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t * THE < >MAHA ty ORNING DEE YOL. 52—NO. 249. P. Art1'^ *"%»! OMAHA, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 4, 192:}. * S^T,1,1 ’"h*rSV..,* Vril^'lhT1uu£ TW0 CENTS " c^.c\ZHZu'" SOVIET PUTS PRELATE TO DEATH Steel Works in Essen at Standstill Krupp Workmen Strike for 21 Hours in Protest of Kill ing of Fellows by French Troops. , Public Funeral Planned fly Ynlversal Service. Essen, April 3.—Since 10 this morn ■* ing the big Krupp works have been at n standstill, owing to a protest strike of the workmen, who went out for 24 hours. Work will be resumed tomorrow. In a statement issued by the-Krupp management, it was denied that re volvers were carried by their work men Saturday, when the French troops entered the plant to requisition automobiles. It was also denied that the work men threatened the French soldiers vvith live steam. The statement said that exhaust steam from switch en gines working in the yard entered the windows when the wind was in i hat direction, but that there was no ether escaping steam. Public Kunernl Planned. A public funeral service will be con ducted next Saturday for the 11 Ger , mans who were shot at the Krupp plant Saturday by the French. The private funerals and buiials will be held tomorrow. Herr Krupp von Behlen, husband of Bertha Krupp and head of the Krupp works, denied that he would leave Essen. "The lie has already been circulated that I have left Essen,” said Von Behlen. “I am still here and am going to stay where I can be with my men. They stuck to me and I 'hall stick to them.” Will Defend Directors. The Krupp management Is prepar ing a defense for the four directors who were arrested by the French, charged with inciting the men to at ;ack the French in the affray which ' ’’occurred about the motor lorry garage ;it the big plant. Germans who Investigated the ground where the shots were fired declared that the walls of the build ings opposite the garage were riddled vvith bullets, the firing of the French having been done from tho inside of that structure. The investigation showed, it was declared, that practic ally all of the bullets were from ma chine guns. The French declare that the soldiers fired only when they feared they were to be attacked by an overwhelming force of Germans. Lineman Killed on His First Job by Touching Live Wire *P*m4*I Disprtteb to The Omnba Bee. i York, Xeb., April 3.—Fred Swan ■ son. 30, was killed this morning while working on a transmission line north of York. He had Just be gun work for the X'ebraska Gas and Electric company. ■Swanson climbed a pole. He had beep cautioned by the foreman about a live wire on which no work was being done. Swanson came in con tact with this Wire and fell to the ground. Efforts to resusciate him failed. Svvabson who lived In Osceola, haves a wife but no children. His parents live in Sweden. Train Conductor Cremated - in Cloverleaf Kreigbt Wreck Toledo, O., April 3.—J. Flickinger, ionductor of a terminal tank train, is believed dead and Ms body incin orated beneath a mass of burned v. rerkage following collision of a Cloverleaf freight train and n terml i.al train made up of oil tankers. Three other‘trainmen—J. Wahling, a liagman; A. TV. Thomas, engineer. ■ nd W. Farris, flremun, were prob ably fatally Injured as tlie result of scalds and other hurts. The wreck occurred when the Cloverleaf freight, traveling at high speed, plowed through the wooden caboose of the \- rmlnal train. Arctic Explorer Surrenders on’ Charges of Oil b rauds Port Worth, Tex., April 3-—Dr. Frederick A. Cook, former Arctic ex plorer and now extensive oil promoter, - 'trrendered to federal authorities to day on a charge of using the mails to , . fraud In Ills oil promotions. He was • reused of misrepresenting his prop erties and possibilities to investors. This charge Is similar to one upon which 23 other promoters are being reused. Dr. Cook is at the head of the Petroleum Producers’ association. Prominent Odd Fellow, Former Mayor of Huron. Dies Huron, S. D., April 3.—Harvey J. k I'ico, grand secretary of the odd h el 1 lows of South Dakota, and six times mayor of Huron, died today after a 1 ,ng illness. Rice was a poHt grand i niHter of Masonry In Booth Dakota and served ns state railroad com missioner under Governor Melleme. Man Perishes in Fire. . . Lancaster, Pa-, April 3. One man * -*«.is burned to death and *200,000 L •• property damage was caused hy Are ' which Monday destroyed part of the Rowe Motor company's plant. Mon roe Getst, who attempted to drive machines from the gor ge while the flames were at their height, was over come by smoke, ills charted body jfi»a recovered. 4 Spanish Ministry to Remain in Power j By Associated Prwi. Madrid. April 3.—The king today i expressed confidence in the ministry j of the marquis of Alhucemas, when j the resignation of the cabinet was ; tendered him. Tn consequence of this, the ministry remains^ in power, with the exception of the minister of finance. Jose Manuel Pedregnl. Earlier in the day, the premier, Marquis de Halcumas, Conferred with ! the king for two hours, pre- ! sumably concerning the cabinet cri sis. After the conference, the pre mier informed correspondents that complete harmony prevailed in the cabinet relative to the Moroccan pol icy, and that any reasons there might have been for the resignation of the war minister had been removed. The premier added that the Spanish episcopate's manifesto opposing any constitutional change with regard to religious matters, would he discussed later. A dispatch from Madrid said minis terial difficulties were rumored, espe cially because of the reported inten tion of the government to reform the paragraphs of the constitution dealing with the concordat with the Vatican. Another rumor was to the effect that the war minister was dissatisfied over the settlement reached by the cabinet for establishment of a civil protector ate in Morocco. Chiropractic Bill Is Advanced After . Battle in Senate Solons Reverse Intention to Cast Measure Aside on Rick ard's Motion—To With draw Bank Tax Bill. Lincoln, April 3.—The senate in committee of the whole advanced the so-called standard requirement chiro practic bill to third reading after a brisk fight. The measure was doped out for the graveyard, hut on Rick ard's motion the senate reversed itself and finally advanced the bill by the close vote of 14 to 11. Other bills killed were: H. R. 453, by Elsasaer—Allows em-1 ployes to sue employe! , for com pen-1 sation under comm oil law’ If latter! does not have liability Insurance as provided by etatute. 3. P. 177, by McGowan—Gives state fire warden greater authority over, rooming houses and movie theaters. S. P. 188, by McGowan and Warner —Gives same official power to en force rules for handling of gasoline, including filling stations. H. R, 255, by Bock—Making minor amendments to co-operative law. Attorney General Spillman has In formed members of the senate bank ing committee that efforts to enact legislation to collect the full 1923 bank, assessments as interpreted by the tax commissioner, which were recently knocked out by » supreme court d( cision, will prove futile. Asa result it is expected that a hill introduced for this purpose wUl be withdrawn. The senate finance committee has decided to report out H. K. 318 which accepts the offer made the state of Arbor Lodge »t Nebraska Pity fur a state pork. Man Held Guilty of Fraud oil Women Missing 10 Years Atlanta, Ga., April 3.—Victor K. Tnnos, charged with defrauding the Nelms sisters through the mails, wns found guilty by a Jury !n federal court and sentenced to serve five years In the penitentiary and to pay a line of 22,000. innes' alleged victims—Mrs. Ekils Nelms Dennis and her sister, Leattloe Nelms—disappeared from their home In Han Antonio. Tex., 10 years ago. Four Sisters Are Burned in Home; One Is Dead St. Louis, April 3.—An ag»d wom an was burned to death, another probably fatally burned and a third woman suffered slight burns when ! fire partly destroyed a two-story brick | residence hero today. The four women, 1 residents of the house, were sister*.' Miss Elizabeth Nicholson, who was | fatally burned, was SI. Her young | cst sister, Mrs. Lucy Lindsay, 01, Is ] near death In a hospital. ; Six Japanese Boys Lost in Hawaiian Volcano (.'rater Wallnku, Hawaii, April 3.—A 48 | hour search has as yet failed to reveal , a trace of six Japanese boy* lost In Mlie rrater of Haleukala volcano. A i party of 100 1* making a search for the boys. Grave fears are held for j'heir safety because of the trenien i dou* rain since Haturday, accompanied I by a cold wave. Democrats WinChicar. El It'* ^ 1 0 a! V* Incomplete Returns Give Judge Dever 100.000 Ma jority Over Lueder for Mayor. Polling Is Very Quiet Chicago, April 3.—Judge William E. Dever, democrat, was elected mayor of Chicago today by a plurality of more than 100,000 votes over Arthur C. Lueder. republican, in one of the quietest elections In the city's history. Into office with him went a democrat city clerk and a democrat city treas urer. With unoffi.-ial returns from 1.630 precincts of 2,061, Dever had a lead of slightly over 100,000, tho figures being: Dever, 323.505; Lueder, 222,493; William A. Cunnea, socialist. 32,083. With but 400 precincts missing, it was estimated that slightly less than 700,000 of Chicago's 905,000 voters had gone to the polls. Elections Quiet. While the election was quiet, it set a record in one respect. Less than 30 minutes after the polls closed, the trend w'as to be seen with the first return and an hour after the polls closed it was definitely known that Judge Dever had won. While Judge Dever has rolled up an immense plurality, it will not reach the record made by Mayor Wil liam Hale Thompson in 1915, when he won by 147,477 votes. In 1919. however. Thompson's plurality was cut to 21,622 votes. The withdrawal of Mayer Thomp son from the vace prior to the Feb ruary primary robbed the campaign of wdiat was expected to he one of its main issues, the merits of the Thomp son administration. Mayor Thompson withdrew front the race for a third term after anti-Thompsion republican factions had^ formed a coalition and selected Lueder as a standard bearer. Mayor Thompson and his organization took no active part In the campaign, and the man to which the supiiort of the organization would go had been problematical. Charge Thompson Support. Today, at republican headquarter*, leaders charged that Mayor Thomp son's organization had swung almost solidly to the support of Judge Dever. Judge Dever was horn in Massa chusetts in 1862 and came to Chicago in 18*7. being later admitted to the bar. He served several terms as al derman. and In 1910 was selected ft Judge of the superior court of Cook county, being re elected in 191(1 and again last June, ife had also served as presiding Justice in the main ap pellate court for the northern district of Illinois. Tho campaign, Hke the election, was quiet and aroused little of the Interest that has lieen ■ mani fested in former elections. The two candidates made a business adminis tration for the city their chief cam paign cry. Dlttle of the personalities of former elections entered into the campaign. The lack of excitement was mani fest in today's voting. Despite bail weather, the voters went to the polls early and it was estimated that over (it) per cent of the vote had been cast before noon. While there were a few reports of disorder, including fights, eluggings and kidnnpings of election watcher*, and each side preferred charges of illegal voting in certain precincts, the election was unusually free from the many acts of lawless ness that have characterized elections in other years. fi. O. P. Mice Is Congressman. Mlule the democrats took the honors |p the city election, tho re publicans were winners In the election In the second congressional district to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative James It Mann. Morton D. Hull, republican, had a lead of over 8,500 with 175 precincts out of 35.7 reporting. The vota from these precinct* was: Hull, 28,885: Barratt O'Hara, democrat. 20.199. Keyniour Htedman, socialist, •had 2.6R9 votes. One of the surprise* of (he may oralty campaign wns the vote given to William A. Ctinnea, so< tallst candi date. who It was estimated would get close to 40,000 votes, the largest vote (he socialists have mustered befory being in tho neighborhood of 38.000. Besides the mayor, city clek and treasurer, 20 aldermen were also elected today cm a nonpartisan ticket, Nol«‘«l Raman Outlaw Dim. Coffeyvllle, Kan., April 3—Albert Conner, noted Kansas and Oklahoma outlaw, died In the city Jail today from bullet wound* received In an attempt ed robbery here March 24. Learn How To— Plan, Decorate, Furnish Your Home at The Omaha Bee's Better Homes Exposition APRIL 30—MAY 5 Lectures Exhibits Demonstrations Avenged His Sister Is Defense of Slayer . — i . * 7- phis, Tenn., April 3.—Frank r ,, wlio is in jail here charged rder in connection with the „ yesterday of Keystone .Jack ..ritton, middleweight hover, told of ficers that he had, sought Britton con- I tinuously since Friday when his 17-' year-old sister told him that the pu gilist had wronged her, until lie fireil two loads from a shotgun into the man's body, when he drove up In their home yesterday. Johnson Repeats His Charg es at Capitol Inquiry Engineer Says Goodhue Negli gent and Incompetent — Commission Should Take Blame, Says Head. By PAl'I, GREER, 'I«rr < iirropoiiilrnt The Omaha lire. Lincoln, April 3.—Bertram CS. Good hue, designer of Nebraska's new state capitol, was placed on the rack again today. George E. Johnson, former state engineer and examiner of the capitol commission, repeated his charges of negligence and incompe tency before the Joint legislative in vestlgating committee. At tomorrow's session Mr. Goodhue will lie given the opportunity to reply. It is difficult to understand till* con troversy, and more difficult still to • xplaln it. The proceedings outwardly bear the appearance of a feud be tween the architect ami the engineer. Opinion differs in Lincoln between the view that Johnson is protecting the interests of the people of the state ,,r venting some personal spite. On the one hand there is 313,000 reduction in the cost of stone on the first unit of tho building that he has saved, with a possibility of the saving reaching 345.000 on the three units together. On tiie other hand is the intense hit terness, tile hatred and insult which lie shows toward tlie architect, who is undeniably one of the fori most men In hie line. May Ruin Goodhue. Borne say that the whole proceeding is an outrage which may result in the breakdown of Goodhue and leave him tumble to carry out his plans. Others say that tho delay that has tieen oc eaeloned by the dispute will coet the state more than can be saved. Walter W. Head, a member of the capitol commission, stated today that contractors may besitAte to bid on the next two units of the structure. If they feel that they are to be held up, he said, they will put a heavy al lowance for such difficulties In their bids. Mr. Head probably summed up the whole matter when he declared for I the witness i Jnd that Goodhue is a better architect than he ia a Imei ness man. "The states contract with M 'Goodhue provides a yearly sal.tr.. f 123.000 until the capitol is completed.' Mr. Head stated. "While the evi dence may Indicate that the architect has lieen a wee bit extravagant, It ..« not his fault, hut tho commission's. We have all made mistakes, discov ered errors and profited hy them In experience. Always we have relied on Mr. Johnson for advice. There 1 ia never a time that T have not voted 1 naeeord with Mr. Johnson's recoro j mendathins. Is lletler \reliitccf. "It is not that the architect dm s j not understand his job, but that Im | is a better architect thnn a bust ! ness man. In rny view, wo are not ; paying his one cent to advise us on how to get the pltnuhing or other ' contracts, and the commission bus never allowed It self to lie influenced against its betler Judgment. Tho salary paid the architect s not for t advising when or w here, or liow much to pay for construction work, hut for carrying out his wonderful plan "1 have absolute confidence in M Goodhue as an architect I think him a great genuis. The state ami Go taxpayers are to )>• congratulated | that he was chosen. "By my lack of knowledge In con I slrutelon work. It has been necessary for me to depend cm the advice of Mr. Johnson and others We have l gone throughly Into nil contracts and 1 have endeavored to obtain the best j lor the least money. All the decisions "f tho capitol commission have been ! made by u unanimous vote. I have j never heard anyone rai l' any o ne lion in our mattings, and Mr. John son was a member. If tin rh.iigis hi idans of which he now complains, i were costly to the state. I am one of 'he men to blame, not the nrclil l eel.'1 Johnson'* Advice Tal.cn. In response from a <i- t|, . in Mr. Head. Mr. Johnson admitted that Hi* commission hart novel- gone con trary to his advice "What I maintain (a (hat my supervision should never have la-co necessary, "Mr. Johnson maiitlalned. "The architect ts supposed l A he the ndvlerr of the capItol conimts'-loM It looks to me like a man drawing tic salary of Mr. (loodliue, and with the espet't advice he has hired, should protert the state and not give con tractors the advantage Mr. Johnson declared that tin com mission should cease to roly on Mr Ooorhues advice In . a u se It found he wna no! dependahh At this Mi IIsad end W. It. Thomt.. of (Irand Tslnndf another nn nih. i of the min mission, broke In to •my thnl Mr. Johnson was not spooking for them. "It Is not niy purpose to enter Into any misunderstanding lieiwren Mi Johnson slid Mr. Uoudhur." .Mi Mead llmln'M l‘s(s Ten, luluum ll And Here We’ve Been Wishing All the Time That We Were a Millionaire / SHOT &y GeAur/rc/c ' AfODgf fits / ^ALOOSy £V£7P i /4VMEGOOS Ibvsir TO OE Ca,{/Se_\1 •SA'l — « T#*/n TZ^OW 4 _Sjggf* TP f VJE'll wave TO BUY A Nt* GAS :twi >. 40ME DAY ^ ^ - 1 'AlISM VJE COui-0 * PPORO A, Mt'f( yipuepor j FOUUD XKD UNSE* FM4iViL \ scurry's QousyR I s Ma&n/nux uucklEC&w M / Run biokek A j ' °* **tor*tt/v£«j 7- /yf *TOU K'kO'*-' , THE BEN^ IS , | j PAST it* ' ■_ "SRAliE GOD WMCA’ ^Ll.Ql-EJS'NC. --, Old Land Grants Come Into Case Covered Coa I Fields Called I »y Promoters Colonial Com pany Property. Judge C*. W. Camplifll of Hunting ton. IV- Va„ president of tlie pond Fork Railway company and tiualee of the big Cole & Crane ••state, testified yesterday in federal court at the trial • »f 15 ntpn in the Colonial Timber and Coal corporation case. He told of tarlous land grants of the ISth cen tury, im luding the Richard Smith grant of May 14, 17'JC and the DeWitt Clinton grant of February 19, 1796. The Colonial concern claim* title to 700,000 acres, Including put ts of these grants. Judge F. C Leftwii-li, a Hunting ton (W. Va.) attorney, explained that most of the lawyers bunk there are i ailed "Judge " because, when a regu larly elected judge is ill or alwent, an attorney is often • hosen to sit in a cave for a day or a week and is forever afterward called ‘'judge.'’ Judge I.cftwich told of the lease o( B,91* acres from 1907 to 1918 to J Price for 15 a year. Price was at liberty to farm or uae for grazing the entire acreage. "Hid lie pay you the 45 * year.’" inquired A W. JeiTerls. "I don't know." said the witness. Lasker Mated to Head Harding Publicity Men Vucusta, Un., April 3.—Preliminary Hhiuwiim between President Harding and Ills :idt isers over plans (nr 19?4 have already reached such a stage, it was learned today, t hat a virtual agn eincnt inis been readied that VI heit It. I.aslter, now chairman of tlio I lilted 'stales shipping board, will be director of publicity in live campaign for Mr. Harding's re eled ion. I.aslver will retire front file shipping board within Hie next !H) days, and sooner, if a satisfartory solution van Ire found for the government's ship ping problem. Have ^ ou Ever St'rn a Prairie Fire? Vit unforgettable description of Hie elemental rage of the (ire amt Hie struggle of men, Imrses ami wild life to survive its unbridled fury ts given h.v (lie great Nebras ka pod. .loliit (• Nrlhnrdt, on the editorial page today. Old set Iters will recall (lie prairie fires of early days Hint often swept the plain* lor a thousand mile* and before them millions of ntdinais amt many men perished. Their ter rible lirauty was only surpassed by their destructiveness. Neihardt inis given the story of the ele mental struggle in Words that tin other will ever ritual. The phe tioinruon itself Is gone forever, to live only In the pages of "The Song of Three Friends. Head if on tile editor ial page of The Omaha lice today a Land Off trials Given Orders to Put in h ull Hay at Their Offices sperlftl llUpalrli to The Omeha Be*. Washington. April J —Instruction l.ave been ’ssued by Secretary of the Interior Work that all registers, re ceivers and I'nltert States surveyor* general maintainiog offices at various points of the country shall devote their entire time during office hours (o Ihe transaction of the public busi ness. The action of the interior secretary was due to complaint* rec lived fiotn citizens who claimed that after travel Ing long distances undergoing consid erable expense to take up land ques tion* With the register. re< elver or surveyor general that they found them absent from their offices upon their arrival. In the hew direction* *enL out to land office officials Secretary Work said: "All ofti- ials of this department In eluding th< secret»r>. hold offV-o for the purpose of serving the people and of aiding them in (he transaction of business appertaining to the MU Office*. To this end, it 1.- desirable and necessary that officials devote their entire time during business liotiis to ihe duties of them several offices." Probe of Sugar Price Hire Is Ordered Speeded I p Washing ton. April 3—Order* were issued today by Acting Mtorney'Oen neral Seymour to speed up the gov eminent'a investigation of recent In creases in sugar prices It was said at tiie I'epartnient of Justice that evidence* gathered by investigators would he laid before President Hard ing when he returned from Florida, so he might determine th^ policy of the administration with respect to the prosecution of those i harge.1 with re sponsltitlity for price Increases, Grand Jury Probe of Capital Society Asked •Spokane. Wash. April 3—Com mittee workers of the local Womens Christian Teni|*ernnce I'nlon were busy today preparing petitions which will l>e circulated in larger cities of the Pacific coast asking for a federal grand Jury Investigation of charge* of alleged gambling and drinking in high society circles of Washington. I*, t'.. made by Mrs. Miles Poindexter wife of the former senator of this »tato and now ambassador to Peru Mother ami < Jiild Die Front Suffocation in Fire Newton. la. April 3 -- Mn \r thitr Watt. 3X. and her 3 vcar-old daughter. Mary, died from suffocation when their farm home near heie burned yesterday afternoon. Strikers W in Victory. Miidlsonvllie. K.\ , April 3 Mil ik ing civil miners in Christian, Webster and Hopkins counties claimed first victory Mondev when it was an mum rd tiie t'ltv foal company had met their demands and signed a one >enr contract, effective Tuesdav Seventy flv* men ai« effected Slirplus ^ orkers Mostly Shippers Lal»or Situation Not a» Batl in Oinalia a* Appears, Sa> s Coetello. Omaha itf unable to take i-aie of its -urpius labor for the first time in 10 year*. Employment agencits ate l>arked anil yet a canvass of tlv "lower east side" will show many workmen In overalls out of work. H. Costello,' labor agent, state* that although there are many men in Omaha who have no work the silna tion is not a* bad as it looks "Fifty per cent of them." he d-' dared, "are what is known as shi' ts*rs ' Today they're w illing to so west, tomorrow they'll want to go east. They'll go In any direction as long as they can get' their railroad fare paid. "The other half is made up of hard working men and youths who have saved a little money and have come to Omaha, w here there i* always some excitement. The rest is made up of a sprinkling of skilled mechanics." The general complaint of laborers ] who apply for farm work is that farmer* are "like apartment owner*." do not i are to have children of the laborer* on their hands Striking Musician* Ordered Bark to Place* New York. April J.—F. Paul Vaca relli. business agent of the Musicians Mutual Protective union whose mem bers in ihe Capitol amt Criterion mo tion picture theaters went on strike yesterday, directed ihe men to return to their orchestra pits last tught. A general strike among all theater musicians in the city was averted, however, Mr. Yacarelli. said, after a conference with representatives of the Vaudeville and Burlesque and Mana gers' association and a representative «f Ihe American Federation of Musi - Ians. The Weather Form* art. \N'f<liit'stU\ probably shower* An«l somewhat w.irnuu-. For ;*• horns stuilng ’ i iu Tuesday1 Tenipwitltirr HtghcMt, 4v lowest, SS, utsin, 4C nor ms!. 4*«. Tot si ni m* situ* JumintY 1, KtUtiu* Humidity. IVri'fitliigf, a*vrn * m, »*: soon. 4y rrwipil.ition, ln« Im h *ml lliimit whliv Total: .ftd. Totsl sine# Jsmtary- l 4*4. #xc***» l*?. Hourly Tempera! urr* ' « wt 14 I ft. s» ft s. *»» .11 1 a. m . 4* 1 a. m 11 I ft. m .,.4? 1 s. •«» 11 4 i* n» . 4S • * *»» .... W % t*. m . IS !l M. S« , 1? 4 |I. m .... 4; II * m 4# ? |». m . . 4A tl tniH»nl 41 1 I*, m 14 Nr port* From Mai ions at ; |\ \|. < Imfwni' ”4 I'urMo I! I •MvcoiM.it 111 Km|*M 4*4% .1* l‘rnm 14 vqina lr i • l*r* Mnltira III xhrridRti U I It % 44 xtmn 4 It* 4? 4? \ mIsmI me )4 i Ntitb run* si Sentence Executed by • J Moiisignor Butchkavitch, \ ic ar General in Russia. Pays With Life fur Opposing Red Government. Frotests Are Disregarded By AkMtciatrd Prfkk. Moscow. April 3.—Monsignor Con stant ine Botchkavitch. vicar general of the Roman Catholic church in Ru* sia. condemned to death for wilfully Apposing the soviet government, lia lieeii executed by a firing squad. The fate of the prelate, in doubt ince last Thursday, when his appeal lor clemency was denied, became known today when it was announce*! Inat the death sentence had been cat lied out last Saturday. The secrecy that surrounds soviet executions makes uncertain the cir cumstance® under which the sentence was carried out but it seems probable that Monsignor Butchkavitch was put to death in the Moscow prison for the * ondemned. to which he was remove.) ■after a reprieve was granted. Appeals from the outside wor’d which had poured in upon the soviet authorities had no effect in staying the hand of their executioners. Com petent opinion, indeed, is that even the breaking of diplomatic relation* by outside governments or a threat of war would not have moved the Mo*. nv officials from their course. Then last word in the case had been spoken, it appears, when they com mute*! to 10 years imprisonment th; death sentence upon Archbishop Ze- ■ ;.ak, convicted at the same time n* Vicar-Oeneral Butchkavitch. Prote*;* from all parts of the world were made against the execution of the deal' Hotnece, the American governmei.i joining In the appeals for clemency Protested by I nited State*. The protest of the American State department was based on humarita ran grounds and set for the "earnest hope" that the life of the vicar gen eral might be spared. Mouaigmr But. hkavitcb was father superior o{_the tThureh of St- Cath erine in Petrograd. He held the title of prelate to his holiness, granted be the pope for special service*. H* was 5i> years old. He came from an old and wealthy family of Polish ori gin. although he was a Russian citi zen. He was a conspicuous figure in the trial of the Catholic prelates ano priests at which he appeared bald headed, rosy faced and bespectacled i ;.r.d he bore himself with marked serenity throughout that ordeal, which esulted in death sentences for him self and Archbishop Zep'.iak and pri« cn terms for their IS fellow prisoners 'sentenced to Dfith i *: - .*r.tin» Bntchkavitch, vicar j, eraf . f the Roman Catholic church • Russia, was sentenced to death or March fS after he and 16 other prr lat»s, including Archbishop Jlepliak. l rnrn to rage light, t olitmn One) Boy Flunks Mental Tost: Fat e* Deportation From l . >. New Y. i k, April 3—Sammy Cob man. 16. S' racti'.- «chooi boy. Mon.i.' i unked his third mental test at El! ■ island and his deportation to Runia r.ia will lw recommended to Secretary of Eabor Davis. For two rears the boy's family has tw>en fighting attempts to bar him or the ground of feeblemindedness, lb v as admitted to this country uide l>ond after he had failed to pass hi» first examination and Monday he wa 1 ermltted to return to Syracuse unt: Washington officially acted on h:« case. Relatives h nted tnst If de portation orders were issued an it. tempt would Ire made to send him to Canada rather than Rumania. Sioux Fall? Man Sentenced Second Time on Same Charge Sioux Kails, S 11 . April 3 -Two iv year* in the Sioux Falls penitentiar v was the sentence imposed today l' Judge Fleegvr of the circuit court in the case of Pereey Hauser. 41. prom; pent MeCoow county farmer, who re cently for the second time was con victetl of a statutory offense again? * Mrs Katherine Jones, IJ, wife of MeCoow county fanner. Follow;;.~ Ms first conviction, Hauser was s< fenced to life Imprisonment, bnt the supreme court granted him a n* « t.ial. Co>Rc»poudcnt in Farrar Ca?o Denied Jur\ Trial New York, April S—Miss Stet 1 arrlmore, an actress formerly I .oil Tellegen s company, whs' v mentioned as a corespondent in t ■ * Geraldine Farrar divorce suit. w i' i enied the l ight today of a jury ho i lug. She had requested it to etc herself of the allegations The opinion declared a eo reaper r ent In a divorce action had no ngl ti demand a jury trial. Nclijji Flection tjmet S|iei«l IIhisMi ta The Omaha So Neltgh. Nob, April 3 - - less than ,'t'O votes were > 4»i he tv today In on* of the most quiet city election* in years, there heuig no contest on arc candidate tMsper Kachuus was ole< ted councilman of the First w ard and H. II l\i<*e In the Second wa*.M A K MaUacher a ' i lYtil IVnr we*, the memhera >*f ihe Board of RJu> t’on re elected I