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VOL 51 NO. 66.
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liar ding Define Stand That
':. Will Guide Administration
At Washington Disarma
ment Conference.
World Peace Far Away
Br ARTHUR SEARS HENNINQ.
Chicago TrlbunOnuilia Br laeJ Mlr.
Washington, Sept. 1 President
Harding today defined the policy
which will guide the adminUtration
and its representatives n the dis
armament question at the coming
conference of the world power,
With clarifying emphasis, he dis
pelled illusions that '.he Lnited
States would enter the conference
prepared to scrap it w.-apons and
tender itself defenseless.
Summed ud. the American atti
tude, a stated by the president, is
thu:
'The day of permanent world
jacc is far oil. The end of armed
conflict may never come. Civilized
governments may never be able to
scrap their navies and disband their
nrmies. Nevertheless it niav be pos
'blc to diminish the burdens of
armament
"There mav never be 3 time with
( out the necessity for armed forces in
j every government, said tlic presi
" ' dent, "but I believe with all my
heart we are coming to a time when
we are going to diminish the bur
dens of armament.
Controversy Over Speech.
The president made this speech at
the opening of the fall lerm ot the
army war college in Washington
Soon after the speech had been de
livered, controversy arose as to the
presidents exact language. News
paper men who heard the speech
ruotcd him in more emphatic terms.
They understood him to . use the
word "will" instead of "may" and
emoted him as saying "there will
never be a time without t!ie neces
sj'.y for armed forces in every gov
ernment, and it is perfectly futile
to think there will never be conflict,
i etc. Ihe milder word may ap
peared in the official text of nis
; peech when it was issued from the
White House later in the day.
The audience was made up of 200
army officers who are about to en
ter the fall term of the army war
college. The president said:
'T can, from my own experience,
remind you that if the war college is
tht institution which brings the
knowledge of experience; into a blend
with theory, it is one great insti
tution of practical values, The trou
with the world today: is that too
my theorists know nothing about
Mtualities and have learned nothing
of experience.
Armed Forces Necessary.
(?t do not know what ought to
Vr did about your profession for the
la hue, but men. of the. army, no mat
tj fj where the best aspiratipns of
Ue world may lead '. us, no . matter
what tremendous and gratifying
progress is made, there maynever
be a time without the necessity for
armed forces in every government.
JV'V Business Training Held
Unemployment Solution
' Business training for bojs and
girls of the nation as a solution of
the problem of unemployment, is
advanced by H.'B, Boyles, pv-sident
of Boyles Business College.
In supporting his theory, he con
trasts modern conditions with those
prevatlirg in the days 'when' fathers
bduud out their sons foe a period of
three years, without pay, to learii a
traBe. Young America now, ne says,
v.oVt work without pay, and the
apprenticeship custom is going out Of
fashion. ,,
$n its ptace. according to Mr.
ligjles,- has ccmie modern business
training. -f -
"Any 'boy, by study and practice,
can prepare himself in six mouths or
a year to be a telegrapher, book
keeper or stenographer and then go
work at sood pay. -Ihese voca-
t'ons may not be better than a good
trade in mechanics, but they rrake a
btronger appeal to the average boy or
girl." ' . .-
Oregon Dentist Pleads
Not Guilty to Murder1
Roseburg, Ore., Sept 1 Flea of
not guilty was entered by Dr. R.
MV Brumfield, when he was ar
raignoed on an indictment- tTiarging
first dearree murder. A motion to
quash the indictment was overruled.
Dr. Brumfield's attorneys filed af
fidavit of prejudice against Circuit
fudge Hamilton and asked that the
chief justice of the supreme court
inooint another ' iudee to try the
case. No action was taken on this.
The attorneys i announced they
would ask for chansre of venue.
The court took under advisement
k petition, for delay in the trial so
expositions couia oe taKen in -m
fornia, Ohio and Canada.
Aged Woman Charged With
Slaying California Man
Oakland. Cal, Sept. 1. A charge
of murder was filed today againsl
Mf. Jesuista R. D'Agostini of Ala
meda, who late yesterday was found
skiing beside the dead body of Ar
nold Postel, SO, a wealthy merchant
nd politician. A pistol was found
near the woman. Two ballets had
en fired into Posters heart.
Police believe Mrs. D'Agostini w
mentally deranged. Five years ago
he killed her husband. but was not
prosecuted -as - authorities were ad-;
vised she, killed her hnsband in self-J
defense. Postel had acted at the
woman's financial
1-errs.
adviser tor two!
Two More
Fugitives
Captured
Craving for Food and Public
ity Leads to Arrest of Mc
Laughlin and Cusick, Lin
coln Jail Breakers.
Men Brought to Omaha
Lincoln, Xeb., Sept- 1. (Special
Telegram.) Craving for food and
publicity were responsible for the
capture of Harold McLaughlin and
James Cusick, fugitives from the
Lancaster county jail, by Chief cf
Police Peter Johnstone of Lincoln
and Police Sergeant Major Gross
at 4 this afternoon nine and' one-
half miles northeast of Lincoln.
Johnstone and Gross discovered
the two men hiding near a bridge.
ihe stuff s off, McLaughlin said
as the, officers approached with re-
oivers arawn . ;
. Ask for Food,
McLaughlin and Cysicfc " knocked
at the home of Jam.es McKibben,
a farmer living near Vverly, Neb.,
at noon and- asked Mrs. McKibben
ior toort. w hile she -was preparing
dinner tney asked to look at the
morning papers. After their depar
ture, Mrs. McKibben locked at the
papers and saw McLaughlin's pic
ture and recognized him as one of
her guests. She called Phil Wad
hams, a Lincoln newsDaoer renorter.
by telephone and he in turn notified
officers.
In an hour State Sheriff Gusi Hv-
ers and his son, Bud; Warden .
T. Fenton of the state penitentiary,
Game Warden George Koster, sher-
ui s deputy, and as much of the Lin-
(Turn In l'site Two. Column Three.)
$500 in Goods Stolen
P 1 T i r.
rrom jeweirv otore
Broken Bow, Neb., Sept. 1. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Thieves entered the
jewelry store of A. E. Anderson and
stole $500 worth of watches, diamond
rings, pearl necklaces and brooches.
Entrance was gained by kicking out
a panel in the -back door. The
jewetrv was taKen irom tne window
,and show cases, the more valuable
pieces being in the vault. A reward
of $100 has been offered for capture
ot the robbers, . -: - .
Seventy I. WW. Deported
From North Dakota Town
Langdon, N. D.,' Sept. 1. Seventy-one
of the 75' T. V. W. who
invaded Langdon Wednesday night
were loaded on . flat cars and sent
:"0uth on a Grejt Northern freight
train. . ,; - ' , -
They will . be guaidcd by -county
officers as far as Union, N. D-, where
officers from Walsh county are to
take charge of the train to see that
none leave until they reach Grand
rorks county. "
Four of the invaders are being held
by authorities heie, one on a charge
of carrying concealed weapons, while
the remaining three arc said to hav-:
been leaders in ;he 'invasion aud
chargefe of conspiracy will be locg
cd against them. ':-r -.. s.-v
Honor to Be Paid 44 Hero
Dead at Omaha Union Depot
Representatives of various 'civic
and patriotic organizations will be at
the Union station Friday morning to
carry out the usual honor program
when bodies of 44 overseas soldiers
who were killed or died during the
v.orld war will arrive in Omaha for
distribution to middle estern towus
and cities. , ' -' -
Prayer special music, eulogies aid
decoration of the flag draped caskets
will make up the program, i Flags
on all. public buildings will be flown
at hatC mast in honor if the dead. .
Mjisicians in Kansas City ' -tTheaters
Call Off Strike
Kansas City, Sept. 1. A disagree
ment between the manaaerj of down
town theaters and the Musicians' Pro
tective association which has resulted
in the running of toe shows since
Autr. 17 without orchestra music has
been settled according to announce
ment today
if
&uaL Tttjetr?
Ruben, Gus and "Bud" Hyers
All Enjoy Chase of
Criminals May Use
Airplane.
Lincoln, . Sept. 1. (Special.) For
50 years the name of Hycrs, in Ne
braska, has been identified with
nones of tnrilline au-entures ot
members of the faniilv as peace of
ficers chasine -criminals.' And' from
air present indications: Nebraskans
will continue to read of the Hyers
family as- baudit chasers for an
other 50 years.
Yesterday, it was Reuben Hyers,
sheriff of-Cass county, , a horseman
who rode hard and fast after cattle
rustlers and other criminals of the
day. Later it was Reuben Hyers,
warden of the state penitentiary, dep
uty warden and turnkey. Right new,
Reuben Hyers, 79, hale and Jiearty,
is keeointr pace with men in their
20s -in " guarding prisoners at( the
Greenwood (Neb.) convict road
camp. ' r
Gus Now Leader.
More' recently it has been Gus
Hyers, 47, sheriff of Lancaster
county, who, with former , Chief
Briggs of South Omaha, eiiher shot
or captured the gang who, under the
leadership xf -"Shorty". Gray, shot
their way out of the state peniten
tiary. Now it is State Sheriff Gus
Hyers, chosen by Governor McKel
vie, organizer of Nebraska's state
police force, who, in powerful motor
Cars, chases jailbreakers and crimi
nals. '-
Tomorrow, it will be Bud Hyers,
now 21, grandsoji and son, respec
tively, of the former two, who, pos
sibly, in an airplane, will do his bit
to catch the convicted criminals. For
Bud is proving that police officers,
like poets, artists and other mastets
of arts and scicnocs, are born and
not made.
Wants Bud to Farm.
Gus' likes hair-raisiitg ixperieuces,
but -he " doesn't think .much of a
repetition of them by Bud. For
four years Gus has dug down in his
pockets and produced tlu coin which
in another year will make Bud a
graduated fanner from the state ag
ricultural school.
"It's a of a joh making a
fanner out of that boy," Gus said
the other day.
Not that Bud is antagonistic to
(Tom to Prnto Two. Column Two.)
Eight Communist Leaders'
In Petrograd Assassinated
Riga, Sept. 1. (By The Associated
Press.) Eight Russian communist
leaders at Petrograd have been as
sassinated within the last t two
months in connection with the "white
terrorist plot," it was revealed by
Leon Trotzky in a speech before the
Moscow soviet meeting last Tues
day night, according to . a Rosta
News agency dispatch received here
today .
The dispatch added that attempts
had been made to assassinate M.
Zinvoieff, chairman of the executive
committee of the Third Internation
ale; Maxim Gorky and M. Ansilo
hith, president - of the '. PctrQgrad
trade unions, and to rob a train
loaded with gold and other . valua
bles on which Leonid'e Krassin, the
son'et trade representative, was rid
ing. Former Army Surgeon '
Held for Wife Murder
Richmond. Va., Sept I. Dr. Wil
burg Amos Hadlcy, former army sur
geon, stationed at Camp Lee, who
was indicted in the .Henrico county j
circuit court on the charge of kill
ing his wife. Mrs: Sue Tuisley Had- j
ley, w hose body was found in the j
James river, December 30. 1918, has I
Been arrested in Jew ilexico. ac
cording: to information received by
Reduction of 5 lOV
Hundred on Farm Pfvucts
For Export Authorized
For Rest of Yeur.
Short Notice Is Granted
Wa'hinstun, Sept. 1. Authority
was granted by the Intcistatc Com
merce commission to 'vestern r.nd
southern railroads to reduce IVi cents
per 100 pouuds the rates on grain
and grain products for export from
Missouri and Mississippi river points
and on grain from the territory be
tween the rivers and from Illinois to
gulf ports, Mobile to Galveston, in
tlusivc. The commission also authorized
the railroads to publish on five-days'
notics reductions on grain ranging
from 1 cent to IVi cents per 100
pounds from the territory west of the
Missouri river in Nebraska, Kansas,
Colorado and Oklahoma to gulf
ports.
The rates from Missouri and Mis
sissippi river points and territory be
tween, and Illinois, may be published
by the railroads on less than the
usual 50-day s' notice.
"The reduced rates are to apply
during the remainder of the caleno.ar
year 1921 and effective January 1,
1922, the former rates will again be
come effective unless other adjust
ment; arc made," said the commis
sion. "The granting of the short notice
authority does not constitute ap
proval of the relative adjustment of
rates cither as between the gulf ports
on the one hand "and the Atlantic
ports on the other as to which there
is much controversy or with respect
to the relative rates from interior
western points as compared with
Missouri river points.".
American Legion
Bitterly Scored
By the Socialists
Chicago, Sent. 1. In a statement
issued today commenting on Presi
dent Harding's failure to act on a
pardon for Eugene V. Debs, the
socialist executive committee, which
is meeting here, declares "we decline
to accept the latest reason given for
laiiure to. act. it is not m accord
with the known facts'."
The statement refers to the release
of many convicted German spies,
some of whom "were convicted of
placing bombs on ships sailing for
European ports," and bitterly de
nounces the American Legion.
"The United States has today the
unenviable . distinction of being the
only country where the administra
tion has not granted a full amnesty
to all its political prisoners," says
the statement.
Many Spies Freed. '
"Every German agent convicted of
overt acts against the government
during the war has been pardoned.
. . . Acts, ; which, it committed
by American citizens, would incure
the death penalty for treason, are
apparently considered of irfinor im
portance when compared with the
frank citicism uttered by citizens in
war time. .
"It is known that one militarist
organization, the American Legion,
borne under mysterious financial aus
pices, that has ' indulged in kidnap
ing of socialist speakers; that has
fostered a mob spirit and has in
spired and led mobs and has at
tempted to terrorize ' those not ' in
accord with its ignorant and reac
tionary views, has insolently at
tempted to thwart the efforts of mil
lions to restore this country to? its
old status as a nation where all are
free to speak and write.
This budding militarist-junker
clique does not represent the pres
ent or the future. It represents the
era of abysmal hatreds which it
hopes to keep alive."
Lincoln, Sept. 1. (Special.) The
reduction permitted railroads by the
Interstate Commerce commission has
nothing whatever to " do with the
recent application of central western
states for a wholesale reduction in
grain rates, John E. C'urtiss, secre
tary of the State Railway commis-
sion said today. This reduction was
permitted to meet competition of the
St. Lawrence river and Great Lakes
waterway carrier, Curtiss stated.
BEHIND the curtains at a window of his richly furnished
library a man lay dead a man brilliant, prosperous, newly
betrothed to a beautiful girl, and with everything to live
for. Was it suicide or murder? You will riot know until you
. have followed to the end the swiftly moving events which are
related in this new mystery story.
"Tte Yelkw Streak"
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: It is a capital tale of adventure and romance, of detectives,
professional and amateur, working at strange and sometimes
sinister cross purposes; of fear and furtive suspicion; of lovers
kept apart by tragedy, only to be united at the end, as lovers
always should be. . .
Valentine Williams, the author, is an Englishman, a soldier,
and a war correspondent, who, began writing fiction while con
valescing from wounds received in the great war. His stories
have brought him a wide reputation as a writer of mystery tales.
This is one of his best. - i .
The first installment of Tha Yellow Streak"
will appear in
Mext Sunday's Bee
'Inhuman Treatment' of
Auto Polo DrUer After Ac
cident Charged Agaiust
Two Nursc
Two Officers Resign
Auburn. Neb.. Sept. I. (Special.)
Auburn is stirred to fever heat to
day over the action of the Nemaha
County Fair board this morning in
ordering two Red Cross nurses from
the fair ground, and directing them
to take along all their property.
As a result two members of the
local chapter of the Red Cross-resigned
as couiUy fair officials and the
two young women, ordered from the
grounds, notified their headquarters
in Chicago.
Auto Polo Driver Hurt
The affair grew out of an accident
last night to G. F. Durand of Sioux
City, driver of an auto polo car, who
was thrown to the track, receiving a
broken rib and a wrenched spine.
Dr. C. A. Lutucn responded to the
call for a physician, and the two Red
Cross nurses. Miss Coulon and Miss
Mitchell, representing the central di
vision of the Red Cross, responded to
his call for a nurse. Both Miss
Couloti and Miss Mitchell came, to
Auburn from Chicago to be present
during the fair and to take part in
the activities for the re.'ief of dis
abled veterans.
The injured man was taken to a
tent where his injuries were attended
by Dr. Lutgen with the assistance of
the two nurses.
Taken to Tent
He was then taken to his own
lent, where the nurses remained with
him until lip. m. ,
It was proposed to remove the
man to the Auburn hospital, but he
stated he preferred to remain with
his wife at the fair grounds. Mrs.
. C. Boline and Mrs. J.X. Bous
ficld, local representatives of the
Nemaha County chapter of the Red
Cross, told the attending physician
they would guarantee all charges if
the man were taken to a hospital. In
this they were seconded by the two
nurses.
Dr. Lutgen, it is said, did not
order the patient to the hospital, and
Durand remained in his tent until
this morning, when he was removed
to a private home. '
Summon Nurses.
This morning the Nemaha County
Agricultural Fair association board
of -trustees was convened with J. II.
Pohlmaiv president; A. M, Engles,
tieasurer; Herman Ernst, secretary,
and Ed Ely and Tom Reed directors,
forming a quorum, in a tent on the
fair grounds.
The board summoned Miss Coulon
and Miss Mitchell, who were accom
panied by Mrs. J. C. Bousfield.
Mr. Engles charged the nurses
with "inhuman negligence of their
patient." He ordered them to take
all the Red Cross property in the two
booth maintained on the , fair
ground off the association's property,
and that they, themselves, immedi
ately leave the ground. "'
. . Women Stand Aghast
The women stood aghast The two
nurses, highly agitated by whaHhey
termed a personal insult, broke into
tears. - ' .
Miss Coulon stated she had done
everything iu her power to give first
aid to the young man and that she
had suggested he be taken to a hos
pital where he could receive proper
treatment, but that tie had refused,
(Tarn to Paso Two, Column SU.)
Zionist Conference -Is
Opened at Carlsbad
Carlsbad, Czecho-Slovakia, Sept.
1. More than 600 delegates from
virtually every" country in the world
were here today to attend the open
ing session of the 12th international
Zionist congress. Poland, with its
Gaeliciari districts, claimed to have
the largest delegation, having about
150 representatives present. The
chief work of the congress will be
the discussion of . the problems at
tending the rebuilding of Palestine.
Because of their disagreement
with the policies carried out by Dr.
Chaim Wiezman, the president of
the World Zionist ' organization,
many men who have been conspicu
ous in Jewish world movements will
not be present during tne congress
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This is the Brirtson Manufacturing company's "plant" at Brookings,
S. D., where the "Brictson tread" tires were manufactured.
O. A. Brictson, president of the once $10,000,000 stock corporation,
called it a "haymow" during one session of the hearing, aiid again desig
nated it as a "two-story and basement" plant
Mulfinger tt Webb, attorneys for stockholders, obtained the photo
graphs of the building.
Brictson Wednesday modified his statement to "two stories with
basement."
U-Year-Old Negro Boy
Starts a 12-Year Terni
In Prison for Murder
Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 1. Roose
velt George, negro, 13, today began
a sentence of 12 years in the state
prison for murder in connection with
the killing of his aged grandfather,
Hope George, two months ago
Cronin Sworn in
As U. S. Marshal;
Names Deputies
Kickcrson to Remain Chief
Deputy Until January 1 ;
Quinley Becomes Dance
Inspector
Dennis H. Cronin of O'Neill was
sworn into office as United States
marshal yesterday morning succeed
ing Mayor James C. Dahlman.
The ceremony . was brief, R. C.
Hoyt, clerk of, the federal court, ad
ministering the oath. Mrs. Cronin
and a few bondsmen were present .
Names Deputies.
Cronin announced the following ap
pointments far deputy ;niajrnals. i.
At Omaha. I. A. Davis, a member
of the state legislature in 1913 and a
senator last year, now in the real
estate business her, and A. J. Ruddy
of Albion, who will take office Octo
ber 1.
At Lincoln, John C. McCIung, for
seven years sheriff of Pawnee county,
At Grand Island, Fred J. Mandcr
ville. .
James B.' Nickerson, chief depiny
for 10 years and acting marshal since
Dahlman resigned,, will -remain until
January 1, Cronin announced. Depu
ty Earl Younsr will remain for two
months, and A. V. Shaffer, as long
as needed. ; , f
Emmet Quinley quit yesterday to
take up his new duties as dance hall
inspector, under , the board of pub
lic welfare. ...
One Rancher Killed
Many Acres of Timber
Razed by Forest Fires
Missoula, Mont., Sept. 1. One
man has been killed and thousands
of acres of timber land burned over
in Montana and northern Idaho, ac
cording to : reports of the federal
forest service. Dry, hot winds
are blowing in most of the national
parks of the district and the situa
tion was declared to be growing
worse. ..'."
The dead man" is John Amacher.
a rancher in Stevens county. Wash
ington, whose body v-as found where
the; flames '-overtook him.' The
Kootenai forest in Montana, the
rend Oreille and Nez Perce forests
m Idaho- reported the biggest fires.
In the three forests the fires have
burned over 2,100 acres.
Smaller fires wei reoorted in the
Cabinet and . b lathead forests ' in
Montana and the Kaniksu forest in
northwestern Idaho and northeastern
Washington.- v Five sections have
been burned over in Stevens county.
Washington. , . .
Deputy Sheriff Is Killed
In Fight With Rum Runners
i 1 hermopohs, n yo., Sept. 1. -Ted
rnce, . deputy sheriff, died with s
bullet in Jiis heart and Tack Mullen
dure, alleged whisky runner, was
probably fatally injured in a fight
between a sheriff s posse and whisky
runners near ihermopolis- yester
day.' ' " . "V . .' -
The - fact that "Mullendure's ' rifle
jammed probably, saved the! life .of
two other officers pursuing the rua
ners,' according; to Mullendure.
When the. officers got too close
to the motor car in which Mullen
dure and a companion were -riding,
the alleged runners stopped the car.
hid in bushes beside the road and
opened fire on the officers. Mullen
dure and a mart giving the name of
C. r rowers were arrested. '
Building Boom Reported '
In Full Blast in Chicago
v-nicago, cepr. i, ine cnicago
building department announced to
day that building here was assuming
the proportions of a boom with 1,051
permit issued in August, compared
with 308 in August, 1920. The value
of the projected structures'' aggre
gates $13,163,010, against $5,521,000
for August last year. j
Accountant
Explains
"Juggling"
E. A. Dworak Testifies
in
Court Brictson8 $10,000 .
Salary Was Charged to
Organization Expense.
Scheme to Pay Dividend
It was necessary to charge O. A.
Brictson's annual salary of $10,000
off to organization expeuse in or
der to show Brictson Manufacturing
company profits, on which they could
declare a $63,000 dividend, according
to E. A. Dworak, auditor, on the
stand in Federal Judge Woodrough's
court, yesterday.
"If Brictson's salary was charged
to "operating expense," it would
create a deficit in the company's busi
ness," he further testified in the
hearing which stockholders instituted
to optam a receivership. ..
: Says Plan Common.
' Many companies follow this plan
or charge off certain amounts to
"good will," in order to create a sur
plus tor dividend purposes, according
to uworaic
Brictson books are "not up to stand
ard," Dworak admitted on cross-ex
amination by F. A. Mulfineer. at
torney for stockholders, after he had
testified they were complete enough
for Brictson company purposes.
Neither did the company keep a com
plete double entry bookkeeping sys
tem, ne said.
"They kept only single entry sys
tem summarized at the end of the
month in double entry totals,"
Dworak testified.
"Would, you say the company
complied with the law by keeping
trial balances?" asked Mulfinger.
"No," replied Dworak.. This sub
stantiated testimony given earlier in
the week by G. P. Gregerson and
L. A. Ruud, auditors employed by
stockholders seeking to prove mis
management. After characterizing as " a ridicu
lous waste of time" much of the
work done by Dworak for the ores-
ent probe, Judge Woodrough. sum
moned counsel for both sides into
his private office.
Tbey conferred for an hour and a
half, after which time the judge an
nounced adjournment of the hearinc
until Saturday morning at 9.
Legal points were raised at the
conference, which will have to be
argued. , . .
Average Person's Life Is
Worth $5,800, Says Speaker
Chicago, Sept. 1. The average
person's life is worth just $5,800
statistically, it having been enhanced
in value by $1,200 during the last five
years, according to E. L, Balz of
Mason City, Ore., secretary of the
Modem Brotherhood of 'America,
who addressed the National Fraternal
congress-today. . i
Every human being is an economic
nonentity before reaching the age of
18 and after 60 years, Mr. Balz said
He also asserted that conservative
health measures have increased the
average span of life from 33 to about
years. . . .. v .
Latest Super Dreadnought,
Washington, Is Launched
Camden, N. J.. Sept. 1. The su-
perdreadnaught Washington, bne oi
tne largest snips ever designed ior
tne-united states navv. was; ready
for lauching . today at the yards of
the Jnew-York, shipbuilding; com
pany here. Officials from Washing
ton and guests from other cities ar
rived this morning. Miss -Jeaunc
Summers, daughter of Congressman
V summers of Walla Walla,
Wash., who was to sponsor the big
craft, was among the earlier arri
vals. - ;
The Weather
Forecast. '
Nebraska Fair Friday. Nt much
change ni temperature.
Hourly Temperatures-
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Deputy Sheriffs Are Put to
Flight in Skirmish With
Armed Forces Near
' Logan.
Reinforcements on Way
My Th .twaclated Trf,
Logan, W. a, Sept. I. Logan
county deputies on Crooked creek
this evening were driven down th
hilUide in a skirmish with an armed
force from the other side of Spruct
l ork ridge, Capt. 1. G. Hollings
worth reported at 7 o'clock.
The captain said he had just re
turned from that district. An emer
gency force held here subject to ra'l
immediately was dispatched east
ward. Desultory firing along Crooked
creek and in the Blair mountain dis
trict this afternoon was reported to
the authorities. These districts
were the scene of yesterday's engage
ments, one of which resulted in the
known death of three men. At other
points along the Logan-Boone coun
ty border quiet prevailed.
An aviator, who soared above
Blair and Hewitt's creek late today,
reported to Sheriff Don Chafin that
he had observed a large gathering
of men across the ridge, evidently in
conference. He also stated that
groups were seen traveling westward,
apparently to join the force as
sembled in Jcffcry-Blair regions.
On receipt of early ni$ht reports
that firing was still going on at
Crooked creek and Blair mountain,
additional deputies and citizens set
out in that direction.
Men Still Congregating.
Madison. W. Va., Sept. 1. Armed
men making their way to the con
centration camps around Blair, Clo
thier and Jeffrey were passing
through Madison all of today, coun
ty officials estimating the number
of reinforcements at no less than 500.
One train controlled by miners went
from Whitesville to Clothier. It con
sisted of an engine and four flat cars,
the cars carrying men and a number
of machine guns.
Sheriff Hill said he heard that
numbers of miners had been killed
in the fighting along Spruce "Fork
ridge yesterday, but he was unable
to estimate the number. When asked
to estimate the number of armed men
in the villages at the foot of the ridge
he said "there can be no less than
8,000 or 10,000 of them."
' Troops in Readiness. , "
Washington, Sept 1. Expiration
at noon today of the time limit fixed
by President Harding by proclama
tion for dispersal of the armed
bands of citizens in West Virginia's
mine disorders found White House
and War department officials await
ing a report from Brig. Gen. H. H.
Bandholtz, the army's representative
on the scene, as to the situation.
While officials awaited to report
on which a decision as to employ
ment of federal troops and a declara
tion of martial law will rest, all. was
in readiness for the federal govern
ment td step into West . Virginia
should that be found necessary.
Trains Are Ready.
Trains were said by. Secretary
Weeks to be standing on the side ,
tracks at Camps Dix, N. J and
Sherman, O., to move troops at a"
. . (Tnni to Pace Two, Colnmn Two.)
Socialists Not to Aid
Hoover Relief Work
Chicago, Sept. 1. The socialist
national executive committee meeting
here today cautioned members of the
party and other workers against "anv
support of the Hoover organization"
in Russian relief and announced for- '
mation of a socialist-labor committee -to
handle relief work independently
of the American relief commission.
"It is known that agenfs of this or
ganization," the socialists' announce
ment says, "under the guise of assist
ing the masses of hungry used its
machinery for counter revolutionary
purposes.
The socialist relief committee is
composed of Morris Hilquit, B. C.
Vladeck, Samuel Beardsley, Bertha
H. Mailly, Joseph Cannon, Benjamin .
Schlesinger, Abraham Shiplacoff",
Joseph Panken and Harriet Stanton
Blatch. .
Scottish Rite Masons to
Hold Picnic at Gothenburg
Gothenburg, Neb., Sept 1. (Spe
cial.) A picnic for Scottish Rite
Masons and their families will be
held at Lafayette park Monday, Sep
tember 5. Among other diversions
planned for the day are golfing,
swimming, boating, dancing and a
base ball game. A large number of
masons are expected from surround
ing towns.
State Transfers Trusties
- Td New Reformatory
Lincoln, Sept. 1. (Special.)
Twenty-five prisoners from the state
penitentiary were taken to the new .
state reformatory today. As yet,
the facilities for a capacity "house"
have not been completed. The men
transferred are "trusties' 'and the
reason for the transfer was to facili
tate the work they are doing in pre
paring their own prison. . .
Man Slays Girls
Twin Falls. Idaho. Sent 1. Miss
Dolores Weighall, 16 is dead, and
her mother, Mrs. Frank Weighall, is
seriously wounded as result of shoot
ing alleged to have been committed
by selby Van Eaton, 21. farm la-
..ji,! borer, at the Weighall home near
Contact, Nev, early this morning,
;;! according to meager reports reach
..jwiir.g here today. Van Eaton is said
'.'.'.in to have been engaged to marry the
dead girL
'tue Richmond police tod
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