The Omaha Corning ' ;ee i. . then 311U nia> he sure that there Is j _________ ____ .._ 11 one ratnal lr»s in the world. -Carlyle. k , city EDITION VOL. 54—NO. 246. " OMAHA, SATURDAY. MARCH 2871925. * TWO CENTSta ■■ ' Court Hears "Murder to Order” Plot I’air Offered $300 to Slay track ^ orker, \\ ituess Say>; l sed Ax Because It ^ as “Ouieter."’ Victim Heavily Insured V shudder of horror ran through the crowd of spectators In Judge •Joss’ criminal court yesterday af ternoon when Vincent Ritonyaya, a 27 year-old German, told how murders % committed "to order” In Omaha ■ it a price of $300 "per job.” Ritonyaya is under indictment ATith Tony Penessi and James Clafizin on a charge of conspiracy to murder Angelo Tamborana, a track worker, who was assaulted and seriously wounded January 2 s. Ritonyaya was a witness yesterday at the trial of Penessi. Pointing to Penessi, Ritonyaya said that lie was the man who had of fered him $300 to murder Tamborana. While tlie spectators leaned for ward In amazement. Ritonyaya told how he and Ed Moravec, now a fugi tive from justice, had attempted to slay Tamborana. Engage Two for S.'tlltl. Penessi first attempted to per suade Ritonyaya to perform the mur der, lie said, but he shrank from do ing the actual killing, so Moravec was engaged. They were to share the $300, Moravec getting $200 and Itttonyaya $100. Ritonyaya told liow Penessi had pointed out their victim to them, and liow they had prepared for the mur der attempt, first, he said, they bought a small hand-ax. "because that would make less noise than n gun.” They took it to the yards where Tamborano worked, and hid it. The next night they returned and lay in wait for Tamborano. "Moravec was nervous," said Riton yaya. "He said he hadn’t been feel lng very well, and he was afraid he didn’t have the nerve to do it that night. "We walked south and I hid be tween two box cars. Moravec took the axe and went up on the bank. "Pretty soon Tamborana came down the track and started sweeping The switch. He came within 25 feet I of me. Took Out Insurance for Victim. "Then he started up the steps that led up the tank. I saw Moravec jump out and hit him with the ax. ' aggfc "Something Inside of me seemed to turn over. 1 couldn’t stand to sec any more, and t ran down the track. When I met an officer I told him about It." * Ritonyaya was asked why Penessi had wanted to have Tamborano kill ed. "He told me that Tamborano’s wife didn't love him,” said Ritonyaya. • "He said he wasn't a good husband to her.” Two life insurance policies for $5, 000 each which were taken out on Tamborano’s life just a few weeks before the alleged murder attempt, were brought Into the case, and the prosecution is using them in an ef fort to show the motive lying behind the alleged plot. Two policies were exhibited Police Detective Da\is told of finding them in the trunk of James Clartzio, broth er-in-law of Tamborano, wiio was not found by detectives until two days after the assault. He said he had been in Chicago for two weeks. Man Completely-Recovered. Tamborano testified that he earns $3.12 a day as a track laborer; that Clarlzfo lived with him about three months: that about last Christmas he suggested he should carry more life insurance and that Tamborano had agreed to take out $5,000 on which he was to pay a premium of $43 e year. He did not know, he said, that the premium on this amount was 3145 a year. Nor did he know another policy of $5,000 had been taken out on his life. Both Tambogano and his wife were in the court room during the trial yesterday. He hae completely recover ed from the w’ounds which he re ceived. Mrs. Moravec was^Tso in the court room. She declared that she know nothing of the alleged plot, although it was at her home. 4729 South Twen ty-fourth street, that Penessi and Ritonyaya first met. Ritonyaya con firmed her statement, that she knew nothing of their plans, Ritonyaya came to Omaha from Germany 12 years ago. He lives at 6213 South Thirty first street. “Law ami Order Party” Files Nominations at Harvard Harvard, March 27.—A new politi cal organization, under the name of the law and order party, has filed nominal ions for councilman for the first and Second ward* and police judge with the city clerk. * 1 We Have With Us Today Filward F. Murphy, Sr. Sale* Manager, San Franclaeo, Cal. Mr. Murphy la the ««lea manager of J. Braude nalcln A Co., of San Kran ciaco, coffee rnnatera. Although with the company aince the early SO*. Murphy la known «* to thg commercial men who tinvel * the weatern part of the country »a the "young man." It I* *al<1 that he haa a larger per gonal acquaintance In the weatern part of the country that any other acmmerclal man. r-- ' * Man Reported Dead Found to Re Itinerant Sunning on Highway V__ _ riattsnumtli, March J7.—An autoist from Omaha created considerable ex* citement Monday when he announced that lie had seen a dead man lying along the highway near Oreopolis, north of this city. The police made haste to the scene and found the man. but far front dead. He proved to he an Itinerant taking advantage of the sum mer-like day to sun himself, and waved wrathy or being aroused from Ills peaceful slumber, giving in unmistak able language his views of the state of affairs when a peaceful hobo could not lie down along the road without being molested. Jazz Slaver Mav j * Plead Guilty to Manslaughter c .111 r\ Selected, lull lrial of Ellingson (rirl I* Adjourned lo Monday; Flea May End It. San Francisco, March 27.—Reports were in circulation In the hall of jus tice today that opposing counsel In the Dorothy Ellingson case would ask Judge Louderback to terminate the trial and accept a plea of guilty to manslaughter. San Francisco,. March 27.—Two al ternate jurors, both women, were added late this afternoon to the reg ular jury of nine men and three women chosen to try 16 year-old Dorothy Ellingson for the murder of her mother, who was shot and killed In the bedroom of their home last January after a quarrel over the girl's wild life. The actual trial was ready to pro ceed, but Judge Harold Louderhack adjourned It until Monday morning, when o|>enitig statements will be made. The last alternate Juror seat ed was Mrs. Teresa Roth, a house wife, the mother of adult children— a girl and a boy. Court Adjourned, Court was adjourned at 4:3# and the young defendant, who had fainted at a recess taken an hour and a half earlier, left the courtroom composed ly, smiling as she talked to the ma tron. San Francisco, March 27.—A Jury of nine men and three women was chosen today to determine the fate of 16-year-old Dorothy Ellingson, charged with murder tor killing Iter mother In the bedroom of their house last January, after a quarrel over the girl's mad pursuit of pleasure. Judge I.ottdc-rback Instructed c.oun sel to begin the selection of two alter nate jurors. Witnesses in the case were excused until Monday. The regular jury was sworn In over the objection of the defense, which de clared thart the court had committed error In reopening the Interrogation yesterday after both sides . had np proved the tentative jury. Personnel of Jury. The jury. Marlin Hencken, retired grocer. George W. Hastings, motor trans port superintendent, married. George H. Clark, .contractor, father of boy, 17. and girl, 16. Mrs. Rora R. Roche, middle aged wife of a silversmith, mother of one hoy and two girls. Paul E. Denlevelle, contractor, married. Anton Carlson, painter, father of grown children. Mrs. Alice F. Hicks, mother of two sons. Edgar J. Goldsmith, hook seller's clerk, unmarried, middle aged. William ,E. Bates. salesman, father of one child. .T. H. MeCay, carpenter, married, two stepchildren. Mrs. Clara M. G. White, elderly, wife of Insurance man. George F. Sand, retired store keeper for Iron works, one grown son. Mrs. Blanche lAcoste. a young housewife, whose husband Is'a drug gist, was one of the alternates se levied. Itorothy Elllngson fainted for the second time today as she was being taken from court for a recess. She had been trembling and agitated and had difficulty In getting out of her chair. Italian Air Forre. Rome, March 27,—The budget re port subml'te] states that on June 30, 1924. Italy possesse.i 60 squadrons with 1,500 airplanes, of which 660 were fighting machines, while by next summer it will have 90 squad rons with 2, Re., March 27.—The steamer Weet Chelae on which Os borne Wood, son of Gen. I^onard Wood, Is reported returning to thlsi country, Is due to put In at Tampa Tuesday. Solon s Meet to Iron Out Differences House anil Senate Name Con ferees to Break Deadlock Over Three Big JtiUs. Adjournment in Offing By P. POWELL, Staft Correspondent Tlie Omaha Her. Lincoln, March 27.—Nebraska’s legislative session is speeding toward a nervous and uncertain finish to night. The day was filled with a series of Important events anil nerves of legislators are taut and uncertain as the time for definite decision on the most Important bills, always held until the last, approaches. Adjourn tnent probably will be some time next week. The house and the senate are in a deadlock over the three major hills, the big appropriations bill, the 4 mill intangible tax bill and the gasoline tax bill. The house voted emphatic ally against concurring on senate amendments to these measures, and late tonight conference committees from the two bodies were endeavoring to Iron out their differences. Rodman, O'Malley and Harrington are house conferees on the gas tax measure, while the senate Is repre sented by Dysart, Griswold and Wat son. Reed, Meaeham and Banning are senate conferees on the appropria tion bill, while the house Is represent ed by Kssam, Yoehum and Raaeoh. The senate conferees on the Intangi ble tax bill are Robbins, Jeary and Wiltse and the house conferees are Gilmore, Keyes and Byrum. Intangible Bill SIuck in House. An addition of approximately $100, 000 in the appropriation hill hv the senate is one cause of disagreement on this measure. Reports were cur rent tonight that house conferees. Ivacked by Governor Adam McMullen, were Insisting that levies providing for a six year building program for the university and normal schools should be Inserted with senate coy ferees obstinately refusing to consider the proposition. Agreement on the 4-mllI Intangible tax'bill, as passed by the senate, !s dubious. Byrum of Franklin, who originally stood fur Increasing the rate on Intangibles to 73 per cent of the rate on tangible property, Is known to he willing to, recede from this position. However, he has ex pressed determination to put sharp teeth Into any intangible tax hill Ivaxsed. for the purpose of forcing In tangibles on the tax rolls by flrovid Ing unusual ferreting powers for as sessors and heavy penalties for tax dodging. The disagreement on the gasoline nx bill Is a result of action of the senate in striking all exemptions from the bill as passed by the house, i’nder the house gss tax plan owners if farm tractors and stationery gaso lne engines, as well as cleaners and lyers, are exempt from paying the 2 rents gas tax. Senate leaders as •erted administration of the exemp :lon feature would be costly and ex emptions would result In gasoline "bootleggers,'’ similar to those re ported In South Dakota, where after • four-year trial of such exemptions (he legislature has removed all ex pniptions. Kill Ucense Kill. During the day the house killed I’rrry Reed's pet bill, which sought to force railroad companies to ship • ulktes and other racing parapher (Turn to Tag* Two. Column tour.) BUILDING TRADES IN CAPITAL FIGHT Washington, March J7.— Possibility if a far-reaching controversy In the local building trades was Indicated today when the Master Masons’ as sociation decided to lock out the stone cutters’ union. The lookout order was approved at a meeting of 100 financiers, real estate operators and contractors, which formed a committee to combat further wage Increases. Organizations already on record as demanding higher wages Include stone cutters, painters, steam fitters, plumbers and an Important section of the carpenters Hornr* Bring (jooit Prifff. Beatrice, March 27.- at the s. F. Snyder farm sale near Blue Springs, 10 head of horses sold for $100 to $!3l a head. Cattle likewise were In demand, bringing from $40 to $52 a head. Hogs brought top notch prices. PortugiH'se Flyer Lost. Telubnn, March 27. Lieutenant Pin Hurra of the Portiiffueee air force wan k 111 r*« 1 anil a companion officer and a mechanic were serloiwly Injured when their airplane craalied. Absent Minded Professor Robbed of Jewels; Two Men and Sweethearts Face Moot Court The heavy hand of the law hng clamped down on the ghoulderg of Feed Toof and Ace Hoof, both of 3499 Bone gtreet. They muet 'go to bat' today on chargee of highway robbery. Toof and Hoof are charged with the robbery of Prof. Amo* [lean on January 2, 192,9. PrOfegaor Dean wag walking along North Twentj fourth gtreet on that night when two men *tepped from a doorway, ehook a hilly under hi* nog* and commanded him to 'ehell out.’ The profeigor aheentlv handed them hit valuable! Two or three day* after the rob hery the profe*»nr'a valuable* were found In an Omaha jewelry atora. The arreaf. of Tnof and Hoof fol lowed. Inveatlgatlon dla< loaed that Toof had been attentive to two young women, Miaa Altle Flltton, 2197 Vain afreet, and Mlaa Fllttl* Apple xruire, Sintra attorney*, Krneat Vdam* and William .1. Howen, will Ini rod Uf e Mlaa Flltton a* "tor wit ness for the state. Mlaa Appleaautf will be nitneaa for the defense The defense lawyer* are Philip p;. Cronk snd Havmond 1 . Gantt, Tha i«*e la to ha in lh* I’nlver •tty moot court till* evening } Dennistoun Faces Mew Damage Suit s ~ Filed bv vVX'«.',ed American Actress • - First \\ if» ^0*^ donel Amused by Report of Breach of n t«» Be Rushed hv New York , ho Holds Endearing Letters. S A. V >■ l'RKW. I ntve. ^^ aff CormpAiuii'iit. LombV / ti \l~. Americans line ami , tsh society got an other "kirk" out of the Dennlstoun case today when word arrived from Paris that the London office of Dudley Field Malone, New York lawyer, lias been ordered to bring suit against Col. Ian Dennlstoun for breach of promise ,and defama tion of character on behalf of an unnamed American actress. It was announced that the actress, who is now in New York, but who accepted attention from Colonel Dennlstoun in Paris before his di vorce from ids first w ife, is sailing shortly for London to prosecute her suit, and is bringing with her more than 100 endearing letters from Larjre Families Blamed for Evil of Child Labor National Leader Declare? Birth Control Would Help Control Situation Which Group Is Fighting. New York, March 27.—"Every child has the right to he well born or not to be born at all,” Owen R. Eovejov, executive secretary of the National Chilli Labor committee, declared to day in an address to the sixth inter national lien Malthusian and birth control conference. “We catapult ® hildren Into the world by the accidental explosion ot passion and ignorance and erect 1e gal stockades to prevent the truth from entering,” he said. "Then wr doom whole armies of them to < hild labor, disease, overcrowding and him ger, it is a ghastly confession of hu man inefficiency and industrial can nibalism which lias to feed on its young to live,” l/ove.ioy expressed the opinion that the most potent cause of child labor Is "large families, beyond, beyond the capacity of one person to support.” Or. Morris H. Kahn of New York said he did not believe permisculty would be increased if birth control advices were given physicians. He said, however, that the fear of some physicians that this would happen, together with religious prejudice within the medical profession, fear of legal trouble and of Indecency and Ignorance of contraception are the principal obstacles to the giving birth control conformation hv physicians Hr. Rachelle S. Yarrow of Hull house, Chicago, predicted that the woman of the future will determine how far she wants to sacrifice her self to bear children. TRADE HOLDS ITS DELIBERATE PACE New York, March 27.—Bradstreets tomorrow will say : “Distributive trade shows little dl* position to quicken the rather de. liberate pace hitherto noted, Spring like weather favors Increased aett\i ties in farm work and In the building trades thus tending to take up some of the winter slack In eniploy-nrenl, while the nearer approaeh of Easter spurs preparations to meet, the usual spring buying movement at retail Trade as a whole still shapes up about fair, but there Is, nevertheless, still visible ihe feeling of disappoint ment. that trade has not measured up to sanguine anticipations. “Reflections of the recent Jolts to speculation given by the slumps In stock and wheat are still found In the ^reports of continued cautious buying front wholesalers and Jobbers and reduced marketing of grain conn try districts. Cross currents In va rious lines are reported In advices from the southwest that lack of rain in wide areas of Texas and Kansas and parts of Oklahoma Is affecting crop work, plant germination and country buying, but that better moisture conditions farther north In the plains states are inducing 1n creased planting of spring wheat.” Weekly hank elent'lng* $1 78S 111 000 Immigration From Mexico NX ill He | mlrr Discussion Trouglas, Ai lr,, March 27 Hover nors of southwestern American states snd Mexican stales will confer on proposals to extend the American Immigration quota law to Mexico dur Ing the convention of the western division of the United States Cham ber of Commerce here April 21, 22 und 21, It became known today. Hoveinor Hunt of Arizona and Hov ernor Alejobey of Sonora, May thus far bate signified their Intention of being present. Although Texas is not Included In the western division, which eomprls es 11 States, she will he Invited to send a representative to take part In the discussion of Immigration. Military Toiiniunirnt. Chicago, March 27. A military tournament Intended to Interest .-|\li Ians of the Sixth corps mi- a and the mlddlewest In national defense and ths organized reset ye* will he held here May 27. 21 and "I. -hi Sly fifth Cavalry IMM-.I- n ,„ |.ai|,.n , nouneed. * liiltl I altor Hill I Augusta, Me. Much I tic Maine senate, |„ „ v„,„ ,lf |R ^ rejected the federal child labor con stltutlonal siuendmsnt the house I hat not acted iiennistoun, which will be her evi dence. Mi- Dorothy Dennistoun, whose case against her former husband ims just resulted in a verdict of $25,000 fur her, following her cleams that she gave herself to Gen. Sir John Cowans to gain army promotion for her husband, and that he failed to keep his agreement to help support her after divorce, was quite amused at the new turn in affairs. "Surely, T know her," Mrs. Den nistoun said with a queer sndle, when asked if she knew the name of the actress. "I would get still more amusement out of telling you her name, but it is better not to tell it now. It cannot help being disclosed at the trial. She Is not a married woman." !American Blamed for Disturbance in Panama Towns ! Legation Declare* Explorer Stirred I p the Indian*, ho Were Pacified ^ hen He Departed. Washington, March 27.—Recent dis turbances aimms the San Dias In dians never reached a more serious stage than mob disorders In a few na tive towns, tlie Panama legation de clared today in making a flat denial of a statement by R. O. Marsh, Ameri can explorer, that a "battle” had taken place between the Indians and Pannrnan troops. "The few policemen stationed in In Milan villages were assassinated by mobs.” Minister Alafro said. "Four teen policemen, school teachers and civilians lost their lives, in the upris ing. Bloodshed Prevented. ”3'he participation of Marsh In these events, the pretended request for an American protectorate over the 'Title nation’ and the report that the American flag had been raised in the affected region, caused the American minister to proceed there aboard the gunltoat Cleveland. "The Department of State disc in tenanced the attitude of Marsh ami the American minister, acting accord ingly, and displaying praiseworthy tact, advised the rebellious Indians to submit to Pananmn authorities. The Indians, free from the Influence of M trsh. quickly submitted and fur ther bloodshed was prevented." Indians Ignorant. "The declaration of Independence of the Tule nation,” wns "conceived, drawn tip ami signed lgv Marsh him self," the minister asserted, des, i th ing the occurren e na "a piece of liter ature wherein anthropology, mytholo gy and politics are closely Inter woven. "There Is net a single Indian In San Bias who L« fsmlllar with the Idea, the facts or the theories set forth In that document,” he declared. He said the Panama government's policy had been designed to withhold use of force against "the poor, ignor ant, misguided Indian*," and to pre vent oppression by Its local repre sentatives. He also stressed the un broken record of peace In the rela tions of the Indian tribe and the gov ernment until the advent of Marsh. ARBUCKLE TO PAY HEAVY ALIMONY I,os Angeles, Cal.. March 27.—Popu lar conjecture relative to the wealth of Roscoe Arbuckle. former film comedian, was revived here today yvlth the filing In the county record er's office of a property settlement whereby Arbuckle agrees to pay to Mlnta Durfee, who recently divorced him In Paris, not less than >200 a week until she marries again or until death terminates the contract. It was generally believed here that the portly exebmedtan had not en Joyed the income usually accredited film world celebrities since his long legal fight three year* ago In San Francisco which endfd In his acquit tal on a manslaughter charge In con nectlon with the death of Vtrglnta Rnppe. Despite the heavy property setle nient. Arbuckle plans to remarry . HI* marriage to Doris Dean, screen ac tress, was pokipotted la* week s few hours before the wedding was to have taken plat e upon advices from Part* that Ml** ItiirfcM's divorce does not become fully effective until April S. •Hoily of \ilininil I)fwry l rHii!*ferrf*»l to Capital Washington, March 27 After rent mg for nearly eight yearn In a man solemn surrounded by comrade* of • ho Spanish Vmcrlcan war and dose to the memorial mast of the’ battle ship Maine, the body of Admiral '•coign Dewev, Mantle bay hero, will he transferred with full military hon-i • is tomorrow from Arlington Nation M1 cemetery and placed temporarily alongside the noted dead In ftefhle* hem chapel of Washington cathedral. | Ilie Weather | ‘ • • ' ! |* I M M ?7 I'rrr'idtnllett liirltra oml II tnolr«*ili It* Totsl * t’nt*l since .Untno I . i 4, defkimuy 4 1 Hmirlt I itrrMt 4 *, m. . rc .Ml 4 • tv 4|jp»r: 4 4 ln • m. ........ 44 Ap t* 1(1 U ■ tv. ... 4T T P m. . 44 U m. .At i A * rn. . u « Woman May Exonerate Shepherd Former Kmploye of Faiman Declarer. She Can Prove Innocence of Alleged Germ Plot Slayer. Seeks Missing Documents By I nlwrsnl Krrocf. Chicago, March 27.—In the filing of an obscure suit of replevin In the municipal court lat$ today may lie the collapse of the state’s case against William D. Shepherd, charg ed with the murder of his ward, Will iam Nelson MoCllnto'-k. by the ad ministration to hirn of typhoid germs. | The suit demands the return to Mrs. Luella Rheubell of certain pa pers andies of Emma Nelson Met lintook. mother of the youth Shepherd i» charged with kill ing. and Dr. Harry Olson, her phy sician, were begun today after the bo il*»s had Iveen exhumed from the graves where they have rested 1 % and three years, respectively. The same jury which has held various sessions of an Inquest over young Mo« ’lintock's body mas sworn in and after viewing the bodies, adjourned indefinitely. Kxrelleiitlj l*ri>(W’r\ed. The bodies were reburied after :he vieeerae j^-id been removed and turn ed o\er to rhsmists and toxicologists who will examine them for every known poison. Both bodies, It was found, «e:e |n an excellent Mate of preservation. Notice was served on the state *o the company whh the secretary of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Hie statement place# the present sur plus at $542,476,496.30 as against $442,041,081.13 in March. 1924. WHEAT PRICES IN WINNIPEG LOWER Winnipeg, Man., March ST.—Wheat riicfs suffered another decline today. I Winnipeg May delivery sold from 9 5-8 cents from the high point of the day, doslny at $1,60 1-8 for a net loss of T 5-8 cents from Thursday's clos ing figures. Trading was on a fairly large scale. Federal interference with the func-j tinning of wheat futures markets In the 1'nited States was attributed as the chief cause of today's break. The \\ iunlpeg market followed the weak ness at Chicago. The coarse grains were weak In sympathy with wheat. Naval Officers to Face Courts for Liquor Raid Secretarv V. illtur Direct* In-i fiuiry Into Seizure of Booze on Transport li\ Marine?. •_ Washington March 27.—Papers are being prepared at tlie Xavy depart ment for court-martial proceedings gainst several officers Involved in the liquor raid conducted on the navul transport Beaufort upon its arrival February 24 at Norfolk from the West I ndies. Secretary Wilbur said today he had directed this step upon completing a study of tlie report of the naval court of inquiry which investigated the rase but declined to make public the names of the officer# affected. It was indicated, however, that five or six would face trial. It is assumed .that the court will sit at the Hampton rtoads naval operating base. The names of t)ios» to appear before it are not expected to be made public until the court meets. Tlie raid on the Beaufort was con ducted by a mtrine detachment under orders of the commandant of the sixth naval district and. it was re ported to the Xavy department at the time, "approximately 40 cases of as sorted Intoxicating liquors were found on board and seized." At Norfolk the liquor was said to have been found in staterooms of those ranging in rank from pay clerks to lieutenants. Commander X. W. Fuller, in com mand of flu transport, was subse quently exonerated as having had no knowledge of the presence of the liquor. 1 nder the prohibition law it is II legal to la-lug liquor into American waters and under navy rules no liquor may be kept aboard ships. A naval court of inquiry was called immediately after the raid and con ducted extensive hearings, those men Honed as defendants before it at the time including Commodore P. A\ . Ful-i ler.^Kieuf. R. r>. Hill. Ideut. F. M. Rohow. IJeut. C \V. Baker. Machin 1st F M. Hendricks. Chief Pay Clerk .1 F. Gallagher and Chief Pharma cist's Mate Keif. NO UNDUE HOPES FOR GERMAN PLAN By The Associated Peess. Berlin. March 27.—It Is generally conceded in political circles here that with the pioposed revaluation of war loans and national and state mnrt ciges. the German government mar! fes'ed a good intention vvfiiie reaili Ing its Inability to meet ail demands So tha compromise was adopted in the hope of it being acceptable to both tli» creditors and debtors. Meanwhile, it remains uncertain whether the reichstag will pass the reva+uatlon bills in their pr-sent form. In any event, -he belief prevail* that this revaluation propiosal should no! awaken undue hopes. It is said that much depends upon ti e future state of the German budget and the amount of campaign propaganda Involved in' tills move by present national cabi net. The revaluation bill* today met wfth much criticism In the non national i*t p ess the consensus being that the outlook 1* unfavorable for fur ther Increase In the projected revalu atlon of 5 per cent on loans and from IS to 2S per cent on mortgages It was pointed out that the Impover ished original holder* of loans will not I'* lienefited greatlv by the additional so called social rental, equaling 1 per cent of thel rformer holdings but, not exceeding SmO mark* annuallj. Nets ^ nrk Kail* to I imit ^ orking Hour# of W omen Albany. X V. March 27 A Will limiting the hours of working women to 4* a week failed of passage in the assembly today, the last day of thej 1S27) session of the leglelature. Karller In the day the measure had l>een passed by the senate. Crude Oil Price Drop*. | Shreveport, I,a , March 27 Thel Standard Oil company announced a 1 decrease of in cents a barrel In the price of Cotton Valiev crude oil. mak ing the new quotations It. Railroad Engineer Abandons Throttle for Airplane to Win Race With Death The locomotive which he pilot*, proved too slow for L. Enxminger of North Platte, Friday morning. Knxmihgor left the throttle and climbed into the cockpit of an air plane. which he drive* with the same skill a a he d«x\* a ITnton pa cific engine V* a paMtcnger he carried \\ 1 ll'iriit*.* of Wallace. Neb . who engaged Knvmlngcr to outface death which hovered over Mr*. Marine** a patient at the Hvvedlsh Mission hospital hrie Entnilftger left id* home af North Platte vt ti.no v eeterday morning: and arrived In Omaha with Marines* *t * 30. North Platte Is ??0 mites from Omaha and a feat tram re quire* *1* hour* and 40 minute* to' make the run. On arrival here. Rartnee* com pleted hie trip to the hospital by automobile Mrs, Rarities* t» sert oua!} IH of influenan. which da- , vetoped after an operation. Rart- ' nee* n*e no'tfled of hi* wife* eon- I dttlon at S a, m. yesterday, and a few minute* later had mad* ar ! rangnmetit* with Kt\*mlitf»: for the aerial dash to Omaha Hanna** Is a farmer and U teat nek lalset r.n*mln**r 1* a I nlon Pa etfte engineer with alrplHj.es as a hohlu \r*t* dot « r*oe to O; -h, w:•* the *♦ •••ito*t h» I. With the is tew wars* Praii *ie Fire Out; Damage ls$l,000,000 dating Flames Cheeked 3C Mile;- From ^ alentine; Three Towns Are Saved. No Lives. Lost, Belief Ilj- The Annwlatfil Pw Valerttne, Neb.. March 2T.—After rushing furiously on along the course if the Nlobara river In Nebraska, as far east as a few miles from Spring view, in the eastern part of the state, he most disastrous prairie fire known !o tills section f>r many years to night had been egtlnqulahcd at a. , in' SO miles northeast of here. Reports reaching here over restor ed telephone communication v bid. had (teen cut virtually since tie flames began, Indicated that approx* mately 1,000,00" aci es of land had been ravished by the prairie swFcper nui that between ;.urs to check the onslaught. Back Five leaves Valentine. Valentine was out Of danger after 43 minutes of orga nixed work of vol unteers who used the Sand row end back fire sa stem. Little effort was made to check the flames on the pfat rie?. I: was said inoet pereorg pre ferring to remain on guard ner-i then homes and assure protection of btlHO ing* -in the rtinche* On* if the flree after the d;v iai- :• wt.* southeast .of Rosebud, in th Sti-lnk reek vicinity of South Da kota. Another was between the Rot hud and Lakevuevv. sweeping onto th* Indian reservation and. it 1? reported, burned twu «chool house? Teache;-* and pupil?, however, are said to have left the building an hour befere At Cod;. where the battle was fiercest. eight or 10 Are tighter* cam* near losing their live? when aur roumled by -he flames They ev-ape-* only after leaping through s wall o' Are They were alr o* suffocated ar suffered severe burns about The head and body. Driven by the high wind the tna, division of the Mate leaped the CM ,v North wearer right-of-wX; Thursday‘evening and threatened to work it? way south 'rotrt here Drop ping of the wind, however, mad* it possible to check the flame? and dsir age in this vicinity was small. beln; confuted to fe ce? and enonguard* \ir Fielil Hangar Bumi. ?• Le-.ils March JT.— Nineteen at place? were destroyed in a fire - alleged incendiary origin which cor armed a frame warehouse of the Robert Aircraft company at the Lambert-St. Mm I* flying field Bridgeton Mo. Th* .«« was os' mated at *14!.0W). / Summary of the Day in ! Washington The shipping bowrd held hear!;.*" on hide for five large alupe In the Pacific trade Preside! ’ t dg • a . u ted commlasion to « tidy ire nuesfion of disposing of Muscle Shoals Partner Governor Morrow of the Panama Canal 7on# was appointed as American niemter of the Taona Arioa houndary commission. Secretary \v ilbur ordered court martial proceedings against a num ber of officers as a result of the re cent liquor raid on the transport Feaufort, Senator It heeler of Montana. Rc win S. Hoot It former solicitor of the Inter!* i department. and Gordon Campbell, oil land operator, were Ip (licetd by a federal grand Jury Senator I'otir-ra of Michigan ds nte.1 UiHi other ftormer mlitorilv ftockholde * of the hol'd Motor CCC' i'iny ha ’ *ir*icd waner* to permit ro ’■e - tag gj * ■ • at eats