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OMAHA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1920
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TWO CENTS,
SUFFRAGIST
ASSOCIATION
IS DISSOLVED
National Women's Body is Dis
banded After Fighting for
Enfranchisement in United
States Since 1869.
NEW BODY ADVOCATES
FREE SPEECH AND PRESS
Omaha Will Probably Be
Chosen by Nebraska Suf
frage Body for Last Con
vention Next March, c
'.'iiicaRo. Feb. 18. An attempt
wis made in the closing session of
tiii' Nationa' League of Woman Vot
ers today to reconsider a resolution
against universal compulsory mili
tary training, passed earlier in the
day. The motion fo reconsider failed
after spirited argument on hoth
Mtlts. H
The National American Woman
Suffrage association dissolved after
tilitinur tor woman's enfranchise
ment since 1869. It leaves the
league as its successor.
The next national meeting of the
league Svill be called by the board
of director.!, time and place to be
chosen later.
Endorse League of Nations.
A resolution indorsing the league
of nations was passed after a clause
calling for reservations had been
.stricken out. The resolution .read:
"Resolved that we urge the ad
hesion of the United States to the
league of nations with the least pos-
, 'sible' delay."
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell of
. Massachusetts, who introduced the
resolution, had included in the or
, iginal draft the clause '"with such
reservations as may be considered
necessary," but this was eliminated
after a heated debate.
Thej rights of free speech, free
press and free representation were
emphatically supported. The women
declared themselves opposed to any
attempts to use violence against the
government, but warned that "ill
considered attempts to meet this dif-
1 ficulty" perilled the .real liberty of
American citizens.
Proper provisions for education
and for, increases in the pay of teach
ers. were urged.
Miss Park Heads League.
Maud Wood Park of Boston
heads the league, according to the
result of an election by the board
of directors of its officers, who are
-also the officers of the whole organi
zation. Mrs. George Calhoun of St.
Louis is vice chairman, Mrs. Rich
ard Edwards of Peru, Ind., treasurer,
and Mrs. Solon Jacobs, Birming
ham, Ala., secretary.
The league sent a telegram to the
women of Washington state, en
couraging them in the fight for the
ratification.by that state of the 19th
constitutional amendment.
' Beginning tomorrow, a school for
women voters will be held, which
wtli last a week.
State' Suffragists May
Meet Here Next Month
By MYRTLE MASON.
Stuff forreapodent of The Bee.
"Chicago, Feb., J8. Omaha will
probably be the meeting place for
the last convention of the Nebraska
Women Suffrage association to bt
held late in March. Wednesday aft
ernoon at a caucus of the Nebraska
- (Continued on rage Two, Column Two.)
Enemies of Suffrage
Want Mrs. Catt to
Enter Senatorial Race
'
- Washington, Feb. 18. Suggestion
that Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt,
president of the new League of
-Women Voters, or Miss Mary
Garett May, enter the senatorial
- field in New York state in opposi
tion to the candidacy of Senator
' James W. Wadsworth, jr., was eon
tained in a letter addressed to Mrs.
Catt by Miss Mary G. Kilbreth,
president of the National Associa
tion Opposed to Women Suffrage.
Miss Kilbreth asserted that such
a race wrould make a fair test of
the anti-suffrage argument - that
women preferred to be represented
m politics by men rather than by
women. '
New Mexico Senate
Ratifies Suffrage;
House Favorable, Too
Santa Fe, N. M., Feb. 18. By a
vote of. 17 to 5, the state senate
ratified the federal suffrage amend
ment. It is certain that the house will
. ct favorably, probably Thursday.
Opposition almost entirely disap
peared when Dan Padilla, repre
sentative from Bernalillo county,
who had led te fight against the
amendment, withdrew his opposi
. tion.
.. . , .
Bill Reported to House
Abolishes Subtreasuries
Washington, Feb. 18. Abolish
ment of the nine subtreasuries, trie
jftices of 13 state surveyors general,
md two assay offices is proposed in
he legislative appropriation bill, re
ported today by the house appro
priations committee. A reduction
f $18,000,000 from department es
timates for clerk hire and miscel
laneous expenses was made, but the
bill's total of $104,120,000 is one of
the largest peace-time legislative
aooropriation on record.
President Victim
Of Fit of Temper
In Lansing's Case
(Editor's Note David Iawrence, of all
I lie W nnhliiitton newepaper eorreapondentii.
In reputed to be the one loet to Prenl
dent WilMia and White limine attaches,
lor nil yrurn Ilia writing have been con
Nlderrd authoritative statement of the
preDldentini attitude on publta questions.
I In iisiial sympathetic treatment of affairs
which ronoern President Wilson makes the
following; frank statement all the more
remarkable Tomorrow's article by Mr.
l.mvreme will deal with the personality
of the president and the outbursts of tem
per that he has upon occasion exhibited.)
By DAVID LAWRENCE. .
(Copyright by The Bee.)
Washington, Feb. 18". President
Wilson has made a mistake. His
friends art bewildered. 'His op
ponents naturally rejoice. Few peo
ple know' the facts not more than
two or three. The background of
the episode, the thread of the narra
tive itself discloses the inner side of
the White House and officialdom as
h is 'today the president in
capacitated, irritable over his long
confinement .and extremely jealous
of his presidential prerogatives, and
officials generally are apprehensive
lest they, too, become victims of
presidential wrath. For, if there
was "usurpation" of authority by
Secretary Lansing, there vvas plenty
of it by other persons equally as
close to President Wilson.
It is easy for people outside of
Washington to make an offhand
judgment and assume that the presi
dent's blunt act is a direct conse
quence of the tedium of his illness
an impatience and petulance not un
known to persons suffering from
nervous exhaustion. But, instead of
supposing that the president acted
unnaturally, one close at hand can
not but fail to have the impression
that, the president indeed acted
THREE DEAD IN
, HOTEL FIRE AND
32 ARE MISSING
Lack of Escapes and Failure to
Warn Guests Blamed for
Tragedy in East.
Providence, R. I.,. Feb. 18. Three
known dead and 32 others missing
was the official police check of the
unaccounted for guests at the Lor
raine hotel, which was swept by fire
early Wednesday. Search of the
ruins of the building for additional
bodies, which the police say they
feel certain must be there, will be
gin Thursday morning.
There were 106 guests registered
and of these the- authorities have
found 71 safe. The missing are
practically all Massachusetts and
New York people.
Folice and coroner's investiga
tions of he cause of the fire and an
alleged lack of fire escapes and a
failure properly to warn guests
when the blaze was discovered are
under way.
Two North Dakota
Delegations Likely
To Go to Convention
Bismarck, X. D., Feb. 18. Unless
diferences are ironed out before
June, it appears possible that two
North Dakota delegations will go
to Chicago, claiming recognition at
the republican national convention.
The first state convention was
held a short time ago at Fargo.
The second convention was held
here Tuesday. The second con
vention was a consequence of
charges by some republican leaders
that the first convention was domi
nated by delegates friendly to the
national Nonpartisan league.
Leaders of the Fargo convention
claimed it had been sanctioned by
the republican national committee.
Republicans prominent at Tuesday's
convention asserted the first con
vention was. not regular because
county delegations had not been
properly chosen. Both conventions
chose national delegates.
It is expected that some an
nouncement regarding the situation
will be made by the national chair
man, Will H. , Hays.
McAdoo Will Not Permit
His Name On Primary
Presidential Ballot
New York, Feb. l&. William
Gibbs 'McAdoo announced today
that he would not permit his name
to be used on presidential primary
ballots in the various states and that
he advocated the sending of unin
structed delegates to the democratic
national convention. , The former
secretary of the treasury said he
believed the highest constructive
leadership can best be obtained if
the national interest "is not sub
merged in a contest of individual
candidates."
"Personally," Mr. McAdoo con
tinued, "I would be delighted if the
next national convention might
actually be a great democratic con
ference where the utmost freedom
of action should prevail and where
the motive of high service alone
should control." ;
Modern Enoch Arden 1
Is Granted a Divorce
New York, Feb. 18. John C.
Ries, an American soldier who had
been officially listed as killed and
who later returned from overseas to
find his wife had married again, was
granted a decree of divorce1 in the
Brooklyn supreme court.
Ries served with a machine gun
compauy of the Twenty-seventh di
vision. He .was gassed, wounded
and left for dead upon the battle
field, but later he was picked un and
eat to a houta
DAVID LA WHENCE
naturally. Study of the Wilson tem
perament over a period of years and
observation of what has been going
on in the environs of the White
House and Capitol Hill since the
president got back from Europe
leads more easily to the conclusion
that Mr. Wilson gave vent to an out
burst of temper -which' has appeared
on previous occasions but .which his
advisers have wsiely concealed or
checked than to the notion that
some newly developed irascibility
brought about the curt dismissal of
the secretary of state.
Kept in Ignorance.
To form a correct judgement it is
necessary to know just how much
President Wilson has been permitted
to learn oi events and affairs going
on in the government and outside
world s during his illness. Three
people can answer the question Dr.
Cary T. Grayson, his physician;
Mrs. Woodrovv Wilson and Private
Secretary Joseph P. Tumulty. The
lips of the first individual are sealed
by professional ethics, the wife of
the president is not given to answer
ing inquiries from newspapers and
has had no communication with the
press since Mr. Wilson became ill,
and the private secretary to the
president has decided to keep abso
lu'ely mum.
Hut correspondents who go to the
White House every day make it
their business to keep their eyes-and
ears open and to remember from
week to week and month to month.
nd anv one of a dozen who watch
White House affairs carefully can
testify to certain happenings,
(Continued on Page Two, Column Three.)
1 RAIL WORKERS
NEED NOT FEAR
. ANY WAGE CUT
Guaranteed Against Reduction
Before September in Revised
Rail Measure.
Washington, Feb. 18. Guarantee
against any reduction in wages be
fore next September 1, is given rail
road workers in the revised draft
of the railroad reorganization bill
reported to the senate and house.
Railroad corporations which are to
regain 'control and operation of their
properties March 1 are safeguarded
likewise by the-compromise measure
against reductions in rates and
fares at the hands of state commis
sions prior to September 1, the bill
providing specifically against any
rate or fare reduction not approved
by the Interstate Commerce com
mission. The redrafted reorganization
measure, while not prohibiting ad
vances either in wages Of in rates,
in the opinion of the members of
the conference committee subscrib
ing to the majority report, will tend
to stabilize conditions in the railroad
industry.
Hurried Conferences.
Before presentation of the con
ferees' report and the redrafted
measure to the house, where it first
was received, the section of the biil
relative to wages vvas interpreted as
establishing the pay of railroad em
ployes at the level effective when the
properties are returned. This inter
pretation, which later was found to
be erroneous, led to hurried confer
ences among railroad labor leaders
Continued on Pago Two, Column Two.)
To Urge on Congress
Land Settlement for
American Legion Men
Washington, Feb. 18. Land set
tlement in all states for former
service meii, federal aid to encour
age their purchase of either rural
or city homes, vocational educa
tion and adjustment of compensa
tion based on length of service were
recommended by the legislation
committee of the American Legion,
which has been in session here three
days. Eath veteran would be' given
an option of one of the four plans.
The program will be energetic
ally urged upon congress, it was
announced, and "the American
Legion does not hesitate to state
that it expects definite action with
in the next 60 days."
Trade With Germany Is
Progressing Rapidly
New York Feb 18 Tradp with
'.Germany has progressed so rspidly
tnat tne international Mercantile
Marine company has purchased; a
building and established offices in
Hamburg, it was announced at the
office of the company. J. J. Mc
Glone is in charge of the Hamburg
business, operated under the Amer
ican line and the American passen
ger steamers Mongolia and Man
churia, now in the New York-Hamburg
service, have been supple
mented by a fleet of 12 shipping
board freight steamers. ,
"House of Johnson" In
: Quadruple Alliance
Mitchell, S. D., .Feb. 18. "TJie
House of Johnson formed a quad
ruple alliance here when Harvey
Johnson of Letcher, S. D., married
Miss Mary Johnson of Mt. .Vernon,
S. D and Jacob Johnson, Miss
Mary's brother, wedded Miss Josie
Charlotte Johnson, Harvey's sister.
All the 43 Johnsons in the city direc
tory publicly extended their coaerat
utations to the couples.
PROPITIATING
REPLY MADE
WILSON NOTE
Supreme Council's Answer to
President's Dictum in Adri
atic Situation Not Made
Public at Present Time.
WHOLE SUBJECT LIKELY
OPEN TO RENEGOTIATION
London Papers Deprecate
Failure to Give Out Contents
of White House Note and
Allied Reply.
Washington, Feb. 18. (By. the
Associated Press.) President Wir
son's note to the! allied supreme
council regarding the Adriatic ques
tion, which caused something of a
stir in this as well as the allied coun
tries, apparently has served to re
open the whole subject to negotia
tion. The supreme council's reply was
received todav at the State depart
ment, but was withheld. London
advices said the note was concilia
tory. The State department made
no comment on this, but it was
pretty well understood that the en
tente premiers' communication had
at least removed the Adriatic ques
tion from the status in which it was
after the council communicated its
settlement to Jugo-Slavia in the
form of an ultimatum without the
United States being a party to, the
agreement.
The Jugo-Slavs were given the op
tion of accepting the council's plan
or submitting to the carrying out of
the Adriatic provisions of the secret
treaty of London, negotiated before
the United States entered the war.
In this connection it was disclosed
today that President Wilson in his
note again came out definitely
against the application of this treaty.
U. S. Should Be Party.
Tt was also understood that the
president had taken the position that
regardless of the operation of the
treaty of Versailles and the league
Oi nations, the United States should
be a party to the Adriatic settle
ment because of its position a,s a co
belligerent. While the premiers' reply was be
ing received at the State department
from Ambassador Davis, a sugges
tion came from Europe that the pre
miers had invited the American gov
ernment,., in . the.sveut Jhat it Mill
held that the original Adriatic agree
ment made at Paris on December 9
should be carried out, to indicate the
practical steps that could be taken to
execute this agreement, if it should
be accepted by Italy and Jugo
slavia. Under the terms of the December
9 settlement, to which the United
States was a party, Fiunie was to be
erected into a free .state "under the
league of nations and in other re
(Continunl on Page Two, Column rive.)
War Record of Son
Enough to Beat Ford
At Polls, Senator Says!
Washington, Feb. 18. Henry
Ford would have been defeated for
United States senator from Michi
gan if the opposing candidate "had
not spent 30 cents," because of the
war record of his son, Edsel Ford,
Senator Sherman, republican, Illi
nois, told the senate, adding he ex
pected to get young Ford's exemp
tion record before the committee on
elections, "law or no law, objection
or no objection."
Referring to the vounger Ford as
the "scion of the house of Ford,"
the "Duke ot Detroit," Senator
Sherman declared his repeated . ef
forts ,to obtain the draft record
from the adjutant general of the
army had been fruitless. He was
'urging an amendment to the second
deficiency bill making draft records
available pi public documents.1
March Testifies That
Wilson Sent Yanks
To Siberia and Russia
Washington, Feb. 18. American
troops were sent into Russia and
Siberia by President Wilson against
the advice of Gen. Tasker H. Bliss,
while the general was a member of
the allied supreme war council,
Gen. Peyton C. March, chief of staff,
testified today" before a house com
mittee investigating medal awards.
"I don't suppose, however, that
the president would disregard a
strictly military proposal from Gen
eral Bliss," General March added.
Promotion of officers by Selection
was surged by the chief of staff, who
said the system of promotion by
seniority usually placed inefficient
officers in high positions.
Root Asks to Be Excused ; 1
From Serving as Delegate
ew York, Feb. 18. Republican
state leaders' tonight were virtually
unanimous in the belief that font
men to be nominated as delegates-at-large
to the republican national
convention by the state convention
here tomorrow would be Senators
Wadsworth and Calder, Elihu Root
and William Boyce Thompson.
Mr. Root, who as a temporary
chairman will deliver the keynote
speech at the opening session of the
convention, has asked to be excused
from serving as a delegate because
'of the condition of his health, but
party leaders have urged him" to be
a candidate on the ground of duty to
the party. .
SUPPLIES p JLU T 1 1 :E 'I' 'fiJSp
REV. TITUS LOWE
IS A CANDIDATE
FOR DELEGATE
Omaha Minister Would Repre
sent Nebraska Republicans
at Chicago Favors Persh
ing's Nomination.
Rev. Titus Lowe, pastor of the
First Methodist churclv of Omaha
will be a candidate for one of the
four , places as delegates-at-large
from X'ebraska to the republican na
tional canvention in Chicago.
Mr. Lowe favors the nomination
of Gen. John J. Pershing.
Six months of service with the
American soldiers at the front in
France gave Mr. Lowe a vivid im
pression of General Pershing's abil
ity as an executive and a diplomat.
It is because of his demonstrated
capacity in these respects i that he
lias won . Mr. Lowe's endorsement
for president.
Most Available Man.
i realize tnat it is nerliaos un-
for a minister to permit the
f his name in such a connec
tion," said the Rev. Mr. Lowe last
evening. "But I am a citizen of the
United States I am a republican; I
believe that General Pershing is the
most available and most promising
candidate for the presidency. And
sg I have decided to undertake to
represent my state jf the people of
the state so will." ' "
Speaking of his reasons for sup
porting Pershing, Mr. Lowe said:
"Picking a president is a matter
of comparison. Candidates are not
ready made. The problem is to pick
the most available man at tli time.
Pershing, I think, is the available
candidate, easily the most available
candidate.
An Executive Genius.
"The fact of Pershing's abilitv to
organize 2,000,000 men,- with 1,000,
000 on the firing line, into a single
organization in the, short time al
lowed him suggests organizing
genius of the highest order. And the
ability to co-operate intimately5 with
the two other outstanding military
geniuses of the allied arms snowed
adaptability. i
"Pershing demonstrated his abil
ity to work with and through other
men. That is a most important
quality for a man in a great execu
tive position, where it is an impos
sibility for a single human mind to
grapple with all the problems which
press for solution. Pershing had a
capacity to make other men work,
in harmony with the general plan
and with each pther, with maximum
efficiency.. In the tiiue in which we
now are, this is a most valuable
quality for the leader of our nation
to have."
One I. W. W. Dismissed
In Centralia Shooting
Montesano, Wash., Feb. 18. The
number of I. W. W. on trial here
charged with the murder of Warren
O. Grimm, killed in the Centralia
Armistice day shooting, was reduced
from 11 to 10 with the dismissal of
charges against Bert Faulkner, 23
years old.
The ruling of the court in the
Faulkner case followed announce
ment by the prosecution that it rest
ed its case. At' the same time mo
tions to dismiss as to the othafr 10
defendants were denied.' -s
$100,000 Des Moines Fire.
Des Moines, la., Feb. 18. Fire in
the two-story building here at 401
East Grand avenue, occupied as a
feed and grain store by Sargent and
Company caused a loss estimated
at $100,000 Wednesday afternoon.
Charity Begins Abroad
Omaha Pastor Who
Announces Candidacy
As G. 0. P; Delegate
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REV. TITUS LOWE.
Peace Treaty Goes
Into Eclipse ' in
Senate Wednesday
Washington, Feb. 18. The pefcee
treaty went into eclipse again
Wednesday in the senate. With
private negotiations tor a compro
mise already quiescent, the leaders
found no one ready to speak on the
senate floor and it was agreed that
the subject would not be taken up
during the day at all.
Debate may be resumed Thurs
day and the compromise negotia
tions will be continued,, but many
senators believe the treaty fight will
not be revived in earnest for some
time to come.
With the railroad bill and other
important legislative business com
ing up, the controversy over ratifi
cation may be permitted to drag on,
it was indicated, without either side
seeking to force a decision.
Aerial Flivver Makes
Successful Trial Flight
College Point, N. Y.. Feb. 18.-Tlie
aerial "flivver," a monoplane which
weighs 595 pounds, is 19 feet long
and has a wing spread of 29 feet 9
inches, received its first trial flight
before a gathering of engineers and
aviation experts here Wednesday.
The machine, which is driven by a
two cylinder motor and has a carry
ing capacity of 383 pounds, took the
air, easily "hopping off" from a snow
covered field and made a successful
flight of several minutes.
. Nebraska: Unsettled weather
Thursday and Friday; probably rain
or snow Friday, colder Friday in
west and central portion.
Iowa: Unsettled weather Thurs
day and Friday; probably light snov,
somewhat warmer Friday in east
portion.
Hourly Temperatures.
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WIFE OF ALLEGED
RIOTER FILES
DIVORCE SUIT
Mrs. Claude L. -Nethaway in
Petition Says She Is Unable
to Endure HusbandVTi
rades Against Negroes.
' " .
Claude 1 "Nethaway was sued m
district ctttirt-yesterday by his wife,
Stella Nethaway, for a divorce.
Nethaway is a real estate man
and lives in Florence. His first wife
was found murdered in a railway
cue north of Florence in the summer
of 1917. A negro, Charles Smith,
wa? arrested and on his second trial
was convicted and sentenced to the
penitential v for life. 1
Nethawav married his present wife
December 2, 1918. She says in her
petition that he is of a very excit
able, and nervous disposition and
spenos most of his time at home
talking about the negro question' and
raving against "negro lovers" until
it has affected her health and made
ccnti'iUMPc? of the marriage danger
ous He abuses her, she says, be
cause she does not agree with his
ideas on these subjects.
She also applied for an injunction
restraining Nethaway from dispos
ing of his property, which includes
a large farm in Colorado and
amounts altogether, she savs, to $40,
000. Nethaway came into notoriety fol
lowing the court house riots T
September 28. when he was arrested
on a charge of conspiracy to murder
Will Brown, the negro lynched that
night. After being in the county
jail for two weeks he secured bail.
He was tried several weeks ago but
th? jury failed to reach an agree
ii?nt on a verdict. '
(Mexican Troops Lose 1
Trail of Outlaws Who
Kidnaped American
New York, Feb. 18. Mexican
government troops are pursuing the
bandits who kidnaped Wilson Welsh
Adams, an American mine superin
tendent, but contact with the out
laws has been lost, in the hills of
Zacatecas, Mexico, according to a
teiegram received today by, the
American Metal company, Ltd.,
Adams employer, from its offices at
Monterey, Mex. The telegram also
stated that the bandits assured .oth
ers at the Providencia mine, where
Adams was captured, that no harm
would befall him. Ransom of $25,
000 was demanded for his release.
Mrs. Adams, who lives in Los An
geles, Cal., has been informed of
her husband's plighf by the Monte
fey offices. .
German Hotelkeepers
Refuse Rooms to Allies
London. Feb. 18. It is announced
that the allied commission composed
of 25 officers, with a number of
troops, to put into effect the provi
sions of the peace treaty, has ar
rived at Koenigsberg. The mem
bers of the commission are billeted
in town because the hotelkeepers
refused to accommodate them with
rooms.
Kerensky Not Captured.
London, Feb. 18. Reports that
Alexander Kerensky, the Russian
revolutionary premier whose regime
was overthrown by the bolsheviki
in November, 1917, has been im
prisoned in the Caucasus were
speedily shown to be untrue when
inquiry revealed that Kerensky was
still in England, where he has been
living, for some time. ,
FIGHT BEGUN
m MAYOR OF
METROPOLIS
Grand Jury's Findings Against
Assistant District Attorneys
or New York Laid to Move
Against Hylan and Hearst
MISCONDUCT IN OFFICE
CHARGED TO OFFICIALS
District Attorney Blames Con
troversy Over' Eight-Cent
Fares and Wish to Supplant
Hjm for Action by Jurors.
Albany, N. Y.. Feb. 18. Governor
Smith has -received from Raymond
F. Albirafl foreman of the New
York county' extraordinary grand
jury, specifications alleging miscon
duct in office on the part of three
assistant d. strict attorneys, John T.
Dooling, lames E. Smith and Ed
ward P. Kilroe. v
Uoolin;! is charged with conspir
acy to bring about the indictment of
Gaston B. Means for murder;
Smith is accused of neglect of duty
in respect to investigation and prose
cuting gambling and disorderly
houses, and Kilroe is accused of
reelect of duty.
Mr. Almirali's letter was in repiy t
to a recent communication from the '
governor, in which the executive .
stated that if the extraordinary
grand jury would furnish him with
specifications in connection with al
legations , i of an "overshadowing
crime" he would designate the at
torney general as its special coun
sel. Swann Issues Statement.
New Yor'k, Feb. 18. District At- .
torney Swann issued a statement to
night in which he claimed that ex
traordinary grand jury's charges
against the three assistant district
attorneys were preferred as a sub
terfuge to bringing about Mayor
Hylan's removal and "to find some
thing on William Randolph Hearst."
Mr. Swann asserted that the grand
jurors expected Attorney General
Newton to designate Alfred L. Beck-
cr, deputy attorney general, to take
his place.
"The grand jury presided over by
Mr. Albirall," he continued, "has
two main objects. The first is to
find something on the mayor, or a
pretext on ' which he may be re
moved, and another appointed in
his place with a lively fiope that the
otner may consent to an s-cent tare. .
The other is that they hope Mr.
Becker will enable them to find
something on William Randolph
Hearst, Hvho has been a thorn in the
side of the interborough and the
tr action, combination for years and
man whom they consider to be the
chief opponent of the granting of an
S-cent fare. , - 1
Judge Devoted His Time.
"From the day the district attor
ney announced to the extraordinary
grand jury," Mr. Swan i continued,
"that he was investigating the
falsity of the written financial state
ment published by the Interborough
officials and J. P. Morgan "& Co.,
upon the faith of which the public
bought $33,000,000 of 'short term'
notes in September, 1918, the domi
nant membersvof the extraordinary
grand jury who had been controlling ,
its action began a search to find
something against the mayor, and
the district attorney, and they were
joined in the search by the judge on
the bench, who personally devoted
two months of his time and labor
to it. , -
"The claim that they desire to In
vestigate this office is merely a pre
text to secure a substitution of the
attorney general fqr the district at
torney, who refuses to be a party tc
their desires." , . - -C
Rose, Pastor Stokes
To Be Candidate for
Congress In N. Y.
' Chicago, Feb. 18. Mrs. Rose
Pastor Stokes pf New York, mil
lionaire communist and former so
cialist, one of 167 persons indicted '
by a special grand jury here Janu:
ary 23 for "advocating the over
throw of the government of the
United States," today announced she
would be a candidate for congress
from the 14th New York district.
Mrs. Stokes, brought here last
night by a police woman, is at Jarge
on bond pending appeal from a sen- .
tence to 10 years in a federal prison
for obstructing the draft.
Pomerene Withdraws
- From Democratic Lists
Washington. Feb. 18. Senator
Pomerene, democrat, Ohio, lias ,
withdrawn frpm the contest for the
democratic presidential nomination.
Necessity of devoting his entire at
tention to important legislation and
the fact that under the Ohio state
primary law a solid delegation
would be impossible, which, he said,
virtually would mean his defeat at
the San Francisco convention, were .
given by the Ohio senator as his
reasons for dropping out of the
race. ,
Ex-Army Major to Make Race
for Seattle Mayoralty
Seattle, . Wash., Feb. 18. Hugh
if. Caldvell. attorney and former
crmv maior. anil Tampi rit,
secretary of the Seattle Central La-
nor council, will run for mayor in
tll citv flection farrti . ? in h
Primaries vesterdav TaMii-oll
reived 28,516 votes and Duncan 26.-
U4C Mayor C. B. Fitzgerald, can
didate for re-election, was elim
inated. He received 21,419 vote ,
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