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OMAHA, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1920. '
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PRICE TWO CENTS
DEMOCRATIC
LEADER DIES
AT CHICAGO
Roger C. Sullivan, Well Known
Jn Cook County and Illinois
Politics for 30 Years, Victim
Of Bronchial Pneumonia.'
LED MOVE THAT CAUSED
ELECTION OF WILSON
Had Attended Every Conven-
. tion Since 1 892 Frequent
Clashes With Bryan Made
Him Prominent in Politics;
j ) Chicago, April 14. Roger C. Suf
livan, 59, democraticleader of Cook
county, and prominent in state and
national politics for thirty years,
died at his "home in Chicago
WedjHfiday of bronchial pneumonia.
He hadNeen seriously ill a month.
Mr. Sullivan returned to Chicago
recently from Hot Springs, Ark.,
,where he had gone for his health
after spending a nart.of the winter
at Palm Beach, Fla.. and at Wash
ington,' where he conferred with por
. litical leaders.
Mr. Sullivan planned to enter the
democratic national convention . at
San . Francisco as the leader of the
Illinois delegation of 58, with the
avowed intention of making that his
last appearance as a political leader.
iRoger Sullivan, condemned in his
own state by his opponents as a
"boss" and more than once "read
out" of the democratic party by
William J. Bryan, led the movement
that finally ' resulted t in making
I Woodrow Wilson president bf the
United States.
Switches Vote to Wilson.
It was Sullivaii who headed the
democratic delegation from Illinois
it the Baltimore convention in 1908
a delegation pledged to Champ
' Clark and who after sufficient bal
lots had been cast to discharge his
obligation to Illinois, switched the
vote of the state to Wilson and
made his nomination possible.
' Roger Sullivan had been a partici
pant in every democratic convention
6ince 1892 and at least three of the
seven he attended, he had been a
commanding figure.
His clashes with Bryan and with
Carter Harrison and William R.
Hearst faction of. the party, in his
home state,-which brought him the
title of "boss" from Tii; political ene
mies, made Sullivan a democratic
figure throughout , the country. De
spite the frequent attacks on his
power and the fact that many of
the influential -party organs of Illi
nois were against him, Sullivan was
the leader in Illinois "ior several
years. ,
Started as Machinist.
.Roger Sullivan as a business man
had been no less successful than as
a politician. Coming to Chicago in'
1879 to work in the railroad shops
as an apprentice machinist at $1.25
a day, ne was reputed to have ac
cumlated. more than $1,000,000.
He was born on a farm near Bel
videre. 111., February 2, 1861. His
education was obtained in the pub
lic schools And he was first em
ployed as a farm boy at $8 a month.
Four years after coming to Chi
cago. Mr. Sullivan attended his first
political meeting, a ward census, and
from that dav dated his interest in
polities. ' In 1890. he was elected to
Ids first political office, a clerk of the
probate court. During the Cleve
land administration he was appoint
ed government gauircr. These were
the only public ojcos he ever held.
In 1914 he was the democratic nom
inee for U. S. senfctor, but was de
feated by Senator L Y. Sherman.
President Wilson opposed Sulli
van's election. Two years later his
fiends proposed his name for vice
president, , but he refused to enter
the race and insisted on the nomina
tion of Thomas R. Marshall for a
second term,
Differences With Bryan.
Sillivan's differences with Bryan
dated duck to me iree suvcr tu
paign of 1896. He had been a dele
Kate to the democratic national con
ventions of 1892 and 1896, bu before
tht pleeeion in the latter year he
joined the "gold democrats." Two
vears after the election of President
McKinley. Sullivan was elected to
the state committee.
In 1900 he helped Dominate Bryan
at Kansas City. Four years later
Sullivan was elected to the demo
" cratic national committee, thereby
laying the foundations for one of the
bitterest political fights in Illinois
democratic history. .
Bryan opened the battle ,in 1908
vhen he served notice on the demo
cratic state convention that he would
not accept the support of the Illinois
delegation unless the convention
adooted a resolution demanding Sul
livan's retirement from the national
committee. Sullivan defeated the
tescrfution and then introduced a res
olution endorsing Bryan, which was
passed. Sullivan remained a mem
ber of the national committee until
3916, despite repeated efforts to oust
him. .
Mr. Sullivan made his fortune in
Chicago gas companies and in the
cracker business. Mr., Sullivan and
Miss Helen M. Quinlan were mar
ried at Chicago in 1885 and to them'
were born one son and four daugh
ters, ... ,
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Coalitionists Rfe-Elected
London, April 13. Dr. T. J. Mc
"fCanur! ftcently appointed minis
ter of labor, has been re-elected to
Parliament on a coalition liberal
. ticket for the northwest division of
Camberwell. Mrs. Susan Lawrence,
the labor candidate, ran second and
J. C. Carroll, an ind(cndent liberal,
third. The election was necessitated
Dy Dr. McNamara s elevattou to
cabinet rank. ' I
PLAN REPUBLICAN
WEEK-END MEETING
AT ATLANTIC CITY
Engraved Invitation Issued to
Party for Authors, Artists
And Publicists.
New York, April 14. Engraved
invitatiohs were issued for a re
publican week end at Atlantic City
for "republican authors, artists and
publicists, old and new, orthodox
and converts, veterans and novices."
v"A word-of explanation" accom
panying each invitation said that all
expenses from New York to At
lantic City and return would be pre
paid. Arrangements will be made
for a two-days stop at a hotel where
there will be a banquet and an infor
mal entertainment. A special train
will leave New York Saturday,
April 24, and return the next day,
"The republican week end" says
he explanation "has been planned
as" a get-together meeting for the
writers, publishers, journalists, car
toonists, moving picture directors,
who, whatever their pa.st affiliations,
are convinced of the necessity of; a
republican administration." (
At republican national head
quarters it was said that week end
arrangements were in charge of
Owen Johnson. The engraved in
vitations bear the following names
as hosts:
George Ade. George Bach, Por
ter Emerson Browjie, Richard
Washburft Child, Ethel Barrymore,
Jay N. Darling, George H. Doran,
Elanor Franklin Egan, Edna Fer
berf Burton J. Hendrick, Arthur
Hopkins. Owen Johnson, i Herman
H. Kohlsaat Jesse L. Lasky, Dn
Marquis, .Edward Marshall, John T
iuvvitiviituu, juiiii w j-xiuKn-
lin, Mary Roberts Rhinehart, Co
rinne Roosevelt Robinson, Lewis J.
Selznick, Booth Tarkington, Charles
Hanson Towne, William Allen
White.
SEE HAND OF
RADICALS IN
RAIL STRIKE
. 3v justice
J Members of
Finds
Russian
Communjst Party Financed"
Switchmen's Walkout.
STEP IN PLAN TO START
' NATIONAL REVOLUTION
Finance Secretary
And State Auditor
Clash Over Warrants
Lincoln, Neb., April 14. (Spe
cial.) The war which has been on
for some time between Phil Bross,
secretary of the finance department,
and George W. Marsh, state audi
tor, has broken with renewed vigor,
this time ovr some warrants which
Bross claims have been allowed by
the auditor's office without the
"O. K." of the secretary of finance.
Bross has prepared a list of these
accountsNwhich run all the way from
fifty cents to $52. They average
about $9 each.
Bross ' is also holding - up . twev
claims, one tor ur. .Lenhott. chair
man of the state medical board, ior
$200 and another for $405 in favor
of H. H. Avery of the state board
of vocational training. - It is claimed
by isross that these have not been
properly approved by the proper de
partment under the code law. '
Auditor Marsh says that he will
have something to say tomorrow in
the matter and intimates that there
will be a whole lot doing when the
auditor's side comes to bat.
Pioneer LaPlatte Man
Dies, Was 90 Years Old
' LaPlatte, Neb., April 14. (Spe
cial.) Victor William Miller, who
had resided on a farm near here foiN
51 years, died today. He was born
in Scotland July 27, 1830, and came
here when 24 years old. He settled
at LaPlatte and was married in
1863.
Mr. Miller is survived by four
sons, Joseph and Frank of La Platte,
William of Beatrice and Walter of
Gretna, and two daughters, Mrs. J.
J. McBride of Springfield and Mrs.
E. E., Hoschar of LaPlatte.
Tmr body will be taken to South
Omaha for burial. Funeral services
will be held from St. Agnes church
at 10 a. m. and burial will be in St.
Marys cemetery. . .
Salvador Will Adhere
To the League of Nations
San Salvador, Republic of Salva
dor, April 14. The republic of Sal
vador, will adhere without reserva
tion to the league of nations, it was
announced here. Reports' that the
national congress of Salvador had
decreed a Latin-American court of
arbitration with the , United States
excluded were declare to be abso
lutely false. ,7
The policy of the government, it
was added, was cordial and friendly
toward the United States.
Substitute on Peace
Proposal Introduced
Washington, April 14. A substi
tute for the republican joint peace
resolution, adopted last week by the
house, was introduced today by
Senator McCumber of North Da
kota, leader of the republican mild
rescrvationists in the peace treaty
fight. He announced that' he would
bring it before the special meeting
of the foreign relations committee
called for tomorrow to consider the
house resolution.
Oregon Business Men
Organize, Overall Club
Rosebud, Ore., April 14. In order
to combat the high cost of wearing
apparel, many of of the leading
business men of the city signed an
agreement pledging themselves to
wear blue overalls and soft shirts
until such time as the price of cloth
ing is reduced.
Among the names appearing on
the agreement are bankers,' realty
dealers, capitalists, clerks and con
tractors. Professor Nash Resigns.'
Berkeley, Cal., April 14. Prof.
Chas. ySumner Nash resigned
from the presidency of the. PacificH
School of Theology. Ill-health and
advancing age were given as his
reasons. He had been in the fac
ulty of the school 3(Lyears and was
1 president for .nkc ftVars,
J Tl'r !.
'-'tf?&S(vA '
Wilson Discusses Situation
With Cabinet, But No State
ment Given Out Tieup Re
ported Breaking in West.
Washington, April 14. Evidence
obtained by the Department of
Justice was said today to show i
that the Russian communist inter
nationale is undertaking to use the
railroad strike as the vehiclefor
the creation of a mass strike in the
United States.
Reports from federal agents were
said to have disclosed that the
communist party was financing
and otherwise aiding the strike
through the agency of the Indus
trial Workers of the World.
Evidence which the department
has received was declared to justi
fy the statement that the strike
was to. be merely a step in the
well known plan of the communist ,
group and that the end and aim
was a mass strike to be followed
by a revolution.
Br The Anx&ated Press.
Washington, April 14.--President
Wilson and his cabijm discussed the
railroad strike for more than an
hour today and apparently reached
some conclusion, but there was no
intimation as to the nature. "
Attorney General . Palmer made
this statement as he left the White
House:
"It is fair to conclude , that the
strike situation was discussed, but.
I am not prepared to say what con
clusions were reached." ?
Soon after the Cabinet meeting,
the, president telegraphed the mem
ber's of the newly named railroad
labor board asking them to come to
Washington and be prepared to
function as soon as their nomina
tions had been confirmed by the
senate. . . , .
I Meet At White House. ',
The" cabinet assembled promptly
al 10 o'clock" The' members went
direct to the White House to meet
President - Wilson in his study in
stead of the executive offices,! where
cabinet meetings usually are field.
Secretaries Baker, Daniels and
Payne were the first to arrive. They
were followed by Attorney General
(Continued on Page Two, Column Four.)
At Washmgt
To Be
FIGHTING IS
REPORTED
Candidate for the Presidency H REPUBLIC
General Pershing Guest of Nebraskans
onr Declares He Is Willing
America's Hero Honored at
Big Reception When Home
Folks Pay Him Deserved
Tribute.
9
Lads Spend Full Week
' Riding on Elevated
Peanuts Main Food
Chicago Tribune-Omaha. Be Leased Wire,
Chicago, April 14. August Saltz
man, aged 13, and his brother, Ed
ward, aged 11, have just completed a
wild orgy lasting a week, during
which time they were "up in the
air," literally and figuratively. They
spent the entire time, barring brief
intervals when they dashed to the
street for supplies, riding on the ele
vated trains. During this time they
subsisted mainly upon peanuts and
gum, which they obtained from ele
vated station slot machines.
Had they traveled westward in a
straight line over, the miles they
covered on the elevated roads they
would have rachecT California Mon
day. Their adventure came to an
end when a suspicious passenger
noticed their weak and hungry con
dition and notified the police.
The father of the lads was noti
fied, but he telephoned that he ,did
not want them as they were incor
rigible. It was learned they had
been in custody of probation officers
and were to have had a hearing in
the juvenile court April 14. They
will probably be sent to a farm.
Carpenters and Printers v
In Lincoln Get Increase
Lincoln, Neb., April 14. (Spe
cial.) It was announced , at the
headquarters of union carpenters
that every carpenter in this city is
at work.
All contractors employing union
men have agreed to pay the new
scale in wages, $1.124 an hour.
It was also announced that a new
wage scale for union printers will
increase the amount of wages paid
in Lincoln in a year by $100,000.
The wage scale is now $39 and
$42 a week.
Permit Aliens to Enter
To Save Sugar Beet Crop
Washington, April 14. An order
was issued today by Secretary Wil
son suspending the ' immigration
laws so as to admit laborers from
Mexico and Canada "for the exclus
ive purpose of cultivating and har
vesting sugar beet crops in the
states of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah,
Iowa and Nebraska, i v
Advance in Price
Berause of the Increase In the cost
of white paper, the Be ha found It
neeessary to Increase the subscription
price of Its various editions outldr of
Omaha. Previous subscription rate did
not even pay the cost of the paper
alone, delivered as raw material for
the finished newspaper.
Kffectlvo today, the rates by mail,
within MO miles of Omaha, are:
1 MSI
. Year Mth. Mth. Mk.
Ilally and Sunday f nn f 4.SO ft 33 .Vi
Dally Only 8.00 4.00 2.00 ,!n
gqjidar Only 4.00 S.00 1.00 .10
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By E. C. SNYDER.
Washington, April 13. Dispelling
all doubt and uncertainty as to his
attitude toward a nomination for the
presidency, Gen. John J. Pershing at
a brilliant reception given in his
honor by the Nebraska State asso
ciation at the Hotel Washington to
night, personally pledged his fellow
Nebraskans that if named .as the
choice 'of the renuhlican nrtv at
the Nebraska primary next Tuesday
he would accept their mandate.and
become a candidate for the highest
omce in the gitt of the people.
His stirring utterance came at the
close of an exceedingly happy and
greatly appreciated tribute to the
men and women' of his home state,
and the temporary sojourners in the
national capital from Nebraska, as
sembled to do honor to the leader of
the American expeditionary forces
in the world war, applauded the
sentiment to the echo.
Big Moment in Life.
It was a big moment-in General
Pershing's life, and his life has been
filled with big events. Previous to
the speech of General Pershing and
his formal presentation .to . his fel-
low-Nebraskans, who like he, are
temporarily domiciled in the na
tion's capital, a Nebraska hand-shak
ing was held in the sun parlor of the
Hotel Washington roof garden. John
L. McGraw started in to introduce
General Pershintr. but it soon be
capie evident that General Pershing
knew most all of them himself.
In the receiving line were Presi
dent McGrew of the Nebraska State
association and Mrs. McGrew, Con
gressman and Mrs. C. Frank Reavis
of the First district, Congressman
and Mrs. A. W. Jeffens of the-Sec
ond district, Congressman and Mrs.
R. E. Evans of the Third district,
Congressman and Mrs. M. O. Mo
Laughlih of the Fourtlydistrict, Con
gressman W. E. Andrews of the
Fifth district, Mrs. Andrews being
at her home in Hastings; Congress
man Moses P. Kinkaid of the Sixth
'district, the only bachelor in the dele-
eation; Miss Julia Lathrop of Clay
county, vice president of the asso
ciation; Miss Fredericka Themes of
Scnbner, secretary of. the associa-
(Contlnued tnT C'mn 'Iw0
Armistice Signed ;
Between Warring
v Forces in Guatemala
Washington,, April 14. An Armi
stice between the unionists in Guate
mala and forces of President Es
trada Cabrera has been sfgned and
the proposal made that President
Cabrera leave the country, according
to advices today to the State de
partment. . .
The armistice resulted from a
conference in which the entire dip
lomatic corps participated. The sug
gestion that President Cabrera leave
the country was made by the union
ist leaders, who guaranteed safe
conduct for him and his family.
The unionist movement was
launched last week and the capital
was cantured after some street fight
ing. President Cabrera held, forts
and heights dominating the place,
but did not permit his main fighting
force to resist the unionists when
they entered Guatemala City. t
Arrest Omaha Woman
Seeking Release of
Daughter in St. Joseph
St. Joseph, Mo., April 14.-r(Spe-sial.)
Mrs. Hazel Anderson of
Omaha came to St. Joseph to get
her daughter, Ethel, put of jail,
where she was held on a charge of
shoplifting. Instead the. mother her
self 19 under arrest and the St. Jo
seph police sayN she is wanted in
Omaha on a shoplifting charge. The
woman protests her innocence, but
she will be hjeld until an Omaha of
ficer arries.
The young woman whose release
'Mrs. Anderson came to effect has
been held for severakdays following
seizure of a trunk of costly clothes,
supposed to have been, taken from a
St. Joseph firm. Mabel Grant, who
claims to be a sister of Ethel Ander
son, also is under arrest on, a simi
lar charge.
Mrs. Anderson denies relationship
with Miss Grant. Mrs. Anderson is
38 vears old and her daughter
about 18. v
Gompers Says Nothing Done
To Lower High Cost of Living
Cleveland, O., April 14. Samuel
Gompers, president of , the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, here to at
tend a convention of cigar makers,
issued a statement regarding the
general industrial unrest. He said
that nothing practical has been done
to prevent the high cost of living
and that , laws made to protect the
masses from exploitation have been
turned against thcin.
He urged all workers to practice
self-restraint, so that rational de
mands of labor may be secured.
James Angell Is Made Head
Of the Carnegie Foundation
New Yorl;, April 14. Dr. James
Rowland Angell, for many vears
dean of the University of Chicago,
has bcen elected president and chief
executive officer of the Carnegie
Foundation, ft was announced here
tuday.
Iff IHi(M4l)r-nAfUtl
1 '""A
Speaks of Necessity of Fair
Dealing for Farmers and for
LaborTells of Pride In
Nebraska.
Washington, April 14. (Special.)
General Pershing, in his speech
here tonight, said: i
"Words are inadequate to express
to you clearly what is in my heart
tonight. It is an honor of which we
should all be proud to hail from
Nebraska, and it fills me with ex
treme pleasure to meet in this way
the men and women from my home
state. The genuine friendship that
exists among her people is always
strongly manifest in a gathering of
Nebraskans whose duties compel
temporary sojourn beyond the limits
of the state. The warm handshake
and the cordiality of the greeting can
be realized only by those who have
experienced the spirit of comrade,
ship that wells up when one Ne
braskan meets another away from
' home. The home ties that have
bound me to Nebraska since 1886,
when my parents took up their resi
dence in Lincoln, have grown with
Mexican Government Troops.
Clash With Sonora Forces-
Battle Means War With Se
ceding State, Say Officials.
STEPS TAKEN TO REPEL!
CARRANZA INVASION
Sonora artnv officers." actinsr "on
each succeeding year, and such meet-J ordcrs from Gen. P. Elias Calles,
Gen. Pershing's Views
, Toward the Pesidency
Addressing the Nebraska State Vasspciation at
Washington, D. C, last evening, Gen. Jjohn J. Pershing
said: , r . . .', ' '"'"-'
, "I am not unmindfuPof the very cordial remarks
tthat hare been made this evening with reference to my
self. Speaking ethe great office with which you have
- been kind enough to connect my name, it seems fitting
that I should say to you, my friends, that my whole life
has been devoted to the service of our country, and that
while in no sense seeking it, I feel' that no patriotic'
American could decline to serve in that high position if
cal lied upon to do so by his people."
ings as this not only increase my
pride in our state and its peoptetJ)ut
. f , . i
lniensny my longing io spena more
time with my family and people out
there at home,
It is gratifying to all of us to
know that the people of our state,
both in and out-of the service, stood
in the forefront in support of the
war against Prussian aggression.
Abhorring militarism or class aris
tocracy of any sort, the people of
Nebraska have alwavs justly main
! tained the attitude of our fathers,
. and have devoted themselves to the
i pursuits of peace. There has been a
steady conservative though progres
sive course toward all that is best
and noblest in our national life. Fol
lowing the principle of equal oppor
tunity, our people have insisted upon
the education of both the native and
foreign born, and today we boast a
smaller percentage of illiteracy than
any other state in th$ union.
Held in High Esteem.
"Thus has Nebraska built up the
character and intelhtrence of its peo
pie and all elements have shared in
its orenerosity and have received the
benefits of the wise foresight of her
uioneer citizenship. Wherever they
have-gone throughout the country or
(Continued on Fata Two, Column Two.)
Charges Officials of v
New York Exchange
With Stock Shortage
New York, April 14. Allan A.
Ryan, chairman of the Stutz Motor
Car company, resigned from the'
New York stoc! exchange and ac
cused members of the board of gov
ernors of being short in Stutz stock,
trading in which was suspended by
the exchange when the price -skyrocketed.
A member of a committee of the
exchange, according to Ran, is a
partner of a firm short'many shares
in Stutz and continued to sell stutz
up tovthe last moment trading was
allowed and has as yet failed to
make delivery.
Ryan said threats had been made
against him designed to extricate
from theif valid exchange contracts
those who attempted unsuccessfully
to depress the market value of his
stocks and that he could not retain
his "selfiresoect if he remained a
member. His letter of resignation,
addressed to the board of gov
ernors, asked that his seat be sold
without deury.
Over 1,000 Irish Girls
Enter United States
New York, April 14. More thani
1,000 girls inaugurated what is ex
pected to be a greatv influx of im
migrants from Ireland. The girls,
most of whom arrived on the steam
ship Baltic, went to the homes of
friends or relatives in this city and
Rev.' Anthony Grogan of the Home
for Irisji immigrant girls said their
arrival wpuld help relieve the short
age of domestic servants. I
Only seven girls were detained tor
failure to meet immigrant require
ments, including the literacy test.
whereas the debarred aliens at Ellis
island have been averaging 3 to 5
per cent of arrivals- Immigration
authorities said that many Irish girls
were anxious to come to the United
States, but-that hitherto it had been
difficult for them to obtain passports.
11 Newsprint Companies
Raise Wages 1 1 Per Cent
New York. April 14. Representa
tives of 11 of the largest news print
manufceturing companies in the
United States and Canada, at a con
ference with union o'fficials here, to
day agreed to grant their employes
a general wage advance of 20 per
cent in renewing working agree
ments for the next year.
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Prince Resumes Journey.
Honolulu. T. 11., April 14. The
prince of Wales resumed hfs journey
to Australia earlv Wednesday,
l r . i. , "..i i.
j wncv me DiuiMi name cruiser Ke
Inowi stcaniedjor Suva.
Wisconsin Woman and
Four Daughters Lose
Lives as Home Burns
CltictiRo Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
Dclavan, . Wis., April 14. Mrs.
Mattie Kutz and her four daughters
were burned to death on the Ray
mond Crosby farm near here Tues
day ' afternoon. Julius Kutz, her
husband, who stopped his plowing
and rushed to the house, was seri
ously burned in unsuccessful efforts
to save his children.
John Vining,. superintendent of a
Delavan dairy, and ah assistant were
driving by the farm at 4 o'clock,
when tlu noticed the house half en
velopedii flames. They hastened to
give aid. 1
Julius Kutz, -exhausted, was
stretched on the lawn with severe.
burns on bis hands, face apd body.
Near him lay. the bodies of three of
his daughters whom he had carried
out. They were Edna, S years old;
Dorothy, 3, and Mildred, 6--months,
The fourth, 'Florence, aged 6, was
still alive, but died before she could
be moved.
Kutz was 'unable to explain the
origin of the fire. He was plowing,
he said, when he first saw the flames.
y .
Former Leading Woman for
Charlie Chaplin Injured
Los Angeles, Cal., April 14. Edna
Purviance, former leading woman
for Charlie Chaplin, was seriously
injured when the automobile in
which she was riding was struck by
another machine.
Miss Purviance was the only per
son injured.! She sustained a deep
laceration on the right side of her
face,'' extending from the nose 'to the
cheek. The injury, it is said,Snay
end her career as a screen star.
Miss Purviance was sitting ifi the
front seat of an automobile driven
by C. M. Greer of New York City.'
Urge Appropriation for
Public Health Service
-Washington,. April 14. Unless
congress makes an immediate ap
propriation of $15,000,000 for the
public health service. 72,000 men
tally "deranged former soldicrls will
be without care and treatment, the
American Legion's executive com
mittee declared, in a statement urg
ing quick action. , .
The Weathet
r i
rnev uenerai
0
Requested to Probe
Army Camp Contracts
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
Washington, April 14. With only
four negative votes the house
adopted the ' resolution requesting
the attorney - general to make a
thorough investigation of army
camp construction contracts with a
view to criminal and civil proceed
ings.
The resolution as adopted recited
that hearings before the subcommit
tee "contain testimony tending to
show that there was criminal con
duct in connection with emergency
construction work" and disclosed
cases "where it is alleeed eovern
mcnt funds were fraudulently and
illegally paid to contractors and
others in connection with emergency
construction work.
It was orovided that the speaker
should refer the testimony to the
attorney general with the request
that 'he "institute investigations be
fore grand juries for the purpose of
indicting and prosecuting such per
sons as are guilty of criminal con
duct and institute civil-suits Tor the
recovery of any government funds
which have been fraudulently or
illegally paid on account of such
emergency construction work.
V
Eight U. S. Sailors
Drowned as Launch
Is Destroyed by Fire
Havana, April 14. Eight Ameri
can sailors were drowned in Manza
nillo harbor Tuesday, when an ex
plosion set fire to the launch in
which they were riding, according
to the Cuban wap department from
Lieutenant Rosfllo, stationed at
Manzanillo.
The name of the , ship to which
the men belonged ana other details
of the accident are lacking.
Agree to Discontinue
Nine U. S. Subtreasuries
Washington, April 14. Agree
ment to abolish the subtreasuries at
San Francisco, Boston, New York,
Philadelphia. New Orleans. Sf.
Xouis, Cincinnati and Chicasro lulv
1, 1921, was reached by senate and
house conferees on the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation
bill. Employes will be transferred.
The conferees also agreed to con
tinue the bonus payments of $240 to
government employes granted dur
ing the war( because of increased
living costs.
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Thursday.
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Los Angeles Bluebeard Is
Near Death in Jail Hospital
Lbs Angeles;- Cal.; April 14.
Richard Huirt, held for investigation
of circumstances indicating that he
has married more than 20- women
without divorcing any of them, was
reported to be seriously ill at the
county hospital today. Huirt was
taken to the hospital, where he is
held under guard, after he had
gashed- his throat and wrisT in two
attempts to suicide.
Mobilize Yaqui Indians Against
Federal Soldiers Claim
Army of 25,000 Can Be En
rolled Inside of Week's Time,
Agua Prieta, Sonora, April 14.
Troops of the new republic of,
Sonora have had their first battle
with Carranza soldiers on the So-nora-Sinoloa
boundary, according to
a report received" here late todayi
apparently verifying an earlier re
port from Nogales. Military author
ities say the battle meant war be
tween the Carranza government
and the seceding state.
No details of the battle were re
ccived here.
commander in chief, are fortifying
the Sinaloa-Sonora frontier and also
the mountain passes leading from
Chihuahua. Carranza troops al- -ready
are enroute from Casas Gran
des, Chihuahua, toward Agua Pietra,
it was said, f
Calles is said to have dispatched a .
large force to Blanco Pass, thjough
which the Carranza soldiers must
come in marching toward Agua
Prieta, and said it would be impossi
ble for Carranza troops to break
through Blanco Pass. To reach
Agua Prieta the Carranza soldiers
must march overland 200 miles
through a srnountainous and desert
country. ( '
All Saloons Closed.
All saloons were ordered closed in
the state today by General Calles.
He ordered renewed efforts in re
cruiting soldiers. Four thousand re- -cruits
had joined the Sonora army
in less than 60 hours, it was an-'
nounced at military headquarters
here. .
All officers here now believe a
civil war must settle the doctrine of
state's rights between Sortera and
the central government of Mexico.
The question . of state's, rights,
caused Sonora to. secede when state
authorities declared President Car
ranza had no right to send troops
into Sonora against -the- wishes of
the state. - . ,
' Mobilize Red Warriors. ' '
' Yaqui Indians who have been at
wari for months against the Mex
ican' government have made peace
with the Sonora authorities, and be
tween 4,000 and 5,000 red warriors
will be mobilized against Carranza,
it was said liere today. The military
authorities here claimed an army of
more than 25,000 would be enrolled
within a week. . "-
When Sonora seceded Carranza
lost one of his greatest revenue pro
ducers, the rich agricultural and
mining district of the state and ad
jacent territory paying a large part
of the '-Mexican federal revenue.
Through Sonora ports of entry more
customs house fees were collected
than on all the boundary points be
tween the United States and Mexico.
The day before the state seceded
it seized and started the operation
of the Southern Pacific and Mexican
railroad in order to break a strike
of the employes of he line which
had completely disrupted ' services.
The railroad which runs south from
Nogales, now is completely at the
service of the Sonora military au
thorities and is being used to rush
troops to the Sinaloa frontier. ,
Man KilirOne arid
Wounds Another Aftei
; Son Is Struck by Auto
tliicafo Tribune-Omaha. Bee, "Leased Wire.
Louisville, Ky., April 14. Joseph
Lowe was shot to death and Charles
Grundy ''was ' seriously wounded
Tuesday afternoon by William J.
James, whose 6on was run down
Tuesday morning by a truck driven
by Lowe. The shooting occurred
in the rear of a confectionery, where
both were employed, James is 61
years old. He was arrested after
the shooting.
Grundy, an ice creaTh maker, ran
between Lowe and James and was
shot through the right arm.
James refused to discuss the
shooting. He carried two automatics
and a six-inch ' bowie knjfe. He
served in the Spanish-American war
as an officer of the First Kentucky
infantry, and was a member of the
old stare guard.
Collins Wants Gibbons
And Carpentier to Mrr
Minneapolis. Minn.. Aoril r 14.
Mike Collins, Minneapolis box
ing promoter Wednesday : offered
Geortres Caroentier. French heavy
weight, $40,000 to meet Tommy
Gibbons in this citv some time in
June.'
Collins has posted 1 a certified
check of $10,000 as a foreteit, the
money also to-be used as a side bet
that the St Paul light heavyweight
can beat the invader over the 10
round route. ,
England Will Release
Irish Political Prisoners
Dublin. Anril I4.i-All the h linger
strikers among the political prisoner'
in Mountjoy jail who are considered
in danger by the prison doctor v il!
he released, the lord niavor in ad
dressing a crowd this afternoon said
the viceoy had iuformed him,