The Omaha morning bee ™ vr»T eo vrr» ana em.r.d smub-ciih outtor «>, a. i9ia. «t' rYVTAWA AY MAY 0 1Q9‘l * ■* <■ •"« *»»«»>• »s sunoa,. 92.90. •imm tn« «t» am TWO CENTS '• 0,",h* “• Cohmii bi«iu VOL. 52—NO. 279. o*aha “ 0 u.w a"i "1 «»rt i 'bi. OMAHA, YY EL>INH,£>UA 1 , MAI J, lyta. Oouioo Dm «tt m< <1 >un: on» >■« sunoa,. 112. hmd 0019. I* 1 " w 0 n« c«t. China Will Pay Hansom to Bandits Prime Minister of Pekin Gov ernment Agrees to All Det mauds Presented In Alien Dipl omats. U. S. Not to Use Troops Washington. May S—The Pekin government has proniiwl to pay th»* ransom demanded by Chinese bandits who captured American citizens ami a number of foreign nationals after wrecking the Shanghai Pekin express Sunday morning, the Statfo depart ment was advised late today by Jacob (». Schurman. American minister at Pekin. •The Chinese prime minister also has agreed to art as rapidly as possi meeting nil demands presented iiv the Portuguese minister at Pekin, dean of the . diplomatic corps there, .nd has given assurances that the Pekin government intends to dismiss the civil and military governors of Shantung province. Saturday l.ast Day. The Portuguese minister informed the t'hlnese foreign oltlce, according to State department advices, that the corps of foreign diplomats at Pekin ‘‘reserved the right over and above any moral and material damages claimed to demand a progressive in demnity for every day after the 1-th of May that the foreigners remain captive.” The plight of the Americans and other foreigners taken prisoner was described by Secretary Hughes to President Harding and cabinet offi cers at their meeting today at the White House. Later, President Hard Ing was said to have told callers that the situation in China was both dif ficult and annoying and that the gov ernment here was doing everything possible to protect its nationals in China and to deal with the conditions there which have brought about chaos and banditry. Financing Is Needed. If was said to he President Hat dmg's hope that the situation in I^nina might he relieved by the in vestment of strong • power* in the present admittedly weak central go. ernment. One way of aiding the Pekin government to gain stability, it wa* suggested, would be the exten sion of necessary financial assistance by the Internationfll hanking consor tium. There was no intimation, how ever. that the Washington govern ment would propose such a step to i he bankers interested in China. Reports from Minister Schurman and press dispatches lessened the ten sion and anxiety which yesterday was •eyed high in Washington. Word that Chinese troops had surrounded he bandit* and were actually en gaged in efforts to liberate the prison ers led to the hope and belief among some officials ’hat the captive^ soon would be freed. Tron|is Not Needed. These reports were welcomed b\ ( War department officials, who had' seriously contemplated the possibil ity of nsing American troops in China in conjunction with those of other na turns and in co-operation with the Pekin government. The turn of events brought the stnteme: from Acting Secretary Davis that the War department had received no informa tion which would warrant the *• ndim "f reinforcements to the American orecs in China. Cse of American troops, it was -o .1 would hr ordered with the greatest (Turn to P»nr Two. t olnnn Three.) Two Fremont Boys, 16, Missing Four Days Special Dispatch t» Th* Omaha He*. Fremont. Xcb., May 6.—Andrew1 ^Brown. 16. son of Mrs. Mary Brown. *»nd Ernest Erskine, 16, son of Mr sod Mrs, H Erskine of this city, dis-i appeared Saturday evening. The parents appealed to poliee today Both boys were pupils in the eighth grade. Xo reason for their departure can be ascertained, except for the youthful desire to run away. Word , from Oakdale. Njb , led the parents ; 10 believe that the boys had been | «een in that vicinity. The father of the Erskine lad hurried lo that town hut was unhale to locate his son and his pal. They wrre dressed in ther school clothes when lust seen. Neither of tin hots had any money, as far as th' parents are aware. Former Secretary of Mine Company Commits Suicide Philadelphia, May 8--Col. Clinton A. Hlgbee, retired secretary of the Tonopah Mining comiamy, shot and killed himself lust night in his room at the Union League chib here. It was learned today. Club employes were startled by the sound of u shot, and running to the colonel's room, found his body stretched mi a divan, with a ."2-callber revolver beside It. Beaver City Farmer. 61, Kills II imself With Cun Special Dispatch to The Omulm lice. Beaver City, Neh., May 8 Hu bert pettyjeun. 64, wm found In n'.s garage today with the top of his head blown off. A shotgun lay by Ills side The authorities pronounced Ins death due to suicide. Pettyjean came from Belgium and died on the farm which he homesteaded In 18"x. He leaves a widow and several children v • American Girl Is Heroine •• of -Chinese Bandit Attack Miss Schonberg in h^ace of Hail of Bullets Carr; ^ Ransom Demand Through Line of Besieging - , Troops—Guard at Her Side Killed— V*v Two Women Missing. B> AeMiciafrd PrfM. Pekin. .May S—Notwithstanding re ports that the Suchow railway ban dits released all of the women pas sengers they kidnaped, the where abouts of several are still uncertain. .Mrs. 1.. A. Seaton and her niece. Miss Lillian Auld of Manila, believed taken captives by the brigands, have "not iteen located. Pekin, May &—Ominous lack of re cent direct word from the bandit stronghold in the lulls back of Lim b ing and various reports of captives wounded, when used by their guards as shields against the volleys of pur suing government troops, have filled the foreign colony here with grave fears for the safety of at least eight Americans and six or seven British. French and Italian hostages kidnaped by the Suchow train bandits early last Sunday morning. The arrival at Tslnanfu and Tientsin of men anil women who were released by tlie brigands as messengers to arrange ransom, or who escaped from their captors, gave to the outside world a picture of peril, privation, hardship and brutal treatment that has added to the anxiety. So far, the death list stands at two; Joseph Rothman. British. shot through the head during the raid on the train at Suchow. and an uniden tified American, reported killed in the cross-fire of lead between the bri gands and the government troops at their heels. Second Kegintent on Trail. In addition to the first soldiers or dered on to the trail of the kinapers by the Pekin government, another regiment from Shantung province “Stop Pursuit or Bandits' Demand XmeriYan Forced to Act a& <>o - Between ii» Cdiiucsc Train Robbers’ ant ing to Pursuers. Ily Intern it ion«l >ewi Ser»ice« Copy rtRht. 1123. Shanghai, May 8.—The Chinese bandits, who lielil up a Shanghai IVkin passenger train, seizing about 150 pthsonx, ineludini: many Aineri cans, near tlu< Shantung peninsula, today sent out an emissary threaten-, ing death to all the captives unless the pursuing Chinese regular soldiers are recalled. Tlie emissary, an American com mercial traveler and writer named Day, «as a passenger on the train, be ing captured along with the others. A Chinese interpreter was sent with him from the robbers' stronghold In the mountains. (This was the first direct word from the brigands since the passenger train was wrecked and looted near i he Yellow river on Sunday. Con trary to a report carried in the Unit ed States, the bandits made no men tion of ransom, their only demand being that tin' troops be called off from further pursuit.) liliaslly Nightmare. Day arrived at Tientsin with his message from tile brigands. He w. s weak from severe traveling, excosiire ,-inil lack of rest. Me sent to the Shanghai bureau of Jitterti itiotial News Service the following narrative, supplementing the graphic account of (lie raid given by I.loyd I.ehrba "The march from the scene of the attack to tlie mountains was a ghastly nightmare. The brigands wielded their gun butts right and left, forcing* the weary prisoners onward with blows aud curses "The cries of hysterical women and children rang through the tlarkm t. "The night was pitch black. There was no moon. Hut the men in '.he captive gang were helpless They (Turn to l'ng*» two, Cell)man lour.) — Be a “Paying Guest” * * in England people who rpnt rooms in the better class ' homes are called “paying guests.” ' Become a “paying guest" to some Omaha family who is advertising their spare room for rent in the “Want” Ad columns of The Omaha Bee. You’ll find them congenial hospitable—homelike. T It isn’t difficult to find a room that spells h-o-m-e to you. All you have to do is cor^ult the "Rooms for Rent” advertisements in The Omaha Bee. " And, if you have a spare room vacant, phone AT 1000 and dictate your "Room for Rent” advertisement to one of our experienced ad takers. Omaha Bee "Want’’ Ads Brinft Better Results o' f.csser Cost t also has taken up the chase, and one of the fugitives from the mountain stronghold of the pursued declares his belief that the gang that wrecked and looted the Khanghai-I’ekin ex press is surrounded. Advices received at Shanghai state that the bandit chief has set the fol lowing prices on tlte heads of Ills captives: Foreigners, $30,000 each; Chinese, of whom approximately 100 are believed to have been taken, first class. $30,000 each: second class, $10,000; others. $2,000. It is stated that negotiations for the ransoms al ready have been begun in official , quarters. Thrilling experiences are related by those who have corny safely out of the brigands' lair in the hill fast nesses beyond Pinching. American Heroine. An outstanding instance of heroism is credited to an American girl. Miss Schonberg, who. in the face of a hail of bullets from the soldiers besieging the bandit compound, volunteered to inuke her way through the lines to carry the kidnapers' demands for ran sum—and she made good. Ped to the gate by one of the rob ber guards, she was about to pass through, when a bullet from the troop lines dropped the man at her elbow tn his tracks. Undaunted, the American girl held to her resolve and finally reached Tientsin. Her story was told in Tientsin by C. G. Jacobsen, inspecting engineer for the Uritlsh-American Tobacco company, who also ran the bullet gauntlet front the bandit fort on a similar mission. Jacobsen had to over power a bandit guard to get clear of the fort, and when he again came un der range of the besieging soldiers' rifles, he approached their lines wav ing as a flag of truce his last remain irtg article of apparel, a suit of cot ton underwear. OffirriV Kate l nk rum n. The f;ite of the two American offi cers. Majs. Roland Plngle and Robert Allen, and of their two young sons still is unknown. It was reported to day that an American officer was ly ing wounded in the hid fort, hat ?lo name was given. Miss Lucy C. Aiddch, sister in law ' of John P Rockefeller, jr., of New York, is safe, although suffering some what from her experiences after be ing released yesterday by her captors. She is expected to reach Tientsin soon from Tsinanfu. Florence Leeds Home; Named in Stillman Case — New 1 urk. May *— Sailing under the name of "Mrs. M Lincoln," Klor ence Leeds, one of the central figures' In the Silllinan divorce suit, came home today to s«*e her baby. The famous actress named by Mrs. 1 Stillman as her husbands companion! In many lively parties alward the! yacht Modesty, and charged by her | also as being the mother of his son, has been touring Europe. "I went away because I was brnk-1 en mentally, physically and spirit ually,'' she said. "I did nothing wrong. Nobody I knows how I have suffered Many false things have been printed about ! me.” Trans-U. S. Train Record Is Made lut the general impression seemed to he that Marquis Curzon, j the British foreign secretary, was de slrous of the break. If a break in realtions come*, the Russian trade organization now locat ed in London, will probably be remov ed to Berlin or one of the Scandi navian countries. Protest Not Recognized. Owing to the soviets’ refusal to recognize the protest* against the trials of varolus church dignlatire*. including Archbishop Zepliak and the executed vicar general, Monslgnor Butkavlteh, the note *ays: "When it is remembered that this is the only latest incident in the long spries of studied affronts which have been recovered in this memorandum, it seems difficult to arrive at any other conclusion than that the soviet1 government either is convinced that the British government wtl! accept any insult sooner than break with soviet Russia, or that they desire themselves to bring the relations created by the tiado government to an end.’’ The note, which Is very lengthy, v*i handed to the soviet government to day hy Mr. Hodgeson. One of Its most striking passages reads: Cannot Insult Bcitl*li. "It i* time the soviet government ' should be made aware that it can not w ith impunity behave toward British [ subjects and British shipping in this arbitrary and Insulting manner.” At the outset, the document de clare* that the tone and character of the recent note* received front the soviet government "have imposed up oil hi* majesty’s government the duty, perhaps already too long delay ed, of considering carefully and seriatim, in relation to this large number of In cident*. whether It is desirable, or In deed possible, that the relations of the two government* should remain any longer upon so anomalous and Indeed unprecedented footing and whether his majesty’s government can. w ith due | self-respect, continue to Ignore the repealed challenges which the soviet government ha* thought fit with ap parent deliberation to throw down." No Chance of Controversy. The note state* that the British government ha* no Intention of em barking upon a controversy with the soviet concerning the accuracy of its charges, which It assert* "rest upon unimpeachable authority " It set* out in great detail violations of the understanding concerning anti British propaganda in Persia, Af ghanistan and India. outrages against British subject*, ini dueling tile slaying of (’. K. Davison: the treat ment nf British trawlers, and similar j eases in which reiterated demands for compensation ha* been persistently, refused. rhe note then refers to the prosecu- i tlon of religious dignitaries In regard to which it says: "His majesty’s government lias re fralned from expressing an opinion upon ihe nature of validity of the charges brought against these eccle siastics. conceding that It Is s matter * on which they are not called upon to , pronounce " But, It adds, no attempt has been made In lltissia Itself to deny that the prosecutions and exe cutions are part of a deliberate cam palgn. the definite object of which Is to destroy nit religion In the country and enthrone "the Image of (Jodless ties* in its place," The note refers to two notes signed bv "Weinstein" In reply to Mr. Hodgeson's protests ! against the execution of Vlonsignor Butchkgtvltch which the British agent returned because thej weie couched In offensive language and which the present note stigmatize* ss "unexampled in the rase of govern ment’s affecting to he on friendly j terms." Ten Ihiv I Itiinaliim. Declaring thnt the exchange of cor reepondence, conducted by one party on such terms, places the continuance of those relations In grave jeopardy, the note states that the government would much regret an abrupt termi nation of the existing relations, tail thnt It Is not possible to acquiesce In the continuance of the treatment summarized In this document, which is declared to he Incompatible alike with national dignity and mutual tv spent. In rase the soviet dot - not forward a reply to the British government! within 10 days, complying with the specified demands the note concludes, "his majesty’s government, on their : part. will. In view of the manifest Infringement of the trade agreement ' tty the soviet government, consider themselves Immediately free from the obligations of the agreement In a. cnrtlamw with the third pntugtuph nf Its 13th article, i What Are You Doing With Your Congressman While He’s Home This Summer? « _ iF l WAf t UN* INC* TFiS QOVE#nMET TtU TMt WO»H> HOW TO t>0 A TMiNCi'OA /v . ^ rV\.—>■ Uo you just do nothing at all, as though you and he and the Li. 5. A. had nothing in common? Smoke OMfc O* MING - *• O* S l}o you and the neighbor* ever try getting acquainted with him and talking over your problem*? Tm? PEoPif SLOPED n'i US (JETS OUT | The vote *inT ] *T ° —- ' ---•' ‘Ddu't eopcet ) vNWO ELECTED TOU \ Or do you just let him get his views from your self-appointed political guardians and bossas— Vr «• And than kick tha daylights out of him neat flection because he voted contrary to your conviction*? \ on Boehlen » Must Serve 15 Years in Pen Krup|i Head Also Fined 100. 000.000 Marks. French Court Martial Rules—5 Others A1 so Sentenced. Hrrdrn, May 8.—llr. Krupp von Doe Id in, head of tin- Krupp works, was sriiti'iici-d to 15 years in jail and to pay a fine of 100,000,000 marks today ns a result of the trial by court martial here growing out of the shoot ing at tlie Krupp plant on March 51. Directors llartuig and Oeaterlen also were sentenied to 15 years Im prisonment each. Directors Itrumiu to 10 years and lluur and Schaeffer to ?fl years each. All were also sentenced to pay fines of 1M.000.OO0 marks each. Works Managers Schraepler and (Tint*, yvere sentenced to 50 years Im prisonment. with fines of 100.000,000 marks; Superintendent Gross was given 10 years, and Factory Council man Mueller, six months Three workmen convicted of atealing a mo torcycle were given two to six months. The defendants were charged with Inciting tha workmen at the plant to resl-t the French troops when they came to reqtilaltion automobiles Kape cial stresa was laid by the French prosecution oti the blowing of the siren* at the plant which It was inn tended encouraged the men to resist 11 was held that, the directors were responsible for the continued sound Ing of the siren*, even If they hmi not directly ordered that they he blown In his final plea the French prose tutor. Captain Duvert. referred to the devastation of northern France by1 the Germans during the war. Just a* the Krupp directors, he said, stood1 Inactively at their office windows on Man h .11 and witched the workmen being shot down, so had Germany's war lords stood by and watched the ( burning of villages In northern France without raising a hand. The prosecutor hn*os Moines, chief oh » k of the low * free employment bureau, and K, K. Hol land of Lincoln, secretary of the bu reau of agriculture extension work for Nebraska \ egrtiil>l*> and Karly Fruit Damaged l>> (’.old Weather l»U|>atrh to The Omaha IW. Norfolk. NVb . Mn\ * Freeilng weather ha* damaged early fruit and vegetab|os in *nme part* of northern NVhrttKkii anil *nu thorn South l>akota. Snow fell at Hoiifittlfl. S l> , and water In thi* Imaht> had a cover* ing of ice thi* tuormni. Italians Kill ;Mxl Rebel*. Il» tuAdalrtl l‘rri». Home May * Fifteen hundred rebel* v\.i. defeated and TO0 killed tv the Italian* in their latent operation in Tripoli. Involving the occupation of nn advanced point. It i* announc'd In the official Mateinrnt today char act n ixing the latest do\olopmcula Frost Last Night Expected to Kill Fruit Blossoms Fair anti Freezing Tempera ture Forecast—Cloudiness A I o ne Vi ould Save Buds, Says Robins. All fruit tree* in blossom were doomed to freeze Tuesday night, the weather burea declared Tuesday in recording temperatures among the very coldest ever registered here in May, The thermometer stood at 35 Tues day morning. Though this was the of ficiat reading. Meterologist Robins re Winter oven-oats, which had been filled with moth balls and" placed away carefully In clothes cabinets, were rushed into use Tuesday morning Tenants snd employes in down town office buildings greeted warm ing radiators with gleeful shouts. Coal companies reported several rush calls for coal to keep house holds warm. - reived reports of Ice formed In vari ous low lands In and around Omaha. "Fair with freezing temperature to night." was the forecast. It looks very bod," said Mr. Rob ins. "The best we can hope for is that the partial cloudiness will con tinue. This however, is not likely, and 1 don t see how the fruit buds and other tedder green things can escape. The corn, of course. Is not advanced far enough yet to be harmed." The coldest e'er recorded bets in May was on May 1, 190? The coldest ever recorded on May S heretofore was 3B In 1907. Valentine reported Si Tuesday a nv O Neill, Broken Hiwr and t»nk Hr«t National Bank at Carroll. Nrl>., ('loses Doors Carroll. Nob May $ —Tbs First National hank of this place failed to open its door* yesterday. A national bank examiner i* in charge of the in stitution The institution hat! a capitalisation of *5.0 000, with total deposits listed at $4^0,000 Daniel Davis is president and 14. \V Darter is cashier Withdrawal of deposits and fa lure to make collection* are reported to have been the cause of the tvauk s clomnjr. Standard Oil Boost' I’m. Chh'MgO, M.kV S A XV:if«« t|U'IV*|. nvnnglnic 6 ctnu «?i hour and if footing ?£.(>00 employe* was au tioutuwl heiw today bv the Standard oil company of Indiana The in crt*a*e will Add Jr.MHVOhO to the an nual payrolls of the oMii|mn> Launched in Fa r I i ament Drastic Criticism of Poincare’* Heply to Dormant Met \\ ill) Applause l»y All Parlie-. Seek Italian Alliance Hi t IlhersHi Vn irs. London, May *.—A break . between Ltiglm-.d tii'l Fi-mco was foreshadow ed by statements in the house of com mons bv Chancellor of the Kxchequer and Acting Premier Baldwin, and in the house of lords by Lord Curzon, to day. / Both accused Premier Poincare of "unnecessary precipitancy." The baste criticism of the action of the French government in summarily turning down the German offer with out consulting Britain rind Italy was enthusiastically applauded by all jiartles in parliament. War Record Recalled. Poincares affront to the nations that sacrificed th<- flower of their manhood from 191 to 191* to hold the Germans back from Paris was em phasized by the official announce ment in parliament by Mr. Baldwin, that the offer from Berlin was made at the suggestion of Lord Curzon. It is an open secret here that Isjrd '"urzon wished to delay the answer to Germany in order to fnake it a joint note from all the allies, after they had d from Washington. Lord Birkenhead, who was primed for a p -verful aitarck on France in the house of lords tonight, refrained because hed id not wish to embarrass Lord Curzon who, it is declared, is determined that Poincare shall no longer he allowed to bank and bar the door to a settlement. I’lan -Joint Note. Britain, in a note which will he identical with one from Italy to b* 5<'nt to Germany Friday, will ezpr'SS regret tliat Chancellor Cunn s offer is rot fatUfactor-- and the hope iha*. a better and in re liberal offer will be forthcoming from Berlin. A tremendous rvvulion of the feel ing b«ro was revealed by the great applause :n the house of commons at the demand by John Anderson, labor member, f-ir information as to w-hrn France will pay her war debt to Britain. The ignoring of Britain by France Is regarded a,- a deadly insult by all classes. The press generally endot s os negotiations which are proceeding for a closer alliance between London and Rome. The man In the street is beginning to talk of a new triple alliance of Britain. Italy and Germany. Theft of $1,000 Gems Mystery to Jeweler i»| IMaimtrh to Th* Omaha Bef Shelton. Neb.. May S.—The Kendl* Brother*’ jewelry store was robbed of $1,000 worth of diamonds late yes terday afternoon. Si* diamond ring*, one loose diamond and four expensive setting, ail of nhieh were in the box. were taken. The diamond* were kept in the drawer of a desk. Expensive nai h**s. nii i * y ;«r.d other valuable* in the desk were unmolested. 1lu*t)ll Ken die says the back door whs locked ll day and that he knew everyone who was in the store. He is at a loss to know how the dia monds disappeared. S80.000 of Mint Loot Recovered Minncaixdis, May 8—Approximate ly t.vO.OOU in currency, pari of the loot stolen during I lie *joldup of the federal reserve truck I s front of the Denver mint last ytay, has been re covered to date In Minneapolis by secret serv ice aget.ts. it was an nounced today. M an mi Trial for Slaving of Omahati rakes Stand Red Oak, la . May S.—John St* wart, farmer on (rial here for the murder of Albert Gtrardl. Omaha liquor salesman, was places! on tti* slam! yesterday and testified brlefl> In his own behalf. He testified be could not remetn ber easing to George Austin: "FV' Ood’s sake he is getting up: hit him •gain. '* Stewart's testimony was noi def nlle on any of the main points brought out by other witnesses in the trial. The Weather For *4 hour* ending ? p m, 4. it n TrMpenrtvre. High -iV 47; lewr-M Jk mean. 41. nor* total *\e*» •Hie# Jaruarv 1, i f* KfUiKf HmnMitv. IVm*»t«i«k ? » tm* *4. mwn, 7? T f>. m 44. t'rm lpiUikMi lmhe* »ml lltindretitk* M Total *!n« January I ? • m,. .»,*.**. * a m . . . 3 * * * m . S* ' * a »%» . %$ ( I, « O II I, Vp w 4 i p m .. l p i*» 4 p m .. Ip u\.. t p p> , t p m 5 p H> 1 • miM-PMiun** »l * I' \| 1>MV< lllHtrS . «« ' **"4*«» . ** *.«ii4«i' ...mim.iI t \h , .« 1*«W« . Shp»i K# .,,, il Sk**i4»* M1