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The Omaha Morning Dee ir/*\T ^ .. __ __ . y-\»# i it i UTPTWPChA V >f \ D {' li »>Q * Dr Mall (I year): Dally and Sunday $5: Sunday, $2.M within !h« 4th i #«a. Tll’O PPVTQ *• Omaha and Cauaeu Dlaffi VOL. 52-NO. 243 Fi»t#r#d a* SecondCla*i Matter May 21. IMS. •» OMAHA, \\ LDNEoDA I , MAKi M IV&O, Outilde the 4th zona U year): Dally and Sunday. |I2; Sunday duty, 11 I W lo fly# o#Bt# iiatwhata • Omaha P. 0. Under Act at March 3. IB/a. _ _____________________________ U.S.Reserve Banks Deny Rate Raise Rumors of Possible Changes in Board’s Policy Categoric ally TDenied—Request In formation on Reports. Discuss Farm Loan Act Washington, March 27.—The fed oral reserve board, in conjunction j with tha governors of the 12 reserve banks, meeting in semi-annual con ' ference here, moved today to curb the i flood of rumors concerning possible changes in the board’s poliry and re- i ports of contemplated increases in the rediscount rates of banks. In answer to more than 100 tele- | graphic inquiries, the board categori- j ..ally denied "any rumors with respect 1 :o its intentions of actions,” and In- j formed one and all that it would make its own statements when such I .vere required. The message invited ! inquirers to supply the board with in- ! formation regarding the source of the 1 rumors, adding in substance that it ] would not waste its time in denying ' 'all idle rumors.” No Reason for Report. There seemed to have been no deft- | nits reason for the reports, officials , said, nor could they explain, they , said, why so much significance was 1 being attached to the conference of ; the governors here. It was made known authoritatively that none of ' the 12 banks has yet filed with the i>oard on application to increase its rates and the consensus of opinion ippeared to be that none was in iin- i mediate contemplation. Changes in business conditions and | the general financial situation, how ever, it waa explained, may bring changes In rediscount rates, but how soon these changes would come was • eclared by reserve hoard members to depend entirely on conditions. With respect to the meeting of tho j governors. it was stated officially that thus far there had betn no diseu-si ion j of rediscount rates. The conference, j t Mas added, devoted itself until late , today with question* involving bank- ! mjj operations solely. A general exchange of information i tor the purpose of solving operating problem* had been rhe order in pre- , vious meeting*. Confer on Farm I»an*. The governor* did confer, however, with members of the farm loan board at the afternoon session, but Com missioner Lotxletl of the loan board said later that the discussion had embraced only the administration of he new agricultural credits act which is under supervision of the loan board, although its operation has an i indirect effect on the reserve system functions. Although It was denied officially, there were Indications that the con ference also h id talked over the quest ion of Interest raieg which the loan lieard will establish on loans under the new* law. The governors’ meeting probably ; will continue until Thursday, al though it was said it might com plete Us routine discussion tomorrow. Loup City Youth, Shot While Hunting, Dies fcptrial Dispatch to The Omah* Dee. Loup City, Neb., March 37.—Frank j Mtckow, 19, died front effects of a shotgun wound accidentally received about a week ago. He was hunting with his brother, Carl, when a rabbit started running, and in turning to get a shot at It Carl's gun was discharged, the charge ; itrlking Frank in the hip. For some i lays it was believed that the wound : would not prove fatal, but ccmplleu 'ion* developed. Mlckow’s parent*, who formerly j Ivnd at Loup City, now live near j fork, where the body was taken for j turlal. Denier Bishop Speaks at Noon Holy Week Meeting j Five hundred persons attended r*t» | noonday Xfoly wr<k meeting In the ] Bra ndels-t lien ter Tuesday. Bishop Charles L. Mead. Methodist of Itenver, delivered the address on j The Sovereignty of Christ." He j spoke of the widening influence which t hrist has In his relations over man ( and nature and every activity In the affairs of humanity even where he Is . not recognized. He painted a picture of wljgt the world of today would be ' without this beneficent. Influence tinning even to tlv remotest, corner*, j A L Hobbs led the congregation n singing and also sang a solo num « | The meeting will be held every day j hi* weeg except Saturday, beginning it 12:10 and closing at 13:5.1. Business Condition* Firm Reserve Board Declares J Washington, March 17 — Business . conditions tn March thus far give 1 aeon to he|!»v<* that there will be no •lackenlng m tlvlty In the Immediate ‘uture, according to a survey of con lltlons made public tonight by the fed iral reserve board. Hecent inrreaaea In Industrial and ♦ommerclal activity have lieen reflect - I In n larger volume of loans by tanks which ure members of the re ( serve system. Most of the loans were for commercial purposes, according to tbs survey j Film Hero Declares Accusation Is False Willi.mi S. Hail. Hart Father of Her Child. Says Boston Teacher “Two-Gun Bill" Declares It s Campaign of Persecution by Wife to Extort More M oney. Los Angeles, March 27.—William S. Hart, motion picture actor accused by a young woman of Boston of be ing the father of her child, executed a trust to pay $50 a month for the support of the Infant. Asa Keyes, chief deputy district attorney, said to day. The accusation was made I> cember 6. ISIS, and the details came to light in a story printed today in the Los Angeles Kxaminer. The name of Hart's accuser was withheld. Charging that his estranged wife. Winifred Westover. has been eon ducting a campaign of persecution against him, for the purpose of wri.i ; ing additional money from him. Wil liam S. Hart, hero of the silver sheet, loday broke his silence and cate gorically denied every charge made against him that he is the father of a child born out of v edlock to a Bov ton school teacher, whose name , withheld from the public. In a statement issued by himself ant his attorney. James G. SrArbor- 1 ougii, *r., the actor declared that his wife is row receiving 11M 4o0 an nually from him and that *103.000 is held in trust for her and that $100,000 is held In trust for their son, William 8. Hart, jr. "All of ‘he stuff in today’s papers," read the statement, referring to the alleged existence to the illegitimate child, "is false and evidently given out by Mrs. Hart for the pun one of coercing me and forcing me to com ply with her further demands. "I deny that 1 atn the father <-t any child, other than my son l>orn to Mrs. Hart on September ti. 102?. I deny that I ever made any trust or othtr provision for the support of any child, other than the son mentioned. "All theso published at La-its iiuvc : been made to coerte me Into paying more and this is plainly shown by a letter written by one,of the bigest producers in the United States, whose name Is unnecessary, to Mr. William Grossman, my New York attorney. Judge Sends Bunco Jury Back to Deliberations TJenver. Cota. March 27.—The jury trying 20 alleged members of a r.a tlonally known band of confidence men. was told by Judgo George Dunk Ice. presiding, today that he expected them to reach a verdict. The Jurj has been deliberating 72 hours. The judge said he understood there was a majority and a minority >r opinion among the Jurymen. Me urged those In the minority to carefully con ; aider whether the majority In the jury roopi was not right and told1 the Jurors to resumo deliberations at, once. _ These Are Good Days to Rent Houses At least, it looks that way from the quirk response to an ud offering one for rent, that appeared In one issue of The Omaha Bee. Mrs. Ci. S. Wcingand, 40d So. 49th, inserted the ad and ater it appeared in last Saturday’s issues the house was rented. This is w hat he had to say: “Two line 'Want' Ad in your papers rented my fl room house, (’an eel ad. Thanks.” When YO(I have a house or an apartment or a room ’ to rent use an Omaha Bee “Want” AA and get in touch with a desinable tenant. Onuilin Bee "II uni" his Hrinff Heller Results nt Lesser Cost. Reds in Vp Get Oilers From Russia Trial of Foster Brings Out Records of How Meeting Was Postponed l»y For eign Leaders. Policies Made in Moscow Ily Associated I're-N. St, Joseph, Mich., March 27.—Ac tivities of the communist party of America were outlined and approved in Moscow months in advance and the I national convention of the party, held ! in tho lonely dunes near here last August, was postponed by cable order from Russia to await the arrival of 1 delegates front Moscow, according to 1 documents introduced by the state to day in tin trial of William 7. Foster, charged with criminal syndicalism. questioning Charles K. Ruthenberg first w'tness for the defense, Prose cutor Charles Gore, on cross-examina tion, brought out from papers seized I in the laid on the convention that the question of inviting Foster to the meeting had been voted on a month 1 in advance by the party's central ex ' ecutive committee. The state produced the minutes of n meeting of the executive committee held July 2H and 27 to attack Ruth enbcrg testimony on direct examina tion that the question of having Fos ter at the convention had not been passed on until the committee meet at Bridge-man, Mi. h., about August 17. Foster Was Organizer. The minutes of the July meeting showed that "Ballister,'' the alias of Robert .\Hnor of New York, had moved that "instructions to attend tne convention be giver to the na tional industrial organizer.' A ques tionnaire filled out by Fester, when he reached the convention, and which had Itecn introduced in evi dence. staled that he was the na tional industrial organizer. The minutes also showed that Jay Ixivestone. secretary of the txecu- j tive committee and one of the de fendants here, read at the July 26 j session a cablegram from Moscow ordering the postponement of the ; convention. How the room* uni at interest In Moscow passed on the policies and plans of ttie party Jn tins countrv was developed, when the state pro duced from the pallets seized at the convention an outline "concerning the next tasks of the C. P. of A. •■>n which was attached a certificate written in German and signed by | Uakon. secretary of the executive ? committee of the communist inter national. giving a correct copy of j the minutes of a meeting of the com- . nilttee held In Moscow November 19. | 1*21. at which the American plans were discussed. Ordered New Parly. Tlie outline directed the American , communists by order of Moscow to create a legal t>olltical party, which could work in the open nnd "which j will act as an instrument of the 11- ! legal communist party for participa tion in legal activities, such a elec toral campaigns." That Moscow had no intention, however. of abandoning illegal activi ties in America whs indicated. The outline closed with a personal letter, addressed to the American communists by Bukharin, Radck and Kuslnen, the executive committee <>f ,the communist International, direct- , it.g the members in this country to unite * pot for the liquidation of either , the legal or the Illegal revolutionary activity, but for the liquidation of the t»ally damaging liquidation tendencies of the labor movement." Holds I . S. ( apilalistii. The outline of future tazks con tained a lengthy list of demands to la mad, on th<- American government, tint, it staled, for ttio purpo.-e of "re forming the capitalist state," but "re gardless of the state s power to grant them without weakening Itself. Ruthenberg, under Mr. t.orc s i roes r xaniln.itinn. admitted he considered the present government of the Fritted SfnfoH nnd of the separate states e.« capl'Jlllstic. On redii'"t examination by Frank p Walsh, attorney for Foster, Ruth enlierg gave a long definition of the communist definition of n cap tnlist government "We '.ill the Fnitrd btntee government a capitalist gov- j ernment,” he said, "because it is used tiy liig bmqnl-i-- and Wall street to support the capitalist clan In such1 matters as tariiT laws and ship sub sidles." Slain .Man Ground to Piece*, Say Police; Suspect Held Detroit, Mich. March 27.— Acting on Ih« lh»ori that Joaeph A. I'atnp | bill, aupirlnMimlent of n reduction ■ ■otnpuny. who disappeared February III wits slain mid Ills body dratroyed hy ruiihlng It through machinery used In flio manufacture of f.-rllltiir. coun- | ty offU Inla lotlay ilciuineil Oeorgo It'v nolila, night fireman at the plant. In veatlgnttoii |* Mild to have disclos'd , that (ho grinding machinery In the i plant wan In operation from II p. m. until 8 a. tn. on the night of February lo, contrary to custom Federal Gonvicts Fampe. Atlanta, Oh.. March 27. ~<i* raM Gttnfn » . p’ia mu i’i, yram for forgery, and I'rrnk firry, moving five yearn for holding up the driver of n mull tiuH: fled from tin* federal prlaoti h« re today, held up a in«u nnd hi* * wife nrul forced them to aid in their * eiwupa. | c* -ore Debate Assured on Orr’s Blue Sky Bill Special Di-patch to Tile Omaha liee. Jjincoln. March IT.—After advanc ing the Orr hill, tolling for abolish ment of the state blue sky depart ment, the lower house voted later in the day to return the bill to geitertil file for more debate. The motion to reconsider action van made by Lamb of Tecumseh, who asserted he had ad j ditioflal facts at hand which had con | vineed him that the bill should not pass. ‘■X voted to advance it with the ref | of your,” Umb said, "but now I want to present my new facts and maybe j you wlil change your mind the same i as I did.” The bill Is at the bottom of the ! house calendar. Land Claimed by Promoters Others Owned West \ irgiuians Deal Stiff Blows to Colonial Bubble in Testimony—omen Tell of Losses. The Colonial Timber and Coal cov poration bubble wan dealt heavy blown by the prosecution Tuesday afternoon in federal court. Two men from West Virginia testified to long ! ownership of large tracts situated in 1 the 700,000-acre tract claimed by the men who floated the Colonial con I cern three years ago. I- The 700,000 j acres, according to James B. Ellison, one of the defend I ants and now a fugitive, "was never entered on the tax lists." But yesterday afternoon Ceorge An derson, an attorney from Lewisbtirg. VV. Va., proved by tax receipts that i ho has paid taxes on 000 a^res in Boone county. West Virginia, part of ; the Colonial tract. And Charles E. Krebs of Charles ton. W. Va., a mining engineer and geologist and formerly assistant state geologist, proved that he owns and has paid taxes for years on 2.300 acres of the 700,000 claimed I v the Colonial concern. Women Tell of lx>sses. Tl.e sail profession of allege.! vie tims lives n Tuesday at the trir.l of 16 metf uii-gto with fraud In pro motion of the Guaranty Hernri.es company and Colonial Timber and Coal corporation. Miss Myrtle tniiih for 10 vrars s school teacher I- Broken Bov. Js'tb., told how she ha> twen induced to In rest $300 savings i»# three "lirst mort gage certificates ’ of the Guaranty He curl ties company of Denver, one of Willard V. Mathews' string of insti tution*. Mis* Mary Thede, who conducts a woman's apparel business in fxnelar.d, Colo., told of her Investment of $2,230 for I1.R00 worth of preferred stock In the Guaranty Securities company of Denver. She said I-»Robert Kykel boom. one of the men being tried, told her she ''would participate In the earnings of the company up to 25 per cent." "Manager” Impotent. Miss Judith Daniels, who conducts a general store In Pierce, Colo., said an agent for the stock called at her store and Induced her to Invest $1,251 for $1,000 par value of th< Guaranty Securities company of Denver stock. C. W. Bigelow, former vie# preei dent of the Ix-nvcr State hank, one of the defunct Mathews' institutions, said he had a contract to he manager of the concern hut wasn't allowed to do much managing. When $34,001 government bond*, as sets of the lunik, Were sent to Omaha, he protested, he said, but It was s "peremptory order of Mathews.” He told of the coming to Denver of H. W. St wall In 1920 to help sell stock In the hank when It was planned to Inrreas the hank's capital from V>0, 00# to $200,001. Air Defense tn Practice on Realistic Targets Washington, March 77 —Antiair craft defenses goon will be gl\en the ; opportunity of firing at n lealistlc target ns It travels through the ,cr, ns a result of an Invention, known technically as a "target glider,” which has been perfected by ttie en glnrerlng division of the army air service nt McCook field, Ohio. The target glider has a wing span of 12 1-3 feet and weighs only 23 pounds. Reports if experiments at McCook field, announced by th" War department, show that the device, which is fastened to the top of an nlr llane, gradually descends to the ground at a speed of about 3u miles an hour when released. Pandrd Colorado Slayer U It rt limed to Prison Canon City, Colo, March 27 liar old K Hi nwond, paroled tv Clovernnr Oliver II. Klotip last, May, was return ed to the at tit© penitentiary hate today to servo out hla aenten-e for.kdtinM Tony Yon fhul and Oeorge Copeland in th© barroom of the Brown l'ulu« r hotel pi Denver, n number nf yeura ago. He bad violated this parole, off» Cals announced. At the time of the shooting all of the principals were prominent In D©n\er society. Japanrtn* Dirt Prorogued. Toklo, March 27.—*1 ho (I lei was prorogued early today In the midst of a free fight, prercipated by a motion of the opposition to hfi|H>a< h the got eminent. Traj* and Inkstands were flying through the nh when, in the small hours of the fooitllttg. the speaker declared Hi* session closed. ^ Who Cares? ©DfcaPWi CM ___- ... — — 1 CAFL *on ^ PRE.TZELWERFER. RECITAL i -AND OUR VERY CIVILIZATION “ TREM0UNC. ON THE VER.C.E- ( OF UTTER DESTRUCTION * DOCTOR E. OULlERiE hillock. cn W HAT 15 THE 'ACRlD | BC0M,NG.TO j Paris Stunned h\ m Bernhardt Death: Body Lies in State France .Not So Deeply Stirred I»y Loss of Any Personage Since Demise of \ ietor Hugo. By AumUlnl l’re««, I’aris, March 27.—All France mourns today, foe her well beloved daughter. Sarah Itcniharilt. Is dead. I’arl* I* stunned, scarcely heliealnc that she who was regarded as almost Immortal In more than one sense of the word, ha* passed awat. It seem* not too much to sat that not since the death nf ' ietor lingo has I ranee been Stirred so deeply. As tho Academician dc Hers ob sertes in Figaro, Bernhardt probably shares with Hugo and I'aateur the distinction of be,ng tho most Ulus lit AMK'Utrd I’riM. J’aiis, March C7 - The chamber In xsh;.h Iternhardt'a body lice ui already filled with the flowers brought by bundled* of lor ndimr eii* The first hunclt of lilies wes placed on tlio bier in the early niori in* by hrr granddaughter. Abbe l.outil, the great actress' rln*o friend for many sears, re marked that in death she had re covered the beauty of her youth. “Her expreaeion,“ ho added, “la one of pom trlnus person in tho last hundred years of French history. Divine Sarah was undoubtedly one of tint greatest ambassadors of French art and lit - oral urn who ever lived. It was thus hefittlnB that the pub lie which idolized her and which she In turn held so close to her heart.; should have lingered reverently in the soft apring night outside the house In the Boulevard IVrelere. where she lived for 3S years, sharing the vigil with the family within. After midnight, when tho theater* wire , closed, ntme the people of the stage to pay ^tribute to their Illustrious ; • om.id’ Among thejji were Sacha (Jtiltry. the playwright, who hail a filial respect for llornhardt; Cedle Hotel, llarhe! Boyar and a hoat of Other star*. Included In the number *!«o was; lame* Hacked, who. according to | I, K^alr, cabled President Harding requesting him to announce of flclnlly to the people of the United 1 states ih» death of the greatest artist In the world. Bernhardt lies on her hed covered linen te 1'iUle Inn. Column Seven) Spanish War \ eleran* Seek Share in Bonus %l>*. lal |l|»|»ntr|i to 1 l»*« Omilht Bee Lin* <dn. Mitri 1 "7 \t * nveetirK tonight of the committee on the *ol dlvi-g* I*oiuia tnensure, representative* of the Hpentoii war vflfinn* *ppemad j ami acknt to lm\e member* of that orK*tnuatlon Included in the provi* ion* i>f flu* bill It l* utnieistood there i* tin opposition to the I'lopoacd ih*t)g% Oklahoma Bandits Escape Posse Officer# Fought Off for -I Hour#—Aerial Police Fail to Take Part in Hunt. Tulsa. Okl . March 717,—FIs., out laws, believed to ha\ e been led by Al Spencer, late this afternoon slipped through a cordon of officers and armed ciuier.a and escap'd acro*s the Cimarron river near Terlton after fighting off for nearly ;i hours the stubbon advance of a p. i-o which pursued four members of the game bard after they had held up and robbed the Ftate hark at Mannford ia'e yesterday of Onp bandit was captureil and an other killed during the fighting yes terday in the Osage hills near Ter! ton. Th« intended flight of • ' \ McIntyre of the Tulsa, a-1 > to the scene >f the fighting abandoned because of engine t after two attempts to take off this afternoon Commission Orders Rates Investigation special lii»pa(th tn The Omaha Hec Washington. March 27.—Tho Inter at a t c Corotnoroe eommiaeUm today no tified the governor of Nebraska at J the Net raska Railway comtriasion that it lias responded favorably to the t> quest of tlte Nebraska authorities for an investigation of cla«« rat«s be tween certain Missouri and Missis sippi river points east on one band and all stations in Nebraska on the ether. The ln\estivation i* to be con ilueted eoncurretitly with the pro eeeding* before the Nebtaska Slate Railway commission relating to intra state class rates and tho governing ' it»in< ations in Nebraska The time and places for the hearing have not >ot been set. Drivers in Fatal \uto (.ollisiou Mil,| Blameless Special PUpatrli In The Omaha lice Kwitne' Neb . March 27- ‘Fn avoidable accident” was the substance of a coroner's Jury verdict In the (n fjurst over the death of John Saund ers Jr, killed m an auto collision Friday night. Kenneth Sohu-’k of F.ini Creek and Merle Don of Kear ney. drlvrts of the oars, note ex onerated. e It ap|>enrcd that both cars were trnvrllnn down the noddle of the road and turned out only, as they thought, sufficient to permit them to pass each other. The distance was misjudged and the fatal collision fid lowsd IVnn»y lvattia 1 .egixlaturc Oppot»r* Daylight taxing IUril*hui« i'.v . March IT Day I'ftht »m inc tint* in tVnnaytvunia re rdvcd a eettwek toloy Whan the aetv Rte (h> lteri tok.blH prohibit me the adopt toil by municipalities of any time other than annuitant e.itlvtn Um*. lit* vut* taaa It to it Darr Estate Is Ordered Divided Vi j t li Relatives Brothers and Sisters of Louis ville (Neh.) Capitalist to Share $200,000 With Vi idow. District Judge Fitzgerald yesterday : afternoon signed a decree that virtual j ly mean* the breaK.ng of the George Darr $200,000 estate. In one of the shortest will on record in county- court. Jiarr. a laiuisville INeb.) capitalist who died a year ag,-, i b- queathed his wife a life s interest 1 m Ills estate. • Harrs brothers and sister* livirp . «>hio. ha-1 Attorneys .■saitrjel Win ters and Henry Deal contest the will on the grounds that they were en ■ titled to a share of the estate. Fitzgerald decreed that Darr'* brother* ar.d sfsters should receive one-half of the estate, while Mr*. •Darr. the widow, was to obtain the profits of their half during her life. If Mrs. Darr should marry and have a child. Fitzgerald ruled that the tnttre estate is given to her. while if she should die without any children, the entire estate is divided between ' tier family and Darr s brother* and s.stei s. So\ irt I hrcatens tn Blow l p Jap Ship n» \»»->. m e.i fK», IT'kin. Man li —The wniei got Critnirnl of Vladiim>lAk ha* threat rned to blow up the Japanese frglwr M**hin \l**hin now In Yladiyoatok harbor nnlr** Iter < aplain atop* trans mitting wirrina nirwaage for Japanse inert limit*, an "idiot In adiieea re rein'd heie. It i« iinderatnod here lhai. followinc tho savin rliarer against the cruiser's raplaiu and the threat to deelroythe \rssrl, the Japanese admiralty ha* ordered the Mwhlit Nisshin to return to Japan and amid complies I km a. MystorioiM Flashes. Kanaaa tTttr, Mo. March ST. Into* ; ! sattjra today were speculating a* to J i the »>urce of mj alert on a explosion* • and flashes of tire, high up in the *ky which were observed here and at ! ! Pittsburgh, Kan., ahortly More T I ' o'clock thta m or imp* Some reported tha explosion* and light a* (veins almi- j i lar to a meteor, ottiei-a thought it ! I might If mused l>y a burning air-I plane. The display waa repv'ited to be j Visible southwest of Kanaaa City and - southeast of I'llLahurgh. I he Weather a»t. V iHfnrMa? fail- nml rohVi Hiuiri) Tmipri-Mnit' I ft. m M *l • •»* 1'. t ft. in %\ * ft. t*» 1* » ft »*' II Ift ft m II II ft. it* M . IS minm , 41 t p. W, 4t * P w 41 a »*. «. »* 4 p. ih 19 , a i* **’ i! * p. pt 41 1 i» mi *• > P ut House Votes Acceptance of Report Request for Resignations o) Chancellor, Dean and Ex tension Worker Intimated a- Fart of Changes. Dr. Condra Is Criticised ft) p. <. I'im Kix. * *Ha?f Corre#pundent Th# Onucha It##. Lincoln. March 27.—Resignations of Samuel Avery, chancellor; Carl C. Engberg, executive dean, and A. A. Reed, head of the extension depart ment of the state university, are hinted at a“ in the offing in a report submitted today to the house by th* special university investigation com mit;*-#, which has been at work sime U •• second week of the session. Th*se resignations are not set out specifically in the report which was adopted by an almost unanimous vote of the house. The only reference to decapitation in the document follows: “Your committee respectfully sub mits the statement that they have re f';red facts gathered in the invest. gatu,n to the loard of regents, that •i reorganization of the administra tive department is suggested by nu merous business, educational interest« and taxpayers throughout the state s a mean* of the advancement of the t~^t interests of the University of N'ebraska." Resignation* Asked Secretly. Howe-,er. members of the commit tee t'-id fellow legislators that this p. rt of the report meant the resigna tions enumerated had been suggested to tii- regent* in their secret sessions held bv the regents and committees member* in the last two days. Certain committee members asserted tonight ,v t the regents admitted the resigns l.ons would be accepted. ^ refutation of thU statement was broadcast tonight in official Lincoln. It was asserted that the regents w-uid not demand the resignations, but might in the end accept such resig nations. The theory accepted by a major:'.! of member* of the house was that the resignations might not be received for weeks, perhaps months, depending on the length of time necessary to ef e readjustment. In ail quarter! It was confidently predicted thert vouid be ::o hasts made lr. effecUng changes in an instiulion in which e' - en- man. woman and child in Xebrg*. ka admittedly takes pride. Two Reports Submitted. The committee presented two > ports. One contained a result of its fir dings in a probe of the universr v and suggested numerous change*. The other pertatred to activities of Dr George A < mdra of th* extension department of the upciveraity, in handling rftock personally in two r^ck promotion project* in Nebraska ; w hich coasideratile money was lost "ml In alleged failure of Dr. Condra '■o make th- rough investigations in cl srd potash stock selling scheme* prevalent during the year. Ore of Dr. Condra** duties is to investigate validity of advertised ciaitr.* of oil and other miner ils made by stock selliing concern* It was in this duty the committee charged specifical ly that "Dr. Condra was not thorough In his investigations in both potash s' ard t il units or leases offered for sale to the people of Nebraska du • g ilie period of inflation.'- The ref erence to Condra adnuttely touched a sensitive vein ot many of th* legis lator*. Probably no man in Nebraska comes in closer personal contact w • a legislators than the doctor. bolcns Pose for Condra. It is his duty to hav* them pcs* for as r.iany picture* as they desire These pictures become a part of 1 * moving j ture slide* shown through* out the length and breadth of tht» state. He las been very artIV* m legislative halls in taking movie p -■ Hires of the legislature in th* la v' two months. Members arcs* and assert d that Dr Ccndras good reputation waa at stake, that he should be given an op portunity to disprove the charge-. Members of the comm it** »spies* .. a willingness to have th* doet r summoned. "W* have sworn affidavits to pro » every chain* we have made,’ V - chum of Otoe, member of th* com mittee said It wns suggested first that th* do- • tor ho summoned and newspaper m i an-l the public bw barr#>i from th* h-ttse of repiewentativea while th* rearing was under way Rer resects tive l>enamor* cf Beatrice went ait one better. Would Pony Report* ' I move that the pan of th* rep, t affecting Hi Con dr* he taken front newspaper men and they he r.atru, • ed not to print it." IV’ismor* shouted. I! * * 'rda * ere not out of he mouth until the house * tneeaed a rapid n t of newepaprr men Kw.it ness* liter held a copy of th* repo;-* firmly in hi* hand. Mi Chairman." shouted I'thai! f vm.viha. "th* newspaper men ar* ru - nlng out of th* ehaxnh#r with thee* report* I move the seise*nt-at arms i>* instructed to go after them and «t> use some discipline on them " It'll take a hotter raoer th*” a *• on* in th* house to natch th e** fe Ians before, thy* e*il thetr paper* ar t Si*• that report I" sart of Omaha retorted "Th « to ni.t mind Ha* gone fat* ecoti.ih v\* >-*•* made ih* Cmidta tfars t* r*t s la* t alias a res.)