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The Omaha Morning Bee ™ Normalcy to Return in England Empire Will Stage Political a n <1 Economical “Come 'Back,*’ Predicted—Posi tion Is Difficult Now. Labor Is Conservative By MARK SIJUAVAN Washington, T>. (*., May 14—Eng lauds greatest asset is her character. This is the aspect that today stands ( out like a rock of hope in the midst of otherwise pretty unhappy condi tions. It is the character that led her fix the terms of payment of j her debt to us. and actually to begin ; to pay the money at a time when her hard-pressed leaders find it far p from easy to see where the money is to come from. These leaders do not , see the path out of Englands trou* | hies. But the national character leads j them to be steady and cheerful, to 1 rely on sound principles and right practices, and for the rest trust to t^me and fate. To the eye the most conspicuous of her troubles is her million and a half of unemployed. They are unemploy* ; ed because the hoped for restoration of international trade has been so long postponed. To England, inter national trade shipping the transfer <>f goods from nation to nation, in ternational banking, and the like ail these are to England what corn is to Iowa or cotton to Alabama. And in ternational trade is in a serious lump. It is made worse by .the French in vasion of the Ttuhr. which action has retarded the economic stabilization of the world more than is realized in America. Britain Will "Carry On." England trusts, however, that this Is temporary, and is content to wait. Bhe knows that while the immediate aftermath of the war is pretty bad for her. nevertheless, looking to the j future, she has won great permanent • advantages. Germany s threat to eclipse her as the leading power in International trade is postponed for generations. By the colonies she no* j ^ auired. either directly or !ndir* « tly, her bases for International trade Vuv*1 become even more farflung. Through h<*r immediate troubles. England will “carry on." and in due course will get back to something like her old place. Of the things that liave happened to the British empire the most con spicuous is the loosening of the ties that bind the various parts to the mother country. Ireland is gone and gone forever. No possible outcome of the present troubles in Ireland will cause England ever again to send troop* thpre. English public opinion v ould not endorse it. England will not no to v/a. for anything any v.h'-ic. She a v iry of war. Dominions Show >pirit. British dominions show a disposition toward increasing independence fioni tj.e mother country. The fact that Canada a few weeks ago, for the first time in history made an independent tieaty with the L’nited Htates, without rr nciucting the negotiations through London, pnssed almost unnoticed by | tile A met man public. Hut to British, leaflets of thought it was a wtll-ob served omen. Nevertheless the Brit-I Bit empire is sure to remain as a federation of commonwealth*. Politically and economically the British empire In due course will n ie back." The strain of England's invent troubles is pretty serious, ller million and a-half of unemployed jmt .. remain in lhai condition until world trade is back to normal, and every body knows that world trade will not . unit- back to normal until the Berman i operations are fixed. If the time is ton long pos'p"n''d. England will he fompelled to find a way to send hci t plus population to her colonies. One reason for England’s business lepreaslon is her unwillingness to 1 ,elt.pt the artificial stimulant that .radically every other country on the < ontinent ban adopted, the hypodt t j pile of currency inflation. Because of currency Inflation, Jhe continent, and particularly the farming classes on flu* continent, are enjoying a period of stimulated prosperity. Farmer* tiibappj In England, on the contrary, 'lie farmer i* unflnppy. Toward ilia end of the war. England came to n point where she taiscrl upward of 60 per rent of her foodstuff*. Sine* (he war this haa receded. England a farmer* have not adopted modern machinery to tho extent that the continent has. She has refused to inflate her cur rency materially. After tlie rontlnen al countries have ended their joy i ide on Inflated currency, England "III i.e in the poeitlon to reap the fruits of her devotion to sound money and sound principles generally. The present la the period of hat dost s'.ialn on British character and Brit ish common sense. If she has come m far without ''fulling for'’ the falla l ies of inflated currency, or commun ism. she will come through to the end Nearly everybody believes there will he a change of government soon. But It will not be a change toward any kind of dangerous radicalism If It should be s so' ailed labor govern ment. It will still b« a common sense government• for Briteh labor Is es sentially sound and conservative (Copyright, 195.1 ) "Nails” Morion Killed in Kail Chicago. May I-I.--Samuel I "Nail*” Morton, w ho a year ago was tried for i he murder of two policemen and ac quitted by * jury, was killed here to day when he fell from a borsg Ohio Solon Reviews Record of President FTBAKK. B .V/II/IeIS.T Harding Again to Win. Says Senator W ill is of Ohio Mail \\ lio Nominaled Pro-i ili iit at Chicago \dflressc* \d\ertising-Selling League. Senator Frank B. Wills of Ohio, former governor of that stale and the man who nominated Warren G. Hard ing for tlie presidency, stood gazing yesterday morning from a room in the Omaha Athletic club over Omaha's pretentious skyline. "There are two reasons why I'm in Omaha now." lie announced. "First of all I was pleased with the hearty invitation of the Advertising Selling league. The second reason is a senti mental one. My father and mother were among the very early pioneers of Omaha. My father worked here as a day laborer before the civil war. "And to think." mused the senator, "that at one tin e he could have trad ed a team of mules fur a big plot of tills valuable real estate. I might have owned part of this city, if he hadn't needed his mules so badly at the time." Drove in Covered Wagon. "My parents drove out here in a, covered wagon. They lived over in the Bluffs for two or three yeais. Then wi re lois of Indians around in those days; father told me of burying one once, when no one else seemed in clined to bother about it. Father and mother druv 5» ihelr wagon on down to Missouri, and when the border war broke out they drove ba< k to Ohio, all in the same wagon." "There is absolutely no doubt tha! President Harding will be renominat ed. or for that mailer, elected, lo the presidency for another term." con- . tlnued He nut or Willis, changing his topic quite as quickly as the story indicates. “There are a number of reasons wljy thi- will happen. "In the first place Mr. Harding is • a great president Most people’think lie's a nice man, but don't realize that he afso is an aggressive execu tive. That's because he doesn't make grandstand plays fni# votes i'll tell >/>u a few of the things lie's done. Take first of all the matter tf foreign relations. • , Kept l . X. Out of l-eague. "President Harding kept us out of the league of nations. That alone is enough to make him great, for at the lime he look offb e there were all manner of insidious Influences be (Turn lo Two, I oliimn Tkrof.l Kail K«‘\rime for 1922 lli*:lif>l Since Year 1917 New York, May 14 —Net revenue from railway operations in 1022 aggie gating. *08 331,713, exceeded that of any year since the rrcord year. 1017, but was $4.314.less than in that year. It is disclosed l»y the annual report of the Southern Pacific com pany, made public today. Net railway operating income for 1022 totaled $18 222.848. an increase of more than $18 000.000 over 1021. and net Income from the railroad property ami proprietary companies combined totaled $32,800,130, as com pared wit it 1:10,818,777 the pievious i year. The sliow,ng despite the -titles of coal miners anil shopmen during 1022 is explained by .lullua Kruttsi Imitt, chairman of the executive committee, i by the fact that tlte comp%ny uses loll as fuel and a large percentage I of the company 's shopmen remained loyal throughout (lie strike, dime garding the strike order. The direct cost uf the strike, how e'er, Is estimat'd by Mr. KruUschnilt as $3,300,000 iio|H' Miamlum-il for Ufr of Famous I’Ihn w ri^lil - New VoiK, May 14 — Practically all hope was abandoned icjduy for Mon t.igue Ultiw, author and playwright, who yeeterday underwent an opera tion for appendicitis at the Roosevelt hospital. The patient became uncon scious the afternoon and doctors a* serted he had only an outside • ham>e 11» recover. I . S. F\|»ort* in \|uil. \faohlnrton, May 14 Kx porta from Hi** I'nilrrl Htatra during April .iltiountert to $341.ooo,000 rontpared with *318.400 000 during April, 1 J>22 ami $.311,103 000 during Manh at the 1 pr esent ) ear i6 Ki 100 Injured in Tornado Twister Cuts Vi ide Palli for Distance of 30 Miles in Texas—Most of Victims Caught in Bed. Many Buildings Razed Colorado City, Texas. May 14— Sixteen dead and 10ft in jured, some dangerously, were report ed tonight as a result of the tornado which lore through Mitchell county south and east of here early today. The injured arc being cared for in the hospital here, tire Methodist and i'aplist churches and many private homes. Some were hurt so serious ly their deaths are expected. A special train from Big Springs brought doctors, nurses and medical supplies. Others from Snyder and Sweetwater. The tornado struck between 4 and 5 this morning and caught most of its victims in bed. It leveled buildings and lef’ death and injury in its wake for a distance of 30 miles. All the deaths were in more or less solated places on farms. Due to tlie distance between farms and demorali zation of wire communication i: was expected here that it would be many hours before the entire district could be heard from. Citizens of towns near the storm swept area rushed first aid provisions and relief supplies for the victims. The Colorado City Chamber of Com merce started a relief fund to care for the destitute. Strikes Spade lUnch. Abilene. Tex.. May 14.—Joe Huh berg and his two children were killed and a number of persons injured in a tornado which struck the Spade ranch near Colorado City and mow* d a path 25 miles long across Mitchell county. Texas, lust night. Just west of Loraine six or eight houses were demolished and a number of persons are reported fatally injured 'here, in eluding T. E. Willis, Joe Willis and eight members of the family of Henri Tide well. At Westbrook .Mr*. Vt S Shelton was killed and her two children are not expected to live Other member* of the family were also injured. The tornado centered between T.or lalne and Colorado, according to re ports here The Southwestern Tele phone and Telegraph company reports three miles of its lines down between hese 'wo place* I’ole* lllonn \wa* According to reports tecelv rd here, i large number of the poles were blown away. Cross ties along the right of way of the Texas A Pacific were blown so fur away that no trace of them has yet been found. The twister first struck at the Spade ranch, se\en miles south of Colorado City. and. moving in a north easterly direction, passed through th< outskirts of Rorraine. sweeping a path 2.500 yards wide and 25 miles long in the county. Joe Richberg and his 12 .year old son and 14 year-old daughter wgre killed at their farm home while they slept. The storm struck between 4 and 5 o'clot k and there was no warn ing. i N. Y. Wool Dealer Killed in Plane Crash Hr Paris. May 14—Th* New Torket one of the six killed in th* crash of an airplane on the Paris-to-London route near Amiens today, was Gus tave Schwab, a member «-f the firm nf Oelrichs A Co., wool dealer* ID had Just completed a business trip to Kurope and was flying to London with the intention of sailing from Liverpool Saturday on the Mauretania Nebraska Spanish Var V«-ts t<» Meet in Omaha Sixteenth annual reunion of th»» Cnited Spanish U «r Veterans of Ne braska "ill be held in Omaha. June 12 to II. with headquarters in Hotel Home. Speakers will Include Antonio P. Knpenza national commander, lies C. \V, Marlin «>f Topeka. Knti. K. W Yeung. John Cl Maher. Hlrd Stryker, commander of the local American Legion post. and Mayor James l>ahl man. Those of the delegates who at live Monday. June II. will attend tlu Ak*Har-Bcn den show that night. Do You Want An apartment, a bungalow, (uinijjjhed room*, light house keeping room*, board and room, household famishing*, etc.- nil these have a place in the appeal, of the Omaha Bee "Wait" Ad*. Every legitimate human tie •ire for comfort, for ad vancement, for the areom plishment of honeat gain, meet* «ith ready l-espon.e from Omaha Bee "Want” AH reader*, who number thousand* every day. Refill mill use Oiuulin Ree "II ant" tils the liee-lme to results. n Flyer Misses Death as Plane Overturns SpiKlnl Dispatch to The Omaha Be*. Columbus. Neb , May 14—Myron t.arkln. York, Neb., aviator, suffered a fractured nose and several bruisea In narrowly escaping death when his airplane turned a somersault here to day. Larkin had just touched the ground prior to landing. The plane was racing at a speed of 40 miles an hour when it struck a soft spot in tlie landing field, turning over com pletely. Fraud Case Goes to Jury Today: Final Pleas Made Judge Woodrough to Con clude Instructions to Jurors This Morning — Women Figure in Appeals. Federal Judge Woodrough finished two and a half hours of his instruc lions to the jury in the Colonial Tim ber & Coal corporation mad fraud trial at 5:30 yesterday and ordered an adjournment until 10 this morning, when lie will finish his instructions and the Jury will retire to decide the fate of 14 men who have been on trial for eight weeks. The judge, in his interpretation of Hie law, struck at the contention of Thomas II. Matters' attorneys, who hold that the statute of limitation* has run in his case and that he cannot be t rosecuted. “If a man sells Out his/interest in a conspiracy he is still in the con spiracy until lie has received the last payment." he said. I’rospectus Deteptive. “These men who were floating the Colonial company." he said, “did not propose to pul their own money into it. Tlie agreement, according to the evidence, was that they were to get tile ll0.hOO.OoQ of stock and that $1, 000,000 in bonds were to be sold and they were to get the proceeds without putting an\ mon>*y .if their owu to speak of into it. “The prospectus winch they issued in seeking to sell the bopds to thq public appears to have been very de ceptive, giving tIre impression of a great company operating a vast en terprise-” The wiies of several of the defen dants were in the courtroom. A- W. Jefferls. last speaker for the defense appealed lo the Jury to remember them. One 4 omit ft’MInlraw it. United States Attorney Kin.-ler, in. the dosing argument for the, govern merit, pointed out other women in the courtroom and asked the Jurors to remember the women wh«se sav mgs wetc lost in the Collapse of the Matters enterprises Judge Woodrough will probably finish his instructions shortly before noon. The judge yesterday took count No. I of llie indictment from the jury, ruling that no evidence had been in trodui *d to support it Nine counts of using the mads to defraud arc left, and one count Charging cob*, it,my to use th* mails to defraud Farmer Killed. 2 Hurt in Vi reek Freight Train Strike* Truck Comejing Nebraska Cilj Fiiini 1 \ One F.seapes. Spwiil hUpiiteh to III* Onmtrn Her. Nebraska City. Neb. May II — Ira Phillips, funner, whs almost instantly ' killed, hi* wife seriously injured and their 3 year-old *on badly hurt when the truck in which they were tiding was hit by a Missouri Pm ifj. freight train on North Nine lernth street crossing shortly before '2 o'clock. Phillip* died shortly after bring taken to «* hospital Nearly every bone in bis body was broken Mrs Phillips is in the hospital suffering from three fractured ribs, broken pelvic bone and a deep cut on the forehead. The child whs severely cut on the head and one aim A youth riding in the rear of the truck jumped and escaped It is b* licved that I'mlllp* did not see the train and when he drove onto the crossing, stepped on the bisk* in Stead of the gas The car is a coin plete wreck Physicians lia\* hopes that Mr*. Phillips will leiovir Official* \ 111 tea I to lli»li < (Mil l in < ,(tiilcni|)l ( it-r Lincoln. Neb, May II Mayor • • rmji of Finnont and i \11» of city official* of ftint pin-» Including the city engineer and « i 1 \ <«ttornt\ today appealed to the nitprcme court foa relief from i flue uf i doll u » *.h impo«ed upon them by iMMi.ct .ludg* Pont on conviction of contempt if court The ins,, grew nut of an alleg'd i« ftiHwl to obey e emu i injunction pi • htbitlng the di*ponnl of,, arw.igc fi om FYfimont iPt«» * cr* < k. w hich It «m claimed, count it uted a nul'.nu • Judge Pont. In imposing the fine** found the off • d« h.nl acted in ■ od f ilth but tbr»r in t oti e i nut wh it the Court loot Ol del cd The cjtV ofti c.al* nfl*crt what the\ dot w i* > -ul» • tMUtial compllanr* with the older* of the Judg< Vi.IriMi^l, in I imdin. *l»e< ini h t«» I lie Onmhi lire Lincoln M « \ ] I .Indgr I NS Wnodtouvl’ will open fcdvial coin l in Lincoln TuclUaj , Seeing Himself in the Boss’ Clothes Ford’s Plan for Chain of Banks Stirs Interest Support K»|irrs>fd l»v Head •of Farm Bloc To Briup Money llallle in History. Washington. May It—IScporl- from New Vork of certain detail* of Henry Ford’* plan to open a string of bank* throughout the country created in tense interest in \\ asliington financial and political rircles today. Iteprecfmative 1 >i< klnson ef Iowa head of the farm bloc in the house, declared: "Mr. Ford hold* out a new hope to :he man who has been paying usury, even a* he held out hope to the man who had not been pud what hi* labor wa* worth.” Prediction* were freely made among the remnant of repreaentativ e* and senator* who are not repairing politi cal fences at home, that Fords plans In various wav* will Income a lively issue In the next presidential cam paign. Hut the financial and economic phase* of Ford s startling enterpt l*e» are even more staggering to observ er* who have looke,) for him to throw down the gage of battle to Wall street and It* supplementary tentacles throughout the country ever since they i'fused hint a comfortable loan In lOtin to finance his business At (hi* time. It will lie remembered "ord bitterly complained of the mull- till'd" HIM (oonil-ed to let them heal from him further lie toon hi* plea to private source* among the "common people.” got the money and now has tt53.000.AOO in cash «nd own* outright a growing concern that ha* no pairilci as a moneymaking en tei pi !*»-. For several >*ais Ford maintained a fight mi certain Jewish Titere*ts hut lately Hnnminml a < hatigo of policy. Lender* close to him declare he never warred on the Jew* as a race hut on i handful who In felt had tied up money that Ifr needed 4 Minn 11*20 Ford bos taken Ch’cp •ton often to voice hi* displeasure of Wall Street methods and to lay plans for combatting the evils *>X the street in the interest of his Ideal of money. It stands out like A sore thumb, sa> tin financial prog nos i icgtur. that Ford is Hbour to strike his first blow at Wall Stieet and the s> stem that has kept the small man In economic slavery in the I'nited States This battle will In the biggest the world lias e\er seen and it w ill ha\ e con sequence* as meat, peihap* as the political transfiguration that is now in ptogres* x SoliliiTs l.ra\t‘ loll ('rook oil lllkr to Lt'H\rilWOt'lll Two hundred and fifty men from Fort Onialm and J^T from Fort Crook left th« latter post at *t yesteiduy morning to march to Fort Heaven worth. Kan The • \ pet| u am cajiiped at I'latt motitli la*** night and will entrp a* places selecte«| by an advance parts Mleven w agons « a< h draw n by four mul *• i * ih« paraphernalia * (« the force The column is under command of Mti.l r' .ap* r ifvirkfi and |» dut to •ills* u# Fort Lea\cnwoi tli, May Six Persons Leap to Death in River Caught on Trestle Cher Mi* *i.—ippi at Davenport !>> tliiconiing Car. !l> Internal ionn I >rw* vmif. Davenport, la.. May it—The body < f one girl was recovered today from tlie Mississippi river here and search was being made for those of two mote girls .md three men. all f whom leap nl just before midnight from a trestle to escape being ground to death by an jnterurban < at None h is l*een identified. Th** six had l*een at .1 resort on Campbell’.* island, in the river here, and ffcie walking toward the mam land when they were trapped on the single track tr« *i|e The motet man saw them in the glare of his head light poised for h moment on the« edge of the trestle When they mw ho would not be able to Mop in time to avoid them they leaped together. Ordinarily the jumpers might have saved themselves easily by getting onto the foundation which supports the trestle, but high waters within eight f'Hft of the tracks have made the river there de* p ami the current ' ' They vanished i the tlaikmn* and water be for* an alarm could be spread by the crew. The molortna 1 salt! that in the .short time m which he saw them all of the six appeared to be you up. There was but slender hO|»e that all six iHsiies would l*e found because • *f the s\Tlft < uriei’t f the -usltv sluggish rh#r. Omahans to Die in Electric Chair Pray S|MH inl In Tlir Omnlm Rm Lincoln. Max it (in# white man a ml t wo negroes art* a \x ailing the electric* chair In the trentleutiary death iH'llHt The txxo negroe* sentenced to die in 8epiember for the inurdef of a gro*etymwn in Omaha, are repotted to *>#' «* turned to prayer for relief from their feats of approaching fate The white man. sentenced to die for U^ninu n garage man in northern Ne Itraska. has to date shown no sign of fr*.I nr any desire to jiihv Ills sentence xvn* automatically suspended when he appealed to the supreme court Hi* « i**c is now* in that coutt. The penitentiary i ha plain visits them ear h day Britain \t ou t lu’rofinizr < lu-arr (.unit. I . S. Told M cshliigton, Max 14.—The I'mted States has hten informally advised that the British government will not tet ttgnUi tip so called t'heater eon estion in Turkey insofar as it ap idles to Mesopotamia, which Includes the licit Mosul oil fiehls. It was learned *t the State department h.s afternoon. XIii 11 mi in (iiiiifomu r. S|»rrt«| l>U|**t« Ii tu 1 lie Omnlm lift I t t<ln Max il Arthltt Mttlhit of Omaha well kttdwn democratic poll tbian ts deeply interested in tSoxei nor Hi yen's handling of the civil ad minfstiatixr fodi Mi MuJhn has hecti in clo*o .dn^ilita t Ion with the g«\einft hehlnd closed Uqgis in the last Jew wtvka. "One of Ours" ^ ins $].000 Prize for Best Novel of Year \niiual Pulitzer Ward Given W ilia Gather. Nehra«ka Au thored. for Hook Now Rim niii" in The Omaha Bee. One of OurC* |»\ \N ilia (..A I her, which was awarded the Si.000 Pulitzer prize fur the 1m»m American nmel published during the }ear, i* now Appearing serially in The Omaha Morning Bee. New York May 14, — The 13-*3 award* ot the Pulitzer prize* in jour nalism and letter* and of the traveling scholarship, offered annually, were announced ia*r night by the advisory !*>atd of the Columbia. hool of Jour uaJiBm. Aha Johnston of the New YoiU Time* was awarded the $1.01*0 prize for the best example of a reporter * work during the yenr: William Allen White, alitor of the Oaaette. Kmporia. Kan I500 for the best editorial, and the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Memphis, Tenn.. the 1500 gold medal for the rmnn disinterested and meri torious public serviie rendered by a newspa per The judge* selei ted "One of Ours” by Willa Cat her for the $1,000 prize fui the American novel published dur ing the v ear. which presented the wholesome atmosphere of American life and the highest standard of Amer ican manners and manhood. Charles Wansn was given the $2,ou0 for the best book on tlie history of the United States, for his book, Thi* Supreme Court in United State* History,” The $1,000 prize In biography was iwsided to The I.ifc and l,ettei* of Walter H Page ' by Burton J I lend (Turn In !***«• Two. I diirnn t'««•*. I Huuiphrrv Girl Injured in Sma*hii|» Nr«r Golmnlui. '|hi ml ItUpatrh Ip 1 he Omaha Hee Columbus Nel» M.*v 14 Miv \ev.i Ibxon. 24. Humphrey Neb suf fered severe injui :cs when the car in which she was riding, driven by Kmd Kchn. also of Humphrey collided with another automobile west of town. I- ifl\ ( .liickon* Stolon. ^Hriil In Thf Untalt* Hrr. Beatrice Nfh May It Thirvf* operated near Hovkford last mght. Mpahn* 10 hen* from* thf fanu of \ N* Kranit while the family "** at ■ Irurth, The thf ft was . diik oferert when Mr Fntnt* want out to »h>*e ihf thicken house door*. officer* here are wmkii.R on thf rate The Weather 24 li' urs fittllrif ’pm 1 fm|»rr«|urr. II »hf»' si |OHf* » IJ 1* • \ . ' A »•. .. 1 \ 1 «• « JM Kt'laliti* IIhhiMII* . I’rnrutai. ™ I'rfflurtniltiit. In* hr* ami llnmlrftitht !**:# !• 1‘Alal pipi'f -linuan lai Ml. M»*nl* Irmperatarf* ft m (am Aft T ft m ' a i« ^ a m » ; ft ft t%» ft l U «• m M U Hvuu .U { V* IU M l« m i« 1 l» m M « It ttt .»* i 1* tn M ■> |* tit 4 v» ‘ i' in Mi . * *>• «u Demand s ,of Chinese Band Met (Governor of Shantung Agiees , to Take Members of Outlaw Gang Into Army. Slate Department Notified. • - Siege Raised Saturday lit I niver*Al Sm if#. Peltin, May It—"All prisoners re leased." This cryptic message today brought lo an end a week of anxiety for tiie safety of tile hundred or more pas sengers made raptiies hy bandits who lield up and robtied the Sue how-Peltin express train in-the early flours of Sunday, May 6. No details hare been reeeiied but it is believed that all of the demands made by the brigands on the Chinese government hate been met. Hr Assoristtd rr»(. Washington, May 14—The military governor of Shantung, the State de partment was advised today by Con sul John K. Davis, has agreed verb ally to call off the attavk on the ban dits who wrecked the Suchow-Pekin express and to take them to the 'Chinese army. The brigands, Davis (-ported. had expieased willingness to release foreigners still h*id captive If this was done. He said the governor had Informed him the siege was raised Saturday n.ght. Obtained I-eave of Absence. Shanghai, May lo.—J. A. Heniey of •San Fran. iseo. one of the prisoners captured by the Suchow bandits who arrived at I.incheng two da’s ago from brigands’ stronghold, was rot granted his unconditional release by bis raptors, but bad obtained 114 hours leave of absence ’ from the robber hief. fiom whom the American aiao borrowed $20 and a mule to make his trip down from the hills, accord ing to reports brought her# today Henley. according to Marcel Josse\ of the Hritish American Tobacco com i par.y staff, who arrived cm the mid night expires from Tsaochwang. be •-aire popular with the bandits and was permitted to pass througn the lines to ' iait the relief camps in the I foothills. The San Francisan Came down from the brigands lair Saturday, clad in a pair of pajamas, carrying SH0 he tad borrowed from the robber chief idine a donkey he had obtained from :he same source and under instrue •.ons from the tot garni* to retvn be Sunday n ght or the remainder of 'he aptives would he shot. Hostages All Well Jose! said that squads of . <ol(» tvack ewiriers are taking supplies up to the bandits' headquarters and that all the hostages aie well, accord;-, g to the last reports when he left Tsaochwang He added, however, that any hostile movement by the •roops in the district would rest: - in the immediate execution of the •rfisn prisoners. <.(ffie»is :r mm tnar.d of the troops hav# reitetatr! their previous assurances that the soldiers would be withdrawn, hut whether this promise haa been kept s not known at Tsaochwang. It now is pretty definitely es tablished that 15 men are being held ty the bandits, together with benora \ e-ea wife of one of the-.- w ho has epeatedty refused to abandon her husband. It also is believed that up wards of loo Chinese are held in the brigand^' stockades, many of them wealthy and prominent. Dozens Seek to Buy Bank Certificates ' ' I'i»|»*lrh to Ihe Omiha R## Lincoln. May ]4 —Application* hr th« dozens for purchase of rece.ver** ertfftratee of failed banks are pour ng into th# office »»f the •ecretary cf trade and commerce. The :**tjanoe ami sale of thee* certi ficate* whs made less! by the hank bill }»as*cd by the lesislatare. They •all for 7 per cent interest The certificate* are ivsuefl aga;r.«: asset* of faded bank* If the asset* do not take care of th certificate* issued to 4-are for all bill* payable 4*f t He failed hank, the 1*1* no* drawn from the state guaranty fund The first i«*ue of cert f ales under i;ie new law. was by the receiver of ttie defum t Cuuens' State bank o# Kimball The total e «* S..'7$,A<b* Ow«lr> l nahlc to \ isit Scottsbluff l egion Men *#ee4al tliapalrh t# Tha Omaha Wee S ' aliluff. N'eh . Mar 14 Alvin Owahy. national commander of the tnn .01 who was a.heduled \ * t S dtsMiiff *M iy f* cah-o" come. according to a telest-ans re rued from National Adjutant twmuel Bollej 111 health was «aen aa the • eaaon for yanccilinir th# re*; of the Mar tour of the cottfMPande: «lid b»t alight hop# iraa held out tha: he would be her# tn June. I.e^on men of th# western pan of the »ta e had planner! a reception fot Mr t '# alee New ^ oik t ilt to Sot-k Democratic t omontion Nerr V ik Mar 14 -The New Voi J. k'l . hr I .1. < f.r -nj! p rpova that the de.no, ratio national oottven lion of 1S;‘4 Ire held In thi* city Th# ■ antaaa allow .-d 10 national comm.;* (eemtn and I! national cirntmittee «.iinen far k New \«k Scorwding to ill# World The World a.r.,1 ih.* the MtV .ape I1 I r nude. « : th# reaieaue t up to t*'0i',tp'0.