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x. V RIEFv KJHT EEZY BITS OF NEWS - FOOD PRICES ADVANCE ' as Supplies increase - r u . r . l n c - Chicago. March 21. Some inter Vsting figures on food prices in Chi cago were made public by the gov ernment market news service here -today. Despite increased receipts of several commodities as compared with a year ago, prices were much nigner at wholesale. A year ago, there were 103 cars of potatoes on track here, and 33 v carloads frtsh receipts. Today there ; were 154 cars on track and SO cars fresh receipts, but the price today was $1.85 compared with $1.30 a year Northern yellow and California onions provided another puzzle. A year ago, with five carloads to draw from, (the price was 75 cents to $1 , per hundred weight. Today with 10 carloads available, the price was $3 to $4.50. Cabbages which sold at $1.75 to $2.20 a year ago sold at $3.35 to $4 today, although today's supply was practically trebk that of a year ago. COLORED SILK STOCKINGS FORBIDDEN TO YEOWOMENv Washington, March 21. Naval yeowomen hereafter must wear either their regulation uniform or , complete civilian outfits. An order made public today forbids mixing. !, Some of the hundreds of young women at the Navy department offi cially known as "yeomen" (F) have been brightening up their plain garb with colored Silk stockings, a bit of hat trimming and the like. f INTERBOROUGH COs INTO RECEIVER'S HANQS New York, -M arch 21. The Inter- 'borough Consolidated Railway cor poration the holding company for most p( the .subway, eletated and t surface Traction lines of Manhattan "island, was placed in the hands of a receiver today, when an involuntary : petition in bankruptcy was filed by ; Dave H. Morris as the "principal " creditor," after the company had con fessed it could not pay interest on its bonds. V James R. Sheffield,' a prominent attorney, was appointed, temporary received by Judge Mayer in federal court, 1 Theodore P. Shonts, president of ; the corporation and all its allied companies, said tonight that there is no immediate danger of a receiver : ship for the Interborough Rapid Transit, company which operates both the subway and elevated lines. ".He declared fleither of the receiver ships affected in any way the city's Vcontract with the Interborough . iapid Transit for ' the operation of city-owned subways and equipment. 1 "DRYS"Vo TAKE PART IN PROHIBITION TEST. , New York, March 21. The Anti Saloon league will be represented in the fuits brought here by the brew ; ing interests to test the1 war-time prohibition act and the international jrevenue, department's classification of beer, William H. Anderson, superintendent of the organization in New York state, announced to night. "Wayne B Wheeler, national counsel, would appear for the league, he said, probably applying for the right to participate as "a friend of the courL" The brewers' counsel, he added! had given assurance that they fc-ould not oppose such an ap plication.V s SOLDIERS IN RIOT FIRE SOUVENIR CARTRIDGES Rhyl, Wales, March 21. Soldiers who had brought cartridges from the battlefields of France as souvenirs used them witnout orders in the re cent riot at the Canadian camp at Kinmel Park; Maj. C WyMacLean, the commander of the military dis trict, testified today at the inquest i into the deaths of five soldiers killed in the disturbances of March 5 and 6. The' major said that when he was advised that trouble' might, be ex pected he handed out 40 rifles to a defending party. No ammunition . was issued and men used their sou venir cartridges when the rioting got serious. The rioting, Major MacLean said, began when a half-dc&en men carrying a red flag attacked the main entrance to the camp. They were dispersed and tfleir leaders captured after numerous shots had been ex- kchanged. Tht ringleaders were sup ported by aboutOO men.N - v i Of the five men killed only one belonged to the defense farty. The ' others were rioters or spectators. AMERICAN SOCIALIST, SOCIETY FINED $3,000 New York, AJarch 21. The Amer ' ican Socialist society, convicted of violating the espionage act, in cir culating Scott Nearing's anti-war, anti-capitalistic pamphlet, "The Cfreat Madness." was fined $3,000 by Federal Judge Mayer today. BRITISH AIRMAN OFFERS "ACE OF ACES' TROPHY New York, March, 21. Col. Will i iam A. Bishop, premier British air- :.tiiavn, today offered, througlMhe Aec Club of America, an international trophy for competition to encourage development of aerial navigation, and stimulate aerial sport between Canada, his native country, and the United States. The trophy, to be known as the ' "Ace of Aces Trophy," will be awarded in 1919 to 'the. aviator who . makes-the quickest flight from Tor . onto, Canada, to AtlanXic City dur ing the second Pan-American aero nautic exposition' to be held from May 1 ,to 31. "WE WILL PAY BUT MAY ' ' GO TO JAIL CROWELL Washington, March 21. All obli- . gations of the .War department will be paid, Acting Secretary Crowell announced today, in spite of the fail ure in congress of the big deficiency . appropriation bill carrying funds to . meet claims amountmgto millions of dollars. Payment of every obligation: Mr. - Crowell . said, would involve the "shifting"-of the department's ac- . counts to a great degree. '.'We may , til have to go to jail," he added, "but we will pay every obligation of the department when due." The obligations referred to involve chiefly claims in the cancellation of var contracts. ' Such payments were stopped temporarily after congress .failed to pass the, deficiency bii The VOL. 48 NO. 238. WHIPPING Superintendent McAuley Re lates to Committee How Inmates and Employes Witnessed Punishment. i From a Staff Correspondent. Lincoln, March 21. Convicts, at the penitentiary are treated better than the inmates of the Girls' Indus trial school at Geneva, was the sub stance of the testimony brought out in the board of control hearing by the legislative investigating com mittee today. Girls were ' punished for infrac tions of the rules by being slapped by Superintendent Paul S; McAuley and employes of the institution. They were also punished by confine ment intlosets, also in a "lock-up" specially built for tl purpose, arft by being put on a bread and water diet for several days. At one time all of class B, consisting of 25 or more girls, were punished by being given one meal-of bread and water a day for 10 days because the mem bers did not inform on some inmate who had put soap in the .food. McAuley on Stand. Superintendent McAuley describ ed the strappings he gave the girls, some of them nearly 18 years old, with a two-inch strap made of heavy harness leather. He compelled the girl who was up for punishment to take-off her ordinary garments and don a night gown made of unbleach ed muslin, some of the robes being so thin that the form of the girl would 6how ' through, and compel the victim to bend across a straight back chair while he administered a strapping until she called out for mercy. ' Two putHic whippings occurred in the auditorium of the institution. The first of these occurred in June, when two girls, Dollie Chase and Opal Redinger, were punished in the presence of feiriployes and inmates of the school. I The employes were advised that the affair was to come off and were made to feel that their presence would not be unwelcome. The victims had runaway from the school, andas a deterrent and exam ple to the other inmates, all of. the older girls of the school were brought down from their dormitory to witness the spectacle. Victims Disrobed A screen had ben placed on the stage of the auditorium and the two vicitims were compelled to go be hind this and disrobe. They then donned thin nightgowns and were spanked with the strap until they cried out. Superintendent McAuley testified that Mrs. Clark had justi fied this method of punishment The second affair took place in September, and there were three victims. Catherine Eschelman and Opal Redinger were two of the girls. The affair took place on the night of Labor day, which wasmade a Ro man holiday forv five or six guests of the superintendent, wlio had come from Omaha. They were giv en a royal time, being permitted to indulge in a girl hunt with automo biles as vehicles of the chase, and when the runaways had been cap tured of seeing them duly punished that evening. . ( - On this occasion only the employ es a-d the invited guests were per mitted to be present There may have been one or more men present, the Superintendent admitted. The three girls were compelled to go be hind the screen on the stage and don their thin cotton nighties, bend nvVr tht tiarlf tf a rrialr an ' nhmit to a .beating by-the superintendent. All of the Omaha guests, with the exception of a daughter of Mrs. (Continued on Pago' Five, Column Six.) Bushee Bill to Amend State Primary Law h Sent to Its Graveyard r . Lincoln, Neb., March 21. (Spe cial.) Nefcraska's senate this morn ing sounded the death-knell of pro posed legislation amending the state primary law when the BftsHee" bill, S. F. 52, was smothered in the com mittee, of the whole by a vote of 16 to io. .y The bill provide"!! for state, county and precinct party conventions, which should meet for the purpose of endorsing all cs-Y governor. Following is how the'sen ate lined up on the Bushee bill: For Alnlay. Bradstreet, Bushes, Hall, Harrlo. Hoagiand. Saundera. Sears, Tanner and Watson. . Against Barr. Chappell. Cordeal. Cronln, Cooper. Erickson, Good, Hammond, Peter won, Randall, Robbing, Swauson, Siman, Taylor, Warner and Weaverllng. Abaent Brooks, Houston, Johnson, Neal, Reed, Sturm and Weston. - (Johnson and Brooks paired. ) Western Jurist Dies. Chicago, March 21. William Alexander Vincent, former chief jus tice of the sijpreme court , of New Mexico and Montana, died of heart j disease today aged W yew j. IN PUBLIC FOR GIRLS AT GENEVA iTHE ONLY NEBRASKA PAPER WITH A ROTOGRAVURE PICTURE 0 Eatrt4 ti tm4-tliH MtHtr OiMh P. , 0. under aet May 28. I March IMS. at . IS7t frj' Shriners Enjoy Gala Night Following Initiation of 200 In Order's Inner Circle . ' , 7 : Banquet and Grand Ball Close Most Successful Spring Ceremonial Ever Held by Tangier Temple; Gov ernor McKelvie and Mrs. T. L. Combs, Wife of Illustratious Potentate, Lead Grand March; State Joint Ceremonial in Summer Planned. -A . - A blaze of gayety ended trr most successful spring ceremonial ever held by the Tangier Temple of the Mystic Shrine Friday evening. , Over 200 candidates were initiated and over 1,500 Shriners attended. As the soft strains of the orchestra died away the mas sive doors of the temple closed and the gathering of 1,500 6r more Shriners from all sections of the country "wended homeward their weary but happy way." Gayety held full sway at- the grand ball, initiated by Governor McKelvie and Mrs. T. L. Combs, wife of the illustrious potentate, when they led the grand march. Title, rank and station in life were for the moment forgotten. Lowly privates mixed and amiably chatted with doughty colonlre. For there were two colo nels present. The two colonel were Jacob W. S. Wuest and F. A. Grant. A liberal sprinkling of sailors added a touch of the sea to the gathering. Fifteen hundred Shriners were present at the banquet which pre ceded the ball. Governor McKelvie addressed the diners on the "Needs of, the State" and related a few humorous personal experiences. On one occasion, he said, he had given a lift to two farmers in Lin coln. They thanked him and before Local' Realtors Pick Sites To Locate Proposed Yards Figures Obtained-by Real Estate Board and Omaha i" . Citizens Indicate that Prices on Lumber Here Are Mueh HigherThan on Same Grades in Neighbor ing Markets: Some of , mitted. . - . Realtors headed by John Rasp, who propose to establish a private lumber and building materials yard to combat existing high prices, vhave taktn optiim on two trackage sites. One is on Leavenworth street, be tween Forty-first and Fdrty-second and the other, at Thirty-ninth and Marcy streets. Several of the realtors have had a conference with a wholesale lum berman, who was in the city early in the week, with regard to the pur chase of lumber. . Organization of the company to operate the new yard has been post poned for a few days and may not occur until after the Chamber of Commerce meeting Wednesday night, when the housing problem in Omaha will be aired from all angles. Ready to Boost Project. A realtor not concerned in the original announcement of the pro posed lumber yard, said he has $5,000- ready to boost the new en terprise. A comparative table' of. figures, showing lumber, brick and other ma terial prices in Ortha and neighbor ing cities is bein prepared by Leo Bozell, Real Estate board, to present at the next meeting, Wednesday noon in the Chamber of Commerce. "We have no desire ' to buck up against the lumber dealers or go into their business. We'd much rathT stay out of the lumber busi ness and buy from legitimate dea'- Auto Caught n Grade Crossing; One Dead And Another Injured An automobile driven by Bert Lewis, who had as his companion Frank Coll, went dead on the track of the Norwestern road near. Mo dale, la., Friday afternoon. -An in stant later a train struck the ma chine, head on, throwiug it sever al feet. The train stopped and mem bers of the crew picked up the two men and brought them to Council Bluffs. Coll died er.route and Lewis was taken to the Edmundson hospital. Late last night Lewis was alive, but it was said that his recovery was doubtful. Nurses at the hospital were unable to asceretain the resi dence of either of the men. , Mr. and Mrs. Stephens x Honor Guests at Dinner Fremont, Neb., March 21. (Spe cial.) Former Congressman and Mrs. Stephens who returned last week from Washington, "were guests' of honor at a reception here Thurs day when 200 Fremont business men and their wives were guests at din ner. 'A. H. Waterhouse was toast master. Responses were y S. S. Sidner.J. Howard Heine. T. L. Mathews, W. 11. Buss and Mr. Ste phens. - " . Alexander Millerand Made x Governor of Alsace-Lorraine Paris, March 21. President Poin care at a meeting of the cabinet today signed a decree appointing Alexander Millerand, former- min ister of war, governor of Alsace Lorraine. - M. Millerand's head fiuartcrs will bp at Strasbourg, maha OMAHA, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1919. departing,' one of them asked him his name. "McKelvio, answered the governor. The farmer thought for some time, scratched his head and finally said, "I've heard that name before, but I can't recollect where." -Illustrious Potentate T. L. Coombs was the toastmaster af the" banquet He proposed that a state joint cere monial be held in the summer in which the Tangier Temple, The Se sostris Temple - and The Tehama Temple should take part. The mo tion was eagerly supported by the 1,500 Shriners present. ' The Tangier Temple's Arab patrol then gave; an exhibition of some of their maneuvers. The unanimous opinion among the Shriners was that this spring cere monial could.Jiot have been a great er success. Kansas City Prices Sub trs. But they'll have in their prices firaC ford to bi'ild atthe Ryron Hastings, o. th C U'JWIU can t r-l " 4aid pLHast- r:gs and Heyden. Yard Sit.es The proposed si! ard are pronoun timber let by realtors who know of tyhemL because o much building is irisigfil, in the west part of town.. If rt" issbecess (u, another will probabljfebe estab ished in the north part w the city. Comparison of lumber prices furnr ished by the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and Cady Lumber company in Omaha: ' j . Price Per 1,000 .Feet, N . Kans. Omaha CUr 2x4 No. 1 standard length. . 54. 0f $45-48 2x4 No. 2 standard length ; 2 standard length 2 10'-18'-0' 2 standard length 2 40'-18-20' M.00 36.50 37.60 38.00 40.00 38.00 40.50 2x6 No. 2x6 No. 2x8 No. 2x8 No. 2x10 No. 2 standard length 41-62 2xt0 No. 2 lO'-lS'-JO' Redwood Siding. 6"x8" .., ., 39.00 4" 36.60 - Drop Siding. NO. I 47.60 Boards. No. 1 standard length 47.60 No. 2 standmd length 42f60 No. a standard length 37.60 . Timbers. 4x4 fo 12x12 47.50 Shingles. Clear 6.50 "A" , 4.50 40.00 40.00 50.00 50.00 45.00 24.00 46-68 6.00 6.00 Wornan Stockholder in Mi-Heads Lrowa of Strik ers to Gate Lawrence, Mass., March 21. The striking'-textile workers were led in their picketing of the, mill district at the. opening hour today by Mrs. Glendbwer Evans, a wealthy resident of Brookline. She heade'd a large crowd of strikers in a partol of the mill gates for two hours. There were no disorders. Mrs. Evans, who is a stockholder in the Arlington .mills, which are ivolved in the strike, said she would continue her , active interest in the striking employes because she thought they should obtain' their de mands for a 48-hour working week without losing any of the pay they received under the former 54-hour schedule. "f Settle TextUe Strike. Passaic, N. J., March 21. The strike of the textile workers which has beenin progress eisrht weeks. involving 13,000 men and women ancH which resulted in serious noting to day, was settled at a conference to night, i Under the teVms of settlement as announced by.. Matthew Pluhar, strike leader the strikers won union recognition, which was one of the chief points of, contention and"'also were granted a reduction in the working -week from 55 to 48 hours. They had demanded a 44-hour week. RETAIN SCHEDULE. Portland, Ore., March 21. The existing wage schedule and working conditions of the federal shipbuild ing labor adjustments board, also known as the fyacy scale, will r ex plain ja effect until October 14 next leWldfc Daily Bee GET ARRflY TR BIG LOAD OF LIQUOR Bluffs Of ficers Swoop Down on "Plant" on River Bank; v Omaha Men Implicated " and Taken With Driver. The biggest seizure 1 of liquor in Pottawattamie county, la., since the blockade runners went into busi ness was made late yesterday after noon by Council Bluffs police. Be tween 1,800 and 3,000 bottles were seized and one army truck driver and three Italians v were' captured. The prisoners are Sergeant A. E. Drew, Fprt Omaha truck driver; John Bruno and Sam Trapini, Oma ha Italians, and Antonib Manescal co, Bluffs man.' The arrests were made and the liquor seized on the banks of the Missouri river at Thirty7fifth N street. Eight- other men engaged in loading the, army trucks escaped. - Tip Over Phone. The .raid wasumade on a tip tele phonea to the police station. It was responded to by Officer Barritt and Driver Brown and by Polic Judge Capell, who accompahiedthe offi cers as a spectator. They drove to the river bank, where they found an army ante truck loaded with liquor. Tht men in, charge of the liquor showed iight for an instant and then ran. Sergeant Drew said he had been hired three weeks ago to haul a load of stuff to Omaha." -He was engaged by the Omaha Italians. He was not told what it was, but said he had a pretty good idea that it was whisky. He agreed to take it across the bridge the first time -he got a chance to go over unloaded. . Judge Capell was inclined to believe the man to be not seriously involved. All of the men are being held. The old boat house in the willows on the riyer bank has long been be lieved to be a bootleggers' rendezvous,'- accessible "Mike by land and water. It has been visited frequently by Bluffs officers, but no evidence discovered. Arrest Omaha Men. "Omaha police, acting under advice of. Council Bluffs authorities later arrested Tom Kelly, a former deputy sheriff, 1606 Laird street; Pai Burk- rey, Henry Wedgewerth, and James Cosgrove, Edwards hotel, and F. J. Kating, a teamster, 1314 Ohio street, as being implicated in the trans action. Dest Sergeant Smith at the Omaha police station said the men arrested in Omaha were the owners of the liquor. They were arrested, by De tective" Chief Dunn and Detectives L, O. Toland, Paul Haze, Graham and Franks. Woman" Ends Her Life by Throwing Herself in Front of Street Gar Mrs. Andrew Hansen, 2108 Eighth street, Council Bluffs, demented wife of a Union Pacific car repairer, was instantly killed about. 11:30 Fri day night when she flung herself in front of a Fifth avenue street car -on Twenty-first street between Sixth and Seventh avenues, Council Bluffs. The body as crushed. The street car had to 4e lifted from the tracks before the body could be taken from beneath the wheels. Mrs. HUTnsen had been an inmate of the State Hospital for Insane at Llannda, la., and had also been confined at the St. Bernard's hospital in Council Bluffs. Her husband, An drew, had thought her condition suf ficiently imprpved to warrant her removal to hii hOrtfe, and this was done. ' Friday afternoon the woman at tempted to take her life by drink ing gasoline. She was prevented from doing this by her husband. At about 11:20 she eluded her husband and dashed for the street-' -car line about 100 feet from -the hope. , Motorman,W. H. Poncelow, one of the oldest street car employes in Council BlmTs, stated that the car had approached to within 10 feet of the woman when she suddenly lunged and threw herself, face downward, in front of it. Mrs. Hansen was 31 years old and is survived by her husband and sev eral children, i , 1, Tax Collectors' Salaries Readjusted and Increased Washington, March 21. Read justment of revenue collectors' sal aries on the basis of the number of tax returns within, their districts, ef fective March 1, was announced to day by Internal Revenue Commis sioner Roper, acting under the new revenue law. I he maximum of $4, 500 paid heretofore now becomes the minimum, with a new maximum of $6,000. , One effect expected from the new system is 'stimulation of efforts to round ujr dejinquent taxoayer . UC K A! SECTION EACH A. -r . 8 Mall (I war) Daily. M.M: Suadiv. KM: Dally ana Sua.. 15.50: auliltfa Nab. aoiliM atni 'Let None Be About What Americans Did Over There Says Hayward Some Alabamans Hoeing Corn at Home in , August Were Lying Dead on French Battlefields in Sep tember, Colonel Tells; Allies Fought Four Years, xW;hile Yankees' Fought Four Months. v - r By Universal Service. ' y New York, March 21. Colonel William Hayward, who commanded the famous 369th colored regiment (New York's old Fifteenth) on the French battlefields where they earned the title of "Hell Fighters" from the enemy, signalized his discharge from the army service tonight by a spiritedNattack upon the management of the American expeditionary iorcea inJFrance. His attack was launched in an address delivered before the Circumnavicration cliih at'th Hnft.1 Igaid in" part : For a year we fell down. We did not live up to our promises o the allies. Let none of us Americans be too arrogant about what we did over there. It is true that the American army finally won the war, but don't forget that for four years the British and French and the Belgian armies had been 'winning the war. They fought for four years we fought for four months. "Never have I witnessed and I have had some military experience such a manifest lack of organization as I found on reaching the French battlefields. My 'own. regiment and you all know what it did had had eight days of rifle practice. They knew how to shoot. That's all they did know. .. "The Alabamans who were merged SENATE ADOPTS AMENDMENT TO SCHOOL MEASURE House Roll 64 Comes Before Committee of Whole and Change Proposed by Har riss Is Accepted. Lincoln, Neb., March" 21. (Spe cial Jelegram.) After hours of in tense debate, in which personalities were used at times, the senate, in committee of the whole this after noon adopted the Harriss amend ment to House Roll No. 64 the parochial school bill by a vote of 16 to 14. Senator Reed led the fight for the original Dill and against the amend ment while there were numerous champion's of the Harriss amend ment. Senators Sears and Saunders ar gued for the adoption of the Harriss amendment, saying that it was in accordance with the spirit of Amer ican fair, play and religious toler ance , Challenge Peterson. An impassioneS talk of this nature was made by Senator Taylor of Custer. Senator Peterson, speaking for the amendment, was chajlenged as to his sincerety of Bradstreet of Grand Island, who became much excited in debate and said he was after the scalp of a person living 10,000 miles away. s "Do you" mean to say I am in sincere and dishonest in my motives in favoring this amenGmcnt?" asked Peterson. ' "I do," was the" reply of Brad-i street. VI Another incident occurred when Cordeal, speaking of House Roll 64, as it originally, came to the senate, as being subversive to American ideals. "Do you mean to say the bill is un-American, as it came from the house? queried Senator Reed. "I do," was the answer, by Cor deal. , . Senator Good, was asked if any protests to the original bill had come from private, or parochial schools. v- "No, not to me," said Good, "but one member of the house dared the senate to adopt the bill in any other form than as it came from the house." Considerable excitement occurred in the hall between the two houses after the adoption of the amend ment. McKee, member of the house from Otoe and other house mem bers were vitrolic in their condem nation of the action of the senate. Thncat shave been made to kill the Governor's code bill and several senate measures as a result. Sleet Storm in the West Paralyzes Communication Denver, March 21, A severe sleet storm accompanied by unusually high winds that has swept northern Colorado and Wyoming for 24 hours has virtually paralyzed transconti nental communication. Telephone and telegraph wires went down early today ami efforts at restoration were fruitless. Similar -conditions exist in New Mexico and Southern Colorado. Puchy Stays Independent. Paris, March' 21. (Havas.) The chamber of deputies of the duchy of Luxembourg has voted unani mously to maintain the independ ence ant! autonomy of that country, accordingto advices received here. SUNDAY; TWO CENTS. Too Arrogant - with us were as untrained as we were. Some of these fellows had been noeing corn at home, in Au- C t .1 I i T gusi. oome oi mese same cnaps were lying dead on French battlefiejds in September. . - "I took over 2,000 volunteers. Only 1,200 ca'me back. Of the 5,000 who served in my regiment, 3,000 were left. Of the 56 officers who went over, only 23 came back, thou sands were killed but not one mem ber of my regiment was captured." Colonel Hayward declared former Govevrnor Whitman was more de serving than any other one man for the formation of the so-called col ored heroes' regiment. ARMY BALLOON SCHOOL TO STAY1 AT OMAHA FORTS Fifteen Cantonment Sites, In cluding Camp Dodge, Re tained as Permanent Military Camps. Washington, March 21. Definite decision by the AVar- department to purchase 15 original cantonment sites for use as permanent military camps was announced today by Acting Secretary Crowell! He said, also, that as a general policy the so called national guard camps would be abandoned, with the exceptions of Camps Kearny, California, and Sevier, S. C. r The cantonments to be retained are Camps Bragg, Custer, Devens, Dix, Dodge,' Gordon, Grant, Jack son, Knox, Lee, Meade, Pike, Sher man, Taylor and Upton. In addition -to the cantonments, Secretary Crowell said, the general staff has recommended that the fol lowing camps be included- irr the War' department's program for vari ous special uses: Camps Doniphan, Oklahoma; Eustis, Virginia; Funs ton, Kansas; Holabird, Maryland; Humphreys, Virginia;, Jessup, Georgia; Johnston, Florida; Kearny, California; Lewis, Washington; Mc-" Llellan, Alabama; Normoyle, Texas; Pike, Arkansas; Sill, Oklahoma; Travis, Texas, and Benning, Georgia. Aviation and balloon fields now owned by the government and to be retained are: Langley field and Lee Hall, Virginia; Kelly No. 1, Texas; Post Field, Oklahoma; Rickwell riel". California, and Forts Omaha i.nd Crook, Nebraska. - Aviation fields which are to be purchased by the department are: Chanute, Camp; Scott, ( Illinois; Souther, Gebijgia; Dorr and Carl strom, Florida; Brooks Field, Kelly No. 2 and Ellington, Texas; March, Arcadia and Mather, California; -Selfridge, Michigan, and Park Field, Tennessee. All other flying and balloon fields now in existence ultimately will be abandoned, although the purchase of some sites will be completed and the lajid sold later by the government. It was explained that this process had been determined upon to prevent the government suffering loss of several millions of dollars. In announcing the program as to the camps, Acting Secretary Cro well estimated that the purchase of the cantonment sites would involve approximately $9,500,000, - while the whole project, including the flying fields, would not reach $15,000,000. Los Angeles Mayor Indicted on Charge of Receiving Bribe Los Angeles, March 21. Mayor Frederic T. Woodman of Los An geles ' was indicted by the coun'y grand jury here tonight on a charge of receiving a bnbe4pr nc protection of vice. George Brown ana ueorge mnuerson were in dieted on .a charge O" nvtv. ... a charge of giving a bribe! tron withthe same trans- in connectro action. , Extend Italian Credit Washington, March 21. An addi tional credit of $75,000,000 was given Italy today by the Treasury depart ment, bringing ihe Italian loans up to $1,496,500,000, and the total of credits to all allied nations to $.8,932,410,06 . l - i THE WEATHER: Mostly cloudy Saturday and Sunday; warmer Satur day. Hour. lc. Hour. v IV. ft a. nt 1 n. in.... 44) 8 a. m S! p. in 4:8 1 a. m KM X l. in .....48 ! 8 a. ni 2IH 4 i ,nl ,, . . .4R a. hi... Hit, 5 ii. in 47 ' 10 a. n 8 i. in,..., 48 II n. ni. 13 hi. . . i. ni ......... . 87 8 1. III. .41 GOVERNOR OF IOWA HITS BACK ATHAVN En Declares Rathbun Affidavit, Containing Charge Part of Bargain With Attor- ney General.4 Des Moines, March 21, "Any in timations that I received money foT the pardon of Ernest Rothbun, or in anyiway acted corruptly in the mat ter are so utterly .preposterous thai I do not consider it necessary to dignify them with' denials." said Governor W. L. Harding of Iowa tonight in relation to sensational testimony given at the legislature hearing today. "The. affidavit, of William Rath bun, sr., was made after he had tes tified before the. Ida county grand i)L!i jury, and as Havner admitted to the committee, his grand jury testimony was-quite contrary to that in his affidavit in reference to me." The governor's statement was caused by an affidavit introduced aji evidence by Attorney General H. M. Havner, in which William Rath bun, father of the pardoned youth, asserted he gave $5,000 in currency to his attorney, George Clark, with he understanding that it was to go to the governor, Part of a Bargain. "The affidavit was merely a part -of the bargain entered into by the -Rathbun family ana Havner to save members of the family other thau--Ernest Rathbun from prosecution in connection with the latter's, appeal for a pardon," the governor added.' " The governor referred to the tes timony before the committee last Monday of C. O. Hamilton, Sioux City, clerk of the Ida county grand . jury, to the effective that indict ments were voted by that bodv .against Ernest Rathbun and his ia- ther and brother,, but the only one actually returned was against Er nest Rathbun for perjury. , Rathbun's Affidavit William Rathbun, an Ida county farmer, in the afiidavit referred to regarding the pardon of his son, "Ernest, after conviction of " criminal assault, declared he gave -George Clark, his attorney, $5,000 for the expressed purpose of deliv- ' ering it to Governor W. L. Harding for the pardon. The affidavit was. presented as evidence by H. M. Havner, State at torney general, the first witness call ed today. It was dated February 25, 1919, and was dtatdd in the pres ence of five other members of the Rathbun family, the affidavit stated. Asked About Pardon. Havner .testified he-went to Gov ernor Harding December 31, 1918. -and when he asked the goernor aboutrthe Rathbun pardon, the chief executive asked: ; "Why are you sticking your nose - . into this matter?" The witness said he then Td the governor he would eudeavoro get aside the pardon on the grounds of ' fraud. Subsequently Rathbun -was . . rearrested by order of Havner on " the ground that he governor had exceeded his authority, x since thd pardon had never been presented to the state pardon board for action. Seven affidavits in support of claims . of the Vtate in connection with the granting of the pardon, were presented by Mr. Havner. Two . were signea by William Rathbup, sr.; two by Ernest Rathbun, one1y -W'illiam Rathbun, jr.; one, by Fred Rathbun and one by A. C. 'Johnson, an Ida Grove attorney. Kennedy's Testimony. Judge J. L. Kennedy, before the committee, reviewed evidence sub-" mitted to the Ida county grand jury. f He said that William Rathbun, sr., ,1 paid the money in cash to' his attor- . ney, NoveTnberJ2; that Governor Harding returned November 16 from-" Chicago and imediately took up the j (Continued on Pact 8ern, Column Four.) North Dakota State' Officials Challenged by Head of N. P. League Fargo, N. D., March 21. A. C. Townley, president of the National Nonpartisan league, in an open letter addressed to members of the league in North Dakota, issues a challenge to the group of state officials who have recently declared themselves against certain laws adopted by the recently adjourned legislature. "It is my duty to warn you against a vicious, cowardly attack upon the organization, from the in side," says Mr. Townley in his let ter. . . . ' "We have had our Ingles and our Nelsons among the membership and our Maxwells among the organizers. ' Now there are traitors in Bismarck, among those you have trusted, most. Men "who have enjoyed ycrtir full confidence men, into whose hands you have placed tremendous power are this very hour secretly, cua ningly plotting to turn upon MS and rend j-Qur organization" I ft 11 V