The Omaha Daily Bee
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OMAHA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1920.
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THREE CENTS
HAYS PROVES
COX CHARGES
ARE UNTRUE
BELFAST RIOT
GUARD UNITS
Dr. George L. Miller, Civic
Worker and Editor, Dies
Headed for a Fall
FOUR KILLED
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.Iff JEWED AID
READINESS
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OKLAHOMA
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Unionist Quarter Scene of
Serious Disorders Troops
Fire to Clear Streets
Young Woman Wounded.
CURFEW LAW WILL BE
INTRODUCED TUESDAY
, Disturbance More Violent
Than Any Yet Experienced
In City Shiovard EmDloves
i Attacked on Wav to Work.
Ht The AmtnelHlfd I'mi.
liclfast, Aug. 30. Rioting and de
struction of property was renewed
in "this city early this morning, the
unionist tiartrr being the scene of
serious . disorders. Troops rushed
to the center of the disturbance,
opened fire to clear York street, a
young woman, Gtace Orr, being
iTitically wounded and a man in
jured. Shipyard employes, who were un
armed, were on their way to work
at 8:30 o'clock this morning when
they were attacked, it is charged
by the police, by Sinn Feiners and
shooting soon began. The soldiers
checked the trouble.
Unionist Quarter Hit.
At an early hour this morning
other disorders occurred in the
neighborhood of Ewarts row, a un
ionist quarter, wiiich was attacked
by Sinn Feiners yesterday. Shops
were wrecked, and to clear the
ireets the troops opened fire from
j ii armored car.
A partv of shipyard workers, head
ed by a man carrying the Union
Jack, nroceeded up North street and
turned into a nationalist locality.
Shots were fired and the ranks of
the shipyard workers were reduced
by several who ' were rushed to a
hospital.
Woman Among Dead.
There have been 135 fires since
Wednesday, ,
Today's rioting was said by the
nolice to be the worst Belfast has
t seen. Uo to 1 o clock this after-
on it was definitely known that
our deaths had occurred as a result
of the disorders. These included
Grace Orr, a young woman who was
sno't.vhrn troops opened fre to ckai
a st. irt in the unionist Quarter.
Numerous persons with bullet
wounds were admitted to the Rojal
Victor'a and Mater hospitals.
t Many Shops Wrecked.
Ahe fighting between Siin Fcin-
and unionist shipyard workers
tfanv shoos were wrecked in York
'and "North streets. Soldiers got be
tween tii combatants in York street
and kept them apart. There were
numerous baton charges by the po
lice. The military held York street
with armored cars at midday. A
girl in a green blouse headed the
Sinn Fein attack in York street.
Before 2 o'clock the death list was
increased by the shooting of a small
boy by a sniper. A curfew law will
he introduced in Belfast tomorrow
night, extending from 10:30 p. m. to
5 o'clock in the morning.
The four persons killed today
brings the total of two days' riot
ing up to 15 persons, 11 having died
as a result of wounds received in
rioting that broke out early Sat.ur
' day evening. Nine persons were
killed outright during the rioting of
that night while two died later of
injuries. In addition to the death
list, -40 persons were injured.
, 42 Steamship Lines
: Indicted on Charge of
Violating Trust Act
New York. Aug. 30. Forty-two
steamship companies and freight
brokers, including virtually all the
big transatlantic linei. were indi
cated bv the federal grand jury here
today on charges of conspiracy and I
restraint of trade in violation ot tne
Sherman anti-trust law.
An injunction and dissolution suit
.igainst the defendants named in the
indictments as members of the
Steamship Freight Brokers' associa
tion and the Associated Freight Con
ferences was ordered simultaneously.
.The indictment charged and the
petition in the suit alleged that the
defendants, on January 1. 1917, con
spired rnd have continuously violated
the Sherman law by restraining in
terstate trade and foreign commerce
in gr.-'.in. oil, lumber, coal and other
commodities-and manufactured arti
cles produced throughout the United
States and in foreign countries.
Astor's Sons to Sell His
$10,000,090 Office Building i
London,- Aug. 30. Disregarding
the wishes of their father, the late
William Waldorf Astor, Viscount
Waldorf Astor and. his brother, John
Tacob Astor,1- have decided to sell
the wonderful $10,000,000 Astor of
fice. It was built by the father
when he came to London; in the
early nineties, just a plain Ameri
can millionaire. He was later made
a peer. . . . v ' , - '
Commissioner Ure Is Back
From Lakes! of Minnesota
k W. G. Ure, city" commissioner, re
turned home yesterday with his
family, from Minnesota, inhere be
enjoyed bis annual vacation; Mr.
Ure motord both ways and reports
that nothing occurred to mar the
pleasure of the outing.
The commissioner's return assures
the attendance of the city council
Tuesday morning, which will be the
first meeting without an absentee for
two month 1.
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Dr. George L. Miller, "Father of Omaha," and the plant where his
"Omaha Daily Herald" was first published. This plant was located on
the second floor of the building at Thirteenth and Douglas streets, the
first floor of which was occupied by a saloon.
Dr. George L. Miller, 90 years
old, founder of the Omaha Daily
Herald in 1865. died Saturday night
at the home of his niece, Mrs. Nellie
Johnson, 128 North Thirty-fifth
street, following an illness of more
than 10 years.
Funeral services will ' be held
today at 2 o'clock from the home.
Burial will be in Forest Lawn ceme
tery. '
Dr. Miller, born in Booneville,
N. Y., in 1831. came to Omaha in
1854 with his father, Col. Lorin Mil
ler, who was. later mayor of the vil
lage. Dr. Miller was clerk of the first
territorial legislature in 1856 and
was elected a member of the terri
torial council. In 1861, he was ap
pointed by President Lincoln as
sutler at old Fort Kearney, which
position he held for three years dur
ing the Indian uprisings. He Was
acting surgeon with General Harney
in the campaigns against the Sioux
and other Indian tribes. !
, ; Built First Hotel. ,
Dr. Miller came to ' Omaha to
practice medicine, after graduating
in .the east , with honor's following
his revolt from an apprenticeship to
a spinner at York Mills when he
vasJ6 rears-. olL,; He as city
physician In Syracifse N. "Y.; where
he married Miss Elizabeth Dickin
son, who 'accompanied, him to
Omaha.
Medical practice was slack here,
WILSON PUTS 0. K.
ON ANTHRACITE
MINERS' AWARD
Contract Miners Given 20 Per
Cent Increase, While Com
pany Men Receive 17 -Per
Cent.
Washington, Aug. 30. President
Wilson today approved the majority
report of the anthracite coal com
mission increasing the -wages, of
contract miners 20 per cent, over
present rates. '. '
Miners employed, as company men
are given an increase of 17 per cent
and the same amount is given "con
sideration miners" and ".miners''' la
borers and monthly men.
The findings,, the - report said,
would fix a minimum' rate' of 52-2
cents per hour for the lower paid
men in the anthracite industry. -
The president struck out of the re
port a provision fixing the terms of
retroactive payments under ' the
award which, he said, was out
side the commission's jurisdiction.
Thomas Kennedy, chairman of the
miners' scale committee, had pro
tested this feature of the award, he
said.
Anthracite mine workers will re
ceive about $18,000,000 in back pay
under the retroactive feature and
the total increase awarded to the
175,000 miners will average, the com
mission said, "at least $85,000,000"
annually.
The majority report declared that
the award "offers no justification
for any advance in the retail prices
of coal, but on the other hand, is
consistent with a decline in- prices."
The minority report was signed
by Commissioner Ferry.
Federal Troops Guard v
' Mines at Williamsburg
Williamsburg, W. Ya., Aug. 30.
Federal troops today took up their
station in the Mingo strike region,
headquarters having been established
here yesterday by Colonel ' Eurk
hardt, who commanded the troops
from Camp Sherman; Ohio. Prep
arations were at the. same time
made "to withdraw the 'state con
stabulary who have been on duty the
greater part of the time since the
miners struck for recognition of the
union. '
Rock Island Asks Authority
To Issue $2,000,000 Bonds
Washington.' D. G.', Aug." 30. Th
Chicago,. Rock Island and , Pacific
railroad applied to the Interstate
Commerce commission for authority
to issue general mortgage gold bond
to the amount of $1,000,000 and re
funding mortgage gold bonds - tor
and he secured the government con
tract to supply federal troops with
corn.
Dr. Miller, in conjunction with
the late Lyman Richardson, built
the old Herndon hotel, at Ninth and
Farnam streets, the first to be con
structed in Omaha and for many
years Union Pacific headquarters.
' Dr. Miller served as editor of the
Herald,, which he founded in 1865,
for 17 years, with which he wielded
political ' and social influence
throughout the state.
Won Bridge Fight.
: When the location of the east ter
minal of the Union ' Pacific railroad
was uppermost, Dr. Miller took a
leading part in the fight to secure it
for Omaha, working both here and
in New York. With Ezra Millard
and Augustus Kountze in New York,
fighting for relocation of the bridge
over the Missouri to be changed
back from Bellevue to Omaha and
Council Bluffs, Dr. Miller was sum
moned to the .conference and turned
the tide through Vice President Dur
ant of the Union Pacific.
Dr.. Miller worked incessantly for
the election of Tildcn as president
of the United States in ihe cam
paign of 3876 andvould fcave been
secretary of the interior Vii . Tilden
had not been counted out. He was
mentioned for postmaster general
under '..President Cleveland, but pre-
((ontindrd on Pas Two, Column Four.)
AMUNDSEN WILL
USE TRAILS OF
FRITJOFNANSEN
Will Proceed on Theory Used
by Other Explorers in Pack
ing Ship and Floating
' . - .With Ice.
San Francisco, Aug. . 30. Trails
blazed across the Arctic ice pack a
quartet of a century ago by Fritjof
Narisen, Norwegian, explorer, were
expected to be followed, for a dis
tance, by -Nan-sen's fellow country
man, Capt. Roald Amundsen, discov
erer of the South pole, when he left
Nome, Alaska, recently on an at
tempt to drift across or near the
North pole. , -
. 'Nansen, in 1895, -. attempting the
same drift, sailed around Russia and
Siberia and locked his boat, the
Frafn,; in the ice off the New Sibe
rian islands, which lie in the Arttic
north of. Siberia, Amundsen, on leav
ing Nome, said he planned to sail
to the same New Siberian islands,
let his boat, the Maude, freeze in
the ice and then allow the winds
and currents to carry him where
they wished.
Explorers' theories that an Arc
tic ocean current starts near the
New Siberian islands runs through
the Polar sea, across or near the
pole and finally ends at Greenland,
in the Atlantic, were used by both
Nansen and Amundsen as a ' base
upon which they made their plans.
Existence of the current has been
disputed by many Arctic authorities,
who claimed the wind and not the
current determined the route of the
ever-drifting Polar ice. Nansen,
one of the first advocates of the
theory, pointed to the fact that
wreckage from the exploring craft,
the Jeanette, destroyed near the
New Siberian islands, was found
!tvo years after the wreck along the
I Greenland coast. A "throwing
stick" used by Alaskan Eskimos was
found, it has been claimed, in drift
wood on a Greenland beach.' The
wreckage and the stick, it was ar
gued, lodged on an ice floe, Which
carried . them across the Polar
wastes to Greenland.
Nansen .found the drift not as
strong as he expected, mainly be
cause the Polar basin was much
deeper than he had believed. He
also discovered that the wind deter
mined, to a great extent, the route
of the ice drifts. The Fram was car
ried to within 350 miles of the pole
and later cleared the .ice. near
Greenland.
When the drifting L'ram arrived
it the 82d parallel Nansen attempt
ed to reach the Pole over the ice.
With one companion he left the ship
and, in what has been described as
the most daring sled- journey ever
undertaken, proc""1'! to te 86th
Aetrrre 'at ttiat-SCOllI tU. farthpet
north ever r' V , maaJ.IIwre
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Adjutant General Takes Pre
cautions Against Any Race
Riots Growing Out of
Lynching of Negro.
ARMED NEGROES IN AUTO
REPORTED AT ARCADIA
Governor Orders Removal of
Sheriff From Office De
clares Excuses Offered by
Jailors Are "Too Flimsy."
Oklahoma City, Aug. 30. Di
rections that all national guard
units in Oklahoma City be held in
readiness for duty in connection
with possible race trouble growing
out of the lynching of Claude
Chandler, a negro, here last night,
were issued today by Adjutant
General C. F. Barrett.
Six motor cars containing armed
negroes are reported to have left
Edmond, about 15 miles north of
here, and three automobiles also
containing negroes are reported to
have left Arcadia, about 23 miles
northeast of here, for Oklahoma
City, according to messages received
at the office of County Attorney
Cargill here shortly after noon. It
was said at the county attorney's of
fice that Largill was arming lus
deputies.
A telephone message from the city
marshal at Arcadia to authorities
here said that three cars containing
12 negroes had stopped there for a
short time and departed in the di
rection of Oklahoma City. The
marshal said, however, that he was
unable to see any weapons and that
they appeared to be in a friendly
pursuit.
Charging that the sheriffs of Tulsa
and Oklahoma counties, were "in
collusion with the leaders of the
mob or else were wholly unfit by
lack of physical courage to discharge
the duties of their officer," Govern
or Robertson sent a letter today
attorney general's department today
directing that immediate steps be
taken to remove the sheriffs from
office.
Excuses offered by the jailers were
characterized by the governor as
being "too filmsy" and as "stock
excuses."
. "They should, be. trade - .tQ.,&uf fcr
the consequences" the executive
wrote. "They should be summarily
removed from office."
Reds Make Counter
Offensive To Gain
Brest-Litovsk City
London. Aug. 30. Russian soviet
forces engaged in a counter offen
sive against the Poles east of Brest
Litovsk have occupied four villages
in that vicinity. Near Lemberg there
is heavy fighting going on and in
the Vlodava and Grubeshoff regions
there is local fighting. This infor
mation was received here this morn
ing in a wireless dispatch from Mos
cow containing an official statement
issued there yesterday.
Warsaw, Aug. 30. (By The As
sociated Press) While Riga has
lias been agreed upon by the Polish
and Russian soviet governments a
the place for future peace negotia
tions, it was said at the foreign min
istry late last night that no word
had been received from the Letvian
government regarding the Poles' re
quest for permission to hold the con
ference in Riga. .
Gets 30 Days in Jail for ,
Implication in Car Theft
Beatrice, Neb., Aug. 30. (Special)
Kirk, who was arrested at Tecum
seh by City Marshal Lytle Of Wy
more, suspected of being implicated
in the theft of a Ford car, was sen
tenced to 30 days in the county jail,
Saturday, by Judge McCandless.
Russell Walters was given a simi
lar sentence. Thursday, when he
pleaded guilty to the theft of a bat
tery from a car at Wrymore.
The New Constitution
(The Bee continues today its explana
tions of the various amendments to the
state constitution, proposed by the state
constitutional convention and submitted
to a vote of the people at a special elec
tion to be held September II. This eloc
tlon ts in many respects the most Im
portant hetd in Nebraska In a feneration.
An intelligent ballot can be cast only
after a clear understanding, of the various
proposals submitted. There are 41 pro
posals and each is submitted for separate
vote.)
PROPOSITION NO. 13.
Amends Sections 1, 2. 6, 7, 13, 19,
24 and 26 of Article V. Provides
that the legislature may create exec
utive officers in addition to those
now elected, such officers to be ap
pointed by the governor with the
consent of a majority of the state
senators and representatives. Pro
vides that the legislature may as
sign additional duties to elected pub
lic officials, making them heads of
new executive departments. In
creases the term of the state super
intendent of schools from two to
four years. Provides that the gov
ernor must be 30 years of age and
must have resided in the state at
least five years prior to his election.
Amends Section 6 of Article V.
Makes it the duty of the governor
to see that the "affairs of the state
are efficiently and economically ad
ministered." Amends Section 7 of Article V.
Provides that the governor shall
recommend to the. state legislature
a budget of all state expenditures.
Prohibits appropriations in excess
of the governor's recommendation
unless by three-fifths vote of each
LORD MAYOR OF
CORK NEARING
ENDJAPIDLY
MacSwiney Coughing' a "Great
Deal Brothers Will
Stay at Bedside
Until End.
London, Aug. 30. Terence Mac
Swiney, lord mayor of Cork, is not
expected to survive the night. His
brothers have received permission to
remain with him until the end.
Mayor MacSwiney is coughing a
great deal.
The hunger strike of Terence
MacSwiney, lord mayor of Cork, has
progressed so far that even if he
took food now it would do him no
good, according to a statement .by
the Brixton prison doctor to Mac
Swiney's wife, who visited her hus
band this morning. ; It was "the 18th
day of the mayor's hunger strike.
Mrs. MacSwiney remained with
her husband for three hours. She
said he was conscious and recog
nized her, but was unable to speak.
Mrs. MacSwiney was pale and bore
evident signs of the terrible strain.
De Valera Will Return.
New York, Aug. 30. "If Mac
Swiney dies, I will go back to Ire
land to follow his example."
This was the challenge of Eamonn
De Valera, president of the Irish . .
public, in a speech before a huge
mass meeting held in the Lexington
theater to protest against the fate of
Terence MacSwiney, lord mayor of
Cork, dying as a result of his hun
ger strike.
"MacSwiney is facing only a con
tingent death," De Valera said. "If
he dies his death will be like a sol
dier at the hands of the enemy. And
I can tell you that MacSwiney will
die if he docs not get his liberty.
Instead of regarding him as a sui
cide, I venerate such a man. If he
dies, I will go back to Ireland to
follow his example."
Has No Alternative.
"So far I have never yet coun
selled a hunger strike for anyone
but myself," he said. "But the new
British coercion act leaves no alter
native to any Irish soldier if the
jails of Ireland and of Britain, arc
not to be filled with, his tortured
countrymen. A life spent in terms
of this penal servitude in the slave
gangs of Portland and elsewhere in
isolation or in the company of moral
degenerates, the crooks and the out
casts of Britain's society, with home
shattered and deir ones destitute
and broken-hearted that is the al
ternative which is now left to the
hunger striker."
Cabbages Used to Disguise
Trucks Loaded With Booze
Greenwich, Conn., Aug. 30. Cab
bages and garlic were used to camou
flage contraband liquor on. trucks
seized by enforcement officers here.
One truck was festooned on its
sides with bunches of garlic.
Nine men were detained and the
liquors seized are supposed to be
worth about $50,000.
Canton Wall Will Be Razed
For Automobile Speedway
Victoria. . C. Aug. 30. "'The
walls of Canton City are to hi pulled
down to make way for an automo
bile speedway," declared K. C. Li,
one of the industrial princes of
China, departing for the Far East.
"China has 6,000- automobiles and
Ak-Sar-Ben Dates
Carnival Sept. 14 to 25
Horse Races . : Sept. 14 to 17
Kennedy Combined Shows
Sept. 14 to 25
Automobile Races Sept 18
Grand Electrical Parade, Evening
Sept. 22
Tercentenary Daylight
Pageant Sept. 23
Coronation Ball ..y. -Sept. 24
Sarah Bernhardt
In Grave Condition,
Report-From Paris
. By HENRY WALES.
New iork Tlmea-Chlcago Tribune Cable,
Copyright 1920.
Paris. Aug. 30. Sarah Bernhardt's
illness is reported very grave.
Boy Killed by Train
In Bluffs Identified
By Probation Officer
The body of the boy who was
killed by the Rock Island passenger
limited train yesterday morning at
the McPherson- street crossing east
of Council Bluffs was identified by
Probation .Offker R. Herncr as that
of Clyde Ogan. 14 years old, who
has been missing from the detention
home for the last five days.
Young Ogan was the son of
Charles' A. Ogan, boilcrmaker, 3455
Avenue B, and had been living with
his grandparents in Kansas follow
ing the second marriage of his fa
ther until a few years ago, when he
returned to Council Bluffs.
Implicated in a number of petit
thefts and robberies, he had been
sent to the detention home. The bi
cycle on which he was riding when
killed Monday morning had been
stolen for his second attempt to es
cape from the home, police said.
The boy's body had been badly
mangled by the train. It was
thrown under the cars to 75 feet
from the track on the opposite side
from which, he had approached the
train. Coroner Cutler took charge
of the body.
Neff Leads Bailey by Big
Vote in Texas Primaries
Dallas, Tex., Aug. 30. Pat M.
Neff of Waco led J. W. Bailey,
former United States senator froiii
Texas, by 77,383 votes for the demo
cratic gubernatorial nomination, ac
cording to the final telegraphic re
port of the Texas election bureau.
The figures were:
Neff, 244,445; Bailey, 167.062.
The figures represented partial
and complete returns from 226 coun
ties and an estimated 75 per cent of
the total vote.
For the nomination for lieutenant
governor the vote stood:
W. A. Johnson, incumbent, 154,
221: Lynch Davidson of Houston,
177,996, and for associate justice of
the supreme court, William E. Haw
kins, incumbent, 136,935, and Will
iam Pierson of Greenville, 185,674.
Theatrical Man Killed
In Fall From His Window
New York, Aug. 30. Fred Lent,
a theatrical manager, was instantly
killed here today when he fell from
the fourth floor of the hotel where
he made his home. It was said he
lost his balance while using a tele
phone, falling through an open win
dew, i -
As one of the Armstrong broth
ers. Lent was formerLv: a circus per-
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ADMITS MANY
DRY AGENTS ARE
TAKING BRIBES
Prohibition Commissioner
Tells of Plan Adopted to
Prevent Corrupting
Of Officials.
Washington, Aug. 30. Hundreds
of prohibition agents in New York
and other cities have been guilty of
taxing Drmes irom local saloon keep
ers for protection.
This was admitted today at the
office of Prohibition Commissioner
Kramer.
"We have adopted a plan of shift
ing agents trom one zone to an
other with great frequency in New
York and other cities," said one of
ficial. "In this way no agent will
be in a district long enough to form
dangerous affiliations. Also we have
organized a 'special intelligence unit'
under the Treasury department,
whose duty it is to oversee "the work
of Ihe agents, just as inspectors in
the Postofficc department look out
for dishonesty on the part of its
employes.
"If agents sometimes accept bribes
it is worth remembering that the
oest saiary we can pay mem is
$1,500 a year. Our appropriation
lor enforcing prohibition through
out the United States is only $4,500.-
000. The police department of New
York City has an appropriation of
"tunnnnrui
"The only solution is an appro
priation big enough for the job.
"The work of a prohibition agent
is hard, dangerous and poorly
paid. Three of our men have been
killed in the moonshine districts
this year. A few weeks ago an
agent had both hands broken in
making a 'pull' in Philadelphia.
"A few days ago some of our men,
unarmed, stopped a truck loaded
with whisky in the Italian district
of Philadelphia. In a moment they
were surrounded by a threatening
crowd. Some were badly beaten up
before the police arrived.
"Many agents have been beaten
up in New York.
"Since one of our agents. Stewart
McMullen, shot a taxicab driver in
New York last March, we have
given strict orders against gun
play. McMullen is in the Tombs
and his family is being supported by
contributions from his friends on
the force.
"These men are engaged in more
exciting and dangerous work thin
that of the average soldier. The
$1,500 pay is not enough."
Liverpool Newspapers
Tied Up by Printers' Strike
Liverpool, Aug. 30. No morning
papers appeared in Liverpool today
for the first time in 112 years, and
no evening paper for the first time
in 50 year as a consequence of a
sudden strike of newspaper composi
tors . here and in Manchester for
more pay.
The Weather
Forecast.
Fair and cooler Tuesday.
Hourly temperatures:
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Average Contributions' to
G. 0. P, Fund $92,30, Com
ing From Every State ir
Union, Committee (s Told.
REPUBLICANS NOW FACE
DEFICIT OF OVER $28,000
Chairman Tells of Proposed
$10,000,000 Democratig
Fund and Shows Letter Ask
ing for Support of "Wets."
Chicago, III., Aug. 30. (Special
Telegram.) Charges of Candidate
Cox that the republicans are raising
a great campaign fund of $15,000.
000 and raising, funds in wrongful
and corrupt fashion were completely
demolished by National Chairman
Will H. Hays today when in his tes
timony before- the senatorial investi
gating committee, he brought out
the fact that in the period from De
cember 1. 1918. to August 26. 1920
a total of 30,904 people had con
tributed to the republican campaign
fund. Their average contribution!
were $92.30, coming from every statf
in the union.
Adhere to $1,000 Limit
Chairman Hays showed the $l,00t
limit was being adhered to as strictly
as possible, that the total campaign
budget of the national committee fot
the presidential campaign was $3,
079,037.20, instead of the sum allegef
by Cox and branded the Cox charges
one by one as false.
Not content with showing that the
republican campaign fund was being
obtained from many thousands of
small contributors and that it was
not excessive, Chairman Hays took
the offensive and called to the atten
tion of the committee, the plans of
the democratic national committee
to raise a $10,000,000 fund as an
nounced August 24, 1919. by W. D.
Jameson, democratic director of fi
nance. "Wets" Want Co.
He presented an original letter
irom George T. Carroll, president of
the Mew Jersey Federation of Liquo
Interests, calling for help of the or
ganized! liquor trade toward election
of Coxl whom Mr. Carroll calls a
"Pronoiinccl wet" Jif charged that
sent by public expense through gov
ernment literature, and that federal
Officeholders arc being assessed for
money for the Cox campaign. By
these and other revelations. Mr.
Hays has created a situation which
seems to make it almost imperative
for the committee to call Cox to the
stand and examine him under oath.
. Mr. Hays emphasized that the
present national committee had a
budget of approximately $3,000,000
and that $1,000,000 of the total ex
pected to pass through the commit
tee's treasury would be ' allocated
back to the states for strictly state
purposes.
The testimony was in the nature
of a reply to charges made by Gov
ernor Cox, democratic presidential
nominee, that the republican cam
paign fund would total $15,000,000.
Mr. Hays denied this charge and
also said positively that no "big
money interests" had underwritten
the republican expenses.
Doesn't Provide for Raise. v
The republican budget, Senator
Kenyon brought out on cross-examination
of Mr. Hays, did not pro-
vide for increased railroad fares in
the transportation items, nor for the
increased electorate resulting from
suffrage ratification. The commit-
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Man Injured in Auto
Accident Asks That
Girl Driver Be Freed
Failure to observe an automobile
caused Gust Anderson, 2015 Grace
street, to receive slight injuries when
he ran into an automobile driven by.
Nora Condon, 3620 Pacific street, at
Thirteenth and Leavenworth street
at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Anderson was taken to police
headquarters where an examination
showed that he had suffered a dis
location of the right thumb and
minor body bruises. He asked po
lice not to arrest Miss Condon, say
ing that she was not to blame for
the accident.
Miss Condon is a niece of Dr. A.
P. Condon and is a daughter of the
late W. R. Condon, founder of the
Creighton dental college, who lost
his life while swimming at a Cali
fornia beach about two months ago.
Wilson Boards Auto
Viewed by Large Throng
Washington, Aug. 30. For the
first time today President Wilson
boaided his automobile at the rear
of the White House, in full view of
a large crowd. Mrs. Wilson and
Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo. his
daughter, preceded the president into
the car. Usually he and Mrs. Wil
son occupy the rear seats, while
guests occupy the emergency seats.
Today all three "squeezed" into the
regular scat.
Although the crowd was a consid
erable distance away, it was appar-
ent to them that an inclined runway
had been constructed to a level with
tne motor car floor.
Figures Show Decrease in
Fillmore County Population
Washington. D. C Aug 30. (Spe
cial. Telegram.) Fillmore county's
population, announced today by the
census bureau, was 13,671. a de
crease of 1,003 over th 191Q
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