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U. S. SHIP GRAFT
Government Defrauded of Billion
Dollars by Pacific Coast
Shipbuilders.
!20 MAGNATES ARE INVOLVED
iGrand Juries to Act in Three States
Fraud Said to Have Been
Worked by Payment of
False Vouchers.
Smd Francisco, Jan. 17. Frauds In
volving more than $1,000,600,000 in
connection with tho bulldmg of fillips !
ior the government in Oregon, Wash- 1
Jngton iiiul California have been un- j
-earthed by government investigators, I
it became known here when William i
If. Tidwoll, special agent of the tlcns
ury department, was appointed chief
assistant to Special Assistant United
States Attorney General Hurt Schles
Inner here.
The government, according to Infor
mation from authoritative sources, Is
alleged to have been defrauded through
shipyard conspiracies worked by the
payment of false vouchers for sums
that shipbuilders obtained illegally.
A score of very prominent shipbuild
ing magnates are understood to be In
volved in the investigation, which is
said to have reached the stage culling
for special federal grand jury sessions
In the cities of Oregon, Washington
and California where big shipbuilding
. plants are located.
Cost-plus contracts awarded by the
government for construction of vessels
during the war, by which the builders
were allowed 10 per cent over what
they claimed to be the cost of con
struction, were said to have been the
medium of the alleged frauds.
Assistant Attorney General Schles
Inger is to leave for Seattle, where, it
Is understood, the first federal grand
Jury sessions dealing with the report
ed discoveries of government agents
working under Schlesingcr will be
held.
Subsequent meetings of federal
grand Juries will bo held In other large
cities of the coast In rapid succession,
it was said.
It Is understood that Attorney Gen
eral Palmer, on the strength of the
scope of the alleged discoveries of
graft, has ordered the United States
shipping board to hold up claims ap
proximating $37,000,000 to await the
outcome of the investigation.
GEN. BLISS WARNS OF WAR
General and Baker Urge United States
to Furnish Aid to Poland to Help
Fight Off Bolsheviki.
"Washington, Jnn. 10. Recom
mendations that the United States fur
nish surplus military supplies to Po
land to aid It In repelling the west
ward advance of the bolsheviki have
been made to the state department
by Secretary Baker.
General revival of war In Europe, If
Poland proves unable to withstand the
Russian bolshevist armies, Is not "Im
probable," General Bliss, who Is a
member of the American peace dele
gation, told the house ways and means
committee.
"Poland Is the only bulwark against
bolshevism," said General Bliss, who
appeared before tho committee to dis
cuss the proposed loan of $100,000,000
for food relief In Euorpe.
Geneva, Switzerland, Jnn. 10. En
ver Pashn, former Turkish minister of
war, who was recently elected king
of Kurdistan, has stnrtod n bolshevist
revolt In Turkestan, Afghanistan nnd
Baluchistan, according to a telegram
from Baku.
FIUME AWARDED TO ITALY
Lloyd George and Clemenceau Reverse
Their Position and Accept
New Plan.
Paris, .Tan. 15. Tho project for an
agreement on the Adriatic question
has been accepted by Italy. It has
also been handed to the Jugo-Slav en
voys, who have forwarded the text by
telegraph to Belgrade.
Lloyd George and Clemenceau re
versed their position taken on Mdn
day nnd accepted the new plan plac
ing Flumo under Italian fovereignty.
HARRY S. NEW FOUND GUILTY
Son of Indiana Senator Convicted of
Second Degree Murder Jury Was
Out for Forty.Flve Hours.
Los Angeles, Col.. Jan. 10. nnrry S.
Now was found guilty of second degree
murder. Tho Jury was out forty-five
hours. New was charged with shooting
to death Miss Freda Lesser, his
finncee. New Is said to bo a son of
senator New of Indiana.
Spaniards Whip Moroccans.
Mndrld, Jan. 19. Positions held by
Insurrectionary Moroccan tribesmen at
Do Anyera have been stormed nnd
enptured by Spanish troops nnd
friendly natives, according to a dis
patch from Tetuan.
Four Die In Explosion.
East Chicago, Intl., Jnn. 10. Four
men were burned to death by boiling
oil nnd about twenty others were In
jured when a coke still exploded at
Hie plant of the Sinclair Oil Refining
company here.
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BRITAIN FACES WAR?
LONDON FEARS NEW CONFLICT
WITH RUSSIAN rtEDS.
Cabinet and Military Chiefs Called to
Paris for Conference on
Situation.
London, Jnn. 10. Before peace with
Germany Is a week old the British pub
lic has been brought up sharply
against tho possibility of another war.
Winston Spencer Churchill, secre
tary for war; Walter Hume Long, first
lord of the admiralty; Baron Beatty,
commander of the grand fleet, and
Field Marshal Sir Henry II. Wilson,
chief of the Imperial staff, left London
having been hurriedly summoned to
Paris for a consultation with Premier
Lloyd George and other British offi
cials there on important military and
nnval matters.
This summons Is Inevitably connect
ed in the public mind with the semi
olllclnl statement published, calling at
tention to the threatening situation In
the middle East as a result of bolshe
vik military successes, which have
given tho Soviets virtual mastery of
the whole of European Russia, for al
though It Is not yet confirmed thnt
they have entered Odessa, It Is be
lieved It cannot be long before they are
In full possession of the const re
gions In that vicinity.
By their victories the bolsheviki have
obtained command of enormous sup
plies of food, raw materials, coal and
rolling stock and other means of
transportation of which they formerly
were In need.
TO STOP FEEDING THE WORLD
Hoover Says Europe Must Supply
Food for Victims of War Wants
American Aid Stopped.
Washington, Jan. 11. Herbert
Hoover told the house ways and means
committee that the United StntCs
should serve notice on tho world that
this government after the immediate
emergency can no longer extend re
lief to Austria. While it was the duty
of the United Stntes to come to Aus
tria's relief this year he said European
nations responsible for her downfall
by the treaty terms should bear tho
burden thereafter. Mr. noover ap:
peared in support of tho request of Sec
retary of tho Treasury Glass for au
thorization for the use of $150,000,000
by the grain corporation for the pur
chase of food for the people of Aus
tria, Poland and other European coun
tries. WATER POWER BILL IS PASSED
Senate Ends Ten-Year Fight by Adopt.
Ing Measure, 52 to 18 Goes
to Conference.
Washington, Jan. 10. Ending a ten
year fight, tho sennte passed the wa
ter power bill, which now goes to con
ference for the composing of differ
ences between tho house and the sen
nte. The bill provides for creation of n
federal water-power commission, com
posed of tho secretaries of war, In
terior nnd agriculture, which would be
authorized, after Investigation, to Is
sue licenses for development of water-power
projects "for a reasonable
annual charge." Tho licenses would
run for 00 yenrs.
SEVEN SUGAR MEN INDICTED
Chicago Federal Grand Jury Vote3
Thirteen More and Continues
Its Investigation.
Chicago, Jan. 10. Indictments
against seven men, olllclals of thrco
wholcsalo grocery houses, werj re
turned by the federal grand jury be
fore Federal Judge Carpenter, charg
ing them with profiteering in sugar.
Seven Die In Fireworks Blast.
Alx Los Bains, France, Jan. 10.
Seven persons were killed and many
Injured In an explosion In u fireworks
factory here. Thre adjoining fac
tories were destroyed and tho walls of
n number of houses were cracked.
Mines Are Scattered by Storm.
Stockholm, Jan. 10. Mnny marine
mines, which were carried away by
tho heavy storm which has prevailed
over the North sea for several days,
are floating through tho Scandinavian
stmlts, according to report.
CHICAGO TRIBUNE.
U. S. MARINES IN FIGHT
AMERICANS AND GENDARMERIE
REPEAL ATTACK IN HAYTI.
Yanks Pursue Outlaws Outside the
Capital 150 Rebels Are Killed
or Captured.
Washington, Jan. 17. United Stntes
marines and Hnyliun r endarmerlo re
pelled an attack on Port uu Prince,
tho llnytian capital, by a force of I!00
bandits, more than half of whom were
killed, wounded or captured after be
ing pursued outside the city, the nuvy
department was advised.
The casualties of thu marines were
two privates wounded, according to
the report of the engagement re
ceived at the navy department today
from Col. J. II. Russell, commanding
the marine forces and gendarmerie in
Haiti.
The bandit force, Col. Itusscll said,
approached Port au Prince In three
columns, which Immediately were met
nnd driven back.
Certain revolutionary elements of
the city attempted to Join the bandits
In the assault, he said, adding thnt he
believed the fate of the attacking
forces should bo "sulllclent to prevent
an early repetition of the assault."
Honolulu, T. 11., Jan. 17. Tho Jap
anese foreign otlico has announced
thnt a formal note will bo sent to
China asking the appointment of a
commission to negotiate with Japan
regarding the restoration of Shan
tung, according to a Tokyo cable dis
patch to tho Nippu Ulll, a Japanese
language newspaper here.
MANY KILLED IN BERLIN RIOT
Members of Radical Mob Shot Down
by Machine Guns When They
Try to Storm Reichstag.
Berlin, Jnn. 15. Minister of Defense
Koske showed his teeth to the radicals
again when mnchlne guns wero turned
on a mob of communists and independ
ent socialists who attempted to storm
tho relchstng.
A furious battle on the very steps of
the relchstng was the climax to a dem
onstration of n mob of radicals esti
mated at 80,000 who had left factories
and shops at noon and poured through
Unter den Linden nnd tho Tlergarten
to the parliament building In order to
protest against the so-called "Betrleb-sracte-gesotz,"
a bill that would place
the workmen's councils In the various
industries' op n legal basis.
Twenty of the mob are dead and
more than one hundred wounded.
Tlie occasion of tho demonstration
wns the second rending In tho upper
house of the act creating factory coun
cils in the relchstng. Independent so
cialists declare that the act does not
meet the demands of the workmen,
and Die Frelhelt, a radical socialist
organ, published an appeal In the,
nnme of 15 unions some unions say
without authority to all workmen to
stop work nt hoon and assemble In
front of the relchstng at three o'clock.
400 LOST ON FRENCH LINER
Only Fifty-Seven Known Survivors
From Steamer Afrique, Lost In
Bay of Biscay.
La Rochelle, France, Jan. 10. More
than -100 persons are believed to have
lost their lives In tho wreck of tho
steamer Afrique on Roche Bonne
Shnnl, Bay of Biscay.
Only fifty-seven survivors qro known
to have been landed. Hope for tho
rest of the pnssengcrs nnd crow fnded
during the pnst night ns hour after
hour passed without cheering tidings,
and 72 hours after the vessel foundered
mnny feared one of tho greatest
marine tragedies of modern times wan
enacted off the coast before dawn
Sunday morning.
Winnipeg Dallies Suspend.
Winnipeg. Can.. Jnn. 10. Because
of the shortage of newsprint the three
dally papers In this city announced
that they would suspend publication.
The three editorial stalls will unite
In Issuing a ne-page paper.
Alleged Forger Is Held.
St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 10. I. D. Corn
IMi of Rochester, Minn., wns arrested
here by United States secret sorvlco
agents charged with forging federal
trensury checks Issued to disabled sol
dlcra In Minnesota.
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FIRST SESSION
World Union Formally Started in
French Foreign Office
at Paris. "
PROTEST FROM THE IRISH
Leon Bourgeois. Presiding Officer, In
Addressing the Council, Expresses
Regret at Absence of United
States nt the Opening.
Paris, Jan. 10. Representatives of
France. Great Britain, Itnly, Greece,
Belgium. Spain, Japan nnd Brazil,
members of the council of the League
of Nations, met In the "clock" room of
the French foreign olllce for the first
met ting In the history of the league.
The council organized at 0:'M)
o'clock by electing Leon Bourgeois
chairman and confirming the choice of
Sir Erie nrutnmnnd of Great Britain
as general secretary.
The first olllclnl act of the council
wns the appointment of a commission
o trace upon the spot tho frontiers
ol the territory of the Sarre basin.
Th council received Its first formal
protest to be presented to It almost
before It came Into being with today's
Initial session. The protest was from
"the envoys of the elected government
of the Irish republic" against "the un
real English slmtihinee of an Inter
national league of peace."
I 'on Bourgeois, French representa
tive, who presided, said:
"The task of presiding at this meet
ing nnd inaugurating this great Inter
nntlonal Institution should have fallen
to President Wilson. We respect the
reasons which still delay final decision
by our friends In Washington, but ex
press the hope that their difficulties
soon will he overcome nnd that a rep
resentative of the great American re
public will occupy the place awaiting
him among us. The work of the coun
cil will then assume definite charac
ter and will have that particular force
which should be associated with our
work.
"January, 10, 1020, will go down In
history as the date of the birth of a new
world. Decisions to be reached' will
be In the name of all nations adher
ing to tho first covenant of , the league.
It will l)e the first decree of all free
nations leaguing themselves together,
for the first time In the world to sub
stitute right for might. But the or
ganization of the League of Nations
will not bo complete tint 11 the ussem-
illy, of nil tho states meets.".... f
Earl Curzon, British secretory of
state for foreign affairs, and that na
tion's representative on the council of
the league, said :
"On behalf or the British empire. I
desire to express the loyalty of my
government and the external domin
ions of the British crown to the spirit
underlying the covenant of the Leaguo
of Nations. It Is our intention, by
every means In our power, to Insuro
Its practical elllcieney. It is our firm
belief that through its instrumentality
alone we can hope to Insure that such
miseries that the world has experi
enced during the last five years shall
not ho repeated and that a new era of
International relationship shnll dawn.
"Tho League of Nations Is nn ex
pression of the universal desire for
saner methods of regulating r.ffnirs of
mankind, and provides machinery by
which practical effect may be given
the principles of International friend
ship and good understanding. The suc
cess of the labors of the peace con
ference Is a good augury for the fu
ture of the League of Nations. ;"or tho
first time an attempt was made to
bring together under the auspices of
the league representatives of govern
ments, employees and labor, and an
advance exceeding the results of tho
entire work of the previous quarter of
a century has been mado in the field
of International action on industrial
questions."
All the members of the council call
ed for by the covenant of the league,
with the exception of tho representa
tives of the United States, wero pres
ent when M. Bourgeois called the
meeting to order.
After the nppolntuient of tho com
missioners, M. Bourgeois proposed
London as the place for the next moot
ing of tho council, and this was a p.
proved. Lord Ourzon suggested leav
ing tho date nnd the order of business
open, to lie decided by the chnlrmnn
nnd tho secretary, since, he said, "it
will be necessary to consult tho United
Stales on n great many questions like
ly to urlse."
'Bolsheviki Occupy Odessa.
Basel, Jan. 10. Odessa, the chief
port of Russia on the Black sea, has
been occupied by tho bolsheviki, ae-
cording to newspaper dispatches ro-
coivi'd here.
Ship Named by Mrs. Wilson.
Philadelphia. Jan. 17. Tho 7,825-
ton cargo carrier Clearwater, Hog
Island's eighty-first vessel, which was
nuincd by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, was
launched ihere. Miss Eleanor Dnvles
of Washington was the sponsor.
Townley Asks for New Trial.
Jackson, Minn., Jan. 17. Attorneys
for President A. O. Townley of tho
National Nonpartisan league and Jo
seph Gilbert, league organizer, con
vlcted of disloyalty last summer,' filed
a motion for a new trial.
CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION NOTES
Lincoln. Among eleventh hour pro
posals submitted Friday was one by
Splllmnn. Pierce, which would substi
tute tho state railway commission with
n public utilities commission. Abbott of
Douglas introduced some ten pro
posals, nearly all of which deal with
public utility questions. Svobodn of
Douglas would abolish the university
regents, putting control of all public
Institutions of lenrnlng under ono
board. Donahoe of Douglas would for
bid an Increase oi general taxation by
ibo stale or any .subdivision of more
than tl per cent over the previous
.our, except by vote of the people. A
proposal by Lehman, while not elab
orate, bore all the ear-marks of being
the governor's code bill In constitu
tional form. It Is No. .'!()(.
At n mass meeting held Thursday,
January 15. an organization was per
fected to abolish capital punishment In
Nebraska. .Mrs. George II. Iloltlen was
made chairman and she will pick a
temporary committee, composed of
nine member, to assist her. It Is the
Intention of the organization to use
Its effort In the constitutional conven
tion for the abolishment of the death
penalty. The work of the organization
will be stnte-wlde. Delegate Flanshurg
of Lancaster county has submitted u
proposal In the convention to abolish
capital punishment by constitutional
enactment.
Although he knew In advance that It
would have no ehnnco of adoption,
Delegate Norton, of Polk county,
thrust Into the hopper of tho con voli
tion a proposal providing that the leg
islature shall In the future consist of
only one house, lie did this to get the
subject before the people of the state
and start them to thinking about It. If
tho convention rejects this plan, stops
nay be taken to submit It tinder the
Initiative and referendum. While the
proposition Involves a radical depart
ure, that has not yet been taken by
any statu In the union.
Delegate. W. If. Pllzer of Otoe.
county lias presented a proposal de
signed to withhold the ballot from na
tive born children of parents who
themselves nre pot eligible to citizen
ship under the laws of the United
Stales, and to withhold (he ballot from
persons convicted of felony or trea
son, or convicted under such laws o(
the crime or offense of niembershln
In or conspiracy with any society or
organization engaged In advocating ot
attempting to effect the destruction ot
overthrow by force of the government
of the stale or United States.
Several proposals affecting the legis
lature were introduced in the conven
tion during the past week. They
would reduce the number of house
members from 100 to eighty, the num
ber of state senators from thirty
three to twenty-seven, repeal thu
sixty-day limit on the length of legis
lative sessions and permit two-thirds
of either bouse to dlsponso with the
reading of a measure on three sepa
rate days.
In the hope ot doing away with n
handful of legislators passing bills ami
amending them by adopting confer
ence committee reports by a majority
of the members present at the last
days of the legislative session A. T.
Brutlon of Adams proposed an amend
ment roquirlng conference commit Ice
reports to bo adopted by a mnjorlty ot
all members elected to both houses
and permit the passage of bills by the
same majority.
A delegation of women conferred
with the suffrage committee last week,
and urged that It report a suffrage
amendment which will not contain tho
word "male" but will stato that "all
citizens of the United Stntes, 21 yenrs
of age and upward, who have resided
In the state for six months, shall bo
electors."
A Hood of proposals wero Introduced
hi the constitutional convention Fri
day, It being the last, day on which
proposals could bo Introduced except
by consent of fifty-one members or by
standing committees. Thirty-eight pro
posals were Introduced, bringing the
total up to ItOI.
George C. Jiinkln. Gosper county, Is
the father of an amendment submitted
to the constitution which would fix:
the limitation on the state debt at $1
for every man, woman nnd child in
Nchruska, or approximately $1 ,500.000.
A proposal Introduced by delegate
Epperson of Clay county, will, If
adopted, declare nil exchanges such as
the South Omaha Live Stock exchange,
tho Omaha Grain oxehnngo nnd sim
ilar concorim to be "public markets."
Following suggestions by W. J.
Bryan, Delegate Stolley Introduced an
amendment to ponnlt state develop
ment and operation of nny Industry
lifter approval by the people.
Flnnsbiirg of Lancaster has offered
a proposal which would prohibit un
appeal from district court to the su
preme court In civil cases whore Judg
ment dos not exceed $.100.
Up to the e:u! of last week the con
Yftiitlnn had been In session twenty
four days, most of which has been con
sumed hi submitting proposals and pre
liminary organization. The fact that
tho time limit for introducing amend
menu expired last Friday should net
ns nn Incentive to speed up the mak
ing of n uw constitution.
DADKOT EVENING
FAIRY TALt I
STONE MOUNTAIN SHEEP.
"Well," said Stephen Stone Motin
tain Sheep, "what have you to sny
for yourself?"
"1 might ask the same question ot
you," said Sam Stone Mountain Sheep.
"Some folks," snld Stephen, "call us
black mountain sheep but we're rent
ly stone sheep even though wo look
so dark. We come from nn old fam
ily of stone sheep."
"Of course It Is rather mixing be
cause there are so mnny different
kinds of sheep," said Sam. "There
are different relatives of ours, too.
Take some of the sheep not far from
us, and who sometimes nro with us,
they have white bends and gray-colored
bodies.
"Then we live nround the same
parts of the country ns the mountain
goats do and the caribou family and
the moose family and the families of
some of the bears."
"But," said Stephen, "they couldn't
get us mixed up with them."
"That's so," said Sam, "but there
are a lot of sheep tliey could confuse
us with. There are the Rocky Moun
tain Sheep nnd the Dull Mountain
Sheep nnd the Fannin Mountain
Sheep, oh, lots ot us."
"But we may ho like them, these
others," said Stephen, "and still have
our own special looks and ways.
"We have golden, nmber-colored
horns which are so graceful and which
curve so exquisitely 1"
"You don't Hatter yourself," said
Sam, laughing.
"I was speaking of you, too," snld
Stephen.
"That's so. of course," snld Sam.
"Well, that does make a difference."
"1 thought It would," chuckled
Stephen.
"I've hoard people say," continued
Sam, "that we were so friendly and
"Nice and Amiable."
that we traveled nround In places
where everyone could get to, so wo
should ho protected."
"What did they menu?" asked
Stephen.
"They mennt that wo wore rather
fearless and so nice nnd ninlnhle thtit
we Tnlghln't often ho on the lookout
for cruel enemies, and that, at'leust,
people who always carry guns should
be forbidden to attack us."
"Oh, that would bo quite wonder
ful," said Stephen.
"Do you know," said Sam, "that
people are more and more coming
around to the belief that It Is wicked
to kill animals for ttio sake of killing
them nnd boasting how ninny they
hnvo been nblo to get on a trip."
"Oh, that sounds so nlco to my
ears," said Stephen.
"Peoplo say that we're fine nnhnnls
and that wo should bo protected, nnd
tho time Is on tho wny when moro
nnd moro and moro people will study
nnhnnls and will find out all they can
about them and mnytio take their pic
tures with cameras, but they won't go
looking for us with their guns.
"Most nnhnnls deserve good treat
ment. They have mclr own good
points and their own brave ones and
their own unselfish ones, and soon, not
so far away, people won't hunt for
unlnials to destroy tiiem 1"
"Oh," said Stephen, "how you do
cheer me up."
"yes," snld Sam, "Tor no longer do
boys think It Is manly to hurt some
thing which can't defend Itself. No
longer do they thlnlc It is fine to be
brutally strong. Now they think their
strength should he used to look after
those who are weaiter.
"And girls nro doing their part lu
trying to look after the birds.
"So many girls, they've said, now
adays would not, for anything, wear
a Paradise bird's plume or an aigrette
from a heron.
"And so our family will not be
wiped out," said Stephen,
"No, they say we deserve good treat
ment for we're fair and good nnd they
say that we will get It!"
The Only Test.
It Is often harder to face the criti
cism of friends than the censure ot
enemies. To feel that wo are disap
pointing those who love us, Is mora
bitter than to stand against the ridi
cule nud-corn of those who hute us.
But the test to which every action
should be put Is not whether It satis
lies our friends, but whether our con
science can put upon It tho stump of
Its approval. Loyalty to principle may
sometimes mean disappointment to our
friends. Yet those who really love us
would not have us anything but true
to tho best that Is In us. Girls' Companion,
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