liberal The Omaha Wfws mg Dee Sfe i hint* Hi ___ _——«**•• M I * m*M CITY EDITION VOL 621. NO. 260. OMAHA. TUESDAY. APRIL 15, 1924. • TWO CENTS• 'WrUTi~ >lf Mill ft ?*•»«» tHMf »f>4 •«•>#•* I# It »• O**tun IN • «* »•«* >».*• t| tHlM tH» I ft N»*t» fit *•»#•> »»lf, M - I Itop ■ ■ JpBffBgP*"--1 '■■■'■ SENATE IC’IORES JAPANESE PROTEST Slayer of Foi -ier Omaha Doctor to Plead Insanity - t Crazed by Slaughter of Cattle Attorney of Murderess of Dr. Baldwin Says Viholesale Killing of Jnfected Ani mals Led to Crime. Doctor Had Four Wives r _ Los Angeles, April 14.—That the WilUs-Baldwln trunk murder was an indirect result of the foot snd mouth disease was one line of the defense outlined today by S. S. Hahn, attor ney. retained by Mrs. Margaret B. Willis, formerly of Denver, who yes terday confessed having killed Dr. Beecher Baldwin, formerly of Omaha, stuffed his body in a trunk and thrown it over a San Fernando road embankment. Temporary Insanity will be the bul wark of the defense, Hahn said, and he went on to explain his client's statement to officers yesterday that she regarded the killing of a human being no more serious than the slaughtering of an animal. Mrs. Willis had brooded so much over the legal slaughtering of cattle in the campaign against the foot and mouth disease that It warped her judgment of right and wrong to such sn extent that she was Insane when shs slew Dr. Baldwin,” Hahn de dared. The police, proceeding on the more r ld-fashlened theory that "the half has not been told,” today were pre paring to take Mrs. Willis back over every step of her story as told the first time yesterday morning. She will be asked to re-enact the killing of the* doctor In her apartments, as she asserted, in defense of her honor, the packing of the trunk with the corpse, the auto drive out Into the , country with the trunk and her room er, Burt C. Webster, and finally the throwing of the trunk over the San Fernando road embankment. The woman, middle aged, calm and unemotional, again told her story to day without variations. Re enactment of the drama will be carried out In the hope that a new angle and motive may he supplied. Webster still is being held ss o material witness. Marital adventures of Dr. Beechei ' B. Baldwin, formerly of Omaha, were hared Monday by detectives through out the country. A check of his career was started . on the heels of the confession Sunday to Los Angeles police by Mrs. Mar garent Willis that she killed the phy sician during a battle for her honor, placed the body In a trunk and then hurled It Into a canyon In San Fernando valley. Dr. Baldwin was graduated from Creighton Medical college in 1906 with highest scholastic honors. He was then 21. Interne at Lincoln. After his graduation he went to Lincoln, where he served his interne ship In the St. Elizabeth hospital. (Tarn to Pnso Two Column One.) Tecumseh—Burglars cut the glass from a door at Burk’s grocery store, In Falls City, and .look canned fruit, cigars and cigarets valued at BO. We Have With Us Today Lafayette Young, Jr., Des Moines, la.. Publisher. From sturdy stock is Lafayette Toung, Jr., who was born in At lantic, la., 46 years ago and has spent most of his life In the Hawk eye state. His father is 76 years old, one of Iowa’s pioneer politi cians, and despite his advanced age he is not only active both men tally and physically, but insists on carrying on hla duties as editor of the Des Moines Capital. The career of the younger Mr. Toung furnishes enough material for an Interesting article, however, without Including that of his dis tinguished father. Mr. Young, Jr., spent the first 10 years of his life in Atlantic. Tho scene of his activities then shifted to Des Moines. A few years later he was graduated from Michigan univer sity and then from the college of law at Iowa university. Tha day after he completed his law course Mr. Young entered the newspaper business. He Is now publisher of the Des Moines Capi tal. Moreover, he has been mar ried for 14 yeara and is the father of two children. During the war he was one of the 12 newspaper edltora or publishers who were guests of the British government, lie was thus enabled to visit, all the war areas, meet several of the leading generals for the allies, and was entertained by the king and queen of England. * Mr. Young eanie to Omaha to speak to the group of Omaha busi ness men which recently visited Des Moines 1st get s first hand view ef the workings of the Greater Dea Moines eMwaUBgr ¥ 9- ■ - The Perfect Broadcasting Station YE3 I SUPPOSE MAYBE Sometime i'll take cut* ANOTHER. THOUSAND OH my urr-^ 3 WE HEARD YCfcJ 7 WERE GrfDING. TC ) [ TAKE OUT ,5CIME \ U— insurance* English Premier Warns Russia at Debt Conference Macdonald Condemn* Any Attempt at Trickery—A*> sure* Soviet* Recognition Will Be Unqualified. By CsItuhI llertln. London, April 14.—A not* of warn ing to Russia was the keynote of Premier Macdonald’s speech of greet ing to the soviet delegation at the foreign office today when the Anglo soviet conference was formally opened. Condemning any attempt at trick ery or any display of Insincerity, the premier aald: "I trust you share my optimism re garding the results of our delibera tions. for though I see risks, failure and th* consequences of s breakdown ur* too serious for either of us to be Indifferent to them. Hopeful of Agreement. "Tou will not expect me to give way upon anything which would be regarded by my countrymen as pay ing an Improper price for agreement, and I shall not do It, nor do I expect that of you. But within these limits I am sure we can come to terms.” At th* beginning of his addresn the premier assured the red delegates that the British recognition of (hr soviet government was unqualified. Dealing with the work before the con ference. he said the first duty was the liquidation of the past, which In cludes consideration of Inter-govern mental obligations and privste British claims of which th* British are pre pared to submit a detailed statement later. • The premier promised consideration of the Russian counter claims. Warns of Propaganda. On* of the strongest passages of the premier's epeech w,a* the warning to the reds to cease propaganda within the Rrltlsh empire, lie said that his experience gave him Intimate know ledge of International movements and that he regarded the propaganda con trolled and financed by Ttusn'nr. sources as Illegitimate. M. Itakoveky, responding for the Ituaslans, said that cooperation be twren the two countries In commer cial and financial affairs was neces sary. He made a etrong plea for peace throughout Europe and urged the necessity of disarmament. The delegates lunched at 10 Down Ir.g street with the premier, who, til honor of Ills guests, served them Rus sian hore d'oeuvres and vodka as welt as cocktail*. Farm Credit Body J i Opens Conference Plan* to Assist Wheat Grow ers Toward Diversifica tion Discussed. Minneapolis, Minn., April 14.—DI rectors of ths new 110,000.000 agrlcul tural credit corporation mat her# to day to perfect plana for assisting farmers In the wheat growing sec tion of the northwest toward diversi fication In line with the recent letter of President Coolldge to C. T. Jaf fray, head of the corporation. Mr. Jaffray placed before the di rectors hla approval to make a test of th# feasibility of tha corporation extending Its activities to perform some of the function# contemplated In the Norbeck Burtneas bill defeated by tha senate. The directors wsr* expected to au thorize the appointment of a livestock committee and authorize the execu tive ataff to proceed with the plan of aiding farmers purchase livestock as requested In the president's letter. Bankers from Minnesota and North and tiouih Dakota attended the meet ing. PHILIPPINES MAY GET PLEBISCITE Washington, April 14.—Chairman Fairfield of the houae Insular com mlttee announced today that he would Introduce a bill for a plebiscite of the Flllplpo people on Independence at the end of 23 years, and for elec tlon by the Filipinos of their gover nor pending such a plebiscite. Drafting of the measure has been virtually completed by Chairman Fairfield hut before its Introduction he will confer with President Cool Idg# and Secretary Weeks. The bill will provide for a resident American commissioner In the Philip pines with Jurlsdcton over questions effecting relations between th» United States end the Islands and over the Island's debts. Great Flocks of Geeie Settle on Wheat Fields Grand Island, Neb., April 14.— Tourists along the Lincoln Highway near Wood River village have been treated to an unusual sight, during the past few days. Wild geese hy the thousands have settled on wheat fields owned hy Pat Rrltt, giving the appearance, from a distance, of snow brinks. Through binoculars It l« a wiggling, feeding nisas. Not allowed to shoot, Mr. Rrltt declared he will ha compelled to herd them off If theli foraging thus unusua'ly centered on this ons big field continues *9 Gambler Kills Chief of Police at Hot Springs Man Said to Have Opened Fire on Officer When Ordered to Halt Car. Hot Spring*. Ark.. April 14.—Chief of Police Oscar Sullivan was shot and killed her* after midnight last night and the police are hunting for Hubert Coatee, who, It Is said, emptied a .45 caliber automatic pistol Into the bodg of the officer. Coates Is known as an Itinerant gambler, whose residence la divided between Kansas City, Hot Springe, Pine Bluff and other towns. Four bullets srs said to have pene trated ths body of the officer. One struck him In the face, another In the breast, one In the arm and one In the upper leg. Cause Obscure. Little Is known of the cause of the trouble. One. report has It that Coates had been rhllng about, the city in hie automobile and that when Sul llvan Jumped out of a car near one of the large hotels, and ordered him to stop, Coates opened fire on him. Coates Jumped Into his car and sped swsy, but was trailed for some distance out of ths city. latter Sheriff W. B. Downen received a telephone message purporting to come from Coates, saying hs would surrender to the sheriff. (1,unhlcr Warned, Claim. Another report says that Chief Sul livan had given Coates orders not to gamble with visitors or lie would bo run out of town. Oscar Sullivan had been chief of police here for about eight years and was alHiut 50. He Is survived by n wife and one child. Superior Debaters W in District (iliHinpioiieliip Superior, Neb., April 14.—Superior debating team defeated the Falrlmry team In the final debate of the south ern district tournament. Superior team wna composed of Paul Mont gomery, Lloyd Speer and Cleorge Johnson; Falrbury learn, Clifford Jsekson, Doris Jones and Alvin Hud son. Teams eliminated in the tourna ment were Nolaon, Hebron, llehron Academy, Cheater and Hardy. Hupei lor High school lias partlel paled In 17 debates during the sea son. In the tournament, Superior was the only team to win on the nrga live. In the final debate, Superior uphold the affirmative. Ibis team will contest for stale honors at the •late tournament at Lincoln in May . Republicans Rally to Side of Coolidge _ Administration Senators in Fighting Mood in Resist ing Pinehol-Heney On slaught at Mellon. Brief Armistice Called Washington, April 14.—Administra tion senators were again in a fight j ing mood today In resisting the Pin hot Heney onslaught at Secretary Mellon by way of the Internal revenue | bureau Investigating committee. Through Senator Watson, repub bean, Indiana, committee chairman, they gathered new support from con ferences with President Coolidge and Mr. Mellon, while Senator Edge, re publican, New Jersey, raided the dem ocratic side with a prepared speech defending the president's action in the controversy. The challenge was taken up promptly by Senator Heflin, demo .crat, Alabama, who trained his guns ion the White House and republican I leaders generally, charging an at ! tempt to strangle senate Investiga tions. The word battle on the senate 'floor was Interrupted at Its height, I however, by an unexpected motion for an executive session to consider Japanese exclusion, made by Senator Lodge, the republican leader. Brief Armistice. The armistice Is destined to be brief. If leader* on both side* make good their promisee to air further the three-cornered political combat that has ome out of the president's spe cial message to the senate last iweek un the Invitation, with Secretary Mel lon figuring as the storm center. Senator Watson brought private word to hla colleagues from the White House early today, after a conference with the president and Secretary Mellon, that hla statement on the floor last week that the presi dent w*s concerned only with the In ternal revenue bureau Investigation - ommtttee and the attempt to bring I-’rancla J. Heney Into that work as committee counsel, stated Mr. Cool Idge'a position correctly. In the meantime, no decision had been reached as to when Senator Watson’a proposal to discharge the committee would be pressed nor was there any plan on the democratic side to demand action on the proposal of Senator Reed, democrat, Missouri, to expunge the president's message from senate records at an affront to the dignity of that body. Content to Hospital. Senator Coutens. republican, Mich igan, moving spirit In the Investiga tion and also In the actual effort to bring Heney Into the Inquiry, was taken to Baltimore today for medical treatment and his condition probably will prevent hoctor Tamlslea called on was Congressman Sesra. who promised support of the Nebraska delegation for retention of the achool. Then he called upon Frank Irwin, liaison officer for the Disabled Veter ana. and the Veterans’ bureau. Ir win promised his support In attempt ing to Influence nines In maintaining the school at Omaha. While here Dr. Tamlslea intends to do everything possible to get the op I'olntment of district manager of the Veterans' bureau for Captain Me l ean. Ileadiinarters for the Nehras Ua, Missouri and Kansas dietilet I* it at. Louis \ (’nnstcntin* .1. Smyth. one of constantly Increasing success. Associated with the famous law firm of Mahoney & Minlhan. In which he was a Junior partner, his reputation as a lawyer spread until he was elected attorney general of Nebraska in 1898. Helped Nominate Bryan. He had previously served a term in the legislature and had been on the Omaha school board from 1889 to 1894. In 189* he headed the Ne braska delegation to the memorable democratic convention of 1S9S, at which William Jennings Bryan was for the first time nominated presi dential candidate of his party. During his first term as attorney general, Mr. Smith had as his dep uty Ed P. Smith, and on his retire ment from office, January 1, 1901, he and smith formed a partnership which later became the well-known firm of Smyth, Smith 4 Schall when W. H. Schall was taken Into partner ship in 1905. In the same year that Schall be came a member of the firm Mr. Smyth was choeen as a professor of law at the univeraity, where he se cured his education. Appointed Assistant to .Attorney General. Until 1918 Mr. Smyth'i home was In Omaha, but in that year h# was ap pointed special assistant to the at torney general of the United States. In that position he successfully prosecuted three great cases, the United States against the Southern Pacific, in which the supreme court decided against the railroad's title to thousands of acres of land In Oregon and Washington, the United States against an alleged telephone trust, and the United States against an al leged shoe trust. Ilia work In thea# cases was so out standing that in 1917 former Presi dent Wilson appointed him to the office of chief Justice of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, which office he was holding at the time of his death. 11a had also been serving as a mem her of tha law faculty of Georgetown college. ENGINEMEN WILL DISCUSS WAGES Chicago, April 14.—W. M. Jaffers, chairman of the conference committee ot managers of western railways, to night telegraphed chief executives of tha engine service brotherhoods, sug gesting the middle of next week for the opening of combined wage nego Rations. Cleveland, O.. April 14 —Warren 8 8tone, president of th# Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and D. B Robertson, president of the Brother hood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, today accepted an in vitation of the conference commit tee of managers of western railways for a combined wage negotiation and telegraphed W. M. Jeffers, confer ence committee chalman, Chicago, to name the time and place. Practically all trunk line railroads west of Chicago will lie Included In the negotiations. th# few exceptions Including the Southern Pacific system. International and Great Northern, and Denver and R.o Grande West ern. Conductors and trainman recently concluded negotiations with western roads conference committee at Chi cago. resulting tn an approximately 5 per cent wage Increase Genet a. District declamatory con lest will he held In the city audito Hum Friday evening. April IT. The program will Include dramatic, hu morous and ortorical production. f The Weather 1 v-t\ F>r hour* ? r m April 14 4 rpwijMUtM Inch#* an.t MumlmKIts Total. «* Total »Inr# January l. ill Inch**, daftrtancr. 45 tn»*h * m m. » « m . . IS T *. m.Si Rum. Rt t • m. l« » r»» Ri 11 • •*..». tl II boo*.tl i r m i* I P m . , ... . 15 s p m. «2 4 p. m ....., * 4 I p. m 4 4 * j» m lj f i m I * I 9 ..T< Gentlemen's Agreement Voted Down ! •\Vil*«l Threat” in llanihara Letter Causes Several Solous to Change Stand ami Favor Exclusion. House Bill to Be Adopted Washington. April 14—Th* senate answered Ambassador Haniliara’s protest against Japanese exclusion legislation today by voting, 76 to 2. against recognition of the "gentle men's agreement" with Japan on ths immigration question. This action is preliminary to adop tion by the senate by an overwhelm ing majority of the house Japanese exclusion provision. Whatever ths result would have been without the incident of the am bassador's letter, that communication served to change the votes of a nun ber of administration leaders. Includ ing Senator Lodge of Massachuset's, chairman of the foreign relations committee. The republican leader Informed tha senate In open session that he re garded the Hanihara letter as a '•veiled threat." and declared that In* the face of that threat he could not support the Immigration committee's proposal to recognize by law the "gentlemen's agreement.” Senator* Outspoken. A number of other senator* took the same view and only one voice, that of Senator Sterling, republican. South Dakota, was raised in defense of the ambassador's action. Senator Colt, chairman of the Immigration committee. Joined Senator Sterling in the vote, but did not speak. Senators generally threw off the usual restraint# In dealing with In ternational questions. They were blunt and outspoken in their declara tions that In view of the "grave con sequences" warning In the ambassa dor's letter there was nothing for them to do but to make it clear once and for ail that immigration is a do mestic question In the handling of which no independent liower could have its sovereignty questioned. Amendment to Be Itrafted. After the vote which eliminated the language framed by the commit tee to legalise the •■gentlemen's agreement." Senator Reed, repub lican. Pennsylvania, who is actively In charge of the immigration blit, gave notice that an exclusion amend ment would be drafted overnight in the earns language as that tmployed in ths bill which ths house passed last week by a majority of more than four to one. Thia insures that whatevsr differ ence may arise on other points be tween the two houses in completing the Immigration bill, the Japanese ex clusion provision win go to ths pres! dent. No indications have v»t com# from ths Whits House as to ths course President Coolldg* will follow. To day's developments in ths senate, however, seemed to indicate that there would be sufficient vote* in both houses to repass the bill over a veto should the president take that course. Senate republican leader* were frank, however, in privately expressing the opinion that the president would sign the immigration measure, de spite the fact that through Secretary Hughes the administration has con sistently restricted Japanese exclu sion legislation. SLAYER BOUND TO COURT TRIAL Frank Sanders pleaded not guilty to first degrres murder whan arraigned lr municipal court Monday morning and bound over to district court without hall for tha alaysr of John Barns*. Thomas Moelanski. 311* Vinton street, waa bound over to district court on a charge of shooting with Intent to ki’J and to wound. His bonds ware sat at IJ.S0O. f Summary of The Day In Washington The supreme court held Nebras ka's nilmtmum and maximum broad weight law Invalid. Tha sonata finance committee sat ed to give tha bonus priority osar tax reduction. Attorney General Stone accept ad an Invitation to confer with the Paugherty Investigating committee on questions before that body. Contending force* In the senate renewed their warfare over Secre tary Mellon and the future of tha congressional investigation program A batch of new- wltnessea, includ Ing William Cooper Procter, ar rived for the resumption tomorrow of the senate oil committees in quiry. The senate Daugherty committee voted to cite M. S I'augherty, brother of the former attorney gen seal, to the Kir of the senate for contempt. The senate, after the most sptrtt ed debate on foreign affa.rs tn years rejected a committee amendment to the Immigration bill which would have ratified and continued the ' gentlemen's agreement w.th Ja pan ^