The Omaha Morning Bee _
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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
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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
<Commissioner.
kv r. c. rowKM..
Muff < nrrH|HMNleitt The Oltwlift ll,,e.
I.incoln. -April 2 —While the public
At large has, rjot heard much of tlie
controversy over the appointment of
Will H Smith of Seward as state tax
commissioner, to succeed W. 11. Os
borne. and the governor's request for
confirmation of this appointment by
the senate. It is a much discussed
proposition In political circles.
Three days ago the governor sent
Smith's name to the senate for con
firmation. Henntor Charles L,. Harm
ders asked to have action delayed.
Since then the governor's request has
been gathering dust In a pigeon hole.
Word has gone out from the gov
ernor's office that ail the ' faithful
and hopeful" must put their shoul
ders to the wheel and force confirma
tion.
There are two other Important bits
of legislation to be ground out In l he
senate. One is the Mathers key hill
reposing in the senate miscellaneous
j subject committee imd^jbesother ts
i the *10,000,000 soldiers' Ismus bill,
«hif h has been unofficially killed In
the senate finance committee after It
bad passed the house by an nlraost
unanimous vote. Official action on
tills bilj will be taken Tuesday, in
the house the blanket appropriation
bill probably will be under considera
tion for many days.
Klther today or tomorrow t lie
I noughts county sheriff's feeding bill Is
I to he considered.
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Half of Partridge, Kan.,
Wrecked by Tornado
Hutchinson, Kan., April 2. — Ac
cording to reports here, a tornado
struck Partridge, this county, at 6:30
this evening. Half of the village is re *
ported to have blown away, and sev
eral persons hurl.
_I
P -no, Nev., April 2.—Air mail ser
'o and from San Francisco was
ff by the storm in the Sierra
( mountains today.
- ,ot Winslow, on Ills third attempt
. get nver the Sierras to San Fran
cisco, was swept hack by a wind so
powerful, he said, that it drove him
back, although his engine was run
■ling at full speed.
Bandits Raid
U. S. Mails in
Two Cities
Hold lip Truck in St. Louis,
Mo., and Get 9 Pouches—
Stage Gun Battle in
Springfield. III.
II.v International News Service.
Banditry that fully equaled deeds
on the wild C. I’, trail and tiie hard
boiled Yukon flared up In the metro
politan middle west Monday out of the
smoke of barking .45’s and red spit
ting shot guns.
l|oot, whose value was estimated in
the hundreds of thousands, was ob
tained liy six outlaws who held lip a
St. Ixiuis mail truek at dawn. This
followed a spectacular- raid on a Chi
cago & Alton mail train in Spring
field, 100 miles distant, where shoot
ing resembling a miniature Custer
massacre preceded the theft of six
mail sacks.
In each instance the desperadoes
were killers believed to lie members
of St. lamis and Chicago gangs,
whose murder and thievery extend to
Kansas City, the Springtlclds of Mis
souri and Illinois, and other cities.
By International News Service.
St. Louis, Mo., April 2.—Six inch
in an automobile staged a daring
holdup of a government mail truck
here early today and escaped with
nine registered mail pouches cnnlain
ing large sums of money.
Postal authorities cannot estimate
the amount taken until a check ig .
made.
The robbery occurred in the down
town district of the city A chauf -
feur and guard on the mail truck were
locked in the cage of the machine
when the bandits commandeered it.
The truck was then driven to the
river district where the nine mall
hags were taken from the cage and
loaded into the bandits' car.
Authorities announced that the
amount taken may run into the bun
dfeds of thousands of dollars as the
mail w-ac for distribution among busi
ness houses.
fieneral Alarm Sounded.
Largo amounts of cash and money
orders are contained in the mails on
the first of the month.
A general alarm was wounded for
the apprehension of tho bandits, who
aped away in their machine.
The robbery occurred ut 6:20 o'clock
this morning, an hour « hen the river
district is practically deserted.
Adrain '.i. Dorlac. messenger, and
Edward M. Cunningham, chauffeur,
were in command of the truck. Both
were armed with .45 calibre pistols.
According to both, the robbers drove
up from the rear and covered them be
fore they had a chance to reach for
their guns.
Springfield, 111., April I — Mall
bandits fought a lwttle with guard*
and police here vest* rilay and escaped
„f corn the Chicago A Alton railroad
depot with six bags of mail. One
bandit was captured. More than 5*
shots were exchanged.
The raid was spectacular and dar
Ing. James Harney, driving a inuil
(Turn 1‘iisr Tno. (ohUm Six.)
Crowd Cries for Lynching
of Motorist Who killed 2
Los Angelos^ April 2—Police, with
drawn revolvers, kept back a crowd
of several hundred who menaced
Markers Carter nfter Ms automobile
! had run down and killed Mrs. <1. Har
rison. 35. and her daughter. May. 9
The crowd was crying, "Lynch
him! Lynch him!' when police rein
' foroements arrived arid took Carter to
i a police station
Carter declared he sounded his horn
| to warn two men who failed to move
To avoid Striking them, he swerved
I his tar ami did not see Mrs. Hafri
son and her daughter, who, he as
! sorted, stepped directly Into the path
j of his machine.
31,250.000 Bond Issue Is
killed hy Lower House
Special IMaputrh to The Omaha Use.
I.inroln, April 2,—The lower house
of tlie stale legislature today hilled
the Tiiiinio hill. This bill provided
for submission of s $1,250,000 bond
issue lo the voters of Ihiuglas county
en enlarge the court Imtise society
and county oftices could lie housed hi
the same building. Provision was
made lit the measure for renting part
of the proposed new addition to file
county building to private ofllers and
stores.
\. Y. (juvcrtinr Advorul*1"
IW of Water •Hfsourt’fe
Albany, April". la . taring that the
, St lAwrrlii* ami Niagara river* are
liepable of fnrniehlnc sutllrlent elec
I tri al power for the need* of every
j rouble nt of the elate, and that Hie on
ergy euaily can be tiaoeinltlnl to
every municipality, Oovernor Htr.lth
line Hi nt a e|><-. 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
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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 Oon<l. t'Oth stock
men nt Hrownflald. Terry county, sre
In Jail At Hom In ole following the shoot
ing to death last night of 11. I, Rober
son and W. I* Allison, inspector* of
the Texas anti Southwestern Tattle
Kaisers association The double kill
ing took place In the lobby of a hotel
nt Seminole.
Both men were held for murder.
Federal Farm t.oan Hoard
Falls Honda for Redemption
Washington. April The federal
farm loan hoard totlav railed for re
demption May 1 of all outstanding
bonds of the 12 farm loan banks Is
sued May 1. li»1* The total of the
issue by the 12 banks is $55,032,000.
“Fas'’ bp I bent at Houston.
Houktnn, 1V\ , April 2 —Uas.dlne
prices lndny were advanced In Hou
ston 1 cent ft gallon, the new price
brink Sll cents retail.
I Milas, Tvs April 2 - t lusoltne
price* In 1 Iftll.'is Increased from t to
I cents per Million over Sunday, lielng
■lUOteU yduy gl flout is to 22 vents
Radio Fan Starts Cough
Drop Fund for Audience
Chicago. April 2—The address of
Dr. Robert Bruce Taylor of Queens’
university. Quebec, lieforc the Sunday
Evening club here last night was in
terrupted by the arrival of a uniform
ed messenger with a note and 23 cents
from a radio listener to ' start a fund
for cough drops for the audience."
The program was being set at
naught for the distant audience hy
the whooping and sneering of the as
semblage. the fan said. The fund was
augmented by the visible audience
and r>r. 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 <el this w cok.
May Be Cousin to
Famous Feudist
Smith With "Y" or ‘T One
Question in Colonial Com
pany Trial.
Did ' Richard Smith, who lived
something more than a century ago
in what is now West Virginia, spell
his name ‘ Smith" or “Smyth"?
This may be an important point in
the trial of 15 men in federal court
on charges of using the mails to de
fraud in flotation of the colonial
Timber & Coal corporation here in
1919.
After W. K. Morrison, jt of the
land office at Charleston, W. V«„ had
testified yesterday that the Richard
Smith lands were forfeited for non
payment of taxes in 1S4S. the defense
attorneys declared that the man on
whom the Colonial concern bases its
claim to the land spelled his name
with a “y." Morrison was instructed
to look up the record* further.
Tolliver Hatfield of Madison. W.
Vn.. agent for 14 900 acres Included
in the TOO.000-acre tract, testified that
in hi* judgment Su.OOQ people dwell
upon the 700.000 acre* today
On cross examination E R. Ferry
demanded of the calm, imperturable
witness.
"Are you any relation to Sid Hat
field'"
“Well, theh's a tol'able lot of Sid
Hatfields in Vi glnia."
•'I mean the illustrious Sid Hatfield
of the feud "
“Reckon I am some relation." said
the witness
Private Slays Sergeant'*
\\ ife. Then Commits Suicide
K1 Paso. Tex . April Private
John S <!. Anderson. 41. of Fort
Rliss, shot to death Mi-* Christopher
Cudmore, ?4. wife of a master ser
geant at the post, this afternoon.
After killing the woman. AndOrson
ran half a mile and then ended his
own life, according t • officers at the
post. Private Anderson's home was
in Homer. 'la Sergeant Cudmore's
is in Washington, P. C.
officers said they were Investigating
two possible theories for the double
killing, one Private Anderson's san
Hy, and the other a possible secret
courtship
The shooting took place In Cud
mores quarter* at the post
\ ictorian “Pork Pie” Hal?
Now Modish in l.omht))
l.ondon. April ?—Women are to
wear the "pork pie" hats and poke
bonnets of the ’TO* and ‘SO* this
Spring, aorording to the Latest fashion
displays
The reintroductioiK of the crino
line and other modes of the nineteenth
cantllO l" said to be responsible for
the new hats which are completely
different in shape from those of last
season.
Every one is different, some having
flowers on them, while others have
wide, old fashioned ribbon work.
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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.
