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FIND PLOTS
TO MURDER
U.S.OFFICIALS
Plans for May Day Demonstra
tions by Members of Commun
ists Parties Discovered by
Justice Department Agents.
WORK IN CONNECTION
WITH EUROPEAN REDS
Attempt to Incite Strikers in
Basic American Industries
Propaganda Refers to 'In
human Treatment' of Soviets.
Washington. - April 29. Plots
against the lives of more than a
score of federal and state officials
have been discovered by the de
partment of justice as a part of
radical May day demonstrations,
Attorney General Palmer an
nounced. The assassinations and assaults,
Mr. Palmer said, were included in
the May day program organized by
the communist labor party and
other radical el-Tients and were in
addition to strikes and other dis
turbances intended by the radicals
as an effort in behalf of peace with
soviet Russia.
State official marked as "vic
tims" have bet notified by the de
partment, Jhe attorney general
added.
The department has information,
according to the attorney general,
that the instigators of the May day
demonstration have been working
"in direct xonnectioti and unison"
with leader! of disturbances set for
Europe.
As in Europe, attempts arc being
made to incite strikes in all basic
American industries, Mr. Palmer
said, although lie did not believe
they would be successful.
"I am not going to prophesy what
will happen," Mr. Palmer said. "I am
just making public some of the
things our agents have discovered.
But if a will to upset our nation's
whole scheme of living counts for
anything, the radicals may cause
some trouble."
Threaten to Cause Trouble.
, Mr. Palmer said that while he
could not disclose the nature of the
communist labor party's plan in con
nection with further, strikes, leaders
of that organization had ' concen
trated on several important indus
tries and that the demonstrations
planned threatened to cause trouble
in the way of walkouts.
All of the' propaganda advocating
May day disturbances . referred to
"inhuman treatment", of the soviet
government of Russia by the United
States and the allied powers. Mr.
Palmer continued. In foreign sec
tions of industrial centers, appeals
for "peace with Russia" have been
employed as the main method in
stirring up dissatisfaction with this
fvover.nment, Mr. Palmer ' said.
Strikes and disorder, he said, simply
are meant to emphasize to the Amer
ican officials the threats of the radi
cals that relations must be resumed
with Russia.
Much Propaganda Distributed.'
Tons of inflammatory literature
have been circulated in the last
month by express and freight and
secretly distributed by local leaders,
according to information obtained
by department agents. The com
munist labor group also has sent nu
merous "personal emissaries" into
cities' where the field was deemed
ripe, Mr. Palmer reported. These
men have been under constant sur
veillance by federal agents and it
was through their activities that the
government was first able to estab
lish definitely the aims of the group
for May day disturbances. Men
and women have been used particu
larly in the textile manufacturing
districts.
Appeal for Strikes.
In these areas reports show radi
cal leaders were appealing to the
workers to strike in behalf of soviet
Russia and as a protest dgaiust
the high cost of living.
,Some ot the literature showed that
anv radical leaders felt that raids
conducted Against the communist
and communist labor elements last
" winter had "broken our formation."
The agitators, however, continued to
spread reports .among the workers
that the arrest of certain of their
members was a certain proof of the
American government's hatred for
. the proletariat."
Federal agents are taking every
precaution to check violence, Mr.
Palmer said, adding that he believed
they would be able to meet any sit
uation. He did not disclose what
course of action was being consid
ered, but declared the government,
being forwarncd was forearmed.
Proposed School Reforms
Include Play Houses
Washington, April 29. The Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Pro
gressive Education has come out as
the schoolboy's friend. Despite its
highbrow name, the association has
declared that "an educational sys
tem that takes all the joy out of
life is pernicious." As most boys
agree with the A. A. F. E., popular
demand is expected to line up solid
ly behind the reforms proposed
which includes play."
Pastor Who Died in Poorly
Furnished Room Wealthy
Phoenix, Ariz., Ajril 29. Rev.
John H. McClahan, 6a years old, of
Philadelphia, who died here last
Monday night in a poorly furnishel
room in a congested district, was
worth approximately $100,000, ac
cording to' officials who made an in
vestigation of his personal effects.
LATE PRIMARIES
WARNING TO DEMOS
BRYAN DECLARES
Urges Senators to Lose No Time
In Voting for Peace
Treaty.
Pittsburgh, April 29. William J.
Bryan, in a statement issued here
tonight, declared that the recent pri
maries were a warning that demo
cratic senators should lose no time
in voting for ratification of the peace
treaty.
"Delay in ratification may deluge
the world in blood and flood our
country wth woe," said Mr. Bryan.
"The recent primaries should be a
warning. In Georgia less than one
third of the democrats stood for the
treaty without reservations. Two
thirds were divided about equally
between ratifications with reserva
tions and total rejection of the
treaty. In Nebraska Senator Hitch
cock's vote would have not been
worth counting had he been com
pelled to rely on those who en
dorsed his attitude on the treaty.
"My fight was made on a platform
declaring for ratification with reser
vations already agreed upon by a
large majority of the senate. Sen
ator Johnson's vote is largely a
protest against the treaty and
against the blundering of the sen
ators who talk for the treaty but
quarrel over reservations.
- "A campaign in favor of ratifica
tion without reservations would re
sult in overwhelming defeat, but
what is infinitely worse, it would
prevent the consideration of press
ing problems and leave the world
to chaos. Our counsel and advice to
day may contribute more to world
peace than an army of 1,000,000 men
would a year from now.
"If our party refuses to aid rati
fication now it must share, even if
it does not fully assume, responsibil
ity for what follows."
Bankers Deny Report
Of Shutting Off All
Real Estate Loans
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee I.rad Wire.
Chicago, April 29. Some appre
hension was caused by a report that
Chicago ' banks had shut off real
estate and building loans, which, if
true, would tend to bring all build
ing projects in the city to a stand
still within a few weeks.
The report was denied by bankers,
although they said they were re
stricting such loans because of the
tightness of money, and because
there are many good investments
offered , at 7 per cent, whereas a
building loan pays less from 5 to
6 per cent to the investor.
L. t. hstes 6f the Merchants
Loan & Trust company said: "We
are restricting' our building and real
estate loans, but, we are not stop
ping them,' and, ai'far as I know,
there 'is no concerted action towards
curtailment." ...'.
Mark Levy, real estate man, said:
"Most banks, as well as mortgage
loan houses, have a great amount
of unsold mortgage bonds on hand.
The banks have been shutting down
on collateral loans to mortgage loan
houses at the request of the Chicago
Federal Reserve bank, because Chi
cago banks now owe it approximate
ly $400,000,000, or about double the
normal amount."
Large Saving is Made
In Final Estimates On
Appropriation Bills
Washington, April 29. The last of
the 13 annual appropriation bills
the sundry civil measure, carrying
approximately a half billion dollars
was reported to the house by the
appropriations committee.
Representative Mondell, the re
publican leader, in a statement said
the total savings under final esti
mates on all appropriation bills
amounted to $1,399,085,112. while the
total cut from the original and sup
plemental estimates was $1,528,994,
402. The total amount carried by the
sundry civil bill is $428,216,945. or
$608,169,186 less than the original
estimate. The committee thus cut
more from the original estimate than
it authorized.
Approximately two-thirds of the
total appropriations are for the
treatment or rehabilitation of former
service men.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.,
And Rachael Littleton Wed
New York, April 29. The eyes
of New York society were focussed
today on the wedding in St. Thomas
church of Miss Rachael Littleton,
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas J. Littleton of Chattanoo
ga, Tcnn,, to Cornelius Vander
bilt, jr.
Five thousand invitations were is
sued to friends and relatives, includ
ing several hundred former dough
boys who served with young Van
derbilt in France with the 27th di
vision. A wedding cake, said to be
the largest in the world, was pro
vided for the guests. Gifts valued
at nearly a million dollars' have been
received.
Policemen Are Wounded
In Attack on Rush Barracks
Dublin, April 29. The Rush
police barracks, 10 miles from Dub
lin, were attacked by an armed band
Friday. This is the first incident
of the kind so near the capital.
The sergeant in charge of the
barracks received fatal injuries and
other policemen -were wounded,
while the roof of the barracks was
blown off.
Export Gold to Ceylon.
New York, April 29. Gold coin
approximating $1,500,000 was taken
from the subtreasury Friday for ex
port to Ceylon. The shipment is said
to result from exchange conditions
which favor that market at the
present time
MISSIONARY
PRIESTS GET
HOLY CROSS
Solemn Ceremony of Present
ing Individual Crucif ixes Held
In St. Cecils dral by
Archbis1 j-
lv rn dc u ci n
Holy Rites for Mission Priests Held in.
Sanctuary of Saint Cecilia Cathedral
vr CITY IN AMERICA
Mission Into Interior China
Given Blessing Similar to
Those Conferred on Early
Roman Crusaders.
Fourteen missionary priests of the
Chinese Mission society were re
cipients of individual crucifixes
from Archbishop Jeremiah J. Harty
of Omaha at solemn ceremonies held
at 10 a. m. yesterday in St. Cecilia!
cathedral.
The blessing and conferring of
the crosses was symbolical of the
"mission of the Christian religion"
into interior China.
The ceremonies were the first of
such to be held in the United States
and were similar to the solemn cele
bration given early Christians by the
holy father at Rome preparatory tc
crusades to the holy land.
Eminent Clergy Present.
Rt. Rev. Edmund Heelan, bishop
of Sioux City diocese; Rev. John
Blowick, superior general of the
Chinese Mission society, and Rev.
E. J. Galvin, director of the missions,
in China, were principal attendants
to Archbishop Harty at the celebrar
tion of pontificial high mass.
The following missionaries re
ceived the crosses: Rev. John Blo
wick, Rev. E. J. Galvin, Rev. Joseph
Crossan, Rev. Matthew Dolan, Rev.
Cornelius Tierney, Rev. E. J.
O'Doherty, Rev. Richard Ranaghan,
Rev. John P. O'Brien, Rev. Alphon
sus Ferguson, Rev. M. J. McHugh,
Rev. A. McGuinness, Rev. Thomas
Quinlan, Rev. Timothy Leonard
and Rev. W. O. O'Flynn.
Two other priests, Rev. O. N.
McPolin and Rev. Michael Mee, will
arrived in Omaha yesterday to join
the delegation of missionaries de
parting today on their contin
ued journey to the Orient.
Worshippers Fill Auditorium.
The cathedral auditorium was
filled to capacity with worshippers.
The St. Cecilia's boy choiristers
sang. - AH the clergy of the city and
neighboring towns were present
during the services.
During the procession of the pre
lates and misftienaries from the ves
tibule of the cathedral to the high
(Continued on race Two, Column Six.)
Five Persons Killed,
12 Injured In Train
Wreck In Minnesota
Sanborn. Minn., April 29. Five
persons were killed and 12 injured
when two passenger trains on the
Chicago & Northwestern railroad
met in a head-on collision near here
Cirly today.
The accident is said to have been
caused by misinterpretation of or
ders, whereby the trains were sup
posed to pass at Sanborn instead of
Lamberton.
Four cars were wrecked and both
engines.
The dead:
ED CLARK, conductor of train
No. 516, Winona.
L. S. FULLER, engineer of 516,
Winona.
E. C. LARSON, fireman of 516,
Winona.
A. FELTZ, car repairer, Tracy,
Minn.
E. W. AGUSTINE, Pioneer, O.
25 Seconds Sentence
Imposed by Landis
For Mail Tampering
Chicago, April 29. Twenty-five
seconds, one of the shortest sen
tences on record in federal courts,
was imposed on Jesse Nash, col
ored, charged with tampering with
the mails, by Judge K. M. Landis
today.
As Nash walked to the court
room door in custody of a deputy
marshal the judge called "time's
up" and the prisoner was released.
Nash admitted obtaining posses
sion of letters written by his wife
to another man. He exhibited the
letters in court, and after reading
them Judge Landis fixed the pen
alty. Criticise Bisbee Sheriff
At Deportation Hearing
Tombstone, Ariz., April 29. Capt.
Harry C. Wheeler, former sheriff of
Cochise county, misled the people
of Bisbee when he announced in a
newspaper the day of the deporta
tions that he would arrest a number
of persons on vagrancy charges and
give them a hearing, Assistant
County Attorney Roark today de
clared in addressing the jury trying
Harry E. Wootton on the charge of
kidnaping.
Director of U. S. Bureau
Of Mines Resigns Post
Washington, April 29. Van H.
Manning, director of the bureau of
mines, has resigned, effective June
30, to become director of research
of the newly organized American
Petroleum institute, composed of the
leading petroleum producers of the
countr;
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In the upper picture is Archbishop J. J. Harty seated in the bishop's chair wearing the tall biretta; at
the left Bishop Edmund Heelan and Catholic prelates at the beginning of the special ceremonies in the sanctu
ary of St. Cecilias cathedral y '
The lower picture shows the 14 missionaries for whom the departure ceremonies were held. Reading
from left to right in the front row: Rev. Joseph Crossan, Rev. Matthew Dolan, Rev. Cornelius Tierney, Rev. E. J.
Doherty, Rev. John Blowick, Rev. Richard Ranaghan, Rev. John P. O'Brien. Left to right in the rear row:
Rev. Alphonsu3 Ferguson, Rev. E. J. Galvin, Rev. M. J. McHugh, Rev. A. McGuinness, Rev. Thomas Quinlan,
Rev. Timothy Leonard and Rev. W. O. O'Flynn.
JAPS GARRY OH
TERROR REIGN
ALL SIBERIA
Partial List of April Incidents
Shows Veritable Rule of
Mailed Fist Accompanied
by Oppressions.
By FRAIZER HUNT.
New York Tlmes-Chli-apo Tribune Cable.
Copj-riffht. 1920.
Harbin, April 29. Here are a
few of the April incidents of the
Japan reign of terror in Siberia and
north Mancuria:
April 4 Demand acceptance of
five unreasonable demands from in
offensive zemstvo government at
Vladivostok.
April 5 Captured Vladivostok
and Nikojsk after creating a fake
situation justifying the move. The
allied representatives report the af
fair was pure Japanese aggression.
Attack Railroad Workers.
April 6 Two Russian railroad
workmen with proper passes as
saulted by Japanese soldiers on
bridge at Harbin; one thrown from
bridge and the other badly injured
by unwarranted attack.
April 6. Two Russian railway
men in hospital at Imanpo station
Manchuria, talking against the Mi
kado to the injured Japanese sol
diers promptly taken cut and shot.
April 8. Eight Russian railway
men arrested at Khailar station.
Manchuria, by Japanese soldiers and
iocked in a prison car to be trans
ported to an unknown fate.
April 10. Three Russian railway
men arrested by Japanese in Man
churia station.
The last four incidents must be
considered in the light that the
Japanese troops had no business in
the Manchurian railroad, which lo
cally was efficiently guarded by
Chinese under the inter-allied agree
ment. List Is Long One.
April 11. Japanese troops attempt
ing to take Russian railway men to
Semenoff, where they would be ex
ecuted were attacked by workmen.
They opened fire on Chinese troops
and Czechs, killing a number.
There is only a part of. the list
of the Japanese actions.
It is difficult to describe with
what Prussian efficiency and Japa
nese cunning and stubbornness they
have gone about the business of ter
rorism and aggression forcing a sit
uation which would warrant them
in driving deeper with their mili
tary into the north China territory
they have staked out for their own.
This Chinese city of Harbin rings
with their bugles. This morning I
saw Japanese soldiers and workmen
making a munition dump out of
Harbin's playground in the heart of
the city. And this Is China. '
Consecrate New Bishop
Lawrence, Mass.. April 29. Rev.
Arthur Wheelock" Moulton. for 19
years rector , of Grace -Episcopal
church, was consecrated bishop of
the missionary jurisdiction of Utah
today. t
Late Returns Give
Wood Lead of 1,1 50 in
New Jersey Primary
Newark, N. J., April 29. Returns
in the New Jersey preferential presi
dential primary with but 17 districts
missing tonight gave: Major Gen
eral Leonard Wood a majority of
1,150 votes over Senator Hiram
W. Johnson. The vote was: Wood,
52,455; Johnson. 51,305.
Columbus, O., April 29. Although
Senator Warren G. Harding, Ohio's
"favorite son," received presidential
preference endorsement at the hands
of the state's republican voters Tues
day, his campaign manager, Harry
M. Daugherty, apparently has been
defeated for delegate-at-large to the
party's national convention at Chi
cago. On the face of unofficial returns
from all but 103 of the 5,882 pre
cincts in the state the senator was
leading Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood by
15,186 votes. . The vote 6tood:
Harding, 125,003; Wood, 109,817.
Three Harding delegates-at-large
apparently are elected. The vote in
all but 572 of the 5,788 precincts of
the state showed:
Galvin (Harding), 114,0; Willis
(Harding), 115,413; Herrick (Hard
ing), 125,596; Turner, (Wood),
101,942.
Government Control
Of Oil Importation
Proposed In France
Paris, April 29. Importations of
oil would be subjected to govern
ment control and oil would be sold
in France at prices fixed by the
cabinet under the terms of a section
of the tax bill being considered in
the Chamber of Deputies. The limit
ed monopoly in oil now held by the
government would be extended until
the first of next year.
Discussion of the proposal has
brought out the grave danger during
the war of facing a shortage of
fuel and lubricating oils and that
Premier Clemenceau had to appeal
directly to President Wilson on two
occasions.
There was sharp criticisms of the
Standard Oil company in connec
tion with profits during the war.
London Now Boasts
Champion Cocktail Mixer
London, April 29. The champion
cocktail mixer is now in London. He
is Clifford Harrison, better known
as "Pop." His repertoire consists of
200 varieties..
"Europe," says Pop, "will learn
that cocktails aren't an abomination
just as spon as the proper kind of
mixers are placed behind the bar."
SONORA TROOPS
CAPTURE 11 MEN
OF FEDERAL ARMY
First Clash Between Rebel
And Carranza Forces Comes
In Mountains Near Chi
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Agua Pricta, .Sonora, April 29.
Carranza troops and revolutionists
had their first clash in the moun
tains dividing the states of .Chihua
hua and Sonora todav. It was an
nounced, at miliary headquarters-
nere that advance detachments of the
two forces clashed near Pulpito
Pass.
The Sonora troops captured 11
Carranzistas, it was stated. One
man on each side was reported
killed.
Pulpito Pass is the opening
through the mountains which it was
expected Carranza troops, being
concentrated on the Chihuahua side,
would use in their efforts to enter
and subdue Sonora. The pass is
about 110 miles southeast of here.
Troops Join Revolution.
General Calles reiterated his
statement that approximately 4,000
troops at Chihuahua City, Parral
and Jiniinez had joined the revolu
tion. Denial was made of the report
from the Mexican consul at El Paso
that the troops under Gen. Miguel
Samaniego had defeated the rebels
in a fight at Nacozari.
Samaniego was said to be living
near the Sonora-Chihuahua boun
dary, but was without troops under
his command, it was said.
Predict Rebels Will Win.
Washington, April 29. Additional
accessions to the revolutionary
movement in Mexico were reported
in advices reaching Washington. Co
incident with receipt of these dis
patches, S. G. Hopkins, Washing
ton attorney and former counsel for
Carranza. testifying before the sen
ate Mexican investigating commit
tee, predicted Success for the Sonora
revolutionists. Agents of the Sonora revolution
ists here said they had been advised
that Gen. Calos Green, governor of
Tabasco, a state on the gulf coasr
had decided definitely to join forces
with the Sonora revolutionists.
Commanders of the cruisers
Salem and Sacramento reported the
arrival of their vessels at Mazatlan,
and Tampico, respectively, where
they were ordered to protect Ameri
can life and property, but made no
report on conditions in the two
ports'.
Mr. Hopkins said the present sec
tional movement was the direct out
growth of the "failure of the Car
ranza government to function in
any way."
Gaby Destys Leaves $50,000
And $300 Pension to Pilcer
London, April 29. A bequest of
$50,000 and a monthly pension of
$300 are left to "My Dear Comrade,
Harry "Pilcer," by Gabv Deslys in
her will, disposing of $350,000 worth
of English property. The document i
was filed for probate here today I
D'ANNUNZIO. PLANS
TO DROP MESSAGE
FROM AIRPLANES
Gives Out Text of Note, to
Be Showered On
Premiers.
Fiiime, April 29. Gabriel D'An
uunzio's foreign office gave to The
Associated Press the text of a mes
sage to be dropped from airplanes
at the next council of premiers.
D'Annunzio planned to shower the
San Remo conference, but did not
start soon enough.
The message reads:
"The league of Fiume, a coalition
of peoples oppressed and wronged
by Anglo-Saxon hegemony, by the
pseudo league of nations and by the
peace conference, has, been consti
tuted. "Gabriele D'Annunzio, defender
of Italy's eastward inarch, is its
chief. He has already the adherence
of Ireland, Egypt, India, Persia,
Afghanistan, the whole of Islam and
the oppressed peoples of the im
perialistic Belgrade government, in
cluding the Croats, Montenegrins,
Albanians, Bulgarians and Mace
donians. These will find at Fiume
the support they lack to organize a
fight against their despots. The
league will combat the government
of Hungary, filled by crimes, which
is the shame of Europe and of Tur
key, coveted by rapacious merchants.
In contrast to the psucdo league of
nations it will cause the rights of
nationalities to prevail.
"The peoples enslaved by the Brit
ish empire and by the United States
must be delivered. The Germans
made subject by hateful govern
ments' thirsty, for revenge must be
restored to their country. The mon
strous edifice built by the interna
tional bank over the bodies of 10,
000,000 dead must be destroyed."
Colonel Hess Now in
, Rhineland on Secret
Mission for Baker
Nw 1'ork Timeg-Chlcaco Tribune Cable.
Copyrlcht, 1920.
Coblenz, April 29. Col. Ralph
Hess has arrived in the Rhineland
from Washington on a secret mis
sion for Secretary of War Baker.
He refused to disclose the nature of
his visit, but it is said he will be in
Coblenz five or six weeks, then will
tour the interior of Germany.
Colonel Hess served during the
war in the quartermasters' corps in
Europe, for 22 months. Demobil
ized in October he returned to his
post as professor of political econ
omics in the University of Wiscon
sin. He was recalled to service by
Secretary Baker and made a reserve
officer for this mission.y
There is a suspicion in the oc
cupied area Colonel Hess is looking
over the situation for a suggestion
to the War department on a future
course of action. He says the ques
tion of withdrawal of troops is not
talked of and is entirely up to the
president, who so far has said noth
ing. He believes America should sit
on the fence on this 'matter. He be
lieves Germany is entirely too
pleased with the position of America
and says he suspects who is profit
ing thereby.
9,000 Legion Posts In
U. S. to Make Drive of
One Week for Members
Indianapolis, April 29 Nine thou
sand posts of the American Legion
in every state and territorial pos
session of the United States will
unite in a drive for new members, to
be held May 17-22, it was announced
at national headquarters of the
legion here today.
Latest returns from posts show
that 1,500,000 ex-service men and
women now belong to the legion.
National officials believe that the
membership campaign will bring in
at least 1,000,000 new members
bringing the total to 2.500,000, or
more than a majority of all who
served.
The legion is now less than 15
months old. It has been estimated
that more than 3,000 persons have
joined the organization every day
since its inception:
Aged Farmer Buried in
Diamond-Shaped Coffin
Springfield, O., April 29. In an
old-fashioned diamond-shaped coffin
of plain wood, with oblique sides
and boards an inch thick, and devoid
of fancy carved wood, or unneces
sary trimmings, the body of Benja
min A. Frantz, aged farmer, was
buried.
This is the first burial of its kind
in this part of the country for 2$
years.
Complying with the request of the
deceased man, a local casket com
pany temporarily halted the entire
machinery of its plant in order to
make the casket. It was manufac
ture out of solid walnut and was
very pla. but neat.
In further compliance with the
wishes of the aged farmer, no auto
moti'cs were used in the funeral
procession. Neither was a hearse
used. The coffin, with its lifeless
tenant, was hauled to the church in
a two-hcrse coveted wagon.
New Zealand Tribesmen
Welcome Prince of Wales
Roturua, New Zealand, April 29.
The picturesque celebration arranged
by the Maori tribesmen, enemies of
the British in the Maori war, in
honor of the prince of Wales on the
shores of Roturua lake today fur
nished one of the striking features
of the prince's tour. A thousand
native warriors, clad only in loin
clothes and armed with spears, per
formed fierce war dances, while
a thousand graceful Maori maidens
in brilliant' costumes did their
langorous dances to the accompani
ment of soft native music.
U. S. SEIZES
SUGAR HELD
IN STORAGE
Stocks of Omaha Grocers, To
taling 168,000 Pounds, Arc
Confiscated in Raids Thurs
day by Federal Agents.
MERCHANTS DENY
HOARDING CHARGES
Protest Innocence of Intention
To Violate Lever Act and De
clare They Tried to Protect
Their Patrons.
The federal government late
yesterday afternoon made the first
definite move against alleged hoard
ing of sugar in Omaha when dep
uties of the marshall's office, ac
companied by agents of the local
department of justice, suddenly"
swept down upon storage houses
and seized a veritable treasure of
the commodity, comprising 168,000
pounds and valued at $33,200.
The wholesale confiscation -of the
sugar, owned entirely, by various
retail dealers in the city, followed
quickly upon a secret and hurried
investigation of the Department of
Justice as the result of disclosures
indicating large quantities of sugar
were being held in storage by vari
ous retailers for supposed specula
tive purposes.
Hoarding Complaints Drawn.
Complaints against the dealers
were drawn by Frank A. Petersen,
assistant United States district at
torney, following a consultation over
the long distance telephone with
United States District Attorney
Allen at Lincoln, and it was indi
cated yesterday that prosecutions
under the' Lever wartime act pro
hibiting hoarding of commodities
for speculative purposes, would ac
company the seizures.
Firms charged with hoarding the
sugar in storage unlawfully and the
amount seized from each follows:
Milder Grocery Co., South Side,
86,000 pounds.
Central Market, Harney street,
25.100 pounds.
R. Kulakofsky, 2404 Ames ave
nue, 9,500 pounds.
J. Rosen, '2789 Davenport street.
10.000 pounds.
' Weinstein & Greenburg. 208 North
Sixteenth street. 10,000 oound.
Samuel Riseman, 2308 Cuming
street, 7,000 pounds.
J. Rosenblatt, 219 North Thirteenth
street, 2,000 pounds.
J. Rosenthall. Eighteenth and Chi
cago streets, 3.500 pounds.
I. Nathan, Seventeenth and Chi
cago streets, 15,000 pounds.
May Put It On Market.
Government officials yesterday in
dicated that the sugar seized through
the sudden action, at the discretion
of the court might be thrown on
the market to relieve the present
widespread shortage.
No wholesale dealers were in
volved in the, action of the govern
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Pilot of Mail Plane
Forced to Land Near
Fort Des Moines, la.
Des Moines, la.. April 29. (Spe
cial Telegram) Pilot C. Ray Bene
dict carrying mail by airplane from
Omaha to Chicago, was forced to
land on a field south of Fort Der
Moines about noon today because ol
engine trouble. A mechanic is on
hisway here from Omaha to repair
the machine and it is expected Bene
dict can resume his trip early Fri
day. The ttiachine left Omaha
about 9 a. m.
William DeWald and C. A. Bene
dict, of the government aerial mail
service, hopped off yesterday in two
DeHaviland airplanes laden with
mail for Chicago and other eastern
points. The trip was to familiarize
the pilots with the route and it is
anticipated that regular aerial mail
service wil be established May 1,
two planes leaving here every day
for the east. Mail for the afternoon
service must be in the postoffyce
not later than 11 a. m.
Palmer Defends Price
Of 18 Cents on Sugar
Washington. April 29. Ac
ceptance of "fair prices" by the De
partment of Justice was defended
today by Attorney General Palmer
before the house judiciary commit
tee which is investigating his agree
ment with Louisiana sugar grower:
that 17 and 18 cents would not be
considered an unfair maximum price
for their product.
Mr. Palmer declared that the ac
ceptance of the "fair" prices waf
"not fixing a price," but the exercis
ing of the lawful discretion in an
nouncing what the government
would regard as a violation of the
law."
Departing Resident Gives
Banquet for Sing Sing Men
Ossining. N. Y., April 29. Seven
teen men who are serving life sen
tences in Sing Sing prison were
guests last night at a dinner in the
residence of Warden Lewis Lawes
given by William Perry, who was
released today after serving i
years of a life term. Perry's sen
tence was recently commuted by
Governor Smith after the prisoner's
politeness while serving in the war
den's home had attracted attention.
The prisoner guests were per
mitted to CroS tb '""I m tV rri.
dence unguarded,
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