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=“” The Omaha Corning Bee; awiWa„ . ___ uiuro: m lira „ VOL. 53—NO. 129. Eg R T'SlST£*"5 « FV.' ’ OMAHA. - WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1923. * ^1 hJW'VJTTWO Cl8Mh8 *• S•T* - » - ■ * |—I1 ■■ — ■ ■— 1 ' ' ' ' — ' ' ,, ■«■■■■- M ■ ■ ■ I I. !—I — Ludendorff to Be Tried for Treason Hiller, Fascist Leader, Also to Face Court With General for Staging Coup in Bavaria. New Power in “Vikings” By IniverNnl Service. Munich, Nov. 13. Adolph Hitler, Bavarian fascist! leader, once an Aus trian paper hanger, and General Er ich Ludendorff, greatest German mil itary genius of the world wyir. are to he tried together before a special "popular court" on a charge of trea son. ^^That was the announcement made ■■ to.lay in the offices of the Bavarian government. The special court will be organized under the provisions of the martial law. The penalty may be confinement in a fortress, imprisonment or death. General Ludendorff, now practical ly Interned in his villa, had his tele phone cut today. The general made a determined protest, declaring this action curtailing his freedom was a violation of the promises made him wiien he gave his word of honor. The general told the government that rather than submit to new indignities he would submit himself for arrest and confinement. This the govern ment refused to allow. Arrested in I’ajamas. Hitler, who had declared that he would "win or die," was arrested at the home of a friend. At the time of his arrest, according to govern ment information. Hitler was clad In pajamas. Another version, however, is that he gave himself up on tho advice of General Ludendorff. The government today issued a dental of reports that Hitler is to be executed. The ministerial council today ap proved of everything that Dictator Von Kahr lias done. The govern ment continues to bombard the pub lic with statements justifying the conduct of Dictator Von Kahr, Gen rial Von Lossow and Colonel Seis : r. Their conduct has been openly t r! I led. in many quarters, "treachery," in Hitler and Ludendorff. Looms as Successor, —aaptain Ehrhardt. commander of *h - "Vikings." today said: "I hope to assume the leadership of the nationalist movement." Unconditional adherence to Von Kahr is out ut the question." While Ehrhardt never approved of Hitler, whom he regarded as a dem agogue. he is now coming to the front .s a leader to succeed Hitler. "The personalities of Hitler, Von Kahr and Ludendorff, or how they are named, does not matter," said Uhrhardt. "The only thing that mat ters is the national movement. What we want Is a strong government that can take up negotiations with other powers an destroy the dominance of Marxism. "Whether these aims can he -achieved without force of arms Is doubtful, as the coqntry now stands before economic disaster." Convicted of Larceny Man Weeps in Court Oliver 1>. Daly moaned and wept aloud while being tried yeste. lay afternoon In District Judge Goss' court on a charge of grand larceny for the theft of $50 from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marshall, 3828 North Twentieth street, September 13. A Jury returned a verdict of guilty after being out 55 minutes. Once he rose from his seat and ex tending his hands, exclaimed, "Oh. I can’t stand this. I can’t stand it.” _Mrs. Marshall pursued him at the of the robbery and stopped hlnv seven blocks from her bqme, she tes tified yesterday. Dalv has a wife and three children in Meadow Grove, Neb. He said he was trying to sell Insurance to make enough to support them. The jury too kthe case at 5 last night. Churches at Humboldt Observe Armistice Day Humboldt, Neb., Nov. 13.—Armistice day was appropriately observed here by all of the churches. Three min utes of silence at 11 a. m., In honor of the war dead, and prominent men tion in addresses of their sacrifices and those of others who fought to victory for the allies, featured the programs. At the request of the American Region union services were held at the Methodist church at night, Rev. B. H. Dawson delivering the ad dress. The local legion post attend ed in a body. England, and especially London, has always been the favorite field for authors of mystery and detective parte. Louis Tracy has one which is alive, pul sating and aettive all through. The Pelham Affair opens in The Omaha Morn fjt ng Bee today, Wednesday. " It is a faint echo of half for gotten war days and concerns three spies, an army officer, .Scotland Yard and last hut not least, a beautiful girl. t __ Impossible to Buy Real Whisky Here, Writer Who Exposed Bootleggers Says A. R. Macdonald Offers $500 Reward to Anyone Able to Find Bottle of Pure Old Stuff • —Tells of Poison Put in Fake Liquor. A man offered to bet $500 yester day that a drink of whisky could not be bought in Omaha. "I will put the money in escrow in the hands of any reputable lmnker In Omaha, and if you will succeed in buying whisky here the money is yours,” he said. “Why,” exclaimed one of the men in the group who heard that state ment, “There are hundreds of joints here where it can he bought, and there are bootleggers in every block who will sell it. Better pull down that bet old man, you'll lose your money.” ♦ The man who offered to make that sensational bet was A. B. Macdonald, a staff writer for the The Ladies Home Journal and ^ The Country Centleman. He was here yesterday attending a convention of district agents of the Curtis Publishing com pany. Knows Where to Bet It. "I am willing to put up the money,” he insisted. "You go any where in Omaha, buy a bottle of the stuff they are selling here for whisky, submit it to any reputable firm of chemists, let them analyze it, and if it is found to be genuine whisky, the $500 is yours.” I^ast winter The Ladles Home Jour nal sent Macdonald out into ttie country with instructions to buy six or eight samples of bootleg whisky in ench of a score of towns and citks, /and then have those samples analyzed. He did that. He went first to Washington, D. C,, and there he bought eight quarts of whisky, in first class hotels, at reslaurane. cafes, of bootleggers, and at saloons. "Each bottle of it was apparently genuine." said Macdonald yesterday. "There was Old Taylor, Black and White Scotch. Canadian Club, Water fill A Frazier and several other well i-n< wn brands, all in regulation bot tles. with seemingly genuine labels and the corks were branded and the tin caps over the necks bore every indication that they were the real thing, but an analysis by one of the best firms of chemifts in the world disclosed that not one drop of the liquid in any of those bottles was whisky. Every drop of it was facti tious. It was fake stuff. The greater part of it was made from denatured alcohol, redistilled hy bootleggers. It was all poisonous, and yet it was be ing drunk in Washington at the best hotels by senators, congressmen and other leading citizens. One bottle I brought in from a bootlegger in the senate office building and, while It bore every outside evidence of heing genuine, it was so poisonous that a half pint of it, drank within an hour, would stop tlie heart of any man. No Heal Stuff to Be Had. "1 went to Boston. New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis. Kan s is Pity '<nd other places, and in each (Turn to ruse Tun. Column Three.) Blackmail Plot is Frustrated Postal Inspectors Seek Sender of Letters Demanding $5,000 and $2,500. Beaver City, Neb., Nov. 13.—Two at tempts were made at blackmail at St, Flam is, Kan., near here, recently. L, J. HillHs received a letter, de manding that he leave it .000 at a spot designated, due east of St. Fran cis. Rev. .1. Willard De Yoe found a missive under his door on his re turn from church, demanding that he place $2,500 in the alley back of the parsonage. Doeoy packages were placed In each place, and heavily armed guards se creted near them, hut no appeared to claim the packages. Special post office inspectors have been placed on the case to try to discover the identi ty of the person or persons who sent the missives through the postoffice. There are no clues. The letters were printed with pencil and signed K. K. K. Plea for Grain Rate Cut to Be Heard Today Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 13.—A plan of attack on the existing freight rates on grain, grain products and hay In the territory between Canada and the gulf and Chicago and the Rocky mountains was being formulated here today by public utility commissioners and ratP experts from Kansas, Mis souri, Oklahoma, Nebraska. Iowa, Minnesota. South Dakota and North Dakota. Tomorrow a 10-day' rehearing will open In Kansas City liefore three* members of pie Interstate Commerc commission. The application for readjustment of freight rates, originally prepared by the Kansas public utilities commis sion, declares that freight rates, broad ly speaking, must be fixed on the value of the commodities hauled. Ag rlcultural products. It Is alleged, have materially decreased In value, while freight rate are still at comparatlv* ;y high levels. Crain Company Being Liquidated |Merriani and Millard Losses $300,000 to $400,000— Assets Large. The Merriani and Millard Grain company Is being liquidated, follow ing the closing of its offices Monday by creditors. Losses of between $300, 000 and $400,000 caused by specula lion and In the operation of a termi nal elevator at Milwaukee u few years ago are given os causes for the closing. Barton Millard, president of the company, would not estimate the as sets of the company but asserted they were large. They are large, because we had a good business." said Mr. Millard. The Merrlam Commission company^ owned by Mr. Millard and J. W. Redick, will continue with Its con signment and brokerage business, Mr. Millard said. Mr. Redick Is secretary and treas urer of the Merrlam and Millard Grain company, which for many years has been considered one of the soundest in the country. The com pany operates two large elevators, one In Council Hluffs and the other at 1008 North Seventeenth street. Yeggs Blow Postoffice Safe; Rob Store at Alma Special lll.pHtrh to The Omaha flea. Alma. N’eh. Nov. 13—The poat fice at Mascot, Neb., was entered Monday night at midnight and the door of the safe blown off with nitro glycerine. Stamps and stamp hooka were strewn over the floor nnd $0 n silver taken Burglars also entered the store of O. I), l’axton and got about $70 In sliver and one paper dollar, they also took some cigars and a linlf carton of clgarets nnd started to tnke a side of bacon hut left It on the show case. Early Settler Dies Beatrice. Neb., Nov. 13.—Word has been received here of the death of Charles Cordanler, 84, one of the curliest settlers of Gage county. SUNNY SIDE UP After several hours of consultation with the Biggest Boy at home I know pretty well what I am expected to say at Hanscotn Park Methodist church Friday evening. Note that Judge Tewell Is holding court at North Platte, seated on a rough bench and using a couple of hoards on sawhorses for u desk. My courtship days were under very slml lar circumstance's. Our benches were handsawed and unplaned, and our desks rudely handcarved by boys skilled In handling jarkknlves. The courting was done by deft eyework while George Walters wasn't, looking Since the arrest of a bootlegger in fhe corridors of the Omaha federal building. It doesn't surprise me that officials down Washington way have discovered bootlegging next within a block of the treasury building and two bloqks of the White House, the building owned by the Treasury de* partment, too. I know a man In eastern Nebraska who bought six quarts of bourbon from a bootlegger and discovered later that the liquor had been hijacked from Ills own cel lar. You have never seen bad roads un less you have snn some western North Platte valley roads that have been badly rain aoifked and then used a couple of days by several hundred beet wagons, each loaded with from three to five tons of sugar beets Perhaps Mr McAdoo dodged Omaha in day light L/ccuusg he had u lively recollection of a certain roping event that attended Mr. Rryan’s re ception In New York harbor some 15 years ago. Isn't the fact that Nebraska girls of 15 and 16 skip across the state line to he married something of a vindication of Nebraska’s eugenic marriage law? And Isn’t It also evi dence that we have been lax in the organization of Hedslat chibs? (if course a lot of very handsome and valuable dogs will lie exhibited at the Omaha Bench show But nary one of thfon will be one-half ns valu able as the yellow mutts that trailed us oldsters around some 40 or 50 years ago. Drillers Find Coal Trace at Te kamah blurbs the headline artist of The Bee. Huh; that's about all 1 ever find. Referring to a recent soli from me concerning the sleeping cars that bump in the night, can any of you remember how your necks cracked when the grip took hold of ihe cable on the old Dodge street line? Ilaviryc had occasion to visit a big department store recently I was per milled to watch the actions of some shoppers at a very popular bargain counter. it has liven my pleasure in listen to divers and sundry lee lures oil salesmanship. MV recent ♦ Kpeiienco lends toe to suggest that it might l»c :\ \ ei y pious Idea lo have a miH** of lectures on buying ship, or shoppingHhlp, ns you may prefer* V/. Ai. Al. i * Record Is Upheld by Col. Forbes Tells Body Probing Veterans’ Bureau President's Doctor Ordered Rum Shipped to Ohio. Lays Trouble to Politics By I nitt-rsttl Hpnliy. Washington, Nov. 13.—Col. Charles R. Forbes, former director, today made a sweeping denial of accusa tions brought against him and his administration in the senate investi gation of the veterans’ bureau. f'orhes charged Brig. Gen. Charles K. Sawyer, personal physician to the late President Harding and President. Coolldge, with being responsible for the major part of his troubles. Forbes charged that “Sawyer si i ne time made a requisition to send Into Ohio 20 barrels of whisky" from the Perryville (Md.) supply depot. He said that Klias H Mortimer had been described to him at the Depart ment of Justice as “the social and professional bootlegger of Washing ton." Sawyer and Mortimer are among Forbes’ chief accusers in the list of witnesses heard to date. Politic* I* illumed. Political influence had been exerted, both Inside and outside tb ebureau, to Interfere with his administration '<f the bureau, Forbes asserted. This Influence, he declared, came from senators and representatives in con gress as well a* through other chan nels. Forbes defended the purchase of the Livermore (Cal.I and Kxcelsior Springs (Mo) hospital sites, that hace been the subject of vigorous attack, and other hospital transactions that have been brought into question. The sale of supplies at Perryville, Md , claimed to he worth 13,000,000, to a Boston salvage concern for 20 cents on the dollar, likewise was de fended as a good business deal In the face of the Information he had at the time. Denies Writing Mellon. In Ills defense of the Livermore deal. For be* denied ever having writ ten or having knowledge of a letter purporting- to have gone from him to Secretary of the Treasury Mellon atrongly urging the purchase ,,{ the Livermore site at 1150,000. Likewise he denied ever having seen the sec retary's reply thereon. It was brought out that the orig inal letter could not be located In the Treasury department files. However, what purported to be a copy of it and of the secretary’s reply were produced from the treasury. A car bon copy of such a letter was read into the record from the veterans' bureau files when the Livermore deal was under Investigation a fort night ago. i Forties defended his contract with Matthew O'Brien, San Francisco ar chitect. who received $97,000 for pre paring plans that were never used for a hospital at Livermore. He declared O'Brien came to him with endorse ments from both senators and the entire house delegation from Cali fornia. O'Brien's plans, he said, were rejected after he had left the bureau Touchy on Head Man. When the late Charles F. Crar name had been brought into the dls (Mission of the Livermore deal, Forbes said: "Mr. Cramer is dead. The man la gone I don't think It will avail any thing to question me about him.” Forbes admitted, however, that he had sent the former general counsel to California to Investigate and recom mend a tuberculosis hospital site. He said he first met Cramer In 1914. but had not seen him again until he came to Washington In 1921. He declared he knew nothing of a supposed 1150, 000 option secured at Cramer's In stance for the Livermore site, nor had he ever seen Lucian B. Johnson, former owner of the property, until he came to Washington to testify In this hearing. The bureau bought this property for $105,000, Forbes said he appointed MaJ. Wil liam Wolff Smith aa Crnmer'a sue cessor In the face of political prea aure, Indlratlng Smith filed political endoraementa "a foot high” to get the Job. Seventeen Youth* to Jail After Hallowe’en “Stunt*” Beaver City, Neb, Nov. 18.—8ev enteen young men of Arapahoe pro pose to lay out fine* of $5 and eoat* each In county Jail here The fine* rnme aa a re*ult of Hallowe'en "atunta” they are alleged to have staged. A number of building* of amall proportion* were moved onto main afreet* and sign* of profe*alonal tiualneaa men were placed on them The boya were arrested and fined In Juallce court and elected to lav out their ftnea, thinking they would have a Jolly time In Jail together Then the Juatlce decreed they would aerve their time on* at a time Stray Bullet draftin'* Into Driver's Vi iuiMiieltl Columbu*. Neb, Nov. 1.1 Mikn Jernsal narrowly est.'iped death when h stray hullef crashed Into the wind shield of tbs mr hr wus driving as the ntitomobiis stopped for s fsw min litas si a railroad missing waiting for a passing freight train The bullet rants within two Ivu hr* «*f .Ismsal's head and polioe after Investigation rams fo the ron« lualon tha bullet ptnbnblv rams from the weapon of a tiurnp riding uu the Ii right train. Why Editors Go Crazy WHAT WANTS 1 6 LESS 0UKIK ABOUT /_J^r EUROPEAN! y" ■POLITlCJ <>^AKJD MORE -MEWS \ /yA'dtm M0R3E RACES AND Something interesting? A HU WHAT HE WANTS IS LESS ABoirr the inconsequential^ OP LIFE AND f \ more Real fcw 4 ^ VJELLTUEY CAMlEAME OUT j --EVERYTHIN Concerned \ • WOMDE.R V/uo READS ALL THIS SiLfy Rcrr i ABOUT X Issia AMD VS MOVIE \ ACTRESSEvu ETC — Lmqtming Birr scandlE and KlU-RDERi AND HORRIBLE "v ACCIDENTS? U r IT'S PERFECTLY || j EVIDENT THAT THE. NEWSPAPERS ARE 'Becoming, a ■public menace 9 , • JtoT LIKE 'EM! PKIMT ALL I THE TOMMY *OT /H LETTERS'* l FOOT HIGH/ AMD SET th-E MARKET QUOTATIONS SO SMALL NOBODY CAN Read them without A MICRJOiCCT — (J • 5HET DON'T SAT A \AIOSt&C ABOUT /Ml tws Being ASIDE Al NATIONAL ART \NEEKy what DO people Find I NTERESyiM o nevnspape^ ANNWA.V1 fNAV<HIL.fc_ THERE'S SOMETHING SENSETIONM. BUT NOT <3PTEN * TEN COLUMNS ABOUT LLOYD GEOROS^ AND N07 X~ ONE LINE \Sp ^bout rr THE ?RUfiT pickers ^ STRIKE. THATS it ALWAV DlSCRlM INA ^ v AC.AINST THE POOR VMCRK'N MAN i Three davs, and the letter !he WROTE to THE editor on : THE RAILROAD PROBLEM HASNT NET APPEALED _?_ But "WHEN TME\ CUTOUT HAlF the editorials TO make ROOM FOR A NEVM COMIC STRIP THE CIRCULATION INCREASED ic'COO- ' DONTPUTME IM, q IRONS KEEPER, lLL, °° "JES1 )\ PA»EC I i CELLI h *©41t Trial of Souder at North Platte Again Delayed .V Accused Ex-County Treasur er May faqe Argon < charge Some Time Next \\ eek. II) Jiwtrlatol Press North Platte, Neb.. Nov. 1.1 — White attorneys for the state are ob taining counter affidavits to one filed by the defense, to support their motion for a change of venue, there will lie a holiday In the trial proceed ings of former County Treasurer Samuel M Souder. and other former county officials under Indictment charged with arsor Judge .1. I,. Tewell thlfc afternoon sustained a demurrt r on four indict ments on the docket charging Souder with forgery of lax duplicates, but suggested that the state carry the case to the state supreme court. Spe rial Prosecutor flcorge Cllbhe expects to obtain a ruling from the high court within a fen weeks. The court, however, overruled the de murrer as It affected E. 11. Springer. Elmer Maker, former deputy treas urer. and Carl Ooucher of Omaha, and all other Indictments against Souder. Attorneys for the defense and prosecution have lieen ordered to be prepared to argue on the motion for .) change of venue and continuance motlona Saturday morning, and. should thev lie overruled, there ap l ears lo he little question but what Souder will go on trial Tuesday morning of next week on chargea of arson, the state electing today to try this case first. The arson Indictment was brought against Souder months ago follow ing the destruction by fire of the courthouse here last April 29 Elmer Maker, deputy tfnder Souder, was Jointly Indicted with the county treasurer for arson, and special Prosecutor (leorge Olhhs asked that Maker and Souder be tried jointly. Judge Tewell ruled. In effect, that Souder could not be tried on forgery charges for having signed his own name to tax receipts, the contents of which the state alleges were false. The state regarded the tax receipt forgery cases as the strongest It had against the former county tress urer, It Is estimated of the 14S> Indict ments brought against Souder more than a score of them were based upon lax receipt exhibits. Judge Tewell overruled the demurrer as to the check forgery oases and all In dlctments charging forgery and larceny. Heads Meridian Highway Norfolk, Nov. 13 Or. F. A. l.oiu' "f Madlaon w.'tn «looted vice president <»f iho International Miidian iRhe.iy nasoc'lntion at, tho mooting at Salln.i. Kan., according to word receivtd fccrt Atlas Bank at Neligh ('loses Guaranty Fund Ma\ Lose $200.00(1 to $300,000 in l*a\ mg Depositors. Lincoln. Nov. 13.—The Atlas bank of Neilgh was closed today, according to an announcement of the state hanking department. The probable 1< is to the guarantee fund will ran between $200,000 and $300,000 The bank was tak»n over hy thej state hanking department May 21, i at which time It* deposits totaled $7SS,000. In the hope that u con siderable portion of the loss might be averted the hank was kept' in operatlhn and $233,000’front the new ly authorized hankers conservation fund was loaned it for the purpose. Attempts at sale or consolidation having failed, the banking commis sion decided it would l>e inrpoasihle to longer keep the bank In operation Hay Swanson, former vice president of the bank, has been in charge as a deputy of the Linking commission. The Atlas bank was one of the largest of the elate hanks and was one of the best equipped In the state. When taken over hy the hanking 1 i-onimlaslon its officers were: George N". Seymour, president. Hay Swanson, vice president R. S. Payne, vice president, and R. J Forsyth, cashier. At the time the hank was taken over It had a capital stock of $$0,000 and $12,000 surplus, and the hunk owed $418,000 for money borrowed. Denver Insurance Firm to l ake North Platte* Company Lincoln. Nov 13.—The Mountain States Life Insurance company of Denver will reinsure the business of the Fidelity Reserve Life Insurance company of North Platte. It h is been announced by the state insurance bu reau. Tlie step was approved hy 723 policyholder* of the Nebraska com pany who were represented either in person or by proxy at a meeting it North Platte. The Fidelity Reserve company stat ed as its reason fur turning over Its reinsurance to the Denver firm that It was operating In a restricted area that Imd suffered financial depression, and that It had been uni$)>le to place enough Insurance on It* books to Jus tIfV ll* continuing In business. Page Luther Ihirhank! I no abbages on ()nr Stalk Beaver City Nib. Nov. 13 C V Barber of Cambridge. Neb . has de veloped cabbage plants that raise two head* to the stalk in place of only one He proposes to double the production of cabbage patches but refuses to divulge the secret of rate Ing them until he hit* further de j veloped the plant** lie has been die j playing some fine up- « hmns showing i iwo heads on a »UU ' i Officers Raid W est Omaha Poker Party 9 jSiitton. \el>.. Man Complains of Losing Roll After In ^ itation to ‘Beer Party.” Poker parly tn an Omaha home it which liquor flowed, and In which Henry Fisher of Sutton, Neb., told police lie was swindled out of 173. caused a raid on the home Monday right amt a ride tn the jiatrol wogo.n. ■to police station, fo rfour or five per Isons found in the house. They were John .leptsen. 5825 North Thirtietli street. W. K. IJrouil letp>. 1811 Chicago street: Haiel I.lsholti, 14 maid at the house, and i Mrs Kthel p.ms a widow of* Fre mont, Nel> The home where the party was held is that of Mrs. C. F Barrows, at 4187 Cass street He Pidn't Remember. Ftslier told police he met Jensen and Brouillette in a downtown pool hall, and they invited him to go on a "beer party.'"w Arriving at the house, he said, he was given something to drink, and ho didn't remember what hecame of hit. money. In court Tuesday all the per sons arrested were released, and the court ordered Jensen and Brouillette to give back Fisher's money. They took me for a chump " de ■ laved Fishei "We all paid S7. for tlie liquoi 1 ni going Kick to Button." .Mrs Barrows, whose husKand is a traveling man. declared Monday night at police station that the men were all friends of Mrs Pavla, whom she has known for a long lime, she said Mrs Paris declined to say any thing at all Fisher said he had never seen either of the women Iwfore. Changed to Poker. Mrs. Barrows said the three men started playing pinochle, but that iter the game was changed to poker. She said she gave the men some beer. About Ibis gambling." she said. 1 can tell you 500 homes in Omaha where cards are played for money every night." She said that the I.lsholti (flrl. whose mother. Mrs Gertrude Apple I sum. operates a rooming house at Sixteenth and Jones streets, has bees with her for two yesrs. and that she Is as solicitous for her welfare as though the girl were her daughter. Madison Man New Head of Dental Association Norfolk Neb. Non 13 l>r. \Y. C. lltgfftnii of Mtdlwm NVH ?*electe\l prest •lent of the Noith NYbrankn l>entt! awvochitlnn nt the Annual convention here. Hr ,1 1* flrkllnc I* vice prenb •lent Mini Dr 11 !•' .Johnson of \\ nisi ft fotfliu y lrett*unM . 1 u\ Ikinakl Smith of S’- uv t’itn n\;ia principal: ^i oukt* iil Uiv Ll'llNCllUOU Wood Aims to Subdue Moro Strife Governor-General Back From Isle of Unrest, Plans to U se Peaceful Methods. Warns of U. S. Powei B> Amkm f’rpxs. Manila, Nov. 13.—While there is n« disorder at present among the Mon tribes the situation requires earefu handling, Governor-General Leonard Wood declared upon his return her* today after a three weeks' trip o' inspection to the island of Mindanao whee he investigated repoiued unre,; among the natives, Governor-General Wocel summoned Da to (Chief) Santiago, one of the lead crs in the Duke Lunao district, to come aboard his yacht at one port a! which he stopped, but the chief. l>ecoming alarmed at the rough sea. turned back and departed for hie liume among the island hills. The executive instructed tlic cei stabulary officers who accompanied him on his trip to bring in the chief and his followers from the hills, with out bloodshed, if possible. The governor xpreetc-i ror.fidence that the Moro situation would tie set tled peacefully. He announced that he had appointed a commission, con sisting, of three members of his staff who have long experience in the Phil ippines. to proceed to Mindano and invenigav the Moro grievances in detail. Governor General Wood also an nounced that he would make a cour tesy visit to the Java straits soon, at the request of the State depart ment. The greatest unrest now is merely local and is confined chiefly to Morn« in the vicinity of Lake Lanao, where :h« tribesmen are demanding larger representation in the governmental ac tivities. he declnred. The Moros. who are Mohammedans, "bjec- tn being governed by Christian Filipinos and are demanding the ar> i r intment of additional Moro officials. I the governor general declared. At a conferemre which he hehj with ! 'I'.ro chieftains who assembled from all part* of the territory. Govern Gen eral Wood informed them that Amer • an sovereignty still Is supreme in the Philippines and that if the United tat*** ever derides to relinquish con trol the Moros will be officially no tified before any change is made. One of the demands of the tribes n.-n, which Is causing unrest. ;s for Mnro teachers instead of Christian Filipino in the school for girls, the executive said. Man Who Shot Brother Asks Parole From Pen Lincoln. Nov. 13.—The application of Cyrus Deardorf. sentenced to the | pettetentiary for life following his I shooting of his brother. Jerry, for cui - i mutation of sentence, w as hit!erly_op I posed before the parole board todav | by the widow* of the murdered man. ! Mrs, Emma Jensen. She denied a statement that Dear | dorf had made to the parole board -that he did not know what he wa* doing when he shot his brother ar-J ! that he had any motive for the deed. Deardorf. who was sentenced in I 1316. told the board that hi* relations with his brother had always Ish happy, that he not only did net know whv he had shot him and had no re. < lie. Uon of the deed until a dav later, when he found himself In the county Jail. Deardorf told the board thai he had children that were dependent up on him and that he would tike to he released that he might aid in their support They are now being luokid after by his father-in-law. Now Kxpresr Rates Will He Announced in Pecenilter Lincoln, Nov 13.—A new tentative schedule of rates for express matte; , -'greed upon by five state raliw,i, commissions snd the interstate com merge commission, will be announeeu December 1. Commissioner Taylor «n nounced today, A number .f readjustment* neecs sarj* because numerous discrimina ti. i»- have developed since the irstltu Uon of the rone system I0 years ago 're included in the schedule. Although the schedule is not yet available, .t i' stated that a complaint that the west was hearing a greater burden of express expense than the east ha' lawn adjusted. R ol»ck ah Com ontion Pen; rice Neb. Nov 13—The Re Ijeknh district convention will be held ai Wymore Wednesday afternoon anvl evening Mrs Mar> Krush of Wahoev vice president of the assembly, and Mrs Harriet I'aln of Fremont past [ piesldent of the assembly, will be present and given Instruction*. I The Weather t'»'r 24 hour* *nvl . c r \\ in X»v Hivhfftt *1 . >wg»i «S .'2 rioi * m"' ♦ #in» e t l «* R#l«nxt hum ii n ? a * M t'*«i ll'll* i U'n. t«. hr* an.1 huv.vti r .it k« Total * TnUl *3*U'* 1. « \n'i» i M MoutIi Tcmarmiurwi