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Daily Bee VOL. 50 NO. 195. THREE CENTS fofni Sanaa-Clata Mattir May ?, 190. at Omaha P. 0. Uar Act al March 3. IS79. OMAHA, MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1921. R Mall O yaai). Inalda -IM Zona. Dally and Sunday. $; Daily Only. JS: Sunday, 14 OuUlga4tn Zona (I ytar). Daily an Sunday, ill; Dally Only, tit: Sunday Only. i f.-- The Om AHA Showdown On Tariff) Tomorrow Fate of Emergency Measure to Be Decided in Senate Tues day, on Motion to Limit Debate. Finance Bills in Danger By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING. hlralo Tribune-Omaha lira I.'anril Wire. Washington, Jan. 30. The fate of the emergency tariff bill lw relief primarily of agricultural interests probably will be decided oi Tuesday when the senate is expected to vole on' the motion to limit' debate under the cloture rule. If the motion fails ot adoption by the necessary two-thirds majority, the republicans will abandon their ef forts to pais the bill at this session and allow it to be displaced for t-.e consideration of bending anpropria T'on measures. J'resiilent-elect liar ding desires that all appropriation bills be disposed of at this session in order that the special session he will call in March may devote itself exclusively to the tariff revision and reconstruction legislation. f A continuation of the democratic filibuster against, the emergency tafilt bill would endanger the pas sage of all the appropriation bills. American business interests which favor the promotion df reciprocal re lations with other countries through a bargaining tariff will have t!io ac jtive support of William S. Culbert Son, one of the members of the United States tariff commission. Bargaining Tariff Necessary. Mr. Culbcrtson, who is frequently called into consultation with mem bers of the bouse, ways and means committee and the senate t.nanec committee, believes that the new and influential position of this country in foreign commerce and finance makes 'imperative a bargaining tariiT for the protection of American commercial interests in foreign countries.. Sentiment for a provision for re ciprocal tariffs under the new Ford-ney-Penrose law which is now being framed, . is increasing steadily as shown by the hearings before the hous'c ways and means committee now in; progress, although many manufacturers are skeptical and in sist upon high tariff walls, subject to no exceptions. Mr. Culbertson, in discussing the question of bargaining tariff, de clares that all shades of tariff opin ion may unite upon it. He says that it is an essential part of au economy cally sound "foreign trade policy. -Tli creheral mirnosi in the iro- posed provision is to offer equality of treatment in the form of a mini mum schedule to all who grant like treatment to the United States and its products and to penalize with a maximum tariff, those countries which refuse us equality! of treat ment. Should Define Treatment. "In order to obtain the desired tiexiDiiuy. congress snouiu ueime in general "terms, the kind and degree of unequal treatment which is to be penalized, but should leave to the ' (Turn lo lag-e Two. Column Three.) President Opposed To Any Relaxation in Passport Rulings Washington, ' Jan. 30. Passport regulations have been discussed with a government official by President Wilson, it was learned, and in outlining his views, it was .said, the president indicated that' in his opinion, there should be no imme diate relaxation of passport restric tions. The discussion,, it is understood, resulted indirectly from the O'Cal laghan incident, when an inter-de-partmcutal controversy developed as to jurisdiction and policy in cases such as that precipitated wiien tne lord mayor of Cork arrived without a passport. The president was said to have notnted out that in the state of world t.iirest every precaution should be taken to prevent the United States from being made the base of plot ting against friendly nations. U. S. Woman Kidnaped In Ireland Released Dublin, Jan. 30. Miss Ellen J. Reidy, an American woman, who was kidnaped four days ago' near Fcr moy by masked men, has been re leased after a painiul experience as a prisoner, according to a message from Fcrmoy. She arrived from America recently to claim her brother's estate near Fermoy, and, she said, she was mo toring to the court to establish her claim when four armed, disguised men surrounded the car, overpow ered her chauffeur and leaving him bound, carried her off. Miss Reidy asserted she was kept 11in1fr.1rllft atlrl with hfT h.lllds bound for three days in a bedless ! room and that she suffered greatly from shock. She claims her life was threatened if she went to the courts, but on replying to this that she was under American protection she final ly was released. . j Miners Will Fight Attempt , To Reduce Scale of Wages Springfield. 111.. Jan. 30. John L I-cwis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, while visiting iiis home here today, advised that the miners' union will oppose any attempts to reduce wages of miners. -"We feel." he said, "that wages now paid are low enough to permit 'he sale of coal at a reasonable price. Wages for both anthracite and bituminous miners will continue in effect until March 31, Mary Garden Not Enthusiastic About New York Opera Critics t'hlrago Tribune-Omaha Bee I.'aaed Wire. New York, Jan. 30. Mary Gar den answers the unfriendly welcome ot New York critics in her own way. She paid them her compliments in an interview. Interpreting their comment of the opening nights as unfair. Mary Garden declared that with but one or two exceptions she had "never received any eourtesv from the critics of New York City." ''I do not ask it for myself; but I do think my artists deserve it,' and I want them to have it," slie said. "It is great it is wonderful to slave for the people and the recep tion last night if Oscar Hanimer stcin, bless his heart, could have been here and Canipinini wonder ful " The conversation switched for the moment from newspaper critics, pos sible jealousies of New York for thr Chicago opera, to the marriage re ports. ,. '.'Why do they always bring that up?" she asked, almost seriously. She was reminded that Jenny Lind wasn't unmiine in her times, but had marrieif in Boston, and Maria Gar-cia-M?1ibran long before had wed in New York why should she. Mary Bergdoll Sends. Wire to Mother , - , In Philadelphia Draft Dodger Brags of Having Outwitted American Detec tives Things Not Cheer ful in Ouaker City Home. Chirmco Tribune-Omaha Hee leaned Wire. Philadelphia, Jan. 30. Grovcr Bcrgdoll sent a cablegram to his mother yesterday to inform her of his latest spectacular attempt to"put it over" on America. The cablegram was 'similar to the one the Philadel phia draft dodger dispatched to the editor of the Public Ledger. With bravado and pride it flip pantly stated; "Wc captured six Department of Tustice agents and threw them into prison. We arc safe and sound. See the Associated Press report." I At the Bcrgdoll home Mrs. Emma C. Bcrgdoll refused to comment on the cable or on the spectacular re velation of Grover's movements since he slipped through the fingers of American justiice by feeding mili tary authorities at Governor's Island, N. Y., a fanciful tittle story about searching for a "pot of gold." " Mother Worried. -The fact,, that Grover's "pot of gold" has, after a silence of eight months, turned out to be the little town of Eberbach. in German-, docs not particularly fill the buxom mis tress of the Bcrgdoll "castle" on Wyunfield avenue with glee. Tn fact, the mother of Grovcr and Erwin seemed worried. Frau Bcrgdoll was up and busy in her kitchen. ' At 7 the coffee pot was clattering and there was an outward semblance of cheer emanating with the tempting aroma. But that was as far as it went. "I have nothing "'at all to say," said the mistress of coffee' pot and summarily the blue-aproned figure would betake herself back into the 4afc sanctum of the kitchen where reporters were not. Motto on Door. v On the back door were idly pen ciled Ihe words "Gott hilf uns," and it was a fateful motto for this parti cular kitchen door. Things are not what they used to be in the castle. Grover is in Eberbach, Erwin is in prison and Mamma Bergdoll cannot go to Germany herself, it is authenti cally started, because she is loath to trust her real estate interests to any one in America. Then too, this is hard. All her mail is opened by the postal authorities before it reaches her. She communicates with Grover in Germany by an indirect method which entails having his letters sent elsewhere tinder an assumed name. 'A third thorn in the bush is the trouble Mrs. "Ike" Steelier, wife of Grover's chauffeur, is having with her husband who is in Eberbach with Grover. Mrs. Steelier is a close friend of Mrs. Bergdoll and has made frequent visits to the Vy"P ficld avenue home to discuss her divorce. Co-operation Between Negroes and Whites Urged 'Atlanta, Ga.,'Jan. 30. Co-operation between negroes and whites in solving problems of the colored ra.ee was urged by Vice President-elect Coolidgc in an address- at a negro church. TJie vice president-elect said that while the people of the north had done much for the negroes of the south, especially by sending theni educators, the southern white people had done even more. He urged conscientious effort on the part of the negro to better his condition. Zion Overseer Turns Barrage Against Tan Shoes and High Heels Chicago Tribune-Omaha Br leaned Wire. Chicago, Jan. 30. In his general scheme of regulating the world, Wil bur Glenn Voliva, general overseer of Zion, has begun a new attack a sort of double-barreled barrage against tan shoes and high heels. "A woman in high heels walks worse than if she had wooden legs." says Voliva. "She ought to be put in a lunatic asylum. I'm, just a plain, moss-backed Christian and I intend to stay that way. I won't tolcraU the idea of a woman with a number seven foot trying to wear a number three shoe. "Tan shoes look bad. I have no use for them. I don't like to see tan shoes in the house of God. Mem bers of the Zion choir arc expected to wear black shoes."' Garden, director and grand opera star, be. spared? "It will be a shock to them when I do marry. He won't be of the profession, I assure you," she an nounced. "I think he will be an American, a man who docs things;' "And you will leave the opera for good?" ' "For good," she repeated. Mary Garden has been quoted as saying she will try matrimony at 50. The story fcoes: "nc js an American, but his identity is a secret. Mary absolutely refuses to say who he is. He has promised to wait for me until I am 50. I will marry sooner than that, though." "About when may I ask?" "After I put the Chicago Opera company on a paying basis, which I think will be in W22," replied Mary cautiously. Miss Garden received exactlv 100 proposals of marriages through tha mails immediately following her ap pomtment as director general. But Miss Garden laughed heartily vowed she loved her new work more every day the woes and the wails and all the troubles ot a troupe, her big artistic family, as she called them. " ' End of World Due In 1925, Speaker Tells Audience Head of Bihle Students Asso ciation Says World Will Not Be Destroyed hy Com-A ing of Lord. Several thousand Omahaus were assured the world would come to an end in 1925, by J. rF. Rutherford, president of the International Bible Students' association,, in his speech, 'Millions Now Living Will Never Die," at the Auditorium yesterday afternoon. Mr. Iuthcrford also declared thou sands in this ity and millions on the earth wouidbe restored to health and youth and live into in finity when this end comes, scoffing at the belief the world would be destroyed by the coming of the Lord. - "We stand at the very door" of time . w hen the promised blessings to the human races are about to be gin," said Mr. ; Rutherford. "The Lord is preparing a class of people which he will take through this period. Even the wicked shall have a chance. '' sec many laid heads in this audience. Many of these heads will cease to be bald. - The" skin of old men "will become frcsf), the teeth perfect; old men shall become young and even beautiful. We shall.be tiffed up to a perfection of body and health." - Proven by Scriptures. Mr. Rutherford quoted the scrip Hires and writings of the prophets to prove his . assertion the earth would end in 1925. lie laid em phasis on the recolonization of Pales tine as a proof the "period of change" was approaching. "The favor of God is passing from the Gentile to tne jew," he asserted. "I say Palestine will become the capital of the world, and I'm not guessing about it. The war between Russia and Turkey in 1878 resulted in the Turks granting the Jews' in Palestine more rights. This was prophesied. Just 40 years later, in 1918, the move to establish a Jewish government in- Palestine got under way. Jews are returning there to the extent of 1.000 a month, thus fulfilling a prophecy made, 4,000 years aero. . Mr. Rutherford said the "time of the Gentiles" ended in 1914 and the day of 'the Jews had begun, that "un satisfactory business conditions" was another sign and that the present order ofsocietv was disin tegrating. He said the world war inni-i. tional differences, famine and pesti- ! lencc which descended on the j world, were all prophesied. I League of Nations Foreseen. I The formation of a league of na tions and its ultimate failure- was foreseen by the prophets Ezekiel, ephamah and Isaiah, he declared. Helso asserted newspapers attempt ing To force this country into the league were acting in the behalf of big business, and predicted even worse conditions in the world before the "type" ends and the great transi tion occurs. Mr. Rutherford is known for his assertions, "immortality of the soul is supported bv nothing except Satan's .falsehood," that the dead are nof conscious or able to com municate with the living because resurrection has not yet come and that the "so-called science of com municating with the dead is demonism." He holds that the dead will be awakened on the dav of resurrection and be given a trial for life. He criticized the pastors, but added the "safety of all we have is in the-hands of the churches,, despite their present inefficient state." V Wool Growers Protest On .Tariff Filihuster Salt Lake. City-, Jan. 30. Protest against what they called the unfair filibustering tactics of United States Senator William II. King in regard to the Fordney emergency tariff bill was voiced today by both the Na tional Wool Growers' association and the Utah State Wool Growers' as sociation. Members of Philippine Constabulary Sentenced Manila, P. .!., Jan. 30. Seventy seven elisted nun of the Philippine constabulary, adjudged guilty of se dition, were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment each, and to pay fines ranging from $500 to $5,000. The prison sentences are the 'maximum the ' law allows. GerillJtO;! IT " I "A ' -V Of Payment llerr Bergman Declares Gov- eminent Will Protest Against Decision of Allied Supreme Council on Reparations. U. S. Officials Pleased By HENRY WALES. riiicaco Trillin. e Cable, opyrlk'hl, lu'-'l. Paris, Jan. 30. Germany will fight against the allies' reparation plan, which was formally adopted bv the supreme council. 1 Chief Berg man I of the German reparations delegation told me this morning his government would contest the allies' proposals because the exports tax would cripple German industry and prevent Germany .from earning enough to pay the annuities. "I cannot say I am pleased with the reparations plan," Herr Bergman said, "but I cannot dispute the mat ter now. "I first must refer the plan to the government at Berlin and let Wilhemstrasse decide on what action to follow and instruct me what to do." . ' ' Germany will be invited to attend the conference in London, February 28, to give its consent to the allies' plan and sign the protocol cover ing it. . . Two Military Guarantees. Through French pressure, the allies will embody the two military guarantees in the protocol. The first provides for the occupation of the Ruhr district and the second an ex tension of the time limit for the occupation of the Rhine district, so it will be protected if the reparations are not executed, 1 The French demand that the allies' control commissions be established in eve.ry German port, every frontier railway station; to check bills of lad ing anil invoices to make sure of the collection of 12 per cent exports tax. , Although the French continue to assert the tax is based on the dif ferences between German exports and imports, I learn authoritatively the tax is based on gross exports, and is estimated to produce 63,000, 000,000 gold marks in 42 years. Austria was discussed at the final meeting of the supreme council this afternoon when the committee of experts reported the desperate situation existing in that country and warned the premiers that Austria and Germany may unite to smash the Versailles and St. Germain treaties unless action is taken to pre vent this contingency. France Unable to Help. ' Premier Lloyd George pointed out that Great Britain has already ad vanced 10.000,000 to Austria (normally about .f50.000.000) and Preinier Brianrl stated that France was unable to help financially now. It is expected that Austria will 11: ' unofficially advised to seek help from the United States and that the Aus trian reparations commission will 1 I instructed to permit the Vienna gov- (Turn to Tare Two, Column One.) j Builder Sues Labor Unions for $100,000 j t? t rv . c -i ' ror loss Lme to orriKe Chicago 'JpTilmne-Omaha lice I.eaeil Wire. Chicago, Jan. 30. Excitement was caused in the building industry when attorneys for Robert Pottinger, a building contractor, brought dam age suit for $100,000 in the superior court against seven union labor'and building organizations to recover damages when the unions stoppd work on a building he was erecting. It is charged in the suit that work was. stopped on his building and all supplies were shut off because he had had previous dealings with a nonunion mill. i Back of the whole suit is arr tide 3 of the agreement between the Carpenters' district council and the Carpenter Contractors' association, which permits discrimination against nonunion goods. ' It is this article which is responsible for the recent voting of 47 indictments against union labor chiefs and mill men by a federal grand iurv. Four of thi defendants in the suit brought to day, are also defendants in the trust conspiracy of the government. Man Paralyzed From Blow Aimed at Mule Chiraeo Tribune-Omaha Bee leaned Wire. Warsaw, Ind.. Jan. 30. Albert Wood, prominent farmer residing near , Warsaw, is paralyzed to the waist and in critical condition as the result of a blow struck by his son. Dallas Wood, 21. The father and son were attempt ing1 to break a balky mule and be came so enraged that the father told the son to hit the mule on the head with a club.' The father held ihe mule's head. The mule, however, .was not caught napping and jerked its head aside as the blow descended. Instead of striking the mule's head, the blow lauded squarely on ihe head of the elder Wood aiid he was rendered unconscious. Physicians say tjterc is litile hope for" his re covery. ' Retired Naval Officer Dies at Age of 71 Years Newport, R. L, Jan. , 30. Rear Admiral E. D. Taussig, 74. retired, died today after a long illness. Rear Admiral Taussig was grad uated from the United Stales acad emy in -1867 and 4 year later was commended for service during an earthquake at Arica. Late in the Spanish-American war, while a cap tain commanding the Bennington, he took possession of Wake Island for the United Stntes. ,Hc afterward served in executive posts in the Phil ippines. He was retired in 1909. Will Prohibition t' i " j 1 ; ifey ENWJ&H F0 four.1 keg $W State Debatinsi . Contests Held By High Schools McCook, Superior and Fair bury Win Decisions From Indianola, Edgar aid Hebron Academy. Nebraska high schools are rapidly being eliminated in the state debat ing league contests. Debates are all held on the same . subject. "Rc- smvcil, that 'the literacy' test restric tion on immigration should be Re pealed." -The McCook team won from In dianaola in a first series contest of the southwest district McCook main tained the affirmative. The judge was Prof. Anton H. Jensen, instruc tor of modern languages, University of Nebraska. The McCook debaters were: Beulah llust, John Kleven and Gundell GoUansky. The members of the Indianaola team were Mil dred Wing, Charles Burt and Ruth Hedges. N Superior Gets Decision. The Superior teajn won by a two to-one decision from Edgar at Edgar ii a first series contest of the'south rrn district. The judges were Dean F. E. W'ever of Hastings college; Prof. R. "M. McDill of Hastings college, and Supt. G. W Rosenlof of Nelsoii, Neb. The Superior debaters were Mer win Phelps, Hazel Kenney, Clar ence Gittings and Frances Eyre, al ternate. The Edgar debaters were Wilma Eddy, Raymond Jones, and Carl Gass. Hedron Academy Loses. Hebron Academy team lost to Fairbury at the academy. The j Academy team members were Wal ter Oehinger, Herbert Czirr, Doro- j thy Theimer. Fairbury team, Eli j Upp, Warren White, Julia Ward. C. H. Epperson of Clay Center, , Superintendent Nipert of Bruning and Superintendent Kotas of Kiowa were judges. After the debate the debating teams, judges, and officials were entertained at the academy. V West Point Wins. West Point won a unanimous de cision from Wisner at West Point. Robert Van Pelt of Lincoln, D. H. Koch of Scribner, and W. E. Flake of Stanton, acted as judges. The de baters were: West Point, William Andersotif William Schrank and Holly Heitzman: Wisner, Bern ice Hansing, Pearl Nelson and Leroy Laase. Cult Leader Gets Stay San Francisco. Jan. 30. Joslma Sykes, pasioi; of an organization he called the Chnrcii of -the Living God, obtained, a 14-day slay of execution from his sentence of 18 months at the federal penitentiary at McNeil's Island, .Wash. New York Man Makes "Sizzling" Reply to Blue Law Advocates ( IiIihi Trlliunc-Omalm Itee Leased Wire. . New York. Jan 30. "I'd just as soon sizzle in hell for cnternity as to suffer all day Sunday under the blue laws," was the reply of Dr. Royal S. Copcland, member of the Sunday Rights association, to the challenge from Wilbur Glenn Voliva. over seer of Zion city. "Mr. Yoliva's statement ought to interest every church." said Doctor Copelaiid, who is health commission er of New York-. "If he or anyone ele should succeed in putting over such a program as he advocates it would be the greatest blow real religiou ever received." Dr. Copcland was asked if he thought Voliva's missionaries would "get very far" in New York. "Well, they might get as far as Grand Central .latiou." he reolicd. Bring Back the Old ICopyriiht: 191: The Chieuro Tribuna.l Future Outlook j For France Grave! Government Face to Face With , Bankruptcy Experts Unable to See Solution. By HENRY WALES. Chicago Tribune, (altle. Copyright, 1921. Paris, Jan. 30. France is face to face with the bankruptcy. The set tlement of the reapartioii question shatters the last illusion that the German indemnity might save the situation. Cold figures proycthc rlcsricrate financial ' situation," and financial wizards as well as adroit diplomats 'see no hopeful sclutiom Already laborers reconstruction;; flic deva station in the Lille iml Reims districts are beinc: discharged by thousands and the civil servants'! directing the work of reconstruction also are being removed under M. Louchetir's orders, through lack of funds to pay 'them', M. Louclicur has announced that war sufferers hereafter would be re imbursed on t!ic basis of pre-war ap' pidisais auu estimates, wnicn aver- ; age from one-iourth to one-third of the present prices. The French government is facing a deficit of from 22.000,000,000 to 26 000,000,000 paper francs this vear The ordinary budget totals 19,000. 000,000, and the extraordinary budget which is listed as "recoverable from German reparations," totals 22.000 000,000 francs. The eaxes are bringing in less than 20,000,000,000 francs, including 9,000. 000,000 francs obtained through the new taxation applied last year, which nas milked the country dry.1 I The .present chamber of deputies ' was elected on a platform of" no levy on capital," which bars the sole door i open to the financiers who are eek- I ing a solution. Lloyd George Assures World of Britain's Good Will on Debts, Paris, Jan. 30. The Brif'sh premier received French - newspaper men. They I asked him, about the intcr-alhVd debts. He assured them Great Britain would show the utmost good will in the settlement as evidence by the engagement made at the Hythe conference not to capi talize its share of the German in demnities for five years, in order not to compete with loans-France might make, based on her share.' "But it is impossible to consider a special agreement between two countries with regard to the ques tion," he continued. "There must be a general arrangement. Wc owe to America: France owes u; other na tions owe France. No solution k possible' while America remains out side the discussion. "Meanwhile, let us act as if debts did not exist. "If the creditor does not worry me, 1 do not worrv the debtor." Li . . ' Rome Telegraph Office Wrecked by Nationalifls Rome, Ja'n, 30.--Aftcr holding an anti-socialist ; -.meeting, groups of. students and members of the ex treme nationalist party formed, a pro cession. They were dispersed, by guards, but reformed and marched to the central telegraph office, where employes are inclined toward com munism. They wrecked furniture and threw ink wells abotif until they were auain dispersed. L Firms Face Prosecution Basin, Wjw Jan. 30. Jntorma tions charging the Midland Carbon company and the Occidental Oil and Gas company with 487 violations of the Wyoming law prohibiting use of natural gas for; the manufacture of Carbon black within 10 miles of an incorporated town or "city, were tiled here by County Attorney Ljttlc. Styles in Dress? Report of Church World on Steel Strike Scored Professor Says Men Who Made Investigation Not Qualified to Judge Con ditions and Rights. New York, Jan. 30. The lntcr chureh world movement, in investi gating the toel strike of 1919, did ik "rcrceiu the churches of jGcjd., Dr. J." R.-.Day, elianceljjr'! oi Syra cuse university declared, in an ad dress yesterday. He attacked the movement's, report on conditions in the plants of the United Steel Steel corporation, declaring - investigators were unqualified to go into "this great corporation and judge working men's conditions and rights." Then he attacked the union labor movement, declaring labor leaders are "extremely . mischievous and i wield a ' most dangerous influence j over labor." j 'Hugh Frayne, international orga-1 nizer lor tne American recicrauon ot Labor, speaking as the representative of Samuel Gompcrs, predicted that attempts by employers to destroy unions, as well as to reduce wages, iy going to fail." The country is faced by the great problem of ' un employment, he declared, adding that 4.000,000 workers arc willing and ready to labor, but none can find em ployment. "We don't believe that labor is getting too much money now," he continued. "It " was 1 not getting enough before. No one that believes in justice and right will deny the American workmen a dement stand ard of living." : Telephone Operator ! For Peace Mission in Paris Killed by Pall Cliirago Tribune, ( able, Copyright, 181. Paris,' Jan. 30. Miss Darnaby Henton, 25, of Versailles, Ky.. and reputed to be the prettiest telephone j operator who came to France with i President Wilson's peace mission iivi 1918, died in the Latin quarter as a result of a fall from a balcony dur ing an attack of dizziness. At the close of the peace confer ence, Miss Henton obtained a posi tion as a telephone operator at the American embassy. She resigned last November to study at the Sorboime. Friends say that Miss Henton has! suffered from nervous and dizzy j spells as a result of ovcrstudy. ; Italian Steamship Is Reported Burned at Sea Newport eis, Ya.. Jan. 30.--' Wireless advices received were t that the Italian steamship, Nep-i tuuia, was bunir.d at sea today i with a probable loss of life. The : Belgian steamship, Klimmar, bound j for Hampton Roads, is bringing the survivors of the crew, several ot whom are said to have been badlv j burned. Quarantine officials at Old Point Comfort have been asked to meet the ship with " doctors and nurses. , I The Weather I Forecast. ! Nebraska Generally fair Monday i with rising tempcraire. Hourly Temperatures. i p. in p. ill . . . x v. in . . . 4 P. ni . . . a p, m . . , p. m . . . p. m . . . $ p. Ill . . , in . . i un m -:o I V" ay Extend War Control Of Aliens House Committee Reports Fa vorably on Bill to Place Im migration Authority in Hands of U. S. Consuls. Other Measure Is Dead By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING. (Iilrafo Tribune-Omaha llee I.eaaetl Wire. Washington, Jan. 29. The pro posed legislation suspending immi gration (or one year Is moribund, so far as the present congress is con cerned, but au effort will be made to put. through a bill continuing and amplifying the process of silling in tending immigrants abroad. 1 The house committee on foreign affairs has reported favorably a bill providing that upon formal restora tion of peace with Germany, exist ing system of passport control, es tablished under war legislation, shall be continued until June 30, 1922. Un der war regulations no alien is per mitted to enter the country without a passport vised by an American consul, who is authorized to refuse to vise to any enemy alien, radical agi tator, or other person deemed dan- ' , . 4l. r...!.!.,. .Inllf 1 Of the more than 600.000 aliens.' who sought consular vises during the last fiscal year, about 2 per cent failed to obtain them for -this reason. Consuls had no authority, however, to refuse vises to (hose wiio obvious ly would be excluded upon arrival at American ports on the ground of illiteracy; disease, poverty, and other disqualifying conditions enumerated in, the immigration laws. Would Extend Powers. The pending bill proposes to au thorize consuls to refuse vises, not only to dangerous radicals, but to those aliens obviously liable to ex clusion on other grounds. That is au extension of control to the source of immigration which has been. ad vocated for years by immigration officials. The bill exempts from its pro visions. .British and French subjects in the British and French possessions of the western hemisphere and citi- zens of Cuba, Panama and Mexico, and also political refugees from all countries. A political refugee is defined by the bill as any alien who shall prove to the satisfaction of the secretary of state and secretary of labor that he is seeking admission to the United States to escape or avoid political persecution in the country . of his last residence, whether such persecution be evidenced by overt acts or -by laws pr. governmental re gulations directed against the alien himself or the race or nation or poli tical subdivision to which he bc- (Tuni in rase Two. Column One.) Savings of Entire World , Estimated at $ 1 3.58 for Each Person New York, Jan. 30. Every man. woman and chiid iji the world would have $13.58 from an equal distribu tion of all the money on deposit in mutual, stock and postal savings banks of the globe, it was estimated by the Savings Banks association of New York state. There are 146,277,394 holders oi small savings accounts in the world, the estimate shows, who have on deposit $23,123,28.1.077, greater than the combined wealth f Germany, Austria, Hungary, Turkey and Bul garia. The average deposit account the world over is $158.08. x Of the total world savings, ii -habitants of the United States pos- -sess more than one-quarter, accord ing to the association's figures. In thif country, aside from deposits in postal savings, there are Jl,427,55' depositors in mutual and stock sav ings banks, with total dcuosits of $6,536,470,000 or 2 per cei t of the country's wealth. This marks a gan of approximately $634,000,000 in 1920. Three Arrested When Liquor Found in Home Police raided a house at 1011 Capi tol avenue and arrested J. A. Ragen, 1430 Avenue G, Council Bluffs, and Thorg Morton, lSltf Third avenue, Council BlunV. Ragen was charged with unlawful possession of liquor, police having found a gallon of corn whiskcv in his automobile. Morton was charged with carrying conccakd weapons when police found a revolver in Ins pocket. After a search of the liousc the officers fo-.md two gallons oi whiskey which hail just been delivered there, according to police. Jackie Simpson was arrested .and charged with un lawful possession. Tfie car, which police said had been tised to trans port the liquor, was confiscated.. Alaska Leads Country in Purchase of Thrift Stamps YVnctiiiitylnn 1m 30 s-,l r,i thrift stamps and other treasury sccurities were greater per capita fn Alaska during 192X1 than in any state, the Treasury department an nounced. The average investment in Alaska hy every man, woman ami child was $2.20. Ohio led the states with a per capita of SI. 50. ! Jury Unable to Agree in Case of Frisco Gangster Sail Francico. Jan. 30. After h i -ing been out for nearlv 24 hours, :i tljc jury in the case of Thomas Brady, ':H criminal gang suspect, accused of at 4 1 tacking Miss Jean Stanley, reported .21 ; it was tillable to agree at 5:05 p. m. "land was discharged. Brady's rc-'.i-i trial was set for next Monday, i'
