. f==.' The Omaha Corning Dee (sssi -— ___ -_ ■ — -■■■ I am the captain of my soul. CITY EDITION ! V0L 53_N0. 194. OMAHA, MONDAY JANUARY 28, 1924. * TWO CENTS ■■ ^ c."d. V Em*,. H*m*,. J ^ 1 ■ — — 1 "■ Uy J(a|| (j year): Pally and Sunday. $5; Sunday, |S.t», within tha 4th ion*. Out aid* th» 4th Zon* (1 Y*ar): Pally and Sunday, lit; Sunday only. It._ 5 Mexicans Accused of Plot Slain Men Face Firing Squad Fol lowing Alleged Discovery of Scheme to Give Up Juarez lo Rebels. Esperanza Is Captured El Paso, Tex., Jan. 27.—Five men were executed by a firing squad in tlie Juarez (Mex.) cemetery early to day, following alleged discovery of a plot to turn Juarez over to Mexican revolutionary chiefs. Col. Roman Lopez, commander of the Juarez garrision, announced that a large quantity of rilfes and pistols, together with ammunition, was found after the plot had been uncovered. Four of the men were barely 21 years old. The oldest, a former fol lower of Francisco Villa, had but one arm, the other having been lost while fighting for the bandit chief tain. The men were taken from the an cient stone jail in Juarez and march ed to the cemetery, followed by a crowd attracted by the grim aspect of the party. "Mercy Shots” Administered. Little time was lost after tho cenie tery was reached, the condemned men being acquainted with their fate dur ing the march. Following the usual cuetom of read ing their sentences, the men were ordered to prepare for death. Some stood mute. Others removed their hats took out their hankerchlefs and faced the squad. One at a time, as their names were called, the men walked in front of the adobe wall of the grim guardhouse in the cemetery and stood at rigid attention. At the command of fire, the limp form of the prisoner would fall to the ground in death throes. Imme diately after the volley, a “mercy shot” was administered. __ Federal* Take Esperanza. ’ BT Associated Press. Mexico, City, Jan. J7.—The town of Esperanza, considered the most Im portant strategic position on the rail way between the capital and Vera Cruz and descril>ed as the key to Ori zaba, was captured late Saturday by the federal forces under General Martinez, according to an official statement made today by Under Sec retary of War Manzo. The statement was based on advices received from Minister of War E vrano, at Puebla. At 6 this morning General Alma zan's cavalry defeated Gen. Fortu nato Maycotte’s rebel forces at San Miguel, Saltepec, the rebels losing five officers and five privates killed. The rebels withdrew to Canada, Mor elos. to which place General Alma zan’s troops pursued and finally dis persed them. According to advices from Secre tary Serrano, the advance of the fed eral force* is proceeding. TJ. S. Boats Arrive. General Martinez reports that he expects shortly to take Orizaba. Early Saturday morning Gen. Gonzalo Es cobar reached Salvatierra, on the way to Morelia, where he will reinforce the local garrison. There has been fighting for several days past in Mor elia. President Obregon yesterday vis ited Penjamo, later returning to Ce lava. Special dispatches from Tampico report the arrival there on Friday of the rebel gunboat Saragoza, which, however, did not attempt to come into port, anchoring three miles to the south. Two American torpedo boat destroy ers are reported to have arrived shortly after the Saragoza dropped anchor. They are stationed outside Mexican territorial waters. Leader in Farmers’ Union Circles Dies at Columbia Columbus Neb., Jan. 27.—Frank W. Klernao, former member of the coun ty botird of supervisors, one of the early leaders In Farmers union cir cles In Platte county and a member r,f a pioneer family, died at Ids home. Death followed a stroke of apoplexy which he suffered while eating sup per Thursday evening. The stroke left him unconscious and he did not regain consciousness before death. Funeral services will be held at 10 Tuesday at St, lionnventure's Catho lic church. The body will then be taken to HI. Edward where services again will be held and where burial will he made In the Catholic ceme tery. A wife, three sons and four daughters survive. Man Attempting to Lift Car From Ditrh Drops Dead Kearney. Neh<, Jan. 27.—Al Crowell, 66, dropped dead as a result of over exertion. Crowell and a fellow work er were returning from the country where they had been working all day, when the car they were driving skid ded Ho a ditrh on a road about 10 ^ irvllea northeast of Kenmey. The strain of lifting the machine from the ditch seems to have been too much for Crowell’s weak heart, for he col lapsed and was pronounced dead by 1ho first physician to rcndi hLs side. He Is survived by awlfe and family. Dr. Coue, Jumping Faster and Faster, Spends 30 Seconds at Omaha. Station French Psychologist's Power of Suggestion Holds Connecting Train Here—Day by Day He's Getting Tighter, Mourns Red Cap Day by day In every way Emile Coue must jump faster and faster. But he set a record In Omaha Sunday morning that he will find difficult to break unless day by day in every way he gets younger and younger, in stead of day by day in every way get ting older and older, like the rest of humanity. The French psychologist was at the Omaha Union station less than 30 seconds Sunday. He came in over Other Inquiries Overshadowed bv * Teapot Dome Case Surtax Rates in Mellon Bill May Be Reached by House Committee by End of Week. Washington, Jan. 27. — Develop ments in the naval oil reserves leases overshadow every other subject be fore congress. Tax, farm relief, Muscle Shoals and the Bok peace plan investigation are struggling for a place in the sun, but recent and prospective disclosures in the oil Inquiry have left them in po sitions of comparative obscurity. Despite an announcement by Presi dent Coolidge that the administration will move immediately for annulment of the leases and the prosecution of any who may be guilty of wrong do ing, the senate will proceed tomorrow with consideration of a resolution calling on the president to act In the case of the Teapot Dome lease. Discussion Deferred. Discussion of the cancellation reso lution affecting the California oil re serve lease will be deferred under present plans until E. L. Doheny har had an opportunity to make an offer over his own signature to reconvey this lease to the government. The big bone of contention In the Mellon tax bill—the income surtax rates—probably will be reached by the house ways and means committee by the end of the week. Word from Henry Ford, as to whether he will appear to discuss his offer for Muscle Shoals is awaited by the house military committee which hopes to wind up Its hearings on this subject by midweek. Farmers Queried. With the senate agricultural com mittee still considering several forms of farm relief, a group of northwest ern farmers has sent a message to the farmers of that section to get to gether and let congress know Just what they want. The^ senators in their message endorsed 'the Norris Sinclair farm export corporation mea sure as the one promising the great ff.-t good. Definite preparation for handling of railroad legislation will be made tomorrow by the senate interstate commerce committee, with the ap pointment of subcommittees to study the various measures which have been offered. Further inquiry into the Bok peace plan by the senate propaganda com mittee is planned for this week. 20 Bodies Recovered After Mine Explosion By Associated Prrss. Shanktown, Pa., Jan. 27.—Twenty bodies have l>e*n removed from the Lancashire mine here and the bodies of five others have l>»en located by mine rescue workers in the workings, which yesterday was the scene of ft gas explosion. Fifteen others are be lieved to be entombed and little hope is held that they will be found alive. Fire Causes $2,500 Loss to Residence at Kearney Kearney, Neb., Jan. 27.—Fire and water are estimated to have caused a loss of $2,500 at the A. E. Atkins' home here. The fire evidently had been burning for some time when I lie nlarm was turned In shortly before 3, tor school children reported they had observed smoke coming from t lie roof at noon, but had not turned dn an alarm because they could see no fire. There was considerable anxiety among parents when telephone oper ators reported the alarm had been turned in from Whittier school. The school building, which Is across Hie street, from the burning house, has been strenuously condemned by school authorities during the last few months as a fire trap. The fight to extinguish the fire was retarded for a time by low water pressure caused by a break at the waterworks. I The Weather For 24 hour* ending 7 p. m , Janu °'Til g heat, 39; lowaat, 1*; mean, 2*. nor tiimI, 22. Total deficiency alnca January I. 2.15. Precipitation. Inuliaa and hundredth* Total, 0 Totals alnca January 1, 0.61; exceed, .04 Hourly Temper*lurea, R a. rn. i** I p. m . . . . 3 4 h a. ..10 2 p. m ■ 7 a m.lx 3 p. in. X k. m.11 4 |». n».29 f» a. m.I * R p. m. 14 in a. m. 22 6 p m 37 II a. m.7(1 7 p m ... >H 12 noon .*2 I P- m...24 the Rock Island, which was over an hour late. Union Pacific No! 1 was held for him, and when the sleeper, in which Dr. Coue had been pacing nervously for hours and wishing the belated train would go faster and faster, had been drawn up alongside the sleeper on Union Pacific No. 1. there was a rush. A half-dozen red caps hurried the Coue baggage across, Dr. Coue gave a hop, skip and jump and landed on the car platform, and before he was inside the door. No. 1 was pulling out westward. Later and Icrfert beginning of another day. One news paper worker lias his lime table properly marked, so be can locate a train to Wayne on the shortest n< « alble nolle*. W. M. M. What Does Mr. Bok Mean by Spending His Money for Such Pernicious Purposes } i - -_ TM OVSMV . roR &*ce J . . ' SPLENDID, MR. PRESIDENT ----AN EDITORIAL For several days The Omaha Bee has urged upon President Coolidge prompt and definite action in bringing to the bar of justice the guilty ones in the oil lease scandal. The president has acted. There is no equivocation in what he has done. Straight, clean and definite it comes. It is splendid, Mr. President. , The president strikes straight, whomsoever he shall hit, republican or democrat, friend or foe. He frees the weapon with which he shall strike from every charge of bias or fear of influence. Special counsel, men high in the leadership of both republican and democratic parties, will handle the evidence and prosecute those to whom the evi dence shall point. Bribery is an ugly crime. All the more reason for action. If Albert B. Fall was bribed for a hundred thousand dollars in a satchel and thirty five thousand dollars that he might make a trip to Russia; if for this he gave away the nation’s vast naval oil reserves, then someone bribed him. When the knife cuts, the president plans to see to it that briber and bribed come within reach of its swath. If the evidence can be found to convict, Mr. Doheny and Mr. Sinclair will not es cape with a restitution of'the leaseholds their scheming has won. There will be no pass ing of the buck to Fall’s broken career. All the guilty will pay. The president has done more than speak, he has directed: “If there is any guilt, it will be punished; if there is any civil liability, it will be enforced; if there is any fraud, it will be revealed; if there are any contracts which are illegal, they will be canceled.’’ No wasted words, no indirection, no doubtful meaning. Courage, fine, high courage. It is splendid. Mr. President._ Professor to Rid State of Man-Eating Mosquitoes With Bats in Cave Hideouts Itlooif Suckers Lined to Cherry'County: Found Roosting Head Down on Ceilings: Smudges Suffocate Thousands of ’Em. i -- - - - - - --— O'Neill, Neli.. .Ian. 17.—After sev eral yenrs of painstaking research anil investigation Prof. M. H. llorls kev, local scientist, at last has suc ceeded In solving the problem of how the large man-eating mosquitoes Which Infest the vicinity of the stream bunks of north Nebraska and the fishing lakes of Cherry county, survive ilie rigor of a northern win ter. As a result of the professor's re search north Nebraska liisy he rn tlrely without mosquitoes the com lug summer. The hlg blood-suckers do not hlber nnle In the true definition of the term, says Professor llorlskey, but protect themselves from extremely low temperatures by seeking refuge ill hollow trees or other protected places, and the mosquitoes of north Nebraska spend the winter In the caverns and caves along the hanks of Whisky «reek In southern ttoyd county, the waters of which stream are warmed by the hot springs lo cated just about the town of Lynch. The location of the wtnter habitat of tlie Nebraska mosquito was deter mined by lining them Just ns wild tx-es are lined to locate a honey tree. Attention was attracted to the pos alblltty of a possible local rendesvous, when large flm ks of the Insects were noticed migrating northward from the Cherry county lakes during the first cold spell late In IVcember. Observation of their course of flight was made and a simple loathe mntlcnl process enabled the searcher to determine the converging point of the several routes, after which the actual ba stion of the winter quarters soon was discovered In several large caves along the creek hanks. There the mosquitos were discov ered. roosting, head downward, on the ceilings. Smudges at once were started and thousands of the pests suffocated. The professor will stock the caves with hats tbs coming summer stid thus expects to eradicate the Insects from the state within a short time OHI> Col I! C Weller, loco! auctioneer, bn# filed for county * sor on the republican ticket *>rln kelllaon ami lien Hinkle have filed on the republican ticket for re elei H tIon on the count} board from their Ipreclnct*. .1 h Want of Arcadia lias fllcil on Ilia sente ticket for state ictin -entatue from \ alley slid list field counties Pneumonia Threatens Fait: Doctor Declares Condition Is Critical By I'hIimwI Service. Washington, Jan. I*.—Bronchial pneumonia threaten* tonight to corn plloate the illness of Albert B. Fall, central figure In the naval oil reserve scandal. Ills condition Is regarded as critical. At the home of C’ol James W Zeve ly, attorney for the Sinclair oil Inter ests. It was learned that the former secretary of the Interior s|>ent a most restless night Saturday, and that his condition showed no Improvement to da y. The concern of Fall's physician l'r John Wharton, was shown by an early morning visit. F very thing pos slide is being done to ward off the onset of pneumonia, regarded as nniet serious, not only because of the pa tlent's age. but on account of his weakened stale occasioned bv thw dui alton of hla Illness. Fall's appearance before the pul* llo lands committee to testify rela live to his leasing of the Teapot 1 Vine tract and naval reserve lands in California and his receipts of money and Idbertv t'onds from le* seo* Is now Indefinitely postponed Friday was set as the day on which lit* hearing would commence. Bn p ills from New Orleans to Washing ton with Zevely, Fall wired a plea for delay owing to his Illness. "I am n sick man." h* declared on hi* arrival. Conference Is Called on Sunday Acting Attorney General and Aide Summoned to White House for Night Meeting. Capper Attacks Denby Washington, Jan. 27.—President Coolidge is picking the prosecutors. The names of special counsel, who will go to the "bottom of the Fall Sinclair-Doheney oil lease scandal,' will be given out as soon as the presi dent has made his selection. They will be summoned to Washington at once and will be expected to proceed without delay. The prosecution will be without parallel in importance since the days of the Star Route scandals and the Whisky Ring in the days of Presi dent Grant. Law Will Be Enforced. Then. President Grant gave orders, "Let no guilty man escape." Now President Cootidge has said. “Every law will be enforced and every right of the people and the government will be protected.” The case of “The People of the United States Against Albert B. Fall, et al“ will require the bfcst legal brains of the country. Washington is speculating on who will be se lected. At 6:15 tonight. President Coolidgs summoned Acting Attorney General Seymour and Assistant Attorney Gen eral Rush Holland to #the White House. Conference Is I nusual. A Sunday night conference at th# White House is in itaelf unusual. The present conference is all the more unusual in the vast consequences to personal fortunes, to financial for tunes, to political fortunes, that hang in the balance. The fact that the president Is giv ing bis Sunday evening to the mat ter Is taken by everyone here to mean that he will move swiftly and with precision. Capper Attacks Denby. Washington, Jan. 27.—“Because of 'tschnicallties' which the secretary of the navy could not. understand, the public now understands too well that private exploiters have come Into possession of at least a quarter of a billion barrels of government oil.” Senator Capper, republican, Kansas, said In a statement tonight announc ing his support of resolutions to can cel naval oil leases. President Coolidge's announcement that he would Institute court pro ceedings where necessary, was en dorsed by Senator Capper, who said the affair should rise “above con cerns of party expediency," and that "none guilty of breach of pub lic trust shall escape.” Aside from the scandalous in ference of the Teapot Dome affair." said the Kansas senator; “aside from the grave suspicions of criminal tur pitude to which it gives rise and the evidence of gross neglect of official duty and indifference to the public interest which it has disclosed, the Investigation has revealed the fact that 37.000 acres of California and 9 300 acres of Wyoming oil lands reserved to supply our future naval needs have been turned over to pri vate exploitation Explanation Ik** Not Explain. “Defenders of deliberate alienation of government oil reserves, which is a hold and frontal attack upon the governmental policy of conservation of natural resources, explain that the leases were made necessary because the oil fields adjacent were being de veloped anti that if the governn>ent acreage were not developed its oil would run mto private wells. “This is an explanation that does not explain: it does not explain why the leases were made without public bids: It does not explain the negli gence of the secretary of th* navy who tesjified he signed the leases without understanding what he signed because they were too teohni esl. It does not explain the story of Doheny. and Colonel Zexely. private attorney for Mr Sinclair, regarding 'loans' of Ilfa.OOO to former Seerw* tary of the InterioV Fall. This ex planation doe* not explain the story of Archie Roosevelt, wherein he told * the committee that Sinclair's secre tary had told him that Fall s ranch foreman had been given Jiix.ooo of I Sinclair's money. “I shatl support a resolution d;-ect ing the proper agency of the govern ment to proceed at cnee to void these leases and to recover this alienated public domain —this great store of oil upon which our future national safety may depen.i. and that evidence of criminal guilt he relentlessly and un sparingly prosecuted no matter whom It may Involve" Coolidge Asks Both Parties to Aid Cleanup Washing*. >'U .1m IT IVsnlfrt Owljdtf# has vi#cM#xl to employ spe cial eounwl drawn from Kith th# re puhlhun and democratic part:#* to l*roeo* at# committee h^arlnisa on the leasing of naval oil Whit# Houao officials in maktng public the statement sant ^hat th# special counsel would l** appoints (Tum In Tate T»f t <4uvttn Isat