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The Omaha Daily Bee VOL. 51 NO. 84. C.lara4 m mm P ' " n mm a. IMt. M OMAHA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. 1921. a, t t0 tuh M HUN. 17 M. (. (eta , UMl M tMU N) (WM Ml THREE CENTS 0 UM M tint I jVction On Peace Pact Hits Snag Ratification Held Up Dy De mand for Reservation to Prevent Participation In Commissions. Lodge Consults Hughes By ARTHUR SEARS HENNINO. thlraco TrlbtuM-Oautha Km Leaeed Wire. Wahington, Sept. 22. Adminis tration effort to hasten ratification of the German, Austrian and Hun- Parian near rreatii-s urr. haltf-ft tn- day by demand, in the foreign rela - nuns column ice lor a rcscrvawun prevent American participation in various international commissions, notably the reparations commission, set up by the treaty of Versailles, without the express consent of the senate. Opposition to the treaty, led by Senator Borah of Idaho, attuned such a formidable aspect that Sena tor Lodge, republican leader and chairman of the committee, hurried to the Slate department and held a -long conference with Secretary of aiaie nugnes. umougn air. loukc declined to discuss the result of the conference, it is understood that the administration is not willing to ac cept such a restriction upon its action ?.s that proposed by members of the foreign relations committee. No Action Taken. The committee, after several hours' lively discussion, was forced to ad journ without action. Another meet ing will be held tomorrow, at which time Senator Lodge is expected to lay before his colleagues a report of his conference with Secretary Jlugues. It may develop th.-.t, Mr. Hughes will be asked to appear be fore the committee again to answer questions concerning the treaty, al though he conferred at length with the committee last month when the German treaty was first made public. The line of cleavage in the commit tee over the terms of the treaties runs closely parallel to the differences which spilit the senate over the Versailles treaty. The controversy revolves largely about Washington's warning against foreign entangle ments. Prospects are that a sharp parliamentary struggle will ensue over the treaty and prediction was made in some quarters that a reserva tion to cover the points in dispute would be included in the ratification resolution. ' J ' --. ' Borah Starts Fight ? Senator Borah precipitated the c'on ' t.Tjbversy when the ' treaty , was for- xi -11.- ai - . .1.. - x : f tions committee.' He called atten tion first to the section of the treaty v reserving to the United States the '. right to have a 'representative upon i the reparations commission. He con- tended that if this right were exer- ' t cised the United States would be come involved immediately in the reparations disputes . which form the crux'of the European problems today. He asserted that if ; the United States participated in the reparations and the enforcement thereof, it could not avoid entangle ment just as deep as that involved in the obligations of the league of na tions. ; '". The view was expressed in the committee that the administration fully intended to exercise the right to have representatives on the repara tions commission ' and probably on ether commissions : At present, it is represented nly by unofficial ob servers. Senator Kellogg ot" Min nesota stoutly defended the idea of having an American representative on the reparations commission. Sen ator Johnson of California strongly opposed such representation. Sen ator Shields cf Tennessee, a demo cratic irreconcilable, declared that he would be unwilling to support any provision of the treaty which would involve the United States in Euro pean entanglements. ' -. Point Covered. Attention was called to the fact; that when the Versailles treaty was before the senate, a reservation on the Lodge resolution of ratification as adopted to cover exactly tne nt raised by Senator uoran. ine reservation provided that no person was authorized to represent we .United States on any body or agency established by the Versailles treaty : except by specific act of congress. ' - This reservation met with - such favor when the Versailles treaty : Was before the senate that it was supported by5 virtually every repub lican senator, senator eoran con tended at the foreign relations com mittee meeting today, that its ap plication now is just as important as it was then. If the committee does not adopt the reservation, it probably nil! he nrtssed in the senate. Another objection raised by Sen ' ator Borah concerned the withdrawe! of the American troops trom tne Rhine. He contended that under the , terms of the treaty, the United States might find itself under a compelling moral nhlication to maintain an army on the Rhine for years to j- come. Administration spokesmen assured him, however, that the troops ..'. would be withdrawn immediately upon the exchange of ratifications of the treaty. - it. RntiWft Steal Stills And Moonshine From Jail West Frankfort, TIL, Sept 22. Robbers last night forced entrance into the city jail here and escaped with five stills and a quantity of moonshine liquor confiscated in re cent prohibition raids. County Fair Opens ' j. Beaver City, Neb, Sept 22. (Spe cial.) The Furnas county fair ufwned with a large attendance. The swine exhibit numbers 150 head. A r.ew hog bam, just completed, gives ampie accommodation! Doctors Testify At Opening of Arbuckle Case Women' Jam Court Room at Preliminary Hearing of Film Star; Three Wit neegef on Stand. Iy Tua Aaearlated rreee, San L'rancUco, Sept. 22. The po lice court examination of Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle, which will de termine w hether the film comedian is to be bound over to the supreme court for trial on a charge of murder of Mis Virginia Kappe, began here today in a court room filled almost exclusively with womeji. Three witnesses who saw Miss Rappe's body after her death Sep tember 9. which is charged resulted 1 S Arbuffl suite at the Hotel M. rrancis, tes tified that they observed bruises on her limbs and body. At tomorrow's session of Judge S Ivaiit Lazarus' court it is expected there will be introduced testimony regarding incidents at the hotel party where, according to witnesses at the coroner's inquest. Miss Rappe was found moaning and screaming after having been alone in a room with Arbuckle. District Attorney Matthew A. Brady said it had not been deter mined whether Al Semnacher, Miss Rappe's manager, who is reported to have testified before the grand jury at Los Angeles that Arbuckle had made admissions regarding his treat ment of Miss Rappe, would be called tomorrow. Wife at His Side. The bulky film actor listened in tently to .today's testimony, his face bearing the same grave expression it has worn ever since his arrest nearlv two weeks ago. Mrs. Mint Duriee Arbuckle. his wife, from j whom he has been separated for five years, but who came here lrom iew York Monday, sat at his side witn her mother, Mrs. Flora Durfee. Women jammed the corridors of the hall of justice for nearly two hours before the court session began and a dozen six-foot policemen had their hands full keeping them away from the court room door. A group of men who gathered in a cornet in hope of being admitted, were chased unceremoniously to the street floor and women who could show no credentials for admission also were ordered to stand on the stairs to allow movement in the corridor. Women Given Preference . The women were given the prefer ence because Judge Lazarus' court is largely devoted to women's cases. Delegations from the Women's Vig ilant commuiee, irum cuius anu tivia oreanizationfe nicked the court room to its doors. ' A few male attaches of other courts found refuge behind the steel bars Of the prisoners dock. Ar-1 buckle sat at the attorneys table. Dr. Shelby Strange, relief autopsy on Miss Kappe, ana ur. William (Turn to Pr Tiro, Column Two.) Baltimore Convict Charged With Murder : . Of California Priest ..San Francisco, Sept. 22. A war rant charging David Bender, who escaped from the Mary.-and peniten tiary, with the murder of Father Patrick E. Heslin, Catholic pritst of Colma, a suburb, was sworn to be fore Judge El'u Johnson, 'a Colma justice of the peace,- by . J. Harry Dunlap, a private detective. Bender was arrested here about three weeks ago after his escape from the Maryland state prison, where he was serving a term of 14 years for the murder of a Baltimore policeman. , ' For a time he shared his cell with Roscoe C. (Fatty) Arbuckle, mo tion picture comedian, who is await ing trial en a charge of murder in connection with the . death oi Miss Virginia Rappe, motion picture ac tress.; Bender was returned to Bal timore last wek.. - William A. Hightower, aa itiner ant baker, is held in the county jail at Redwood City on a chaige that he murdered Father Heslin. Omahans Traveling ' ; ; Bag Found in Lake Gothenburg, Neb ..Sep't. 22. (Spe cial.) A black leather traveling bag, with a tag bearing , the name of Charles Bjomberg, ; Omaha, was found" in a few inches of water at Lake Gothenburg. The bag appear ed to have been pried open violently. The street address on the bag, with the exception of the number, 2116, had been obliterated, leading authori ties to suspect robbery. Contents of the bag consisted of a small quan tity of clothing and toilet articles. Louis Metz, Old Resident Of Omaha, Dies at Home Louis Metz. 82, for 50 years a resi dent of Omaha, died early yester day at his home , 1744 South Twenty-sixth street He is survived by six daughters, Mrs. Charles Hilloch, Mrs. L. J. Traynor, Mrs. A. Reesberg, Mrs. John Gerloch, and Mrs. J. E. Ryan of Omaha, and Mrs. George S. Smith of Long Beach, Cal. - Funeral services will be held Sat urday at 8:30 from the home, and at 9 from St Ann's church. Omaha Woman Injured When Ron Down by Automobile Mrs. A. E. Ashmore, 2019 Willis avenue, was injured yesterday when she was struck by. an automobile driven by R. F. Nourse. contractor, 620 South Thirty-eighth street at Sixteenth and Douglas streets. She was taken to Wise Memorial hospi tal, where an X-ray examination will be made. . -. - , . Chief Ganges Steeds Just Before Parades 'If? y pH f Chief of Police Dempsey is noth ing if not modest in speaking of his own accomplishments. But this is not the sole reason the chief is reluctant to explain his ex change of steeds prior to the Ak-Sar-Ben parades. It was a noble charge the chief ar ranged to ride and he was immensely pleased until parade time. Then the Shrine band struck up a melody. The chief's horse pricked up his cars and began to prance. Two minutes later the chief of po- t lice had another horse. N.-S.-F. Successor Allowed to Sell $2,225,000 Stock Chicago Man, With Voting Control of Majority of . Shares, To Operate Busi- . ness Under New Plan. Lincoln, Sept. " 22. (Special.)- The state bureau of securities today gave "the Nye-Schncider-Jenks com pany of -Fremont, successors tothe - 3'6 Sclinaider Fowler company, permission to issue ' ?AS,Ouu m stock, which is looked upon as an other step in the reorganization of the firm being worked out by agree ment between , creditors and stock- Julius H. Barnes of Chicago will have voting control of 67 per cent of all the stock in the new company under the plan outlined and. he also will have a five-year option on the purchase of 55 per cent of it at a price of $40 a share, the par value being $100. Meantime, the business will be operated under his control. The stock issued will be turned over first to the old Nye-Schncider-Fowler company of Fremont, the Central Granaries company and the Nebraska- Elevator company cf Lin coln and the Nye-Schneider-Fow-ier Grain company of Omaha in ex change for quick assets of equal val ue which they will surrender to the new company. Through these concerns, sufficient amount of the stock will be trans ferred to a trustee to insure two thirds voting power to Barnes. The stock, in its entirety, will be used as collateral to secure banks in Lin coln, Omaha, Chicago and other places that have made loans to the old company. v ' The state bureau has required that a showing be made by November 1 relative to various details of the plan as carried out and the settle ment made with bankers and other creditors. No commission is to be allowed for selling or handling the stock nor any marketing expense witn the sale will be allowed. AH trade creditors are to be paid in full, while banks to whom the old companies owed money are to extend the time to a minimum period of three years. Two Farmers Fight, Make Up, Fight Again Superior, : Sept. 22. (Special.) A fight and a reconciliation between Henry Shaffer and Adam - Trout farmers 'living 10 miles southwest of Superior, finally resulted ' in the shooting of Trout The fight oc curred on Trout's farm, when-Shaffer called. After the fisticuffs, Trout offered to take Shaffer home. Shaf fer accepted. Upon arrival at the Shaffer home, Shaffer got a rifle and fired at Trout four times, one shot hitting him in the back, according to' Trout's story. Trout is in a Super ior hospital, paralyzed from " the waist down. Shaffer gave himself cp to Sheriff Cole of Jewell county, Kan., the shooting having occurred just over the state line. - - Morrill County Fair Held ; At Bridgeport Closes Bridgeport, Neb., Sept. fc (Spe cial Telegram.) The Morrill county fair, a record breaker in both num ber and quality of exhibits and in the number of paid admissions, closed Thursday afternoon with a splendid program of horse and auto races, bronco "busting" and other contests. A feature of the agricultural ex hibit, which surpassed anything of its kind ever before attempted.in the f county, was the showing of the Mor rill county exhibit, which won first prize at the Nebraska state fair in the irrigated district 150 Million Marks Loss In Disaster Estimates of 1,000 Dead From Blast That Wiped Out Crr. man Town Verified f Injured List Grows. 850 Bodies Recovered i Br Tb AawKUtnl I'wu. Mayence, Sept. 22. While esti mates of the number of dead from Wednesday's explosion which de stroyed the Badische company's great chemical plant at Oppau con tinued today at approximately 1,500, the total of persons actualy found to have been injured exceeds the first figures by a wide margin. Already 2,500 persons have re ceived treatment for hurts sustained through the effects of the explosion. Bodies of the dead to the number of 850 had been recovered this fore noon. Rescue Work Progresses. The French and German authori ties in the district were continuing the rescue work today in the closest-! collaboration. A German hospital train has arrived at Frankfort and a French train at Treves with injured from the scene of the disaster. The total damage from the ex plosion in the Badische Aniline com pany's chemical plant at Oppau yes terday is estimated at 150,000,000 marks, acocrding to Berlin advices received here today. Immediately after the blast which occurred at 7:30 a. m. Wednesday, every means of rescuing injured and bringing out the dead were utilized but several minor explosions pre vented workers from entering the grounds for a long time. Smoke Hindered Work. Great clouds of " chemical fumes hung over the ghastly scene of ruin and the first men to enter the place were compelled to wear gas masks. The fumes spread as far as Mann heim and Ludwigshafen and tended to heighten the fears of the fright ened people. An investigation of the explosion has been ordered by the authorities, but little is left on which to base a finding. The buildings of the Bad ische company have disappeared and only a great hole in the ground marks the site of the main structure. , Cause Is Unknown. It is a theory of those familiar with the plant that at least two gas ometers ' exploded and that nitrogen compounds- stored - hj - tf-etnitttHrigf or in -procs"of runufacture'"were detonated. Another theory is that a nitrogen tank let go and that four others were set off by the concus sion. I :' ' This is the second time Oppau has been destroyed. In 1883 a dam burst above the town and the place was swept by a wall of water. Major General Wood Formally Nominated To Philippines Post Washington, Sept.- 22. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood was formally nom inated by President Harding to be governor general of the Philippines. General Wood, whose selection for the post was announced several weeks ago, has spent the past several months in the Philippines investigat ing conditions for President Harding and is expected to assume the gov ernorship for a period of ohe year as soon as his nomination is confirmed. General Wood will be placed on the retired list October 5, at his own request, having served more than the necessary 30 years. He will take the oath of office as governor gen eral in Manila about that date and begin his duties at once. Under the agreement reached by 1 General Wood with the authorities of the University of Pennsylvania, his appointment as provost of that institution has been deferred a year to permit him to undertake the task assigned him in the Philippines. Will Decide on Sanity Of Murder Suspect Seward, Neb., Sept. 22. (Special.) A request asking the district court to impanel a jury to decide as to the sanity of Arthur Andrews, alias Pat McFarlahd, now awaiting trial on the charge of murdering Mayor Merriam of Seward, his father-in-law, has been filed by the county . attorney. The hearing will be held October 11. Baptists Plan Nationwide : Day for Prayer for Peace New York, Sept 22. A prayer for peace by Baptists in every part of the world on Armistice day is being planned by the promotion board of the northern Baptist convention. In a telegram to President Harding today, the board announced that re quests had gone forth for adherents throughout the world "to join in a simultaneous prayer for world peace and for the success "of the conference on limitation of armaments." English Financier Dies. London, Sept 22. Announcement of the death of Sir Ernest Cassel, 69, financier and philantropist, was made here today. He was born in Cologne and was a son of , , jacoD Cassel, a banker of that city. He floated immense national loans and was a prominent figure in the devel opment of Egypt, Argentina and Mexico. Major Fletcher Transferred Washington, Sept 22. (Special Telegram.) Maj. Allen Fletcher, in fantry, is relieved from duties at Fort Crook and will proced to Sc.2 Francisco. c 1 (I Cv . Here are two. of the 20 chariots of cakes, which held thousands standing f T. rv tTexasWadcat" Plane Is Entered In Air Congress Millionaire Oil Man Comes to Omaha to Place Celebrated Speed "Ship" and Its , Twin in Big Meet. 7 ; . S. E. T. Cox-, . multi-millionaire oil , operator from Houston, Tex., and owner of the celebrated "Texas Wild cat" plane that attracted so much at- race in France last year, blew into Omaha yesterday- , jn yesterday- , in '. knee-length boots, a brown sport suit and, with care-free smile. ' - , . - ' . - The purpose of his stop in Omaha was to enter the "Texas Wildcat" and its twin, "Cactus Kitten," both speedy planes, in 1 the International Aero congress to be held in- Omaha on November 3-4-5.' - Mrs. Cox, wife of-the wealthy oil man and an accomplished flyer,- may pilot the . "Texas Wildcat" in the Pulitzer trophy air race at the con gress, Mr. Cox said.. .' , An Expert Airwoman." - : "She's an expert flyer and can cer tainly ' hit the high spots," he Ae clared. "Mrs. Cox overees our oil districts with an airplane and she's getting to be quite a speeder." According to Mr. Cox's' descrip tion of the "Cactus Kitten," if it ever speeds .past a crowd-with its straight wings there'll be danger of a pneumonia epidemic. ! - "It has two sets of wings, curved and flat," he said. "The curved wings are for soaring and tricks in the air, but those flat ones,' oh boyl they cut through the heavens like a bolt from the blue. Mr. Cox said the "Cactus Kitten". ! will land at 100 miles an' hour. The plane is a' single seater with a 475- horse-power motor, he said. 1 ", Private Flying Field. The oil man has a private flying field on his r.anch in Texas. Aviation is his hobbv. He became wealthy within the fast five years, having started in the oil game as a driller. Mr. Cox travels in style, his pri vate secretary wrote to officials of the Omaha Aero club in requesting that "a suite of rooms, ; two bed rooms, a parlor and a bath" be re served for him during hjs visit here for the aero congress. . ; Officials of the Omaha Aero club took Mr. Cox on a tour of the site of the aero congress in North Oma ha. The visitor will leave Omaha tonight for Chicago and thence re turn to his home. 1 . Department of Justice Probes Lobingier's Rule .......... ,0 tion of charges of misconduct of of J&jC? &Zr tT?Qy t"" I Ar srf fice filed against Judge Lharles b. Lobingier of the consular court of Shanghai, China, has been under taken by the Department of Justice, Attorney General Daugherty " an nounced today. . Judge Lobingier, who was appointed to the court in 1914 by President Wilson for a 10 year period and who is a former resi dent of Omaha, Neb., recently ar rived in Washington to present his side of the case, . , v ' Ak-Sar-Ben Parade A King Ak, mounted on street car wheels and. all lighted . up like birthday first on one leg and then on the other along the line. of "march" last night -i 1 : .. ' i '. . . ' ' ,'' ' WorfeSeBns oil Hfleaniir m Rail ? ; Medical Building ; Rate Complaint New 17-Story Structure Will Take Year to Build, Su- -- perintendent Says. r Actual work on the new 17-story Medical Arts building at Seventeenth and Dodge streets,, started yesterday with the arrival 'of a steam shovel belonging to- - the J. J. Thompson company, which .will do the exca vating.: . ; . i . ' ... , A. H. Haines, 'superintendent , of construction who was on the ground, i . . , : 1 fij; -Ml- ' ifstihiates the building will require at least a year to build, . r Two-thirds', of, the new, structure already, is rented, accprdipg to T. F, Quinlan, .' representings the. , Brandeis company.-., ' v. - He estimates i that between $400,-" 000 and $500,000 was saved onJ build ing materials' by deferring construe-' tion. ' 1 - "-. ..'-'.. -:' '. The corner store, in the new build ing has; been leased by the W.' ':' Piel Drug company, now af Eigh teenth and Farnam streets.' - "Stool Pigeons' v Not ; ; Sanctioned by Navy Washington,' Sept ' 22. The Navy department has neither 'authorized nor sanctioned' use of enlisted men as "stool pigeons" by civil authori ties in campaigns against crime,' Secretary- Denby declared, : in ordering an official investigation- of reports that such use had been- made of blue jackets by-the -police of San Diego, Cal. Admiral E. . W. ' Eberle," com manding the Pacific fleet, was in structed to - undertake to - undertake . the inauirv iTV'-J1 quickly as possible. ; The report reaching , Mr. Denby included newspaper clippings u re-' counting evidence said to have been presented at the hearing of charges against Police Judge Ed L.-Davin, on September 13.,. Attendance Record Broken . v At Jefferson County .Fair Fairbury," Neb. Sept.' , 22. (Spe cial.) The Jefferson , County, fair reached the 10,000 mark in attend ance Wednesday,; . setting a new record: ' Gate receipts for . the day were $2,000. ' . ' . , . , One of the attractions Wednesday was a base ball game between girls' base ball , teams of .Rockford and Fairbury.t The. score' was '24, to 25, in favorof Fairbury. The' fair, will close Friday. . ". Funeral of South Dakota' Bishop Held at Sioux Falls Sioux Falls, S: D Sept 22. The Rt Rer. Thomas O'Gorman, bishop of the eastern diocese of South Da kota," was this morning buried with all the pomp and ceremony of the Catholic church. Archbishop James J. Keane of. Dubuque,. Ia., preached the funeral sermon and- four- other high dignataries of the church assist ed in the celebration of the impres sive mass for the- dead. ' . - ilanlcip.1 Wimnti Nettlnc : Bond I', to 1 The Mrrr A. Koch Co., Flmt 11 Bank. AtUatl tieMn-lHaul. Floats ir 1 Opens at Hastings Shippers Assert Charges on Goods From Eastern Points Discriminatory in Favor of ? ' Missouri River Towns. j Hastings', Neb., Sept. 22. (Special Telegram.) At the opening of the rate cut hearing, brought by shippers of Hastings' and Grand .Island.'be forc Examiner G. T. Kephart of the Interstate Commerce' commission, to day, shippers of Omaha, Lincoln,-1 St. Joseph', . Kansas City and Beatrice made what amouii ted to a formal ex pression of .'their opposition to- the adjustment of freight rates ' asked, while Columbus : shippers formally l'fC A up in support of the adjustment asked. . .' . . . - C. E. Child, manager of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce traffic bureau, said that his organization wished to intervene in the case. He could not say, he declared, tat they intervened for or against the Hastings manu facturers, -jobbers and wholesalers, bitt' they wished to intervene' to pro tect the interests of Omaha., v ; '. The first witness called was G.J Olson, chairman of the traffic com" mittee of the Chamber of Commerce, whose testimony consisted of an ex planation of an exhibit of nearly 200 sheets on which are ; tabulated the freight -rates, to Hastings, and -the rates- which Omaha and . " Lincoln shippers pay when they ship similar articles' to points west of Hastings, and also rates paid from, eastern points to Omaha. On shipment of automobile radia tors f rom , Chicago to ,' Omaha and -from, Chicago . to Hastings.' while Hasting is 127 per cent of the: dis tance,, the freight charges aie 197 per cent of the amount to Omaha. If Hastings paid the-same . rate basis as . Omaha, he continued, the freight on a car of stove pipes would be $198, instead of $264.60, which the Hastings shippers now pay. .Three hundred and five railroads atjd many shipping points are con cerned in the hearing. - The Weather; - Forecast ; Nebraska Fair "Friday and Sat urday, except somewhat unsettled in east ' portion Friday and Friday night; not' much change in temper ature. ' t , - : Iowa Fair ' Friday, probably . be coming unsettled : by night-or-on Saturday; not much change in tem perature. ' . . Hourly Temperatures " 4 1 . n ..IS . m. ........ .7 S p. m SI 4 . SS p. m St 1 P. m 7S p. m is ..S ..t a. n . U a. m... .7 Highest Thursday. Ctaercnn ?J Pueblo . . .. Davenport .......84 Rapid City Dearer .....H4tSe.lt Lake.. Dm Moines ...... M Santa Fe . Dodge City ...... M 8bertdan . Lander ...IOSior City Morta PUtte -....! , - - - "'.10 Klan Goes Under Ban In Omaha City Official! Warn Gowned Knights to Hold Secret Meetings in Real In visible Empire. Police Gathering Data Omaha's Ku Klux Klan niu.t con fine its .meetings to the secret cavern recesses of its own invisible empire. No public demonstration of the Omaha cavern will be tolerated by public officials. Secret meetines of the organization will not be interfered with for the present, but they will be kept under close surveillance. Mayor Dahlman and the city com missioners declared all this yester day and adniitte dthey are keeping in close touch with the Ku Klux Klan, both loc.llv and nationally. -, Police Are Busy. The intelligence department at Central police headquarters is gath ering information concerning Omalw and Nebraska members of the in visible empire and has tabulated datr of the visits here of national or. ganizers and ofiicers, it is general! understood. The Omaha officials are interested in the action of the Chicago city Council this week, declaring the K. K. K. will be allowed no quartet in the Illinois metropolis. - It is known that Edward Young Cfarke, imperial kleagle and klalifl and chief of staff of the invisible em pire, recently visited the Omaha cav ern cf the K. K. K. Information re ceived yesterday from Atlanta, Ga. states that Clarke has tendered hi; resignation to Imperial Wizard Wil liam J. Simmons, "for the good o! the order," but it is alleged that Clarke resigned under fire of ugly charges involving himself and Mrs.. Elizabeth Tyler, his associate in the publicity department of the Ku Klux Klan. No Parades here. "We are watching the situation" closely and will be ready to meet any development," said Mayor Dahlman. "No parade will be allowed here that is certain. As for the meetings of the K. K. K., I presume they arc tike some eecret lodge meetings and I am not prepared to state whether they would be intercepted." City Commissioner D. B. Butler was outspoken on the "subject ; He said Theorganizatian is unpatriotic and un-American. A man who has to-skulk behind 8 hood 'and robe is not worthy of the consideration of decent citizens.' Th klan --is a menace ' to this ; country. It is dangerous, ' We must preserve our traditions and our democracy..,. We : must squelch the K. K. K. Mu nicipal, state and federal authorities (Ton to Pare Two, Cohroui Three.) German Held on Theft Charge; Sent Loot to Brother in Germany New Yorlv Sept 22. John Mem-' mer, a German,, described in , court as a "commercial pirate," was con victed' by a jury in Brooklyn today of grand larceny for stealing 6hoe uppers from a Brooklyn factory and shipping them to Germany to be copied for, future competition with American shoes. In . his room in a lodging house were found three boxes of , uppers consigned to a shoe factory con- . ducted by his brother in Germany. ' Memmer came here from Milwaukee six months ago,: Assistant District Attorney Peters said and got a job at the factory, where the uppers were stolen. -- ", - Men Pinned Under ' Auto for 10 Hours Sioux Falls, S. D., Sept. 22. (Spe cial Telegram.) Melvin Cheney, em ploye of the H&mcstake Mining ' company in this city, and Pliney Olson, ; his brother-in-law, &iso of " this city, may die as the result of in juries received when their auto went into the ditch on the Bear Lodge Mountain road, 12 miles west of Belle Fourche. They were pinned under the auto and were not fonmi until eight or 10 hours after the ac cident They have not regained consciousness and their condition is . critical. Pardon Recommendations '. ' For Debs Are Completed .Washington, Sept. 22. Recom mendations on the question of a par- don for Eugene V. Debs, socialist leader imprisoned at Atlanta for vio lation of the war laws, may be sent to President Harding next week, At torney General Daugherty said today. i The ' recommendations have been ' completed, Mr. Daugherty said. New York Socialist Colony Suffers $100,000 Fire New. Brunswick, N. J., Sept 22. -Fellowship Farm, a socialist colony at Stelton, N. Y., three miks from this city, was the scene of a $100,000 . fire today. Fellowship Farm hotel and another hotel building were de stroyed and the flames swept- through - a settlement of about 50 . bungalows. ?' Cooperage Association' ' Intervenes in Rate Case Washington. Snt 21. Pmniuinn to intervene in the case before the interstate commerce commission in- ; rolving freight rates on lumber from the south and southwest to north. eastern points were granted to the Associated V.ooperage Industry of North America by the interestate commerce cpmmissipn, -