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HOUSE APPROVES
'BONE DRY" BILL
WITHOUT FIGHT
Measure to Prohibit Liquor
Use and Sale Absolutely Ad
vanced to Third Bead
ing by Members.
MOVE FOB DELAY FAILS
No Disposition to Await the
Printing of Bill in Its
Entirety.
AGBEE WITH FEDERAL BILL
(From ft Staff Correspondent)
Lincoln, . Feb. 27. (Special Tele
gram.) Snging "How Dry I Am,"
the lower branch of the legislature at
12 o'clock today by unanimous vote
passed to third reading the "bone dry"
bill prepared by the joint committee
of both houses.
The bill as recommended prohibits
liquors of any kind except for medic
inal purposes and the like on any
premises, and all on hand a midnight
April 30 must be destroyed or drank
up. An attempt was madt by some
of the members to delay recommenda
tion of the bill until Friday, but this
was voted down.
Section 11 of the original bill cov
ering prescribed quantities was entire
ly stricken out and a "bone dry" sec
tion in conformity to the federal bill
adopted.
An attempt to protect newspapers
from liability for unknowingly in
serting advertising of a prohibited
character wa9 voted down.
There were no very spectacular fea
tures in connection with the consider
ation of the bill. The progress of the
amendments was watched closely.
Attempts of members of the com
mittees to make it appear that the sec
ond bunch of amendments was offered
by the committee met wih oppotssi
tion, Hoffmeister stating that the
amendments were not committee
amendments, as the committee had
offered "its amendments at the previ
ous session and these were simply
Norton amendments.
Mr. Norton took the responsibility
.of being responsible for new features,
"explaining that it was the work of the
joint committee of both houses and
complied with the federal bill in re
gard to the keeping of liquors.
Norton's Dry Enough.
Richmond of Douglas offered sev
eral amendments of a bone dry na
ture, but withdrew them all when it i
was discovered that the - "Not ton j
amendments were as dry as the hot
sands of the desert. He Said he did
not want to appear as delaying the
bill, but he did want the considera
tion of it carried on intelligently, so
that when completed everybody would
know what the bill contained.
Messrs. Craddock and Schneider,
two other Douglas county, men, sent
up an amendment, which would have
allowed stocks of liquor laid in before
May 1 to be kept and used after that
date, but it was also withdrawn. As a
reason for not pressing it, Mr. Crad
dock said that "congress has taken
the load off our shoulders."
Would Not Postpone.
Proposals were made two or three
times by, Messrs. Bates, Richmond
and others, to defer final action upon
ihe bill for several days until it could
be reprinted in its entirety, with all
amendments incorporated, but the
house was not of a mind to permit any
further delay, inasmuch as one week's
time had already been given for the
members to draft amendments. Each
time the suggestion was made ft was
defeated by a large majority.
Taking up the bill as a special order
at 10 o'clock, the house, in committee
of the whole, with Speaker Jackson
in the chjr, spent some time wrangling
over horn it should proceed. The
speaker ruled that amendments of
fered by the prohibition committee
should be read first. They were adopt
de as read, without exception.
Joint Committee Changes,
The joint committee amendments
as adopted made the following
changes:
Section S, entitled "Prohibition on Li
quors In General," la changed to read an
follows: "It shall be unlowfui for any
person, corporation, club or association to
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The Weather
For Nebraska Fair; not much change in
temperature.
Temperature at Omahft leiterdar.
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Com para tire Local Record,
1117. 1916. 1116. 1914.
HlrheHt yewterrtay. . .'. 14 U 30 41
I-owtyst yesterday IS 17 27 , 33
Mean temperature 24 22 2 ' 29
Precipitation 00 T .3) T
Temperature and precipitation departure
from the normal:
Normal tempo rat ore 27
Ocriclencr for the day , j
Total excess tnce March 1....,., 181
Normal precipitation 02 Inch
Deficiency for the day 02 Inch
Total rainfall since March 1 17.10 inches
Deficiency alnce March 1 13.13 Inche
De Moloney for cor. period, 1116,, ,t7 Inch
Deficiency for cor. period, 1114.. .32 Inch
Report From Station at T P. M.
Station and State Temp. Iltffh-
of Weather. 7 p. m, eat,
Cheyenne, clear. . 23 2
Davenport. pL cloudy.. 14 28
Denver, snow 26 34
Rain
fall. .00
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.01
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ubs jnoinea, ciear zs 32
Dodie City, clear 42 60
Lander, clear SO"- 10
North Ulatte, pt, cloudy 30 42
.Omaha, clear 32 34
Pueblo, snow 40 44
Hapld City, -cloudy 20 24
Halt Lake City, clear... 30 33
Santa Fe, clear 42 " 4
Hherldan. clar 20 26
Sioux City, clear 36 30
Valentine, clear 22 26
j T indicate trace of precipitation.
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Kaiser Still Holding Americans Jj!flR g
Because or
Washington Believes This
Mere Pretext for Deten
tion of Prisoners.
Is
ACTION DEEMED AN INSULT
Berlin, Feb. 26.(Via Sayville, Feb.
27.) The release of the American
prisoners brought to Germany on the
steamer Yarrowdale, although ordered
some time ago, says the Overseas
News agency, cannot be carried out
for the moment, as an infectious dis
ease has been discovered t the place
of their residence.
As the outbreak of the malady
necessitates quarantine measure af
fecting the number of persons about
the leave' Germany, the Overseas
News agency states that the delay in
the departure of the Americans is in
the interests of neutral countries. The
hope is expressed that the quarantine
will be of short duration.
The American citizens, it is an
nounced, are safe and well.
Situation Is Grave.
Washington, Feb. 27. Germany's
procrastination in complying with re
peated American demands for release
FARM BANK TO BE
REAMJ 'APRIL
Charter Expected First of
' Week, After Which Stock
Subscriptions Paid In.
OFFICERS MOVE TO OMAHA
The charter for the Omaha Farm
Loan bank will probably reach Oma
ha by the first of the week.
The bank will, in the opinion of the
newly-appointed directors, who organ
ized inOmaha yesterday, be ready to
make loans by April 1.
Two locations are under considera
tion. The board has been offered the
old -First National bank building at
Thirteenth and Farnam streets, and
also elegant quaTtcrs in the new First
National bank building, Sixteenth and
Farnam.
"W have these under considera
tion;" said Secretary Frank G. Odell,
"but we are going to look around
quite a bit before we decide finally."
The Commercial club of Omaha has
offered the board temporary quarters,
at least places td hold its organiza
tion jneetings to get the preliminary
work out of the way. The board will
meet there today at 1U o clocK to con
rimt the execution of routine work
that must be done in connection -with
getting the institution under way.
As soon as the bank gets its. char
ter, which will be probably the first
of next week, the federal government
will pay into the institution the capi
tal Mock for which it has subscribed,
hrimrine the Daid-uo capital up to
the full quota of $750,000. Something
less than $40,000 was subscribed by
individuals in .Omaha, Nebraska and
the other states included m the dis
trict.
The work of the board upon reach
incr Omaha was lareelv of a routine
or "red tape" nature. Though the fed
eral board appointed the directors and
officers, naming them for their respec
tive positions, it was necessary ior tne
new appointees to meet and organize,
formally electing again to the respec
tive positions those whom the federal
government had already appointed for
these places.
The registrar1, the secretary and the
treasurer were then by the board ap
pointed as the executive committee of
the board. They are: Frank G. Odell
of Omaha, E. D, Morcum of Sioux
Falls and M. L. Corey of Hastings.
Treasurer Morcum and Registrar
Corey will take up their residence in
Omaha as soon as they are able to
arrange their personal affairs at home,
as will also President D. P. Hogan.
Vice President J. M. Carey of Chey
enne, former governor of Wyoming,
will not likely move tq Omaha, as it
is not required that he be a resident
of the city in which the bank is lo
cated: '
Gerard Warned by
German Friend Not
To Sail From Spain
Corunna, Spain (Via Paris), Feb.
27. It became kirown today that on
the day he left the embassy ex- Am
bassador Gerard was warned by a
German friend in high official position
against sailing from Spain for the
United States. It is known that Mr?
Gerard regards the warning as having
been given in all seriousness.
Washington, Feb. 27. Reports that
former Ambassador. Gerard had been
advised in an informal way by a high
German official in Berlin not to sail
for the United States in the way he
had planned caused much surprise
among State department officials, who
thought Mr. Gerard would almost cer
tainty have forwarded information of
that sort if received. The only in
structions sent him were in reply to
his query as to what to do in case of
war, and advised that he hold to his
original plans unless otherwise or
dered. The full details of the former am
bassador's plans, including the vessel,
the date and the port were communi
cated to Berlin through the Spanish
ambassador. No safe conduct could,
be requested because the two coun
tries are not at war; the ship is a
neutral vessel and the route does not
traverse the prohibited zones. Press
reports that Mr. Gerard had advised
Americans in Madrid trot to sail on
the same vessel have not been con
firmed officially here.
The Spanish Transatlantic line now
is practically the only means of travel
for American diplomats to and from
Kurope, as travel on belligerent ves
sels has been forliidden during the
war. '
Infectious LJis Ariv3wr.
of the Yarrowdale nrisoWSis brings
: pristV"Tis brim
ing the controversy to a stage of ex
treme gravity.
Accounted from the first perhaps
the most serious difficulty between the
two countries aside from the subma
rine itself, the Yarrowdale case has
been a source of growing concern
and indienatlon amone officials, some
of whom now are convinced that Ger
many s intention is nothing more nor
less than to hold the American sea
men as hostages pending a decision
as to peace or war.
Insult to U. S.
Such an act would be regarded here,
as not only a flagrant violation or
international law and treaty rights,
but an open insult to the dignity arid
good faith of the United States.
Although no official advices report
ing the redctention of the seamen had
reached the State department tonight,
another inquiry regarding them was
sent through the Spanish ambassador
in Berlin as soon as Washington offi
cials saw news dispatches saying they
would not be liberated at present be
cause of disease at their camp. In
most quarters the reported cause for
redetention was regarded as only a
pretext.
ROOF FALLS, ONE
DEAD, THREE HURT
Concrete Roof of New Sample
Hart Building Gives in
Without Warning.
35 OTHERS ENDANGERED
One man was killed, three men in
jured, and the lives of thirty-five
other workmen endangered at 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon when the
reinforced concrete roof of Sample
Hart's new building at Eighteenth and
Burt streets which was nearing com
pletion, crashed down without any
warning.
W. H. CLARK, 936 South Forty
ninth avenue, was killed. He was
bufied by an avalanche of concrete.
The injured:
Ernest Htans, 3530 Reward strset, scalp
lacerations and bruised rilrht arm.
L. O. Hofmelater. 107 South Sevontesnth
street, back and right arm badly bruised.
May become paralysed; may die.
Ernest Wlnhelm, address unknown, body
injuries.
Hofmeister and Winheinj were
rushed to St. Joseph's hospital.
About thirty cement workers were
finishing up on the second floor when,
without any warning, a large section
of the concrete roof caved in, bury
ing Clark and the three men who were
injured.
' A" number of other workmen re
ceived tuts and bruises by pieces of
falling cement, but none seriously.
Dig Themselves Out.
Winheim and Stang succeeded in
digging themselves out.
Workmen rushed to the rescue of
Clark and Hofmeister. They had no
difficulty in freeing the latter, but just
as they almost reached Clark, the
floor, overburdened with the debris of
the roof, started to crack and they
had to flee for their own lives.
It was half an hour later before
four volunteers dug him out. Police
Surgeon Shook said that he died im
mediately when buried under the
avalanche of concrete. -
W. 0. Houghton, brick foreman of
the job; who lives at 2429 Meredith
street, heard a faint rumble of the
cement as it fell away from the roof
and saved" himself by jumping from
the second story window. He was
uninjured.
Cause Unknown.
I,. J. Barr, 205 South Twenty-fifth
street, superintendent of construction,
was at a loss to explain why the
cement fell.
The building, two stories high and
reinforced concrete, was being con
structed by the Home Builders com
pany for the Sample-Hart Motor com
pany. Representatives of the com
pany say they were interested as
financial agents merely. The building
had been regularly inspected by the'
city department, it is asserted.
A small blaze started soon after the
roof caved in, caused by charcoal
torches used by the cement workers.
Some of the scaffolding caught fire.
W. H. Clark is survived by a wife
and two children, Evelyn, aged 8 ,and
Thomas, aged 6.
Besides his wife and family, be is
survived by his mother, Mrs. Cather
ine Clark, Forty-eighth and ' Mason
streets. He was 27 years old and had
been married nine years. The body
was turned over to the Haynes Under
taking company. An inquest will be
held, but the exact date has not been
set by County Attorney Magney.
Kaiser May Replace Dutch
Ships Sunk by Submarines
The Hague, Monday, Feb. 26.
(Via London, Feb. 27.) The govern
ment has given no indication of its
course of action to be followed in con
nection with the recent disaster to
Dutch shipping in the submarine at
tack on a flotilla of Dutch steamers
off the English coast. It is taken
for granted, however, that a peaceful
solution, is being sought in the form
of a cession by Germany of a certain
number of ships to replace the lost
tonnage, such replacement being con
sidered imperative because of the ne
cessity of an immediate reorganiza
tion of food 'supply arrangements.
There is already talk of a wholesale
slaughter of Dutch cattle being neces
sary, owing to the loss'of fodder car
goes among those destroyed by the
submarine attack and the inevitable
delay in securing fresh consignments.
W. B. Howland, Magazine
Publisher, Drops Dead
New York, Feb. 27. William
Bailey Howland, president of the In
dependent corporation which pub
lishes the' Independent, which re
cently absorbed Harper's Weekly and
the Countryside Magazine, died sud
denly in his office here today from
an attack of angina pectoris.
ffONORED AT AUTO
DISPLAY TODAY
Horny-Handed Son of the Soil:
Will Be the Distinguished
Quest at Omaha Motor
Exposition.
BEEFSTEAK FEED TONIGHT !
Nebraska Automobile Trade i
Association to Be Organ
ized by Dealers.
WILLYS UNABLE TO ATTEND
The" rural gentleman who, since
wheat began to hit around -the $2
mark and potatoes began to sell by
the carat instead of by the bushel,
has become a power to regard with
more or less awe, will hold sway at
the automobile show today. For to
day has been officially designated as
Farmers' day.
While this day has been set aside
for him and his name given it for a
title, the horny-handed son of toil
will not have any exclusive copyright
on the day. He will have to share his
privileges with city fanners who fol
low their agricultural pursuits by
proxy and with just plain city folk
whose knowledge of the farm is lim
ited to that gained by fleeting
glimpses of corn fields while sitting
on the observation platform of a
speeding railroad train.
The automobile men expect today
to be the biggest day of the
show. Farmers' day was ail inno
vation at the 1916 show. And the
farmers invaded Omaha in such num
ber that it was the record-breaking
dav of the event. So the exhibitors
arc confident that if Farmers' day
was tne niggcst aay tne nrst imic u
surely would be the second.
Not only do the motor men expect
this to be the big day in prtint of at
tendance, but in the number of sales
made. The farmer is a buyer of auto
mobiles these days. And his recent
prosperity has been such that he can
buy a new model every year. For
that reason the silvcry-toiigued sales
men are getting ready to put in their
fastest day of the year and every one
is fully convinced that he will break
all previous records in the number of
machines sold during the current
twenty-four hours. S
Beefsteak Dinner.
Another big event on the program
today is the beefsteak dinner which
will be served at the..Fontenelle hotel
this evening for the visiting dealers.
The Nebraska Automobile Trade as
sociation will be organized to affiliate
with the National Automobile Trade
association at the dinner tonight.
It will include all the automobile dis
tributors and supply dealers and gar
age men in the state.
At least 1,000 dealers from other
points are expected to attend the
beefsteak spread, at which they will
be guests of the Omaha Automobile
Trade association, the Commercial
club and a number of local firms.
There are almost 2,000 out-of-town
dealers in Omaha and it is certain
that at least half this number will
attend the dinner. The number may
Tuesday was an active day at tht1
exposition. No sooner were the doors
opened at y:JU in trie morning tnan
a line formed at the box office .and
from that minute until closing time
a stream of people continually flowed
brouEh the entrance, ine attend
ance was even better than anticipated.
Guardsmen Are Guests.
The Omaha Automobile Trade as
sociation has invited members of the
South Dakota guards who are sta
tioned at Fort Crook preparatory to
their mustering out, to attend the
auto show. At any time during the
week membaj-s of the guard com
panies in uniform will be admitted to
the show without admission charge.
John N. Willys, president of the
Willys-Overland company, who had
intended to visit the Omaha) show,
has found it impossible to attend. A
letter was received from him yester
day in which he expressed his regret,
hut said he had been called to New
York on important business and
would be unable to come west.
All Union Grocery
Clerks at Great Falls,
Mont,, Locked Out
Great Falls, Mont., Feb. 27. All
retail grocery clerks in Great Falls
were to be locked out today, according
to an announcement by the operating
committee of the Great t ails tnrploy
ers' association.
The lockout was decided upon by
the employers, it was said, because
of the clerks' refusal to handle the
products of a milling company which
has been voted "unfair" by the Cen
tral Labor council.
Eighty of the 100 gnpeery stores in
Great Falls were closed two days in
January because of a similar dispute
involving the milling company.
Will Be Sent to Pen
For Stealing Chickens
Sioux Falls, S. D., Feb. 27. (Spe
cial.) Confessing that he stole about
twenty thoroughbred chickens, valued
at $12 each, Arthur Bebo, who- for
about a year has been a resident of
Brookings county, faces a term in the
Sioux Falls penitentiary. He is now
in custody of the Brookings county
authorities, preliminary to being taken
before the .circuit judge and receiving
his sentence. The high value of the
chickens stolen constitutes the of
fense grand larceny. Had the twenty
chickens been plain, cvery-day chick
ens, he would have been guilty of
nothing more serious than petty lar
ceny and could have escaped with a
fine.
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HOLLWEG CHARGES
AMERICA UNFAIR
Chancellor Asserts United
States Favored Entente
Nations From First.
BREAK UNPRECEDENTED
Berlin (Via London) Feb. 27. In
his address to the Reichstag today
Chancellor von Belhmann-Hollweg
said that the successes obtained in the
submarine warfare already had much
surpassed the expectations of the Ger
man navy.
Berlin, Feb. 27. (Wirelesss to Say
ville.) Chancellor von Bethmann
Hollweg's address to the Reichstag,
postponed from last week, was de
livered today.
After dealing with the problem of
domestic policy the chancellor briefly
recalled his last speech in the Reich
stag, in which he announced that a
proposal had been transmitted by
Germany and its allies to their
enemies to enter into peace negotia
tions, the chancellor continued:
"Their answer was more rude and
more presumptious than any sensible
person in our country or in neutral
countries could have imagined. The
effect produced by this document of
barbarian hatred and of insolence
is manifest to the whole world. Our
alliances and our front stand the
firmer and the German nation is
more united and nq less resolute than
ever."
Puts Blame on England.
The chancellor then turned to the
establishment of the barred zones
around England, France and Italy
and to the answers received from
neutrals to the communication made
by the central powers. He said:
"We by no means underestimate
the difficulties caused to neutrals'
shipping and we, therefore, try to al
leviate them as much as possible. For
this purpose we made an attempt to
supply raw materials such as coal and
iroa, needed by them, to neutral states
within the boundary of our sea forces.
But we also know that all these dif
ficulties after all are caused only by
England's tyranny of the seas. (We
will and shall break this enslavement
of all non-F.nglish trade. We meet
half way all wishes of neutrals that
can be complied with. But in the
endeavor to do so we never can go
beyond the limits imposed upon us
by the irrevocable 'decision to reach
the aim of the establishment of the
barred zone, i
"I am sure that later the moment
will come when, neutrals themselves
will thank us for our firmness, for
the freedom of the seas which we gain
by fighting is of advantage to them
aiso. '
American Break Unprecedented.
"One step further than taken by
European neutrals has been made
as is known by the United States of
America, 'resident Wilson, after re
ceiving our note of January 31
brusquely broke off relations with us.
No authentic communication about
the reasons which were given for his
steps reached me. The former United
States ambassador here in Berlin
communicated onlyi in spoken words
(CnntifiDAd an Pass -Two, Column Two.)
For Aulo Show News
V a'
CHEER SURVIVORS
OF THE LAC0N1A
Huge Crowd Welcomes Those
Landing From Reserve
Ship at Queenstown.
GIVEN CLOTHES AND FOOD
Cjueenstmvn, Feb. 27. There was
an unusual scene on the docks when
the I.aconia survivors landed at 11
o'clock in the evening. As the ship
made a fast, a huge crowd of. civilians,
soldiers, sailors and nurses began
cheering and singing under the leader
ship of a thrill voiced feminine Cheer
leader in the uniform of the woman's
national service organization.
After Mrs. Harris came other
women and children, clinging still to
their life belts and then the men pas
sengers, some with life belts and some
wearing life saving waistcoats.
Automobiles were Raiting for the
survivors, who were conveyed swiftly
to the Queens hotel, where nurses
provided dry clothing and warm
baths. In a half hour the men,
women and children who had come
off the rescue ship in a varied state of
disarray were ready for a really sump
tuous meal of broth, salmon, turkey
and champagne which had been pre
pared. Names Passengers.
The Cunard company gives the fol
lowing names of the Laconia's pas
sengers missing and supposed to have
been lost: .
Mrs. Mary Hoy. 1
Ulaa Elisabeth Hoy.
V. V. Ivalt.
William I. Rohlnflnn.
Dr. Kortunst Zyndnl. . ',
William Km,
Four mflmbrra of the crew are also given
as missing.
According to stories gathered from
passengers from the Laconia, who
entered Queenstown, the steamship
was torpedoed at aboit 10:20 o'clock
Sunday night. The passengers and
crew had taken to the boats when the
second torpedo was fired into the sink
ing vessel. The boats were picked up
at 4 o'clock on Monday morning.
Many of the survivors wore only the
scantiest clothing.
Eight die of Exposure.
Most of the deaths resulting from
the sinking of the Laconia occurred
in one of the life boats which became
separated from the others and was
brought to shore at Bantry. Of
twenty-two persons, in this boat, eight
died of exposure and were buried at
sea.
. The number of dead or missing was
given by the Cunard company this
afternoon as twelve, made up as fol
lows: 1'assengers, three dead, three miss
ing; crew, six missing. Six others are
in hospitals.
One Thing the "Leak" Probe
Accomplished, Cost $50,000
Washington, Feb. 26. Sherman L
Whipple of Boston will receive $15,000
for the work of himself and assistants
as counsel to the house rules commit
tee in the peace note "leak" inquiry.
The fee was unanimously approved
today by the committee.
The total cost of the inquiry, Chair
man Henry said, would not exceed
$SO,000.
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SINKING OF LINER
LACONIA A CLEAR
CUT OVERT ACT
President is Awaiting Delega
tion of Authority by Con
gress to Meet the
Situation. ,
Oi POSITION IS DEVELOPING
Senate Committee Decides to
Redraft Flood Bill, Making
It Definite and Explicit.
HOLD POWERS TOO BROAD
Washingtcn, Fell. 27. The sinking
of the Laconia with the loss of Amer
ican lives is looked upon by the
American government as a clear cut
violation of American rights, accord
ing to an authoritative expression of
opinion obtained after a conference
between President Wilson and Sec
retary Lansing. No further investiga
tion is considered necessary.
The situation, however, was un
changed from where the president left
it yesterday when he asked congress
for authority to deal with the subma
rine peril.
Opposition Developing.
While details of the deaths of two
Americans in the unwarned destruc
tion of the Laconia began coming in
today the opposition in congress to
giving President Wilson the broad
authority to deal with the submarine
menace began taking definite form
and showed considerable strength.
Nevertheless the house foreign af
fairs . committee, after debating the
Flood bill, which has the backing of
the president, decided that the broad
powers to be conferred by the use of
the phrase "other instrumentalities"
should be modified and that the presi- i
dent should be limited to using "the
naval forces of the United States, in
cluding the naval militia."
The senate foreign relations com
mittee republicans voted solidly
against giving the president blanket,
authority and it was reported they
drew support from three democrats,
Senators Stonc.'liitchcock and O'Gor
man. '
Flood Goes to White House.
No formal action was taken in
either committee and while the house
committee was in adjournment until
4 o'clock this afternoon, Chairman
Flood took to the Whitte House
proposed amendments, including one
to prohibit arming of ships carrying
munitions or contraband and the
other to limit the president') author
ity. '
Administration officials considered
the attitude of congress in the face
of the Laconia case of sufficient im
portance to discuss sending an official
report on the killing of the Americans
to congress, in some official way.
Will Redraft BilL
The senate committee had decided
to redraft the whole bill to make it
more explicit. '
The right to arm ships, it was said,
would take the form of authorizing
owners of all American ships to arm
antH defend them and authorizing the
government to supply guns and
gunners for this purpose.
Object to Signing Blank Check.
The "chief objection of the republi
cans is to the phrase "other instru
mentalities." Several of the" leaders
express willingness to vote for any
specific authority sought by t!ie presi
dent, but say they do not want to sign
a "blank check. Then there are
many who strongly favor directing as
well as authorizing the arming and
(Continued on Page Two, t'olnma On,)
Brother of Boy 1 :
Scout Winner Is
Given Trip, Too '
Carl Diamond yesterday afternoon
was summoned to the office of City
Commissioner Hummell, where he
was presented with an envelope con
taining enough money to buy a ticket
to Washington, D. C, and return.
The donors of the fund were city hall
friends of the Diamond family.
D. L. Diamond, Boy Scout, recent
ly won a prize which entitled him
self and mother to travel to the na
tional capitol to witness the inaug
uration ceremonies and to visit Phila
delphia. Friends of the father-bereft
boys did not like the idea of Carl,
the other brother,, being left home
alone, so they quickly jumped into
the breach. , , '
Mrs. Zaida Diamond and tier two
sons will start on their journey to
day. The mother is mployed by th
Board of Public Welfare, in the co
operative employment bureau in -tha.
court house building.
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