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Slain Mint
Robber Is
Identified
Recognize Frozen Body of
Outlaw Found in Denver
Oarage as J. C. Sloan
of Casper, Wyo.
Wife in Omaha Recently
Denver, Jan. 15.—(By A. TV)—The
slain mint bandit was identified late
today us J. (J. Sloan of Casper, Wyo.,
Kugg Williams, chief of Denver's
police department, announced he is
$^*one of the men tl>e police have sought
since December 18, the day the
bandits mads away with $200,000 in
currency from a Federal Reserve
hank truck in front of the mint, kill
ing Charles T. Linton, a guard.
The bandit's frozen body /with a
bullet in the heart, was found Satur
day night in a private garage, near
Seventeenth and Gilpin streets. Offi
cials declared the bandit was instant
ly killed by a bullet from the re
volver of Pete Keldinger. a guard
employed at the mint. At the time
Sloan was stunding on the running
board of the bandit car, shooting at
the mint guards.
The dead man was the leader of
the bandits. Police believe that after
pulling the bandit Into the auto
mobile, the rest of the gang drove to
v 'be garage, locked the automobile
inside and escaped.
Wife Was in Omaha.
The identification of Sloan, ac
cording to Chief Williams, is a fore
runner of the early capture of the
rest of the gang. The-'Omaha police
last week had Mrs. Sloan, said to he
the bandit’s wife, Mr. and Mrs. H.
C». Burns and Columbus Thompson
under surveillance for the Denver
authorities, hut when a detective
squad went to the hotel where tho
quartet were stopping they had es
caped.
Sloan, according to the police, was
the master mind of one of the most
daring gangs of desperadoes In the
country. This gang went out only
for "big money," say the officers. One
of the admission requirements was
^.jjeadly marksmanship with either n
revolver, rifle or shotgun. The reck- j
tessness and daring of Sloan's gun- !
men was demonstrated in the mint
robbery, when Sloan, pumping a hall
of buckshot at the main door of the
mint, ottered himself as a target for
tlie bullets of tlie government guards,
while his pals transferred the $1100,000
in currency to their stolen automobile.
Bandits .Scattered.
With the leader, Sloan, dead, the
police say it was up to the gang to
take care of his wife. Part of the
gang scattered, but, according to the
police theory, Thompson and Mr. and
Mrs. Burns took Mrs. Sloan with
them.
Keidinger declared he had positively
identified the bandit’s body as that
of tlie man who, in the robbery of De
cember IS, stood with a shotgun and
(Turn to Pace Two. Column five.)
Woman Survivor of Seaplane
Tragedy in Serious Condition
Key West. Fla., Jan. 13.—With the
exception of Mrs. Edwin F. Atkins,
jr.. tho condition of the five sur
vivors of the seaplane Columbus,
which was wrecked and sunk In the
ocean. 21 miles northwest of Havana,
yesterday afternoon with the loss of
foift- lives, was reported as not se
rious last night.
Airs. Atkins, whose husband, a New
York capitalist, and their two chil
dren. Edward F„ in, 4 years old.
and David, 3. perished in the wreck,
is suffering from exposure and fears
were expressed last night pneumonia
might develop.
She Is staying at the home of a
friend heie and apparently has not
H^vet realized the full extent of the
tragedy, it was said. Miss Grace Mc
Donald of New York was the other
victim of the accident.
Otto Abraham of New York. Miss
Julia Hoverty of New York. W. E.
Aliller, pilot and Harold Thompson,
mechanician of the seaplane, were
all out of the hospital yesterday.
A search lasting the entire day was
made today for the wreckage of the
seaplane and the bodies of the vic
tims, but without avail.
Prince of Wales Smallest
Part of Noted Heir's -Title
London, Jan. 15.—"The Prince of
Wales”—that's what they call him in
America, but it isn't the half of it.
• When an official announcement is
made concerning the prince, he is re
ferred to as “H. K. H. Edward Albert
Christian George Andrew Patrick Da
vid Prince 4f Wales and Duke of Corn
wall, K. U.. K. T.. G. O. S. I.. G. C. At.
G.. G. C. 1. E„ G. C. V. O., G. B. E.,
AI. C.
Loses Stiff Upper Lip.
Passaic, N. J.. Jan. 15.—For 15
month Fire Chief Reginald H.
Bowker had maintained a stiff upper
lip, as the result of a bit of glass
lodging there and which hud defied
efforts to extract It. While respond
ing to a fire 15 months ago
Bowker's car hit a telegraph pole
nnd bits of glass from tho winshield
vere jammed into the lip. Much of
"as removed except one piece,
which gave the lip a stiff appearance.
Recently the fire chief was shaving
and his razor found the impediment,
scraped it out, and as a result the
fire fighter has lost the stiffness in
his upper Up
Hawaii Rocked by Two
Earthquakes and Gale
Honolulu, T. IT., Jan. 13.—(By A. F.)
I—A 65-mile gale, the stlffcst ever
j recorded in the islands, accompanied
■ by two earthquake shockB, swept and
! rocked Hawaii Sunday and early this
morning, causing at least one death.
Myackl Mural, a Japanese maid em
ployed In the home of Princess David
Kawanankoa, sister-in-law of the late
Prince Kuhio, delegate to congress, !
was killed by a falling tree as she j
left her employer’s home.
In the teeth of the storm the navy !
tug Sunandin answered a distress i
call from a schooner, Bianeoa. and put I
to sea with the waves rkking the 1
decks. It picked up the Bianeoa half a
mile off Barber's point, near Honolulu.
The schooner's sails were split, its
hoisting engines disabled and five
feet of water lay in the hold. The
Sunandin towed the damaged vessel
to a safe anchorage and brought her
into the harbor this morning.
Pastors Support
Receiving Home
Drive for Funds
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Ministerial Union to Co-:
* Operate in Society’s Cam
paign for $40,000 Re
ceiving Station.
The ministerial union at its meeting
yesterday morning voted unanimously
to endorse the campaign of the Ne
braska Children's Home society for
$40,000 for a receiving home, and to
co-operate v/ith the Lion's club, the
Federated Women's clubs and The
Omaha Bee in backing the campaign.
Sunday, January 28, was set aside by
members of the union for an appeal
to Protestant congregations to aid
in tlie movement.
Rev. A. A. DeLarine, chairman of
tlie committee appointed to investi
gate tlie work and plans of the society,
gave an enthusiastic report.
Rev. A. F. Ernst, president, will
represent the union on the drive!
committee of which Dr. Max Emert!
of the Lion's club is chairman.
Evening Services Discussed.
A discussion of Sunday evening
services occupied most of the time
of the meeting. C. E. Ostrander, di
rector of religious education of the
First Central Congregational church,
Rev. James Hamilton of the North
Presbyterian church, and a layman,
G. W. Noble, spoke.
Fifty years ago, acording to Mr.
Nobl^. tlie Sunday evening service
was the most crowded of the day be
cause there was little entertainment
during tlie week and the church was I
tlie meeting place for the young peo
ple. He drew a laugh from his hear- |
ers when he described how 40 young (
men who would sit through a dull ;
sermon and,then line up in the vestl- j
bule to see the girls home.
Makes Suggestions.
“It is useless for the church to try
to compete today in tlie entertainment
field,” he said. "I would make these
suggestions, and 1 am a firm believer
in the Sunday evening service: First,
to be brief and prompt. Let the min
ister come down out of the pulpit and
talk informally. Stow away the
deacons for the time being, and talk
to the young people, and emphasize
the joy of religious life. Feature the j
music—not high-salaried singers, but
hymn singing—and get the young
people to take some active part in the
service, and tnen listen to them.”
Mr. Ostrunder spoke on the Young
People’s Sunday Evening club, which
draws from 75 to 135 young people to
tlie church each Sunday evening. It
is divided into four groups, each of
which takes a Sunday, he said.
Rev. Ha^nllton made an appeal for
the old-fashioned gospel preaching
service, explaining that it is what his
parish wants, and maintaining that
all other types or service are insuf
ficient as a steady diet.
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Pioneer of 1856 Dies.
Sioux City, la., Jan. 15.—Death
claimed one, of the real pioneers of
Nebraska and Sioux City, Mrs. Janies
Junk, Sunday, at the age of 76. She
had been a resident of Sioux City and
vicinity ever since 1856. In 1856 her
parents arrived in Dakota county,
Nebraska, being members of the St.
Johns colony. They came from Illi
nois under the leadership of Rev.
Father Tracy.
jU. P. Gets
Clear Line
To Frisco
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Battle Oover Central Paeifie
Route Virtually Pnded—
U. P. Protected in Use of
Track to the Coast.
Settlement Is Pending
Settlement of the controversy be
tween the Union Pacific railroad and
the Southern Pacific railroad, involv
ing control of the Central Pacific lines
between Ogden and San Francisco,
merely awaits determination of minor
details of a traffic agreement, accord
ing to statements from authoritative
sources yesterday.
The settlement leaves the Southern
Pacific as owner of the Central Pa
cific line, but protects the Union Pa
cific in its right to use the
latter line as its connection to the
central Pacific coast. The arrange
ment is declared to be entirely satis
factory to the Union Pacific.
By the new arrangement, Omaha
loses its chance to become headquar
ters of a railroad reaching direct to
San Francisco, as it now is of one
reaching Portland and Los Angeles.
On the other hand it retains and ex
tends the advantages accruing from
heavy transcontinental traffic routed
from the Pacific coast via the Central
Pacific to Oregon and thence by Union
Pacific through Omaha.
Wage Big Fight.
The fight between Union and South
ern Pacific for control of Central Pa
clfio has been one of the biggest con
tests of the sort ever waged between
two railroads. For nfonths, the re
spective interests have been preparing
evidence and recently the Interstate
Commerce commission began hearings
on the subject. Carl Gray, president
of tho Union Pacific, left Omaha 10
days ago to participate in the proceed
ings and his office stated at that time
that he would not return until after
February 1. Instead he returned this
week. Information from Washington
is that others concerned In the fight
before the commission have departed.
Prior to Kdward Harrinian's pur
chase of Union Pacific, the Southern
Taciflc owned the Central Pacific.
HarHman wanted the Central Pacific
line from Ogden to San Francisco as a
western outlet for the Union Pacific
and to get it. he bought the entire
Southern Pacific system. The su
preme court ordered this merger dis
solved, as u violation of the anti-trust
laws. Suit was then Instituted to di
vorce the Central Pacific from the
Southern Pacific for the same reason.
A few months ago the supreme court
ruled against this combination sale.
Authorize Regrouping.
This left the Southern Pacific under
the apparent necessity of disposing of
Central Pacific, by sale either to the
Union Pacific or to a third party.
Meanwhile, however, congress had au
thorize a regrouping of railroad
lines into new systems and, under this
authority. Southern Pacific began a
bitter fight to retain the Central
Pacific. ,
Taciflc coast interests lined up for
and against the plan, as did other
cities along the Union Pacific line.
The Union Pacific contended that, as
the matter stood, traffic normally des
tined over its line through Omaha
was routed by Southern Pacific along
the southern route through New
Orleans.
The settlement now declared to be
effected is said to protect tlie Union
Pacific thoroughly against such dis
crimination.
126 Guests Are Dined at
Table That Seats Only 16
Atlas, Tex., Jan. 15.—Food for 126
guests was served at the dinner cele
bration of the sixtieth birthday of
G. W. Matthews, farmer, near here
recently. The guests wore fed in
relays, it taking four and onehalf
hours to take care of all of them.
Hut 16 of the visitors were able
to eat at the only table provided for
the occasion, the dishes being gath
ered up and cleaned between ‘‘first,”
"second," etc., tables.
Nobody hurried because there were
others waiting, and there was little
activity after each had secured his
fill.
People Have Swapped
from the beginning of time—farm products for groceries
r.nd clothing—live stock for businesses—cash for homes—
(and in Africa even camels for wives).
If you have a sewing machine and want a victrola—if you
have some pet stock and want some good serviceable cloth
ing, etc.—get in touch with the very person who has what
you want and wants what you have through a three-line
SWAP ad in the “Want” Ad section of The Omaha Bee.
It will be inserted three days under a blind address.
If you swap, a bill will be sent to you at our regular rates.
If no swap is made, no bill will be sent.
This offer is good only in Omaha and excludes all business
ads. Business “Want” Ads in this column will be charged
our regular rates.
Remember, NO SWAP—NO PAY!
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ror Killing His Father
Mankato, Kan., Jan. 13.—Arthur
Robbins, 14, was held in the county
Jail today on a charge of slaying his
father, Hiram Robbins, 55, in a quar
rel at the Robbins home Sunday.
According to Sheriff Snyder, the
boy declared he killed his father in de
fense of his mother. Robbins was
postmaster at North Branch, a small
town near here.
"I was outside when I heard moth
er's screams-for help,” the boy is said
to have related. "When I went into
the house, father was beating her
and her life appeared to be in danger.
I grabbed a shotgun and loaded it
with a shell I found on the window
sill. When I told him to stop, he
started at me, and T fired.”
Arthur is the eldest of six child
ren. The youngest is 2 years old.
Mrs. Robbins was granted a divorce
a year ago, but later she and Rob
bins remarried.
Members of Klan
Feared Attack by
Mer Rouge People
Witne sses Tell of Meeting
Following Kidnaping of
Daniel and Richard—
Says Men Armed.
Bastrop. B«-, Jail. 15.—By A. P.)—
New ground was opened today by
state's attorneys in their task of un
raveling the mystery surrounding the
kidnaping and slaying of Watt Daniel
and Thomas Richard, victims of
black-hooded kidnapers. Two mem
bers of the Ku Ivlux Klan put in the
recital of an assembling of klansmen
in a store here in anticipation that
Mer Rouge citizens might swoop down
on Bastrop in retaliation.
James F. Harp and ‘‘Jap'* ,\pnes,
farmers of Bonita, a village in the
southern part of Morehouse parish,
both members of the parish klan or
ganization, testified that after the kid
naping of Daniel, Richard and three
other men on the Mer Rouge-Bastrop
pike August 24, a dozen or more men,
klansmen, gathered in a hardware
store here, armed themselves and pre
pared for eventualities.
Both insisted that the klan had no
part In the kidnaping but that the
gathering of the klansmen was
deemed advisable as a peecautionary
measure in view of the intense feel
ing prevailing in the parish.
Afraid of Attack.
“Why did you klanmen wait up that
night?” was asked of Harp.
“We heard the people of Mer Rouge
had guns and a regular arsenal and
we thought they might come over and
blame the kidnaping on the klan,” he
said. AVe knew they were mad and up
in arms about tho kidnaping of Rich
ard a week before and we were afraid
it would he laid at our feet*
Jones testified along much the same
lines as Harp as to the gathering in
the Bastrop store.
Jones told of muking tho round with
his friends in Bastrop stores, trying
to learn who might be responsible
but without result. At no place, he de
clared*, could he find information as
to who was in the party of men who
took part.
The watch at the hardware store
continued until midnight.
“Did you hear of any preparation
made to kidnap Daniel and Richard?”
Jones was asked.
"No, none.”
Conduct Discussed.
“Did you attend any meeting in
which tho conduct of Richard and
Daniel wus discussed?” was another
question.
"Yes, about six weeks prior to the
kidnaping. At the courthouse, Daniel
and Richard were discussed but w*
decided to let Daniel. Richard and
other citizens alone. We had another
meeting—an impromptu affair—at
which Dr. B. M. McKoin, Capt. J. K.
Skipwith and others were present. We
talked over the attempted assassina
tion of Dr. McKoin.
AA’att Daniel and others were blam
ed, but particularly Watt Daniel.”
Skipwith is the parish leader of the
klan. Dr. McKoin formerly was may
or of Mer Rouge and now charged in
an affidavit with murder in connec
tion with the deaths of Daniel and
Richard.
Harp and Jones wore the principal
witnesses at tho afternoon session of
the hearing. They were preceded on
the witness stand by F. L. Curpenter,
parish sheriff; Gus Boyd, Collinston
storekeeper from whom the black
hooded band purchased gasoline while
holding the two kidnaped men prison
ers, and a half dozen other witnesses.
$200,000 Alienation Suit
Is Dismissed in Court
The suit for $200,000 brought against
E. John Brandeis by Clarence Hall,
alleging alienation of Mrs. Hall's af
fections, was dismissed In district
court yesterday.
Attorneys for Brandeis had made
repeated attempts to bring the case
to trial, it was stated, and yesterday,
the date finally set. Hall was not in
court. Hall's attorney made a brief
formal motion that the case be dis
missed.
Grandmother and Three
Children Burned to Death
Port Frances, Ont., Jan. 13.—Mrs.
Daniel Matheson apd her three young
grandchildren werd burned to death
when fire destroyed the Matheson
farm house near Devlin. Mrs. Mathe
son, confined to her bed because of
illness, was unable to movo
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Hundreds Jam Courtroom at Opening
of Inquiry Into Murders at Bastrop
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Here’s "front line” of speetators listening to witnesses at hearing inquiring into the murders at Bastrop,
which the K, K. K. is alleged to have instigated. The faecs of these men are a study in mixed expression.
Southern Bank of
Red River Located
by Supreme Court
Decision Says Boundary Be
tween Texas And Oklahoma
Same as Referred to in
Treaty With Spain.
Washington, Jan. 15.—(By A. P.)—
The south hank of the Red river, de
clared by the supreme court in an
opinion rendered two years ago to be
the boundary between the states of
Texas and Oklahoma, was located to- |
day by that court in an opinion ren-j
dered by Justice Van Devanter, Jus-4
tice McReynolds dissenting.
The southern cut bank, as It ex
isted in 1821, was declared by the ma
jority opinion to be the bank referred
to i nthe treaty with Spain in 1819 as
the boundary between the United
States and the Spanish possessions,
and the court said It presumes that
the cut bank, as it. exists today, Is
the same as it was then, except where
it can bo shown by competent evi
dence that there has been a change
in its location in intervening years
due to erosion or acereatlon.
The decision was a compromise be
tween the contentions of the United
States and of Texas. There was no
boundary dispute until the owner
ship of the bed of the river became
an important controversy due to the
discovery of oil. The state of Okla
homa instituted original proceedings
in the supreme court, and the United
States intervened, joining that state
in contesting the claims of Texas
tn contesting the claims of Texas to
stream. In an opinion on April II,
1921, the court held that the “south
bank” of the stream was the boun
dary and the opinion today defined
what should constitute the bank.
Texas contended that under treaty
with Spain the edge of the water at
the normal stage of the river should
bo the bank. The Red river,* like
others In the southwest, lias, in the
course of time, cut a gorge through
which it flows, tlie walls of which are
bluffs. The United States and Okla.
horaa asserted that these blugs on
the south side of the river should be
held by the court as the bank to be
marked as the boundary line.
A commission of three members
under tho decision today, will Jfe ap
pointed to mark the southern cut
bank as the boundary between the
two states, the court reserving juris
diction over the work of the commis
sion.
Farmer Given 100 Fine,
30 Days, on Booze Charge
Neligh, Neb., Jan. 13.—(Special.)—
After nearly a week of personal inves
tigation by County Attorney B. M.
Kryger, Will Conger, farmer living
north of here was arested Friday on
the charge of selling liquor. He ap
peared before Judge Ingram who
fined him $100 and cost, and sentenced
him to 30 days In county Jail.
U. S. 'Ship Hits Reef.
Manila, Jan. 13.—(By A. P.)—The
shipping board freighter, Patrick
Henry, operated by the Tampa Inter
ocean company, today struck a reef
off Slb\y island, 200 miles south of
Manila, and had to be beached. The
weather is fine and the sea calm.
The Patrick Henry, carrying 9,000
tons of sugat, was bound for Manila,
wjiere it expected to take on addition
al cargo and proceed to New York
via Galveston and New Orleans
Clerk Not Arrested
in Bluffs Fire Case
Former Employe of Stern
Store Merely Appeared at
Station to Give Facts.
Henry Compton, formerly a clerk
in the clothing store of Louis H. Stern,
306 Broadway, Council Bluffs, never
was placed in custody by Omaha po
lice in connection with the incendiary
tire in the store Sunday, Jatiuary 7,
ns previously reported, he informed
The Bee yesterday,
Tuesday, following the fire, he ap
peared in the office of Chief of De
tectives Van Deusen, accompanied by
two Council Bluffs officers, and gave
police all the information he possessed
concerning the store.
He received Chief Van Deusen’s
thanks, and left the office, having at !
no time been under arrest in connec- i
tlon with the attempt to burn the
store.
Day’s Activities
in Washington
Pending receipt of instructions from ;
London, the meeting of the British
debt commission with the American
negotiators was postponed.
Ratifications of the Tacna-Arica ar
bitration protocol were exchanged by
the Chilean and Peruvian ambassa
dors in the presence of Secretary
Hughes.
Ending a controversy of long stand- :
ing. the supreme court decided the
south cut bank of the Red river con
stituted the boundary between Texas
and Oklahoma.
Secretary Denby and a group of
senators and representatives Inter
ested in naval affairR, it was an
nounced, plan to witness the fleet j
maneuvers off Panama this spring.
The report of the special naval
board assigned to recommend a shove
establishment policy for the depart
ment was transmitted to congress by
Secretary Denby.
The senate took up the Capper farm
credits hill after Senator Norris, re- i
publican, Nebraska, had made an un
successful effort to have his bill,
which would have created a govern
ment corporation to sell and buy agri
cultural products, given priority.
The senate oil investigation turned
to an Inquiry Into the dealings of the
“Independent" companies with L. V.
Nicholas, president of the National Pe
troleum Marketers’ association, test!- j
fylng there was "no real independence j
in the oil business.”
Omaha Man Testifies
No Independence in Oil
Washington, Jan. 15.—Entering for
the first time the "independent field in
the oil business, the senato oil In
vestigating committee today was told
by ■ L. V. Nicholas of Omaha, presi
dent -of the National Petroleum
Marketers' association, that “there is
no real independence in the oil indus
try."
'“Competition in the oil industry,”,
said Mr. Nicholas, "is dependent on a I
type of transportation and on a sys
tem of prices over which we independ
ents, as distinguished from the stand
ard group, have no control. If we
start competition we go up against a
series of reprisals that discourage one
against trying the experiment more
than once.’’
State Delegation
Backs Mondell
for Fall Post
Recommendution of Nebraska
Bloc Carried to President
Harding by Represen*
tative McLaughlin.
Hy GEORGE ,1. Al THIER.
" nohlngton Cni-respondent The Omaha Bee.
Washington. Jan. 15.—(Special.)—1
Hep. M. O. McLaughlin called at the
White House today, to place before
the president the recommendation of
the solid Nebraska delegation for the
appointment of Rep. Frank W. Mon
dell to tho secretaryship of the inter
ior, to be made vacant by resignation,
March 4.
The president being inundated by
these recommendations from house
members for Mr. Mondell. Tomorrow,
tho big New York delegation meets
and will endorse Mondell. The con
stant stream of rePbnThiendations ia
becoming slightly embarrassing to the
president who desires to keep an open
mind. The house members feel they
are entitled to the cabinet position
and with a small margin in the next
house, the president is anxious to
conciliate that body.
However, he has given no intima
tion of hia intention. The prevailing
opinion in Washington is that tho
president will move Postmaster Gen
eral l\ork to the Interior department
amj name Senator Harry New of In
diana, postmaster general; however,
lie is keeping his own counsel.
“Representative Mondell is probably
the best fitted man in the United
States for the place,” Representative
McLaughlin said today. “His whole
legislative work has been along the
lines with which tho secretary of the
interior has to deal. He is the author
of tho land laws and has had much to
do with reclamation. He is a western
man, fully in touch with western
needs and wetsern conditions and
that means much in this department.
I don’t know what 'the president is
going to do, hut he could not make a
better appointment.”
Legion to Establish Home
• for Orphans of Veterans
Indianapolis, Jan. 15.—Decision to
establish a national orphan’s home for
children of former war veterans Was
made by the national executive com
mittee of the American Legion, meet
ing here today.
The committee also decided that the
legion should -make a study of all
school text books for any alleged un
American statements.
I'dwin H. Clotigh Dies.
San Diego. Cal., Jan. 15 —Edwin II.
Clough, veteran newspaper writer, as
sociated for nearly 40 years with va
rious pupers of the Pacify coast, died
here yesterday.
Since 1912 Clough had been Iden
tified in an editorial capacity with
the San Diego Union and Evening
Tribune.
The Weather
Forecast.
Tuesday fair; not much change In
temperature.
Hourly Temperatures.
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Troops Fire
On Crowd
At Bochum
One Killed, Several Wounded
in Clash—Military Forces
Reach Industrial City
of Dortmund.
Delay Plan to Seize Coal
Ijonilun, Jan. 15.—(Hy .\. P.)—\
Central News dispatch, received hy
way of Berlin, says the French oc
cupational forces have reached Dort
mund.
Berlin, Jan. 15.—(By A. I'.l—A clash
lietween (<erm.ni demonstrators nnd
French troops occurred at the railway
station at Bochum this evening. Tho
Frenrli tired, killing one person anil
wounding several.
Tho incident followed political dem
onstrations on a Mg scale. Several
thousand persons collected In front of
the (own hall where the French gen
eral had his headquarters and cheered
the German republic, then marched
through the streets. Voung conintun-"
ists made a counter demonstration,
cheering 1 lie third Internationale and
tlie French communist league.
Police 1 liable to Control Crowds.
The police were iinahio to handla
the crowds, and towards evening the
French troops had to intervene. It
was about 8 o'clock in tho evening
when they opened fire on the railway
station.
Paris, Jan. 15.—<By A. P.)—The al*
lied engineers' commission at Essen,
acting in agreement with tho French
government has decided, becauso oC
fresh information, to suspend for "t
hours the order given for the requisi
I lion at the pit head of tho coal duo tho
reparations account. There is ground
for hope that the mine owners will
withdraw the decision, announced this
morning, to comply with orders from
Berlin to cease deliveries of coal and
coke to France.
Extend Occupation.
Ducsseldorf, Jan. 15.—By A. P.H•
France's answer to the German mine
owners’ refusal to deliver coal on any
terms was to extend thn zone of oc
cupation, originally intended to cover
only the Bochum region. Tho new
llne'established by General Deugotte’a
forces is from 15 to 50 kilometers fur
ther eastward, coming to the edge of
the great industrial city of Dortmund.
Today’s operations by the French
encircles all the Ruhr industries of
Hugo Stinncs, tho German Industrial
leader.
The now French line tonight when
the occupation is completed will run
from Hattlngen, 10 kilometers south
east of Essen, northeast through Lam
gerdreer to Castrop, ending at Reck
linghausen, 15 kilometers north
Essen.
Take New Measures.
France and Germany today engaged
in new measures of reprisal and
counter-reprisals for the Ruhr inva
sion.
Berlin ordered the Ruhr coal owners
not to deliver any coal to France or
Belgium even if payment was made
(Turn to )’t(r Two, Column Seven.)
Burlington to Remove
Two Passenger Trains
Lincoln, Jan. 15.—(Special.)—The
state railway commission has granted
permission for tho Burlington to take
off two passenger trains. Nos. 39 and
40, now operating between Broken
Bow and Senecu. In place of the
service given by these local trains,
stops will bo made on flag signal by
fast trains Nos. 41 and 42 at Mema,
Ansehno, Dunning. Chelsea and Tiled
ford, while Nos. 43 and 44 will make
similar stops at Ernst, Cavin, Llna
cott, Natick and Norway. The order
provides that the local trains be re
stored not later than May 31. Thd
new schedule will be in effect next
Monday.
Small Missouri Village
Favors Arbucklc Films
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 15.—The
city of Englewood, which until a
short time ago was a suburb of
Kansas City, lias been "sounded out'4
in regard to the Arbuckle film con
troversy. Englewood's population if
about 450 persons.
A petition, asking that the films he
shown here, signed by twenty-eight
residents of Englewood, has been re
ceived by a local newspaper.
Arthur F. Gordon, mayor of Engle*
wood, declared he would tuke no of
ficial action.
Minneapolis Alderman
Gets Warning From Klan
Minneapolis, .Ian. 15.—Following re
ports that u chapter of the Kit Klux
Klan had been organized at the Uni
versity of Minnesota and on the ev®
of bji investigation of klan activities
in Minneapolis by the city council
committee on public welfare, Aiders
man G. T. IJndstan announced today
that he received an anonymous tele
phone warning to "lay off the Kt»
Klux Klan.”
The investigation will continue, h®
said. .
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Heavy Snow at N. Y.
N'ew York, Jan. 13.—Snow fell yes
terday to the depth varying from six
to eight inches. Surface and vehic
ular transportation was intsreferred
with and trjyins delayed. X force Of
6,000 shoyelcrs began digging the city
out.