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The- Oriaha "'Daily . B. - ' ' - - Mr . : EE VOL. 49 NO. 225. Mar M awMw anttor lv 3. IMS. at Oaaaa P. 0. nv aal at Man a. M7. OMAHA, FRIDAY, MARCH 1920. By Mill (I ywrt, Oalty. M.WI SoMn. 13-M) Dally ana In. UMl nbti Nak. wlw trm. TWO CENTS. TURKS HOLD AMERICANS FOR 22 DAYS Under a Constant Rain of Lead 17 Relief Workers Are Shut Up in Compound With out Communication. WORST EXPERIENCE SINCE SIEGE OF PEKING Messengers. Sent for Relief Fail to ReturnDisplay of American- Flag Calls for Volley of Shots. By Th Automated Freat. Adar.a, Asia Minor, March 4. Since the siege of Peking, foreign ers have undergone no more nerve racking experience than 17 'relief workers of the American commit tee for relief in the near east, shut up for 22 days without outside com munication in a mission compound at Marash. ' They were under a con stant rain of lead, while French troops, aided by Armenians, battled with Turkish nationalists for pos session of the city. More-han half of the town was burned during the engagement and there was terrible loss of life. The story is told in the diary of the Rev. C, T, S. Crathern, a Bos ton Y. M. C. A., secretary, who went 'through the siege and arrived at Adana on February IS. v ; Ignore U. S. Flag. Rev. " Mr. Crathern, with paul Snyder, Miss Helen Schultz of Reading, Pa., a French lieutenant and two Armenians attempted to leave Marash by automobile foi Aintab, January 20, but were driven back to Marash by a fusillade of bullets, notwithstanding the fact Mr. Crathern. displayed the American flag. Mr Crathern's diary says on January 21 he found Marash with ' its bazaars and shops closed and the , Turks engaged in talking in smaH groups throughout the city. - At noon shots were heard by the relief workers, indicating that the long-threatened clash in the city had started. French officials arrested several Important Turkish officials, which it was thought precipitated a clash at Aros. Shooting soon began in all parts of the city. A French sentinel guarding an American hos pital was killed and another French soldier was wounded., , ' ; 'Attack American Hospital. ' -Sniping continued thrdoghout the night and the Americans were awakened on the 22d by the sound of guns and flashes from exploding (Continual! on Pace Two, Column Throe.) Blizzard From West' Plunges in Atlantic, Creating Great Havoc Washington, March 5. The storm of almost blizzard proportions which has swept over the country from the northwest, apparently had plunged out into the" Atlantic tonight, leav ing a trail of stranded' shipping in its wake. Reports to the weather bu reau showed that a 48-mile wind, accompanied in many sections by snow and sleet, marked the passage 6f the disturbance to the sea over the whole eastern half of the United States. At sea its coming had been foretold by storm warnings, but re ports of steamers driven ashore came quickly from the Virginia coast on the heels of the warning. Norfolk, Va., March 5. The American, freight steamship Orient, 3,058 tons net, was driven on Will oughby beach, Chesapeake bay, and is resting broadside in a precarious position. , ' Philadelphia', March 5. The Amer ican steamer Marsodak, which went . aground off Cape Henlopen, Dela ware, floated and proceeded to the Delaware breakwater. Clever Bank Fraud Is Frustrated When ; Crooks Lose Nfrve Chicago, March 5. The newest tnd one of the smoothest bank iraud schemes in Chicago police ecords went to the rocks when of ficers gathered in two men and a jery pretty girl, after two Unsuc cessful attempts to cheat banks. - - An American Bankers' association code book, by the aid of which tele grams were sent to banks ordering the transfer of money to a man who would call for it, was the keystone of the plot It was a convincing method and would have worked had the men possessed sufficient nerve to have gone through with it The police believe the fraud has been worked from coast to coast and that the trio have cleaned up thnncanda of dollars. The men scive the names of W, M. States and George Matthews. Margaret Ham ilton, the woman,- says she is the wife of States. Prohibition Officer Is Promised Full Support rfifeiire. March S Mai. A. V. Dalrymple, prohibition enforcement officer for the central district, in an 'address before a group of men who styled themselves "dry democrats," said he had received a letter from Prohibition Commissioner Kramer at Washington which not only ap n raved him course in the Iron River, Mich- prohibition controversy, but JURIST ELECTED EXALTED RULER OF ELKS' LODGE llllllllfflliiiniiiBiiimmsjMiiinMimiiilllllMlil 1 i llBlll1""11" HMWinmHwiigj Willis G. Sears. v Omaha i Lodge No. 39, of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks held its annual election last night at the Elks' home. John C. Bar rett, present exalted ruler, was elected representative to the grand lodge meeting at Chicago on July 6, and Judge Robert W. Patrick was chosen alternate delegate to the meeting. Judge Willis G. Sears was elected exalted ruler; Walter C. Nelson, esteemed leading knight; Moses P. O'Brien, loyal knight; Dr. George C. Wintcrson, esteemed lecturing knight; Isaac W. Miner, secretary; Charles L. Saunaers, treasurer; James Hammond, trustee and John H. Killian, tyler. ' , Jesse P. Palmer, candidate for loyal knight, was defeated by Mr. O'Brien by a close vote. Harry O. Benford, an avowed candidate for the secretaryship, withdrew at the last minute in favor of Mr. Miner. On adjournment of the meeting, which was held behind closed doors, the Elks feasted on sandwiches and black coffee in the club rooms. GRAHAM CALLS BERNARD BARUCH SUPER-PRESIDENT Wilson's Intimate Most Power ful Man in World, According To His Own Estimate. ChlnafO Tribune-Omaha Bee Lcajed Wire. . Washington. March 5. Repre sentative William J. Graham of Illinois, chairman of the house war expenditure committee, character ized Bernard M. Baruch as "super president" of the United States and the most powerful man in the world during the war. r u... 4 "Barney Baruch," , said Mr. Gra ham, "had more power during the war than any other man in the world. . . - , ' ; "Barney Baruch controlled . ab solutely the food supply of the United States. "Barney Baruch originated the price-fating policy for all commodi ties and put it in operation. "Barney Baruch suggested the taking over of the railroads by the government, which was done. . "Barney Baruch regulated the pro duction of steel, copper and iron and decreed their disposition. "Barney Baruch had supreme au thority over the byproducts of the coke ovens of the country and dom inated at the sources of supply the nitrates and fertilizers of the world. "Barney Baruch regulated the shioDincr of the United States, laid Mown its policy as to what should be sent abroad and the quantity and what shouldn't, v "In fact we actually had in the wai a super-president in Mr. Baruch as head ot the war industries Doard and intimate of Mr. Wilson here and in Paris. Those are not my statements I have given you, but replies under oath made by Mr. Baruch in his ex amination bef ore v your committee. Entire Blocks in Wilmington Flooded; . ' Hundreds Homeless Wilmington, DeL, March 5. En tire blocks of this city were flooded by waters from the over-swollen Brandywme river, which reached in some places nearly to the second story windows of houses with the result that hundreds of persons are homeless. The worst storm in years is raging. Policemen, firemen and volunteers with boats were carrying on the work of rescue in darkness, the electric power plant having been put out of commission. At midnight the fire station was crowded to capacity with refugees and the stream of homeless was being diverted to police headquarters. No loss of lifeha,s been reported but the damage will be heavy, many houses being swept off their founda tions and carried away by the waters.' Mary Pickford Says She Will Never Marry Again Los Angeles, March 5. Mary Pickford will never marry again, but will devote the remainder of her life to motion pictures, according to an interview she gave here Friday night This was the first statement she had made to the press since she was granted, a divorce from Owen Moore Tuesday at Minden, Nev. Fairbanks Breaks Finger And Hikes for Los Angeles Holbrook, Ariz., March 5. Douglas Fairbanks, well-known screen actor, broke the forefinger of his right hand Friday and sustained painful cuts, while roping a horse for a film play; in the Painted desert, 25 miles north of here. Fairbanks am hrrr In catch a train for Los. J Angeles after, accjdeu EUROPE MAY GET FLOUR ON CREDIT Federal Grain Corporation Will Extend Terms in Sale of 5,000,000 Barrels of Flour If Congress Refuses Loan. ' housewivIsrIfuse to use soft wheat Peculiar Crop Yield Reason Given by Julius Barnes for Present High Prices Says Soft Wheat Cheapest. Washington, March 5J Five mil lion barrels of Federal Grain corporation soft wheat flour will b sold on credit in Europe soon unless congress authorizes $50,000,000 loans to finance the sales, Julius Barnes, head of the corporation, told the house rules committee today. He said he now has authority to make the sales on credit, but hoped the loans would be authorized. The flour, now held at American ports and for which the corporation asks $10.75 a barrel, is "the cheapest in the world," Mr. Barnes told the committee. He added that "every effort had been exhausted to sell it for cash," but that American house wives would pay higher prices for hard wheat flour. Crop Yield Peculiar. "Why are prices of flour going up?" asked Representative Fess, re publican, Ohio. "The last year crop yield was a peculiar one." answered Mr. Barnes. "There was a small yield of the strong wheat and a big yield of the soft wheat Flour made of the soft wheat could be obtained for do mestic use at all times at the exact reflection of the government guar anteed price of wheat the pressure for a different kind of flour by the housewives led the millers to bid up the prices and in North Dakota in five months the hard wheat "price was increased 60 cents a bushel above the guaran tee." Denies Spokane Charges. Charges of the Spokane, Wash., grand jury alleging wheat price ma nipulations by grain corporation agents were mentioned. Mr. Barnes said he had asked the Department of Justice to make a thorough inquiry. The grand jury report was a state ment on economic conditions in the Pacific northwest, Mr. Barnes isaid, and recommended that "the presi dent use powers that do not exist." (Continued on Pare Ttrtr, Column One.) Fresh Irish Tragedy Imminent if Martial Law Rigor Increases Loudon, March 5. The Graphic features a Dublin dispatch saying that the Irish situation is changing rapidly. The dispatch declares that nothing can avert a fresh tragedy except the utmost coolness on the part of the authorities and that any increase in the rigor of martial law will inevitably precipitate such a tragedy, causing dangerous compli cations for England in America. The chief danger, according to the Graphic, is the widespread convic tion that a small Dublin castle clique is bent on getting Ireland's youth into the open so that the J morale of the Sinn Fein may be broken by bloody repression. This, howeverthe dispatch says, is hav ing one good result in causing the Sinn Fein leaders to avoid provoca tion at all costs. Great Britain and t France to Pay Bonds In Gold at Maturity Washington, March' 5. Announce ment from London that Great Britain1 and France have agreed to pay the Anglo-American bonds maturing next October is welcomed by the treasury officials. The bonds total $500,000,000. . The announcement apparently was the basis of the rumors current in New York that a shipment of gold from England and France totaling no less than $250,000,000 would be begun in the near future with a view to retiring the bonds. Such a ship ment of gold is counted upon'ta be of material help in bolstering up foreign exchange and also in off setting the rapid flow of gold from the United States to South America and the Orient ' Enters Race in Montana. Missoula, Mont, March 5. Jo seph M. Dixon, formerly congress man and United States senator from Montana and campaign manager for Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, has an nounced his candidacy for governor on the republican ticket The Weather. : Forecast 1 Nebraska: Unsettled and con tinued cold Saturday; Sunday prob ably fair; rising temperature in north and west Iowa: Generally fair and con tinued cold Saturday and probably. Sunday. . . v . . ' .Hourly Temperatures. 5 a. m.., 4 a. hi. S 1 a. m... I 1 p. m. 1 p. ra. S p. m. IS 14 IS a a. m... P. S dl IS ...... 1A P. Bk ACTION OF MRS. WILSON STIRS GOSSIP ABROAD Europe Discussing Part Taken By First Lady of Land in Diplomatic Affairs. - By HENRY WALES. New York Ttmea-Chlearo Trtban Cable. , CopTricht, IStO. Paris, March 5. Mnie. Europe, who I originated the formula 'cherchez la femme'' in seeking a so lution of all problems diplomatic, oinerwise is holding up her hands in righteous indignation at the ex pressed fear that American women have either an interest or influence concerning, international affairs. French diplomatic circles are buz zing with the name "Mme. Wilson." Gossips of the embassies referred to the receipt in Paris recently of longJ reports trom Amoassaaor to tne United States Jusserand, outlining wnai is caueu nis uncugninea treat ment in Washington." Discusses Treaty Problems. . The Jusserand report is rumored to relate to detailed circumstances of the ambassador's efforts to see President Wilson for a discussion qf a reservation to the treaty and his ultimate achievement in seeing only Mrs. Wilson, who discussed at length with him the subject of Amer ican reservations to the treaty. In London the diplomatic circles emit no end . of gossip concerning the "Craufurd case, tmbassychat ter in the English capital explains the affair as emanating from remarks foolishly repeated at a private din ner by Maj. Stuart Craufurd con cerning exchanges of calls between the president and Mrs. Wilson and the German embassy in Washington under Bernstorff's reicrn. London believes these remarks,! reaching Mrs. Wilson, resulted in a demand for the recall of Major Stuart Upon Lord Grey's investi gation Major Stuart vehemently de nied the remarks attributed to him and is said to have produced a writ ten denial of the alleged conversa tion from his woman dinner table partner with whom he is alleged to have talked. WHITE SILK SUIT AND HAT LATEST FASHION FOR MEN B Costumes of Florida izarre Coast Resorts Are Now Headed North; Chicago Tribune-Omaha Baa Leased Wire, Chicago, March S. Summer styles for men, now dazzling the. Florida coast resorts, are headed north and they pre bizarre and loud enough to be heard long before 'they can be seen, According to the information brought, by scouts, ordinary attire of men this summer will make a masquerate outfit look like funeral habiliments. White silk tuxedos and white silk hats will be decidedly ae ngeur. ' In the matter of colors Nice and the Riviera will lapse into the back ground. Pale blue and pale orange silk suits, linen of the most daring stripes and embroidery two-color silk sox in odd weaves, white sum mer shoes, tan twill coats and canary colored linen trousers will be as common as pig tracks. Shirts are to be in solid colors, but the loudest colors obtainable, and scarfs will run to immense polka dots. ; But the masterpiece of the season will be the white silk suits and the white silk hats, ' .... It is fortunate that prohibition is here, for in the olden days a man wearing such an outfit would have lasted about as long as the prov erbial celluloid dog in the nether re gions after a bunch of souse-hounds had taken one bleary look at the makeup. 'Diamond Queen' Ends Her life Dramatically As She Takes Poison New York, March' 5. Antoinette Bonner, who accquired the interna tional sobriquet of "the diamond queen" when brought back from Paris in 1914, with Joseph B. Kis linger to face charges of large jewelry thefts in New York, ended her life dramatically by taking poison as she was being placed under arest in Kislinger's office here, charged with theft of diamonds val ued at $2,000. "You'll never take me alive," she cried as she snatched a poison phial from her handbag and swallowed the contents. Kislinger ateo wa arrested. In Miss Bonner's hand bag the police found uncut diamonds valued at $30,000, besides several hundred dol lars in cash. Show Activity of Newberry Ex-Campaign Manager Grand Rapids, Mich.. March S. Paul H. King and Mark T. McKee, law partners and co-defendants in the Newberry elections conspiracy trial, testified for the defense. The testimony pictured the former ex campaign manager for Truman H. Newberry visiting almost every county in the state, composing ad vertisements on speeding automo biles, dictating letters by the hun dreds on railroad trains and in hotels, interviewing thousands of persons and reporting nightly to the candidate by mail. McKee, on the contrary, dis claimed all campaign activity and said he first found opportunity to work for Newberry when he voted for that candidate on primary day. Commissioner Roper Resigns. Washington. March 5. The presi dent received Friday the resignation of Daniel C Roper, commissioner of internal revenue. Mr. Roper asked to be relieved April 1 or as soon .L- (. . . V. ' t00 From description STRIKE IN WEST OF EXPRESSMEN ORDERED TODAY Railroad Brotherhoods Op pose Act and Issue Ultimatum to - : " Insurgents. Chiracs Tribune-Omaha Be Leased Wire. Chicago, March 5. Apparently 1,800 employes of the American Railway Express company must strike to get the fever out of their systems. Indications are they will quit their work tomorrow in direct and open defiance of the ruling by their grand lodge officers and warn ings that if they strike they will be outlawed from union labor. The wholesale walkout is a local situation and only those employed in western and lakes divisions are affected. The men have demanded a flat increase of $35 a month and a local working agrement independ ent from that entered into by the IS railroad brotherhoods at Wash ington two weeks ago. Issue An Ultimatum. Other brotherhoods have issued an ultimatum to the insugents which in brief is: . If you don't like your jobs you'll have to quit you cannot create a railway strike. Little hope is expressed by the officials that the walkout can be averted. The men have the strike fever and must get -it out of their systems. Are Satisfied Here. Employes of the company here are said to be satisfied with work ing conditions and opposed to the strike order. No local order for a strike is anticipated, although the Omaha union is under the juris diction of the Chicago officers. Another American ' Has Been Kidnaped By Mexican Rebels Washington, March 5. Peter W. Summers, an American citizen, has been kidnaped by Mexican rebels at Salina Cruz, Mexico, according to a dispatch to the State department The difnatch said Summers was captured by a band under Jesus Marella, who was holding him for a ransom of 1,000 pesos. Summers has been engaged in farmingand in tht mercantile business at Santa Lu cretia, Mexico. Sub Chaser and Seaplane Missing Since Sunday Tampa, Fla., March 5. The sub marine chaser SC-145 AO-7 and the seaplane HS-1 No. 19 have been missing since Sunday, According to advices reaching here from Naples, Fla., on the Gulf of Mexico, about midway between this port and Key West Seaplanes are searching for them. It is feared they were caught in a storm last Sunday when they left Naples for Key West Convicted Murderer Is ' Sentenced to Hang April 23 Leavenworth, Kan., March S. Robert F. Stroud, convicted of the murder of Andrew Turner, a guafd at the United States' penitentiary here, March 26, 1916, was sentenced by Judge Robert E. Lewis, Denver. Colo7 to hang- between the hours oj ft IM 2 , April a, Our Mental Picture previously furnished us of our new Secretary of State. Lodge Promises to , Return to Chicago In His Spirit Form Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leaerd Wire. Chicago, March 5. "Twenty -years from now I wil return in spirit form and I will find a 'much more beautiful city than you have today," said Sir Oliver ; Lodge,, noted physicist and ex- ponent'Jpf psychical, research. ' .Sir Oliver Sa now; 69 years otdV Unless, therefore, he is mbre for' tunate than other mortals, he will ; have to' come in spirit form if 1 he returns in 20 years. He ,ha6 promised his friends that he will make every effort to come back and communicate with those of them who are still living to give some message of comfort from the new abode to which he thinks the human race is destined. With regard to psychical re search, Sir Oliver thought the world could afford to go slowly, leaving to science the task of finding a sure foundation for bridging the . gap betwen the seen and the unseen. His parting word was an appeal for development of a better understaning and more friendly relations between the great English speaking nations of "the world. Mexican, After Long Chase, Avenges Death Of His Omaha Bu'nkie Chicago, March 5. Nick Honele has just turned over to the police a man who identified himself as An? dreas Leon, bus boy, but who, ac cording to Honele, is Miguel Cor tez, alleged murderer of Rafael Gon zales. Honeie and Gonzales worked to gether in Omaha and , bunked to gether in a freight car. On January 17, 1918, Nick found Gonzales dead, his head split open with an axe, a watch and $200 gone., Honele proved his innocence and started on the trail of Cortez, who he declared was the murderer. The police gave him a picture of Cortez. The trailet swam the Rio Grande and joined the army -of Pancho Villa. Cortez was .not there. After six months Honele deserted and again swam the Rio Grande, but a rattle snake bit him and for three weeks he lay in a hospital, when he took the trail once more, searching all the big cities in the United States for Cortez. The other night he found his man. There was a scar on the face, made by the hoof of a mus tang, just as in the picture. "I thought first I kill him my self," Honele said. "But I promised the police I turn him up. 1 keep my word." - ' General Electric to Sell Food to Employes at Cost Lynn, Mass., March S. A plan for purchase by employes, of the Gen eral Electric company here of food stuffs "at cost, the financing of home building and the loaning of money in emergencies without interest was announced by the company. The company . will build a storehouse, from which food supplies will be handled. Employes may benefit un der the plan by joining a co-operative association to be supported by the company. Four thousand of the 15,000 employes are now enrolled. . Chamber Votes in Favor of , Sweden Entering League ) Stockholm, March 5.The first Chamber of Parliament.voted, 86 to 47, in favor of Sweden entering the fcagna of. nationv AUTO SHOW TO CLOSE IN BLAZE OF GLORY TODAY Large Crowd Expected to i Attend This Afternoon and V Tonight May Break " All Records. ( Omaha's 15th annual Auto show, which, has been the center of at tention of a large chnnk of the middle-west all this week, closes ' to night. Final opportunity for citizens to look over the new models is offered, and a rush of those who have been waiting for the Saturday half-holiday Is expected this after noon, i- According to Manager Clarke G. Powell, if the closing day maintains the pace set by previous days, and at the same time materializes a regu lation Saturday crowd, the tactics of opening day, which necessitated the closing of doors three times to ajlow the crowd to fhin out, may. be resorted to. "Do your auto shopping early m the day, is the advice he ot tered. . i'' As the clock strikes 10 the great crowd which is expected to be pres ent at the closing night of the auto mobile show at the Auditorium will ioin in the natriotic Sonc. "Amer ica." This feature of the evening will be one of the most impressive and inspiring of any arranged for during the show, in the opinion of Manager Powell. Last night was the second musi cal night of show week, which ac counts for the "community" con cert a preoccupied buyer started in one of the booths. The gentleman, probably thinking months ahead to the rippling road of a summer tour, while he delved into the' "innards" of a car he considered purchasing, was busily whistling the air of "There's a Long, Long Trail a-Winding." Passers took up . the tune and in a minute a chorus was in full blast. The best part of the (Coatlonrd an Paffa Two, Column One.) J. Ham Lewis Predicts Wilsons Nomination By Democratic Party Kansas City, March S. Nomina tion of Woodrow Wilson by ac clamation at the national democratic convention in San Francisco was predicted by former United States Senator Tames Hamilton Lewis of Tit; f i i. iinnois in an aaaress oeiore tne Missouri democratic women here. "Be not surprised," Mr. Lewis said, "if the democratic convention at San Francisco despite anything the president wishes-seeing that the issue or any candidate must be the things done by Wilson shall, after complimentary ballots to the candi dates, name by Reclamation Wood row Wilson as the embodiment of all that the issues of the coming campaign represent ' 200 Feet Ban On Buildings In Chicago Raised to 260 Chicago, March 5. Twenty-one story buildings, with a maximum height pf 260 feet, may, again be built in Chicago as a resnlt of the council building committee's deci sion to remove restrictions adopted in 1911 lunitinar downtown f true- tr.c JQ aQQ fMfc HITCHCOCK WEAKENS 1 PACT FIGHT Urges President to Discuss Reservations With Senator Simmons, Who Has Been Working for Compromise. 1 democratsIrritated when news leaks out Leaders Desire to Know How Far President Will Go Before Next Vote Hold Little Hope For Present Reservations. By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Baa Leaied Wire. Washington, March 4. With the senate close to the final showdown on the peace treaty, democratic leaders have moved to learn defi nitely from President Wilson t whether he will permit ratification with the Lodge reservations or is determined to defeat the pact and carry the league of nations issue into the presidential election. If the president still refusea to yield on reservations the adminis- v- tration senators would like nis per- . mission to ioin the reoublicana in establishing peace' by resolution, as proposed by Senator Knox, ; Hitchcock Writes Wilson. ( Senator Hitchcock, the minoriljr leader in the senate, it became known today, wrote ' a letter two days ago requesting President Wil son to grant an audience to Senator " Simmons of North Carolina, one of the democratic senators who has been working most earnestly to bring about ratification by the com promise route. There was consid-' erable irritation, both at the White -House and in democratic ranks in the senate, when news of the letter leaked out," but those involved later ' admitted its accuracy. 'The letter, it was stated, has .not actually reached the president yet and therefore no reply has been made. It has been in wie nanus ui rot. uiduhj, nuv expects to lay it before the president -tomorrow It fs thought that the president will either grant 'the in terview or. write a letter to Senaor Hitchcock setting forth his views in . detail so that the democrats may ' have a sure guide for their future actions. . If the president win see Senator Simmons, the senator plans to take with him to the White Hoase draft of various compromises that have been- suggested recently1 on the r tide 10 reservation,' including one just prepared by Senator Kellogg of Minnesota, "mld reservationist" . Want President View. Democratic leaders have little ' hope that the president will accept any of these, but they would like to make certain just how far. the president is willing to go before (Contlnnad an Paa Tw, Catauui Twa. Sarcastic Attack By Southern Solons Proves of No Avail Washington, Mar,ch S By a strict party vote the house adopted a rule providing for four hours' debate Saturday on the report recently sub mitted by the aviation investigation committee after Representative Pott, democrat, North Carolina, had char acterized it as "an asinine perform- ance" put over by the republican steering committee. Representative C-arrett, democrat, Tennessee, brought a roar from the ' democratic side1 of the chamber by explaining that "this was a rule pro- ; viding thathe house do nothing and meet an hour ahead of time to begin." Mr. Garrett said that m the attack which would be made on Secretary Baker it was well to remember that "if the secretary of war had been ' half as inefficient in making war as the republican party was in making peace, American soldiers still would be in battle." '.Chairman Campbell of the rules committee called for a vote and tht rule was adopted, 14S to 115. One Dead, Three Injured, . In Raid on Moonshine Still Racine, Wis., March S. One is dead and three injured as the result . of a raid by federal and local !- ; fleers on the saloon of Barney Sekat, in search of an illicit stilt ' and moonshine whisky. Sekat was ' killed, and his father, . federal pro hibition enforcement officer and a policeman were injured, the latter , . shot in the arm by the saloonkeeper. A considerable amount of liquor was found in the place. Witnesses Fail to A(Jree On Armistice Day Outrage Montesano, Wash., March 5. Wit nesses called by counsel for 10 I. W. ' W. on trial here for murder in con nection with the Centralia Armistice day, shooting were questioned close ly as to whether the shots poured into the ranks of marching ex soldiers were preceded'or followed by a rush of marchers toward the I. W. ,W. hall. There was not entire, agreement on the point Shipping Board Will Move 1 Headquarters to New York New York, March 5. The ship ping board's division of Operations- -will be moved to New York about April 1, Chairman Payne announced! The board desired to have the di vision headquarters, at the place where ita " nrincinal hnalnaaa 1 ladled.. - " -.p