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Look over arrangements
for signing treaty.
Paris, April 9. Representatives of
the peace congress again have visit
ed Versailles to look after arrange
ments for the signing of the peace
treaty in the psiae'e there. The
commission which has the work in
hand is composed of M. Arnavo,
' secretary to Paul Dutasta, general
secretary of the peace congress;
ivfessrs. Harrison and Patchin of the
American delegation; Messrs. Nor
' man and Sylvester of the British
delegation; the Marquis of Durazzo
and the Marquis Paterno of the
Itafiati delegation and Mr.. Kavai of
the Japanese delegation.
. The newspaper correspondents
will be accommodated in the north
ern witig of the palace. New tele
phonh arrangements were ordered
for the 'Hall of Mirrors.
The enemy delegates probably
will be lodged in villas in the neigh
borhood of Versailles.
HUNS LAY ALL BLAME
ON ENGLISH AND FRENCH.
New York, April 9. The Ameri
can steamship- West JIumhaw, the
first allied merchant ship to enter a
German port since America declared
War, returned here today from Dan?
zig. It left the Baltic port on March
25 with a cargo of pork products
sent from the United States for the
relief of the Poles.
Captain Hatfield, commander, said
that everything was" very quiet in
Danzig during IS days that his ship
was there.
y ".The Germans," he said, - "laid
themselves out to flatter us Ameri
cans. They were all friends of the
United States, according to them
selves, and blamed their troubles on
tlye -English and French. As far as
l,xould see they did not seem to
have many troubles. I have been
many times in German ports, but I
never saw people looking more pros
perous or better dressed than in
Danzig. Nobody was doing any
work, but as tli government paid
them eight marks a day for doing
nothing; they did not seem to think
there w'as any necessity for- work
ing. The two things they appeared
very short of were soap and sug
ar. If a man had a piece of soap
lie locked it up in a safe and they
would steal anything sweet if it was
not nailed down."
ARKANSAS TORNADO KILLS
FIVE AND INJURES SCORE.
Ashdown, Ark., April 9. Five ne
groes were killed, 20 injured, sev
eral of thcin seriously, and several
white people injured when a tor
nado demolished the northern part
of the town of Ogden, eight miles
south 'of Ashdown this morning.
OMAHAN RUSHES TO AID
OF "MARRYING" KIN.
Rockford, III., April 9. (Special
Telegram.) M. K. Darnell, cousin
of Kev. J. Morrison Darnell, the
'marrying parson," lias arrived here
accompanied by his son, Jean, from
Omaha. He will help his relative
light he extradition to Owattonna,
Minn.
Jean's fiance, said to . live in
Wheaton, 111., is alleged to have
broken the engagement on learing
he was related to the now nortorious
preacher. They plan to visit Gov
ernor Lowden at Springfield tomor
row when the hearing for extradi
tion conies up.
ROPER ISSUES WARNING
ABOUT TAX PROFITEERING.
Washington, April 9. Warning -to
dealers against increasing prices of
taxable articles more than enough
to cover the tax and misrepresent
ing the amount of tax to the custo
mer, was given tonight oy Daniel C.
Koper, internal revenue commis
sioner, in an address before a group
of Washington business men.
' "The interest the government
has," he said, "is that the amount of
tax shall be collected and that the
price of the article shall not be mis
represented to the purchaser so as
to make the purchaser pay a larger
amount than the actual pi ice of the
. article plus the amount of the tax
under the guise that the increase is
,due to the tax. Penal provisions
are contained in the law for such
misrepresentations."
BOLSHEVIST AGITATION
FINANCED BY WOMEN.
I Washington, April 9. Reports
that - bolshevist, agitation ,in the
United States is being financed by
a number of wealthy persons, par
ticularly women, have reachfd the
Department of Justice, but have not
been taken seriously.
One report related that a wealthy
"American woman had undertaken to
pay the expenses of agitators to
work among" negroes in the south
to get them to organize soviet com
mittees. No evidence of this agitation has
developed.
CALIFORNIA VOLCANO
RESUMES ERUPTIONS.
-Redding, Cal., April 9. After
lying dormant for .about a year,
Mount Lassen, in the Sierras near
here, resumed volcanic eruptions to
day. A steady stream of whits, sulphur
ous smoke is issuing from the peak's
crater.- .
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RAJSE IN PHONE RATES
STOPPED BY COURT.
ChicagoT April 9. Judge Charles
M. Foel, ill the .superior court, to-
day made permanent an injunction
issued a few weeks ago restraining
the Chicago Telephone company
and the American Telephone and
Telegraph company from raising
their rates in conformity with tlfe
Schedule issued by Postmaster Gen
eral Burleson. In his decision Jadge
Foel held that the state had the ex
clusiiic right to regulate Intrastate
' rates.
TY COBB IN OLD FORM; HITS
HOME RUN FIST TIME UP.
Kockhill. S. C. April 9. Ty Cobb
his first time' at bat this season,
hit a home rim today in an exhi
bition name between the Detroit,
Americans and the Boston Nation
als. Roston won 5 to 3. Cobb joined
the Detroit club last, niyht
Entire
Oaaha
OMAHAN
FREED ON
CHARGE OF
MURDER
Realized Tragedy Was Im
pending and Stepped Outside
House; to Be ( Tried for
Violating Liquor Laws.
(By a Stuff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, April 9. (Special Tele
gram.) Because he was sober
enough to realize a tragedy was im
pending, and stepped out the door
to avoid its consequences, Homer
Anderson, giving, Omaha , as his
home, will not face a murder charge
in the courts of Brown county,
Kansas.
He will be prosecuted on a charge
of violating the "bone dry" laws of
Kansas, and his two companions,
J. H. Banker of Falls City and J. C.
Hanker of Preston, Neb., are being
held on a charge of murder.
The preliminary hearing of the
men ls been set for Tuesday,
April 15, at Hiawatha, Kan. -Engaged
in Bootlegging.
Anderson, who refuses to give his
Omaha address, was engaged in the
bootlegging game with Hanker and
Banker. They were returning from
St. Joseph, Mo., last Friday with a
Ford car loaded with booze, and
when on the White Cloud reserva
tion, in Kansas, and near the Ne
braska line at nightfall, their car
broke down.
The three men went to the home
of J. C. Heikes, near by, and tried
to make arrangements for lodging
for the night, there was no room
for them there and they were re
ferred to the home of an old hermit,
named Beiler, a half mile away. The
men went to the latter place and
were accorded accommodation' for
the .night.
Quarrel Sequel to Spree.
The next morning, shortly after
breakfast. Heikes and his son ar
rived at - the Beiler home and, it
was alleged, were invited to drink
some of the whisky which the
bootlegging party had provided
their host. The men all drank
heavily and soon were in a quarrel
some mood. A fight ensued which
resulted in the killing of Beiler. ,
Anderson, it is alleged, saw that
the quarrel would end fatally and
he was sober enough to step out
side and the killing occurred after
he had closed the door.
The three Nebraskans admitted
that they were engaged in trans
porting contraband liquor into the
state of Nebraska and the load they
had at the time the trouble oc
curred was destined for Omaha,
where they had been regularly
operating. ' v
Anderson has a wife living in
Omaha and since his trouble has
been visited by his brother-in-law,
an Omahan, who bought him some
clothing.
Banker has been convicted of
bootlegging iu the Otoe county
courts and Hanker is said to have
been recently released from the
army. Jdii'people are respectable res
idents o'f the southeastern part of
the state.
Exchange of Notes
Will Smooth Over
Japanese Incident
Washington, April 9. Exchanges
Detween the United States, and Japa
nese governments regarding the re
cent clash at Tien Tsin, China, be
tween Ar-.rrican soldiers and Japa
nese are expected to result shortly
in a satisfactory understanding clos
ng the incident.
The fifll report of American Con
sul General -Heintzleman has been
received the State department, it
was learned today, and the investi
gation by ihe American authorities
has been practically completed. A
few details remain undetermined,
however, and-until this is done, it .is
unlikely that any statement will be
made by trie department.
It is-known that the trouble began
in the French concession in a clash
between soldiers of the American
and Japar ese forces at Tien Tsin.
The following day soldiers clashed
.igain and it seems that both the
Japanese and American concessions
were invaded during the fighting.
Will, Address ForeigrijerSv
On Americanization Work
"Americanization of ."Foreigners
in Omaha" is the subject of an ad
dress to be delivered tonight
by Professor Pokin 'at a meet
ing -of the Armour Packing
company's employes and the Greeks
of Omaha and South Omaha in' the
Union Pacific headquarters build
ing. Mrs. A. C. Troup will explain
what the different night schools have
accomplished in assisting the fore
igners to become Americanized. J.
E Smith will, give an illustrated lec
ture on the districts west of the
Missouri river. The Greek choir of
St. Johns church will furnish music
for the occasion .
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Mrs. Gerard's Memory for
k Faces Lands Only American
Soldier Convicted as Spy
Wife of Former Ambassador to Germany Identifies
Henry Bode as Man She Had Seen in American
Embassy Wearing Iron Cross, Who Later Served
in German Army. - ' , .
New York, April 9. Because MrscJames Gerard, wife
of the former ambassador to Germany . has an excellent
memory for faces, Henry Bode, the only American soldier
convicted of serving Germany as a spy is now serving a 10
year sentence in the disciplinary barracks at Governor's, is
land, it was learned here tonight. .
Bode, according to his confession
after Mrs. Gerard, bad identified him
as a man in German uniform who
had appeared one day al the Amer
ican embassy ' in Berlin wearing the
iron cross, deserted from the Amer
ican army at Fort Bliss, Tex., in
July, 1914, and made his way to
Germany, where he entered the
German army.
After winning his iron cross in
action against the allies, Bode en
tered the German intelligence serv
ice, was sent to New York and
eventually Mexico.
Fearing for his life,' in Mexico,
Bode crossed the American border;
into Calexico. Cal., and surrendered
Jo immigration authorities. At his
GIRL'S CLOTHES
CATCH AFLAME;
FAMILYBURNED
Harriett Lund, 12 Years Old,
Near Death From Burns;
Three Others of Family
Suffer in Flames.
Blazing clothes, set on fire by
contact with 5" hot stove, caused,
probable fatal burns on Harriet
Lund, 12-year-old daughter of Her
man J. Lund, yardmasterfor the
Illinois Central railroad in ' Council
Bluffs-Wednesday afternoon. Both
Mr. and Mrs. LunJ and their other
daughter, Marie, aged 15 years, re
ceived painful burns while tearing
the flaming garments from the little
girl. They constituted the entire
family, and all were taken to Mercy
hospital for treatment.
The accident occurred while Mr.
Lund was at home for luncheon at
their residence, 312 North Ninth
street. The family had been col
lecting rubbish about the house as
part of the duties of clean-up week
and burning it in a heating' stove.
The little girl was standing with
her back to the stove when a pro
truding piece of cotton cloth near
her caught fire. In a moment her
clothing was in flames and she ran
screaming through the house.
Miss Irene McKnight,
Popular Young Woman,
Is 111 of Pneumonia
Miss Irene McKnight, only daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Mc
Knight, is critically ill of bronchial
pneumonia, at her home, 116 North
Fortieth street. Miss McKnight has
been ill for more than a week, her
illness becoming serious Sunday
night.
Miss McKnight is one of the pop
ular members of the younger social
set, and among the first Omab-a
women to drive her own car. She
is most attractive in appearance and
personality and is active in the Red
Cross, canteen corps. Her knitting
record made during the war, sur
passed that of any other young
woman, and she also served in the
civilian relief home service section,
and the motor corps of the National
League for Woman's Service.
""Miss McKnight is a member of
the Omaha Woman's Press club,
naving at one time conducted the
social columns of the Omaha Ne-
braskan.
Marvin De Lore Arrested
by Kansas City Police
Marvin DeLore, wanted in Omaha
for an alleged attempt to kill De
tectives Franks and Murphy, was
arrested yesterday afternoon in
Kansas City, heavily armed, accord
ing Jo a telegram from Chief of De
tectives R. E. Phelan-of Kansas
City last night. DeLore is being
held there on the charge of carry
ing concealed weapons, but will be
sent back to Omaha, if Omaha
authorities desire. "
During the latter part of Febru
ary, DeLore and Sergeant Dan
Pugh staged a fight in a local cafe
in which Pugh was struck over the
head with a revdlver. When De
tectives Franks and Murphy at
tempted to arrest DeLore in a house
at 1715 Clark street, DeLore opeiW
fire on them and pierced Franks'
coat twice before escaping.
. President Out First Time.
V ParisT April 9. President Wilson
left the "White House" after the
meeting of the council four today
for the -first time since his illness.
With Rear Admiral C?ry Grayson,
his personal physician, he motored
alout town in a limousine
OMAHA, THURSDAY,
court-martial at Governor's island,,
Mrs. Gerard identified him as the
man in German uniform she had
seen in Berlin, and Frank Hill, Mr.
Gerard's valet, corroborated her
statement.
Bode, a native of Germany, had
for years been a soldier of fortune.
He was a Russian spy during the
Russo-Japanese war; served in the
United States navy; was a member
of the intelligence service in the
Phillipine constabulary and won a
lieutenant colonelcy in the Mexican
army during the Madero regime
for gallantry in action.
Early in his career Bode married
Miss Barbara Steuer in f)ayton, O.,
but they separated in 1905.
MORE OMAHANS
REACH NEW YORK
ON TRANSPORTS
List of Soldiers Who Have
- Reached This Side With
Two Regiments From
Overseas.
Twenty-two Omaha boys arrived
in New York, from overseas, Mon
day, with the 337th and 338th in
fantry detachments of Nebraska and
Iowa troops. The units will be sent
immediately to Camp Dodge for
discharge. Nebraska boys with the
contingents that arrived from over
seas on the same vessel numbered
142, many of whom will be sent to
Camp Funston for- discharge. Some
of them are casualties. The Omaha
boys who arriu;d in New York are:
Sergeants John W. Garman, 4816
Pierce street; Albert R. Andrews,
7220 South Thirteenth street;
Wayne E. Beahm, 2011 Wirt street;
Julius A. Simoens, 3529 U street;
George H. Schmidt, 907 North
Seventeenth street.
Privates Michael Tomko, 5034
South Thirty-sixth street; William
A. Schmitz, 3465 Grand avenue;
William Tamms, 1335 South Twenty-fifth
street; Walter Sorenson,
3102 Potter street; Frank Shimek,
5125 South Twenty-first street;
Frank A. Tuma, 2420 South Twen-ty-thir(d
street; John H. Hanson 3102
North Twenty-fourth St.; John Men
zies, 2111 Grant street; William A.
Kennedy, 2620 South Eleventh
street; Jesse L. Cope, 3628 Harrison
street; William Sherlock, 816 North
Forty-first avenue; Earl A. Kruger,
4005 North Twenty-sixth . street;
Arthur S. Duszynski, 4620 South
Twenty-sixth street; Martin Szym
kiewicz, 3149 T street,; Lincoln P.
Talley, 3110 Hamilton street; Wil
lis C. Smith, 2432 Emmet street;
William O'Donnell, 1505 Corby
street. v
Ordering of Wilson's
Transport Is Termed
Blackmail by Press
Paris. April 9. "We do not ac
cuse our allies of forgetting what
France has done," says the Matin
today, "but, nevertheless, we wit
nessed a curious thing yesterday.
American propagandists or newspa
per men, knowing that President
Wilson had summoned to Brest the
ship which is to take him back to
America, saw in this natural order
an opportunity for blackmail.
"They made with the disapprove
al of 'all Americans who are friends
of France a bold-faced attempt at
intimidation. 'If you are not more
accommodating,' they went all over
the city saying, 'our president "will
return home and you can extricate
yourself from your difficulties by
yourself.' "
Harsh denunciation of the Amer
ican d.-.legation by the French press
and charges that the ordering of
the transport George Washington
to come to Brest before its regular
time is nothing short of blackmail
have not affected the American del
egates, who apparently are not sur
prised at the newspaper criticism.
Big Crowd Sees Guy Hinman
Take Mayorship of Fremont
Fremont, Neb., April 9. ("Special
Telegram.)' Mayor Guy Hinman
and his council took charge of the
city, government last night. The fol
lowing appointments were made and
approved: City attorney, W. M.
Cain; chief of police, Martin Fred
ericksen; fire chief, Harry Morse;
s'.reet commissioner, T. A. Adams;
city physician, J. C. Agcc. No light
end -water commissioner was ap
pointed
APRIL 10, 1919.
TORNADO
KILLS 100
SWEEP
OF SOUTH
Death List May" Be Larger
When Full Details Are.
Available; Entire Town
, Swept Away.'
Dallas, Tex.. April 9. The tolt of
Tuesday night's storm in north
Texas, southern Oklahoma and a
portion of Arkansas has reached a
total of 100 deaths, with- hundreds
reported injured, and a property
loss that probably will run into mil
lions of dollers, according to lat
est reports received here early this
morning. Damage to growing crops,
it was indicated, is enormous.'
Direct telegrams from Durant,
Okla., gave the fatalities there as 11,
as against six previously reported.
Reports from communities show
the following deaths:
Canan, Tex., 4; Durant, Okl., 11;
Wood county, Tex., 4; Pontoc coun
ty, Okl., 1; Ector, Tex., .5; Ravenna,
Tex., 8; Mjneola, Tex., 11; Tundra,
Tex., 8; Winsboro, Tex., 15; San An
gelo, Tex., 1 ; Texarkana, Tex., 1 ;
Ncwsome, Tex., 6; Pleasant Grove,
Tex., 2; Eustace, Tex.. 1; Ogden,
Ark., 1.; Walter, Okl., 1.
Town Wiped Out.
The-little cotton town of Canaan
waseompletcly wiped out.
Its cotton gin, church, school and
cotton warehouse containing much
of last year's crop of the nearby
farmers, and its 16 houses were all
swept to the ground.
At Mineola the storm struck with
extreme severity. Three white
women and nine negroes were killed
and many others received-such severe
injuries that their deaths are ex
pected. Much damage was done to the
prospective fruit crops in many sec
tions according to reports. Straw
berries and peach and pear blossoms
were torn off and the loss from this
will be high. ' - "
' Shaw E. Ray, postmaster at
Winnsboro, was authority for the
statement of 15 deaths in that com
munity. Soon after noon he suc
ceeded in establishing telephone
communication with Greensville and
asked that help be sent them. Six
miles east of there, he said, 15 houses
had been blown away and four per
sons killed. Three, miles south of
Winnsboro, he said, eight houses
were blown down and many persons
injured. He said that reports were
only beginning to come in themand
that in addition to the 15 he esti
mated dead, those baddly injured
would number more than 100.
Three persons were killed at
Ector, Fannin county, and, great
damage to building and farm prop
erty was done by storms throughout
this district last night and today.
A Missouri, Kansas and Texas
freight train was blown from the
track near Denison, Tex., and two
trainmen hurt.
Trains Tied Up.
Denver, April 9. A succession f
storms, ranging from heavy snowin
some localities to rain and sleet in
others throughout the Rocky moun
tain states and the southwest today
resulted in serious delay to train
service and demoralization of tele
phone and telegraph communica
tion. Union Pacific trains from the east
were reported to be five to six hours
late, Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cific trains were reported 99 min
utes behind schedule and Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe trains were
posted as delayed "indefinitely" by
a heavy snowfall in Kansas.
The Colorado and oSuthern rail
road's line was reported blocked
somewhere between Amarillo, .Tex.,
and Trinidad, Colo. In New Mexi
co, the , snow-fall was reported as
heavy as 10 inches at 'places.
Similar conditions prevailed in the
Panhandle .sectiop of Texas. The
Rock Island's Golden State limited
train, westbound, was held at Dal
hart, Tex., several hours today
while snow plows w'ere sent ahead
to clear the tracks. Drifts at Tucum
cari, N. M.. also held back trains
for several hours, but tonight the
trains were reported is moving.
The snowfall was general through
eastern New Mexico, northwest
Texas, western Colorado, Nebraska
and Kansas- and south into the
Mexican mountain of Chihuahua.
Sixteen-Year-Old Boy Held
for Stealing Automobile
, Bert Justice, 16, was arrested yes
terday evening and charged with
grand larceny. He is accused .of
stealing a Studebaker automobile
from Nineteenth and Farnam streets
on the night of March 31. The car
was the property of H. Rachman,
1619 Lothrop street, and was recov
ered the next day at Seventeenth
and St. Mary's avenue. Justice lives
at 313 North Twenty-fifth street. Ed
Daugherty, Shelby court, Twenty
second and Leavenworth streets,
was arrested with Justice and book
ed for investigation. He" admits be
ing with Justice, but says he did
iiot know the car was stolen-
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French Legal Men Puzzled
Over Manner of Taking
Evidence of . Ppincare
Situation Created at Trial of French Senator Without
Precedent; No Provision Made for Hearing of
Testimony of Chief Magistrate While Case is on
Trial ; Lawyers Roused Over Case.
Parris, April 9. The situation created at the trial of
Senator Charles Humbert, by the reading of President Poin
care's testimony ; accusations by M. Moro-Giafferi, Humbert's
lawyer, tljat the French president made "voluntary errors"
and subsequent threats by Captain Mornet, the public prose
cutor, to have Moro-Giafferi disbarred from practice, is pne
without precedent in France's spectacular law courts-. Sena
tor Humbert is on trial on the charge of having had com
merce with the enemy
President Poincare, in view of the
bitter attacks to which he was sub
jected by Humbert's lawyer, asked
today t be heard anew, -and Colonel
Masse'in. after reading the presi
dent's letter, -acquiesced, as the
president wished, to explain further
regarding his relations and inter
views with Senator Humlrcrt.
Advised Humbert.
President Poincare's testimony re
lated to the conversations he and
Humbert had hac'. regarding Pierre
Lenoir, a defendant, and Bolo
Pasha. He said he had advised
Humbeit to make a charge before
the military tribunals, which Hum
bert had refrained from doing, as
serting that he had informed the
first magistrate of the republic and
that. the latter had promised him
that action would be taken.
"Perhaps one'politicia'n found it
to his advantage to have another
prominent politician disappear from
the public eye," shouted Moro
Giafferi. Thereupon Captain Mor
net asked the counsel to withdraw
his remark, threatening him with
disbarment.
"It will be to the glory of my
HUGE SUM ASKED
OF PACKER FIRMS
BYT WOMEN
Louie Ferson and Grace Osborn
Sue. in District Court for
Hundred Twenty . Mil
lions Damages.'
Louie Osborn Ferson and Grace
Osbprn, former Council Bluffs wo
men, hied suit in district court yes
terday tor $120,000,000 damages
against 4 defendants, among whom
are Armour and company, Swift
and company, Morris and company,
Standard Oil company.. John D.
Rockefeller, jr., Guaranty Trust
company of Xew York, I ten Biscuit
company and several large banks.
It is a suit for the largest anmiint
ever filed in Nebraska.
A "pork-and-bean biscuit" lies
beneath the whole trouble. Louie
Ferson and Grace Osborn allege in
their petition that they invented a
pork-and-bean biscuit and had the
new confection patented in January,
1901, and thathe defendants named
appropriated the 'invention and
ignored the patent rights. Since
that time. Louie FersQii, it is alleged,
"has been confined to her bed as a
result, andmust depend solely on
her sister, Grace Osborn, for sup
port. ' ,
In the course of the petition the
Union Stock-, Yards company of
Omaha is named a defendant and
is defined as "a corporation con
trolled by Armour company." John
O Yeiser is attorney for the plain
tiffs. It is alleged the biscuit en
tered iifto army rations used n greSt
quantities during the European war.
The same plaintiffs filed suit
against the Loose-Wiles Biscuit
company last J-lnuary for $3,0UO,000
damages oh the same grounds of
patent infringements.
Grace Osborn was fined $25 in
police, court on complaint of the
Fontenelle hotel for alleged non
payment of her bill, December 9.
The case was appealed and is set
for trial today in district court.
Two Colonels Ordered
To Join Force in Siberia
Washington, April 8 Col. Robert
H. Sillmari, and Joseph D. Leitch
have been orderec' to report to Ma
jor General Graves,, commanding the
American expedition in Siberia. It
wa. said at the War department that
they probably will be assigned to
relieve officers of equal rank who
commanded the units of General
Graves' forces drawn from the Phil
ippine:. Colonel Sillman has been
on duty at Camp Travis, Tex., and
Colonel Leitch at Camp Lewis,
Wash. .
Mexican Papers Report
a Revival of Banditry
Washington, April 9. Mexican
newspapers reaching Washington
today report a revival of banditry
in the state of Vera Cruz, immedi
ately south of Tampico, and record
six serious attacks on trains since
the middle of March. This is large
ly the territory where Felix Diaz,
recently reinforced by General Au
reliano Blanquct is reported to be
operating.1
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career to be disbarred under such
circumstances," shouted Moro-Giafferi.
' '
. In summing up the iong discus
sion, the whole trend of Moro-Gia-ferri's
argument was to show that
President Poincare was anxious to
have Humbert deposed fromthe
prominent position he occupied in
the French pAliftca! world.
Lawyers Puzzled. v
The question of hearing President
Poincare puzzles the legal men, the
French law providing that during
cases under investigation the presi
dent being die first magistrate of
the republic, must be heard at Ely
see palace; but no provision is made
for the hearing of such testimony
while the case actually is under trial.-
Humbert's lawyer declared this
afternoon that he intended to de
mand to be present when President
Poincare was heard as a witness.
While he would not insist upon
bringing the president to the court
house, he said, the latter's -estimony
must be handled he same as that
of any ordinary witness.
Senator Humbert asked o be con
fronted with the president, whether"
at Elysee palace or in the court.
MAYFIELD ASKS
TO BE RELIEVED
OF BOARD DUTIES
Commissioner Tenders Resig
' nation After Legislative
Committee Asks for
His Removal.
From a Staff Correspondent.
Lincoln. ."eb.. April 9. (Specfal
Telegram. V- Special Commissioner
E O. Mayfield of the State Board
Control, whose immediate re
moval by the governor was re
quested o ' the joint legislative in
vestigating committee in a report
made public yesterday, this morn
ng tendered his resignation to Gov
ernor M.:Klvie and it was imme
diately accepted. Mayficld's letter
'i resignation follows:
"April 9 "919. to Governor Mc
Kelvie, Lceln, Neb
"Dear Sir: Since January 1, 1919,
I have ben desirous of severing
:ny connection with the 1 board of
commissioners of state institutions,
and now, regardless of any recom
mendations made by the legislative
investigating committee, the time
'(ems opportune to notify you that
I wish to be relieved of my official
duties on July 1, next.
"In doing thispermit me to point
n the fac tnat while this board has
bandied millions of dollars of the
people's money, and has kept the 15
institutions under its control in as
good coaition as circumstances
.nd appropriations o past legist
lures would permit, that ii its re
port the legislative comrnittee has
(Cuntinued on Pare Two, Column Five.)
Powder King' Forms -Corporation
to Take
Care of Foreign Trade
Wilmington, Del., April 9. Alfred
I. Duoont of this city has organized
a $12,000,000 corporation to take
care of domestic exports and im
ports. The Nemours trading .cor
poration, as the new organization is
known,, has been formed for the
purpose of taking over the French
American constructive corporation,
the allied industries corporation, a
New York firm, and the Merchants
and Manufacturers Exchange of
New, York, owners of the Grand
Central Palace.
, .
Mrs. Grady to Start Crusade
x Against Immoral Movies
New York, April 9. Mrs. Ellen
A. Grady, deputy commissioner, an
nounced tonight that she had or
dered a crusade by women detec
tives against proprietors of moving
picture theaters displaying such
"suggestive, immoral and filthy
films" as she observed on a tour of
movie houses today.
"The clergy, educators, judges
and welfare workers," declared Mrs.
Grady, "might as well lock up the
churches, shut the books and close
the courts, if they are going to per
mit the filthy motion pictures that
are being shown in New York and
throughout the country."
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COUNCIL
SETTLES
ON WAY TO
FIX GUILT
Belief in Paris That Only
Moral Indictment Will Be
Returned Against Wil
liam Hohenzollern.
.Sarre Valley Coal
Problem Is Settled
by Council of Four
Paris, April 9. The council of"
four reached an agreement this
afternoon on the Sarre valley.
The agreement leaves sovereignty
over the valley unchanged but
accords to France,, free of duity,
sufficient coal for the Lorraine
iron industry and to replace' the
production of the mines dc.
stroyed in the Lens mining dis
trict witl the privilege to the
Germans of restoring the Lens
mines and thus relieving the
Sarre .valley of that charge.
This agreement removes one of
the most difficult obstacles to
the conclusion of peace. '
Paris, April 9. The responsibility
of the German emperor for the war
and the means for bringfng him to
trial by one of the allied covern-
ments, probably Relgiupi, hayc been
definitely determined upon by the .
council of four.
This follows the decision on the
terms of reparation for war dam
ages, whereby $5,000,000,000 must be
paid within the next two years and
an inter-allied commission assesses
the remaining damage for a period
of 30 years, beginning May J, 1921.
Remove,Two Obstacles.
Thus two of the greet obstacles
which stood in the path of the rapid
attainment of peace have been re
moved within the last 24 hours, and '
the period of (extreme tension over
the inaction and the failure to se
cure tangible results is succeeded by
revived confidence over the great
advance made towards a permanent .
settlement. 1
How far these resfilts are due "to
the intimations conveyed by the
summoning to France of the United
States transport George Washington
by President Wilson is only con
jectural. But it is at least a co
incidence that the main difficulties
began to dissolc from the time, that
this decision became known.
Differences Minor.
The exact nature of these differ
ences are not disclosed. Frionda of
the president maintain thai they
were largely of a minor character, not
involving large principles, though
the president's adherence to his "14
points" as the rigid limitation of the
scope of action appears to have run.
all through the deliberations during
the tense period of the la! few days.
While the tension has been great
ly reduced, it is not entirely removed
as much depends cu the continua-'
tion of progress with respect to the-j
remaining obstacles, notably the
Sarre valley, the Rhine frontier, the
Adriatic issue and a number of les
ser issues which are, still short of
final agreement. '
Ex-Kaiser May Save Neck.
The agreement on responsibilities
for the war is understood to have
been a compromise between divided
reports presented by the commis
sion of which Secretary Lansing is
chairman. There was a practical
agreement on the responsibility ol '
the German emperor for bringing
on the war, but division occurred
on whether it was feasible to bring 1
him to justice before an interna
tional tribnal. ,
The French and British , view
favored a tribunal, but the American
view, it is ' understood, favored
moral indictment without recourse "
to prosecution owing to the lack of
an international law as a basis for
trial before an international court.
Belgium, on which the war fell
first and heavies', is reported to
have taken a view much similar to
that of the United States, while
Japan and Italy were partially in
accord with the American view. '
Devise New Plan.
It was owing to these divergent
points that the council devised a
new plan, whereby one of the allied
(Continued on Pate Two, Column One.)
Widely Known Lecturer "
Talks for Loan Today
Samuel Zwemer, widely known
author and lecturer, will speak at a
public affairs luncheon at the Chanv
ber of Commerce today noon . oa
Victory loan. Robert Lowell, head
of the Thomas Kilpatrick store, will
preside at the meeting.
Mr. Zwemer. an American, live
in Cairo, Egypt. He has been with
every belligerent army since the war
started. ( He has recently Item 1m
Europe.