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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.
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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.
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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.
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APRIL 30—MAY 5
Lectures Exhibits Demonstrations
Avenged His Sister
Is Defense of Slayer
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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
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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
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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
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Sentence
Executed by
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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
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