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The Omaha Daily Bee v - VOL. TW NO, 267. i BATTLESHIPS TO PROTECT U. S. CITIZENS Two American Vessels From Pacific Fleet on Way to Mexican Waters at Request of State Department. informationTacking on exact situation Sonora Troops in Rebellion , Against Carranza, Pushing Toward, Maz'atlan Cruiser ' Ordered to Investigate. ' Washington, April 23. Two wor ships from the Pacific fleet werer en 5oute tonight to Mexican waters to ' protect American citizens and in terests at Mazatlaii and Topolo ,1ampo. They were dispatched from San Diego today on orders from the . .' Navy Department after a request for 4. protection had come from State De partment representatives at these j two Mexioau Pacific ports. A similar request came from the government agent at Frontera, on . the gulf coast, but was not acted upon pending further investigation of .the situation there. The cruiser Sacramento is 'at Tampico, only a , short distance away. The exact situation at Mazatlan t an Topolobampo was not known . here. There had been no report of disturbances at either place ana lat ' est advices said a federal force of 350 men and two cannon had arrived at Mazatlan. r Sonora state forces, in rebellion against the Carranza government, are known to.be pushing on toward Mazatlan, the most important Mex ican gateway on the Pacific. This force is' now well south of Topolo ! bampo, but whether a detachment had been deployed to make an as sault there was not clear. At the Nary Department it was said that the cruiser Salem and de stroyer No. 276, the ships ordered to Mexico, were under instructions to investigate' the situation. I Cornered Criminal , V Escapes Police by :A A Four-Story Leap Chicago, April 23. Fernie Miller, said to be head of one of the most desperate gangs of thieves infesting Chicago, took a flying leap from a f mirth stnrir window, takincr chances' on getting-ftway, even with broken bones, to facing victims of his long career of crime. He just missed, by inches, alight ing upon a baby playing on the lawn and dashed to safety. In Miller's room was found a book showing he had impersonated a fed eral official and had, "inspected" bonds for a large number of con cern over the country, thus getting a line on whom to rob. Two banks, in particular; that he "inspected," were held up a few days later and robbed of thousands of dollars. He is also wanted on several charges of forgery. Head 6f Teamsters In Chicago Is Murdered While Busy In Office Oaaha P. 0. f Mt tf tun 3. IWt. Infant Smothers in Smoke When Oil Stove Explodes Children Overcome Obeying Mother's Order Tn Hnnsp While Shp. Invites GuestsC" Family Made Destitute by Burning of I OMAHA, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1920." By M.ll yr. ,4.1. 2.fc D.ll, d S.. R: M.0rtfe"i U. 7MIUH 4tQ 40M (I ytar;, van PRICE TWO CENTS Yiome. Pretty 3-year-old Bertha Jensen was smothered to death, and her sis ter Toula, 4 years old, was pescued by her mother, Mrs. Marie Jensen, when their rudely constructed home took fire yesterday afternoon at Fifty-fourth and Pratt streets. Mrs. Jensen was overcome by smoke and seriously burn ed above the hands and feet. Little Toula suffered a slight gash on the fore head and was unconscious from smoke. " Planned Birthday Party. The mother left a kerosene heater burning in the kitchen when she went to the ihme of Mrs. ' E. J. Bullis, 3532 North' Fifty-third street, to telep hone to her, mother-in-law, Mrs. Walter. Olson, to come to her birthday party tomorrow afternoon. .While Mrs. Jensen was talking to her mother-in-law, Mrs. Tirtlis no ticed that the Jensen home was afire. Mrs. Jensen ran home calling to the neighbors to help her rescue her babies. She ' entered her home amid the flames and emerged a few seconds later with the oldest child, Toula. Three other attempts By the frantic woman to rescue her other baby were of no avail, and she was taken by firement to the home of Mrs. N. L. Engle, 3711 North Fifty-sixth street, where she was attended by the' police surgeon. X. ; Dies Under Couch. Firemen finally found Bertha un der a sanitary couch in a room off the kitchen. She was taken to the office of Dr. W. H. Reed in Ben son, but she died on the way. Elvin Emery, IS years old, 3708 North Fifty-third, street; Edward Misner," 16 years' old, Fifty-third and Pratt streets, and Clement Emery, 14 years old, 3722 North Fifty-fourth street, attempted1 to rescue the children by breaking the kitchen window. They were slight ly overcome by smoke. Little Toula told how th.e fire started after she had been revived. When asked why she did not take her infant s'ter and run out of the house, she said: Obeys Mother's Order. "I was afraid my mama wouldn't like it. She never let us out of the house." The child explained that shortly after her mother left the house the burner exploded. i bertha couk.n u.-.-.a r.io::c, TOULA. BERTHA- she said, and crawled under the couch to keep from choking. My cat, "Tabby," was crying and I am so sorry it died." , Family Is Destitute. - The whole interior of the little home, which the father, Waldemer Jensen, a laborer, said he had worked six years to build, was .de stroyed by fire. "All f have in my pocket now js $10," he said." I just bought a 'lot of furniture and I don't know how I am going to pay for it." Joseph Heil, special investigator for the county attorney, after an in vestigation, stated there would not be an inquest. Chicago, April 23 Maclay Hoyne, state's Attorney, announced early todav hi had gained information which would result in the arrest of the unidentified man who yesterday shot and killed Edward Coleman, head of the Chicago Teamsters' dis trict council. in a new outbreak of Chicago's labor warfare. Tmn mwnhfrs nf the teamsters' council, "Mickey" Norm and John Haley, named by Coleman as en emies before he died, were beiug held. Police officials attributed , the shooting to a factional. fight among leaders of the teamsters' organiza tion. Coleman was shot down in his office late yesterday. ' Palmer Insists Prices Are Now on Down Grade Washington, April 23. Attorney General Palmer said that he was convinced from reports to the De partment of Justice "that definite results are now showing themselves" in the government's campaign to force down living costs. Mr. Pal mer said that while the drop has been only slight in the last month, the campaign had acted as a brake gainst rising prices. Some articles, however,-he said, particularly clothing, have dropped as much as IS per cent in cost to the consumer. Mr. Palmer said he believed the overall movement indicated "a pur pose on the part of the public to buy more carefully." Gand Jury Holds Packers y On Profiteering Charge New York, April 23. Indictments charging profiteering in meats were returned today by a', federal grand jury in Brooklyn against they Chi cago packing houses of Armeur & Co., Swift & Co. and Wilson' & Co., and their representatives- here. Alleged Safecracker Held. Long Beach, Ca1 April 23. Frank Williams was rrrcsted here tn t,v Cl.Vf nfM'.ilice Odell of Derby,. Conn,, existed by local' of - ficers. Oneil held warrants for Williams charging; him with safe cracking in Derby. Williams agreed to return without extradition, but denied the charges against him MOTHER AND SON REUNITED AFTER 23-YEAR SEARCH Omaha Man, Left in Children's Home and Adopted By Peddler, Finds Parent. "Mother!" "My son I" ' Carl Ferguson, stalwart young ex- service maq, .rushed lorward ana clasped a little woman in his arms. Tiars rjimmed. f!f eyes, as he- held her close,-for after 23 years he had found his teal mother, Mrs. Nettie G. Card of Syracuse, N. V; A moment later the little woman dabbed at her eyes with her hand kerchief, and smiled happily up into her son's face. "Tn hinlf that T have found vou at last," she murmured, clutching his arm. mey iook you away from me when you were just a baby. Since then I have searched the country for you." ... . ' ' Meets His Wife and Baby. ' Tn Carl's little home at 708 North Eighteenth street,, another happy Scene followed when Mrs. Card clasped Mr. Ferguson's wife in one arm and his 6-months-old baby in the other, giving each an impartial hug. Carl was born in- Atlantic, la., July 8, 1897, and was placed in a children's home in Des Moines, la., when he was but a few weeks old. When his mother went to the home a short time later she was informed that he had been adopted. In spite of her efforts she was unable' to learn who had adopted her sbn. Cqntinues Her Search. She later moved to Syracuse, N. Y., but continued her efforts to find her boy. The bov was adopted by a fruit peddler named Will Ferguson, who brought him to Omaha, . and in formed him that his mother no inncr?i- llwerf Hp served in the army during the war and on his return visited Atlantic, la., where by acci dent he learned that his mother lived f n Syracuse. ... . Mr. Ferguson is now waiting tor a visit -from ffis brother, whom he has never seen. The brother has been living with his mother in Syracuse. WOOD WILL HAVE FOUR DELEGATES ' FROM NEBRASKA Bryan Shown By Belated Re turs to Control 10 of 16 Delegates. FIRST MAIL "NT I ANITC HERE FRIDAY Four Sacks Gain 10 Hours in Transit From Chicago With Air Service Journey Takes Less Than Eight Hours. TRUCK HORSES AID IN NEWFANGLED SYSTEM W. J. Bryan's supremacy in Ne braska democracy was further clinched when belated returns of Tuesday's primary election gave ap- nnrcntlv j-crlain inrtu'atinn thatf he will control 10 of the state's" 16 dele gates ;to the democratic national convention. Sidner, Bryanite in the Third dis trict, finally defeated Little, Hitch cock candidate, and Bcal appears to i lead Harrington safely in the Sixth. - ' Other Upsets Apparent. Delayed returns also upset the ap parent result for republican district c'elegates in the First district, the complete figures showing Selleck, a Leonard Wood candidate, elected instead of Mark Woods, Pershing supporter. . L. D. Richards a Wood dclegate-at-large, is a lap ahead of Senator Burkett, a Pershing backer. Wood Has Four Delegates. Wood carried the' First district over Johnson, as he did the Second, although he lost the state as a whole. This means that the Nebraska dele gation on the first "ballot will be: Johnson, 12; Wood, 4. Yesterdays ociaicu .tiu.i.a cinched the nomination of Browne for the long term as railway com missioner on the republican ticket and of Cook for the short term. These were the only doubtful con-: tests. ... 1 Additional legislative nominations Good, Former West Virginia Senator Dies Suddenly ri,rt,cV..,rtr V Va.. Anril 23. Judge Nathan Goff, former United States senator from West Virginia, died suddenly at his Dome nere me Friday, aged 78 years. He was ap nQpxnttv in crnnrl' health : Thursday and the seriousness of his condition was not realized until a few minutes before he died. Paralysis caused death, attending physicians said. For many years he was a tcacrai judge and served in congress six years. Jury Unable to Agree ' Jn New York Police Case New York, April 23. The jury in the court of general sessions .which heard the case of Col. Augustus Drum Porter, former third deputy police commissioner, indicted in New York s vice war on a cnarge ot neglect of duty, was unable to reach a verdict and was immediately dis charged bv Judge Malone. Colonel Porter will be placed on trial again next week. , . Declare General Strike Against D'Annunzio Fiume, April 23. Another general strike has been declared here, de mands being made "for the with drawal of Gabriel d'Annunzio and his legionaries, the removal of the present national council and ; the ODeninn of the Fiume frontier. Senator District 28, J. W republican. , Representatives District 71, Charles S. Rood, republican; Festus Carothers, democrat. District 57, G. C. O'Brien, democrat; John , P. Mead, republican. District 67, J M. Beams, republican; D. Campbell, democrat. District 74, i. C Snow, republican; A L. Hungerford, dem ocrat. District 78, -J. A. Rodman, .n..ki:Aon nictrirt 56. D. E. Strone. republican: P, E. Pocock democrat. Gen. Bullard Will Lead U. S. Shooters to Olympic ' New York. 1 April 23. Lt. Gen. Robert E. Bullard, commander -of the department of the east, will be commander of the United States Olympic shooting teams which will compete for international rifle and nictnt honors at Brussels, July 22-31. His acceptance of the position ived bv the American ittpc todav. Bullard the team which sails for Belgium June 26 following the final trial snoots at mc un icu States marine range at Quantico, Va., late in June. Tennessee Mob Disperses Upon Advice of Sheriff Nashville, Tenn., April 23.' Pleas by Sheriff A. L. Story that the law be allowed" to take its course resulted in'the dispersing of a crowd of persons who gathered at the Sa vannah (Tenn.) jail to investigate, they said, the holding of four ne groes accused of complicity in the killing of Harry Allen, a merchant. Senate Votes to Raise Pensions of Civil War Washington, April 23. The house bill increasing pension to civil war veterans to $50 monthly and those of the widows of veterans to 530 monthly was passed today by' th senate and now goes to conference. The increases were provided to meet the rising costs of living. Old Dobbin Called in to Pull Stranded Flyer Out of Mud When He Makes Bad Land ing in Ak-Sar-Ben Field. That plodding Dobbin still has his uses, even in connection with such innovations as aerial mail, was de monstrated at, Ak-Sar-Ben field on West Center street yesterday after noon, when a team of husky white draft horses was impressed to tow out of the mud, where it had become stalled, the De 'Haviland airplane that delivered the first air mail to Omaha. ' The machine was, piloted by Wil liam De Wald. The landing was the first he had made at the field, and he allowed himself too much altitude in clearing the hangar. He set his plain down on firm soil, but before he could turn it had taxied onto the lower end of the field, where a seaplane of the NC-4 type would be more at home. Couldn't Pull Out. The 400-horsepower Liberty en gine in his craft was unable to budge the plane from the mire, and the ef forts of two dozen spectators were likewise futile. The team was called f o rliv craHinc raifto. and quickly whisked the big airplane out of the hole it had dug. Pilot De Wald's ship, . air mail Tn 1fU landprt a little more than a minute after De Haviland No. 74. piloted by W. J. Smith and car rying as a passenger, W." J. Mc randless. suoerintendent of air mail fields, had landed. , Regular Service In Week. Both ships were housed in the big hangar, from -which they will fly regularly m aoout a wee, wmu service between Omaha and Chicago schedule. Both i cm at 8-45 vesterdav morn ing, Janded at Iowa City, which they left at, 1:35, and lanaea si umaii 45. ' "-- - . -:- .- ""' "'' Nested7!!! the forward compart ment of Pilot De Wald's ship were four 50-pound bags ot man. tne urM regular delivery of mail matter at Omaha via the sky route. One sack was filled with Omaha mail, another was for Council Bluffs, and the re maining two were for distribution west. By being delivered by plane, in hours time was saved oetween Chicago and Omaha. Met By Jf ostai Jen. On-hand to see the arrival of the first mail plane was Acting post master H. S.' Daniel and Assistant D..i.tr WonHwarH. as well as the entire air mail staff at Omaha. A number of people, who had Deen passing in automobiles, and at irtoA tn unusual activity re mained to see the majl arrive. Pilot De Wald is to De one oi mc three pilots to be stationed at Oma ha. Pilot Smith will make regular visits from Chicago. The equipment at Omaha will be complete wun iuc arrival of another mail plane. Influenza Germ Found To Be One Contributing Cause of Tuberculosis c t :., Vto Anril 23. Medical science must develop some method for exterminating or controlling in fluenza, if the 'fight against tuber culosis is to be successful, accord ing to speakers at the annual con vention of the National Tuberculous association here today. . . Examination of post-influenza cases, it was asserted, develop that 65 per cent were infected with the tubercle bacili. " . , Great headway could be made in checking the spread. of tuberculosis, if employers would realize the value of having their employes undergo examination, according to Dr. John S. Billings-, director of the New York Tuberculosis association. Many cases are, in that way, detected, in he incipient stage and proper at tention effects a complete cure. United States Aviator Is ? Drowned in Colorado River Yuma, Ariz., April 23. Lieut. C. F. Bell, United States army aviator, .ac ti-mvnoH in the Colorado river here early Thursday morning when a government airplane belonging to the border patrol in which he was attemntincr to. flv underneath the ni-paii.tn.ni-pan hiehwav birdee at this point struck a high tension wire suspended below tnc structure anu fell into the stream. Planes Arrive to Start Air Mail Service mm ii' n Aerial mail, long awaited in Oma ha, became a reality yesterday after noon when Pilot William De Wald delivered four sacks of first-class matter 'at Ak-Sar-Ben field. The photograph was snapped just after De Wald had cheeked out his con signment to W. H. Votaw, manager of the air mail service. From left to right the men shown are Pilot De Wald, F. McKay, P. W. Burns, J. Smith, L. L. Brown, T. J. Edgar, W. H. Votaw and T. J. McCandless, superintendent of air mail fields, who arrived in another plan CALL DENTIST TO IDENTIFY BODY FOUNDjN STACK Body Is Robert Schultz of Grand Island, Police Theory I Plan Arrests for Murder. Two - horsepower accomplished what 400-horsepower could not yes terday, when a team of humble steeds was required to drag a Lib-erty-engined De Haviland-4 air mail 'plane out of the mud at Ak-Sar-Ben COUNCIL GRANTS : ARMENIA FULL INDEPENDENCE Neither U. S. Nor Other Pwer ! Willing to Accept Man- date Over Country. Superior, Neb., April 23.(Spe cial Telegram.) Identification of the body of the man found in a hay stack near this city with two bul let wounds in his head will rest with a Grand Island dentist. John Schultz of Grand Island was not positive whether the body was his son or not, although declaring that it closely resembled his son and wired for a dentist who had filled his teeth. Police of Grand Island and Superi or are confident the man was mur dered and if the body ; is mdenti- fied as Robert Schultz two suspects, they say, will be arrested. Robert Schultz was employed Jy a drand Island pover company and was last seen in October, when he asked permission to leave his work for . a few jipurs toviuL,. friend whose automobile" was mired a short way out of twon. He drove his own car, which corresponded to a car that was burned near Superior on the same night. A savings account is still carried in a Grand Island bankin his name. He had drawn $400 from the bank a few days before he disappeared and finished payments on the car. Police place little confidence in the theory that he took his own. life through worry over haying to pay a bond which he and his .fathCr had signed for a brother vAo disap peared before his trial on a robbery charge. Mines Facing Course of Nationalization, . Expert Tells .SeraletjJnS . t Washington, April ' 23. Eugene McAuliffe, former director; of coal economics for the United States railroad administration, told the sen ate sub-committee on , coal that .na tionalization of the mines was in evitable unless consumers and pro ducers work out a solution for the present chaotic conditions. , "There will be a calamitous situa tion in the country within the next two years," said Mr. McAuliffe, "un less the industry is stabilized. During the war when the nation's need was greatest for coal, coal that contained 46 per cent of non-combustible material was sold as fuel," Mr. Auliffe told the committee. Exp field. The airplane shown, just as the horses were starting it from the hole it had dug, was No. 104, which, piloted by William De Wald, deliv ered the tirst consignment ot aerial mail to Omaha. HITCHCOCK QUITS RACE FOR LEADER Nebraskan Withdraws From Democratic Minority Con test in Senate Leaves Field Open to Senator Underwood. BREAKS DEADLOCK THAT j DEVELOPED JANUARY 15 Reds Threaten China Tokio, April 23. Bolshevik at tempts to threaten China by ad vancing from the Ingoda valley, rforthwest of Chita, have been en tirely frustrated bv Japanese and Ali-Russian forces as a result of a battle fought at Werkneinskoje on April 12, according to a report is sued from the war office heretoday. ' Communists to Prison. New York, April 23. Four of six communists arrested November 8, while celebrating in Brooklyn -the second, anniversary of the founding of the. 'soviet government of Russia, were sentenced to the penitentiaray for one year each. The men pleaded guilty to advocating criminal an archy . cct to Finish Bisbee Deportation Trial Soon Tombstone, Ariz., April 23. At torneys for both sides in the trial ot Harry E. Wootton, charged, with kidnaping in connection -with the deportation of 1,186 striking miners and their sympathizers from Bisbee. Ariz., to Columbus, N., M., agreed that within 10 days the case prob ably would be in the hands of the. Sixteen-Year-Old "Yuma Kid" Sentenced on Murder Charge Chicago, April 23. Richard Putz, the "Yuma Kid." age 16 years, was sentenced to prison for 14 years for the, murder of J. F. Burchman, 65, a haberdasher's clerk. ' 4 Tutz asked the -clerk for a pair of socks. He - offered dime in pay ment and was told the price was 25 cents. The boy drew a revolver and killed the clerk. U. . D Jr. Gives Quarter "Million to Church Drive New York, Anril 23. Initial gifts of $250,000 bv John D. Rockefeller, jr., and $3)0,000 by the Laura Spell man " Rockefeller Memorial to the Interchurch World movement cam paign were announced here Friday night. ' Send Out Relief Train. Cheyenne, Wyo., April 23. In an effort to get fed to 40,000 head of cattle reported to be starving, and fuel to the people, a crew of 20 men with two locomotives and a rotary snow j)low left .here to clear rail road 'tracks in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming. San Remo, April 2. Armenia fs to be created an independent state. This decision-was reported by the supreme council of the allies today because neither the United States nor any other power was willing to accept a mandate over the country. The boundaries of Armenia have not yet been defined and the new re public will probably be rather con tracted, as it is believed that the smaller the country the more easily can it take care of itself, because if too many Turks are left within its confines they might overthrow the government. The council was requested to eject the Turkish forces from the borders of the new state. These proposals have not been accepted by the coun cil, which thus declines to avail s a suitable erstood that it tne league snouiu oc .piuviucu with money it might have arranged with, neutral governments to exer cise 'the mandate under supervision nf th leaeue. ' Tie council leaves Smyrna under1 tin- suzerainty ot 1 urkev. DUt places Lthe city and province under the ad ministration ot Oreece. Britain Would Approve Occupation of Ruhr If. Pact Is Not Carried Out San Remo, April 23. Premier Lloyd George of Great Bntam would approve of Anglo-French oc cupation of the Ruhr district of Germany in the event the Berlin government should refuse to suit ably live up to the revised terms of the1 .Versailles treaty, says "Per tinax," political editor of the Echo de Paris. -He says intimation to this effect has come , through a member of the British premier's suite, for the purpose of overcoming Premier Millerand's opposition to revision of the German treaty. "Maneuvers at San Remo, as serts Pertinax. "having the purpose of overcoming French opposition to revision of the treaty, are the culmi nation of conversations which have been 'going on af Berlin between offi cials of the German government and certain allied representatives.. The arrival of the German note asking for , a permanent army of 200,000 meir" is not a mere coincidence." V i i Caillaux Punishment Fixed At Five Years Banishment . Paris, April 23. The sentence de cided upon by the high court for former Premier Caillaux, it was learned this afternoon, besides three years' imprisonment and payment of the costs of the trial, includes ban ishment for- five years and loss of civic, rights for 10 years. . CHARGE STATE NURSE ROBBED OLD SOLDIER . i .... , State Agents Allege Milford - War Veteran Was Robbed , of $1,1 00 Saved From Pension. 1 Lincoln, Neb., April 23. (Spe cial.) Alleging that a special detec tive employed by State Agent Gus Hycrs had obtained a confession front Mrs. Alpha Miles, head nurse at the Milford Soldiers' home, the state board of control has recom mended that the county attorney of Seward county file charges of rob bery against her. According to state agents Mrs. Miles took a purse containing $1,100 from the clothing of an old soldier name Cleveland while be was suffer ing from a temporary loss of mind. The savings of the aged man were slowly accumulated from his pension and Iliad required years to save. The theft was not discovered until he recovered from his temporary ill ness. . Expenditures made by" Mrs. Miles cast suspicion on her and a detective was sent .to investigate. He report ed that she had made a full confes sion and returned the money. Only Two Japanese Banks Have Failed, Washington" Learns .Washington, April 23. Only two banks in Japan have suspended pay ment as the result of financial trou bles in that country, the Department of Commerce was advised today by its representative in Tokio. The Bank of Japan, the dvices added, had promised aid to Musada Bill Brokers Bank of Osaka, onCof the two. The, raw silk and weaving indus tries have felt the greatest force of the financial troubles, the depart- rment's representative said, adding that some weaving factories would close for an indefinite period to maintain prices. Suspension of trading on the Tokio stock exchange, it was said, might be continued another. week. The Weather Forecast. Fair and warmer Saturday. Hourly Temperatures. 4 44 43 n 44 .......4 ....i...n 48 ...4 ...411 ...S ...fW ...51 . . Rl .,.. ...4 Not Even a Whisper Is Heard From Planet Mars Lines to Mars continued out of order or busy Thursday night and the long vigil begun early in the week by Dr. Frederick Millener of Omaha and Harvey Gamer of Cedar Creek, Neb., again went unrewarded by so much as a whisper from the plarief. The aerial used in connection with their station includes about 81, 000 feet of wire and is believed to be the largest ever used. The station is located on a farm near Cedar Creek. Says Plans Will Not Permit Him to Undertake Such Con tinuous ServiceHopes for More Harmony in Party. Washington, April 23. Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska withdrew tonight from the race for democratic leader of the senate, thus virtually assuring the selection of Senator Underwood of . Alabama, at the democratic conference called for Tuesday night. ' , Senator . Hitchcock's announce ment was made in a letter to senate" democrats? He said his withdrawal from the fight would conduce to democratic harmony nd would ac cord with his individual plans, which would not permit during the remainder of the year to undertake the work of minority leader, which devolved upon him with the retire ment from the seriate of the late Senator Martin of Virginia. The withdrawal of the Nebraska senator breaks the deadlock which developed at the party conference January 15, when the first effort was made to seclct a successor to Sen ator Martin. Hopes for Harmony. 1 "I now desire to terminate this deadlock," wrote Senator Hitchcock, "and ' hereby withdraw my name from the contest. This will conduce i democratic harmony and will ac- d with ' my individual planS, ich will not permit me, during the . .mainder of the year, to undertake such continuuos service in the senate as I have' had during the last 12 months. "The year during, which I have acted as democratic leader has been one of responsibility and satisfac tion, but one of pleasure also, be cause of the consideration shown me by my party colleagues, whether they agreed with tne or not. 1 "I desire particularly to thank , those who have, supported me i$ this ' , contest and to shy to all that f shall -be glad, in resuming my position as " vice-chairman, to co-operate as here- tofore with the chosen leader." Friends Explain Action. i Senator Hitchcock's friends ex- ' plained the presidential campaign would take the senator away from "Washington at frequent intervals and that aside from this lie would make frequent visits to his summer home in Massachusetts and, conse quently, would not desire the re sponsibility of minority leadership. Senator Hitchcock has been the democratic leader throughout the long peace treaty fight and it was ex plicitly stated at the White House and by Senator Underwood that ir respective of the outcome of the election lor leaaersnip ne wouia continue as the administration spokesman should the treaty tiglr be renewed. Maniac Who Killed Physician in Church I Asks Court forCounse) New York. Anril 23. Faltering shabbily dressed and with a week's growth of beard on his face, Thomas W. Simpkin of Duluth, was ar- ' raigned on an indictment charging him with murder in the first degret Jor shootirig Dr. James Vyrignt .Man koe last Jsunaay as tne aisunguisaet surgeon was passing the plate in fashionable St. George church. In a weak, quavering voice, tne itinerant printer, said to have es caped "from five insane asylums, acknowledged that he had neither counsel nor funds to engage one. H hocitatpd a full minute when asked if he wanted the court to as sign counsel to defend him. Then, in a tone scarcely audible, he said: "Yes, sir." Former Distri ct Attorney Neilsor , Olcott and Joseph S. Rosalsky, were assigned and pleading in his case was postponed until next Monday. U.- S. Explorer Says Amundsen May Have Reached the Pole' New York, April 23. It is quite possible that Capt. Roald Amundr x sen, whose arrival has been reported ai niinuu, cditiii (.'iijciiia, tiiajr attained the North Pole in airplanes he took with him on his exploring expedition, according to. Dr. Ed mund O. Hovey of the American , museum of natural history. ' Dr. Hovey headed aft expedition to, the relief of Exploror Donald McMillan, w-ho 1 was ' stranded at Etah Hi 1915, and was himself fro zen in the Arctic ice for nearly two years in Parker Snow bay, just hci hind Cape George,. on the way to the northwest coast of Greenland. . Army Aviator Killed. Riverside, Cal., April 23. Sergt, F. Waverneck of March Field was killed when a training airplane in which he was flying, went into a' tailspin and fell near here. Strike in Vienna., Vienna, April 23. Industrial Workers to the number of 70.000 went on strike here because they had tailed to obtained the increase in pay they had demanded. . Outlaw Switchmen Fail I , To Call Off Rail Strike . Chicago, April 23. Striking rail roaders meeting here this afternoon adjourned without taking action to ward calling off the" "outlaw" strikes. - Adjournment was taken when it developed that railroad manager had ignored an invitation to attend and discuss the men's demands. r The managers have refused ti treat with the "outlaws", as all werj members r)f the established brothers hoods with which th roads havt coutracts
