The Omaha Morning ;ee I i _____ | VOL. 52—NO. 228. ~ aT« "SI*' OMAHA, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 102:3.* ,i,'. ’i"' ,rV"A.r/.n‘pVi XM» TW0 CENTf: Arthur Brisbane Ever Better NEW News NEW Features BEGINNING NEXT WEDNESDAY The Omaha Morning Bee will begin pub lication of the daily editorials of Arthur Brisbane No editorial writer in the world com mands the attention of as many readers as does Brisbane. His “TODAY” col umn is known the country over by reason of its frank, fearless and always interesting comment on the events of the day. Beginning NEXT TUESDAY, The Omaha Morning Bee will add to its present superior telegraphic news service the complete sendee of The International News and Universal Service From all parts of this country and the world, these two leased wires will bring news of the moment, human stories of men and women and children every where—what they are doing and trying to do. This is in addition to the 24-hour sendee of The Associated Press. Beginning NEXT THURSDAY, The Omaha Bee will also add the services of a corps of brilliant contributors: MARK SULLIVAN, Daily Political Letter CLAIRE BRIGGS. Humor Artist J. N. DARLING ("DING”). Cartoonist THORNTON W. BURGESS, Children's Stories FLORENCE DAVIES, IVomen’s Editorial GRANTLAND RICE. Sport Comment o-o This is but a part of the program by which The Omaha Bee intends to maintain its position as the most interestng news paper in its field. ^ The Omaha Bee Merger of P a c k e >• ■< Consolidation of Artnour and Morris Plants to lie For mally Announced Next Week. To Fight If Necessary Chicago. March 9.—C45)—Merger of the Armour fc Co. and Morris Co. packing plants was virtually complet ed today and the consolidation awaits only formal announcement to become effective, it was announced hero to night when it w-as learned that arbi trators had fixed on the value of Armour stocks to be exchanged as part of the purchase price for the Morris interests. , Announcement of completion of the merger wilt probably bo made next Tuesday or Wednesday, it was said. The price agreed, on in exchanging the stock will not be made public un til formal announcement of the | merger is made. Earlier in the day it was learned j that the merger plans were complete except for agreement on tile valuation of stock. Morris and Armour interests were unable to agree on tins point and it was submitted to Albert II. Wiggin of the Chase Securities cor poration of New York, and James B. Forgan of the First National bank of Chicago for arbitration. Tonight it was learned that an agreement on stock valuation had been reached at the Florida home of Forgan. where Nelson Morris, head of Morris & Co., and other executives of the packing concerns met. Filing of a complaint against the merger by ijjoeretary Wallace of the Department of Agriculture will not hold up the deal, it was said today, It being expected that the deal will have been completed before hearings on the complaint begin. The packers it is said, stand ready to go into eouit in an effort to prove the merger legal in every respect if this becomes ne > easary. Stabbed in Fight Over Trousers ! , - . „ Peter SoMatus Ma\ Die h rc»m W ounrl—Police Seeking 1«»1jii L/.mpropus. Peter So Matuv, cook 1*1H Douglas I street. may die as kim result of a deep knife wound in his left side said ilo ha v« been inflicted by .Inhti J-ani propus at 3:15 yesterday afternoon in | an altercation over trouser* the for mer was wearing. | According to police, Lampropus ‘went to the restaurant, where he wns formerly employed, and claimed 'that the garment Soldatus was wearing were his. In the fight that followed for possession of the trousei" l-nm proptia is alleged to have wounded Soldatus with a meat knife. Soldatus was removed to Lord Lis ter hospital, where Dr. Connolly said he probably will not recover. luim propus address is unknown to police and he had not been arrested last ‘ night. Histories of World. Not Nations. I rg*-d by Harding Brunswick. Me.. March fb—The teaching of history should he changed to take a broader view that would I conalder the nation* of the western | world in their relations to one an |other instead of considering them sep | .irately. President Harding said in' a letter to President Kenneth <\ M. 1 Sills of Bnwdern college, made pule lie today The president was congrat ulating the college on its plans for an institute of modern history to he held here from April 19 to May 1. All the factors of the story of man i kind, w hic h was an essential unity, lie said, must l>e weighed and np • praised if any were to i»e acc urately estimated and understood. A broader 1 view of ltistor would help greatly | those having t<* deni with the prob lem of preserving pence at 1 outlawing | war. Resumption of Peace Meet Is Suggested by I in-key /Itmsf antinnple. March v 1^1 1’bc j Turkish government s reply to the nl | lied peace proposals arrived hew* by I courier from Angora this afternoon and was handed to the British. French and Italian high commissioner*. Copies will also be delivered to the American and Japanese repre enta lives The whole note is couched in most moderate language uni suggests re sumption of the negotiations In sorn* fiuropenn town. Tin* note comprises lift pages Arhiicklo Wiln«**s Dir«. Hollywood. ChI . March !* Alfred Hemnncher, motion picture man. who wa* a prominent wltneaa In the trial* of TlfinroA ("I * 111 \ i Arbllrkle at Sun Kranciaco, dh d today at hi* home here. Namnacher av.-»* nt one time manager for Mia*- Virginia Kappe, who died after Iwing taken atiddonly ill at fl p inenta In a Han Kranclaco hotel on I«nhnr I>ay 11121. AhIiph of 44Sago 1 Srntloml. Ashea of the int*> Dharlca Wooatar. "auge of HI Ivor creek ' were acat tor ad on the Platte river Wedneadav night from the Platte river bridge. II« had raqiieated auch action. <* It. Metager dropped them over the hridgft railing. tfted Friend of Kiddies T s Own Life to Kec/t ' ' f County Poorhouse V^°". -: h, k. March 9.—A group of ,«■ ‘ _n ;tood In front of a little home . H lllujmsburg. Each had a block . soft, pine or cedar and some bits of cloth. They were waiting for Grandpa Mortzack to come out. For more than twenty years chil dren have been accustomed to wait j in front of the house for the man to ; t-ome out and to clamor for him to make them a boat.” Today Grandpa Mortzack did not come out. His landlady appeared and told the . youngsters he would never come out * any more. He killed himself Thurs- 1 day night by gas to prevent being sent to the poorhouse. Herman Mortzack was 72. He made a small fortune early in life as a builder of whalers. When steam re placed the last of the old sailing - whalers he retired to make toy boats | for Brooklyn kiddies. Biff Grain Dealer Predicts Better Conditions Soon Purchasing Power of Farmer Keynote to Return of Prosperity, Chicago Man Says. Chicago, March 9—James A. Pot ion, one of the most conspicuous fig- , urcs in the grain trade of th" United Stater, discussing the financial and industrial situation of the country, had this to say about the position of the I farmer: t "I believe that the whole question of a continued movement back to general prosperity rests upon a return ' to a proper relation between the price "Calami products and the price of ■uteh crtnniodltieH as the farmer needs 1 <> buy. $brre can be no genuine prosperity or even continued class , prosperity! *■> long as the purchas ing power of the farmer remains low. because of disarrangement of this fundamental, economic balance. "I regard corn as the keystone of the agriculutral arch and fortunately the condition, appears at present for a price range for the rest of the year . th.v will do much toward strengthen ing the farmer In his position as the j greatest single purchasing power in our population. , Supplies Down to Average. "The government report shows that oi n supplies are down to *n average of the past 10 years, and are irt.-j 000,000 legs than a year ago. and 47* ooS.OOO less than two yrar» ago. The question < f value depenlt upon the relationship between surpuc* and needs, and from this standpoint the present stltuation is most encourag ing "Last year we had a supply, on March 1 of 1.313.000.000, and on No. | veinbor 1 there was carried over 170 - 000.000, showing a consumption be tween March 1 an 1 the new imp 1.134.000. 000 bushels. In 1921 the eon- ! sumption during the same period was 1.279.000. 000 bushel*. "For Hie past two years, therefore, our average corn consumption, the gteater part of which Is represented \ ! y production of meat, was 1.200.000, 000 bushels It fallows that our present corn reserve of 1,097,000,000 Is less by 119,000.000 bushels than our ac tual consumption during the last two year*. More Livestock on Farms. "Add to this the fact that we have on hand several million more hogs \ and a larger supply of cattle, and that It Is officially reported the spring crop is much larger than In recent y ears. It becomes apparent that j there la a prospective urgent demand i for corn f r feeding. Further, the price of and demand for meat food is increasing with advancing wages and Increased industrial employment. In suring an urgent call for ths meat that this Increased number of cattle and bogs can produce. "I'nder these conditions of depleted corn reserves and urgent feeding de- , mand. 1 believe that the working of I economic law toward a proper price relationship for f^rin products, an 1 for com, especially, is under way." I Men Tried a* Smugglers Home from School. Vancouver. Wash., March 9.—Ed ward Whitfield, 20. was held In the county jail here today In connection with tha death of 11-year-old Anna Nosko, whose body was found late last night In a thick*: near her road home front school. Tit* .:ikl hi'1 been aMstked ♦ throat cut and ber head crushed. Iter parents operate a farm about a mil* from Battleground, where Anna went to school yesterday. When site fail'd to return at tit* usual hour, search parties were organized and found first the girls umbrella, and some letters she was taking home from the itostoffice, and then the body. Apparently, the little girl had been attacker at a point some distance from where the body was found, as shreds of clothing on two wire fences In dicated it had been dragged through them to its hiding place. Whitfield I. a farmer. The sheriff announced a charge of first degree murder would be filed ngalnst him. Whitfield denied all knowledge of the a'-Jiault and murder, vehemently protestit.K h * Innocence. Examina tlon of his person was said to have revealed traces of blood upon his clothing. When lodged in the county jail. Whitfield was described as de fiant. refusing to answer questions re garding his movements during the afternoon. Bodies of I wo Hunter* Found !>> Searching Party Jtinron. N. S! . March 9 — Aft. r a tlvre. iiay auarch in th* hill* *ur round ing Hlncon. a searching party late to* day found the body of lAssaro Mar tinez. 4ft. a member of a well known family of Uincon. K«jtiler In the day the scan hers found the liody of Mar* tine s boyli'tod friend. Santiago Silva. Hoth bodies were badly l>e.iten and • ach contained a bullet. The posse is hunting for a third man whom they believe met the two men and killed them. Syl\a and M u finer, three day* ago started on a short hunting trip by themselves. Di-mss Farm Conference. St Paul. March 9 Plans for con* ferences with representatives of the various farmers' grain marketing or ganizations of the northwest were dis • u*»ed tentatively by officer* and di re* tors of the Kqulty Co-operative Kx* change this afternoon following the decision early In the day to change the * hnraeter of the corporation and make it ti national marketing enter pt is* \gedjew Called l pon to Choose Between \\ifeand Daughter C N'* \v Void-.. M.-iicli 5* Kti« e«t with a problem that probab y would base taxed the wislotn «»f a Holomwi, a la* ti tled old Russian d« w sat on a bench "I the Kills Inland lmmiftia tloii station to lay, praying for a dls • pining heart. In one band was a tele gram which had I** *n sent him b) I immigration official*. “Request to know what l« your de cision regarding your family," It tend. In another part of the station Was bis wife and two daughter*, whom he bad not seen for \eaie In response to the telegram he In 1 corns to the station *o learn that his youngest daughter w is feeble minded r-nd would b«» returned to Russia Hither hi* wife or the oilier daughter mbit let urn with he He wap to de cide which one to atuy. The old man pondered hi* prob lem f»»r perhapp mm hour. Ill* life and hi« wife *, perhnp*. w»ie nearing their end. The little remnant of happitiona left w 11 Ij her probably dangled l** fore Id* eye* 1 tempting mono! Hut he would aaeriflce it Kicnflre It for the Kike of the daughter. *ti!| young with life and hnppiltfa* in a new land be fore her. He aunouiu ed In* d< < laion. The w ife will v Init him until the feelde minded daughter, wiio in nuffetitig from pneu monia recover*: then ahe will return. The other daughter will atny Iowa Killer Pays Penalty for Beating Girl to Death IFadAc and Atlantic Pbotoa. 1 Karl Tlirost, who was convicted of the murder of Miss Inga Magnusson, pretty 22-ycar-old school teacher, was hanged yesterday. Tlirost pleaded guilty, declaring he hilled the girl because she wouldn’t marry him. Miss Magnusson was clubbed to death in her school room, near Dorchester, last December. Ladv Astor Asks British Drv Law Pleads for Bill in Commons to Ban Rum Sale to Youths. London March a—(A3)— I-ady As ter, moving in the house of commons today the second reading of her bill prohibiting the sale of intoxicants to youths under 18 for consumption on the premises, delivered an address re plete with witticisms to an attentive and frequently amused house The bill, she declared, was designed to protect adolescents—their health, self control and powers of resistance —and remove boys and girls .from the environments of the public house. It was already illegal, she pointed out. to sell liquor to those under li. ahd her bill merely changed the age limit be cause It was generally recognized that persons were still youths at 18. "\ Child to 18.” "A boy is a child up to 18." Lady Astor declared. "You men are chil dren. and we women love you because you are children.” She declared the bill was not in any sense her bill, as Lord Bryce had in treduced it two years ago. It was supported by tea- hers and behind them were organized women, the heads i*f the great schools, the chief medical authorities ar.d the churches. The medical men of all countries, she said, were agreed as to the danger of any nbohoi during tie ppriod of adolescer ,-p % negardlng the suggestion that the act should apple to only one sex. Lady As'or declared sex discrimination in this subject should not be tolerated. She wanted to "give the spirit and not the spirits a chance." In the Dominions. "A great deal was heard about what America had done,” remarked I-ady Astor, "but one never heard much about the dominions, all of which had such measures as this. If they could do tills. England ought not to lag behind. There also w ere Similar meas ures in Sweden. Norway and Poland and she thought In France." Walter Greaves Lord, conservative member for the Norwood division of Ijtmlieth. moved tha rejection of the bill, declaring it was merely an enter ing wedge for absolute prohibition Panama Canal Traffic Sets New High Record Washington. March 9 A new high mark f«*r Panama canal traffic was established during the week ending February IT. when ICS vessels. In cluding $1 ships of the Atlantic fleet, were transmitted The naval « raft pa-eed through to « . u slops i f the Pacific fleet for joint maneuvers in Pacific waters without delay to com mercial traffic. The traffic "was handled by the reg ular organisations without any spe* dal arrangements being made.” ac cording to the current issue of tlie canal record, “and no merchant ves sel failed of prompt transit on ac count of the passage of the fleet." The traffic aggregated 4!4.Mv7 tons, while the naval vessels totalled 314.946 tons Stum storm in Nevada l on es \ir Mail Pilot lo Turn Ba« k Heno, Nev. Man-li 9. A heavy snowstorm near Wadsworth forced Pilot Mouton of the air mail aerv he. yvestbound, to turn hack to Love lock today ami he does not expect to leave there until the storm subsides. He telephoned from Lovelock that there was seven lncf.en of snow in Wadsw orth canyon, w htch wus former ly' the main line of the Southern Pacific. Off to Join "Hniry." Went Orange, N. J.. March ? Aft tr delaying hi* departure for aevotnl days he* *Hi>o of Hines*. Th*»n<* a l'hson le^t i*- night f* hjs winter home at Fort M\* i‘ Fla where *h# siiid he would “wait for llenfry II® meant Henry Ford, his vacation time friend, whose winter homo adjoins KdtaonV Mr Ford is evp#M tod to nr* rive at Fort Myers within a few day* Mis Million n room pan tod her .hits band. I.om-s* \liemilioti Suit. I.inroln, M.iivli iSpeelal V V Jury In dint ru t rourf today returned verdlyt for tlie defendant* In the $f*0,000 alienation suit bought by Fi nn* obi'innyrr against tier paisnts | In-law . Mr. and Mrs. William Ohn mey er. Amundsen ^ i 11 Seek Pole June 21 1.from Explorer Declare* Start of Polar Air Flight Scheduled. Seattle, Wash.. March 9.—Capt. Roald Amundsen, head of an Arctic exploration expedition, that left Seat tle June 3, last in the schooner Maud, will hop off June 21. from IValn wright, Alaska, for a flight over the North Pole, according to a letter re ceived here from hint by Capt. John Backland, owner and master of the schooner, C. S. Holmes The sun at that time, explained the letter wall be diffusing perpetual • day over the region within the Arctic curie. It is also hoped that a south wind will prevail. The letter written In Nome, Alaska, where Captain Amundsen has been wintering, said that he would soon start to mush back to Wainwright, where Lieutenant Oskar Orntlal, aviator, who Is to pilot the plane over the pole, has been caring for the machine since it was landed there last fall. The letter ga\« the present posi tion of the Maud as 29>» miles north by northeast from Wrangell Island and drifting slowly with the lea toward the pole. "Captain Amundsen has selected the summer solstice, when the sun has reached its fartberest p unt from the equator for h.« flight across the top of the world, - i. i • - v -In Back t. rd. "He etp'^iar i r» he t* Ha# that he would make every effort to start his flight June 21. h ,* that the trip would not begin earlier than June 29 nor later than June 28. wether permitting. 1 feel sure that the flight will lie successful and that Cap tain Amundsen sr.d Lieutenant Omdal will land safely at Spitsbergen. Retail Food Prices in Omaha Decrease Washington, March 9—Retail food n*t in ail of 22 respective cities Je cieased between .January 15 and Feb ruary 13. according to figures com piled by the Labor department. Com pared with the average prices in 1913. however, the range was '-’1 to 30 per cent higher. Decreases for January 13 to Febru ary 13 included: .Salt Ijike City 3 per cent: Denver, San Francisco. 3 l»er cent: Butte. Omaha and Ft. 1’iittl. 1 per cent. For the year from February la. 1922. to February 15. 1923. increases reported included' lV*nver 3 per cent. Butte and Ft Paul. 1 per cent. Omaha and Salt Lake City sheared a decrease < f 2 per cent and San 1-V.u. .sco lews than five tenths 1 per cent. As compared w.th the average cost in the year 1913 the retail coat of food on February 15 was JT per cent higher in Omaha and San Francisco: 31 per cent in IVmer and 21 per cent in Salt lgike <'i?v uni*■ I (.uniprre Suffering From Bronchial Pneumonia New b k Maiv ) 4>' -Ssinu-'l Compel**. 75, president of the Amen* *n Filler** on t*T Labor. 1s *t l.enox Hill* hospital. this city, suffering from InfUienra and bronchial pr.eu monin. it wa* learned tonight. HN stvu '.ary. AY. Huberts. an flounced that Mr (lomjifis' physician. Dr Gu*tav Fish, reported the pa tlent's condition as serious "hi* ad vanced age gieatlv retarding c«*nv.i leecence." Mr*, (tampers arrives! from Wash ington today and wont a: once to her husband's bedside. lo \i«l Farnn't- on Projort*. Washington. March 9—Immediate lelfef for thousands of fsr\"■ « boated on federal Irrigation p- its In the west will l»e made N\ali. s P 1" . <1 * *> «l ........ 4a 4 IV n. . 41 * l> *>1 .IS * r> >« . • t P » >* * >' n* v. »? Marks Are Seized for Expenses French and Belgian Armie* \re Gonfi-rating German Monet to Pay Costa of < )ceiipation. 14,000,000,000 Taker Dussddinf March 3—The French amf R'lgmn armies of occupation *rs paying their expenses hy means of requisitioned niarks. it was announc ed at French headquarter*. Mora than 14.000,900.090 marks have been collected by the occupational forces, of which all will be applied toward expenses Incurred since the Ruhr troops moved Into the district last two months ago. The largest sum seized by the French, near Hagen, was 13,000.000. 090 mark in reb hsbank funds being shipped by tra.n from Berlin to Co logne. IneJuded in the amount con fiscated is 1.000.000,900 marks taken at Duisberg, which was also a rcich' bank shipment. and hundreds of mil lions in Herman gov,, rnment strike funfi* Many Individuals Fined. There are also fines against indi viduals amounting to 15,000,000 marks and a fine of 390.000,000 marks against the town of Recklinghausen. The- headquarters < f the German Association for the Defense of Eco nomic Interests was raided by tlie French authorities. Several tons of, propaganda matter were confiscated by the French, mho claim this was the central distributing point for the Ruhr associations. The bureau was in a b k building in Dusseldorf. direct ly across the «treet from General Degoutte * offices. Poincare Addresses Committee. Par.'. March 9—'JP'—Premier Po:r are today addressed the foreign rela tion* committee on the situation In the Ruhr. The preii iec went into detail* with regard to the Ruhr railroads, the or ganization of the customs, the putting into force of import end export li ens-'. the expulsion of German of ficial.*. the liaisotj established betweei, the bridgeheads, the relations between the occupation troop* and the popula tion and the arrangements made to secure progressively the delivery of coal and ccke to France. M. Poincare renewed hi* declara tions bcf-re the chamber of deputies that France would not accept any 1 mediation In th* situation. He added. ■ hcw-fi tbs wren Gew> y under stood the situation Franc* would be ieady to listen and examine all of 1 ficial proposition* made by it. J:« any case, the premier declared. France would not abandon -he security an 1 guarantees it had been forced to take , In return for a simple premise by Germany. Moving of Children From Ruhr Begun F. h March 3— P'—The trar,« fer by the Germane of several hun dred thousand children from the troubled ror.e has begun. Five hun dred youngsters from S to 7 years of >g» wr e sent from here by spec: 1 train yesterday. The Germans a:i nounced they- were sent to Bremen where they would be distributed among private families to be cared for the troubles blow over. F- 1 n. March 3.—Premier Point*!* is declared by the Soc.al Democrat ' news agency to ha>e notifieii the Dat .sh government that France can h.irdiy regard the admission of Ger i . .dr* ■ D>»nr. *rk for re cupera!:on as a sign of neutrality. i!-se. hi ..Teh 3— The F:- . troops have aga.n been w.thdrawi from Dortmund, which was occupied 'ester.:.: for the purposes f pro: - • ng up all the members of the d s. handed security police still at la-g*. The city was s arched by the French - tiers a: .1 iTn of the security force members weie arrested and expelled. : This lie ve w is part of the Franco- 5 Belgian program to r;J the Huhr of - some 13.o. o security police w ho ha'a been a constant source of arnovar.. * to the O', upying forces, doing espion age work, spreading propaganda and otherwise hindering the French and Belgian military. ^ tiling Man l caps to Death I rom \\ ashingtou Monument Washing'on, March 3 - A" wanf Man believed to have been A Her- s Seip a war vetera; leaped to h.s death from the oharrvation tower of Mast..: gton monument earl> th « at: ernpon. llrrrin Defendant Slain. Y\ ■ ' Fra- kfort, lli Mat h I — i\ -'..ble John Kellex of 7*\g\ 'r. near here one of the men unddr Indictment 11 connection with tlie Herrin mb<« kl!ltn|e«. xxis shot amt killed shortly Icfone last midnight by Fan Fax is, • a ro»l miner. Marion. HI. March * **'•—Judgw 1' T llartxxell ordered another recews | in the second Herrin not trial txalav . *,* o: 11 - :'inee* , * M;s Natha-t Barnes, wife of a Juror who was called to her bedside vest ml*' .budge j Hartwell decided not to re*unia thy trial until Monday. Bandits l.et Payroll. hen V rk March S Artur,1 In; ■dlls lieid up an employ* **f J. J Hoc x« a i clothier* it* :h* FVbv of ■ a Fifth axemie bulking rvtxbed hsn» of a M.SOO payroll and esy»tx*d In a waiting autx'mybile Phone Your Sunday “Want” Ad to AT I antic 1000 Now * i j