim fee. he said, would be }3 each. The Indians paid the fee When they reached the address given. ;sr.l N street, they found a \arant lot. ttiey said. Moore and Knight rrpoit ed the swindle at the police station. No trace of the agent could l*e found by Detective* Bugkiwie* and Grh. who accompanied the two men to the place where they had been swindled Artist Charged With Violating Penal Code New York Kdt -.*» — Detectives £>at'.it hay arrested Ahmhatn P*i1in son secretin >* of the Society of Ind* P ndent Nrttsts. at the Waldorf A** tot in hotel for violation of the penal c«*ie for having permitted the display at an exhibit of a painting by Francis Kauffman. * The Marriage at Cana of Unhlee/’ The picture was seir.nl an evkienct It portrays Christ at the wedding feast of miracles, with a figure said by critics to resemble Andrew .1. Vo| stead, clutching his shoulder and point mg to another figure, a likeness • *f \\ illintn .1 Hrx.yn who was pour* mg from the jugs the water Christ ha-1 lust turned Into wine N«#.,hy Mood a figure tn an "iron hft unvni as that of William II. An dervon. state superintendent of the Anti Sul r*m league The Weather !• «M*rcasf. Nebraska Fair n d is^olet Monday. Hourly I ctuperaf urc* * m n» SJ» * • "» U» ? • m M * «. n% V m i* li* •. w 4? H • m 44 1? iinnut » h I »■ "i 4A < l*% •" 4* * r *> J« 4 p. n> At » P m At « p. m It 1 P> w 4» » u hi •; S e i g e Is Declared in Bochum French Soldiers Move Tank* and Machine Guns to Cen ter of City—People Gen erally Hostile. 500 Persons Arrested Lsscn. Feb. 25.—(Ab—-The storm cen ter of the Ruhr has shifted to Bochum because of the general hostile attitude of the population and a state of eelge has been declared there. The-french moved 10 tanks and numerous ma chine guns to the center of the town and civilians are prtjjiiblted from be ing on the streets after 9 at night. Last night 500 persons were ar rested for disregarding the orders of the French, but most of them were released today. J / Bochum, from the beginning, has re fused to comply with many ordera of the French and there has been more or less trouble. Owing to the fact that the oberburgomaster had disre garded certain requisitions by tha french, h» and 22 members of the city council were arrested Friday dur ing the sitting of the council. Seise ( ham her of Commerce. The French have taken over the headquarters of the Chamber of Com mere? and searched the building for secret documents. It was this organi zation which was presumed to have inaugurated the boycott which began at Bochum against the French and Belgians and spread to other town* in the Ruhr. The chamber la sup posed to have been aiding the Ger mans generally. Th» newspapers claim the chamber building and its furniture and paint ings were unnecessarily damaged by the troops. The papers h»ad their articles dealing with the situation with "New Wild West Scenes in Bo chum." ar.d similar captions. Rapid Progress Reported. Dusseldorf, Feb. 25 .—GP>—Rapid progress is being made by the French and Belgians in operating the Rhine land and Ruhr railroad systems. It was announced that passenger trains are to be run from Sssen and Duaeel dorf direct to Paris, beginning today, and was s'ated that plans for tak ing over these railroad lines within a week had practically been completed bv the occupation authorities. The line- will be operated by French and Belgian civilian workers, some 12.000 to 15,000 cf whom already are here. Germans Agree to Work. ■General Payot plana to hr .ig in as many more men if they are needed, but it was announced at French bead quarters that an opportunity would be g.ven the striking German railroad men to join the transportation forces It was said that 4 000 German rail road workers already had agreed to resume work. 1 nder the plan all German railroad men will be given ample opportunity to return to their jobs Those who re fuse to do so will bo expelled from occur,ed territory. jt estimated that there are sn.OfiO German rail readers in the Ruhr district alone, of Whom 40.000 are striking. Marks Seised. Be: ' a Teh 2S.—C^l—A consign, meet of 12 000.800,000 marks, fresh from the rrichahank. and plates be lo. ging to the relchsbank were soiled' by Fret, ii soldiers from the B*rhn Oologne express at the small tank station of Hengsley. near Hagen. The s -ldiers boarded the tram jus • * was vomirg into the stat.on a’d raiisa l;ed every compartment at the point of hay-one-« A relchbank deputy was about to look out of the window to make in quiries when a soldier outside shouted: "Stand where you are; rloea the window or we shoot." Finailv the sellers uncovered the c: sp. i •-» mark* hidden in * third class compartment Seixe Plate*. Two reii lie bank guards vainly pro tested the secure. The soldier* also took duplicate *eta of cupper plates for an issue of t<V0O0 mark n 1 es Both the money and the plate* were on the way to the reicha hank's Rhineland branches. The cash snxed amounts t« only a small fraction of the hark s daily out put in currency, vet the i fdoiala are chly incensed at the seizure, claim ing the money as well a* the plates, i* private property, absolutely im mune from confiscation. The German government will maks immediate demands to the French ■ 1 Belgian govrrmv>c is for restora tion of the money and plates on the ground that they n.e private property. Railtvgx (.iii'ii Permission In ft'iir $4.>.OOO.OQO Stock \\ ash.nat, o. bVi> 25 —Permission llo I- K.vill* A Nashville i.i li-oa i hv die Interstate Commerce con mission lo issue H5 OOO.Ooo jn ,,rw --.vh and distribute It ns a stoek divi dend to stockholders The stock vliv tend is the first wh:ch any railroad corporation has been au thoriied to make by* the commission *’nce it was given power. under the 11ant port a lion act, to supervise capi tal l»sues of transportation com panics. funeral IixIaN for Head •>f 1 rue \\ orth Garment Go. I'iinI Schnantar **' MW Ktoranra boulavatd. .had Thuradav a: a ho» pital. Mr Srhnaidrr > ania to Omaha in ,SM llloommrton. Ill , and w»a avaduatad from tha tVnah* Hich a. hool tn U»* Mr. SVlmcidar tin* i raaidaiu of tha Trua Worth Oai-m.m own pan)’. I'lltirrai -arvhoa Mill hr haid at tha •V'nir Monday afternoon at - 3" Burial mil l* m h'nast Lawn camtatwjr.