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— The Omaha i ^rning Oee “'™n vm *%9 ND ^ftP; Entered ■• Soeond-Claat Matter May 28, 1906. at OMAHA FRIDAY TTINF ft 1 QOQ * By Mall (I Year): Dally and Sunday. 15; Sunday. |2.50. within the 4th tana. TWO CENTS *" ,Mff* » OLi. 0«—INvJ. OUD, Omaha P. 0. llndar Act of Marah 3. 1879. OMAHA, r XVlUA I , JUINLi O, lULiO, Outside tha 4th Zona (I Year); Dally and Sunday. $12; Sunday oaly, 85 ^ v Canto Elaawhera ■ ■ - - — - , — ■ . ■■■■ , -—■, - ■ ■ . ■ —— ■ - 1 . Germany Is Now Able to Pay Debt 1 nbiased Americans Regard Present Time as Expedient to Settle Reparations— Country Is Recovery. Occupation Held Fatal _ By MARK SULLIVAN. London, June 7.—Discussions ac companying the most recent phase of the reparation question have included many assertions that Germany's capacity to pay has been reduced by the French invasion of the Ruhr to the extent that German industry thereby has been interrupted and dis organized. This is undoubtedly true, liut admitting this, it is the testimony of entirely disinterested Americans "ho have lately surveyed Germany closely that it Is now better equip ped for economic production than any other country’. This is iiartly the direct and partly the Indirect result of the depreciation of its currency. The German business man who has made money has used his profits to improve his plant. That has been one of the few safe uses to make of money in Germany. Factories Improved. To leave money in the bank was to see it shrivel over night. To make the ordinary investments of profits in bonds and mortgages was to see their value decline with the depreciation of the mark. For that reason. German business men have been building ad ditions to their plants and Installing improved machinery. Further than this, every German business man b is had the advantage of having his debts in bonds and other obligations against him reduced to little or nothing by the depreciation of ilie mark. Finally, the whole class of people in Germany who have liv d on their accumulated savings have icen reduced to poverty, and are now added to the ranks of labor. The depreciation of the mark has been brutal and criminal in the in justice and hardship it has worked, but from the point of view of eco nomics it has made Germany as a "hole a nation better equipped for mximuni production at minimum osts than before, and lietter equip ped than Germany's trade rivals now are. Now Proper Time. These same Americans are equally insistent that it Is the part of wisdom to fix promptly a definite sum which Germany can readily pay and that the world cannot get back on its track until thia <s done. Beca ii s the French policy has impeded the fixing of reparations at a definite possible sum, boss Americans generally deplore the French policy and think that Britain nas wiser In refraining from occupa ion of the Ruhr. So far as the French policy up to late has seemed to express a disposi ,1011 to keep Germany under indefi lite bondage, indeterminate with re spect to both time and amount, Amer ican observers generally regard it as fata! to both peace and economic recovery. (Copyright, 1*23.) Political Coup in Oklahoma Cnvernnr Walton Casts Aside Farmer-Labor Body That Elected Him. fly Assoc in tr<l Press. Oklahoma City. Okl., June 7.— Exe cuting a spectacular coup, Governor .1. C. Walton yesterday cast aside the F a r in e r-Labor Reconstruction league of Oklahoma, which put him in office, and laid plans for the for mation of a new all-embracing farmer labor vehicle for the control of state politic*. The executive summoned a conference of the heads of all the piinc.pal farmer and union labor or ganisations of the state to meet him on June IS so that the direction Of the farmer-labor movement of Okla homa can be delivered into the handa of the "rank and file" through their ‘democratically elected representa tives." The Farmer-Labor Reconstruction league was not invited. Mother of 3 Graduated from Barnard College fly International Newt) Service. New York, June 7.—Mr*. Katherine Bouton Clay of Newark, N. J., mother of three children, was graduated to day from Barnard college here with a bachelor of art* dpgree and special honors In modern languages. Motherhood proved somewhat of a handicap to her, she said, but she met It by doing almost all of her studying in the subway and tube trains going to and from the college. But an A. B. degree Is not Mrs. Clay's ambition. This summer sho intend* to take a course in Malian and later get a master or arts degree. Mrs. Clay's husband, Clifford Clay, is a writer for trade papers. Northwestern Train Kills Man Mile West of Fremont Npretal Itlipntrh to The Omaha Bra. Fremont, Net)., June 7.—A man believed to he V. S. Kendall, 33, Los Angeles, died at the Fremont hos pital yesterday morning shortly after being struck by Chicago & North western train No. 44. one mile west of this city. Engineer O. IJ. Allman staled that he discovered the man lying with his head on the tracks too laic to stop his train. The theory Is advanced that he fell from another train and had suffered Injuries that rendered him uncon scious. Trains Are Delayed by Caterpillar Horde in Oregon Mountains Albany, Ore., June 7.—Caterpillars that are reported to be devastating the coast mountain region between Eddyvllle and Blodgett delayed the Albany-Newport train enroute here one hour and 25 minutes. One man is reported to have been driven from his home by the insects. The caterpillars have destroyed all orchards In their path, have resorted to eating needles from fir trees and are even reported to be eating the bark from more tender trees. The caterpillar army was more than an inch deep on the railway tracks, and the trainmen exhausted their sand supply in attempting to make grades in the devastated area. The horde is marching eastward, the trainmen said. New Trial of Connell Case Asked Lawyers for Doctor Who Lost $.)0,000 Damage Suit Say Vaudeville Stunts Were Pulled at Hearing. Claim Jurors Biased - Attorneys for Dr. Karl Connell, who lost a $00,000 suit for damages brought by Violet Johnstone of New York last Tuesday, in their support for a motion for a new trial filed yesterday, characterize the trial as a "vaudeville show owing to the dem onstration and actions of the large crowd.’’ The attorneys gave 58 reasons why District Judge YVakeley should vacate the verdict of the jury and give them a new trial. In substance the reasons ar< : "That the verdict is not sustained by sufli oient evidence and that the verdict is contrary tn law: that the court erred in giving about 30 instructions and erred when he would not give certain instructions as desired by the defendant. Marriage Promise Void. "That the preponderance of the evi dence in this case does not show or establish that any promise to marry was ever made; that the said al leged promise to marry is void and no recovery can be had in this action for the reason that said alleged promise is within the srtuute of frauds of the state of Nebraska and also of New York and as. shown by the proof uf the time of commence <Turn to Page Two, Column Two 1 Free Milk, Ice, an Ideal Charity J Fund to Protect Infants from Heat Disbursed by Visit ing Nurses. Two features make the Free Milk and Ice Fund an Ideal charity. First, the fund is distributed through the Visiting Nurses, and therefore without expense. Second, the fund is drawn on to supply pure milk and cooling Ice ex clusively to the babies and small children of the poorest homes who positively have no other means of getting these life necessities of the hot weather. Already the preliminary heat has made Itself felt. A slight lull is here at present. Heat on Way. The torrid waves will descend with out warning and unless prepared for will take their toll of baby lives. So, for the babies' sakes. don't dc lay sending in what you can spare right away. The calls from the help less little ones will come In by the dozens at the first hot spell. And the help must lie available Immediately. Hundreds of good people have saved babies' lives through this fund In the past. Hundreds will do the good work again this summer. Privilege and Opportunity. You may be one of them. It may be a privilege and opportunity which will return good fortune to you In many mysterious ways. Previously a.-lc nowtcdged.$17.00 tllgilal F Miirrht loo It. K. Cirotte ... | 00 Thomaa F. tiodfrry.! 5.00 Total . . $-4.00 Checks should be made out to "Fret Milk and Ice Fund.” Checks and money should he ma'led to "Free Milk and lee Fund, The Omaha Bee, Ooia ha, Neb." Short Ballot Campaign Launched in Nebraska; Governor Attack,; Plan Support Pledged at Lincoln Meeting to Submit Pro posal at Next Stale ^ Election. All Ranks Behind Plan Special OUpatch to The Omaha Bee. Lincoln, June 7.—Fifty Nebraskans, representative of every walk of busi ness and political life, met today and pledged themselves to support circu lation of Initiative petitions calling for a short ballot to the voters at the next election. The meeting, replete with testi monials of Inefficiency of the present dual system of state government and the long ballot, ended when, on mo tion of W. M. Stebbins of Gothen burg, Elmer G. Lamb of Tecumseh "as chosen as chairman of the short ballot organization, with power to select 12 committee members, two to be appointed from each congres sional district. The appointments will be made within two weeks. /This committee has power to ap point as many subcommittees as it sees fit and to draw up the Initiative petitions and arrange for their cir culation. It will require approximate ly 40,000 signatures to insure presen tation of the short ballot proposition to the voters. Has Power to Choose. The same committee also has power to determine on the shortness of the ballots, whether only the governor, or the governor and lieutenant gov ernor and state superintendent shall be proposed as the only state officers elected. Personnel of these in attendance at the meeting was admitted by every one to be ss cosmopolitan, po litically, as any meeting ever held in Nebraska to launch a governmental reform project. It included VV. M. Stebbins, weal thy conservative republican banker: Arthur G. Wray of York, leader of the so called Independent radical thought in Nebraska; I'. F. Neff, con servative democratic member of the legislature; George Williams. Fair mount, conservative Nebraska farm er; P. L. Bollin, Lincoln, progressive democrat who was a candidate fur democratic nomination for attorney general; State Senator C. E. Allen of Cozad, conservative republican lead er; State Senator John C. McGowan, tabor leader and C. H. Gustafson, farm cooperative society leader. Shun Party Politics. Ne.arly every speaker urged keep ing the proposal out of party politics. The only reference to the opposition of Governor Bryan and his charge made today that the short ballot was supported |,y big business came when W. M. Stebbins read an excerpt from a speech delivered by the governor s brother. William Jennings Bryan, l>e fore the constitutional convention at Lincoln July 12, 1920. (n which Mr. Bryan urged adoption of the short ballot by the convention. That part of the Bryan speech read by Stehbins follows: "A word to offices. The governor should, in my Judgment, be elected for four years'and made ineligible to re election. I believe in the short bal lot. Instead of having all the state officers go befoie the people when it is Impossible for the people to know these men personally or to weigh their claim with intelligence. I think that we should elect the more im portant ones and then put upon them the responsibility of selecting those who are to he associated with them.” (Tarn to 1‘oge Two. Column Tool v» V ' - utive Says Appoint officers Would Play Into Hands of “Big ■ Business. Insists on Council Plan Spet ial lHftpatcIi to The Omaha Hee. Lincoln, June 7.—Two hours In ad vance of calling of the short ballot meeting here today. Governor Charles W. Bryan issued a statement voicing disapproval of the short ballot and the plan of Invoking the initiative to place the short ballot proposition be fore the voters at the next election. As a substitute, the governor de clared that he would insist upon in voking the initiative on his executive council plan of government and numerous other measures which were before the last session of the legis lature and were killed. Following, briefly, are the laws the governor would initiate by direct vote at the next election: Howell- water power develop ment bill. Itural credit bill. Co-operative marketing Mil. Labor mediation board bill. Bill empowering all cities and village* to embark on municipal ownership projects. Governor Bryan, in Ills attack upon the short ballot, asserted his op ponents were “tools of big business' and that he was fighting in the in terests of the common people. Voters I,os«» Itiglits. “Possibilities In connection with the short ballot movement Is fraught with a. good deal k>f danger to tfto common people.'1 the governor saW. “I'P to the present time no one con nected with the movement has given out any plans or information as to what they would have after the short ballot advocates had abolished most of the people's representatives now known as elective state officers. "The suggestion has been made that the state's business should be conducted on the same lines as a pri vate corporations business. There is tills difference between a private corporation’s business and govern mental business. A private corpora tion Is owned from the top and the officers of the corporation are the principal owners and they direct all of the officers and employes below them with absolute power, from which there is no appeal. But gov ernmental business is Just the op noslte, the ownership Is at the bot tom and the officers of the govern mental corjioratlon are the eeivants if the people and are subject to the direction pf the'people '“Therefore, you cannot compare a private corparatlon and a govern mental business corporation in the same terms. "We, at present, have a rode sye rent of state government. That plan when it was adopted, took the power rliat was In the hands of the elective utate officers, where they passed upon policies of the government, and centralized it in the hands of the governor. Two years later they (intended the constitution and pro vided that when the governor ap pointed a code secretary It would lutomatlcally transfer the powers to lhe cod* secretaries hy making them xecutlv* officers. And that Is what Iho lJysart bill, the Mathers bill and the Heed-Hastings bill would have done If nny one of them had been permitted to become a law. We would (Turn to I'sse Two. ( niton Three.) In Reference to the Omaha Bee’s Growth in Circulation Yesterday The Omaha Bee published a chart which showed very clearly that the Omaha Bee had made a total gam of 13,075, while the second newspaper had shown u gain of 7,184, while the third newspaper had suffered a loss of 7,332 in daily circulation as taken from the latest audit figures of 1922 and 1921. It is not the purpose of The Omaha Bee to confuse its readers. A statement has been made bv the World-Herald In which they show comparisons from other than the audit figures which they hope to mislead and discredit the chart published by The Omaha Bee. In figuring the cost per inch per thousand papers The Omaha Bee has used the audit circulation figures for 1922 and the average advertising rates as published by the newspapers on the three thousand-inch contract basis. Cost Per Thousand Papers Per Inch OMAHA BEE .02.06 World-Herald .02.14 Wait! The Evening’s Program Is Not Over Yet I-WHAT DOES Tjj~T * (T i\ mean o. / I [Ujall thu ribaldry f 11 — AND IN MY HOuSf »r —' '1/ and after all, fcv I YE DONE '/ 1 And if Uncle William needs any help to put the yo ung man out, wa judge he won't have to look far. Senate to Approve World Court With Reservations Disagreement Between Harding and Chairman Adams of G. 0. P. National Committee Over Amer ica’s Entry in International Body Is Settled —Party Stampede Is Averted. By tiKOKGK K. AVTHIHB. HnMhtBftnn Correspondent The Omaha Rea, Washington, June 7 —The stormy debate precipitated by Chairman John T. Adam* of the republican national committee with President Hardin* over the world court program ap pears to have been amicably adjusted. •Mr. Adams' spirited protest against Kuropr.in entanglements appears to have borne fruit. When President Handing starts on his western trip, he will advocate the world court, but he will make it clear this nation and the present administration does not Intend to permit Itself to become en tangled In Kuropean affairs. In his previous protests against Kuropean entanglements. Chari man Adams has carefully re frained from inveighing against the world court. What the committee has been fearful of has been that Secretary of State Hughes was tend ing In the direction of participation in the league of nations. To this program, the republican national com mittee as now organized la opposed. Senator James E. Watson of In diana appears to have been the med ium through which an agreement has been reached. Senator Watson has bad a conference with the president and now lets it become known that the situation is amicably adjusted. The senate is to approve the world court program, but with reservations which will make it clear the admin istration is not heading in the di rection of the league. Hughes Overruled. This means, perhaps, that Secre tary Hughes has been overruled, but since the secretary has not taken a position which will be Impossible to (Turn ta I'ngo Four. Column Twn.l Multi-Murderer Sentenced to Die Moscow Slayer of 33 to Be Shot in 72 Hours—Crowd Cheers. By .tssnrtsted Press. Moscow, June 7.—Vasili Komeroff. convicted of the murder of 33 per sons and hla wife, na his accomplice, were sentenced today to be shot with In 72 hour*. Neither betrayed arty emotion as the sentence was passed, but there was loud applause from the crowd In the court room and cries that the sentence should tie carried Into effect Immediately In stead of waiting 72 hours. Messenger Bov. 18. Held for $141,000 Theft Ilf Assorlaisd I’re**, New York, June 7,—James Foley, 18 year old messenger for the broker ago bouse of Charles Hartley Co . was arrested today on a charge of Stealing JH 1,000 In bonds which he reported on Tuesday he had lost. 7 Die as 20,000 Riot at Leipsic More Than 100 W mended in Demonstration Against Ruhr Occupation. By Auoctatnl Piym. Bei lin. June 7.—Seven persona were killed mid more than IOC wounded in yesterday s disorders at Reipsio. It is announced in special dispatches to day. Tlie dead Include one policeman, the head watchman, while there are many policemen among the wounded, 37 of whom are in a serious condition. The demonstration was In protest against the Ruhr occupation and the Insufficiency of the unemployment doles. Some 20,000 persons. It is sal,!, took part. Order was restored at 9 o’clock last night. Roy killed by Lightning. I.nffan. Utah. June 7.—Klevenyear old Horace* Kent, son of Melvin K Ken! of Kew1*ton, wan instantly killed late yesterday when he wng At tuck hy lightning while working in a !>eei field on hia father'* farm Teutons Offer to Pav Billion j Marks a Year — Reparations Note to Allie? Suggests General Confer ence to Which Ger many Admitted. By .tHorwInl Frew. Berlin, June 7.—Germany's amen Calory reparation* note which was handed to the entente ar.d United States government* this afternoon, proposes a system of annuities esti mated to total 1.200,000,000 mark? annually if an International loan is not available for immediate capital payments. The annuities would become effec tive in 1927 and their number and amount would depend wholly on the degree of Germany's economic re covery. The memorandum declares an inevitable requisite to a practical solution of the reparation problem is the early convocation of a general conference to which Germany would be admitted on an equal basis. The document is brief and wholly devoted to elucidation of the mooted po.nts on which the creditor nations had requested amplifying statements. It makes no mention of the political situation, the Ruhr occupation or the question of abandoning the passive resistance and indulges in no re criminations. Neither does it refer to the conditions under which Germany is prepared to carry out the payment of the annuities. Honduras Communication Resumed After Two Weeks San Salvador, June 7—Communi cation with Honduras, which had been cut off for the past two weeks, was reopened yesterday. A message received from Tegueigalph, the cap ital. says President Gutierrex has is sued a decree granting unconditional amnesty to all political exiles. I . S. Rirlli Rate Declines. Washington, June 7 —A decline in the birth rate and a slight increase in the death rate in 1922 was shown in provisional census bureau figures for the year announced today by the Department of Commerce, For the 24 states reporting birth figures the rate for 1922 was 22 7 for each 1.000 of population against a rate of 24 4 for 1921 For S3 states the death rate last 'ear was 11 9 against 116 for 1921. BARNEY GOOGI E— BARNEY’S STILL IN GOOD SPIRITS. Drawn for The Omaha Bee by Billy DeBeck (Copyright. \ »W VJMEPfe '/cm, me S I 5PA&H ) / SOt^EVWMEPt v ) PLU<i » \- / ARCONO loose =» } ip m do.N4 Yiwv t*il r* ' Mfc UJAMOBQ5ED I ,MTo Tui CAP v BAPMS lAST AIIGMTj Bur. x A,mt UptMepeo - Hen / SHC*o uo r«E / PAY or Tme / Pace amo / cop TUe / TOU PC A DaQn ^ ro»<SE f foci. “ VMIYY DOW r You 17 - t jAV)J . I V/atcw mim o-iope Tkoct inaos i ClOSELY r &CA1T" SPARKY S \ >bU PErAUTtE TmE DP ACjAtotSr / IMPORTAAlQe or Thi^ ANt> ,TS I PACE NEXT SATURDAY DUC* ~'C*'P \ day aetep tomopk,^ - tc* M,M , I ITS OMAUAS OlGOEST | EMEWT The low/M- S VCRAiY.NtAH' -JV-5’ IlS^r^osu MIDNIGHT !" W ANO SPARKY AIN'T | IN WIS OOOP AGAIN I Tonight •• finp, J W00RC we M ips .it s I t'lTMCR COST OR our \ NAVINd A GOOD TiMt • STREET CAR RUNS WILD; TWO JNJURED Council Bluffs Motorman Dy» ing as Result of Tram's Plunge When Brakes Fail to Hold. Woman Hurt in Leaping One man who received a fractured skull is not expected to live, a wom an suffered a broken arm and six others were uninjured Thursday night in Council Bluffs when an incoming northbound Fairmont park street car got beyond control at South First and Knepper streets and careened headlong down the hill to Broadway, about five blocks away. The car was equipped with hand brake only. As it neared First and Knepper street*, the motorman, J. Ceary Oyster, 1215 Fairmont avenue, remarked to the six passengers that the brakes were slipping. A moment later he shouted to the conductor, Richard Stevenson: “My God! The brakes aren’t hold ing! Pull the trolley!" The car gained momentum as It plunged down the incline and got beyond control. Try to Escape. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Colburn, 810 Commercial avenue; Colburn's broth er, H. Colburn, and his wife of Perry. Ia.; Miss Inah Weir, Warner apart ments, and an unidentified man, rushed to the rear entrance and pleaded with the conductor who was holding the trolley from the feed wire, to open the doors. He refused. At Pierce street Motorman Oyster opened the front door and jumped or was hurled to the pavement, striking on his head and right shoulder. Some one succeeded in opening the rear door and Mrs. Frank Colburn fell backwards through the opening, fracturing her right arm and receiv ing a deep gash to her cheek. She was taken to Mercy hospital and Oyster was taken to Jennie Edmund son hospital where his recovery is doubtful. The car continued its plunge until it arrived at the intersection of First street and Broadway. It Jumped the track, crossed the street, knocking down an electric light pole and kept on for half a block with two wheels on the curb and the other two in the street. Autos Bowled Over. Three automobiles which were parked end to end at the curb wer* piled up and wrecked by the onrush in g street car. When the car came toa halt. Con ductor Stevenson opened the door and the five passengers who remained in side during the plunge aligted. They were frightened, but were apparently unhurt. When the electric light pole was uprooted, taking a large block of ce ment walk with, it fell on Broadway and grazed a woman and child who were hurrying from the path of the wild tram. The trucks which were damaged were parked on the west side of First street and were owned by the Bartel A Miller Grocery company. A tour ing car owned by Henry Masters was also struck. No one was in them at the time. Misses Another Tram. One of the large Omahabound ears stopped short at the intersection, [missing the runaway by less than 10 feet, eye witnesses assert. Mrs Eva Taylor, 61i Perrin ave nue, and her small daughter, Jean, were crossing First and Pierce streets when the car approached. Jean was pulled to safety by her mother. The two were so close that they could hrve touched the car, the woman stated. Contract for Auto Held (Jp for Probe Special ItUpatch te The Omaha Bee. IJncoln. June 7—Towest bid on 1524 auto license tigs received today by J R. Ferris, new state purchasing spent, is $10,000 more than tha amount for which the same number of tags were purchased for last year. There were seven firms entering bida last year and three this year. Taps, numberinp 300.000 pair, wera purchased last year for 10.8? cents per pair. This year the larwest bid. which was offered by the Continental Metal A Products company of Chi cago. was 14 8S cents per pair. After bids were opened the two un Stiecossful bidders charge,! that tha Chicago firm was unable to deliver the plates by October 1, the data specified In the contract for delivery. 1 will hold up awarding of bida unci I probe the charges." Ferns aald. tha next bid is 18 75 cents per paif while the highest is 18 * cents. Pastor Crratrd Knight. Puri*. June T —.The Rev. Chauncey \' Goodrich, former paetor of the American church In Part*, who » returning to the Unite* State*, ha* been created a Knight of the I.egion of Honor, The Weather i»n'r ** hl'“r* t e m . Ju*. t. • i . . Tern perm! wre atl If * *' *owo**- ■ mean ft anr» Total d»tt,'len,» iln.e Januarr t. tit. - , K^ ' ,Tf M • .fwwatyt t* no.,total loo. I», ho. tton.tro.tta. 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