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    The ( imaha Morning Bee__
* VOL. 52—NO. 194. ' S™”'1 “ VTuSST aU1'« "iln?' lmim OMAHA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30. 1923.* Zn»:_TWO CENTS
“Big Boss”
Of Chicago
Is Indicted
Fred Lundin, Power Behind
Mayor Thompson's Machine,
and 23 Others Named
t
in School Frauds.
Controlled Most City Jobs
Chicago, Jan. 29.—Kred Lundin, for
mer congressman and known as the
silent power behind the political ma
« hinc of Mayor William Hale Thomp
son. and 23 others were named in a
blanket indirtnient returned in court
today by tlie special grand Jury which
is investigating school board affairs.
Vlrtua Rohm. I,undin's nephew, also
was among the Indicted men who in
cluded several Indicted previously hy
i lie same grand jury in connection
with the administration of the school
funds and property.
The indictment contains a blanket
^conspiracy charge and contains 21
pPeounts.
' Conspiracy Charged.
The third count of the indictment
charged conspiracy to obtain $1,000,000
from the city of Chicago, and the
flftn count charged a conspiracy to
obtain $1,000,000 from the state. The
13th count charged conspiracy for vie
lation of duty In allowing contracts to
be let at the instaiiec of Lundin. who
witii others was charged with sharing
in the profits. The 13th count charged
ft prevention of competition. The 16th
I i barged that $1,000,000 was diverted
to the private use of various persons
and firms by letting contracts and
making purchases at exorbitant prices.
The true bill was returned before
Chief Justice Michael L. McKinley of
tlie criminal court, who set the bonds
of the defendants at $10,000 each.
Mr. Lundin was reported to lie in
Cuba ami Mr. Rohm was recently re
ported to be in Los Angeles.
Enormous Business.
Rohm Is in the insurance business
and it was reported that he and Lun
din were partners for a time and did
an enormous business in school insur
ance. It was reported that this in
surance business was bared before
the special grand jury and that it
was in connection with the insurance
deals that the grand jury acted in
connection with the case of Lundin
and his nephew.
Many of the others named in the
indictment were past or present of
ficers. members and employes of the
school board.
At the height of his power. Lundin
was reputed to be the dictator of
jn organization that controlled $7V
*00,000 a year in putronage and 30,
oOO political jobs In Chicago alone.
Beginning of Breakup.
The beginning of the breakup of
the machine started a year ago when
every candidate on the Lundin- I
Thompson slate was defeated in the
Cook county judicial election. Then
the Chicago Tribune sued five
■wheel horses” of the organization in
an effort to recover millions which,
(he newspaper charged had been il
legally expended to "experts” In con
nection with public improvements. A
special grand Jury began investigation
of alleged graft in tho expenditure of
school funds and that inquiry has
been under way since August. An
other grand jury more recently be
gan investigating charges of pro
tected vice.
Born in Sweden.
Lundin was born in tile Parish of
West Tollstnd, Ostergotlnnd, Sweden,
May IS, 1S6S. His parents took him
to Minneapolis when lie was a small
boy. His first money was earned
selling newspapers In Chlcagcf.
An old photograph tells the story of
bis first venture into business. It
shows Lundin, in the garb of a l
street spellbinder, seated in a rickety
wagon emblazoned with signs for!
Lundln’s "juniper /tde, a wholesome,
delicious, incomparable. refreshing,
foaming but non-alcoholic beverage.”
The driver was a tall, gaunt youth,
a cowboy hat of colossal proportions
topping a. mass of yellow hair while
Ills eyes were shaded by huge amber
glasses. *
Two negroes thrumming guitars
completed tho business equipment.
Under a (laming gasoline torch, with
^^flie negroes strumming soft southern
melodies, and Lundin ballyhooing his
soft drink business was brisk and the
odd figure became familiar in ipany
parts of Chicago.
Wins Political Power.
At that time William Lorimer, later
sent to the United States senate only
to be ousted by his colleagues, was
rising to political power. Lorimer
sent for the young yellow-haired
Swede and enlisted his aid as a polit
ical spellbinder. Lundin made good
by capturing a string of precincts.
A* a reward he was given the state
senatorial nomination in a democratic
district, and as a result of a repub
lican landslide was elected, serving
four years.
Years later, having won further po
litical power. I,undin entered the con
gressional tight in 1908 and was elect
ed. serving ono term, only to be de
feated. Ho had met William Hale
Thompson about the time Lorimer
put Thompson on the ticket for mem
ber of the county board of review. In
1915 Thompson was elected mayor
and Lundin then came to be known
as the controlling4 power in Chicago
politics.
Army Fund Bill to Senate.
Washington. Jan. 29.—The annual
Army appropriation bill, carrying a
total of $340,341,396.28, was reported
to the senate today after the military
committee had added $6,687,192 to i
the measure as passed by the bouse j
The senate committee struck out '
y^fcihe provision which would have pre- j
vented continuance of retired pay to ,
Maj. Gen. John G. Harbord, who re1■
ccntly retired to accept an executive !
position 'with a radio concern. The
provision was opposed vigorously by j
■Secretary Weeks
Political Strategist
Under Indictment
I'reil Lundin. probably one of the
greatest city and state political
strategists exec produced in Illinois,
has been indicted with 24 others in
connection with graft investigation
of the Chicago school haard.
Great Britain
Sends Soldiers
Into Mosul Area
Turkish Press Already Con
siders Conference Failure
and Heralds Danger
of Conflict.
London, Jan. 29.—(By A. P.)—In view
of (ho Turkish attitude at Lausanne
regarding Hie Mosul district, the Brit
ish military authorities in the Irak
have dispatched a battalion of troops
and also a few airplanes to the area
between Mosul arid Serghat (05 miles
south of Mosul) as a precautionary
measure.
Consider Parley Failure.
Constantinople, Jan. 29.—(By A. P.)
—The Turkish press considers the
Laussane conference already mori
bund and expresses gravest apprehen
sion over events to come. The Akcham
says that official circles regard war
as inevitable unless the league of
nations finds a solution, other than
the British, proposals, acceptable to
Turkey.
The Terjumau quotes an unnamed
official as declaring that the gov-;
ernment will maintain its position
to the end, and means war.
"We are not to he fooled by the
suggestion of another conference.” the
paper adds, "because if the peace
we demand cannot be obtained at
Lausanne it certainly eunnot be ob
tained elsewhere."
General pessimism is reflected among
the foreign officials. It is reported
that the Angora assembly will meet
in special session today, Mustapha
Kemal being on his way there from
Smyrna. The league of defense has
also held an extraordinary meeting
and a council of ministers has been
called.
Report Secret Pact.
Belgrade, Jan. 29.—The government :
newspaper. Tribuna, says today that
Foreign Minister Tchitcherin of Rus
sia and Jrniet Pasha have made a se
cret agreement at Lausanne by which
Russia and Turkey will give each
other military support in Jhc near
east in case hostilities are resumed.
The agreement, which is said to have
been accepted by both, the soviet and
Turkish governments, stipulates that
Russia will send several divisions into
Mesopotamia should the British and
Turks take up arm?.
Business Is Reported Slow
Along Marine Rum Row
Highlands. X. J.. Jan. 29.—iBy A. j
P.)—Marine rum row, that patient as
.setnblage of liquor ships that rocks on
the waves of Ambrose channel, num
bered 17 today—three steamers and
14 sailing vessels.
Business was dull. Observers
ashore could discern but little activity
among the fleet, which whs reported
to have enjoyed brisk trading Friday
and Saturday nights with the bottle
fisherman of Xew Jersey and envir
ons.
Local runners, it appeared, would
be forced to abandon any plan.\ they
may have had for present action, be
cause of the iee^in Sandy Hook bay.
U.S. Budget
Ta Balance
This Year
Imliralioiib Arc Tl’
Washington. Jan. 29.—(By A. P.)—
Representatives of the government’s
"business organization" assembled
for consideration of budget prob
lems, were told In a message from
President Harding that for the first
time since the fiscal year 191B the
nation’s income and outgo probably
would balance at the end of the cur
rent fiscal year, on June 30. The
president's message, delivered by
Vice President Coolidge, announced
that instead of a deficit of $693,000,
000, estimated at the beginning of the
fiscal year, the economy drive had
10 days ago forced the deficit to
$92,000,000.
Mr. Harding urged a continuation
of the efforts at curtailing expendi
tures and eliminating waste, declar
ing that by such continued attention
would the balanced budget be real
ized on June 30. Supplementing the
president's plea. Brigadier Oeilrral
Isird, director of tlie budget, called on
all government workers to subordi
nate local, departmental, or sectional
requirements to the greater good of
the whole people admonishing the of
ficials that "U. 3." means the United
States" and "not us."
Outlook Is Good,'
General Lord reported that the
final estimate of expenditures for the
current fiscal year, surveyed January
13, was $3,574,554,132, while the fore
cast of receipts on the same day was
$3,481,904,959. This leaves, he pointed
out, a deficit of slightly moro than
$92,000,000. and he expressed the hc
lief that with five months of the fis
cal year ahead in which to cut away
less than one-fifth of the amount
eliminated in the excess expenditures
in the first seven months of tho 12
month period, the deficit could he
eliminated.
He declared, however, in this con
nection that "the tireless, unremit
ting efforts of tile president to ac
complish the result must have the
support of every public servant.”
Statements Substantiated.
General Lord's speech carried evi
dence in support of statements in the
president's message that results were
only now- becoming apparent. He re
viewed tho work of the various agen
cies subordinate to the budget bureau,
showing how thousands of dollars
were cut from estimates here and
there, and millions in some instances
were lopped off of the original fig
ures by those intent on making the
nation pay ns it goes.
The administration's economy pro
gram alone has not tieen entirely re
sponsible for the showing which now
siyins to warrant definite statements
of a balanced budget this year, the
general said. He pointed to Increas
ing collections of revenue under the
drive for back taxes by Commission
er Blair of the bureau of internal
revenue, and greater customs receipts
from duties levied in the new tariff
act. More highly specialized handling
of all the government's Pevenue
sources, he added, have also brought
in funds.
Nomination of Sanford
to Supreme Bench Approved
Washington. Jan. 29.—The nomi
nation of Judge E. T. Sanford of the
eastern and middle Tennesee districts,
to be an associate justice of the su
preme court, succeeding Justice Pit
ney, who recently retired, was con
firmed by the senate.
It is expected that Judge Sanford
will dispose of certain court business
which has accumulated in his dls
drifts before coming to Washington.
He will probably be present when the
supreme court reconvenes on Febru
ary 19 at tile close of the recess upon
which it entered today.
With Judge Sanford the supreme
court bench will again have its
maximunf of nine members. A number
ot important cases have been awaiting
n full bench for argument and these
will be assigned for hearing early in
March.
Oil Price Advanced.
Billings. Mont., Jan. 29.—The price
of crude oil in the rat creek field of
Montana has been advanced 10 cents
a barrel, bringing the price from $1.70
to $1.80, it wras announced from the
offices of the Mid-Northern Oil com
pany today.
A Throbbing Romance
Based on one of the most astonishing and momentous
achievements in American history—the winning of
the immense west for the United States by two
dauntless young men, Meriwether Lewis and
William Clarke.
Involving the great conspiracy of the brilliant
Aaron Burr and the sad career of his beautiful
daughter, Theodosia.
A story which will move every reader so deeply that
he can never forget it.
“The Magnificent Adventure”
By Emerson Hough
EVERY WEEK DAY IN
The Morning Bee
(BEGINNING FRIDAY. FEB. 2)
Head of Late Czar
Preserved by Russ
Reds in Alcohol
Manila, P. I„ Jan. S8.—(B.v A.
PI—The head of the lale Ciar
Nicholas of Russia and those of
his family who met death with him
at Kkaterinberg at the hands of
revolutionists, are being preserved
in alcohol in the Kremlin at Mos
cow, according to Captain Kirmin.
chief of staff of the Russian refu
gee fleet anchnrrd at the Mariveles
quarantine station near here.
Captain Kirmin. who servrd witli
Admiral Kolchak's anti-bolshevik
army in Siberia, asserted that docu
ments captured by Kolchak troops
at Kkaterinberg revealed that the.
heads of the murdered members of
the Russian royal family were rut
off and preserved in alcohol and
the trunks of the bodies burned.
Next Wednesday
Is Zero Hour at
Lausanne Meet
«
Frantic Attempts Being Made
: to Prevent Rupture of Con
ference—Treaty Pre
sented to Turks.
Lausajine, Jan. 29.—(By A. PJ—
Constructive influences are being
brought to bear on the various delega
tions at the near east peace confer
ence to reduce to a minlunnim the
chances of a rupture of ttie conference
on Wednesday, when the allied draft
of the proposed treaty of peace is
officially submitted to the Turks.
Although the allied front still re
mains unbroken, three are clear in
dications that France and Italy, at
i least, will not subscribe to any pro
ceedings having the ring of an
ultimatum to the Turks when the
draft treaty is handed them.
The Turks are beginning to show
evidences of despair. The treaty was
presented privately to them today. It
consists of more than 150 typewrit
ten 'pages, and contains many clauses
io which they are absolutely opposed,
and many others, inserted at tlie last
minute, which they say they are un
able to understand.
The Angora delegates are now dis
trustful of anything and everything
the allies put forward.
If ihe Ottoman delegation returns
an answer it seems likely that the
French and Italian delegates will be
ready (o remain in Lausanne for a
limited period, even if Marquis Curzon
does leave Friday night.
Lord Curzon's departure is deemed
quite justified in view of the impera
tive duties calling him to Londan, but
it is believed the representatives of
(lie other allies will hesitate to
abandon the conference while there is
still hope of reaching an accord.
The idea of an adjournment Is be
coming repugnant. It is pointed out
that such a stop might well be in
terpreted as a rupture and that de
spite the terms of the Mudania armis
tice. this would open the possibilities
for renewal of hostilities, from even
the consideration of which all Europe
shrinks.
Richard Washburn Child, chief
American spokesman at the confer
ence, is filling an important role in
the present attempts to reconcile the
views of the various delegations.
Husband Pays Fine of
Man Found With Wife
A husband who caused the arrest
of his wife and another ntan at the
Goodrich hotel in Council Bluffs Sun
day paid the fines of both on a
charge of disorderly conduct in the
Bluffs police court this morning.
The woman is Mary Dinsmore, 25,
Fremont, Neb., and her alleged com
panion at the hotel was C. \V. Cook,
42. Arlington, Neb. The husband who
caused their arrest after going to |
Council- Bluffs in search of his wife, j
is O. Dinsmore.
After paying Mrs. Dinsmore's fine
anil loaning Cook the money with
which to pay his, Dinsmore, accom
panied by his wife, left for Fremont
in his automobile. Cook departed for
his home on a train.
Legion Judge Advoeate
Dismissed by Commander
Indianapolis, Jan. 29.—Humphrey
C. Harrington of Indianapolis, judge
advoeate of the department of Indiana
, of the American Legion, was dis
missed from his office by Perry Faulk
net^ department commander, for what
Commander Faulkner termed “be
traying his organization.” The action
grew out of the light on the hill be
fore the Indiana legislature to pro
hibit the holding of the annual 500
mile automobile race and sporting
events, at which an admission is
charged, on Memorial day.
Commander Faulkner also charged
that the judge advocate had mis
i quoted him.
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Officers Raid Big Still.
I Cambridge, Neb., Jan. 29.—(Spe
I rial.)—Sheriff Brett of Beat '- City
and Officer AlBerti of Cambridge tap
1 lured one of the biggest stills that has
been found in this part of the coun
I try at the home of Henry Missing,
! rear Arapahoe. A room had been
[ walled off In the basement with an
opening through an upstairs closet,
j Fifteen hundred gallons of mash ami
15 gallons of finished product were
I taken In the raid. • A heavy fine was
| paid in county court and the prison
I ers were turned over to federal au
j thoritics.
Jail for “Wolf of W all Street.*
Washington. Jan. 29.—Holding that
j his motion for a writ of habeas corpus
was for the purpose of delaying his
I incarceration and was without merit,
I the supreme court today ruled that
j David Lamar, “the Wolf of Wall
Street,'* w'old bo required to go to
'jail and serve the sentence imposed
on hlrn on conviction on the charge of
| conspiracy in restraint of foreign
j commerce
Get Rid of the Pests First
House Committee
Tacks Amendment
to Income Tax Law
Change Regarding Exchange
of Property Only Half
Meets Desires of Treas
ury Deparlmcnt.
Washington, Jan. 29.—(Special.)—
The house ways and means committee
adopted an amendment to the income
tax provision governing the exchange
of property which is regarded as only
half way meeting the desires of the
Treasury department. As amended,
the law stands as it was except that
“stocks, bonds and securities” are es
pecially expected from the provisions
ot the law which say these, when
property is bought for investment or
productive purposes, may be ex
changed for other property without
payment of extra income tax on the
property exchanged and that for
which it is traded.
As the law was originally written,
it held that property held for produc
tive investment purposes might he ex
changed. The Treasury department
held this enabled speculators in scocks
and bonds to take out their paper
profits and exchange them for oilier
securities, thereby escaping a proper
tax payment. ,
Representatives Green, republican,
Iowa, had introduced an amendment
acceptable to Secretary Mellon which
eliminated any exemption concerning
any kind of property purchased for
investment purposes.
This was further than Chairman
Fordney wanted to go and the major
ity of the committee voted to confine
the change to the specific exemption
of “bonds, securities, etc.,’’ from tax
ation in each transaction.
Bluffs Man Must Serve Life
in Prison for Arson Plot
Tom Gates, convicted last week in
district court in Council Bluffs on a
charge of Arson, was given a life
sentence in prison yesterday by Judge
Thomas.
Gates was the owner of a candy
store. A feature of the case was his
conviction upon a statute which pro
vides severe penalties for an attempt
to burn an inhabited building. There
were several families, including a
number of children, occupying rooms
on the second floor, of the Gates’ store
building.
Dav’s Activities
j
in Washington
The house adjourned out of respect
for Representative Burroughs, re
publican, New Hampshire, who died
Saturday night.
The French embassy declared that
despite reports to the contrary,
France had not moved more than
50,000 troops into the Ruhr.
The house naval committee decided
to postpone until the next session
action on the proposal to establish a
fleet base at Alameda* Cal.
Discussing the European situation,
Senator McCormick, republican. Il
linois, recommended in the senate
that the old world be permitted to
"learn by painful failure" the error
of its ways.
Robert Woods Bliss, third assistant
secretary of state, was nominated to
be minister to Sweden, President
Harding selecting J. Butler Wright,
now a member of the Brazilian expo
sition commission, to be third assist
ant secretary.
Cash dividends totaling $16,037,000
and a stock dividend of $45,273,000
have been paid by the Shell company
of California, since its organization.
G. C. Van Eck, chairman of its board
of directors, testified a$ the senate
oil investigation.
After a house provision which
would have denied retirement pay
to Major General Harhord, who re
cently accepted a position with a
radio concern had been eliminated,
the army appropriation bill, carrying
approximately $330,000,000, was re
ported to the senate.
The administration was called upon
by Senator McKellar, democrat, Ten
nessee, speaking in the agnate, to
make immediate demand upon the
British government to disavow state
ments of Chancellor of the Exchequer
Baldwin last Saturday, "casting as
persions upon the American senate
and the American house of repre
sentatives and upon the American
people .and lastly, upon the American
debt funding commission."
Nevada State Senate Votes
to Repeal Dry Amendment
Carson City, New. Jan. 29.—The
•senate of the Nevada legislature voted
to repeal the Nevada initiative pro
hibition amendment and also the leg
islative prohibition act, which if con
curred in by the assembly, would leave
the state with no prohibition law of
its own.
Aviator Falls Nearly Four Miles,
Rights Plane, Makes Safe Landing
Mount demons, Mich., Jan. 19.—Un
conscious because of the severe cold,
First Lieut. James D. Summers, pilot
of the first pursuit group at Selfrldge
field, fell from an altitude of 19,000
feet to within 100 feet of the ground
here Saturday afternoon, a drop of
nenrly four miles, before he recovered
bis senses, righted his plane and made
a safe landing.
Announcement of this experience
was kept secret by aviators at Sel
fridge until ln.Se today, when it was
officially related.
Summers had been ordered to take
part in maneuvers by Brig. Gen. Wil
liam G. Mitchell. With sevrrhl other
aviators be mounted to a height of
19,000, when thermometers of the
planes registered -0 degrees below
aero.
■
Summers was hut half conscious
when other aviators reached him after
his descent. KxatnitiXng physicians
announced nerves ovof both his eyes
had been frozen, causing temporary
blindness, and that unconsciousness
probably followed in a few seconds.
He practically had recovered today, it
was announced.
Describing his experience Lieutenant
Summers said:
"At 19,000 feet my motor was run
ning smoothly but the cold seemed
to chill me. 1 was making 175 miles
an hour. Suddenly everything began
to get hazy and I started to work the
controls. Then everything went black.
When I revived I was dropping rap
idly and but about 400 feet above the
earth. Somehow, X don't know Just
how, T got my ship under control and
made a sale landing."
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Fake Riot Slairetl
to Scare Kluxers,
Leader Charges
Counsel Says Jail Attendants
Tried to Intimidate Pris
- oners Arrested in
New York.
New York, Jan. 20.—Paul 1?. Ether
idge, imperial counsel of the Ku Klux
Klan, todav charged that attendants
in the Gates avenue court in Brook
lyn had staged a fake riot outside the
cell of eight clansmen, arrested Thurs
day night, in order to intimidate them.
Frank Burke, a court attendant,
and other officials flatly denied the
charges of -Mr. Etheridge, who assert
ed that members of the order were
being persecuted in New York and
that Magistrate Dale had no right to
denounce the klan at the arraign
ment of the prisoners on charges of
having blackjacks and whisky in the
automobile in which they were ar
rested.
Describing the riot alleged to have
been faked, Mr. Etheridge said:
"The treatment of the men, from
the time they Were locked in their
cells in police headquarters, was not
that which is ordinarily accorded con
victed criminals.
"The attendants at the Gates*ave
nuo court endeavored to scare or in
timidate the men by staging a fake
riot outside their cells—one attendant
even faking a telephone call to police
headquarters for reserves in order to
quell the mob of 2.000 people outside
the court who were trying to get at.
these Ku Kluxers. Another attend
ant shouted: ‘Let me get at these Ku
Kluxers; I’ll tear them to pieces’.”
"The action of Magistrate Dale is
regarded by the klan as one of the
most astonishing evidences of official
bias and prejudice against the or
ganization I hat has ever come to its
notice.”
Republican Leaders Plan
_ to Push Principal Bills
Washington, Jan. "9.—With only
five weeks Intervening before final ad
journment of congress, republican
leaders of the senate today deter
mined to utilize every possible means
to bring about passage of three prin
cipal pieces of legislation, the Len
root-Anderson rural credits bill, the
army appropriation measure and the
pending shipping legislation. The
first step in the development of this
program was taken at today's session
when Senator Lenroot, republican,
Wisconsin, gave notice that he would
propose a unanimous consent agree
ment to vote on the rural credits bill
Wednesday. Should the agreement
fail. It was said the republican lenders
would. If necessary, resort to night
sessions.
Rcla! ives Continue Vigil
Beside Mail Declared Dead
Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 29.—Witli the
ending of tfie sixth day since tleorge
W. Stevenson passed into an uncon
scious state, members of his family
this afternoon still continued their
watch by his body and held to the be
lief that Stevenson is in a state of
suspended animation and that life will
return to him. The body lies in an
undertaking establishment, where It
was removed by order of Coroner Fred
Ilolen after nine physicians had pro
nounced Stevenson dead. Under the
conditions of the coroner’s order, the
family was granted the privilege of
watching the body until convinced of
death.
Strike in
Ruhr Valley
Complete
Railway and Wire Scrvic’0
Tied l"p—Newspapers in
Occupied Area Sus
pended by French.
German Workman Killed
Colilenz, .Ian. "!>.—(By A. I'M—Seven
of the most influential newspapers In
tho occupied territory have been
ordered by the Rhineland high com
mission to suspend for periods rang
ing from ono to 10 days for vublloa
lion of articles deemed prejudicial la
public order.
In addition, a number of German
newspapers'printed in unoccupied Ger
many are forbidden the right to rir
culato In tho Rhineland for periods
ranging from one to three months.
Assemblages are forbidden by an
ordinance posted in all tho cities, but
crowds continued to gather nightly
singing "1 leutschland Vber Alles.'' A.
large demonstration was* staged Sun
day night before the offices of ths
socialist newspaper, Khennischo Wort.
Tho demonstrants were dispersed by
the police.
German Workman Shot.
Berlin, Jan 29.—It Is reported from
Treves that a German workman,
while leaving a restaurant taday, was
shot dead l>y a Moroccan soldier.
The telegraph and telephone opera
tors in Kssen went on strike at 4 tlu*
afternoon. All wire communication
between that city and the capital is
interrupted.
Traffic at Standstill.
Coblenz. Jan. 29.—(By A. P>—Rail
hoad traffic In the Rhineland waa
brought almost to a standstill at 4 this
afternoon when the partial strike
which has been in progress the last
few days suddenly became general.
Officials Ousted.
Dusseldorf, Jan. 29.—(By A. P.i-«
The French occupational authorities
today began a series of wholesale ar
rests and expulsions of the highest
German state officials, chiefs of bu
reaus and municipal heads of services
for refusal to obey orders.
The telegraph office here Is closed
and not a sinsle word has been dis
I a tolled from Dusseldorf over the tel
egraph wires, even to Holland and
Switzerland since 7 Sunday evening,
although brief telephone communica
| tion has been possible.
The German telegraph operutnrs
have refused to resume work as long
as soldiers are posted, at the offices.
Strike Complete.
Kssen. Jan. .27.—(By A. P.)—Tli®
railroad strike i9 complete throughout
the Ruhr valley, and the few train*
that are running are manned by
i French crews.
The German population waa
' warned by the newspapers today not
to travel on these trains “owing to
11Ho French disregard of signals,
which is likely to cause accidents.”
The French authorities are taking
extraordinary precautions to prevent
sabotage and outrages.
Ask Karly Parliament.
I.ondon, Jan. 29.—(By A. P.)—Tha
parliamentary labor party today de
cided to ask Prime Minister Bonat*
I,aw to convoke parliament earlier*
than February 13, the date set for it®
reassembly, in ortler to give consid
eration to the situation which haa
arisen in the Ruhr valley In conse
quence of the French occupation.
Girl Is Prevented
From Killing Sell
Holly Steward, ?3, was prevented
I from jumping off the Houglas street
bridge at 8:30 last night by Joa
Brown, taxicab driver, Paxton hotel,
a half hour after her uncle. H. 1,.
Steward. 1R3I Victor avenue, reported
to police that she had left home with
(lie intention of killing herself.
Miss Steward had asked Brown ifli
haul her to the bridge. At the first
toll house she wanted to he let out. ac
cording to the driver’s story. Whila
Brown was making change for a dol
lar Miss Steward ran to the railing,
where Brown grasped her. He hailed
passing motorists, who notified Motor
cycle Officers Freeman and Yost at
the west approach to the bridge of the
girl's apparent endeavor to commit
suicide.
Miss Steward was taken to Central
police station. According to her
uncle, who later took her home, she
has been despondent because of the
death of her father and mother in
the past year.
Hitchcock to Attend
Funeral of Karl Gaddis
Washington. Jan. 29.—(Special.B—
.Senator Hitchcock left • today fop
Omaha to attend the funeral of Earl
Gaddis. Senator Hitchcock was great
ly moved by the report of Mr. Gaddis’
death. The death of Mr. Gaddis was
announced in the senate press gallery
where he was well known among ths
Washington correspondents.
0. K. Sanford Nomination.
"Washington, Jan. 29.—The nomina
tion of Judge E. T. Sanford of Ten
nessee to be an associate justice of
the supreme court, succeeding Justice
Pitney, who recently retired, was or
dered favorably reported today by a
unanimous vote of the senate judi
ciary committee.
The Weather
Forecast. •
Tuesday: Probably anow and colder.
Hourly Trill|irnilures.
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