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Girl Killed
in Quarrel
With Singer
I roulmJour Accused of Slav
ing Sweetheart Dauglit hv
I one Detective After
Intense Search.
^ Claims She Struck Him
"Singing Mike" l„a Porte, tenor,
who was raptured yesterday* after
noon by Detective William Guroett 11
hour* after he js alleged to have shot
his sweetheart, Alice ltinehart. 27, to
death, proliably will defend himself
with a plea of self-defense or com*
ple*e Innocence.
■ She attacked me,” La Porte de
clared a few minutes nficr bis arrest.
"J remember we quarreled,” he said
later, "and I heard a shot, but after
■bat everything seems a blank. 1
must liavt wandered through the
(reels all night. and 1 didn't know
anything about the shooting until 1
i rad it in l lie newspapers.”
Said lie Did Not Shoot
Counsel fm "Singing Mike who
leached police headquarters with i 17
minutes after his arrest, said the
prisoner would contend tiiat he did
not lire tiic shot.
No pistol, despite (lie searching of
six detectives. Ins been uncurthed.
Singing Mike” admits lie carried a
weapon fram tin scene find threw ti
at some fnrgottei spot along the
J sti net. hut did not admit it had been
fired.
"Why would I shoot her, ' he asked.
1 loved Inr. She was jealous of me
without cause, but there was no other
trouble bet w ecu- us.”
Inquest Monday.
•'diaries Van Deus« n. chit f «.f detec
fives, said that when an Inquest is
1 ■ Id hvi r the body of Mis Rinehart
i 2:dM Monday afternoon in the N\ l*
Swanson undertaking parlor at Sev
enteenth and ('tuning streets, lie will
produce a witness who saw "Singing
Mike" run from the house with a pis
tol in ins hand.
' I’m glad they caught him." declared
In.i Rumba ugh. 20, AkSarBen field,
friend of the slain woman. •‘I’ll tell
all l km w fur Mice was afraid of him
aiul had begged me to stay at her
side 'Singing Mike’ swore he would
not harm her. so i left, lie violated
t his oath to me.
The shooting of Mrs. Rinehart took
place at 2:10 Saturday morning in 15,
Lincoln* r pa ri incuts. Twenty first and
( Ideago streets, while she is supposed
to have bcvn alone in the room with
"Singh r Alik* . "S'nging Mike," ;
*Wr.» JLn* i.art. Inn ttmubaugh and
ITank Stuart, truck driver, had been’
mi a drnjktng party that ended at
midnight.
.> Found in lied.
Detective.** found the girl stretched
across a bed and in a dying condi
t ion.
" V brutal murder." declared Bennie
Danbaum, detective sergeant, who
made an early in\estlgation. “Tiie
weapon was deliberately pressed
against the woman s nbdoim and
f.rod.”
“Singing Alik*" has played with
end operated musical troupes, and
once, he said, played nt the 13mpress
theater. He also has played at road
houses and is alleged by police to
have conducted a rum oasiu at HIT
South Seventh street.
Sung Over Radio.
f Raporte, according to his attorney,
doe Lovely, has sung over radio nev
(Turn to I'tige si*, ( nhimii Four. >
20 Persons Hurt in
Rear End Collision
(. haileston. S. r , Dec. 9.—Twenty
persons were Injured, two seriously,
when passenger train No. 8 of the At
lantic Const I.ine rnilroad, ran into
the rear end of train No. 52 nt Hanna
ban station. 12 miles from here today.
The injured were brought to
Charleston hospitals on a special train
After being given first hid at Mann
han liv doctors taken from here in
automobiles. The collision is said to
>ffr ive been due to a heavy fog that
^Vsrpred signal s* t by train No. 52
when it was forced to stop on account
of a hotinxj
S> canton. I’a , Dec. 9.- five persons
are known to he dead and several \\n ir
injured today in an explosion which
destroyed the Glazing mill of the
Black Diamond Powder company,
near Dupont, I’a . about eight miles
.south of Scranton. The' explosion
was felt at c'arhondale.
Spanish Cardinal Dies.
Santiago, Spain. Dec. !•.—(By A. P)
— Cardinal Martin Do Herreray de la
Iglesia. archbishop of Compostella for
;c; years, died today. Ho was ST years
of age. for several years he was arch
bishop of Santiago, Cuba.
Castles
in the
Air
are all right. They may
be fine to dream about
but you can't derive much
comfort out of them.
Find your REAL home
by looking through the
Real Estate columns in
the “Want” Ad section of
The Omaha Bee.
And, if you want to
sell your house, phone
At-lantic 1000 and ask
for a “Want” Ad taker.
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“Singing Mike' in Jail
Charged With Murder
lliis is Hie ivay “Singing Mike"
Vdamo, alias \ inrr/ino, alias La
Porto, arrused as the slayer of his
sweetheart. Mire Klneliait, looked
when he was raptured in “Little!
llaljM h> l)eteeti\e William tiiiriiell.l
10 hours after the girl was found
dead in the hedroom of her apart
nient in The Liiieoln, Twenty second
and ( hirago streets.
Girl Threatens
to Avenge Death
of Companion
‘Til Silence 'Singing Mike
Forever,’ S;i\> (ilium of
(iirl Shot to
Heath.
"1 II silence Singing Alike I.n I'ortc
forever if I pet the opportunity," de- |
dared Inn Kiinihaugh. L«* n compan
ion of Alic I’lneimrt. who, it is al
leged, was slain hy the road house en
tertain* r.
■‘tie'll he 'Silent Alike' if [ ever get
a gun pointed at him." she said.
She was on her way to the police i
station from th** girl's apartment
when 'he rowed to avenge the death
:
Ilia Kumtmii&li.
of her friend. Ami as she spoke her
eyes were swelled with tears, her
teeth were clenched with determina
tion, and her right hand was raised
upward.
"I am a good shot, and T can kill
■i man for that." she said. "Alice was
the lost friend i had in the world and
T am willing to sit in royal dignity
in the electric chair to avenge her
death.”
The Rutnbatigh girl said that she
and Alice wanked and roomed togeth
er in Nebraska City after Alice had
left her home in Tarkio, Mo.
“We wanted to see the bright
lights of the city, so we came, and
now dear Alice is dead. The man
who killed her will pay the price for
it."
Miss Rumhnngh said she not Miss
r.hinehart in Nebraska City four
years ago. She was horn in Auburn
and lived in Nebraska City most of
her life except when she was in the
L'nkotas, she said, and came to Oma
ha a month ago.
Miss Rinehart enmo to Omaha last
August. Years ago she was divorced ,
I from Verio l.ishy, a Nebraska City
taxicab driver, the Rurnbaugh woman
said.
The dead woman leaves a son. 11.
who lives with his grandparents on
a farm near Tarkio, Mo., her chum
told police.
Miss Rutnbatigh herself Is a
divorcee, she said.
According to police officers, I,a
Porte's name before he donned trou
Ladour's garb and changed his name,
was James Vineeziuo. He played in
| a trio at the Seventh and Pierce
streets cabaret of John Salerno, slain
by Tom Fltnn, government informer,
according to police.
When Salerno was killed and his
place closed La Porte began playing
in various other cabarets, police said.
State Will Build Bakery
at School in Beatrice
Beatrice, Neb., Dee. !*. (Special.)—
.V new bakery buililins to cost ap
proximately $25,000 will be erected at
the Feeble Minded institute this win
■ter. It will connect with the kitchen
land dlniiiR room. The contract will
he awarded December 10. The $60,000
' cottage twins erected at the institute
I is neuritis completior
Ex-Premier
Special Vrticle.
Startling Revelations
By Kl( * I IT HONOKAUI.K DAVID
LU)\ l» t.lOlCt.I, O. >l.t M. I*.
I Former British Premier.)
Copyright, by I nited Feature Syu
dieate.
Copyright in t«reat Britain 1*5* l.ondon
( hronlele.
GtrlmlMi World Itiicbti Held by I nited
Feature Syndieate Keproduet ion in
\\ hole or Part Prohibited.
London, Deo. 9.—M. Clenunccau.
ir. ttio remarkable seri. 3 of speeches
lie has lien delivering in the United
Slates of America, implies a breach
of faitli on the part of Great Britain
in reference to the pact for the gnar
; liter of France against the possibility
f German aggression,
ling land has no better friend in the
whole nf France than -M t‘lemenceatt.
Throughout a strenuous, but consis
tent caret r. lie lias never i iried in his
friendship for England. Many a time
lias lie been bitterly assailed for Unit
friendship. French journalists ate not
sparing of inuendo against those they
hate. They hate fiercely and they hit
recklessly, and M. Cleincnceau, a man
of scrupulous integrity, at one period
in his stormy political life, was
charged by certain organs of the
Paris press with being in the pay of
England, if. therefore, he now does
This is the first of a series of
articles by l.loyd George which
will .appear each week in The Sun
day Bee.
an injustice to Britain, 1 ana. con
vinced it is not from blind hatred of
our country, but from temporary for
getfullneHa of fact. He states the fact
with reference to the original pact
quite fairly. It was proffered as an
answer to those who claimed that the
left bank of tlie Rhine should bo an
nexed to France.
River of Blood,
There was a strong party In France
Which urged M. Clenicneean to do- :
manrl that the Rhine should he treat
ed as the natural frontier of their
country and that advantage should be
taken of ihe overwhelming defeat of
(iermany to extend the boundaries of
France to that fateful river. For un
known centuries, it has been fougut
OV'i .ir.o act ,,*?•—;> -. .liiible liter of
blood. If French chauvinism had its
way this time, the Rhine would, with- '
in a generation, once more overflow
its banks and devastate France. The
most moderate and insidious form
this demand took was a proposal that
the German provinces on the left bank
of the Rhine should remain in
French occupation until the treaty
had been fulfilled.
That meant forever.
The rep- rations, alone—ilfully
handled by the Quni d Orsay—would
preclude the possibility of ever witnes
sing fulfillment "f the treaty. The ar
gument by which they supported their
claim was the defenselessness of the
French frontier without some natural
harrier. France had been twice In
vaded atnl overrun within living mem
ory by tier formidable neighbors. The
German military power was now
crushed and provinces of the German
empire had been restored to France
and Poland, but the population of
Germany was still ,10 per c nt greater
than that of France and it was grow
ing at an alarming rate, while the
French population was at a standstill.
German towns and villages were
choked with sturdy children.
Nourished on Vengeance.
Tou cannot talk long to a French
man without realizing how this spec
ter of German childhood haunts
France and intimidates her judgement.
Tlieso children, it Is said, are nour
(Turn to Pago Nine. Column One.)
Man Burned at Stake.
Ferry. Fla.. Dec. ‘J.—Charlie Wright,
accused of the murder of Miss Ruby
Hendry, young school teacher, was
taken from the sheriff and burned at
the stake at the scene of the crime
early last night by a mob estimated at
several thousand men.
WHERE TO FIND
THE BIG FEATURES OF
THE SUN DA Y REE
PART ONE.
Editorial < onmieut— Page 3.
PART TWO
Sporting New* and Features
Pages l and 3.
Radio New*— page 3.
Of E*pe<-lnl Interest to Motorists—
Page I.
"Paris Itoiiievards Offer llappv Hour
to Stroller*," b> Frederick K.
Abbott— Page 5.
Markets and Financial Neu*— Page H.
Want Ads— Pages 9 and 10.
*If This |« Paris, filie Mi* Ne
braska.” sn>* Former Omaha Pas
tor. \\ ho Is Touring Europe—
Page I?.
PART THREE.
Sneiety and New* for Women—
Page* 1 to rt.
Shopping Willi Poll}—
Page 6.
Music Neu*— Page 1.
Vniusement*— Page* T. H and 9.
"The Married Elfe of Helen and
Warren'*— Page 10.
“\ hr rant Thought* on Omlng in Neu
York.” by O. O. M*lnt>re—
Page 10.
MAGAZINE SECTION.
"Introducing Mis* (Inner;" Hlnc
Ribbon Nliort Storj by Oucn
OlHer— Page I.
"The Room on the Roof.” by \\ ill
Pajne— Page 3.
Happy I* ml— Page 4.
The Teenle Weenie*— page JY
t utouts for the Kiddie*— Page *
KOTOGKWVKE SECTION.
t ommunity (•iris’ Walking ( Ini*—
Puge |.
I>«*«cmher Uraduatn of Teyludral
High— * I’age 2.
High Points Made
by Llovd George
"There are men in (iermany who
preach revenge. They must lie told
(hat a war of revenge will find the
same allies side hy side indicting
punishment on the peace breakers."
"There are men in France who
counsel nunevation of territory popu
lated by another rare. They must
In warned that such a step will alien
ate the sympathies of Itrilain and
\morica and that when the inevitable
war of liberation conies tlie sympa
thies of \meriea and Itrilain will he
openly ranged on the side of those
who are fighting for national free
dom."
"Tlie time lias mint for saying
llicso things and if they are not said
in high plates, humanity will one day
call those who occupy high places to
a reckoning.”
“( Icmciiseail ought to have made
Ilfs complaint in Paris against men
of his own race and not in New York
against Englishmen.”
"Tlie part (guarantee to France
hacked hy F.nglalid) lies for tlie mo
ment in tlie waste paper basket. ISut
we never dung it there.”
" Vt t.eiioa there was passionate
sincerity of desire for peace, hut the
European nations could not help see
ing that one of tlie great powers was
working for a failure.”
" VI so. Satan is not through with
Europe."
"Tlie offer of a pact guaranteeing
France against tieriiian aggression
oils definitely renewed at Cannes and
M. Poincare lias not accepted it. I
have my own opinion as to why lie
has not done so. If France accepts
llritain's guarantee of defense of her
frontier every excuse for annexing
tlie left hank of tlie Itliine disap
pears. If the French ministers have
made up their minds that they will
not withdraw from the Rhine, then
a new chapter o|m'I1s in tlie history
of Europe and tlie world, with a cli
max of horror such as mankind lias
never yet witnessed.”
"Is il too much to ask that \rner
ica should in time lake an effective
interest in the development along the
Rhine? To that extent I am ill com
plete accord with M. Clemcnreail. It
is a far cry from tlie Rhine to (lie
Mississippi, hut not so far as il used
to be. There are now graves not far
from the Rhine wherein lies the dust
of men who less than six years ago
enntem from tlie hanks of the Mis
sissippi."
Poincare Declared
Ready to Consent
to Moratorium
Reported to Have Told Allied
Premiers in Condon France
Will Grant Germany
2 Years.
Loudon, Dec. 9.—(By A. P.)—Pre
mier Po'ncare towards the close of
the first session of the conference of
llicd premiers here today is under
stood to have said that France would
consent to a moratorium of two years
for Germany if certain economic guar
antees accompanied it,
London, Dec. 9.—(By A. PA—The j
conference of allied premiers held a
two-hour session this morning, ad-,
journing for luncheon shortly before
2 p. ni. The heads of all four dele
gations—British, French, Italian and
Belgian—addressed the gathering, Pre
mier Poincare of France holding the
floor the longest.
No Definite Proposals.
While Premier Poincare was re
ported not to have reached the point
of definite proposals, lie declared the
reparation question had arrived at n
stage where something radical must
lie done. He came prepared, he said,
to discuss what action should lie tak
en, France’s great interests, lie in
sisted. must ho recognised.
Those present besides the premiers
were the finance ministers of Great
Britain, France and Belgium, Count 1
de Saint Atilnire, the French nmbns
sudor; Foreign Minister Jaspar of
Belgium and tDo Italian members of
tho reparations commission.
Appears Perturbed.
M. Poincare appeared perturbed
when he left his hotel for the con
ference, having just made a denial of
a charge that France intends to an
nex the Rhine region. Ho was in
good spirits, however, when he re
turned, from which the French at
taches drew the inference that the
conference was going well.
Karl Borgmann, the German finan
cial expert, has arrived in London.
These guarantees briefly were the!
economic control of the Rhineland and
I artial occupation of the Ruhr district
with about one division of troops to
collect the customs for the full output,
it is understood M. Poincare pointed
out to tile other premiers that these
guarantees were in no way to be re
garded as military action against Ger
many, but simply ns temporary eco- |
mimic measures to insure carrying out
the necessary financial reforms during
the life of the moratorium.
Famous Players Goinpanv
to Drop Mary Miles Minter
Yew York, Dec. 9-—The Famous
Playevs-Lasky corporation announced
today that the contract held by Mary
Miles Minter, one ef its most prom
inent screen stars, would not be re
newed after she finished a picture
upon which she is engaged. No reason
was given.
Old Mother Moore
Went to the store,
Her children some presents
to buy;
But she went too late.
She’d forgotten the date,
And on Xmas her children
will cry.
Handed Down From Stage Coach Days
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Wintry Weather
Hard oil Children
of Poor in Omaha
Employes of TlneC Large.
Companies Raise Purses
to Shoe Cold Little
Feet.
Employe of three important com
panies made up purses to put shoes
i n the cold Jitie feet of small boys and
trills In the most desolate homes of
Omaha. With the contribution from
the workers In the Kirschbraun &
Sons plant came this appropriate
verse:
"From worn little vliocs creeping down the
bljC street
Peeped l.loe little toe* nnd very cold feet.
They hcliiiiKC<| to it liomclcen mol loingry
Ihvl.
Whose mother wu* dead and so was hie
dad."
Employes of three yards of the Up
dike Lumber and Cony company sent
in s-17.50.
The present bitter, cold and damp
weather is particularly hard on the
children of tlie very poor where scarce
ly enough food can he obtained to say
nothing of shoes. Many mothers toil
through the night, scrubbing in office
buildings or doing other work in the
heroic fight to feed and shelter their
little ones. Some are even worse off,
as this one:
"Wo are four little children and
we live in u two-room house. I
am the oldest. I am 8. My papa
died a year ago and mama works
hard all day. Sometimes she rrles,
1 guess because it's so cold.”
Every ceht contributed goes to buy
shoes lor such children. Each case Is
Investigat'd without cost to the fund.
Not a cent contributed goes for any
sort of “expense ' Ail goes 10 buy
shoes.
Previously reported $1,081.3(1
Catherine >1. Coleman, tireeimoml,
Neh. 2.50
William Nigh, I remont Neh . .. 1.00
K. \. (ox, Dencva. Neh. .... I.oo
F F. It. . In. 00
J. \V. ( res*.. South Omaha ..... 2.00
Mrs. Carl Ntratvn 2.00
Deorge Filialt. (•onion, Neh. /.(Ml
l.over of Children 5.00
Fmploye* of Klrsc librann A Sons 10.05
Marie Swart* /.(Ml
\ Friend, Orleans, Neh. . . I.oo
c. 1 Itct* kc ft. (Ml
It. 1. . Vilen, Neb. * 5.00
Sodal "civ ice (lass. Presbyterian
( hurdi, Lexington. Noli. lo.(M)
\ Friend of Children ., 2.(10
Swan Nelson, Oakland. Nel*. 3.00
Vron Ilcdllind. ( eresro. Nil*. t .00
Krnploy «*s of Iteaeon I’ress .... 7.50
T. N . Seward, Neh. 3.(10
(>• . 1.00
John II Oath .... 5.00
Mabel IliOinger. < lark, Neh. 1.00
I, . It. Norris. loglesltle, Neh. 5.00
I M llnot iiany, Wotnot, Nel*. 5.00
-1. I . M. 1.00
Mr*. Frank llansen, I elding, Neh. 2.(10
Amo- Hartlett. Kaverina. Nel*. 5.00
\ I rientl. Stroinbcrg. N'eli, 2.00
< «"*»i 5,00
(.. M. Mmlnnd. (•<»( hciibtirg. Nil*. 3.00
Omaha Hot ."scoot*. Troop 57 2.00
Deorge N . .laid 1.30
Miilick employe*, Dennison. In. 4 30
\ friend. I.vclcr. Neh. 5.00
Fmployc* of t ptlike Lumber A
( OH I < a. 45.50
HtTfii* •• Connell, I'uirloiry, Neh. I.oo
Mrs. V V. Oat is. Fniersoii, Neh. .MMI
Alwin Lent/, Oesliler. Neh. i.oo
II. II. Neely 10.00
The Drain 'let*. Hastings, Neb, 12.25
Albert 1'. Durdncr. Orleans, Neh. 3.00
Mary Vim Item-diet, Stroinshurg,
Nel>. 1.50
\ Friend of Djrls and Hoys, Htirr
Neb. . . 1.00 1
Jefferson Ladies’ \id, Lyons, Neh. 10.00
Mrs. Fvu 1l. Shearer 3.00
( rant Stocker. Stanton. Nel*. .. ft.(Ml
Miss II. Kemichek. . . . .... 3.00
Vlr-. T. I.. Stevens 10.00
Mr*. D. W. Mead. Prescott. In. l.(Mi
' i :n.ft .86
Tf you fed you can help put a pair
of warm shoes on a pair t*f cold, little
feet, send your money, addressed to j
Free Shoe Fund, The Omaha He*-.
Omaha.” Checks may be made out
the sauie way.
I_
Day’s Activities
j
in Washington
The annual treasury appropriation
carrying *115,000,000 was passed by
the house.
Secretary A Valin rr ^aol lie would
give the government's opinion on the
proposed Armour-Morris packer mer
ger early next week.
The administration shipping lull
was reported to the senate by its
commerce committee to he called up
for consideration Monday.
Two additional farm bills were in
traduced in the senate and house bv
.Senator Norbeek, republican, South
Dakota, and K,preventative Strong,
republican, Kansas.
Some Improvement In the general
agricultural situation of the nation
was noted in the Department of Agri
culture's monthly report.
House judiciary committee sub
poenaed former Attorney General
AViekersh.ini and Samuel (tampers to
appear at the Daugherty Impeach
Trent hearings.
Chairman Holt of the senate ini
migration committee said it was un
likely general immigration legislation
recommended by President Harding in
Friday's message would he attempted
at present.
Ford Says Big Stock
Dividends Necessity
Boston, Dec. 0.—Henry Ford, visit
ing New Kngland to decide on the
site for an export terminal for the
Ford Motor company, said that he
considered the present wave of stork
dividend declarations by Dig corpora
tions a business necessity, but added
that, his company would make no
such distribution this year. "AVe are
expanding steadily," he said. “AA’e
have a $30,000,000 program of im
provements to lie completed within a
year. AVe won't declare any stock
dividend, only the regular cash divi
dends. and we will spend them in the
same way that we have in the past:
tha is. on extensions and improve
ments."
Snu\v iii Cascade Mountains
Stalls Passenger Trains
Siiittlo, AVash., Dee. 9—Heavy
snowfall in the Cascade mountains
resulted in the blockading today to
highways west of Kllsburg and de
laying two transcontinental trains.
The eastbound train No. 2 of the
Cl rent Northern was delayed at I.u
mola and the eastbound Chicago.
Milwnugeo & St. Paul railway's Olym
pian was reported several hours late.
A Northern Pacific freight train
was stalled ai a tunnel entrance In
iho mountains. Thirty-two inches of
snow fell in the Cascades in 12 hours,
ending at noon. Six feet of snow
was on the ground at Rockdale and
four feet at Kuston.
Cost of Harvard University
Over Six Million Yearly
Cambridge, Mass , Dec. 9— It costs
more than $6,090,000 a year to run
Harvard university. The annual state
ment of the treasurer, Charles C.
Frances Adams, made public today,
shows that the total expenditure
leached the sum of $6,040,971, Involv
ing an operating deficit of $77,536 for
the year ending June 30. The deficit,
however, was unieh smaller than that
of the preceding year, when the uni
versity ran behind over $338,000.
Arthur C. Burch
Reported Sane;
Given Freedom
(.'(xlt'lVii.Jant With Madalymie
Obenchain for Murder of J.
Belton Kennedy Declared
Sound of Mind.
1 ,US Angelos, Dee. 9.—Arthur O.
Burch, formerly of Evanston, 111.,
had his freedom tonight after stand
ing trial three times for murder and
mice for insanity. The juries on the
murder charge all disagreed and the
alienists at the insanity hearing did
likewise, but the weight of expressed
belief of the latter was that Burch
was sane, or harmless If Insane, so
his frectjom was restored to 1dm.
Burch said he did not know what
he Would do.
The action completed a long chap
ter of trials all based on the murder
of J. Belton Kennedy, a young broker,
who was shot down on the steps of
his summer cottage in Beverly Glen,
17 months ago. Burch and Mrs.
Madalynne Obenchain wore indicted
for the crime. Burch was tried three
times to disagreements. .Mrs. Oben
chain was tried twice, both juries also
disagreeing.
Mrs, Obenchain was recently freed
when the district attorney dismissed
the murder indictment. Burch was
held for an insanity hearing on the
pteition of his attorney, Paul \V.
Sehenck.
Mr. Sohenek and the Rev. W. A.
Burch, father of Arthur, both testified
today they believed he was insane and
gave instances of what they said were
unusual conduct. The alienists who
examined him divided on his sanity
and Judge Bertram A. W’eyl, presid
ing, held that the question seemed to
resolve itself in Burch's favor and di
rected that he be freed.
State Case Against
White Is Dismissed
Emporia. Ivan.. Dec. 9—The state’s
rase against William Allen White.
Emporia editor, charged with violat
ing the industrial court law liy plac
ing a placard in the window of his
newspaper office, was dismissed nt
I this afternoon In district court,
Judge W C, Harris presiding. Mr.
White appeared at the court with his
attorney.
Double Compartment Mail
Boxes Declared Success
Washington. Dec. 9.—Records kept
k.y the Rostofllce department during
the past two weeks on "double com
partment’’ boxes in this city Indicate
the probability, it was announced to
day, that similar boxes soon will be
placed in nil the larger cities of the
country. The boxes have two slots,
one for local mail and one for out
cf-town mail. Only H per cent of the
mail taken from the experimental
1loves were found In the wrong com
partment.
The Weather
Forecast.
Sunday, probably light snow; some
what warmer.
Hourly Temperatures.
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r* »• •» .IS 2 p. m.20
7 s. m . IX 3 p. in.21
X a. in . ... .14 » p. ni 21
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to a. in ..10 0 p. m..20
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Ten States
Want Lower
Grain Rates
Reduction on Farm Products
Demanded of I. ('. C. in
intieipatiou of Federal
Railroad Legislalion.
Farm Bloc for 1918 Rates
Washington, Dec. 9.—(Special Tel*
gram.)—Anticipating possible congros
sional railroad legislation and taking
President Harding at his word, 1«'
western states swooped down upon
I the Interstate Commerce commission
| today demanding reduction in rates
on farm products Headed by the
Kansas utilities commission, then**
i states nr*' demanding a reduction on
rates on grain, grain products and
hay. approximating 3a per cent. It is
' estimated this reduction will cut
! off about $38,000,000 of annual rove
j line from the railroads, which now
, claim they are earning only about
! half of the t» per cent th* y are en*
j titled to earn in their tentative vain*
! at ion.
Hearings on the rate reductions de
manded will eormnenco next Monday.
The states interested constitute th©
: middlowentern group, including Kan
; sas, Nebraska. Iowa, South Dakota,
Minnesota, Oklahoma, Missouri, Colo
rado, Wyoming and North Dakota.
1 The fight is In charge of a committee
made up of Clyde Reed, chairman,
Kansas utilities commission, Thorne
Browne. Nebraska; Dwight I j. Lewis.
; Iowa: L\ K. Putnam, Minnesota, and
! J J. Murphy, South Dakota.
Want liMH Kates.
Tlic western group ins.sis the tales
must come down to the 1918 level,
and r'all President 1 hit dings addres*
to congress In support of thotr con
leutloti. Farm senators uml repre
sentatives unite in supporting the de
mand, claiming the high freight rates
nii responsible in large putt for the
disastrous conditions that affect agri
culture.
While the western utility groups
are Inaugurating their drive for
further rate reductions. Represents
tivo Sweet and Senator Capper are
endeavoring to secure Immediate con
sideration of their respective bills re
pealing section 15-A of the Ksob-Cula
mina law which includes the soealled
guarantee on earnings and deprives
the state commissions of their right
to control intrastate rates.
Republican leaders surveyed the
Situation and frankly admitted tho
prospect for railroad Ieg.sijUcn Is run
good. The T/a Follette group is plat,
ping an immediate drive for repeal
of tho entire Ksch-Cummlns act and
the group represented by Senates
Cummins will fight it on the grourd
as Senator Cummins expresses it
' that the alternative is government
ownership.1'
Differ on Method.
While President Harding recorn
mended. In tho main, the amendment*
which Senator Cummins lias in mind
to proposp. tho president and the
chairman of the I. C. C. differ on the
method of putting teeth into the labor
clause.
President Harding recommends
placing upon the Interstate Commerce
commission the responsibility for fix
ing both wages and raes. Senator
Cummins adheres to tho view of es
tablishing a "Hoard of Transporta
tion,” which shall have jurisdiction
over wages, acting on appeals to bo
brought up from regional boards
which shall pass on local and regional
differences. Senator Cummins Is not
hopi ful of securing legislative action
on the law at this session, but ae
knowledges frankly the chances of
action will l.e even less favorable at
the bands of the newly elected con
gress. lb* lias not given lip his in
tention of introducing an administra
tion bill which will cover the sugges
tions mud" by the president, but will
probably delay tho bill pending fur
ther conference with the president on
the subject of abolishing the railway
labor board.
Seek Extra Session.
The canvass of the senate made
today developed the La Follette group,
including Senator Cummins' now
colleague. S' nntor Rrookhnrt, will
utilize the railroad question to ac
centuate tho name already existing in
the hope of forcing President Hard
ing to call, tut extra session after
March -i
Tho investigation of sentiment by
the leaders showed that while the ad
ministration forces want to confine
legislation to amendment of the pres
ent act, the La Follette group pro
poses to wreck it completely.
Senator Brook hart Is already pre
paring legislation aimed at the tenta
tive valuation of the roads fixed by
the Interstate Commerce commission,
claiming that the valuation approxi
mates $7,900,000,000 wortli of watered
stock.
^ allace to Announce Stand
on Packing Merger Monday
"Washington, Dec. 9.—The federal
government's attitude toward the pro
posed merger of the Chicago packing
firms of Armour and Morris probably
will he made known early next week
Secretary Wallace of the Agricul
tural department, to whom J. Ogden
Armour submitted a query on the sub
ject, had hoped to announce a decision
today, but It was said at his offlre
that he still was awaiting formal opin
ion from Attorney General Daugherty
on legal aspects of the case. The at
torney general's opinion was under
stood to he virtually complete Hnd
there wa>re Indications that Mr. Wal
lace would reply to Mr. Armour on
Monday.
Six Injured !>y Explosion.
New York, Dee. 9.—frdx m«n were
injured, two probably fatally, when
the boilers in the steamship Frltzoe.
in drydoctc in Brooklyn, blew up thU
ail irnnn»