The Omaha Morning Bee _ • _• __ VOL. 52—NO. 248. “ K T'^.V OMAHA, TUESDAY, APRIL 3. 1923, * * g:,"*1.'1 £ W TU'° CENTS.“ °>r,c::i‘. Rail Merger Plan Scored by Lovett declares Consolidation Under Holden Program Would Bring “Unnatural Alliances.” Combinations Too Large By Internal ional News Service. Sun Francisco, Cal. April 2.—The plan of Halt Holden,1tpresldent of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, to consolidate all railways west of Chi cago and the Mississippi river into four systems, recently proposed be fore the interstate commerce com mission, was attacked by Judge Rob ert 8. Lovett, chnlrmnn of the Union Pacific system, at a hearing before Commissioners Hall and Campbell to day on the consolidation plan. Such a consolidation. Judge Lovett declared, would create many “un natural alliances" and would greatly strengthen the so-called Hill group of railroads, at the same time greatly weakening the so-called Harriman group. With Great Caution. The commission’s tentative plan, comprising seven instead of four sys terns, was characterized by Judge Lov ett as affording the basis and ground work which should be departed from only with great caution. The Holden plan grouping the Union Pacific with 1 the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, he strongly condemned, the witness ex plaining that the commission's plan of placing the Chicago A Northwest ern with the Union Pacific was the only logical grouping, the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul being a com petitor and the Chicago & Northwest ern a connection and natural ally. Should the Hill lines merger be ac cepted, Judge Lovett paid a remerger of the Harriman lines. Union Pacific and Southern Pacific should be au thorized to meet the strong combina tion which would be effected by the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Burlington. The retention of t he Gontral Pacifio by the Southern Pa cific with the same conditions im posed by the commission in the re • ent hearing Is satisfactory to the U nion Pacific, he said, as they protect with reasonable adequacy the rights of the Union Pacific. Striking F.ffect. Continuing, he added: "Another striking effect of the way the Holden plan treats the old Harriman system appears when after assigning to the Southern Pacific t+ie Rock Island it also puts with the Southern Pacific1 the Missouri Pacific and the Missouri, ; Kansas & Texas systems with which the Sonuhern Pacific does tut Ift.tle business and with which it would have occasion to do even less after acquir ing the Rock Island, and also the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient, which the press dispatches report Is about to he abandoned: tile Missouri, Okla homa A Gulf and a half interest In the Denver & Rio Grande Western and the Denver A Salt Lake. The lat ter feature is especially significant because It would indeed effectually •bottle up’ or, as Prof. Ripley ex pressed it, 'short circuit’ the Union Pacific, since it would give the South ern Pacific a line of its own through from San Francisco to ChlcagTt by way of Ogden and Denver paralleling the T'nif'n Pacific from Ogden both to Omaha and Kansas City and parallel ing also the lines allocated to the Union Pacific from Omaha to Chi cago and elsewhere east of the Mis souri river." Constant Menace. Judge Lovett in opposing the sug g' stlon that ail lines in western ter- | ntory should he consolidated into four systems said: "Four systems comprising from t 30,000 to upwards of 35.000 miles each, and each extending from Puget Sound Or the Pacillc ocean to the 1 Great Lakes, to the mouth of the Mis j Fissippl river and the Gulf of Mexico, ami traversing most of the interrne , diate states, makes the combinations j entirely too large for efficient man agement and service for the welfare of the corporations themselves, their • reditors and stockholders and for the public good, and present a situation which probably would be a sourca of much undesirable friction and in many ways a constant menace, especially in case of failure." Body of Missing Turkish Deputy Is Discovered By AwoeUiteil Press'. Constantinople, April 2.—The body of All Chukri Bey, deputy from Kr*e rum to the Turkish national assem bly at Angora, who has been missing for some days, has been found burled pear the home of the notorious Os man Agha. The body was fully clothed. Osman Agha has disap peared. Chukri Bey was one of the found ers of the newspaper Tan. which has consistently opposed the policies of Mustapha Kemal Pasha, nationalist leader. After his disappearance one of his colleagues hinted in a speech b^foro the assembly that he had fallen k victim to his political opinions. Lenine Under Complele Control of Leon Trolzky j Eondon, April 2.—A dispatch to the Times from Riga says It has been learned that Nikolai Eenine, the Rus sian premier. Is completely under charge of E*on Trotsky, the minister of var, who bars all persona from the t>>-dal<1e except Eenlne's wife nnd phy sicians. Even famine's brother, who come front Elvadla, was not allowed to aeo the patient. ' Butchkavltch Not Yet Executed by Soviet Moscow, April 2—The death sen tence Imposed on Vicar tlrneral llutrlikavlirh has not yet been ear rhd out. It was annoiineed at noon •sdaj. New Price Scale for Beet Field Workers Special Dispatch to The Omaha lice. Ncottsbluff, Neb., April 2.—A new scale of wages for workers In sugar beet fields was agreed on here today, subject to approval of the Colorado headquarters of the Great Western Sugar company. It provides for a minimum of $21 for work on fields yielding 12 tons of beets or less per acre and 50 cents for each additional ton harvested. The agreement was made by the Co-Operative Beet Growers’ associa tion and Edmund Simmons, Nebraska district manager for the sugar com pany, and Gus Heldt, agricultural superintendent. It will make neces sary rewriting contracts for beets al ready signed by the company giving the flat $21. Growers and workers both objected to this as unfair to those working large fields and placing a premium on poor labor. Red Cross Will Withdraw From Greece June 30 Hughes Suggests Co-Operative i Agreement Between Interest ed Nations to Care for Refugees in Near East. Washington, April 2.—Secretary Hughes has informed the British, French, Italian and Greek govern ments, in Identical notes handed their representatives in Washington, that the American Red Cross will termi nate its emergency relief work in Greece on June 30. The note declared that solution of J the relief problem in the near east "can hardly lie in measures of tem porary relief alone" and suggested a co-operative agreement between the nations interested which would make it possible for the thousands of ref- ' ugees "to be absorbed as promptly as possible into the normal economic life of the country where they find themselves.” In the event that the British, French and Italian "kovernments arc disposed to concur in a co-operative ; endeavor, Mr. Hughes said, the Washington government will welcome "an early exchange of views." He said that "if a constructive plan” 1 could be agreed upon and the relief task apportioned, American relief agencies would be read to co-operate even after the termination of the emergency relief work of the Amer ican Red Cross” in June. Will Help Children. The near east relief was said to be prepared to continue child welfare work, including the support of 65,000 wholly dependent orphans now in its charges ip the Caucasus, Greece, Syria and elsewhere. Secretary Hughes said, however, that the near cast relief was anxious to terminate at the earliest possible moment, the emergency relief to adult refugees, of whom approximately 100,000 now are receiving assistance from that organization. In a summary of the note. Secre tary Hughes said the problem pre sented by the evacuation to Greek, territory of almost a nilliion refugees has appealed to the humanitarian sentiment of all countries and has severely taxed the resources of the relief organizations, supported in their work by the generosity and in itiative of the governments and peoples of many countries. ( annot Continue Feeding. “It is clear, however," the state m»nt continued "that the feeding of great camps of refugees cannot and should not continue Indefinitely. The solution of the, problem can hardly j lie In measures of temporary relief alone, though they are essential to meet an emergency such as has re cently nriseri in the near east, but tather, in such a disposition of the refugees as will enable them to t>c absorbed as promptly as possible int< the economic life of the country vhere they find themselves." It was for these reasons and to give the Greek authorities opportun ity to make suitable provision for the future, the statement added, that the Ked Cross decided to withdraw from Greece. To postpone such ac tlon and to continue the mass feed Ing. It was stated, might only tend to delay vigorous measures for n more permanent solution of the refugee problem. Soviet Officers May Spare Father Butchkavieh's Life Moscow. April 2— Soviet officials I today refused to nnnounce the date on ; which Kev. Father Ilutckkavitcb. ' condemned Catholic prelate, would he put to death on the ground that the j "public was apathetic.” This slat" ment was taken as confirmation that ! tha churchman had not yet been exe | cuted and that there was a possible I chance that his sentence might lie j commuted despite the fact *hat the ! executive committee of the govern ! ment had confirmed the death sen | tence of the court. Woman Convicted of Selling Narcotics Sent to Prison Tacoma. Waah., April 2.—Gertrude Johnaon, one of the 17 persona ar rested last week In a roundup of al leged peddlers of narcotic drugs, wtyi sentenced to serve from three to 10 years In the state penitentiary after she had pleaded guilty In Judge W. Askren s court today. This Is the first sentence Imposed under I he narcotic net passed by the recent 1 legislature. ltank Statements Asked Lincoln, April 2,—The state hang mg' department, It Is announced, will Issue a call for u statement of state hanks at the close of business March 2R, It Is the regular call Issued by the department at Intervals of about three months. It will go to 907 com mercial ami savins hanks Three months ago thefo were l»0;i hanks un dei the call , House Kills * County Jail Feed Bill Bloc J oins Douglas D e ir ’ Delegation Opposing P^"';/' of Chambers-Larl^A'- v'-*5 ure—Vote * A . — # Appropnation Jill Fails By P. C. POWELL. Staff Correspondent Tho Omaha Itee. Lincoln, April 2.—The appropria tions bloc won several more votes for high appropriations today when it joined a handful of Douglas county democrats and killed the Chambers Larkin bill which called for turning several thousands of dollars in profits from feeding prisoners in Douglas county from the pockets of the sheriff to pockets of the taxpayers. Not only did a majority of those in charge of the bloc join the per sonal friends of Sheriff Endres but several others interested in killing certain bills, many of them now dead, joined in putting this 1*111 to death. The vote was, 50 to 27. Twenty three didn't vote. Representative Ed Smith of Omaha led the fight for pasage of the bill. He showed that at the county poor farm where the county is obliged to hire help, inmates are fed on an average of 30 cents a day while with trusties doing the work the sheriff is allowed JO cents a day for county prisoners and 75 cents a day for fed eral and state prisoners. State pris -.oners kept in the Douglas county jail the last two years cost the state $10,000. ' Spite-Work Charge. Representative Elsasser, G. R Col lins and G.'S. Collins led the fight to kill the bill. They asserted spitework was behind the measure and denied knowing that the sheriff of Douglas county is making thousands addi tional from feeding prisoners. Ed Smith asserted the regular -salary of the sheriff was $4,000 per year that he makes $2,500 annually from mileage and $2,000 annually, from a store he runs in which he sells articles to prisoners. Representative Theodore Osterman, democrat floor leader, stood valiantly behind Smith in his fight. “It shouldn't he a political ques tion," Osterman said. "If the sheriff isn’t making any money from these prisoners 1 should think his one am bition would be to remove the charge that he was and instead of fighting this bill as he has, he should be fight ing to get it passed. Entires' Faint "False." “’the very idea of anyone making money from cutting rations of an'nn fortunate is obnoxious to an Ameri can. The argument that this will crip- 1 pie him i nenforrtng law is false. "This bill doesn't touch law en forcement in his office. It gives him the right to order and feed these men i what he desires, and the only differ ence Is that the hills are paid by the i (Turn to Page Three, ( nltimn Two.) Senate May Block Bryau Ap|>ointee Governor Seeks Gonfirmatioii of Will H. Smith a* 'lax <-. ml moun,'' In the ley mlature urging development ami con trol of the water power resource* by the elate. 1,1'llilio (Flowing Willed. flign, April Si.—Th* <«»itdUUm »»i Pm* i•»!«*« 1‘ iiliu* i f Iturtftia. In ifipldly grow low WOtmv H« • .’I'llUlW lo tltlvlt t»>» ItHIt It I mg iK-it* luda; Sprung a Leak Again GIMME TWE PLUMBER THAT PUT THIS JOB ! in. . ^MIGRAJVO*/ Memorial to Vi ar He roes Dedicated General Pershing Speaks at l meiling of Bronze Tab let at Lincoln. Lincoln. April 3 —Getr. John J. Pershing delivered the dedicatory ad dress Monday afternoon at the un veiling of a bronze tatdet and planting of trees In "Memorial avenue" In Antelope park in honor of the 93 Lancaster county tuen and women who gave their lives in the world war. General Pershing Stressed the fitting example of a living tribute to the dead and praised the valor and cour age of America's men and women w ho fougty for democracy, with particular tribute to those who gnve their lives. Mrs. W. W. Whitfield, president of the Lincoln Woman's club. Introduced General Pershing and the speech of acceptance was made by Mayot U. Zehrung. The bronze tablet, bearing the names of Lancaster county's fall en heroes, was the gift of the Woman's club. Ninety-three trees were planted, one for each of the soldier dead. Legionnaires In uniform planted the trees and are to stand sponsors for them. 6 Ex-Bulgarian Cabinet Members Cet Life in Pen Kt The I'rrw Sofia. Bulgaria. April I—The su preme court has sentenced to life .mprisnfcment, six members of the Uadoslsvoff cabinet which held of fice at the time of Bulgaria's entry into the European war. They are: Vaseil Radoatavoff, former premier and minister of the interior. Dimitri Tontchcf. minister of fl nance. rierre Peshef. minister of public in structions. Dr. P. Dlntcheff, minister of agri culture. Ivan Popoff minister of justice I)obry Petkoff, minister of public works. General Nalilenoff. former minister of war. was sentenced to 15 years Im prisonment and five other generals from 5 to 10 years. The convicted men were ordered to pay war damages amounting to 700.000 lire. 2 Texas Stork Men Shoot to Death 2 Inspectors Koit Worth. Tex April J.—Tom Rum, 40. and Will Oonr. Taylor continued his address N. Y. Crime Wave Broken by Cops Threatened Outbreak on Faster Checked by Po lice \ iptlance. i “ New York. April 2.—Police . ffi rials, with th«> city's force still work ing overtime, declarer! today they ha.l broken the crime wave which struck New York last week. The increased body of patrolmen and doubled pre (•autiotis will be continued for a time, t was announced. Police Commission er Knrlght was reported home from Florida, ready to take charge of the 1 situation. A threatened widespread outbreak "f crime on Faster Sunday was check ed. the police aaid. through the de partment's preparations- Through lengthened working hours, curtail inent of holidays the addition of clert cal officers to patrol duty and the use of all of the city's detectives on the streets, the force wm increased an estimated one-third. Several arrests were made yester day, some of them after the police had engaged In fights with criminals. The most spectacular-Incident of the day was the pursuit of two supposed ftrr thieves through Riverside drive, in front of the home of Charles M I Schwab, with thousands of gall' dressed Faster parade is scampering to safety in an endeavor to escape possible shooting. The two were (aught with three of their tampan : ions. The police said the five had lust stolen many thousands of dollars' I worth of furs, most of which w ere i eoovered Ho\ Siinos Family of Four From Death by Drowning Tacoma, Wash.. April J —The lives of Mr. and Mrs, Hen Welch and their ! two children of Oyster Hay. were saved Sunday evening bv Clifford Roundtree, 16, who rescued them from drowning. A launch carrying the Welch family took fire a quarter of i a mile fiVtn the shore and the family look to the water Clinging to the gunwales .they were picked lip by ! Roundtree, who was out in a boat, i just in lime. Turk Asspiiihly to Dissolve. An Korn. April The Turklah n* I tionnl nunemhly ha* voted to dissolve. New election* will he held In two toon tl»» The dissolution proposal «.u a got ernment motion and Ms adoption i« r»Ki«rdert a* hnvlng strengthened t|^e po*.liton of Mustaphn Kemat Pasha «t this Juncture. The present assembly will continue | to function until tha elections are [Jiald. Thu peace negotiation* mean while will proceed. It la expected (he Turklah reply to the allied communl < ntlor# with regard to the m ar east t egottntion* will hi* delivered hy the i rtid - probably ahowara a ml cott ar Hour!) Temperature* A ft m Aft A ft m U 7 ft. Mt A4 A ft . Mt AA A ft. m A1 I# ft m A* 11 • Mi Mt !« M»mu At | I |». 111 HI t I*, m >4 ) |i m M « ft '4 ft p. HI VI .« |* HI > M 1pm II II » Uncle Sam to Condemn Pacifists War Department Preparing Strong Statement Declaring So-Called Peace Societies * Menace to Country. Fries Offends Women _ Bv 1 uJvrfMl Strri^. Washington. April 2.—The War de partment will issue a strong state ment in a few days, declaring that certain so-called peace societies aie a menace to the country, it wae learned today. One of these societies, the National tjouncll for the Prevention of War, is so close to the War department bilildtng that a miniature war will be waged across the street. The Women's International league for Peace and Freedom, a branch of the above named organization, will come in for considerable of the War department's epistolary darts, be cause of its activities, which army officials consider misguided and dangerous These societies are planning some "warfare" of their own, Frederick J. Libby, executive secretary of the national council, declared. "We welcome any facts the War department may have, and hope a wide distribution will be given them. We say let the people have the facts and they can judge." Gathering Data. , The department, it is understood, is busy getting its data together. The showing will Include charts and a comparison of the military establish ments of this country and the coun tries of militaristic Europe and Japan population comparisons and othei pertinent matters. Brig. Gen. Amos A. Fries, chief of the chemical warfare service, de livered a speech Sunday night in Baltimore by which he added fuel to the smouldering embers in this situa tion. The national council tent a letter recently to Secretary of War Weeks protesting against speeches made by Fries in which he charged that the council was the vehicle of ommunism in America. Secretary Weeks replied that he could not undertake to censor the oplnicgis $if army officers, delivered unofficially. Kaps Women's league. In his Baltimore speech. Fries :» alleged to have charged that the Women's International League of Peace and Freedom exacted the fol iowering oath of members. • Believing that true peace can only be secured through reconciliation and good -will, and that no cause justifies the organired destruction of human life. I urge immediate and universal disarmament and promise never to t aid in ar.y way the prosecution of war.'' The women's league has sent to Fries a demand for retraction of these sentiments, and he is requested to retract when he next speaks, Tues day night in Columbus. It claims that this clause was adopted in another form by the women's peace society of New York. This society is said to be a smaller organ.ration, independent of the other two. The clause quoted, it was fur ther stated, was voted down In the recent convention of the national council. Fries is the army officer chosen to lay a barrage of oratory around the pacifistic groups. The controversy promises to develop a sensation, since it has been simmering under the sur face a long time. Kieagles of Northwest Hold District Poww ow Walla Walla. Wash.. April f—On« hundred and eight kieagles of the Ku Khix Klan opened a northwest district convention here today. L. E. Powell of (Seattle. k,ng kleagle of the northwest. presided and Fred L. Of ford of Portland, grand dragon ot Oregon, was present. The kleagle* came from Washington. Oregon, Idaho and Hawaii. It w.vs announced that a parade in full regalia would be held on the city streets, if permission could be obtained from city authorities. The convention will continue three days, with a •'naturalixation" cere mony Tuesday night, when a local class cf fOO will then be admitted to membership. The imperial grand lecturers from Atlanta, are here at present. Grand Kleagle Powell announced that the ' next meeting would be held n Spokane next month. Political Hatred Blamed for Murder of Investigator Chicago, Apr.I I.—Revenge bred ot IHilirtcal hatreds was held responsive today for the murder of Theodors Ktrsch. a private investigator for State's Attorney throws Cash and jewelry approximating II.WH’ lh value was left untouched and discredited robbery theories Klrsch was shot through the heart in a cigar store he pentad No ore saw the kill'.;’v done. Great State Petroleum Company 1* Indicted New York, April t — A federal grand jury returned an Indictment today against th* (treat State Petro leum Company. Inc., of Texas and ’ 10 individual* charged with using th* mail* to defraud Investor* in thw *t,H-k of th* corporation Th* oc. I>oration is eapjtahned at l.v.fTO.OM. l.iner Battered by Storm. Halifax. April 7 -Th* Whit* Star liner Pittsburgh, with 740 paaeengei* aboard, arrived h*r* today haitly damaged, after having been buried under thousands of ton* »f water *00 mile* *a*t nf Sable i**t Kri,t*\ Om tain Thome* June* was badly cut b> #U»» and*a thud vtfivvr Ui.uted.