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ITALIAN HELD
IN PROBtOF
DEATH
Mother of Slain Girl Tells Po
,i lice Husband Had Often
Threatened to Kill Her and
Her Daughter. .
'
INVESTIGATIONS SHOW
SUICIDE IS IMPROBABLE
!
Detectives Say Woman Could
Not Have Pulled Trigger
Arena and His Brother Arc
Taken Into Custody.
Americus Arena, 1037 South
Twenty-third street,' accused by his
tnovhcr-in-law of murdering his 16
y ear-old bride of a month, was ar-
, vested yesterday afternoon with his
brother James, and both are held
, ,. fortnvestigation pending the inquest
" ,"t which will begin today.
J Chief of Detectives John T. Dunn
'' Stated yesterday afternoon it was
; impossible for the young girl to
have killed herself in view of the
physical facts surrounding the case.
"Gun Beyond Her Strength."
The weapon used," Chief Dunn
saul, "was an old style hammerles
pistol and I don't believe the girl
had stength enough to pull the
tripger. It is very stiff and almost
impossible to pull when you use all
of the strength in your hand."
Another theory advanced by the
police is that no powder marks vere
found on the girl's head and experts
say the revolver was fired at a dis
tance of more than four feet.
Men Stick to Story.
Efforts of the police to get a con
fession from Arena and his brother
were of no avail as they stuck to the
sjory told the police Wednesday
night when thev declared that the
girl wife had kill"d herself.
Mrs. Catherine Laccio, 1016 South
Twentieth street, the girl's mother,
told of the romance of her daughter
Marie yesterday afternoon.
i "We were opposed to ' having
Marie marry Arena," she said be
tween sobs is her husband Gase-
tanb supported her, "but March 23
they ran off and were married by a
justice of the peace. A few days
later they had their marriage con
firmed by .Father Michael Stagno at
St.- Annes chnrch... r.u "it
FEDERAL TROOPS
ON WAY TO BUTT
TO QUELL RIOTS
Miners Urged Xo Arm by
Union's. Official Organ
Guard Shot and Killed
By Companion.
Butto, Mont., April 22. Hugh B.
Haran, a guard in front of the Daily
Bulletin, said to be the organ of the
Metal Mine Workers' union No. 800,
I. W. W., was shot and killed Thurs
day by Joseph Papst, another guard.
I'apst, who was arrested, said the
shooting was accidental.
Mystery surrounds the shooting,
but police said Haran was mistaken
for an outsider and shot by Papst
by mistake. Haran and Papst were
with other armed men who crowded
the Bulletin office in expectation, of
an attack, following a mass meeting
Wednesday night. At the mass meet-,
in strikers, who are seekinu higher
.Husband Threatened Mc.thrw -i yages. it sixhbttr1 day and release 5f
" "When I opposed the marriage
Arena threatened to kill me several
times. Only yesterday Marie came
over to sec me. She was sad be
cause I had not been to her home to
sec her., She came to see me and
to tell me that she could not come
to visit me any more because Arena
had forbidden her to do so.
"if he finds out that I have been
lirre today, he'll kill die,' she told me
Vedtiesdav afternoon and now
she's dead."
Mother Causes Arrests.
Mrs. Laccio did not learn of her
delimiter's death until Thursday
m . ring, when she was interviewed
by a newsoaper man. She immedi
a. dy called the police and told Cap
tain Dillon of the threats of her son
iv -''xv. y
Detectives Haze and Whalen went
to Arena's (home and he was taken
to the office of Chief of Detectives
Dunn,' where he was' questioned for
more than a half an hour. He. was
the. i t:;ke:i to the jail, where he is
lie-'d incommunicado. His nrother
v j"3 tal-.en into custody a holr later.
The Husband's Story.
Arena and his brother declared to
the police Wednesday night that
Marie had kissed her husband after
he got her a glass of water and that
when he went back into the kitchen
h talk to his brother, who makes
his home with Americus, they heard
a shot.
They rushed into the bedroom,
they said, and found Marie lying
across the bed with blood stream
ing from a bullet hole in her fore
head. Americus revolver lay beside
her,, the . brothers told the police.
Dead Girl Was Belle
The dead girl, who was' known as
the "queen" of "Little Italy," first
met her husband during the war.
When he received his discharge
from the army they were engaged,
and six weeks ago they were mar
ried. ' x
An inquest will be held by County
Attorney Shotwell, this morning at
the Hulse & Riepen undertaking
parlors, 701 South Sixteenth street.
Eliezer Griffiths Dies;
Years Near Century Mark
, Rev. Eliezer Griffiths, 93 years
old, died yesterday at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. F. W. Stallard,
1010 Georgia avenue. Mr. Griffiths
was a retired Congregational mini
ster. For miny years he served as
educator for candidates for Cam
bridge and Oxford universities.
Many years ago physicians de
clared that Mr. Griffiths could not
live longer than six months. Those
doctors are all dead.
Funeral services will be held at
the Stallard home Friday at 2:30 p.
m. Intefment will be at Forest
Lawn cemetery.
Slain Girl Bride and
Husband, Who is Held
In Inquiry of Death
BONUS FIGHT
IS TAKEN TO
HOUSE Fi n5
FORMER FRENCH
PREkER FOUND
GUILTY BY COURT
Illinois' Democrat tnarges Re
publicans Are Attempting to
"Buy Soldier Vote" With
Promise of $1.25 a Day.
COMMITTEE AGREES ON
FOUR FORMS OF TAXES
Joseph Caillaux Convicted of
v. Having Had Commerce
. AYIiL C
-, wun enemy.
Honorary Degrees Given
Pershing and Crowder
Columbia, Mo.. April 22. Honor
ary degrees of doctor of laws were
conferred on Gen. John J. Pershing
and Maj. Gen. Enoch H. Crowder,
both native Missourtans, by the
University of Missouri at the com
mencement exercises Thursday.
David R. Francis, American ambas
sador tf Russia, offiiciatcd at the
ietremony. . '
political prisoners, were urged to
"arm in self-defense." , ,
Calls on Men to Strike.
The Bulletin in an surra edition
called on all workers in Silver Bow
county to "lay down their tools and
stop the wheels of industry" in pro
test against the shooting of pickets.
Many special deputies and police
men patroled the avenues leading to
the mines.
Of the 14 men wounded in the
light between sheriff's deputies and
assistants and I. W. W. mine pickets
all will recover, it was said, extept
Roko Lavus and Pter Marovich,
whose condition is critical.
, Eleven of the wounded men are
of foreign birth and seven of them
have lived in this country several
years, but they are not naturalized.
Troops on Way.
Spokane, Wash., April 22. A de
tachment of the Twenty-first in
fantry left Fort George Wright, near
here, early today for Butte. Mont.,
following receipt of orders late last
night from western department
headquarters.- v .
The troops, under the command
of Lt. Col. Americus Mitchell, took
with them full equipment, with
heavy marching packs, it was stated.
Their stay, according to Col. George
B. Duncan, commanding officer at
Fort Wright, is" indefinite. He de
clined to state how many men were"
included in the detachment.
At Butte, - Colonel Hall, from
Camp Lewis, Washington, will as
sume command of the troops.
Families Marooned
As Elkhom's Rise
Reaches Its Crest
Norfolk, Neb., April 22.-(Spccial
Telegram.) The Elkhorn river is
cut- of its banks near Norfolk and
several bridges have been washed
out. In some places the river is a
mile wide. In the south portion of
Norfolk where the flood waters have
forced several families to leave their
homes considerable damage has been
done. A few families have been ma
rooned in their houses by the high
water. The crest of the flood is
thought to have been reached here
and points east are reporting a rapid
rise in the river.
Hold Third Examination
' For Midshipmen in June
Annapolis, Md., April 22. Be
cause of the large number of va
cancies existing in the regiment of
midshipmen and estimates made by
the naval authorities that insufficient
quota will not be filled as a result
of, the February and April examina
tions of candidates, a third exami
nation will be held in Tunc. This
"announcement, was made by naval
academy officials. Between l.jUO and
1.400. vacancies will exist following
the graduation of the first class in
June.
Japs Fire on Americans.
' Washington. April 22. An official
dispatch from Tokio to Major Gen
eral Inouyc, Japanese military at
tache here, said reports that Japan
ese troops had fired on the barracks
of American engineers at Hailar,
Manchuria, were erroneous. .
Kansas Republican Says Plan
of Jeff ersonians for Retro
active War Profits Levy Was
Designed to "Catch Votes."
Washington, April 22. The fight
against levying a sales tax to raise
part of the money for soldier relief
legislation was taken today to the
floor of the house.
Amid applause of the democrats,
Representative Henry T. Rainey,
democrat, Illinois, charged that re
publicans were attempting to "buy
the soldier vote" with the promise of
$1.25 a day bonus. The applause
quickly shifted to the other side
when Representative Tincher, repub
lican, Kansas, retorted the demo
cratic espousal of a retroactive war
profits tax was designed solely "to
catch votes."
Meanwhile, the . republican Mem
bers of the ways and means' com
mittee had. agreed tentatively on four
forms of taxes for raising $1,500,
000,000 in the. next two yacrs.
Added Opposition Develops.
While the sales tax was accepted
by- these committeemen, added op
position to it was said to have de
veloped, though republican leaders
doubted whether it would be eli
minated as a revenue getting scheme.
The three other levies tentatively
accepted by the committee were a
tax on all stock exchange transac
tions equal to the amount of the
brokers' commission, an additional
surtax on incomes, probably in ex
cess o $5,000, and a increase of
approximately 15 per cent ou exist
ing taxes on cigars and tobacco.
In the absence of a final agree
ment, republicans who had forced
the call of a party conference for to
night agreed in conference with the
republican ways and means commit
teemen to postpone it until April 30,
when the complete majority pro
gram on soldier relief legislation is
expected to he available for discussion.--
i';-:;
Final. Action This. Week. ,
Final action on the revenue plans,
committeemen said, would be taken
this week. '
Representative Rainey, in bring
ing "up in the "house the Tight over
the means of obtaining the money,
charged that "the republican mil
lionaire steering committee" sought
to "tenderly care" for those made
immensely rich by the war. His
charge that the republicans -sought
by the legislation to buy the soldier
vote was termed an "insult" by
Representative Campbell, republic
an, Kansas, who demanded that the
democrats "proceed in order."
Replying to Mr. Campbell, Mr.
Rainey said he would "state facts
and let the country judge." ,
Skeleton Found in
Hav Stack May Solve
Man's Disappearance
i 1 1
Superior, Neb., April 22. (Special
Telegram.) Discovery Thursday on
a farm near here of a skeleton with
two bullet holes in the skull niay
solve the mysterious disappearance
last October of the son of Robert
Schultz of Grand Island. The skele
ton, which was found in a haystack
on ithe farm of John Thomas, had
apparently been there several
months.
An attempt several months ago to
burn an automobile in Superior and
the subsequent disappearance of a
into the town is being recalled with
the discovery of the skeleton. The
automobile was identified as belong
ing to Schultz. Authorities are
making efforts to identify the re
mains as those of Schultz's son.
Call Conference to Discuss
General Sugar Situation
Washington, April 22. Sugar re
finers were asked by the Depart
ment of Justice to come here Fri
day to discuss "the generat situa
tion affecting sugar supplies and
prices."
Howard Figg, assistant to the at
torney general, in charge of the
price reduction campaign, said he
proposed to go thoroughly into
every detail phase of the sugar sit
uation. He would not discuss de
tails. It is understood that the foreign
market will be studied with a view
to determining methods for in
creasing imports.
American Vessel Posted
As Missing at London
London.' April 22. Two overdue
vessels, the American steamer Cuba
dist and the Mexican tug Samuel
Faunce, were posted Wednesday as
missing. The Cubadist, with a crew
of 30 men left Havana, February 26,
for Baltimore. The Samuel Faunce
sailed from Wilmington, N. C, Jan
uary 30, for Tampico. Both hailed
from New York.
Mrs. Hamilton Fish Robbed
Of $75,000 Worth of Jewels
New York. April 22. Jewel 9
valued at $75,000 were reported to
the police today to have been stolen
irom the home 'of Mrs. Hamilton
I Fish here la'st Saturday. ' The list
itemize nearly two score pieces.
Paris. April 22. Joseph Caillaux,
former premier of France, this even
ing was found guilty of having had
commerce with the enemy by the
high court of the senate. The vote
was 150 to 91.
Conviction on this count might
entail imprisonment iij a fortress
for not more than five years or not
less than one year, or banishment.
The court, by a vote of 128 to 110,
found that there were extenuating
circumstances in M. Callaux's case.
It then adjourned until tomorrow
afternoon at 2:30, when the sentence
will be read to M. Caillaux.
The crime of which M. Caillaux
was convicted i covered by Article
78 of the military code,, which calls
for a sentence of banishment for a
maximumof five years or a mini
mum of one year.
The followers of Caillaux sprung
a surprise in the high court by rais
ing the question of its sovereignty
and its right to convict Caillaux of
other offenses than those charged.
In the case of Louis J. Malvy, who
was found guilty in 1918 of holding
communication with the enemy and
exiled from France, the court, after
abandoning the accusation of trea
son, declared itself a sovereign body
and found Malvy guilty of the lesser
charge.
SUPREME COUNCIL
DELAYS ACTION ON
SMYRNA WEDGE
Withholds Allotment to Greece
Due to Reservations Form
' ulated in Wilson's Note.
Paris, April 22. The allied su
preme, council continued its elabora
tion of - the treaty with Turkey,
which it is believed will be finished
Thursday, according to the' San
Remo correspondent of the Havas
agency. , Having in mind the reser
vations formulated by President
Wilson in his note of last month,
the correspondent says the council
decided not to allocate immediately
and definitely the Smyrna wedge to
Greece. . ,
In view of the fact that the im
portance of the Mohammedan" ele
ment, especially since the war, has
obliged niany Greeks to quit the ter
ritory, a plebiscite will be held a
few years hence to determine the
final disposition of the region. T
With regard to the protection of
minorities, the-,, correspondent;, con-,
tinues, thexmmau governmeht will
be compelled to pledge itself to re
spect the different beliefs. Every
act contrary to neutrality in this re
spect will be considered by the co
contracting powers as a violation of
the treaty and may lead to military
repression.' Representatives of the
league of nations will be installed
in Constantinople to receive the
complaints of the minorities, if there
are any.
The receipt of the German note
asking permission for the - main
tenance of an army of 200,000 mini
nuim strength, has produced a lively
impression on the members of the
council. In Italian and British
circles, however, it did not seem to
cause surprise and even appeared to
be favorably regarded.
Kansas City Star Made
Defendant in Suit for
$2,500,000 Damages
Kansas City, Mo., April 22. Suit
for $2,500,000 was filed in the circuit
court here against the Kansas City
Star by Dr. B, Clark Hyde.
Dr. Hyde's suit is based on an
article printed in the newspaper July
23, 1919, telling of the dismissal of
another suit brought by Hyde
against the Star. He asks damages
of $500,000 and punitive damages of
$2,000,000.
Dr. B. ClarkHyde was three times
tried on a charge of murder in con
nection with the death of Thomas
H. Swope, a millionaire philan
thropist of Kansas City. The
charge against him eventually was
dismissed.
Observe Arbor Day in
Two of Omaha's Schools
Banks and public offices were
closed and trees were planted at
Belvidere and Benson schools yes
terday in observance of Arbor day.
It was 48 years yesterday since the
first Arbor day in Nebraska.
Arbor day was inaugurated by J.
Sterling Morton, pioneer Nebras
kan, as a means of developing tim
ber on the plains of the state.
Advocate Districts for
Work of City Planning
Cincinnati, O., April 22. Creation
of national, state and regional de
partments to carry out a nation-wide
program for regional planning, the
enactment of zoning laws in all
cities which expect to grow, to lim
it height of buildings and eliminate
those things which breed disease,
were advocated by speakers at the
third day's session of the National
dates.'
"Pussyfoot Johnson Backr
New York. April 22. William E.
(Pussyfoot) Johnson of Westerville,
O.. returned here today from Liver
pool on the steamer New York after
literally having given an eye to make
England dry. The crusading agent
of the American Auti-Saloon league
I was met by a host of prohibition
! advocates.
Paces Perjury Trial
Private J. W. Milford of the
Ninth balloon eompany, stationed at
Fort Omaha, will face a charge of
perjury before a general court-mar-
tial at the fort toilav
The Influence of Weather on World Outlook
(CcpyrlKht, 1920; by The Chicago Tribune)
When uim detpair of institutions.
When ule tab a hopeful view of thing:
STRIKE LEADERS
RETURN TO WORK
AT CHICAGO YARD
Men, Who Yesterday Were Re-
piidiated by "Outlaw" Or
ganization When They Pro-
' posetf KeturVGo Back. '
Chicago, April 22. Strike leaders
whej yesterday were repudiated ( by
their followers when they advocated
an end to the' walkout of switchmen,
today returned to work followed by
small bands of men.
Meanwhile federal and road offi
cials awaited the next move of the
outlaw strikers, who revolted agauist
the leaders, who declared they
"could not fight the government."
John Grunau, president of the
Chicago Yardmen's association, hur
ried to- Chicago yesterday from the
county jail in Joliet, 111., after ob
taining his release on bond, and was
in conference today with the strik
ers. His recommendations to the
men are looked to as the next -step
toward a settlement of the strike.
He announced several days ago that
he would urge calling off the strike,
but since the split of the strikers
at yesterday's meeting some doubt
is expressed as to whether such an
appeal would be heeded.
A steady improvement in traffic
conditions throughout the middle
west and on the Pacific coast was
reported by railroads. Movement of
live stock in the Chicago district
was reported greater than shipments
a year ago. The roads announced
that 1,148 cars of coal were moved in
Chicago yesterday.
Open Wage Hearing.
Washington, April 22. Argu
ments bn the wage increases de
manded by conductors and switch
men were made before the railroad
labor board by L. E3 Sheppard,
president of the Brotherhool of Rail
way Conductors, and Samuel Heber
ling, president of the Switchmen's
Union of North America. Both
cited the rise in the cost of living
during the last few years to sup
port the plea for higfter wages.
Demands of the switchmen call
for pay increases of approximately
58 per cent with time and a half
for overtime, Sundays and holidays.
Similar overtime allowances are
asked by the condctors together
with wages sufficient to enable
them to live on a pre-war standard.
They ask in addition an allowance
for expenses when kept away from
horned
Final setback to the efforts of the
unauthorized strikers to get their
cases before the board was given at
the White house when Secretary
Tumulty told representatives of the
Yardmens' association that Presi
dent Wilson would not intercede in
their behalf as long as they remained
away from work.
Route Confirmed for
Proposed Trade Tip
Confirmation of the proposed
route of the Omaha trade excur
sion in May was. received from the
Burlington railroad at the Chamber
of Commerce yesterday. All points
selected by the trade excursion com
mittee as stops were authorized by
the railroad.
Equipment to be used will consist
of three compartment sleepers, two
12-section drawing room sleepers,
one 10-section observation sleeper
and one tourist sleeper, two dining
tars and one bacgngc car. Accom
modations for 125 men will he avail
able. Nearly that number of reser
vation sbave already been filed at
the Chamber of Commerce.
X. ' ' '
Over 300,000 Firms
And Individuals ,
Failed to Pay Taxes
Washington, April 22. Despite
the government's wartime appeal for
tax payments as a patriotic duty,
more than 300,000 firms and indi
viduals failed to make honest re
turns under the revenue laws in the
last two years, the bureau of inter
nal revenue announced. In a six
months' drive which eided Feb. 1,
$19,051,000 in .delinquet income
and luxury taxes were collected,
Commissioner Williams reported!
"The amazingly large number" of
persons who did not respond to the
government's appeal has caused
treasury offcials to consider the de
linquent tax payment' problem a
grave one. A new roundup of al
leged delinquents has been insti
tuted to cover the tax period on
which returns were made, March 15.
British Churches to
Discuss Problem of
Women Confessors
London, April 6. Whether the
church should provide women con
fessors is a question with which the
Lambeth conference of the clergy
of Great Britain, to be held in July,
is threatened.
At a meeting of the National
Union for Equal Citizenship, Miss
Edith Picton-Turberville said letters
had been received from girls plead
ing for women confessors in high
Angelican churches.
The Rev. Henry Ross, vicar of a
large London parish, in a recent in
terview, said women would not con
fess to women.
"There is the psychological ob
jection," he said, "that 'one woman
would not
secret."
trust another to keep a
TURKS SAID TO
DE PLANNING TO
ATTACKFRENCH
Serious Trouble Again Threat-eningXilicia-Armenians
De
clare There Is Danger, of ,
Another Massacre.
WOOD WINS
2 DELEGATES
IN PRIMARY
Carries Second District Over
Johnson by Majority of Less
Than 250 Votes by Virtue of
Omaha Majority.
BRYAN-HITCHCOCK IN
FAIRLY EVEN BREAK
Commoner Wins Eight Places
From Senator, Who Has
Seven One Contest Still in
Doubt.
Wife Establishes Alibi for
Accused N. Y. Police Official
New York, April 22. Frail 'and
gray haired, Mrs. Augustus Drum
Porter, wife of the suspended third
deputy police commissioner on trial
charged with wilfull neglect of duty
in connection with New York's vice
crusade, took the witness stand in
her husband's defense, the only
woman in the court room.
She testified that Porter was at
home with her on the night of
November A2 last at the very hour
plain clothes men swore they found
him under compromising circum
stances with a woman in a raided
upper West Side apartment.
Overseas Veteran Kills
Divorced Wife and Himself
1 Chickasha? Okl April 22. Calvin
Souls, 26, an overseas veteran, shot
Naomi Souls, his divorced wife, late
Tuesday at a school house near here,
where she was teaching, and then
shot himself. Several school chil
dren who had just left the. building
witnessed the shooting.
The wife obtained a divorce in
district court hefe last Saturday on
grounds of bigamy, based on an
affidavit filed by Souls' mother, who
lives at Pittsburg, stating her son
had been married in that city. Souls
and his second wife were married!
at Verden, Okl.. in 1917. while he
was in training at Fort Sills.
By JOHN STEELE.
New York Tlmra-Chiragn Tribune, Cable,
Copyright, 1920. ,-
London, April 22. It is reported
in diplomatic circles in London but
without details that serious trouble
again is threatening in Cilicia.
The Turks are said to be plan
ning another attack on the Fremii,
whose forces are small and are no
likely to be able to put up an ef
fective resistance. No steps have
yet been taken toward arming the
Armenians, who declare there is
danger of another massacre.
Thfe British government has evi
dence that the Russian bolshevists
indirectly are behind most of the
unrest on the northwest frontier of
India. The tribes causing the trou
ble are the Waziris and Mahsuds,
and the India N office says it has
proof the tribesmen are being en
couraged by ed envoys.
It is certain, at least, that two
Russian missions have arrived at
Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, and
are urging on the Ameer that bol
shevist principles are the same as
those of the Moslems, but, it is un
certain how far the Ameer accepts
this view or how far Tie is willing
to accept any help against Great
Britain. v
The border tribes nominally are
independent, occupying a neutral
zone between British India and
Afghanistan, partly covered by two
spheres of influence.
The tribesmen might raise an
army of 25,000 to 30,000 partly train
ed men, the training having been ob
tained from the British frontier
police and the Indian army. The
tribesmen are fairly well armed
with rifles obtained from the factory
at Kabul and from tin Persian gulf
gun runners before the great war.
Also they have a good supply of
rifle ammunition, but they have no
artillery, airplanes, nor other mod
ern weapons." '.
The Weather
Forecast.
Unsettled and colder Friday
Hourly Temperatures.
.42 1 ii. m
Bandit. Buys Cigar and
' Then Robs Cash Register
H. M. Walker, night cashier at
a restaurant at 1920 Farnam street,
was held at bay by a highwayman
wiile the cash register was rifled of
$70 early Thursday. The robber
entered and ordered a cigar.. After
getting this' he pointed a revolver
at Walker and held him off while
he went through trie cash drawer.
The robber escaped in an automo
bile before the police arrived.
Murder Charge Filed
Against Doctor's Slayer
New York, April 22. An indict
ment charging first degree murder
was returned by the grand jury to
day against Thomas W. Simpkin,
itinerant printer, who shot and
killed Dr. James Wright Markoe,
noted furgeon. during last Sunday's
service in St. George Episcopal
church.
Gen. Leonard Wood will receive
the votes of two Nebraska delegates
to the republican national convention
despite Senator Hiram Johnson's
sweeping victory for the stte's presi
dential reference unless official can
vasses overturn the unofficial tabu
lations. Unlike the democratic convention,
the republicans have no unit rule, )
but may vote by congressional dis- J
tricts instead of as state units, i
While the state at large showed a ,
preference for Johnson, the Second1
district, including Douglas, Wash-'
ington and Sarpy counties, favored
Wood by a narrow margin. This i
will permit W, G. Ure and Gould
Dietz to vote for Wood while the
rest of the state delegation is in
honor bound to support Johnson. ,
' Wood's Margin Narrow.
The vote in this district was: !
- Wood Jolinunn
Douglas 7,132 6,4;.D
Sarpy 30 44t
Washington 194 667
7,698 7,45S
If complete returns of Tuesday's
primary election confirm the lead
! gained so far by J. J. Harrington
fover C. W. Beal, for a seat as dele
gate in the democratic national con
vention from the Sixth Nebraska
district, the state's delegation will be
evenly divided between adherents of
Senator Hitchcock and W. J. Bryan.
Eight Bryan Men Win.
The returns indicate the election
of eight Bryan men Bryan himself
and Dan V. Stephens tit large. Miles
and Lord in the First district, Stahl
in the Fourth, Hall and Somnierville
in the Fifth and Taylor in the Sixth
and of seven Hitchccek followers
former governors Shallenberger
and-Neville? -'at large. Piatti and
Mithen in the 'First district, Carrig
and Little in the Third, and Marvin
in the Fourth. Harrington. Hitch
cock's candidate, leads Beal by 100
votes in the Sixth, with many pre
cincts to report.
Two Pershing Men Win.
On the republican side, although
Johnson and Wood received the
hulk of the vote for presidential
preference, two of the district dele
gates who personally favored Gen
(Conttnifed on Face Two. Column Three.;
Promoters fined for
Advertising Stocks
In Violation of Law
Boston, April 22. Thomas W.
Lawson and L. C. Van Riper were
fined $1,000 each in municipal count
Wednesday for violation of the state
law concerning the advertising of
mining stocks. Lawson and Vran
Riper, together with several curb
brokers, were arrested recently in
the campaign of Attorney General
J. Weston Allen against illegal ad
vertising of stocks.
Lawson pleaded guilty to the com
plaint, which contained 13 counts.
He was fined $100 on each of 10
counts and three were placed on
file. Th complaint against Van
Riper contained 10 counts, to which
he pleaded gnilty and he was fined
$100 on each count.
William R. Fitzgerald was fined
:41H and George L. Ware $100 en
similar charges
Seven Santa Fe Railroad
Directors Are Re-elected
Topeka, Kan,. April 22. At the
25th annual stockholders meeting of
the Santa Fe Railroad company held
here seven directors were elected.
Three of the seven had been se
lected to fill vacancies since the last
stockholders meeting. The three are
Dr.- Arthur T. Hadley, New Haven,
Conn., president of Yale university;
F. A. Juillard, New York, and J. E.
Otis, vice president Central Trust
Company of Illinois, Chicago.
me omer lour re-elected are:
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' Reds Attack Poles
Ilelsingfors. April 22. (Havas.)
An attack by soviet troops upon
members of the Poiish colony in
ePtrograd, who were holdinc a
. . . IS j demonstration in protest against the
i arrest of Mie Polish bishop in Petro-
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H. Reinian Duval. New York; O. G.
Mills. New York; S. T. Bledsoe,
Chicago, and Charles S. .Gleed. To
peka, Kan., for a four-year term
each.
At the meeting 52,444 stockhold
ers, the largest number that ever
has voted at an annual meeting, were
represented.
Strikes and Washout?
Cost 34,430,000 Days
London. April 22. Thomas J.
McNamara, minister of labor, told
the house of commons that the
strikes and lockouts reported to the
ministry of labor during 1919, ag
grgated 1,413. The total number
of persons directly or indirectly
affected, said the minister, .was
2.580,000. The aggregate duration of
the disputes was 34,430,000 working
days, figuring on the basis of indi
vidual loss of time.
M
on l-.aster Sundav. is rcnorted
amices received here. Several 1 season which has hist (-Insert
los were kille l or wounded and ! is the smallest number of
Seal Catch Small
St. J,ihns. N, F.. April 22. Thirty,
tour thousand seals, valued at $175.
000, was the total catch durint the
This
seals
.4; others were arrested, it is declared. ; taken in t(?c history of the industry.