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The ( >maha Morning Bee_ _ S' __ VnT KO "Mr'S 0(lfi Entered ■> Second-Clan Matter May 29, 199*. at OMAHA TUESDAY FEBRUARY 1 *? 1 Q?3 * By Mall (I year): Pally end Sunday. S3: Sunday. *2.99. »HMn Ida eth inna. TWO CENTS VUli. 04 SSU. aJUb. Omaha P. 0. Under Act at March 3. 1979. UfflAnA, iUEaQD/Vi, rLDHU/lM J.i, J»-0. out.lde 4th „„ 0 0,„, „d bu„d„. JI2; Sunday nnly, IS v Father of Irish Chief Shot Down Dr. Thomas OTtiggius, Parent of Free State Minister of Home Affairs, Latest Victim of Killers. Pleas of Wife Ignored _i_ Dublin, Fob. 12.—C45)—Dr. Thomas O'Higgins of Maryborough, father of Kevin O'Higgins, free state minister of home affairs, was assassinated last evening. The official announcement today s.itd: ‘•Dr. O’Higgins, coroner ot Queens <ounty, was shot dead by armed men last evening.” The victim is as brother-in-law of Timothy Healy, governor general of the free state. Slay Aged Man. The tragedy occurred at Woodlands ^^ear Stradbally. A party of armed men drew up near the O'Higgins res idence at 7 o'clock Sunday evening Dublin. Feb. 12.—(A5)—Miss Mary MacSwinney and Mrs. Clark, widow of Tom Clark, who was executed in 1916, were arrested, together with their mothers, in a raid by free state forces today upon the repub lican central publicity oftices here, Which had just been reopened. and three members of it approached the house and demanded admittance. Dr. O'Higgins replied that in conse quence of a communication recently captured, he would not admit any one, but on the pica of wanting to see the document, the raiders induced him to open the door. One of the armed men then entered, leaving his .two companions on the door step. While the raider inside was reading the document, Dr. O'Higgins, who was TO years old. disarmed him. snatching away his revolver. The raider shouted to his two companions to fire. They responded with the fatal shots, which crashed into the top of Dr. O'Higgins’ skull, others of the raiding party also firing at him through the windows. "For God's Sake, Don’t’ Fire’.’’ The raiders were reloading their rifles When Mrs. O’Higgins and her daughter rushed upon the scene, the former crying: “For God's sake, don't firel’’ and then, "You’ve killed him!’’ One of the armed men told her to stand back, as ho had orders to Are, ^^jid at that instant a volley was fired 11 * ever the heads of the two women. Tbo leader of the gur.g camp from the kitchen and demanded Dr. O'Hi^ gins’ revolver. Mrs. O'Higgins asked him to send for a priest, but he re fused and continued to demand the revolver. Dr. O'Higgins was one of the oldest medical officers in the country. Dur ing the conflict with the British he was arrested and detained at Curragii for tome months. Application Refused. Judge Powell, in the chancery court, ruling in the case against Kamon de Valera. David O’Donoghue and Stephen O'Mara, brought by Wil liam Cosgrave, president of the Dial Eireann, and others as trustees of the national fund, to prevent tho de fendants from withdrawing $10,000 of the fundu from a Dublin bank, said there was no evidence connecting Dc Valera and Owlara with the money. He therefore refused the plaintiffs’ application against them but con tinued the injunction against O’Don oghue, pending trial of the action. A committee here ?h planning a pub lic reception for James l.arkin, who recently tyis released from Sine Sing prison, .Vow York, on a pardon by Governor Smith.. Larkin is expected to reach Dublin February 2$. His sts teh heads the committee. U. S. Freight Traffic Continues to Make Cains Washington, Feb. 12.—(Special.)— The amount ot freight handled by American railroads continues to beat all records for previous years, accord ing to the report on revenue freight made by the American Railway asso ition for the week ending January The roads handled 871,104 cars which is described as exceeding all records for the same week In the five previous years. This was an Increase ot 5,580 ctirs over the previous wee!: and 130,778 cars over the same period last year and 169,559 cars over the same week of 1921. The records show that 497,967 cars of merchandise and miscellaneous freight were handled. This form of business is generally regarded as an Index to business conditions. It Is an increase of 2,006 cars over the pre vious week and 7(t,-493 cars over the corresponding period of 1922, and 102. £50 over 1921. Tradings of hay and grain products •were 46,819 cars, a decrease of 1,401 cars over tho previous week and 3j>79 cars less than the some week last year. It Is still 6,894 cars above tho average weekly loadings of the sumo period for the last five years. Tho roads handled 35,430 curs ol livestock during tho week, nn Increase of 1,646 over the previous week nml juoro than 3,000 ears over the lane ]>eriodo of the two previous years. Steamer Brings $3,500,000 Cargo of Egyptian Cotton Boston, Feb. 12.—The laigeat cargo of Egyptian cotton ever brought to tills country by a. vessel flying the American (lag arrived here on tho ■hipping board steamer Hog Island, from Alexandria. It was the eighth j cargo of Egyptian cotton to arrive at ^_^t,ia port thta season. Tho Hog Island brought 14,3*0 boles, valued nt (3,500,000. Not only were the vessel's holds j filled to the hatch combings, but all the storerooms, tho firemen's foie-1 castle and every Inch of spare cm the j •hip were utilized for cargo. • l * American Parents Blamed • for Growing Divorce Evil Home Has Goue Out of Rusi ness; Children Left to Own Devices, Says Dr. Callfas; Flays Double Standard. Full blame for the constantly growing divorce evil in this country was placed squarely on the shoulders of American parents by Dr. Jennie ; Callfas, member of the Omaha school board, in an address at Monday after I noon's session of the Nebraska con | ference of social workers at Hotel Fontenelle. “Causes and Cures of the Misfit Home” was her topic. “The American home has gone out I of business,” declared Dr. Callfas. “It is no longer the laundry, the bakery and the center of the family’s social amusements. If children want amuse ment, they go to the motion picture show, to a dance hall, on the streets or to some other place. We are con stantly planning new ways to amuse the children outside the home, whereas, in my opinion, we should establish some place where paafents could be taught to amuse them within the home. As it is, parents send the children to school and then depend on the teacher to do the work they them selves should do. Children I.eft Alone. “The American mother goes out and spends the afternoon at a card party and before leaving gives the children money so that they can amuse them selves at a picture theater. She never asks where they are going, or with whom. Perhaps the children are home when she returns and have found the door locked, and after this occurs a few times they decide to stay away longer next time. "If the mother eould look into some of the dark corners of the balcony in some of the movie houses she might find what many social workers have found—a man with his arm around her young daughter, or perhaps some thing worse. We know and appreci ate the fact that the theater owners have done and are doing everything they can to prevent this evil, but we also know that they are not succeed ing to any great extent. It is this practice of leaving children too much could be brought in and punished in stead of the children who are deiin ---—-■ cJettaie Gz//Jd.s quent perhaps tho results would bo better. » "Government statistics tell un that most girls who commit suicide or are to their own devices that is one of the causes of divorce and misfit homes. "I recently visited one family, the parents of which had been divorced. There were three lovely daughters. During their childhood they had heard nothing but coniplalnut from a mother who had become ^jpured on tho world. Added to tiiifc whb con stant quarreling bet ltng^qnd and wife, followed by the' subsequent divorce. What was the consequence.' The girls were married one iiy one. and each began by having the same troubles as the mother. The result was three more divorces, with more children to bear the burden* of sins and evils of their parent*. Illumes Auto. "I often think when I'm attending juvenile court that if tho parents (Turn b» Cans Two, Column Two.) “Sheik of Omaha’’ Goes to Des Moines Accepts Position in Iowa Cap ital, Leaving 84 Women to Mourn Mis Departure. Walter H. Clark, the “sheik’* of Omaha, whoso prospective bride failed to appear for the wedding after all arrangements had been nuido at the Chamber of Commerce, where ho was : employed as janitor, is gone. No more | will he charm the women with his | I.otharian wiles, and if any one of the 84 whom he claims he had listed in his diary wants to see him she will hat e to go to Ues Moines, to which city Clark went Monday afternoon. Clark said he had received a mes sage from Malvern, In., that the I woman who left him at the altar was ! seriously ill. Asked if ho intended to S hasten to her bedside, the “sheik" was noncommittal. Hut soon he lie carne loquacious and modestly let it | lie known that several more of those ! listed as "victims” of his love making had telephoned him, seeking appoint ! ments. To these, he said, he turned a deaf ear. as he had decided to leave ! them all “flat.” He said lie hud a good position I awaiting him in Des Moines. Administration Opposed to Embargo on Anthracite Washington, Feb. 32.—The admin istration doss not believe it necessary to place an embargo on shipment of anthracite coal to Canada on account of the shortage in New York. The administration is of the opinion that the shortage grows out of transporta ' tlon difficulties. Tills was Indicated In the following telegram sent to Oovernor Smith by ; President Harding after receipt of a message from the New York execu tive: "Telegram received. I am In formed the situation in northern New York is a result of failure In trans portation rather than of supply, and I believe confercnee in progress tills morning between ttie federal fuel dis tributor and the New York fuel dis tributor will result in relief.’’ “So Many Responses That I Was Swamped” —said Mr. W. C. Clayton, who was in Omaha recently, seeking salesmen to represent a large Philadelphia concern. “The Omaha Ree ha* the o»her paper* heat twenty way*. My 'Want' Ad in your paper brought "o many reapon*e* that I waa iwnmpofi." Voluntary testimonials like the above come to us every day—proving beyond any question of n doubt that Omaha Bee “Want” Ads Bring Better Results at Lesser Cost. If you have something to offer to more than 300,000 readers of The Omaha Bee, phone AT lantic. 1000 nud n k for a “Want” Ad taker. v Head and use Omaha lice "Want' Ads—the bee-line to results. 3-Dav Limit Put on Allies’ Ships Turks Give Ultimatum to Warships at Smyrna—Ves sels Ready to F Smyrna, Feb. 12.—OP)—Mu.napha Kemal Pasha, Turkish national.st leader, ha* arrived here. Calm pre vails throughout the city. Xo addi tional warships have entered either the Ismid or Smyrna harbors. Paris, Feb. II.—(tty A. P.)—Reports from Ixrndnn that Hie Turks have re newed their ultimatum to Hie allied warships at Smyrna are confirmed by Hie morning patters today. It appears that last Saturday the Turks san nounced they would wait three days longer, after which "they reserved Hie right to act. The French government, it seems, was the first to receive flic news, communicating it to laindon. Tint allied policy, it is said, is in no way modified by fhe new move of Hie Turks und should they use force tlie* warships have orders to defend them selves. Total of 91 Bodies Taken From Coal Mine Dawson, MFeb. 12 , 4>) — Mounting at a rapid rate today, Daw son's known death toll in the disas trous explosion of No. J min** had reached the total of lit tonight. lly# midnight the list is oxpectul to soar above 100. The debris-Tbokcd interior of the mine was viewed this afternoon by a staff correspondent of the Associated Press. Utter devastation was wrought by the terrific force of the detona tion. Bloc ks of slate, cual and rock litter the passageways, piled In helter skelter confusion in the dark and windy tunnel through which the res cue crews fur four days have been laboring with the bodies of llieir un fortunate comrades. Recovery crews tonight were tap ping the tenth artery to the louih of the main entrance. Selection of Jury in Second Herrin Hint Trial Begun Marlon. III . Feb. 12.—04b-Selection of a jury was begun late today to try alx men on charge* of murder In the second trial of the lirrrln mine riots last June, In which 25 persons were killed. Four Jurors were accepted tenta tively by tint slate after the flrst panel of veniremen had been hausted. A new panel of 50 was or dered summoned for Tuesday. Fighteen men originally were dock eted to face charges of (lr*t degree I murder In connection with the death ! of Antonio Mulkovltch of Krle, I’a , a nilno guard, lit the Horond trial, but prosecution counsel till* afternoon i dropped the Indictments aRaltigt all ■ hut six of the defendant*. Public Funcrul Is Held for Cumhcrlund Mine Dcnd f'liinbiTlan 1. PC. Feb. 12 Public funer.-J servlet celdeiuitl Cumber land' grief over the mine disaster Thursday, which bereft this little community of m of it* citlsena and disabled the coal min' on which the ; community has been depending for j ll* livelihood. ] All of tli« 1 sidle* have bren ircuv ! ered Slid bulled except one, (J Gale PI' vs II a v n W&f Coast Steamer Beaten to Pieces at Snow-Covered Seattle— Mile-a-Minute Wind Sweeps Pacific. Rockies in Grip of Cold Seattle. Wash., Feb. 12.—Buffeted by a high wind and heavy seas, the steamer, Fidalgo, was virtually beaten to pieces against the Albers Brothers Milling company's dock here early today and sank In five fathoms of Water. The vessel, a small Puget Sound freighter, was valued at S30.0o0 and had aboard a cargo of 3,004 sacks of oafs. The crew of the Fidalgo. consisting of seven men, leaped to the wharf a moment before the steamer over turned and sank. Dozens of small craft were torn from their moorings during the night and early morning, and several weic reported still adrift at a lale hou. The gale reached a velocity of 40 miles an hour. No damage was reported to larger shipping: Frozen Snow. Seattle was today covered with a hard, frozen crust, of snow, ranging In depth from a few inches to nearly a foot as the result of yesterday's storm, the worst of the winter. Tele phone wires, coated with ice, were blown down iti several places and many street lights were put out of commission. A nuniher of automobile so idea}p and Injury to passengers and pedrstrlajis were charged to the snow and ice. Half of the roof of one homo tVa.stbJown off by thd high wind. In outlying sections Of the city, the snow drifted to a d<pth of sev eral feet during the nbrht. Dale Sweep* Coast. San Francisco. Cal., Feb. 12.—A storm marked by every characteris tic of extreme winter weather from below zero temperatures to mile a minute gales, is sweeping the Pacific coast today from the "cradle of storms" south of the Aleutian islands, to the plateau regions west of Den ver, prostrated wire communications and crippling train service. Northeast and northwest gales sweeping in from seaward of North Head, at the mouth of the Columbia river and Tattoosh island, off the coast of Washington, snapped off scores of telephone and telegraph poles between Medford and Portland. Ore., and piled up greaf snow drifts aerriss railroad tracks and highways. Fa-thei* south, Kitzarri-like swirl» n» the groat storm felled wire "nr* !n the high Sierras. Snow flurries, borne on shurp winds, swept Utah and Wy oming, forcing use of snow plows along the rail lines. Zero in Rockies, Denver, Cob).. Fch. 12. ~C4b—High winds west of the continental divide throughout the Rocky mountain states with temperatures ranging from 12 lielow zero at Havre, Mont., to 4G above at Roswell, N. M. in terrupted wire service in many sec tions today. The storm disturbance centers In Oregon, where the barometer pressure Is an inch below normal. Snow whs reported in parts of Mon tana, Wyoming and Colorado, with rain general on the eastern slope, ex cept from Sheridan, Wyo„ east to the Mississippi valley, where unusually warm weather and sunshine is rout ed to be general. Blizzard Coiuinp. Helena, Mom! , /Yi 1-Muntari la In the pathway of a blizzard sweep ing down from Canada. Fourteen l>e low zero at Helena was the coldest reported this morning, but all stations In Montana which .«• nd dally ri-|>orts to thn weather bureau here showed temperature* of at least zero for the night. Five inches of snow iiyllelemi van the rnflHt precipitation recnrdetl for the 1)1 hours ending this morning. Son of 1 pton Sinclair Musi K\[ilain I'nldioalion Madison, Wis, lVb. U\ — I'ptoti Htnclalr. novelist, may come to Mudi son to defend hi* son. IMvid, against charge* of violating tin* publication rules of the lJnlvcrslty of Wisconsin. it whs learned ye o nlay, Charge* were caused by an issue of a magazine here on Friday, entitled the “Scor pion.” a publication not authorized or supervised by ti » university. Who’d Have Thought There Was So Much Dirt Between Here and the Atlantic? ’ m*. J hree Filter l iras on Fraud Charges in Creamery Case Unwillingness to Fare Trial Indicated by Trio—Trial of 12 Others Starts in Federal Court. R. Allen Grim of Omaha, and Harry Slack and F. G. Tyler of Owosso, Mich, pleaded ‘'nolo contender " .-es '•• • • ,y to their indictment jn ihe Wat erloo Creamery com in witch 20 are charged with conspiracy to use tho mails to defraud. This plea means literally "I do not wish to fight the charge." It Is a little less than an actual plea of guiliy and under it. the three can bo fined, but not sentenced to prison. Grim for merly was tho construction engineer of the Waterloo concern. Slack is a bunker and Tyler an Insurance man. Two Arc Discharged. The charges against George Cherry, farmer living near Ke-itrney, and Ste phen Vim Home, farmer living negr Fremont, were dismissed by United Slates Attorney Kinsler. They were said to have been involved only tech nically. Threw of tho Indicted 2d have not t een found They »re Henry Ruttger, Kdwurd A. Salisbury and F. W. Schal ett. Trial cf the remaining II Ix-gan with tho drawing of the jury, which wns accomplish'd after three hours work. A numl>er cf those called had been victims of poor abrek snd said they feared this fact would prejudice their Judgment-. Jurors Sworn Di. The following Jury was sworn In; Carl Conant, South Sioux City; C. M. Harding 2f>u2 Harney street Omaha, Krnest Dietrich, Dodge: Gall Striklett, lilair: Solomon Kern, Valley: Frank Kly. Omaha; J>. C Howard, 202 North Nineteenth at reel; Howard Cl re lx', 41M Harney street; II I,. Webster, Tekamah: John II Fedde, KIkhorn; William Merger, Dakota, A. F. Walla, West Point. Former United States Attorney Al len is chb f counsel for tho defendants who have nine lawyers altogether. Inquiry on \ cl Hotly Ordered Washington. Feb. 12.—An Investi gation of charges of Irregularities, waste and extravagance in the Vet erans’ bureau was m tiered today by the senati , German Bride of Doujrhbov Passes YloMuT-in-Law Test 100 PerCent New York. Feb. 12.—At least one of the 3X German brides who re turned from the Ithlne with the Amerlcun doughtiojH passed the mother-in-law test. She was Mrs. William M. Wheeler, late of Coblenz rtrlght and early this morning a sturdy, erect figure In kliakl entered ilia lobby of the Hotel llutte-lge, W III re the brides are unal tered. It was "Bfll.” buck private. clinging to Ills nrm was a bent lltlls woman with white hair and keen, appraising eves It was ‘'Mill's” mother, Mr*. Annie Wheeler of liver* ett. Mass. ‘‘Tell Mil). Wheeler to come down, please,” the soldier said til the ele valor operator. And then the two stood there, silent, waiting. The ele valor opened m d i plump, -iiil'.'ng, fair girl of 21 i nine ini'. A little girl of 2 .vein s wa clinging to her h ind The bride ran at nin e to the two I'g ores Paying no attention to the ! vloughboy, she threw her arms around ' the grayed woman. ‘‘Mamma,." a)i'- said, excitedly. And i hen an old fashioned kiss resounded. | The lillie woman did not stop to *ur Vry tlio other. Tho embrace was without reservation. A moment or two later the elderly woman was on her knees with her hands outstretched to a gi.indchltd named nfti i- her—n grandchild she had never sen before. l.lttlo Annie drew Hark Her mother bent over her. "It's grandma." she said, with Col umn m • out. Annie ot ill hesitated. "Ena 1st delne grossmulter." the mother said. The child bold her faeo up for a kiss. A few minutes Inter she ut tered her (list phrase in the English tongue—a phrase' in which she had been carefully coached—"Hello, gra ndmn.” Soon iho family was seated In the lounge, chatting ns fieilv ns the limi tations of strange tongue would per wilt. "We're off lo Host on tomorrow nmlil." Hill announced ImppIV . All but one of 111* linden seemed happy In tin land of their husbands One. however, had a violent attack of homesickness and threatened to take the next ship bm k, but recanted, \ . Day’s Activities in \\ ashinsfton ______________ Investigation of the administration of veterans' bureau affairs was order ed by the senate. Col. Walter A. Bethel was nomin ated to be judge advocate general of the army, succeeding Major General Crowder, new ambassador to Cuba. Mrs. Moe Ellen Nolan was sworn in as a member of the house, succeeding her late husband as representative from the Fifth California district. Salaries ranging from SI25.WO a year down, the senate oil Investigating committee was informed, arc paid by the leading petroleum companies to their chief officials. In an effort to bring both the ship ping and debt funding bills to an eaVly vote, republican leaders decided to have the genalc. each day, ronslder, one measure for a few hours, then tho other. Bredii ting that the United States, it. the near future, would begin to export gold. Comptroller of the Cur rency Crisslnger, in his annual report, declared this would represent a long step In the restoration c? world economic equilibrium. House Votes to Hear Troubles of Herrick Washington, Feb. 12.—Despite ob jection by Representative Mondell of Wyoming and other republican lead ers, the bouse voted to hear Repre sentative Manuel Herrick, republican. Oklahoma, whose oratorical effort last week was cut short on objections by Representative Stafford, republican. Wisconsin, that his remarks were shocking to tho sensibilities of all members. As on the farmer occasion, the Oklahoma representative s|>oke on his resolution proposing expulsion from l lie press gallery of representatives of the Washington Times and Washing Ion Herubl as a result of publications dealing with his alleged romance with a young woman of this city. Oharac terixing the articles as "llhelous and scandalous" the speaker asked Imme diate action on his proposal, but the house Ignored the request Blast Furnace* in Mahoning District Ordered to Reopen Youngstown, O., Feh. 12 -girders to cut In operation the Youngstown Hanna blast furnace of the Kepubl.c lion and Steel company. Idle since November, 1920, have been issued an 1 the furnace probably will be blown within a week, it was announced to day. The furnace of the Brier Hill Steel company is being relined and will be lighted ns sir on as the stack Is ready, according to another announcement. This will place at work 36 of the Pi blast furnaces In the Mahoning di* trict and Insure the heaviest opera lions since the lioom times in 1926 Diplomats Beach Frisco Kati Francisco, Feh. 12.—Joseph K. Willard, formerly ambassador to Spain, arrived here on the steamer President Cleveland on his way home from the orient after a world tour. The same steamer brought M. V. Me • Oiesocs. former Kraalllan consul at Shanghai, who is transferring to the consulate at Tampico, on a>. onnt of Ills health. „ \ml>a>.'U<lur (»ivc8 Dimtrr. Uotuf I’Vh. 1 ' - i.4J> - Afubnv*.-nU>t child k in a dinner tonight with 3' <o\cis in honor of Ptemlei Mussolini th their speeches tho premier and men,tiers of lus cabinet expressed the most friendly foelmsa for Vinerira The dinner was fot|,,wrd by a brilliant reception and ball. ¥ rreneh Consider ^ ar Declaration: Clash Reported General Threatens “Fight to Finish"’ If French Soldiers Harmed in Occu pied Area. Berlin, Feb. II.—{M—German po licemen clashed with the French to day :.t Gelsenkirchen, but there were no fatalities, according to reliable ad vices. A policeman and two French officers were reported te nave been taken to a hospital w ith wounds. Tanks Sent to Herne. Dusseldorf, Feb. 12.—I/P.1—Reports , that the Germans are organizing & general strike at Herne., not. far from Bochum, have led to the dispatch of French tanks to that place. The Germans are boycotting the £ rces of occupation throughout the Herne district and the French have been obliged to take over the work of some of the German police. The boycott is becoming more and mor^ popular throughout the Ruhr and the German* have decided to ex tend it to Essen, refusing to do busi ness with the French and Belgians beginning today. Consider Mate of War. Paris. Feb. II. — CP)—Considerable talk is going ou in political and finan cial circles in Paris as to whether France, Belgium jyid Italy are going to succeed In bringing Germany to terms by the action now being taken in the Ruhr \ alley under the treaty of Versailles. It Is pointed out that every intensi fication of the allied action results iu the reinforcement of the German re sistance. and doubt is frequently ex pressed in some of the more aggres ■ ve quarters us t . whether the pres sure to ubllge Germany to accept the system of productive guarantees can he applied unless the allies resort to the declaration of a state of year. Poincare Sensitive. Premier Poincare is understood to be very sensitive as to public opinion abroad regarding tlie seiture of the Ruhr, feeling acutely the criticisms voiced in the United States and Eng land following each protest of the German government against measures which it declares illegal. Those who take an aggressive stand hold that a state of war. which would not neces lT«m Is rage t ight, ( ohuntt Three I German Leaves Manor to Hrilon \\ ho Sated Grand-on Vancouver. K C., Keb. li.—Maj. J. C. Thorne of this city Inis received word that he has been left a manor In Germany by Herr Gartner, whoso grandson. Major Thorne, w hile a pns oner of war. saved from death under a train In Kelps.*. A codicil* to Herr Gartner's will recites that tha lesa tee. “although an enemy of wiy coun try, did in the station. w'_.l* under armed guard. Jumped in front of an approaching train and gave little Karl.'* Major Thorn* at the time of the rescue was being transferred to Cues tin for Military confinement follow ing an attempt by hint to escape from a prison camp. • Herr Gartner's granddaughter has offered J 10.000 for the manor. The Weather Korea-as t Tue-dav cold wave with r ro tem peratur* by night. Hourl) Temperatures 1 A. Ml 11 l W M A A. Ml 1.1 * f*. Ill M 1 A Ml 14 .1 |V Ml M A A- Mi It 4 l*. m ..... M » a. ni . 14 ft p. hi ID A. Ml ... ... . .1.1 A »> M% ....... IT 11 As Ml ...... .1.1 ' 1 P. m ....... It 11 \noon) ... . SA * p. .11, Germans Appeal to America Note of Protest Against Occu pation of Ruhr by Trench Received by United States Officials. uNot Justified” Is Claim Washington, Feb. 12.—Ratest seiz urea of German territory made by the French military forces in the Ruhr have been made the subject of a re newed protest by the German govern men. Tim note of protest, a ropy of which lias reached diplomatic quar ters here, characterized ths French occupation as ope of purely arbitrary action and force, committed By tab ing advantage of the defenselessnes* of the German nation. The text of the note follows: “The French government, in ths note dated February 2 and trans mitted to the German embassy (in Paris) on February 4, reproached the German government for a violation of the treaty of Versailles, a viola tion which was said to have occurred by the German administration of rail ways, having stojipcd service of the international trans-Paris Bucharest and Paris Munich-Prague trains. Ti.e French government, at the same time, announced that for this alleged viola tion of the treaty it would occupy as sanction the German towns of Offen hurg and Appehweier, The occupa tion of both towns actually took plaoe on the day the note was handed to the German embassy at Pans. Obliged to Suspend Train*. ' The German administration of rail* wavs, on account of shortage of coat and other ^difficulties of transport, caused by the Franco-Belgian in vasion of the Ruhr, was obliged to suspend a great number of interna tional and German railway services. Among these were also the trains mentioned in the note. In view of the time and circumstances under which the stoppage of the services of th two trains took place, such stoppage obviously amounted to an emergency measure of a transitory nature whereby there can be no question of a violation of treaty. “But even if, formally speaking, the treaty had been violated, it would mock every state of peace if the French government took occasion of such minor importance as the suspen sion of two train services, to send v ithout further notice Its troops into German towns. “The French government has in deed, with a view to concealing the apparent misproportion between the cause of reproach and the French measures, tried to enumerate further alleged violations of the treaty by Germany. Reproaches Refuted. m rep.v to this the German g v cir.ment refers to its former exchange of notes with the French government. The German government points ottr that It has, in every single case of i roproa h made f-T having violated it* obligations, by detailed argument re futed su h reproach without the French government having even tried to r*fute on it* fide, the argument put forth by Germany. “The French government does not mention a Sega! title en which It claim* to have imposed its sanctions. In ihis case, theref- re the French gov ernment doe's rot even dispose of \ isicr.ar.v givOAds f-r imposing sanc t ons. In real..y the whole amounts I - one of purely arbitrary action and for i committed by u’ti.ig advantage of tin. dsfensele&snvrs of the German i ati n. The G< nan government for mally protests against this rrccedurg hrf. ie the entire «vo..d. ' On th«- day the French not* was lianded to the German embassy in Fans, the interallied Rhineland coni m,i t'oblens transmitted a note to the German Rhineland c mission in which the e. mmisaion stated that, approving of the occupation mdered ty the French government, of Offen burg and Appenweier, it had decided to place t be so territories under the auspices of the bridgehead of Kehl and t" extend the powers of its dele gates a" Kehl accordingly. no Rights I nder Treaty. “The Rhineland convention circum Si-rit.ee the material as well as the local scope of- the powers of the Rhineland commission. According to Article 1 of said convention, the tei - tdcry subject to the competence of the Rhineland commission comprises only those parts of German territory ■h« O. • I|»t 'It of »h;. It was provided for t>y Article j of the armistice of November l’f, ISIS, ar.d by Article T of the additional convention of Jan uary 16. 191S, The towns of Appen weier and Offcnburg lie beyond this territory and no article of the Rhine land convention or of the treaty of Versatile* gives the Rhineland con niission the right, of Us own accord, to extend the scope Pf Its compe tence. “The approval expressed by the Rhineland commission of the meas ures taken by the French govern ment does not legalize these measures which violate the toaty and likewise il«» not give a legal title to the Ille gal ordinance of the Rhineland com mission. The approval show*, how ever. anew- that the interallied Rhine land commies.on lets Itself he made the tool of French policy. The Ger man government pretests also against this violation of the treaty and of right.* Oinahau lIvtTod Prosidont oi Vhcrtidtig Kansas v"it>. Mo. FvK If.— 1* 1i. \v ’i.-t ’i of Omaha vc.s eb-cied presi dent of the Midwc,-l V tvertising Man ogees' association at a conference hen V niea i.i Vika- a«. Jcwa. Ok,a homa. Nell nek a. Kansas and Ml« sonu were iep< seated at the meet in*
