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The Omaha Daily Bee
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OMAHA, TODAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1?22.
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TWO CKNTS
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iVI i 11 ! c I i Preacher amIWifc
' Who Charges Cruelty
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l'4lr HroHii'e Wife, Acking
Diwr. Declares in Court I
Htjehaiid Treated Her j
like Servant.
Decision Awaits Proof
Mr Irene I.oomis Brown hpped j
quietly into Omaha late Wednesday
and jr.sWrd.iy nionniis testified in
li'f ml to obtain 4 divorce front Kev.
Fdgar Merrill Ktown, patr of the
Diet! Memorial Methods church.
IKr pastor husband wa cither in
i Im-ago, where be Lad been stop.
p tig at tiie 1.4 I-hIIc It'.tcJ, or on
li''4n a train eiiroutc to Omaha, at.
i ordii'K to mends,
Sniait. in In r tn .i'A 1ic li.it and
f hi - ll.irrI coat, little Mr. Brown
i.icnl Putriit .Indue Sears yester
!y, and in re-pon-c to questioning
? the judge and tier attorney. Clint
B?ome, lic testified to tuT lllls-
i'.ind's alleged trurliy.
Father Also Testifies.
lltr lather, J. I!. I.ooiuis, a ehcin-:-t
at the Kiihardsou Drug company
also tcMified Ilis testimony corroho.
ited t fiat of the daughter, who said
Rev. Mr. I'.iown ta. ordered her
and her father from Ins home.
Mrs Brown is calm under the
u ic'inning of hrr counsel, who said
lie avoided questions which would
.Tie emotion. Mrs Brown's m's
it. Mrs. Walter 1 .00111 U of Den
Moinc. with whom Mrs. Brown has
lireu staying since her flight from
Orn.tha. caipe to Um.lha with her site-.
Mu. a,j a, 1 Omaha woman
v poe name v.-is not divulged, were
w'tli Mr. Brown in the court room.
.' i:!ier testified.
C. W. Dclamatre, counsel for Rev.
Mr. Brown, was present at the hear-j
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Asks No Alimony.
In her bill for divorce Mrs. Brown j
kcd no alimony nor attorney fees
Mie asked tost her husband stand
the court costs, however.
Judge Scars, who found Mrs.
Brown and her party waiting at his
comt room door when he arrived
yesterday, said he would sign the
flivorce decree on "evidence of cru
e'tv introduced this morning.
Juvenile Officer Vopburgh said he
would make an investigation into the
Ilrown case as is cu.stomary in all
uncontested divorce cases. He will
interview friends of the fainilv,
neighbors and Bishop Homer C.
Stunts, and report back to Jud
Sears in two or three days, he said.
The Urowns were married July
20, 19ltt. Mrs. Crown filed suit for
. it.orce January 12, leaving her home
the same dav for Pes Moines. She
Mnce has refused to be interviewed,
stating that she wished to protect
the name of her husband and avoid
publicity.
Files No Answer.
Although Bishop Stunt?.. who
failed in efforts to reconcile the cou
ple, had intimated that sudden ac
quisition of money by Mrs. Brown
had caused her to lofe interest in hrr
husband's church work, no mention
nf monev matters was made during
the hearing.
Mrp. Brown testified, in the course
nt the hearing, that her husband
"looked upon her as a servant in
stead of a wife"; that he ordered her
out of the house four times, that he
was cold and abused her in his
speech, and that he was cruel to her
father and ordered hini out of the
house twice.
Rev. Mr. Crown did not hie an
?i;ser to his wife's bill for divorce.
Mrs Jrznc Looms Bucm
R I i '''l I'fl viBudgctlo Improve
D l lijcll Uy Park Is Defeated
Weather iii
jNorlhwestl
Our Inquiring Neighbor
W lmi4trtn, lrl, Jl. -The f tie
appropriation f"f niamtfiiain-e and
lurtl'ir iiHptoveii'f ul fit iiiand lin
on S'4ioiul pjrk a ,tru-Veil from
the interior pj'r.priitivn till by tb' '.
senate fiiln, l').ire t'ie inrjuiie
ith the lioii.f for adjiiktntrnt M
. ,, ' doeu jinendment.
1 l-llUtCrullirr 1 U lilt" ItJllHiiV ,, l, Ihr .rni l,i!'..u r,( '
ipcetn iiv tuior lanifion, repun.
With ." to 1U Drjirrn lie
low Zero in MimiPMit.1
ait'l Dakota.
Omaha Swept by Gale'"
lu-aii. Arifc'tM. 111 viliich he market
the 'ueU. and wor.e than ue
leu" enpenihtuif of iiuhlic fund in
t.i(i win re nati'iiul rark ure to.
cjtrd, 111 order to "gratify t he wht''
of a iew who would profit
epr!tdil:ire.'
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'WAIhVVIWW. I llH J Kill j
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Mmn . Feb. .M.- Hli,i SwiTpill!! VYOi
;(ioiu i.reailcd .'main 1 I .'
May r ol low (-rash
of (liaul 15 1 imj
m, r.nii.
I ardv lond
early today throughout the iiotth-;
west. Ire seeyiul iUy ot T'e tii"s
evete storm of the year in this secj
tiiMi. however, touud the suowt.i'li
subsiding in the eastern part of the
! Dakota.
Temperature were fa hii laimPy 1 t r tli't ilt of Homa Mav iC
witli a to U U' Krees uciow cro tc-;
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j purieti 111 wrjierii ,iiniicsi'i'i nit
1 U.ikota.
One death had been reported today
as an indirect result of the btorn;, a
: woman hemu killed at KocheMcr. i
! Minn., through a short circuited'
electric wire.
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Milt in Invrrtigation of Kn
tire Ourction of Arrial
Oaft
Rev. Edgar M. Brown.
Kcnyon to Resign
From Senate Todav
(lliarlrs Hatvson to Ke Sworn
in as Successor Iowa Gov
ornor to Attend.
Hail Service Corporation
Asks Loan of $100,000,000
Washington, Feb. J3. An applica
tion for a government loan of $100.
tW.000 for the National Railway
Service corporation was made today
by its president, S. Davics Warlicld,
to the Interstate Commerce commis
sion. The loan was asked to facili
tate the corporation's .plan to pur
chase atnf repair all or any part of
the .iOO.OOO bad order freight cars
now on 'American railroads and to
provide new equipment in addition.
The service corporation proposes
to lease the cars which it would
acquire back to the railroads for
operation under an inspection and
rental system which would make
them available for traffic demands in
any part of the country, instead of
being considered part of the facilities
attached to any individual railroad.
American Dye Makers
"Exfrcising Monopoly"
Washington, Feb. 23. The senate
committee investigating the alleged
existence of a dye and chemical
monopoly, was told today by Senator
King, democrat, Utah, "that the
- American dye makers had become a
"highly integrated industry." and
that they were "exercising monopol
istic powers."
Convict Shows Affection
for Bat That Bites Jailer
Vienna, Feb. 23. A convirt in a
jail here was feeding a rat A priest
who saw him asked him why he did
this.
'T love this rat," said the convict.
Tl.. rtriec, wac much affected, and
1 . J .'tin... A'.A sm en
fond of the animal?"
"It bit the jailer," was the answer.
Washington. Feb. 23. Senator
Kenyon of Iowa will resign from the
senate tomorrow, following his ac
ceptance of an appointment as a
judge of the Eighth federal circuit
court of appeals, and w ill he suc
ceeded by Charles A. Kawson, re
publican stats chairman of Iowa.
Mr. Kawson is expected to be
sworn" in tomorrow. Governor Ken
dall of Iowa, and members of the
Iowa congressional delegation will
attend the ceremony and be guests
at a luncheon by Senator Cummins
of Iowa.
Retirement of Senator Kenyon will
leave vacant the chairmanship of the
senate committee on education and
labor. Senator Sterling, republican,
South Dakota, is understood to be
scheduled for the chairmanship. Sen
ator Corah, republican, Idaho, is in
line fur the plarc under the senate
seniority rule, but is chairman of
another committee which post, it is
said, he desires to retain.
Another vacancy to be filled by
the retirement of Senator Kenyon
is that of the chairmanship of the
unofficial bipartisan agricultural
bloc. Senator Capper, republican,
Kansas, is scheduled for this posi
tion. Bluffs Police Receive
Note on Baldwin Case
Capt. J. C. Shafer of the Council
ElutTs police department has received
a mysterious note spout the murder
of Walter Baldwin mail wagon
driver, who was shot July 14, 121.
The note was in an envelope hearing
a return card to "New Bell hotel,
Odcbolt, la." It says:
"Capt.. Shaffer, the girl who fat
on the seat with Baldwin, the mail
man w ho was shot dead, is bark here.
She is stopping: in Omaha. I don't
know where. She can tell you the
man who killed him. I know what
I am talking about. Her first name
is Hazel S or R . She wants to
tell you, but is afraid of the man
That's why she came back here. J.
L. W."
Police say it had been established
definitely that a young girl was on
the seat with Baldwin when he left
the Union Pacific transfer 011 the
night he was killed.
"Bluebeard of Gambais''
Gets Stay of Execution
Paris, Feb. 28. Henri Landru, the
"Bluebeard of Gambais," who was
to have been guillotined this week
for the murder of 10 women and a
boy, has been given an additional
few days of grace. This was brought
about today by M. Moro-Giaffcri, his
chief counsel during Landru's trial,
who presented to President Miller
and further arguments which the
president is considering.
He promised to render a decision
within a few days on the appeal for
commutation of Landru's sentence.
England Invites Irish
Pact Signers to Meet
London, Feb. 23. (By A. P.)
THe British government has invited
the Irish signatories to the Anglo
Irish treaty-to come to London for
an early conference on the whole sit
uation, it was announced in the
house of commons today by Wip
ton Churchill, secretary for the colonics,
Triplets Live; Mother
Dies After Operation
Danville. III., Feb. 23,-Mrs.
John Plowe, mother of girl trip
lets bern here Tuesday, died here
late yesterday following a Caesar
ian operation, said to have been the
first of its kind in this section of
the country. -
The three babies are said to be
in the best of health.
Mrs. Plowe was well known in
Peoria and Galesburg, where she
had been employed as telegraph
editor and society editor before her
I marriage.
Sweeninciu from the Rocky mouti-
t tain region, the storm which began
1 uesday night with Iiglititing anu
I thunder, snow, hail, sleet and ram,
was rapidly moving eastward today.
Skate to School. -In
some parts of southern Minne
sota the ground was coveted with
troni one to three inencs 01 ice.
Children skated to and from
school. Seven high school strdents
of Welcome. Mm-, skated eight
miles to Fairmont on th'. public
highway, which was covered with
ice as "smooth as glass. They re-
1 turned the same way.
Winds ranging trom 3u to j0
miles an hour swept the light snow
, in the Dakotas into huge drifts.
Duluth, with nearly 30 inches of
snow, reported drifts in tnanv places
more than 20 feet high. Members
! of the. tank corps, national guard,
j brought out tanks earlv todav to
1 buck the drifts.
j Trains Annulled.
Most trains out of Duluth were
annulled. Railroads running out of
the Twin Cities were making efforts
to keep their crack trains running,
hoth west and east, but many were
from 3 to 24 hours late and several
! were reported stalled in drifts.
i Several hundred poles belonging
to the American Telephone and tel
egraph companv between Toinah
and Warrens, Wis., a distance of
about 190 miles, were snapped off
during the sleet storm, severing
communication between the Twin
Cities and LaCross, Wis., and Chi
cago. It Wasn't Cold Here; '
Just the North Wind
"Coldest morning this year," was
the opinion expressed by many a
huddling and puffing pedestrian yes
terday morning.
But it wasn't. The official weather
bureau thermometer marked only as
low as 6 above zero. It was the
06-mile wind, howling out of the
north, that made it seem so cold.
The coldest this year was 5 below
zero. The contrast with Wednesday
morning also made the cold seem
more intense. Wednesday morning
there was a balmy 59 above zero.
Fair and continued cold last night
was the forecast.
There was .83 of an inch of rain,
sleet and snow Wednesday. The cold
est weather in the state Wednesday
night was at Valentine. 6 below zero.
The Northwestern Bell Telephone
company reported several wire
breaks in Nebraska due to the sleet.
The Western Union company also
had a few wire breaks.
On the Burlington railroad wires
to VK9 Two. Column
Church Is Unconscious
of Approaching Death
Chicago, Feb. 23. Apparently
unconscious of the fact that his last
hope of escaping death on the gal
lows had disappeared, Harvev
Church, convicted of the murder of
two automobile salesmen, lav in his
cell today in the same position that J
he has maintained for many days.
Warden Westbrook said that be
cause of his weakness he probably
would have to be carried to the gal
lows and dropped from the trap
seated on a chair. He is being fed
forcibly, it was announced.
Judge Kickham Scanlan today de
nied a motion for a new sanity trial
for Church.
Younp Woman Drives Auto
for Bandits Who Get $4,000
Granite City. Ill, Feb. 23. With
a young woman driving their auto
mobile, bandits held up and robbed
Lou's Cool, proprietor of a soft
drink parlor of $4,000. The bandits
overlooked $3,800, which Cool had
secreted under his coat.
The girl. It was said, was about
22. neatly dressed, pretty and ap
peared adept in handling an auto
mobile. Capital Society Leaders
Threatened With Death
Washington. Feb. 23. Threats of
death unless large sums of money,
ranging from $15,000 to $25,000. arc
paid were said by Washington police
today to have been received within
the last few days by four prominent
social leaders of the capital. The po
lice aswcll as Department of Justice
operatives were said to be investigat
ing the origin of the threats.
WdahuiXtun, Feb. 23. An in
quiry by the army it service into
the whole question of the military
value of lighter-than-air craft ii ex
pected to grow out of the Roma !
di-aster.
OlticiTs oi the air service said to
dav that such mi inquiry would be
necessary, because loss of the Koniai
had entirely upet training and opcr-
'ititiiv nrfiitr.iii. fiir tll.1l lilatli'll ni
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WIC MIYIll. I firm li'C 1 1 1 I U 1 1 . . Ii in
understood, will eoihc a drcision as
to whether there is sufficient military
value, direct or indirect, in the em
ployment by the army of dirigible
aircraft of great size to warrant
recommendations to congress for the
acquisition of new craft of the
lighter-than-air type.
Secretary Weeks, in this connec
tion, said today that he had not dis
cussed with his military advisers,
the replacement oi the Roma, but
felt there was no justification for
asking the purchase or construction j
of a new vessel of the same type. J
Weeks Satisfied.
The war secretary, after a comer-1
ence with 'Major General Patrick. I
chief of the army air service, whoj
had just returned from Langleyi
field, where he made a personal in- j
vesication of the disaster, was rep-;
resented as satisfied on the basis of
present information that the accident
was due to the breaking of elevating
rudder controls or of the supports
for the elevating gear and that there
was no structural defect of a nature
that probably could have been de
tected in advance. Mr. Weeks said
he would have development records
investigated fully to see what report
had been made by operating officers
at any time as to the condition of
the ship.
He had no knowledge, he said, of
any complaint in connection with the
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Reservation
on Pacific
Pad I'buglil
Lodge Moilific.iiioii. lirr
Meeting Willi lliirilinj.
WntjM Ghe t.itiigri'M De
t iion on tVe if Arm.
Sister States
Claim Jackson
as Native Son
Move Launched j Representative
to Recall Harvev; of Farmers Favor
HcnrvFord Offer
ability of the crew to control the
flight of the Roma, except for the
motor difficulties which led to the
replacing of the original Italian en
gines with American-built Liberty
motors.
If any oflicer of the Roma had
knowledge before the accident of
weaknesses of the vessel, or struc
tural or other defects which rend
ered it in the least unsafe for opera
tion. Mr. Weeks said it was the duty
of that officer to report the facts
to his superiors for the protection
of himself wnd his associates on the
ihip.
Congress Not to Blame.
Secretary Weeks and General Pat
rick took issue with published state-
(Turn 1 Pane Two. Column
Press Association
Asks Cut in Postage
Chicago, Feb. 23. A reduction of
postage rates on second-class mat
ter to the 1919 level was asked in an
?ppeal sent to congress by members
of the Inland Daily Press associa
tion. The resolution says the rate
continues 300 per cent higher than
before the war and was marie as a
war measure, working a hardship on
the publishing industry.
E. P. Mann, president of the
North Dakota Retail Merchants'
association, told members of the
association that where mail order
houses took $30,000,000 worth if
business out of North Dakota in
1918, newspaper advertising by North
Dakota merchants has forced the big
mail order houses into active competition.
Long-Standing Dispute Be
tween IS'orlh and South
Carolina Again Revived
in House Debate.
Representative Ryan Intro- j
I duces Resolution Aimed at !
Ambassador to Britain.
Joint Attack Launched
W aihuiKt-'u. I eh. - i-.U'dii.e I
tect atiou to the i"ii.pnwcr l'ui itic
treaty, laid before the eu.ite foifiigti
relation ei'iiunitti r today hv I Im"
'man t mine alter ,i mm riiie with
I'lesideut ll.iidnii: u.it willi inline
ill.ite ippiiMtlotl tioiii M'H'Ml t'pun
heaiis, a well ui diiHiir.itic tonimi'.
lee inrmheis.
The new irsrr jlinu, iutendid a
substitute f"r i hut Jin-posed srmal
ihiNs ao hv Seii.i'or Ui.iiiiltvie, ti
I'lililic.ui, Coiineet'eiit, pioeiilr lhai
nothing in the treat v shall be emi
sttiied as eouin.iliiiig tie l inted
States to an exeric of aimed torn:
without the i"nsent oi cniiKiesv
After a long debate, whull failed
to will oer t-j the new propo...tl apv
of the sen.itois who had tuipportrd
the I'.iaudrgrc reservation, the com
tiniltee adiniirncd until toiunirow
without action, ..
Suggested Modification.
Although Senator Lodye did no'
inform his colleagues specifically as
to the attitude of the president, other
committee members gained the im
pression that the modified rcscna
lion would be acceptable to the
1 White House. It had been dts
; usseil at the eailier eonfcienecs be
itween Mr. Lodge and Mr. Harding.
; but it was not formally offered to
the committee with administration
! backing. The committee chairmati
said afterward that he onlv had
i "suggested it."
Senators Horah, republican. Ida
ho, and Johnson, republican. Cali
j fornia. both pronounced the niodi
j fed draft as unsatisfactory, while
t Senator F.randcgcc and other rcpub
j lican and democrat advocates of tho
j Krandcgcc reservation withheld a
j decision and indicated by their atti
i Hide in the discussion that thev did
j cot find the new proposal readilv
i acceptable,
At the close of committee session
i no member would predict whether
Military Committee Urged to j "7 ation could muster a
Ilia Ontv nt The mninii nn
Washington, Feb. 23. The long
standing dispute between North and
South Carolina as to which state
produced Andrew Jackson was de
bated in the house today, but there
was no decision. A photostat copy
of a letter by Jackson saying he
was, born in South Carolina was pre
sented by Representative Stevenson
of that state, because there hni
"been engrafted into the permanent
volume of the Congressional Rec
ord the myth that Jackson was born
in North Carolina."
Representative Hammer of North
Carolina, standing un for his ow-.i
state, insisted the records accepted
as authentic, showed beyond ques
tion that North Carolina was en
titled to the honor.
As the discussion became heated,
Representative Byrnes of Tennessee
said:
"While they may be doubt as to
where Jackson was born, there was
no doubt as to where he moved,
once he reached his majority. lie
went to the volunteer state of Ten
nessee, there to live and die."
During the friendly wrangling
members wanted to know exactly
what it was that the. governor of
North Carolina said to the Governor
of South Carolina on a certain his
toric occasion antedating the Vol
stead law. Mr. Stevenson swept
away all doubt on this point by de
claring that he actually said:
"It is a devil of a long time be
tween drinks."
Chief Guide in Grand Canyon
Marries Washington Girl
Chandler. Ari.. Feb. 23. W. W.
(Bill) Huggett, for many years chief
guide in the grand canyon and char
acterized in several novels the plots
of which were set in the southwest,
and Miss Muriel Dcnys, daughter of
the Rev. F. W Denys of Washing
ton. D. G. were married here today.
Washington. Feb. 23. A resolu
tion designed to bring about the re-
; call from F.ngland of Ambassador!
.Harvey was introduced today by'
j Representative Ryan, republican. New j
I i orlt-. J he measure proposes a con-
Accept Proposal for Mus
cle Shoals Weeks Gels
Alahamu Offer.
-, ...... ,s'ssiuurti auinorizHuon. i nat pos-
itary committee on the question ot I sjhility. is specifically treated in the
J'..' rrt,-,rrtviM-l. firV..i .'.. .- . .
majority of the committee.
i Might Become Binding.
' Those who found the reservation
: inacceptable were said to have ar
; gued that it did not fully cover the
: possibility that decisions reached un-
,-. ,j ,v,:j,, oer tnc treaty provmons not ltivolv
Aashiniiton. heb. 2t. Cons-dera- , ,r,,i rI , .
grcssional investigation ot state-! "on was such wj i-j ing on tins government without con-
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merits maae ov rne amoassanor; '" nt"1"""" ". ijiessionai aumorization. that po-
auroati wun a view oi naving jum
dctarhed from his post in London.
Mr, Ryan quoted extracts from
press reports of Mr. Harvey's ad
dress at the dinner recently given
in Lond"n in honor of A. J. Bal
four, a British delegate to the arms
conference, and also referred to re
marks made by the ambassador soon
after hi? arrival in Kngland in ref
erence to the motives which prompt
ed the tutted States to eitter the
war.
Contending thai various statements
of Mr. Harvey "reflect discredit
upon the aims and ideals of the
spirit that actuates the citizens Of
the United States and constitute an
attempt to cast aspersions upon the
patriotism and ideals . of American
citizens," Mr. Ryan asserted that
"the attitude" of the American am
bassador has "at all times shown
him to he a proponent of England's
aims and ambitions rather than those
of the country he is supposed to
represent."
Loans Made hy Government to States
in 1836 Proposed for Bonus Revenue
Congressman Andrews" Suggests Long-Forgotten
Debts Be Collected and Used for Soldier Compen
sationHave Grown to $124,770,899.
Raid Alcohol Warehouse.
Chicago, Feb. 23. A dozen armed
bandits today backed two trucks up
to a warehouse of the. United States
Industrial Alcohol company and) The representative from the Hast
after overpowering half a dozen em- ings district then said that congress
ployes. loaded the trucks with bar- had passed a law in 1836 to deposit
rets ot alcohol and escaped.
Washington, Feb. 23. (Special
Telegram.) Representative An
drews threw a .small bombshell into
the house today in speaking to a joint
resolution which he introduced call
ing upon certain states to pay back
into the treasury deposits made by
the government during Jackson's
time, the money thus returned to be
used in meeting the soldier bonus.
Government Had Surplus.
Mr. Andrews said that in 1836, in
the time of President Jackson, there
was a surplus of $42,000,000 in the
national treasury, "the only surplus,"
he said, "that I now recall that ever
appeared under a democratic admin
istration. This statement was fol
lowed with derisive laughter from
the democratic side
the national treasury, providing the
states would accept the deposits sub
ject to the call of the government for
principal and interest.
Twenty-six states accepted de
posits under the act of June 23, 1836,
ranging from $4,000,000 to New
York to $2S6.OO0 to Arkansas, Dela
ware and Michigan.
Others Not Enthused.
Ordering the return of these de
posits. Mr. Andrews said, to be used
for the payment of the soldiers'
bonus on a basis of 4 per cent, would
net on principal and interest $124,
770.899 and this amount, added to the
British loan, would give an abun
dance of funds to settle the account
of adjusted compensation promptly.
"Will the states that owe this
money pay it bark?" Andrews asked;
and a chorus of "oh's" and "ah's"
greeted mm wttn exclamations ol we
Jin various states the funds then in j owe the government nothing."
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Health Commissioner
Warns Against Smallpox
New York, Feb. 23. Smallpox
joined with influenza and pneumonia,
is causing concern to health depart
ment officials.
While the number of new in
fluenza and pneumonia cases re
ported each day has been steadily de
creasing. Health Commissionci
Copeland gave warning of the dan
ger of smallpox. Three men are in
a Brooklyn hospital, suffering with
the disease.
There were 242 new influenza cases
and 20 deaths reported Thursday, as
compared with 400 cases, .and 31
deaths Tuesday. The number of new
pneumonia cases today was 17 and
deaths 111. as compared with 26
cases and 104 deaths Tuesday.
Dr. Copeland said he believed that
within a week the influenza epi
demic will practically have disap
peared. Government to Seize All
Fuel Coming Into Moscow
Moscow, Feb. 23. (By A. P.)
The railway commissariat has de
cided to confiscate all fuel coming
into Moscow. The fuel is to be used
for the movement of railway trains.
The order will greatly affect the
industries of Moscow.
The railway administration in the
Ukraine also has decided to con
fiscate all coal coming from the
Donetz basin.
The fuel crisis has reached a most
acute stage. The government, never
theless, is making every effort to
give American relief administration
corn shipments preference over other
shipments.
Sees Soviet Bankruptcy
Worcester, Mass., Feb. 23. The
prediction that it would notvbe long
before the Russian soviet govern
ment "would be bankrupt and over
thrown" was made by Dr. Joseph M.
Goldstein in an address at a confer
ence on Russian affairs at Clark uni
versity today. Dr. Goldstein was
formerly director of political
economy at the University of Mos
cow and for many years economic
adviser to ministers under the im
perial government,
disoosinz of the government's pow
er and nitrate projects at Muscle
Shoals, Ala., to private enterprises
for completion and operation,
At the War department Secretary
Weeks received the final draft of
the offer made by Frederick E.
Enestrum of Wilmington. N. C, for
completion of the Wilson dam and the Pacific
operation of the nitrate plants tor i
the fixation of nitrogen from the lf-av Spplrina Npw
air and production of fertilisers un-lllaV vJLCMtlg ICW
der a proposed 50-year lease.
At the capital the military com-.
s- c-"i tr!.1)
mittce nearci urav auvcr ami t. i . ,
reservation of Senator Brandecee.
The committee will meet again to
morrow and in the meantime num
erous conferences are to be held.
At the same time, the! senate itself
had before it for debate the separate
treaty with Japan relating to Yap
and other former German islands in
Azores-Genoa Cable
Bower, Washington representatives
of the American Farm Bureau led
eration. who advocated the proposal
made by Henry Ford for a 100-year
lease and outright purchase of the
Muscle Shoals projects. Both de
nounced the offer submitted by the
Alabama Power company for pur
chase of the steam plant and 50
year lease of the remaining proper
ties. Only two requests remained be
fore the committee tonight for hear
ings, including that of the Alabama
Power company, whose spokesmen,
headed by S. H. Dent, farmer chair
man of the committee, were sched
uled to appear tomorrow in explan
ation of the company's claim for op
tional rights on the Warrior prop
erty in the event it is disposed of
to other private interests.
The Muscle Shoals question a'so
was discussed in the house when
Representative Huddleston of Ala
bama declared that 99 per cent of the
people of Alabama urged accept
Washington, Feb. 23. In re
sponse to a call from Acting Secre
tary Fletcher of the State depart
ment, the, ambassadors of Great
Britain, France, Italy and Japan met
today at the State department and
resumed consideration of the prob
lem of the distribution of the former
German Atlantic cables.
The Italian government is now
seeking to obtain an entirely new
cable from the Azores to Genoa,
hoping to establishing the connec
tion from the Azores to New York
over the new cable which is to be '
laid by private American enterprises
from the Azores to America. This
new cable will be constructed by
a new process which, it is claimed,
will; give it five-fold jnore capacity
than existing lines.
Italy feels it is justified in asking
the other powers to provide for this
new Italian link in consideration of
the allotment to them of the exist
ing cables.
ance of the Ford proposal. He as- Bandits Roh Jewel Broker
serted they would rather see the
Tennessee river go unharnessed than
have the Alabama Power company
take over the Muscle" Shoals prop
erty. Mississippi Governor
Accuses Insurance Men
Jackson, Miss., Feb. 23. Governor
Russell, in a special message to the
legislature today charged certain fire
insurance interests with responsi
bility for the $100,000 breach of
promise suit brought against him
by Miss Frances Birkhand, who also
alleged seduction.
Famous Attorney Dies.
Los Angeles. Feb. 23. Early Rog
ers, once known as one of the great
est criminal 'lawyers of the west,
dropped dead today in a hotel room.
The body was found by a business
associate.
The Weather
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Dftvunport ?! Kapid City
Denver 14'Kait l4ili
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Laniler 4- Sioux City
North Tlaite 16j
of Diamonds Worth $20,000
New York, Feb. 23. After forcing
Jacob Wisnack, wholesale jewel
broker, into an automobile at the
point of pistols .two bandits todav
robbed him of $20,000 in diamonds
which he carried in a brief case,
knocked him unconscious and
dumped him out on the pavement.
They escaped.
Across the street stood a police
man, a fireman and a street cleaner,
examining a hydrant but Wisnack
made no outcry and they did not see
his predicament.
John D. Has Not Given His
Consent to Wedding, Report
Layiona. Ma., I cb. 23. John D.
Rockefeller, sr., grandfather of 16-year-old
Mathilde MrConnielc, whose,
engagement to Max Oscr, Swiss rid
ing academy proprietor, has been
announced by members of the Mci
Cormirk family, has not given his
consent to the match, according to
close friends here of Mr. Roekefel-
ler. Mr. Rockefeller is now at the
Casements, his winter home at Or
niond beach, near here.
Harold F. McCorinick, recently
divorced by Mr. Rockefeller's daugh
ter, and Miss Mathildc McCorinick
will visit Mr. Rockefeller at Ormond
soon to discuss the proposed mar
riage, it was said today.
Weeks to Take Vacation.
Washington. Feb. 23. Secretary
of War and Mrs. Weeks will leave
Washington tomorrow for Miami,
Fla., for a vacation. They are ex
pected to spend three week' in Florida.