United States
Likely to Mediate
in Reparations
Lack of Harmonizer Stumbling
Block Heretofore to Agree
ment Between France
and Germany.
Washington, pec. 21.—(By A. P.)—
German overtures through informal
channels for American intervention to
obtain a revision of German repara
tions schedule* reported in London
dispatches of the The Associated Press
throws the first definits light on the
method by which American influence
is being drawn Into a new attempt at
final adjustment of the vexing repa
rations problem.
The next step to be looked for obvi
ously Is an Indication of the French
attitude of the German proposal that
an American economic commission re
view Germany’s present situation and
estimate her capacity to pay as a
basis for a new reparations treaty.
There is reason to believe that previ
ous government reports from Berlin
are of a character to Justify hope that
if the French should prove agreeuble
to the proposed plan for reparations
revision, no insurmountable obstacles
would remain in (he way of an agree
ment as to the specific amount Ger
many could and would pay.
Stumbling Block.
A stumbling block to such an agree
ment up to this time, officials here
and in Berlin are understood to have
felt, has been the lack of a channel
for Informal preliminary exchange of
views between Berlin and Paris. Brit
ish agencies hardly could offer their
services, as Great Britain is too fully
I committed on reparations views in
opposition to the French position to
ho effective in negotiations to the
: Paris government.
As the proposal approved by the
| Cuno government is seen here, it rep
resents employment of American com
i mercial and governmental agencies to
bring German and French vlewa Into
harmony.
The share of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States in the
shaping of the new proposals for ad
j justment of the European tangle, It
was learned today, dates back to
! executive discussion of th* subjects
I by directors of the chamber with
1 President Julius Barnes at the Gal
veston meeting of the board last
I month. Enough promise of success
i in bringing about a compromise rep
j arations program developed at that
| meeting to warrant a grant of full
I powers to Mr. Barnes by the board,
| powers to Mr. Barnes by the board.
Whether the board then had pro
j posals of similar business organisations
: in Germany is not known; but Mr.
S Barnes and Elliot Goodwin, secre
tury general of the chamber, confer
red at great length with Secretary
tluglies last week, their visit syn
chronizing with the many other inci
dents that served to make it clear
that the Washington government had
before it some project for settlement
of the reparations tangle.
It is recalled here that the Cuno
government in Germany rests very
largely for Its support on the Indus
triallsts group which presumably in
eludes the commercial and business
interests now moving for Intervention
of American business representatives
in the reparations problem. As the
task of actual payment of Germany's
reparations must of necessity fall
largely upon this political group, add
ed weight is attached to proposals
from that quarter.
American observers have reported
that without support of the indus
trialists the Cuno government could
not stand.
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SECOND FLflDR-BROWN BLOCK 16 TH AND DOUGLAS'
^ CX ^ X
Capture of Two Soldier-Bandits Rivals
Movie Thriller as Victim Aids Police
Above, left to right: Detective Valentine Buglewlcz, Herbert Johnson and Detective William Cicli.
Inserted: Andrew fionord, left, believed by police to be a real Parisian Apache, and Charles II, Robbins,
soldiers, arrested by the trio above as highwaymen just about to adjust their masks for further depredations
after robbing Johnson.
In his confession Robbins is alleged to have admitted they intended to hold up the Central Park pharmacy,
but lost their nerve, just before the battle in which they were made prisoners.
In their fight in the dark alley with the Frenchman, Gonord, Buglewicz started a “haymaker” for the
bandit, but it landed on the Jaw of Johnson, the victim of the holdup, spurring that young man to greater
effort in the subjugation of the soldier.
"Well, something, ought to happen.
I haven't had any excitement for
quite a while.”
With this adieu to his folks. Her
bert A. Johnson. IS, 3424 North Fif
tieth street, employe of the United
States Rubber company, left home
for Fontpnelle park to indulge in his
favorite outdoor sport—skating.
And before lie got home yesterday
morning he'd had aplenty.
He had been held up and robbed,
and he had assisted in the capture of
two soldiers who had robbed him,
after a fistic fight in a dark alley
and a movie chase around the block.
Johnson was going home when he
was stopped at Forty-third street and
Grand avenue. A man shoved a gun
against his ribs, told him to "stick
’em up." and the bandit's companion
started to search him.
But Johnson took a swing at the
Searcher wdth his skates. The man
ducked. The marksman with the re
volver warned Johnson and he gave
up.
"I thought it was some of the
gang ’framing on me’ because I had
been ’fussing’ their girls,” Johnson
said.
But after lie had been robbed of $3,
some pennies and a wallet, be stepped
into 4737 North Fortieth street and
called police.
Detectives William Cich and Valen
tine Buglewiez responded with Patrol
Driver Lyman Wheeler. They picked
up Johnson and at the Central Park
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pharmacy, Forty-second street and
Grand avenue, they espied two men
with masks about to be adjusted.
Both men halted when told to, but
ope of them took to his heels sud
denly and Wheeler knocked down the
other. Buglewiez had stopped to leave
his overcoat in the drug store. When
he saw the man fleeing, he stepped
into the alley and headed him off.
They grappled.
The fugitive shoved his knee into
the sleuth’s stomach and Buglewiez
split open his “sap" on the man’s
head. Buglewiez was knocked out for
a few moments, but Johnson had
leaped on the prisoner and he was
captured.
Buglewiez was taken home ill for
the rest of the night. The prisoners
were taken to police headquarters,
where they are said to have signed
confessions.
They are Pvt. Andrew Gonord, 22,
and Pvt. Charles L. Robbins, 20,
Breckenridge, Pa. Robbins was the
man with the gun, police say.
“Other soldiers were doing it and
getting away with it easy so we,
thought we would try it. We needed
spending money,” they are alleged to
have told t lie detectives.
Gonord says lie is a native Parisian
and has been in America two years
and three months. He claims to have
served as a poilu In the Solssons sec
tor during the war.
He talks fumiilarly of the Mont
! inartre and byways of- Parts In which
denizens of the underworld are kown
to prowl. Police officer believe ho is
a true Parisian Apache.
When lie was down, receiving Bu
glewicz's blows in the dark alley,
Wednesday njght, he set up a hue and
cry of “Mamma, Mamma," according
to Johnson.
The soldiers will be charged with
highway robbery, police said.
Members of the department yester
day were singing the praises of John
son, the victim, for the way he went
about capturing the holdups and the
aid he gave the detectives.
“If more holdup victims would be
as prompt in calling headquarters as
Johnson was,” said Sgt. Frank Hose,
"we would be able to capture more oi
them and clean tho city of highway
men.”
"Yes, I’ve had enough excitement
for a time, at least,” conceded John
son yesterday morning.
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Farmer Passed
Storm bv Loans
\Tar Finance Corporation Re
ports 41 Per Cent of Ad
vances Repaid.
Washington. Pec. 21.—The Ameri
can farmer has demonstrated that
when properly financed he can
wpather the worst economic storms,
the war finance corporation declared
in its annual report sent to congress
today. The report set forth that 41
per cent of the money advanced to
the agricultural Industry had been
repaid in advance of maturity or
when due.
Advances by the corporation saved
the industry many millions of dol
lars. the report declared, explaining
that the corporation's officers believed
its activity had proved as beneficial
in the restoration of confidence as in
the actual pouring of cash into spots
where credit was tightest. The loans
had made it possible for thousands
of farmers to handle their products
in an orderly fashion, it was added,
and the confidence instilled in them
through the knowledge that motley
was available acted us a stabilizer,
the value of which, the report said,
could only be estimated.
"It is impossible," the report con
tinueej. “to estimate the full effect of
the aid given by the corporation to
the live stock industry, because cal
amities tliut are averted can never be
measured. It Is generally recognized,
however, that by providing as it did
financing for more than 0,900,000 head
of live stock, the corporation checked
the demoralization In the Industry,
gave the stockmen a breathing spell,
stabilized the market, and turned the
tide away front disaster toward recov.
ery and reconstruction.
The effect of the corporation's ac
tivity on the live stock Industry was
typical of that on many other phases
of agriculture. It was added and satis
faction with the assistance rendered
lias been expressed to the corporation
m countless ways.
Police to Hold Party for
Children Christinas Night
The annual Christmas party for
poor children of the Third ward will
be given by the police department In
the assembly room of central police
headquarters Christmas night.
Sergeant Samuel Mortis will be the
bewhiskered Kris Kringle..
If public generosity continues there
will be plenty for the more than 300
children expected to attend, accord
ing to Sergeant Frank Rose of the
committee in charge, but there still
Is need of new toys and candles.
From the state penitentiary yester
day came a letter with enclosed,
accompanied by a note from an
Omaha convict that he wanted to give
his last dollar to help ut&ke the pool
youngsters happy
"We still need a ventriloquist.”
said Sergeant Rose, "to help make
fun for the youngsters."
Paralyzed by Booze
Police surgeons were called to 412’4
South Thirteenth street yesterday aft
■ ernoon, after Frank Andrews, Thirty
] third and Cuming streets, entered
there and suddenly collapsed. The
surgeons said he had been drinking.
1 They diagnosed his case as partial
! paralysis. Andrews was taken to his
' home.
Day's Activities ^
in Washington
The nomination of Fierce Butler,
St. Paul attorney, to be an associate
justice of the United States supreme
court, was confirmed by the senate.
Hearings on the Keller Impeach
ment charges against Attorney Gen
eral Pangherty were concluded by the
house judiciary committee.
The War Finance corporation, in
Its annual report, declared the Amer
ican farmer, if properly financed,
could weather the worst economic
storms.
Announcement was made that the
surplus received by Clemeneeau for
lectures and newspaper articles while
In Amercia, which will be turned over
to the American field service fund
fellowships, amounted to $20,000.
Senator Borah, republican, Idaho,
offered an amendment to the naval
appropriation hill providing that the
president call an international con
ference for discussion of economic
questions, as well as the reduction of
armaments.
Plans for the creation of an Amer
ican commission to aid in the adjust
ment of the Eurpean reparations
problem, were said to have received
the unofficial approval of the United
States. Germany and Great Britain
and to be under consideration by
France.
The government of Costa Rica has
issued a decree prohibiting the hold
ing of boxing matches in the repub
lic.
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