The Omaha M( >rning Bee _ VOI, f»2 VO 170 tatarad M Sacaad-Claaa Matter May 2*. IMS. M OMAHA TITRSDAY 1AVHARY 2 1022 * By Mill (t mi)I Oally tad Suaday. M; Suaday. IMS. » .la tia 4t» tuua. TWO CENTS V I)£ 1>U. HU. Omaha P. O. Uadar Act at Marti 3. 117*. UWAHA, 1UMUAI, JrtWLflIU a-. UalO. Oat.lda lia 4th »aa II yaar): Oally aad Suaday. 112 aaaday aaly. U. _ ____———- ■ i n ———^ ---f ' — ...- . ...—-— Premiers in Con fereiice on Policy I'inal Effort Being Made to Settle Reparations Oues tions — Allied Circles Sober and Anxious. France May Act Alone _ Paris, Jan. I -(By A P.)—The prime ministers of France, Gre.1t Britain ami Belgium, together with the .Marquis Bella Torrettu represent ing ihe Italian premier, will go into • •'.iifr-renee tomorrow which is regard , ed rts till' final effort of the allies to reach a collective settlement of the reparations question. There was a sober and even anxious spirit in al lied circles tonight, in face of the prob ability that, if tite conference fails, separate and direct action by France Will follow. The meeting is a continuation of l ist month’s premiers’ conference in I-ondon which was called to examine whether any practical results can come from a general economic con gress in Brussels. The main questions to ho decided are. first, whether a moratorium ran he granted to Ger many and. second, upon what terms? Divided on Policy. France and Great Eritain are sharply divided in policy. The French insist upon seizing the productive resources of Germany on the left bank o fthc Rhine and in the Ruhr valley as guarantees that when the mora torium terminates, Germany will re sume her reparations payments. President Milleraud. replying to the Yew Year good wishes of the diplo matic corps today, made it clear that France stands upon her conception of justice and her rights under the Uoaty of Versailles. "Complete peace can be established," he declared, "only on the the basis of the treaties and through respect i for tho rights acquired and the obligations incurred.” The Rritish government thoroughly disapproves stern methods or penal ties and desires to work out a plan tinder which Germany would bo al lowed a moratorium of at least two years, this time to be employed in so reorganizing her resources that she ' may successfully shoulder her debts. Loan Ik Suggested. Any settlement likely to be success- j ful depends, In Bonar Law's view, on some form of international loan for Germany, and together with ids asso ciates on the British delegation, he has received with approval the sug gestion of the American secretary of state that an international committee determine the amount of reparations to be expected. The conviction held by Premier Poincare of France is that a change in heart on the part of Germany is required above all other considera tions. lie believes Germany's plans for the fill lire are bused upon a pol icy of resistance to the execution of the Versailles treaty, and any effort lo help it lie regards as useless until the Berlin government decides in earnest to fulfill its obligations. Extension of the present partial moratorium, which expires on Janu ary ir», and the raising of cash for Germany, in the International market in the French view will be nullified by the continued German opposition to payment of her debts, so that action such ns France now contem plates will be eventually forced upon the allies. • The Belgian and Italian govern ments appear now to lean more to ward the French view than toward the British, but with some disposition to seek middle ground. L'rge Conciliatory Program. The Italian delegation has a plan which it will present to tlie council after Poincare ami Bonar Law have explained the French and British viewpoints. This conciliatory pro gram calls for guarantees to satisfy France, hut witl\ut penalties so as to meet the British objection, relying upon such action by Germany as would have the result of making the guarantees productive without the use of force. The Belgian premier, M. Theunis, who worked strenuously in London last August to bring Lloyd George and Poincare together, also seeks to harmonize the French and British programs, which it Is understood, he thinks, could be done if the German government would unreservedly af firm its willingness to fulfill the rep arations clauses of the trenty to the full extent of the nation's resources. Pueblo Man Robbed, Slain, by Trio of Killer Bandits Pueblo, C'olo., .Tan. 1.—Cruz Bela, j 27, was found dead In an alleyway in the rear of a garage here today. He is believed to have been lured into ; the alley, shot in the chest and robbed. | The police say they believe lie was , the victim of the same trio of bandits who held tip Philip Greinetz, Ills j father, David, and sister, Josephine, and shot anil seriously wounded i Philip when the Greinetz family re- , sisted their efforts. The same hnndits held up a Mexican later Saturday night, according to the police. Leaves Newspaper Game, Houston, Tex., Jan. 1.—Max Bent ley. for three years managing editor of the Houston Chronicle, announced today that on February 1 he will leave the executive end of the news paper gitme and devote all of his time to writing. He is to ho succeeded by C. B. Gil ls*! ile of Sugarland- I Mistaken for Burglar, Flees From Cops; Shot Traveling Salesman Smiles New Year’s Greetings From Hospital Bed While His Wife, a Trained Nurse, Helps Care for Him. "Happy New Year." Acfppt the greetings from W. G. Briggs, 32, traveling salesman, who smiled them last night from his bed in Herd Lister hospital. When the N v Year was rung in, Briggs celebrated with a party of friends downtown and was hailed by them as "A jolly good fellow, a cork ing good salesman and a menilier of iCountze Memorial Lutheran church, (lie kind of a pal we are proud of.” \\ numb'd in Ann. At yesterday morning, wiille on his way heme, he was pursued by a policeman, shot at eight times, wound ed in the right arm, suspected of be ing a burglar, and last night was un der Min d of James Acton, patrolman, while detectives investigated the rase. "But happy New Year” was his greeving "to callers. "It might have been worse.” * lie paused to smile at his wife, a charming nurse, and to murmur a desire for a drink of water. "My throat's awfully dry, darling," ! he explained. Wife on Duty. Mrs. Briggs, a trained nurse, was on duly at Lord Lister hospital when i her husband was taken there wound | cd. She immodiawly rushed to his bedside and has spent many hours with him. “She's the host nurse In the world-,” Briggs declared, once more milling. "It's easy to be a good nurse to a ! good pal lent," Mrs. Briggs said, re- ] turning the smile. "We have complete faith," she add- ; ed, "and 1 am sure our friends will ; Girl Confesses Denver Suspect Is K. C. Bank Bandit Couple Arrested Saturday With &8.000 in Trunk— Ryan Refuses to Admit Part in Robbery. Denver, Colo., Jan. 1. — Martin Ryan, alias James Martin, arrested here Saturday night in company with a woman giving the name of Marga ret Yard. today was implicated in the robbery of the Drovers’ National bank in Kansas City on December 12 in a confession made and signed by the woman, according to tho Denver po lice. Ryan, although repeatedly ques tioned, has refused to admit tlie truth fulness of the statements made in the : confession. At the time of the arrest of Ryan and Miss Yard, police found more than $8,000 hidden in tho sleeves of a coat in a trunk belonging to them, j According to the girl, who is 20 and who claims she has been married, she had been employed in a restaurant in Kansas City. Mo., for about five months prior to meeting Ryan. She met Ryan about two weeks prior to the robbery, she said, and they occu pied an apartment. On the day of the robbery, she declared in her con fession, according to the police, Ryan came home about o in the evening with a bundle wrapped in a newspa per. Unwrapping it, she declared, Ryan threw $10,000 in bills on the bed, with th'e declaration that he had got it from tho Drovers' National bank. Ryan and Miss Yard were arrested at the Union depot here Saturday night as they prepared to leave for San Francisco. Miss Yard collapsed in tlie office of Captain Rinker while making her statement and now is under the care of a police surgeon- Her collapse was brought about, she declared, by threats made by Ryan that he would kill her if she informed on him. She declares that Ryan told her that if he couldn’t ’’get her," some of the rob ber band would. Ryan, according to police, is well known to Chicago police authorities and has served a term in an Illinois reformatory. Has Fido Strayed Away? You can get him back by calling At-lantic 1000 and sending an Omaha Bee ‘•VVarfit” Ad after him. Remember, nothing is lost until it’s been advertised for in The Omaha Bee "Lost and Found” column. After that, it's generally not reported among the miss ing. Remember, Omaha Bee “Want” Ads Bring Better Results at Lesser Cost. Three lines—three times— ten dimes. I understand my husband was the vic tim of circumstances. Our consciences are easy atjd we lielieve this little incident will have no serious conse quence. ' Moved Three Days Ago. Three days ago the Briggses moved to tlie Ainsworth apartment, 2234 Jones street, which is next door to the Beverly apartment and separate] from it by a eonrt. Shortly before 5 yesterday morn ins Mrs. I,. F. Blei in the Beverly saw a man's head raise above tlie ledge of an open window and Mr. Blei i telephoned for police to “get the burglar.” • I’. F. Payne, emergency officer, and Officers Heine Bosen and J. lieilly, appearing on the scene, saw a man drop, they say. from a ledge beneath the Biel's window, and run. They cried for him to halt, and gave chase. Seven Shots in Air. Seven shots were fired in the air. For four blocks the chase continued. Officer Payne ran over an cnbank ment and wrenched his knee. Bosen put a bullet through Brigg's right arm at Twenty-second and Howard streets. Briggs said ho saw no other man ■ around the scene. ‘1 was going to enter my apartment by a rear door and evidently picked the wrong house,” Briggs said. "It was also a case of my arriving at the wrong moment. At the com- j Miami of halt I ran because I had j been held up three times in the last year, believed the officers were hold i,i|>a. and was determined they would have to give me an awful chase if they got my money." Victim of Circumstances. William Gurnett. detective, after a thorough investigation, reported to C. H. Van Deusen, chief of detec tives. that he found Briggs to be of ! excellent reputation and probably a victim of circumstances. Briggs is a salesman for the Kohler company, manufacturers of power plarfts. Whether the hone of his arm was fractured will be determined today by X-ray. Variety Greets New Year in I I. S.; Dry Agents Busy Broadway Exceptionally Dry —100 Arrests Made—Fasli alde St. Louis Hotel Scene of Biot. Chicago, Jan. J.—Father Time looked on imperturbably and lhe new baby of 1923 may have blinked per plexedly at what they saw as the nation welcomed the new year. The view was one of Variety—prohibition aridity In many places, oases in oth ers, but generally perhaps, with a few hilarious exceptions, a somewhat deco- I rous but happy reception of the new ! accession. Some of the outstanding features of the year year celebration as reported from many cities were: Broadway Is Dry. Broadway, a proverbially torrential j canyon, was dried up by prohibition i agents and the New York police, who ! made 100 or more arrests. A fist fight enlivened a raid at one place. A squa!d of prohibition agents and police were chased out of the Hotel Chase, a fashionable St. Louis hotel. : by celebrators, one of whom, a w oman, citing to a policeman's collar as riot calls summoned police reserves. No arrests were made there, although j two men were slightly wounded and a woman injured, although a dozen ! arrests were made elsewhere in that city. Prohibition agents at San Francisco were arrested by a policeman and summoned to court for violating a traffic ardinance, although the city’s celebration was characterized as one of the sanest in years, but noisy. Chicago Is Muddy. Chicago celebrated hilariously in time Honored style, although church i services and family and neighborhood parties probably outnumbererd the j noisier and moist celebrations in ' w hich hotel and cafe proprietors esti- i mated at least a half million dollars were tossed away. A few raids and 1 arrests were made by police and pro hibition agents. It was generally agreed that the dusty New Year's pre- j dieted by dry agents had been a muddy one. The reports of the celebration from j the viewpoints of aridity, moisture i and winds, seemed to leave New York as a somewhat lone metropolis of quiet and dryness. I But Grover Wasn't There. Pensacola, Fla., Jan. 1.—The Ger man steamship Jupiter, on which was reported Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, war dodger, had shipped, disguised as a sailor, arrived in port at 9 this morning. Exhaustive searches by : soldiers, naval sailors and Depart | meilt of Justice men failed to reveal i presence of Bergdoll. The captain i said he was surprised that any such reqprt could have originated, as lie I was at Cardiff when chartered for | Pensacola loading , Immigrants Are Sought by Industry 0 ! Farmers Join itli Big Busi ness in Effort to Relieve Present Shortage of Common Labor. 100,000 Increase Sought Washington, Jan. 1.—Tlio big indus- j tries rrt the country and farm organi zations have joined hands in a deter mined drive to procure such relaxa- i tion of the immigration restriction law as will relieve the present short age of common labor. With the backing of (lie senators and representatives of the leading in dustrial and agricultural states, a con certed effort will be made to obtain legislation at Ibis session of congress which will operate to admit probably not less than 100,000 aliens in excess of the number of immigrants coming in under the 3 per cent quota l.nv. ■The house committee on immigra tion will give a hearing next Thurs day to a committee of the National Manufacturers’ association which will propose three major modifications of tlie present restriction law. The plan was worked out in consultation with agricultural leaders and its essential features were approved at the recent meeting of the American Farm Bu reau federation in Chicago. Plan .Made Public. The recommendations of the manu- . facturers’ committee made public to- ] day follow: "1. That in fixing the quota of each nationality of otherwise admis- j sible aliens under the present law due regard should be given to the ascertained annual emigration from the United States of persons of such nationality. “2. That the secretary of labor shall be authorized upon the presenta tion to him of satisfactory evidence of a continuing shortage of labor of a particular class or type to admit dtherwlse admissible aliens in excess of the quota until in his judgment such condition is Improved. That provision shall be made for physical examination of aliens at ports of embarkation or where their passports are vised, except fhnt such requirement shall be waived upon as surances of another government that satisfactory examination has been made.” Labor Is Opposed. This move will be resisted ptub bornly by organized labor on the ground that increased immigration of foreign labor will result in a lowering of wages. Mr. Gompers contends that there would be no labor shortage if wages permitting an American stand ard of living were paid for unskilled labor by industries from which the native-born have been driven by alien competition. The'cabinet is divided on the pro posal. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon favors it. while Secretary of Labor Davis has withheld his ap proval. In his recent message to congress, President Harding frowned on lifting the immigration liars, but proposed instead the establishment of selective examination of intending im migrants abroad. Two Killed When Auto Hits Truck Speeder Deliberately Wrecks Car to Save Lives‘of Woman and Babe. Dallas. Tex.. Jan. 1.—Deliberately [ turning his speeding car into a motor truck to save the lives of a woman [ with a 1 labs' in her arms walking down the road caused tlie death of two j Dallas youths this morning and the serious injury of four others, includ ing the driver. The dead: G. P. Calhoun and W. B. Bevill. The injured: John M. Holt, Rey nold Turner, Robert M. Williamson, jr., and Stanley G. Davis, all of Dai- t las. Davis, who was driving the auto- ! mobile, said at the hospital the^car | was going SO miles an hour. As it rounded a turn and started across j a bridge at the Village creek crossing, | lie saiii, he saw a truck with a string of trailers ahead of him. Near the truck a man and a woman, the latter carrying a baby, were walking, he I said. “I had to hit the truck or I would j have hit the woman and the baby,” Davis explained. Sir Horace Plunkett ^ ill Study American Methods New York, Jan. 1.—Sir Horace Plunkett, recently nominated to mem bership in the Irish Free State sen ate. arrived here on tho steamship Adriatic, commissioned by his gov ernment to study agriculture and methods employed by the United States in maintaining the congres sional reference library. Aped Man Found Dead. Alexandria. I