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OMAHA, FRIDAY, MARCH 1920.
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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
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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.
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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
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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