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The- Omaha Daily Beb VOL. 49 NO. 243w titer M MCMf-elMt ittw Mar M. IMS. at Onaa . 0. Mitr art ef March 3, 1878. OMAHA, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1920. By Mall (I yur). Dally. I6.W: Sunday. 12.50: Dally and Sua.. 17.00 Tauttl da Nab, aoalaga aatra. TWO CENTS OPEN QUIZ ON QUESTION OF I'M CLERKS Administration Officials Un dergo Daily Grilling by House And Senate Committees on Failure to Reduce Employes. GENERAL HARRIS DENIES MANY ARE NOT KEPT BUSY . Change in Ruling on Pay of Overseas Soldiers Necessi tates Handling of Much Addi tional Work, Baker Explains. Chimin Tribune-Omaha Hrt Leaned Win. , Washington, March 26. Adminis tration officials are now undergoing -a daily grilling by house and senate committees on their failure to re duce materially the number of war time employes and that the reports that large numbers of the employes retained on the payroll are either idle or not fully occupied on govern ment work. In a session of the house appro priations committee Representatives Byrnes of South Carolina, democrat, directed attention to the matter of idleness In examining Adjutant General Harris. Mr. Byrnes wanted to know whether there was any check on the work performed and General Harris said he had five in spections made every day to ascer tain whether all clerks were work ing. Same Hours Each Day. "Do you use the same officers for these inspections?" asked Mr. Byrnes. "Yes, sir, every day," replied the general. "If the clerks know when the of ficer is coming they could get busy immediately when he comes in sight," Mr. Byrnes pointed out. General Harris said this is true. - but that the inspections are not made at regular times. He said he himself frequently inspected the force and instancing one building containing . 1,500 clerks had found "probably three or four clerks who . i were not actually engaged and sel- iom found more than a dozen clerks not actually hard at work." "I am frank to say that I have seen them when they were not working," said Mr. Byrnes. "I do not say that was in your depart ment I do not sav where it was. I have been told by employes that at times they have not anything to nairman uoou cauc ancnuuii to the testimony of Major Burks' of ' the general staff of , the army, who stated "I saw with my own eyes day after day hundreds of clerks : who were doing nothing." v Much Extra Work. Before the senate "committee on , impropriations, Secretary of War Baker said that the war department force of civilian employees had been reduced 46 per cent since the armi stice. The controller of the treasury had changed a ruling on overseas pay which alone necessitates the handling of 350,000 additional claims. He cited a letter from a sol dier statins that he had had 11 dif ferent transactions with the war de partment, ell of which had been dis posed of promptly. "These claims did not have to pass through the war risk bureau, (Continued ob Pa-are Two. Column Three.) Calls Treaty Debate Most Confused Gabfest In History of World ' Jackson, Miss., March 26. The peace treaty was rejected by the senate as a result of a "great con spiracy," against President Wilson, Senator John Sharp Williams de- . elar-ed in an address to the Missis sippi legislature. "I believes there are how men j glad that the president is sick, per hops hope for his death," Senator Williams said: Declaring the treaty debate was the "most confused gabfest in the history of the world." Senator Wil liams, long known as a master of sarcasm xn senate debate, excoriated those who helped defeat the league of nations. "I do not see how any man who loves his country can look with un concern on what has just happened," he said. "There was a chance for the United States to stand at the head of a council of nations of the world; to lead the universe in the pathways of peace. The opportun ity was rejected and future histor lans will refer to the last two years as the 'time of the great conspir acy. England to Send 4,000,000 ' Pounds in Gold to America London, March 26. jit is reported in the bullion market that 4,000,000 pounds in gold will be shipped to America at the end of the week, comprising 2,500,000 pounds from the Bank of England's stock and the remainder from other sources. It is possible that the amount going is the first installment in preparation for repayment of the Anglo-French an of 100,000,000 pounds. Plan to Bring Domestic Servants From Europe Spokane, March 26. To relieve the shortage of domestic servants in this city, which it is declared is acute, local business men axe plan- ning the organization of an asso ciation to bring 250 young women from Europe, according to an nouncement by C P. Oudin, presi dent of a large industrial concern MAGISTRATE IN DUBLIN IS KILLED BY MASKED GANG Three Attacks on Policemen in Three Days Two Seri ously Wounded. London, March 26. Almost every day furnishes a new victim for the "underground" warfare in Ireland. This morning Allan Bell, resident magistrate, 70 years of age, and for many years an official of the Royal constabulary, was dragged by a gang, sorpe of whom were masked, from a crowded tram car in Dublin and shot four times in cold blood before the eyes of the passengers. Some of the passengers were wom en, who fainted at the sight The assassins fled and no arrests have been made. There have been three attacks on policemen in different parts of Ire land during the past three days, two of the policemen being dan gerously wounded. No One Convicted. Despite placards all over Ireland, offering 10,000 reward and govern ment protection for information, no one has been convicted for any ot the assassinations, many of which have occurred in daylight in the presence of numerou3 witnesses. Feeling still runs high in Cork over the murder of Lord Mayor MacCurtain. Several witnesses at the inquest attempted to connect the police with the murder, and the Sinn Feiners profess the killing was in revenge for the slaying of a police man in Cork a few hours before the lord mayor was murdered. The house of commons today dis cussed the case of William F. O'Brien, leader of the transport workers, who is in jail. He is said to be conducting a hunger strike and in danger of death. Raid 1,000 Homes Weekly. The Weekly Nation says that the police and soldiers raid about 1,000 Irish homes weekly; that Gen. Hackett Payne, who commanded the Carsonite army in Ireland, has been called in by Field Marshal Vis count French, lord lieutenant of Ireland, to assist in the rule of na tionalist Ireland and that Inspector Smith, who was chief of the Belfast police when cargoes of rifles for Sir Edward Carson's force were being landed, is now head of the Royal constabulary. With a superheated atmosphere on both sides of the Channel, the Irish home rule bill will be debated in the house of commons next Mon day. The debate is not expected to last more than two or three days. Premier Lloyd George will make the final summing up. DRY ENFORCEMENT, OFFICER SHORN OF - MUCH AUTHORITY Decision' of Federal Judge Makes Head of Department Mere Figurehead. UNIDENTIFIED GIRL ENDS LIFE IN RIVER Neatly Dressed Young Woman Leaps to Death From Doug las Street Bridge While Five Spectators Are Helpless. LIGHTS PLAY ON STREAM IN EFFORT TO FIND BODY Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leaned Wire. Chicatro. March 26. Mai. A. V. Dalrymple, at present in charge of the prohibition enforcement forces in the Chicago district, with his powers lopped off, is likely to be transferred to Arkansas, according t5 hints coming from Washington. The major is now in Washington, where, he went to protest against interference with his work here and lack of support given him by other federal officials. From information dribbling in from Washington, it ap years his mission is in vain and that he will be succeeded by a local man, perhaps one less vigorous. In any event the new officer will be shorn of much power. Federal Judge Carpenter has ruled that hereafter no arrests.or seizures can be made until they are sanctioned by the district attorney. This makes of the prohibition enforcement chief a merefigurehead. It also means that it will be ex ceedingly difficult to round up any of the bootleggers or saloonkeepers. Liquor is obtainable almost any where in the city, as attested by in creasing drunkenness. British Steamer Sends Out Call for Assistance London, March (26. The British steamer Ortega from Liverpool for Valparaiso, sent an S. O. S. mes sage Friday from latitude 52 North longitude 5 west (close off the Linney head on the southeastern coast of, Wales), asking for assist ance. The message said the steamer desired to be towed back to Liver pool, as she was battling with heavy seas coming in from leeward. - The steamer El Paraguayo is neai .by and is proceeding to the Ortega's assistance. Senator Harding "Rather Unwilling," But "Confident" Indianapolis, Ind., March 26. Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio announced himself as a "rather ?:nwilling" but "confident" candidate or the republican nomination for president of the United States at a luncheon given in his honor here Friday. . He declared that in times of peril the country always had turned to the republican party and that it would do so again. Senator Harding said he regarded all of his opponents as worthy men. Socialist Mass Meeting Broken Up by Officers Philadelphia. March 26 A mass meeting in Labor lyceum to pro test against unseating of the five so cialists by the New York legislature broke up in a row when the police interfered because of alleged radi cal utterances by one of the speakers. Charles Solomon, one of the New York socialist assembly men, and three other New Yorkers, were arrested, charged with inciting to riot Pays Dollar for Toll When Motorist Speaks to Her Search Being Made for Girls Missing From City. i An unidentified girl, apparently 16 years old and neatly dressed, ut tered a dejected "goodbye" to the world at 8:30 last night, then leaped to her death from the middle of the Douglas street bridge to the swirl ing current below. Detectives conducted an all-night search along the river in an effort to recover the body. Police checked a list of missing girls reported during the past six weeks in a possible attempt to identify the girl. She wore a long dark red coat, buttoned about the neck, black shoes and a black straw hat, the lid drooping about her head. It was noticed she had light blonde hair and blue eyes. Her build was slen der and her features light com plexioned. Five Witness Plunge. Five persons who saw her be fore she leaped to her death said she appeared to be between the ages of 14 and 17 years. An unsuccessful attempt to reach the girl an instant before her leap to death was made by H. T. Peter son, 1819 North Twenty-first stret, eye-witness to the suicide. Miss Fern Paige, 2405 Capitol avenue, who was with Peterson, on their way to Council Bluffs on a motor cycle, also witnessed the girl's leap to her death. Both had talked to her a mom ent before she climbed the north railing, 100 feet east of the Ne braska side toll house. The girl had passed the toll house without paying toll. Peterson and Miss Paige on a motorcycle, intercepted the girl and conversed with her several minutes before she climbed the railing. "When I told her that she forgot to pay her toll, She handed me a (Continued on Pae Two, Column Two.) Wholesale Grocers Urge Restrictions on Use of Packers' Gars ( Chicago, March ib. The National Wholesalers Grocers' association opened its case against the packers and the railroads in an Interstate Commerce commission hearing by urging restriction of the use of pack ers' cars to the handling of fresh meats and packing house products and revision of the list of such articles. Clifford Thorne, counsel for the grocers, presented the proposal, which he asked the packers and rail road interests to agree to and the commission to order executed. The proposal provided that canned vegetables and soups, butter, cheese, various oils and canned meats with vegetable ingredients be excluded from cars used to ship fresh meats. R. D. Rynder, counsel for Swift & Co.. said that the recent agree ment between the packers and At torney General Palmer would cover the situation. "We cannot enter into any other agreement that might in terfere with the carrying out of its terms," he said. Prohibitionists Predict Victory in Ohio Recount Columbus, Ohio, March 26. Dry leaders late Friday predicted victory in the recount of votes cast in the state prohibition referendum. With the original wet majority of 479 cut to 159, and with further re ductions predicted by the drys through alleged errors, prohibition forces expressed the belief that a majority of a few votes for the drys finally would be recorded. Dry lead ers said they expected anti-prohibition forces next week would demand recount of ballots in precincts where the wets claim errors in their favor. Turkish Cabinet, Formed On March 9, Has Resigned Constantinople, March 26. T(Ha vas.) The Turkish cabinet headed by Sali Pasha, formed on March 9, has resigned and the sultan has asked Damada Ferid Pasha, former grand vizier and foreign minister, to form a new cabinet. Damada Ferid Pasha was ap pointed Turkish grand visier and foreign minister on March 7, 1919, and the following month was named head of the Turkish delegation to the peace conference. Outcome of Suffrage in Delaware Still Doubtful Dover, Del., March 26. Disposal by the Delaware legislature of the proposed woman suffrage constitu tional amendment not later than next Wednesday was in prospect when both houses adjourned Friday until next Monday. Ratification con tinued doubtful, rival camps holding stealfast to respective predictions of ratification and defeat. Rev. T. J. Mackay Reported To Be in Critical Condition Rev. T. J. Macky, rector of All Saints Episcopal church, was report ed very low last night. HIGHJACKERS GET DEADLY POISON IN DRUG HOUSE RAID Liquor Kept for Invalid Taken After Poisoning Dog. Persons who drink any" of the 50 gallons of 'liquid concoction "high jacked" from the Goodrich Drug company, 1308 Harney street, last night will drink to their own death, officials of the drug company stated as a warning in reporting the theft of the liquid to police. The stuff stolen is known as "per fume spirits'' and is a deadly poison, J. E. .Goodrich, president of the company said. Overlook Alcohol Barrel v "Highjackers" raided the labora tory room on the third floor of the building between 7 and 10 last night and made their escape with the poison on an automobile truck. No attempt was made by the "highjackers" to break into a vault in the office in which is stored a barrel of alcohol. Six weeks ago, "highjackers" stole 14 gallons of alcohol from the third floor of the building. . ' ' Give Dog Poison. Liquor thieves raided the home of Louis Bessell, 938 North Twenty fifth street, sometime during the past week and stole 12 quarts of whisky, five gallons of homemade iwine and a dozen quarts of jelly from the basement, Mr. Bessell -reported to police last night. The liquor had been kept for Mrs. Bessell, who has been an invalid for years. The invalid woman is under the constant care of a physician, and her' condition depends upon brandy and wine, Mr. Bessell says. "Highjackers" who raided the Bessell horr.c poisoned "Tige," pet nog of the Bessell family, last Wednesday, Mr. Bessell believes. BURGLAR SHOOTS WHEN WQMAN RAN TO CALL POLICE Two Attempts to Enter Homes Fail When Inmates Are Aroused. A burglar fired a shot at Mrs. C. Christiansen, 2636 Binney street, at 9 o'clock last night when she ran from her home to call police. The shot went wild. The burglar and an accomplice, who had acted as a lookout on the west side of the Christiansen home, escaped. Mrs. Christiansen was at home alone when she heard a noise out side the dining room window, she said. Upon switching on a porch light to investigate, she caught sight of a man standing on the west side of her home. Runs for Help, She became frightened and ran across the street to call police. A shot from the east side of her house halted her. She turned around only to see both men escape. Nothing is missing from her home. Detectives found the base ment door open. Police believe the men were "high-jackers" and had attempted to break into the wrong house. Mr. Christiansen told de tectives he keeps no liquor in his place. Attempted Burglary Fails. A lone robber attempted to force his way into the home of B. Weiner, 2023 Clark street, last night while the family was eating supper. He was frightened away before his at tempt was successful. Attention of the family was attracted when the man rapped on a window with a gun. "Let me in or I'll shoot," he com manded. When Mr. Weiner ran into another room for a gun the man escaped. Daylight Saving Rule Becomes Effective in New York at Midnight Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire. New York, March 26. Daylight saving will become effective at mid night, but observance will not be general. Ocean liners announced they would sail and arrive under the regular system of, time. Newspapers also must speed up to get their tele graph news in time to make a show ing in the early editions. In all the city departments and wherever the law can be enforced, the daylight saving hours will be observed. Chicago, March 26. This city will continue to operate under what the southern people call "God's time." Considerable sentiment favored re suming daylight savings hours, but the American Federation of Labor declared against it and the idea was abandoned. There are indications now, however, that the labor unions would be glad if the city would ovef-ride their vote. Shipping Board Official Indicted on Graft Charge Seattle, Wash., March 26. Capt. John F. Blain, former north Pacific manager of the United States ship ping board, was reindicted here by a federal grand jury on charges that he accepted secret commissions on sales made to the board while he was manager. The federal court had dismissed previous indictments returned against him. When the Democratic Orators Go Out To Defend the Party (Copyright, 1920, by John T. MeCutcheon.) " : W,LL ' hk The Treat of ; kfNKP VERSAILLES 14 THE fV VL GREATEST TREVr N l-SX s& in ever, written! J l7fa ,T SHOUl-D HAVE BEEN ' Ratified Without the reservations ' jv wvrve that protect american interests ? The Weather Forecast. Nebraska: Rain Saturday; cooler by night; Sunday fair. Iowa: Rain Saturday or Saturday night; Sunday partly cloudy and cooler. Hourly Temperatures:" m. S a. a. 7 a. m . . 8 a. m . . a. m. . 10 a. m. , 11 .34 ..St . ss . .ss ..4 ..46 . .50 It noon m. i p. S P. 5 p. m . . . 4 p. m . . . 5 p. m. . . 4 p. m... 7 p. m... 5 p. m.. , ..5 61 K (W 04 02 ........ 50 SOLDIERS' BONUS ! BILL INTRODUCED i BY MICHIGAN MAN Measure Follows Lines Agreed Upon at Conference With Le gion Representatives. ( hkajo Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire. Washington, March 26. The American Legion's soldiers' bonus bill was introduced in the house Fri day by Representative Fordney of Michigan, chairman of the commit tee on ways and means. Mr. Ford ney, who has previously declared himself as favoring some legislation on the subject, explained that he offered the bill at the request of the legislative committee of the legion and that he was committed to its provisions. Mr. Fordney said that the ways and means committee would begin the consideration of the soldiers' bonus legislation in executive ses sion on Monday. Choice of Four Plans. ; The bill as introduced by Mr. Fordney follows 'the lines of the recommendations agreed upon at a conference of committees of the American Legion earlier in the week. It provides that ex-service men shall exercise their option in receiving the benefits in one of four plans, land settlement aid, home aid, vocational training and cash com pensation. The bill authorizes the appropria tion of $500,000,000 over a period of 10 years for the land settlement aid scheme, of which $50,000,000 is ap priated for immediate use. The sum of $50,000,000 is appropriated for home aid loans and $5,000,000 for vocational training. Provides for Home Aid. The sum of $1,000,000 is appro priated for the expenses of the op eration of the land settlement and home aid plans. No specific amount of money is appropriated for the cash bonuses. The bill provides that in case any soldier shall not select either of the optional plans set forth in titles 1, 2 and 3, he shall receive upon his application the sum of $1.50 per day for each day of his service between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1919, such sum to be payable "as soon as funds therefore are available and not later than one year from the approval of this act." German Actress Killed By Imitation Avalanche Geneva, March 26. HermineKol ler, a well known German moving picture actress of Dresden, was killed and several other actors and actresses were injured near Inrts bruck, in the upper steppes of the Wildgratz mountain when an imi tation avalanche which was to en velope the group developed into a real avalanche, according to reports received here. Mountain scenes were being taken by a German film company at an altitude of 9,700 feet. The scene was to depict a party of 11 persons be ing buried by an avalanche. Negro Hanged in Missouri For Attack on White Woman Poplar Bluffs, Mo., March 26. Adam Jackson, a negro, was hanged in the Butler county jail here late Friday for assaulting Mrs. Emma Mann, a white woman, last month. He was the first person to be exe cuted in Missouri since capital pun ishment was restored last July, MORE BELGIAN ! TROOPS PLACED ALONG BORDER Ready to Fire Across Rhine if Further" Dutbreaks Occur In Germany Revolution ists Remain Quiet. lly the AtMioclated Press. Buderich, Rhenish Prussia, March 26. Belgian reinforcements arrived early Friday to guard the bridge head here and more than a score of guns, whiah are in position to open fire across the Rhine if necessary, are at present available. Thursday nigh was quiet, only a few shots being fired. The revolutionary, workmen ap parently have not moved from the position to which they were driven yesterday. Heavy Losses in Fighting. Wesel, Rhenish Prussia, March 26. -The workmen's headquarters admitted that heavy losses had been sustained in the fighting. Major General Kabitsch of the Reichswehr dn a communique said the reichswehr forces which routed the workingmen from the vicinity of Lippe Schlos's found 50 dead there. Count Kahn Killed in Riot. London, March 26. A dispatch to the London Times from Rotterdam says that until they were upset by the radical revolt in Germany, feudal conditions prevailed in some districts of East Prussia, according to a German who recently arrived in Rotterdam from East Prussia. Several of the big land owners called together small units of be tween 100 and 200 men who were drilled and treated as vassals. These men were supposed to have been collected to defend the estates, ac cording to the Times informant, but in reality were destined for General Ludendorff's army. When the news of the revolt was received the men burned many of the estates, and Count Kahn, one of the large land owners, was killed in a riot. Bauer Cabinet Resigns. Berlin, March 26. The Bauer cabinet has resigned. President Ebert has called on Hermann Muel ler, the foreign minister, to take up the task of forming a new gov ernment. Herr Mueller accepted, but hesitated before tackling the job. On the return of Ebert and his cabinet to Berlin after the fall of the Kapp "dictatorship," it was declared Premier Bauer would fill the vacan cies in this cabinet and that it then would resign in a body, to be re placed by one more satisfactory to the radical elements in Germany, j Bisbee Wobblies Voted for General Strike, Records Show Tombstone, Ariz., March 26. Photostatic copies of records by A. S. Ambree, secretary-treasurer of the Bisbee local of the I. W. W. tending to show that the local voted June 23, 1917, in favor of a general strike throughout tie United States as a protest against the "persecution of I. W. W. members on account of alleged anti-conscription activities" and to establish that the strike in the Warren mining district called June 26, 1917, was ordered by that organization as part of a nation-wide movement, were introduced by the defense in the trial of Harry E. Wootton, charged with kidnaping in connection with the Bisbee de portations of July 12, Iff KIDNAPED LAD RESCUED FROM HOTEL "PRISON Financier's Son, Held for $25,- 000 Ransom, Again ' Safe at Home. Lexington, Ky., March 26. Paul Little, 12-year-old son of E. R. Lit tle, a local capitalist, was safe at honie rriday night, while the au thorities were searching in several states for two men who kidnaped the boy Wednesday afternoon. -The lad was returned to his par ents after he had telephoned to his home from a hotel room, where he said he had been imprisoned in the bath room for 38 hours. Often, he said, the kidnapers threatened his life, sometimes showing him a re volver. He said during his con finement his only food was a little fruit and piece of cake. Left Bath Room Unlocked. His captors left the bath room unlocked Friday morning and Paul said he emerged into the room to find its door locked. Then he tele phoned and his sister answered the call. The hoy screamed with de light. In a short time his father was at the hotel and burst in the door of the room and the boy rushed into his arms. The boy said he had been lured to the hotel by one of the kidnapers on a promise of a dollar for deliver ing a box of candy. , A note demanding a ransom of $25,000 had been received by Mr. Little and although he announced he had deposited the money Thurs day night in a garbage can, as di rected, the kidnapers failed to ap pear, supposedly, the police say, through fear of arrest. Offers to jGive Throne Of Hungary to Former Emperor Charles Geneva, March 26. Admiral Horthy, regent of Hungary, has secretly but officially offered the Hungarian throne to former; Em peror Charles, with the assurance that everything has been arranged for the return of the Hapsburg monarchy; with the consent of the majority of the population, accord ing to information from Pragins, where the ex-emperor lives. Admiral Hbrthy, it is declared, has invited the former ruler to come to Budapest as soon as possible, adding that the question with the allies in connection with the move could be best arranged from the Hungarian capital. The ex-emperor, however, is said to be apparently hesitating as to his course, and has not left Pragins. Communist Secretary Found Guilty of Anarchy New York, March 20. Harry Winitsky, executive secretary of the local branch of the communist party, was found guilty by a jury in the state supreme court of violating the criminal anarchy lav. He is charged with having advocated the overthrow of government by force. Reds Occupy Petchenka. Christiania, March 26. A force of 2,000 liolsheviki from the Murmansk regions occupied the town of Pet chenka, in the, northwestern section of the Kola peninsula, according to the Tidens Tegn. The Finnish force at that point has been driven northward CAMPAIGN OF WOOD UNDER FIREBYBORAH Idaho Senator Reads Press Dispatches Declaring Testi monials in Favor of Candi date Bought for $2.50 Each. SAYS WILSON SHOULD BE HIS PARTY'S CHOICE "Nobody Else to Present His Issue' Promises to Bare Extravagant Expenditures of Democratic Aspirants. , : -i By ARTHUR SEARS HENNINO, ' Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee leaned Wlra . Washington. March 26. In a heated discussion of the alleged lav ish campaign funds of Wood and - Lowden and a couple of democratic aspirantsto the presidency, in which was injected a rellrence to Mr. Wil son and a third term,' the presiden tial campaign got under way in th senate today. Much political oratory, pent tip during the recent months of treaty discussion, was spilled, Senator Borah, a Johnson supporter, leading off with an attack on the Wood campaign in support of his bill re quiring publicity of preconvention contributions and limiting primary expenditures to $10,000 in each state.' senator Kenyon announced ho" would offer a resolution for a con-, gressional investigation of the funds and expenditures of the various candidates. Challenge Senator Borah. Senator Moses of New Hamo shire, General Wood's Washington manager, vigorously denied that qJV, s money ,was being used "illegitimate- ly" by the Wood faction. Demo cratic senators challenged Senator, Borah to produce the facts about ex travagant expenditures of demo cratic candidates and Borah prom ised to furnish full information at an early date. - Senator Ashurst or Arizona, dem-' ocrat, brought up the third term is sue. I know no -democrat who ts indulging in extravaeant exoendi tures," he said, "and if I did I would publish it. Moreover, if I thought any democrat was today seeking a third term I would publish that fact. too." ' . v "Does the senator mean that he v knows of nobody now seeking a' third term?" asked Senator Borah. "The assumption of cherubic inno-1 cence is rjuite too much for a senator representing Arizona. So far as that goes, however, 1 think the president is entitled to a third term, because there is nobody else tonrestCKT issue to the country." ';' Senator Moses Skeptical. "I assume the senator means a third nomination, rather than a third term," suggested Senator Moses. "Well," answered Senator Bo rah, "if General Wood's managers continue their present practices i( I will'mean a third term." , I After explaining briefly the pur - t poses of his bill, Senator Borah ' I sai dthat for many years the use or . money in elections has been grow ing enormously." It has now attained an astonish ing extent in controlling nomina-" tions and elections and the year 1920 promises to become a perfect satur nalia of corruption," he went on. At this point Senator Borah read from this morning's New York Sun an Indianapolis dispatch describing the method of the Wood manage ment in Indiana, declaring that tes timonials are being bought from all sorts of people in favor of General wood at $2.50 each. The disoatch Uaid the word had gone out to get the nomination tor Wood at what ever cost. - ., Hold Wood Responsible. VZ, "And I am advised that there fcri plenty of affidavits describing sinu lar conditions in adjoining states," he continued. "Surely General Wood would not do such a thing, , but he is responsible if he gets the benefit of it. If they are paying $2.50 for testitmonials, in heaven's name what will they not pay for votes?" "All this is not confined to the re publican party either. In less than 10 days we will find that these ex penditures of republican aspirants (Continued on Page Two, Column Thraa.) Smithland Bandits -Flip Coin and Plead Guilty to Larceny Chicago Tribiine-Oroaja Bee Leased WUt Sion City. Ia., March 26. WiU Ham Gostcft, Omaha; Fred Le Roy, Kansas City, and James Manning and. Jame3 Casey today entered pleas of guilty to charges of larceny : as they were about to be placed on trial for attempted robbery of the Smithland. Ia., bank. February 6, 1920. Their decision was made by flipping a coin. They will be sentenced Monday. r" ' Parents and Two Children Killed in Utah Snowslide Salt Lake City, March 26. Four: persons, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Parr . and their two sons, Harold, aged 14, and Earl, 4, were killed early Friday when their home at Bing ham, Utah, was destroyed by a snowslide. All the bodies have been recovered. f. College Glee Club Tours. : ' Storm Lake, Ia., March 26. (Spe cial.) The Bticna Viata colleg, girlsJ'glee club left yesterday on the spring vacation trip. They will give concerts at Spencer, Estherville, Linn Grove, Cherokee. Early, Hot stein and Sac City,