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; " 1 READ A. KS "HEART BEATS" A BRIDGE FROM SOUL TO SOUL IN THE BEE'S WOMAN'S SECTION. I the weather. Your Vacant rooms Will " - ' , . 7 , , I . V Increasing cloudiness Thursd.y,' be snapped tip quickly fm j .- v v , "TJ w Tr w , becoming unsettled by night or on : The Omaha' Daily Bee - isk looo, Want Ad De- ' i ' i .5 ::::::::::::: ,5 ::::::::;:::: 1 10 rt..s ' ...... partment. vol. 49 NO. 153. .sraTS'tf W ' OMAHA, Thursday, November 20, i$19. g,:d j.g-fe MrJi!i.,H;b.g& US: two cents. U 2 BOMB PLOTS AT YULETIDE ARE FEARED Philadelphia Police Head Tells Of Plot Unearthed Jo Send Infernal Machines "Through Mails at Christmas Time. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS MARKED BY RADICALS Gift Packages to State and City Officials Throughout Country Purported Method of Reds to Wreak Vengeance. Philadelphia, Nov. 19. A warn ing issued today by the superinten dent of police that information has reached him of possible bomb out lages at Christmas time through the. sending of gift packages to nation al, state and city officials through cut the country has caised federal ano state officials to take extra pre cautions to circumvent any pro posed plots by radicals or others. James Robinson, the superintend ent, said tonight he had nothing to add to the warning he issued todav. He did not know what persons were marked by the supposed plotters, nor did he know who are suspected of 'plotting against official lives. The information he has in his posses sion, the superintendent said, came to him in the course of investiga tions by the police bomb squad into the activities of local'radicals. y New York Police Busy. New York, Nov. 19. New York's bomb squad was sent scurying out of police headquarters late today following receipt from the Philadel phia police of warning that "Reds" planned a Christmastide "reign of terror" by mailing explosive pack ages in various cities. Detective Sergeant James, J. Geg gan .is -directing an investigation of whether anarchists had included New York in their campaign. He immediately got into touch with the jiostal authorities and announced h would keep in constant communica tion with the Philadelphia police. ' . Washington Uninformed, Washington, Nov. 19. Depart ment ot Justice oniciais sain lonigm . they were without information as to the discovery by the Philadelphia police of a nation-wide plot to kill federal, stae and municipal officials by means-of bombs senf through the mails at, Christmas time. The bureau of investigation of the de partment immediately asked its I'hiladelnhia agents for details of the "red" plans as gathered by the police here. v Stock Market Break Continues to Assume More Serious Aspect prEAS GRAND JURY AT THE MOVIES' I M , DFDnDT MM IlLrUHl RAPS POLICE Quotes Military Men as Say ing Small Force Under Effi cient Officers Could Have Dispersed Mob. LACK OF LEADERSHIP EVIDENT, JURY FINDS Absence" of Police Chief and Commissioner at Crucial Period Is Called Unfortunate By Investigators. , British Heir Apparent Enjoys New York to the Full and Spends Strenuous Day. f New York, Nov. 19. From sky scrapers to churches and from the st'.ck exchange to the "movies," w:th the horse show as a side line, th prince of Wales was whirled to day in a kaleidoscopic view of the vr.ried activities of the metropolis. Everywhere he went huge crowds cheered him, giving him a reception such as New York rarely has wit nessed. The prince seemed to enjoy every minute of his strenuous program, but, judging by appearances, the hit of the day for him was the "movies." Laughs in High Glee. The exhibition was given at the old Academy of Music, where his grandfather had been a guest 60 years ago at the historic "Diamond Ball." - Seated in the same armchair Edward N VII had occupied, the prince laughed with the unrestrained enthusiasm ot an schoolboy at the two comedies pre sented. He had asked for some thing to laughat" and he got it. It was slapstick 'comedy of the slap stirkiest kind, with the hero doused in rivers, smeared 'with pie, bitten b" dogs and butted by goats, and the infectious laugh of the young prince set the whole great audience rocking IS Survivors Presented. Present at the theater vere IS survivors of the "Diamond Fall" and they were presented to the grand son of the prince they had met to honor in their youth. At Madison Square Garden the prince was the guest at the horse show of Commander Eva Booth of the Salvation Army, the show be ing a benefit performance for the Salvation Army. The royal party passed to its box through double lines of Salvation lassies who were not whit behind the more worldly spectators in the warmth of their greeting to the boy ish prince. Steals March on Crowd. On his return to the Waldorf hotel the prince stole a march on the crowds afhd the small army of news paper reporters who had formed his unofficial bodyguard. Slipping out from a side entrance he went for a stroll on Fifth avenue, unattended except by secret service men. He passed virtually unrecognized through the tremendous tide of traffic. Tonight the orince was the guest of honor at a banquet given by the various British societies of New York. Later in the evening he at tended a ball given by Mrs. White law Reid. New York, in the stock more than a more serious ''Nov. 19. The break market which , began week ago assumed proportions Wednes PROSPECTS OF COAL FAMINE DRAW NEARER Negotiations Between Miners And Operators Apparently At Standstill. day. The entire list was carried to loSvest levels in many weeks, gross recessions in speculative industrials ranging from 5 to 30 points. The operations amounted to more than 1,700.000 shares. (Developments of the day gave further momentum to the decline, and the selling derived additional impetus from the aggressive activi-f ties of a confident arid greatly ex tended short interest. According to dispassionate ob servers, the weakness displayed by certain stocks plainly suggested the enforced dissolution of several pools whose further operations were regarded with disfavor by the banks and other lenders of money. The one hopeful note was sound ed bv the local federal reserve bank, whose directors evidently saw noth ing in the situation to justify anotn er advance in rediscount rates. Call money ruled at 12 per cent until the final half hour when a ! drop to 10 per cent induced muchJ realizing for profits and incidental covering of short contracts. Several of the tax exempt Liberty bonds sold at new low levels. Washington, Nov. 19. The re cenj break in the New York stock market was due ft "unbridled spec ulation," Governor Harding of the federal reserve board aid in a let ter to Senator Owen of Oklahoma, who had asked for a direct explana tion of the price crash. Formal Order Is Issued Against Consular Agent Mexico City, Nov. 19. A formal order for the imprisonment of Wil liam O. Jenkins, United States con sular agent at Puebla, on charges of having made false declarations and s threats against peons in case they testified they saw him at his hacienda in company with Federico Cordova, the bandit chieftain, was issued to- ' day by Criminal Judge Gonzalez Franco, at Puebla. according to ad vices received from that city. Jen kins, however, is not yet in jail and in a statement to the press asserts it is untrue that he is not allowed to leave the city . Washington, Nov. 19. Prospects of a coal famine drew nearer tonight with negotiations between operators and miners apparently at a stand still. A subcommittee of the joint wage scale committees discussed the gen eral situation for three hours, but it was said that the operators did' not submit counter" proposals to the miners' demands. The conference will continue tomorrow. "We are still in a receptive mood," said John L. .Lewis, acting president of the United Mine Workers. In Session Hour Longer. The operators' committee re mained in session an hour longer,, after which 1 nomas 1. Brewster, chairman of the operators commit tee in the central competitive field, spoke optimistically. He said this was the first attempt 'at real nego tiations since the miners .ana oper ators met at Buffalo. The decision of the joint wage scale conference to continue its ne gotiations through a smaller group came after the owners and workers had heard from Fuel Administrator Garfield that as long as the govern ment stands "the- people of the United States, need, must have, and will have coal, and they will n,ot be prevented by anything the operators and miners may do." Consuming Public Angry. The consuming public. Dr. Gar field said, is not in a mood to toler ate either excessive prices or pro longed stoppage of production. The statement of the fuel admin istrator, which was largely statis tical, brought out that in 1918 the average cost of production of coal was $2.15 a ton, leaving to -the oper ators an average margin of 46 cents a ton. The Omaha oolice department is unsophisticated! scored by the grand jury for its in action in heading; off the riot ot Sunday, September 28, which result ed in the lynching of a negro, Will Brown, the burning of the court house with an estimated loss "f $800,0000, the deaths of three per sons, the near-lynching of Mayor Smith, injuring of many people, looting of numerous stores and other damages. Many - Recommendations Made. The final report filed yesterday covers 24 typewritten pages, touches on all angles of the riot, scores the police for not preventing the riot, laments the "lack of testimony of eye witnesses of the mob activi ties," makes recommendations to combine the city and county gov ernments, recommends that police men be defended at city expense when they are used in the courts and makes many other recommendations. Responsibility for the lack of standard revolver and ammunition equipment of the police is placed upon the city commission by the jury. There were 195 cases considered by the jury, covering 34 indictable crimes,. There were 120 persons in dicted and 535 witnesses examined. In regard to the police action the night of the riot, the report says: Is Called "Unfortunate," "The absence of the oolice chief and commissioner 1 at the crucial period, from 3:30 to 6 o'clock on Sunday, was unfortunate." Lack of co-ordination and leader ship was evident in the handling of the police, the grand jury states. Military men told the grand jury that at any-time from 3 to 6 o'clock on the fateful Sunday afternoon, a force of 25 to 45 men under proper leadership could have dispersed the mob without firing a shot, and be tween 6 to 8 o'clock the same force of men could have stopped theViot ing by shooting. Sergeant Highest Rank. Between 3:30 and f n'rWL- that afternoon there was no policeman at the court hoirse of higher rank man a sergeant, the jury finds. In connection with the court house fire, the grand jury recommends that the county commissioners in vestigate to find whether the county records were left carelessly outside of the fireproof receptacles provided for them and, if so, to fix responsi bility and take action against the persons responsible. .The principle features of the re port follows: We presume that previous grand juries nave had evidence presented to them of many and various kinds of crimes. In this respect their ex perience and that of this grand jury is similar. In addition it remained to this grand jury to secure and consider evidence in connection with a class of crimes and during a condition of the public mind, such as no grand jury in this county has ever had to do before, and we hope no other will ever be called upon to do again. We refer particularly to the un lawfuj, destructive and disgraceful acts of persons in this city on the night of September 28, 1919. These acts resulted i I fatal attack on Mayor Smith, """us uu yonce omcers. The burning of the court house. The burning and destruction of public records and documents. Injuries to prisoners and innocent persons. The cowardly lynching ofa de fenseless man, etc. We have endeavored, to the best (Continued on Tmg Tour, Column One.) Admission of Grand Jury Police Heads Were Asleep on Job in Riot Comes Day - Bee Editor Is Found Guilty of Contempt Paper Wins Great Victory for Public Good, and Complete Vindication in Its Long Fight Against Inefficiency in Police Department Just Few Hours Before District Court Judge Holds Editor Guiltyof Contempt in Case Growing Out of Expose oj Frame-Up "Against Reporter Case Against Reporter Is Dismissed. Climax and finis was written yesterday to the epilogue of the series of events that have : stirred the city since the night of the court house riot. The grand jury made its final re port, and the district court came to an end wjth its charge of contempt against The Bee. In both the report of the grand jury and the judgment of the court in the contempt case The Bee achieved crushing victories. The grand jury sustained every charge and allegation that has been made by T,he Bee, scoring the police department for inefficiency, stating that the absence of the police heads, Riijger and Eberstein, at the start of the riot was "unfortunate," and calling attention to the comment of the military that a handful of men at the proper moment could have controlled the mob and averted the court house disaster. x ' - ' In the contempt case The Bee also achi6vedx a triumph to the extent that the charge against the reporter, J. Harry Moore, was abruptly dismissed by Judge Redick for lack of evidence and only the teclnical point that the story in The Bee that gave rise to the prosecu tion dealt with a. case "pending" before the court, gave foundation for judgment against the Bee Publishing company and Editor Victor Rosewater as its responsible head. Decision will be pronounced today. Judiciary Above the Press. The closing argument of County Attorney Shotwell, and the words of the decision of the judge, were the, most important developments of a day of sensations and startling surprises. The argument of the county at torney, followed by the approval of the judge in his decision, that "the liberty of the press is subordinate to the independence of the judiciary" announced an era in the conduct of a newspaper that, if upheld by the higher courts, may prevent the pub lication, in. all cases which are "'pending" and undecided in the courts, of matters of greatest im portance to the public, and thus may work untold harm to accused persons who will be debarred by this act of the law from being ex tended the great assistance of a newspaper in dragging their cases out of the dark holes of the jails and prosecutors' offices and throw ing the light of publicity upon them. Muzzling the Press. If upheld by (Tie higher courts, the .decision woulcLat last effectually muzzle the press in. all such cases described as pending or undecided, and" prevent it6 exposure of such al leged police rottenness as was charged in the affidavits of , two wit nesses who in sworn and unsolicited statements retracted previous tes timony upon which an indictment had been, secured, which affidavits charged that a police official had se cured their perjured testimony to secure the indictment by promises of freedom andjother means. According to the theory of the decision, as expounded by the coun ty attorney, and concurred in by the judge, the story of the i retraction of the two witnesses should have been kept secret to all except the accused and his counsel, the court and its officials, the accused resting under the ignominy of an indictment and arrest, and the public being kept'' from knowledge of what was going on, and prevented by this ignorance from extendingaid and moral support to the witnesses, and leaving them to battle aloje in their prison cell to right the great wrong ihey had committed until such- time as the slow processes of the law finally brought the case into some court for trial. Might Be Months. The full force and effect of this interpretation of the law, for which numerous precedents were cited by the-county attorney and the judge from cases in other states, is more clearly seen in the light of the de cision of the judge as to what length pf time protects a "pending" case from being handled by the news papers. 'A case may pend for a few days before coming up in court for trial," said Judge Redick, "or it may be pending for months." The closing arguments of attor neys for both the defense and prose cution bristled with sensation and interest County Attorney Shotwell in his reference to Defendant Moore ap peared to indicate some apprecia tion of a lack of evidence in the case against the reporter. in stating: '"No one will be more glad than myself to find that Mr. Moore is in nocent ,of. the charge alleged in the indictment, and which witnesses are claimed to have repudiated." Able and Fearless. Following this a beautiful tribute was paid by Attorney Connell to the late-Edward Rosewater, The Bee and Victor Rosewater, who suc ceeded to the editorship of the p.. per. "I cannot refrain," he said, "from paying a tribute to one of the most able and fearless editors I ever have known. It was through this fearlessness that he builded this paper, which is considered the greatest and most extensive in the great northwest. It is the result of this fearlessness in fighting for the interests of the people and de nouncing crime -aiid injustice wher wei he- found it that this magnifi cent paper has been built up to.be (Continued on Pair Two, Column One.) Senator Thomas Urges Railroad Army Reserve Washington, Nov. 19. Organiza tion of a "railroad army reserve force" under the secretary of war to operate the railroads in time of emergency was proposed in a bill introduced by Senator Thomas, democrat, Colorado. It would com prise 200,000 trained railroad opera tives between 18 and 30 years of age, subject to call bthe govern ment. The bill proposes joint state and federal training for the recruits. Convict Negro Charged With Shooting Girl John Russell, negro, indicted on the charge of first degree murder for the killing of his sweetheart, Lela Peterson, on the night of Octo ber 6, was found guilty in district court at Council Bluffs after delib erating three hours. They recom mended that he be given a life sen tence in the' state peitentiary. Jefferis Will Address Elks on Memorial Sunday Washington,' Nov. 19. (Special Telegram.) Representative Jefferis accepted the invitation of the Omaha Lodge of EJks to deliver the me morial address Sunday, December 7, provided that the condition of the public business will permit him to , leave Washington at that time. Y. M. C. A. PLANS EXPANSION OF ' 1 ITS ACTIVITIES Will Continue Work in Army And Navy" and Create Sub Department, Report Says. Detroit, Nov. 19. Expansion of the activities of the Y.'M. C. A. in industrial centers, a more thorough organization in rural communities, continuance of the work in the army and navy and creation of a special sul department for work among men of this country's growing merchant m'.rine are among recommendations of - the association's international committee, presented at the open ing session of the fortieth interna tional convention. The committee makes 27 recom m?ndations upon which the conven tion will pass. The national war work council submitted its report on the associa tion's activities during the war. It estimated the value of the associa tion's free contribution to the A. E. F. at $6,646,924.84. . The report states that of its 12,- 000 overseas secretaries 1S4 were wounded or gassed, 10" were killed, 1 died of wounds and 73 died, of. ill ness. The canteen service, the report states, operated at some 2,000 points in France, Great Britain and Italy. A chain of stores, with business ag gregating $37,914,000; hotels, mo tion picture houses and other places of entertainment were conducted, in addition to the physical, educational and rehgioirs program. 1 1 Federal Prohibition Directors Are Named To Start Work at Once Washington, Nov. 19. Prohibi tion enforcement machinery und.ir, John F. Kramer, prohibition com missioner, took tangible form with the announcement that 11 federal prohibition directors had been' named and would take up their du ties immediately. . The supreme court will hear argu ments Thursday on the constitution ality of the wartime prohibition act, involved in three appeals from fed ereal court rulings. One from Ken tucky declared the act invalid and two from New York upheld it. . Owing to the short time elapsing before constitutional prohibition be comes effective, an early opinion by the court generally is anticipated. 21 Moroccans Executed Madrid, Nov. 19. Twenty-one Moroccan tribesmen were executed at Tetuan, east of Tangier, for kill ing their officers while in the service ;cf the Spanish government. Iowa Bandits Who Broke Jail Given Life "Imprisonment Lemars, la., Nov. 19. Lee Bar nngtoii, Harry Smith, James O'Keef, William Cullon and William Con vey, the five bandits, who shot their way out of the Plymouth county jail Friday night last, mortally wounding Williant Maxwell and seriously wounding his fatfcer, Sher iff Hugh Maxwell, were given life terms in the Iowa penitetiary by Judge C. E. Bradley of the district court, at 8:30 o'clock Wednesday night. - " The men were brought here after nightfall from Sioux City, following an indictment of fiirst degree mur der by the Plymouth county grand jury. They quickly pleaded guilty to the charge and sentence followed. Within 10 minutes they were started back to the Sioux City jail, and at 4 o'clock Thursday morriihg will be taken under heavy guard to Fort Madison prison. So quickly and quietly was the disposal of the men that the people of neither city were aware of it. Posses Abandon Hunt For Bandit Carlisle; Admit He Bests -Them Medicine Bow, Wyo., Nov. 19. Posses have abandoned the searcn for William L. Carlisle,, the bandit who Tuesday night held p and robbed passengers on Union Pacific westbouud. train No. 19, and waited for the next open move of the no torious train robber. Every build ing and possible hiding place within a wide radius from Medicine Bow was searched and'ymembers of posses have conceded that the ban dit had outwitted them. Reports that the bandit had fled to Denver in an automobile imme diately after the robbery were given considerable credence. N Carlisle lived in Denver in 1916, between train robberies, under the name of Walter Cortrell. A theory that Carlisle drove to ward Cheyenne and might attempt another-robbery within a few hours brought precautions on the part of the railroad. A special train will be kept ready at Cheyenie, it was said, so that a posse could be started from the city within 10 minutes af ter report of another robbery. The Cheyenne posse and cavalry troops have left for Cheyenne, but will be kept in readiness for the next move of the bandit. D'Annunzio Preparing for An Attack on Spalato Fiume. Nov. 1. Gabriele D'An nunzio is preparing for a raid on Spalato, according to reports. t D'Annunzio, the advices add, also plans an attack from Zara on Montenegro UNCLE SAM WILL SELL BEST FLOUR AT LOWER PRICES Grain Corporation to Prove Ru mors Concerning Scarcity of Product Baseless. THREE ATTEMPTS TO RATIFY TREATY FAIL ' v SO LEGISLATORS QUIT Suggested Among Democratic Members That President Wilson Might Be Asked to Feel Out the Other Powers s to Their Attitude on Reservations. With the Idea of Bringing the Measure to Some Sort of Ratification After Congress Reassembles. . Washington, Nov.'19. Failing after three attempts to ratify the peace treaty, the senate tonight laid it aside, ended the special session and went home. All compromise efforts to bring ratification failed, the , three resolutions of ratification all going down by over whelming majorities. The republican leaders apparently despairing of bringing two-thirds of the senate together for any sort of ratification, then put in a resolution to declare the war at an end. A1 - . ; (t Democrats Almost Solid. I" ... Two of the three ratification votes "Don't Blast Hopes of World," Is Message From South "Africa Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, Ncv. 19. Lieut. Gen. Jan Christian Smuts, British mem ber on the league of nations com mission, in "a message from South Africa to America" appeals to America "not to blast the hopes of the world" through non ratification of the treaty coven ant. General Smuts says: "I am told that the league is in danger in the American sen ate. I can scarcely believe it. But if so, may I send- message from South Africa to America. "-My people are a small people. My voice in their behalf is weak. But the greatest leaders in Amer ca before now have listened to me. "I trust my appeal will not be resentted. I appeal to Amer ica not to blast the hope of the worUt" 1 . New York, Nov. 19. To prove that rumors concerning scarcity of flour and advancing prices are base less, the United States grain cor poration announced' that it would enable consumers to buy the best fl.'ur at lower prices. Straight flour, made of the finest wheat, will be sold by the corpora tion to the retail trade in 2 and 24?j-pound packages. It will be available in about three weeks and the price to the consumer will be about 75 cents for the smaller pack ages. Mr. Barnes said that the grain corporation's action "puts the solu tion of one phase of the cost of liv ing problem directly up to the con sumer by making it possible for the purchaser of flour to decide whether he will continue to p3y fancy prices fo: special brands or buy at a lower pnee pure, straight flour made from the finest wheat." While certain grades of flour are sesree, owing to the short crop of spring wheat, the total wheat crop is 918,000.000 bushels this year, against 917,000,000 last year, accord ing to Ma Barnes. Production of flour for the season ending November 7 amounted to 52,433,000 barrels, against 43,174,000 last year. Judge "Orders Mines Seized by Governor Returned to Owners Bismarck, N. D., Nov. 19. Judge W. L. Nuessle has issued an injunc tion directing Adjutant General Fraser and Captain L. R. Baird, of the state home guard, to restore to the Western Lignite company not later than 8 o'clock Monday after noon the mining property at Wil ton, N. D., seized last Thursday, un ing the action of Governor Frasies. "It seems to me that it amounts, on one hand, to confiscation, and on the other to involuntary servitude," declared Judge Nuessele in review ing the action of Governor Frazier in taking over lignite mineJ in North Dakota and in enforcing his proc lamation by the use of available military resources. "I realize that any mandate this court may issue, unless, the govern ment chooses to rccgnize it, can not, be carried war," said Judge Nuessle. "I do not want that" Great Britain and France Prepare to Put . Pact Into Effect London, Nov. 19. Great Britain and France are considering whether they are not compelled to carry out the German peace treaty and operate tlhe league of nations independently of the United States, pending the decision of the American govern ment. It is pointed out that matters are continually arising under th'e treaty which need immediate at tention, such as plebiscite commis sions, and it is no longer possible to delay making the pact operative. The cpinion strongly prevails that Great Britain will not accept any reservations made by the United States senate which would neces sitate the negotation of a new treaty. The belief 'still exists that the American government will ulti mately take its place with the allies. . i President Signs and House Is Adjourned Washington, Nov.h9. Six months to the day after the congress con were taken on the resolution drafted by the republican majority, contain" ing. reservations which President Wilson had told democratic senators in a letter earlier in the day would mean nullification of the treaty. On each of the votes most of the demo cratic supporters of tb,e treaty voted against ratification. The first vote on this resolution stood, 39 for to 55 against. On the second -vote taken after several hours of parliamentary wrangling in which the -democrati made vain efforts to wirl over some of the -re publican group of mild reservation- ists, 41 senators, voted in the affirma tive and 51 in the negative. The third vote was on a straight- out ratification without reservations which got only 38 votes to 53 oppos ing it. Only one republican, ben a- -tor McCumber, North Dakota, voted with the democrats in its suppor Final Decision. Republican Leader Lodge de clared today's voting constituted a final decision on the peace treaty unless President. Wilson ., circumvented-the" senate rules by with drawing it and then submitting 't again to' the senate. In other quar ters there, was some difference .. of opinion, but the general sentiment seemed to be that there was only a slender chance that the treaty would come up at the beginning of the next session of congress, beginning next month. ' ' " Ofie effect of the senate's failure to ratify, the treaty will be the con tinuation of various wartime -laws and regulations at least until the new session opens. Among them if the wartime prohibition act. Expect Another Fight. The resolution presented tonight to declare a state of peace will come -up at the beginning of the new ses sion and is expected to start an other stubborn fight. The adminis tration is understood to be opposed to such a method of legally ending the war and in the background is constitutional question as to wheth er congress can do so by a reso lution not requiring the president's signature. It was suggested among demo cratic senators "that President Wil son might be asked to feel out the other powers as to their attitude on reservations with the idea of bring ing the treaty to some sort of a ratification after congress reassem bles." - The second vote on the maioHtv's ratification resolution was made vened in, .special session, the house "iVfl waV m.a?c formally adjourned at 4:02 p. m. 't JntJrS ?t a ervat,on,s's' Wednejday after receiving Srord 1! " t & '"Sf! from President Wrilson that he did rot object to this action. The ad journment resolution was adopted by a vote of 55 to 5. - The president signed the mea sures after a house committee con sisting ot Republican Leader Mon dell, former Speaker Clark and Rep resentative Towner had called at the White House to inform the executive that the House was ready tp adjourn and was awaiting his pleasure as to the bill and resolution. The committee did not see the president personally, but its mes sage was transmitted by Secretary Tumulty, who later announced that the measures had been signed. American Peace Delegates To Sail Home December 6 Faris, Nov. 19. The American delegation to the peace" conference will sail for home on December 5 or 6, it was learned yesterday. The British delegation will prob ably leave Paris aboutx the same time, although no official announce ment has been made. Auto Bandits Hold Up Car Near Douglas Street Bridge Traffic Manager Welch of the street railway company reported to police that shortly before 12 o'clock Tuesday night automobile bandits held up and robbed another automo bile party on the Iowa end of the Douglas street bridge. The robbery occurred almost in the presence of the tolltaker on the east end of the bridge. The bandits threw their car across the road and to avoid a collision the other car had to stop. The men in the bandit car then flashed guns and made the men of the nthrr car out without civiflgctout and be searched. H. Marion, Omaha man, lost $18 aud the others smaller amounts. get tne measure before the Renat and thus give an opportunity for any eleventh hour compromise prop osition. Once that had been accom plished, however, the mild group ' held out against all efforts of the democrats to put in their-substitute, reservations, so" that when the sec ond vote was reached, after several hours of sparring, the situation vir tually was unchanged. Consideration Cut Short The resolution for ratification without reservations was put in by Senator Underwood, democrat, Ala bama, after the second defeat of the other measure. It was held in order and voted upon without debate, but when Senator NPittman, democrat. Nevada, sought to get action on an other resolution containing interpre tative reservations the treaty con sideration was cut short by a point of order by Republican Leader, Lodge. Vice President Marshall held that previous decisions of .the senate in overriding his .rulings would operate to sustain the posi tion taken by Senator Lodge. It was on a viva voce vote that the treaty, after being before th senate for many weeks, then wai laid aside. On Senator Lodge's mo' tion to take up degislative business no rort-call was required and-the vice president declared it adopted by acclamation. Republican leaders said the sen-, ate need not, advise the president of its actioTi nor return the treaty to him with formal notice. v Can Resubmit Treaty. . - "The president may withdraw it when the senate reconvenes" Sen ator Lodge said, "and, of course, hi can then resubmit it in the next ses sion. "But the treaty is dead inhis senate and they killed it as "1 told they they would if they voted against it." " Senator Hitcjicock said the xtz$ (Continued Four, Columa MBft V