The Omaha Morning Dee VOT, 5*2_NO 919 UUni aa Sncand-CInie Mailer Mur 21, IMS. at OMAHA TUESDAY FEBRUARY 20 19*23 * •» **»" <* »•">: 0,ll» *"* Sunday, JS: Sunday. SO. althla Ihn 4th anna. TWO CENTS VULi. 04-nU. 414. Omaha P. 0. Und.r Act •! March S, l»7». V/ATuum, luuouni, rtmiunivi C.V, J J£.0. Outaldn the 4th mna (I yaar): Dally and Sunday. $12; Sunday only, IS a »» v» vu* * Advocates of Ship Bill Win Round -/ foFce INigbt Session in Effort to Obtain Early Action— Proposal to Table Milk Bill Pending. Argue Over Filibuster Washington, Feb. 19.—IVP)—Con fronted with an effort to displace their measure, senate proponents of the administration shipping bill forced a night session in waging the final stage of the fight to obtain en actment of the legislation before ad journment of congress. Opponents of the- bill attempted to bring about an adjournment at the usual hour, but were voted down. 4T. to .13. Earlier In the day thev united with supporters of the flUed-ntilk hiif 1n an endeavor to take up that meas tire and lay aside the shipping legis lation. Senator—Jones, republican. Wash ington, in charge of the ship bill, met the move with a motion to lay on the table the proposal to take up the filled-tuilk bill, which was made by Senator Dadd, republican. North Dakota. The motion was defeated, 44 to 4J, and the Dadd proposal was left pending before the senate. Consider Note Prwise. Leaders among the forces support- 1 ing the shipping bill conceded that the vote to table the motion was pre cise and pointed out that several re- j publicans who are considered favor- ! able to the shipping bill, such ns j Senators McCormick. Illinois; Nichol-I son. Colorado; Sterling. South Da kota; Sutherland, West Virginia; Me Nary, Oregon; Cameron, Arizona; | Oooding. Idaho, and Stanfield, Ore ] gon, voted agamst tabling the Ladd ; motion. The vote on the motion to table was follow ed by extended debate Vdurinc which the shipping bill was attacked nnd the filled milk bill was both at tacked and defended. The feature of this debate, however, was a lengthy interchange between ft«-nator Under wood. the retiring democratic leader, and several democrats on the question of the propriety Of a filibuster against the shipping legislation. During this debate, Senators Underwood and Hitchcock, democrat. Nebraska, eon (eded th$t there w as a filibuster ."gainst the shipping bib, huL Senator Harrison, democrat, Mississippi, later denied there was any real "filibuster" and sc d thar any statement to the , contrary "must have been a slip of the tongue.” j Principle at Stake. Declaration by Senator Underwood ' that he was opposed to defeat of the shipping bill by a filibuster caused i Hitchcock to inquire how the demo | ( ratio leader squared his opposition to 1 a filibuster now with his action in Darling the filibuster at the beginning of the present session, during the fili- j buster against the anti-lynching bill, that such a course was justified in that that Mil violated a funda mental principle nnd added: "A great governmental principle is now at stake. This congress is not going to vote ‘Yes' or 'No' on the ship subsidy bill, but on the question of whether there shall be fastened on the country a contract which was re pudiated at the last election.” iaofhisb-vmph * The additional statement was made by Senator Hitchcock that he could speak "with freedom” as he was a "lame duck” and that “never was n fdibuster more Justifiable,” than against the pending legislation. The democratic leader proposed that the Madden amendment making government aid to ship operators con tingent on annual appropriations by congress be voted on first, adding that if that were adopted, although he still would oppose the bill, its passage would be fraught with no danger to the country In the midst of the debate Senator McKellar democrat Tennessee asked unanimous consent for a resolution inquiring into the liquor sates on government ships before the order 1 prohibiting such sales hut Senator C'alder. republican. New York, blocked ns consideration The resolution isKed for detailed Information from ihe shipping board regarding liquor (ales during the "wet" period Blood Hounds on Trail of Strangler of Woman Osawatomie, Kan. Feb. !9.—Blood hounds from Kansas City, Kan., were brought here today in an attempt to locate the slayer of Mrs. Flora Ree-ly. ' elephone operator, whose body was found late last night. The dogs fol lowed a trail from the seen" of the crime to a house here in which lived a man now’ under suspicion, the au thorities said. In investigating the »rider,c, of what they declared was a desperate struggle by Mrs. Reedy against her assailant. Her body was dragged 100 fee, from the street and hairpins arid hits of clothing were found along the wav. She had been strangled to death. Her husband is in Spokane. Wash. Former H**afl of Frisco Road Dies in Sanitarium St. Louis, Feh. 19.-W. H. Biddle, former president of the fit. Louis A San Francisco railroad, died at a asnltarlum today, lie Is survived by a widow, KUs F. Biddle, and three sons. Robert of Chicago. Wheldon •>f Medford,' Ore,, and Walter of To ledo, O. Mr. Biddle w-ns director of traffic of th" southwestern region during the war and at the end of the war he retired from railroad aerr Ice to develop a fruit ranch near Medford, Ore. He was horn in Be loit, Wla., In 1*M and alarled rail road work as ». brakeman on the Santa Fe System. Funeral services will he held hart Tuesday Former Omaha Pilot Flangs Up a Record I C. B. C'oUyer. C. B. Collyer, former Omaha air mail pilot, set a new record for the air mail service recently by covering the distance between Cleveland and New York, 435 miles, in two hours and 37 minutes, an average speed of more than 166 miles an hour. The plane was loaded with more1 than 5.000 pounds of mail. Farm Bloc Plans to Force Issue on Rural Credit Bills Supporters of Legislation Cir culate Petition Calling for \etion by Republican Caucus. H> GEORGE F. At TIIIER. IVRililnilsn < nrrespcndrnt The Omaha Be#. Washington, Feb. 10.—(Special.!— Rural credit legislation in the house became a football of contending fac tions today, resulting In the circu- j lation of a round robin J>y supporters ' of the legislation. calHPST for a repub lican causus next Wednesday night to consider ways and means of dyna miting rural credit bills out of the committee on banking and currency. This was met with a veiled threat from Chairman McFadden of the banking committee that calling a cau cus might, destroy any hope of pass ing legislation of any character. The insurgents led by Representa tives Anderson, republican, .Minnesota; Dickinson, republican, Iona, and Dow ell, republican. Florida, went ah“ad with their preparations for a caucus. Representative Dowell who circulated the petition claimed today to have enough signer* to call the caucus and refused to be moved by threats of re prisal. Filibuster Delayed. The promised filibuster, which was to be stagr 1 today in order to blast the bills out of the committee, was de layed, owing to the necessity of pass lng personal bills on the unanimous consent calender and because the pro posed amendment to the federal farm land bank had no* been taken up. The filibuster will be postponed luntil after the action of the republi can caucus on Wednesday. The in surgents scored to the extent of ex tracting a. promise from the rules committee to report a «i>ecial ruje on rural credit‘legislation as soon as any thing bearing on trie subject Is re ported from the lianking committee. That body held hearings on the Tap per ami the J^enroot-Anderson rural credit bills today, listening to argu ments from Gray Silver, representing the farm bureau federation, and others favoring the 1.enroot-Anderson hill. To Keport Only l upper Hill. In spite of the evident preference of the farm bloc for the latter measure. It Is the apparent intention of the committee on banking and currency committee to report only the Capper bill, which the farm bid members ray is only an apology for real rural credit legislation. Members of the hanking committee point out that the I,enroot-Anderson bill would make a demand upon the treasury for $120. 000,000 and would put the govern ment into the hanking business While this committee was wrestling with the rural credit bills, with the evident intention of throttling them, the house committee on agriculture reported three Dills which call for ap proximately $030,000,000 from the pub lic treasury. fine of these is the Christophemon stabilization bill, which provides for government purchase of wheat in or der to keep the price up to approxl lialeiy $1.7.3 a bushel. .Still another was the Norris Sinclair bill providing for the organization of a government corporation for the purchase and sale of wheat. None of them are expected to make any headway in the present congre««. « Belgian Minns Strik*-. ihussels, Fel>. 19.—UP)—Twenty - f*\e thousand Belgian miners of the •*!£>,000 employes in the Mons basin have gone on strike over the question of v ages. —-— Runaway I.ml Lives 10 Days in Sand Pits If Uli U eather Below /fro Denver, Feb. )».—oA a beii of straw W’ith a thread Imm overcoat ns his only covering. Ernest Adams 12, runaway from Kansas City. Mo., slept through the recent below xero weath er that prevailed here and lives to tell the tale. For JO days and nights he. i lived jn the sand pits w«st of Denver. He told his story to the pojl^e to ;dn>. after lie was seen by a motor ist sleeping in a crevice in the sand j Phs late this morning. He ex | plained that he had “overslept.” Ernest, who also was picked up by the police here about a year ago while j in quest he said, of “the Indian siw I vivo in of the Custer massacre,” will i he returned to his homo fropi which | he fled two weeks ago. He lived as he could, he asserted, "from the back door# of hi# neighbors.'* Lithuania Mobilizing More Me _ a\>0? *' 4,^ ' V* -Vi* Fresh Attacks A|r v ^‘v .1 Neutral Ztr.^P '»* — ' Heavy G Re sult Frt. iash. Appeal Made to League Warsaw, Keb. 1#.—(A)—Fresh at tacks by the Lithuanians on the Pol ish forces in the neutral zone iillottcj to Poland are reported here today. It is also said that the class of 1923 has been mobilized in Lithuania. Dispatches last night from both Polish and Lithuanian sources re ported collisions between forces of the two countries. The Lithuanian le gation in Taris made public a dis patch from Kovno asserting that Po lish forces had invaded Lithuania, after occupying the neutral zone near Orany and attacked the Lithuanian troops with heavy casualties. The dis patch added that the Lithuanian gov ernment had reported the facts to the league of nations, requesting that Rtrps be taken to prevent an exten sion of the conflict. Action on Both Sides. Paris, Feb. 19.—(A1—Meager details of the occupation of the neutral zone between Poland and Lithuania, re ceived in official circles in Paris, in dicate there has been action on both sides. Dispatches from Polish sources to the foreign office say that the Poles completed the occupation of that part of the zone given them by the council of the league of nations the Lithuanians began firing with artillery upon the points occupied. Tarry Out Threat. At the Lithuanian legation here it was declared the Poles had not only occupied their own part of the neu Ira I zone hut had crowded over into ihe part assigned to the Lithuanians by the league. It also was advocated that the Polish frontier guards and officials needed for the administra tion of the region were accompanied by troops of all arms contrary to the decision of the league council. The im-pres-sion voiced In French i official circles is that the Lithuan ians are carrying out the threat they i made in the league council to resist the occupation of any part of the zone by the Poles. Lithuania has an army of 50,000 rnen. Member* of the farm bloc in tbe house launched a drive for action on rural credits legislation. Another resolution proposing an in ternational economic conference was introduced by Senator Owen, demo crat, Oklahoma. On the reconvening of the supreme court after a three-week recess. I-Jd v.ard T. Sin ford of Tennessee was sworn in as associate Justice. Shipping legislation received a set back, the senate voting. 44 to 4J, nof to tahle a motion to lay it aside and take up the filled milk bill. The house rules committee, by a ti to S vote, refused to report a reso lution giving Henry Fords offer for Muscle Shoals light of wav In the house A unanimous decision w«« reached bv the house way* and means com mittee to recommend that the house accept senate changes in the British debt funding bill. Favorable report of a resolution providing for submission to the states of a child labor t onstitutlona! amendment was ordered by the senate Judiciary committee. Itouht was expressed at the State department as to whether Secretary Hughes would find it poslbte to at tend the pan American conference at Santiago, Chile, next Month. The nomination of Senator Poidex ter. republic*. Washington. to lie am bassador to Peru was sent by Presi ; 'lent Harding to the senate, which j quickly confirmed it by unanimous ■ ote in open session An adverse report on Min. John B. Henderson's offer of a $300,000 resi dence to hr* used «m a home for the vice president was made by the sen ate public buildings committee, which said It could not recommend an out lay of $15,000 annually for mainten a nee. The railroad labor board can fUg g«M*t to carriers and their employes to select representatives for confer ences on rules and working condi tions. the supreme court, decided Upholding the validity of the Inter state Commerce commissioh* order increasing by 15 per cent, the >ftw England lailioads' share of through freight rates, the supreme court held that the commission, under tha trans portation act of 1920. can make division of joint rates by groups. Overdone of Drupn f atal to Kl Pago Sorirty (,irl Kl Kami, Tex- Feb. 19.— Ml** Mar lorle 1>*II Owen*. 17, norjety girl of Kl Pago. dl**l liHlay from overdo*** of narcotic* anil liquor, according to the attending phyalcinn fcilie had re < ently returned from I,on Angcl-*. where aim vlgited friend* and went to .Tuareg Monday night on a party, ac cording to her brother. John R ( .reene, "Hhe took a few drink* ami may have aartrd u*ing drug*," her broth er told t!i* coroner. ^ A. R. Summer*, traveling galegnuOr of Dalla*. waa In the i>arty, h* told th* coroner. lie »ald Ml** Greene kfl the laid* where the parly wan ntttlng in a fliinr,' hall, returned * , few jnirurteg later and cuUgpeed Senator Appointed Ambassador to Peru Washington, Fob. 19.—The nomina tion of Senator Poindexter of Wash ington, to be ambassador to Peru was confirmed by the senate late today in open session. Action was taken soon after the nomination had been re trod from President Harding. Senator Bodge o? Massachusetts, chairman of the foreign relations com mlttee. asked that the senate take up the nomination Immediately. He then moved that the nomination he con firmed, and the vote for confirma tion was unamimous. Senator Poindexter, who has been a member of the senate since 1911, was uefented last fall when he came up for re-election. Before entering the senate he served three years as a mem ber of the house, having been elected as a progressive republican from the Spokane district. Previous to coming to Washington, he was a district judge of the superior court. He was born fn Memphis, Tenn., in 1808. The Washington senator is chair man of the mines and mining commit tee. a member of the interstate com merce. naval and public lands com mittee. House Committee Approves Funding Pact With British Chairman Fortlnry Instructed to M ovc for Acceptance of Changes in House Today, Washington, Feb. 19.—The agi ce ment between the American and British governments under which Great Britain will have «2 years for the payment of ttR $4 890.non.niio war debt to this country will become ef feotive before the end of this month. This was made certain today with the action of the house ways and means committee in instructing Chairman Fordney to move Tuesday in the house to accept the senate change* to the amendment to the debt fund ing act. giving congressional ap proval of the agreement. The com mlttee vote was unanimous and the public vote is expected to be prac tically fO. Direct action by the house will make a conference with the senate unnecessary and will save consider able time. Immediately after the house vote the hill will be made ready for President Harding, who is * :< ported to sign it in a few days Several republican r^embere of the committee were not wholly satisfied with either of the senate Amendments but they voted to accept them be cause they though It would be un wise to throw* the hill Into conference and thus make it subject to uncer tainties which ilirround all important legislation in the closing days of con gress. Chief objection w.is to the Robin son amendment requiring congres sional approval of the settlements with the other debtor nations, the argument being advanced that this might operate to slow up negotiations with those nations because congres.s will not be in session again until next December. The Harris amendment re quiring the appointment of three democrats to the commission also was not entirely satisfactory to some of the majority. Representative Burton, republican. Ohio, a member of the American debt commission, was understood to have told the committee that It would be !*tt*r to have the commission divided, five republicans and two democrats. • He urged acceptance of the p ite changes by the house, however. Steps Taken to Cope Witli High Prices in Berlin rt»rlii! Feb, li) ■>*»>—Stringent of Trial steps are being taken to roper cent. Retail Gasoline Price* Reduced in Kansas City ks ileus City Mo.. Feb. 19 ,\ i Auction «*f 1 « cut n gallon on gasoline old in Greater Kan*a* City and an advance of 1 cent n gallon In *»!1 ! other place* in Missouri ami Kansas, effective Tuesday, wna announced 1>\ the Standard Oil company of Indiana Th© new filling alatton prices are [19 1-3 cent* here ami 2\ 1 2 cent* at [other points in the two etat** House Gommittee Shelves Ford Muscle Shoals Offer Washington. Feb. 19.--fir a vote <.f * l" 1 ths house rules committee i« fused today to report out a resolution giving llenry Ford * offt i f. i Mu- ie Shoals right of wsy lln tile house. This preclude* consideration if Muscle Sin-sis legislation at tills sessi-.n un less s maiorlty of the house rotes to override t tie rules romtuittee. First Panel of Four Jurors Accepted in Herrin Trial Marion. Ill FVb. IT ((4>h I lie ftrM pnnrl of four Juror* in the arc«»nd Herrin min© lint* trial waa mm pMfd late today when the «U*f» un* . with littl© dlacuaaion. accepted a panel Iplidtifd hy th© ©tat©. Th© land in < ompoaed of two farmer*, « palntct tnd a chauffeur* “Come In, John!” House Committee Approves Bonus l rfirji I hat Hill He Referred to \ otrr* at N«'\t (>rn cral hlection. Lincoln. Feb. 19.—^Spt * Tho house nrsecllamous committee voted. *» to ♦. tonight to favorably recom mend tho $10,000,000 bonu* bill in troduced by a number of American 1/Cgitii? im ft who are mem tiers of the j legislature. The bonus plan is similar to that , put into effect in Kansas and Iowa. I Fnder terms uf the bill the propoai | tion must be referred to the voters at i the next general election. While the miscellaneous committee rtf the house was giving the soldier l*oy encouragement, the house coni mittc*«* on* revenue and taxation voted to indefinitely postpone a bill intro duced at the behest of the state ad ' ministration which would cut tha i automobile tax in half. Kvclyn No-bit in Cafe Rm*; W arrant baited for \rr«M Atlantic Ci y, N .t 1-VW 19.—\ warrant was issued for the arrest rf Kvelyn Nesbit by City Itecorder <*orio today when she failed to appear in his c ourt to nns" »r n « barge of disorderly Conduct. She is alleged to 1 have created it disturbance Hi a cafe Saturday night. Keieascd in *10 bail after her arrest, she declared she was the victim of a ’■frameup.” The j Mil ice say the arrest was or dered by the cafe manager after an encounter between Miss Nesbit and ' a physician at *>m- of the cafe tables Just In-fore she was to go on with her dance act. Miss Nesbit. according to the jMiliee. suddenly brought the diners to thru feet by crying’ that the physician had approached her tab’e and struck her in the face The physician said Miss Nesbit ad dressed a remark to him w hile he was dancing with another woman and then slapped him. He said he merely gently pushed her toward a chair. No charge was preferred against him. Harding Not to Name Now for Caliinet Post Washington. Krti ]«.— ITrsuIrnt Harding was said by'his friendn^ to day tn htt\ ** virtually decide*) not to appoint Senator Harry S New of Indiana tn a plate in the cjuhnct For a time the Indiana senator, | who failed of retiomlnation and [redress from the senate on March 4, Mas under consideration a* a sue cessor to Postmaster (iniM.il Work when the latter iM transferred to the y interior portfolio it was Indicated today, however, that Mr. New prob ably would l*o given some other place. He may he made governor of Porto lih'o. succeeding I! Mold. Reily. The president's reported intention to make Mr. New post in.liter general i developed opposition Among some In diana repuhlirit ns. R.'tiirn of Pro|M*rt\ Scir.nl During W i.rld War Urged Washington. KpIi i fi Upturn lo ' Jp. nniii rltizpns of $4.'>.inul.O09 of Uip $847,000.(100 trust* li»M |.y Hip iilfpn propprty iusto«1ian ns i. rmult of war (Imp siirui.H was urgr (omtul 1'nughnrty Tht rtniaiad. > of (hr funds, nlxml *;io:'.mi0.oml .nuhl up is tallied ht, ths govri nment K was [Mid. 4 Girl Killed as Auto Overturns at Svottsbluff Machine I- Ditched ^ lien Driter Loses Lonlrol ^ liilr Racing iili Roys on Horseback. S- ' tlablufT. Neb . Feb. 21.—'>j'fcla 1:. — Mildred Pittman. 11. daughter of Mr and Mrs. William Pittman of Minatare, Neb, vn klll.-d instantly at 4:30 Sunday afternoon when a Ford tar in which sh" and three other persona were riding overturned on a country road near Soottabluff. She w a* pinned beneath the car and suf fered a broken ne, k\ dying Inatantly. The car was driven by Hex Leon sid, 15. Other passenger* were Har old Reynold* ami Maym# Ruff, l^onard was racing with two I vs < n horseback, Theodore and Jacob Lskam. when the accident occurred. I-eonard lost control of the car and it tan into a ditch by tbe side of the r* ad *nd then out again, overturn ing and pinning the Pittman girj. who was.riding In the front seat, under neath. None of the others was injured except for bruise* Thete w-fll be no inquest nor any criminal a, tion. County Attorney Ileiss and offer an Investigation. Hospital In Be Fnlarpctl a- Ki 'iili of Decieioit Folumbus Neb, Feb. 1?.—(Special) —The decision given by District I udge A M. Post in the r ise af R R. Karlin against the Franciscan Sister ho«wi has )♦•«• affirmed by the mi prame court acvording to notice ^re reived by attorneys. The «ate is the outcome of protest against the elec tion of the proposed <20<»,0(»f) addition to St Mary hospital. The city cuncil had voted to vacate Sixteenth street from Fourteenth to Sixteenth avenue and sold the strip of ground to the Sisterhood. Owners of property close by objected to the truisa* Ron and b ough- suit against it. Stejm are now being taken by the Sisterhodd to complete the arrange ment for beginning wort The plans have lw*en approved hj the mother superior of the order. The new building x\ill have a ground dlinen • lot « of 14»> 14y 40 feet with a chapel In the rear 40 by 00 feet. Fair ami W anner \\ eallior Promised in Near Future Washington. l'Vti i?—While tho void witvp was xppr.jln* ll«plf in IhP aouthenstrrn aoi'tlon i>f ihp country I««i it tic lit. bringing * temperature of 40 degi op» to Jg< kaonviUp, Kill . a.rord ii'K to report* to Ihe weather bureau, ihp northwest w i> upltlrwt n touch «f nioi" moderate weather. Ravld City, S 11 . i i'lx.rlinj; n temperature of 54 dearer*. ‘.'i iIphi pps ithovp normal. I> -m • m|Hrature* w#rp predicted Co III •' »’ III- ..ill Of Ihp Mtft*i**il)pi wheii lii 'V.'ithei wa* null un*ea x' H.iM vi I ’ Waxiern at ate* already liivi [ill iffr.-i* of thp promised fair and wnrnlri1 weather. Fight Children Mnllirrl ('»S in 1 liree (ilevelanil llonii's i lev eland F ell 13 —i:i«hi rhlldran. thp oldrai uf which I* 13 year* old. made inotlieile**— (our of them heraine orphan*, in fact—whan donlh Invaded thror t'lpvolgnd home* within IS hour. Tho four orphan*, ranging! in a*p from 3 to 18. mw the around ' II a* nil of thoir live* ulwi their mother. Mrs. Josephine Augustine. ■ Senate Body 0. ILs Child J^abor Law Advocates ^ in I iplit ^ hen Committee Recommends Resolution. Washing*.on, Feb IS.— Advocates of a child labo- constitutional amend ment won the fist stage of the.r fight, today when the senate Judiciary com mittee ordered a favors!»te report on a committee resolution providing for submission of such an amendment to the state*. Uppoi ent* of th* resolution, how - e'er, declared they would pre\ent It? adoption by the senate There was no record vote by the committee in ordering the resolution reported, which was a composite draft embodying feature* of more than a aeore of child labor resolution which the committee has been fight ing over four we k* The committee s child laboi amend ment would provide: "That congress shall have power, concurrent with the set era! states, to limit or prohibit the labor of persons under the age of IS years " * Platte Count) Rank* to Test Constitutionality of Law Columbus N>b . Feb. 18.—(Special.) Plate county banks will pay their tases in full under protest and des ignate one of their number to start a fi :endly test case to determine! whether their assets should be classi fied .is tang,hie property under the state law ThiJ was the program agreed upon at a special meeting of | the Platte County Rankers' associa tion, attended by 20 members repre senting ail but three of the national and state hanks in the county. Tlic plan was adopted on condition that ihe bangs would pay their uks in full under protest, providing the county Word would agree that .f the one tiank chosen to start the test case should l>e granted a reduction by the «x>urts. I ho board would make proportionate teb»t<-a to the other banks A resolution trains the passage of senate file No, H*r> was adopted Death of S. Jackson Pronounced Suicide No in.i irst will be held into the death of Stanley C Jacksons SIS South Thirty third *: ’■ oe T. secretary of the Central Labor union, who nyt found lying in the street neat Forty first and Center sreit* : ..e Saturday afternoou. fatally won Coroner Paul Steinwender declined Sunday he believed there was no doubt that the man had committed sue ale and that he would make his report ac cordingly Mbs. Jackson ha* been stunned since the r,ew« of her hui])»and's death was broken to her. She said she lie llcved her husband had been worried o\-er the ill health of her children ami her*.If during the past month and that this fact had led to hit act. Funeral services will be held to day at i' at the Fir»t Pieshvterian Church. Itri F.dwsrd A Jer.k* mil ofhviate Interment will be in West lawn cetnetety. * • The Weather Kwr(»*f Turvl»\ fair am) «amm llourla Trmpt'rmliiif* * n. IM %■: * t» IM JL\ * » W W * a ni U »* • w» U Irt n. m A.S II w ii* U 11 •»« m • * t I*. * n « r a r « i* * *• • * High Court Sustains Rail Board Decision Strengthening tech* Cummins Act Rendered in (iase Brought h> Penn sylvania Road. Injunction Is Nullified Washington, Fell. IS.—Til a demsion of far-reaching importance, strength ening the F-ch-t'ornmins transporta tion act provisions for government adjustment of railway labor disputes, the supreme court Sustained the raii< way labor board and the enntentiori of organized labor in the "oimparS union"""case involving the Penneyl van la railroad. Declaring that congress «> med it of Hi' highest public in’erc st to pr e vent the interruption of intersia'* commerce by labor disputes an-t -trikes the opinio:.. delivered by chief Justice Taft held that tire ' bor board did not exceed its j>o« rs when z i ondemned the methods adopt--! b-e the Pennsylvania railroad to estab lish employe representation in dea * .ng with questions of wages and working conditions. injunction .Nullified. The company Igrored the federal fhoperafts union and caused rs err • plover to hold an election of repicse - tatives which the labor hoard pro nounced irregular ordering a re « election, at whirii union a* veil % nonunion rc-presetatlves c-oui-1 ! * voted for. The corn pa y obtained a i injunction of the board s decision, which is nullified by the supreme c-ourt decision upholding the lalx boa rd. Organize*! labor contended that ' e Pennsylvania had set out to smash the union and to organize its c^ri Uion. “Congress ' says the supreme cou t opinion, “has frequently rercfnlnd the legality of labor unions and *t reason suggests its* f thAt such s i association if its membership :* projt erly Inclusive may not b*> -rgarded as among the organizations of employes referred to in this lec*latjon." Not KnforeaMe by I-aw The opinion point* That th* de cisions of the labor board cannot te enforced by process of law and can orjy invoke public opinion by direct ing "public criticism against the party who, it Uimka, justly deserves ' The purpose of congress to p.-c mote bai mouiou a ieiauc ns last wean, the managers of railway* and thei employe* h seen tn every section of this act and the importance attached by oongrea* to conference* between them for this purpose is equally ob vious." said Chief Justice Taft. "Con gress must have ’.mended, therefore, to include the procedure for determir ■ ng representatives of employe* as a proper subject matter of dispute to i-a considered,by the board under section SOT. The act is to be liberally con strued to effect the manifest effort of congress to compose difference* be tween railroad companies and their employes, am! it would not help th:* effort to exclude from the lawful con sideration of the labor board a ques tion whir'n has so often seriously af fect ed the relations between the cor - ranies gr.d their employes in the pa-* and Is often encountered on th* ver -* threshold of ' controversies between them. Board of Arbitration. The .nlor board was created to d* e.de hew- the parties ought to exe - < i»e their legal rights so as to enable them to • o-operate in running th* railroad, tt was to re-ch a fair eon promise between the parties without regard to t.v lega! t.ghis upon *hK ea h Side might «: * court of law. The h ard :s to act'as hoard of arhitartlon. ' The jurisdiction of the board to rt lpct the partJe* to do what it deer s they should do is not to he limned bv their constitutional or legal right : . refuse {., do it. Vnder the act there :* no constraltjt upon them to do what the board decides they should do ex cept the moral constrain- already me: - tinned. r.f publication of its deoisi m, tiianiod It is not {or this ©i any other court to Has* upon the , rrectr.es* , f the conclusion of the taler board if it keeps within the jurisdiction the* ssigned to it hy the statute T. » staute dives not require the railway company to ree*vgni*e or to deal with, or confers with labor unions. It do, * rot require employes to deal wittt licit employes through their fellow employes Rut w. t! "i! doe* \*s; the lain r board w -.th |vm, r to deci .e bow such representative# ought to be ebiveer With a view to securing a satisfsi to * coovperation and leaves it to the two sides o accept or • the dec.s n Hum t >\«'r Kurnar? l.catls to Murder and Suicidr New York. Fab. IS. — Mr* Marla Kelley died yestrrdav. 14 hour* after* she had been shot twice hy bar hus band. Policeman Janie* V Kelley wh * killed himself Tlie murder and »u - , de were witnessed h\ the Kellev-' \ounc son* Jamew If. and IMwant. 4. I' resulted from a quarrel upo i ei alley's return from h.s tour of duty the upshot of ut argument as to whether he would go immediately and look after ihe furnace because of tenants' complaint*, or eat hi* dinner amt then alter,I to the fire Relative* will take charge of the tw-o son*. Llovd (iMrpa >av< Vmrrica Muel Vet tut Kuhr Problem lamdoii Feb It- F'_ Fenner I rime Mlnivei 1-Jcyd tie,,,** m the ne'oate m the h. -e of ' nir.cn* ta day. ,',*araciertged the FYench actr, * iii the Ruhr as a repetition of the paychohqncal hlunder the Mermans made i, It U M* corn c trued it era* ."Civ. ,4.1 .ir.it Ailifl.cs ahouM gt^FS tietpata id ,ha *oluth*| ,