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The Omaha-Morning- Bee CITY EDITION ■■ .-.— —-,-rr- -■■■-■.- —-- . "■ VOL. 53. NO. 305. OMAHA, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1924. * TWO CENTS* <fe!ua£ SZ’Mu,to_/ By Mai! (I \>tr)} Dally and Sunday, 15; Sunday, 12.60, within th* 4th tone. out aid* tha 4th 75o»ie fl Teatt. a>.f ■* > v. 112. Sunday only, II.__^__________________ Coolidge Giv^aO. K. to > Lowden as Mate _____^___.Kavl.c'n ?,y_______ Girl Sues Boy Slayers for $100,000 Indictments Charging Murder and Kidnaping Reported Returned Against Youths in Franks Case. July 15 Trial to Be Asked By rnltKMl Service. Chicago. June 5.—Indictments charging Nathan E. I.eopold, jr., and Richard Loeb with kidnaping and murder were reported to have been voted late tonight, according to word coming from State's Attorney Crowe's •Be office. The grand jury worked over time shaping up the Indictments. While the youthful college boys were wailing action of the grand jury, they were sued by a girl for $100,000. She is Louise llohty, resides In Un fashionable Wilson avenue distiiSt and charges In her complaint that I.eopold and Loeb kidnaped and at tacked her sonic three months ago. The youths denied knowing the girl, hut they had previously spoken of having two girls in their automobiles with whom they were not acquainted and of having forced them to "get out and walk'' while passing through a park. Early Trial Sought. The murder trial Is expected to ho set for July la.—The prisoners will lie arraigned Immediately after the Indictments have been returned. It ts expected they will enter pleas of not guilty and he conmilted to jail with out bond pending trial. "T will ask the rourt to set July 15 as the date for these defendants to go on trial," said State's Attorney i 'rose today. “This will give the de fense more than 30 days time to pre pare #ts ease.” The defense is expected to ask a change of venue. If granted It would mean trial would be held In some county adjoining Cook. Harrow t hief Counsel. • Clarence Harrow, noted criminal lawyer, will he chief counsel for the defense, it has been determined. Funds will not he lacking. The youths arc sons of millionaires, their coni . Mned fortunes being estimated at 1 .',.000,000. It was reported in court circles that $1,000,000,000 has already I icon set aside as a "defense fund.” Mr. Harrow will select his aides within the next few days. He is ex pected to announce he has retained Charles E. Erbstein. P. II. O'Donnell, , Janies Hamilton Lewis, James C. O Brien, Samuel Fntermeyer and other attorneys who have made their record at the Illinois bar. Noted alienists will also he employed by the defense. It was Indicated. PLANES COLLIDE; ONE PILOT DEAD San Antonio. Tex.. June 5.—Crash ing together in the air today, ttwo Kelly field airplanes and one pilot were dashed 1,300 feet to the earth, mangling the body of one pilot and burying a Mexican boy In the ground as he chopped cotton. The other pilot made a sensational parachute jump and escaped. The dead: Lieut. Stewart L. Thomson, Student pilot: Joe Ma'da Ramos, 11. Lieut. W. W. "White, with a para chute pack on his back, stepped off Into space at the high altitude, shot down from the twisted mass of wreckage and pulled the rip cord on his parachute. It opened and he floated over 1,000 feet, landing near the wreck. ' JUDGEJOHNRAGAN DIES AT HASTINGS Hastings, Neb.. June 6.—Judge John M. Ragan, widely known lawyer here and former commissioner of the Ne braska supreme court, died last night. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon. Judge Ragan was for many years active In politics and had much to do with railroad develop ment In this section. Highway Bill Paused. Washington, June B—Expenditure of *168,000,000 by the federal govern ment for highway construction would bs authorized under a bill passed to day by the house snd sent to the senate. We Have I William S. McKay, New York City, Attorney Although but 30 years old, Mr. McKay is taking an active part in the famous $760,000 Rlnderup film sirtj\that lias been in progress the past two weeks. Mr. McKay, associated with Siog fried F. Hartman, general counsel for the Universal picture corporation, was an "honor" law student of Ynl«. l(e Is a member I’hl Beta K.ippa. I This Is Mr. McKay's first trip west of the Allegheny mountains. Me said he never entertained a thought that Omaha was as big or ss beauti ful as he has found It. During the war Mr. McKay was a pilot tn the aviation branch of the «rmj In Italy, Brain Bullies,Convinced o, mental Superiority, Trapped in SJaying by “Despised Common Mortal” f . --■ Freeman I.. Tracy. Authorities are dying to connect l.cnpuld ami Loeli with the slaying of Freeman I.. Tracy, Chicago student, whose death has remained a mystery. --—--a U. S. Revenue Men Wounded in Fight With Rum Runners Several Agents Reported In jured in 10-Day Battle on Canadian Border— Bootleggers Captured, Quebec, June 6-—An unknown num ber of American revenue agents have been wounded and several rum run ners have been captured in a 10-day bottle at the border over the posses sion of a shipT' cargo of whisky which was being smuggled toward New York city, according to reports today from Sully township, in Temiscouata county. The smugglers sre said to be Canadians. An unverified report is that ring lenders of the smugglers' crew are mobilizing lumberjacks for an attack upon the American authori ties In revenge for the arrest of two of the prisoners. Details concerning the conflict sre lacking, for it is being waged in the thick forests which fringe the inter national border in the Temiscouata region. It is known, however, that huge quantities of liquor have been cached in the timber fastnesses for smuggling into the United States. Canadian and American revenue and customs' agents, as well as in spectors of the Quebec liquor corn mis sion, Invaded the region recently to hunt for the liquor and block Its passage across the line. It has been quite definitely estab lished that the contraband came from St. Pierre Miquelon after having been smuggled by schooner from abroad and landed on the rocky coast north of Maine. DRY PARTY MAY VOTE TO DISBAND By Associated Press. * Columbus, O., June G.—Resolutions looking to disbandment of the pro hibition national party were in troduced Into ita natioqal convention this afternoon. The first was a me morial to that effect from the Nebras ka state convention, presented by J. A. Murray, vtce chairman of the na tional committee and aole delegate Irom that state. The second was a resolution of fered by Robert H. Patten of Spring field, 111. He renewed bis sugges tion of last night that the convention refrain from nominating candidates, taking Its principles to other parties and organizing a new party If they fall to adopt them. An avalanche of points of order fol lowed and both resolutions were re ferred to the committee on resolu tion. Charles Fallers Dies. Shenandoah, la., June 6.—Charlee I'allere, 67, retired farmer, died at his home after a prolonged illness. Mr. Fallers was born at Iowa City and when 10 years old moved with his parents to a farm near Kssex where the family lived as pioneer residents. Mr. Fallers was married to Miss Kmma Bells Parkj of Be^ ford, who died 17 years ago. Five children survive. Stock Dealer Fails. Denison, la., June 5.—I,. Hurwit* has turned hia general stock bual nesa over to Leon Powers, attorney, as, trustee for creditors. His Indebt edness exceeds *5,GOO and the stock Is listed at 84,500. Lack of patronage due to backward season was given as cause of Hurwitz’j failure. York to Have Fun Fest. York, Neh., June 5. York Country club wll stage a two-day fun feat June 12 and 13. There will be fortune tellers who will read the future It the palm la properly crossed with stiver, vaudeville etunts, dancing, an opportunity to vote for the mo»t popu lar young woman, ate. Leopold and Loeb Caught in Attempt to Prove They Were Shrewder Than Rest of Society. By JACK I,AIT. I nitersal Service Staff Ccrr*»iiondrnt. Chicago, ,lue 5.—Herr Freud can bite his manicured finger nails in vexation. It was he who pronounced and popularized the theory of “sex ueber alles,” ami adduced with elab orate philosophies that all our dc nires. emotions, urges, may and niu|i be traced back to sex Impulses. Well, here comes the most enio tional and pronounced case of abnor mal atrocity in American history, and the Freudan formulae are complete ly confounded. For— An exhaustive inquiry injto every pha e of the fnurder of the Franks lad results in a convincing conclusion that both Nathan Leopold and Rich ard Loeb are normal from a patholo gieal standpoint, that sex was per Imps the most negligible of their vicious impelling forces, and, more over, tills condition does not, by in \erse deduction, indicate that they were “queer/1 for on countless other occasions, it is evidenced, they be haved in matters of girls and other boys very much as do most other girls and boys. ( No Trace of Perversion. This is absolute: Neither Leopold nor Loeb is anything like the familiar "physropathlr type’’ known to police, lawyers and others who brush against the oblique and the unfortunate. There are certain common names for such classes—none of them could pos sibly apply to either of these sons of famous Chicago families. Nothing In their ancestry of col lateral blood ties reveals anywhere a trace of any sort of eonstiti^ional congenital perversion. Every fact so far uncovered adds to the proof that they are and always will be hoys, given to all the common manifesto tions thereof—except: And here cornea the probable an swer. scientifically plausible and hu manly understandable — that they were super normally egotistical. If Leopold and Loeb are maniacs, they are egomaniacs. They were intellectual enohe. with a cold contempt for the smaller imaginations and less cultured men talitie* in Ihe world about ftie.in and they started out to prove their su periority, much as a cruel, strong hoy or man often kicks the weaker Just to show that Ite can. It Is the “su periority complex" illustrated by its most shrieking example. Brain Bullies. Rraln bullies, these young monsters might be termed. Precocious, aesthetic, weslthy, well horn, coddled by parents and lionized by teacheers, they began to believe it. themselves—that they wefe of a higher order, two diamonds that had fallen into the mundane tray of rub bish and glass beads. But.'how to prove it? How to evi denee it to themselves, these twin souls In communion recognizing their own Inspli-ed power from cm Algh? What did Kaiser Wilhelm, blown up with the same disease, do? Fight the .world. That was what Leopold and Loeb set out to do—prove that they alone were ehrewder, stronger, smart er than all society. Society had for aeons bragged that it could protect itself by law, science, force, religion, education, organiza tion. Could it? Not against Nate and Dick. And they would establish it. And they did. I firn.iy believe they maimed the chauffeur whose glands were cut away. I firmly believe Leopold and Loeb will be proven the perpetrator.1 of many other crimes—as many as they had time to commit between the maturity of their egomania and their final defeat by that society which they insolently held so mean. Believes Spectacles "Planted." I believe, further, that Leopold "planted” the spectacleg which were found near the body as a crowning Insolence. 1 believe that the boys were getting by loo easily, thnf their victories were growing hollow because of the unequal eontect. and they de elded to put artiflral props Into give it Zest, a-la-golf tiazards and steeple chases. Leopold's snswer .when the spec tacle* were first broached was glib and light. He wasn't surprised, he never questioned the staggering process of elimination In a city of millions that back tracked ■ pair of lenses to one individual who at that time seemed the last and least likely to he qullty. That he conveniently loet has glasses near that sordid spot la to me far less likely than that he deliberately "salted" the scene to prove that Ihe elect could "spot” the rest of humanity an obvious clew and still pooh-pooh at the benighted hone heads who. with their low foreheads, presumed to monkey with such In tensive specialties as deduction, In ductlon and logic. ff'opvrlaht. ism ) -v Why Did They Do It? Jack Lait Famous short story writer* tells his tm preftsion* of the Leo* pold-Loeh mentality. Read his remarkable estimate n( the motives of these rich young men in today's Omaha Bee. - . ■■■■■— .—' \\ r ^ v Charles Roam. Confronting young Leopold and l/ieb, Charlat Roam positively identi fied liim as the assailants who muti lated him In a taxicab attach in No vember. 1IKJ3. •)-! Senate Favors Postal Salary * Raise Measure Conference Report Adopted i Require* Periodical Filing of Campaign expendi tures by Parties. Washington.' June 5.—The senate today adopted the conference report on the postal salaries Increase bill, which carries a provision requiring periodical reports from political parties on campaign expenditures. • The provision for publicity of cam imign expenditures Is embodied in an amendment agreed upon by house and senate conferees which was of fered h*» Bnp»eseni*ti*w Ce.hle. repub lican, Ohio, aa a substitute for on* by Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, and would require reports quarterly1 and before and after a national cam paign. At the same time that action was taken on the report. Senator La Fol lette, republican. Wisconsin, Intro duced a resolution calling for ap pointment of a special senate com mittee to sit through the presidential; camiwlgn with a view to keeping a check on expenditures of political j committees and candidates. At his' request action on It went c er until tomorrow. WILLIS VERDICT EXPECTED SOON I x>s Angeles. June S—Mrs. Mar garet Willis, Eos Angeles business woman charged with th'e "trunk" murder of Dr. Benjamin B. Baldwin, may know her fata tonight. As attorneys made their closing ar gumcnts today It appeared probable [ the case would reach the jury this evening. Eight women members of the Jury Joined with the defendant In weep ing this afternoon when defense at torneys made final pleas to gave Mrs Willis. ,As the lawyers described how “Sonny," 13, son of the defendant ! prayed every night for Hod to spare i him his mother, Mrs. Willis showed more emotion than at any time dur ing' the trial. In cloelng arguments, the prosecu tion lawyers demanded that Mr*. Wll. Its be hanged, allegtng she cruelly murdered the physician. David City Bible Class lias Enrolment Af 110 David City, Neb., June S—A Bible .hiss sponsored hv the churches of this city, was opened under direction of Mias Alice Nichols, 110 children under 14 years of age being enrolled. Mias Nichols la assisted bv five other young women. Mulvihill Loses Contest. By Aasoolated PycM. Cleveland, O., June 6.—Republican National Committeeman Mulvihill, veteran winner of many a hard fought contest before the republican national committee, lost his fight to day when the committee refused to sent his delegates and accepted In stead the delegates headed by Perry W. Howard, a negro lawyer of Jack aon, Miss Firecrackers Permitted. Sine* March 14, 1001, It ha* been uplawful to sell or discharge nny kind of firework* In Pawnee Oty Recently the city council pawn'd a new ordinance which lower* I be bar* a trifle on restriction*. Now fife cracker* not over two Inches In length and one-half an Im h In width may be dl*rbniKcd Improving Fair Uroiind*. Pawnee City, Neb.. June ft. About % men lntere*t*«| In the county fair association have been attainting In tearing down the old grandatand and bleacher*, to make room for modern structure* The new building* will ha completed before fair weak* Prohibition Party About to Disband Nebraska Presents Memorial for Dissolution—Another Faction Seeks Merger • With “American.” By ,UM>r)fltpil Tree*. Columbus, O., June 5.—Facing a memorial for disbandment and sev eral proposals thfft the practice of nominating national tickets cease, the prohibition national convention to night was in an uncertain state. The first day's session brought out a sharp divergence of opinion on these questions and the Issue will he fought out on the floor tomorrow. Opponents of the abandonment fac tion went ahed with plans to carry I through the usual program and talked candidates. Another faction In the party worked to hrtng about an expansion in Its alms, and, If necessary, a change In name. Still others lobbied for amalgama tion with the newly organized "American party," which had Its In cepting In a convention held In Co lumbus last week. Presented hy Nebraskan. The proposal for party dissolution was presented to the convention hy J. A. Murray, sole delegate from Ne braska, yesterday chosen as vice chairman of the national committee and an outspoken advocate of con tinning the organization. He ox plained that the state convention of Nebraska had adopted a memorial and that he had presented It In accord anee with Instructions from that body.' A more determined attempt to wind up tha party was fathered hy Robert H. Patten of Springfield III He Introduced ■ resolution which, with the memorial, wae referred to the platform committee providing for the possible organization of an en tirely new party. It proposed that the prohibition convention adopt a sot of principles based upon law en forcement, give these into the hands of committees to present to the two' major parties and If both refused to consider such resolutions, to send out ; call for a n^‘onal gathering which the new , .arty would be os ganlzed Parliamentary Tangle. Introduction of thla threw the eon vention Into a parliamentary tangle, during which both proponents and opponents were called to order for discussing the merit* of the proposal. Mr. Patten finally aald he would not object to reference to the resolutions r ommlttee, provided that meantime the proposal would not be "pigeon holed." Dr. Aaron R. tVatklns of Ohio pres Identlal rant/idate in 1920. who la rhairman of the platform committee, resented this later In the proceedings, whereupon Mr. Patten rejoined that Dr. Watkins had taken an unfair ad vantage of an opportunity to address the convention as a former candidate hy devoting half an hour to opposing i the resolution. WESTERN UNION ASKS INJUNCTION Chicago, -June g — Charging a con spiracy among 11 labor unions to fore# the company to adopt the closed shop system of employment the Western 1'nlon Telegraph com pany todnv filed In United States die trlct court a bill for Injunction to re strain the International Brotherhood o'f Electrical Workers and the other unions from Interfering with the company or Its properties. The company also asks that the Injunction restrain the union orgnni zntlons from cnlling ■ strike or de stroylng or damaging any of the com pany'a property In Chicago, which Is valued at >4 000,OOP, according to the bill. Former York Teacher (Jets Fife Certificate Tork. Neb., June 5 — Miss lintel Chapin, formerly a Vork teacher, who has l>een attending school the past year, was granted a life certifi cate at commencement exercise* at the Stale Teachers' college at Clreeley, Colo., June 3. New Train Popular. Beatrice, Neb., June 6.—The new Union Pacific passenger train, Install ed the flrat of the week, and which rune between Kansas City and Omaha, through Beatrice and Topeka. Is being well patronised at this point, accord Ing to Union Pacific officials here. Alfalfa Cutting Delayed. Callaway, Nab., June 5.— It will br about thrrr wrek* yet before tha flrat rutting of alfalfa la ready to be put up. Tbl* la a month later than uaual. Cold, dry weather held bark the crop. Married in Council Bluffs. The fnllrtt? in* pet-eon* obtained mar tinge llci»n**» In Council Bluff* yeilird*) Don flkokan. Omaha 20 tJo!«li«» IliHninn, otnnh* .19 Otmlitve Unlit*. AlMnti Neb ....••••21 l.tnlly Mtrtn Allilm. \>b 1» it iiilolptt H H trt*C Nf lilenti. Nek . 12 l.rtiin I .auihltn, Aehlaud. Neb. ....... . H K I* HccF told. OiimltM . I Curie < Minh* ....^ Unbar* Muir. Omaha . "1 May H#*|*lev, Omaha .21 llnrry K Brady, D*» Mntne* l* . If Mnrjntie ft humphre, De* Molnta. 1* 4 p: R Belalum. AlMne, Nab . 21 M*ry *2 jennln** Albion, N*h . 23 t,eon*rd R Plmmnna, Omaha . . *4 iLoutca L. Boone, Omaha ......it Two Injured by Lightning in Storms Trees and Property Dam aged by High Wind. Rain •a n d Hail — Four Fire Calls. Omaha underwent two severe bar rages of rain, thunder and lightning between 3 and 6 Thursday morning. The first electrical storm struck the city at 3:10. Its successor, which was more severe, arrived at 5. Hall fell during the latter storm. Two persons were reported injured a htiilding tired and a tree splintered by lightning bolts. The. high wind which accompanied both demonstra tions tore branches and limbs from trees in all parts of the city and In several localities blew- down whole trees. The heavy fall of"rain washed out banks and gardens and under mined sidewalks. The storm did $10 000 damage In Council Bluffs in un dermined sidewalks, and sediment filled streets. Thomas Stahtas, cook, 2208 How ard street, was stunned by a charge of lightning which struck near, his home when he arose from bed to close the bedroom window. Mrs. Stah tas declared that both she and her husband were Winded and deafened for several moments by the flash and accompanying crash. She dragged her husband back to bed and ealled police. Btahtas was attended by Po lice Surgeon Ranee. ’ Big Barn Ignited. A* bolt of lightning which traveled through an electric heating pad struck Miss Ted McCarty. 104 Carter I.ake club, on the right arm at 530 a. m. 4 A large two story barn on the dairy farm of Chris Jensen. 4002 Center street, was struck by lightning at 5:05 this morning. Prompt * response of the fire department saved the building from destruction. Jensen led two horses out of the burning structure. There were no cows housed in the building. Fire destroy ed $1,000 worth of feed A maple tree was splintered by a bolt of lightning at Thirty-first and Pacific streets. The trunk was splintered up Into the branches. Six fair slxed trees 'tidering Millet perk on Kansas sventie were blown down by the wind. The Omaha fire department an swered three calls due to electrical dis turbances. They were: 3:38 a. m.. 2432 Vane street: 517 a. m , 707 South Thirty-ninth street: 8:05.. Twenty fourth and Howard streets. The storms were, local according to Meteorologist M. V. Robins, who states Columbus and Hartington got some rain. One inch and two hundredths fell In Omaha with some hall. Robins said, but he scouted reports damage had been done. The first storm started at 3:10 and cleared at 3:50 a. m., according to his official figures, while the ss» ond lasted from 4:15 to 5.45 a. m. Bluffs I nder .Mud. With the exception of the business thoroughfares most of Council BlultW streets were coated with mud depos its. On Harrison street the mud was so deep that a number of automobilea became stuck. Mayor Jack Harding said that de brls left by residents along the curb ing had becked the waters onto the parkings and undermined sidewalks. The Nebraska Power coniimnv re ported little difficulty from lightning and wind. Two hundred thirty-one telephones were put out of order in the city by the storm, according to A. F. McAdams of the telephone company. Central High school cadets en camped at Valley spent a damp night. Mud from tecent grading opera tions on Forty-first street was wash ed down onto Forty second and Jyenv enworth streets, ,No>es on Storm Tour. • Orass front Omaha lawns, rubbish and papers seriously Interfered with the carrying off of water by the street sewers. Street Commissioner Dean Noyes reported after a tour of the city Thursday morning He said that the cut grass and papers had clogged the catch Ivtsins preventing the ready flow of water Into the sewer mouths. Noyes called attention to the city ordinance against th« prsctlce of de positing anything In the street gut ters, “Hocks" Coat for Oil: Now Hunts for Farmer One man, who lives in Fremont and is employed In Omaha, started for home about 4 o’clock Thursday morning and ran Into the storm about 10 miles out on, the Military road. The heavy downpour found Its way under the hood of his car and caused a short circuit. After rem edylng this trouble, he discovered the engine whs overheating. It happened on this particular night he had but a few cents in change on the return trip. So he called at a nearby farmhouse and ' hocked'’ his rout for a quart of oil Returning to Omaha Thnr-ilny afternoon, he sought the farmer to pay him and get his coat, remembering that the farmhouse eras white, and the lavra red. lie saw at least .20 farm plant* of this description hut did not know at which one he left his clothing Aiill the farmer still has his coat, while the Fremont may finished hi* Omaha trip in his shlrtslssves. s i i i _ i Walsh Denounces Sinclair Lease in Report to Senate But Investigator Fails to Find Evidence of Conspiracy at 1920 Con vention. By KENNETH CLARK. International Now* Berries Staff ( orrerpoodenl. Washington, June 6.—Leasing of the Teapot Dome and Elk Hill naval oil reserve* V) Harry F Sinclair and G. L. Doheny by ex Secretary of the Interior A liter t B. Fall and former Secretary of the Navy Edwin B. Den by, can not be justified legally, mor ally or from a good business stand point, said Senator Thomas J. Walsh, unofficial prosecutor of the public lands committee today in a report to the senate Walsh's report, covering 38 printed pages, exhaustively reviewed the naval oil reserve scandal, but failed to outline snv legislative recommen dations for' tightening up the leasing laws. He explained that present laws were adequate to prevent a recur rence of the scandal, which the'com mittee has investigated since last Oc tober, if federal officers in charge of the reserves did not delegate to them selv«« "t.i.wamrr.ied "assumption of authority.” or did not abandon the settled policy of the government,” compelling retention of tbs oil In the ground for emergency use by the navy. No Conspiracy Evidence. Walsh announced in the report that there was no evidence of a oonspir acy in the republican national con vention of 19'.'9 contemplating the ex ploitation of government oil lands during the Harding administration and said that the committee has found no appreciable evidence of dealings by public officials In the stocks of the Sinclair and Doheny oil companies Fall, Sinclair, Dollenv and Denby were savagely assailed in the report for the lease negotiations, which. Walsh said, were "reprehensible and tainted with suspicion.” The famous $100,000 loan by Doheny to Fall, the $25,000 loan by Sinclair to Fall, and Fail's use of a detachment of marines to drive squat ters off Teapot Dome were particular : ly singled out by Walsh for bitter j denunciation. Questions Marine Order Ordering of marines to Teapot Pome was described "as a perfectly outrageous ure of tlie armed forces of the United States. The civil arm of the government was unquestionably equal to the emergency," Walsh said. ' It is per fectly obvious that the procedure fol lowed was pursuer! to avoid a ju dicial inquiry into the validity of the Sinclair lease ' Walsh attacked Uie legality of the leases, first, because the late Fres. dent Harding was without authority [ to transfer control of the reserves ; from the Navy to the Interior depart ment, second, before the leasing acts of congress strictly prelubited either Fall or Denby from entering contracts for exihange of navy 41 storage tanks i and third, because the leases were ! consummated without competitive bid ding, as prescribed bv Inw — Hrssian Fly Damage Light in Iowa Fields Shenandoah. la., June 5.—Fred i Butcher, enlomologist for the exten sion service at Iowa State college at J Ames, has been inspecting wheat i fields in this section and found very llitle Hessian tty damage However, wheat prospects are only fair, as the season ha* been unfavorable. Stockmen to Hold Pirnic. Brookings, S. IV. June 3.—Holstetn bleeders of South Dakota will hold their annual picnic on the State col lege eanipu* June II. and they have again invited all dairymen of the state to meet with them The prln elpul speaker for this • oaslon will be C. M. Long, field man for the Hol stein Friesian Association of Amer ica, now located at Chicago. The Weather -/ I For 24 bourn anUtna T v tu Jut it • I'ractpltatinvi Inch** and h«ni!rtdlh> Total. I.02- Total »ln>t January 1, ' il»f1rl#nry 2 46 llntirly urea. 4 a m ..*4 l p. »« ... •i a m. *<» 2 l». nt *4 Tarn...** ; p it...... tf* A a. m .4 f>, at .......I’1 t a. n> .s.«* s i' .T1 I ft a m. * * < r m ..«l Mam *•' fV m 12 «o<*r ......44 I p ..44 Dawes and Hoover Out of Running Sentiment Growing in Favor of Former Illinois Gov ernor as \ ice Presi dent Nominee. Ticket Scramble Starts By .hMSalfd Pr«*. Cleveland, June 5.—President Cool Idge has passed the word that former Governor Lowden of Illlnole will be acceptable to him a* hie running mate. There is every reason to be Iieve that Mr. Lowden, who was the choice of the old line purty leader* for first place in 1920, will not resin t a draft. Thi* word came to Cleveland todav and crystallized the sentiment already running strong toward Lowden. It wa» made plain that President Coolidg®, in disclosing his approval of Lowden, had not departed from his hands-off policy and was atill leaving It to the convention, so long aa n attempt was being made to put on a running mate to represent the In surgent wing of the party. The presi dent, it waa carefully pointed out. was simply making it known that he would regard Lowden as very accept able if the convention choee to pick him. Dawes and Hoover Out. All this fitted in with a rapidly ris ing tide for the former Illinois gov ernor, which today had entirelv drowned out the talk for Charles <;, Dawes of Chicago and put Secretary Hoover out of the running, if he ever was in It. for Mr. Hoover had publicly declared he did not want the place. Delegates and committeemen ar riving from the states of the north west, where the I-a Follette strength is openly admitted aa a factor to le> reckoned with, added to the rapid;. growing sentiment for Lowden The declared that Lowden was the man who could do the ticket must good :n the agricultural states *m- f Mississippi and who would draw strength frotn the rural -ot- which 'ethrfwis* might be aftmc;*^ else where. 1 If the committeemen and dole-gates already on the ground were !-■ pi k cut a vice presidential nominee now. It undoubtedly would he Lowden. . Momentum Gathered. As preconvention detail* steadily are being cleared away, the machin ery which w If nominate the ticket next week is beginning to gather mo mentum. Principal contests among delegates have been disposed of; organization selections for national committee of fices are being made: last minute touches have bee nadded to the ar rangements for the session* ;n rniMio ball, beginning Tuesday; delegations are beginning to arrive and the prt convention period has now reached the stage of the ticket scramble. The center of interest in Cleveland tonight is a great burglar- proof, bomb-proof, steel and concrete vault over in the Federal Reserve gam; building, which contains thousand* of coveted pasteboards which a-e many thousands too few t satisfy a’ Kverytvody who has anything t .1© with distributing tickets is g ing to have a fresh crop of enemies HERRIOT REFUSES POST OF PREMIER Pari*. June 5 —Political calcula tion* were upset th:« evening when Eduoard Herriot radical social**’ leader, refused the premiership of Prance. Herriot was summoned to Bhv palace by President Millersnd and of fered the premiership of the govern ment. It was understood he said he wouM not an cpt unless the presiden t would resign. M. Millermnd refused to do so. r -- Jones, Melhorn lead Golfers for Open E Bobby Jon-* \tlsnta, defending h!s title in the national open golf tour ney turned In a card of H7 for the first 39 holes yesterday and went into a tie for first place with Bill Mclhorn of i?t t.outs. .live Bonowits homer with a nmn on base in the ninth inning wag re sponsible for Omaha's 10 to 9 v ictorv over the Tulsa Oilers yesterday. It was Ronowtta- third homer In the last two games. Tom'Sheehan pitched Cincinnati to a 9 to 0 victory over Boston jester day It was his aiith victory of the season tn seven game Bnsaler, IVtroit catcher, tipped Pecklnpangh s b«; in the fir-t innn y a> the hatter drove to I'ratt for wha; would have been the third out Wash- \ tngton had one run before Pevktn I paugh was given first base on Has sler's interference, and tn-fore lYtrolt could retire the third r in in the inning, Washington scored flva more runs, The final score was 9 to 7. The latest news tn the world of sport will be found on pages IP and U.