The Omaha Daily Bee
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LABOR CHIEF
FEARS WAR
WITH MEXICO
Samuel Gompersv Declares
Conflict Will Result if Rec
ommendations of Senate
Committee Are Carried Out.
BRANDS REPORT OF
PROBE AS VICIOUS
Says It Demands Unless Con
stitution , of Republic Is
Changed U. S. Send Soldiers
To Police Certain Sections.
Washington, June 3. Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, declared in a
formal statement today that a war
. aHwetn the United States and Mex-
V ico would result if the recommenda
tion of the senate committee which
investigated the Mexican affairs were
carried out.
"The report of the senate subcom
mittee investigating conditions in
Mexico under the chairmanship of
Senator A. B. Fall," Mr. Gompers
said, "amounts to a declaration that
unless the Mexican government re
writes its constitution in accord
with the idea of the American oil
and mining interests, the govern
ment of the United States will 'in
! tervene' in Mexico.
5, ..... "The report of Senator Fall's
i committee demands a number of
- specified changes in the Mexican
, constitution. These changes would
'v.- be the consummation of what has
been long the hopes of the great oil
and mining interests as well as the
land and timber interests which have
'i fomented the bitterness between the
people of the United States and
" ; Mexico. ,
Heart of Report Vicious.
' ' "In some minor particulars, rec-1
ointnendations made by Senator
t Fall's committee may be acceptable,
A but the heart of the report can only
v- ; be described as vicious. The re
. port demands that undess the Mex
ican constitution is altered as recom
j mended, the government of the
' ' United States send a police force,
consisting of the naval and military
forces of our government, into the
republic of Mexico to open and
. maintain open every line of com-
munication between the City of
Mexico and, every seaport and border
port in Mexico. v
"Of course this amounts to polic
tog practically the wholt of 1 the
V- juntry. Those who know Mexico
Zj and the Mexican people understand
I - fnltv that anrh artinn would mean
war between the two countries."
"The report of Senator Fall's
committee, therefore, is a report
which recommends a course leading
direct to war with Mexico. This
has long been desired by American
interests engaged in the exploitation
of the national wealth of Mexico.
Condemned by Working Class.
"Adoption by the senate of this
report w.-wsld constitute the adop
" tion of a foreign policy completely
at variance with the established
(Coatlnae an Pace Two, Column Four.)
Poles Launch Big
Counter Attack on '
Reds South of Kiev
Warsaw, June 3. The Poles have
launched a counter attack south of
Kiev in the Ros river region, where
the reds have concentrated in an
endeavor to drive to the northwest
In order to compel the Poles to
evacuate Kiev.
' The bolshevik forces captured
tome ground, but the official com
munique today announces that they
were thrown back and several vil
" lages recovered. The fighting con
tinues, the bolshevik infantry, aided
by a flotilla, trying to cut the
Polish communications leading to
Kiev along the Dnieper until at
tacked by the Kosciusko . aviators,
who used machine guns and bombs.
One monitor was sunk.
General Pilsudski, in command of
the troops who returned from Kiev
Mav IS. it rain at the front snner-
v vising an offensive designed to
"WMckmate tne ooisneviKi pians to
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Drive a weage Denina iviev.
Man Wanted for Murder of
v Saloonkeeper Arrested
Chicago,, June 3. Gene Geary,
wanted in connection with the slay-
' tng of Harry J. Reckas, former sa
loonkeeper, was captured Thursday
bv detectives, the state's attorney's
office announced. The officers re
ported they found Geary in bed in
a house on the south side and that
he surrendered without attempting
to resist
Geary was taken io the office of
State's Attorney Hoyne to be ques
tioned. .
Reduce Clerical Force
' Of War Department July 1
Washington, June 3.Five thou
sand clerical employes of the War
department will be let out by July
1 because of reductions by congress
iif department appropriations. Since
May 1 about 1,500 men and women
have been dropped from the force,
! which will stand, after July, at
7,000, approximately the number
provided for in current appropria
tions. Sinn Feiners Attack Naval
And Coast Guard Stations
Cork. Ireland. June 3. It is re
ported that Sinn Feiners during the
night attacked one naval station at
Queenstown and five coast guaid
stations, Being successful in all in
stance but one,
Wife Hides in Back
Seat' as Hubby Takes
'Stenographer Riding
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bca LfaMd Wire.
Aurora, III., June 3. In Aurora
there is an automobile adage,
"When a-touring going, look in
the back seat." The incident out
of which the proverb grew came
up in the Kane county court at
Geneva, during the hearing of a
divorce case in which Mr. and
Mrs. Floyd Schmitt of Aurora
were principals.
1 Mrs. Schmitt said that her hus
band, an electrician, went riding
one evening with his bookkeeper,
Miss Nellie Schiple, neglecting to
look in the back seat, where she
had hidden herself under some
rugs. From this vantage point she
said she could hear her husband
and Miss Schiple billing and coo
ing. When the spooing was intensely
ardent, Mrs. Schmitt averred, she
rose up and thrurst a cruel hatpin
into Miss Schiple, who jumped
and shrieked. The alarmed hus
band throttled his car. The girt
leaped out of the machine and
ran. She refused to stop, although
Mr. Schmitt called and promised to
protect her and to take her home.
SENATE ADOPTS
RESOLUTION TO
QUIT SATURDAY
Proposal to Reassemble After
National Conventions Lost by
Vote of 44 to 24.
Washington, June 3. Tht resolu
tion to end the present session of
congress Saturday already approved
by the house was adopted in the
senate today after democratic sena
tors had given assurrances that
President Wilson had no present in
tention of calling an extra session
during the summer.
Republican and democrat lead
ers joined forces in bringing the
resolution to passage, but a score of
.senators, 13 of .them republicans
and seven of them democrat., made
a fight for the reassembling after
the national political convention.
O . the final rollcall the vote was
44 to 2424 democrats and 20 re
publicans voting for the resolution
and 9 democrats and 15 republi
cans voted against it.
Announcement of the president's
position, which had been the cause
of much disquietude during thti
framing of adjournment plans, was
made from the senate floor by
Senator Underwood of Alabama,
administration leader. He said he
had . been authorized by Secretary
Tumulty to say that M.r.; Wilson
would not. call congress back into
session "unless a grave emergency
arises."
farmer Pays $135
As First Installment
On' "Seeing Omaha"
It cost Will Harris of Minne
apolis just $135 to see Omaha last
night.
Harris, who had been working on
a farm, read in the Minneapolis pa
pers that .Omaha was a city known
for its beautiful woman and bright
lights. He told police that hi de
cided to pay the Nebraska metropo
lis a visit.
He had been in town two days.
Abou 10 last night while touring
the east side, Harris said he drift
ed into a resort at Tenth street and
Capitol avenue. He ordered and
paid for a drink. When he came
cut, Harris discovered that he had
been touched. Now he wants the
police to get his money back.
Burning of British Flag
Made Subject of Inquiry
Washington, June 3. The State
Hrnartment todav asked the District
of Columbia commissioners for a
statement of fact as to the burning
of a British flag yesterday in front of
the treasury by women sympatniz
ers with Irish freedom.
The department acted on its own
initiative, officials said, no protest
l aving been made by tht British em
br.ssv. The burning of the flag yesterday
passed almost unnoticed, as the
banner bearers at the treasury build
ing have ceased to excite public
curiosity.
Restaurant Owner Held on
Charge of Keeping Nuisance
New York, June 3. On a charge
of maintaining a public nuisance,
John, Wagner, secretary of the
Reisenweber company, restanra
teurs, was held by Federal Com
missioner Hitchcock in $250 bond
for further hearings. M. O. Ruck
er, a waiter in the restaurant, also
was held in the same amount,
charged with selling whisky in vio
lation of the Volstead act.
Girl Runs Away From Home When Mother
Scolds Her for "Adopting" White Poodle
Pretty Margaret favis, 11 years
old, became angry at her mother
yesterday afternoon. She decided
to leave home and walked all the
way from Bellcvue to 1008 Pacific
street .
The little girl, who is, the daugh
ter of . Mr. and Mrs. Milton Davis,
was told by her mother to go to
the grocery store a few blocks
away. When Margaret returned she
was carrying a little white poodle
dog. ,
She told her mother that she found
it. But Mrs. Davis did not want
the dog unless it rightfully belonged
to her. So she told Margaret to re
turn the dog to the grocery store.
Margaret obeyed. '" .
She left home with tears stream
ing down her rosy cheeks. Hours
'went by without any word from her.
WCOD GAIfJS
IN CONTESTS
AT CHICAGO
Seating of Eight Delegates
From Florida Is Figured as
Adding , Six Votes for the
General andTwoforLowden.
EXPECTED TO PULL BIG
TENNESSEE MAJORITY
Committee Takes Steps to Do
Away With Voluntary "Lily
White" Factions Organized
In Some Southern States.
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
Chicago, June 3. Gen. Wood
gained appreciably in the- contest
proceedings for delegates to the na
tional convention which were de
cided today by the republican na
tional committee in session at the
Coliseum. (
Just before adjournment the com
mittee voted on the tangled Florida
situation, seating -four delegates-at-large
from each fiction with one
half vote each, and seating four
district delegates supported by the
Gerow faction which presumably is
for Wood. The result of this is
figured at six votes for Wood and
two for Lowden.
Oklahoma Contests Decided.
In the Oklahoma contest the
Wood-McGraw contesting delegates
from the Fifth district were seated
after a hot debate. The Hamon
delegates were seated from the
Second district and the Fourth
district contest was referred to sub
committee after some obpections
had been made to this procedure
by Committeeman McGraw and his
friends. The Jake Hamon men will
vote for the oil millionaire on the
first ballot, it is claimed, but after
;hat they are expected to swing
to Lowden.
In the Sixth Tennessee contest
it was announced by Committeeman
Littleton that Harry A. Duck and
J. H. Austin had withdrawn their
claims to seats. J. C. R. McCall of
Nashville, sajd to be a Wood man.
was seated with T. C. Moore of
Nashville, as alternate.
The "regulars" from North Caro
line headed by John M. Morehead
were seated by the committee, mak
ing an addition of 22 votes. These
delegates were instructed originally
for Federal Judge J. C. Pritchard,,a
"favorite son" of North Carolina,
but they are expected to abide by
the decision of the primary vote in
that state called for next Saturday.
Many of the delegates are said to
have Lowden for second choice.
"Regulars' Seated.
Those decisions of the committee
are not made primarily on any basis
of their, standing as to presidential
candidates. This was made plain
during talks in the executive ses
sions. The leanings of the . candi
dates are seldom discussed. It is
only by talking with campaign man
agers and men who have been
working in the south, among dele-
(Contlnued on Pace Two, Column Three.)
Senate Passes Bill
Providing Increase
For Postal Employes
Washington, June 3. After less
an hour's consideration the senate
passed without a record vote the bill
providing increased pay for postal
employes. Similar action was taken
by the house earlier in the day and
the measure now goes to conference.
Amendments adopted by the
senate changed the measure but little
and prompt agreement in conference
is expected.
The bill would affect approximate
ly 300,000 postal employes in the
United States, Porto Rico, Hawaii
and Alaska, and would increase the
postal payroll the first year $34,
375,000. Additional increases for the
succeeding three years would aver
age approximately $3,700,000 an
nually. The bill carries out recom
mendations recently made by the
joint congressional commission, fol
lowing an investigation covering
more than a year into the salaries
received by postoffice employees.
Chicago Mayor Will Sue
New York Tribune for Libel
New York. June 3. Mayor Will
iam Hale Thompson of Chicago
filed summons here in the county
clerk's office preparatory to bring
ing suit against the New York Tri
bune for libel. The suit is the re
sult of a recent Tribune editorial
which the plaintiff asserts reflected
on his Americanism during the war.
The mother, fearing an accident,
notified the police that her daugh
ter had disappeared. ., '
About 6 last night, Mrs. Glenn,
1008 Pacific street, telephoned po
lice and told them of a girl who
walked into her home, ired and
hungry. When officers got there
they discovered who the girl was.
Margaret was taken to headquarters
and turned over to the matron's de
partment "Mamma made me mad and I de
cided to run away," the girl told
the police. I found the dog. And
he was so cute. J juit got so peeved
that I walked all the way. I was
awful tired."
Jess, Margaret's 17-year-old
brother, after being notified of Mar
garet's confinement, went to police
headquarters and took his sister
home, ' x
Second Generation
Much in Evidence at
Chicago Convention
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Be Leaaed Wire.
Chicago, June 3. The second
generation is much in evidence at
this convention. Col. Theodore
Roosevelt is tearing up things for
Gen. Wood. Young Theodore re
sembles his dynamic father in
many respects. He is chockfull
of pep and ginger, has the same
gatling-gun speech and is tireless
and resourceful.
Robert Taft, son of the former
President Taft, arrived Thursday
and began his campaign in behalf
of Herbert Hoover. Young Taft
has been paying particular atten
tion to the Hoover situation in
Ohio. Wood and Harding have
first call on the delegates, but
after that Hoover is sure of all but
one.
Young Hiram Johnson is here
doing what he can for his father.
He wears large horn-rimmed
glasses, is rather slight in figure
and affects a tiny military mous
tache. Pullman Lowden, son of the
governor, who saw overseas serv
ice, is not here, but Florence, the
governor's daughter, is busy in
entertaining visitors.
RESOLUTION TO
REPEAL WAR ACTS
PASSES HOUSE
Approximately 60 Laws Af
fected by Proposal Food
Control Excepted.
Washington, June 3. All war
laws, excepting the Lever food con
trol act and the trading with the
enemy act, would be repealed by a
resolution adopted totlay by the
house, 323 to 3. The only negative
votes were cast by Representatives
Garrett and Sims of Tennessee and
Welling of Utah, all democrats.
Approximately 60 laws, most of
them conferring broad discretionary
authority on the president as long as
the technical state of war continues,
resolution was sent to the .senate,
books by the resolution.
With the house action, the repeal
resolution was sent to the senate
where action on it is expected be
fore the adjournment of congress
Saturday. House democrats predict
ed that President Wilson would ap
prove the measure, Representative
Connally of Texas asserting that the
president was first to suggest the
nullification of the war acts. The
Texas member added that the demo
crats were ready to override a veto,
if necessary.
Sister and Brother' Y
Will Meet Here After
45 Years' Separation
Worcester, Mass., June 3. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Following a search
of 35 years' duration, successful
less than a month ago, Mrs. Mary
Flanigan of Hubbardston road, ac
companied by Mrs. Daniel Ryan of
Gardner, started for Omaha to visit
Mrs. .Flanigan's brother, Thomas
Cronanaw, whom she has not seen
in 45 years.
Following the .finding of her
brother's whereabouts, the brother
and sister immediately made ar
rangements for -an early meeting.
Mrs. Flanigan is prominent in
Worcester circles and featured in
many war activities during the world
war.
Omaha Girl Honored
By Deutsche Vereit
In Wellesley College
" '
Wellesley, Mass., June 3 (Spe
cial Telegram.) Miss Eleanor Car
penter of Omaha was unanimously
elected president of the Deutsche
Vereit, Wellesley college German
club, said to be the only German
society or club in the country
which did not susoend its Dera
tions or meetings during the recent
World war. Miss Carpenter was
the only western girl to be honored
at any language club election.
Distinguished Guests Attend
Wedding of Miss Isabel Law
London, June 3. Miss Isabel Lav,'
daughter of Andrew Bonar Law,
government spokesman in the house
of commons, was married to Maj.
Geh. Sir Frederick Sykes, con
troller general of civil aviation,
today.
Many commoners and disin
guished persons, including Premier
Lloyd George, attended the wedding.
Maj. Gen. Sykes and his wife later
left by airplane for Newcastle.
Farm Bureaus Appropriate
$40,000 for Publicity Work
Chirntrn. Tun 3. A bureau di edu
cation with a budget of $40,000 to
get farmers' problems before the
people of the country was authorized
here by the executive committee 01
the American Farm Bureau federa
tion. v
Referendum of the 900,000 mem
bership of the federation on the
right to strike in labor disputes and
on the repeal of the Adamson law
were authorized today.
Actor Is Sent to Prison
For Cruelty to Daughter
" New York, June 3. John Calen
der, vaudeville actor convicted of
cruel treatment to hia daughter
Minnie, was sentenced to the peni
tentiary for three months to three
years. The girl testified he had on
one occasion "J)randed" her. and on
another had stuck pins into her.
County Judge Haskell expressed re
gret that he could not give Calen
der a more severe sentence.
Two
HITfiHfiflflK 1711 I
m i unbiM mill
BOSS WOOD RACE
AT CONVENTI ON
Former Postmaster General to "
Be in Charge Of General'S
Machine for G. 0. P.
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leaaed Wire.
Chicago, June 3. Frank H. Hitch
cock, former postmaster general, to
day assumed the responsibility: for
i ... jiv. . .1 ' 11, I e .1
nanaung tne woo a iorces in tne nai
tional convention. This procedure
was definitely determined at a gen
eral conference of the Wood men, in
charge of state delegations, held at
the Chicago club. For convention
purposes, Mr. Hitchcock will have
his headquarters in the same rooms
in the Congress hotel from which
he handled the presidential candi
dacies in which he has been inter
ested.
The openly-expressed judgment of
recognized leaders in the Wood
campaign wa that Mr. Hitchcock's
first tactical .victory was the victory
in the national committee in the
Florida contest, whereby George W.
Bean is certain of re-election as na
tional committeeman and Gen. Wood
is to get six of the Florida votes .to
two for Gov. Lowden.
"This is now a showdown be
tween Wood and Lowden and that
is all there is to it," was the com
ment of one of the Wood men, who
sat in the Chicago club conference.
"Take the instance of my own state.
I went out to make a fight for Wood
instructions and got them. It is es
sential to me politically, and to men
in other states who led the Wood
primary campaign, that he be nomi
nated. We have put the case in the
hands of Mr. Hitchcock.' That was
the practical politics of the situation
as it now stands."
Louisiana Solons
Make Move to Ratify
Federal Suffrage
Baton Rouge, La., June 3. By
unanimous vote the senate federal
relations committee today reported
out a resolution providing for ratifi
cation of the federal suffrage
amendment. The house yesterday
adopted a proposed amendment to
the state constitution giving women
the right of suffrage. .
Prosecution of Editor
Ends in Mistrial Order
New York, June 3. Federal Judge
Grubb today granted a motion for a
mistrial in the case of Dr. Edward
A. Rumely and Attorneys S. Walter
Kauffmann and Norvin R. Lind
heim, indicted on charges of con
spiring to conceal the alleged Ger
man ownership during the war of
the New York Evening Mail. By
mutual consent of counsel the case
was adjourned until next Novem
ber. ,
The motion for a mistrial was
granted on the ground that .Samuel
Untermyer, counsel for Kauffmann,
and Lindheim, was unable to pro
ceed because of illness.
Hold Woman in Connection
, With Kidnaping of Child
Norristown, Pa., June 3. Private
detectives arrested Catherine Dun
don of Conshohocken, Pa., in con
nection with the kidnaping of 13-months-old
Blakley Coughlin, who
was taken from his crib at his
parents' home near here early
Wednesday. The woman, who is
about 50 years old. was employed as
cook in the Coughlin home for three
days last April.
The detectives declined to state
what evidence, if any, they have
against the prisoner..
Heads Are Better
RAIL EMPLOYES
WANrr rnNr,prcc Tft
remainon j o b
pTLrr r Jte
unfonTofemployet wUhaaemember-
I?lh3 lilies
of the house of representatives and
oenaior louge,. proicsung against
the proposed adjournment of con
gress and urging that it remain in
session until some definite action
to curb profiteering and reduce the
cost of living ha beeA taken. . '
The telegram declared that not ' a
single remedial measure touching
n these subjects has been passed
by congress and declared that "in
the circustances , it appears to us
incredible that the responsible lead
ers of the government at Washing
ton can assent to this seeming
do-nothing policy which means the
grave economic problems cf the peo
ple are to be made the playthings
of politics and politicians for the
next five months.'
Adjournment of congress at this
time "invites political chaos and
business disaster," the telegram said
in closing.
B. F. Jewell, acting president of
the railway shopmen's department,
also declared that unless the rail
way labor board promptly grants
an increase in wages, employes ,will
seek more lucrative employement
and the entire railroad industry will
be disrupted.
Wood Tells Dry
Chief Prohibition
Was Good for Army
Chicago, June 3. Virgil G. Hin
shaw, chairman of the prohibition
party's national r.nmmittep whn to
day announced his intention of ob
taining irom every republican candi
date ffr the presidency a statement
concerning what rtand the party
should take on prohibition, tonight
said that hp h-iH r1,..-ccrl u
. " ' ' - ULkHiiavil HIC 3ULI-
ject with Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood.
. ttf 1..
uen. wood told me that prohi
bition had Hone mn (r,r Yim
than any other one thing, but seemed
u ciinea 10 leave tne matter to the
platform committee," said Mr. Hin
shaw. "I expect to hear from Sen
ators Johnson, Harding, Gov. Low
den and Mr. Hoover later. '
Mr. Hinshaw said he desired from
each candidate a statement as to his
interpretations of the Volstead act
as well as his opinion on what ac
tion the republican party should
take.
Senator Capper to Abandon
Plan to Finance Cattle Men
Washington June 3.-Senator
Capper, republican, of Kansas, an
nounced that, owing to opposition of
Secretary Houston, he would make
no further effort to call up his reso
lution dirertinor th i-rim. c n..
treasury to deposit $40,000,000 with
lcucrai reserve Danks tor the pur-
DOSe Of redisconntinir Inane mi1, nn
western cattle and other' live stock.
senator Lapper said that the secre
tary in a letter held the measure
would establish a dangerous prece
dent and, if enacted, would upset the
whole financial program of the gov
ernment, i
The Weather
Forecast
Nebraska Probably showers Fri
day; Saturday partly cloudy; not
much change in temperature.
Iowa Cloudy and somewhat un
settled Friday and Saurday, not
much change in temperature.
Hourly Temperatures.
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LESS SPEED AND
MORE SAFETY IS
NEW FIRE ORDER
Probe Into Fatal Collision
Results in Regulations to
Protect Lives of De
partment Members.
Findings of the investigation into
the cause of the collision of an
aerial fire truck and a hose cart in
which one . fireman was killed last
Saturday night at Fourteenth and.
Licuglas srteets, held last night in
the office of Charles A. Salter, chief
of the fire department, resulted in
the following orders relative to im
provement of the policy of the fire
department:
Speeding of fire trucks should be
lessened.
Trucks should slow up at down
town street intersections.
Fire captains are given full re
sponsibility of speed and care of
trucks en route to fires.
Trucks from the same barns
should follow one another to fires
when possible, instead of taking di
verse routes.
Fire Commissioner Harry Zim
man conducted the investigation.
Chief Salter and Assistant Chiefs
George G. Crager and M. J. Dineen
sat on the examining board.
Details of the accident were
heard from Michael Quinian and
Theodore Shutt, captain :.nd driver,
respectively, on the aerial truck, and
Frank Borowiak and Charles Hyatt,
captain and driver, respectively, of
hose truck No. 1.
Incidental to the findings of the
investigation, the examining board
heard complaints of the firemen con
cerning the general public.
"Pedestrians and chiefly autoists
do not give the fire trucks the right-of-way
en route to fires," Assistant
Chief Crager stated.
The condition of Michael Mc
Gowan, 3822 : North Twenty-third
street, who is still in St. Joseph's
hospital suffering from internal in
juries, is improved, hospital authori
ties reported.
Fireman Kinkaid, injured slightly
in the accident, was able to resume
his duties yesterday.
Gas Men to Urge Plank in
Republican Platform
New York, June 3. Inclusion of
a plank in the republican platform
endorsing measures , to relieve the
serious crisis which, it is claimed,
exists in the gas manufacturing
business will be urged at the re
publican national convention by
representatives of the industry, it
was announced. at the headquarters
of the American Gas association.
The form of relief was not defined
by the association.
Public utilities corporations, they
said, are confronted with serious
situation resulting from the short
age of essential materials and in
creases in labor and material costs.
Hungarian Monarchists ,
Plotting Against Austria
Vienna, June 3. The Austrian
government has asked Hungary for
an immediate explanation of a mon
archist nlnt whirh tiaa hfn rliertr.
ered in development on the Hun-
f a .
ganan siae oi tne eastern frontier.
It is recardrd si fVia mnc !',
plot yet uncovered. The reply of
ine Hungarian government is await
ed with anxiety, as it is belfeved the
olot threatens neaeefnl relation, he.
tween the two countries.
Senate Confirms Dahlman
As Marshal for Nebraska
Washington. June 3. (Special
Telegram.) James C. Dahlman,
nominated by the president to be
United States marshal for the dis
trict of Nebraska, was confirmed
by the senate today.
JOHNSON TO
FIGHT LEAGUE
OF NATIONS
California Senator Reaches.
Chicago With Blood in His
Eye for All Pussyfooters on
The Covenant Issue.
BREATHES DEFIANCE
TO ENEMIES OF PEOPLE
Declares He Will Appear on
Floor 'of Convention if Any
Tendency to Dodge Issue Is
Manifested by Delegates.
j
By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING.
Phlcano Tribune-Omaha Bee Lraaed Wlr.
Chicago, June 3. Breathing de-
fiance to all and sundry pussyfoot
ers on the league of nations and to
all enemies of the plain people, Hi
ram Johnson today reached this
scene of the free-for-all fight over
the republican nomination for presi
dent. An outpouring of the populace,
which cheered him wildly from tin
railway station to the Auditorium
hotel and enthusiastically applaud
ed his remarks from the hotel bal
cony, only added to the conviction
of the California senator that he i--the
choice of the people, an! he u
here to see the people get a sauart
deal in the Coliseum next week.
After Pussyfooters.,
Johnson, who was accompanied
by his campaign manager, Angu1
McSween; R. B. Strassburger, his
original and principal financial
backer, and A. C. Joy of San Fran
cisco, is going to meet the dele
gates face to face to shew them
what sort of man he is; is going to
talk to the public next Monday
night and is going right on to tin
floor of the convention, if neces
sary, to oppose the adoption of any
platform planks he disapproves.
With his eyes a gleam with tlv
fire of battle, the senator receivei
me in his apartment and gave,frei
and full answer to my inquiry as tc
the reasons impelling him to ?tten
the convention.
"First and foremost," said M
Johnson, "I am here to prevent, i
possible, any pussyfooting i.n th
platform with particular "efererc
to the plank on the peace treat'
with its league of nations ovenani
T a a ! , . . ' . .L. 1 .
i wan i io sec wrmcn into inc piai
form a clear-cut declaration th.y ,
the republican ' party condemn .
the present league of nations,' for 1
am convinced that it is overwhelm
ingly condemned by the republic
an party and the entire American
people.
Wants Plain Declaration.
"I want a declaration tha require
neither explanation nor reservation
I want the league question settler
ns the majority unquestionably i
determined that it shall be settled
l shall insist that the conventio
take a manly and courageous stanil
Let there be no quibbling on reser
vations supposed to preserve th -United
States from the perilous an1'
(Continued on Pago Two, Column Two.)
Quarrel Over $2.50
Ends in Slaying of
Farmer Near Carsor.
Following a disagreement over th
payment of $2.50, representing ?
month's board bill for a mare be
longing to George Mikesell, 30 years
old, farmer living near Carsor
Mikesell was shot three times an''
mortally wounded lat Wednesda
afternoon. He was taken to Merc
hospital in Council Bluffs, where
he died at 9:30 last night.
Jim Harbour. 50 years old, farme
l'ving near Treynor, is in jail a
Council Bluffs, charged with tin
killing.
The- shooting culminated a 'serie
of disagreements between Mikesr'
and Harbour, dating back to la
Fanuary when Harbour's wife ob
lained a divorce and five days later
married Mikesell,
Mikesell was an ex-convict am'
for a number of years was knowi
to police as a notorious gunman of
Pottawatamie county.
Wife of Man Sentenced to
Death Draws 20-Year Terrr.
Rochester, N.Y., June 3. A su
preme Court itirv tnniffVit rtrn.l ..
verdict of murder in the second de
gree against Pearl Beaver O'Deli.
charged with assisting her husband
J. L. O'Deli, who is awaiting exe
cution at Sing Sing prison for the
murner ot toward J. Kneip, on the
night of January 6, last. Justice
R. H. Thomnson spnieorrA Vi, r.
20 years' imprisonment at hard la-
or in tne Aunurn prison.
Georgia Senator Would ,
Reduce President's Salary
Washington. Tunc 3A KJII nm.
viding for reduction of the salary
oi me president ot tne United State
from $75,000 to $50,000 a year was
introduced by Senator Smith, demo
crat, of Georgia. Senator Smith also
introduced a resolution proposing
an amendment tn th
which would limit the president to
one term ot six years. ?
Ralston Paint Factory
Burns; Loss Is $5O,0OC
Loss estimated at $50nnn
curred by the Nelson-Evans- Paiifr""
company wnen tneir tactory at Ral
ston was completely destroyed by
fire late vesterdav aftmnnn t.
plosion of fumes from heated var-
nisn was tne cause. Officials of the ,
company announced that the plant
would be rebuilt, -
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