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The Omaha Morning Bee »•-. ■ VOL 5° NO ‘21 ii ««tmi u (MHd ciui Ntttir tu n, iw, «i OMAHA F RIDAY F'EBRUARY 23. 1923 * ■» mdi u ».»): om> and tuatay. w: am«ar. «.s». «imi« m* am m«. TWO CENTS V Omaha r. O. Under Act at Much 3. 187*. X IVliXTVi, r I.ununn X &o, J.3 40, OdUldt the 4th nne II year): Dally aad Sunday. »I2: Sunday aaly, W l YV U > - ______• _ __!___i_j.________ ________. Klan Fight Is Carried to Senate Seat ot‘ Earl B. Mayfield Chal lenged as Latest Chapter in Texas Squabble—Op pouent Files Charges. Claims Fraud in Count Washington, Feb. 22.—04s)—Sweep ing charges against the Ku Klux Klan and Its officers were made today in papers filed with the senate challeng ing the right of Earle B. Mayfield to I tako his seat in the next congress as a senator front Texas. The election contest and its accent; partying charges were filed by George 13. Is. Feddy, who ran for senator last November in Texas as a republican and independent democrat and who accused Mr. MayfleUl during a bitter campaign with being the caildidate of the klan as well as of the regular •' democratic organization. Fraud in Count Charged. Excftsive and illegal expenditure of money by the Mayfield forces, fraud in counting, the ballots and other Irregularities were charged in the con-' test petition. Which asked for a re-1 count. It was contended that Mr. j i'eddy was actually elected, but in the event the senate does not so de ride, it was asked in the petition tjiat Mr. Mayfield nevertheless be barred from taking his seat. The Ku Klux Klan was charged In the petition with concealing its real designs under a cloak of patriotic • pretensions in order to hide plans to subject the government of the consti tution to the ‘invisible empire'" and with conspiracy to evade, violate and defeat federal and state laws. It was further charged that the organittation had attempted "prostitution of the 1'hristian religion" and had resorted to use of "brute force, " intimidation and “Immoral and lawless practices." Indicts Ku Klux Klan. V detailed indictment of the klan was made in the petition, which was regarded as the opening gun in a senatorial election contest of unpural Icd bitterness. In addition to these ■ barges, Mr. -Peddy based his claim lo the senfttorship on an allegation that 1100,000 votes counted for May field were illegal and fraudulent, and hat "several thousand,” actually cast Cor Peddy were not counted. Expenditure of 1150,000 in lrehalf of Mayfield in the Texas primary, in vio lation of the mate law limiting t-xpen 3 jltures to $10,000 was charged in the ‘ petition, which declared also that May field's name was illegally placed' on the printed ballot and Peddy’s name illegally denied a place, so that It had to be written in by voters. The printing of Mayfield's name was made illegal, it was contended, by the alleged illegal expenditures and the alleged "conspiracy” with the Ku Klux Klan. ''Assisted by Officials. ' • Mayfield's election was sought by the Ku Klux Klan, the petition con tinued, to foster its purpose of se curing political and commercial do minion. It was declared the alleged conspiracy was assisted by “various state and county officials" of Texas. The personal qualifications of May field also were challenged because of alleged violation of the corrupt prac tices act and "his alleged membership in an approval of the Ku Klux Klan and its activities.” “A recount of the votes is prayed." the petition said, "it being alleged jhat If only such votes as Mayfield r*cetved were counted for him. and .f all legal votes which Teddy received were counted for him. peddy received a majority of the legal votes. "He (Mayfield) was not fairly or (Turn to Page Two. I olmnn Three.) Confessed Slayer of Four Surrenders in Baltimore raltlmorr, Feb. 22.—Chari*- Me* i 'andless, 02, of Hurst, Tex., who con fessed. according to the polic \ ho killed four men In Texas and New Mexico, between 1900 and 1 ft 10. and who claims there is a JIO.OOO reward for his arrest, surrendered to the po lice here today- His motive for stir ^ rendering, he is alleged to haw told uthorltles, was that be j;< tin a r f living unrlW assumed names . n-l ihat ) * w'arits to vl .it his 8! yea' old mother in Hurst. Tex., who wans hint to atone for his misdeeds before she dies. 16 in Counterfeit Money King Arrested Abroad New i oi k, F-It. 22.—International ramifications of the huge countei felt ing system, which secret service oper atives bared Wedliekda; were Indi cated when Jos'-ph A. 1’nlniti, secret serviee agent |n charge of the Investi gation, announced that lii arrests have been made abroad. Fersons have been arrested In Egypt, l.lveri.I, England; Hamburg, Germany; Havana, t'uha; Australia, the llahanms, Naples, Italy and France as a result of dues give i the police .of the foreign eountries by secret service agents here, Palma sail}. Use of !\’aval Craft Proponed to Break Up Smutting Bines Washington, Feb. 22.—-Use of naval • iaft to break up the smuggling of intoxicants, narcotics and aliens Into this eoutry Is propsed In a hill intrie cured by Representative Hummers, re publican, Washington. The i ease Is «o used would lie under ibs supervision and control of the i i it officers of the nOYcrnmeiit charg ed with tbo enforcement of the pro hibition and customs laws. ” --—- **— *" Theophile Delcaasc Die*. Paris, Fell. 22, —Theophilo ItelctMtse, former mini- ti r of foreign affairs, died suddenly at Nice, lust cvtnlnt 9 Honor Is Paid to Memory I of Pioneers of Nebraska - Early Settlers of Omaha Meet and Discuss Early Days and Sing 01d*Time Songs. In honor of the memory of the man ' ho was identified with the beginning of things In this republic, the Doug las County Association of Nebraska Pioneers yesterday afternoon cele brated in song and story the genesis of Omaha and Douglas county. The happy function was held in Eagle hall. Seventeenth and Cuss streets, beginning at high noon with a spread of enticing edibles and clos ing when the evening shadows lengthened. Bom in Prairie “Schooner." The men and women who were there were, typical of the sturdy pion eers, who ventured westward when conditions of travel and living were primitive and the redmon were ram pant. J. M. Marston, S3, came to Ne braska 72 years ago and was the old est attendant in point of residence. Anna Kansas Bowman also was there She was named "Kansas" because she was born in a wagon in whtcjp her parents were traveling from the east to tire laud of new opportunities. Mrs. M. A.-Vapor, SI years young, was on the program for a recitation. J. M. Tanner, one of the speakers, referred to the annexation of South Omaha. Ho told how South Omaha brought into the greater city its ideals, its ideas and Us idols; also its moral uplift. Reflect on Pioneer*. Judge J. P. Gray spoke in general terms of the pioneers to whom all honor Is due for braving hardships in settling this great middlewest and particularly for founding the village of Omaha, which has grown within the memory of many to the estate of a western metropolis. He believed that it is well for the younger genera tion to pause now and then In their .1. M. Marston. leisure hours to reflect on the achieve ments of the pioneers who laid the cornerstone of this great community. 1 Appear in Costume Minuet. Alvin Metslor, president of the as- 1 sociation, directed the reunion of 1 ioneers. Robert Rerwei's band furn ished music. Howard T.indroth and Dorothy Healy appeared in a costume minuet number. John A. McCreary and Tom Swift sang some of the old songs. Dorothy Anderson and Irene Stewart gave a song and dance. Ar thur and Esther Eageu appeared in a skit. Mrs. Maggie M. Leedtr sang. The pioneers enjoyed community ( singing and closed their frolic with oldtime reels and quadrilles. Administration Is Challenged by Fann Bloc Nebraskan Leader in Fight lor Len root* Anderson Rural Credits Bill in Lower House. By GEORGE F. AlTRIER. Washington ('orreapongent Tbs Omaha Washington, Feb. 22— Special.)— Administration interferenes with the rural credit legislation program In the house resulted in a challenge to the organization leadership today by the farm bloc. Although plin.s for a republican cau cus and a filibuster ha\e been post poned. the farm bloc forces, under the leadership of Representatives Ander son of Nebraska. Dowell and Dickin son of Iowa and others, declared they would fight the administration Y>ro gram on the floor- The banking and currency committee, which is cred ited by the insurgents with respond ing to the suggestion* of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, has decided to report the Capper hill with some minor amendments, and will refuse support for the henroot-Anderson bill. The latter measure is -the one de manded by the farm bloc. Differ on legislation. At the same time, differences of opinion between Secretary Mellon and the federal reserve Imurd on rural credit legislation developed to day. Following the .Mellon letier of a few days ago opposing the enlleu’ features of the Lenroot Anderson bill, the federal reserve board cams out with a strong statement today in favor of a system of intermediate credit for the agricultural Industry. Recognizing that the banking and currency committee will not let the Lenroot Andcr*on bill out of commit tee, the farm bloc insurgents propose to move its substitution for the Cup per bill, which the committee will ap prove and which the farm bloc lend ers say Is makeshift legislation. This will precipitate a vigorous ntruggle on the tlosr. which threatens to 1e feat all attempts to pass rural credit legislation in this session. Representative Rowell, one of tho farm bloc leaders, declared every available influence that can he mus tered will he marshaled ngatnst the anti-rural credit torcos. While not talking a filibuster openly, there me Intimations that ever; thing else will he stopped until the faun bloc in satis fied. Iowa Congressman Horn in Th ree Se/xirate T owns; Son Married Stepmother Washington, Feb. 22. — The con cressdonal directory just issued al leges that Representative Harry 12. Mull, republican, Iowa, was hot n in three different towns and thnt his 12 year old son married his stepmother. Tho Iowa congressman vv» forced to the conclusion that there whh something wrong. Mo Insists that he was horn but-once and that tills event occurred in Williamsburg, la Upon careful Investigation of the biography as printed, he flnde that Ills second and third alleged births nppear in the biography because tho word "lived" was dropped out by the printer before two other towns which the directory credits with having produced him. • 'loser investigation dir,closes that i punctuation,, or luck of It, following the sentence describing his 12 year old Son i« responsible for the unusual rtutement that "one child, Harris, 12 ! years old, married Ann flllzahetli flit , tins. June 21, lflil.” Mr. Hull, the truth Is, married Miss tllttlns him velf, slit being his second wife. Arrests in Bogus Money Plot Extendi New ^ ork Police Link Coun terfeiters With Many Lnsolv ed Murders—Dragnet Reaches Large Cities. New Turk. Feb. Si’.—With the inter national counterfeiting system wreck ed by secret servico agents, who laid the workings bate, and with 000 to *»00 persons Conner ted wltlt the ring In a doren contries mier arrest, fed eral authorities today prepared for a court fight to send the counterfeit ers to Jail for the maxlnim term of ! 45 years. While court evidence was being set in order, the dragnet of the service extended to most of the largest cities of the Foiled State* to catch hun dreds of pa«*ers of counterfeit money. Joseph Palma, chief of the secret ! service sgud which for eight months trackt-i the makers and distributors of spurious money, nve evidence of i the widespread Internitiimnl ramifica tion of the plot by announcing that li persons had boon arrested in England. France. Egypt. Germany. Cuba. A is- : tria and the Bahamas, a-- . result of Information furnished b> Ute Ameri can secret service. Linked With Murd*r*. New York police who began an j independent investigation, prefer-<d to find a Oil ect conn c ion betweer the eount-'rf*it plot and many hith-! erto unsolved gang murders of the past few year*. Sever;. I mure' is .vert, believed to have resulted from i osage of bogus money and double Crossing in the ranks of the counterfeiters. A num- | ber of crimes. It wr... said, had be^n committed in or near the Hroome street cafe owned by John di Rosa arrested Wednesday as one of the gang's latge wholesalei - of counter- 1 felts. Palma agreed that scores of im portant criminals were in the ranks of tlie counterfeiters. Immigrant* Kasy Victims. Immigrants unfamiliar with Arner lean money, he said, were the easiest x let In is. but the gang ..Ian hunted out small stores kept by aged women and stores led at tlin« t In charge of chil dren. .Secret srivice men are checking up on all possible sources of information thrown open to them by Wednesday'* j round up, to ascertain whether the! counterfeiting conspirators turned over the vast quantities of narcotic* they bought to Independent gnngt or' whether they us>-tl Ihelr own nation wide organization for the distribution I of thl drugs. Helrure of large quantities of cour • terfelt Internal revenue stumps, physicians' liquor prescription blanks ; and Quebec liquor stump* tndleaUU, sec ret service men said, that the coun terfeiters. In addition to making vast purchase* of liquor from Interna tional rum runner*, were also in lenguo with Illicit manufacturers in Interstate truffle. Some of the diei used in making 1 spurious money were smuggled hero from Italy fn large cheeses, official* j said. i * » | Oldest Sovereign Die*. London. Feb. 22.- (A’) - King ftiia am, the oldest sovereign In the world and one of Its pioneer prohibition)*** «* woll. In dead at Werowe, H*<-huane land. Ills ctd't age is unknown, but be In believed to have 'been ticmer ion than !'0. Khumu. a* ruler of Hie [tunning vato tribe became a I'hrlstian when a young mini and throughout hi* long life v ** lurgelly Influenced by Ifing llsll missionaries. An n hoy of 12 jeaiN ho met David Livingstone while that great missionary explotw i was making liis llrat tourney in ('Oit‘ I1 to I Africa ■ Ex-Barber Sought as Ns v Ponzi ^ — '. lv A Italian Immigrant in *■ .izied Finance Estimated to Have Cost ^ ictims Million. Hunt Centers on Border Chicago, Feb. 23.—C4*)—An immi grant from Ituly of a dozen years ago who later became a west side barber in Chicago, is being sought along the Mexican border, while bankers and state officials in the east nnfc middlewest trace his career In frenzied finance, a career which has already cost investors from a half million to a million dollars or more. The missing barber-banker is Ju re ph M. Marcino, or Joseph 11. Biata, a dapper man of 37 years, just a little over five feet tall, and remarkably broad. "If you see a man about five feet two. and almost three feet broad, it's Marcino.” a Burns detective, who is directing the search, said today. While detectives are searching for Marcino, who disappeared in Buf falo last Friday after he is alleged to have peddled nearly $200,000 w-ortli of stolen securities, Frank I.. Taylor, ex-railroad fireman, who rose to the position of 50 a week president of the First National hank of Warren. Mass., when Marcino obtained control of to institution, as awaiting arraign ment Friday on a charge of embez zling national bank funds. I-o’.rs More Than Half-Million. Burns agents here figure the known ltsae* from Marcino* operations a' $591,000 and say that they expect much -more to appear before the in vestigation is complete. Through manipulation of the funds of the Niagara Life Insurance com pany of Buffalo, they say investors have lost $248,000. The closing of the Warren t.Mass.) hank last w eek revealed a shortage of 1213.000. Taylor claims Marcino < leaned out the bank's vault and later peddled the securities in and around Buffalo. The failure of the Mechanics and Merchants hank in Philadelphia on February 12, added another $130,000 to the total. Concrete man Among Victims. A New York congressman is said to have lost a sum estimated at from $150,000 to $200,000 through his faith in Marcino s scheme*. The detectives are also investig • ing the connection between a bank at Wayawuga, Wi« . and the Buffalo In surance company. Securities fornp r !y own'd by the yiscennin hank. In which Marcino Is said to have olt talned a controlling Interest about six months ago, hate turned up hi banks in and around Buffalo, where they are raid to have been pledged by the In surance company as security on loans. Marcino's caieer as a financier, ac cording to Burn-’’ men who have been follow ing him for several years, stall ed about 1917 or 1913, when he fath ered u scheme for starting a new bank at Ottawa. 111., nrfd buying out the existing bank. As a result of that scheme he was indicted by the grand jury for operation of a corfiden -c game, but disappeared. lb.let I p in California. He w„s next heard from in Cali fornia, where the Bank of Pan*. Cal., tTurn Is I’at- Twe. (nlnmn sill French Soldiers Fire Into Crowd One German Killrtl ami T>\o V minded in Clash at Bochum. • .. Bochum. Feb. rj.—<Jf)—Two 1 icnch soldiers this afternoon fired point blank into a crowd of Germans in front of the law courts killing one inun and sever!}- rounding two ethers. The trouble occurred while French troop*, with tank?, were engaged In occupying the law courts building and tne neighboring prison on suspicion that certain Frenchmen had been in egrewntrd as spicy During this op eration one German official "as *r rested and placed ur.dei a guard of liv* French goldier-. Some of the bystanders hooted the soldiers, two of whom fired into the Crowd. The scene was witnessed by Heveral foreign newspaper men. The crowd bod made no attempt to molest the HObllet». The populace was greatly angered and on* body of the tv tulip nple. tlnd mg a French civilian lnt< rpreter alone in the street, mobbed and manhadled hltn. The French mAh v n« removed, battered and bbcdiiv . to the police *‘atlon. John D. Hochcfellrr Holes I I• Foot Bill! (it Bruch ' Onnoiul B*a<*li. FI*.. F^l -‘-.— John |5. Hoc kr feller. m i* im' k on th* golf link* after n «onftnement ,Vo weeks vtth « Might much of bronchitl* troublr. 11“ plny*«l In regular right ttftlr* r«f Rnlf >**l»rilnj lift lookcnl very w*ll nn»J wa- in an raper^illy Htnlnl inooil. allowing a moving plr tnr* operator tn hike neveml hundred f**t of film a.-* h* pin*. (Hi In a rloa* up on the putt inn green hr dropped a ball a bon I M fori from th* flip and holed it in onr nlint. -- ..... — ^ % \. J. ^ iijrrs Dire in L. l.OS .Vngeb , fill . Feb A. ,t. Water*, president of the Cltlaetis' Na tional 1 ink nml of the t'Uixens Trust lind Wiving- l-nnk. and noted figure In the commercial nnd industrial life of l.og Angelos, db>d today after a period of illness In whirl) hii opera lion proved of no avail, ilu v-as 61 The Genie and the Oil Can Debt Refunding Plans Approved bylLS. Congress Agreement ^ itli Great Britain Only Awaits Signature of Harding to Make Pact Effective. Washington, Keb. 2..—The llrPish debt funding arrangement tonight was one etep nearer completion, con gressional approval of the act ratify ing the recently negotiated settlement with Great Britain having hecn com pleted today. Only th< signature of President llardlng is required to per mit the treasury to exchange formal settlement agreements. Congressional action 'vas completed when the bouse accepted senate changes in the Brit ish settlement bill without n odin* u tlon. As a icsult of the consi essionnl np proval and with the ignatur* of the president assumed to be certain, treas ury officials brgiin the drafting of the indentures which are to be exchanged 1'etween the I'nlted States and Great Britain and which wjj pm mto oper ation lhe program for refunding over 62 years the British wartime debt of (4,600,060,000. The indenture will mbody the kterms accepted by the British govern ment and prescribe the methods of payment, all of which were tentatively worked on* between the two debt funding commissions in their re* ■ nt negotiation British Intcrnil bond.-* covering the amount of the debt will le deposited with the t'n.tej state.* treasury. Under Secretary Gilbert of the treasury w as unable to state the date on which the agreement will go Into operation. A aeries of conferem r- m being held tietweeu officials of 11.*■ treaaury and A. flowc-Dutton. the British treasury represent.I'lve. who remained here after his commission's work was concluded, and three conftr ences will determine the final form <>f the agreement which will put into legal form the terms agreed to In the negotUitlons. The British govern ment probably will he repi rented b> sir Auckland Gcddes. its ambassador here. In formally signing the d« ;u ment which puts the funding plan Into operation. Three Mishin?. Dozen Hurt - in Powder Plant Explosion Alton. Ill , Feb. UP)—1Three men have not been accounted for and about a dozen were injured in the t plosion this afternoon at the riant of the Illinois Powder Miu,ufaitu.tr; company, near Grafton. It 'tUea front here, according to J. IV Woods. cm ductor of a Chicago Peoria ft St. Louis passenger train, which arrived here lute today. The train, which run t from Graf: in to Alton, was held up at Graft on rnoro than an hour. In said > evploslons were feared. Non* f tho Injured are said to he serious Thou reported missing: George Hnffnagtr. Noah Johnaon and Sldpej Lie! nil employes of the rompanv toll! son went to work at the powder t'ant Wednesday. It was said Smokers of l lull Decide to Form “Freemen’s League’' Salt Lake City, Kris II - Decision to form the "Freemen's League of Utah" to work for repeal of the .stale antlrigaret legislation and all other so called freak laws was the out opt* of n meeting of prominent Halt L uo. city residents today. The meeting was called to discuss recent at cats for violation of thst section of ih* i igui'ct law which prohibits mnoUng in public places, Day's Activities in Washington In' observance of Washington s birthday, government activiiies. ex cept congress, f < re suspended. Congi essiona? approval cf the Er. ;sh debt funding arrangement " as completed, the house, without a rec ord rote, accepting central changes :n the agreement proposal. Without recommendation a ««iate subcommittee repel ted the contested nomination of Janies G. McNarr. New Mexico banker, to be comptroller of the currency. Carrying USJ S04 *4J. of which tit. tlj.oOO would l>e available for’refund -ng Intel nal revenue taxes illegally collected, the third deficiency appro priation bill was reported to the house. Secretary Hoover. it became known, told a house app: op: iatioin subcommittee he favored development of Muscle Sh>.i!s but was opposed to government operation of the project. The (hipping bill entered its fourth day with no signs -f pu-seage as tin result of a filibuster against the bill and republicans onshiered the advisa bility of breaking the deadlock by recommitting the measure, enough votes for such a step, it was ?i.d. haring been pledged Challenging the r.ghi of Mario E. Mayfield to lake h:s seat in the next congress as a senator from Texas George M E. Pedkty. » no. >< i opp.. neni of Mayfield in the \ election, accused him of la ,i,. - j Kltix Klan candidate, filed pa| • . a with the senate conta ’..ng sweeping tbarges against the klan and . s off. ieis. ^ idob of (.PH. John A. Lt.?an Die* of ’Flu' at Vi a-hington Washington. Feb .—Mrs John A Logan, widow of the general who at one time during th® < n il war com manded the union army of she Ten nes.ee, end biter was a I'nitod States senator from Illinois, died here today of influenza after ,v 19 days illness ishe was M seals old. Mis. Logan was married m lS.'-S. her husband coming to Washington two yems latrr as a member of the house of representative*. During the civil war she frequently visited him at the battle front and was active in relief work among the wounded. Since her husband * death ra 1S56. Mrs. Logan had wiiMtn extensively on civil w.ir happenings and other historical matters she was a world wide traveler and collected a valuable group of w«r souvenir* aiyl trophies as n memorial to h r son Ma.;. John A Logan, who was killed in hattlo in the Philippines in 1*99. Against the advice of her physician Mis Lo gan attended a Lincoln bliThvbiy me morial service on February 1? and exposure at that time is believed to have icsultc.1 in her death ^ ife nf Secretary Davis l iiflcrgucs Minor Operation ritt*humh. 1VK notary if l.abor Jmrto* ,T, was »aUc<l lino. frowx M Hfchpigtnti to *'%r Mr*, rhuiii, who unhnwrnt .4 minor opera* lion iu .» hoApltiil. Mr*, IVayJ** comli tJou v HH naiil to Ur touch inxprox <M. Shr w ill Ur in thr hn»pitH) for .» wool; or ifl Uiorr. howrvfr, F.vel'ii Nesliit ( a-v' Dropped. Atlantic i'll V. ,t Feb, Tie vi«e against llvelyc. Xeablt. charged w ith disorderly conduct In a lev al cafe last Sundae morning, was ills missed today. Miss N'eahit claimed that *hc had been insulted by a l’itts. burgh man and that she merely iw 'voted hi* remarks. The charge* ntv. 11 referred by ,«o ki) detective*, Al Foes Confident of Pow er to Kill Shipping Bill End Likely to Come Sunday on Motion to Recommit or Displace Measure illt Other Legislation. Washington, J*eb. —Buffeted l; another day of fllibukier in the senate the administration ahipp.rg bill to night appeared headed toward its doom- The end seemed likely not to come before Sunday on a motion to recommit the l»gislatlon or to displace it with another bill. The filibuster, which began Monday night, continued unabated through the day and into the n,ght. During it» progress there were a rui..l<er of private confertrees l>etweeii repub lic. n tn i.ator* and late; between re publican and .democratic leader-, in which negotiation* were conducted fer definite action by Saturday night. *e that the final week of the aeasior might be left open to the considciu tion of oihe; pressing legislation Op|M>neni- Confident Opponents of th» sh;p bill, after canvassing the strength of them force.-, openly said for the Ais; time that they had enough votes to get the measure out of the way unless It? supporter* could obtain some action u; t. i: within the next two da;*. The prospect of :ts supporter* being able to do this grew darker with eacli hour th.it th" flow of talk continue*!. Several senator* who have been mildly favoring tba bill privately ad muted during the day that they would not continue th»ir support of the measure much further, if it continued to block other leg.-latior One sena tor. Willi*, republican. Ohio, stated on the flo ; that he desired to ueveVvp ;f the '.dll wa- to l*e k.lled by iifib-. . ii g. for if so he said, there were many other bills, including son.e he w-as interested in. which woulJ 1-e taken up. Plan In Kill Hill Senator MeKellar. democrat. Ten nessee, later plainly told the senate th.u ;• was the intention of those op |si-e,] -g the legislation to kill it by any legitimate means and that h« considered Alfbuatering legitimate The oplnivvn of senators as to the means of bringing the filibuster to an erd differed soflfe opposing r<-. , mlttal and favoring displacement f-v another bill Either method, tt whs generallv conceded mean! the deuCi < f the measure dfaeial agreement seemed to prevail, however, that noth ing should be attempted^until the b;.l was g.v on at least anothri ihi.v of lit President Hai-ding had rot been ap praised of the proposed move late the.day. -o far us could be ascertained, but If was thought likely that a num ber of republican senators would be ' -died to the White House for ce-fc Clice Ki .dA.V . Jurors \rrfptf(l. 111. .Pa r oi.d panel df four jurors in the Herrin mine riot* trial was accepted d--fi. nlielv Ivy b-v'h the state n-d ..»fr-.-e late yesterday afternoon. Might of 12 finer* now- hav» teen choaeti. The Weather '-—---1 ►\>t fra«f fair anil yvar.rifr Hourly IVntprralim* » <% n» ft ?| ; n HI • ' # m. «H n 9 n : « 4 m ; i ,4 : Been ... |k 1 \ P m •** ♦’ P .H' ?* 3 p *» 4pm ip p »' :p • 1* n« Gun Battle Suspects Arrested Railroad Detective, Entrench ed Under Freight Car. Shoots It Out With Al leged Robbers. Marty Maher Is Killed Polio® are (basing down every ciat in an effoit to locate th® members of the bandit gang who engaged Samuel C. Curtis, railroad detective, in a gj.t ■attic early Thursday. Seven men md on® woman lia,-e been arrested .ind other arrests arc expected. Cu: tis declared that before he opened fir® on th® bandits, he had counted f,*e men on the ground and one at the door of a freight car. and that aft*: the shooting began he hoard scteial more running away over the -ops of the cars that were in the yards. One man. identified as Marty Ma her 2478 Capitol avenue, was killed, in the exchange of shot«. His bed, was not found for some time after i:» had been seen to fall, aa be attemp. ed to climb down the side of a freight car, and showed evidence of having h:-en dragged for some distance fron tlie spot where he fell. The man ws* shot through th® leg a few ir.che< above the knee and died from loss of blood. Blood on tars. Pool* and splotches of blood on to* of freight cars and on the ground near the place where the bal'le too; place are accepted by police as eor. 'lusjve proof that other members o: the gang wore wounded by Curt.*,. No trace of there ir.en has be»r. tout 1 A check of all the hospitals in th< city has ten made. A search of ti ■ Great 'Western railroad" yards fa:'. to teveal any hiding place whet' these wounded men‘may have tuh»* lefuge and it is thought certain the' they were taken nr ay by their coir panions. The men under meet are: Lao rence Kenney. IS"-’ Leavenworth street: Paul Romano, Tenth ar-J Grace streets- William Maher. 1roths cr of the dead man: A F. Pierrot', MS South Sixteenth « .-»«*.: Wile*’ Compton, ITsJ Charles street Clan-1 Tetsworth. jlS South Sixteenth street, and Fran!: O Xeil. lt(*t 1 Cars street. The- woman gave t. name of Anna Clauaeen ar.d her ad, Jrces as Nickrrcoti, Neb She was re l-euned on tend* la*.*1 yesterday, r.'h.l William Malier was relt . aod .i ehert time after h:a arr'st so that could attend to his aged mother, " bo bos •een a. cost p sliuud by the 0*-* : of bet ec-n. Arrested in Car. O'Neil p M T*:-"-or.il w t;e a , tsro hvur* nfter the battle, when they drove the oa alleged to have been used by the bar-dit* into a gar age near Thirtieth r. 4 Leaver,worth street- The :r chir.e is the property of R:i! Maher .and w s identified, by Patrolmt :i Car! Re'.', a* the machine that drove aw,,- from t'.e railroad - i . - - - - shootirg. The petrolnva-. v a* walking hi* beat near Sixteer.i ■ sr.J !/i ei.wor.h, • he- he Fear , , : cr of ..hot* Cr 1 iri the Wiili i 1 yard:. is . v: th-' there had Ik-*., sec era! retbeiies of - the yard* i t *wo week*, be rush'd in the dlrec.N.t of the rhooting. r . ly g:>»-- i.t th*’. * a: work. A* 11 elver dash'd down th? ,r -line, t^iat >tud* from L*a' er",ort! street to the yard*, a Kg *<daii f’ashed by him. lie- stopped long * noyau to jot down the license number that the csr carried and then hurried on through the yards. KntI'eiielied l nd*r Car. Kmi th j ' .. est freight houre. he found Cui.! ou tre itched under a fre ght t *r and 1 ce llared lo withg.r.ud of loi g dura tion. Re'i>er • ii'ed to the man and asked v hat had hap- «kcU. Cur j- tc.’d him that he bed had a little .at la with *i me thieves and that he be lieve.! some of the n er. were "ly ing about.” The two met began to sear-'- ...» yards ar.d ;n s short use found • > l .t; of Mar.;' Maher lying face tf» about IvO cards i. ■ . i the car that e hid been attempting to open when surprised, t-veat splotches of 1 r! :homed on one end of the ’’.eight er, arid a pool of blood had formed tit rr the dead man. v furthe. se* ■ ■ the •!*. e« veiled a rc velvet that hud bee:. . ■■« r.ed by one of the bandit*. Till* a ,»f was covered with blood and had ail the cartridges in tl e cylinder fired. On top of a freight ir sear this pi i*e. Rebec found :>r ’her rr be- * weapon had two - *ed e h r 1 !* r • Chamber and four ernpt.ee; there '..a was no sign of Mood about it Pgspite the fact that the two crfl* . e s con’ "... .l to - ireh t’e • .« , no further tv.d e of the • rr' a could be found t ui I is Teil* Mdti \' ■ >.e j• .at i'u;" -to., e story Cjpt.-i V\ •; am Run,*’.! l;« s lid that be h id 1- la.'.'V fc I % gu p eii'. s.r.ce they entered r • f e.gat u.i p .1 * a ;a gc t • t ’' of I e i hat - -- g. w er k - up, ! krew •:.»■ tbe\ would .otre ba*k —'" i ‘ te *. 1 ;rt w a ’er. f.. • seed than i two ' *i. a - la*' right 1 icek sc v.a ilara In Tag* twe (Alt..a a Twph Mining Hanker \rrr»t<si M air V. - 1'eh - V. .. , I 'c 1. ay'e: • resdei t of .a ; ;Th . \.H C’■ .* ) h \ of WiJ itr v*i« ’■ f h C' vp.t leal a other* It e* tt'l'y ed ■ e.r a’tent.c.. .,i a *• n ' fer Joseph B. 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