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Tf5) RIEF KvR I G H T Breezy BITS OF NEWS "THE VELVET HAMMER" TAPS THE FADS AND FOIBLES OF OUR OWN 4VELL-KNOWNS. The: Omaha :Baily Bee r.GGS IN DENVER SELL AT $1.10. . . Denver, ' Colo., Dec.12. Eggs .sold is high as $1.10 a dozen Friday in .Denver. In the downtown retail stores $1 was the prevailing price Retailers in the residence districts were charging more. $50,000 BULL BURNS x TO DEATH IN CAR. I Knoxville, ,Tenn., Dec. 12. Idol- mere,' winner of the Aberdeen-Angus grand championship at the re cent international live stock expo sition, died from burns received when the carinNvhich the bull was being shipped from Chicago, was burned. Idolmere, owned.by Dr. J. ' I. Huggins of Dandridge, Tenn., was valued at $50,000. ' SEVEN INDICTED ON $100,000 WHISKY SALE. Chicago, Dec. 12. Seven violat- j era of federal prohibition in (jonnec t'on with the-" removal and sale of $100,000. worth . of bonded whisky from a warehouse in October, were reported to have been indicted by , the federal grand jury Friday The indictments, which were said to name a discharged employe of the internal revenue collector, as well as a liquor dealer and others, were sup pressed for service. PADEREWSKI GOES BACK TOHIS PIANO. Geneva, Dec. 12. Ignace Jan Taderewski, the Polish premier, Is expected to abandon politics in the near future. and return to his home in Switzerland, owing to the condi tion of liis health, according to ad vices reaching the Polish agency at t 'f ,ir I i-ausanne irom vvarsaw. M. Paderewski, the advices add, will devote lmnself to music. He has - not touched 'the piano since the ' . war. - SELL ; WOOLWORTHS HOME TO PAY TAXES. . New York. Dec. 12. Permission tof sell the Fifth avenue mansion of the late ' Frank W. Woolworth, val ued at $460,000, to aid the estate in , meeting the federal inheritance tax of $6,1)00,000 and the state transfer tax of $1,050,000 war requested of Justice Newburger in supreme court by Hubert T. Parsons, committee of the person of Mrs. Vyoolworth. MOVIE PICTURES BEHIND THE "WALLS OF ALGERIA." - New York, Dec. 12. Two moving picture expeditions to penetrate "be hind the walls" of Algeria, Turkey, ' India and China have been dis . patched by the Inter-Church World 1novement. The beaten jJaths of the tourist will be abandoned for horse and camel caravans into the in- where native social and in VOL. 49 NO.-153. 0iill P. 0. liter act it March 3. 117. OMAHA,' SATURbAYDECEMBER 13, 1919. 7 ; By Mill (I yur. Dally. MM: SMday. W.Ms Dally iM Sal.. M.00; avtaldi Nik. pwU axlra. TWO CENTS. - - . , -,, . . THE WEATHER Fair Saturday, rising temperature in west portion; Sunday unsettled, not so cold. Hourly tmprrnturtu ' , ' 6 a, tit. ....... .HI 1 p. m.,J...t; S A . . l. m ,.. 1 av in......;.; S p. ... , t S v m..,..,... R 4 p. m.,.. n a, m.. ....... 4 p. m t a. m. ........ 1 5 p. m. , , 10 a. m 5 p. an.,,,..... 1 ft . m 4 1 p. ...,...,. 1 11 Noon 8 p. m. ........ , ; : r- ; : : ; : n : : k s . . - - INDUSTRIES TO. OPEN UP ON SUNDAY Business Hours Lengthened 'And Nonessentials May Op erate Under Restrictions by Furnishing Own Fuel., REPORTS FROM 'MINES ' CREATE OPTIMISM tenon. A...trli .nnilUinlil mill he filmpd. it was said. Fift thousand feet ofloew orders, enabling shoppers to f ? ? reel will be shipped to this country for exhibition in theaters and churches. ,-.' , .8 ,, ' ;.y ;, . , PUSH MURDER CASE . AGAINST ,TWO-WOMEN. V Hammonton, N. J.r Dec. 12. The grand jury of Atlantic ounty, will 1 deat with the case resulting from the mysteriousdeath of "Billy" Danzey, Tuesday or Wednesday-next. Mean time, it is stated, no effort will be made to secure the release on habeas corpus of Charles S. White, charged with" murdering the boy, or Mrs. Edith Jones, alleged accessory after the fact. The warrant for Mrs. Susan ' White,., sister-in-law of Charles White,rwill not be served now be cause of her. Illness. ' - - - " x "DEAD SET" ON DAYLIGHT SAVING. . Washington," Dec. 12.Daylight laving .would be reinstituted under a bill introduced, by Represent? tiv ' Dallinger, republican, Massa chusetts, providing for an annual change m time on the last Sundays! in April ,n September respectively. JURY DISREGARDS MARYLAND BLUE LAWS. ' . Baltimore Md., Dec. 11. TheVei eently revived Sunday blue laws, -tome of which date back to 1723 and under which more than 1,000 indict menti ha been returned by the grand Jury, had their first airing in eonrt Friday since the recent re ' form ware tarted. The blue laws uffered defeat -'' r- The jury listened to testimony re farding Sunday selling'by a confec tioner, the first indicted person to be, tried, and promptly returhed a rerdict of not guilty. A great deal of interest attached to, the first case tried, as it was ex pected the prosecution would select a ease in "which the evidence was clear.- ) - BRITISH EARL WEDS ' AN AMERICAN WOMAN. London, Dec. 12. Earl Howe was married Thursday toLary Dufferln formerly Florence Dayis daughter of John Davis of Washington Square, New York. BOLSHEVIK! SHOOT CAPTIVE OFFICERS. Irkutsk, Dec 12. An engineer named Tcheriniakoff, who has just r arrived from Omsk, says the bolshe viki shot all captive officers of the ' Siberian army who refused to join the Red army, and citizens who pro tested against night raids and other bolsheviki excesses. " ' ASSESSMENT OF J. D. CUT TWO MILLIONS. . New York, Dec. 12. An estimated value of $1,000,000 is placed upon John D. Rockefeller's furniture, jew elry, "horses and carriages" and other' personal-effects, in New York .in an itemized statement which his - attorney presented in protest against the Ne"w York tax assessment of So.OOO.OOO. His application for a re duction to $2,000,000 was granted. HOUSEWIVES' U1JION TO MOURN HANGING. Palo Alto, Cat, '.Dec.. 12. Palo .Alto women, members of House wives Union No. 1, announced they will wear mourning bands on their sleeves December 19, in silent pro test against the "judicial .murder" of Antone Lapara, sentenced to be hanged in San Quentin prison on that date for the murder of Rario r. Cold Wave Will Not Order Additional Cars Permitted to For Extra Traffic. Affect Street Care Although extreme cold weather, which reached Omaha last night, will increase the demands for coal, orders issued yesterday by the ter minal fuel committee lengthening the hours of business of all classes and permitting schools and places of amusement to open, will stand as issued and take effect at 1 a. m. to morrow, H. L. Snyder, chairman of the committee, ' stated last night Reports received yesterday that all the Sheridan mines and.a majority of the mines in the Rock Springs district in southern Wyoming were producing a normal amount of coal created seme optimism among the members of the committee. Chair man Snyder also stated that assur ances had been received that nearly 400 cars of coal would begin arriv ing in Omaha by Tuesday from eastern points. . - Add More Care. Retail stores will remain - onen from 10 a. m. to 6 p. m., under the complete their Christmas buying with less difficulty. Increased street railway service to meet the necessi ties of the lifting of a part of the restrictions will begin tonight, whert extra cars will be pat-on for the evening rush, R. A. Leussler, gen eral manager of the Omaha & Coun cil Bluffs street railway, said. Be- ? inning-Sunday - night . the service rom 7 p. m. to 11 p. m. "will be doubled to care for. the theater crowds. A committee, representing the building managers of the city was beforcthe coal committee yesterday afternoon to secure permission to leave office buildings open untjt S in the evening, instead of 4, as the new order provides. The extra hours will not be granted, however, according to Chairman Snyder, who explained that the Garfield order would not permit the change. ' No Sunday Matinees. Theater managers also conferred with the committee yesterday after noon in an effort to secure permis sion to give Sunday matinees. They were also refused,, in spite of the fact, that they produced a telegram from Senator G. M. Hitchcock stat ing that he had beeninformed by the central coat committee at Wash ington, D. C, that instructions to rregional directors permit moving picture shows to operate without re striction as to hours. In part the telegram read: "If the local coal committee is one appointed by the regional director it has no authority to act otherwise. This matter has been taken up with Director Hale Holden at Chicago, and we expect to receive a report today. It appears that the local committee is defying superior au thority." Quote Des MoinesMessage. Memhers of the committee said they had received noworder permit ting moving picture shows to run with hours unrestricted. In defending their" rigid conserva tion orders in the past and continued orders for conservation which will still be in effect, members of the terminal .fuel committee called at tention to, a telegram received from thtj fuel committee at Des Moines, asking Omaha to send that city 100 cars of coal. But one car of coal was available for the use of Des Moines yesterday, according'to the telegram, which was received yester day.v Omaha would be in the. same position today if rigid conservation had not been enforced, members of the committee said. v" Longer Business Hours. The order issued yestefday by the coal committee authorizes the fol lowing ' business hours which may be observed, beginning at 1 a., m. Sunday, by the places mentioned un til further notice: Retail stores, including groceries, meat markets and barber shops, 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. - Manufacturers, jobbers, wholesal (Conttaned oa Face Two, Column One. 5 Scandinavian Socialists -Anxious for World Revolution Stockholm, Dec 12. The Scandi navian extreme socialistic and labor ites have passed a resolution in sup port of the promotion of a world revolution, affirming solidarity by the congress with soviet Russias fighting workmen and recommend ing the development of trade unions as. active revolutionary elements, the fighting" arms of which should include strikes, sabotage and obstruction, -S Irish Start Tempest by Hoots arid Yells Befdre Congressiqnal Committee 1 - Hearing Held oft Mason's Bill to, Send Diplomats to Irish Republic DeJValera Charged With Being Pro-German Advocates-Justice Cohalan, F. E. s Walsh and Boland Present Session in Disorder. Washington, Dec. 12. The claim of the Irish republic to recognition as an independent nation wwas brought to congress again today and debated in militant fashion through a tempestuous all-day session of the house committee on foreign affairs. A crowd which jammed the com mittee room and blocked adjoin ing corridors "punctuated the pro ceedings with cheers and with hoots of disapproval as the opposing speakers presented their arguments, e.ad many times threw t!ie session into disorder by yelling gratuitous advice to the committee and wit nesses. It included many leaders of the cause of Irish freedom in this country and manifested in many ways its sympathy with ttie plea- for recognition. -Envoys to Ireland. The occasion was committee con sideration of , a bill by Represents tive Mason, republican, Illinois, which would appropriate funds for dispatch of diplomatic and consular representatives to the government set up by the insurgent Irish repub licans. Its supporters declared it presented an opportunity for con gress to do all it could constitution ally toward a full diplomatic recog nition, and its opponents condemned it as an effort to involve the United States in a dangerous foreign situa tion. x Late in the session charges of pro Germanism on the part of the Irish republican leaders and some of their supporters in this country, threw the meeting into a furore which the committee quieted with difficulty after the chairman had warned against insults to any of the wit nesses. Interruptions so prolonge3 the hearing that the .committee's plan of cdncluding today Was abandoned tnd the arguments will be resumed tomorrow. ' - Justice Daniel F. Cohalan of the New York state supreme court and Frank ; F Walsh, ' who headed the Irish-American delegation sent to Paris during the peace negotiations, appeared to espouse the cause of Irish freedom and ask for passage of the bill. The arguments in oppo sition were made by George L. Fox of New Haven, Conn.; George T. Lemon of Troy, N. Y., president Oi Ihe National Federation of Presby terian patriotic societies, and others. De Valera Not Present. Eamonn De Valera, president of the Irish republican government, who came to Washington yesterday to confer with Irish-American lead ers, did not appear at the meeting, but Harry Boland, secretary of the republic's "parliament," sat' with Justice Cohalan and Mr. Walsh and frequently advised them in the pre sentation of their case. . The. provisional government, thesel speakers argued, clearly was a de facto government having a complete executiye and parliamentary organ ization, an effective army of 100,000 and united popular support. The- government,, they asserted, is functioning in many important mat ters, While the British authorities have . abandoned their, attempt to carry out many of the duties of gov ernment. These statements all-were denied by Mr. Lemon and Mr. Fox, who said there was a great division of sentiment among the Irish both in Ireland and the United States and that little real headway had been made by the republic as a govern mental agency. They declared the Sinn Fein party, backing the re public, was jjne of three powerful political organizations in Ireland and had handicapped the allies in winning the war. Charge Pro-Germanism. 'An understanding between Irish Americans and German-Americans was charged by Mr. Lemon and Mr. Fox carried the suggestion a step further by turning to Mr. Walsh and declaring that during the war "this man was thinking to help Germany." The crowd, in which the tri-color of the Irish republic was conspicuous along witrfthe "Stars , and; Stripes, hooted .down the assertion and cheered committeemen when , they objected. ' , - . :''.';r: ' ; - ' ' Mr. Fox will continue his speech when, the committee meets tomor row and Bourke Gockran of New York will make the concluding ad dress for the advocates of the bill. VILLISTABAND IS APPROACHING .:. TEXAS BORDER . ; Nine Trains of Carranza Troops Hastening to Scene of Re ported Battle in Coajiuila. , Eagle Pass., Tex., Dec. 12 Five hundred Mexican federal troops sent by special train encountered the Villista force that raided Muzquiz, state of Coahuila, and fighting was reported in progress late yesterday, according to informationTeceived here toaay. The Villa force , com prised nearly 400 men. f Other reports were that Villistas were approaching Piedras, Negras, (he Mexican town opposite here, and were within 40 miles of the town and that the rebelshad blown up two troop trains, V It was officially announced in Mexican sources here that General Francisco Murguia had arrived at Barroteran, where the Mexican Na tional railway branches off to Muz quiz, about 20 miles away, and with him were - nine trainloads of Car ranza troops. v - Gen. Francisco Murguia, with time trainloads of federal troops isex-' pected to reach Muzquiz tomorrow, while 1,000 government troops un der General Truneda from Chi huahua are coming up with the in tention of intercepting the fleeing Villa forces, according to Consul Seguin. . The federals are now in complete possession of Muzquiz, he added. Consul $eguin's statement that Francisco Villa commanded the troops . operating around Muzquiz was the first intimation here that Villa was in that section. Judge Telephones And Saves Prisoner - From the Gallows Chicago, 'Dec. 12. Fifteen min utes before he was to start to the gallows to die for the murder of his wife, Arthur Haensel, former soldier, was granted a reprieve today by Judge Pam, who had sentenced him to die. A formal stay of execution later was issued postponing execu tion of the sentence to January 9 to give Haensel's attorneys time to appeal to the state supreme court - , Haensel was receiving the last ministrations from a clergyman when Judge Pam telephoned the jailer asking that the hanging be postponed until he could issue. the formal stay. : Haensel was convicted for killing his wife February 4, 11. when she left him .10 days after their marriage. FATHER RETURNS TO WIFE AND BABY GIRL AFTER TRIP Nervous Breakdown of Musi cian Given as Reason for Disappearance., A frantic wife and young mother, Mrs. A. C. Shoemaker; 318 North Twenty-third street, sorrowing over the disappearance of her husband, a musician, gave voice to happiness yesterday afternoon when he re turned to his home, apparently with out realization of what worry his dis appearancehad caused his wife. - j. jruuu vv..v vwn, elated wife cried on her husband's shoulders as she met him at the door. Mr. Shoemaker's only explanation of Jiis absence was that he was suf fering from, a nervous breakdown. He disappeared last Saturday after noon without bidding his wife or 4 months'-old aby goodby. "He haa brooded so much because the baby was not a boy," Mrs. Shoe maker said in explanation of her husband's . disappearance. . Mr. and Mrs.- Shoemaker have been married but IS months. . , Kept Light Burning. N "A baby, boy was his sole delight, and I fear the disappointment be cause hfs hope was ndt realized con tributed to his breakdown," the wife said. ' ' For nearly a week the young mother kept constant watch outrthe windows, of their little home for the return of her husband. At noon yes terday, she answered a telephone call from Lincoln. Her husband was at the other end of the wire. "How are you and the baby? This is Al. Is everything all right? I'll be home on the fastest train to see you," the voice stated. With a heart full of forgiveness, a joyous wife met her ; husband when he entered the home and . a happy afternoon and evening was spent in a reunion 'of wife, husband and baby. .- s . ; ifr. Shoemaker felt ill from ove'rT work and exertion in giving music lessons, he said. He had been in Kansas .City and . Lincoln,! he told his wife. -.K Minnesota Troops Turned J . Against Railroad Strikers St Paul, Minn., Dec. 12. Adjt Gen. W. F. Rhinow, in response to a request from International Falls for state troops to control a strike of engineers and firemen on the Min nesota, Dakota & Western railroad st International Falls, ordered out Company M, Fifth Minnesota in fantry, which le(t its home station at St. Cloud Fridav for International rail , , ; COURT WILL PROBE KIRK FURLOUGH Chief Justice Morrissey Com plies With Omaha Judges' Request for Complete Inves tigation of Bandit's Release. LIEUTENANTJVERNOS SAYS "HANDS ARE TIED" Governor McKelvie Still in East With Law Partner Of Man Who Secured "Scrap Of Paper" From. Bushee., 'Lincoln. Neb.,' Dec. 12. (Special.) Chief Justice Andrew M. Mor rissey of the supreme court of Ne braska, today ordered an injmediate investigation into the release of the notorious Omaha bandit, Beryl C. Kirk, from the 6tate prison last week, by the members of -the State Bar commis"sion and the attorney general of Nebraska. -" i ,vThe action of the chief justice comes as the result of the filing to day of a report by the judges of Douglas county calling attention to the fact that the members of the Fourth judicial district dircted them to communicate to the chief justice, that seven members of the bar of Lahcaster.county have been accused of irregularities in the release of Kirk from the state, prison. Judge Redick's. Letter. The court's order follows: "In the matter of the release bf Beryl C. Kirk from the state peni tentiary. ' "It having been brought to the at tention of this court by a communi cation from the jurges of the Fourth judicial' district of Nebraska in the nature of a complaint for disbarment proceedings, "which " communication is in the following words, 4o-wit: "Omaha, Dec. 9. Honorable An drew M. Morrissey, Chief Justice Supreme court, Lincoln, Neb., Dear Sir: It having been brought to the attention of this court that Beryl C. Kirk, who had been sentenced by this -court to the state penitentiary for 20 years for the crime of mur der, has been released after having served only 18 months and, further, that rumors are persistent to the ef fect that the methods used jn pro curing such release were of such character as to bring scandal upon the administration of justice, and farther, that certain members of the bar of Lancaster county and perhaps ether counties have been Ruilty of unprofessional conduct in connection with the procuring of such release, the district judges of the Fourth ju dicial district have directed the un dersigned to call the matter to the attention of your honor and the su preme court of the state of Nebraska for such action as may be deemed proper or necessary looking toward the punishment of any officers of the court who may be found guilty of unprofessionalconduct and in this connection I am further directed to say that this court is in doubt upon the question ofc its authority to pro ceed in the matter otherwise than above indicated, but is fully con vinced that such authority rests with your honorable court. Yours with very great respect, (Signed.) "W. A. REDICK. "Presiding Judge District Court District." ' Chief Justice s Order. .In his order, Chief Justice Mor risey says: , " ,'"It is by the court ordered that the members of the bar commission, in conjunction with the attorney (Continued on Face Two, Column Three.) Rather Than "Abandon Her Dear Alexander, Goldman v Woman Will Go to Russia Emma Says Deportation Shows the "Hysteria of Government Official" Attorney Gives Up the ' Fight in Her Behalf With Berkman and 80 Others She Leaves in ,10 Days. New York, Dec. 12. Rather than be separated from Alexander Berk man, her companion of years, Emma Goldman announced tonight, through her' attorney, that she had abandoned her fight in the supreme court to prevent her deportation to soviet Russia with Berkman and some 80 odd radicals. Harry Weinberger, her attorney, in a letter to Assistant Attorney General Stewart at Washington, asked that Miss Goldman's applica tion ior a writ of error or appeal and release on bail be withdrawn. He said that this request was made "in view of the statement made by your department and the commis sioner general of immigration that Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman and other Russians will be deported within 10 days to soviet Russia." The letter said Miss Goldman pre ferred jail or deportation "to con tinued custody on Ellis Island." Goes With Berkman. The refusal of the supreme court to delay Berkman's deportation, the attorney said, also had led . Miss Goldman to abandon her fight. He .quoted her as saying that "if Berk man mVst go, I and the rest will go with him." Later a statement was issued by Miss Goldman in which she said: , " "I desire to go as soon as possible to soviet Russia and I expect the government to keep its promise to depdrt Berkman and myself as well as other Russians within 10 . days. Citizenship by naturalization - today is no protection to any former alien." "Hysterical Government." She said that the sudden calling for her deportation showed the "hysteria of the government offi cials" and that she did not expect that she woufd be given time to ar range her "many business and pe sonal affairs. Characterizing the I governmen action as like that of the czar Russia," Miss Goldman continued "I expect while in soviet Russia to read shortly of American-born citizens being deported from Amer ica to the Island1 of Guam or some other .colonial possession of Amer ica, despite tne constitution wnicn guarantees free speech and press. BLIZZARD RAGES OVER NEBRASKA; TRAINS ANNULLED Earmarks , of Famous Storm Of 1888 Seen in Gale and . Snow Sweeping - TThe State ' With the thermometer regis tering 4 degrees below zero at midnight last night, the expected cold wave was slowly creeping over Omaha." The temperature dropped degree by degree, al most hourly, from 9 above at 8 yesterday morning until it reached zerojt 8 last night. '' ' .- Norfolk, Neb., Dec. 12. (Special Telegram.) A blizSrd, 'which had many earmarks of the famous storm of 1888, was raging over South Da kota and north Nebraska Friday evening. Freight service on theJ Northwestern road was annulled. A freight train has been stuck in the snow between Gregory and Dallas on the Winner line, since Thursday night and no news came late Friday afternoon from passenger train No. 6 which was reported stalled Thurs day night in the snow near Eli, Neb., on the Black Hills, division. Snow plows were at work endeavoring to dig out stalled trains and the ter rific northwest gale, heavy snow and below zero temperatures vere mak ing Conditions unbearable for the railroad workers., A blizzard has been raging at Dallas since 3 Friday morning and the mercury dropped to 12 degrees below zero at 8 a. m. The traffic on country roads was again blocked. All the way from Deadwood and other -resm ng juage .str.cc our B, k Hm . Norfolk the Douglas County Fourth Judical tom wag t at t ,ate hour prl day afternoon. Delays Western Trains. Lincoln, Dec. 12. Delays to train service due to unfavorable weather conditions in western states were reported today by the Chicago, Burlington; & Quincy railroad on its Denver-Chicago and Billings-St. Louis lines. Temperatures in Ne braska reached as low as 10 bflow zero. In the western part of the state snow accompanied ;by higTi winds was falling, leading to a pre diction from the Burlington that its lines would be tied ud before nieht Still colder weather tomorrow was forecast. The coal shortage con tinues acute. Tonight the Stromsburg . Alma branch and the Dewitt-Holdrege branch of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road ,are blocked, and no trains are-attemptin& to move. Wave in Southwest. Stocks Tumble and fall Money Goes to 1 5 on N. Y. Exchange New York, Dec. 12. Stocks fell with great Violence in the last hour 6f trading on the exchange when IS per cent was paid .for call money and exchange on London fell back to the low point of the morning. .-, General Motors led the break at an extreme decline of 15 points, Crucible Steel "was 10 points down and allied shares extended' their previous losses by 1 to 3 point?. From the urgent character of the selling it was plain that many specu lative accounts were being' thrown over because of the 'inability of traders to meet impaired margins. Toward the close, when call money eased to 12 per cent, rallies of 1 to 5 points ensued. Baltimore Reds Rounded v Up by Agents of U. S. -Baltimore, Dec. 12. More than a score of alleged reds were seized by agents of the Department of Justice in a roundup conducted quietly through the city and are being held to await instructions from Washing ton as to their disposition. v Department of Justice officials here maintained that the arrests were a part of the government's gen eral scheme. for riddinj? the country of radicals and auarcliists, . .. . FOUND GUILTY OF CRIMINAL ATTACK UPON YOUNG GIRL Joseph 0'Hare Convicted by District Court Jury Three jOthers Await Trial . On Same Charge. .V--'- Joseph 0'Hare;"2TSll Leavenworth street, was found guilty of attempt ed Criminal' assault after a trial be fore a jury in District Judge Sears' court yesterday. Chief Deputy County Attorney Coffey prosecuted the case. The jury returned .the verdict at 4:30 yesterday afternoon atter being out about three hours ine complaining witness was Betty Anderson, a 15-year-old girl. She and other witnesses' testified that O'Hare, Ames Gorman, Stanley box, 813 South Twentieth street, and Thomas Sullivan, 1466 South Sixteenth street, met her and- Alma Turnqmst at Fourteenth and Far nam streets, the evening of Septem ber 13 and, under promise "of driv ing them to their homes, took them to a lonely 'road near the west of Fairacres, assaulted them, leaving them there afterwards and fleeing back to the city. O'Hare aid not deny anything ex cept the actual assault. He was remanded to jail.' Penal ty for the crime 'of which he has been convicted is two to 15 years in the penitentiary. Fox is awaiting trial on a charge of criminal assault, Sullivan on the same charge and Gorman on the charge o attempted criminal sault. . 75 PER CENT OF fill BUCK L MINING COA Garfield's Resignation to Be Accepted, Says White House Restrictions on Coal and Trains Lifted in Many Places. WAGE ADVANCI MAY BE ADDED TO CpAL PRICE Director General Hines Gives .Regional Directors Permis- . sion to Rescind Regulations On Heat, Light-arid Power. Buffalo Banker Is Killed in Airplane Accident in France London, Hand, Kansas City, Dec. 12, A severe and ' unexpected cold wave swept down on the southwest late today and temperatures as low as 10 de grees below zero are predicted be fore morning. The cold is accom panied by a strong north,'' wind. From Missouri, Kansas and Okla homa come reports of rapidly fall ing temperatures. The Ioca.1 weafher bureau forecast a temperature of at least five degrees-' below' zero for Kansas City. s ; Froze to Death in 32 Below. Spokane, Wash., Dec. 12. One fatality due to thev cold weather, was reported . today, that of James Oakley, 75 years old, who was found frozen to death in his cabin at Ukiah, Ore., 55 miles south, of Pendleton. The temperature in the cabin was 32 below, according to the man who took the body to Pendle ton. Twenty-eight . degrees below it Butte was the coldest for Montana. Dec. 12. Georee F. president of the Marine Na tional bankJof Buffalo, N. Y.. fell from an airplane at Catenhan. Sur reyf yesterda; and was instantly killed. Lieutenant Bradley, who was piloting the1 machine, .was danger ously injured. . Paris, Dec. 12. The American colony here was shocked to learn today of the death of George F. Rand, he Buffalo banker killed in an accident while .in an airplae flight from Paris to London. One of his last acts before leaving Paris was to'call upon Premier Clemen ceau with Ambassador Wallace and offer 500,000 francs for a monument to a battalion of French soldiers who were tvervhelned in a trench at Verdun during the heroic defense of that fortress. The premier ac cepted the offer. . , The explosion of a shell buried 80 sokliers in the trench as they were Jbout to charge.- They were found with their rifles, bayonets at tached, sticking out of the earth. Church Urges "Extreme Caution" With Carranza Baltimoie, Md., Dec. 12. Extreme caution in the. handling of the Mex ican situation was urged in a resolu tion by the executive committee of the federal council of the Churches of Christ in America at rts final ses sion. A committee of leading church men and laymen was appointed to confer with Secretary Lansing a9d recommend the appointment of a special commision to study our re lations with the southern republic The committee left for Washing ton at once. It represents 31 Protes tant denominations, composing the federal council of churches Washington, Dec. 12. Fuel , Ad ministrator" Garfield's resignation was placed today in the hands of President Wilson and, it was said, "will, of course, be adbepted.". White House officialswithheld the letter, and Dr. Garfield declined to discuss his action, but it was under stood that it resulted from liisdis approval of the decision of the ad ministration to place settlement of free I the wage and price controversy in ine nanus or a commission repre sentative of the c,oal mining industry,- ' , While the president was. consider ing the resignation the:operators of -the central Pennsylvania district, one of the largest in the country, made public resolutions stating that the president's proposal to end the coal strike was "no settlement of the .rinciples at stake." In a formal statement the operators said the op erator's and the public "have been delivered into the hands of the United Mine Workers of America." Operators Not Hopeful. v Despite the agreement to end the coal strike, the railroad administra tion's central coal comrnittee today considered further drastic restric tions on the use of coal. Stocks on hand have become dangerouily low, members of the committee said, and the utmost care must be exercised until the production gets back to something like "Bormal. Operators from all sections of the country still were here awaiting gov ernment notification on steps al ready taken and a decision as to their own policy. -They said riporis to them showed that thus far onlV a small percentage 6f the striking miners had returned to work. v Can Remove Embargoes.' ; v Regional directors of railroads ' were given authority tonight by Di rector General Hines to remove re 'strictions on the Use of light,, heat and power derived from coal as soon as the fuel situation warrants"' ; , The directors also were authorized . to restore train service removed or curtailed to meet the cOal shortage due to the bituminous miners' strike as soon as the fuel supply in. the -various regions justifies. . Sending- out of the instructions constituted the first step taken by the government in .the light of ex pectation that miners would accept the government's strike settlement aud return to work. Lift Embargoes Everywhere., L. Following the announcement 'by" Director General Hines, message" came pouring in from, many points in . the country indicating that restric tions were being lifted, not only pir- tially but to the last degree, and that men were returning to the mines. - Philadelphia wired that all restric-1-tkms on heat, light and power in the Allegheny region had been removed, " effective at once. Complete passen ger service was also renewed; with the exception of the "Broadwiy Limited," which will be resumed De cember 15. The' Illinois public utilities com--mission cancelled all coal regulations effective at noon Monday, it being stated that all "restrictions" will be removed at that hour also, although Hale Holden of the cfcntral western region had not announced cancella tion for his district. Pittsburgh announced that a11,re- ; strictions would-be lifted Saturday morning. . . 1 - St. Louis wired that normal train service would be resumed at mid night Sunday. ' Duluth announced that the liftinor of restrictions only awaited . word that the Illinois miners had returned to work. At midnight word came that men already had returned to work at 34 out of 144 Illinois mines, 1 in 53 out of 112 in Indiana, and in 30 out of 50 in' Iowa. Pittsburg, Kan., wired that min ers throughout the entire state will return immediately. - - ' - At Pittsburgh, Pa., it was staled that 10,000 men had returned in dis trict five alone. i . 75 Per Cent at Work V The VaiUoad administration re ceived unofficial estimates during the day that from 65 to 70 per cent of the miners had gone back to work. Private. reports' to operators said tlut in Indiana nearly all the men had returned, but elsewhere a good deal of delay was being shown. Fuel . Administrator Garfield's ' resignation, sent td President Wil son yesterday, was discussed by White House officials who expressed the, belief that it would be accepted though it was not indicated that the (CoaUancd a rc X, Clona Tov.) ' as- !