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THE BEE! OMAHA. MONDAY, JAJNUARI IB, IVZO. 7 BOILER ROOM OF PASSENGER SHIP FLOODED Powhatan, With 500 Aboard, Sends Out S. 0. S. Call Other Ships Stand By. New York, Jan. 18. The United States army transport Powhatan, reported to be leaking badly about 500 miles east of New York, is in no immediate danger and will probably be floated into Halifax, the nearest port, according to a wireless message received shortly before midnight from Captain Randall, the ship's commander, at the army transport office here. Boston, Jan. 18. The army fans port Powhatan with 500 passengers aboard, sent word by radio today that she was in distress about 500 miles east of New York. The boil er room was said to be flooded with the water gaining and help from the pumps uncertain. The steamers Western Comet and Cedric, which replied to the distress calls, were asked to stand by. Captain Randall, who signed the messages, gave the position of the Powhattan as latitude 41.05 north; longitude 62.01 west. The first message said the trans port's fire room was flooded, with the pipes choked and water gaining. In a second message Captain Randall said: "We have 500 persons on board. Boiler room flooded. Desire ships stand by until results of attempt to raise steam to start pumps is known." To Transfer Passengers. New York, Jan. 18. A wireless message received tonight from the army transport Powhatan, in dis tress about 500 miles east of New York, stated that her passengers would be transferred to the White Star liner Cedric as soon as the weather permitted. The message asked that tugs with "heavy tewing gear" be despatched as soon as pos sible. Ex-Kaiser's Former Yacht The Powhatan, which was for merly the Hamburg-American liner Hamburg, and prior to that the pri vate yacht of Wilhelm Hohenol lern, sailed from New York for Ant werp en Friday morning, with 271 military and civilian passengers, it was announced at the army transport offices. She carried a crew of 150 men and had aboard a cargo of mili tary supplies The passenger list of the Powhat an, army, officials said, was classed as follows: One hundred and eighty-three mil itary, 84 war department, two com merce department and two navy de partment. Included among these was a party of 75 former service men and ofticers who were on theit way to the French battlefields to begin the work of returning the bodies of American dead to this country. The expedition was in charge of Herbert S. ,For:man, a former artillery offi cer of the Rainbow division. The first wireless message re ceived at the army transport office from Captain Randall, the ship's commander said: "Ship leaking in fire room. Fire room flooded. Steam not sufficient to operate pumps. Assistance re quired. Northeastern gale blowing." Shortly afterward another message reported that the White Star liner Cedric was standing by. Leavenworth Commandant At Issue With Civil Men Leavenworth, Jan. 18. Doubt of the right of a federal judge to cause an investigation of army administra tive affairs was expressed by Major James McRae, commandant of the "disciplinary barracks at Fort Leav enworth. General McRae comment ed on the order of Federal Judge J. C. Pollock of Kansas City, in or dering United States Attorney Rob ertson to investigate a situation brought out in testimony at the trial of 11 men charged with conspiracy to issue and pass fraudulent treas ury certificates printed on a press at the disciplinary barracks. The testimony, the court said, was either perjured or carried severe re flection on a "great department of the government." "If government of justice agents come to the prison for an investiga tion with orders only from Judge Pollock, I intend to take the mat ter up with Secretary of Wa Bak er before I permit anything to be done," .aid the commandant. "The matter to which Judge Pollock re ferred took place before I was sta tioned here and I know very little about it, but I can say that it has been investigated thoroughly." "About a year ago. there was a form of self-government in the pris on, but that is not in force now." Kiddies and Chickens "Roost" Together Alameda. Cal., Jan. 18. When the Alameda police responded to a call from Mrs. M. Besson. who believed she heard noises in her house, and vent to the place, they found 12 children. 24 hens and a rooster all sleeping in two rooms. The rooster was snuglv perched on top of the dresser. No intruders were found and the poultry and family arrange ment has been reported to the Ala meda board of health. Withdraw Objections To Irrigation Canal On California Border Washington. Jan. 18. Objections oreviouslv expressed by the State department to the construction of an all-American canal along the California border, which would free 55,000 settlers of Imperial valley from dependence upon Mexico for water for irrigation purposes were withdrawn today by Secretary Lan sing in a letter to Representative Kinkaid, republican, Nebraska, chair man of the house committee on ir rigation. At present American and Mexican ranchers are served jointly by a canal which, though flowing through Mexican territory for 50 miles, is owned by a municipal corporation oreanized bv American citizens. Dependence of Americans upon the canal has resulted, it is claimed, in the refusal of Mexican benefiiciarics of the water to pay any part of the maintenance of the canal. Under the nrooosed Kettner bill 200,000 acres of government land cast of Imperial valley, which would Hp im-lude.d in the irriaable territory of the proposed all-American canal, would be opened tor entry ano sci tfemen't by former service men. Pogroms Against Jews in Poland Told of in Report New York, Jan. 18. Details of ex cesses committed against the Jews in Poland, in which 252 members of the race were the victims of mob violence, are given in the report of the mission headed by Henry Mor genthau, which investigated these outbreaks and which has been made public. The mission, which was ap pointed by,Secretary Lansing on the request of Ignace Jan Paderewski, then president of the Polish council of ministers, was composed of, in addition to Mr. Morgenthau, Brig. Gen. Edgar Jadwin and Homer H. Johnson. It arrived in Warsaw on July 13, 1919, and remained in Po land for two months, during which time it traveled by automobiles more than 2,500 miles, making a personal investigation in every town where anti-Jewish outbreaks had been re ported. While admitting that in eight spe cific cases the Jews had been made ; the target of outrage, pillage and murder, the report of the mission declares that it would be unfair to place the blame for these excesses on the Polish nation as a whole, "Just as the Jews," the report says,' "would resent being condemned as a race for the action of a few of their undesirable coreligionists, so it would be correspondingly unfair to mnrlrmn the Polish nation as a whole, for the violence committed by uncontrolled troops or local mobs. These excesses were apparently no' premeditated, for if they had been r part of a preconceived plan the num ber of killed would have run into thousands instead of amounting to about 280. It is believed that these excesses were the result of a wide spread anti-semetic prejudice aggra vated by the belief that the Jewish inhabitants were politically hostile to the Polish state." No Wonder the Heart-Interest mm e in it Ai w . "crzrmuftftfniuii tuns vit- itm i t-t a. $2,550,000 Subscribed In New York Alone For Cause of Ireland New York, Jan. 18. Governor Al fred E. Smith, in a letter read at a mass meeting presided over- by Eamon De Valera, "president of the Irish republic," expressed regret :hat he was unable to be present when the freedom of the city of New York was conferred on him. He added that he looked forward with pleasure to meeting him in Albany on Jan uary 21, and extend "sincere best wishes" for the success of the Irish republic. "De alera should have the sym pathy of all liberty loving Ameri cans," in his fight for the freedom of Ireland, Governor Smith said. Commander-in-Chief Warren Shaw Fisher of the United war veterans, pledged the support of his comrades to the cause of Ireland. It was announced that $2,550,000 had been subscribed in New York to the Irish loan. Present at the meeting were James O'Mara and James T. Burke, mem bers of the Dail Eireann or "Irish parliament," who were said to have reached the United States in the same unknown manner as did De Valera. Hungary Mourns Over Allied Peace Terms Berlin, Jan. 18. A dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger from Budapest says that all the Hungarian newspapers appeared with black mourning bor ders on the occasion of the publica tion of the peace terms for Hungary. The dispatch adds that black flags are flying over public buildings and many private houses, and that the aters have been forbidden to give performances for three days. Paris, Jan. 18. Count Apponyi and most of the Hungarian delegates have left Paris for Budapest. They will be absent for about 10 days. It is believed that the delegates will ask for a delay in the time set for Hungary to make known her reply to the demands of the peace treaty. Attachments enable a motor driv en scrubbing machine for household use to be used to polish hardwood floors. J. 11 BEND A CRAB" TEN TIMES Great Exercise to Keep Liver and Bowels Active, But if You Won't, Then take "Cascarets" There is nothing like bending ex ercises, taking long walks or chop ping wood to keep the liver and bowels active, but most folks take their exercise in an easy chair. Such folks need Cascarets, else they suffer from sick headache, sour, acid stomach, indigestion, colds and are miserable. But don't stay bilious or constipated. Feel splendid al ways by taking Cascarets occasion ally. They act without griping or inconvenience. They never sicken you like Calomel, Salts, Oil or nasty, harsh Pills. They cost so little, too Cascarets work while you sleep. The stripes in Bill Hart's jeans run the wrong way for a convict's, so it's likely he's going into the safe for some good purpose. Safes are quite in style this year, you know. Of course, some folks prefer their cel lars, and other parched untortunates haven t anything to put into their lock-boxes more valuable than money or bonds. But a popular movie star like Bill Hart! how would you like to know hisi combination? By the way, here's another pleasure-giving combination Hart and . Para-mount-Artcraft pictures. His latest is a western story called "Sand!" ENGLISH PAPER STARTS FIGHT ON MONEY TRUST London Express Would Na tionalize Bank of England And Open Government Clearing House. By FLOYD MACGRIFF. International New Service Start Corre spondent. London, Jan. 18. England is in the grip of a gigantic money trust which is holding the nation to ran som on money rates, according to the London Daily Express. The Daily Express has been waging a campaign to force the government: First, to insist that the clearing house, now dominated by private banking interests so that it is vir tually a monopoly, be thrown open, o that seats may be held by any bank. .... , Second, to enact legislation mak ing it illegal for the banks to com bine to fix the rates of interest and discount, thus preventing what vir tually amounts to a restraint of trade by big banks. THrJ tn enrl the career of the Bank of England as a private enter prise with certain national privi leges, making the bank instead a real national bank. Tt.. r,'1ir Pvnrm rails nnon the public to back up this demand, which it holds is justinea not oniy by onerous banking conditions, but by increased charges on every per- sons cost ot living owing io methods emoloved bv the alleged bank comoinauon. Memorable Ceremonies at 64th Anniversary I.O.O.F. Lodge No. 2 Founded Coincident With City of Omaha Presentation of Jewels to Veteran Members and Of Emblem Rings to All Who Saw World-War Service Many Other Features on Program. The presentation of veterans' jewels to five members will be the feature of the program being pre pared to celebrate the 64th anniver sary, January 30, of Omaha lodge No. 2 of the I. O. O. F., according to the announcement Saturday of W. W. Boyden, chairman of the ar rangement committee. The cere mony will be conducted by Samuel K. Greenleaf, past grand master for Nebraska and former secretary of the local lodge. The honor will be conferred on members who have been identified with the local lodge for 25 or more consecutive years. They are John J. Toms, Alvin Metzler, H. E. Meyer, James A. Henderson and Alfred Samuclson. Kelso Morgan to Speak. Emblem Odd Fellows rings also will be presented every member of the lodge who was in the military or naval branches of the service during the world war. It was announced that Kelso Morgan would deliver the address and confer the honors on the members who wore soldier and sailor uniforms. Attorney John H. Nailer will de liver the address of welcome when the ceremonies begin in the evening at the I. O. O. F. hall, Fourteenth and Dodge streets. Music, dancing and refreshments will be other fea tures on the program. Omaha lodge ho. 2 holds the old est I. O. O. F. charter in Nebraska. The territory was organized in 1854 by Alfred D. Jones, Omaha's first settler and first postmaster. A short while before this Nebraska City ob tained charter No. 1, but this lodge became extinct when it was con solidated with lodge No. 3. The charter was granted to lodge No: 2, November 17, 1855, and still hangs on the walls of the lodge rooms as the oldest lodge charter in the state. The lodge was instituted February 1, 1856, in the first territorial capitol building, which stood on the west side of Ninth street between Farnam and Douglas streets, south of the al ley and opposite to what was then the Herndon house, which later was used as headquarters for the Union Pacific. The charter members were 'Alfred Jones, noble grand; Taylor G. Good well; first vice grand; George Arm strong, financial secretary; Ambrose S. Bishop, recording secretary, and Hadley J. Johnson, treasurer. The lodge was instituted by Sire Jerry Cassidy of Council Bluffs, who crossed the Missouri river on the ice bringing the regalia from Lodge No. 49 of Council Bluffs. Seven Grand Masters. Omaha Lodge No. 2 has furnished seven grand masters for the juris diction of Nebraska. They were Asa Hunt, St. John Goodrich, Alvin Saunders. Alfred G. Jones, John Evans, Charles A. Patterson and Samuel K. Greenleaf. Members of Lodge No. 2 point with pride to the fact that their lodge was founded almost simul taneously with Omaha. They also are proud of the fact that Mr. Jones, father of the lodge and founder of the city, laid out the city site and purchased from the original town site company in 1857 the plot on which the I. O. O. F. now stands. It is estimated there are 43,000 members of the lodge in Nebraska and is claimed to be by far the largest organization of its character in the state. ENGLAND WILL NOT URGE PACT RATIFICATION Press and Public Men Show Belated Realization of Un wisdom of Attempting Direct Persuasion. By EARLE C. REEVES, International Newn Fen-Ice Staff Corre spondent. London, Jan. 18. England, its press and public men, show a be lated but, nevertheless, solid realiza tion of the unwisdom of attempting direct persuasion of America on such subjects as the league of nations, the peace treaty and the proposed mandate for Turkey. A few months ago every move In the peace battle was followed by im mediate and fulsome comment and opinion in the editorial columns, and by pronouncements by public men. Today Paris and London and Rome and Berlin still consider it open season for comment and word wars when any emergency or shift ing of the pawns of peace give cause. But when seme new move is made in the United States sena.te, or some message comes from the White House, there is . a visible, almost audible pause before any opinions are ventured on the subject. America has broken bounds, and nobody on this side of the water is sure just how extensive the break is. Certain American correspond ents writing for the British press reassure Jchn Bull and tell him that the "States will come around all right." Certain prominent Ameri cans here on official and semi-official business tell a similar story. But these statements fail to carry bind ing conviction to the experts of the written word who are lodged in vari ous sanctums along Fleet street. They also fail of complete conviction with most of the prominent occu pants of offices along Whitehall. Both the editor and the official would 'like to believe that Col. John Buchan sized up the situation cor rectly wheu he spoke at an Ameri can correspondents' association luncheon. Buchan referred to the Biblical analysis of the three kinds of men: The one who says "I go," and goeth; the one, who says "I go ' and ggeth not, and, finally, the one who says "I goeth not," but ulti mately goeth The last, he declared, was a Scotch trait, and in America today this Scotch trait is dominat ing, i Beth the editor and the official would like to believe that America is merely displaying a bit of Scotch caution and stubbornness, but neither can convince himself entirely of this. So comment on America languishes! Public comment on America's move, or refusal to move, on the peace question, the league and the mandate, has not entirely ceased, of course, but it has diminished about 80 per cent, and it is interlarded with cautiously worded reservations. If the senate makes some big move today it may be day after tomorrow instead of tomorrow before any real comment appe'ars in the press. Heads get together, evidently, and there are conferences and careful su pervision of ideas. The comment, when it appears, is much more likely today to recognize America' right to have its own opinions than it was six or eight months ago. ASPIRIN FOR HEADACHE Name "Bayer" is on Genuine Aspirin say Bayer Insist on "Bayer Tablets of As pirin" in a "Bayer -package," con taining proper directions fof Head ache, Colds, Pain, Neuralgia, Lum bago, and Rheumatism. Name "Bayer" means genuine Aspirin pre scribed by physicians for nineteen years. Handy tin boxes of 12 tab lets cost a few cents. Aspirin is trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid. "The procesi of forming the monev trust is now virtually com plete' the Daily Express charges, "and a five-headed octopus of five great concerns dominates the money market and can fix money rates in dependently of the law of supply and demand. The Daily Express alleges that the Bank of England is a part of the money trust and that it has in creased the bank rate to 6 per cent without ample reason, adding mil lions of dollars daily to the nation's burden. "Remember," warns the Daily Ex press, "that money has ceased to be a free commodity subject to the laws of supply and demand so far as Great Britain is concerned. The treasury and the humblest indi vidual alike can only obtaii. advances and credit at the hands f the trust, and must pay. for them what the trust cares to demand. "This is a dangerous and anti social situation, and no such power can safely be placed in the uncon trolled hands of individuals." The Express points out that on October 3 the rate of interest on treasury bills at three months was 3 1-2 per cent, while today' it is S 1-2 per cent. On October 3 the rate of interest paid on deposits by banks was 3 per cent, while now it is 4. Thus while the banks :re receiving 2 par cent more from the treasury they are only paying their depos itors 1 per cent more. Since there are about $4,200,000,000 of treasury bills out, all of them negotiable se curities which can be turned into cash any day, it means that the added 2 per cent means a gross profit of some $126,000,000 to the banks which hold practically all the bills. Raising the interest on cus tomers' deposits which were used to take up such bills still leaves the banks a net $63,000,000. The Daily Express holds that such a division of profits is "absolutely .indefensi ble.6 profits of the banks involved in this holdup are more than $92,400,000; the raising of the interest rate to the government adds nearly a 75 per cent increase to the banks' profits. The Express wants to know if the depositors are going to take this "lying down." The Express demands that the chancellor of the exchequer assert control over the money trust and compel the banks to raise their rate of interest to their depositors to the full amount of the increase in treas ury bills Sugar Ban Good for Heatlh Asserts Dayton Doctor New York. Jan. 17. The shortage of sugar and the resulting "ration ing" of this commodity is declared really desirable and most beneficial to the public health by Dr. George Keifer Brelsford, of Dayton, O., who was at the McAlpin hotel here. The percentage of illness in families, particularly where there are babies, he said, has fallen off since the pres ent ban on unrestricted use of sugar. "It is highly gratifying," he said, "to find, as I have found in my two months' tour of the east, that in the iarger hospitals every time there is a sugar curtailment there are fewer patients admitted each day, particu larly in the baby wards." Believe Family Cat Sucked Breath, of Child Until Dead Oklahoma City, Ok!., Jan. 18.-A family cat is blamed for the death a few davs ago of the 4-months-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Claud Wil ford here. The father, returning home, from work at 7 o'clock, found the infant dead at its mother's side. According to the belief expressed by the coronor, following an investi gation of the baby's death, the cat sucked the infant's breath until it died, Bee Want-Ads-Produce Results. Jockey's Son to Inherit Big Estate by Shunning Racet Cleveland, Jan. 18. Carroll Buch ler Shilling, 4 years old, of Peoria 111., will not follow in his father's footsteps if his grandfather can pre vent it Herman Buehler, who left a $400. 000 estate, made a bequest of $20,000 to his grandson conditioned on his keeping out of the racing game. The child's father is one of the best known jockeyi in the country and' a few years ago was a top-notcher in the turf game, "I am strongly opposed to allow ing my grandson to be put on a race track or to be employed in any man ner in connection with horse racing," Buehler's will declared. FIRST WEEK, 5 EGGS; SECOND 72JHIRD 104 Hens Showed Steady Egg Gain for Mrt. Pierce in Winter Weather. "The week before we tried Don Sunt we got 5 eggs, from SO hens. The next week, from B0 rent package of Don Sung, we got 72 eggs, and the next week 104. Some of our hem are mere ullet and Don Sung has started them laying." Mr. B. F. Pierce, R. F. D. 1, Butler, Term. Mrs. Pierce selected a severe time foi her test the middle ofJanuary. 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The raiTresrh ave ratfispen. able to our whole economic life, and railway securities are at the very heart of most investments, large and small, public and private, by individuals and by insti tutions. WOODROW WILSON THE war could not have been won without railroads. Transport by rail and sea is an indispensable arm of national defense. Carrying capacity, from the wheat fields and the mines and the steel mills to the front lines in France, was the measure of our power in war. ' , And it is the measure of our power in peace. , Industrial expansion increasing national prosperity greater world trade are vitally dependent on railroad growth., The limit to the productive power of this country is the limit set by railroad capacity to haul the products' of our industry. ' The amount of freight carried on American rails doubled from 1897 to 1905 since that year it has doubled again. It will double still again To haul this rapidly growing traffic, the" country must have more railroads more cars and 'engines more track and terminals. Sound national legislation, broad-visioned public regula tion, will encourage the expansion of railroads, without which the nation cannot grow. dhi& admliMmentlApiibUshd by the . ' ' ' Tf.ojf unir.nff infmmatian eoneernine the railroad situation may obtain fifenv tui; ;v !.T..wg to Tkt UsocMlMft of Bailm cectiK, U Brottducy, ;.w York