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14 THE BEE:" OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1920. FIRST LEG OF THE TRIP TO RESCUE AMERICAN ENDS i Expedition to Effect Release of Missionary Plans to Col lect Ransom, If Necessary,. From Chinese. By FREDERICK SMITH. Hong Kong, March 2. (New York Times-Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright, 1920.) We arrived at Hong Kong on the coastal steam ship Sunning last evening, complet ing the first leg of the journey of more than 2,500 miles into Yunnan province. JVith Doctor Osgood we will make a trip to Canton to see the American consul general, then return to Hong Kong and take ship for Hai-Fong, whence it is four days by railroad to Yunnanfu. If Doctor Shelton, the American mis sionary, still is in the hands of the bandits, we plan to proceed by chair or donkeys to meet the bandit. Doctor Osgood proposes to stay until Doctor Shelton is nursed back to health and brought out, saying he will not return without him, if alive. Doctor Osgood's wife and children are in Hiram, O. The expedition is arousing great interest in China ports, and every body' is for us. As a last resort, Doctor Osgood proposes to offer a ransom, which the Christian church then will, try to collect from the Chinese government. Yunnan is an isolated country touching the Btirmah ' and Thibet borders. Yunnanfu is the end of the railroad. Bill Would Give People Right to Add Amendment . Washington, March 2. Decision , as to the ratification of constitu tional amendments would be by the voters of a state instead . of ' the legislatures under a resolution to . day by Representative Johnston, democrat, New York. The resolu tion also proposes submission of constitutional amendments by two thirds of the state legislatures as well as by congress. ' To Americanize Islands. - Washington, March 2. Measures to Americanize the Virgin islands were agreed upon today by the joint congressional commission which re '4 cently visited the former Danish possessions. The State department was asked for an opinion regarding t the citizenship of the islanders, de clared to be "without a country" and legally neither citizens of Den mark nor the United States. Legis lation to establish their American citizenship is proposed. Sheriff Eludes Mob. Wewoka, Okl., March 2. Eluding what appeared to be a lynching party, Sheriff H. L. Brown of Chandler, Okl., and his prisoner, - tap javis, a negro, sementca xo u ycua in me Mctic pciiuciuidi y yesterday for an alleged attack on a Chandler school teacher, are to day headed for McAIester and ex citement Jias entirely subsided. First Wife of McKay Returns to Her Home Satisfied With Trial Mrs. Edna M. Solberg McKay, first wife of Harry S. McKay, whose trigafnous nuptials sent him to the Nebraska penitentiary at Lincoln Monday to serve from one to seven years for bigamy, is returning to her home in St. Paul, Minn., satis fied at seeing the man who deserted her for two others, paying the pen alty for his infraction of the statutes. And Margaret Fillenworth, who became Mrs. McKay No. 2, last August, before Mrs. McKay the first had been divorced, with what satisfaction a, woman may get from seeing the man who left her for an other, paying for his offense, is rest ing secure with her marriage to McKay declared void. 1 But Mrs. Mary H. Milledge Mc Kay, who became the third wife, be fore the divorce from -Mrs. Edna Solberg McKay was granted, is currying on. She was at her duties at the l.ove-Hascall company, in the Woodmen or the World building yesterday. According to a friend, the clarifying of her husband's marital tangle and his enforced absence will make no difference to her, and she will be awaiting his return when the law has been satisfied. Omaha Thief, Betrayed . By Drug-Crazed Girl, Caught in Bank Vault Wichita Falls, Tex.. March 2. (Special Telegram.) Al Fulcher of Omaha, Neb., Monday night was discovered with a companion in the basement of the First National bank placing greenbacks of large denom ination in a traveling bag. A young woman, purporting to be an asso ciate of Fulcher's, furnished the clew that lead to the young man s undoing. Another young woman, less than 18 years of age, also-said to be' an associate of Fulcher's, is now in the Wichita county jail, charged with receiving . and concealing stolen property. A large amount of stolen wearing apparel was found in her room, apparently left by Fulcher with-her permission. The young woman, who informed the authori ties of Fulcher's proposed raid, was taken into custody this afternoon by iedera' agents on a charge of violat ing .the Harrison anti-narcotic act. It is said that she betrayed Fulcher and his companion following their refusal' to supply her with narcotics. Thorough Probe of Naval Vice Charges Is Ordered 'Washington, March 2. A full in vestigation of charges of gross im morality and , indecent practices in connection with the activities of a naval intelligence vice squad of the naval training station at Newport, R. I., was ordered today by the sen ate naval committee. The charges were made originally by John R. Rathom of the Providence, R. 1., Journal. ' The investigation will be made by a subcommittee composed of Sena tors Ball, republican, Delaware; Keyes, republican. New Hampshire, and King, democrat, Utah. Chairman Ball announced that a meeting would be held here within a few days, to determine procedure. He' said tile committee probably would hold a number of sessions at Newport. WAR DEVICES TO MAKE SHAMBLES OF THEW0RLD Terrible Instruments of Strug gle Just Past Mild Ma chines to Those of. Future. Paris, Feb. 29, Awful as was the destruction of life and property in the war which came to and end in November, 1918, it will be surpassed tenfold by the wholesale butchery of the next rrmed conflict between the nations. Men who haVe devoted their lives to the study of methods of killing armies state that owing to the immense advance in science such as chemistry and electricity, they regard the possibility of another gen eral war with unspeakable horror. Chief among the tragic conse quences of the advance of science will be a formidable intensifica tion of aerial bombardments, new and more deadly asphyxiating, new and more deadly methods of long range slaughter, newer and more powerful explosives. Submarines, guided by wireless telegraphy, will have no need of crews to risk death and their torpedoes will be set off by the same means. New Torpedo Shells. M. Painleve, who was French min ister of war in the Millerand cabi net of 1917, believes the most potent weapon in toe next conflict will be "to-.pedo shells" which will be able to' travel immense distances before rxploding. According to M. Branly, France's chief wireless, expert, nobody will be safe, even far behind the actual fight ing front Wireless methods of de struction will liavr reached Such ail extraordinary development, he de clares, in the course of the next ten or twenty years that people will have seriously to consider tne Duuaing oj subterranean cities because on the surface of the earth there will be no security for life. M. Branly regards the combination of wireless teleg raphy and aviation as one which will decide the prime characteristics of the next war. Wholesale Slaughter. "The progress in aviation is fraught with the direst possibilities since it ij now easy to transport enormous quantities of explosives at unheard-of st eed," said M. Branly. "The only way to prevent the whole salt slaughter to non-combatants in the next war will be the construction of subterranean shelters under all our cities capable of accomodating the entire population. We have seen airplanes large and powerful enough to carry .twenty, thirty, even forty persons, and I foresee in the near future airplanes capable of carrying one hundred passengers. They will have a speed of more than 180 miles an hour. Setting out' from Berlin they would be over Paris in a couple of hours, dropping immense quan tities of explosives. Wisconsin May Test the Amount of "Drunk" in 2.5 Milwaukee, Wis., March 2. 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Lloyd Gitchell and Harry Boes, theatrical costumers, and Harry Menk, David Englesburg and Louis Berg were arrested and held in $500 bail each on charges of violating the Volstead act. Ernest S. Langley, prohibition agent in charge of the case, said two of his assistants arranged at the cpstumers' quarters to buy three barrels of whisky at $35 a gallon. A certified check was offered for the whisky, it was asserted, but the vendors became suspicious and the deal fell through. Then, the agents' said, they met two other men in the costumers' offices and arranged to buy 20 gal lons of whisky at $40 a gallon, with delivery March 1. A taxicab was called and the whisky placed in it. Then came the arrests. v . India and Ceylon tea are graded according to the position of the leaf on the plant, the lower the leaf the poorer the quality. Newsprint Consumed When Tons of McAdoo Addresses Were Printed Washington, March 2. (Special Telegram.) 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