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rT'.',:;"':'-Mg, 1 tU UMAtlA JUAlJLrl ' JDJttJS VOL. 50 NO. 200. Borah Plan To Cut Navy Is Rejected Senate Committee Opposes Suggestion for Six Months" Suspension of Ship building Program. - Officers Oppose Holiday By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING. t.hlrago Tribune-Omaha Ilc I.asfi Vlrr. Washington, Feb. 4. While Ad miral Sims and other office rs before the house committee on naval af fairs were opposing a naval holi day, the senate committee on nava! ai'fairs rejected the suggestion of a six months' suspension of, navy building by the I nited States. Senator Pouide.vter was instruct ed to prepare a report lor presen tation to the senate tomorrow, ad . vising against this proposal con tained in the Borah resolution and I .upholding the opinion of the navy! general board that cont ruction of j capital ships cannot safclv be cither : ;.haudoiicd W susp'ended. : Chairman Butler of the house com mittee, who recently conferred with J 'resident-elect Ilardintr announced that the. United States shortly would invite the powers to participate in a conference on the reduction of armament. "I know that these nations are going to be invited to talk over dis armament and the question is whether they will accept the invita tion,", he yaid. , Officers Against Holiday. It was the unanimous advice of ttaval officers that there should be nr naval hnlidav for the United States, no discontinuance of riaval strengthening until the j United States navy is as strong as 'the strongest. The present building pro gram must be completed, they said, and it must be supplemented with airplane carriers to make it as strong at other navies. - Admiral Sims said that even with no sign ot trouoie, ne wouiu noi abandon the present battleship build ing program. "General I'ershing told you that there would be no war with Great Britain. But you can't tell what Great Britain will do. You can't tell what will come out of conditions in central Europe." The tdmiral said he thought there would be no delay in acceptance by foreign powers of an inyitatiqn to a conference on limitation of armament. "It is' no longer nec essary for England to have a fleet as , big as 6he has. She built it against Germany. Great Britain, Japan and the United .States-could, cut their navies. in halt" and their relative power "would remain as it is,". he commented. k : Deficient in Subs. ., Admiral Sims said the Ameri can navy was deficient in subma rines and greatly inferior to Great Britain in the air. "So great now is the menace of airplane attack that our fleet, when completed, will be of little use in a contest with another fleet unless adequately .equipped with airplanes, and would be easily licked," he said.1 The admiral minimized the value of anti-aircraft guns. On the western front during the war it took" 1,000 shots o score one hit. "I would not abandon the battleship, but if the airplane can cio the work claimed for it, I would build the' airplane carrier," he said. ' Brig. Gen. William Mitchell of the air service, said was the German phn before the war ended to send a giant bombing plane to this coun try to bomb New York. Hi . said tt.ey had perfected one that could make the trip. He dropped the in formation that the air service was building one now of a similar model. . General Mitchell said that a three inch gun recently had been fired from an airplane with little notice of recoil and he predicted that short ly six-inch guns could be used. He lirgCU Midi U1U V.U1IMUII .UUlwufcL the use of an obsolete battleship for a real aerial attack, and said in such a icsi ne cuuiu tuuiin-u mcinuti.-i of congress that effective defense lies in a huge air force. ':' -Posloffice Is Destroyed In an Official Reprisal , Dublin, Feb. 4. In an official re orisal carried out yesterday the post- office and a business house at Wil liamstown w ere burned. An ambush occurred there January ;, in wmcn Divisional Commissioner Holmes of the royal Irish constabulary was wounded, dying the next-day. Five constables also were wounded in this attack. Third Court-Martial Case i, In Dublin Is Postponed Dublin, Feb. 4. The third trial arising out of the assassination of court-martial officefs last November was postponed to an unannounced date. , It was stated that the post ponement was in consequence of an attempt to assassinate an important eovernmcnt witness,, who was " .11 1 Aviator Injured in Fall May Recover, Physicians Say ! Riverside, Cal., Feb. 4. Lt. f.van V.. Sherrill of Mauckport.- Ind., whose skull was fractured Wednes day in an airplane accident" at March field, near here, that cost the life of Lt. Walter E, Price of River side, was reported today to be "more than holding his own." Phy sicians are hopeful of his recovery. Big Winner at Baccarat Paris, Feb. 4. Dick Klegan. . of Johnson-Willard fight fame, came to Paris today" from Monte Carlo, where he just achieved the season's record at baccarat. It is reported that he cleaned up 5,000,000 francs in two nights' play. Today Klegan declared: "Monte Carlo is the easiest sporting proposition on earth. I would stay there forever, but I hate a sure thinjr EiiUr4 it Oath f. Baker Protests Sale of U. S. Army Equipment Washington, D. C, Feb. 4. Pro fusions of the army appropriation bill, directing 6ale of 10,000 motor trucks, 1,000 automobiles and 20,000 horses and mules, wi'l "cause scri- ! oiis tmborrassmcnt to the War de partment, especially in event of any emergency," Secretary Baker says, in a letter to members of con gress. Authority to retain 30.000 motor vehicles and 76,000 animals, needed for an army of 17-5,000 is requested. Mr. Baker says that on. December ,U there were 41,155 motor vehicle's on hand and that all except 30,000 had been ordered sold. Britain Proposes Cancellation of Allied War Debts 1 IPInn Wit A ii-iMit3 liln 1 1 inpri. can Government, Chancel lor of Exchequer Tells His Constituents. llv The Associated Pi't-sm. Birmingham, Eng.. Feb., 4. The j British government formally pro-j posed a cancellation of all inter allied debts, but the proposals were unacceptable to the American gov ernment, said J Austen Chamber lain, chancellor of the exchequer, in a speech to his constitutents here to day. 'To make them again," Mr. Chamberlain continued, "would be. I think, beneath our dignity and would render us liable to a miscon ception ot our motive. "In making them," he added,' "we sought 110 national advantage for ourselves. We proposed a solution iu which vc should have foregone claims larger than any remitted1' to us. and we proposed it because we believed it would be in the in terests of good relations amongst peoples, the rehabilitation of national credit and the restoration of intcrna tional trade. ' ; "Our great international debt is due to the obligations we undertook on behalf of our allies. If we had had only ourselves to consider, we should have been particularly free of - external debt at the present time." :. N. Y. Men Take Optimistic View Business Getting Back to Nor- i lual Basis in. Opinion of . j Leading Financiers. New York, Feb. 4. Confidence that business will soon settla down on sound fundamentals was express ed by leading financiers and practi cal economists at a dinner of the Association of Stock Exchange firms. - ' Jarries S. Alexander, president of the National Bank Of Commerce in New York, cautioned against idle waiting for the public to resume active buying, urging business men to stimulate purchasing .by reduced prices based on keener, efficiency in production and the acceptance of -reasonable margins of profits." "In this connection," he added "the growing tendency of labor to be come more efficient and its willing ness to accept some liquidation of inflated wakes is encouraging. The readjustment is favorable to the. in dividual workers." ' ! ' "An abundance of labor permits employers to choose workmen intel ligently and co-ordinate wages to their proper part in production costs, facilitating the establishment of price levels best for all. ' . "But employers must play fair and not attempt to lower wages undujy or to enforce greater curtailment than circumstances warrant. ,lhey must recognize that in any. country worth living iij. the standard of liv ing tends ever upward." Official Count kShows the Re-Elefctoin of Miners' Head Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 4. Offi cial canvass of the. recent vote cast for officers of the United Mine Workers of America, completed here today, showed the re-election of John L. Lewis as president by a ma jority of 66,730 votes over Robert H. Harlin of Washington state. Philio Murray, vice president, also was re-elected, defeating Alexander Howat by 11,766, and William Green was unopposed for re-election as secretary-treasurer. Colorado Takes Sides in Alleged Park Monopoly Denver, Colo., Feb. 4 The state of Colorado has asked leave to file a brief in the United States circuit court of appeals at St. Louis oppos ing an absolute transportation mo nopoly in the Rocky Mountain Na tional park, Attorney General Kcyes announced today. The action is In ! connection with the appeal ot i Charles Robbins of Estes Parle, Colo., from the decision ot federal Judge Lewis of Denver. Forn)er Postmaster Held On Embezzlement Charge Salt Lake City, Feb. 4. Parley E. Xey, former postmaster at Clear Creek, Utah, in whi;h capacity he is alleged by the government to have embezzled about $30,000, was bound over to the federal court by United States Commissioner Henry Van Pelt. Nev was allowed liberty on bond of $8,000. Valentine Contest Boys and girls are invited to enter competition in The Bee's Valentine Contest. See Page 7. Srud - Cliu Mtttir May 21. IN, il 0. UMtr Act at Mirch 3, lin. LFZje" Sentences 9 to Prison Terms Range From 6 to 13 Months 23 Indictments iu Narcotic Cases Returned By Grand Jury. Davenpdrt Sent to Pen V Indictments bv the federal grand jury which adjourned yesterday afternoon are as follows: Narcojie cases, 25; violations of the national liquor law, 27; thefts from interstate shipments, 6, and for illegal sale of United States property, 1. I Numerous other indictments re turned by the grand jury have not been made public. Arrests in these cases arc expected at any moment. Nine federal prisoners who chose to plead guilty to charges against them were given heavy sentences by Federal Judge T. C. Munger follow ing adjournment cf the grand jury. The sentences ranged from six months in jail to 15 months in the federal prison at Leavenworth. Asks Penitentiary Sentence. Warren G, Henley, 40, confessed burglar and ex-convict, charged with violation of the Harrison drug act, besought Judge Munger to give him one year in. the Nebraska peniten tiary rather than ix months in jail. "I can't break the drug habit and I can get more dope down there than . I can on the outside," Henley declared. ) He was given 15 months at Leav enworth. Green Davenport, alias "Rabbit," together with John B. Lewis and Gus Walker, abo charged with sell ing "dope," were sentenced to 15 months each in federal prison. This will be "Rabbit's" first commitment to prison, though federal officers say he has been treading the thresh old for several years. 1 "Dope" Peddlers to Jail. The following prisoners were each sentenced to six months in jail: Tom Daugherty, Dan Burch and Ralph. Burns, lhey were charged also with selling "dope." . Judge Munger gave Theodore Katz, South Side, a penalty of $500, a fine of $500 and six months in jail on one count cf manufacturing .whisky. Before Katz could take his seat. Judge Munger added a fine of $1,000 and six-additional months in jail on a second -count. Mrs. Louise Davenport, "Rabbit's"' wife, was ordered to spend" six months in jail for violation of the federal narcotic lav. She went into hysterics. ; ;- :'-- --v.'.- - The following, indictments were j returned by the grand jufy'r ' Indictments by Grand Jury. For violation of the iational nar cotic law: Pearl Warner, . Gus Walker, Frank O'Neil, Berts Van Houscn, Fred Stokes. William Riley, James Murray, John B. Lewis. Frank Kirtley, Warren G. . Henley, (Tnrn to Tage Two. Column Two) Probe Loss of Mail Sack Containing Valuable Bank Paper Nevada, la;, Feb. 4 Investigation is being conducted here to ascertain whether a. pouch containing first class mail and banking papers, esti mated to be worth $25,000, has been lost or stolen. The pouch is said to have con tained a small quantity of registered mail and is believed to. h-u-e carried packages of liberty bonds, but local banks will not say wha amount. Its loss first became .known to the banks when. they received word from Chi cago that certain mail had not, ar rived. Payment of checks and drafts has been stopped, it is said, so that the loss will be small, h any. The pouch was supposed to have left here January 27. State Teachers Executive Committee Meets in Omaha The - executive committee- of the Nebraska State Teachers' associa tion met yesterday afternoon in the office of J. H. Beveridge, superin tendent of the Omaha schools and president of the "association Mem-. bers of the committee are: E. L. Rouse, Peru; A. H. Waterhouse, Fremont; W. H. Martin. Fairbury; A. H. Staley, Hastings; H. O. Sut ton. Kearney. 1 . District organization.' of the as sociation is one of the matters un der consideration. Dry Agents Confiscate Big Booze Supply iu Kansas City Kansas City. Feb. 4. Two thou sand gallons of wine and 40 gallons of moonshine whisky were seized by federal authorities here late last night. .According to " the officers it represented tin: largest Haul made i here since tne prohibition laws wtnl into effect.' The liquor -was found iu an abandoned factory in the east part of town. An armed man who was guarding the liquor was ar rested. , Sub Is Blamed for Accident In Delaware Capes pn "Wed. Philadelphia, Feb.' 4.- Sworn state ments from members of the crew of the pilot boat Philadelphia, which collided with the Submarine L-l off the Delaware capes Wednesday, blame the submersible for the acci dent. The L-l was beached with her stern full of water. L . 23 Killed in Chile Fight. ' Valparaiso. Chile, Feb. 4. Twenty-three sodicrs were killed in a, clash with workers at the San Gregorio nitrate plant in Antofagasta province, according to advices from the district reaching here. Daniel Jones, the administrator of the olant. 'is reported to have been assassinated- OMAHA, SATURDAY, Co-operative Plan . Introduced in Pans Paris. Feb. 4. The first organized effort to introduce in France, the system of Sharing the profits of in dustrial enterprises with the work men was inaugurated in Paris when representatives of the employers and workmen met to form such a plan. Deputy Godart, former under-sec-retary in the ministry of war. in the opening speech, cited several indi vidual cases of French manufactur ers who' have adopted the system since the war with excellent re sults. The employers and workmen formed separate committees to draw up tentative projects. Four Amendments To Fordnev Tariff Bill Are Adopted - . Backers of Emergency Meas ure See Signs of Passage in Senate Some Time Next Week. Wa.-hington, Feb. 4. The senate got down to business with the Fordnev emergency tariff bill today and before the session which con vened at 11 o'clock ended, four amendments had been adopted. Votes on the amendments where a record was made, showed support ers of the bill to have a majority from 10 to 1.3. As the situation stood tonight, it appeared that the bill would be for the most part actually, as well as technically, under consideration until a final vote is reached. Senator Penrose, republican, ' of Pennsyl vania, in charge of the bill, declared that it had good prospects of pas sage next week. The committee amendment to es tablish an import duty of 40 cents a bushel on wheat was twice adopted todav. It was first tVken up with Only nine senators in the chamber and accepted without a dissenthig voice. Then Senator Harrison, demo crat, Mississippi, one of the bitterest opponents of the measure, discovered what had happened and forced a call for a quorum;1 He said he toas under tha impression the senate still was considering a minor Indian bill. Amendment Passes. After the quorum call and an hour of desultory debate, Senator" Mc Cumber, republican, Nortjt Dakota, asked for reconsideration of the wheat amendment and it again was agreed to, by a vote dl 38 to 28. The amendment, alio from the committee, exempting from a tariff duty rice to be used in the .manu facture of canned goods likewise was adoDted. - ;.''" -The committee amendments fixing- duties of 2 cents a npund on fresh and frozen meats and of 25 per cent ad valorem on prepared or preserved meats, and exempting from import duties, all live stock imported ex clusively for breeding purposes also was- approved." Consideration of the duty oi meats brought from Senator Underwood of Alabama, democratic leader, . an at tack on what he ' described as the inquities of the proposed legislation. He assaulted the republican position, inquiring whether republican sena tors' had "absolutely forgotten that the government had need for reve nue" and whether the present bill could be accepted as an indication Lpf their intention to build a j tariff wall about the country during the extra session. Consumption Tax. The Fordney bill, Mr. Underwood asserted, could Jc construed as none other than a consumption tax. He accused supporters of the bill of be ing willing to legislate money from the consumers into the pockets of speculators and quoted figures from a summary of tariff information, compiled by the republican house ways and means committee to show that imports so much complained of "exist only in the air." , ' ' , The program of the leaders to at tempt the fixing of a date for a vote went into the discard, temporarily, with the arival of Senator Williams, democrat, Mississippi, who renewed his declaration that he would not be bound by any private agreements. Mr. Williams spoke heatedly of "machinations -. going on around here,"- adding: ' ,"I would be a fool to agree to something I do not believe in and something the result of which I al- ready know." , . The house ways and means com mittee concluded hearings.on the silk schedule in its consideration of a re vision of the permanent tariff. . It plaijs tomorrow to hear discussions of tariff rates on paper and. books. Cuming County "Kickoff." West Point, Neh.. Feb. 4.(Spe cial.) The "Kickoh1 meeting of the Cuming County Farm bureau is scheduled for Monday. How Would You Like to Go to Jail? Even though you be a church goer and consider yourself a law abiding citizen, you probably violate every Sunday at least one of Omaha's numerous "sub , merged" ordinances. ' Enforcement of all the unre pealed "blue laws" on the city's historic files would overtax ca jiacity of the jails and leave only a scattering few to hie themselves to services on a Sunday room. You'll find a story about Omaha's "blue laws" in The Sun day Bee. Page One of the Rotogravure Section for Sunday is a series of flashlight pictures taken "behind the scenes" in Omaha theaters. Another Sunday Bee feature will be a human interest story 'of the trials and triumphs of students "working thsir way" through Omaha educational institutions. FEBRUARY 5,-1921. Some People Who Are Trying to 1 On the Country Th.it Typu of Movit Mmnagtr. Thit Typo of Gambling. Negro in Bluffs Shoots Another In Street Brawl "Dolly" Thompson - Empties " Revolver at Alleged -Knife Toter on Broadway , ., Man May Die. "Dolly"- Thompson, negro porter at Cowles cigar 'store for many years, emptied his revolver at "Slim" Col lier, anothxr negro-, when he met him 1 at Tenth street and Broadway, Coun cil Bluffs, yesterday. 1 wo of the six bullets struck Collier, who is now in a scriousr condition at the-Mercy hospital. . j . ' Thompson was arrested by George Gillaspy, deputy sheriff, and lodged in the county jaiL where he is held under $5,000 bond. Thompson is well known in Council Bluffs and has a good reputation for honesty and in tegrity. Collier is a police character aud is known as. a "bad man." - Thompson told the county attor ney that Collier had threatened his life several times, in "the past two months and had sent word that he would kill him o sight. He knew that-bis enemy always carried either a knife or a gun and he obtained a permit to carry a weapon as protec tion. ' When they met yesterday Collier reached for his hip pocket, Thomp son says. Thompson pulled out his own revolver and emptied.it at his enemy. Four of the bullets missed him, but one struck him in the neck and the other passed entirely through his body at the waistline, He is not expected to live. ...; 1 ' Collier is a very dressy negro 'and has a perfect set of even, teeth, with the exception of. one upper one. In this cavity .he has a gold tooth,-set with a diamond. Superior Farmer Ends Own Life hy Hanging Superior, Neb., Feb. .4. (Special Telegram.) Sei.sr Lark, 62, living witji his son on a farm two miles from Mount Clair, committed suicide by hanging.. He left the house early to do chores and when he did not respond to the call for breakfast a search was -made and he was found hanging between two corncribs. No reason for fits act is known, tit is survived by his wife and a son and daughter. Passengers Help Release Traiu Blocked bv Snowslide Ogdcn, Utah, Feb. 4. Passengers cm Union Pacific traiu No. 49 took their turn at shovels this morning, when the train was blocked for near ly two hours by a snowslide at Devil's Gate, in Weber canyon. The 1 second section of the same train also was delayed by a slide at the same point. President of Missouri University Resigns Jefferson City, Mo... Feb.-4. Dr. A. Ross Hill, president of the Uni versity of Missouri, late today pre sented his resignation to the board of curators and asked that, it be ac-. ceptcd immediately. j Dr. Hill resigns to take charge cf I the foreign operations of the Amer j ican Red Cross. 'Patent Commissioner Named. i Washington, l?eb. 4. President I Wilson sent to tKe senate the nomi- nation of Melvin H. Coulston of New j York to be commissioner of patents. 'Coulston is now first assistant com missioncr of patents I (tnktZT S ktkfil - ("They ought To jll ' J Thit Typo of Society Bud. Thit Typo of Drotm. Thit Typo of Druggitt. CMAT WAS Tte If " v W(' . ',' - Sk ) SERMON ABOUT J C A WELL LUNCH . THIS MORNING ? tXltti 6utST7 2 A T PURPIT lA P l!y? y Mall II r. Inilrta 4tlt Zoitt. Outilda 4th Iih (I Mr). Dil tCoprrifht: US1: By Ttia Chicaco Tribunal Thit Typ f Doctor. Thit Typo of Sunday Now. Death Penalty ; Asked for Woman Alleged Slayer of Mining Man Spared "Terrific Ordeal of Cro68-Examination." Los AngelesCal., Feb. 4. Death en the gallows for Mrs.'' Louise L. Peete' was asked today of the jury which heard her trial for the alleged murder of Jacob Charles Denton. The extreme penalty was urged by Raymond I. Turney, depsty dis trict attorney, who opened the argu ment for the state. He reviewed and aualyzcd jthe testimony aud evidence presented by the prosecution, con tending guilt had been fastened upon defendant "beyond all doubt." Each side is to be allowed five hours for argument. As ' the court announced, arguments must be con cluded by 11 o'clock tomorrow morning, arrangements were made for a session of court tonight. Mrs. Peete was not placed on the stand in her own defense . because her "testimony was unnecessary," and because he wished to" spare her the "terrific ordeal" of a "long and ar duous cross-examination," her at torney said. ' Mrs. Peete, speaking on the samft subject, said she "was not used to the "kind of treatment" which, she said, "she understood the state was preparing for he." ' "My experiences in the past havt Been with gentlemen." she added. ' Masked Night Riders Warn Non-Union Tenant Farmers Bridgeport, Ala., Feb. 4.-Masked night riders with horses covered with white cloth, descended, upon a score of non-union farm renters last night and served notice that they must "either join - the ( tenants' union or leave your farms within 10 days." They also called upon landowners and demanded that only union farm ers be employed or given shelter. , The demonstration, it is under stood, is a result of differences aris ing between landowners and union tenants over requests of the latter for a one-half share in the crops instead of One-third, as has heretofore been the basis of land leasing. Amendment to Divorce Law Passes Nevada Assembly Reno, .Nev., Feb. 4. An amend ment to the Nevada diyorce law, which provides that every applicant for divorce must have been a resi-. dent of the state for six months pre ceding commencement of divorce action, was passed by the assembly ot the state legislature tins morning and now goes to, the governor for signature. The amendment prohibits the short term class of divorce, as the Mary Fickford case, .except for bona fide residents of the state. Chicago Traction Company Ordinance Is Suspended Chicago, Feb. 4. The city council, by a vote of 52 to 0, passed a resolu tion suspending the contract traction ordinance between the city and the street railway companies. The res olution was passed as a part of Mayor William . Hale Thompson's plan to put a 5-cent fare into effect. Sioux City Milk Prices Will Be Reduced One Cent Sioux City, la., Feb. 4. Whole sale and retail . milk prices will be reduced 1 cent next week, the larg est dairy company here announced today. Retail milk will be reduced from 15 to 14 cents a quart and wholesale milk from 13 1-2 to 12 1-2 ccnti a quart. 0llf Sanity, t: Otlly Only. 11: Suntfiv, 14 Sunday. 116: Dally Only. 112; Suaiiay Oaly. ta Force Blue Laws Thit Typ of Theatrical Managar, 1 Thit Typo of Sunday Obttrvanca. Earthquake of More Than Horn' Duration Felt Disturbance Is Indicated as - Being 2,200 Mires South of Washington Reaches In . tensity at 3:38. Washington, Feb. 4. A severe earthquake which began at 3:28 and lasted until 4:43 this morning was reported by Father Francis 'A. Tondorf, director of the George town seismological observatory. The disturbance" was indicated by the in struments as being 2,200 miles south of Washington and reached, its high est intensity at 3:38, Father Tondorf said. - The seismograph, record indicated a disturbance even more severe than that recorded December 16, last, Fa ther Tondorf said. The scene of the December disturbance was never definitely established. Father Tondorf estimated that today's disturbance probably was in Soutji America. Chicago, Feb. 4. The weather bureau seismograph at the 'Univer sity of Chicago recorded an earth quake within 1,721 miles of Chicago this morning. The shocks were de scribed as of medium intensity, the first occurring at 2:38 a. m., the maximum coming 10 minutes later 1 and the hnal tremor at o:4ts a. 111. K"''ng together of the record lines ' nrvrntpri thn ffnvpmnipnl pvnrrU from .learning the direction ' of the shocks from Chicago. Amalgamation of London Newspapers Announced London, - Feb. 4. The Pall Mall Gazette announced that it has amal gamated with the Globe and that both 'will be published as one news paper, from Monday next, under the title of the Pall Mall Gazette and Globe. S . The amalgamation comes in con sequence of the crisis through which the British newspaper world is pass ing, owing to the increased price of news print and the augmented wages of editorial and mechanical staffs. The Globe, the oldest evening news paper iii London, having been estab lished in 1803. has changed hands a number of times in recent years. Jt has been on the market for some months, as are other London papers. Wroman Given Six Months On Bootlegging Charge Salt Lake City. Feb. 4. The heav iest sentence passed upon a woman in Utah tor having liquor in her pos session was meted out to Mrs. C. R. i Jones, proprietor of a rooming house when judge i'reci crocneii 01 mc municipal court sentenced her to six months' imprisonment with the op tion of a fine. The Weather Forecast. Saturday probably snow and colder. Hourly Triniitrrittiir. S . m i.1 I I p. ni. or ram a a. ni I S p. m S.V 7 . m ,..'.' I p. m 40 S a. ni 47 I 4 p. 111 .3 ft a. 111. 5 . .m ...M 10 a. m, '.'ft I p. m, Sfl 11 a. m. .... SK I 7 . m. s ...SI II noon .....It I S p. m S ShlpiiriV Ilullftln. T'rotc( shipments rturlnr th nut H In SS hours from tmpraturM a follow. North and wM, 11 ritartta; cant, IS d (raet; aouth, JO flfgrcca a THREE CENTS IRailr oad Strike Is Threatened i National Labor Leaders Do- ..1 o J. r:u n 'r:.i Up If Board Abrogates Agreements. 1 v t ; ! Charges Open Shop Fight , Chicago, Feb. 4 --A' general rail road strike will take place within a week if the. United States railway labor board accedes 10 the request of the railroads to abrogate- the na tional shop crafts agreements, ac cording to statements made today by national labor leaders. The railroads iu closing their case before the board yesterday asked that these agreements be abro gated to "save them from bank ruptcy." Claim "Open Shop" Fight. William Schocnbcrg of Chicago, organizer for the machinists' union, speaking before the federal trades council at Milwaukee, declared li railroad executives" program is a part of the open hop fight against union labor and predicted a nation-wide strike it the wage agreements arc cancelled. S. J. Pegg, international! secre tary -treasurer of the Maintenance of Way Employes and Railroad Shop Laborers' union, issued a statement m Detroit announcing that 370,000 members of that organization will Stage a country-wide walkout with out the formality of a strike vote, the moment wages are cut or the national wage agreement is broken. Atterbury Wires Wilson. Chicago. Feb. 4. W. W. Atter bury, president of the Pennsylvania railway, today supplemented his statement before the labor board Monday by a message to President Wilson showing the increase in number of employes and in payrolls di'rine the Deriod of eovernment control. "In the year of 1917," Mr. Alter- 1 , ... r uury s message saiu, uetore govern ment ODeration was arlontpr! tho m'l. way employed 302,828 machinists, boilcrmakcrs, blacksmiths, electri cians, airbrake men, car inspectors, car repairers, other skilled shop em ployes and machinists, helpers and apprentices. "Wages Jump 180 Per Cent." "In 1920, when the number of loco motives and cars to be maintained wa only slightly larger than ir 1917. they had 443,774, increase of 140,945, or 47 per cent. The total wages paid to these employes in 1917 as $317,879,549, while in 1920. ancr me aovance m wages granted by the railroad labor board last July, their wages were running at the rate of approximately $890,000,000 a yea, an increase of over 1917 of 180 per cent. . "Another class of employes includ ed in one of the national agreements is the clerks. In 1917 the railway employed 184.063 clerks, while iu 1920, when business was normal, the were employing 238,693 clerks, an in crease of 29 per cent. The total wages paid to ' clerks in 1917 was $189,009,506. After the wage board award made by the railroad labor board the wages of the clerks were running, as near as can be estimated, at the rate of $399,300,000 a year, an increase of 112. per cent." Aged Madison Woman Assaulted in Home Madison, Neb., Feb. 4. (Special.) Mrs. Chris. Martens, 60, was as saulted at her home last night bv an unidentified man. Her repeated screams and determined resistance caused her assailant to flee after knocking her down with a revolver. Mrs. Martens lives alone. Her as sailant entered her home earlv 111 the evening offering to buy her prop- i-riy. airs.. .Martens sister was pres ent and he left, rtturing later when Mrs. Martens was alone and asking to ee tiie house. Entering a bed room and closing the door he dis-t played a revolver, and ordered her to keep quiet. She screamed and he struck her over the head with the re volver, knocking her down and threw a pilfow over her face and then fled. j Robbery police believe was the mo tive for the attack. Odell Farmer Sues Mother ' For Alleged $80 Board Bill Beatrice, Neb., Feb. 4. (Special.) A rather unusual case was dispos ed of in Judge Ellis' court here, when Henry Beck, Odell farmer, brought suit. against' his mother, Mary Beck, for $80 for board. Three witnesses testified in Hie case, one son for and the other against the mother, and the defendant herself. Because of an agrement entered into between the plaintiff and defendant, the court pave a verdict of S70 in favor nf ! Henry Beck. Premier Rhallis of Greece Determined to Quit Office Athens. Feb. 4. Premier Khallis has determined to resign, it was an nounced today, owing to differences with regard to who shall head the Greek delegation that.will participate in the forthceming conference on near eastern questions to be held in London. The Rhallis ministry was formed on November 18 last, in succession to that of M. Venizelos. Scrihner Ice Company Wants Stock Validated Lincoln, Feb. 4. (Special.) The Scribncr Artificial Ice company, or ganized in 1918 by 200 citizens dur ing an ice famine there, which later took over the private lighting sys tem curing another emergency, has filed application with the N'cbravki railway commission to validate the $62,900 paid-in capital stock of its authorized $100,000 issus.
