^ The Omaha N'.orning Dee _ter Ilian half-a-doirn policemen » _ —___ ■ - ■— ■ — — • a 1 — ■■ '■■■— 1 . ..... dubs,—Jacob A. Riis. CITY EDITION J VOT *?_NO 247 vV OMAHA, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1924. • TWO CENTS'" ttcS&lGSUF1* V-_V N. - ^ is'' . aondar. M: Sunday. wllbln tbo tta nnn«. Oaralda th« 4th Eo.io Cl T«ar)i Dally and Bandar, tit; Bund,? only. ta. __ Rugg Slated to Succeed Daugherty Chief Justice of Massa chusetts Court Said to Be Fa vored by Coolidge^—Others Urge Western Man. Harlan Stone Is Named H.t Inlvimal S»nl«e. Washington, March 80.—Arthur 1 '■ Rugg, chief justice of the Massachus etts supremo court, stood out today as the most probable successor to At torney General Harry M. Daugherty. While the decision has not been def initely reached, it is understood that lie is uppermost in the president’s mind. There are some political consid erations to be taken into account, but the president is weighing them care fully and at this time feels the se lection of Judge Rugg to be a wise cne. I'rge Western Man. Such criticism as there is would come from naming a cabiriPt officer from Massachusetts, already numer ously represented in high official life here. His advisers point out that there is nothing to gain politically au he already has his native state in the hollow of ills hand. They have told the president to go to the middle west or to some state where the outcome of the campaign is in the balance. But the president does not attach tills type of political Importance to the Selection. He believes that the first and most important considera tion Is to get a man of outstanding ability and integrity—one in whom the public will have implicit trust. Hi iiellevea Judge Rugg is this kind of a man. In addition to this. Judge Rugg Is Ida personal friend and frequent ad viser. The cabinet he now is work ing with was selected by his prede cesser. Other* Considered. His only appointment ea far, Cur lis D. Wilbur, of California, as secre- j tary of the navy, was a man un Known to him personally. He occu 1 os tiie unique position of being the only president to serve with a cabinet < ont.ilning no warm personal friend on whom he may lean for advice and guidance of the more intimate sort. He, of course, Imposes the greatest tmst and confidence ir. his official family, but it is more official than otherwise. There is, however, strong pressure from New York to name Harlan F* Stone, former head of the Columbia law school. In addition to the two now said to ire most Important in the presi dent** mind, suggestions have been made that he appoint former Gover nor Miller of New York or Judge Crane of Brooklyn. EUROPEAN FLOODS COST MANY LIVES London, March 30. — Disastrous floods thiit have cost many lives und caused millions of dollars properly damage were reported from various parts of continental Euro|>e today. In northern and northeastern Ger many the Elbe and Vistula rivers are flooded, the former being 10 ffeo* above normal and the latter 20 feet, lowlands have been Inundated and hundreds made homeless. Rivers In the department of Com panla. in Italy, are out of their banks following a terrific storm which swept the Amalfi district. Tremeu dous damage was caused, the loss of life from the storm, floods and land slides, Is put at 160. In Spain the Tagas, Jucar and Tor mes rivers have overflowed, flooding villages, washing away railroads and houses, destroying crops and killing live stock. So far no casualties have been reported from Spain. Heavy Snow Reported at Norfolk and O’Neill, Neb. By Universal Service. Sioux City, la., March 30.—Tele graph and telephone communication with points In South Dnkota and Min nesota was being rapidly restored here Sunday evening, after being damaged badly by the storm of Sat urday. About 3.000 poles were re ported down In South Dakota Satur day night, and wire communication to Minneapolis and St. Paul was prac ideally Impossible. About 376 poles were reported down between Mason City and Minneapolis, and 200 down south of Mason City. Watertown. S. D., was hardest hit by the storm, according to reports here. Huge snowdrifts stopped nil traffic and In some places the snow was plied so high that entire stora fronts were burled. Heavy fall ef snow was also reported at Norfolk, Neb., O’Neill, Neb., and Gregory, 8. D. Stock on the ranges suffered con siderably In noun sections. Wymore Man Jailed for 9 Attempt to Evade Debts Beatrice, Neb., March 80.—Charge,] with moving hi* stock of goods from Wymore, Neb., In the night for the purpose of evading hi* creditors, Elmer Frank was arrested at Table Rock, Neb., and brought, back to Wymore. His preliminary bearing whs set for Wednesday and he was released on $1,000 bond. Our Genius for Self-Government. THE CROWD THAT GATHERS WHEN SOME “HUMAN FLY" ANNOUNCES THAT HE WILL CLIMB A SKYSCRAPER. IF TMBC OK NO OWCTtowi neaM vuu. fnoceeo ro NAME THE DELEGATEl AND G«E THEM WE i namitTioMt on ri oo* choice n* (f*e*i»EN« o* «e | UNITED STATES. THE CROWD THAT GATHERS AT THE CAUCUS WHICH IS TO EXTRESS THB COM MUNITY'S WISH ON THE SELECTION OF CANDIDATES._ ' Reed to Reopen Island Purchase __ t Senator From Missouri About to Discuss Neighboring British Possession. By I'nlrerul Service. Washington. March 30.—Spnator James A. Reed of Missouri, It was In dicated today, will soon reintroduce Into congress two resolutions which died with the expiration of the last session, calling for information on the possible acquisition of British Islands near the shores of the United States. Spnator Reed and other senators are known to be apprehensive of a new “war debt drive" from Kurope, and desired to assume the offensive before this country Is forced again into an embarrassing defensive posi tion. According to their view the United States may . be pictured as thp "dressed up little boy" with all the "candy" and Kurope as the "raga muffin” without any. They point to Premier Macdonald's frank letter of February 21 to Premier Poincare in which he said: "If France and England can buf agree, the co-operation of the other countries will be assured, and it will he possible for us to approach the Upited States, not us debtors, dis puting one with another, but as a united Europe anxious by mutual sac rifice and arrangement to cure the ills from which our people are now suffering." These words have only one mean ing to the Reed resolution. They mean a new campaign on the subject of war debts, provided a way can be found to reconcile their own serious differences. “Ladies Day” in Politics. Wednesday will bo "Indies’ day’ for the Hopkins for < 'oinmlssloner club. The feminine voters huve been in vited to attend the* weekly meeting of the club, which will be held at the Paxton hotel. * "We have several hundred women enrolled In the club, but they have been rather hesitant about attending political meetings, no we are going to hold a speelul meeting for the fair sex," said Ham Reynolds, president. __ “a New Serum to Assist Fat Reduction Discovered I’arls, March 30.—A new hope for fat persons Is the result of a report to the Biology society by Professors Carnet and Terrln of the discovery of a new serum to aid fat folks to reduce. The serum Is taken from extracts from the liver anil other organs of thin animals ami Injected Intraven ously Into fat animals, resulting In the latter becoming thin al-o. The "cure” however. Is said not In have been permanent. ‘Innocent’ Visitor Admits He Is Murderer A man giving hi* name as Henry Tulloss, 33, Cult. UL, entered the South Omaha police station Satur day night, loitered about for a few minutes and then announced to Cap tain Sheahan that he wished to sur render himself for the murder of Orangle Walker in Cult, September 15, 1923. When the map first entered the station no one paid any attention to him. Finally the captain remarked that the visitor looked worried. “1 am,” the. man answered. "I shot a woman last September and, 1 have been on the run ever since. I am tired of it and want to go back and take my medicine.” Word was sent to the sheriff at Cult that the prisoner Is being held. ENGINE OF DIXIE LIMITED DERAILED Danville, 111., March 29—The Chi cago & Eastern Illinois Dixie Ulmlted, northbound, was wrecked this after noon at 4:20 at Cayuga, Ind., 18 miles southeast of here, when the engine struck a derail which protected a Cloverleaf passenger train standing on the crossing. The engine struck and demolished the interlocker tower, the mail car was thrown crosswise of the track and the baggage and smoker derailed. Columlms to Landscape Newly Acquired City Park Columbus. Neb., March 30.—W. J. ntllerbeck, who came to Humphrey, Neb., last fall as a la nil scape artist for the Humphrey nurseries will probably be employed by the city council here to prepare the land scape plans and specification* for* the new municipal park, a site for which was purchased by the elder inert last fall. The new park Is located In the I.oup river bottom southwest of the dty. South Side Woman yir«. Mrs. Clara E. Bradford, 77, died Saturday at her home, 01*12 South Twenty-eighth street, Saturday eve ning after a lingering Illness. She Is survived by her husband, Moses Bradford and three sons, William and W. M. Bradford of Omaha and VV. K. Bradford of .Toplln, Mo. Fun oral services will he held front the Utrkln ehspel. AsscMment* Unchanged. Columbus, Neb., March 30 Real estate valuation entered on the assessment hooks In Platte county this spring will bo unchanged when compared to last year's figures. Tile average assessed value of farm land will he between $9X and $09 an acre according to County Aasvseor Shell Clark. 4 Denver Rioters Freed on Bond Alleged Anti-Klan Men Are Charged With Disturbance and Carrying Weapons. Denver, Colo., Mgrch JO.—fKx men were arrested early this morning In a miniature riot between fCu Klu* Klan supporters and antl-klan fac tions were given liberty under bond today after charges of dlstutbance hnd been lodged against each and an additional charge of carrying con cealed weapons had been preferred against two of the six. According to the six men who were placed under arrest, and arresting of ficers, one shot was fired. Patrolman Barry opened fire to atop J. J. Dem mer, one of the men who wa* later apprehended, they aaid. The diffi culty wns between the six men who were arrested and about 2(1 alleged members of the klan, according to those held under bond. J. I.co Stack, Denver oil operator, to whom each of the six arrested men made a statement after he had made bond for them, aald today the men held under charge* denied that they brandished weapona or that any blows were struck. There was no loud talking 'or threats, they said, and charged that no member of the klan wns put under arrest. Those who wore arrested were: J. H. Fox, R. A. Horton, J. J. Demnter, W. P. Carlin and Tom Carlin, broth er*. and P. J. McMaster. Chargee of carrying concealed weapon* were lodged against Remitter and Fox. / S' " .- ..1 ■ .. .. Wife Held in Poisoning of Official Spouse of Austrian Agricul ture Department President Accused of Drugging Husband's Coffee. Woman Taken in Flight Berlin. March 30.—A new scandal has broken out In Austrian society with the arrest at Vienna of Mrs. Albert Gessmann, wife of the presi dent of the department of agriculture, on charges of having attempted to poison her husband. Mrs. Gessmann was formerly the Baroness Leontine Puttkamer, while her husband is the son of a former Austrian minister, who was leader of th# Christian social party. The couple had visited a pleasure resort together on March 25, return ing late at night. Before retiring. Gessmann drank a cup of coffee and fell violently 111. He called In Dr. Sap!, whry creek empties and lu the waters of which Billy rarely hunts. Mr. Barrett is helur Importunfd to pine* HPIy on exhibition at the -tale fair this fall. t Grandparents Regret Mistakes That Drove Girl to Take Own Life ttrh to The Omaha Be*. Neb., March 30.—"We only wish that we coull many mistakes made by us ' jur granddaughter. This Is1 -atement of the 74 year old gil ttOsf of Elizabeth Justis. IS. wl committed suicide here, leaving motherless a two-year old child whose father is In the Mis souri state penitentiary. Mrs. Justis was burled by citizens of Columbus, no relatives appearing for the funeral. Her son, “Tag” is now in a child savings institute in Omaha. In a letter received here today the grandfather tells his side of the story of a girl who marries a convict over the protests of her relatives. From the little town of Agra, Kan., he writes to explain that he had no funds to pay for a burial and that the father of the dead girl was in no position to assist. His letter follows: "To whom It may concern: "I am the grandfather of Elizabeth Justis who died In Columbus, Neb.. March 18, 1924. Her father lives In California and her mother Is dead. She died when Elizabeth was 10 years old and left four children who have made their homes with their grandfathers and grandmothers. “Elizabeth met Justis when she was 15 years old and married him. It turned out he had a wife and three children from whom he claimed he had a divorce. Justis got into trouble and Elizabeth came home. “As soon as he got out of jail she insisted on going with him again. When the child was born she came home and we did the best by her that we could while she continued to make her home with us. But she went with Justis to live on a farm and work for a man at Smith Cen ter, Kan. From there they went to Nebraska. "At the time of her death I was unable to pay all of her funeral ex penses and all of her last sickness expenses. "Her father had not given her any support lately and w« understand he Is unable to do so. “I am 74 years old and my wife Is about the same age. And we are sorry and only wish that we could correct many mistakes made by us and by our granddaughter, but we are old people and have lived here for 35 years and our neighbors are all our friends and know all our troubles. “I would like to have this published as It Is the true condition as we know It. “We know little of what Eliza beth's life was after she left us and she wrote us so seldom.” Pacifist Group in Northwestern Gets Hot Reply President of University De clares Attitude of Institution Is to Risk All for Na tion's Defense. • —- ■ — Chicago, March SO—The amphatlo answer of Northwestern university to organized pacifist activity during the last three weeks, which hes pro voked an ever widening storm of pro test from both students and towns people of the university city, was given today In unmistakable terms. "The attitude of the university to wards war la that we should risk all In the defense of our nation,” Walter Dili Boott, president, declared before a community patriotic meeting under the Joint auspices of the university and the Evanston post of the Ameri can Legion. More than 1,000 stu dents and residents of the city greet ed the president’# statement with wild applause. Time and agnfn a* he attempted to continue hie address, swells of cheer ing and hand-clapping voiced the community attitude toward "the orig inal SS,” the student group which two weeks ago climaxed month#’ of underground activity on the campus by signing formal pledges never again to take arms, no matter how sacred the cause. David Williams, a leader In the ex tremist group at the Institution, wrs dismissed from the university yester day. Simultaneously with the meeting In the gymnasium. Dr. Ernest Freemont Tittle, pastor of the First Methodist church of Evanston, where Brent Dow Alllneon, notorious war time conscientious objector, recently ad dressed the Epworth league. Issued a public apology for the Incident. A telegram from the White House added to the enthusiasm. "The president asks me to express his deep Interest and complete sym pathy,” said a message from Secre tary Slemp, "with the purpose of Northwestern university and the American legion mass meeting which you are holding with the Intent of giving utterance to a patriotic expres sion of devotion to America. Ameri canism and the flag which represents both of them.” WOMAN, 91, DIES AFTER ILLNESS Mr*. Anna E. Fehr*. 91, SS1S Hick ory street, died at her home Friday morning after an illness of two months. She Is survived by two daughters, Mr*. Emma Witt and Mr*. J. l» Mulfinger, both of Omaha, and three sons, Edwin and Peter. Omaha, and William. Clay county. Funeral service* will Ire held Mon day afternoon at 2 at the Hoffman rhapel. Duncan Man Hravilv Fined for l iquor l aw Violation Columbus. Neb . March SO—Henry Mioek, I'unean, Neb. was fined $809 10 In county court and Joseph Zymha, Platte Center was sent to the county .tall after refusing to pay a flna and coat* of $109 10. Mioek and StyraUt were arrested by state agents Cal llrody and l.vman Crom welt of Idncoln. At the Mioek home a warm still was found When of fleer* arrived at the ZytnKa place they discovered the men had Just broken two bottles which they claimed conialned liquor. Vlppli Zatli Aleph Opens Fourth Chapter A Solti tli chapter of the Aleph Zildl Aleph w is organised Saturday in IV* Moines. The headquarters of the or ganlsatlon is in Omaha. The organisation is sponslrel by the U'nal H’rllh and Us membership is open to boys from II to II. # Attempt to Lure Bergdoll Back to America Alleged German Newspapers Claim IT. S. Government Seeking New Sensation to Divert Interest From Oil Scandal. By 4nwiaM Prf». Eberbach. Baden, March SO.— Charging the American government with an attempt to lure Grover Cleve land Bergdoll back to the United States with a promise that he would be given a light sentence, thereby providing the American public with s fresh sensation, which would divert Interest from the "oil scandal." the Eberbach newspaper. Messenger, to day publishes details of alleged par leys with Bergdoll, carried on by three representatives of an American newspaper syndicate and a man named Leighton Blood, at! engaged to be a representative of the Ameri can State department, but who the newspaper declares Is suspected of being the spokesman for the Ameri can Legion. According to the Messenger and other local newspapers, the four agents are alleged to have carried credentials from Secretary of State Hughes and the president of the American Legion on the strength of which Bergdoll was assured he would be given a maximum sentence of four months' Imprisonment provided he re turned before March JO. Blood, according to local reports, waa equipped with a passport Issued In the name of "Bryant" and official German documents which would In sure BergdoH'e "unhampered" exit from Germany. The Messenger asserts that the failure of Bergdoll to accept the promises of the Americans resulted In a warning from Blood to the ef fect that two "expeditions" were be ing organised In Parte with the avowed purpose of kidnaping or kill ing Bergdoll unless he returned vol untarily to the United States. It was asserted the "men of these expedf tlone" purposed to "get him" and that they would not stop "short of murder." Bergdoll and his advisers, says the Messenger, were Inclined to view the proposals advanced by the four Americans as "false pretenses" In view of the fact that the American government has failed to release Fred erick W. Blschoff, a Bndenese cltlren sent to the penitentiary because of his connection with the attempt to blow up the Irvington (N. J.l muni tions plant, although Bischolt s par don was supposed to have been made a condition for the release of Lleut. Corliss Hooven Griffis, who was ar rested In connection with an attempt to kidnap Bergdoll last year. Government Insurance Campaign for Columbus Representatives of the Omaha Sub division of tha Veterarfs bureau will Institute a campaign In Columbus April I. In order to !nter*>et members of the local l.egion post as well as ths other exservice men In the rein statement of thetr wartime insur an<'». Former service men tn good health will be allowed to reinstate thetr In surance by making only one back payment. Service men. whose plixsl clans may declare them 111 but not suffering from an Incurably disease may reinstate their insurance by pay ing all hack Installments. f The Weather ^— -—- ^ For ?4 houm ti, !|yif At 7 r *y» . Ma*rh In'hr* Ant htin%1r#«tlh« Tolsl. I’..* intal ,m.r Jaitusr,- I «». *'>**•. o : Hour I* Trmprmlwr*»*. P •. T%\ ........ 1 P * ■ m , “ a m ...... s iv m .5* * i' oi. . .r: * r to .t: * i' o» ... . Jr m . ..:<* 11 Persons Drowned in Maryland Pittsburgh Experiencing Most Severe Flood in 10 Years; Trains Stalled as Track Washed Out. Heavy Snow in Nebraska Kit/miller, Md., March 30.—Five persons, members of an entire family, were drowned yeeterday morning when a tree to which tficy were clinging wae uprooted and swept away by the flood waters of the Po tomac river. Two of the bodies were recovered today. Cumberland, Md., March M—Six persons, composing an entire family, were reported today to have lost their lives at McCooie, Md., 20 miles west of here, when their home was swept from its foundation and carried down the Potomac river. The family con sisted of Mr. and Mrs. John Devil bliss and their four children. AU wires lute the town were bro ken by the flood and the report could not be verified. By CatTersa! Service. Chicago, March 30.—Floods men- ' aced the eastern part of the country tonight while the west shivered. Tfcs flood and cold followed In the wake of the storm that swept from west to east across the country from the Rocky mountains to the AtlanUc sea board during the last three days. Reports from throughout the coun-' try show approximately 35 lives were lost, 250 Injured and millions of dol lars damage suffered. The Pittsburg district of Pennsyl vania was hard hit. according to to night's dispatches. In the city of Pittsburgh streets were converted Into canals, train ser vice waa crippled. The steel mills were compelled to close. All streams In the Appalachian mountains are out of their banks. In some district* the flood carried away buildings. It was feared loss of life would be .n creased. Six Drowned. In the mountain districts of Mary land and West Virginia, according to dispatches from Cumberland, Md.. conditions sere particularly bad. Six persons were reported drowned near Cumberland, Md. A passenger train bound for Chicago was marooned by washed out bridges. It carried more than 100 pasenpers. The Capital Limited, crack train of the Baltimore A Ohio, which left Chi cago for Washington at 1 Saturday afternoon, was caught by the flood and stalled for many hours. In Chicago snow fell for 24 hours, but only an inch or two lay on the ground. Tonight the temperature was below freezing. Further to the northwest great damage had resulted from the bill iard. Telegraph and telephona com munication was crippled over Wis consin. Minnesota and parta ef Ne braska and Dakota. Snowdrifts 10 feet deep tied ap railroad traffic in South Dakota and Nebraska. In the southwest, where hurricane* swept over the country, conditions were improved. Clearing weather had set in. Ire in the Mississippi river was breaking'up. The trater was rising rapidly, but reports indicated ice gorges would not be serious. Flood Waters Recede. By Associated fun. Cumber Land. Md.. March W-—Th* flood water* of Will* creek *nd th* Potomao river were returning to their channel* today, leaving ac*nes of desolation In their wake. Only on* small section w»* under water In th* city proper and th* water waa re ceding rapidly. Ridgely and Dixie, j however, two town* on the West VIr- j gin la side of th* Potomac, remained inundated, a* wa* a wide area in th* lower Potomac valley. Many mile* of railroad track were washed away, two Mg ateel bridge# and a number of smaller structure# were destroyed, while hundred* of buildings and house* were damaged and in some Instance# washed away. (Yack Trsiti bloodhound. Railroad traffic In and out of Cum 1-erland was at a standstill. Five Bal timore A Ohio passenger tnuns. In cluding th* Oapital Limited, wer* floodbound at various points, whi'e on* Western Maryland train was •trimdot three miles west of Keyset'* W V*. Pittsburgh. March *0 —A s-,re of city Mocks in the lower sections we;_* inundated and sections for sever.il miles up stream laid waste, when both the Allegheny and Motioncahe s rivers, meeting here to form the Ohio, left their banks today In Pittsburgh * greatest flood in Id vears No loss of life was reported Much damage was caused to steel mills located along th* river banks. Tracks of both the Baltimore A Ohio and Pittsburgh A Lake tins railroads were v!oodvVttt, W w ho »« II) a( hi* hfrt vtlik pur ; finmU. w