THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, APRIL 29. 1920. WOULD LIMIT YEARLY SALARY OF CHURCHMEN Annual Report of Christian Scientist Majority Commit tee Made Public After Five Months' Investigation. i New York, April 28. Supporting the minual of the mother church and the Christian Science organization as projected by Mary Baker Eddy, the church committee on general welfare after five months' investiga tion of the denomination's affairs in Boston, made public majority and minority Yeports here today. The findings aggregate 18,000 words and are said to be "encouraging and con structive." Among the majority recommenda tions are: That no member of the mother church shall receive for of ficial services in excess of an aggre gate of $10,000 a year; that there be "closer and more open relationship between officials and members"; that officials of the mother church should discontinue class teaching during their term of office; that "as soon as present conditions will per mit, rotation in office and equality of the sexes where permissible be applied to all the official positions of the mother church." Limit Period of Service. , In the last named recommenda tion much would apply to the direc tors, the period of service in a par ticular office would be limited to five years and the .totality of. official service not to exceed ten years. The majority report was signed by Richard P. Verrall. chairman, New- York; Martha W. Wilcox, Kansas City Tacob S. Shield, Chi cago; Henry Deutsch. Minneapolis; Mabel S. Thomson, London, Eng land, .and Edward E. Norwood, Washington. D. C. The minority report which agrees with the ma jority report in many particulars and which was filed by Edward D. Dickey, secretary, of Los Angeles, Cal, disagreed in regard to making the report public. He held that the committee assumed a responsibility it did not possess in reporting to the entire membership instead of the board of directors. In this connec tion, however, it was stated that the directors who have been in posses sion of the findings for several weeks, not only did not object to having thera made public, but made no recommendations for their amendment. Support- Directors. The reporf supports the authority of the board of directors provided for by the manual, declaring that the latter provides sufficient checks to prevent abuse of that authority. The committee declares that on no subject of the inquiry was there a stronger or more generally ex pressed feeling than on the im portance of a closer relation be tween the governing officials and the members of the church. Investigation of the Christian Science publishing society, the trustees of which for more than a year have been in litigation with the board of directors, the committee states, was rendered impossible be cause of a request on the part of the trustees that "the proposd examina tion and report be deferred until the pending controversy has been dis posed of." Wood Leading in New Jersey by Small Margin (Continued From First P.) the republican national conven Jion will be pledged to Senator Har ding on first choice,, while seven and possibly 10 of the delegates will be pledged to Wood. " Organization in Massachusetts. Boston, April 28. The organiza tion slates of republican and. demo cratic candidates for delegates at large to the national . conventions were elected by substantial majori ties in yesterday's presidential pref erence primary, according to the complete vote today. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge led the republican "big four," who head ed the ballot as a group. He was followed in the order named by Speaker Frederick H. Gillcrt of the ' national house of representatives, former Senator William Murray Crane" and Edward A. Thurston, former chairman of the republican tate committee. Of the 35 republican delegates, in truding those at large, 29 are un pledged, but several of these have announced their intention to vote for Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood. Two are pledged to Wood and four were described on the ballot as favorable " to him. The entire democratic dele gation is unpledged. 'Armed Workmen in Ruhr District Threaten War Upon Reichswehr yW York Ttmes-rhtravo Tribune Cable. Coprrlfht. lino. Coblenz, April 28. A new upris ing in the Ruhr beginning Wednes . day or next day is a distinct proba bility. From both American and .fenglish intelligence officers it is ; learned 20,000 armed workmen will Assemble near Dusseldorf threaten fng war on the reichswehr. This number easily can De increased to 30,000 or 40,000, the officers say. Omaha Man Will Debate Before "Little Congress" Washington. Aoril 28. (Special Telegram) The "Little Congress" which meets weekly in the caucus room in the house office building, made up of the secretaries to mem bers of both poltttcal parties and conducted according to house rules, will on Saturday evening discuss a bill ' memorializing the legislatures of the several states, which have to date, faded to endorse woman suf frage, and requesting that such ac tion be taken. The bill will be cnampionea oy John B. Shanahan of Omaha, Sec retary to Congressman Jefferis. while the negative will be upheld by Charles H. ' Richmond, secretary to Representative Osborne of Los An telea, ft democrat! Catholic Missionaries Who Leave for China Following Ceremonies in Omaha SENATORS DRAFT SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE SHIP BILL i Proposes All Coastwise . Ship ping Must Be Entirely American Owned Other . Drastic Provisions. Group of Catholic missionaries in Omaha enroute to interior China: Upper row, left to right: Rev. John P. O'Brien, Rev. Richard Ranaghan, Rev. Matthew Dolan, Rev. William O'Flynn. Front row, left to right: Rev. Alphonsus Ferguson, Rev. A. Mc Guinness, Rev. C. Tierney, Rev. M. J. McHugh and Rev. Thomas Quintan. Inserts, left,' Rev. John Blowlck, director general of the Chinese Mission society; right, Rev. E. J. Galvin, director of the mission in China. Rt. Rev. Edmund Heelan, Catho lic bishop of the Sioux City diocese, arrived in Omaha today to assist in solemn ceremonies at St. Cecilias ca thedral today in cekbratidn of the departure of 16 mission priests to China. With the arrival of two of the missionaries from Galway, Ire land, the crusade, numbering 16 priests, is in readiness for the jour ney, to the Orient. " In charge of Rev. John Bio wick, director generat of the Chinese Mis sion society, and Rev. E." J. Galvin, director of missions; in Hupeh, China, the party will leave Omaha Fridav mornintr. The departure ceremonies at the cathedral will be unique, in that they will be the first of sijch services ever tendered a crusade of Catholic priests in this country. ' Members of tbe Catholic hier archy from other cities in the middle west are expected in Omaha today to attend the services. The priests will conduct parishes subdivided .among a population of 5,000,000 persons in the province of Hupeh. ' Following the ceremonies at the cathedral : today, the missiona ries will be tendered a banquet at the Hotel Fontenelle. Prominent mem bers of the Knights of Columbus will be present. . , Archbishop J. J. Harty of Omaha will preside, at the dinner. BUSINESSMEN TO INVESTIGATE RUSSIAN TRADE U.S Chamber of Commerce to Send Committee to Make Recommendations On Re sumption of Relations. Atlantic City, N. T., April 28. The board of directors of the United States Chamber of Commerce today authorized appointment of a commis sion to proceed to Europe to inves tigate the possibility of resumotion of trade relations between the United States' and the Russian peo ple. President Homer L. Ferguson was directed. to name the members . of the commission and given authority to "bring the project to a success ful termination." . . The foreign - commerce- group of the chamber previously had unani mously adopted a resolution propos ing American trade with Russia be resumed and characterizing the soviet government as a "falling regime." Discussion in the convention's general and group sessions today centered about problems of trans portation and production as bearing upon the high cost of living and with organized labor's attitude toward re cent legislation. Take Up Strike Trouble. George A. Post, chairman of the chamber's railroad committee; de clared "we have the right to expect and insist that the railroad employes will co-operate with their officers and keep the wheel rolling, and not paralyze commerce with quarrels among themselves. .. . "The attitude of organized labor toward the railroad labor board is deeply to be deplored," he said. "So bitter was their opposition that after the passage of the transportation act publication was made by labor leaders of their intention to mark for condign punishment at the polls all senators and representatives who voted for the measure. . "The national chamber of com merce represents a large part of the public and it seems entirely proper, indeed -imperative,' that ' an apeal should be made to this body and to all those whom you rcresent, to see to it that no congressman or sena tor is defeated because supporting this." Wymore Farmer to Go Abroad Beatrice, Neb., , April 28. (Spe cial.), Martin Jurgens, a resident of the Wymore neighborhood, yester day made application at the district clerk's office for a passport to Hol land. From there he expects to cross, the line into Germany. Beatrice hips to Egypt. Beatrice, Neb., April 28. (Spe cial.) Four carloads of flour re cently were shipped from Black Bros.' mill of this city to Alexandria, Egypt. The consignment apparently escaped delay by the strike, though it was started on the way to the seaboard while the "rebel" walkout was halting traffic. Wood Gains Strength By New Jersey Vote 1 (Continued From First Page) him is too weak for consideration. The prevailing opinion is that Hard ing is praetfcally eliminated and re ports are rife tonight of his inten tion to withdraw from the contest. The Wood managers are claiming that after the complimentary voting for Governor Coolidge at least 29 of the 34 Massachusetts delegates elected yesterday will swing to tha general. The Lowden managers, however, are confident that they will get more Massachusetts delegates than General Wood on the final showdown. ' The most interesting' aspect of the Massachusetts primary is the tremendous vote rolled up by Sen ator Lodge, who led the delegates-at-large by 15,000 votes altogether a handsome endorsement hv Mas sachusetts republicans of the leader of the. fight for effective reservations to the league of nations covenant. WhihvWood and Johnson figure as neaanners in the republican fight the seasoned republican politicians here are far from ready to' concede that either of them will be nom inated. They expect Wood to ap pear in the convention with approxi mately 250 delegates and Johnson with more than 100, though probably, less than 150, both being far short of a majority. The Lowden managers figure that the Illinois governor will have close to 300 delegates at the start and that he will gain considerably -from Wood and from favorite son terri tory as the balloting proceeds. There is noticeably increasing talk among republican leaders that Lowden stands an excellentchance of becom ing the compromise nominee. ( Total Pledges of $2,000,000 Given New World Movement New York, April 28. Pledges to ialing $2,000,000 including an out right gift of $1.000,000 from John D. Rockefeller; jr. to the $100,000, 000 fund being raised by the New World Movement of Northern Bap tists, were announced here Wednes day. Dr. John Y. Aitchison, di rector of the Baptist board of pro motion stated Mr. Rockefeller had sent the notice of. his pledges by telegraph. It was also announced the Bap tist Ministers' and Missionaries' Benefit board plans to form a per manent endowment fund, sufficient to pension every Baptist minister who has been in service 35 years. Bandits in Drug Store Take Policeman's Gun Denver, Colo., April ,28. When John Shahaugh, a park policeman, entered the drug store of Edward Doerr last night to purchase a cigar; he ran into two robbers who were looting the cash register. The rob bers took the officer's pistol and $125 from his pocket. The druggist had been forced into a back room. Beatrice Fanner Is Held. Beatrice, Neb., - April 28. (Spe cial.) Frank Cunningham, Ellis farmer, was bound over to the dis trict court yesterday by Judge Ellis on a charge of rape. He. was re leased on bond of $1,500. The charge of kidnaping a girl named Druery, 14 years old, was dismissed against' him. POLES ADVANCE AGAINST REDS ON 1 80-MILE FRONT The Movement, According to Official Communique, Is to Expel "Foreign Invaders," Russian Soviets. Don't Move Your Old Piano i We will give you a due bill for it (regardless of its make) applicable at any time toward the pur chase of a new instrument and we will come and get your old instrument. Phona Douglas; 4240 (hAKFOUD 1807 Farnam Omaha, Neb. Warsaw, April 28. (By The As sociated Pressi) A general advance by Polish forces along a 180-mile front into the Ukraine was an nounced in today's communique by the Polish general staff. The move ment, it is set forth, is for the ex pulsion of the "foreign invaders" (Russian .bolsheviki.) The Poles covered about 50 miles the first day of their forward move ment, their advanced line taking them within 60 miles of Kiev. The advance .was", explained in a proclamation issued In the name of General Pilsudski, head of the Pol ish state, which announced that after the expulsion of the foreign ele ments, the Poles would remain in Ukraine only . until an authorized Ukrainian government 'should take control. - Ousted Dog Still Faithful Connelsville, Pa., April 28. "Spot," a poodle dog, is keeping vigil at the entrance to the Cottage State hospital, where his master, James Haines, is a patient. Before a ban was declared on vis itors Spot went alone each day to visit his master. Since being re fused entrance the dog goes to the door of the hospital each morning and maintains his watch throughout the day. Washington, April 28. Estab lishment of an America-first policy for the development of the Ameri can 'merchant marine is provided in a bill drafted as a substitute for the house merchant marine bill by the senate commerce subcommittee and made public today by Chairman Jones, who plans to report it to the full committee tomorrow. Coastwise shipping, the bill pro vides, must ' be entirely American owned while 75 per cent of the stock of corporations engaged in foreign trade must be held bv American citizens. Sale of American ships to foreign interests would be prohibited by the bill without the approval of the shipping board. Unshackles U. S. Ships. The bill would prohibit the Inter state Commerce commission from exercising existing authority to grant preferential rail and water freight rates on exports, imports or passenger rates, unless American owned vessels were used. Upon the boards recommendations, where American-owned ocean transporta tion facilities are inadequate, the commission would be authorized by the bill, however, to suspend this section. The bill directs the presi dent within 90 days from its passage to terminate treaties restricting the right of the United States !'to im pose discrimnatiflg duties or ton nage dues on foreign imports or for eign vessels." "This simply unshackles the United States commercially so far as its merchant marine is concern ed," Senator Jones said today. Shipping Board in Control. The bill would place the present government-owned merchant fleet under Jhe direction of the shipping board, which. would be authorized to operate the ships under charter or otherwise and develop the foreign trade of this country through the establishment of new trade routes by means of private enterprise, if possible, or through government op eration if necessary. The bill declares that the national defense and the proper growth of American commerce require a mer chant marine of the best type of ships sufficient for the greater por tion of commerce ultimately to be owned and operated by private American citizens.- It specifies that the board must do what may be necessary to accomplish this pur pose. Punishment Is Drastic. The house bill directed the board to sell the government-owned mer chant ships as soon as practicable, but the senate bill provides that they shall be disposed of "as soon as practicable, consistent with good business methods and the objects and purposes Jo be attained by this act." Ships of foreign owners who ar guilty of giving preference or re bates, or discriminating against Americans in violation of existing statutes would be barred from American ports. - Amendments to the LaFollette seamen's act also are appended to the measures, designed to carry out recent suoreme court decisions and bring foreign seamen up to Ameri can standards. U. S. Asks Hearing Washington, April 28. The fed eral government today asked the su preme court to rehear Its dissolution suit against the Unted States Steel corporaton. . . Have Root Press. Adv. Print It Beacon THE 0N0GR4 SUPREME The Schmoller & Mueller Guaranteed Phonograph No more dull evenings with a Phonograph in your home. 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Matter; Divides the Atom , ., Dr. Irving Langmuir of the General Motors Company Laboratory Declares Time and Space Have Con struction Similar to That of -Physical Elements; Colleagues Admit it All Goes Over Their Heads. Washington, April 28. A new theory of the structure of matter was presented at the concluding session of the annual gathering of the Na tional Academy of Science by Dr. Irving Langmuir of , the General Electric company research labora tory. Explaining : that his conclusions lead to the new conception of en ergy, force, time, space, magnetism and all the general properties of matter, Dr. Langmuir asserted "space and time have a structure analogous to that of, matter." Breaks Up the Atom. Heretofore, he said, the usual con ception of the relative order of the components of matter . has been atoms, electrons, molecules and par ticles. His 'observations add a new division smaller even than the atom, which he has named the "quantel." It' consists. of two parts, he said, positivc",and negative, present every where, moving; in all directions with thevve'ldcity of light and capable of passing thtough matter. They con stitute, he added, whati was hereto fore known as the J'ether of space" and cause all of, the phenomena of light, electricity.'mass and energy. "The structure f everything that is" can be built-up'. out of his con ception. .of quantel, ' Dr. Langmuir said.. . ', . ,s "LightDoes Not Radiate." His observations also demonstrat ed a new principle, of reversibility, he declared, that leads to the deduc tion that light proceeds in straight lines from atoms; that it does not radiate. Dr. Langmuir's theory, which other members of the academy ad mitted was "over their heads," was based, he said, on the theories of several other scientist. His experi ments were predicated on the Eiu Htein special theory of relativity, Dr. Langmuir said. New Field Is Opened. Much interest was manifested in Dr. R. H. Goddard's elaboration of his theory concerning the use of multiple charge, high efficiency rockets in exploring the air and its application to weather forecasting, lie declared it would be possible to project meteorological instruments a little over six miles and record pressure, temperature, wind velocity and moisture content for predicting surface weather conditions. A number of such observations bvl rockets, taken at widely separated points, would make possible the op eration of a great weather map, which, he said, would be valuable to aviators. Englishman Gets Medal. The Henry Draper gold medal, awarded to Alfred Fowler of the Imperial college, England, for: "re searches in celestial and laboratory spectroscopy" was presented to Sir Auckland Geddes,' British ambassa dor, in behalf of the recipient tonight at the - annual dinner. Announce ment was made of the award to Her bert Hoover of the academy medal for eminence in the application of science to the : public welfare. A letter of thanks from Mr. Hoover was read. ANOTHER EFFORT MADE TO DEVELOP U. S. AIR FORCE - a----e ' ' ', 1 California Representative In troduces Bill for Creation of Bureau of Air Provides One Central Director. ' Sydney Improvement Bonds Insure New Fair Buildings Sindey, Neb.. Aoril 28. (Soecial.1 The local fairground improvement bonds tor $jU,UUU, having carried at the primary election, it is expected work will begin on the improve ment and construction of new build ings to care for the fall fair exhibits as soon as the bonds can be mar keted and contracts let. This will be the beginning of what is hoped will be the establishment of a permanent county fair sup? ported by the taxpayers of the coun ty as provided in the enactments of t hlaest legislature. Schools to Give Exhibit. Sidnev. Neb.. April 28. (Special.) The public schools-of Sidney will hold their exhibit of the year triday and Saturday of this week. One spe cial feature of the exhibit will be the school festival staged by the -pupils of the central school under" the di rection of Prof. D. J. Lewis 'at the Tobiu Opera house. . Gas Companies Merged. Beatrice. Neb.. April 28 (Spe cial.) The local gas and electric companies, which haye been under different; managers for years, were merged, yesterday. B. H. Conlec, who has been in charge of the elec tric light company, will remain here as manager of both plants and Thomas Rice will be transferred to Omaha for the present and will later eo to Cleveland. O. He has been head of the gas' company here for the past 10 years. Old Burlington Employe Is Victim of Pneumonia Table Rock, Neb., April 28. (Special.) John B. O'Connor, for a freat many years a resident of able Rock, who moved a few years ago to Wymore, died at his home in Wymore yesterday after a severe illness of several days with pneu monia. The body will be brought here for 'burial tomorrow in the Table Rock cemetery by the side of his two children. He is survived by a wife and three children. The services will be under the auspices of the Masonic fraterni ty, of which he had long been a member. He was a brakeman and later a conductor on the Burlington for several years. Farm Hand Arrested. Table Rock, Neb., April 28. (Special.) Oscar Abbott, a farm hand, who has been at work -for John Elwonger in this vicinity, was arrested recently by Sheriff Mc Clung of Pawnee ity. He is said to be wanted in Miller county, Mis souri, for passing fraudulent checks. He is being held pending the arrival of Missouri authorities. Beatrice, Neb., April 28. (Spe cial.) Tom Bullis, a boy, was re cently paroled from the reform school and given a chance to "make i,ood," was arrested yesterday by Chief of Police Dillow on the charge of stealing an automobile casing and other articles from Fisher's harness store. Chicago Trll)tinfOnmli Be Leased Wire. Washington, April 28. Another effort to place the United States abreast of the European nations in the development of aerial naviga tion materialized in the form of a hill introduced by Representative Kahn of California, chairman, of 'the house committee on military affairs, for the creation of a bureau of the air. To avoid the objections which killed the New bill for a depart ment of aeronautics, the Kahn bill leaves to the army and navy abso lute control of their air forces. It aims to bring the various aero nautical activities of the govern ment and commercial aviation under one central direction and to hold one official responsible for the de velopment of air navigation. It provides for the fostering of the aeronautical industry, development of air routes throughout the country and a scientific development of air auxiliaries for the essential use of the air service instead of as a side line to other services. ' "Experience of the past few years has conclusively proved that an air force will be a determining factor in the next great -war," said Repre sentative Kahn. "No matter wheth er the war be essentially one for the control of the land or forrtlifc con trol of the sea, or whether it be waged in the air alone, the side which dominates in the air wHl be able to dictate when, where, how and under what conditions the final contest for supremacy shall take place." - Postpone I. O.O.F. Celebration Table Rock. Neb., April 28. (Special.) Owing to the rain and the condition of the roads, the I. O. O. F. anniversary celebration at Pawnee City billed for yesterday has been postponed until May 3. Dairy Changes Hands. Sidney. Neb.. April 28. (Special.) The Scottsbluff Creamery Co. has purchased the Nelson Bros, dairy and will maintain and tip-to-date branch of their business here. 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