The Omaha Daily Bee VOL, A I -NO. 2 lit. m bM4 nw mum tn u. im m OMAHA, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1922. f ) II Wtt !. (M tM. U . I.'. IM IM IHi tUM M (I MI (tilt M) Illi , '. M TWO CENTS f, . km Am at Mt i. 17 . IT UVL "r JV M 1 mm mm, of Coal Strike Unto Operators Ni )ii4rri John L Ithm, I iiin n l.liirf, m ii. r Hear, ingt mi llr.uluti'Mi to 1 1 1 -rUtr Ulki.iil. Says Agreement Broken 4'.liiii!il, April J, I'liimi coal in- t who i.mimI work htlir ,''. iii ihf ihhhm l.iiiifiiiiu.iit and i i llif. itr 1 1 In, were ilri i.irril il.iy I'v John 1. Lewi, rftidrnt of 1 lie t. inif J M uff Worker, of America in l.c ilrtiruii ill riul iiK "llic in pin nun i( mining operation Hi the r-ilir poi i,r lUtr," lull "the rr niiiiptmn of cnl production rntirelv liprnd iim tlie lulurc altitude of ll ceil operator. " Mr. l.rwi UMilt thi dci lratiotl .n..i the home labor committee which i liniiiif hearing on (lie I'.Und ir,i)luion tit direct appoint ment by lli (rrid'iit of a loiinnii- Hi intrttiuate the coal imlutUy Ii.ruing the resolution iindrr con . deration, the United Mine Worker )reidrnt aerird llut In organi- Si raiitmi, I'a, A t il J. 'I'liuu .tii'l, of niiiir worker in the Sainton iilrtct, where approxi mately O.UiHI men anil hoy arc idle a a reMilt of the mine mis priMion, were out tmUy in search oi employment in oilier industries. I'liililum rnntuctor in many sec tion of tin tily were hiring min er. The tipitiMoii remained 100 prr t r nt rllectivc today. ritinn would welcome "any impar tul and judicial investigation of the grneral condition in the bituminous and anthracite roal industries, and priially the fact relating to invest ment and profit, operating practices, I'onsertation of furl resources, appli cation o( uniform methods of safe guarding the I lie and limb of the workers and industrial relation and koiidilioiis. Commission Should Be Free. SutW -an investigation body." he added, 'Should be rlothcd with full Vomer to ascertain the truth to send lor person and paper and to take, t'fitmiony under oatli. The personnel of tich a commission should be rec from political equation and the miner worker should be given ade quate representation thereon." "As to the adjustment of con trovert between operator and mine workers, we have becu tradi tionally oppo.-ed to government in tervention," Mr. Lewis continued. "Wc have been convinced by experi ence that surh adjustments may be more effectively and equitably work ed out both In the interest of ihe pub lic and of thoo engaged in the in dustry by conference and agreement between representatives of the oper ator and the mine workers. If the operator had maintained their con tract with Mi, the present deplor able condition of affair in the soft coal industry would not have arisen. All differences would have been sct- (Tiin, In Pat" T. Column Two.) Man With 13 Wives Sentenced to Prison , Indianaooli. April 3. Isiah Moore, who ha U marriages to his credit, was sentenced to serve from two to 14 years in the state re formatory on a charge of embezzle ment and was fined $1,000 and costs and disfranchised for five years. Moore, who is said by police to have confessed to having at least I.? wives in various parts of the United State, also was sentenced to serve from two to five years in the slate prion on a charge of bigamy. Moore pleaded guilty to the bigamy tlargc. Moore is said to have embezzled 5512 from Miss Harriet ' Evans of Mexico. (Ind.) school teacher, his 13th wife. Moore, according to the police. Is said to have obtained more than 5J.70O from his 13 wives. In each cae after he had been wedded a week he disappeared. Enforcement -of Dry Law Magnificent, Says Haynes Buffalo. X. V.. April 3. Roy Haynes, federal prohibition commis sioner, here declared that the en forcement of the federal prohibition law is going on magnificently. The Uw is being enforced, he said, better than the mol confident prohibitionist could have expected. He declared there are 30 organizations working to convince the country that prohi bition enforcement is a failure. He denied that any crime wave is due to prohibition, asserting it would be a, logical to attribute such to woman saiirage. The chief difficulty in en forcing the law. he admitted, is the apathetic citizen. Women Smokers Told They Rik Ruining Their Eyes Ronton. April 3. Women are wa-ned not to smoke tinder peril of T-i.nire their eyeight by Dr. t. A Va! of Columbia university school tt erUometrv. who spoke before the contention of optometrist here. "No individual who ha as bighlv. Ifrloped an organism as the female ef ne recie hould indu'ee in a rcttc a now crful as tobacco,' tai l Dr. WYJ Marshal Named for District of Columbia Edgar C. Snyder. Nomination of Edgar C. Snyder Sent to Senate Was Adie Newspaper Man in Omaha 11 Years and lice's Washington Cor respondent. I'.dgar C. Snyder, Washington cor respondent of The Omaha Bee, was i.ominated by President Harding yesterday to be United State mar shal for the District qf Columbia. Mr. Snyder's name was sent to the senate vesterday afternoon. Confir mation Is considered certain, the ap pointment to be effective probably April 11. The Xcbraskan's appointment had the indorsement of the Nebraska del egation in congress and of Washing ton newspapermen, with whom he had served for many years. Mr. Snyder was an active news paper man ih Omaha for 11 years, from 1884 to 1895. He was city edi tor of the Omaha Republican at first, and later reporter and city editor of The Bee. In 1895 he went to Wash ington as The Bee's correspondent, a position which he held continuously for 27 years, one of the longest records of newspaper service in the national capital. few newspaper men in Washington have been better known about the capital or at na tional political conventions. Mr. Snyder is a member of the Na tional Tress and the Gridiron clubs, having been president of the latter famous organization in 1915. Farmers Active in Sewer Election Hold Mass Meeting at Grand Island in Interest - of New Outlet. Grand Island, Neb.,-April 3. (Spe cial Telegram.) Twenty farmers re siding along the Wood river, w ithin a short distance of the outlet of the city's sewer system, late today took a hand in- the most important issue before the voters at tomorrow's elec tion, by warning the citizens of their determination to sue for damages in the event the sewer bond proposition is rejected. At a meeting attended by them, resolutions were adopted determining upon this court andt also appointing a committee to wait'upon the Ameri can Beet Sugar company and the Loup Valley Packing company with the renuest that these industrial in stitutions equip themselves with dis posal plants and cease dumping their refuse into the river. As long as a vrar aro thrcr romo atnants cot to gcther for an organized effort to rid themselves of the sewer outlet nui sance, but were dissuaded from prior action by the promises of the city officials to submit a bond proposition as tnnn as nlans could be pertectea. There is douDt m many minus whether the $300,000 proposition will nrrv Th ritv has been notified lone since by the state board of health, that it must put in the dis posal plant, which is a part of the plan. " One of Last Survivors of Custer's Army Dies in Ohio Akron. O., April 3. Reuben L Harris. 73, one of the last survivors of Custer's armv. which gained fame by fighting the Indians in the west in the 70s ot the last century, is dead here. He was engaged on a surveying corps with Custer's band whrn" the Sioux launched their at tack which practically wiped out the party. "Human Wolf Wounded Harrison, Ark., , April 3. Yates Standridge. known as the "Human Wolf," lately paroled convict who holds the record in the state for the number of times he escaped from the penitentiary today lies wounded here as the result of a running fight in which Harry Campbell w as killed. The fight is believed to have been the result of a deal over a keg of liquor which Standridge and his nephew, Alonzo Standridge. are said to have brought to Harrison from their home m Newtown county Sat urday night. Shakeup In Print Shop Explained Secretary Mellon Says Di niUnttl of Director Wilmctli and 23 Officials Makes for Ilcttrr Efficiency. No Question of Honesty Hjr Till. Auorlalm! Vrr. Washington, April 3. The reor ganization of the bureau of engrav ing and printing, through the ex ecutive order issued lat Friday by 1'rcsident Harding, removing Jamc L. Wilmcth. it dirertor, and .'8 other officials, wa explained on the ground of "efficiency" by Secretary Mellon. No charge involving the honesty of any of the dismissed bu reau officials have been tiled. Treas ury department officers said. Mr. Mellon' announcement of the change made in the administrative personnel of the bureau wa the first light thrown upon the presi dent's action since the announce ment of the order at the White House. Meanwhile speculation has been rile in official circles over the sudden removal of the officials and resolutions were introduced in both senate and house today, seeking to elicit further information from the president. Senator Caraway, democrat, Ar kansas, introduced a resolution call ing upon the president to explain the changes made, if not incompat ible with public interest, as to the cause of the action taken in the bu reau and under what authority of law the changes were made. Action Follows Complaint. Representative Moore, democrat, Virginia, at the same time intro duced a resolution for the appoint ment of a special house committee to investigate the changes. Reorganization of the "bureau heads, according to Mr. Mellon, came as a culmination of a num ber of investigations into the operation of the plant, following complaints as to the efiicicency of its operation. The seeming abrupt ness of the change, he explained, by the unexpectedness of the an nouncement, although he recalled similar sudden, changes in official positions during the McKinley ad ministrations. - - ' Assistant Secretary of the Treas ury Wadsworth, Mr. Mellon said, made a number of investigations of the bureau, as did other' treasury of ficials, while Director of .Budget Dawes brought A. R. Barnes from Chicago to look into the efficiency of the output of the plant. . Mr. ' Barnes, he declared, is the proprietor and an engraving establishment somewhat approaching the magni tude of the government plant and is considered an expert on the subject. Waste Found in Methods. These various investigations, Mr. Mellon continued, disclosed condi tions in the bureau warranting changes. Waste was found, he said, losses to the government running into large sums because of paper being spoiled in the new presses, lack of modern methods for keeping plates and other unsatisfactory con ditions. Assignment of Justice department agents to the bureau by Attorney General Daugherty, Mr. Mellon de clared, was merely a matter of pre caution in going over the stock in the plant, as there were no specific charges of irregularity or defalcation against any of the dismissed em ployes. Treasury accountants have been put to work chacking up the bureau's operations, he declared, "but such a step has always been the custom when a change in' the directorship takes place." Say Farmers Evaded Paying for State Hail Insurance Lincoln, April 3. State hail in surance policies became available to Nebraska farmers April 1, with the law permitting policy applicants to ?pay the premium June 1. 'As 114 policy holders last year directed their banks' to stop payment on post dated checks for this purpose, there by receiving a two-months' protec tion' at no cost, A. L. Drian, hail adjuster, said today he would sug gest to the department that these 114 farmers be denied insurance this year, if it was solicited. The bank order has been changed this year, making it impossible to evade payment. Nebraska Hotel Company ' Hearing Put Off to, April 21 Lincoln, April 3. Postponement until April 21 rfor hearing final arguments in the receivership litiga tfo of the Nebraska Hotel company and the Nebraska Building and In vestment company was granted by the state supreme court today, after attorneys for the interveners had filed supplemental briefs. Efforts are being made to set aside the sale of various properties to Eugene C. Eppley of Sioux City for $1,000,000, which includes hotels at Omaha, Kansas City. Scottsbluff, Table Rock, Columbus. Franklin and Lincoln. Attorneys to Ask New Trial for Woman Who Slew Mate Lincoln. April 3. Attorneys "for Mrs. Willctte Snook, found guilty Skturday of second degree murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of her husband, stated that they would file a motion for a new trial in district court today. 1 Former Butler drains' of $60,000 Jewel Vj Serv, Police Head Says at 1 Ma, vs .oric tu ..uay for Bigger Game, Commissioner ."Believes Arrests Predicted Soon. Ht The AwarUlr4 Frm. New York, April 3. Police Com iniskioiirr r.urinlit today asserted that a former butler wi the brain of the $00,000 jewel robbery in Washington qiurc yesterday. This man,, according to the com. tr.isMOiicr, robbed Albert K. Slut tuck, retired banker, in 1917, and re turned again to rob. Thit time it wa a bolder deed for bigger game. Before the jewel were whinked from the hou-c. Mr. and Mr. Sliattuck and their eight servant were im prisoned in a wine vault, where they were saved from the danger of suffo cation by the ingenuity of Mr. Shat tuck in unscrewing the bolt with a penknife and coin. c have arrested one of the rob bers and hope to have them all in custody in a short time," declared the commissioner. there were indications mat tne police, convinced that the job wa engineered by a master robber with the technique of a Parisian apache, might sift New England for trace of a band operating against the houses of the wealthy m various state. Other Robberie Reported. The New England angle wa in troduced by Maj. Osbom Field oi 1' if tli avenue, who called at police headquarters with the information that last year the summer home of his father-in-law at Lenox. Mass, was robbed by a French butler who never had been apprehended. His Court Excludes Depositions in Arbuckle Trial Statements of Chicago Phys ician Thrown Out of Record Woman Witness Causes Sensation. San Francisco. Aoril 3. The en tire deposition of Dr. Samuel Sea bury Graves of Chicago was exclud ed from the record of the third man slaughter trial of Roscoc. (Fatty) Arbuckle today after a long argu ment between counsel. A portion of the. deposition had been read into the record. Dr. Graves' statement was held by Judge Harold Louderback to be of no value because the physician could not be absolutely certain that a wo man he treated about 10 years ago was really Virginia Rappe, movie ac tress, for whose death Arbuckle is on trial. The court also abbreviated the ad mitted portion of the sworn state ment of Dr. Paul Ralph Hirschman of Chicago. Only about 10 per cent of his affidavit was allowed in evi dence. In this he declared that he bad met Miss Rappe when she lived in Chicago and had seen her double up with pain after taking several drinks. ' ' . Mrs. Helen Adeline Whitehurst of Chicago caused something of a sen sation when she repudiated that por tion of her deposition previously taken in which she was reported to have stated that Miss Rappe had been seized with attacks at her home on several occasions. She said the seizures occurred only twice. F ilming of Church Goers Causes Record Attendance Woodsficld, O., April 3. A. novel and effective means, of augmenting church attendance was used here recently, when a movie film artist advertised that to complete a reel of local scenes folk would be filmed leaving the churches. Record-breaking congregations greeted all the lo cal places of worship as a result. Finance Body 0. K.s Farm Loans of $95,000 in State Washington. April 3. (Special Telegram.) The War; Finance cor poration announced that from March 30 to April 1 it approved agricul tural and livestock loans in Nebras ka amounting to $95,000, and $82,000 in Iowa Thieves Carry Grain From Beatrice Elevator in Auto Beatrice. Neb., April 3. (Special Telegram.) Thieves entered the Farmers elevator here last night and carried off a considerable amount of grain in a motor car. . You can phone your "Want'.'Ad to The Bee from 8:30 a, m. to 9 p. tn, 17th and Farnam AT Untie 1000 Millionaire in 1917 and Re- own home at .Sunkbride, Ma,, wa entered March .'2 and the al leged robber arretted at Springfield, he said. Another reference to New Eng land wa made by Eugenia Unset, a I rciuh ailor. who wa grilled after In arrest a one of the robber band. According to the police, Diasct ad milted he recently came from Cmi neticut where he nerved a term after, having been convicted in Hartford for carrying a piMnl. Diasrt'a story wa that he had been induced to join in the Shatttick robberv by a mysterious Frenchman named Henri, wluini he had met in Madison Square park and who, the police believed, wa the former Shaltuck butler. Appear at Police Station. Mr. Shatturk appeared at police headquarters bright and early and wa assured the best detective were being put on the case. He was taken to the rogues' gallery to sec if he could discover there a picture of the butler. "It was the most outrageous and highhanded crime I had ever heard of." said Mr. Shattuck, "especially when one considers that there were 2,000 persons seated in the park di rectly opposite the house at the time." . The former bank head said his wife was under a physician's care, having been prostrated with fright while imprisoned in the small, air tight, sound-proof wine vault. Edniistcn Sends Out Petitions for Complete Ticket Third Party Head Moves tp Comply With State Law' Eyesight May Return. Lincoln, April 3. (Special Tele gram.) J. H. Edmisten, third parly chairman, today, sent petitions for nomination of a full state ticket to 250 of the 500 signers of the third party pact at the Grand Island con vention. Under the state law no officer can be nominated in a third party unless one-half of the signers of the party pact put their signatures on the nomination papers. There were 500 signers to the pact. Edmiston was encouraged by his physician in connection with his al most total blindness of last week. As fast as his strength will permit a den tist is extracting his teeth. The blindness is caused by poison froi;i the teeth in the opinion of specialists. "I'll never consent to fusion," Ed misten said tonight. "It was fusion which killed our populist party years ago, and we'll not play into the democrats' hands a "second time." American Bank Head Being Tried at Lincoln Lincoln, April 3. (Special.) The trial of Dr. Frank P. Dwiggins, for mer president of the defunct Amer ican State bank, charged with hav ing aided and abetted in borrowing $30,611.25 from the bank in an 1m lawful manner, opened today in the Lancaster county district court. Similar indictments have been re turned against John W. Tulleys, Da vid Clark and Albert S. Sandlovich, former officers of the bank. They will be tried separately. ;' Bill Modifying Parole ' Law Is Passed by Senate Washington, April 3. A bill pass ed by the senate and sent to the house, modifies the parole law so that prisoners who have served one-third of their sentences or fifteen years in the case of life sentences, shall be eligible for - parole. Another pro vision would discharge prisoners ob serving paroles for five years. The bill is a committee substitute for an original measure by Senator Owen, democrat, ' Oklahon and was ap proved by Attorney General Daugh erty. , ; Robber Seizes $5,000 While Inspecting New Bank at Washington Washington, April 3. The Mer chants' Bank and Trust company, a new institution, opened its doors to day within a block of the United States treasury and invited the pub lic to make an inspection of its quarters. Four hour after the doors swung open au unidentified man en tered, joined the other guests, but unlike the others, grabbed a package of bills containing $5,000 as, he pass ed the paying teller's window. The paying teller leaped from be hind the counter and with pistol, pursued the hdldup man up Fifteenth street, shooting in the air as he went. Hundreds of government clerks, out for the noon hour, pursued the flee ing bandit and a pedestrian walking casually along heard the tumult, saw the running man coming and grab bed him. He held him until the tell er and the police arrived. The $5, 000 was recovered and the uninvited guest at the bank's opening was sent to police headquarters Republican Men Hold Barracks t) Valera Forres Break Up Meeting Atldreictl hy Michael Collins After Woman Shot. Free Staters Searched Mullinar. County Westmcath, Ire land. April 3. An Incident (rom which sensational development rt expected here occurred today when 100 free ttate troop marched to the gate of the barrack occupied by Irish republican army adherent of Eamon De Valera and were refuted admission. , Dublin, April 3.-(By A. P.)-Thc meeting addressed by Michael Col lins at Castlehar, County Mayo, last night was stopped' by members ol the Fourth western division of the Irish republican army after stormy scenes in which a woman was wounded by a bullet, according to account reaching Dublin this niorn insr. The chief of the provisional gov ernment and hi party returned to their hotel and the officer who had proclaimed the meeting at an end followed, declaring that none would be allowed to leave until Mr. Collins and his friends had surrendered their arms. Telegraph Wires Cut The accounts received here do not state whether the Collins party wa disarmed, merely saying that "some people who left the hotel were searched." The telegraph wires around Castle-' tar were cut and when the newspa per correspondents there boardtd a train for Athlone they were ordered by two officers to go to the barracks. The newspaper men , were con veyed to the barracks in'automobiies, where tljey found A. McCabe, a member of the Dail Eireann, with Commandant Kilroy and his staff. The commandant stated that Mr. McCabe had admitted he was the first to draw a revolver at the meet ing'. Mr. McCabe then, in the pres ence of the correspondents, said he believed he was the first to draw, the dispatches say. . Woman Wounded. A Dublin man, said to be Charles Brync, a member of the Collins party, was arrested and accused of the shooting. Mr. Collins then told the representative of the Irish Inde pendent, Dublin newspaper, that he had visited Mr. Bryne in the barracks and found him in a cell with only a plank for a bed, and no bedding. He said he had asked Commandant Kil roy to parole Mr. Bryne, Mr. Collins (Turn to Page Two. Column I'It.) Bryan Challenged to Prove Beliefs Man Interrupts Speech Former Nebraskan on "God and Evolution." of New York,' April 3. Six thousand men and women at the Hippodrome were thrown into an uproar when a man interrupted William J. Bry an's lecture on "God and Evolution," and demanded that Mr. Bryan prove that there was a personal God and to say whether his conception of God was "male or female." From all parts of the audience came cries of "Put him out." The man, who later said he was Eman uel B. Lopes, , stood his' ground in the orchestra. , Mr; Bryan answered by saying he did not appear at the ' meeting "tc teach school' but declarer that it the interruptor did hot believe m a personal God he did pot want him to teach his unbelief in the public schools. . "If any other atheist or agnostic wants to ask a question I am ready." said Mr. Bryan. "Put him out," yelled spectators. "I'm not an atheist or agnostic," shouted Lopes. - ; "I don't expect you to admit it before an audience," replied Mr. Bryan. ' Lopes sat down and , Mr. Bryan continued. , ' Fremont Deputy Resigns, - Files for, Sheriff's Office Fscmont,' Neb.. April J. (Special Telegram.) Deputy Sheriff Winter stecn resigned from office today and announced' himself a candidate on the republican ticket for the job held by his former superior officer, Sheriff W. C. Condit. Winterstecn is the eighth candidate in the field for sheriff. 'His resignation 'follows a misunderstanding that arose within the sheriff's office and a heated dis cussion last Saturday night between the sheriff and his deputy. Winter steen has been connected with the sheriff's office since September, 1920. Neither official gave any explanation of the dispute that resulted in Wm tcrstcen's leave taking. Blodgett Farm Sold Beatrice, Neb., April 3. (Special Telegram.) The 157-acrc farm of Sarah Blodgett, eight mile cast of the city, was sold today to Mrs. Minnie Ruyle for $130 per acre. The price is below the average paid for farms in this section of the state. Premier Who Gained Support for Policy f it ' 4 David Lloyd George. Governor Small Anxious to Have Women on Jury Legality of Panel Challenged Because Members of Fa'r Sex Were Not Included by County Supervisors. Br The Amorlatrd Tr. WaukcKan. III.. April 3. Cover nor I.cn Small wants women to il on the iurv which will try him on charge of conspiring with Fred E. Sterling, lieutenant governor, and Vernon Curtis, a Grant Tark banker, to embezzle state funds. Todav the governor attacked the legality of the jury panel became the Lake county board of super visors had failed to include the names of women voters in it. Taken by surprise, attorneys for the state obtained 48 Hours to pre oare their answer. Attorneys for the governor read an affidavit signed by him asserting that the board of supervisors had failed to comply with the legal re quirement that names of 10 per cent of the qualified voters be placed in the jury box and had. in fact, listed only 10 per. cent of the male voters, ignoring the women. Should the governor's contention be uoheld bv Judge Claire C. Ed wards and women seated, the Lake county court house may have to be remodeled before the trial can be held. The court house has one large dormitory with 12 single beds for jurors and as the Illinois law for bids scoaration of jurymen, some ar rangement would have to be made to furnish, privacy for the women jurors. Judge Edwards has already aiv nounced that the jury will be con fined throughout the trial, which ' is expected to last anywhere from three to five months. Advertising Drives Sweeping Country Chicago, April 3. National adver tising campaigns in newspapers are sweeping the country, F. Guy Davis, western manager of the bureau of advertising of the American News paper t Publishers' association, de clared' in a speech here today. "Business houses that never before used any extensive newspaper space are doubling and tripling their news paper appropriation's for this year," he said. "This has grown, not from propaganda, but from the necessities of the present day's business situa tion." There was a firm in 1920 that started to use newspaper space for national advertising for the first time. Last year this firm, using space in 40 American newspapers, was en abled to declare a 7 per cent.dividend. and this year is planning to advertise in 200 American cities. "A magazine increased its circula tion from 450,000 to 1,500,000 through this national newspaper advertising." Operation Would Have : Caused Death of Twins Chicago, April 3. Any operation attempted on the "Siamese twins," Josefa and Rosa Blazek, who' died last week, to separate the . bodies would have resulted in their imme diate death. .'. " , ;. X-ray photographs, taken after the bodies had been removed-to the un? dertaking rooms, showed one., con tinuous U-shaped spine and many intermingled organs . would neces sarily have been severed to separate them. ' . The Weather - Forecast. ( Probably showers Tuesday; much change in temperature. not Hourly Temperatures: ...SI ! t . . .50 3 ...49 S ...4 4 ...40 S ...SO ...St 1 7 a. m. ... H a. m. ... A a. m ... In a. m.... II a. m ... .54 i II p. tn. Highest Monday. Davenport ..5 Hapid Otty I.envpr ... !?8 Moines . I Halt I.aK Sania F . flheridan .. Sioux rijy Vtlentin . Dodite City 64 r.nnder fift North Plait ... Pueblo Confidence Is Affirmed, 3720 94 Member of Lower Uouu Endorse Cow-rnnu'iit's Policy on Geneva Confer em e After Debate. Amendment Is Rejected Hy T .taaartattal PrfM. London, April 3. The house ot common, after an unexciting debute, adopted by the substantial majority of 278. Premier Lloyd George' reso lution calling for confidence in th government's policy on the cominj economic conference at Genoa. Th vote was 372 to 94. Prior to this the house, by a vott of 379 to M, rejected an amendment propoxed by John Robert Clyne, liihnrite. which, while approving an international economic and financial conference, declared that the govern ment wa not competent to represent the country at such a conference and lid not1 have the coiitidcnc of the ounlry. This result i regarded a crccdingly tatisfartory for the prime i. hunter, a the combined laborites a. d independent liberals number al tut UH) and the "die hards" about 50, all of w hom might have been ex pei ed to yppose the premier' reso luti n. Speech Noteworthy. Tl. prime minister' speech invit ing p rliament to vote confidence in the g vcrnmrnt's Genoa policy was nolewi rthy, inasmuch as it touched only i, fitly upon the political crisis A linnn and because it endorsed the French policy toward Russia, al though Joyd George himself dis played much sympathy for an en tirely conciliatory attitude toward Russia, and further, in that it sought accommodation with the soviet gov ernment, lest by waiting it might cvcnttiaMy be necessary to deal with a still more irreconcilable or militar ist regime, which might embroil the whole of Europe. While emphasizing that nothimr could be gained by waiting for the overthrow of the soviet administra tion, the prime minister accepted the French standpoint, demanding guar antees with respect to Russia's debts and obligations, and stipulating a period of probation of six months or a year, b'ut less if Russia gave the necessary guarantees before full rec ognition was accorded. The premier indicated his belief in the insincerity of Nikolai Leininc and the soviet form of communism. Would Stabilize Exchange. Perhaps the most interesting of Mr. Lloyd George's proposals - was that exchange should be stabilized at some maintainable figure, but no de tails were given as to how he pro posed to effect this except that it might be attained by some form of international co-operation and pre- sans The debate which followed the premier's speech was rather tame. It was early realized that there would be no breakaway of the un ionists, wliich would endanger the confidence resolution, hence interest dwindled until division was taken. , The rather unusual course of de manding division on the main res olution was followed after the Clynes amendment was defeated, when fin ally 94 members recorded their op position to the resolution of con fidence. -The. prime minister and his sup porters managed to, keep the whole question resolutely on the Genoa decision, but a motion will be moved on Wednesday by Sir Wil liam Joynson Hicks, unionist, to the effect that "in the opinion of . this house, lack, of definite and coherent principle in the policy of the pres ent coalition government can only be remedied by the establishment of a ministry composed of men united by identity o political principles." Corn Is Foundation of U. S. ;Farm Wealth, Avers Adams Chicago, April 3. Corn is the foundation of America's agricultural wealth and is a "splendid starchy vegetable dish." cheaper than pota toes or rice. W. N. Adams, presi dent of the Corn Millers' federation, told a meeting of that body here to day. ; The history of the country, Mr. Adams said, "is marked with corn, from the period when it sustained the colonists, rationed the revolutionary army, caused men to cross the Alle gheny 'mountains and open up the vast prairies of the Mississippi val ley and saved the south alter the civil war to the present. "Yet the American farmer has never received the returns from this crop that its value merits." he said. "because it has .come to be looked upon as largely an animal food. Attempt to Hold Up I. C. Tram m Illinois Foiled Rantoul. 111.. Aoril 3. What is be lieved to have been an attempt to hold up a crack Illinois Central train, the Seminole Limited, here at 11 o'clock last nigjit, was reported to day. An electric signal in the south yards was not ooeratmsr and when John Mahan. division superintendent of signals, went to repair it he found a man climbing down the pole.. Mahan fired at the man, who re fused to halt. Two other men ap peared and Mahan returned to the city building and obtained aid. Latrr it was discnvcied that one of the signal wires had been cut,