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THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1921?;" ' A
Reparation Again
H is Discussed by
Sp; Allied Council
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Reparation Commission
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Ms, Jan. 26.Paul ' Doumer,
;Jrj;nch minister of finance opened
;tt tliscussion of German repara
tions by the supreme council here
-ilii 'morning. He read a report on
tt&: fttiaucial situation and outlined
the I;rcnch viewpoint concerning a
MTution of the reparations question.
l'hev conference then heard Baron
idgar Vincent D'Abernon, British
embassador to Germany.
M. Doumer's report occupied vir
tually the whole of the morning.
JMganwhitc, the conference plans to
"wicuss the Ppllsli and near eastern
ijucslions and to take up the repara
tions issue again tomorrow.
JiXhe position adapted by M.'Dou
foii in his report, it developed, as he
vrocecded to its conclusion, was a
MUrn tq Article 233 of the treaty of
?rsaillcs, which places the duty of
'determining the amount o compen
sation to be paid by Germany with
ii(y reparations commission. Head
i'ifated strict adherence toHhc terms
of that article.
Allied military experts today
Sijfildcdvthe supreme council their re
Tinrt on a plan for the disbandmcnt
JGerman military units? The re
Vrt triv satisfaction to the French
Atewpoint. on the question, provid
jn'S'fnr fultVomoliance with all dis
armaments clauses of the Versailles I
treaty. N
Ull "Concedes to Great Britain, a
iurther -delay which was asked for
Monday before' the supreme
rrwncil by Premier Lloyd George.
TwVthirds of the operation of dis
Apjiarnent must . be completed by
March i, and the work must be fin
jslied by July 1. . ' , , i .
; ijhis decision means that the Ein
wolinenwehr, or ciyic guards, and
llieiecurity. pol:ce. must be dis
5iaHdcd as must all other similar or
"frartjizatioris not allowed by the treaty
otVerailles "The council has still
to.'act upon "the report, but it was
the- general opinion this afternoon
iiiaf it Would approve the. onclu
Jioj's of the experts. '- f
Tafts Leave Bermuda foe '
ErJ ."Trip Back to America;
. 'Hamilton, Bcrmtida, Tan. 26.
WiHiafn H. Taft tnd Mrs!- Taft
Sailed tor home after a visit here of
almost a month. -7
Mr. Taft was called home to re
lume work on arbitrating the value
of the share of the Grand Trunk
1 ail way, which is being taken over
by the Canadian government. '
; Milwaukee Elevator Burns
Attempt to Kidnap, r
Slacker Bergdoll Is
Foiled at Ebersbach
Berlin, Jan. 26. An attempt was
recently made ,at Ebersbach to kid
nap Grover Cleveland Bergdoll,
American' draft dodger, and a com
panion named Steelier by five men
in an automobile, two of whom were
American military intelligence offi
cers and one an American sergeant,
according to the Ebersbacher Zei-
Bergdoll w as being driven Ho the
Ebersbach railway station to meet
wWding guests, when the automobile
was suddenly surrounded and its oc
cupants ordered to surrender. The
party attempted to escstpe and one of
the Americans fired, the newspaper
said, wounding a German friend of
lUfTgdoii tnthe right hand. i'olice
nlhfarc mid .1a 1
vu.via ai'fvanu oyu mc live 11111
fled, but the two allecerl intellicrenre
officers and 'another of the men were
urresiea later. . -
Fourth Probe to
Be Made of Death
Of Wealthy Miser
Authorities Will Make
Another Effort to Secure
Further Traces of Persons
. Responsible for Murder.
Madison,, vs., Jan. 2(S new
investigation into the death oi R. S.
Lawrence, South Madison - broker
and jewelry connoisseur whd was be
lieved to have had $100,000 in cash,
bonds and jewels in his possession
when last seeu alive three years ago.
has been started by Theodore G.
Lewis, Dane county district attor
ney, a roitrtn exhumation ot tne
body of Mr. Lawrence may be or
dered in connection with the inquiry,
it was said today. ,
According to evidence produced
through previous investigations
Lawrence, on March 21, 1918, count
ed his money and bonn iiTtys home
cn Lake Monona, arranging them in
j.iles with his jewels. This .was said
to have been his daily custom. In
eluded among the jewels was a stone
known ?.s the "orange diamond" val
ued at $100,000 and said to have been
brought from Africa in 1884 as a,
g;ift for Queen Victpria of England.
Left to See Lawyer.
Lawrence went to a lawyer to
make a codicil to his wilt' leaving
part of his estate tote step-daughter,
Louise Vale,, a motion picture ac
tress who died later. If e'was never
again seeen alive, but that night a
.mangled body was found 0r4j.be rail
road tracks near the city-. It was
buriea as that of Lawrence although
ko badly mangled that only his
nephew was allowed tc see -it. Th'i
nephew, Edward J. Lawrence, sai.l
it was the body of his uncle.
Later the body was exhumed by
the state, but instead of the niau
gled rcmau4buiied a nude body,
identified by several persons as that
x)f Lawrence, was found. Phyiicians
testified death had come from a blow
administered on the head. A mark
on the head vvas the only injury re
vealed. a
, Body Tampered With.
Later another exhumation way
made and the boUy found the -Second
time had be$n tampered with,
according to physicians who con
ducted an autopsy, several bruises
having been inflicted.
The three undertakers who han
dled the body on the track, William'
Williams, now dead; Robert May
and Joseph Stevenson, testified in
previous Inquiries that the body was
mangled beyond recognition. .
Blood-stained bills were circulated
in Madison shortly after Lawrence
disappeared, it is said. ,
Lawrence was widely - known
throughout Colorado as a lobbyist
at fhe state house in Denver, where
he spent many years before coming
to W isconsin.
Authorities to
Prevent Spread of
Sleeping.Sickness
IHiuois Health Officials De
termined That Ulness Must
: Be Stamped Out 33 Cases
Found m Chicago.
Shrinefield.1 111.. Ja;i."
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-State
health officials today took steps to
prevent Spread of "sleeping sick
ness" from Chicago, where 33 cases
have bn reported. ,-'
"The sickness which is now- preva
lent in Illinois is unlike the African
disease of the, same name, which U
caused "by a fly," Dr. C. S. Drake,
director of the health department
said. "As far as we can learn, the
4ocal malady ts due to infective or
ganism, on. a germ, andji no: con
nccted with any other disease uj
has been believed by tlie medical
profession for a long time.
"Symptoms are "sleepiness, weak
ness, drowsiness of the eyes, weak
ening of the muscle of the eye,
double vision and an expressiouless
or mask-like 'appearance of the face.
The nation t's' temperature usually
ranges frpjh 102 to 105."
" Dr. lDrke explained that victims
of lethargic cncephaltios sometimes
steep for sevefal weeks at a time.
Fatalities usually a high he added,
but if the patient- can be aroused
from his sleep, he has a fair chance
4 of recovering. Uniaue methods
sometimes are resorted to in arous
ing patients, he continued.
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Kansas Senator Attacks
Appointment of Rjckards
Washington, Jan. ' ,26. Charges
that the appointment of Maj.
George C." Kickards as chief of the
War department militia bureau-was
made contrary to the spirit of the"
law are made in a resolution in
troduced by Senator Capper, repub
lican, Kansas, as allowing the de
partment to "disclose the rcconw
mendations of the appointee
The resolution said the adjtil.int
general of 35 states had united on
Charles I. Martin, adjutant general
of Kansas, for the job;
Crude Oil Drops.
' Pittsburgh. Jan.. 26. The price M'
Corning cruthj oil today was reduced
25 cents a barrel.' The new quota
tion is $3.50. '
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