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The Omaha Sunday B EE VOL L -NO. 26. Fnttratf S0lf-Cl Msttw My it, 1908. l Oauha P. 0. Uader Act el March J, H79. OMAHA SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 12 1920. By Mall (I tu. lailda 4th Zona. Dally and Sunday. 19: Dally Oaly. 6: Sunday. M Outilda 4th Zona (I yer. Dally and Sanoay. lit; Daily Only, 112; Sunday Oaly. W v TEN CENTS Harding to Face Many Big Issues Restoration of Peace aiul Set tlement of War Claims Are Among Leading Problems Come On! They're All Here Clear From Beginning American Trade Plan Launched . Better-Hurry -' 2 Slayers Again Face Death Chair Judge Paine Orders Cole Re turned to Penitentiary Grammer Prohahly Will Be Executed With Him. ! Say Last Resort Is Gone St. Paul, Neb., Dec. 11. (Special.) Tliougi "litis mi cause soaie Pictures of Stars in The Bee Movie ConteVv Every One Republished Today F)A: V. Tiimraia Ono rr TTr .V rv? consternation ri m li. onwrr oo m ,;if j& u--: Of Next Administration. No Definite Plans Made By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING. f'hlrafo Trlhune-Omnha Ilea leased Wire. Washington, Dec. 11. With the domestic economic situation calling for long delayed reconstruction measures of the highest order of statesmanship, President-elect Hard ing faces 'one of the biggest diplo matic jobs that ever fell to the jot of a new administration. Here is a partial -survey of the interna tional problems he intends to tackle as soon as he assumes office: 1. Reconstruction of peace, with Germany; settlement of war claims between Germany and the United States, including disposition of the $500,000,000 Germany property in the hands of the alien property custodian, and negotiation of I'teaties of amity and commerce with Berlin. v 2. Determination of the attitude toward Russia, involving the ques tion of recognition of - the soviet government and the opening of trade relations between the two countries. , ,; 3. Development of 'the Harding plan to invite other powers to a consideration of the preservation of world peace through an association of nations and an international court of justice. Big Allied Debt. 4. Completion of negotiations for the refunding of the $12,000,000,000 allied debit to the United States into bonds of a stated period, includ ing in the. principal all interest in arrears and all interest accruing in the next two .years which the allies are unable to pay. 5. Negotiations with Great Britain for a revision of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, which will permit the exemp tion of American ships from the pay ment of Panama canaV tolls and ne gotiation with Canada for the crea tion of the lakes to the Atlantic waterway, also toll free. 6. Exclusion of the Japanese, either by termination of the exist ing treaty and legislation or by a new agreement with the Japanese government, in connection1 with which Senator Lodge has proposed an alliance "with Canada and Aus tralia for the common defense from the yellow peril. Faces Oil Sef-rlmrirl 7. Negotiations with England for recognition of the rights of Ameri can oil development concerns in Mesopotamia and other1 mandate territories' V 8. Protection of American cable, radio and commercial rights in the Pacific, which are endangered by the aim of Japan to incorporate the for mer German islands in the north Pa cific., "into the Nipponese empire, and thereby gain complete control ofthe Yap island cable and radio, center. 9. Payment by Mexico of dam ages for the lives and property of Americans lost during the revolution ary period and the recognition of the rights of American oil and other in vestors. . 10. Reorganization of American supervision of Haiti and Santo Do mingo with a view to early with drawal of armed forces from those republics. No Definite Peace Plan. When President-elect Harding was here this week he made it clear that he had as yet no definite plan of procedure in regard to the con clusion of peace with Germany and the establishment of an association of nations and international court. He said he would not formulate any policy in Jhis matter until he has concluded his consultation with the "best minds of the country." which lie will continue at Marion .until the latter part of January, ' It js not without significance, however, that the closest advisers of the president-elect contemplate the complete rejection of the Ver sailles treaty and Wilson league. Ttipv helicve that neace will be re- TnXfhshed by a resolution similar to the Knox measure vetoed by Presi dent Wilson and that the United States never will become a party to the ncace of Paris. They also believe that Mr. Hard ing, when he becomes president, will make overtures to the powers looking to the establishment of an association of nations dedicated, to the preservation of world peace, but devoid cf the feature of an alli ance whish dominates the Wilson covenant. ) It s believed not unlikely that the allies will counter with a proposition to modify the provision of the Wilson covenant to suit the United States, with a view to bring ing this country into, the present league. - . . . McCook Sheriff Assaulted By Alleged Bootlegger McCook, Neb., Dec. 11. (Special.) Charles King, deputy . sheriff oi Red Willow county, was assaulted near Indianola by Wayne Dunn, whom he had arrested on a charge of being implicated in bootlegging operations in this county. Under guise of talking the matter over in a friendly way. Deputy King entered Dunn's automobile. While they were riding along Dunn, struck King over the head and he w&s unconscious for several hours. King was driven a short distance from where the as sault was committed and dumped out of the car, after which Dunn es caped. He has not been captured. Refuse Tax Refund Claims. ' Washington. Dec. 11. Claims for tax refunds based on losses in in ventory after December 31, 1919, will be disallowed by the bureau of in ternal revenue, Commissioner Will iams announced, Oh, movie fans! Hearken! , You are not too late to enter The Bee $100 Movie Star Contest for 30 cash awards and 50 other prizes of fered to the persons identifying the most of 60 photographs of film stars appearing in The Bee, two daily. First prixeis $100. - For the benefit of those who were delayed in entering the contest, the photographs of film stars that have been run in The Bee movie contest are republished today on Page 11, Part 4, in addition to the regular daily pair, Nos. 15 and 16. Get the Stride, Folks. So get "hep" to yonrstlves, film fans, get copies of The Bee from to day on. Take advantage of your last opportunity and identify as many of the film stars' photographs appearing in today's Bee as you can. Send all coupons to the "Movie Contest Editor, Omaha Bee." Follow these simple rules: Here's the Dope. ' Place YOUR NAME and the NUMBERS of the photographs on the outside of the envelope. Send all coupons within three days of publication. Employes of The Bee and mem- Poison Found in Bodies of Babies; Nurse Arrested Nebraska Woman Returned to Cheyenne to Stand Trial on , Charge of - Murdering Two Infants. Cheyenne, Wyo., Dec. 11. Mrs. William A. Schultz. who was arrested in Daiton, Neb., was placed in the county jail here today charged with having murdered two infants after she had been discharged as a nurse at a private hospital here. Mrs. bchmtz, according to the story which County Attorney C. E. Lane says was told him by the own ers of the hospital, -was discharged early in November, but remained at the hospital for several days. On November 13, he says, infanv daugh ters of John Zoranovich and Wesley J. Law died. The stomachs of the children, h3 says, were sent to the state chemist at Laramie, Wyo., who said the test was negative. Then the organs were sent to a Denver chemist, who said he found cholic medicine, containing poison in them." ' A coroner's jury declared the chil dren came to unlawful deaths and that Mrs. . Schultz had criminal knowledge of their deaths. Dehver Democratic Glub Refuses Bryan As Honorary Member Denver, Dec. 11. A motion to elect William J. Bryan an honorary member, of the Young Men's Demo cratic club of Denver was lost jast night at a meeting of the organiza tion when it failed, of second. Bryan's suggestion that President Wilson resign was rSpe of the rea sons assigned for the club's refusal to elect the Nebraskan, by E. V. Dunklee, president. Eugene McAllen, assistant cor responding secretary of the club, who nominated Bryan for honorary mem bership, resigt.ed from the club and walked out of the meeting when his nomination of the commoner failed of a .second. Dunklee, who,, was presiding, in an informal discission of the Bryon nomination after the meeting said "members of the club were frank to say that Bryan's failure actively to support the rational ticket at the recent election, his suggestion that President Wilson resign and his gen eral attitude toward the party re cently, were sufficient in their opin ion, to bar him from honorary mem bership in the club." WHERE TO FIND the Big Features of THE SUNDAY BEE Real Sport in Nebraska Sand Hills Rotogravue Section Page 1. Another Chance to Win $100 in The Bee Movie Contest Part 4, Page 11. , ' Eckersall's Ail-American Foot Ball Eleven Part 3, Page 1. First Aid to Nebraska Anglers Part 4, Page 1. 'Omahan Recounts Wild Days of Enid, Okl. Part, Page 3. Grand Rapids City Manager Tells ,Why Voters Like Manager Plan Part 4, Page 12. Dr. Evans Health Talks Part 2, Page 12. The Married Life of Helen and Warren Part 4, Page 1. Sporting News Part 3, Pages 1 and 2. Polly, the Shopper Part 2, Page 11. The New Masonic Home for Girls Part 2, Page 11. Jimmy Montague .in Prose Part 1, Page 11. Editorial Part 4, Page 4. Mask Part 2, Page 10. Heart Secrets of a Fortune Tel lerPart 4, Page 2. Gibson Cartoon Part 4, Page 12. Letters of a Home Made Father to His Son Prt 4, Page 12, bers of their No - are barred from the contest. - Don't forget your favorite movie theater will co-operate with you in this content. Council Bluffs, Too. The same photos that are pub lished in The Bee will be flashed on the screen of the following theaters: Sun, Rialto, Strand. Moon, Em press, Muse, Grand, Suburban, Vic toria, Lothrop, Diamond, Alhnmbra, Franklin, Hippodrome, Park, Ben alto, Hamilton, Ideal, Lyric, Com fort, Kpher, Boulevard, Besse, Magic and Orpheum (South Side), and in all Council Bluffs motion picture houses. Identification blauks may also be obtained in the lobbies of motion picture theaters. Get in the game today. , Shake a Foot! Don't delay. Be an affinity t that 2100. Awards are as follows: Be an affinity to that $100. Second 50 Third ... 25 Fourth . 15 Fifth 10 Twenty-five awards (each) .... 5 Additional prizes will be beautiful sets of autographed portraits of film stars. Dollar-Year Men Satisfied With Readjustment Over 100 Who Served Govern ment During War Return to Washington for Second Annual Reunion. Washington, Dec. 11. More than 100 of the rnn who served the gov ernment at $1 a year during the war return for their second annuah re union, confident readjustmet was going torward satisfactorily. Former members of the war in dustries board met to organize a per manent society, purely, leaders said, to perpetuate wartime. friendships. At the same time, however, the opinion was expressed that informal discus sions would lea to a broader under standing of business problems. Daniel Willartl, president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, declared the reasons were obvious why this country should soon be on a normal torward moving basis. Everything the nation has to have is found with in its borders, he said, and its rail roads' had felt no recession in business-andforsaw none. A similar expression came from Alexander Legge, general manager of the International Harvester com pany. He said he was concerned about decline in farm commodities, but believed that relief would come soon, although h'would be gradual. "It will come," he continued, through a broadening of the produce markets." ' B. M. Baruch, former chairman of the war industries board, asserted j there was "nothing to prevent the country from experiencing prosper ity." He warned against "too much pessimism,"' saying that the worst of the troubles were over and the pessi mistic tone should not be overdone. J. L. Replogle, who was director of steel supplies for the war indus tries board, predicted brighter and better business conditions in April and Mav. Bandits Tie Farmer And Ransack Home Livine alone on mis farm, Jhree miles north or Florence, nans jor genson was bound and gagged by three masked men Friday night, who ransacked his house and stole f8.N Sheriff Mike , Clark was notified this nocn and sent deputies to the scene of the crime, but they were unable to unearth any clews. Jorgenson told the sheriff he be lieved the robbers were looking for several thousand dollars' worth of Liberty bonds which he owns. s But, he said, these bonds were not kept by him on the farm. They are in a safety deposit vault in an Oma ha bank. Vigorous Ajtack Launched Against Secretary Payne Salt Lake City, Dec. 11. A vig orous attack on John Barton Payne, secretary of tbc interior, charges of commercialism in the conduct of Yellowstone park and alleged mis representation of facts on the part of nationally circulated magazines and bv national park officials, was made by Jerome G. Locks of Livingstone, Mont., a director of the Northwest ern Reclamation league and execu tive of the Yellowstone irrigation service. Charges were made byj Locke in an address betore the exec utive committee of the Western States Reclamation service in session' here. Senator Walsh Proposes Delegate on Disarmament Washington, Dec. 11. A resolu tion requesting President Wilson to appoint an American representative to meet with the league of nations commission considering disarma ment was presented and advocated in the senate today by Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana. Public School Children To Be Taught Safety First Children of the public schools will be impressed next week with the value of observing safety first sug gestions. The older boys and girls will be urged to have a.watchfuj eye for the smaller kiddies as they come to and return from schooj, Committee Named to Begin Aetitel Work of Forming Huge Corporation to Fi nance Business Abroad. Ready to Operate Jan. 4 By ARTHUR M. EVANS. Cliirago Trlbune-Omalm lire Leased Wire. Chicago, Dec. 11. The billion dollar baby in the world's markets was born today. The project to form a corporation with $100,000,000 capital and $1,000,000,000 capacity. was adopted by the conference of finance, industry, farming and busi ness. Forthwith a committee of 30 was appointed to proceed with the work of organizing the company and getting it into operation. The name suggested is the For ' eign Trade Financing corporation. A fund of $100,000 was pledged to meet the expenses of launching the venture and after the conference ad journed the 30 organizers went into session to start things moving. New Year's is expected to see, it ready for business. The personnel of this creative body of 30 was reported by the com mittee on plans and scope, with John H. Fahey of Boston, chairman. It is invested with full authoritiy to add to its numbers ,and to take all steps deemed necessary or appro priate to organize and bring into operation, a .corporation under the provisions of the Edge act, with a capital of $100,000,000 for financing American foreign trade. Resolutions Adopted. The committee is to receive sub scriptipns to the stock of the cor poration. It .will also nominate the board of directors and the principal executive officers. Resolutions adopted by the confer ence set down two guiding prin ciples: ' "Extension of credit by the corpo ration should be confined to coun tries, where there is a stable govern ment, and where there is an assur ance of integrity of purpose. "Ooperations of the corporation should be confined to financing for the benefit .of future fqreign trade." John McHugh of the Mechanics and Metals National bank of New York is to be head of the board of directors, without compensation, The argument hammered home during two days' addresses by lead ing financiers and producers vas set forth again by Fred I. Kent of the Bankers' Trust company of New York, who made the chief speech of the day. Outlines Cause of Trouble. "Th fact that the United States dollar is at a premium throughout the world," he said, "or to be more explicit, the underlying cause for this fact, is at the bottom of our trouble, insofar as it is economic; even as the depreciated exchange of Other countries furnishes the root of their crying economic difficulties. . "The principal and most disas trous effect lies in the brake put upon the distribution of the world's products, as it is this stagnation in distribution .which throws commodi ties on markets which cannot absorb them, resulting in the falling of prices at a dangerous speed, with the consequent enforced idleness of labor. "Many countnes, which before the war shipped products to European countries, are unable to do so today as they cannot sell on long1 time credit, so they naturally turn to the United States, where they can sell for cash. As the result, cpmmodi ties have piled up here for" which there is no market, until the export ing countries in many cases, where they have been buying from us, have nothing -marketable to send us with which to pay for their imports. High Export Trade. "We find ourselves, therefore, with a high export trade that is only be ing paid for in part by a large por tion of the world, ani that is fast nearing a point where at will be cut drastically tov essentials unless the great buying power of Europe is re stored. "Such restoration can only come from an extended period during which raw materials must go for ,ward in a steady stream, partly against long time credits.! Food stuffs must be furnished also,' but, except where shipped by, relief or ganizations, they should be largely paid for. promptly as they 'go into immediate consumption. "We are therefore brought face to face with the question how we 'can best extend long time credits to Europe on a basis that will enable her to reconstruct her industries r.nd to other countries of the world, to enable. them in turn to make ad vances to Europe for goods which they can furnish." Ponzi Begins Serving Five-Year Jail Sentence Plymouth, Mass.", Dec. 11. Charles Ponzi entered today upon service of his sentence of five years at the Plymouth county jail that was- imposed by the federal court as punishment for the fraud by which he obtained millions' of dollars from thousands of persons. Debate Holds Up Senate Action on Farmers' Aid Bill Informal ' Understanding Is Reached for Vote on Revival , Of War Finance Corpora tion Monday Afternoon. Washington, Dec.; 11. debate prevented a vote in the senate today on the joint 'resolution directing re vival of the war finance corporation as a relief measure for farmers. Re cess was taken until noon Monday with an informal understanding that a vote would be taken not later than 3 p. m. Objection to that section of the resolution directing the federal re serve board provide more liberal credits for farmers, marked the de bate, Senator Smoot, . republican, of Utah,- gave notice he would move to strike out the section and Senator Thomas, democrat, Colorado, said he would ask tor a separate vote. Senator Pomerene, democrat, Ohio, said he would not "heli wreck the federal reserve board" and Sen ator Glass, democrat, Virginia, de clared that section 'was a direct and unjust criticism of the board and not based on facts. . ' : Senator Gronna, republican, North Dakota, in charge of the resolution, denied criticism of the board was im plied. v i The offer to postpone action until Monday was made by Senator Gron na at the close of a speech by Sen ator Thomas. ' - "Everybody understood there would be a vote today," Senator Nor- ris, republican, Nebraska, asserted, but Senator Thomas replied he was "ignorant" of any such understand ing. Senator Spencer, republican, Mis souri, offered a substitute in the form of a concurrent resolution which would declare the sense of congreess to be that the war finance corpora tion should be revived and asking the federal reserve board to co-oper atewith it. Early Vote Expected on , Repeal of Wartime Laws Washington, Dec. 11. Under a special ruling reported out today by the rules committee the Volstead resolution repealing most of the war time laws would be given right of way after the Johnson immigration bill is disposed of. Debate on the resolution would be limited to., two hours. . The rules committee also reported out a rule giving the Reavis bill for consolidation of government execu tive departments right of way after the Volstead measure is acted upon. Representative Reavis told the com mittee that the consolidations pro posed would result in a saving to the government of $1,000,000 a day. Express Business Takes Slump ; Employes Laid Off New York, Dec. 11. Working forces of the American Railway Ex press comparfy are being reduced throughout the country because of a general slump in business it was announced at the company's head quarters here today. How many of the thousands of the concern's em playes are affected could not be learned. ' "Business is flat all over the Uni ted States," said an official. French Budget Cut. Paris, Dec. 11. The financial com mission of the chamber of deputies announced 3,000,000,000 franc3 had been eliminated from the govern ment's proposed 1921 budget, vhich showed a', deficit of approximately i that amount, . gli)'IL ' . i Statesmen See Themselves As General Public Saw Them Annual Dinner of Gridiron Club Made Occasion of Postmortem on Presidential Election Episodes Of Front Porch Campaign Set to Music Crystal Gazer Reads Future. Washington, Dec. 11. The 35th annual dinner of the Gridiron club was made the occasion of a postmo' tern on the presidential election, the purpose being to permit politicians and some of the statesmen present to see themselves as others . sav? them. One epiode was a front porcli meeting at Marion, O., set to music, with such characters as Senator Harding, Harry' M. Daugherty, for mer Senator Weeks, Al Jolson. Wil liam J. Bryan and "Slush Fund Ru mor" participating. Mr. Daugherty stalked the front porch as Koko, the lord high executioneer, while there was a rumpus when "Slush Fund .yimor" invaded the Harding lawn. During the skit, Will H. Hays sang plaintively to the republican candidate, a political parody on "Then You'll Remember Me," only Mr. Hays' request was "So Please Remember Me." In another episode a crystal gazer, reading the political future, ' saw President Harding sending the league of nations to the alien prop erty custodian. The gazer also an nounced that the crystal revealed President Harding receiving .from Samuel Gompers the key to the back door of the White House and return ing it with a note saying- ' White House Lock Changed. "Mav I not. mv dear Mr. Gompers, ask you to keep this key as a sou venir? I have changed the lock." The seer revealed Harding was at work on a message to congress. He said he could not give the text, but assured an inquirer "the style will not cause any intellectual inconven ience." i The crystal gazer also found for mer Senator J. Hamilton Lewis ap olvintr for the job of publicity direc tor under Harding, but his services were declined. Mark Anthony Hitchcock deliv ered his famous oration over the body of the league covenant follow ing closely an historic model. He explained he came to bury the covenant, not to praise him. Master Minds Meet. Another extension of the post mortem to the fields of prophesy was a meeting of the "best minds" at Marion in conference with President-elect Harding. They include Col. George Harvey, former Presi dent Taft, Senators Borah, John son, Knox, Lodge, La Follette and Reed, Major General Wood, Govr crnor Lowden, Samuel Gompers, Herbert Hoover and Elihu Root. Tbe Weather ' Forecast. Sunday fair; not much change in temperature. Hourly Temperatiir. S . m 8 rt a. in XH 7 n. m .".87 8 a. m 87 R a. n 3R 1 p. m. . ni. S p. m. 4 p. ni. 5 l). m. .... ....49 ,...51 .4 .48 in a. m 41 H a. ni 44 1 n. ni 47 7 p. m 4(1 13 noon 4S I 8 p. m Yfatenlay'a Temp rat men. HI. I.'w HI. Vv nimarek Hofltnn Buffalo . CHlgnry . Cheyenne. (Thiraco . Denver . . ..3 16T.nnrt.T 3S 14 ,.3S . 34 Mmphl 64 31 .34 ss'Nrw ynrK....4i 3 12!North IlRtt..48 52 2x Philadelphia S 84 St, Txuls 48 38 SSt. Paul 34 SSSeattlo 44 3S .is;.siuux City. ...44 34 0t v ..42 ..43 ..40 . .t2 Pes Moines... 4 8 F.l Pnso 6 4 Kansas City.. S3 Milpprrs' Biillrlln. Protect ahlpmenta during (he next 2 4 to .11 hour from temperatures aa' follows: North, 30 degrees; went, 25 deftrees. Ship ment! east aod south, can bo mad lataly. They appeared dressed as school .boys and Colonel Harvey insisted on being the-"master mind" be cause he was the author of the "con spiracy" that elected Harding. Chief among the interested wit nesses to tne postmortem, were Vice President Marshall, to whom the club presented a large silver gridiron as a token of its regard. A similar gridiron was sent to the White . House to President Wilson, who was unable to attend. Besides ' the vi' president, the guests included .ittorney General .Palmer. Secretary Daryels, Secre tary Meredith, Secretary Payne, Secretary Burleson, Sir Auckland Geddes, British ambassador, and Jules J. Juesserand, French ambas sador. Congresswoman Is , Opposed to Hamon's Widow for His Place Muskogee, Okla., Dec. 11. Miss Alice H. Robertson, congresswo-man-elect from the Second Okla homa district, is opposed to the elec tion of Mrs. Jake L. Hamon as re-, publican national committeewoman succeeding her husband whose re cent death resulted in a scandal. "It was a great surprise to me to find that republicans of this state have been called upon to erect a monument to the late republican na tional committeeman by the election of his wife to' the vacancy caused by the sordid tragedy of his death," said Miss Robertson. "The women of Oklahoma cannot afford to indulge in an impractical, sentimental attitude toward one wo man when that attitude is fraught with such danger to women in gen eral. "The great leveler, death, is also a great truth revealer. The claim that the dead chieftain was the man whose genius placed this state in the republican column is not .true, his part having been far less than that of marry others and the party in Ok lahoma having, after all, won in spite of, rather than through his work." Tecumseh Bahy Playing With Matches Burns to Death Tecumseh,s Neb., Dec. 11. (Spe cial.) Robert Russell, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don A. Russell, living near Tecumseh, died of burns after acci dentally setting his clothes on fire. The child found some matches, went to the garage, climbed into the seat of a truck and in playing with the matches set his clothes afire. Both his father and mother heard his cries, but he was badly burned be fore they could aid him. He died a few hours later. Whisky Thieves Kidnap Drug Clerk and Roh Store Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 1L Whisky thieves kidnaped a drug clerk from his home here last night, drove him to the itore, forced him to open it and then? robbed the place of four cases of whisky and $500 in cash. After the robbers had left the clerk, James M. Paul, freed himself from cords with which he had been bound and telephoned the proprie tor, according to the story he told the police. Looking many years older than he dtd when he was first tried for the murder of Mrs. Lulu Vogt in 1917, Alson B. Cole today heard Judge Bayard Paine announce from the bench that he must return to the penitentiary in Lincoln and await his execution ordered December 17. Cole has been reprieved from death in the electric chair more than a dozen times with Allen V. Grammer, the murdered woman's son-in-law. Application Overruled. I On order of Federal Judge J. W. Woodrough Cole was srranted a new hearing in Howard county district, court today. His attorney, John X.' Priest, applied for a change of judge instead of a change of venue, but on objection of Mason Wheeler, rep resenting the attorney eeneral's office, this application was overruled.. lhis court rules that Alson B. Cole is still under sentence of death and will be returned to the state penitentiary and there be dealt with according to the iaw," ruled Judge fame. Shows No Emotion. Cole's face showed not a trace of emotion. He has sat in the shadow of the electric chair too long. He will be returned to prison to night by Sheriff Atwood. Attorney Priest said that all chances to save his client's life arc apparently ex hausted. Grammer's latest reprieve expires December 17. It is expected that he will be executed with Cole. Fremont Highwayman Sentenced to State Prison for Robbery Fremont NK. TW 11 CnM - . ' wv., . k,V!OI Telegram.) "You are hereby sen- . tenced to not less than three years and not more than 15 years at hard laDor, in the state penitentiary," was the verdict handed down by Judge Frederick W. Button to Cecil Wil loughby, 20, self-confessed highway man, and companion of Ernest A. Guest, who was killed a few weeks ago in a gun fight with the police, wh?n the ;two men attempted to es cane after thetsi harl hplrl nn aflrt robbed the F. A. Krumenacher store, and made away with about $30 in currency in the scrap, Guest was fa- , tally wounded and Willoughby es caped. Later he came to the business dis trict, while the nrilire? wfrc se-arrtiina the outskirts of the city, and pur chased new clothes, and left his old ones at the store where he made the purchase. In these, the sheriff aiscoverea nis n-me, wnicn was the main clue, in leading to his capture last week at his home in Neligh. He received his sentence calmly and did not give any excuses or ask for lenienrv. H vai nn T v rfi9nr.il with highVay robbery, although the cnarges ot Resisting an othcer on the night of the battle was filed against him. v State-Wide Search Made For Missing School Girl Tecumseh, Neb., Dec. II. (Spe cial.) Mr. and Mrs. Granville Smith of Crab Orchard have asked the sher- to help locate their daughter, Gladys, 18, and pretty, who disap peared Octobe 26. Miss Smith was a senior in the Crab' Orchard high school and had been in the habit of driving a horse between her home aitd' school each day. She left home as usual the day r.f her disappearance, put her horse in the barn and, a short time later was seen walking out of town.' Miss Smith was seen in an automobile be tween Beatrice and Lincoln later in the day. Woman Blames Political Enmity for Brutal Attack Carthage, Mo., Dec. 11. Miss Delia Sharp, former circuit court clerk, was attacked last night by four men who had hidden on the front porch of thejSharp home. She attempted to run after throwing her purse containing some mon4y and diamonds into he yard, but tripped and fell. As she lay on the ground the men kicked her, she said. A neighbor, E. W. Kidder, went to her aid, but was-'shot in the shoulder and the quartet escaped to an auto mobile in which two other men were ' waiting. Miss Sharp ascribed the attack to political enmity. She has taken a prominent part in republican poli tics in southwest Milsouri. Hoover Urges Churches To Aid in Relief Work Chicago, Dec. 11. Herbert Hoov er, chairman, of the European relief" council, issued an appeal to all churches to observe December 19 as national collection day and to take part in the campaign to raise $33, 000,000 as America's Christmas pres. ent to European children. The cam paign will extend over the holidays, collections being made in all public places and through civic organiza tions, v Japs Ahandon Plan to Comhine Ship Companies Tokio, Dec. 11. The Asahi Shim bun announces that the proposed amalgamation of the Tananese steam- j ship companies, in order to meet the situation created by the serious slump in shipping, has been abandoned.