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Congress
IT
Plans Made
To Finance
U.S.Farmer
Fast Mail Crashes Into
Rear of Passenger Train
A New Maid Coming
Ready for
Message
Routine Opening of Last Ses
sion of 66th Assembly Is
Marked by $4,653,000,000
Appropriation Estimates.
350 New Bills Introduced
'Washington, Dec. 6. Congress re
convened today with the customary
brief and routine opening sessions
which were attended by great crowds
and marked by an address, in the
senate by rrcsident-elect Harding
as a unique , and historic feature.
Senator Harding took his seat,
.answered his name when the senate
Kins Man
In His Home
One of Bandit Pair Shoots
Omahan When He Appears
On Back Porch to Inves
tigate Noise. !
Kevhal of War Fiifancc Cor
poration and Action by Fed
eral Reserve Board Directed ,
In Senate Resolution.
rol was called and made a brief
address from the rostrum.
Other features of the opening of
the third and , final session of the
66th congress were receipt of annual
eppropriation estimates aggregating
$4,653,000,000 and introduction in the
house of an unusual volume of new
-bills and resolutions. Senators held
np their bills until tomorrow in ac
cordance with the custom of limiting
.the first day to formal convocation.
The principal business today was
to arrange for receipt tomorrow of
President Wilson's opening message.
joint committee called upon the
president at the White House and
the latter receiving them in the blue
'.room, told them he would have "a
communication" tomorrow. He did
I not state whether he would send or
, read his message, but it was under
stood the former course would be
pursued.
Senate Session Short.
The senate was in session 25 min
utes and the house, notwithstanding
its longer roll call, only twice as
long. i New members elected last
November to , fill vacancies' were
Sworn in and adjournment taken
unitli noon tomorrow, when both
bodie plan, after receiving the
president's message, to proceed to
work.
" As usual, the senate session pro
ceeded with dignified calm and the
house with boisterous confusion.
The laiter's roll call was taken amid
a bedlam of felicitations of return
ing members and . conversation of
members and spectators.
Galleries of both houses were
jammed and thousands of persons
aUood in the halls to catch glimpses
And sounds of the proceedings
within. About the capitol, confer
ence of party leaders, cafe dinner
ejrties and surging crowds in the
TSrridors furnished other opening
eession atmosphere. ;
. Start Wont Today.
The program, for tomorrow's in
auguration of actual work called for
debate in the senate on the bill for
federal regulation of the meat indus
try and tor the launching of immi
gration restriction legislation in the
house. The house immigration
bill prohibiting immigration fqr two
years was reported out today and
the rules committee tomorrow will
tonsider a rule for its immediate
(Torn to Paaje Two, Column Two.)
Palmer Blamed
For Meat Prices
Cattleman Denounces Attor
ney General for Not Prose
cuting Retail Profiteers.
Salt Lake City, Dec. 6. A.
Slitchell Palmer, attorney general,
was denounced for his alleged fail
tire to prosecute meat profiteers
among .the retailers at the opening
session of the conference of officers
of the cattlemen's associations of 12
western states.
The denunciation was made by
George H. Russell, president of the
Crook county, Oregon, Live Stock,
Feeding and Marketing association,
who alleged that the attorney gen
eral had been indifferent to the sit-
. ration. He condemned retail butch-
"sTPSr the maintenance of high re
tail prices in the face of low prices
to the producers.
"it is the prices charged by the
J-etailer that is the curse alike of
the consumer and producer," de
clared Mr. Russell. "The solution
bf the whole question confronting
the treat situation in this country
lif s 'vith Mr. Palmer and he refuses
o make a move toward solving it
by prosecuting the , profiteering
butchers." .
More than 500 live stock producers
attended the opening session. Fred
H. Bixby, president of the Califor
nia Cattlemen's association, who
' called the conference, explained its
aims. He said the chief aim was
to secure definite and advantageous
action upon nine features of the cat
tle raising business as it pertains
to the 12 western states represented.
$315,571,399 Budget Is
Asked to Run New York
New York. Dec. 6. It will take
$345,571,399 to run Greater New
York during the comirg fiscal year.
. This amount, exceeding two-thirds
of the total appropriated by the gov
ernment to carry on- the, affairs of
the entire nation in 1916, was asked
f the board of aldermen by the
committee on finance preparing the
1921 budget;
Lowest Prices in Years
Quoted at Tobacco Market
Owensboro, Ky., Dec. 6. Lowest
prices in years were quoted at the
opening of the Green River district
i , . 1, . t ...t. 1 Aj i rwn
piu;l s or aarK leat sold ror an aver
age ot slightly less than ?3 a 1W
pounds. Two-thirds of the growers
rejected the sale. Last -'ear's open
ing day prices averaged $22.15 a 100
Cm a sale oi 635,000 pound)
1 heBurlmgton wreck at Creston,
occurring Sunday noon, when west
bound fast train No. 7 crashed into
-the rear of westbound passenger
train No. 3, standing at the station,
was due to trouble with the air
brakes on the latter train.
Theengineer on train No. 3 had
called, in his flagman, preparatory to
pulling out, when trouble developed
in the airbrakes. Before the flag
man had time to return to his post
or to throw the switch, No. 7, which
had been closely following the pas
senger train, crashed into the rear
Efficiency Is
Harding Plan
Of Government
President-Elect in Speech to
, Senate Urges Teamwork to
Insure Popular Govern-
mpnt Aftor IvTarMi A
' Washington, Dec. 6. To put into
practice his doctrine of' consultation
and good understanding among pub
lic officials, President-elect Harding
spent today at the capitol taking
stock, of the legislative problems that
await ' the new session of congress
and in turn seeking the co-operation
of congressional leaders in the tasks
he will confront as chief executive.
Adding a unique page to the na
tion's history, he attended as a sen
ator the opening of senate and in
a short address bespoke for the com
ing four years a spirit of team work
between executive and legislative
branches that he expects to insure
the highest national efficiency in pub
he artairs at home and abroad.
Confers With Leaders.
Later, after conferences with .lead
ers of both senate and house, he an
nounced that he probably would call
a special session of congress soon
after his inauguration to attempt a
revision of the nation's tax schedules.
Both in his private consultations and
his address in the senate he asked
that the three months remaining to
the present congress be used with
out attempt at partisan advantage to
clear away routine and lay the
ground work for constructive legis
lation after March 4.
Foreign relations and the league
of nations were discussed by Mr.
Harding along with domestic prob
lems and, possible cabinet selections
in his long string of conferences
with senators' and representatives.
The ranking national leaders of
his party outside of congress also
were present at the consultations
which will be continued most of to
morrow. Will Return Horne.
With his departure for Marion
late tomorrow afternoon the president-elect
will bid good bye to
actual participation in the proceed
ings of the senate, although he will
retain his" title and office until early
in the new year. He revealed today
that hehad decided definitely .to
resign his senate seat between Jan
uary 10 ad 15, when a change of
(Turn to Faff Two, Column One.)
Film Stars Will Be ;
Questioned in Wine
Conspiracy on Coast
.
By rolrvraal Service
Los Angeles, Dec. 6. Among wit
nesses today subpoenaed to appear
before the federal grand jury here
investigating the alleged half mil
lion dollar conspiracy in sacramen
tal wine was Pauline Frederick.
The magnitude star of the movies
was not the only screen world per
son served with notice to appear for
ouestioning. it is said, but she is the
most notable of the "unfortunates."
Three deputy United States marshals
are reported to have gone to Holly
wood with what an eye witness de
scribed as "an armful of subpoenas."
The film folks, it is said, are ex
pected to tell the grand, jury whether
they were solicited td give the "wine
ring" orders, which., charges the
government, were filled by deplet
ing supplies exempted for church
use. ' i . ,
Another grand jury witness is
Rabbi David Rosenthal of Ocean
Park, near here.
C til If A l A
Pullman on the tram at the station.
The fact that the Pullman was of
steel construction doubtless saved
the lives of many passengers.
A woman on train No. 3 and the
engineer and fireman on No. 7 were
the only persons seriously injured.
All are expected to recover.
Three of the mail coaches on No.
7 were almost totally wrecked. Sev
eral hours were required to move
the wreckage so that traffic ' could
be resumed. No. 3, due at Omaha
at 4 in the afternoon, did not arrive
lintel midnight.
Wilson Plans to
Send Message in
Written Form
President Ndf Expected to Ap
pear Before Congress
Still Shows Evidence
Of Illness.
By Th Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 6. Unless
President Wilson changes his lans
at the last moment. li will not ad
dress congress personally tomorrow,
but will send a message in written
form. Jt will be read to house and
senate sitting in separate session as
was done with the president's mes
sage last December and as was the
custom until Mr. Wilson began the
habit of addressing congress person
alis The president did not make known
his intention to a joint committee of
senate and house jyhich called todays
at the White House to notify him"
tormally that congress was-in ses
sion, but members of the delegation
lett him with the impression that
he would not appear before congress
in person. Ihe president s state
ment to the committee was that he
would, "communicate with congrs
tomorrow."
Received in Blue Rootn.
Mr. Wilson received his congres
sional visitors in the Blue room.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the
reubliAn leader in the senate, was
the spokesman and he and the pres
ident thus met face to face for the
first time since the league of nations
covenant and the peace treaty were
defeated in the senate under Sen
ator Lodge's leadership.
The president did not shake hands
with his visitors. (They were ushered
into the Blue room by White House
attendants and then Mr. Wilson ap
peared from an adjoining room. He
wore a blue sack suit and used a
cane. On entering the door he
smiled and, pointing to his- cane,
said:
One set of reports had it that the
president would appear in an in-
(Turn to Pa Two. Column Four.)
Trainmen Charged ?
With Theft of Goods
Shipped by Railroad
Colonic. S. D., Dec. 6. Special
Telegram.) Newton Muelebaugh, a
freight conductor, and J. H. Brown,
a brakeman, working on the North
western railroad between Bonesteel
and Winner, were arrested by rail
road detectives for the alleged theft
of merchandise from shipments made
over the system.
Muelebaugh has been in the employ
of the railroad for a number of years
and stood an excellent chance for
promotion within a short time. The
merchants of the Rosebud country,
east of Bonesteel, have been claiming
losses of merchandise from shipments
oyer the railroad for a lofog time.
These losses became so great the
railroad made strenuous efforts to
find the cause of the leaks, resulting
in the arrest of the two men.
President-Emeritus of
Colorado School Dies
Denver, Dec. 6. Regis Chau
venet, 78, president-emeritus of the
Colorado school of mines, and wide
ly known throughout the country
as a chemist and metallurgist, died
here Sunday. Before coming to
Colorado from St. Louis he was
chemist to the Missouri geological
survey.
Eighteenth Amendment
Is Unknown in "Alaska
Tacoma, Wash.. Dec. 6. Alaska
is the real paradise of bootleggers,
and in that ttrritory there is little
evidence that the eighteenth amend
ment to the constitution has gone
into effect, according to a statement
made here by Donald A. McDonald,
federal prohibition director for
Washington and Alaska.
Canning Factory Closes.
Norfolk, Neb., Dec. 6. Special
Telegram) The canning factory
here has been closed down until next
January due to lack of buying on the
part of jobbers. '
Scour. City for Slayers
Robert Bullardi 37,917 South
Thirteenth, was 'fatally wounded at
5 o'clock yesterday morning by one
of two men beJ
lieved to be high
jackers whom he
attempted to
frighten away
after they broke
two windows in
the rear of the T.
F. Naughton
Bake.r and Con
fectionery com
pany, which occu
pies the same
building. '
Police believe
the men were
highjackers try
Robert Bullard.
ing to effect an
entrance into the confectionery sup
ply concern to steal alcohol used in
the manufacture of extracts.
Bullard, who was in bed, was at
tracted by the breaking of two win
dow panes, his wife said. When he
got up and went to the back porch
he saw two armed masked men who
were standing about 5 feet away on
a high embankment.
Answer Is Bullet.
"What are you fellows doing
here at this time of the day," Bul
lard demanded. The answer was
one bullet from the gun of one of
the men.
Upon hearing the shot, little Fran
ces, who was in bed, cried, "Daddy,
come back, I want you."
But Bullard had fallen to the
floor. The bullet had struck his
right chest. He died at St. Joseph
hospital two hours later.
When Bullard started for the
back porch his wife and Frank
Murphy, who rooms in the house,
also started for the porch to investi
gate. Mrs. Bullard warned her hus
band not to go out, she said.
Bullard Falls.
Just as the shpt was fired and Bul
lard fell Murphy and Mrs. Bullard,
who ran to the side of the wounded
man, saw two men scurrying east
over the embankment.
Murphy picked Bullard up and
carried him into the house and called
the police. .
- When the shot wa fired, C. C.
Daniels and John Sorensoil, room
ers in the same building, saw two
men running east over the high
bank which runs towards the rail
road track.
Two Windows Broken.
Detective Ralph Hughes, who in
vestigated the shooting said two
windows were broken. He said the
men probably scaled the five foot
wall in the rear of the building when
they heard Bullard get'up.
. Four men in an automobile stand
ing at the filling station of the Na-
(Turn to Page Two, Column Seven.)
Britain to Refuse
Credit to Greece
Action Will Be Predicted on
Return of Constantine
To Throne.
Athens, Dec. 6. (By The Associ
ated Press.) Great Britain will ex
tend no further financial aid to
Greece in case former King Constan
tine returns to the throne, according
to a note presented the Greek gov
ernment today by Earl Granville,
British minister in his city.
The French minister also present
ed a note to the government demand
ing the payment of outstanding
loans.
Both the notes forbid the issuance
by the national bank of paper
money already printed against a
loan of 400,000,000 drachmas, which
was arranged during the regime of
former Premier Venizelos.
New Bank at Verdon,
With $15,000 Capital
Applies for Charter
Lincoln, Dec. 6. (Special.) The
Farmers State bank of Verdon is a
new banking institution which has
made application for a charter from
the state banking bureau. The capi
tal is given at $15,000 .and the of
ficers are E, E. Auxier, president;
H. N. Timerman, vice presilent, and
Rollin Bpcll. cashier. These, with
J. J. Parsons and F. M. , Woodford
of Atchison, Kan.,' are the stock
holders.
E. E. Auxier was formerly presi
dent of the Farmers & Merchants
bank of Verdon, which has just gone
into the hands of a receiver. Par
sons and Woodford hold the bulk of
the stock of the new bank.
Dan J. Riley has been appointed
receiver of the former bank. The
new bank has no connection with
the failing institution.
Western Union Loses
Case to Nashville Road
Washington, Dec. 6. The West
ern Union Telegraph company today
lost its fight for an injunction re
straining the Louisville and Nash
ville Railroad company from remov
ing its telegraph lines from the rail
road's right of way when ' the su
preme court refused to review the
decision of the lower. c 1
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Mail Man Groans .
As Movie Contest
Letters Flock in
Hundreds Correctly ,' Identify
First Two Photographs Pub
lished in Sunday Bee Pic
tures Interest Cinema Fans.
Did you recognize 'em yesterday,
movie fans?
Identity of the first two photos
of film stars in The Bee Movie Con
test, which opened Sunday, was
quite easy. You tell 'cm.
Hundreds ot persons named them
correctly.
Keen interest is shown in the
contest, according to the large num
ber of entries in the contest.
Pity the Mail Man.
Every delivery of mail is bring
ing in a larger number of contest
ants for the cash prizes offered the
winners.
Keep right on, movie fans. Gather
about the family circle and cast
3'our lots for the identity of the
film stars whose photos appear
daily in The Bee.
All have an equal chance to win
cither of the prizes.
Don't let old man DOUBT in
the identity of one or two of the
photos catch you. Name as many
as you are able to recognize.
Join the Crowd.
Get into the contest. It is not
too late. Get' copies of Sunday's
and yesterday's Bee, fill out the cou
pons and mail to "Movie, Contest
Editor. Omaha Bee."
See photos of the stars, as they
appear in The Bee, on the screen
of your favorite motion , picture
theater. Portraits of the film stars
will be flashed daily on the screens
of the following theaters: Rialto,
Strand, Sun, Moon. Empress, Grand,
Suburban, Victoria, Lothrop. Dia
mond, Alhambra, Franklin, Hippo
drome, Park, Benalto, Hamilton,
Ideal, Lyric, Comfort, Maryland,
Gem, Columbia, Rohlff, Boulevard,
Besse, Mag ic and Orpheum, South
Side and in' all Council Bluffs movie
houses.
Identification blanks mayv be
clipped from The Bee or they may
be obtained in the lobbies of the
theaters.
Exports to Great Britain
And Japan Show Decrease
Washington, D. C. Dec C
Great Britain and Japan were the
only ones of the larger countries
that took less goods from the
United States in October ,than dur
ing the same month a year ago,
while Germany, Canada, Mexico.
Chile and thee Dutch East Indies
were the only countries from which
the Unitcd Statje received more
goods during me corresponding
period of 119.
Corfu Votes Unanimously
For Return of Constantine
Lucerne, Switzerland, Dec. 6.
Ex-King Constantino this morning
received the first direct returns from
the plebiscite in Greece oq the ques
tion of his return to the throne.
These advices from Corfu announced
that this island had recorded itself
unanimously in favor of Constautfte.
Dublin City Hall Raided
v And Six Under Arrest
Dublin, Dec. 6. Auxiliary police
raided the Dublin city halt today and
arrested six members of the corpora-
Government Wins i
i
JLehigh Road Case j
- i
Supreme Court Sustains
Charges of Monopoly and
- Violation of Tryst Act."
.Washington, Dec. 6. The govern
ment today won its anti-trust suit
against the Lehigh Valley Railroad
Co., and affiliated' corporations.
The supreme court, in a decision
read' by Associate Justice Clarke,
sustained charges of monopoly and
violation of the Sherman anti-trust
law.
The court held that charges gf
violation of the commodities clause
in the formation of the Lehigh coal
sales company had been proven.
Redistribution of stock of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad Co.. asked
by the government, was ordered by
the court upon the Government's
contention that common stock own
ership by officers and directors
constituted restraint of trade pro
hibited by the Sherman act.
Justices Mc Reynolds and Brandeis
took no part in the consideration of
the case. Justice McReynolds was
attorney general while the case was
pending.
American Governors
Hosts at Banquet for
Mexican President
Mexico City, Dec. 6. Visiting
American governors were hosts at a
banquet to President Obrcgon and
high. Mexican officials at which
Governor Hobby of Texas, who had
formerly been characterized by the
Mexican press as an enemy of Mex
ico and an advocate of intervention,
was the principal speaker.
"President Obregon has pledged
himself to the principle of honesty
in government," he said, "and the
whole civilized world stands ready
to uphold his hands and were con
fident of the success of his govern
ment. "There have always been ties of
friendship and natural bonds of at
tachment between the United States
and Mexico and when these have
been broken, it has been due to a
temporary misunderstanding or to a
degree of impatience. We have
come here with the hope that as a
result it will be impossible for any
misunderstanding or ill-natnred event
that concerns us mutually ever to oc
cur again."
Negroes Given New Trial
By Order of High Court
Little Kock, Ark., IVc. (i.-On
grounds that the Phillip-, circuit
court had erred in refusing to per
mit introduction of evidence to sup
port a charge that prejudice in the
exclusion of negroes had been shown
in selection of the present jury, the
Arkansas supreme court today re
versed and remanded for new trials
the cases of six of the Elaine negro
rioters who were under death sen
tence. ' I
Mother Shot and Kiddies
Killed as Home Burns
Youngstowii, O., Dec. 6. One
white man is among four suspects
in jail here and at Warwn, ().. in
connection with th shooting .of
Mrs. Thomas Koehler, who was seri
ously wounded, and the burning to
death of her two children in their
borne near Hubbard, six miles from
here, which was set afire last night
by an unidentified man,
State to Probe
Alleged "Easy
Money" Schemes
County Attorneys Warned to
Be on Lookout, for Sale of
"Service Contracts" From
Fake Wholesalers.
Lincoln, Dec. 6. (Special.) That
certain parties have been picking up
considerable "easy money" in Ne
braska has caused Attorney General
Davis to make some investigations
and as a result sent the following
letter to all county attorneys in Ne
braska: "My attention has been called in
the last week to the sale in different
parts of our state of various things
called 'service contracts.' The gen
eral plan is that tfie " person pays
from $10 to $300 for the service
privileges of buying things at cost
from some mythical wholesale house
in some distant part of the country,
"I have gone rather carefully over
two or three of these schemes and
the ones which I have gone over arejt of the agricultural product '
vicious. The contract which the pur- now held by the, by permitting tl
chaser receives always contains an
elusory promise so that ihe com
pany is not ound to deliver any
thing, and I feel that the whole plan
is founded in fraud. In addition to
that, it is unquestionably within the
terms of our blue sky statute, and
these concerns are operating without
a license. We have arrested one or
two of them whom we shall pros
ecute for selling 'stock withou a
license, or for fraud if the faefs will
justify it.
"My suggestion is that you make
inquiry from, your local merchants
or bankers and ascertain whether
any of these things are being sold
to their knowledge.
"We will be glad to give you
any assistartce you ask in case you
file any complaints."
Coal ConspirJcy Cases to
Be Reopened by Grand Jury
Indianapolis. Ind., Dec. 6. Federal
Judge A. B. Anderson instructed a
grand jury which convened today to
reopen the investigation of the coal
conspiracy cases against 125 opera
tors and miners in Illinois. Indiana,
Ohio and Wtstcrrr Pennsylvania.vith
a view of determining whether others
should be made defendants in the
case.
The announcement was made by
government officials that a postpone
ment, pending completion of ' the
grand jurv inquirv, would be asked
j in the trials of the coal cases now
I set to begin next January 10.
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Declare Passage Is Sure
Washington, Dec. 6. Revival of
Uie war finance corporation and ac
'tion by the federal reserve board per
mitting extension by banks of "lib
eral" credits to farmers would be
directed in a joint resolution drafted
late today by the senate agricul
tural committee. The resolution will
he reported to the senate tomorrow
by Senator Gronna of North Dakota,
the agricultural committee chairman,
who. will ask for inimcdiation con
sideration. Members of the committee draft
ing the resolution expressed con
fidence that enough votes .were as
sured to bring about its prompt
passage, but members of the finance
committee indicated that they would
ask that it first be. referred to them
for consideration, inasmuch as the
war finance corporation was created
under a bill drawn by their com
mittee. Bill in House.
Restoration of the war' financi
corporation to furnish financial aid
to farmers also would be directed in
a concurrent resolution presented to
day in the house of representatives
by Byrnes, democrat, of South Caro
lina. The senate agriculture committee
decided to report its resolution as a
committee measure, hoping thereby
to save time. With unanimous con
sent under the senate rules the res
olution could be called twice in one
day and placed on the calendar for
passage.
Senator Norris of Nebraska, mem
ber of the agricultural committee,
first proposed a concurrent resolu
tion which does not require approval
by the president, but other members
objected on the ground that such
a resolution would not be strong
enough. While pot anticipating the
action of the president, dernocratic.
senators made clear their intention
of voting to override a veto if nec
essary. The senate committee's resolution
declared that "unprecedented and un
paralleled distress" exists among the
farmers becausef their inability
; to- market their priucts at prices
equalling the cost of production and
that the people of Europe are in
"dire need" . of these products, but
not able to purchase because of ex
isting financial conditions.
Unable to Give Credit
The resolution further recites that
banks have been unable to extend
credit. to farmers so they may hold
their products until "they can be sold
in a fair and reasonable market."
Then followed the resolution's direc
tions, which declare:
"The secretary of the treasury and
the members of the war finance cor
poration are hercb3' directed to re
vive the activities of the war finance
corporation and that said corpora
tion be at once rehabilitated with
the view of assisting in the financing
of the exportation of agricultural pro
duce to foreign markets.
"The federal reserve board is here
by directed to take such action as
may be necessary to permit the
member banks of the federal reserve
system in accordance with law and
consistent with sound banking, to
grant liberal extension of credit to
the farmers of the country upon se-
rediscounting of such notes of ex
tension, at the lowest possible rate'
ot interest.
Italian Who Shipped
1 Dynamite Here Held
Under $15,000 Bond
Sioux Falls. S. D.. Dec. 6. (Spe
cial Telegram.) It was stated a'
the United State's attorney's ofiice.
here today that as the result of his
preliminary hearing before United
States Commissioner Moore ' of
Deadwood, Camilo Cacci, arrasted in
the dynamite case in the Black Hills,
was Txld for i trial in the United
State's court under bond "of $15,000.
Cacci is the man who stole 100
sticks of dynamite from the Trojai:
Mine company, by which he was
employed, and shipped them to con
federates in Omaha, who are al
leged to have planned using them
in wrecking homes in revenge for
the kilting of a comrade.
Cacci has retained an attorney
and will make a fight for his liberty.
Repeal of War Statutes
Proposed by Volstead
Washington. Dec. b. One of the
first steps by the republican majority
in the house to place the country on
a peacetime basis was taken today
by Representative Volstead. ot Min
nesota, cjiairman of the judiciary
committee, who introduced a bill re
pealing all war-time statutes, except
the trading with the enemy,, tood
control, District of Columbia rent,
Liberty bons and espionage acts.
Mr. Volstead announced that the
judiciary committee would begin
hearings immediately. Amendment
of the bill in committee to exempt
the War Finance corporation is ex
pected by house leaders.
Over 1,500.000 Trees Cut
For IT. S. Christinas Trade
Boston, Dec. 6. A Christmas tree
4 J crop of more than 1,500,000 ever
j green trees, spruce, fir and hemlock,
has been cfit in the forests of New
England for the approaching holi
day observance. The crop is the
largest ever cut. On the stump these
trees have been sold by the farmer
ior a few cents each, larue lots sell-
iug at $J5 to $i0 a thousand
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