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• VOL. 62—NO. 218. a”?"". ^ 3'.9V.! OMAHA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1922.* 5L„"V& W‘KC .^“u_TWO CENTS
Officials
Draft New
Ship Policy
Administration Planning to
Deal With Merchant Ma
rine Problem Without Aid
of Legislation.
Bill Continues to Linger
Washington, Feb. 26.—(/P)—The ad
ministration shipping bill was kept
alive in the senate today by further
debate, but executive officials, recog
nizing 'the end to he near, began for
mulation of plans for dealing with the
government war-impelled merchant
marine venture without the aid of the
1 legislation. ✓
V Chairman Basket- of the shipping
■ board conferred with President Hard
I ing, then met with the ether members
i-V’f the board and afterward an
inflouneed that the policy of the ad
l^iinistration would bo worked out and
made public before the end of the
week. He declined to give any indi
cation of the plans under considera
tion beyond saying that they were of
a "startlingly novel” nature.
No Hint of Plans.
Hopeful until last week that the
shipping bill would be enacted, ad
ministration officials have given no
indication of what alternative they
have In mind. President Harding, in
malting his final appeal for passage
of the legislation in his across to
congress, February 7, on the British
debt settlement, said thnt if the let^s
latlve branch refused to approve the
shipping bill or submit an alternative,
“the executive branch of the gov
ernment may proceed as best it can
to end the losses in liquidation and
humiliation.”
Inasmuch ns the president has de
clared one of the prime purposes of
the bill to be to get the government
out of the shipping business, It was
germ rally believed that the adminis
trations policy contemplated quick
and thorough liquidation.
Urge Action Under Marine Act.
Mr. Lasker and Chairman Jones of
Hie senate committee have urged the
president to carry out section 34 of
i lie* merchant marine act directing
abrogation of some 20 commercial
ireatleH with leading forelgu nations
prohibiting use by the United States
<>f discriminatory duties against
products brought to the United States
in foreign bottoms. Because of the
international aspects of the matter,
Mr. Harding, like President Wilson,
lias up to the present time refused
ro carry out the direction.
This action was advocated In the
enate during the debate, whi'h
served to defer action on the pend
ing Robinson motion to recommit
i he shipping bill.
Senator Ronsdell, democrat. Jxiuisi
ana. In declaring he regretted the
prospective death of the measure, said
abrogation of the commercial treaties
would aid in building up of a mer
chant marine, but expressed doubt
whether such abrogation could ever
be brought about.
Deplores Filibuster*
Senator Pomerene, democrat. Ohio,
deplored the filibuster against the
ship measure.
He said his plan would involve
abrogation of the treaties. Senator
"Walsh, democrat, Massachusetts,
sought an agreement for a vote on
the substitute bill by Senator McKel
lar, democrat. Tennessee, which j.-o
vides for indirect aids to American
ship operators and for abrogation of
the commercial treaties by direct
nation of congress, but Senator Cur
Us of Kansas, the republican whip,
objected, saying an opportunity had
been given for a vote, blit opponents
of tlie legislation hud prevented it by
their filibuster.
Further debate is in prospect Tues
day before a vote on the Robinson no
tion, and some sentiment developed
toward holding the ship bill technical
ly before the senate until adjourn
ment next Sunday ns a buffer against
other legislation.
Lasker and Harding Meet
on Liquidation Policy
Washington, Keh. 28. — Chairman
Lasker of the shipping board today
Hllscussed with President Harding the
•faidatlon policy which the admln
istratlon has determined to adopt un
der the merchant marine law as an
incident to failure of the shipping hill.
A definite plan, Mr. I.aekcr said,
■would probably be passed upon by the
full hoard this week and given ap
proval by the president. He empha
sised the necessity for speedy adoption
of a comprehensive policy now that
It is known that the shipping hill is
not to go through.
Noted Author and Father
of Musical Comedy Star Dies
New York, Feb. 28.—Eugene Wood,
CU, author and father of Peggy Wood,
n:uslcai comedy star, died yesterday
after a lingering illness.
For 15 years Mr. Wood was con
pected with newspapers in Chicago
and New York and had contributed to
leading magazines. He yyas the an
thor of throe books of short stories,
' Back Home,” "Folks Back Home”
and “In Our Town.” lie also wrote
"The Books of Bugs” and “The Laugh
cud Ilow It Is Made.”
iWhy Germany Doetui't Fight.
Berlin, Feb. 2G.—UP)—Discussing
ihe prospeets of n format declaration
of war by France. Vorwacrts say.t
this would merely be an attempt io
force Germany out of a position In
■which It has demonstrated Its resist
ing qualities Into one which would re
«dlt in awlft and inevitable defeat.
j00i>r this reason, explains the party
• sin, the German socialists will sc
Uviiy oppose any attempt to en
Cc'itsge Germany to take up armed
n-"dance, aside from the fact that
•d'h an undertaking would he wholi,
•“'sale the realm of physical pdsslbil
tty
i
French Civilians to
Run Ruhr Railways
Dusseldoi f, Felt. 26. — (A>) — The
French today are tn possession of the
strips of % territory between the
I Cologne and Coblenz and the Coblenz
, and Mayence bridgeheads, thereby
securing railway lines that have here
i tofore been in unoccupied territory.
The operation was planned to strength
en the Rhineland customs control.
Between 12,000 and 15,000 civilian
i workers from P'rance and Belgium are
awaiting the order to put them at
work on the railway lines throughout
the Ruhr and Rhineland. Rians for
1 operating the roads, it is expected,
will be completed thi# week.
The disciplining of the city of
Boeluim for its attitude toward the
i occupation has been featured by
wholesale arrests and the virtual
declaration of a slate of siege. The
| French proved their strength by
* bringing tanks and machine guns to
j the -dieart of the town. Most of
those arrested were released.
Boy Trapped bv
Flames in House
Burned to Death
Sisler, Rescuer! After Suffer
ing Severe Burns, in Dan
gerous Condition from
Pneumonia Attack.
Two children, brother and sister,
locked in a flaming house atop a hill
overlooking Ak-Sar-Ken field to the
west, fought for their lives at 10 Sun
day night while 13 persons who flock
ed to the scene for a vagrant thrill
(looked on in ignorance of their plight.
••Francis Hildebrand. 4. was burned
; to death and his sister, Cecil, 6, yea
I terday w as in Paxton Memorial hon
! pital badly burned and in a danger
ous condition as a result of having
1 developed pneumonia. She was con
valescing after an attack of grip and
; when she was carried/ in her night
gow n from t ho threatening flames. I
faced exposure almost as dangerous
i to her.
Parents Grief-Stricken.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hildebrand. In
whose home at the rear of 5S10 "Wal
nut street their children were trapped,
are grief-stricken.
They had been spending the day
with Mr. and Mrs. A. T,. Dorman, 5810
"Walnut, parents of Mrs. Hildebrand.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Greener, 2903
(Pratt street, also relatives, were other
guests. There was a dinner, and then
: they sat around and visited. Francis
and Cecil grew sleepy about 9 nnd
were taken borne by the mother, who
tucked them in their bed. closed the
house mid returned to the Dorman
home about 75 feet, distant.
Greener retold the story of the fire
.yesterday morning.
"The phonograph was playing,” he
said, "when Mrs. Dorman suddenly
noticed that a flickering light w as shin
ing through the windows. We rushed
outside and fotfnd the Hildebrand's
little three-room house a mass of
flames. Fifteen persons stood around
looking on.
Mother Itestrained.
"( rying for the safety of tier babies,
Mrs. Hildebrand rushed frantically
toward the house. We pushed her
aside and all of us made a rush for
the door. We couldn't open the door
at first, so vc put our bodies.against
it and burst it loose. Cecil lav on the
floor about three feet inside, the
flames licking al her. Francis was oul
of reach. We tried, but entering would
hate been suicidal.
“Mrs. Hildebrand would have leap
ed in and at moments it required
all of ns to hold her out.”
The mother Is permanently crip
(Turn to Pur" Two, f o|until Thffr.)
I
T wo Killed When Dixie
Flyer Goes Into Ditch
• Calhoun. (la.. Feb. 26.—T. H. Groov
er of St. Louis ami TJ. IT. Douk were
killed and several Injured today when
the second section of the Dixie flyer,
northbound on the Nashville, Chatta
nooga & St. Louis railroad, jumped
the track one* and one-half miles north 1
of here.
Birmingham. Ala.. Feb. -’6.—Three
i trainmen were killed and another
trainman was seriously injured tics
‘afternoon in the wreck of a freight
train on the Frisco railroad at Pratt
<‘ity. a suburb, according to reports
which have readied here.
Authorities Hot on Trail
of Former Barber-Banker
Buffalo. J'Vli. 2ft.—Federal authori
ties. It was elated last night, hope
to have Joseph It. Marclno in custody
within n week. .The alleged wrecker
of the Niagara Life Insurance coin
1 pany, and Warren and Philadelphia
j hunks, interested persons said, has
1 not left this country and the trail Is
i getting warm.
When Marclno cashed < hecks te
cclved from O'Brian, Potter & t'o.,
amounting to about $200,000 for se
curities alleged to have belonged to
the Warren hank, the money, at his
request, was given to him In national
hank notes of denominations of $10,
000 each. The serial numbers of these
notes have been sent to banks In this
and other countries. It was reported
that one of the hills had been put In
circulation but neither federal officers
nor the Burns agency would confirm
| Hie rumor. V,
Leader in Anti*Slavery
Movement Dies at A get of 87
Providence. It. I , Feb. 2ft.- Mrs.
Lmellne Bin llngiime Cheney, S7, wid
ow of Prof. Luther P. Burlingame of
this city, and of 1>> O. II. Cheney,
late president of Bales college and
on* of the foremost prohibition work
ers In the United Stales, died here
•/< aterday.
In her early days Mrs. Burlingame
t'hsney nas closely Identified with
jth* anti-slavery movtucui
18th Amin
Onia^v>M •■•"’ IS
Show Opens
Exhibits More Complete Than
•Ever Before—Decorations
in Auditorium Un
usually Beautiful.
Cars to Fit Every Purse
Gasoline chariots of all designs,
combining the best features that me
chanical and artistic brains of the
country have been able to achieve,
glistened in the most gorgeous sur
roundings of any Omaha automobile
salon alien the doors of the Audi
torium opened at 2 yesterday after
noon for the 18th annual automobile
show.
There are 130 passenger cars ail!
30 trucks on exhibit. The number ‘if
exhibitors is somewhat less than last
year, because, as explained by A. it.
Waugh, manager of the show, there
are fewer kinds of car* being mad:.
But the exhibits of the 35 makes
represented are more complete than
ever before. Moreover, the number
of cars on the great Auditorium floor
is as large as ever before.
Former FITorls Oniitdonr.
For 17 years the automobile show
in Omaha has been marked by an in
creasing beauty, not only of cars, but
of decorations. This year W. O.
Colling of the Burgess-N'ash company,
who has been in charge of the deco
rating. has outdone any previous ef
fort.
The r;olor scheme is of burnt orange,
green, black and white, witli a tinted
interior The ceiling is lighted with
large disks of yellow surrounded by
white lights. Surrounding -the en
closure are curtains hanging from the
ceilings, which'carry out the general
color scheme in stripes.
Methods of marking the exhibits by
lighted sign poets add to the general
harmony of the salon.
Two orchestras will play each aft
ernoon and evening. ,
No Foreign Slakes. /
There are no motors of foreig 1
make in the exhibit. Probably the
most expensive car is the Cadillac
limousine with a specially built body,
which is priced at $7,500. There are
automobiles for every purse. Com
menting on the exhibit, Manager
Waugh declares:
•'The automobile buying public is
being oiTered the greatest value, dol
lar for dollar, in the history of the
automobile industry. Many of the
ears are down to pre-war prices, and
with their new refinements they real
ly are cheaper tiian the pec-war rae.
' •'Hie standard popular makes will
be oversold within SO days, and after
that time prompt deliveries will be
hard to obtain. This, despite the
fact that there will be more cars
made this year than ever before. This
is borne out by reports of the Na
tional Automobile association.”
Cronkhite Files
Tampered With
Investigators F'intl Records of
War Department on Mur
der Missing.
Washington. Feb. * 26.—Investiga
tors appointed by Secretary Weeks to
report on charges made by Maj. C»en.
Adelhcrt t ronkhitf, retired, that files
of the War department had been
tampered with and records connected
with the death of his son. Maj. Alex
ander Cronkhite, at C amp Lewis in
IMS. were incomplete, it was learned
today, have found certain papers once
in the possession of the department
to he missing.
Secretary Weeks said the investi
gation had not been completed and
it was not known whether tile inves
tigators would he successful in their
search for the missing documents.
Rosevale Woman Is
Killed in Runaway
Bur well. Neb., Feb. 26—(Special.)—
Mrs. Theodore Nelson luet a tragic
death Sunday when with her husband
and four small sons she was riding
from their home at Rosevale to Bur
well wlure they were to spend the
day with Mrs. Nelson's mother. Mrs.
M, M Alderman. A team became urj»
mauagahle and ran away, throwing
the occupants out and Instantly kill
lug Mrs. Nelson. Friends were r ailed
to Ord where the remains were taken.
\irpluue Bootlegger
Ksrapes; Pals Caught
Spokane, Feb t’S --A huge airplane
soared ovet the municipal landing
field yesterday. On the ground with
two occupants, stood a big touring
cor. The plane, after making a num
ber of circles, gently glided to earth.
Behind a barn nearby four police
and government officials Watched. A«
the plane came to a stop the pilot
unloaded a number of bundles which
the men In the automobile began to
transfer to the car.
The officers made a rush, hut the
air pilot was too quick. Starting his
engine he soared nwtty to the north,
whence he came. In the gunnysacks
th» officers found several cases of
liquor. The two occupants of the au
tomobile. Frank Kople and It. If.
Werner, were attested. The ear wns
confiscated.
HighwH) to Be Improve*!
l-'alrhury. F* b jti ISperisI A
highway to lie known ns the l-'air
bury Pawnee City it line will be
loBgcd and worked at once. ’I he
highway connects Pawnee City and
Fall bury, passing through flurrbard
and Blue Springs The rood Is 60
miles long
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Charge by Jacoby
to Be Investigated
Lincoln. Fob. f’6.—(Special.)—When
Representative Jacoby arose today
and said that his name had been
signed to a bill appropriating $8,000 to
the Lincoln school board without his
knowledge the house refused to take
any action until an Investigation hud
been made.
The appropriation is for blind chil
dren taught in Lincoln schools, it
was charged that for the last bien
nium the school board asked $1,800
for doing this work, while for the
coming biennium it requested $8,000.
Budget Bills
to Be Reported
to House Today
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Vi tiys and Means Committee
Refuses to Be Bound by
Recommendations of Me
Keltic or Bryan.
Lincoln, Feb. -G.—(Special.)—Repub
licans, who form a majority on the
house ways anti means committee,
refused today to follow party lines
urged by partisan republicans or by
partisan democrats and voted over the
solid democratic minority to report
out appropriation bills tomorrow
based upon the recommendation*
neither of former Governor McKelvie
nor of Governor Bryan.
Action of some description by the
oonTmittee tomorrof is Imperative, as
it Is the 40th day and under rules ap
propriation bills must be sent to tlte
house not later than that da-..
llegreat was expressed that Gov
ornor Bryan had delayed in sending
his bills for an executive council to
the leg.slature because with the bills
in early they, together with ••ode
modification bills, introduced a I y
in the session, could have been out
of the judiciary committee and the
house and senate could have de
termined which form of government
they desired to sanction.
Despite the fact that the Bryan
budget made appropriations for dc
partnients that, as yet, have not been
created by law. the four democrats
In the committee insisted Unit the
Bryan ‘budget Is- reported out. The
same pressure had been brought upon
republican members of the commit
tee to s^nd tile M<-Kelvie_budget out.
Mend Out Own mil.
‘"£he fair thing to do is to send out
•an appropriation bill of our own, fie.
of tho budgetary commendations of
either Bryan or McKelvie and leare
that pan of it pertaining to changes
in departments open for amendment
after It is decided which form of gov
ernment we shall have," said Ttepre
wnum ; 'ti-ai: Mee 's. coalman of
the corniioUev.
Them was considerable heat at the
meeting and IXepresentatlve Began,
democrat, did practically all the talk
ing. He re|>ented the charge, that
Moors and Hen. Charles Saunders hail
attempted to steal the Bryan bills.
Here Means branded the statement
as false, and pointing to a democratic
new spaper man declared he had lied
when he said an attempt had been
made to steal the hills. Then there was
talk of a list fight for a few minutes
which-later ended in good-natured
bianterlng.
"It's silly to think that anyone
could steal those hills la-fore a Joint
session of the house and senate,"
Mears said. "It was merely a question
of procedure. Clyde Barnard, secre
tary of the senate, has held that posi
tion for years and anyone knows he
wouldn't or couldn't Meal any bills."
Brintilig Bills Difficult.
Lincoln printers who will charge
the state $’,0011 for printing the
Bryan executive council lulls, num
bering 44. declare they never had as
hard work in their lives In leading
copy.
The governor has taken sections
of the statutes Isidily ami* written in
changes with pen and ink. some
times. and at other times he has
parted on typewritten insertions
'Che house has been generous in
permitting corrections which tho
printers have fulled to their atten
tion although under rules such cor
rections should not ho made.
One of the most, recent errors di<
covered has to do with a statute
pertaining to public works. The gov
ernor scratched out part of tho
statute ami then wrote In a section
placing tho maternity work of the
state under the department presided
ovn by George K. Johnson, state
engineer.
National Anti-Klan
Move Under W av
Chi* ago. K<b -Mi - An "all-nations’
rally-' against the Kn Kiwi Klan, with
a program of mix nightly mass meet
ing* nt the Coliseum, will be started
tonight under auspices of the
American I'nltv league. Governor
John Parker of Louisana. who insti
tuted tli* Met Kongo inquiry . and fm
mer Senator Leroy Percy of Ml **1.4
sippi, will he the speakers at Monday
night'* session.
The series of meetings was dr
scribed by P. I! OT>onnel|, one of
the sponsors as "a uniting of rac*.«
against the Kn Klux Klan ’
Lac h night there will be *«»me a
(tonally known persnn to tell the pub
lic of the danger* «>f till* anti Ntivn
can movement," he said. ' Plans will
l»e made for a p* rmanent fight and ta
li national anti klan convention, which
it is hoped will he called to meet n
Chicago, probably in May The meet
ings will be nonpartisan in every way.
They will be simply f « \merles'
gatherings,"
“Forly-Nincr” Dii-> on Uoawl.
Oakland. Cal . Feb '.Mi C.ipt Lewis
Larnlmrton. among the first gold seek
ers to come to California In H19 *
dead today In Ids home hci»» at the
age of 99. lie mine ft*« tn Mm nt*hii
s«tts and prospec ted In the t arty days
In Li lap min and Yaba counties aban
doning mining in the early 50's to en
gage in the steamship huune* Later
hr was s merchant lie \m survived
b> a sou and daughter
_No Milk—No Hay_
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Supreme Court
Asked to Pass on
Future Trading
Tribunal to Decide Whether
Congress Exceeded Author
ity in Law to Control
Crain Exchange?.
Washington. Keh. C4»)—The eu
premo court, for the second time. was
asked to determine whether congress,
in its effort to regulate future trading
in grain and to provide for governmen
tal supervision under which farmers
co-operative associations would be ad
mitted to membership on grain ex
change®, had exceeded its constitu
tional authority.
In the former case when congress
attempted control through Its taxing
power, tile court held tho art invalid.
The government contended today that. -
having before It the decision and the
court’s decision in the packers and
stockyards case, congress had exer
cised discretion which the court had
held It i>o«sessed. The packers snd
stockyards act. Die government in
slated, is in all essential features a
parallel for the present grain futures
•law.
Congress having de ared that fu
ture trading in grain hfcd a distinct
relation to interstate commerce, it
was not for the court. Solicitor Den
era! Beck declared. t« inquire w hether
congress was influenced by an rgrl
cultural Ido*', but it should accept Its
decision with irape* t to Die interstate
eommen e character of the trans
actions.
Henry H Robbins. - ounsel for th»
Chicago 1 i' ai'd of Trade, challenged
the government's contentions. He dis
cussed the case with special reference
to the packers nod stockyards act,
and pointed out that interstate con
trol in the packers case was based
largely uik*ii tho tangible dealing In
an actual article of commerce. The
packers case 1n no w ise referred to ;
future trading. Mr. Robbins insisted,
adding that it dealt with a flow of
physical property, while the grain fu
tures net proposed to regulate all fu
ture trndes in cereals when the gov
ernment admitted that only n part of
such triples eventually would take Die
form of actual property.
Solicitor (tenoral Beck, during his ,
argument, asserted that tlie?packers
ami stockyards act was so similar to
Die grain futures law thift "a distinc
tion could not be made between th*
two,” so far as their validity was con-'
reined.
DoC \rre*tcil With Owner
on Drunkenness Chare*'
Sioux «*ltj. K< l|. "fl.—Said nf mien
mill M* tail ilmiiping dejectedly, a
dainty whits poodle dog stood behind
Hie liars in the city Jail Saturday
night. "
Hyp' was charged with lntoxle.1
linn by hi* mistress. Mis Ivt fuser.
"lie grts drunk regularly." said
Mis. fnsey "I can't keep hint sober,
so I think he ought lo he kirked up.
i don't drink, ntyst If,
'lliht was how "tlyp" ranis :o be
inside a cell, looking out. Mrs. fussy
w.a« placed there with him to hold
Ills head She was charged with In
toxical ion.
Former National Cuar*l
Officer Die* Placing t.olf
ID Hair Height* I’la . K* b 26. Oof.
II K t. Valle, form* t lv of the Heventh
regiment. National f.unrtl. dropped
dead today on the golf, link* her*
while piny lilt hi* third nhot oil the
mixtIt hole. Three doctor* who were
pl.tvii ,; t:t .* fmtf-omr with <\’l. 1’ralle ,
te.iched hi* »ldf promptly, l»ut he died
^btXoia lii^y euulvl be uX teeietam;#. 4
Day s Activities
in Washington
Speaker Gilletl was reported ill with
Influenza.
The house banking committee re
ported a composite rural credits bill.
Secretary Davis initiated a move to
deprive Isadora Duncan, the dancer,
of American citizenship.
The senate failed to reach a vote on
the motion to recommit fhe ship bill,
which even Us supporters admit Is
dead.
Hearings on proposed consolidate .a
of western and southwestern railroads
were resumed before the Interstate
Commerce commission.
Secretary Hughes, it became known,
has definitely decided it will be im
possible for hint to attend the Pan
American ccnference next month in
Santiago, Chile.
The house passed the defhVncy ap
propriation bill, carrying $158,000,000
and the Porter resolution, designed
to decrease drug production by inter
national agreement.
The United States paid Norway $2 2.
239,852, the amount awarded by the
tribunal of arbitration In settlement
of claim# growing out of the seizuie
of Norwegian ships during the war.
Extensive investigations by im
migration authorities to determine
how many aliens have been smuggl'd
into the United States in violation
of th« seamens act was ordered by
Secretary' Davis.
Favorable report of a resolution
proposing a constitutional amend
ment which would provide a popular
referendum on future changes in the
federal constitution was ordered by
the senate Judiciary committee.
General < red it deflation, increase
in high priced inventories and the
"buyers strike" were given by the
federal trade commission in a report
submitted to oongi'ess. a« the cause
of the droff in cotton prices which
began n April. 1920.
As a preliminary step to revision
of lax !g»v« Senator Norris, repub
lican, Nebraska, introduced a resolu
tion proposing an inquiry by the fed
eral trade commission to determine
the amount and ownership of the
"< hief kinds of wealth" In the United
States.
Complaint was served by Secretary
of Agriculture Wallace on Armour
* Co. and Morris A Co . Chicago meat
packers, charging them with violat
ing the packers and stockyards act
by entering into an agreement for
the purchase of the Morris Co's as
ses by the Armour interests.
Hailroad Cashier Arrested
on Kmhegiilenient Charge
I,ns Angeles, I'eh. CS—William Sal
ii'ttnm, ??. former assistant enshicr
nf the Chicago * Alton railroad at
Springflled, 111., charged with ein
hoEtlemcut of fR.000 of the company ■
funds, was arrested here today, sc
id ng to the police,
f* Id bottom at first refused to admit
h s Identity, the arresting officer
slated, hut when shown a photograph
of the missing cashier, confessed that
he was the man wanted. He et
pressed a willingness to return to
SpNngfisM and face the -harge
Ht'|tcal of Dry Law l rgfd.
15-no, Ne . I'et "« \ resolution
ailing upon congress to repeal the
\ olst-ad «it, w hich Is hrsnden as "a
• insplcuous failure" and "a veritable
Ir.i jlsttor of criminals." ami to take
the necessary -ieps to effect s revision
of ih« t*lh amendment, was Intro
■tiicrd In the Neveda slate senate at
Carson City today.
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Pro|)osal Made
to Lift Bans on
Aliens in Hawaii
Hou»c Resolution W ouM Per
mit Temporary Admission
of Foreigners, Inciud- •
ing Chinese.
Washington. Feb. is—A resolution
proposing the temporal-)’ admission to
the Hawaiian islands of alien la bo-,
including Chinese, otherwise barred
under the immigration laws, was re
ported by the house imiitfgraLion
committee. At the same time Chair
man Johnson of the committee, who
opposed the measure, introduced a
resolution authorizing member* of the
committee re-elected to the next con
gress to investigate Hawaiian labor
needs.
The resolution reported today was
introduced in July. i>Cl. by the late
Delegate Kaiainanae’.e of Hawaii.
Chairman Johnson, whose home S«
ir. Washington, and other members < C
the committee from the raeiflo coa«’
state*, as well as Representative Boir,
democrat, Texas, said they would sub
mit minority report*.
Representative Shaw republican.
Illinois, drafted the majority report,
which said the purpose of the resolu
tion was to permit a restricted immi
gration of aliens unde- the super
vision of the secretary of lat>or ' for
lhe purpose of providing an adequate
supply of, suitable field Intior for tb.
iasic agricultural industries of the
territory, without which the territory
cannot continue to exist a.s an Amec
can commonwealth.”
\ taming that the practical
trol of the labor supply in Hawaii w.■«
in the hands of Japanese nation , s
and American citizens of Japar-sc
descent born* In the territory. Mr
Shaw declared that political control
of the Anteriran colonial i*>ssc»«nvi
was at stake
Opium Traffic Must Go.
Gliinr*e President Sat'
Pekin. Feb. ;6._OF>—That the
opium traffic in China must go and
that with it must he swept from the
boards the Tuchuus or military so'
ernor*. who are supporting the illicit
trade, were the ur.-quiVival state
trents of President l.i Yuan-Hung
printed in the new Pekin morning
paper, the Daily Far Eastern Times
The president's declaration was
made in reply to a query from the
editor, who asked the executives
view s on the suggest ton recently made
by Sir Francis Aglen. head of the
Chinese i ustoma administration, to le
galise the opium traffic in order to
control it.
Man Admit* Slaving ^ ife
ami Hiding Both in Trunk
San Francisco. Feb 16 —Elmer
Hannon, sheet metal worker, pleaded
guilty to a charge if murder growing
out of the beating to doatli of his y'ife
Mrs Margaret Hannon. November .’4.*
1>"?, and stuffing her body in a
trunk.
Sentence wa« set for Friday, the
court indicating that sentence would
tie from 10 years to life.
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Die-Hards
Will Fight
New Court
Irreconcilable* Declare They
Will Filibuster to Prevent
Ratification of Member*
*lii|> in World tribunal.
Democrats Are Gleeful
Washington, Keb. 26 —The chance*
of senate action fit this session on
President Harding* request for au
thority to make the United States a
member of the international court of
justice, dropped close to the zero marls,
today.
Irreconcilable «enators. showing no
abatement of their opjiositlon to tho
league of nat is in part or in whole,
promptly prod .ed their determina
tion to fiiii.jster gairst the ratifica
tion of the protocol under which the
United States would participate in the
international court.
Furthermore, they furnished rather
convincing proof that they would he
able to make their filibuster success
ful. so successful in fact, that the -
1-aders had no hesitancy in predict
ing that the protocol would never
emerge from the fordgn relations
committee, to which it was referred
Saturday.
Oppoled to "Railroading.”
Senator Lodge, Massachusetts, re
publican leader, issued a call for a
meeting of the committee Tuesday to
take up President Harding's lettei,
tut irreconcilable memlteis of the
commitjee declared that the time re
maining before Match 4 would be
wholly inadequate fcr the thorough
'onsideration which the importance of
the subject required. In fact. Sena
tor Ivxtge himse’f expressed ■ himeelf
as being opposed to any "railroading"
process under which the measure
might be ruehed through in the clos
iagr moments of the Fession.
Democratic senators chortled w.ih
glee over the problem created on tl ■>
republican sidr* by the president's
message and they lost no Umt jn
jockeying for political advantage* to
i>e gained from the situation. Senator
King, democrat. Utah, introduced a
resolution for ratifb ution of the proto
col. It whs referred to the foreign r -
iatlons committee for consideration,
along w.th the president's message
It was rather plainly Intimated th,t
the King resolution was merely the
forerunner of a move on the derm
ratic side to discharge the foreign re
late.ns committee from further ecu -
sidcration of the protocol and to bring
'!.» president s proposal" squarely be
foie the senate before the expiratic.i
of the present session.
hpecial Session Mentioned.
The democrats believe that such i
motion would create much embarrass
ment in the republican ranks, but t!j *
irreconr:iables quickly retorted that
:t would be r.o more difficult to f, ■■
buster against such a motion than ;
w ’id l>e to hold u|> action tn th® fci
eign relation* committee.
The suggestion went around that
President Harding might call the se -
ate fo separate special session to rati
fy the protoc. 1 immediately
March 1. but admit..stration leade-s
who se<m* d to be qualified to spe_. .
with authority :■ v.sied that the prev
dent had no such intention.
.■Senator Johnson. republican. Cali
fornia. expressed the viewpoint of h s
irreconcilable colleagues. in the fo'
lowing statement:
“If we now- do what is asked, th *
situation is this: We are wholly out
of the league. We are in part of the
league. Hv reservations we are out
of the part of the league we are ;
The part of the league we are in pint
from w h h by reservations we g
out fun.-tiers as a part of the league
with cur assistance. In the languag
of a great editor of the west, 'all of
which is partly true.- We are no;
g..;ng to the. league of nations r:
this session of congress."
Wealth Compilation
Proposed bv Norris
Waa . gtai Feb Sf—ISpectaU —
Senator Norris of Nebraska offered a
resolution tn the senate this afte'
noon, providing for a compilation of
all of the different k.t is of weal
in the country.
Senator N*ms |- < th.s ir
formation shall be compiled in coi ■
venier.t f riv. to be utiliaed in future
taxation legislation.
Me prop' »es this data shall be pre
pared l>y the federal trade oonmjx
sion This information is alread'
scattered among the departments of
the Interstate Commerce commission
the 'eternal revenue bureau and the
federal traje commission. It is be
llexed little trouble would be e.x
perienoed in gathering it ail together.
Tn the op - on of Senator Norris
th « data, when compiled, will be ef
givat value in all legislation relating
to taxation, and espeo.ally in demon
stealing the exact volume and owner
ship of all such securities as are now
exempt from taxation.
President of Standard Oil
Denies Price* \re Fixed
\\ 111 .rygton, Feb. •*.—Dr. W. M
Iturton of Chicage, pres dent of the
standard Oil Company of Indiana,
testified today at a reopemna of the
senate manufacturers subcommittee
oil inquiry, branded as false ar t
wholly untruthful" charges of prtoe
fixing made against the company In
testimony before the committee bx
Thomas S, Plack of Chicago, pres,
dent of the Western Petroleum coni
pany.
1 nail to Vu*tria Floated.
1 uxr.de n Kcb i'll *' The Frit Ml
public s mxdted to subscribe to an
si-ue of fl x m'.OiHV worth of \uatri* i
government guaranteed sterling treae
ury bills This is practically ths flr*
i'uMi loan to be floated far a foratar
^eueai} cotuilc}'.