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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1920)
THE- BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1920. HERBERT HOOVER THROWS HIS HAT INTO 1920 RING Definitely Says He Will Accept Republican Nomination "If Issues Necessitate and Demand It." San Francisco, March 31. Her bert Hoover Tuesday expressed a willingness to accept the republican nomination for president. His an nouncement, contained in a tele gram to the Hoover Republican club of California, was conditioned upon a feeling in the republican party that the issues demand his candidacy. The former food administrator, telegraphing from New York, said he was "naturally affiliated" with the "independent element" of the re publican party and declared that if that party adopts a "forward look ing" platform he would support it. He reiterated former declarations that he would not seek the nomina tion. Concerning the peace treaty, with its league of nations covenant, Mr. Hoover expressed himself as differ ing with equal wideness from ex tremists who opposed "any league t all" and the "position taken by the president." Recent developments in the treaty situation, Mr. Hoover said, were one reason for his announcing his will ingness to accept the nomination. Others were, "stagnation in eco nomic adjustment" and urgent repre sentations concerning the situation in California, his home state. These factors, he said, caused him to "con firm the action my republican friends there have already taken without consulting me." The telegram addressed to War ren Gregory, president of the Hoover Republican club of Califor nia, follows: "I had not wished to enter, nor could I hitherto see any real public service by entering into partisan political discussion, more especially pending the clarification of the di verging views of the difficult groups in the parties on the great new issues. The recent developments ' over the peace treaty, stagnation in adjustment of our great economic problems and particularly the many urgent representations I have re ceived as to the situation in my own state, convince me -that it is my duty to confirm the action that my republican friends there have al ready taken without criticising uie. League of Nations. "P understand that there is a great wish among the republicans of California to have opportunity to express themselves in favor of the league of nations with proper reser vations safeguarding American tra ditions and interests as opposed to the extreme view advocated against any league at all. I differ just as strongly with this view as I differ with the extreme postion taken by the president on participation in purely European affairs. This issue is whether, with reservations pro- tccting our position, we should join the moral forces of the world to reduce the dangers again growing around us, or whether we will, by preference of an insularity that we do not possess, sit by in the face of growing armies, navies, national antagonisms, reaction, or, in reverse, the spread of bolshevism, through much of the world. This would be the defeat of the hopes for which our sqns were sacrificed in this war. Not Alone Moral Idealism. "Entirely aside from this moral idealism of the league and the dan ger to our own ultimate peace, the solution of our domestic problems, such as the size of our armament, reduction in taxation, and the pre vention of agricultural and industrial depression and consequent unem ployment, is dependent upon stabil ity abroad ,and upon our access to the world s markets, which today arc endangered by discrimination against us through our inability to exercise our veto under the treaty. I believe it is the transcendant serv ice which the republican party can render to the nation to settle a league sufficiently designed to give up these national protections. Mustn't Dictate Policy. "No one shouuld be able to dictate the pojicy of great parties, yet every " man and woman has a right to de cide what issues and measures he will support. If the republican partywith the independent element of which I am naturally affiliated adopts a forward looking, liberal constructive platform on the treaty and on our economic issues, and if the party proposes measures for sound business administration of the cou.itry, and is neither reactionary nor radical in its approach to our great ' domestic questions, and is backed by men who undoubtedly as sure the consummation of these poli cies and measures, I will give it my entire support. While I do not, and will not myself seek the nomination, if it is felt that the issuees necessi tate it and it is demanded of me, I cannot refuse service. v (Signed.) "HERBERT HOOV E R." Boy Shot to Protect Mother; Is Exonerated Rising Fawn. Ga., March 31. Green Evans, 17, who killed Jay G. Cantrell, who, it is charged, while in toxicated, attacked Evans' mother Tuesday, was exonerated. . Evans father, who was ill with pneumonia, . jumped from his bed to aid his wife, and at the same moment the boy came in with a shotgun, placed the muzzle near Cantrell's head and fired. Let Cuticura Be Your Beauty Doctor ORDER DISMISSAL OF 10,000 CLERKS AT WASHINGTON 1 1 Greatest Reduction Will Be in War Department Forestalls Inevitable Action. Chlrago Tribune-OroaJia B LMd Win. Washington, March 31. As a re sult of popular disapproval of the! retention of the civilian war ma chine practically intact 16 months after the end of the war, the ad ministration has decided to reduce the force of clerical employes in the District of Columbia. The order has gone out to dismiss at least 10,000 clerks before July 12. The greatest reduction will be in the War department, which now has 22,000 civilian employes, compared with 37,000 when the war ended and 2,816 before the war began. There will also be a large reduction in the Treasury department, which has 38, 000 employes in Washington, com pared with 29,342 when the armistice was declared and 8,285 before the war. The principal cut in the Treasury department will be in the war risk bureau, which now numbers 9,000 employes. There were 14,000 em ployes in the bureau when Director Cholmley-Jones took charge. He began weeding out the superfluous employes and installing labor sav" ing devices and he now contemplates reducing the force to 7,000 within the next two months. In taking this step, the adminis tration is only forestalling to. some extent the action it will be com pelled to take after July 1. Police Can't Account for Widespread Desecration Of Graves in Cemetery Merced, Cal., March 31. Visitors and attendants found monuments toppled over,' wooden head boards pulled up and massive slabs covering family plots torn from their founda tions in six of Merced's grave yards. The police say they are . at a loss to account for the widespread destruction. Attributes Longevity to ' High Necks and Low Hsels Kane, Ta., March 31. Mrs. Cath erine Selin on the occasion of, her 95th birthday advised girls who wished to live long to "cut out low necks and high heels." - "To enjoy a long, life and good health a girl must observe simple rules," Mrs. Selin said. "She must eat slowly, breathe deeply, get lots of sleep, never expose her throat by low necks and must noj wear ex tremely high heels. Exercise is im portant and of all exercise there, is "none better than digging in the soil. The best thing for a girl's health is for her to put on loose overalls and go out and plant a garden in the season. Housework is sufficient in the winter." WAGE DECISION WILL INCREASE PRICE OF COAL New Scale at Bituminous Mines Means Rise of 65 Cents to $1.25 a Ton, Operators Say. N New York, March 31. The action of President Wilson's coal commis sion in granting bituminous mine workers a wage increase of 27 per cent means the price of coal at the mines will advance 65 cents to $1.25 a ton, bituminous coal operators an nounced here Tuesday. While asserting they "desired to keep the price of coal as low as pos sible and to avoid speculation in the product of their mines," v mine owners cited Illinois as the only state where the minimum increase would apply. This was said to be due to local conditions, which les sen the cost of production. Since the removal of bituminous coal price restrictions by the presi dent, some operators, it was stated, already had sold large quantities of coal for April delivery at from $3.50 to $4 a ton. The government price of $2.95 is effective, however, to April 1. Thcoperators in some dis tricts, it was said, have received as much as $4.75 a ton in instances where big purchasers went into the fields and engaged in competitive bidding. The mine workers' representa tives refused to make any comment on the proposed increases in prices, except to state that the new wage agreement would only "involve 25 cents a ton average increased expense." Fighting Proclivities OfO he ess Willard Is Cause of Fine of 'Buck' Lawrence, Kan., March 31. Jess Willard, former heavyweight cham pion, was fined $1 and costs in the court of Justice R. C. Manley here yesterday on a charge of dis turbing the peace. Complaint was made by Fred Logan, a negro po liceman, who testified today that Willard told him "that he would kick his lungs out" when trouble arose when Willard, in an auto mobile, attempted to pass Logan, who was riding in a wagon. British Columbia Wants C:ne Dry Referendum Vote Vancouver, B. C, March 31. P.o hibition party lcadrs of British Columbia are to ask the provincial government for a referendum on the question of "bone dry" prohibition. At present liquor can be obtained here on prescriptions and under the permit system. v . Assailant of Women . Gets-Limit of Law Despite Pleadings Chicago Trlbona-Oroaha Boo Leased Win. Chicago, March 31. "Judge, give me one more chance and I'll make good," whined Albert Breitung, 29 years of age. "Give you a change!" thundered Judge Zeman. "I'll give you the limit. The women and girls of Chi cago must be protected and they certainly are not safe with you at liberty. I will give you a sentence that will keep you in the peniten tiary for the rest of your davs. In this case I sentence you to 30 years at hard labor and when the addi tional charges against you come up I will give you additional punish ment." . i Breitung was convicted of drag ging a woman to the prairie and as saulting her. 'In his confession he admitted assaulting 12 women and girls since the first of the year, keep ing the district around Windsor park in a state of terror. Six of the women and girls were in court and identified hi n Two others aresgo ill from injuries he inflicted that they could not appear. His victim.i ranged from girls of 14 to one woman who is a grandmother. Breitung is a German. Headache From Slight Colds. LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets re lieve the Headache by curing the Cold. A tonic laxative and germ destroyer. Look for signature E. W. GROVE on box. SOc. Do Your Shopping in toe Forenoons 0 vyiL IKK it ir Doors Open at 9 a. m. 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