i The Omaha Sunday Bee T“ - cloud? and warmer. M. A A A-# ~ ^ ^ M* M* M. M A. ^ ^ T ^ ^ " *"rt f'1' arc Infinitely better than tho«# who try to no nothing unci Mir* _ _ __ __ Hum i i i—mu-xn—__ ■ —--- ff«l,—Llfljd Jnn***. CITY EDITION ynT KA....Mn AS OMAHaTSUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 10*5._* X X_FIVE CENTS v . - —^ French May Offer New Plan to Pay Finance Policy Expected to Spceify Time and Amount of Installments to U. S. Britain. Moratorium Is Predicted rs- n.win m. 4'in itcii, ^ International New* Service Stnff Correspondent. London, April 4.—When the French finance policy is announced Tuesday it will state terms of a definite at tempt on the part of France to begin payment of its drills to the I nited States and Great Britain, it was learned here tonight. 'Phis element of the new French policy will 1)0 for the purpose of re storing French credit in the 1 nited States and England. French experts who have been studying the problem in London for several days have been carefully going over the Dawes plan. It is expected France will endeavor to pay Great Britain what is pays the United States. It is probable, it was said, France will ask the I nited Slates for a lower rate of interest and possibly a. moratorium. Great Britain Is watching the French situation with the greatest in terest. It the capital levy on wealth is put Into effect by the Herrlot gov ernment. ft was predicted that such action would have an adverse influ ence on French credit here. The tax levy would prompt English bankers to tighten up on loans to Franco be cause, it was said, such a socialistic measure would be the means of strengthening the position of the laborites in England. The tory gov ernment therefore will, it was pointed out. emphatically oppose that solution >f the French financial problem. TAXI SPEEDS DEAD . MAN TO HOSPITAL By Juternatinnnl »w* Service. New York. April 4.—A taxicab inshing to Roosevelt hospital early today carried 'a dead rpan for a. fare, it was disclosed when William O'Con nell, the driver, reached the hospital with the man whom two well-dressed men had pushed into his cab, saying he had been hurt in an accident. The slain man was about 30 years old. Police believe he was an actor. There were two hullet wounds In j the left side of the man's head. Noth ing found on his person indicated his identity. At the hospital physicians examin ing the dead man found his coat rip ped up the back, apparently with a knife. Detectives Investigating the killing found the man had entered a night life cafe ir, the White l.ight district shortly before he was placed in the cab and had approached a table where two men and two women were sitting. Police are seeking this quartet. It was said that one of the m.n got up from the table and led the man to the street and that shortly after three allots were heard. BUILDING WORK HALTED BY JOKER Washington, April 4.—Someone cn (lowed either with n flair for practical jokes or n healthy grudge has been making bolshevists out of several Washington building contractors. * Hiding up to construction jobs In what appears to be an official auto mobile, he introduces himself as a building inspector, calls loudly forj the boss, makes many complaints about the work In progress and filial ly orders the project stopped and rides aw ■< V. After serving for several days ns a shambles for hot volleys of con tract ural profanity, the department of building inspection has asked the police department to find the “In spector and put him in jail." FUGITIVE NABBED AFTER GUN FIGHT P.'irlrf, Tenn., April 4 —Following n gun battle of more than an hour during wtil'-h he and two federal of finer* received minor wound*. TOrnest Callion, wanted for a $75,000 post office robbery in Mayfield, Ky., In October, 1333, was cn route to Mem phi* today in custody of United Slate* deputy marshal*. (Pillion wa* recaptured near here last night after lie had barricaded tilliiKrlf in the wood* rind stood off half a score of officers tintil rifle* of hfeh power were brought into i’luy. DEATH OF FALL VICTIM PROBED Blsbee, Arit!., April 4—The death of Robert W. Wodson. who died here last year, presumably from a fall down a flight of stairs, was opened for inves ligation today when the body was dl* Interred and County Attorney Roe* lefi for I,o* A ngeie* to have the vital organ* analyzed for trat of poison Til* Invest igat lop. It ft* learned, ordered after t. ► rompatl.V with v.hlcb Wodson bad hi* life insured refused to pay the claim and naked the probe. Divorce Court Judge Draws Moral From Deserted Wife That Nests on Window Ledge Just Outside Office By .1. T. ARMSTRONG. District Judge L. B. Day of the domestic relations court is being forced to worry over a slightly differ ent variety of wife desertion case. On the wide stone ledge just outside of the judge's office in the court house is a pigeon’s nest. In the nest are several newly laid eggs, and on the eggs is a cooing female pigeon, doing her best to hatch forth little pigeons. Frequently, however, the mother pigeon must leave her nest in quest of food and occasionally after little twigs to repair the nest. Different This Year. There was a nest in the same place last year, all feathered, and with little pigeons and home life and everything of which a divorce judge is supposed to approve. And Judge Day did approve, par Ocularly when he saw that the male bird hovered about continually during the hatching and raising of the little pigeons. Bast year the female pigeon was fed by the male, and did not need to leave her nest. The male also kept the nest in good repair. But this year no mate has appeared to assist the female pigeon. A Flagrant Case. "It's a flagrant ease of wife deser tion." said Judge Day, quite angrily. “I'll soon add child desertion to the charge, too." "It's a shame that that pigeon must leave those eggs for food. But there's a moral to it. I'm sure this pigeon has divorced her first husband and taken on a new one. The moral is, if you find a husband who Is a good, kjnd provider, don't divorce him.” — “Master Bandit*' Sentenced to Hang June 2r) | Jury Finds Notorious Mail Robber Guilty of Police man’s Death After 11 Hours’ Deliberation. Bt Infcrnnt’nrinT >>wi Service. Hartford, Conn., April 4.—Gerald Chapman, arrh outlaw of a decade, must, die on the gallows. He will pay the supreme penalty on June 25 for the slaying of Police man James J. Skelly, who was shot and killed during a holdup in New Britain, Conn., on October 12, last. A stern-visaged jury In superior court today found him guilty of the murder and within an hour Judge Newell Jennings sentenced him "to Vie hanged by the neck until dead." at the state prison at Wethersfield on June 25. "What Expected.” "It Was what I expected," Chap man said, his face gray and grim. "I was pictured as the arch criminal of a century—what else could I expect?” However, Chapman had expected a disagreement. There had been much betting he would lie found not guilty. Chapman’s pale countenance hardly changed expression when the foreman of the jury, in a solemn voice, an non need the verdict: "Guilty as charged." Itats Eyes at Verdict. Chapman’s eyes batted nervously But that was all. He folded hla arms, grltled his teeth and eyed the jurors, one by one. as they passed out of the box. 25,000 MILES OF NEWROADPLANNED Washington, April 4.—About 21,000 i mil#** of highway, nearly enough to |« resumed* Courtesy Club New Scheme of Safety Council * j 10.000 Members to Be Son”lit to Pay $1 Fee and Observe Traffic Rules. A "Highway Courtesy club" l« he incr organized by the Omaha Safety council. Members pay a fee of ?! and sign a pledge to observe certain rules when driving and when walk ing. Th» goal Is ln hnn member? Pledges and membership cards may be obtained at the safety coun cil headquarters, 1911 Harney street. Many activities are planned In cluding organization of junior safety councils in the schools, marking dan gerous Intersections, translating of safety material Into foreign Ian guages and distributing It nntong for eign people. The council 1? also planning a campaign of education on swimming. "Everybody Interested in the safety movement should join the Highway Co'urtesy club and help finance the work," said W. S. Stryker, chairman of the finance committee. WOMANCOMPANION OF BANKER SOUGHT Denver, Colo., April 4—Federal of fleers In tl%l* district nr* restart Incr to one of the truisms of manhuntinK —"(’horehez la Femme”—In an ef fort to recapture Coney C. Slaughter. Pueblo. Colo., bank wrecker, who escaped from the federal penlten Mary at Leavenworth, Kan., last. Jan uary 21. Slaughter, officer* believe. I* travel-' in* ‘'somewhere" with a young wom an who ha* been Ills companion dur tag: the eight years he bn* been dodc insr arrest after wrecking th* Mer cantile National hank at pueblo Ir. May, 1915. The woman, posing:, officer* say. an Mr*. Slaughter and accompanied by a small boy, visited Slaughter Leavenworth shortly before hi*, escape. They now are looking for the fake ‘‘Mr*. Slaughter" ami with her they hope to find the real object «»f the! search. U. S. AND MEXICO TO HOLD PARLEY Mexico Pity, April 4.—A mixed commission of delegates represent Inc the 1'filled Stairs and Mexico will rnref at LI Pas*) May .*10 to discus* smuggling and immigration proh lem*. .1 mm* It. T1. Dhnfflelcl. 1 hr American ambassador said today that Mexico had expressed wllUmrnrs* to name commissioners In discus* the new problem* wowing: out of the re cent Iv negotiated narcotics treaty ! but he was not prepared to aov whether the Immigration question* would include the restriction of Mexican miilftnitlou to the I'nltedi State?. Tile American delegates to the eon Terence have already been noiretd but the Mexican representative* have not been named. TRAIN DERAILED; TWO MEN HURT Denver, Polo., April 4 Two men an engineer and flreman, were In jtired, the former probably fatally, when Denver & Hlo flrnndn Western! pu»HcnKer train .Vo. 14, from flrand .limi tInn l«» Denver, was derailed at ('»iji (’reek, between Pueblo anil FIoi cure, (*n|o., early tnr|fl!\ No pessen BPfs were Injured, according: to re ports reed veil by, the dispatcher'* ofllcs here. Woman in Train’s Path Dies in Leap Cozad (Neb.) Resident Jumps to Death in River When Cayght on Trestle. Confused by Danger llv Tin* Ansoelated PrMw. Austin. Minn., April 4.—Authorities of Cozad, Nob., latp today Identified the body of a woman who Jumped from a trestle hero when she was overtaken by a passenger train, as that of Kristine Jergensen of that place. The identification was made through a description of the woman's clothing during a long distance tele phone conversation between Austin police and authorities of the Nebraska city. Two certificates of deposit found in her clothing, were also lden tified, According to information received from Cozad, the woman was on her way tri Alden, Minn., to visit friends and hall left for the Minnesota town Friday. She arrived In Austin at 4 a. m. today and told a policeman she was going to the St. Paul, Mil waukee depot a few blocks away to take a train for Alden. Becoming confused In her directions, she started to cross the trestle and, when In the j pilddle of the structure, was over ikon by the train and jumped to the Red Cedar river. No Instructions ns to the disposi tion of the body has been received here and it. W'ill be held until relatives have been heard front. Cook to Be*» s-rrlre Staff r or resrrmidrnt. Fort Worth. Tex. April 4—Dr. Frederick A. rook. Arctic explorer and disputed discoverer of the North Pole, will loav« tonight In the com pany of federal officers for the fed oral prison at Leavenworth, Kan., to begin a sentence of 13 years Imposed I upon hint by federal court here after Ids conviction of promoting fake oil schemes. Sixteen months behind the walls of the county Jail have made him an old ma n. "You fellows don't know how to appreciate (Jod's sunshine because you have ne'er been deprived of It," he said. Then suddenly: "Put I hardly think I will he there 13 years. The court has agreed to allow the 16 months T haVe served in the county Jail to apply on my sen tence, and my attorneys nre doing all in their power to have my term re duced. But even If everything goes against me, ] won’t spend more than four years there—I will be eligible for parole then." Dr. Cook's attorneys have prepared -l pardon petition addressed to the I re i lent, seeking their client s re lease, and If Is being widely circulated, throughout this federal district, Bass Made Gasoline Tax Administrator |. "it I « I Dr. T. W. Hit**. Lincoln, NVh , April I Dr. T \V. Hum* of Hi ohm How win appointed liy (lovrrnor M» Mtillfii todav i»« pnau- ' lino tax •dmlnlHirator. Ill* hhI.u* will h# $1,000 n vi'iir. Dr. ID**, who will In f;ln hi* du Mr* Monday, I* an i rtury of lhr *latr republican committ«*r. Hr will aupcr vho collection of thr pm t ix and I hr chrcklpff of nil compante*' hook* to *rr that I hr pi of>rr a mount* air paid. HI* admlnlati Minn will 1m under thr a* rlrultnrn drpHitwent, 11 1* trpmtrd here that Dr Ha** will rrdjfit an «•*•< i etui y of tho atatr cummitua. Woman Twice Widowed, Six Times Divorced, Is Now Honeymooning With “True Love;” No. 3 Jfas Favorite y— —-- — — -.'i - -■ - - — 11 " One Husband Died From Natural Cause, One Killed, Three Desert. Urania, Da., March 4.—"I know now that I have the men of my heart," smiles Mr?. Caroline Hatfield, who Is honeymooning In her home In Urania with her ninth husband. She la 55. Her first husband died from natural causes, one was killed accidentally, three disappeared after domestic up heavals and were subsequently di vorced, and three were present when she divorced them. To her only son Mrs. Hatfield at tributea her present happiness. It was this son who met Mr. Hatfield and invited him to his home. They had been working together. Hatfield ac cepted the Invitation. "It was love at first sight," said "Aunt Ca'llne," as she Is affectionate ly known In these parts. "Or rather, It was love at first sight so far ns I was concerned,” she corrected. And then she added, with just a suggestion of pride, "and I believe it was mutual." This Is ller Fast. That evening Hatfield almost forgot it was time to leave. Something seemed to he holding him back. The next day Hatfield again found hap piness in the companionship of "Aunt Ca'llne." The fates worked swiftly. Hatfield told Aunt Ca’llne of his deep interest in her. And she confessed an Interest in him. On the third day“1n the little church In Urania Aunt Ca'llne became a "Mrs." for the ninth, time. And she Is certain it will be her last matrimonial venture. "For," she said, "there Is nothing except death that can possibly Inter fere with my present happiness." Kxpiaining her brief courtship, she said: "I don't think it Is necessary to? know a person such an awful long time to love him. There Is something far more powerful than the mind that tells you that happiness lies in certain paths." , Five in a Row. Aunt Caroline first went to the altar in her teens—back In the eighties, changing her name from Caroline Frost to Caroline McDonald. She en 'ered upon her second matrimonial ■ enture some months after her first husbands death, she became Mrs. Walters. Shortly after he disappeared and sh» secured a divorce by default. Then shortly after sh» became Mrs I Bronson. Following Bronson’s death Burgess, Urania blacksmith, came awooing And he was successful. But after a few weeks «he could not bear up tinker the domestic strife, nnd she divorced him. Then along osme Pamp Chev alller, her fifth husband. This mar riage, too. was short-lived. It ended when Chevalller disappeared, and again she became Caroline Frost. Calls No. S Rest. The eight husband was I.ulgl, a native of Serbia. For more than two years they lived happily together. One day I.ulgl left Urania suddenly snd disappeared. Some domestic friction preceded his disappearance, and when at the end of a long period she did not hear from him, she divorced him. "Of my previous husbands, Mr. Bronson was the best," she says. "Oh, how good he was to me, snd how hap py I was with him." Then s cloud came over her ns she told of the bit terness of that day when he met a tragic death In Urania. But the bitterness of the past hss all been brushed from her memory as she basks In th« love of another such husband as was Bronson, she declares. JEAN OF RFSZKE GIVEN TRIBUTES! New York. April 4 —T ending figures In the world nf music paid tribute to day to .lean de Retake, polish tenor, who died yesterday nt Niue. "The name of Jean de Resrke," said Clullo Oattl-Cassazza, director of the Metropolitan Opera company, “will remain In the history of the Lyric theater, and particularly of the Metropolitan, ns that of a supreme artist, with a true i»ei snnallty, a great singer, a great actor, of perfect ole g.’ince and of an uncommon versa tllity." i Louis ITasselman*. conductor of French opera st the Metropolitan, said: “Of a giant race of singers. he lived to he the last. They were giants hut Jean de Resr.ka was king of them i all." i John Mct"*nrnytek described the dead tenor ns 'the grand old man of opera." Take him nil In all," soli Mr Me Corninek, "we shall not see his Ilk*' again " CUBA RAIL STRIKE TIES UP TRAFFIC Havana, I'liki April 4 Tiaffl van almost completely tied up today on the Tuba A North Toast railroads as a result of the labor strike called on those roads several da'* ego Lihnrlle leaders today railed s general strike for next week. It 1' i fear«»d th*t nil tsldroads on the fs land a* wrll as other Indiiatrles nmy be tied up. The strikers are demanding higher w ages. I irtitcminl \\ mid Mnk« SV>7 >11 on It r.i 11 \ Ileal Tampa. Fla , April 4 Osborne T. it Wood, realty salesman for l> IV h Pa vis, sold his first lot today In Mrs Robert C} 1 lasting* of New York The | < purr base price wg* $7,1 sn Wood*. I com militant amounted lu $167..Ml A j MKS Caroline Frost McDonaldAValters-nronson-Hurgesa-Chevallier CardiiorWhitel.ulglHatfield ran gi\e even Peggy llopUius Joy re and Nora Hayes some advice about marriage. At So she is on lier ninth honeymoon. She believes In love at first sight. “I don’t think it necessary to know a person an awfully long time to love him,” she opines, v. Iowa Maidens Take Early March Dip in Lake Okoboji and Come Up Smiling i" --T I _- . No, 1.—The bating season began ed relatives here Thompson left home for Summit, a nearby town, a quarter of a eenturx ago, telling his > ming bride 'If 1 don’t «ei back before dark bo o\er to father’s ’ No trace of him w as found until Thursd.ix when his relative* j *aw an advertisement inquiring for his sister. After several years his wife oh tallied a illume, remarrhd and has j s« veral « hlldreii by her s*sH»nd bus bend Thompson has when no reason for Ills cllnaptiear.ance nor w here he spent the Intervening vetim. | Hie Weather I !v_---- -_t F’ ?4 b.in-* #n,t i » ? e m 4p «. hunv.ltu r<'rri*H*nts t *. » TS ill'll .*♦ ? e m *t.\ Pi**! . «* % A »W I * • *' I s * m M * i» n» .... *• { II • in . . ,,M. ** v <" i II »f« .,.*1 I p in ..... .,1 Both Legs Are Cut Off at Knees Youngster Later Suecumbs From Loss of Blood and Exposure; Suffers Half Hour Before Found. Baby Sister Critically 111 “Oh, please shoot me.'' was the plea nf .John Dougherty, It. when po lice arrived to take him to the hospi tal after he had been run over by a train at Forty seventh and Harney streets Saturday afternoon. “Don't let my folks know I tried to hop a ride on a train. “Put me out of my misery, please, jf'h, please. I don't want to live.’1 Dies in Hospital. Although Officer John Schwager. who answered the emergency rail when the lad was found lying beside the tracks, turned a deaf ear to the cry and hurried the boy to surgical attention at lord Lister hospital, the youngster's wish rame true a tew hours later when he died from ex posure and loss of blood. John and seven other boys accord ing to neighbors In the vicinity of the accident, had been playing In the neighborhood and apparently at tempted to board a Missouri Pacific freight train. Blind In Right Rye. John has been blind In the right eye for several years, and this caused him to lose his balance as he tried to swing aboard. He fell be*»ath the v heels of one of the rear cars of a long train. Both his legs were cut off »t the knees. f He lay. bleeding and writhing in agony for probably 3d minutes, po lice estimates. before workmen heard his cries, ran to his aid and sum moned the police emergency car. Baby Sister III. The train did not stop, residents In the neighborhood said, appsrently be eause none of the trainmen w-se awvre the cars had run over any one John was a pupil In the fifth grade c Franklin school. He is the son of John Dougherty. 3311 Charles str»e^ foreman at the Omaha Ice and Cold Storage company. The foreboding form of Ill-fortune frequently has darkened the doorway of the Dougherty home. Four or five years ago John was struck and seriously injured by an automobile truck. His brother William, li. was put to 1-ed in another ward at the hospital Saturday when he went to se« his crippled brother. He was suffering from a high fever. At the family home. Mary Ann, !. lies ill with douhle pneumonia. Phvsi iians sty she has «t about an even chance to live. When a year old Mary Ann toddlel into the street near her home one day and was hit hy an aut'mobile. Her leg was broken. SLAYER RUSHED TO PENITENTIARY Phoenix. Arix., April 4 —Fearing that he would make an attempt to escape officers late today rushed Will 1,-iwrenre, Oklahoma and Texas outlaw, to the state penitentiary, where he will he hanged June 15 for the murder of a Phoenix policeman. Kver since Lawrence was taken into custody here, the officers have feared that he would make a break for freedom, they said, and lost no time In starting him for the prison, which is at Florence. SO m.les away. The prisoner’s aged m *her was no: tr * • m« d that her v n w?.s go ing to be tukAn to the penitentiary, and she was not given a thane# to tell him goodbye She broke out in hysterica! sobbing when toll that her son had been taken away and row refuses to leave the county jail for tear that her younger son. Kabe will be spirited away in the same fash ion. lt.\be Is belrdr held for T^am offi cials and will face a charge oT mur der in Fort 'Worth, MOTHER AND CHILD DIE IN SAME DAY TVnvor, f"o|« , April 4 —-TVh'la Tlintm* 1. Irwin today w-aa with tho bodanlo of H« wifo In » hospital. ha raoolvod word «hut hi* daughter. ll<-rill* Klunhoth four. w*. dying of lnfluonaa *t tho t'hlMron'a hospital. I lurry Inc to tho I'hlMron's hospital, h ■ feu ml tho child iImiI. Thorn ho wo* , ilbyl on llio tolophono and In for met that his wlfo w ns .load. Mother ami daughter will l-o burlod In Hu- *amo gravo in a local comotsry tomorrow*. SHOWMEN LEAGUE MEETING HELD UP Chi-ago April 4 — Pickod offtoara fir-m (ho dote (ivo bur** today w» o on Hi* trad of *i\ band’1.* who !*.( ";.ii! raMod * moosttSg of tho S.iowr * 1 o*< S of * • o . , a hall * hbvk front th« .lotocC'S bn roan and cm: 11 petico station. Hold '•p 4u n on and o- ipod w :n m?oo> and joi tli) c*umat*d at wva .