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    The Omaha Daily . Bee
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OMAHA, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1922.
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Farming of
Rail Work
Prohibited
Contracting Slop Repairs to
Outline Firm Held Viola
tion of Transportation
Act by Labor Board.
Other Cases Pending
Chicago. May 10. Contracting
thop repair work to outside firmi by
a, railroad company declared a
violation of the transportation act,
and contract roviioni conflicting
with the wage and working rulr
laid down by the United States rail
road labor board were branded i I le
ft al in a decision handed down by
Uie board today. The decision was
characterized by the board at the
mot important it has rendered tince
its establishment.
The decision, which is the first of a
series of judgments to be handed
down on disputes over "farming
out" railroad labor, was made in the
controversy between the union shop
crafts and the Indiana Harbor Belt
railroad. The board declared its
pronouncement "went to the vitals of
the transportation act."
"No more important dispute," the
decision added, "has ever come be
fore this board for adjudication."
While the decision applied only to
the one toad, which last September
contracted its repair work to the
Burnham Car Repair company, the
general principles established will
govern all subsequent decisions.
At the present time various roads
have contracted to independent com
panies" the work of six differeuc
classes of employes, shopmen, main
tenance of way laborers, clerks, fire
men and oilers, hostelers and signal
menand the board declared that if
one class of employes could be re
moved from jurisdiction under the
transportation act, "there is no sound
reason why each and every realroad
employe in the United States can
not be given like treatment."
Objects to Act
. "The object og the transportation
act was to prevent interruption of
traffic growing out of disputes be
tween carriers and their employes,"
he decision said. "Such controver
sies had. for years, periodically har
rassed the public, blocked commerce,
stagnated business, destroyed prop
erty values and visited great incon
venience and suffering upon millions
of people.
Many Cases Pending.
Th sr. now 36 such cases pend
ing before the board, involving 17
railroad., and union officials have r
intimated that; WlCSS they'll
intimated that; Unless they EM B
caoe the rapid" spread of contract
ing shop - work, there would t a
flood of protests filed - before, the
board. . . '" . ' .
Under today's decision, thousands
of former railway employes now
working for contractors at wages
vcarying from the labor board scale,
re formally brought under the
board's jurisdiction. Rules varying
from those laid down by the board
are likewise, in effect, declared il
legal and the contractor's- employes
restored to the working rules pro
mulgated by th board. -
The board declared that if a rail
road company could remove its ein
erurn to Pm Two. Column Two.)
Navy Brig Fare Doesn't
Suit "Duplicity Dave1?
Chicago, 'May 10. David Wolman
liked the navy so well that he even
consented to , pose as a deserter to
get back after being honorably dis
charged back in May, 1921.
Dave "is still in the navy with re
servation. ' .
Finding the life of a landlubber
distasteful, 4 especially with jobs
' scarce, the one-time 'jolly tar had a
friend "capture him as Mike McCar
thy, deserter, and collect a $50 reward."-
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In his ingenuous way Dave got
just what he wanted a two-year
sentence in the brig after his court-
martial in January.,: Last month the
sailor changed his mind about the
succulence of prison fare and wrote
the secretary of the navy about the
deception. . v
Seattle Paid for Rum
Convictions, Is Charge
' Seattle, Wash., May 10. Federal
Tudtie Jeremiah Neterer abruptly
halted a trial in federal court to di'
rect that a grand" jury investigation
be made of charges that city, county
and federal officials are paying a
bonus for conviction under the pro
hibition laws. . The charges were
made by A. Framen, an agent lor
the county prosecuting attorney here
rfnrino- the trial of James H. Woods,
nmnrfetor of a drutr company, who
was alleged to have violated the pro-
tiihitiin law.- ' -
Franzen said he had told one of
Mhe prosecutors in the case that it
was framed ana tnat ne ana mcm-
her of the citv drv sauad had been
told to go out and' "get together?
on their testimony ' because they
could not convict on Franzen's testi
mony alone.; .:-'".
Theological Students
Original Early Birds
Boston, Mass., May 10. Because
10,000 other baseball fans in Boston
make use of the Boston Common,
the Boston University Theological
" school students are arising at 4 a.
m. to be ready for the games that
are called promptly at cUO two
mornings a week. The "future min
isters" have a formidable aggrega
tion of former college stars in their
- ranks.
Postmaster Nominated
Washington. May 10, (Special)
Herbert M. Hanson was nominated
postmaster at Clay Center Neb
Hotel Men Swarm to
Detente of Flapper;
Fattldlou Guest 8
Owak Mm t-4 WIm,
Chicago, May 10. Sturdy cham
pions of the niuch-mliticd flapper
arose yesterday in the convention of
the National Hotel association. Nu
merous delegate arose and paid
tribute to the (Upper as their best
and most desirable guest.
John Burke, managing director of
the Congress hotel company, said:
"1 have only one way of judging
the flapper, and that is by tlx condi
tion in which she leaves her room. A
great many women leave their apart
mrnts in anything but a tidy condi
tion. Not to the flapper. She it'
neatness personified. The Congress
hotel has yet to have itt first dis
agreeable exprrience with a flapper."
Herman Mark, president of the
Chicago Hotel Men's association and
proprietor of the Lexington hotel,
said a number of flappers reside, at
his hotel and they were the most
fastidious of guests; always neatly
dressed, extremely clean in habits
and manner, strictly honest and in
every way desirable guests.
R. E. Follow and I'ercy Tyrrell,
Texas hotel men, championed the
flapper. "No matter what ele they
may say about her," said Mr. Tyrrell,
"she is educated and fastidious. We
have an abundance of then in the
southwest and we are strong for 'em,
lirst, last and all the time."
Resignation of
Uni Professors
.
May Aid School
Friends of Chancellor Avery
Predict Internal Politics
Which Have Disturbed
Institution Will End.
Lincoln, May 10. (Special.)
Resignation of certain state univer
sity professors, announced early this
week, is not bringing unalloyed grief
to university heads, who profess to
see in the situation the end of a
period of internal politics which has
disturbed the institution for some
time.
Friends of Chancellor Samuel
Avery assert that much of the
criticism of the chancellor, particul
arly that charinir vacillai on and
lack of definite program, has been
due to an effort to gain his dis
placement. , Dean Philo M. Buck of
the college of arts and sciences, is
listed as the man in whose behalf
these plans were laid, although Dean
Buck disclaims any sueh purpose and
is said to have been the beneficiary
rather' than the leading spirit of the
movement i-i.--.-'
For at least four years there has
been a feeling among many alumni
and .others that the . university ad
ministration lacked strength of de
cision. This was an underground
issue in at least two regent elections,
where mea were candidates who ex
pressed the belief that there should be
a new chancellor. When some of
these were elected, however, they
were taken into the chancellor's
camp after actual service on the
board and no longer aggressively.
advocate a cnange. ;
The recent faculty changes are
said . to have removed influences
which were antagonistic to Chancel
lor Avery and to pave the way for
smoother working relations within
the faculty. If a change is made in
the general administration, 'it must
now come, those in touch declare,
from outside pressure and not from
anything inaugurated within the uni
versity. " '
Goldstein Quits Fight
for Revenue Collector
Washington. May 10 Nat Gold
stein of St. Louis today requested.
President Harding to withdraw his
nomination to be internal revenue
collector for the eastern "Missouri
district, an appointment which has
been the subject of almost daily at
tacks by senate democratic leaders.
The president is expected to comply
with the request in a day or two.
Mr. Goldstein's action wa made
known in the senate by . Senator
Spencer, republican, Missouri who
recommended the appointment, with
in an hour after he had laid it before
the president Goldstein's letter an
nouncing his decision to remove him
self as the , "ostensible cause" - of
partisan efforts of democratic leaders
to make "political capital" of his se
lection for the internal revenue post,
Presidential Party to
Spend Week-End in Jersey
Washington, May 10. President
and Mrs. Harding will leave Wash
ington Friday for New jersey to be
the guests of Senator Edge of that
state over the week-end at the Sea
view golf club at Secon.
Progressive
young men
and women
are daily
readers of the
"Help
Wanted" col
umns on The
Bee "Want"
Ad page
17th and Farnara
AT Untie 1000
Omaha to
BeCenterin
Air Service
Night Mail ff, ,s' Are Con
iderri'f' -rcil lVavi
otid to Be
'" v .leceiiary.
dcago to Light Fields
Washington, May 10, (Special
Omaha will become a great tenter of
aerial transportation, if plans ' now
under consideration by the pott office
department, the war and navy de
patments and other branches of the
government service and private en
terprise materialize. The central lo
cation of Omaha Is expected to bring
this about just as it has made 'It a
great railroad center.
Awakened to the importance of
the air service as the possible first
line of national defense, brought
about by development in aircraft in
foreign countries as well as in the
United States, every effort' of the
government is being directed now to
develop the commercial phase of the
service of the air, hi order to furnish
a nucleus for an armed air, service
in the event of war. ,
Omaha to b Center , .
The immediate plans on foot which
have Omaha under consideration in
volve further development of the
transcontinental air service with
Omaha continuing as one of the im
portant legs of the journey. If is
planned, alco, to make Omaha the
future center of a network of middle
western transportation of mail, com
merce and passengers. Not only is
it planned to develop the transcon
tinental feature of the air service,
but men with vision are looking for
ward to the near future, -when a
round-the-world" service will be es
tablished, which will make the in
terior cities of the United States
virtual seaports, as near Europe by
air as are the present coast cities of
today by steam
Enlargement of the present trans
continental postal service has been
precipitated by action of the commer
cial clubs of Chicago which waited
upon the post office department and
the war and navy departments to
day with a proposition to install two
of .the finest landing fields in the
world in Chicago, which will be
lighted at night, according to the
directions of the war and navy de
partments. .
Project Is Favored.',
. The Postoffice , department is in
hearty sympathy with the project
and approvals of it -has- been ex.
pressed by "thfe" heads 6r the War
and Navy departments. . . !
Establishment of. night landing
fields in New York, Chicago,, Omaha
and other points would enable the
Postoffice department to carry out
the plan which it has in mind to send
out two ships a day from New York
wesward and from San Francisco
eastward. One relay of ships would
fly by day and the other by night.
Establishment of this service .orob-
ably would require action by local
communities in lighting these land
ing fields at night. By this plan, a
night ship would go out ' of New
York for Chicago and Chicago-to
Omaha each day.
The successful carrying out of
this plan will necessitate the adoption-by
the house of the $1,900,000
appropriation for aerial mail serv
ice, which was originally stricken
' Turn to Pa(e Two, Column One.) , .
Citizens of East Waco
t Flee Before Flood
; By Tha Associated Prca.'
Waco, Tex., May 10 Late last
night a siren was sounded here, warn
ing persons in the low sections of
East Waco that the Brazos hiver had
gone over the levees and that lives
and property in that section were in
danger.
Allies to Loan Germ&iy
5,000,000,000 Gold Marks
' Paris, : May ; 9. The reparations
committee meaning the allies and
any other countries willing to par
ticipate will grant Germany A loan
of 5,000,000,000 gold marks (about
$r,250,000,000) according to " the
scheme under discussion. J.
The German finance minister,' Herr
Hermes, is' due in Paris Thursday to
negotiate for this loan. ,' ,
Germany will guarantee the loan,
stipulating payment in a term of
years, thus enabling it .to avoid a .cri
sis over the reparations installment
due May 31. & five billions ,;old
mark loan will cover the. cash repar
ations due for the next four years,
leaving Germany to pay the balance
in manufactured materials.
Receivers Are- Named for "
. Stevens-Duryea Company
Springfield, Mass., May . 10. Re
ceivers for Stevens-Duryea, Inc.,
automobile manufacturers of Chico
copec Falls: were announced yester
day' in response to a bill in equity
filed in supreme court -by the Fisk
Tire company. Inc., of - CUicopee
Falls. Harry G. Fisk, vice president
of the Fisk ' Rubber company, and
Frank H. Shaw of Chicago, repre
sentatives of banks that are creditors
of the- Stevens-Duryea company,
were appointed receivers.
The bill alleges that the company
owes $1,100,000 and has assets of
$4,124,471.64, but finds difficulty in
converting its assets into cash.
Rare Robin Seen
Westfield, Mass.. May 10. An
albino robin' was seen near the Noble
hospital here. White robbins are
wings were about one-third white as
streaks of white down the back. The
very rare. The one seen here was
about ' one-quarter white, with
well
Jeff Davit Didn't
Wear Sklrtt When
Captured, Sayt Vet
Spcnur, O.. May 10 Fifty-seven
years ago yeitrrday. Jefferson Davit,
president of the confederate, state
was takea pritoner by the fourth
Muhigtn cataUr vm an early worn
ing surprise near Irwintville, Ga.
Yestetday, Thomas Mile Hunter,
"8-year-old veteran of 7J civil war
engagements, tat in an old arm chair
on the front porch of hit country
home two miles from here and re
counted reminiscences of thit tragic
period.
Tha president of the confederacy
was not attired in feminine apparel
when the troopers surrounded hit lit
tle encampment, asserts Mr. Hunter,
historical statements to the contrary
notwithstanding.
"lie wore a gentlemen's morning
robe over hit clothes," said the aged
tuldier. "On hit head wat an old.
ttripped bonnet. He did not have
on any woman's belongings. There
wasn't even any strings on hit bon
net He wat a man sure enough."
Omaha Banker
Expires at Home;
Funeral Friday
l M. Lord, Chairman of
Board of Livestock Na
tional Bank, Diet
Here.
' L. M. Lord, 54, chairman of the
board of directors of the Livestock
National hank, died at hit home, 312
South . Thirty-seventh street, last
night. He was born on a farm near
Madison, Wis., May 24, 188, and
was married to Miss Agnes Short in
Chicago in 1894.
Mr. Lord came to Omaha in 1907
and organized the Livestock Nation
al bank. He was the first cashier and
later was elected president. He re
signed last fall to become chairman
of the board of directors. Before
coming to Omaha he was engaged in
the banking business m Iowa.
Besides his wife Mr. Lord is sur
vived by one daughter, Dorothy
Frances Lord, a student at Browneil
hall.
Funeral services will be held in the
home Friday, Rev. Fr. Holsapple of
St. Barnabas church officiating.
Mr. Lord was a member of the
Omaha club, Country club.' Athletic
club, Chamber of Commerce and
EHcs club. .
The active pallbearers wilt be
these bank employes. E. C. Sinley,
Harry McCandless, Marshal Dillon.
W. S. Hoag, Frank Hejl and David
Larkin. - . . ; '
Honorary pallbearers will be. H.
H. Baldrige. C. W. Sears. W. P.
Atkins, W. C. Lambert, A. W. Pratt,
O. D. Mayberry. F. C Parsons. T.
H. Gledhill. J. F Cad. C. E. Par
sons, H. C. Nicholson, Ford'Hovey,
A. J. Egger's, L. C. Dean.
UltS
Los Angeles Klan
Application Bearing Name of
' U. S. District Attorney
"Was Rejected. -
Los Angeles, May 10. William
Tfaeger, sheriff of Los Angetes
County, and Louis D. Oakes, chief
of police of Los Angeles city, re
signed from the Ku Klux Klan last
year after brief membership, ac
cording to Ku Klux records which
became public yesterday in . connec
tion with the grand jury investiga
tion of a raid at Inglewood, Cat., on
April 22. The sheriff quit the klan
two weeks after he was admitted.
Oakes, then a sergeant of police, re
signed the 'same night he joined,
the records show.
' Both Traeger and Oakes after the
Inglewood raid, issued orders that
any of their subordinates who were
members of the Ku Klux Klan, must
resign from the klan or give up their
official positions.
The name of Joe C. . Burke, at
torney of Santa Ana, appeared on
an application blank for membership
in .the klan, also was made public
yesterday. , : :,.
This is the name of the United
States district attorney for southern
California. The. application - blank
bore the endorsement that the ap
plicant had been rejected. ' Applica
tion blanks,, on which 'appeared the
namesof 18 Los Angeles men, also
'were made public. These included
police and fire department officials,
attorneys and - private detectives.
There was nothing to indicate the
applicants had been accepted or re
jected. .. . , , '
Prince Charming's Rival,
- (Austrian, Visits Chicago
.Chicago, May 10. Prince Charm
ing of legendary fame has a rival in
real life. ; .
He is Prince Max Egon de Hohen.
lohe Langenburg of Austrian royal
ty, who is in Chicago on the first
leg of a tour of the country. r
The prince, youthful, handsome
and stately,' modestly . admitted an
aversion to tobacco, liquor and pro
fanity. He confessed, , however, that he
once only once violated the last
of these three "vices."
"I said damn," the prince declared.
"It was on the day I landed in this
country. I swore because I had not
come here sooner.'"
Beatrice Smoke Nuisance
Is Protested by Women
Beatrice, Neb.' May 10 Special)
A committee consisting of. Mrs.
R. J. Kilpatrick, Mrs. T. E. Adams
and Miss Hattie Summers appeared
before the city council . and asked
that an ordinance be passed to con
trol the smoke nuisance in the busi
ness section of the city. The com
missioners have taken the matter
under advisement until a later date.
Prosperity
Hailed as
Beginning
Merchants of U. S. Urged by
Governor Harding of U. S.
. Reserve Board to Prepare
for Business Boom. .
Conditions Improving
Birmingham, Ala., May 10. Mer
chants of the country were urged to
put on steam and prepare to handle
the butinett of tomorrow by Gov
einor Harding of the federal reserve
board in an addreot here before the
Southern Wholesale Dry Goods as
sociation. Many indications of unproved con
ditions, both in thit country and
abroad, are apparent, he declared,
and business men should forget the
misfortunes of the past and make
ready for the opportunities of the
future.
Revert of J919.
The situation today, Governor
Harding asserted, is in many respects
the reverse of what it wat at the
end of 1919, turplut goodt having
now gone into consumption and
there being a marked reduction in
the Roods on the merchants' shelves.
"The fact that a revival in agri
culture," he said, "has come much
sooner than has been expected by
those who regarded the low prices
ot last summer as permanent, has
brought new hope and courage to the
agricultural districts and affords a
basis for the belief that there will, in
due time, be a distinct business im
provement in those districts."
While the situation abroad still it
complicated, he said, there are many
indications of improvement
. Business on Upgrade.
New York, May 10. Business and
trade conditions throughout the
United States", as reported by 30,000
manufacturers to John E. Edgerton,
president of the national associa
tion of manufacturers today, show a
"stable, sane, definite and continuing
advance."
"We have not turned the corner,"
was Mr. Edgerton's summary of a
survey of the industry just com
pleted. "We are now leaving it very
far behind. Business is on the up
grade in practically all of the basic
industries."
The survey was made by question
naires, answers to which' were re
ceived within the last 24 hours, so
that it represents conditions as of to
day. " . .
In All Lima. ., ,
' "The great majority of our basic
industries report that the . present
trade is fair to good; some tay it is
excellent; but only a small part say
it is poor, the report continued.
"There is a general tenor of bright
prospects for th future, and a great
many of the industries not only re
port that they are employing more
men than they were a year ago, but
that they are looking for a still fur
ther increase in their-forces when
the fall work sets in.
"All lines of business, from steel,
to jewelry, report prospects for high
er percentages of increase between
now and fall." '
Retail Food Costs Here
Drop 9 Per Cent in Year
Washington, May 10. An upward
trend in the retail cost of food was
noted todav in statistics made public
by the bureau of labor statistics of
the Department of Labor. Reports
from 15 cities . showed ' increases
from March IS ta April 15, ranging
up to 3 per cent while onjy four re
ported decreases and only one of
those. Fall River, with 2 per cent,
showing more than one-half of 1 per
cent decline. '
The cities reporting increases in
cluded: Savannah, 3 per cent; Mo
bile, 2 per cent; Birmingham, Dallas,
New Orleans and Seattle. 1 per cent;
Buffalo, Louisville and Omaha, less
than five-tenths of 1 per cent; Butte,
Rochester and San Francisco
reported decreases of less than five
tenths of 1 per cent. .
For the year period, April 15, 1921,
to April 15, 1922, the bureau report
ed the deceases in Savannah of 11
per cent, Birmingham, Columbus and
Little Rock, 10 per cent; Charleston,
Manchester and Omaha, 9 per cent;
Dallas, Fall River, Indianapolis, Mo
bile, New Orleans and ' Springfield,
8 per cent; Louisville, 7 per cent;
Buffalo, Rochester and San Fran
cisco. 6 per cent; Butte and Seattle,
5 per cent '.'.
L. C. Hamilton Is Elected f
Head of Retail Credit Men
L. C. Hamilton of the Updike Coal
and Lumber company was elected
president of the Associated ' Retail
Credit Bureau and Credit Men Tues
day evening at the annua banquet
at Hotel Fontenelle. Miss Eliza
beth I. McGrady was toastmaster. :
Guy Cramer, Otis T. Alvison, L.
F. Wykert and H. O. Wrenn were
elected vice presidents: James H.
Taylor, 'treasurer; J. W. Metcalfe,
secretary: and these directors. E. H.
Ward, F. H. Dungan, . H. D.
Rhoades, Dr. O. A. Runyan.- E. L.
Glover, M C Thomson, A. C. Ken
nedy, A. W. Devereaux, Mrs. T. H.
Daly, E. J. Ripa. W. D. Stelk, Miss
Esther Ekborg, Dr. Roy Dodge and
l. K. Harding. -
Miss Margaret Anderson, Mabel
Warner Rugg, and Mrs. Lenore
Rigdon spoke. . ,
Forced to Give Up Her Work
Woman Sues for Divorce
Falls City, Neb., May 10 (Spe
cial) Ernest Pontious forced his
wife, Hazel, to quit her position and
accept another at. reduced salary
when he became unduly jealous of
her employer, she alleges in her pe
tition for divorce, filed in district
court
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Latest Makes and Breaks
in Love Stir Hollywood
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Lot Angeles,. May 10. Hollywood
came into the limelight again yester
day when two divorce suits and one
engagement were made public: . ,
The divorce actions: ,
Constance Talmadge against John
J. Pialoglou, ' fV-;'t , s
Gouyerneur Morris against Elsie
Morris. -
The engagement:'
Winifred Hudnut to Rodolph Val
entino. The divorce action of the screen
comedienne, Connie Talmadge, was
not unexpected, for she was separated
from her wealthy husband, 'April 5.
1921, and since then rumors that all
was not well in the Pialoglou house
hold have been heard.
Elopement Causes Stir. ' .
They were married September 26,
1920, at Grennwich, Conn., and their
elopement caused quite a sensation in
movie circles.
The comedienne accuses her mate
of cruel and inhuman treatment and
the complaint describes him as , "a
native of Turkey, a subject of Greece
and a cigaret manufacturer of New
York."
Announcement of the engagement
of Rodolph Valentino, idol of many
flapper film fans, to Winifred Hud
nut, came as somewhat of a surprise,
however.; Valentino is known as the
most' passionate love maker, on the
silver sheet. .- y .
His fiancee is ' the daughter , of
Gen. Chang Reported
to Have Fled to Dairen
Tientsfn May;: 10.(By2 A., P.)-
Chang Tso-Lin, the defeated Man
churian general, is reported- to have
fled to Dairen., Observers say his
troops have established . three , lines
of trenches, -this side ofuanchow,
on the Mukden railway, south of the
great wall, but w.ill fight only if Gen.
Wu Pei-Fu's forces press them too
hard. ' . -y . , -,
Gerf. Wu's soldiers still are in pur
suit, Twenty-eight troop-trains,
each carrying 500 men, have passed
through, this city' to the .east, 'of
which three are. reported -to have al
ready arrived, at , Peitang,' on the
coast 30 miles east of here, and four
at Tanghu, at the mouth of the Pei
river.. . . -j -,'; -y ..'' ... . ,.. - . .'
Chang's men have, cut the railway
from Taku to Mukden, near Lutai,
28 'miles north 6 Tientsin,, to hinder
the pursuit. ' . ' , , , . - , .
Three cruisers ' 'are ' reported off
Wang-Huangtun.. near.'. Shanhaikuan,
bombarding trains, passing on -the
Mukden railway. -
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Schoolboy. Writes Essay . -;
i While Dying in Hospital
Worcesfcr, Mass.,. May 10. Dying
in the city hospital front; pneumonia,
Philip G.;Abisamra, 17,' student of
the High School' of Commerce, prop
ped himself up on his pillows and
wrote a ' four-page composition on
"The Storm.", .He did this in an
attempt to keep up his standing in
class. Three , hours after finishing
the composition' ( he . died. School
teachers,': say his' Swork was excep
tional, -m:-,- j-
. Raise. Gas to 26 Cents. .
New York, May 10. The Stand
ard company of New Jersey today
announced an increase of 1 cent a
gallon in the price of gasoline. The
new price is 26 cents.
Similar advances were announced
earlier in the. week by the Sinclair
Consolidated Oil corporation, the
Texas company and : other, inde
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KiidolpkPaletifiitd
Richar Hudnut, wealthy perfume
manfacturer of New York, and is
knoWn professionally . as Nata-Cha
Rambova. She is an art director.
Desertion '.and -abandonment is
charged in the petition for divorce
fifed in Los Angeles 'superior court
ny Gouvemeur Morris, author, from
his wife fclsie
They were married May 22, 1905,
in New York and separated t-ebruary
15, 1918, according to the complaint
Have Two Children:
They have two.children, Kate, 15,
and Patsy. Jefferson, II. " ';
Mr. Morris-has been in Hollywood
for some time writing scenarios and
taking other active participation in
the making of motion pictures.
Mrs, 'Morris is now. employed in
a beauty parlor in Mew York, accord'
ing to his complaint.' . ;
Dara-Rai-Noor Diamond
Is Sold for $5,500
' New York, May 9 The'' Dara
RairNoor, Princess Fatima's $100,000
diamond, which once . adorned the
regal turbahs of her Afghan parents,
today,' rolled into a New York com
mission merchant's safe for $5,300,
The jewel was auctioned at a sher
iffs sale, primarily because its owner
owed tne government $t,4UU duty on
the gem. . - . 'r.
The princess brought it here to sell
so that-she could send three sons to
college. She expected it to provide
funds, for her living too, and even
planned a villa on the Hudson.
But the princess will iret a bit less
that $1,100 cash and most of that
will go to hotel keepers:' ; .
Man Sentenced to Prison .
' for Burying Automobile
" McCook." Neb;, ;May 10 'Special)
John ', Pappas, recently ' arrested
charged with burying his atttomobije,
which was insured for $l,0QO, pleaded
guilty in district court-here to conv
spiring; ti, defraud an insurance com
pany. Judge Eldred, sentenced . him
to from one to three years in the pen-
tentiarv. Th'aiito was fniiriH Kin-UI
on the farm of Howard Lec near Edi
son. The other parties to the conspir
acy yeilded evidence which convicted
the orincioal 'and the rasp1 atramct"
them .were nolled. -.'.
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2 Cops Die
in Chicago
Labor War
Violence Said to Have Been
in Protct Aeaiust Wage
Awards Made by
Judge Landit. ,
Union Chiefs Arrested
Chicato. May 10. The polica to-
day raided the building of tha trades
labor htadquartert and arretted thrta
of Chicago s biggest labor leaders
-Big Tim" Murphy, Fred Maaer sno
Cornelius Shea in connection with
bombings and shootings which early
today resulted in tha death of two
policemen and serious injury of a
third.
Murphy, known as Chicago a la-
bor czar," is out on bail after having
been sentenced to seven years in tha
penitentiary in connection with tha
1400,000 Union station .nail robbery.
Mader ia oretident ol the Building
Trades council, while Shea heads tha
Teamtters union.
Orders Men Arrested.
prdcrt for the immediate arret of
the men were istued today by Chief
of Police Charles Fitamorris after
he had auestioned more than a score
of union workers taken into custody
in connection with the bommngs ana
shootings, v
Among the 23 union members and
officials arrested was John Rafferty,
also charged with implication in the
mail robbery with Murphy and an in
timate friend of the latter. Rajferty
was identified by witnesses as a
member of a tquad which bombed
two buildings early today and which ,
is believed to have killed the police-
fnrn. ....
Bombs were set off in. two build
ings and numerous other structure!
were stoned.
The dead are:
Terrance Lyons, 30. acting lieu
tenant Patrolman Thomas Clarke, 30.
The wounded man it Patrolman "
Albert Moeller.
Directed by Single Band.
Although the killings and bomb
ing were in different parts of the city
police believe they were directed by
a single band., desiring to express .
resentment at, enforcement of the
Landis wage award, a decision
handed down by K. M. Landis,
former federal judge, acting as arbi- ,.
ter in a long dispute between mem
bers of a trade council and contrac
tors. .
The buildings bombed were f
garage and a printing' plant
Patrolman Clarke, who was guard
ing a building previously bombed
and under police protection was no
tified of the garage bombing and a
few minutes later a taxi driver noti- .
fied police that three men were fight
ing with Garke. Officers found him
wounded fatally. He had been shot
through the head and died on the
way to the hospital. Police believe
Clarke was killed by men who Mon-
day night showered the building with
bricks and escaped in an automobile.
, : Volley of Shots.
. ' Later Lieutenant Lyons, seeing a
car speeding past a traffic signal
commanded it to ' halt. The occu
pants answered with a volley of
shots which killed Lieutenant Lyons
and wounded Patrolman Moeller. " .
Police believe that the bomb ex'
ploded in the-printing plant was in
tended for a new building nearby,
which is , being erected under the .
Landis wage Sward.. One hundred
union printers were at work when .
the . bomb exploded but no one was . .
injured.. The bomb at the garage
Was thrown through a window jn
the rear of the biulding and ex-,
ploded on the cement floor. '
Since the labor war began thou- 4
sands of dollars worth of property -has
been destroyed and scores of '
persons injured. j- '
Pope isks Religious
Freedom for Russia .
Genoa, ' May 10. (By A. P.)"
Monsignor Pizzardo of the papal ,
secretary of state's office, has handed .
the following memorandum to M.'
Barthou, head of the French dele
gation:. ' , .,
"In a letter which the holy father
addressed to the cardinal secretary
of state on April 29, the latter waa
instructed to communicate to the
powers, with which the holy see is in
diplomatic relations, the good wishes ,
of his holiness for the happy issue
Of the conference, particularly as
concerns the Russian note.
""Since even this' has - not given
time to advise each chancellory -through
the usual channels, the holy
see takes, advantage of the presence '
in Genoa of the delegations of the
states with which it maintains dip
lomatic relations to transmit to them .'
directly . the text of the pontifical
document aforementioned and to
draw to their attention, and through
them, that of the conference to cer- "
tain points of special importance in
this historical hour when the read
mission of Russia into the company
of civilized nations is being treated.
"The holy see desires that, reli
gious interests which are -the basis
of all true civilization be safeguarded
in Russia." -.
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Colorado Cattle Sell
for High Price in Omaha
What is probably the highest price
paid at the Omaha stockyards this
year for Colorado cattle was receiv- '
ed by Earl Williams of Fort Col- -lius,
Colo., when he snIH thro l.
averaging 1,092 pounds for $8.50 a
I'uiiurcu.
The cattle were raised by Mr. Wil- '
liams and his brother and were of
the Angus breed. Mr. Williams
said the prospects were there would
be more cattle frit in CnlnrzAn '
year than there has been for $om "
time. , .
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