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The Omaha Morning Bee i HOME EDITION 4- VOli'Sl-NO. 217. OMAHA. SATURDAY, APKIL I. 1922. St Nil II twtl 4 itMn, Ml !.. t M. tf. UMt M M tl Mfl I Villi M d . M TWO CENTS . Third Partv ' nA To r5 ad (1 1,1 IS I'M - f V 1 f L" t n J L i 1 t A C Hi II. Uiouateii, .'factual!) a.- . Dliiul, Hut Till Continue Campaign Hope to Make Speaking Tour. l Ticket Announced ri j ncoln, March Jl. (Special.) (f. EduiiMrn, third party c!t-ir-Iiai keen stricken almost to 2 blind in (he !t two day. He ' unMtc to read and cannot ditin- guiah 'object more than a foot or two distant. Friend, who have rallied to his aid, lead Edmitlcn to and (ruin weals and the campaign, now well under way will continue to be di rected hy thfe obl-timc Kpuliit war rior. who led that prrty to victory in Nebraska many year ag. "l'ye got i( all in my head," Kd niist'rn (aid today, "and my loyal iricuds will keep me in touch with newspaper comment and corre spondence. 1 think if the doctor) will permit me to leave Lincoln, I'll centime speaking throughout the campaign." Attack la Sudden. Edmiktcn lost the sight of- his right eye in three days seven years ago. The almost total loss of sight in the left eyt waa nearly as. sudden. About two weeks ago" he was the victim of influenza and noticed upon iccovrry that his eyesight was im paired It has been growing worse stead' y. "Th s doctor gave me some hope," Ldmtften said. Cor inulntr. Edmisten called for Is stenographer and announced that practii ally a full ticket, from a can didate for United States senator to - . .1 f i t Ml congressmen was in me neiu. mere is some doubt as to who will be conar ssional candidates in certain districts, but the state ticket is com- piciffflanu noiiimititun pcuuuijs v A... i..: ti. ,.,;U in cwcuiaiiun. forme." political 'affiliations of can didates and with names of probable congressional candidates follow: Ticket Is Announced. For United States senator, Anson U. B gelow, former republican. For governor, rthur G. Wray, York, former democrat. . For lieutenant governor, T. J. Ells berry, Grand Island, former social ist. . - ' " . For secretary of state; JL. A, .Lar son, Wctineet, lormer aniiuuau For state treasurer. K, 4U Knud- son, enoa, loraier iicmuviai.. s For state auditor, Grand u amim- way. Scottsbluff, former democrat. For attorney general, Floyd L. Bollen, Lincoln, former democrat. For commissioner public lands ?nd buildings, Edward Sughrowe Eartley, former socialist. For railway commissioner, Roy M. Harrop, Omaha, former demo crat; Dale P. Stough, Grand Island, former democrat. ' Congressional Candidates. 8 For congress. First district, Fred G. Hauxb, , Auburn, former demo crat; W; F. Moran, Nebraska City, tormr democrat; C. .E. Whittaker, Plattsrnouth, former republican. For congress. Second district, J. L. Bcebe, G.naha, former democrat, i For congress, Third district, Ed gar . Howard. Columbus, former democrat; John Havekost, Hooper, former political affiliations not known. - For congress, Fourth district, V. H. Barnes, Fairbury, former demo crat; A. E. Gilbert, former republi can; ti, C. Roper, David City, form er democrat. ' For congress, Fifth district, J. S. L'anady, Minden, former democrat and populist; S. J. Franklin, Beaver Crossing, who owed his election to legislature to Nonpartisan league support. ' For congress, Sixth district, C- W. Beals, Broken Bow, former demo crat. Seven Hundred French Troops Slain or Injured London, March 31. Seven hun dred men belonging to the French columns have been killed or -wounded in a surprise attack by tribesmen in the Moulouya valley of French Morocco, according to a dispatch to the London Times from Huelva, Spain, dated Thursday, quoting pri vate advices received from the El Araish (Morocco) wireless station. Two Men Killed, One Injured as Plane Hits Smokestack ifacon, Ga, 'March 31. j. J. Costa of Anthony, Kan., and Ray Roundtree of Fortland, Ore., were 1 .r ltaJUat, ip jured and W. L. Fisher of 1 Mack, Clo., who is known in auto ;t 1 mobile rlyng circles as Jules Dever- -aux, recjved injuries from which ' hey are ot expected to recover " whvii thcifl airplane crashed into a 60-foot smlkestack. The accilent occurred Just after the plane hdn hopped off for a flight . to Atlanta aid thence to Texas. The three occupants of the machine were - severely buried and Costa and Roundtree died at a hospital late tonight. " Man Says He Killed We , ; While Dreaming of War Middletown. O.,'' March 31. Claiming he Shot and killed his wife, Lctta Watts, 22, while he was cream. ng of his soldier days in France, Ambrose E. Watts, 33. is held n jail on a charge of murder. Tha wife was killed while asleep rarly this morning, a 2-months-old baby lying between her and her hus band., . Former Omaha JNommanon ior congress iMrs. A. K. fiault. Prominent in Nebraska D. A. 11.1 ' Activities, Is Democratic Nominee in Minnesota Snn Vnrman. T Ijiwwp Here Sister Is City Attorney at W Minneapolis, Minn., March 31. (Special Teh-gram.) Mr. A. K. (iault. mayor oi M. IVter, Minn., foriurr Umalu club woman, was nominated today by the democrat for coitttrct from the Third Miuur iota district The district ha hern represented by Charles K. Davi since VHS. Davi failed to obtain the republican nomination, Mr. Gault's opiKmcnt will be R. . Thorecii, Mrs. Gault is related to two fam ous democrats, Grover Cleveland ami lames M. Cox. the former through her mother and the latter through her father, the late Judge E. St. Jul ie n Cox of Minnesota. She is tile widow of Andrew K. Gault, prominent railroad builder, whom he married at Lead City, S. L) in Wl. llcr son, Xorman, 30. I an Omahn attorney. Her sister, Miss Irene C. Kuril, is city prosecutor at Ashland, Neb. Mr. Gault served a slate secre tary of the Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution in Nebraska and from 1910 to 1914 she was the organiza tion's vice president general for Ne braska. Anti-Prohibition Body Organizes Omaha Branch Business Men, Lawyers and Doctors Meet in Secret Scs sion to Form Nucleus 1 for State. A nucleus of a state branch of the N'ational Association Opposed to Prohibition was formed in Omaha yesterday afternoon in a secret scs ion of 42 prominent Omaha busi ness men, lawyers and doctors. The meeting was held in Hotel Fonte nelle and was marked with enthusi asm. The association will work toward a modification of the Volstead act with a strong campaign for a return te light wines and beer, as explained by Sidney C. Legg and Harry De Jcannis, field directors, who organ ized the Nebraska branch yesterday. This state is the twenty-third to en ter' the association, according to rec ords of the directors. Legg has been in' Omaha for the past four weaks quietly enlisting men of influence to euter the organization. Members Are Prominent. Names of the charter members of the state branch will be given out tomorrow, stated Mr. Legg, who added that five of Omaha's most prominent physicians, influential business men, attorneys and leaders in civic affairs attended th.! secret meeting -yesterday and signed their names to the charter roster.. Headquarters of the association in this state will be in the First Nation- Tura to Tate Nine. Column Three.) Explode Bomb on Omahan's Porch Pipe . Loaded With Powder Set Off at Home on Lin coln Boulevard. A small bomb was exploded -on the front porch of the home of Tom Panelianco, 3106 Lincoln boulevard, at 8 last, night. The exploding bomb, , which charred the porch, shook the house and excited the neighborhood. .Panelianco said that he believes it was only a prank of boys in the neighborhood. The bomb was made of a piece of cast iron pipe, about six inches long. It was filled with powder. A hole was bo-ed in the pipe for the fuse. When the bomb exploded Mr. and Mrs. Panelianco and their three chil dren wore in the house. "We heard the explosion, but saw no one run from the house," said F. K. Davis, a neighbor. "It was a loud report." Panelianco has the shoe repairing department at the Burgess-Nash rtore. Landslide Wrecks Train St. Louis, March 31. A hundred foot landslide derailed train No. 2, of the Missouri Pacific at Boules, about 7:10 tonight, causing the en gine to overturn. Four of the eight passengers cars left the rails, all, however. ' remaining upright. No passengers were injured. The train was en route to St. Louis from Kan sas City. Don't fool yourself-" Bee "Want" Ads are best 17th and Farnam AT Untie 1000 Woman Wins Ashland, Neb. Policeman Fights Duel From Auto With Bandit Trio Shot From Rohher's Pistol Enters Home and Drops at Couple's Feet Gun men Escapt. Three drug store bandits, during a revolver battle with a policeman last night in the crowded residence district of Thirty-fifth and Leaven worth streets, sent a bullet crashing through the home of Joseph S. Davis, 3524 Jones street. The bullet, thought to be from a .45-caliber cartridge, dropped at the feet of Mr. and Mrs. Davis s they sat reading in the front . room of their home. - Bandits Win Race. Policeman Mathews, who was in the automobile which pursued the bandits, lost them near Thirty-third street and Hawthorne avenue. Jhe gunmen wpre in a faster carv v 1 he three men had just -eruergea - from the Benson-Williams drug store at Thirty-fifth avenue and Leavenworth street when Mathews walked into the store. We were just held up by those three men," Mrs. Bert Benson, wife of one of the proprietors, told Mathews. Mathews jumped into a ' passing machine and gave chase, shooting at tne neeing trio. May Have Wounded One. "I heard the glass of their sedan car crash," said Mathews. "I may have wounded one of them, for I fired five times. Then car was able to make more. speed than the one I was in and they out-distanced me." Mrs. Benson said that she and her husband were in the rear of the drug store at about 10:30 when the three men entered and ordered them to throw up their hands and remain silent. They took $16.50 from the cash register. According to Mrs. Benson the bandits were between 18 and 21 years old. Conductor Flagging Crossing Is Robbed F. J. Pond, a street car conductor on the Dodge line, reported to po lice last night that two men held him up and obbed him of $13 as he was flagging the railroad cross ing at Twentieth between Cuming and Izard streets. . He said the two men who vJere riding on his car; left after he 'did and while one pressed a revolver to his side the other took his money, totaling $13. Jinx Camps on Trail of Vance Wilson, Chauffeur Old Man Jinx is on the trail of Vance Wilson, 1461 Emmet street. Wilson has been in a couple of accidents and two holdups during the last two months. Recently he was found bound, gagged and slug ged in the rear of a truck he was driving. Yesterday a machine he was driv ing collided with one driven by Ev erett Beecher, 3568 Cass street, at Thirteenth and Jackson streets. Both were arrested and charged with reckless driving. 43 Stills Confiscated hy Special Squad in Month Forty-five stills were confiscated by the special squad, headed by Po lice Sergeant Frank Williams, dur ing the past month. His report for March also shows that he confiscated and destroyed 19.350 gallons of mash; confiscated 257 gallons of whisky and obtained $2,990 in fines which went to the school fund. - , France Asked to Co-Operate in Settling Fiume Trouble Paris, March 31. The French foreign office received a note from the government of Jugo-Slovakia. suggesting that France and Great Britain co-operate in re-establishing order in Fiume and in assuring the execution of the treaty of Rapallo. Such action was regarded in French official circles as improbable, - MPS A. K. President Fires Head of Printiue 0 Thirty Division Chief AUo Caught in Shalruji of Dc jiurlnirnt ''For Good of Sf n ice." Irregularities Are Hinted Omnha lit Leateil Hli. Washington, March 31. President Harding, in an executive order i sued from the White House tonight, directed the discharge of James L Wihneth, director of the bureau of engraving and printing, and more than 30 chiefs of divisions of the de partment. The sweeping and sensational or der promulgated shortly before 7 o'clock, stated that the action was taken "for the good of the service,' and that it was "preliminary to a complete readjustment of the bureai to peace conditions." 1 he further statement was made at the White House that the action was the outcome of extended preliminary examination into the conduct of tlu bureau. With the suspension of Director Wilmeth, the president named to succeed him Director Louis A. Hill, who has been serving as' assistant chief of the engraving division. Mr. Hill, who was at the White House when the president signed the order, went immediately to the bureau, as sumed charge, gave notices of dis missal to his oldtime associates and announced the names of men who would succeed them as heads of divi sions. Order Creates Sensation. The order created a sensation in official circles and operations at the bureau were for a short time com pletely demoralized. Although it was declared .'n several official quarters that there are no charges involving the ousted offi cials, many of whom have been in the service for a lifetime, there are hints of a big scandal. It was recalled that in September, 1920, James .W. McCartcr, assistant registrar of the treasury, made the charge that there were millions of dollars worth of duplicate Liberty bonds in circulation. Secretary of the Treasury Houston immediately issued a statement to the effect that there were no actual duplicate bonds in circulation, but that there were some misnumbered bonds out, due to an error in numberine at the bureau of engraving and printincr where they were printed. At the time there was a imid sensation. Duplication Hinted. In some ouarters it is hinted that there was an actual duplication of bonds and that the government, to save the financial situation from a body blow, determined to hush it up and to stand a loss, pending a quiet investigation. Discharged Director Wilmeth. who left his post at the bureau a few hours after receivine the oresident s order, said that so far as he knew there were no irregularities in the bureau and no charges against any of the personal involved. He had no intimation of the crash that came un til the new director, Mr. Hill, ap peared at the bureau with the presi dent's executive order. Neither had any of the other employes included in the dismissal list. Mr. Wilmeth said there had been no money losses at the bureau since the war days, (T'B to l'ae Two, Column Elglit.t Pleads Guilty to Fraud and Implicates Others Omaha Bee Leased Wire. . New York, March '31. Alfred E. Lindsay, charged with obtaining more than $1,000,000 by frauds on a multitude of women, chiefly widows' pleaded guilty to the charge 'of gran:l larceny. He then went before the grand jury, giving testimony which resulted in the indictment of Major Redondo Sutton, as an. accomplice. Maj. Sutton is a West Point grad uate, was a major in the embarkation service during the war, had been the promoter of many enterprises and belongs to a number of exclusive clubs. Lindsay charged Maj. Sutton had entered into an arrangemeut where by the profits of questionable stock transactions were to be divided. An indictment also was found on Lind say's testimony against B. R. Par rott. , Two men previously indicted, Dr. K. Arvid Enlind and Lindsay, ac cording to Lindsay, carried on joint swindling operations through the agency of the Pacific Minerals and Chemicals company, of- which they were all officers. Senate Adjourns Washington, March 31. The sen ate adjourned tonight until Monday at the request of members who have been confined closely for several weeks during the consideration of the arms conference treaties. Scientific Method for Aging Whisky Revealed at Chicago Chicago. March 31. One of the most complete scientific outfits yet found for the manufacture and aging of moonshine whisky has been seiz ed by the government, Harry L. Brin, assistant United States dis trict attorney, said today. His an nouncement followed the returning of an indictment by the federal grand jury against August Roah, charged with having violated the prohibi tion law. According to federal authorities, Roah aged whisky 20 years in as many days by using an ozone ma chine and running a current of elec tricity through it. Wraller Wilting to Rcmarru Woman lltld tor Murder Lincoln, March 31. (Sptcul.) Love nioldcniig for years in tU heart for hit divorced wile hat bui.t again into flames and today Mervin lUraikman. professional wrctlrr, told a jury in district court that he would again marry Mrs. Wiltcttc knocks, who i on trial for the murder t( Clyde Snookt, a Lincoln Ui driver. Siiw.k wit her third huthand. he is 22. She was firt married at the age of 1.1. "Do von love Willctte? her auor ney aked. 'Yen, I do, and I want her back and I'll take her," he replied. "Do you love Jackie?" he wa aked. "I certainly do." Jackie it llaraiknun's ton and al ternates during the trial in sitting on the lap of hit mother and father. Bararkman married Mrs. Snookt at Edcar, Neb. Witnesses continued to testify to day about constant quarrels in the Snooks family over a "red-haired woman." Jury in Matters Case Called in for Instruction Judge Reads Paper Adviaing Deliherators to Lay Aside Pride of Opinion and Scrutinize Evidence.' Hoping to induce the Thomas Mat ters jury to strive still harder to agree. District Judge Goss called the 12 men from the jury room at 4 yet terday afternoon and, after being in formed by their foreman, Bert C Andrews, that they had not reached an agreement but were still hopeful, he gave them an additional instruc tion, urging upon them the import ance of arriving at a verdict it pos sible. The jurv had been out 48 1-2 hours then. Rose Objects to Instruction. Halleck F. Rose, attorney for Mat ters, made a formal objection to this instruction on the ground that "it tends to break down independent judgment" The jury foreman told the judge that the vote stood 10 to 2, not men tioning, however, whether the major ity vote was for. acquittal or convic tion. Matters was in court, as required by law, when the jury wa called in. So also were Attorney General Davis and Assistants Dorsey - and Pratt. The jury filed back to the jury room after the added instruction had been read to them by Judge Goss. The instruction read: - "This case has been exhaustively and carefully tried by both sides, at great expense to the county and state, and to the defendant, and has been submitted to you for decision and verdict, not for disagreement. Must Avoid Acquiescence. "The law requires a unanimous ver dict, and while this verdict must be the conclusion of each juror and not a mere acquiescence of the jurors to reach an agreement, it is' necessary (Turn to Pas Nine. Column One.) Find Woman Here After 2-Year Hunt Mother Who Deserted Four Children for Love-Life Ar rested Man Also Held. Four children crying for mother love on one side, a year-old babe coo ing for affection, and "the man in the case" to complete the triangle, came to the attention of police here last night following the arrest of Mrs. Lizzie Lambert, for vhom police of the country have been searching for two years. -Two years ago, according to po lice and the confession of Mrs. Lam bert, she deserted her husband and four children at Minneapolis and came to Omaha with H. E. Russ, who was supposed to be a friend of the family. ., , He was arrested with Mrs. Lam bert last night. Police said they have been living together as Mr. and Mrs. Ed Herbert. They have a year-old child. She took the baby with her when arrested and mother and babe were locked in the matron's ward. "It has been terrible," she cried when taken to the police station. "I'm glad I have been found, for I love my husband and children in Minnesota. The man I ran away with had a, strange influence over me which' caused me to run away. , I'm afraid of him." Russ did not comment on the case. He has been employed by C. F. Adams company herer The couple were arrested at 115 South Twenty-fourth street by De tectives Donahue and Haze. Vessels in Atlantic Ocean Warned Against Icebergs Washington, March 31. Officials of the hydrographic office of the Navy department are keeping close watch on reports from the vessels on ice patrol duty in the danger zone just south of the Grand Banks. The coast guard cutter Seneca, now on station, reported an iceberg almost directly in the westbound steamer track from Europe to Boston; and the traffic is moving around the spot under advisory warnings from the hydrographic service. v Suit Against Nonpartisan. League Head to Be Dismissed Fargo, N. D., March 31. The case of various Nonpartisan league mem bers against A. C. Townley, William Lemke and others in an attempt to make the defendants deliver to the state organization of the league stock in the Fargo Courier-News, league organ, wjll be dismissed, attorney for the pfcintiffs said today. Half Million Workers Walk Out in National Coal Strike; Government Abandons Attempt to Avert Tieup Operator Criticized for Re fusal to Mert Employ's in' Wage Conference Hard' iug Review Negotiation. Little Fear of Violence By GRAFTON 8. WILCOX. Oaua Bm ImwI Wlra. Washington. March 31. President Harding, on the eve of the coal strike, expressed regret that the gov ernment had been unable to avert the suspension of work in the mines and the hope that the controversy bctwecu the operator and miners would toon be settled. Everything that it wa seemly for the government to do to prevent the strike, the president said, had been done. There had been no co ercion because the government had no power in the premixes, inasmuch ai the mere threat of a strike could not he regarded as a serious emer gency. Blame for the failure of the gov ernment'i effort to bring about a conference between the bituminous operators and miners was laid by the administration at the door of the western Pennsylvania operators, who refused all overtures, the president disclosing that even the persuasive powers of Secretary Mellon, who comes from Pittsburgh and know most of the operators intimately, had failed to sway the operators from their determination tha a confer ence with the miners would be futile. Little Fear of Violence. The president has no thought that the strike wiU lead to violence that will demand government interfer ence. A report that the government contemplated mobilizing its air forc es for emergencies at the mines, Mr. Harding vehemently denied. Mr. Harding reviewed the efforts of the government to bring about a conference, beginning last fall when the mine workers refused to listen to an invitation for a joint conference. That was before their convention. After their convention when they agreed upon terms to be demanded of the operators, the latter would not listen to an invitation to a confer ence. A resolution for an investigation of costs ef production of coal by the federal trade commission was in troduced in the senate today by Sen ator Calder, New York, who has sponsored bill for the regulation of the coal industry. Senator Calder attempted to obtain immediate ac tion on his resolution, but action was deferred as a result of objections by Senator Sutherland of West Vir ginia. Good Stock on Hand. George Otis Smith, director of the geological survey, and F. G. Tryon, coal statistician of the survey, were witnesses before the house commit tee on labor in its investigation of the coal situation. They gave statis tics relative to stocks of coal on hand. Mr. Tryon informed the commit tee that according to the latest esti mated bituminous coal stocks in the hands of consumers April 1, will amount to about 63,000,000 tons, or enough, to last for 51 days. Mr. Tryon said that the railroads and public utilities have been piling up reserves in anticipation of a strike and that the stocks are , unusually large. The estimate of coal on hand April 1, Mr. Tryon said, means an increase of about an eight-days' sup ply over the total on .March 1. Mr. Tryon said that if reserves go below 20,000,000 tons the market would be likely to be seriously affected. . Senator LaFollette, Wisconsin, is sued a statement assailing the coal operators. -. "At midnight," he said, "the or- ganized miners of this country will lay down their tools and cease work. In spite of every effort made by the representatives of the unions and the good offices of the Labor de partment, the mine operators have declined to meet the representatives of the mines, as they are bound to do in specific terms by their 4 existing contract. Confronted with this situation, there was nothing for the miners to do but to strike. ;t "The years 1921 and 1922 have been devoted by the master of bus iness and credit to the infernal task of 'deflating' labor and destroying unions." Portion of Camp Grant, 111., to Be Used as Reformatory Washington, March 31. Practical agreement on the setting aside of a part,of Camp Grant, Illinois, for the Department of Justice, to be used as an industrial reformatory school for first-time federal law violators be tween -18 and 30 years, was an nounced at the conclusion of a con ference between President Harding, Secretary Weeks, Attorney General Daugherty and Heber Votaw, su perintendent of federal prisons. Six hundred acjs of the canton ment will be used for the proposed reformatory, leaving, officials said, 2,700 acres in the camp for the use of the War department for' the train ing of troops for the National guard. Turks Accept Proposal for Peace in Asia Minor Constantinople, March 31. (By A. P.) The Turkish government at Constantinople has accepted, in prin ciple, the suggestions transmitted last week by the allied foreign min isters looking toward peace between the Greeks and Turkish nationalists in Asia Minor. The Constantinople government, however, makes certain reservations with regard to Thnce. The allied commissioners aere have been informed of this jicision and a committee of expertgis pre paring counter proposals JRf Leader Who Will Direct Strike of Coal Miners r '.v. . .v ' ti V'- ml : John L. Lewis. Kansas Miners Ignore Order of Industrial Court Men Expected to Walk Out Despite Extension of Pres ent Wage Agreement for 30 Days. Pittsburg, Kan., March 31. It ap peared tonight that the Kansas court of industrial relations order extend ing the. present wage agreement be tween miners and operators of the Kansas field 30 days, pending the consummation of a new agreement, would not be observed by either side. With the policy of the international union flatly stating that the Kansas miners must observe the strike order and lay down their tools , at mid night, supplemented by the declara tion of operators officials that the South Interstate Coal Operators' association does not have the power to compel its members to keep the mines in operation, both factions were frank to admit that a complete walkout cannot be averted. N Coal Mi onumon iner Is Shot From Ambush Bloomsburg,' Pa., March 31. An thony Vagnine, said by the police to be a nonunion miner, was shot from ambush today on his way to work in the mine of the Beaver Valley Coal company, in Scotch Valley, eight miles from here. Physicians said his wound would probably prove fatal. Union men at the mine struck' two days ago after a controversy over the discharge of a blacksmith. Some union men remained at work. ' Vagnine, with a charge fram a shot gun in his chest was found in a path near the end of the mountain. . Officials of the coal company an nounced they would attempt to -operate the mine with nonunion labor during the suspension ordered '.by the .United Mine" Workers and asked the authorities to furnish protection to their men. . Daughter of Coal Miner ; Kills Self Over Strike Murphysboro, III.,., March,,3J, Irene Bullcr, 16, committed 'suicide by shooting. . She had been acting as mother to.' her three younger- sis ters since the death of their moth er three years' ago and it .was said she had' become despondent because her father, a coal miner,": would be out of work because of the strike. . The Weather . Forecast. Nebraska: Showers Saturday, cool er in west portion; Sunday fair and cooler; warmer in extreme east por tion Saturday! ' . Iowa: Increasing cloudiness Satur day, followed by showers by night and on Sunday; warmer Saturday; cooler Sunday. . Hourly . Temperatures. S a. m. . . . e a. m . . . . 7 a. m a a. m. . . . a. m. . . . ! a. m.... 11 a. m. . . . 13 noon . . . . ....29 I p. .... P. . . -' 8 p. xe I 4 p. 3d I S p. m. m ....01 1 p. I 1 7 p. ... . I 9 P IN ighest Friday. M p. . Hi fhyiite .., Davenport ,. Tf nvr Dec Mot n mi.., Doriir City.., L&ndtr North P1rU U'Pub!o ...40'R.pld City.. . .! a.lt Laka... ...0.snl .. .0'Shfridn ... ...f;8ioux city... . ..S2. Valentin .. I'nion Leaders Predict Mm Will Stand Solid Until Wage Difficulty ! Definitely Settled. Railways Are Affected By ARTHUR M. EVANS. Omaha Ia4 Chicago, Marth 31. America's union coal field are In the grin of a tiituminou and anthracite strike, which became effective at midnight. Leaders of the I'niied Mine Work ers of America estimate that their 515,000 members will be "out" al inoxt to a man today, ready to stick until the difficulty is settled. Many of these have already been out of work for some lime, due to small tune operations at many pit. The union has been carrying about "5.000 members as "exempt from dues," meaning' they have been out of jobs, which reduces the number which will actually knock off work, but the whole 500,000 arc involved in the strike. The exodus from the pits began today. Union estimate are that at the end of the day shift saw over 350,000 miners stop work. At Pana. the first stoppage of work in south ern Illinois came, when 800 'minen in two collieries packed their t6V at noon and went home. Illinois Men Quit. The quitting whistles in the early afternoon, at 3. 3:30 or 4 o'clock, de pending on locality, blew in the strike for the greater part of Illinois. Few mines ran night shifts and at 6 Frank Farrington, head of the Illinois union, announced at Spring field that nearly all the 95,000 miners in the state had already walked out and the tieup was 100 yer cent per fect. "One hundred per cent per fect." Word from Tcrre Haute was that in Indiana more than 25,000 miners quietly walked out at 3 o'clock,' when the day shift went off. In Ohio about 40,000 miners were out when the afternoon whistles sounded and in the Pittsburgh area nightfall saw 45,000 men going home with their tools. In the anthracite region, the close of the day shift saw the bulk of 150,000 hard coal miners joining in the suspension of work. , . .' ;: ' ; ' . Tieup Complete, Lewis Says. President Lewis declared that re ports reaching hint at Indianaoolis' were of a complete tieup of the union fields, with 1 500,000 union workers out and that 100,000 nonunion miners would join in the walkout. How far this may prove to be the case will have to wait for the checkup, but the operators declare few nonunion men ' will lay down their tools. ' Already the strike appears to he involving other industry. Philip Murray, vice president of the United Mine Workers, announced that as a result of the anthracite strike. 18,000 railroad workers in . Pennsylvania will be thrown out of employment. Officials of the Pennsylvania rail road,' ihe largest single anthracite carrier, said crews would be relieved gradually. The first coal trains will be taken off tomorrow and others" as fast as the supply of hird coal at the mines is distributed. V . . Lakes, Region Affected. Mr. Murray says this will be "only a preludj to a farreaching sus pension of industry." He predicts the Great Lakes region, . the indus trial centers and the ports will be severely affected In the first weeks of the strike. This is the reverse of the theory of trade experts and of some union officials who point to the 63,000,000 tons of soft coal in stock, about an eight weeks' supply for the country, and the production that is expected to continue in the nonunion fields, all as evidence that the strike will- exert little of a fuel pinch until July or August unless industry revives rapidly and the call for coal increases.' ' . In Canada, about 2,000 miner in the Lethbridge and Crow Nest pass fields in Alberta removed their tooli and walked out Hospital Measure Is Passed by House Washington. March 31. An appro priation of $17,000,000 to be used in providing additional hospital facilities tor war veterans would be author ized by a bill passed by the house without a record vote. The measure now goes to the senate. The bill, drafted by Chairman Langley of the public buildings and grounds committee, would place the director of the veterans' bureau in charge of all activities which would rw out of passage of the measure. Widowed Mother Starts Search of West for son ew York, March 31. Mrs. Mary Whitaker, widowed mother, who is going into the wheaf fields of the west to seek her missing son, Sid ney Leroy Ross, left New York to day m a heavy mist, alone in an old motor car. She took with her just $4.12 in cash, a basket of food which will-last until Sunday night, her sewing machine, a mattress and her cat, "Spots." It is her plan to work her way while she hunts for the miss ing boy. Bandits Raid Newgpaper Office and Get $1,000 New York, March 31. Three bandits walked into the accounting room of the New York Tribune hi Park Row, across the street from City Hall police station at 10:30 to night, held up two ccrk? and a watchman and escaped with $1,000. 3 1 '' ' -1 (