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Agreement
Reached on
Tax Cut Bill
Differences of All Factions
Ironed Out in Conference;
i Publicity of Income
Reports Rejected.
Coolidge to Sign, Belief
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Washington, May 21.—A tax reduc
tion bill endorsed by leaders of both
parties and virtually every faction in
the senate and house was moulded
Into final shape today.
. Early approval of the unanimous
agreement of the conferees on the
differences between the senate and
house. reached today by botli
branches of congress, was predicted,
and the hope was expressed by re
publican leaders that the bill would
be signed by President Coolidge.
The conference report will be taken
lip by the senate tomorrow or Friday
and, if approved, It is expected the
house will be able to act on Saturday.
Little time Is expected to be taken in
debate in either body and there were
indications tonight that practically no
opposition would he offered.
Elements of both of the house and
senate provisions were approved and
leaders of both parties tonight were
claiming credit for the bill.
Tax Schedule Accepted.
The conference accepted without
change the democratic income tax
schedule proposed in the senate by
Senator Simmons of North Carolina,
but turned down the other major
amendments gained by senate demo
crats and republican insurgents, pro
viding for full publicity on tax re
turns and a substitute corporation tax
carrying a surtax on undistributed
piofits.
The Simmons incoms schedule, sim
ilar to tlie Long worth compromise
supported by house republicans in its
adoption by this body, provides for a
revision of the surtax rates with a
maximum of 40 per cent applicable
on incomes of $500,000 and over.
11 would cut tlie present normal
talcs of 4 pci cent on incomes up to
*4.000 and S per cent above that
amount to 2 per cent on incomes °f
*4,oot> anil under; 4 per cent on to*
■ •nine* between *4.000 and 4S.000. Rnd
« per cent on those above.
Coolidge Keported Favorable.
While tlie surtax lates are some
v hat lower than first proposed by
bolt-,a democrats in tlie plan of Rep
it -.optative Garner of Texas, the en
tire schedule varies greatly from the
- -heme advanced by Secretary Mellon
tvhtl asked for by President Coolidge.
In view of the similarity between
thv schedule and that approved by
liou.se republicans, however, and the
elimination of the proposals for full
publicity of returns and a tax on
undistributed profits, V> hlte House
visitors today expressed the opinion
ihat President Coolidge was favorably
disposed toward the measure.
Senator Smoot, republican, Utah,
, liairnian of the conferees, who con
ferred with President Coolidge early
in tlie week, described the measure
as it emerged from conferees today as
a “fair'’ bill and expressed the hope
that it would be accepted by the
president.
In its present form, Senator Smoot
said, the measure would provide for
collection of $84,500,000 more than as
Jt passed tlie senate, but still be
rtOO.OOO.OOO below the estimated treas
ury surplus available for tax reduc
tion. Cost of the bonus, estimated
at $150,000,000 for next year, and
other pending measures calling for
extra appropriations would be added
to this apparent deficit.
Despite this. Senator Smoot de
dared, the bill should be passed for
the beneficial effect It will have on
business, and he predicted that as a
insult of this returns from taxes
would show an increase over present
estimates.
The 40 per cent increase in existing
relate tax rates and the new gift tax
voted by the house were accepted by
the conferees in place of the Inherit
ance tax proposed by the senate. The
maximum rate provided by the hill
on estate taxes le now 40 per cent
applicable to $10,000,000 and over.
Similar rates are provided in the new
f gift tax. Exemptions of 150,000
would be allowed In both Instances.
We Have
With Us
Today
George W. Hohilling,
I .os Angeles.
Hare Handlcapper.
One of the heat known figures of
the western turf Is that of George W.
Schilling. In Ontnha to act as handl
capper for the coming Ak Bar Ben
spring race meeting.
Schilling started hla life on a track.
He first served In stables as an exer
cise boy. I.ater he became a Jockey
and rode on such courses as Belmont
l-grk, .Ismalca, Churchill Downs and
Pimlico.
In time he became too heavy to vide
in races and turned his attention to
handicapping. His grentest art now
is his ability to cull every horse snd
Its position ss It rounds the race
course. He le one of the leading
•plrite of the club at Tlajuana, which
keeps the winter race meeting In
Mexico going aa an annual event.
i
Cinder Bandit s Ruse
Fails; She’s in Jail
Irene Lane.
Picking an apparently sympathetic
male from the crowds on the Chicago
streets, bobhaired Irene Lane plead
with him to remove a cinder from
her eye. As he bent to help her she
threatened to scream for police unless
he turned over his money.
Unfortunately Irene made a bad
choice and her ‘'victim1’ stood hie
ground. Police booked her instead
of her intended benefactor.
Coolidge to Sign
'Bill Barring Japs,
Solons Forecast
“Arrangement"’ in Making
Which May Lead Presi
dent to Approve Immi
gration Measure.
Washington. May 21.—The fate of
the immigration bill with its provis
ion foV Japanese exclusion appeared
tonight to be approaching determina
tion with “an arrangement" in the
making .which may lead President
Coolidge finally to approve the meas
ure. *
Action by the president on the
measure before the end of the week
was forecast after the executive had
conferred with several members of
congress. Including Representative
Ron g worth, Ohio, the republican floor
leader In the house. and Senator
Used, republican. Pennsylvania, who
had charge of the Immigration bill
in the senate.
Hughes Has Bill.
The congressional callers at the
White House were not told definitely
by Mr. Cooltdga what action he
planned to take on the bill, but all
left with the impression that the leg
islation finally wo'uld receive execu
tive approval. A 111 developments
during the day seemed to remove
further the possibility of a presiden
tial veto.
The bill still is before the State
department awaiting preparation of
report. The nature of this report
is understood to have been conveyed
Informally to the president by Secre
tary Hughes, and at the White House
today It was said that Mr. Coolidge
and the State department head were
in complete accord.
Course Open.
Various courses of executive action
have been suggested should the pres
ident determine to sign the bill. These
possible courses include signature of
the measure with an accompanying
statement designed to mollify Japan,
and signature of the hill after ex
change of correspondence tietween the
State department and the Japanese
embassy. It also has been suggest
ed that Mr. Coolidge might send the
bill back to congress with a message
expressing approval of it with the ex
ceptlon of the Japanese exclusion
provision and asking some cltnnge be
made In the exclusion section.
DOISY WILL USE
CHINESE PLANE
By Associated Press.
Shanghai, May 21.—Capt. Pelletier
Dolsy will eontlnue^hls Paris to To
klo flight Sunday or Monday In a
Chinese airplane, be announced this
afternoon after he had made a test
flight In the Chinese machine
The airplane was offered to the
Frenchman by Oen. Ho Feng Ling,
military governor of Shanghai, after
Dolsy's own plane was wrecked when
landing here.
Dolsy's first stop on the continued
flight will be Nanking.
Fall of Franc Worrying
Millcrand and Poincare
By Associated Press.
Paris, May 21.—The fall of the franc
U worrying President Millerand nnd
Premier Poincare to such an extent
that they resorted today to the extra
ordinary rourse of railing In Kuouard
Herrlot and Paul Palnleve, leaders of
the new majority In the parliament, to
confer with them on the subject, ns
If the men consulted had already be
come members of the government.
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Harold's Smile Returns
as He Hears It's a Girl
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hon Angeles. May 21.—Harold
Lloyd, motion picture comedian end
husband of Mildred Davie, also
known to the screen, wore a worried
look n« he paced up and down the
corridor of a hospital heir today. Ill"
accustomed optimistic expression re
turned, however, when the doctor
found him and announced that It was
e girl and weighed eight pounds.
Mrs. Lloyd tonight whs reported (lo
Ing splendidly.
Daugherty
Spy System
Recounted
Justice Department Hired
“Shadows” to Trail Com
mittee Investigator Day
and Night. Witness Says.
—
Washington, May 2i.—A detective
story of extraordinary qualities was
related today before the senate
Daugherty committee.
A purported explanation of the mys
terious disappearance of the spy
records of Gaston B. Means, the com
mittee's most noted informant, which
attracted attention some weeks ago,
came as an incident to the account of
"shadows” set by the Department of
Justice to follow Means by day and
night. From the same witnesses,
Mrs. W. O. Ducksteln, once steno
grapher to Jess Smith and now secret
service operative of the Department
of Justice, and her husband, a confi
dential agent to K. B. McLean, Wash-'
ington publisher, the committee heard
allegations also that a system of I
espionage had been filing around the
committee itself.
Detective Grins.
Two agents of the Department of
Justice who participated in the enter
prise of shadowing Means, said they
had been on the assignment, with
four assistants, from March 18 to
April 1. The detective himself, whose
claims to knowledge of secrets about
the Daugherty administration of the
Department of Justice, have vied
with his war spy records to gain him
note, sat and grinned as R. J. Burrus
and Mrs. Alaska B. Davidson of the
"shadow" group testified to having
followed him and checked his visiting
list. He became grimmer a few min
utes later, when, sitting behind Sena
tor Wheeler, the committee prose
cutor, he heard the Ducksteln family
tell how Pettit and O'Brien, two New
York detectives, leading "a crew of
operatives and wire tappers," got away
with hla day-by-day diaries of spy
work.
According to the Ducksteln tale.
Pettit and O'Brien were armed with
a letter from Hiram C. Todd, special
assistant to the attorney general, to
Mr. Daugherty, which indicated that
Mtb. Ducksteln should nssist their
operations. She pointed out Means
to them, she said, and a few nights
later on a lonely road in a Wash
ington park, by the glare of a flash
light. identified the dinries and docu
ments the two men had in an auto
mobile as being the real Means pa
pers.
Overhears "Frante-up" Plan.
Her husband related that he heard
the two operatives tell of plans to
"frame up” Senator Wheeler and
Chairman Brookhart of the Daugher
ty committee: of investigations set on
foot in their home states; of the em
ployment of women in the senate
office building and of their attendance
on the hearings.
At another point of the day's hear
ing Mrs. Duckstein testified that as
stenographer to Jess Smith she took
a letter he dictated to her "for the
signature of President Hardirtg,”
which authorised Gaston Means and
W. T. Underwood to "investigate pro
hibition conditions In New York.”
Working for Smith from September
until late in 1922, when she became
an employe of W. J. Bums, former
chief of the bureau of investigation,
she said she took many letters about
the granting of whisky permits, and
wrote many- memoranda to Means,
setting him to work in investigating
"Mrs. Cross." K. H. Mortimer.
"Colonel Darden ” and also—at which
even the committee gasped—General
Sawyer, the White House physician.
Some of the work was for President
Harding, she said, insisting that
Smith and the former president were
on Intimate terms.
RAIL LAND GRANT
QUIZ AUTHORIZED
Washington, May 21.—Congression
al Investigation of land grants to the
Northern Pacific Railway company
was authorized In a house resolution
adopted today by the aenate.
The Inquiry was recommended by
Secretaries Work and Wallace, who
asked nlso that there be provision to
hold up final adjustments of the
grants until after the Investigation
had been concluded.
The Northern Pacific company Is
laying claim, according to Information
furnished congress by the Interior and
agricultural secretaries, to several mil
lion acres of land In national foresta.
The forestry service contends that
not only Is it. not entitled to this land,
but that It already has received more
land than was provided for under the
original grant made hv congress.
U. S. Planes
MakingTwo
Laps a Day
Three World Cruisers Reach
/ Minato—Hop Off for Ka
sumigaura, Second
350-Mile Flight.
By Associated Tress.
Minato. Japan, May 22.—The three
American army airplanes which ar
id veil here this morning at 10:40 from
Hltokappu bay, Yetorofu island
Kuriles, on their flight around the
world hopped off at 12:30 this after
noon for Kasumigaura.
The aviators required 7 hours and
40 minutes to fly to Minato from
Yetorofu. a distance of about 354
miles, and spent only sufficient time
here to rest and eat their lunch. The
planes being in good condition, the
Americans expected to reach Kasumi
gaura. the Japanese naval aviation
station near Toklo, In good time for
dinner.
The distance to Kasumigaura. by
air line, is about 350 miles, and the
air men did not anticipate any diffi
culty in making the jump toward the
capital. It Is expected several days
will be spent at Kasumigaura before
the globe circling flighl is continued.
First V. S. Fliers In Japan.
Owing to erroneous transmission,
messages received Mdnday by the
Associated Press were interpreted to
mean that the American aviators had
hopped off • from Yetorofu islam^
early Tuesday morning and had
landed shortly after at Minato.
Subsequent dispatches to both the
Associated Press and the Japanese
navy department stated that the
fliers had not left Hltokappu bay,
Yetorofu Island, either Tuesday or
Wednesday, because of unfavorable
weather conditions. It was then an
nounced that the airmen Intended to
attempt the flight to Minato early
Thursday morning (far eastern time)
if the weather moderated.
The landing at Minato, a little
fishing village in the extreme north
of the main island of Japan, is the
first time American army aviators
have ever flown over the empire of
Nippon.
Fifth of Trip Completed.
Washington, May 21.—About one
fifth of the journey of the American
army world flight flotilla had been
completed when the three planes
made their landing In Kashiwa!®ra
bay, Kuriles islands, Japan, on the
afternoon of May 17. The fliers had
(Tom to rage Two. rnliima Three.)
HOT DEBATE OVER
CAMPAIGN GIFTS
Washington, May II.—Campaign
contributions, with particular refer
ence to methods of a "Calvin Cool
idge" club In Massachusetts, were
subjected to a heated debate In the
senate late today.
The dismission was precipitated by
s resolution offered by Senator
Walsh, democrat. Massachusetts, ask
Ing prompt action by the senate com
mittee on privileges and elections m
the direction of legislation which
would providp a corrupt practice law
applicable to the election of senator*.
In connection with the resolution,
he presented correspondence from
Mayor Curley of Boston, protesting
ngainst methods which It was alleged
had been taken by a republican
“Calvin Coolidge" club in that state
to raise campaign funds.
Resenting the language need by
Mayor Curley, Senator Lodge said the
letter "consists chiefly of a very vio
lent and personal attack upon the
chairman of the republican national
committee. Mr. Butler nnd on the
president of the United States, who
are not Involved at all in this move
ment to raise campaign funds.
WOMAN SLAYER
SUSPECT ON TRIAL
I.oa Angeles, May II.—Mrs. Mar
garet Willis went to trial here today
on s rhnrge of the murder of Dr.
Benjamin Baldwin, former Omaha
doctor. She walked ‘nto central po
lice station several weeks ago, an
nounced that she had killed a man.
nnd led police to a point near the
San Fernando i-ond where they found
the body of Dr. Baldwin In a trunk.
A few days ago Mrs. Willis repudi
ated her confession, saying that she
admitted the slaying to shield a man.
Lew (]ody, Actor in Movies.
Named in Divorce Action
T-gis Angeles. May 21.—Lew Cody,
motion picture actor, is named ns
corespondent tn a divorce action filed
In superior court here today by Dr.
Woodward B, Mayo, Hollywood physi
cian. against Mrs. Mary Mayo,
Another Bobbed Hair Jesse James,
Two-Gun Girl, Startles Brooklyn
By I nlteetal Oerttee.
Now York, May 21.—Catching up
the fallen automatic of the lately
celebrated Cecilia Cooney, another
bobbed hair .lease .lame* etnrtert out
today to add her story to the tradl
tuna of Brooklyn's female banditry.
The new gunglrl not only operated
without masculine support, hut she
returned to the classic manner of
the two-gun holdup.
The victim of thle latest atlckup
luaa was I,oul* Saxe, a 6& year-old
4
Kinder. The glil relieved him of ?«<>.
the total on hla person and premises,
but when he told her he had dr Ml
tine relatives In Russia sin* relented
(o the extent of lelurtihiK '
I The Klrl, who was de«crll>ed is
quietly dressed, with dark complex
Ion end blue eyes came tutu (be shop
ostensibly to buy a picture frame
She carried on negotiations until
other customer* left. The brace of
automatics then suddenly material
i»ed. and her voice took on a profes
sional hark
Members of Trade Trip Find Evidence of Prosperity
on Every Side as They Travel Into Northern Missouri
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Girl Hikes 3,000 Miles'
to “Call Down” Enemy
By Universal Service.
Cedar Rapids, la., May 21.—
Miss Ruby Schlickenmeyer, pre
ty 20-year-old hiker, today an
nounced the mission of her walk
from New Orleans to Bremer
ton, Wash.
“Tiiere'c a woman in Bremer
ton and I want to give her* a
p'ece of my mind,” said Miss
Sthlicjcenmeyer.
“Sne treated me like a slave
when I was little and now that
I’m grown up I feel I want to
get it out of my system—that’s
all.”
The girl’s sole traveling com
panion is a dog. She is walking
the entire distance.
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Ban on Evolution
Tlieorv Is Voted
bv Presbyterians
J J
Church Also Takes Stand
Against Unorthodox Teach
ings in Seminary—
Fiscal Year Changed.
By .tnwrlatnl Press.
San Antonio, May 21.—Under a
reign of harmony, the sixty-fourth
general assembly of the Presbyterian
church in the United States here to
day to^’c its stand against evolution,
against alleged unorthodox teachings
in the seminary at Nanking, China;
In favor of remaining a member of
the alliance of Presbyterian and re
formed churches of the world, and
disposed of many other important
ouestlons.
So expeditiously was the business
pushed forward under the gavel of
Dr. Thornton Whaling of T/OUlsville.
Ky.. moderator, that it was believed
adjournment might be reached to
night.
The assembly took action as fol
j lows:
Reaffirmed Its historic stand against
organic evolution by declaring its be
lief in a special creation whereby
"Adam's body was fashioned out of
a matter previously created from
nothing," and stated that any doc
trine at variance wtih this was dan
! geroua.
Voted to conf.nus its support for
the Nanking seminary, but warned
that "unless the Instructions in the
seminary be kept in harmony with
i he historic evangelical interprets
tion of the Bible." support would be
withdrawn.
Changed the church year to con
form to the calendar year, effective
January 1. 1926, so that all church
reports will date from January 1 In
stead of April 1. as heretofore.
Voted 675,000 to the stewardship
committee for promotion of work of
the church. V
Decided to send 18 delegates to the
meeting of the alliance of Preshy
terian and reformed churches in Car
diff. Wales, in July. 1925.
WOMAN OVERCOME
ON WITNESS STAND
Anniston. Ala.. May SI.—Collapse
on the witness stand of Mrs. Evelyn
Sue Rlekner, pretty widow of Lieut.
James Rlekner. who went on trial
in federal district court here today
charged with slaying her husband at
Camp McClellan last June, furnished
the sensation of the first day’s hear
Ing of the ease.
Judge Clayton adjourned the caec
until 9 tomorrow morning immediate
ly after Mrs. Rlekner* breakdown.
Attorney's for Mrs. Rlekner entered
a plea of not guilty by reason of In
sanity.
Autoint Killed as Car
Dives Over Precipice
ta>* Vngeles, May 21 John I.
Straight, Portland (Ore.I business
man, was Instantly killed tonight
when the touring ear In which lie
was riding from old Mexico to Port
land dived "On feet over a precipice
near Castalc. on the ridge route.
Another passenger was seriously In
jured and Is being brought to a Ig>*
Angeles hospital, according to re
ports reaching the sheriff’s office.
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Railroad President Racqx
Rat 'VS Mile a Min life
lt> Red side of If ife
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11? ( nltrrMl K*rvlc*.
Itfcatur. III., May 31.—Racing
against death nt more than a mile a
minute for 105 miles, .1. E. Taussig,
president of the Walmsh railroad. In
a s|>erinl train completed a record
run from Chicago to St, Louis, It
was learned today.
Mr. Taussig ordered the special
tialn of one coach and his private car
to speed to the bedside of his yvlfe,
who is seriously III. The run of 28(1
miles was made In fixe hours snd 43
minutes, of which time 81 minute*
xxas required In passing thiough Chi
cago, and 23 minutes In passing
through the St lands terminals, and
20 minutes for ('hanging engines,
coaling and watering rn mute. A
stretch of 105 mile* between Itecatur
and Granite City xx«* covered In 104
minutes.
Wheat Ripening and Corn
Showing Up in Uong
Rows Over Fertile
Hills.
Spend Night at Maryville
By WILL M. M UPIN.
staff Correspondent The Onmh* Bee.
Maryville, Mo., May 21,—Starting
from Cumberland In the early morn
ing, today * trade excursion trip baa
tieen through a garden. Wheat Is
ripening on every side and already
corn is showing up in long green
rows over rolling hills Little cities
visited during the day have every air
of prosperity, with beautiful homes,
under immense trees, fine mercantile
Institutions, paved streets and hue
tling citizens.
"Many of our citizens are retired
farmers." said one banker, but they
are among our most enterprising peo
ple. They have been foremost in civic
works, and we can always count on
their co-operation.
At Fontenelle trippers were taken
in autos from the depot to the busi
ness section and shown every possible
courtesy.
Play Indian.
"Your big hotel and our tow n were
named after the same Indian," said
one citizen. In honor of this lively
city, R. H. Stroh of the Eppiey Hotel
company donned the habiliments of
a chief and played Logan Fontenelle,
while other bedecked braves of the
Omaha tribe danced around him.
Greenfield escorted the trippers in
autos from the depot to the business
section, over half a mile of paved
roads. The reception here was un
usually hearty and it waa with dlffi
culty that the train management
could pry the trippers loose. Green
field is the center of a rich territory.
It ships Immense quantities of live
stock to Omaha, and Omaha whole
salers ship immense quantities of j
goods there.
Massens and Bridgewater, lively
little towns, were made during the
forenoon. Orient. Spaulding and Kent
were made immediately after lunch.
Owing to delay for watering and
Icing cars at Creston the train ran
an hour late during the gfternoon.
Jx-nox turned out in force because
several of the trippers were born and
raised here. Conway proved a sur
prise, because it was listed as a small
place, but It turned out one of the
biggest and most vociferous welcomes
of the day. Bedford was the last
Iowa stop of the day. It is one of the
best of the southwestern Iowa towns
and shows it by its handsome resi
dences and business blocks.
Country Links Good.
Everywhere today It has been the
same story of renewed confidence and
increasing prosperity. The sections
of Iowa visited today have come
through the depression better than
most sections of the middle west, be
cause land speculation did not reach
its high point here. Neither is tenant
farming as common here ss in many
other sections. This is reflected in
farm homes themselves, for on every
hand one sees beautiful houses, big
garages silos and housed implements
Hopkins was the first stop in Mis
souri. and despite the lateness of the
train a big delegation welcomed the
trippers Pickering followed. and
then came Maryville, which was the
Wednesday night stop.
Thursday the train gets into north
west Missouri sfter a short detour
Into Iowa again. Nodaway, Atchi
son »Tu! Holt counties will tie visited.
"Omaha Territory."
"This is Omaha territory.” said a
merchant at Greenfield, "and yAi
ought to visit us oftener. This trip
cements good will between two
cities,”
Maryville, county seat of Nodaway,
turned otit in royal style to meet the
Omnhnns At 7:30 there was a re
ception In the courthouse yard. May
or Garrett and President Lankin of
the state normnl school made ad
dresses of welcome. At 0:30 there
was a dance at ihe Elks club which
kept up until midnight when the train
left for Page Center.
This Is generally conceded to be
St. Joseph territory for many years,
but Omaha is boring* In and mer
chants here say that their experience
with Omaha has been such as to ap
peal to them.
iCosgrave Opposes Motion
for Release of Prisoners
Bt tnwlalnl I'rNi
Dublin, Mny 21.—In the Dali Kir
renn tonight. President Cosgrave.
opposing a motion for the release In
the Interest of pence of all prlaoners
Interned or under sentence* of Im
prisonment, and especially because of
the approaching Irish Olympic
games, said the Free State govern
nient had turned loose 1,200 prison
er* In 12 mnt)th*.
The total number of men still held.
Mr. t'osgrave said, was 616. of whom
302 were under sentence for criminal
offenses.
Russian Red Government
Faees $200,000,000 Defied
By l nliffMl Vnlff.
Berlin, Mny 21 - The Kueaian *ov
rrnment face?; « deficit of >200,000,000
thin year Thnt I* the etatement made
mj* Gomnnwar Hykoff nt « commu
nistic party conference, according to
(Uapatchen from Moaow
Oovernment expendttureii are put
nt $170,000,000. with government in
come nt $670,000,000. The productivity
of the Uuneliin economic system in
l-ut nt R0 per cent of It* prewar
x olunie.
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Boys Wanted to See
Big Fire—They Did
By l nlvernal Service.
Litchfield, 111., May 21. “We
wanted to see a big fire—and we
sure did.”
After Litchfield authorities
made what see&ieil u futile r.t
tempt along sever ! theories to I
solve the Buscher Carrico eleva
tor fire with its $100,000 loa
the confession of three hoys to
day turned up.
The boys are Filbert Mansfield.
13; Max Hall, 11, and Johnn
Holler, 8, held on arson and the!’
charges.
The boys ‘aid they poured
kerosene over the first and sec
ond floors and ignited it.
“We wanted to see the fire de
partment work,” they said,
v _j
Man Convicted
of Booze Charge
Shoots 11> Court
Offi cers. I ninjtired. Grapple
^ ith Two-Gun Assailant
Pilose 12th Shot LodgtS
in Own Brain.
Butte. Mont . May 21.—When
called ulion by Judge Pray in federal
■ ourt to stand up for sentence after
conviction on a liquor charge. John
O'Leary this morning drew two re
volvers and fired twelve shots in the
• rowded courtroom. He opened fire
in the direction of four federal prohi
bition officers who were on one of the
seats for spectators. N. E. Baynham.
one of these officers, dropped to the
floor and made a flying tackle, throw
ing O'Leary down while he was still
shooting. Ele\en shots were fired
without hitting anyone, and the ISth
inflicted a wound in O'Leary s head
which may lie fatal, according to at
tending physicians, who say part of
the bullet lodged in the brain.
More than 100 person* were in the
courtroom at the time, and a panic
ensued. Judge Pray remained calmly
on the bench, though one of the bul
lets. apparently deflected from the
ceiling, fell to the floor in front of
his desk. The first bullet fired left
a mark on the marble wall about six
inche* abo\e the heads of the officers
who were in the line of fire The
other shots went wild while O'Leary
was struggling with Officer* Barn
ham and Earl Koehler. Bavnham's
face was black with powder w-hen the
struggle was over.
O'Leary came to the federal build
ing in a rented automobile, which he
ordered to wait for him. indicating,
according to the officer*, that he
planned to escape after the shooting,
for yhich he had prepared by buying
ammunition on the war.
INDIANA G. 0. P.
BACKS C00LIDGE
Indianapolis. Ind , May SI.—Repub- j
licans of Indiana opened their state j
convention today with thunder* of j
applause for a laudatory appraisal of
the national administration and an
unqualified endorsement of President J
Cocuidge. Tonight the delegations
met in 13 district caucuses to name
delegates to the republican national
convention at Cleveland next month
and select members for the state con
vention committees.
The real work of til* state gather
ing which includes platform building
and the framing of a complete state
ticket and selection of seven dele
gates at large to the national con
tention. was scheduled for Thunsday.
TWO BREAK JAIL
AT GRAND ISLAND
By »nwl»l»4 Pim*.
Grand Island. Neb.. May 21 —
Healing County Jailer Vance and a
trusty who went to his rescue, two
men. held In the Hall county Jail
awaiting removal to the penitentiary,
tonight made a successful break and
al a late hour were still at large
armed with the jailers pistol. They
took all keys to the jail except one.
Posses have taken up the chase
The two a re Floyd Rains, convict
ed of chicken stealing, and Harry
Bronner. negro under sentence for
burglary.
Man Vi ho Slew Vi oman Geta
l.ifc Penitentiary Term
fit Paul. Minn . Slay IJ — **■
Ing out more than 12 hours, the jury
which tried Hoy Houghton, 24 year
old Chicago negro for assaulting and
shooltng Mrs. Jacob Mogul here sev
eral weeks ago in the presence of her
9 year old son. returned a verdict of
second degree murder which carries
with it life imprisonment, but the
| possibility of a parole.
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V_/
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Total. Total Unco Januaiy I. MS »lo
ftvlrncy. 1.70.
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Woodrough
Declines to
Intervene
Slaver's Hope of Reprieve
Han^e by Slender Thread
—Bryan His Only
Chance.
.Legion Tries to Help
l.iiirohi. May II.—Uline of new af
fidavits here, covering alleged new
evidence in the ca-e of Walter Sim
mons may result in a new hearing
before the pardon Itoard and a te
pripve until such evidence is heardt
its were filrd by William
Wihhs and Hticli O'Neill of A linear.
Neb.; Horace Heinfiii of Coleman
township. Holt county, and Harlan B.
Black of Holt county indicate that
other men were seen with I’alil on
the night of tlie murder In sides Sim
mons. The affidavits and .ail appli
cation for a new hearing are to be
presented to Governor Urygti Tlitirv
daj.
Walter Simmons, condemned to die
t< merrow in the electric chair, lost 1
.mother—and probably his last—bat
tle for life late yesterday, when Fed
< rrd Judge W oodrough denied pnplica
t.on of his attorneys for a writ of
habeas corpus.
Simmons' hope of a reprieve hang*
now by a slender thread. Only Gov
ernor Brjan or an original suit in the
federal supreme court can stay the
hand of th» executioner.
Simmons' attorney. E P. Holmes,
argued for a writ of habeas corpus
in ‘‘federal district court here on two
grounds. Simmons has had an unfair
and partial trial, and he is being de
prived of his life without due procoss
uf law. the statutes of Nebraska fail
ing to provide for a new trial through
the discovery of new evidence.
Says M unger's < a»e.
Judge Woodrough listened to the
attorney's plea at his home in Rat
rton. court having been dismissed *»'
fore Holmes' arrival in Omaha.
He at once denied the plea on the
ground that Federal Judge Mun^e;
of Lincoln hits Jurisdiction of the
case, rather than the Omaha court.
Holmes replied that Judge Munge.
was ill and unable to hold court, hut
Judge Woodrough, who called Lincoln
over the long distance telephone. w«*
told that his colleague was not too
ill to listen to a plea for a writ.
Reprieve from death sentence by
Governor Bryan, original action in
the United States supreme court, and
action in the United States district
court are the three hopes upon which
Ivans the life of Walter Simmons, sen
tenced to die in the electric oBgi'
Friday for the death of Frank Pah!,
Spencer garage man.
The American Legion, becaua* Sim
mons is a former service man. has
become active in trying to get a gov
ernora reprieve for the condemned
man.
A petition, bearing *5 names, ask
in# that the sentence against Sim
mons be commuted to life in prison
was w ired to Governor Bryan Wednes
day morning by Harry Hough, adju
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WORLD COURT PLAN
AGREEMENT SEEN
Washington. May SI.—The senate
foreign relations committee devoted e
two-hour meeting today to a general
discussion of the world court ques
ticn with results which several mem
bers predicted would lead to an agree
ment among advocates of the pro
posals before the committee and as- ,
! sure a report to the senate before
I adjournment 0f the session.
Belief was expressed by some sena
I tors that agreement coukl be reached
(upon the Harding-Coolidge propoeal
| for membership in the present court,
: with the so-called "Hughea safe
guards" included, not as reservations,
|hut as definite amendments to the
icourt statute to be specifically ratified
by the signatories to the protocol
Summary of
7 he Day In
Washington
An agreement su reached by J
senate and house conferee# on th* |
tax hill. |
Hope of a vote this week on th#
MoNary Haugen Mil was dissipated
I tn the house
Senator Howell republican, Ne
braska, assailed the farm loan
board in a eenate speech.
The house coninn-ree committee
! began bearings on HU* to amend
i the transportation act.
The senate foreign relation* com
mittee discussed the world court
proposa 1 without decision.
Action on the Immigration bill by
President Cocdldg* before th# end
of the week »«* forecast.
Consolidation of railroad prop
erties was endorsed by Secretary
H 'o\ er t-efore a senate commit tee -
The Wheeler case was debated ill
the senate, with Senator Sterling,
republican. S.'uth llikota. defend
ing his minority repoit.
A story of extensive detective op
| nations reaching even to the
shadow lug of tlie committee ttseif
was told th# l'svighei ty invaa.i
! gators
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