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A. ,' v ,' . . v ,'- , 5 "I V i VOl 60 NO. 138. - K .' " teiM Mim Mil- i. im.'n w. Oqali p. -0. ' UMat AM f Much J. IWi. OMAHA,. THURSDAY; NOVEMBER 25, ' 1920. By Mall II war), OutllO m tM uu4iij.o.ii,unM,; o.iiW !, M ' y , ' " THREE CENTS I : '-' II "l A 7TTTT . Tt T )MPT-ntT- Viail - - a Traiii A bus-beets rralffiied Not Guilty PJ eag Entered by! 5 Attorneys oi : ..Behalf of Seci' Menaiul Women .Under Arrest. otalof Bofids$130T000 Not guilty was the plea cincred y Attorney J. J. Hcts.'represeiitjng ic seven men and n wfimaii lifld 'V federal Wuihoritles ii coiincctjon1 villi lh? .robbury of the Burlingtoti iiail lram in Council Bluffs Novcm cr 3 at the formal arraignment o he octet in'i the -lUuffs vesterdav jfore I'uitcd States Commissioner.! v . A.-JJycrs. ; 'All eight of tUc-vprisoncrf waived preliminary heariua and , tvtr or - Wit d held, under heavy bond jto;theJ ederal grand, jury. .Mrle and Orvillc Phillips and Fred E. .PofTeohargefr arc charged ith roWi(3thc United States maiis. llr. and T. A. Daly; HugfS A. Beed. Clyde R. Poffenbarger aid Trecl' A.. Poffenbarger are charged with concealing money they ' knew was Stoldll from the. Unitrd States . gowrnmjni;--''- - .' jW . .t The ibends fixed !by the United States cohimisiner Tollow.i Fred E. Poffaibafjrer. $35,000. ' 1 OrtiH Phillips, $.5.Q00. " . . MerJe Phillips. $20,W0. ' .Mr. and Mrs Daly Reed an'd the thcr-tvoXpQffenbar7crs.;. $10,000 lw bonds rotal $1,50,000. No' ef irt wa 4iiadc to secure, bond.tne. Commfssioner'i.Bvers-- stated these - bonds might pe rediiAd; if all'th: tolen monev should .be,:., recovered, intimating jfie, heavy ionut named were to forestall any posuMe effort to use portions of the stok-u money fo. secure 'the release of the prison ers. : r, , : caiica ureatest KODDery, United- States " District , Attorney K. G. ifoourpounc;d the robbery "the 1 largest attack - against the United States mail iu the hjstory of I he country",'' but ma 'Jo no estimate "or the loot stolen. , .; . 'J Deputy, United .States Mabhal i: h'red Shoemaker and Internal Reve? mie Agent. Summer Knos were tht only witni-sseji vho!;tcstified irt Jie 1 half of the government at, the as ra:gnmenti .'tt ':, .-jt i.v. , Considerable ttm' was consumed - (luring the nrraignmAt by Shoc- t iTara t Pin Tw, Column- Tw.) 1 'V.,; r- r v-',.;v: 1 111 VI 1 f niPliiPfi tfl ' .,t , 1."H l- " " 11 ii ' I ;"mL-'Vti .k. 1 Thirty-f wo .Persons, Includ f ing Six Policemen. Indicted , " Under Volstead 'Act. ; ' " "i., I. T' Vi.'" ' ',' Chicago, Nov. 24.-r-Th.(.ldng ex--jeeted federal drive- to make Chi cago dry opened with United, States, state and city authorities 'co-eper-;iting for "the first time "since prohi bition became law. .; - . Thirty-one jpcrsons, including six policemen, 22 saloonkeepers, a-.tail-road official and two officers- f a :. Louisville distifleryr were named in 1 indictments charging', violation of the Volstead act returned . before Judge Kenesaw M. Lahdis by a fed eral grand jury. , , r " Simultaneously Judge Landis is sued tihjunctigins closwg eight sa loons and cafes, some ,o,thnt oper ated by the saloonkeepers Mnd'eted. Attorney General bdivard J. Lrun- iiieti to thcudge for injunctions xlosinii 7,2 m6ti sa- loons as public1 nuisances and th4 defendants were ordered. to appearf heiore Judge La,nd later m, the tlav. . ; - ' " " . t a hose indicted by tl)C grand 'jury are all involved iu the? alleged Sale pf 1,000 cases , of whisky shipped here from the Grand; Dad distillery at Louisville on a forged govern ment permit. - "Mike De Pike" Heit ler, proprietor of a not rious, re soft, who heads the. .list, is iunder cst on f omplaint of salopnkeep Tit who claim that, i after selling : ht whisky :t them tor f i200,000, Heitlr conspired with, Chicago po licemen to steal ,it back. ' s " nirgeon General of Nai y: , To Go on Retired List Friday - Washiiwton: iCov. '24 Rear Ad- v rtiral V. .. Braisted, surgeon-gen-. al of the navy sjnee 1914, will, go .1 . tne rettrea usi rriuay, occrc- ' t-ry Daniels announced,to be ac , cded by Rear Admiral Edward ' . . Stitt. :- . . " ' -'- - Dr. Stht is . considered.; Mr.fcDanv ts said, an yjthority 1 on -tropical . , scases and frit of the ablest rcem-. " rs of the navy msdical coTps." He ,now head of the naval medical '100I here and was called into "ton 'tation -early in the 5 illness of rsident Wilson. " '-" '" Admiral Braisted, the secretary ' "d, had ."gained distinction - for . mself and the navy by his" able . J efficient Service in peace and in -.r." , " ,s ' ague Sends to Wilson v Message About' Armenia New York, Nov. 24. The assem ' y of the league of nations, tneet- : g m Geneva, has sent a .communi- ;tion regarding American co-oper- . . . : n... : nt Wilson, according to , a cablp lessage received at the Near. East ! . The message from W'alter i . 'Smith of Philadlpl5a, on ' of ' the Xmerican delesate to "the,- Inter- :: iaiional Phil-Armefltan coerence. vvhich also has' beea a; session n 'he Swiss city. He satd the com munication -to the president was decided upon at yesterday's uieetihg i f th vssemblt ;-... r, . F t - -w- & p.. -. .-. . " Oh. , - Alleged. Bandit Leader , Hel4 oh $35,000 Bond 3' f h if r 4 'I I 1 . Fred K Poffenbarger, " Fred' E. Poffenbarger is uspccted of being the leader or the .bandit gang that held up Burlington train November ,13. it was intimated at the, Arraignment of tin;, prisoners before United. 'State's ConVmfXsioner Byers yeileriiJty, .when bonds for his re lease ttMj, fixed at $35,000. This is the highest bond fixed if or. any of the eight prisoners. 1N -f Tt . G.O.P.Leeriav l Iri Next Session Representative JMondeil Con fined to Bed After Fall; In-'" juredXeg May Have to " "Be .Rebroken. By; E. C. SNYDER. . Wntlilnston Correnpondent Ooialm Be. .Washington, Nov. 24. (Special Telegram.) Fears - that- 1 House Leader Mondcll will not be able to take, d'-arge of the' republican pro raiuvwhen 'congress meets on :De- kcemben 6 Were expressed by some 01 , me 'prominent repuoucan mem bers today.' j - . ,:.: ; Mr, Mondcll.- Who has . been about on crutches suffering from a broken leg, fell down the steps of-his house, 2110 O street Northwest, last night, and is back in bed under a specialist's- care. His crutch broke as be was descending the steps' and he fell heavih',:; Hftyy serious -are the in juries has not been determined, I . This has been a hard year for Mr, Mondell. His strenuous w6rk in "congress forced htm to go to his home to recuperate before the cam paign. There he fell from 'a hay mow, suffering two fractured ribs. Then he had a belated attack of "in fluenza," followed by laryngitis, and was unable tr speak for two or three weeks just at ..the time that he ,was expecting ;to take an active Jart in the campaign. ' , V While on an inspection trip at Shoshone, dam, on October 19, he stepped-6it a boulder, which, rolled over, and Mr. Mondell's leg was broken., The frrgeon who attended him said that the small bone of the leg was broken and the pait he suf fered was due to torn ligaments.- Mr, Mondell returned to Wash ington last, Friday and had the cast removed . from his leg,, though,-still using crntches and unable to- put any weight on thej.fractured - limb. Saturday in "his '(office at the capuol the leg omfncn;ed'to pain intensely and hecalled in a bone specialist. An X-ray picture, was taken and dis closed that the large bone of the leg had suffered a ' compotnd piral fiatute and the bone was knitting together, on an angle, so thatut .will probably have to be. ixbrok Mondell suffered intense en. - Mr. Mondell ' suffered intense pain aM night, and .the. specialist was called r.gain today. - s . - Attempt to Obtain: ; J A Release of Alleged v Bandits Is Withdrawn Attempts to "get "John J. Bolimer and ' Consuelo Bohmer ,"out .of ; jail yesterday on Writs of habeas corpus were dropped' when" complaints were' isued, ag.u'nst them by .the author-jties.- . 1 v --;, They are two, of seven persons ar rested Monday night on suspicion of being a gang of bank and post office" robbers. They Were held, for investigation. ?,. ;i ; - c. . Wrhen a'; writ of ' habeas corpus was-frksucd yesterday mominj? for the'' two ' Bohniets, District Judge Troup set 3 o'clock for hearing the argument . and. evidence. Chief 'oi Police Eberstein filed an answer. At 3 o'clock the attorney for the Bohmers, Harry t Icjiarty. ; notttieo the court that he would dismiss tke I.IUU3 wipua avuuii...... Jhe Jhree women -wfcre reles by Deteiive Chief Van,' Duesen $l.OO0?boads each. 1 -, released on Mvs. Dcssie Ryan,- wife of one of the men, is reported to be m ta critical" condition. - She had two op erations before "comitisr to Omaha. she told police, v She nas Been rc-;4 moved to a hospital... " r Butter Lower in Chicago. -Chifltg'o, Nov. 24. Butt,er dropped from 1 to 3 cents a pound on the lo cial market as a result, trade lead ers said, of an oversupply, includ ing large Argentina-stocks.: Cream ery extras were qaotedat --"S3 l-2c, a drop "of 3 cents. ; "' Thanksgiving Paper i The Evening Bee will . publish the regular Home Edition ' as usual Thanksfiving Day, but be cause of the holiday 'the . early noon and final night street edi tions will bt Suspended. v ! Rielinquisli Wltip Maii Kills Fa mil V .. ' W.ri With m Pender Frn1ier Crushes Heads Of Wife :i and Tllree Ghil- dren After Slaying Goose . For Thanksgiving. i . ; - Hangs Self From ; Rafter Peder. Neb., Nov. 24.-(SpeCial.) After killing a goose for Thanks giving dinner, George II. Dinklage, 32, a farmer jiving eight miles west of this city, in Wayne county, ud jtbe a.e to Kill his wife and three children. A fourth child," a baby 1 year old, is in a hospital her1 "suf fering from, a ' blow from the axe. Kii ntivcin'niiQ tiave 1-innec ' frr it its recovery. ' y Dinklage at the nodti liour spent Considerable f time consulting his books and , according to . his hired girl. Miss Ionjes, appeared de pressed over the low prices of farm I proau(M3 una continually reierrea to the fact 'that he would lose consid erable money this year. 1 " " Wife's Head Caved In.' He went to the home of a neigh bor where he purchased a sroose Twhich was taken to a henhouse foij I 1 U 1 .. . II" t..!f .. .1 aiiUKULC, ma wuc aiiu cuiiurcu ac companied him 'when,, he" went to kill the goose forvThanksgiving din ner. " ; -: ' After killing the goose he appar ently turned on his wife as her dead body with "head caved i n.from blows from the ax was found in the build ing.' Ella, 3, his daughter, was'also found dead beside her mother..- ' Glenn, 4, apparently r-n iom, the scene. His1 body was foun'd., the granary, where he had beeii hung from a rafter with a rope tied around. i: 1- 1 1 LJ J , TT ins iicck ana nis neaa cavea m. ne was alive when found, but died in a hospital here before regaining con sciousness.')' -' , , Kills Baby in Bed. Dinklage then went to the house. where his daughter, Edna, 2, and the V.-1 T-J-- 1 'II.J uauy- were in oe, carta was KUiea by. a bio y from the axe and the baby seriously. hurt. '-, He then went fo the granaryj here he mounted a rafter, tied a .rope around his neck, cut his throat with a rasor and jumped oft. He was dead when found. II ' . Miss Tonjcs was upstairs in' the house writing, and , discovered the crime when she came down - stairs and found little Edna dead in bed and her baby sister hurt. - She ran out to the chicken hrtuse crying for help and found Mrs. Pinklage. o She then ran cut flo t, field, where two of Mrs. Dinklage's brothers" were working and notified them of the crime and fcU in a faint. She: has been prostrated since that time. Janitors' Demand :; For 50 Per Cent Raise v In Wages Refused CrJcago, Nov. 24. Janitors, many, of whom, are not citizens of the United States and can barely speak its language, are demanding an in crease in , wages, averaging 50 , per cent. It 'has been shown that some of them, are makiiif:;$5,000 . a year and ride to and from their work in costly automobiles. , . A committee of the, real' estate board today refused the demand and put the ease up to the Chicago Ten 'ants' association, which has a mem bership' of 20,000. Without excep tion, .the tenants are against any further increases to the janitors and today said they woujd shovel their own coal and clean their own apart ments rather 'than submit to any further gouging. If the demands of the janitors are- granted the addi tional expense would -be ' passed along to the tenants. It was shown that in several flat buildings, the janitors are. making $600 a month, aside from the numerous bribe the tenants are forced to pay him to get any work done. The proposed advance would bring the straight salaries of these janitors unto4j!l,000 a month. ' .v. ' . v . . :' "yj Nebraska City Man Fined ' After Arrest in Hotel Nebraska City,. . Nettf ov. 24. (Special.) ern.' Pugh . pleaded guilty here to immoral conduct and was fined ,$00. . Pugh and a Miss Alexander , were arrested at a local hotel where they, had registered as husbandand wife. Word was--i re ceived that they had been married later at Aubarn. There was no pros ecution of the girl..'. - -. 1 y ''V . x : South Side Stock Market ' ' Closed for Thanksgiving ' Announcement is made j that' the barber shops of the South Side will be closed all day Thursday and in accordance with the , usual custom, the liye stockuniarket will be closed also. Thanksgiving day. All stock received will be yarded and' cared for, but the scales will be closed and no business wil ,lbc transacted. . i Contest Thayer County . , 1 v. Commissioner Election Hebron, Neb., Nov. 24. (Special.) A. L. Scott, who wasv defeated in the race for county commis'sionit for the Second district, has filed a pe tition contesting the election, alleg 'nof (M-rr.r in thr count, of the hal- lots. W. A. Birkholz was declared lected, according; t the count- a,t election :imc, oy 10 votes... '., - ;- Thanksgiving in Geneva. Geneva." Neb.. Nov. 24. (Special. Union Thanksgiving services will be held at the Christian rchurcH here. The sermon, will be preached by Rev. JameS .A. McKeemau,' of the Congregational church. The final foot .ball game of the season will be olaved ierc in the afternoon by Geneva and Chester High school team Sheyboygan Citizens Overt Council bj g War Relic v'- ; , ,NoV.V 24. ,?- v...,-i1ip musir of "There'll ' K.iiot Time in the Old" Town citizens drew the captured German siege gun from th tool house where it was consigned by the ma jority vote of.tka.ntntf socialist al dermen of the xommon council and placed it in' the municipal park here last nignt. , - i The socialist" afdermer! 4 were i forced to watch thj procession as it ! passed the city hall, where they were in session, while the minority alder men who had voted against the ban ishment of the relic sent up heer after cheer. . , . Headed by former service men carrying a casket labelled "the nine votes,", the-un," drawn by a rope pulled by more than J.000 persons, followed the baitd. I ' r T Farmers Vote Against Plan to .-;,: .. c Declare Strike t- - ' ,' Curtailment, of Production Is Opposed by-Nehraska Dele- ; gation to. union conven r. tion in Kansas 'City. J . i y f f The Nebraska delegation ' to the National Farmers' r Union conven tion in Kansas City' last week voted unanimously against , the proposed farmers' strike, according .to C. .'H. Gustafson, president of the Nebra ka Farmers union' and head of the delegation, '.'. i V.,f : ' ' "We want the public- of h state to know," said Mr. Gustafson, "that the Nebraska farmers are against any curtailment" of production. ''This mwupe" calling for a cur tailment of production in an at attempt to control ' prices, passed the national Convention, it is tfue. but the Nebraska delegation voted solidly against it, . "We want-the 'general public set right as to the attitude taken by thj iarmer3 ot tneir fwn state. J The delegation was composed; of C. J. Osborne : of i Sidney. Ben L. Peters of Albipn. H. G. Keeney of Cowles, A. K,- Frost of Plainview, John Have.costl of Hoopef, and O.'E. Wood of Bethany, besides Mr. Gus tafson. . . . !. Mr. Gustafson was recently made chairman of the . national marketing committee of the-N4tionaV Farmers' union at a meeting hi Chicago.,, He is. actively identified . with every, farmers' organization in the state with one exception. ''.'. :' , fA ; ThanksjdvinV Gift Warms tiny- Feet h 1 1 t v .... ' Autumnal 1 Offering Xo Bee Shoe Fund Aids' Shivering Litth; Children. i"V" Your thoughtfujness ' and a little part of your plenty will lessen the misery of the little, children' of Omaha's very poor. " - This is THANKSGIVING time. Show thanks for thjc ' bounties which you enjoy by giving a little of your abundance; ' Little ' children in fatherless, poverty-stricken homes, with over burdened mothers, suttermg untcna hardships, are waiting for the gnt which you may tnake to thigjfund, which will mean warm' shoes for their feet through the winter. Will you give a' thought to these little, shivering, helpless 4ots? If so just send or bring a contri bution to The Bee office,'' It will soon be converted into shoes for needy, worthy little feet. ; " Previously reported ...S224.0J TV K. H2 Blanche Hood,, wmioo. rco A t.over of ' Cliiltlren. St. Ful, Nob v A Worl;lnr Girl -)-' 00 00 Three-iii-One 15.00 l.OO 2.00 A Friend i.. Hrs. It. 8. W ,....:4.00 Total. Tilden Farmer Gets , t Price for Hogs Leo Rutjen of Tilden, Neb., ' had the distinction Tuesday of receiving the highest priqepaid anywhere, in i the United states tnat aay tor . a loadof hogs at the Omaha market. Mr. Rutjen received $10.50 a hun dred pounds ttr his hogs, which was 25 cents" higher than the, top price at Chicago, 30 cent higher than at Kansas. City. 40 cents highef than at St. Joseph , and 25 ' cents higher than at Sioux City. ' ' Hogs went down to aS low at 9.25 a hundred Wednesday, with;the top price, $9.80.1 yVbdut 10,000 "hogs were mkrketed at the local iyards,' w-hich with receipts for Monday and Tues day, totaled 33,372 head as against 20C238 the same period Jast -Week and 31,337 for tfie same period last year. ' V ' . V-"v ". - Geneva Pilgrim Pageant Witnessed by. Large Crowd Geneva, Neb.;" Nov. 24. (Special.) The crowd which turncd out to the program celebrating th tercen tionary . of the landing of the Pil r,ims at Plymouth could not all gain admission to the Auditorium and many failed to , witness h pageant ore hear the address by Charles H. Sloan, -.The pageant was entitled, "The Pilgrams" and was presented by 100 pupils of the public sen Wthhil Chicken Thief r Mu6t' Serve 30 Days in Jail Nebraska City, Neb., Nov.. 24. (Special.) Herman Rausch. , youth ful chicken thief, appeared before I Judge Begley in the district court IVL j 1 J.J . . ,- . L t. ana pieaaea guuiy 10 stealing cnicn- ens the property 01 t". U Miller arid was sentenced to 30 days in the jfounty jail, : ' y ' . I .1 ' ' " i 1 ' I : t I II I II -a Mftre Blessed W0ye Tharito:RWe . " ...,. .1 - .'- , ... . , . . , - y ; ,, .. . fl'MHMHMspnsaHMnMMM "' r":V ' ' ' VV ' 'A: - siiU News Item America to aid Kiddies announced .by Hoover. Will Criminal Case Is Completed in Negro. Convicted of Robbery Charge in District Court in vpne Hour and 28 Minutes ; 1 Escaped Daringiot. 1 , . , 1 '", A record of one hour and 28 min utes "for "impaneling a iury, titking evidence of 15 . witnesses, making arguments, giving charges to the jpry and getting a -verdict was made in JJistnct .Judge X roup s jcourt yes terday: afternoon at, the trtal ot Joe Green, slias Willie Johnson, negro. charged with robbery of William Bates, 16 South Ninth street, the night of September 19, 1919. v Green was arrested soon after the robbery. and was one of the prison ers' who escaped from the county jail the night of the riot and fire, Sep tember 28, 1919. He was re-arrested here t month ago. When re-arrested he denied his identity, declar ing he was a' different person. When his finger prints were 'ta(ken they 3hoWed unequivocally that he is the same map Deputy County ' Attorney -Kubat prosecuted the : case. "-! Bailiff Joe Marrow jwhose experiegd! goes back 17 years, declares it is the shortest criminal trial , on . record iu the dis trict court, i Green will be sentenced to-'three to 15 years :fn, the penitcn-1 tiary.:" cyy ' .-. Farm Hand; Is. Hejd i, By Policeas Suspect ' In Robbery of Ban r(.. $ Sioux City , la., Nov. 24.rA mart f whose name and address were'given as- Fred, G. Holton of Porterville, Cat, employd 'on the farm of Roy Holman, near Oto, la., was arrested last .ru'ght- in 'connection, with the robbery, of "-the. Oto State bank Monday, j Holman was. arrested, as an f'tomplice; Leo Mak, -'cashier of the bank, who was hound and gagged, said he identified the men.' The robbers got $1.200.' r , Pacific Natal Planes to rr . - Fly to Panama and Back i Washington-, Nov. 24. The. aerial force'of the Pacific , fleet will leave San ' Diego, Cal.," three days after Christma$;'fbr a -flight tolhe Panama canal and return, .covering approxi mately , $,500 mrles,-' the Navy de partment announced. 'The air squad ron will spend New Year's day at Banderas;bay ;bn! the -west' coast of Mexico in- the state of Jalisco 1.250 miles. from San Diego, u Front that point 00 rest win he taKen until jne planes reach Balboa, where they are .due. January 12. No, announeeinent' was . made ,as to the number ot planes to make the. trip. 1 i T MUitary Funeral Will Be m t' GivenIrisli Policemen London, Nov. 24. Full . military honors will be paid ' on Friday to officers who were slain yi Dublin Sunday morning, it was.anaounced last night. The funeral will be pub lic and, the bodies, will 'le drawn through the streets- on ' gun car-riages:,.:- , " , Dublin , Paper Raided. . Dublin, Wo. 24. Troops ' raided the offices of the Freeman's Journal early this morning ' and searched Vainly'for m,en wanted in connection with recent disorders. , It was de clared at the ner?p-iper office that none ofUhesc men were ever cm- ployed there, - '-v. ' t of Europe. Plans of Eight Relief Organizations to feed starving children cost $23,000,00. War Objectors Given Freedom ' .- . - f.1 1 . - -. " . . r 1 ... . ri' ' . . - - -., .' . All Men Released on Merits of V Cases, Secretary' of War I. . Baker Announces. Washington. ,ftov; 24. All army cbuscientous objectors imprisoned mirjng the ; war have (now been "re leased from '.custody, Secretary of War Baker announced tonight. A total of 33.: the statement said, have been discharged by recent: orders. including .a. J. Salmons,-who started a "hunger strike", while confined in ,, gOA'trnmeht hospital here a month K". ' -v - -, . ., The cases of the 33 coittrcientous objectors who", r,em,ained m custody sohie 'weeks ago have now been finally reviewed by the secretary of war; Mr. Baker's statement said, "on .the recommendation of the ad jutant general's office 'and the' re mainder W ; sentences remitted and the men discharged, n. fc; "Each case jias been considered on its merits and the: principle 011 which they have . bees considered is to remit so much of the sentence as exceeds the-normal peace time penalty for thei'offenses charged. "Thfei major part of these men have been in confinement for mor, than, two years. These last dis charged,' were, men who had refused to; do any sort of work while in ponfinement. . . I ' ' "Benjamin J. Salmons, whose case has attracted some attention, , was the last case disposed, ot by reason bf,,thc fact that legal proceedings instituted in tha' civil courts have delayed consideration of his case." Knox to Introduce. :'r . V V 'His Peace Proposal Washington." VNovw - -24. Senator Knox-' of Pennsylvania said : today i t i j V . . . r. 1 iuai . ne piannea -to renuroauce at the approaching session of .con gress, his resolution to -, declare a state Of .peace, with. Germa::y; . This pian,t,he. tornter etretary of state said, would be followed acspite the veto, pfs , siniilar"".' resolution -Jby Presirent. Wilson.' r '-'. '. - . 1 , Senator Knox : indicated that hefof detectives of the eastern Canadian AtA , Ai' ,1.. : -I JuSioii before Jhe ,special session of congress next spryig'jjafter Presi-dcnt-plect Harding is. inailgurated. Dry Chief piadJof Chicago 'V-,t',. . . ' Move ttf Lnd i.lcuor Crimes Ayashington,."Nbv. . 24. Prohibi-j tion Commissioner' John F. Kramer, in .av, public . statement yesterday: charging Tick of co-ibperation By the, Chicagb pplice department hereto fofe ii ' prohibition,; enforcement, welcomed in the rirhe raids now ic ing conducted by . Charles Fitzmor ris, the hew. chief of police, an indi cation that Jbe department . would now assume a part of the burden of ridding Chic go of its "illegal liquor NoV Trace1 of Poison Found . In Stomach of Utah Nurse Salt'JLake City; 'Nov. 24. State Chemist Herman Harms"; reported to the county attorney that he could find ne trace of pdison in the stomach of Frahces Korous, nurse, who was found dead in Liberty park lake here' on November 6... after having teen: missing since October. 17. pomb Kills Twp. ' ", Cork, Nov. "24.-r-Two .jit-rsons in jured by -the explosion t a. bom), in Patrick street last evening died later at, a' hospital aud two otlieTs are'Teoorted to be ima crircal con dition. Sixteen person were iu-'1 Rail Officer Seek Cache of BoxCarThievi Secret Service Men Following Clues Unearthed in .Bluffs '- 1 . - t Mail Robbery Probe ; Alco-1 hoi and Sugar Songhi- ' '"-.. . -r. : i x Members" oi'-the secret service. de partments of ' seVefal railroads, as: ,'gisted'by federal sletiths, are com bining efforts to locate a huge cache "in 'or near Council Bluffs,' where or ganized .gangs, of boxcar. , thieves are believed to have secreted their loot They are - working on clues utreiirthed dulng the recent Burlfng- ton ntail robbery investigation. s Squads of special agents searched mdre than' a score of suspected homes in the city Tuesday and yes terday; but.failed to locate any loot. This lead;them to believe that the gang' members '.have a-: concealed common cache for their stuff. Twett- t-se ven sacks of sugar' and 10 half barrels of alcohol are some of the things' the agents hope to recover. . .The sugar was stolen from a Bur lington train "between Pacific June tion and Council Bluffs.' The freight train was' a lone one and was being guarded hyJ'a- special; agent,' H, L. Johnson. .While he , was; watching several merchandise cai1, however, the thieves threw the suitar to the ground from acar ,nar the end of the train, it was picK-ed 1 up later ...:,u ......,u:i , t .Thieves have concentrated their at tentibn upon -alcohol shipments,with the result that a stock of at least 10 half barrels is known to be hid den in Council Bluffs. The stuff vas cbnsigned to hospitals or wholesale drug houses, but is now being dis pensed lor beverage uses.- ,,y Man Returned to Toronto To Face. Trial for Murder Porthmd.iOre:. Nov. 23. John Doughty, fornfer private secretary to Ambrose J.SmaU, 'missing million- ajre, theater owner of Toronto, Can a"ae, left here today for Toronto in custody of Ausjin P. Mitchell, chief rjfv. -1itrlipll said-ttiv wviM trtn cjty. Mitchell said- they ,would stop in Chicago between trams to obtain $100,000 in CanSdian Victory bonds which Doughty isaid he had - de posited there .after stealing them from his employer. Doughty was 'arrested at uregon uty, near nere, fHoaday after nearly a year's worW .vide search for him. - . , f arrested at Oregon City, near here r . r. 1.. :. . Famer-Labor Party Chiefs . , n ui .vjuiiiu iu vuitagu .'.ChicagoNov. 24.rThe national committee of the .farmer-labor party frill", meet in , Chicago, December 10 and "11 to consider plans for; the future, Frank Espei1, national' secre tary, announced. Mr. Esper said .he would present his resignation at that time.,-'" ' -V - " ,' ' ' ' Parley P. Christensen of Salt Iike City, farmer-labor, partv candidate for president, will fttend,"'. The Weather ; Forecast. Thursday, fair;. not much change in ,temo5Rrturc.,','' v; ' t- llourljr Tcmptura. S a. m. '9 JM. 1 a. m. S a. in. a m. 1 t,M. lUa. in. , St ..St .St .s.t w ,. s t - 1 . DC. a. m. J p. m, t B. i. .....u n. a p. ai i.fwV...as Shippers Rallftla . I. liln-ioMt -diirln i)ie -rx; !4 'h1u, .rrinrwri t wu lav 1; west, Irish RovV Is Debated in . t ....,., . .. . . ... , Commons .S, , 1 . t Former Premier Asqnith Ex- presses Abhorrence for Riots I And Urges Immediate Stejk: 1 s .For Pacification 1 - I :Yc . ) . : - Cure With Government , ' ' f l' , ' - By Th Awrlatd Fkh. . i . London! . Nov. 24.- The eagerly- . awaited, debate, in the House of Commons 011 the Irish questibn was inaugurated Ithis-' afternoon wh(gi Former Premier ,'Asquith, leader of . ' the. opposition, moved " (lis ' resolu- .' tion. expressing abhotreiice of the" retfiu . Dubbn , assassinations, con demnation of. reprisals, and urging the. taking of-imaiediate, steps to.- . bring about. Irish pacification, t - The motion was, a composite reso- lution,., combining . the " .independent , liberal and labor motions, and spou- ' sored.by M Asquith. Donaldfac ' Lean and Arthur. Henderson? , Thf former premier 'declared there , was only one .way of escape, and ' that the first step lay vUh the go-" 4 eminent.' "This, he said, was to dis continue the reprisals. He belieVd, ; he said, that an overwhelming ma-,' jority 9f the . Irish people and oK ' the crown' forces had no sympathy with reprisals',. , t r . CondetrtM Sunday ' Riofa, ( , It was difficult, said Mr. Asquitfi, 't to.peak with restraint f Sunday's , assassinations in Dublin. ' ! ;"Xhey wire, ctuel, eol-blooded murder.'ihe continued, "and can only have been the . work of," men who , have (lost all sense of humanity and honor., The-very gravity- of silch crimes as ttheser-I am. afraid it's 'a -mistake to ;say they arei decreasing r-makesit all" the more necessary that, the executive shall be able to encounter thentwith a clear front and clean .hands." ' vSir Hamar 'iGreeqwood,. the' chief '-' secretary --for inland, was loudlV clieered on risinr to. invi vr Asquith. " ', ..- ' The vast majority of the people of Ireland are not in dvnr nf m,rj., he said; "They want peace, and thev are getting peace because the forces of the it -crown are breaking the terror. - .V 3h ,k . " Sir Ha'mar. declared l!i vast ml. iority of. the Irish? people were on' vesi 01 term wnn me soldiers ap'd police. vl, . . h ..,..,,. v- - Bulletin, Distributed. . ' ' K ''The '; murder : gang in Ireland.", he continued, "issues a document ' known as' the Irish Republican Bui- letin, and that, murder "gang .sends T the. bulletin- to' persons - in- England hd to vnewspapers. in--England. ?mw of, .them " publish it. -VVhatw atha2es me'is that the Londoo, liberal, . . (Tun . fM Tw. Colamr One.) WaSsjOfSered Bp S. Held Up .; - . - . Inter-Allied Military Commis- . 8ion Prevents Shipment I From Germany. " , ' By KARL H. VON WIECAND (iBlveraal ScrrTc SUff Con-wa-adeat.) Berlin.. .Nov. , 2l.-iWith domimi-' tton in airMseryice evidenily the gol ci ior memspives DV.lvnglana ati France the inter-atllcd Urol- commission in; "Germany hi uicYciuca ine.snipment ot 11 ot the ' former junker all. netal airplaijes: which were ordered by America. - ' These .airplanes, according to to day s newspapers." hac' been lyinc. , ln.the hatftor. at Hamburg for some time ready, for loading .for shipment to the United' States notwithstanding V the provision of the Versailles treaty. regarding the bdilding. of commer cial aircraft. . , ' A.f -aa, ; "The treaty forbids :ue building of commercial aircraft for a period of six months after the ratification of1 ' the treaty which rjcriod-'Ted July 10. ,'J- -T-- , ". The government's protest' against the alleged arbitrary action of the commission has thus far had -no ef-" feet in having the airships released. v The action of the commission fol- v lows close upon a demand made by England and .France for, two new passenger-carrying! Zeppelins,- the Bpdusee'.atid the- Nordsterhi neither of : which war rebuilt from:warcraft orh,ad ever been in war" service. - The Berliner Zeitung Am Mittas says it js -understood that the allies' ' plan vto divide 11 junker machines ordered by " America Rmong then selves. The; general impression in aircraftoustruction circles is that . England;, and , France' propose' ; to throttle -all .aircraft constriction iS Germany by. .this, actiott and also Seek to discourage) Americ Ifrom placing orders iti Germany: . California Democratic i Leader Held on Indictment ;Los Angeles, Kox-?' 24 F. Rav Groves. Los. Angeles, secretary ,'r'f the democratic state central commit-; T tee, and his two. brothers! Ralph -Groves, former prohibition enforce ment director here, and fc: C Groves, were arrested oiv indictments re turned by a federal grand jury, Al-' though the indictments, were not . made public, it was said by officer A thatv they charged conspiracy -t 6 V violate the Volstead prohibition tn- forcement act. .., - : Probe of Kansas City r ; CoakPricel OpVnetl itansas City, 'Mo., Nov. 24.. , Icdml grand jury.invistigation of coal prices in Kansas City was, or dered by Judge Van Valkenburglk . The court's order to proceed v?ith the investigation (begun' several months ago by agents of the Depart- , nient of Justice, came after Judg Vjm ' yaUtenbursJ? upheld the const'it:- liiinnlilv.- m til, 1 i --'- :i-t . ,,.. ,r X which the probe i being -iyndircreU. 1 I ; ' ' O " I'.- 1 Y I- A 1 k - 1 ... r. . 'A